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House Resolutions
HJR 1 REDISTRICTING - (DeWine)
To revise the redistricting process for General Assembly and Congressional districts.
Referred to House State Government & Elections, awaiting first hearing.
HJR 5 CLEAN OHIO FUND – (Sears)
Proposing to enact Section 2q of Article VIII of the Constitution of the State of Ohio to authorize the issuance of general and other obligations of the state to pay the costs relating to environmental and related conservation, preservation, and revitalization purposes.
Passed House and Senate, awaiting governor’s signature.
HCR 19 ENERGY INDEPENDENCE ACT - (Stewart, D.)
To memorialize the Congress of the United States to enact the Securing America's Energy Independence Act of 2007.
Referred to House Alternative Energy and had received one hearing.
HCR 20 SOLAR OPPORTUNITY ACT - (Stewart, D.)
To memorialize Congress to enact the Solar Opportunity and Local Access Rights Act of 2007.
Referred to House Alternative Energy and has received one hearing.
HCR 22 RENEWABLE ENERGY - (Reinhard)
To memorialize the President and Congress to support the "25 by 25" initiative promoting agricultural-based renewable energy.
Referred to House Alternative Energy and has received one hearing.
House Bills
HB 1 EDUCATION FUNDING - (Setzer)
To reserve this bill number for the Governor's school funding reform plan.
Referred to House Finance & Appropriations, awaiting governor's school funding program.
HB 3 ESTATE TAX - (Latta)
To phase out the estate tax by Jan. 1, 2008, but to authorize voters of a township or municipal corporation to continue the tax locally.
Referred to House Ways & Means and has received six hearings.
HB 4 ESTATE TAX - (Wolpert)
To reduce the estate tax by increasing the credit amount, to authorize townships and municipal corporations, or electors thereof by initiative, to exempt from the estate tax any estate property located in the township or municipal corporation, and to distribute all estate tax revenue originating in a township or municipal corporation that does not exempt property from the tax to the township or municipal corporation.
Referred to House Ways & Means and has received six hearings.
HB 5 EMINENT DOMAIN - (Gibbs)
To formally state the General Assembly's intentions in its upcoming deliberations on reforming Ohio's laws regulating the exercise of eminent domain.
Passed House 98-0. Integrated into the amended SB 7.
HB 9 FARM MACHINERY - (Carmichael)
To require farm machinery that is designed by its manufacturer to operate at a speed greater than 25 miles per hour to display a speed identification symbol and a slow-moving vehicle emblem when operated on a road or highway and to further address the operation of such farm machinery on roads and highways.
Passed House and Senate. Signed by Gov. Strickland 7/19/07.
HB 40 SUSTAINABLE ENERGY COUNCIL - (Skindell)
To create the Council on Sustainable Energy Development and specify its duties.
Referred to Alternative Energy, awaiting first hearing.
HB 42 SCHOOL FUNDING - (Stewart, J.)
To establish a bipartisan committee to recommend to the General Assembly a system that provides state funds to pay one hundred per cent of the actual cost of providing a thorough and efficient education to each public school student and to require the Department of Education to report certain school funding information to the parents and taxpayers of each school district.
Referred to House Finance and Appropriations, awaiting first hearing.
HB 45 EXOTIC ANIMALS - (Distel)
To require persons who possess dangerous wild animals or exotic animals to obtain a personal possession permit and to establish requirements regarding the possession and care of dangerous wild animals and exotic animals.
Referred to House Agriculture & Natural Resources and has received two hearings.
HB 47 CONSERVANCY DISTRICTS - (Gibbs)
To revise the membership of the board of directors of a conservancy district that includes all or parts of more than sixteen counties, to require the board of directors of such a district rather than the conservancy court to perform certain functions under the Conservancy Districts Law.
Passed House. Referred to Senate Environment & Natural Resources committee, awaiting first hearing.
HB 50 JUNK VEHICLES - (Evans)
To allow townships to remove junk motor vehicles from public and private property and to borrow money to pay for that removal of junk motor vehicles and for other debris from private property.
Passed House and Senate. Sign by governor 12/4/07.
HB 52 RAW MILK - (Setzer)
To revise the statutes governing raw milk.
Referred to House Agriculture & Natural Resources and has received one hearing.
HB 54 TURNPIKE FUEL - (Foley)
To require that blended biodiesel and E85 blend fuel be available at all service stations located on the Ohio Turnpike not later than January 1, 2010, and to permit the Ohio Turnpike Commission to apply for grants made by the Department of Development under the Alternative Fuel Transportation Grant Program.
Referred to House Infrastructure, Homeland Security & Veterans Affairs and has received one hearing.
HB 59 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION - (Combs)
To defer increases in taxes on residences owned and occupied by individuals age 65 or older.
In the Budget, HB 119.
HB 67 TRANSPORATION BUDGET - (Patton)
To make appropriations for, and to prescribe terms and conditions pertaining to, transportation purposes. The Transportation Budget passed in the House with a vote of 98-0 after having some changes made to it in committee.
Passed House and Senate. Sign by governor 3/31/07.
HB 69 DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS - (Wolpert)
To permit townships, counties, and combinations of certain political subdivisions to establish transfer of development rights programs.
Referred to House Local & Municipal Government & Urban Revitalization and has received four hearings.
HB 71 DOG FIGHTING – (White)
To apply certain impoundment provisions in the companion animal statutes to the confiscation of dogs under the statute prohibiting dog fighting.
Passed House and Senate, awaiting governor’s signature.
HB 72 BROADBAND TASK FORCE - (Evans)
To create the Ohio Broadband and Wireless Telecommunications Task Force.
Referred to house Public Utilities and has received one hearing.
HB 76 RENEWABLE ENERGY - (Hagan, R.)
To establish an annual renewable energy requirement for electric utilities and electric services companies that provide retail electric generation service in Ohio and to authorize the Public Utilities Commission to establish a system of renewable energy credits.
Referred to House Public Utilities, awaiting first hearing.
HB 80 FUEL TESTING (- Healy)
To require the Department of Agriculture to establish a motor fuel quality testing program under which county auditors may conduct such testing.
Referred to Infrastructure, Homeland Security & Veteran Affairs and has received one hearing.
HB 84 ZONING AUTHORITY – (Hottinger)
To expand township and county zoning authority to telecommunications towers located on land used for agricultural purposes and to modify notice requirements for a proposed tower.
Referred to House Local & Municipal Government & Urban Revitalization and has received six hearings.
HB 92 METH LABS - (Dyer)
To require law enforcement agencies to report to the Director of Public Safety the location of any real property on which and the vehicle identification number of any motor vehicle in which an illegal Methamphetamine manufacturing laboratory has been discovered, to require the Director of Public Safety to maintain on the Department of Public Safety web site a database of properties on which and motor vehicles in which illegal Methamphetamine manufacturing laboratories have been discovered.
Referred to House Infrastructure, Homeland Security & Veterans Affairs.
HB 100 BWC BUDGET - (Brinkman)
To abolish the Workers' Compensation Oversight Commission, the Workers' Compensation Oversight Commission Nominating Committee, and the Services Committee; to create the Bureau of Workers' Compensation Board of Directors and specified working committees, totransfer the powers and duties of the Oversight Commission to the Board and the working committees, and to make other changes in the Workers' compensation Law, to make appropriations for the Bureau of Workers' Compensation for the biennium beginning July 1, 2007.
Passed House 87-7. Passed Senate 33-0. House Concurs on Senate amendments, passed House 99-0.
HB 118 HORSE RACING - (Seitz)
To authorize wagering at a track on horse races that are telecast via an instant racing system and to levy a tax on amounts wagered in this manner.
Referred to House State Government & Elections.
HB 123 CONSERVANCY DISTRICTS - (Collier)
To prohibit the levying of an assessment by the board of directors of a conservancy district on land that is owned by a church within the district unless the governing authority of the church requests that the church's land be subject to the assessment.
Reported out of House Economic Development & Environment, awaiting floor vote.
HB 153 WILDLIFE COMPACT - (Latta)
To direct the Chief of the Division of Wildlife in the Department of Natural Resources to enter into the Wildlife Violators Compact and to authorize the Chief to enter into agreements with law enforcement agencies outside of this state for joint law enforcement operations.
Passed House and Senate. Sign by governor 7/17/07.
HB 165 SALES TAX - (Gibbs)
To require vendors using origin-based situsing rules to determine the appropriate sales tax jurisdiction in which a sale is taxable to continue to do so, to authorize vendors using destination-based sourcing to convert to origin-based situsing at their convenience, to repeal Ohio's multiple points of use provisions for services and computer-related sales, and to authorize the Tax Commissioner to develop a plan for in-state and out-of-state vendors to elect to collect and remit Ohio use taxes at a uniform rate.
Reported out of House Ways & Means (substitute bill), awaiting floor vote.
HB 168 TURNPIKE MAINTENANCE – (Wagner)
To make the Ohio Turnpike Commission responsible for major maintenance and repair and replacement of grade separations at intersections of any turnpike project with county and township roads.
Referred to House Infrastructure, Homeland Security & Veteran Affairs committee and has received seven hearings.
HB 177 HORSE RACING - (Blessing)
To allow the same person, association, trust, or corporation to be issued not more than two horse racing permits for race tracks in Ohio.
Passed House and Senate. Signed by governor 10/25/07.
HB 179 WORKERS COMPENSATION - (Blessing)
To require a health insurer and allow an employee, during the time an employee's workers' compensation claim is pending approval, to pay for services provided to care for an employee's workplace injury or occupational disease and to require the Administrator of Workers' Compensation or a self-insuring employer, as appropriate, to reimburse that health insurer or employee for expenses they paid for a claim once it is deemed compensable.
Referred to House Commerce & Labor and has received one hearing.
HB 217 GRAIN MARKETING - (Reinhard)
To establish a grain marketing program.
Passed House and Senate. Signed by governor 12/21/07.
HB 222 SALE NOTIFICATIONS - (Zehringer)
To permit instead of require that public notices and advertisements of the sale of lands and tenements taken in execution contain a description of the lands and tenements and to permit those advertisements to be made on the sheriff's web site.
Referred to House Local & Municipal Government & Urban Revitalization and has received two hearings.
HB 223 PUPPY MILLS – (Hughes, Hagan, R.)
To establish licensing requirements and standards of care for certain dog breeding kennels and dog intermediaries.
Referred to House State Government & Elections committee and has received four hearings.
HB 232 BUSINESS ENTITIES - (Reinhard)
To authorize the establishment of a new form of cooperative business entity in this state.
Referred to House Civil & Commercial Law and has received two hearings.
HB 233 AGRICULTURAL MATERIAL - (Reinhard)
To create the Ohio Agriculture to Chemicals, Polymers, and Advanced Materials Task Force.
Passed House and Senate. Signed by governor 11/21/07.
HB 234 SCHOOL TAXES - (Fessler)
To include revenue from all operating levies, including school district emergency levies, in the calculation determining whether a school district's effective tax rate is below the 20-mill floor, or, for joint vocational school districts, the 2-mill floor.
Referred to House Finance & Appropriations, awaiting first hearing.
HB 235 SEWAGE DISCHARGES - (Oelslager)
To establish notification requirements for the discharge of untreated or partially treated sewage onto land or into the waters of the state.
Referred to House Economic Development & Environment.
HB 238 ANIMAL RESTITUTION - (Latta)
To revise provisions governing the restitution value of a wild animal that is unlawfully held, taken, bought, sold, or possessed.
Passed Housed and Senate. Signed by governor 12/3/07.
HB 281 ANIMAL VALUES – (Schlichter)
To provide for the uniform determination of the fair market value of certain animals killed by a dog.
Passed House and Senate. Signed by governor 5/23/08.
HB 285 BUSINESS FINES – (McGregor, R.)
To waive fines or penalties for paperwork violations that are first-time offenses committed by small businesses.
Passed House and Senate, awaiting governor’s signature.
HB 289 AGRICULTURAL SECURITY – (Core)
To make changes to the law governing agricultural security areas.
Passed House and Senate. Signed by the governor 4/18/08.
HB 293 OHIO AGRICULTURE LICENSE PLATE – (Goodwin)
To establish a threshold of 500 annual special license plate registrations for all special license plates, to create "Ohio Agriculture" license plates and to create the Ohio Agriculture License Plate Scholarship Program, to create "Ohio Sustainable Agriculture" license plates, and to create "Ohio's Horse" license plates and to provide that money from the contributions for the license plates be paid to the Ohio Coalition for Animals, Incorporated.
Passed House and Senate. Signed by governor on 5/14/08.
HB 318 ROAD STATUS – (Gibbs)
To make changes relative to the provisions that govern the placing of county and township roads on nonmaintained status.
Passed House. Referred to Senate Highways & Transportation Committee and has received two hearings.
HB 323 LINE FENCE LAW - (Gibbs)
To revise the Fences Law.
Passed House and Senate, awaiting House concurrence on Senate changes.
HB 352 ALPACS – (Patton)
To include alpacas and llamas in certain statutory definitions of "agricultural animal" and "livestock."
Passed House and Senate. Signed by governor 5/7/08.
HB 404 VIATICAL SETTLEMENTS - (Hottinger, Barrett)
To make changes to the law governing viatical settlements.
Passed House and Senate, awaiting governor’s signature.
HB 415 ANIMAL FIGHITNG – (Blessing, Domenick)
To increase the penalty for animal fighting, including cockfighting and dogfighting.
Passed House, awaiting referral in Senate.
HB 416 GREAT LAKES COMPACT – (Dolan)
To ratify the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact and to establish related requirements.
Passed House and Senate, awaiting governor’s signature.
HB 429 TAX SOURCING – (Gibbs)
To authorize a vendor required to utilize destination-based sourcing to determine the appropriate sales tax jurisdiction to convert to origin-based sourcing on or after January 1, 2009, and to discontinue compensation of impacted counties for sales tax losses incurred under destination-based sourcing.
Passed House and Senate. Signed by governor on 4/18/08.
HB 446 ANIMAL CONTROLS – (Webster)
To revise the statutes governing animal control.
Passed House. Referred to Senate State & Local Government & Veterans Affairs committee.
HB 487 ALTERNATIVE ENERGY – (McGregor, J.)
To establish alternative energy benchmarks for electric distribution utilities and electric services companies, provide for the use of renewable energy credits, establish energy efficiency standards for electric distribution utilities and require the Department of Development to establish energy efficiency programs, create the Ohio Renewable Energy Authority to provide loans and grants to renewable energy businesses, establish policies regarding the geologic storage of carbon dioxide, and require greenhouse gas emission reporting and carbon control planning for generating facilities.
Referred to House Public Utilities committee. Components of the bill were rolled into SB 221.
HB 501 BEEKEEPERS TASK FORCE – (Okey)
To create the Ohio Beekeepers Task Force.
Reported out of House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee, awaiting floor vote.
HB 521 LOCAL GOVERNMENT – (Wolpert)
To create the Ohio Commission on Local Government Reform and Collaboration to develop recommendations on reforming and restructuring local government in Ohio.
Referred to House Local & Municipal Government & Urban Revitalization and has received six hearings.
HB 546 PROPERTY TAX PAYMENTS – (Gibbs)
To provide an ongoing rebate to owners of residential or agricultural property who timely pay property taxes.
Referred to House Ways & Means committee, awaiting first hearing.
HB 551 OIL AND GAS LAW – (Gibbs)
To revise the requirements in the Oil and Gas Law concerning the location of a well in a coal bearing township, to revise the application requirements for a coal mining operation permit, and to define "affected mine" for purposes of the Oil and Gas Law.
Referred to House Agriculture & Natural Resources committee and has received two hearings.
HB 554 ECONOMIC STIMULUS – (Hottinger)
To establish the Ohio Bioproducts Development Program and Ohio Biomedical Development Program to be administered by the Third Frontier Commission, to establish the Third Frontier Economic Stimulus Advisory Board, to expand the economic development programs administered by the Department of Development to include transportation logistics and distribution infrastructure projects, to provide additional money for capital improvement projects of local subdivisions and for highway capital improvement projects of local subdivisions and for highway capital improvement projects, to modify the authority of the Ohio Coal Development Office, to administer coal research and development projects, to provide for advanced energy projects administered by the Ohio Air Quality Development Authority, to establish the Ohio Innovation Partnership Coop/Internship Program, to extend the historical building rehabilitation tax credit, limit credit amounts, require regional distributive balance and economic effects to be considered, and to make an appropriation.
Passed House and Senate, awaiting governor’s signature.
HB 562 CAPITAL APPROPRIATIONS/BUDGET CORRECTIONS – (Hottinger)
To make capital and other appropriations and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.
Passed House and Senate. House refused to concur on Senate changes, referred to Conference Committee.
Senate Resolutions
SJR 1 EMINENT DOMAIN - (Coughlin)
Proposing to enact Sec. 19b of Article I of the Constitution of the State of Ohio to provide limits on the power of a public authority to take private property for a public use.
Passed Senate 21- 11. Defeated in House 56 - 42 (60 votes needed)
SJR 2 PROPERTY TAXES - (Coughlin)
Proposing to amend Sec. 2a of Article XII and to enact Sec. 2b of Article XII of the Co nstitution of the State of Ohio to limit increases in the taxable value of real property to two percent per year.
Referred to Senate Ways & Mean & Economic Development, awaiting first hearing.
SJR 8 WATER RIGHTS – (Grendell)
Proposing to enact Section 19b of Article I of the Constitution of the State of Ohio to affirm certain property interests with respect to ground water and other water on or flowing through a property owner's land so as to maintain the stability of Ohio's economy.
Passed Senate and House. Senate concurred on House changes, awaiting governor’s signature.
SCR 6 COUNTRY OF ORIGIN - (Roberts)
To memorialize Congress to enact legislation providing for the funding and immediate implementation of the portions of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 dealing with country of origin labeling.
Referred to Senate Agriculture. Received second hearing.
SCR 16 - IMMIGRATION - (Cates)
To urge the President of the United States and the United States Congress to secure our nation's borders and to aggressively enforce all existing federal immigration laws.
Passed Senate. Referred to House State Government & Elections and has received two hearings.
Senate Bills
SB 1 SCHOOL FUNDING - (Padgett)
To reserve this bill number for the governor's school funding reform plan.
Referred to Senate Education, awaiting governor's school funding program.
SB 7 EMINENT DOMAIN - (Grendell)
To formally state the General Assembly's intentions in its upcoming deliberations on reforming Ohio's laws regulating the exercise of eminent domain.
Passed Senate 29 -3. Passed House 71 -27. Senate concurred with changes.
SB 12 ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT - (Wilson)
To direct the General Assembly in its deliberations regarding measures that stimulate job growth and provide for the economic well-being of the state, reduce the state's reliance on foreign energy sources, and improve the state's environment in order to protect the health and safety of the public.
Referred to Senate Energy & Public Utilities, awaiting first hearing.
SB 15 GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS - (Boccieri)
To formally state the General Assembly's intentions in its upcoming deliberations on providing a more responsive and responsible government.
Introduced in Senate, awaiting committee assignment.
SB 28 ETHANOL GRANTS - (Kearney)
To create an ethanol and biodiesel producer grant program.
Referred to Senate Energy & Public Utilities. Received one hearing.
SB 32 ALTERNATIVE FUELS/BROWNFIELDS - (Boccieri)
To promote the production of alternative fuels, the application of clean coal energy generation methods, and the redevelopment of brownfield sites by granting tax incentives for those activities and by expediting the environmental permit approval process for the construction of certain facilities on brownfield sites.
Referred to Senate Energy & Public Utilities. Received one hearing.
SB 36 LIMITED HOME RULE - (Schuler)
To permit townships with a population of less than five thousand in its unincorporated territory to adopt a limited home rule government under certain conditions.
Passed Senate 33 - 0. Passed House 96-0. Signed by governor 11/7/07
SB 38 THEATRICAL SMOKING - (Schuler)
To allow smoking by theatrical performers during performances.
Received five hearings in the Senate.
SB 77 COMMERCIAL FISHING - (Grendell)
To increase the license fees for commercial fishing, to revise the penalties for violations of certain commercial fishing statutes, and to make other changes to the law governing commercial fishing.
Pass Senate 32 -0. Passed in House 72-25 (Amended). Signed by governor 7/10/07.
SB 78 GREAT LAKES COMPACT - (Grendell)
To create the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact Task Force for the purpose of determining whether Ohio should enter into the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact.
Referred to Senate Environment & Natural Resources and received one hearing.
SB 79 LICENSE PLATES - (Grendell)
To establish "Horse Power Ohio" license plates and to provide that money from the contributions for the license plates be paid to Horse Power Ohio and used for nonprofit equine programs.
Referred to Senate Highways & Transportation and received one hearing.
SB 90 FUEL QUALITY - (Grendell)
To authorize the Director of Agriculture to establish a motor fuel quality testing programs.
Amended into Transportation budget.
SB 93 NUTRITION/FITNESS MONTH - (Miller, D.)
To designate May as "Nutrition and Physical Fitness Month."
Passed Senate 31 -0. Amended into the Budget Bill.
SB 95 RAW MILK - (Cates)
To revise the statutes governing raw milk.
Referred to Senate Agriculture and has received two hearing.
SB 101 FUEL TESTING - (Cates)
To require the Department of Agriculture to establish a motor vehicle fuel quality-testing program under which county auditors may conduct such testing.
Referred to Senate Agriculture and has received two hearings.
SB 103 PROPERTY TITLES - (Mumper)
To require that a person have paid all taxes and special assessments due on property while in their possession in order to use that period of possession to establish title to the property through adverse possession.
Referred to Senate State & Local Government & Veteran Affairs.
SB 105 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION (Goodman)
To extend the homestead exemption to homeowners that have annual incomes of fifty thousand dollars or less and to change the manner in which the homestead exemption tax reduction is calculated for certain eligible homeowners.
Referred to Snate Ways & Means & Economic Development, awaiting first hearing.
SB 107 HYBRID TAX CREDIT - (Mason)
To create a tax credit for individuals who purchase a new hybrid vehicle.
Referred to Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development.
SB 122 TURNKPIKE FUEL - (Miller, D.)
To establish a schedule for E85 blend fuel to be made available at service stations located on the Ohio Turnpike and to permit the Ohio Turnpike Commission to apply for grants made by the Department of Development under the Alternative Fuel Transportation Grant Program.
Referred to Senate Highways & Transportation and has received one hearing.
SB 125 HORSE WAGERING - (Stivers)
To authorize wagering at a track on horse races that are telecast via an instant racing system and to levy a tax on amounts wagered in this manner.
Passed Senate 25 -8. Referred to House State Government & Elections and has received two hearings. Gov. Strickland has promised to veto the bill.
SB 128 CLIMATE COMMISSION - (Miller, D.)
To create the Ohio Climate Commission for the purpose of studying the probable impacts that global climate change will have on the state of Ohio and for the purpose of recommending appropriate state responses to address global climate change and problems likely to be associated with it.
Referred to Senate Environment & Natural Resources and has received one hearing.
SB 135 NURSERY OPERATIONS - (Amstutz)
To exempt from license fees a person who is not a nurseryman, dealer, or collector and who makes no more than $1,000 in sales of nursery stock during a calendar year and to exempt from nursery stock inspection and certification a person who is not a nurseryman, dealer, or collector and who makes no more than $500 in sales of nursery stock.
Referred to Senate Agriculture and has received one hearing.
SB 149 ANIMAL FACILITIES - (Roberts)
To revise the law governing Concentrated animal feeding facilities.
Referred to Senate Agriculture and received one hearing.
SB 168 UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE - (Miller, D.)
To establish and operate the Ohio Health Care Plan to provide universal health care coverage to all Ohio residents. To Senate Health, human Services & Aging.
Referred to Senate Health, Human Services & Aging and received one hearing.
SB 170 CONSERVANCY DISTRICTS - (Amstutz)
To revise the membership of the board of directors of a conservancy district that includes all or parts of more than sixteen counties; to require the board of directors of such a district rather than the conservancy court to perform certain functions under the Conservancy Districts Law; to prohibit the levying of an assessment by such a conservancy district under specified circumstances and to make other changes concerning the levying of an assessment by such a conservancy district.
Referred to Senate Environment & Natural Resources and has received three hearings.
SB 182 ELECTION BY MAIL - (Cates)
To allow a board of elections to conduct an election by mail when no candidates will be on the ballot at that election.
Referred to Senate State & Local Government and Veterans Affairs committee and has received three hearings.
SB 190 TURFGRASS WEEK (Morano)
To designate the last week of May as "Ohio Turfgrass Week."
Reported out of Senate Agriculture committee, awaiting floor vote.
SB 198 RENEWABLE ENERGY PROPERTY - (Mason)
To create tax credits for investing in renewable energy property.
Referred to Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development committee, awaiting first hearing.
SB 200 SOLAR/WIND ENERGY - (Mason)
To exempt sales of solar and wind energy devices from sales and use taxation.
Referred to Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development committee, awaiting first hearing.
SB 213 RENEWABLE ENERGY - (Mason)
To require the Director of Administrative Services to ensure that a certain percentage of state agencies' total electricity purchases are from renewable energy systems.
Referred to Senate Energy & Public Utilities, awaiting first hearing.
SB 221 ENERGY POLICY - (Schuler)
To revise state energy policy to address electric service price regulation, establish alternative energy benchmarks for electric distribution utilities and electric services companies, provide for the use of renewable energy credits, establish energy efficiency standards for electric distribution utilities, require greenhouse gas emission reporting and carbon dioxide control planning for utility-owned generating facilities, authorize energy price risk management contracts, and authorize for natural gas utilities revenue decoupling related to energy conservation and efficiency.
Passed by House and Senate. Signed by governor on 5/1/08.
SB 260 - DEPORTATION CUSTODY - (Cates)
To provide that a board of county commissioners may direct a sheriff to take custody of persons who are being detained for deportation or who are charged with civil violations of immigration law and to expressly authorize state and local employees and county sheriffs to render assistance to federal immigration officials in the investigation and enforcement of federal immigration law. Amended and passed in the Senate.
Referred to House State Government & Elections committee, and has received three hearings.
SB 286 OPTICAL SCAN BALLOTS - (Cates)
To clarify that an optical scan ballot with more than the proper number of selections for a particular office, issue, or question is invalidated only for that office, issue, or question; to permit midday collection and delivery to the board of elections of optical scan ballots that will be counted at a central location for the March 4, 2008, primary election; to generally prohibit the central counting of optical scan ballots; to terminate the provisions of this act authorizing the midday collection and delivery of optical scan ballots on May 1, 2008, by repealing section 3505.25 of the Revised Code on that date; and to declare an emergency.
Passed by House and Senate. Signed by Gov. Strickland on 2/27/08.
SB 291 GREAT LAKES COMPACT - (Grendell)
To ratify the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact and to establish related requirements.
Referred to Senate Environment & Natural Resources and has received six hearings.
SB 299 EARLY VOTING - (Miller, D.)
To change the name of absent voter's ballots to early voting ballots.
Referred to State & Local Government & Veterans Affairs committee and has received three hearings.
SB 335 - ECONOMIC STIMULUS - (Carey)
To establish the Ohio Bioproducts Development Program and Ohio Biomedical Development Program to be administered by the Third Frontier Commission, to establish the Third Frontier Economic Stimulus Advisory Board, to expand the economic development programs administered by the Department of Development to include transportation logistics and distribution infrastructure projects, to provide additional money for capital improvement projects of local subdivisions and for highway capital improvement projects, to modify the authority of the Ohio Coal Development Office, to administer coal research and development projects, to provide for advanced energy projects administered by the Ohio Air Quality Development Authority, to establish the Ohio Innovation Partnership Co-op/Internship Program, to extend the historical building rehabilitation tax credit, limit credit amounts, require regional distributive balance and economic effects to be considered, and to make an appropriation.