|
Bill Number
|
Sponsor
|
Title
|
Summary
|
Status
|
|
House
Bills
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| HB 02 |
Evans (C.) |
TEACHING SUCCESS |
Directs that the
GA's ongoing efforts to improve the quality
of teaching in Ohio include provisions recommended
by the Governor's Commission on Teaching Success. |
Pending in House
Education. |
| HB 03** |
Schlichter |
PUBLIC SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY |
Directs the GA's
deliberations to modify the state public school
accountability system. |
ENACTED:
Effective August 15, 2003. |
| HB 12 |
Aslanides |
CONCEALED
WEAPONS |
Authorizes
county sheriffs to issue licenses to carry
concealed handguns to certain persons, creates
offense of falsification to obtain a concealed
handgun license, increases penalties for theft
of a firearm. |
Pending in
House Criminal Justice. |
| HB 19 |
Miller |
LIFESTYLE
CURRICULUM |
Requires the
Dept. of Ed. to establish a pilot project
to implement and evaluate effectiveness of
"Heart E Heart" healthy lifestyle
curriculum in selected classrooms in grades
1,2,3 and makes an appropriation. |
Pending in
House Finance & Appropriations. |
| HB 20 |
Willamowski |
INMATE EDUCATION
EXPENSES |
Prohibits
expenditure of public funds for postsecondary
education of any person serving a term of
imprisonment or who is delinquent child committed
to the legal custody of the Dept. of Youth
Services and not on supervised release. |
Pending in
House Criminal Justice. |
| HB 22 |
Cates |
SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPH
SERVICES |
Prohibits
school officials from entering into contracts
or agreements with photographers for the taking
of senior photographs that prohibit students
from hiring other photographers. |
Pending in
House Education. |
| HB 40** |
Calvert |
BUDGET CORRECTIONS |
Makes program
and budgetary modifications increases the
rate of tax on cigarettes and alcoholic beverages,
makes other tax modifications, and makes an
appropriation. |
ENACTED:
Effective March 7, 2003. |
| HB 45 |
Boccieri |
PREVAILING
WAGE/SCHOOL CONTRACTORS |
Makes school
facilities construction subject to prevailing
wage law and prohibits board of ed. of a school
district or ESC from awarding a contract that
does not have a principal place of business
in Ohio. |
Pending in
House Commerce & Labor. |
| HB 54 ** |
Collier |
STUDENT DRIVER
STICKERS |
Provides that
when a temporary instruction permit is issued,
the Registrar of Motor Vehicles or depty registrar
also issue a removable sticker or banner that
reads "student driver." |
ENACTED:
Effective April 6, 2004. |
| HB 58 |
Kilbane |
TAX REFORM
DIRECTIVE |
Directs the
General Assembly in its deliberations regarding
the enactment of reforms of the state's tax
laws. |
Pending in
House Ways and Means. |
| HB 65 |
Faber |
PLEDGE OF
ALLEGIANCE |
Requires school
district boards of education to set aside
a period of time each day for the oral recitation
of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag |
Pending House
Education. |
| HB 73 |
Carano |
SCHOOL SOVEREIGN
IMMUNITY |
Provides full
defense to liability under motor vehicle exception
to qualified sovereign immunity for public
school in cases involving negligent operation
of privately-owned vehicle not a bus and prohibits
ODE from regulating use. |
Pending in
House Civil and Commercial Law. 1st Hearing
4/30/03. |
| HB 74 |
DeWine |
EDUCATOR LICENSING
RULES |
Limits prvision
requiring delayed effective date for educator
licensing rules to only rules that require
curriculum changes in teacher prep.programs
and for amendment or recission of such rules. |
Pending House
Education. 1st Hearing 4/29/03. |
| HB 75 |
Buehrer |
KOREAN WAR
VETERANS |
Grants high
school diplomas to veterans of the Korean
Conflict and expands eligibility for diplomas
to certain non-resident veterans who attend
Ohio high schools. |
Passed House
& Senate. Pending Governor's Signature. |
| HB 77 |
DeWine |
SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION |
Requires schools
under control of Board of Ed. open for instruction
specified number of hour each school year;
eliminates spending requirements for DPIA
money paid to districts, changes method of
payment for Spec. Ed. weights. |
Pending in
House Education. |
| HB 87** |
Buehrer |
TRANSPORTATION
BUDGET |
Makes appropriations
for programs related to transportation and
public safety for the biennium beginning 1/7/03
and ending 6/30/05. |
ENACTED:
Effective 3/31/03. |
| HB 88 |
Book |
SCHOOL CALAMITY
DAYS |
Permits any
school district that closed its schools for
at least 3 days during Feb. 17 to Feb 28,
2003 to not count any days the schools were
closed toward the number of permitted "calamity"
days in FY 03 if the reason was hazardous
weather. |
Pending in
House Education |
| HB 94 |
Buehrer |
CIVIL SERVICE |
Implements
the recommendations of the Civil Service Review
Commission. |
Pending in
House Finance & Appropriations. |
| HB 95** |
Calvert |
BIENNIAL BUDGET |
Levies taxes
and provides for implementation of those levies,
makes operating appropriations for the biennium
beginning 7/1/03 ending 6/30/05 and provides
authorization for the operation of state programs. |
ENACTED:
Effective 6/26/03. |
| HB 96 |
Willamowski |
SCHOOL CALAMITY
DAYS |
Permits school
district that closed for at least 4 consecutive
days during the 1st month that school was
schedule dto be open in FY 03 not county any
of those days permitted in "calamity"
days if reason was damage caused by broken
pipes. |
Pending in
House Education. |
| HB 98 * |
Willamowski |
PENSION FUND
OPTIONS |
Makes changes
to the option benefit plans for retirants
and the cost of living increases in Public
employees Retirement System, State Teachers
Retirement System, and School Employes Retirement
System. |
Passed House.
Pending Senate Health, Human Services &
Aging. |
| HB102* |
Collier |
FOUR-DAY SCHOOL
WEEK |
Permits the
board of education of a city, exempted village,
local or joint vocational school district
or nonpublic school to adopt a four-day school
week. |
Passed in
the House. Pending Senate Education. |
| HB 106 |
Williams |
JUVENILE DELINQUENT
RECORDS |
Requires that upon
a child's discharge or release from the custody
of the Dept. of Youth Services certain records
pertaining to that child be released to the
superintendent of the school district in which
the child is entitled to attend school. |
Pending in House
Education. |
| HB111 |
Boccieri |
PUBLIC OFFICIAL
ABSENTEE VOTING |
Permits members
of public bodies called to active duty, under
circumstances, to vote from their activy duty
locations w/in 24 hours after a vote of the
public body, Extends time for payment of realy
proprety and manufactured home taxes and declares
an emergency. |
Pending in
House State Government. |
| HB112 |
Gilb |
PERSONAL INCOME
TAX |
Redesigns
the personal income tax as a "flat",
single-rate income tax. |
Pending in
House Ways & Means. 1st Hearing 4/30/03. |
| HB118 |
Blasdel |
APPALACHIAN
TEACHER COHORTS |
Requires the funding
of the Ohio Wyami Appalachian Teacher Cohorts
program thorugh a federal grant provided to
the Department of Education. |
Pending in
House Education. |
| HB130 ** |
Reidelbach |
CHILD CARE
POWER OF ATTORNEY |
Permits the
execution of apower of attorney or caretaker
authorization permitting persons with whom
a child resides authority over the care, custody,
and control of the child to make decisions
regarding school matters. |
ENACTED:
Effective July 19, 2004. |
| HB142** |
Hagan |
UNIVERSITY
STUDENT VACCINATIONS |
Establishes
a requirement that institutions of high education
require students living in on-campus housing
to be vaccinated for meningitis or obtain
a waiver of the vaccination requirement. |
ENACTED:
Effective July 14, 2004 |
| HB145 |
Buehrer |
ELECTRONIC COMMERCE
SERVICES |
Adopts the Electronic
Government Services Act to prohibit a government
agency from providing duplicative or competing
electronic commerce services with the private
sector, other than described cable service,
unless the agency complies with procedures
established by the Act. |
Pending in House
State Government. |
| HB150 |
Fessler |
STATE BOARD
OF EDUCATION |
Modifies the
powers of the State Board of Education. |
Pending in
House Education. |
| HB160 |
Beatty |
ECONOMICS
INSTRUCTION |
Requires that
every high school include in the requirements
for graduation instruction in personal economics. |
Pending in
House Education. |
| HB 167 |
Koziura |
COLLEGE GRADUATION |
Directs the
Ohio Board of Regents to adopt rules requiring
state universities to guarantee that a full-time
undergraduate student w/ a declared major
field of study can complete the coursework
for that program in specified time period. |
Pending in
House Education. |
| HB 173 |
Oelslager |
TUITION TRUST AUTHORITY |
Modifies the Ohio
Tuition Trust Authority Law with respect to
the administration of the College Advantage
savings plan. |
Pending in House
Finance & Appropriations. |
| HB 205 |
Fessler |
SCHOOL CURRICULUM |
Requires one unit
of American history and government and two
units of social studies for graduation from
high school and requires the study of specified
historical documents be included in the high
school American history curriculum. |
Pending in House
Education. |
| HB 217 |
Williams |
SCHOOL FACILITIES
COMMISSION |
Prohibits the Ohio
School Facilities Commission from prohibiting
a school district undertaking a state-assisted
classroom facilities project from renovating
an existing facility rather than acquiring
a comparable facility by new construction
as long as certain conditions are satisfied. |
Pending in House. |
| HB 220 |
Koziura |
EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS |
Requires an appropriation
bill for education agencies by enacted separate
from and prior to any other operating appropriations
bills. |
Pending in House
Finance & Appropriations. |
| HB 221 |
Fessler |
SCHOOL DISTRICT
FINANCES |
Requires school
districts annually to report and the Dept.
of Education to disclose on the SF-3 form,
the amount of payments the district received
in lieu of taxes for tax-exempt property,
lost revenue due to property tax exemptions,
grants and gifts from governmental and private
sources, and other district revenue. |
Pending in House
Finance & Appropriations. |
| HB 222 |
Mason |
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE |
Permits a student
who relocates or whose parent relocates outside
of the school district in which the student
is entitled to attend school after the end
of the first full week of October and who
is enrolled in a school of that district prior
to that time to continue to attend school
in that district free of tuition for the balance
of the school year. |
Pending in House
Education. |
| HB 227** |
Schneider |
STRS BOARD |
Changes the composition
of the State Teachers Retirement Board. |
Passed in the House.
Passed in the Senate 4/28/04 |
| HB 250 |
Seitz |
BOARD OF EDUCATION |
Changes the voting
membership of the State Board of Education
to consist of a member from each of several
electoral districts with boudaries coinciding
with the state's Congressional districts and
a president to be appointed by the Governor
if there is an even number of such electoral
districts, provides for a fixed term of appointment
for the Superitnendent of Public Instruction,
and makes changes in the procedure for meetings
of the State Board of Education. |
Pending House Education. |
| HB 260 |
Daniels |
TAX OVERPAYMENT
INTEREST |
Reduces the rate
at which interest accrues on estate tax and
personal property tax overpayments. |
Pending in House
Ways & Means. |
| HB 265* |
Faber |
SCHOOL CIVIL LIABILITY |
Confers immunity
from civil liability upon school districts,
community schools, nonpublic schools, and
school employees for an alleged injury to
a student caused by school discipline, provided
that such discipline does not result in child
endangerment. |
Passed House 5/27/04. |
| HB 287 |
Boccieri |
SCHOOL STUDENT
TESTING |
Requires public
and chartered nonpublic schools to test students
for dyslexia and related disorders and provides
intervention services to students identified
as having dyslexia or a related disorder. |
Pending in House
Education. |
| HB 298 |
Skindell |
ENERGY EFFICIENT
BUILDINGS |
Requires state
agencies, state institutions of higher education,
school districts and community schools to
comply with certain energy efficient building
standards and requires the Board of Building
STandards to adopt those standards by rule. |
Pending in House
Homeland Security, Engineering &Architectural
Design. |
| HB 319 |
Raussen |
MUNICIPAL TAX ADMINISTRATORS |
Authorizes the
Tax Commissioner to provide municipal income
tax administrators with access to school district
income tax records and returns. |
Pending in House
Ways and Means. |
| HB 330 |
Hartnett |
PROFICIENCY TESTS |
Changes the dates
by which certain proficiency and achievement
tests are administered and changes the dates
on which the results of those tests are released
to school districts. |
Pending in House
Education |
| HB 344 |
Domenick |
SCHOOL FINANCE |
Decreases GRF appropriation
item 506-321, Institution Education Service,
in the Dept. of Rehabilitation and Corrections,
and increases GRP appropriation items 200-431.
School Improvement Initiatives, and 200-513,
Student Intervention Services, in the Department
of Education. |
Pending in House
Finance and Appropriations. |
| HB 346 |
Young |
SALES TAX REPEAL |
Repeals the temporary
sales tax increase. |
Pending in House
Ways & Means. |
| HB 356 |
Widowfield |
SCHOOL DISTRICT
TAXES |
Permits school
districts in a county to impose, with voter
approval, a sales and use tax in the county. |
Pending in House
Ways and Means. |
| HB 362* |
Hoops |
SCHOOL DISTRICT
LEVIES |
Changes the statutory
designation of school district permanent improvement
levies that may be levied continuously. |
Passed in theHouse.
|
| HB 370 |
Schaffer |
TEACHER TAX CREDIT |
Allows a credit
against the personal income tax for amounts
spent by licensed teachers for instructional
materials. |
Introduced 1/13/04. |
| HB385 |
Distel |
SEXUALLY-ORIENTED
BUSINESS ADS |
Prohibits displaying
within one mile of any school building any
advertising device that advertises a sexually
orineted business. |
Introduced in the
House 1/28/04. |
| HB390 |
Sykes |
SCHOOL FOOD STANDARDS |
Establishes nutritional
standards for food sold to students in public
elementary schools and prohibits the sale
of certain beverages to students in all public
schools except under specified circumstances. |
Introduced in the
House 1/28/04. |
| HB 407 |
Gibbs |
STREAMLINED SALES
TAX |
Imposes conditions
for entering into the streamlined sales tax
and use agreement and changes the new sales
tax sourcing provisions that are intended
to take effect Jan 1, 2005. |
Pending in House
Ways & Means. |
| HB 415 |
Faber, K. |
SCHOOLS DISPLAY
MOTTOES |
To require
school districts and community schools to
display the mottoes of the United States of
America and the State of Ohio in each school
building. |
Introduced in the
House 3/1/04. Pending in House Education. |
| HB 418 |
Wolpert |
SCHOOL BUILDING
ASSISTANCE |
Permits certain
school districts experiencing high growth
in student enrollment to receive assistance
under the Classroom Facilities Assistance
Program earlier than they otherwise would
be eligible, eliminates the requirement that
such high-growth school districts levy a tax
for maintenance of classroom facilities acquired
with state assistance, and reduces the maximum
school district share of the cost of any project
under the Classroom Facilities Assistance
Program to 90%. |
Introduced in the
House 3/2/2004. Pending in House Education. |
| HB 434** |
Calvert |
TOBACCO SETTLEMENT
APPROPRIATION |
Provides for the
distribution of money received by the state
pursuant to the Tobacco Master Settlement
Agreement by mkng operating and capital appropriations
for the biennium beginning July 1, 2004 and
ending June 30, 2006 and provides authorization
and conditions for the operation of state
programs. |
ENACTED: Effective
August 27, 2004. |
| HB 447 |
Carano |
CHARTER SCHOOLS
MORATORIUM |
Creates a two-year
moratorium on the establishment of new community
schools sponsored by entities other than the
school districts in which they would be located,
extends the statewide cap on the number of
community schools sponsored by other entities,
requires training in reporting EMIS information
and increases the penalty for community school
fiscal officers who fail to report data required,
directs the LOEO to update an existing study
of community schools. |
Introduced in the
House 3/30/04. |
| HB 463* |
Combs |
CHICKEN POX IMMUNIZATION |
Requires students
to be immunized against chicken pox subject
to certain exceptions. |
Passed in the House
5/27/04. |
| HB 474 |
Setzer |
REGIONAL EDUCATION
DELIVERY SYSTEM |
Requires the State
Board of Education to establish the Ohio Regional
Education Delivery System by July 1, 2007. |
Pending in House
Education. |
| HB 480 |
Wolpert |
SCHOOL INCOME TAX |
Permits board of
education to apply school district income
taxes only to earnings. |
Pending in House
Commerce & Labor. |
| HB 484 |
Evans, C. |
POST-SECONDARY ENROLLMENT
OPTIONS |
Restricts new participants
in the Post-Secondary Enrollment Options Program
to students in the 11th or 12th grade, requires
new students in the program to attain a proficient
score on any related Ohio Graduation Test
prior to enrolling in a college course under
the program. |
Pending in House
Education. |
| HB 488 |
Woodard |
EDUCATOR BACKGROUND
CHECKS |
Requires the State
Board of Education to request a criminal background
check of an applicant prior to issuing or
renewing an educator license. |
Pending in House Education.
|
| HB 489 |
Patton, T. |
SCHOOL FACILITY
CONTRACTS |
Requires Board of
Education of each school districts undertaking
school building construction project valued
over $25,000 to award the contract for that
project only to the lowest Ohio-based bidder
or by board option the lowest responsive and
responsible Ohio-based bidder. Requires districts
& OSFC to contract with Ohio-based persons
when contracting for professional services. |
Pending in House
Education. |
| HB 505 |
Evans, C. |
CLASSROOM FACILITIES |
Specifies a new
method of calculating a school district's
portion of the cost of a state-assisted classroom
facilities acquisition project for certain
districts that have a combination of relatively
high valuations per pupil and relatively low
median incomes. |
Pending in House
Education. |
| HB 509 |
Schlichter |
VIETNAM WAR DIPLOMAS |
Grants high school
diplomas to certain veterans of the Vietnam
Conflict. |
Introduced in the
House 5/25/04. |
| HB 524 |
DeGeeter |
SCHOOL ZONES |
Makes a violation
of the prohibition under the Sex Offender
Registration and Notification law against
certain offenders residing within 1,000 ft
of any school premises a felony of the 5th
degreee. |
Passed in the House.
Pending Senate. |
| HB 526 |
Trakas |
EXEMPT SCHOOL MILLAGE |
Grants boards of
education limited authority to levy additional,
voter-approved property taxes that are not
subject to the HB920 revenue growth limitation,
permits boards to apply school district income
taxes only to earnings, to prespectively limit
the total rate of school income taxes to 1%
and reauthorizes joint municipal school district
income taxes. |
Introduced in the
House 7/13/04. |
| HB 530 |
Stewart, J. |
SCHOOL BULLYING |
Requires Dept. of
Ed. to develop a model policy prohibiting
harassment, intimidation, or bullying; requires
each school district board of ed. to adopt
a policy prohibiting harassment, intimidation
or bullying; provides school district employees,
students, volunteers civil immunity for damage
arising from reporting an incident of harassment,
requires school district to provide training
on harassment. |
Introduced in the
House 7/20/04 |
| HB 532 |
Peterson |
SCHOOL FUNDING |
Changes the method
for computing the school foundation formula
charge-off. |
Introduced in the
House 7/22/04. |
| HB 567 |
Setzer |
REGIONAL EDUCATION
DELIVERY/EMIS |
Establishes the
Ohio Regional Education Delivery System and
requires the develpment of a new data system
for the Education Management Information System. |
Introduced in the House 10/21/04.
|
| HCR12 |
Grendell |
PLEDGE OF
ALLEGIANCE |
Afirms the
GA's belief in the constitutionality of the
National Pledge, urges state of Cal. and branches
of government to act to preserve and protect
current pledge. |
Pending in
House State Government |
| HJR 7 |
Reidelbach |
STATE TAX INCREASES |
Proposes a constitutional
amendment to require that increases in state
taxes be approved by a supermajority of the
membership of each house of the General Assembly. |
Pending House Ways
& Means - 1st Hearing 4/30/03. |
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Senate
Bills
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| SB 02** |
Gardner (Robt) |
TEACHING SUCCESS |
Directs that
the GA's ongoing efforts to improve the quality
of teaching in Ohio include provisions recommended
by the Governor's Commission on Teaching Success. |
Passed in
the Senate and House. |
| SB 03 |
Gardner (Randy) |
PUBLIC SCHOOL
ACCOUNTABILITY |
Directs the
GA's deliberations to modify the state public
school accountability system to comply with
the "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001." |
Pending in
Senate Education. |
| SB 12** |
Gardner (Randy) |
COMMUNITY
SCHOOL CONVERSION |
Removes the
prohibition on establishing a conversion community
school as an Internet-or computer-based community
school. |
ENACTED:
Effective 4/8/03 with certain sections effective
3/31/03. |
| SB 20 |
Couglin |
LIFESTYLE
CURRICULUM |
Requires Dept.
of Ed. to establish a pilot project to implement
and evaluate the effectiveness of the Heart
E Heart healthy lifestyle curriculum in selected
classrooms in grades 1, 2 & 3 in selected
districts in Portage and Summit counties. |
Pending in
Senate Finance & Financial Institutions. |
| SB 31 |
Robt. Gardner |
INTERNET LOTTERY
SALES |
Authorizes
the State Lottery Commission to allow lottery
games to be played over the Internet under
certain conditions. |
Pending in
Senate Finance & Financial Institutions. |
| SB 36 |
Gardner, Randy |
PARITY AID |
Eliminates
restrictions on the expenditure by school
districts of state funds received for parity
aid. |
Pending in
Senate Finance & Financial Institutions. |
| SB 46 |
Dann |
SCHOOL FUNDING
CUTS |
Voids any
reductions in moneys distributed to school
districts for elementary and secondary education
that are ordered by the Governor in the fiscal
year that ends June 30, 2003 and declares
an emergency. |
Pending in
Senate Finance & Financial Institutions. |
| SB 47** |
Stivers |
PUBLIC OFFICIAL
ABSENTEE VOTING |
Creates exception
in Open Meetings Law from requirement of actual
physical presence members of public bodies
who are called to active duty, permits members
to vote from their active duty locations. |
ENACTED:
Effective 6/12/03. |
| SB 54 |
Carey |
SCHOOL BUILDING
ASSISTANCE |
Establishes
Rural Accelerated School Building Assistance
Program to provide early state assistance
for classroom facilities acquisition for districts
with territories greater than 350 square miles. |
Pending in
Senate Finance & Financial Institutions. |
| SB 58** |
Jacobson |
ENDANGERING CHILDREN |
Increases penalties
for certain drug offenses if the offense is
committed in the vincinity of a school or
juvenile and expands the offense of endangering
children to prohibit children to be within
the vicinity of certain drug offenses. |
ENACTED: Effective
8/10/04. |
| SB 60 |
Armbruster |
CAMPUS VACCINATION |
Requires that
institutions of higher education require students
living in on-campus housing to be vaccinated
for meningitis or botain a waiver of the vaccination
requirement. |
Pending in
Senate Health, Human Services & Aging |
| SB 62 |
Dann |
RETRAINING
ASSISTANCE |
Directs the
Ohio Board of regents to provide state financial
assistance to a community college, technical
college, university branch or state community
college that offers noncredit worker retraining
courses. |
Pending in Senate
Finance & Financial Institutions. |
| SB 79** |
Stivers |
BOARDS OF EDUCATION |
Permits boards of
education and governing boards of ESC's to
adopt, for the purpose of nominating candidates
for those boards, a charter municipal corporation's
procedures for nominating candidates, if that
corporation is located wholly or partially
within the school district. |
ENACTED: Effective
September 16, 2004. |
| SB 80 |
Stivers |
CIVIL JUSTICE STATUTES |
Makes changes related
to the award of certain damages, collateral
benefits evidence, and contributory fault
in torn actions; establishes a a statute of
repose for certain product liability claims
and claims based on unsafe conditions of real
property improvements and makes other changes
related to product liability claims; provides
that the product liability statutes are intended
to abrogate common law product liability causes
of action; enacts a conflicts of law provision
for statutes of limitation in civil actions;
modifies the provisions on frivolous conduct
in filing civil actions; prohibits imputing
any assurances or assumption of liability
regarding public access to premises used for
growing agricultural produce;enacts a legal
consumer's bill of rights; limits attorney
contingency fees in connection with certain
tort actions; establishes minimum limits attorney
contingency fees in connection with certain
tort actions; establishes minimum medical
requirements for filing certain asbestos claims;
establishes limitations on successor asbestos-related
liabilities relating to corporations and makes
other changes related to civil actions. |
Pending in Senate
Juvenile Civil Justice. |
| SB 81* |
Fedor |
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
STANDARDS |
Requires the State
Board of Education to propose standards and
model curricula for physical education for
grades K-12 subject to approval by concurrent
resolution by both houses of the General Assembly |
Passed in the Senate.
Pending House Education. |
| SB 83 |
Robt. Gardner |
PROPERTY TAX REDUCTIONS |
Requires property
tax reduction factors to be adjusted to account
for five years' worth of property value chagnes
resulting from property tax complaints and
specifies that real property tax complaints
do not automatically continue beyond the triennial
reassessment cycle. |
Pending in Ways
& Means & Economic Development. |
| SB 84 |
Austria |
SCHOOL YEAR |
Requires that school
districts and nonpublic schools be open for
a minimum of 910 hours of instruction a year
for grades one through eight, and a minimum
of 1,001 years for grades nine through twelve. |
Pending in Senate
Education. |
| SB 99* |
Blessing |
VLT IMPLEMENTATION |
Requires State
Lottery Commission to establish licensing
procedures for electronic lottery sales agents
that are horse-racing permit holders and to
conduct lotteries that provide immediate prize
determinations for individual participants
through the use of electronic gaming devises
at the permit holder's tracks; requires Dept.
of Education to implement a scholarship program
to provide tuition scholarships to certain
high school graduates who enroll in state-assisted
or private colleges or universities in Ohio
and requires a portion of the proceeds from
the electronic lotteries to be used to support
the scholarship program. |
Passed in the Senate.
Pending House Finance & Appropriations. |
| SB 104 |
Fedor |
RETIREMENT SYSTEMS
INVESTIGATION |
Authorizes the
Inspector General to enter into mutual agreements
with state agencies for reimbursements of
costs of investigations, creates in the state
treasury the Inspector General Reimbursement
Fund as the repository of those reimbursements,
generally includes as state agencies for purposes
of investigations by the Inspector General
the Ohio Retirement Study Council, Public
Employees Retirement System, Ohio Police &
Fire Pension Fund and State highway Patrol
Retirement System and to supersede the versions
of Secs. 121.41 & 121.48 of the Revised
Code as amended by Am Sub HB 94 of the 125th
General Assembly. |
Pending in Senate
Health, Human Services & Aging. |
| SB 105 |
Schuring |
RETIREMENT SYSTEM
DISCLOSURES |
Requires certain
state retirement system officials and employees
to file financial disclosure statements with
the Ohio Ethics Commission |
Pending in Senate
Health, Hunan Services & Aging. |
| SB 109 |
Dann |
TEACHING PERMITS |
Requires that the
State Board of Education adopt rules to establish
standards and requirements for issuing permits
to individuals who are not licensed educators
and who wish to be employed by school districts
to direct, supervise or coach pupil-activity
programs. |
Pending in Senate
Education. |
| SB 120 |
Hagan |
SCHOOL STUDENT
TESTING |
Requires public
and chartered nonpublic schools to test students
for dyslexia and related disorders and provides
intervention services to students identified
as having dyslexia or a related disorder. |
Pending in Senate
Education. |
| SB 121 |
Dann |
SCHOOL SANITATION |
Establishes sanitation
requirements and standards for indoor pollutants
for schools and requires boards of health
or a board's designated representative to
conduct inspections of schools and school
buildings. |
Pending in Senate
Health, Human Services & Aging. |
| SB 122 |
Dann |
SCHOOL FUNDING |
Makes an additional
appropriation to the Department of Education
for the biennium that ends on June 30, 2005. |
Pending in SenateFinance
& Financial Institutions. |
| SB 126 |
Schuring |
RETIREMENT SYSTEM
INVESTIGATIONS |
Requires the Inspector
General to investigate a state retirement
system at the requrest of the Ohio Retirement
Study Council; provides for recall of state
reitrement system board members and makes
documents regarding filling a board member
vacancy open to public inspection. |
Pending in Senate
Health, Hunan Services & Aging. |
| SB 133** |
Wachtmann |
RETIREMENT SYSTEM
GOVERNANCE |
Regarding governance
of Ohio's five public retirement systems. |
ENACTED: Effective
September 15, 2004. |
| SB 143 |
Fingerhut |
ENERGY EFFICIENT
GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS |
Requires state
agencies, state institutions of high education,
school districts, and community schools to
comply with certain energy efficient building
standards and requires the Board of Building
Standards to adopt those standards by rule. |
Pending in Senate
Finance & Financial Institutions. |
| SB 159 |
Coughlin |
TEMPORARY SALES
TAX REPEAL |
Repeals the temporary
sales and use tax increase and temporary vendor
discount increase on January 1, 2005. |
Pending in Senate
Finance & Financial Institutions. |
| SB 174 |
Miller, R. |
SCHOOL FOOD STANDARDS |
Establishes nutritional
standards for food sold to students in public
elementary schools and prohibits the sale
of certain beverages to students in all public
schools except under specified conditions. |
Pending in Senate
Education. |
| SB 206 |
Austria |
JOB DEVELOPMENT |
Increase from 10
to 15 the number of years enterprise zone
agreements may exempt property from taxation,
subject to school board approval; creates
the Job Development Initiatives Fund and transfers
up to $25.8 million of unclaimed funds to
it and makes appropriations. |
Introduced in the
Senate 3/9/2004. |
| SB 208 |
Zurz |
EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS |
Requires that an
appropriations bill for education agencies
be enacted separate from and prior to any
other operating appropriations bills. |
Pending in Senate
Finance & Financial Institutions. |
| SB 210 |
Stivers |
SCHOOL FACILITIES |
Permits school
districts experiencing high growth in student
enrollment to receive assistance under the
Classroom Facilities Assistance Program earlier
than they otherwise would be eligible; elminiates
the requirement that such districts levy a
tax for maintenance of classroom facilities
acquired with state assitance and reduces
the maximum school district share of the cost
of any project under the CFAP to 90%. |
Pending in Senate
Finance & Financial Institutions. |
| SB 212 |
Fedor |
COMMUNITY SCHOOL
MORATORIUM |
Creates a two-year
moratorium on the establishment of new community
schools sponsored by entities other than the
school districts in which they would be located,
extends after the moratorium the statewide
cap on the number of community schools sponsored
by entities other than such school districts,
requires training in reporting data to the
Education Management Information System for
community schools and their sponsors, increases
penalty for community schoo |
