Ohio Legislature: Floor actions from Wednesday, 11-12-08

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)-- Legislative floor actions in the House of Representatives and Senate from Wednesday, Nov. 12.

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Agriculture & Natural Resources

HB 612 FARMING TASK FORCE (Fessler)-To create the Local Farming Task Force to develop recommendations of policies and funding that are necessary to encourage local farming in Ohio.

Civil & Commercial Law

HB 591 WELL DRILLING/PUBLIC NOTICE (Williams, B.)-To establish additional public notice and public meeting requirements concerning applications for certain permits for oil or gas wells.

HB 592 SMOKING BAN (Fessler)-To exempt stand-alone bars from the smoking ban.

HB 626 RENTAL AGREEMENTS (Celeste, Foley)-To specify that, upon proper notice, a rental agreement for a residential property that is the subject of a foreclosure action converts to a month-to-month rental agreement unless that residential rental agreement was entered into after the initiation of foreclosure proceedings and notice of an ongoing foreclosure action and subsequent sale date is not provided, and to create penalties for a landlord or a successor in interest who violates the bill's provisions.

Commerce & Labor

HB 596 PREVAILING WAGE (Szollosi)-To make a board of education of a school district or the governing board of an educational service center subject to the Prevailing Wage Law for public improvement contracts.

HB 619 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING (Szollosi)-To eliminate an exemption from the Public Employees' Collective Bargaining Law for specified employees of the courts and clerks of courts.

HB 629 PREVAILING WAGE (Flowers)-To limit the use of complaints alleging violations of the Prevailing Wage Law and findings of the Director of Commerce concerning violations of the Prevailing Wage Law.

Ciminal Justice

HB 607 SEX OFFENDERS (Stewart, J.)-To specify that the restriction against offenders convicted of a sexually oriented offense or child-victim oriented offense living near school, preschool, or child day-care premises applies regardless of when the offense was committed or the offender began living in the residence and that a registration requirement for children adjudicated delinquent for a sexually oriented offense and classified a juvenile offender registrant applies regardless of when the offense was committed.

HB 611 AUXILIARY POLICE OFFICERS (Patton)-To require a criminal records check of a person before appointment as an auxiliary police officer of a municipal corporation and to establish qualifications for auxiliary police officers of municipal corporations.

HB 616 SEX OFFENSES (Combs, Mallory)-To prohibit engaging in sexual conduct with a human corpse.

HB 617 INVOLVEMENT WITH MINORS (Hughes)-To prohibit a person convicted of rape of a child less than thirteen from interacting with a minor without the parent's or guardian's permission and to prohibit a person from collecting any bodily substance of another person without privilege to do so.

HB 624 LAW ENFORCEMENT UNIFORMS (Dyer)-To prohibit the purchase or sale of a peace officer's uniform unless the purchaser shows required identification and authorization.

HB 627 COMMERCIAL DRIVERS/OVI (Hottinger)-To require the Registrar of Motor Vehicles to disqualify the holder of a commercial driver's license from operating a commercial motor vehicle upon a municipal OVI conviction.

Education

HB 597 STUDENT BUSING (Chandler)-To require school districts to transport pupils in grades kindergarten through eight who live within two miles of school but do not have access to a sidewalk or path constructed for pedestrian use en route to school.

HB 618 SPECIAL EDUCATION (Peterson)-To specify that the school district of residence bears the burden of persuasion and the burden of production in an administrative hearing regarding the provision of special education and related services to a child with a disability.

Finance & Appropriations

HB 590 BED BUG AWARENESS (Mallory)-To establish the Bed Bug Awareness, Education, and Prevention Program and to make an appropriation.

HB 594 FUEL TAX MORATORIUM (Fessler)-To provide a 90-day moratorium on the state motor fuel tax.

HB 623 STATE CONTRACTS (Fessler)-To require the Department of Budget and Management to electronically publish information regarding state awards.

HB 630 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION (Combs)-To exempt 10% of a homestead's value for tax year 2009.

Financial Institutions, Real Estate & Securities

HB 600 RETIREMENT CREDIT PURCHASES (Wachtmann)-To modify the purchase of service credit in the Public Employees Retirement System.

HB 605 CREDIT CARD MARKETING (Patton)-To prohibit campus credit card marketing activities on the grounds of state institutions of higher education.

HB 608 CREDIT CARD MARKETING (Lundy, Huffman)-To prohibit campus credit card marketing activities and to prohibit a state institution of higher education from releasing student directory information to any person or group for use in a profit-making plan or activity.

HB 609 LAW ENFORCEMENT BENEFITS (Patton)-To provide Ohio Public Safety Officers Death Benefit Fund coverage to drug agents and to investigators and special agents of the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation.

HB 613 BCII BENEFITS (McGregor, J.)-To provide Ohio Public Safety Officers Death Benefit Fund coverage to investigators and special agents of the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation.

HB 628 POLICE FIRE RETIREMENT (Bacon)-Regarding the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund.

Health

HB 595 MEDICAID PROGRAM (Wachtmann)-To require the Director of Job and Family Services to seek federal approval to establish an alcohol and controlled substance testing and treatment component of the Medicaid program.

HB 601 LIFE-SUSTAINING TREATMENT (Wachtmann)-To require the Director of Health to prescribe a form to document medical orders for life-sustaining treatment and to make changes to the law governing DNR identification and orders.

HB 620 AGENCY NAME CHANGE (Stewart, J.)-To change the name of the Department of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities to the Department of Developmental Disabilities and to make similar name changes for the Joint Council on Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, the Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Developmental Center Closure Commission, and certain state funds.

HB 621 COUNTY BOARDS NAME (Stewart, J.)-To change the name of county boards of mental retardation and developmental disabilities to county boards of developmental disabilities and to make similar name changes for certain county funds.

Infrastructure, Homeland Security & Veterans Affairs.

HB 593 MOTORCYCLE OPERATION (Uecker)-To clarify the penalties for operating a motorcycle without having either a motorcycle endorsement or the proper restricted license.

Insurance

HB 622 PHYSICIAN DESIGNATION (Patton)-To establish standards for the use of physician designation systems by health care insurers.

Judiciary

SB 275 HOME CONTRACTORS (Spada)-To establish the Ohio Home Improvement Contractor Law, to deem that specified violations of the law constitute a violation of the Ohio Consumer Sales Practices Act, and to provide civil remedies for owners who are damaged by a contractor who violates the law.

HB 631 ASBESTOS ACTIONS (Blessing)-To require claimants in asbestos tort actions to make certain disclosures pertaining to asbestos trust claims that have been submitted to asbestos trust entities for the purpose of compensating the claimant for asbestos exposure.

Juvenile & Family Law

HB 610 CHILD SUPPORT (Celeste)-Regarding sentencing for failure to provide adequate support to a child or other person an individual is legally obligated to support.

Local & Municipal Government & Urban Revitalization

HB 604 INTERNET AUCTIONS (DeGeeter)-To reduce, from fifteen to ten, the minimum number of days for bidding when a nonchartered municipal corporation sells personal property by Internet auction.

HB 606 COMMUNITY AUTHORITIES (Peterson)-To modify the governance and authority of new community authorities.

State Government & Elections

HB 588 SKIN CANCER MONTH (Goyal)-To designate May as "Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month.".

HB 589 TRANSPORTATION COUNCIL (Dodd)-To revise the membership of the transportation review advisory council..

HB 598 SCHOOL ACTIVITIES (Huffman)-To prohibit a public school or an interscholastic athletic organization from sanctioning or controlling fund-raising and expenditures by head coaches or school booster clubs under specified conditions and to permit school booster clubs to pay compensation to coaches..

HB 603 DECORATED VETERANS (Dodd)-To require state institutions of higher education to waive undergraduate instructional and student fees and room and board and provide book vouchers for Ohio residents awarded the Purple Heart or other combat decorations superior in precedence.

HB 614 PEACE OFFICER TRAINING (Otterman)-To require peace officer basic training programs to include training regarding persons with autism or other developmental disabilities.

HB 615 BROTHERS/SISTERS DAY (Fessler)-To create "Brothers and Sisters' Day."

HB 625 PREPAREDNESS MONTH (Mallory)-To designate the month of September Ohio Preparedness Month.

Ways & Means

HB 599 SATELLITE VIDEO SERVICES (Blessing)-To exempt sales of satellite broadcasting services from sales and use taxation and to provide that the provisions of this act in section 5739.035 of the Revised Code terminate on January 1, 2010, when that section is repealed on that date.

HB 602 LAND REHABILITATION (Patton)-To authorize the creation of land reutilization corporations to facilitate the reclamation, rehabilitation, and reutilization of vacant, abandoned, tax-foreclosed, or other real property and to revise the expedited, nonjudicial foreclosure procedure for abandoned lands.

 

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