WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20

House Agriculture & Natural Resources, (Chr. Aslanides, 644-6014), Rm. 116, 8:30 a.m.

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.   (4th Hearing-All testimony)  Full Text

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.   (4th Hearing-All testimony-Possible substitute & vote)  Full Text

HB 238  ANIMAL RESTITUTION   (Latta, Stewart, J.)  To revise provisions governing the restitution value of a wild animal that is unlawfully held, taken, bought, sold, or possessed.   (2nd Hearing-All testimony)  Full Text

House Juvenile & Family Law, (Chr. Hughes, 466-2473), Rm. 018, 9 a.m.

HB 111  CHILD NEGLECT   (Collier)  To expand the definition of neglected child to include a child whose parent, guardian, or custodian knowingly allows a sexually oriented offender or juvenile delinquent who committed a sexually oriented offense to reside in the same residence as that child.   (5th Hearing-All testimony-Possible amendments & vote)  Full Text

HB 214  FOSTER CARE   (Wagner, Combs)  Relative to training for foster caregivers, the public record status of identifying information of current and prospective foster caregivers, department of job and family services authority to begin the child placement level of care pilot program and petition Congress for expanded usage of Title IV-E funding, and the coordination of the provision of services for foster children with mental retardation or developmental disabilities, and to amend the version of section 149.43 of the Revised Code that is scheduled to take effect September 29, 2007, to maintain the provisions of this act on and after that effective date.   (4th Hearing-All testimony-Possible amendments)  Full Text

HB 239  JUVENILES   (Latta)  To clarify the definition of "harmful to juveniles."   (2nd Hearing-Proponent)  Full Text

HB 247  PROTECTION ORDERS   (Brown)  To allow a court to issue a civil protection order to a child who has had or has a dating relationship with the respondent if certain offenses are alleged and to include foster parents under the scope of the domestic violence laws.   (2nd Hearing-Proponent)  Full Text

Ohio Retirement Study Council, (Chr. Schuring, 228-1346), Rm. 114, 9 a.m.

--Investment performance review for period ending Dec. 31, 2006

--Review of amendment on military service purchase credits

HB 151  RETIREMENT SYSTEM INVESTMENTS   (Mandel, Jones)  To specify procedures for divesting investments a public investor holds in directly held publicly traded companies conducting specified types of business in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of the Sudan and to prohibit public investors from investing in such a company and to authorize the Ohio public deferred compensation board, the alternative retirement program, and the Ohio college savings program to offer a terror-free investment option.   Full Text

Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development, (Chr. Amstutz, 466-7505), South Hearing Rm., 9 a.m.

SB 19  MILITARY RETIREMENT PAY   (Cates)  To exempt military retirement pay from the personal income tax.   (2nd Hearing-Proponent)  Full Text

SB 160  SALES TAXES   (Amstutz)  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.   (5th Hearing-Possible vote)  Full Text

SB 162  SENIOR TAX EXEMPTION   (Stivers)  To exempt from the personal income tax any unearned income of an individual who is age sixty-five or older.   (1st Hearing-Sponsor)  Full Text

Senate Agriculture, (Chr. Mumper, 466-8069), North Hearing Rm., 9 a.m.

SB 150  LIQUOR SALES   (Roberts)  To authorize liquor permit holders to accept military identification cards that contain a picture and age data as proof of a purchaser's age in order to qualify for a specified affirmative defense, and to require the Division of Liquor Control to provide retail permit holders with a notice of the permissible forms of identification for purposes of qualifying for that affirmative defense.   (4th Hearing-All testimony-Possible vote)  Full Text

House Economic Development & Environment, (Chr. Collier, 466-1431), Rm. 017, 10 a.m.

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, to prohibit the levying of an assessment by such a conservancy district on real property that is not directly benefited from the assessment, and to make other changes concerning the levying of an assessment by such a conservancy district.   (9th Hearing-Possible substitute)  Full Text

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.   (2nd Hearing-Proponent)  Full Text

Senate Judiciary-Criminal Justice, (Chr. Grendell, 644-7718), North Hearing Rm., 10 a.m.

HB 120  CRIMINAL FORFEITURE   (Latta)  To eliminate unnecessary and inconsistent language mistakenly retained by Sub. H.B. 241 of the 126th General Assembly and to declare an emergency.   (1st Hearing-All testimony-Possible vote)  Full Text

SB 73  COCAINE   (Miller, R.)  To eliminate the distinction between powdered cocaine and crack cocaine in the Drug Abuse Law and to amend the version of section 2925.03 of the Revised Code that takes effect on July 1, 2007, to maintain the provisions of this act on and after that date.   (4th Hearing-All testimony-Possible amendments & vote)  Full Text

SB 145  FLEEING   (Stivers)  To prohibit a person from fleeing from a law enforcement officer who gives a lawful order to stop.   (2nd Hearing-All testimony-Possible amendments & vote)  Full Text

House Public Utilities, (Chr. Hagan, J., 466-9078), Rm. 121, 11 a.m.

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.   (1st Hearing-Sponsor)  Full Text

HB 77  MERCURY EMISSIONS   (Hagan, R.)  To require electric generating facilities to comply with certain requirements regarding mercury emissions.   (1st Hearing-Sponsor)  Full Text

HB 250  NATURAL GAS   (Jones)  Relative to revenue decoupling for natural gas utilities and energy conservation.   (1st Hearing-Sponsor)  Full Text

House Alternative Energy, (Chr. McGregor, J., 644-6002), Rm. 122, 11 a.m.

--Presentation from Thomas Stewart, Ohio Oil & Gas Association

Senate Environment & Natural Resources, (Chr. Niehaus, 466-8082), South Hearing Rm., 11 a.m.

--Confirmation hearings on governor's appointments of Ricky Hoffman, Emergency Response Commission and Joseph Sommer, Recreation and Resources Commission

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.   (1st Hearing-Sponsor)  Full Text

Senate Rules, (Chr. Harris, 466-8086), Majority Conf. Rm., 11:01 a.m.

Senate Reference, (Chr. Schuring, 466-0626), Majority Conf. Rm., 11:02 a.m.

Senate Session, (Chr. Harris, 466-4900), Senate Chamber, Webcast, 1:30 p.m.

House Infrastructure, Homeland Security & Veterans Affairs, (Chr. Reinhard, 644-6265), Rm. 114, 2:30 p.m.

HB 30  TRAFFIC CAMERA SIGNS   (McGregor, R.)  To require any local authority that enforces any traffic law by means of traffic law photo-monitoring devices to erect signs on every highway or freeway that is part of the state highway system and that enters that local authority to inform inbound traffic that the local authority utilizes traffic law photo-monitoring devices to enforce laws.   (5th Hearing-All testimony-Possible amendments & vote)  Full Text

HB 68  HIGHWAY NAMING   (Wolpert)  To designate a portion of Interstate Route 270 within Franklin County as the "Trooper Wendy G. Everett Memorial Highway" and to designate a portion of United States Route 62 in southwestern Franklin County as the "Patrolman Jerry R. Neff Memorial Highway."   (2nd Hearing-All testimony-Possible vote)  Full Text

HB 159  LICENSE PLATE   (Bubp)  To create "Support Our Troops" license plates.   (2nd Hearing-All testimony)  Full Text

HB 176  MOTORCYCLE INSTRUCTION   (Combs)  To permit public entities to offer motorcycle operator instruction without any tuition fee restriction.   (3rd Hearing-All testimony-Possible vote)  Full Text

HB 252  ROAD NAMINGS   (Hughes)  To require the Director of Transportation to designate portions of state highways, county or township roads, or streets or highways located within municipal corporations as memorial highways in honor of each State Highway Patrol trooper, county sheriff, deputy sheriff, township constable, or police officer of a township police department or district or law enforcement agency of a municipal corporation who is or has been killed in the line of duty.   (1st Hearing-Sponsor)  Full Text

House Ways & Means, (Chr. Gibbs, 466-2994), Rm. 121, 2:30 p.m.

HB 185  NURSING   (Beatty)  Regarding tuition reimbursement, tax credits, and mandatory overtime for nurses and nurse aides.   (2nd Hearing-All testimony)  Full Text

HB 224  MUNICIPAL TAXES   (Schindel)  To specify that the municipal income tax annual return filing date for individuals shall not be earlier than the federal income tax filing date, to allow return preparers to use facsimile signatures on returns, and to permit taxpayers to authorize return preparers to communicate directly with municipal tax administrators.   (3rd Hearing-All testimony-Possible amendments & vote)  Full Text

HB 261  PROPERTY SALES   (Bolon)  To revise the procedures governing the sale of tax certificates on lands that have delinquent property tax charges.   (1st Hearing-Sponsor)  Full Text

House Civil & Commercial Law, (Chr. Oelslager, 466-9047), Rm. 122, 2:30 p.m. or after session

SB 134  TRUST LAW   (Faber)  To provide that memoranda of trust be executed and acknowledged only by the trustee of the trust instead of both the settlor and trustee.   (1st Hearing-Sponsor)  Full Text

HB 125  HEALTH INSURANCE   (Huffman)  To establish certain uniform contract provisions between health care providers and third-party payers, to establish standardized credentialing, and to require third-party payers to provide to health care providers specified information concerning enrollees.   (8th Hearing-All testimony-Possible substitute & amendments)  Full Text

HB 248  NON-RECOURSE CONTRACTS   (Blessing)  To set forth requirements governing non-recourse civil litigation advance contracts.   (1st Hearing-Sponsor)  Full Text

Senate Health, Human Services & Aging, (Chr. Coughlin, 466-4823), South Hearing Rm., 2:30 p.m. or after session

--Confirmation hearing on governor's appointment of Sandra Stephenson, director, Department of Mental Health

--Presenation on health care access from Bill Hayes, Health Policy Institute of Ohio

SB 120  HOSPITAL REQUIREMENTS   (Goodman)  To require hospitals to operate emergency departments and maintain Medicaid and Medicare provider agreements, to provide exemptions to these requirements, and to permit the Director of Health to seek an injunction for violation of these requirements.   (4th Hearing-All testimony-Possible vote)  Full Text

SB 164  FOSTER CARE   (Cates)  Relative to training for foster caregivers, the public record status of identifying information of current and prospective foster caregivers, department of job and family services authority to begin the child placement level of care pilot program and petition Congress for expanded usage of Title IV-E funding, and the coordination of the provision of services for foster children with mental retardation or developmental disabilities, and to amend the version of section 149.43 of the Revised Code that is scheduled to take effect September 29, 2007, to maintain the provisions of this act on and after that effective date.   (4th Hearing-All testimony-Possible vote)  Full Text

SB 175  FETAL DEATH   (Coughlin)  To enact the Grieving Parents Act, regarding fetal death certificates for, and burials of, the product of human conception that suffers a fetal death.   (2nd Hearing-All testimony)  Full Text

House Health, (Chr. White, 466-6504), Rm. 116, 4 p.m.

SB 144  SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME   (Stivers)  To require the Director of Health to establish the Shaken Baby Syndrome Education Program and to require the Department of Job and Family Services to record in the statewide automated child welfare information system whether a reported case of child abuse involved shaken baby syndrome.   (1st Hearing-Sponsor)  Full Text

HB 164  HEALTH CENTERS   (McGregor, R.)  To require the Ohio Department of Health to promote the establishment of federal health centers, to include federally qualified health center look-alikes in the medical malpractice premium assistance program, to create a pilot program to place federally qualified health centers in two hospital emergency departments, and to make an appropriation.   (5th Hearing-All testimony-Possible vote)  Full Text

THURSDAY, JUNE 21

House Judiciary, (Chr. Blessing, 466-9091), Rm. 114, 9:30 a.m.

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.   (2nd Hearing-All testimony)  Full Text

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.   (2nd Hearing-All testimony-Possible substitute, amendments & vote)  Full Text

HB 173  JUDICIAL OPERATIONS   (Seitz)  To increase the compensation of justices and judges of the courts, to change the qualifications for all judges, to require the Supreme Court to establish a qualification program for candidates for judicial office, to create the Judicial Allotment Review Commission to study and review the allotment of judgeships in the courts for the purpose of recommending legislation to ensure the efficient and prompt administration of justice in Ohio, to create the Judicial Appointment Review Commission to make recommendations of persons to fill judicial vacancies, to specify that a portion of certain court costs currently deposited to the credit of the Reparations Fund be deposited in the fund for court security, and to make appropriations for court-related purposes.   (4th Hearing-Possible amendments & vote)  Full Text

HB 255  GUARDIANSHIP/PROBATE   (Latta)  To allow appointment of a nonprofit corporation or public agency as guardian of a person, allow an executor or administrator to accept the county auditor's valuation of real estate, provide that the testimonial privilege between a physician and a dentist does not apply in certain guardianship, adult protective services, commitment, or institutionalization proceedings, eliminate the requirement that a probate court act as a board of education, or governing board of an educational service center that fails to perform its duties and require a probate court to promptly fill a school board vacancy not filled within 30 days.   (2nd Hearing-All testimony)  Full Text

Senate Rules, (Chr. Harris, 466-8086), Majority Conf. Rm., 10 a.m.

Senate Reference, (Chr. Schuring, 466-0626), Majority Conf. Rm., 10:01 a.m.

House Financial Institutions, Real Estate & Securities, (Chr. Widener, 466-1470), Rm. 116, 11 a.m.

HB 152  RETIREMENT PLANS   (Widener)  To require school boards to establish alternative retirement plans for teachers and school employees.   (3rd Hearing-All testimony-Possible vote)  Full Text

HB 220  PLANNED COMMUNITIES   (Beatty)  To establish the Ohio Planned Community Law.   (1st Hearing-Sponsor)  Full Text

HB 240  RE-EMPLOYED RETIREES   (Goodwin)  Regarding employment of retired members of the Public Employees Retirement System, School Employees Retirement System, State Teachers Retirement System, and Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund.   (1st Hearing-Sponsor)  Full Text

House State Government & Elections, (Chr. Daniels, 466-3506), Rm. 122, 11 a.m.

SCR 8  PRESIDENTIAL CONGRATULATIONS   (Cates)  To congratulate former Presidents of the United States George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton for being awarded the 2007 International Freedom Conductor Award for their work in raising donations worldwide for the victims of the December 2004 tsunami and Hurricane Katrina.   (2nd Hearing-All testimony-Possible vote)  Full Text

HB 166  STATE AUDITS   (Schindel)  To create an Office of Internal Auditing within the Office of Budget and Management, to establish the State Audit Committee, and to prescribe their respective and interrelated functions.   (5th Hearing-All testimony-Possible amendments & vote)  Full Text

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.   (2nd Hearing-All testimony)  Full Text

House Criminal Justice, (Chr. Latta, 466-8104), Rm. 121, 11 a.m.

--The committee may recess for session and reconvene later

SB 9  FELONY OFFENSES   (Clancy)  To permit a prosecution for a felony sex offense or kidnapping offense involving a victim under 13 years of age to be commenced at any time after the commission of the offense and to require the division of Criminal Justice Services in the Department of Public Safety to apply to the United States Attorney General for a "Jessica Lunsford and Sarah Lunde Grant."   (5th Hearing-All testimony-Possible amendments & vote)  Full Text

SB 10  SORN LAW   (Austria)  To formally state the General Assembly's intentions in its upcoming deliberations on revising Ohio's Sex Offender Registration and Notification Law.   (5th Hearing-All testimony-Possible amendments & vote)  Full Text

Senate Session, (Chr. Harris, 466-4900), Senate Chamber, Webcast, 11 a.m.

House Rules & Reference, (Chr. Husted, 466-5316), Rm. 119, 1 p.m.

Conference Committee on HB119, (Chr. Dolan, 644-5088), Rm. 313, 1 p.m.

HB 119  BUDGET BILL   (Dolan)  To make operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2007 and ending June 30, 2009, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.   (1st Hearing)  Full Text

FRIDAY, JUNE 22

Conference Committee on HB119, (Chr. Dolan, 644-5088), Rm. 313, 9:30 a.m.

HB 119  BUDGET BILL   (Dolan)  To make operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2007 and ending June 30, 2009, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.   (2nd Hearing)  Full Text

SUNDAY, JUNE 24

Conference Committee on HB119, (Chr. Dolan, 644-5088), Rm. 313, 3 p.m.

HB 119  BUDGET BILL   (Dolan)  To make operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2007 and ending June 30, 2009, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.   (3rd Hearing)  Full Text

MONDAY, JUNE 25

Conference Committee on HB119, (Chr. Dolan, 644-5088), Rm. 313, 1:30 p.m.

HB 119  BUDGET BILL   (Dolan)  To make operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2007 and ending June 30, 2009, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.   (4th Hearing)  Full Text

TUESDAY, JUNE 26

Conference Committee on HB119, (Chr. Dolan, 644-5088), Rm. 313, 9 a.m.

HB 119  BUDGET BILL   (Dolan)  To make operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2007 and ending June 30, 2009, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.   (5th Hearing)  Full Text

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27

Conference Committee on HB119, (Chr. Dolan, 644-5088), Rm. 313, 9 a.m.

HB 119  BUDGET BILL   (Dolan)  To make operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2007 and ending June 30, 2009, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.   (6th Hearing)  Full Text

THURSDAY, JUNE 28

Conference Committee on HB119, (Chr. Dolan, 644-5088), Rm. 313, 9 a.m.

--Note: This meeting will begin at the call of the chair

HB 119  BUDGET BILL   (Dolan)  To make operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2007 and ending June 30, 2009, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.   (7th Hearing)  Full Text

FRIDAY, JUNE 29

Conference Committee on HB119, (Chr. Dolan, 644-5088), Rm. 313, 9 a.m.

--Note: This meeting will begin at the call of the chair

HB 119  BUDGET BILL   (Dolan)  To make operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2007 and ending June 30, 2009, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.   (8th Hearing)  Full Text

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