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House Session Laws: 120th Ohio General Assembly - 1993-1994
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Note: The House and Senate sent 222 bills to Governor George Voinovich for his consideration during the 120th Ohio General Assembly. None were vetoed, although Mr. Voinovich exercised his line item veto authority in three appropriation measures (HB's 152, 154 & 715). He has allowed six bills (Senate Bills 36 & 300 and House Bills 297, 361, 381 & 668) to become law without his signature. Of the total enacted, 139 were House bills and 83 were Senate bills. Many of the bills, as can be seen by the title, contain more than a single subject as lawmakers combined separate bills into a single piece of legislation that addressed related issues. During the two-year session, the Senate passed 110 of its bills while the House passed 249 of its bills. Effective dates of bills that were enacted appear in italic type.


Sub. HB 3 NUDITY (Seese) Creates prohibition against public nudity. October 1, 1993

Am. Sub. HB 7 ENERGY SAVINGS (Shoemaker) Permits state universities and colleges to purchase energy conservation measures on installment plans and permits the Department of Administrative Services to enter into savings contracts for implementing energy saving measures for state buildings. October 12, 1994

Sub. HB 8 CLEVELAND BAILIFFS (Whalen) Places certain Cleveland municipal court bailiffs in classified civil service, places Cleveland housing specialists in unclassified civil service and places certain employees of the Secretary of State serving in the Division of Elections in the classified civil service. June 8, 1994

Sub. HB 9 PROBATE (Mottl) Increases to $85,000 the maximum value of an estate that can be relieved from administration under certain circumstances. October 17, 1993

Am. Sub. HB 11 LETHAL INJECTION (Mottl) Permits persons sentenced to death to elect lethal injection as means of execution. October 1, 1993

HB 17 LAND CONVEYANCE (Stinziano) Authorizes conveyance of state land to the Friendship Missionary Baptist Church. July 13, 1993

Sub. HB 20 LAND CONVEYANCE (Rankin) Authorizes conveyance of state land in Cincinnati to the U.S. for military and other governmental uses. April 2, 1993

Sub. HB 21 JUDGESHIPS (Lawrence) Adds a judge to each of the Common Pleas Courts of Clark, Delaware, Fairfield, Greene, Medina, Scioto and Trumbull counties; makes changes in the administration of the Auglaize County Common Pleas Court; renames the Port Clinton Municipal Court as the Ottawa County Municipal Court; and modifies the composition of the State Criminal Sentencing Commission and the Criminal Sentencing Advisory Committee and declares an emergency. February 4, 1994

Sub. HB 23 RISK MANAGEMENT (Stinziano) Establishes the office of risk management in the Department of Administrative Services to generally manage the state's insurance needs. September 20, 1993 (Certain sections later)

Sub. HB 25 RECYCLED PRODUCTS (Pringle) Requires Administrative Services to adopt guidelines for purchasing equipment, materials and supplies containing recycled materials and requires state government entities to purchase such products. October 29, 1993

Am. Sub. HB 38 PFDPF (P. Jones) Permits a municipal corporation to pay its accrued Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund in a single payment and issue general obligation bonds for purposes of such payment. June 1, 1993

Sub. HB 41 SPECIAL VENIRE (Suster) Eliminates special venire in capital cases. September 27, 1993

Sub. HB 42 PRISON ESCAPE (Suster) Expands the definition of "detention" that applies to the offense of escape to include certain hospitals and institutions. February 9, 1994

Am. HB 55 LAND CONVEYANCE (Stinziano) Authorizes conveyance of three state easements to the City of Columbus for completion of West Columbus Local Protection Project. April 13, 1993

Sub. HB 62 SECURITY REGISTRATION (Hartley) Adopts the Uniform Transfer-on-Death Security Registration Act and enables a custodian of a security for a minor to maintain the security in an account with a broker or in a financial institution as an alternative to registering each security. October 1, 1993

Am. Sub. HB 71 GENETIC TESTING (W. Jones) Prohibits HMO's and life, disability, health and self-insurers in specified circumstances from using genetic screening or testing or information regarding genetic predisposition in connection with subscriber contracts. February 9, 1994

Sub. HB 88 DOG WARDEN (Guthrie) Authorizes county commissioners to conduct a cost-analysis study and increase fees for services provided by the county dog warden. June 29, 1994

Am. Sub. HB 89 INSURANCE GUARANTY (Stinziano) Revises the law governing the operation and regulation of the Ohio Insurance Guaranty Association. June 29, 1994

Am. Sub. HB 97 GLEANING (Roberts) Provides limited exemption from tort liability to farmers and others in connection with gleaning. June 23, 1994

Sub. HB 98 STORAGE TANKS (Roberts) Requires removal of extremely hazardous, hazardous, and flammable substances and petroleum from stationary tanks, equipment, and fixtures, and piping, at certain facilities after cessation of operations involving the handling of those materials, provides for the securing of certain abandoned facilities; requires the Ohio EPA to adopt rules to prevent the disturbance of asbestos-containing materials at these facilities when public health or safety or the environment would be endangered or applicable federal laws or regulations would be violated; provides for no-wake zones in specified portions of the Ohio River; requires the Ohio EPA to adopt amendments to rules governing the location of new commercial incineration facilities that treat infectious wastes; and delays until July 1, 1995 the effective date of the requirements providing security at and the removal of those substances from affected facilities and the appointment of contact persons in connection with them.

Am. HB 104 BINGO (McLin) Authorizes charitable organization to conduct charitable bingo games in certain premises that are subleased from another charitable organization. October 7, 1993

Am. Sub. HB 107 WORKERS' COMPENSATION (Sweeney) Makes appropriations to the Bureau of Workers' Compensation and the Ohio Industrial Commission for the biennium and makes substantive changes in the structure and operations of the Bureau and the Industrial. July 21, 1994 (Certain sections later)

Sub. HB 111 OPEN MEETINGS (Sykes) Provides for notice of meetings of state legislative committees, allows award of attorney fees in open meeting law cases, increases fine for violating open meetings law, requires county commissioners to conduct predetermined meetings each week and creates public access study commission. February 9, 1994

Sub. HB 114 LITTER (Hartley) Prohibits an unauthorized person from knowingly placing litter in a litter receptacle. September 27, 1993

Am. Sub. HB 115 TOWNSHIP ASSESSMENTS (Sawyer) Permits townships to repair and maintain private sewage collection tiles in public road rights-of-way and assess property owners the costs. November 9, 1994

Am. Sub. HB 123 STATE FORMS (DiDonato) Requires certain state agencies to reduce the number of forms they use. October 6, 1994

Sub. HB 126 SCHOOL TREASURERS (Core) Eliminates requirement that school treasurer file a current school funds statement with the county auditor. June 8, 1994

Sub. HB 136 SPECIAL CONSTABLES (Logan) Authorizes the appointment of certain special constables by municipal court judges. November 9, 1994

HB 141 DISPOSAL FEES (Roberts) Reconciles conflicting provisions of HB 's 723 & 724 enacted by the 119th Assembly concerning solid waste disposal fees. April 6, 1993

Sub. HB 143 VOTING PROCEDURES (Luebbers) Changes procedures for acquisition of voting machines and increases to 800 from 400 the maximum number of electors each precinct may contain. July 22, 1994

Sub. HB 149 EMERGENCY VEHICLES (Hagan) Specifically permits an emergency vehicle or public safety vehicle, while on an emergency call, to travel left of the center of a roadway and increases penalty for failure to yield. May 20, 1993

Sub. HB 150 DEVELOPMENT GRANTS (Troy) Clarifies that public employees who otherwise qualify may participate in federal community development block grant programs without violating the Ohio law that prohibits having an unlawful interest in a public contract. June 23, 1994

Am. Sub. HB 151 PERS (Luebbers) Limits the retirement benefits a PERS retirant may receive when reemployed by a PERS employer, provides for forfeiture of office by certain elected officials who opt for retirement after election and requires employers to pay health care benefits for PERS retirants who are reemployed. February 9, 1994

Am. Sub. HB 152 BUDGET (Sweeney) Budget bill for the biennium starting July 1, 1993 and ending June 30, 1995. July 1, 1993

Am. Sub. HB 154 HIGHWAY BUDGET (Sweeney) Makes appropriations and reappropriations for highway purposes for the 1993-1995 biennium and provides for the operation of state transportation-related programs. July 1, 1993

Am. Sub. HB 156 DRUG LAWS (P. Jones) Updates controlled substances Schedules I to V to reflect changes made since 1976 at federal and state levels and revises Hospital Care Assurance Program. May 19, 1993

Am. HB 158 UNIVERSITY CONTRACTS (Troy) Allows trustees of community colleges, state community colleges or technical colleges or managing authority of university branches to set competitive bidding threshold on improvement contracts not exceeding $25,000. November 11, 1994

HB 162 SCHOOL EMPLOYEES (Nein) Permits individuals applying for a position with a school to request information about himself from the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation. October 1, 1993

Am. HB 163 LODGING TAX (Lawrence) Permits counties to levy a lodging tax for purpose of general revenue in any area of the county where the total tax rate would not exceed 6%. May 10, 1994

Am. Sub. HB 164 BRAILLE/SCHOOL CLOSINGS (Gerberry) Requires certain teachers to have demonstrated competency in use of Braille, requires annual assessment of Braille skills of students; requires publishers offering books for sale to Ohio schools to also offer a means for translating the text into Braille; and permits schools to lengthen school day to make up for days schools were closed due to inclement weather. March 21, 1994

Am. HB 165 COLLEGE TRUSTEES (D. Wise) Permits government employees to be appointed trustees of technical college districts. November 9, 1994

Sub. HB 173 CHILD SUPPORT (Sines) Requires a child support enforcement agency to give each consumer reporting agency in the county information as to persons found by a court to be in default under a support order. October 12, 1993 (Certain sections later)

HB 184 PROPERTY TAXATION (Maier) Authorizes townships and municipal corporations to levy property taxes to finance senior citizen services and facilities subject to voter approval. September 20, 1993

Sub. HB 188 DELINQUENT TAXES (Hagan) Allows real property delinquent taxes to be paid in more than 10 equal installments. May 10, 1994

Sub. HB 197 PFDPF (Colonna) Allows Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund members to purchase credit for out-of-state and federal service and revives the authority of state retirement system boards to invest their respective funds in certain venture capital firms and small businesses. October 11, 1994

Am. Sub. HB 199 JUDGE ELECTION (Krupinski) Relative to the election of the judges of the Jefferson and Butler County Courts. October 29, 1993

Sub. HB 205 LICENSE PLATES (Padgett) Creates a license plate to be issued to retired armed forces veterans. October 29, 1993 (Certain sections later)

Sub. HB 206 SALVAGE VEHICLES (Whalen) Requires salvaged vehicles returned to highway use to be titled with a certificate denoting such circumstance. September 20, 1993

Am. Sub. HB 207 PROPERTY TAXATION (Schuler) Eliminates requirement for homeowners to apply for 2.5% real property tax reduction. July 1, 1993

Sub. HB 208 PROBATE (Suster) Makes changes in probate notification laws and eliminates certain publication requirements. June 23, 1994

Am. Sub. HB 213 SELF-INSURANCE POOL (Opfer) Makes changes in the provisions governing individual self-insurance programs of political subdivisions for health care benefits; permits counties to offer their officers and employees health benefits through a cafeteria plan meeting the requirements of the Internal Revenue Code; permits county commissioners to authorize the making of a certain cash payment in lieu of a health benefit to elected county officers and employees; declares that a public official or employee of a political subdivision who is or becomes a member of the governing board of a joint self-insurance pool in which the political subdivision participates is not in violation of specified ethics laws as a result of the political subdivision's entering into the participation agreement or any authorized contract with the pool. October 6, 1994

Sub. HB 236 OMVI (Gardner) Authorizes additional penalties on persons convicted of committing state OMVI with a juvenile in a motor vehicle used in the commission of the offense; specifies that occupational driving privileges cannot be granted to a person whose license is suspended under the Implied Consent Law and certain other laws; generally prohibits the immobilization on private property of a vehicle after an arrest for or conviction of state or municipal OMVI or driving under a suspension unless the property owner gives prior written consent to the immobilization; authorizes a court to require a person convicted of state or municipal OMVI or driving under suspension to pay the cost of transporting and storing the vehicle used in the offense when it is seized and immobilized; makes a minor misdemeanor a predicate offense for involuntary manslaughter; and expands the types of serious physical harm that are an element of aggravated vehicular assault to include any type of serious physical harm. September 29, 1994

Am. Sub. HB 247 TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS (Gerberry) Authorizes double the amount of the fine usually imposed for a traffic violation if it occurs within a construction maintenance or public utility work areas where signs have been posted advising motorists of increased penalties. November 1, 1994

Sub. HB 250 HIGH SPEED RAIL (Boggs) Creates the Ohio Rail Development Commission and gives the commission comprehensive development authority over freight, intercity passenger, commuter and high speed rail transportation services, including authority to make loans, issue bond s, and enter into agreements with private corporations for the development of rail systems; indemnifies railroad companies or other entities over whose tracks another railroad company, public agency, or other person operates passenger rail service for liability for damages for harm; and abolishes the Ohio High Speed Rail Authority and the division of rail transportation of the Department of Transportation. October 20, 1994

Am. HB 258 TOWNSHIP EMPLOYEES (Corbin) Increases to 1,500 hours per year a part-time township employee is expected to work to qualify for group health and life insurance. June 29, 1994

Sub. HB 266 COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS (Verich) Corrects nonsubstantive errors in HB 332 dealing with check cashing agencies and HB 693 dealing with the uniform commercial code enacted by the 119th General Assembly. July 30, 1993

Am. HB 268 LOTTERY PRIZE (Sawyer) Authorizes the Ohio Lottery Commission to pay from its appropriate prize fund to Frank Louis III, in the normal manner, the prize money to which the holder of one winning 5 of 5 wager from the Lottery Commission's Buckeye 5 game would have been entitled if the ticket had not been torn and mutilated beyond recognition and declares an emergency. May 20, 1993

Am. HB 277 COUNTY SALES TAX (Walsh) Authorizes counties of over 175,000 population to levy a sales tax for purposes related to permanent improvements and all counties for their operating and maintenance. October 29, 1993

Sub. HB 280 PRODUCT TAMPERING (Gerberry) Prohibits mingling of a poison or other harmful substance with certain consumables and authorizes the governor to declare a public health state of emergency under certain circumstances. June 29, 1994

Am. Sub. HB 281 BEVERAGE/CIGARETTE TAX (Troy) Modifies the beverage tax and the tobacco products tax. July 2, 1993

Am. Sub. HB 285 ETHICS LAW (Sykes) Establishes filing fees for, and requires the timely filing of, financial disclosure statements; requires certain school board members and candidates for school boards and certain other public officials or employees to file financial disclosure statements; prohibits disclosure of information in confidential disclosure statements; allows the Ohio Ethics Commission or appropriate prosecuting authority to settle a complaint or charge; compensations commission members; requires deputy registrars to file disclosure statements with the Motor Vehicles Registrar; requires the commission to study the need for continuing ethics education programs; makes other changes in the ethics laws and makes an appropriation. March 2, 1994

HB 287 HUNTING (Seese) Adds mourning doves to the game bird list; permits the Chief of the Division of Wildlife in the Department of Natural Resources to regulate the hunting of mourning doves and requires the Division to conduct a study of mourning doves. February 22, 1995

Am. HB 292 MONEY CLAIMS (Beatty) Adopts the Uniform Foreign-Money Claims Act. July 20, 1994

Am. Sub. HB 293 OCULARISTS (Thompson) Requires the licensing of ocularists. July 20, 1994

Sub. HB 297 HORSE RACING (Luebbers) Allows running horse-racing meetings until 9 p.m. between May 15 and September 15 if the track where the races are conducted is located more than 25 miles from a track in this state, other than a track at a county or independent fair, that is conducting night harness racing and less than 25 miles from a track located outside Ohio, and to levy a tax. October 12, 1994 (Allowed to become law without governor's signature)

Sub. HB 299 TOWNSHIP CEMETERIES (Verich) Allows townships to pay a single registration fee to register all cemeteries they own within the township, allows director of Commerce to waive this fee when townships have paid, during the previous year, enough to cover in the current year their proportionate share of the fund into which the fees are paid. July 1, 1993

Sub. HB 300 COUNTY CONTRACTS (Opfer) Permits counties to enter into installment contracts for energy conservation measures, increases the dollar amount above which certain county and township contracts must be competitively bid, exempts leases of county office space from requirements of competitive bidding, exempts certain county expenditures from a limitation on the issuance of blanket purchase orders and exempts certain county purchases from the certificate of available funds requirement. July 1, 1994

Am. HB 301 LAND CONVEYANCE (Whalen) Authorizes conveyance of state-owned property in Cuyahoga County to the City of Cleveland. April 1, 1994

Sub. HB 314 SHOCK INCARCERATION (Thomas) Modifies shock incarceration program and explicitly permits a court to reject without a hearing, by journal entry, certain requests for the release of a child committed to the Department of Youth Services from institutional care or institutional care in a secure facility. September 29, 1994

Am. Sub. HB 320 TRADE SECRETS (Doty) Adopts the Uniform Trade Secrets Act. July 20, 1994

Am. Sub. HB 327 RESORT AREAS (Opfer) Authorizes municipal corporations and townships that qualify as resort areas to levy an excise tax on gross receipts from making sales in or transporting passengers or property to or from the jurisdiction and repeals the island taxing district law. July 1, 1993

Am. HB 329 INSURANCE INFORMATION (Stinziano) Establishes standards for the collection, maintenance, use, and disclosure of information gathered in connection with life, health, or disability insurance transactions and provides for enforcement of these standards. June 29, 1994 (Certain sections later)

Am. HB 331 SOLICITATION PERMITS (Stinziano) Authorizes the legislative authority of a municipal corporation to issue a permit allowing persons representing certain charitable organizations to stand on a highway to solicit contributions, once in each calendar year, from motorists. July 2, 1993

Am. Sub. HB 335 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (Pringle) Requires a peace officer who has reasonable grounds to believe the offense of violating a protection order or consent agreement has been committed to arrest the person whom the officer has reasonable cause to believe committed the offense; identifies for purposes of the arrest law specific circumstances in which a peace officer has reasonable grounds to believe the offense of domestic violence has been committed and reasonable cause to believe that a particular person committed to offense and specifies that in those circumstances it is the preferred course of action that the offender be arrested unless the officer clearly states his reasons for not making the arrest; provides separate criteria for making an arrest when family or household members commit the offense of domestic violence against each other; specifies procedures in connection with investigations of incidents of the offense of domestic violence or violating a protection order or consent agreement; requires the victims rights pamphlet that the Attorney General must prepare to include information relative to a domestic violence victims' right to seek a criminal or civil domestic violence protection order; permits the issuance of a criminal domestic violence temporary protection order for municipal domestic violence or assault-related offenses against a family or household member; provides that if a person who requests a criminal domestic violence temporary protection order is unable to attend the hearing on the request because of injury, another person may appear in lieu of the person who requested the order; provides that in all stages of a proceeding for a criminal domestic violence temporary protection order or a civil domestic violence protection order, the complainant or petitioner may be accompanied by a victim advocate; specifically provides for the statewide enforcement of criminal domestic violence protection orders and civil domestic violence protection orders; requests the Supreme Court to prescribe a form to be used by petitioners seeking a civil domestic violence protection order; modifies the time within which a hearing must be held after the issuance of an ex parte criminal domestic violence protection order; requires the payment of an additional $32 as court costs upon the filing of each new action or proceeding for annulment, divorce, or dissolution of marriage to be used to provide financial assistance to shelters for victims of domestic violence; establishes an income tax refund check-off mechanism to provide financial support to shelters for victims of domestic violence; increases the penalties for the offense of violating a protection order or consent agreement; permits a complainant to obtain a court order to prevent or stop the commission of an offense against the person or property of the complainant, his ward, or his child; provides for a course regarding domestic violence to be available for certain professionals; provides for mandatory domestic violence training for certain local human services and children services employees; requires hospitals to adopt protocols for interviews with domestic violence victims and family members; requires certain professionals who know or have reasonable cause to believe that a patient or client has been a victim of domestic violence to note that fact in the patient's or client's records; specifies that, upon the presentation by a law enforcement officer of a written statement stating that an official criminal investigation or a criminal action has been commenced against a person, a health care provider must supply to the officer records that pertain to any test or the results of any test administered by the provider to determine the presence or concentration of alcohol, a drug of abuse, or both in the person's blood, breath, or urine; provides that a physician, dentist, or custodian of the records may submit a certified copy of the results of such a test in lieu of personally testifying as to those results; expands the definition of family or household members that applies to the criminal domestic violence law, the law regarding civil domestic violence protection orders, and the law regarding funding for shelters for victims of domestic violence; specifies that a court may not issue a criminal or civil domestic violence protection order that requires a complainant or a petitioner in a domestic violence action to do or refrain from doing certain acts unless certain specified criteria are satisfied; prohibits the sealing of conviction records for specified sex offenses; states the intent of the General Assembly in regard to changes made to ORC Sec. 5149.061 in Am. Sub. HB 571 of the 120th General Assembly; and declares an emergency. December 9, 1994

Am. HB 336 GAMBLING (Gerberry) Specifically exempts from gambling prohibition those games of chance conducted at an organization's festival that lasts for five consecutive days. October 29, 1993

Sub. HB 343 MALPRACTICE (Thomas) Clarifies authority of attending physicians and health care personnel to provide the full range of comfort care procedures, treatments, interventions, or other measures to principals, declarants, and nondeclarants in a terminal condition or in a permanently unconscious state. July 22, 1994

Am. Sub. HB 344 911 SYSTEMS (Logan) Authorizes certain counties to submit to the voters a proposed monthly charge on telephone bills to fund a 9-1-1 system. June 1, 1994

Sub. HB 345 LITTER TAX (Quilter) Creates the Ohio Recycling Development Board; replaces the Litter Prevention and Recycling Advisory Council with the Recycling Development Advisory Board; requires the preparation of a biennial Ohio recycling development plan, increases the Tier I corporate franchise tax surcharge, terminates the Tier II surcharge; provides that surcharge funds be used to support the plan's activities; and establishes additional programs and requirements to encourage solid waste reduction, recycling, reuse, and minimization. July 20, 1994

Am. Sub. HB 350 PREVAILING WAGE (Boggs) Increases threshold cost of new construction projects subject to prevailing wages from $4,000 to $50,000 and of other public improvement projects from $4,000 to $15,000, both adjusted biennially by the director of Industrial Relations, requires violators of the prevailing wage law to pay a penalty to the Department of Industrial Relations and to the employee, and modifies the provision governing the suspension of a contractor and subcontractor from obtaining other public improvement contract provisions of that law. June 21, 1994

Sub. HB 353 RECREATIONAL VEHICLES (Carr) Permits the sale of recreational vehicles at sports and camping shows. November 9, 1994

Am. Sub. HB 361 OFF-TRACK BETTING (Quilter) Allows wagering on simulcast horse racing at tracks and satellite facilities, gives local voters option on satellite facilities, creates a liquor permit for the satellite facilities, levies certain taxes on wagering and reduces capital improvement tax reduction granted horse racing tracks. September 22, 1994 (Allowed to become law without governor's signature)

Sub. HB 372 LAND CONVEYANCE (Quilter) Authorizes conveyance of state-owned land in Lucas County to the Medical College of Ohio at Toledo. October 29, 1993

Am. HB 375 PARK-CAMPS (Davis) Expands definition of "recreation vehicle park", "combined park-camp", "temporary park-camp", and "development"; revises licensing procedures for the defined parks and camps; establishes penalty for late applications; allows portable camping units to be parked under certain conditions without a license at a county or state fair or independent agricultural society fair. June 23, 1994

Sub. HB 376 PRECIOUS METALS (Healy) Establishes financial requirements for licensure of precious metals dealers; establishes new duties of the superintendent of Consumer Finance concerning investigations of precious metals dealers; revises exemptions concerning persons subject to the dealers' law and increases penalties. July 22, 1994

Sub. HB 377 DRIVERS LICENSE (Colonna) Requires suspension of drivers license of any persons convicted of a drug offense committed under federal law or Ohio laws or any other state and of any person who is convicted of an OMVI offense under the laws of any other state. July 30, 1993 (Certain sections later)

Am. Sub. HB 381 RESTRAINT SYSTEMS (Abel) Requires certain children to be properly secured in an approved child restraint system in motor vehicles; creates the Child Safety Fund; provides for funding of the fund and makes other changes in the child restraint law. June 23, 1994 (Allowed to become law without governor's signature)

Sub. HB 383 GENEALOGISTS (Reid) Exempts genealogists and persons who research the location of last known owners of unclaimed funds from the Private Investigators and Security Services Law. October 12, 1994

Sub. HB 384 EMS DISTRICTS (Abel) Permits counties to create joint emergency medical services districts. November 11, 1994

Sub. HB 385 METHADONE (Grendell) Revises the licensing requirements regarding methadone treatment programs. July 19, 1994

HB 390 FUNERAL EXPENSES (Krupinski) Authorizes the assignment of payments from the Crime Victims Reparations Fund for funeral expense. November 15, 1994

Sub. HB 391 NITROUS OXIDE (Brading) Regulates the possession and sale of nitrous oxide and ephedrine. July 21, 1994

HB 399 UNCLAIMED FUNDS (Schuler) Specifies Commerce director's authority over unclaimed funds subject to Ohio law held in other states, designates as holders of unclaimed funds certain persons having possession, custody, or control of intangible property issued or originated by this state, a political subdivision of this state, or an entity incorporated, organized, created or otherwise located in this state, and eliminates, when the address of an owner of certain unclaimed funds is unknown, the presumption that the address of the owner is the state where the holder of such funds is located. July 22, 1994

Am. Sub. HB 401 LAND CONVEYANCE (Maier) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned land in Stark County to the City of Massillon. July 30, 1993

Am. Sub. HB 404 FORECLOSURES (C. Jones) Exempts from taxation any real property forfeited to the state because of tax delinquency; provides for allocation of foreclosure costs among subdivisions levying taxes on foreclosed real property; requires deeds to foreclosed real property to be recorded by the officer conducting the foreclosure sale; prohibits owners of delinquent real property and certain related persons from purchasing that property at a foreclosure sale for less than the amount of the tax delinquency; allows the placement of delinquent real property taxes on a suspension list instead of a general tax list and duplicate; authorizes certain counties to levy a temporary one-month sales and use tax; and declares an emergency. May 26, 1994

Am. Sub. HB 406 PROBATION SERVICES (DiDonato) Authorizes a court that places a criminal offender on probation under the control of a probation agency to require the person to pay a monthly fee of up to $50 for probation services; provides that when an offender is required to pay any combination of costs, restitution, a fine, or probation fees any payment that the offender makes to a clerk of court must be assigned toward the satisfaction of those obligations according to a priority specified by the court or by statute; repeals the provision that authorizes the adult parole authority to place prisoners on parole under the supervision of a county probation department; provides county probation officers with all the powers of regular police officers; requires that parole and probation officers who carry firearms in the course of their duties complete a basic firearm training program and annually complete a firearms requalification program; and provides for the arrest of a person on probation by a peace officer upon specified authorization. November 11, 1994

Sub. HB 414 RECLAMATION (Padgett) Revises laws governing the division of reclamation in the Department of Natural Resources.

Sub. HB 415 SHARED PARENTING (Reid) Allows a court to modify shared parenting decrees upon its own motion if the court finds the modifications are in the best interest of the children and makes each parent under a shared parenting order the "residential parent," the "residential parent and legal custodian," or the "custodial parent" unless otherwise provided by the order. November 9, 1994

Sub. HB 420 LAND CONVEYANCES (Amstutz) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned land in Wayne County to Wayne County in exchange for the conveyance of other real estate to the Department of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities and authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate in Darke County to Dayton Power and Light Company. July 12, 1994

Am. HB 433 DENTAL SERVICES (Stinziano) Requires insurers and administrators of self-insured dental plans to disclose certain fee information. October 12, 1994

HB 434 WC/IC BUDGET (Sweeney) Makes appropriations to the Bureau of Workers' Compensation and the Ohio Industrial Commission for the period of July 1, 1993 through July 20, 1993. July 2, 1993

Sub. HB 435 MR/DD (Mead) Modifies the procedures under which the Department of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities contracts for the provision of residential services; provides that payment for certain costs of residential facilities in receivership cannot exceed the fair market value; permits the Board of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology to issue subpoenas and compel testimony in its investigations, and eliminates provides dealing with nursing homes. November 9, 1994

Sub. HB 438 STUDENT RESIDENCES (Roberts) Specifies that student resident facilities owned or operated by a college or university are exempt from the definition of "residential premises" for purposes of the Ohio Landlord and Tenant Act. October 12, 1994

Am. Sub. HB 448 VETERANS AFFAIRS (Malone) Revises the laws governing services for veterans and creates the Governor's Office of Veterans Affairs. July 22, 1994

Sub. HB 450 CONSERVANCY DISTRICTS (T. Johnson) Increases the membership of the board of directors of conservancy districts that include all or parts of more than 16 counties, increases the dollar amount above which certain district contracts must be competitively bid, allows districts to conduct waste monitoring activities, permits districts to use monies collected from recreational fees and charges to promote district recreational activities and allows districts to require that annual maintenance assessments in the amount of $10 or less be collected biennially, triennially rather than annually. July 19, 1994

Am. Sub. HB 454 SEXUAL CONDUCT (Carr) Prohibits teachers, administrators, and other authority figures of a public or nonpublic school or institution of higher education from engaging in sexual conduct with a minor who is enrolled in or attends such school or institution in which they are employed or serve, unless the person also is enrolled in or attends the public or nonpublic school, and prohibits scout leaders, coaches, and instructors from engaging in sexual conduct with a minor who is four or more years younger than the leader, coach or instructor. July 19, 1994

Am. Sub. HB 457 ESTATE ADMINISTRATION (Mottl) Increases to $35,000 the maximum value of a decedent's estate that can be relieved from administration upon application by any interested party; establishes a single fee of $60 for relieving an estate from administration regardless of the value of the estate; provides that $20 of that fee be deposited into the county indigent guardianship fund; and provides for investigations regarding guardianships of minors by the probate court. November 9, 1994

Am. Sub. HB 458 SURVIVORSHIPS (Mottl) Specifically permits a husband and wife to establish a survivorship tenancy in any motor vehicle or titled watercraft. July 20, 1994

Am. Sub. HB 488 SECURITIES DEALERS (Verich) Modifies scope and enforcement of Ohio Securities Law by redefining those classes of persons that must be licensed as dealers, requiring dealers to become registered and regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission if they meet certain requirements related to total revenues and number and types of customers, altering the procedures for obtaining exempt status for certain securities and securities transactions and for registering securities by coordination, establishing a criminal penalty for engaging in certain deceptive or manipulative sales practices prohibited by federal securities law, repealing the Bond Investment Company Law, and modifying the State Lottery Law relative to limitations on a person's right to a prize award. October 11, 1994

Am. Sub. HB 492 HONORARIA (Weston) Requires public officials and employees to reveal on their annual financial disclosure statements the source of all their income and the amount of payment of certain travel and related expenses; requires the president or other chief administrative officer of every institution of higher education to file a financial disclosure statement; generally prohibits public officials and employees who file financial disclosure statements from soliciting or accepting an honorarium; requires legislative agents and their employers to file statements itemizing certain expenditures they make to or on behalf of General Assembly members and certain other state officers and employees and makes the filing of a false statement a first degree misdemeanor; requires legislative agents and their employers to provide such statements to General Assembly members and affected state officers and employees and requires General Assembly members and certain state officers and employees to file itemized statements on expenditures made on their behalf; prohibits a General Assembly member from voting on legislation if he is an employee, business associate, or contractor of a legislative agent or employer that is then actively advocating on that legislation; establishes a joint committee on legislative ethics to accept registration, expenditure, and financial transaction statements from legislative agents, executive agency lobbyists, and their employers; and makes other changes in the law. May 12, 1994

Sub. HB 495 BABY FOOD SALES (Carr) Prohibits the sale at flea markets of baby food, infant formula, or similar products or, unless the seller is a manufacturer's or distributor's representative, any drug, cosmetic, or medical device. November 15, 1994

Sub. HB 499 PHYSICAL THERAPY (W. Jones) Requires that a claim submitted to a third-party payer or governmental health care program for payment of health care services designated as physical therapy specify the current license number of the professional who rendered the services. November 9, 1994

Sub. HB 501 MINORITY CONTRACTS (Tavares) Expands the minority contractors bonding program to include minority sellers and minority service vendors and requires the Superintendent of Insurance to provide advice regarding the premiums to be paid for bonds obtained under the program. November 1, 1994

Am. HB 515 FUEL TAX (Guthrie) Authorizes the Tax Commissioner to enter the state into an interstate fuel use tax agreement and provides for the sharing of certain tax information for purposes of enforcing the fuel use tax and vehicle registration tax. April 20, 1994

Am. Sub. HB 518 TREE SEEDLINGS (T. Johnson) Removes the designation of a no-wake zone along Lake Erie; creates the Scenic Rivers Protection Fund consisting of fees charged for the issuance of scenic river license plates; changes the contribution established for collegiate license plates from $50 to $40; corrects a reference to the Pro Football Hall of Fame License Fund; requires the chief of Division of Forestry to provide free tree seedlings in fiscal 1995 to owners of certain reclaimed lands and makes an appropriation. Appropriation sections 3,4,5 & 6 Effective: December 7, 1994; Sections 1,2 & 7 Effective: March 8, 1995

Am. Sub. HB 530 DRY CLEANER LIENS (McLin) Updates and revises the dry cleaners' lien law. July 22, 1994

HB 537 LAND CONVEYANCE (Roberts) Authorized conveyance of state-owned real estate in Montgomery County to Hospice of Dayton, Inc. and declares an emergency. April 12, 1994

Am. Sub. HB 552 SCHOOL TUITION (Bender) Includes school district income tax collections in the calculation of tuition for pupils to which a school district is not required under state law to provide free schooling. June 9, 1994

Am. Sub. HB 571 PRISON LAWS (Shoemaker Allows indemnification of state officers and employees for certain punitive and exemplary damages, prohibits conveying cash to a person confined in a detention facility, increases membership of the Parole Board, establishes procedures for paying judgments against prisoners out of funds held for them by the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, revises the procedures for arresting and detaining escapees and makes other changes to the laws dealing with the department and its institutions and employees. October 6, 1994

Sub. HB 579 WATER DISTRICTS (Malone) Requires the Department of Transportation to provides for the relocation of the facilities of the Tuppers Plains-Chester Water District and like water districts that are directly involved in highway projects of the Department of Transportation; allows a township that has adopted a limited form of self-government to supply water to users within the township by constructing or improving water supply facilities; allows the township to finance the water supply facilities through the levy of special assessments on the benefited properties and the issuance of unvoted securities and declares an emergency. July 13, 1994

Sub. HB 580 TOWNSHIP CURFEW (Roberts) Authorizes townships to adopt a resolution establishing a curfew for persons under age 18; clarifies the law that gives electors in limited self-government townships the powers of initiative and referendum; requires the Registrar of Motor Vehicles to prescribe distinguishing characteristics for the licenses and identification cards of persons under age 21; and declares an emergency. December 9, 1994 (Certain sections effective March 10, 1995)

Am. Sub. HB 582 VOTER REGISTRATION (Sawyer) Requires the Tax Commissioner to include a mail-in voter registration form within the tax return instruction booklet used in connection with the state income tax; authorizes the Joint Legislative Ethics Committee to adopt rules to clarify and implement the Ethics Law; excludes contributions given by legislative agents from the prohibition against a member of the General Assembly accepting gifts in excess of $75 from a legislative agent; repeals Section 6 of Am. HB 492 of the 120th General Assembly and declares an emergency. July 7, 1994

Am. Sub. HB 590 LAND CONVEYANCE (Stinziano) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate in Franklin County to the city of Columbus and declares an emergency. April 12, 1994

Sub. HB 597 RESTROOM FACILITIES (Prentiss) Requires the Board of Building Standards to adopt rules governing the number of toilets in men's and women's rest rooms according to a national plumbing code. November 11, 1994

HB 612 FIRE LEVIES (Seese) Authorizes a tax levy for a fire department or fire-fighting company to include a provision for paramedic services. July 19, 1994

Am. Sub. HB 630 WAREHOUSE TAX (Tavares) Provides that tangible personal property held in storage under certain conditions is not considered used in business for taxation purposes. July 22, 1994

Am. Sub. HB 632 MATERIALS EXEMPTION (D. Wise) Creates a sales tax exemption for sales of materials to be incorporated into livestock production structures. July 22, 1994

Am. HB 636 ANTITRUST (Suster) Expressly conforms the statute of limitations for private actions under the Ohio antitrust law to those of the federal and most other state antitrust laws. July 20, 1994

Sub. HB 637 JUDICIAL IMPACT (Suster) Authorizes the Ohio Judicial Conference to provide judicial impact statements to the General Assembly for legislation affecting the judicial system and replaces with a full-time judge to be elected in 1995 the part-time judge of the Sidney Municipal Court. October 6, 1994

Am. Sub. HB 638 CALAMITY DAYS (Shoemaker) Permits schools to hold five fewer days of classroom instruction during the 1993-94 school year if the school was closed due to hazardous weather conditions and declares an emergency. April 7, 1994

Sub. HB 647 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS (Sawyer) Provides for the uniform registration and uniform permitting by the PUCO of persons engaged in the highway transportation of hazardous materials into, through, and within Ohio and makes an appropriation. April 21, 1994

Sub. HB 668 EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP (Cera) Amends Sec. 2 of HB 676 of the 117th General Assembly to extend the authorization for the Employee Ownership Assistance Program until December 31, 1999 and declares an emergency. August 22, 1994 (Allowed to become law without governor's signature)

Am. Sub. HB 677 COUNTY TAXES (Healy) Permits county commissioners to specify in the resolution levying a county sales and use tax that the tax is for the purpose of criminal justice services in the county. April 21, 1994

Sub. HB 685 ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS (Roberts) Corrects errors and oversights and clarifies inconsistencies in environmental legislation enacted by the 120th General Assembly; allows hospitals with captive treatment facilities to treat infectious waste generated by emergency medical services organizations and by individuals for purposes of their own care without obtaining permits or licenses as commercial infectious waste treatment facilities; stipulates that rules adopted by boards of health after July 24, 1990, governing construction and demolition debris remain in effect until superseded by state rules; and specifies the time when the requirements relating to railroad crossbuck signs take effect.

Am. Sub. HB 687 VEHICLE REGISTRATION (Colonna) Permits the transfer of registrations between commercial cars that are owned by the same person and have a gross vehicle weight in excess of 10,000 pounds, revises laws governing handicapped parking cards including changing the name to "removable windshield placards," eliminates requirement that the Bureau of Motor Vehicles send notices of certain driver's license cancellations via certified mail; increases the service fee for registration made under the International Registration Plan from $1.50 to $2.25; eliminates specific dimensions for letters and numerals on motor vehicle license plates; permits the registrar of motor vehicles to destroy certain licenses and plates; increases the fee a notary may charge for taking and certifying an affidavit from $1.00 to $1.50; establishes a procedure for the transfer of a motor vehicle title that is immobilized for specific violations under certain circumstances; exempts motor vehicles that are used in certain businesses from the immobilization and impoundment provisions that apply to certain offenses; permits the state highway patrol superintendent to negotiate the sale of, and to rent or lease, real property owned by the Patrol; makes changes in the definition of commercial motor vehicle and the laws governing the payment of fees for commercial motor vehicle licenses and the renewal of those licenses; eliminates the requirement that a person who transports school pupils must do so for profit in order for him to be subject to the licensing requirements of the Department of Public Safety; alters the schedule for the highway patrol's inspection of school buses; permits the transfer of special license plates between motor vehicles upon payment of a transfer fee instead of a full or prorated fee, under certain circumstances; eliminates the requirement that a new issuance of license plates be a new color or shade; provides that a motor vehicle renting dealer is an "owner" for purposes of the Financial Responsibility Law; makes certain changes in the motor vehicle certificate of title law; provides that motor vehicle salvage dealers licenses be issued on a provisional basis; defines when a motor vehicle dealer is "operating as a new motor vehicle dealership" and clarifies what constitutes the establishment of an additional motor vehicle dealership; limits the authority of law enforcement officers employed by municipalities, townships and joint township police districts to issue, under certain circumstances, speeding and motor vehicle weight citations on portions of interstate freeways that are one-half mile or less in length and are located within their jurisdictions. October 12, 1994

Sub. HB 694 MR/DD (Rankin) Makes changes in laws governing the Department of MR/DD and county boards of MR/DD and changes in the use of county credit cards. November 11, 1994

Am. HB 695 CREDIT UNIONS (Verich) Revises the Credit Union Law relative to membership, management, investments, reserves, supervisory fees and fines, examinations, appointment and removal of conservators; suspension of operations and liquidation proceedings; purchase and assumption agreements; and eliminates the expiration date of January 1, 1996 on the authority of financial institutions and retail sellers to charge an alternative, maximum annual percentage rate on certain loan and credit transactions. September 29, 1994

Am. HB 697 VETERANS' HOME (Malone) Creates the Veterans' Home Site Selection Committee to recommend a site for a veterans' home in southern Ohio. November 15, 1994

Sub. HB 715 BUDGET (Sweeney) Makes corrections in the biennial budget act and makes supplemental appropriations. April 22, 1994

Am. Sub. HB 790 CAPITAL BUDGET (Sweeney) Makes capital appropriations, and specifies the authority of the Ohio Arts Facilities Commission over state historical facilities and Ohio arts facilities. June 13, 1994


MEMBERS OF THE OHIO HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

DEMOCRATS (53)
  • ABEL, Mary (78-Athens)
  • BEATTY, Otto (21-Columbus)
  • BENDER, John (62-Elyria)
  • BOGGS, Ross (5-Andover)
  • BOYD, Barbara (9-Cleveland Hgts)
  • CAIN, Madeline (17-Lakewood)
  • CAMPBELL, Jane (11-Cleveland)
  • CARR, Judy (57-Alliance)*
  • CERA, Jack (99-Bellaire)
  • COLONNA, Rocco (18-Brook Park)
  • DiDONATO, Greg (97-New Philadelphia)
  • DOTY, Karen (45-Akron)
  • GERBERRY, Ron (65-Austintown)
  • GUTHRIE, Marc (77-Heath)
  • HAGAN, Robert (64-Youngstown)
  • HARTLEY, David (73-Springfield)
  • HEALY, William (54-Canton)
  • JAMES, Troy (10-Cleveland)
  • JONES, Casey (49-Toledo)
  • JONES, Paul (75-Ravenna)
  • JONES, Wayne (46-Cuyahoga Falls)
  • KOZIURA, Joseph (61-Lorain)
  • KRUPINSKI, Jerry (98-Steubenville)
  • LOGAN, Sean (3-Lisbon)
  • LUCAS, June (67-Mineral Ridge)
  • LUEBBERS, Jerry (33-Cincinnati)
  • MAIER, Johnnie (56-Massillon)
  • MALLORY, William (31-Cincinnati)
  • MALONE, Mark (94-Southpoint)
  • McLIN, Rhine (38-Dayton)
  • MOTTL, Ron (20-Parma)
  • OPFER, Darrell (53-Oak Harbor)
  • PRENTISS, C.J (8-Cleveland)
  • PRINGLE, Barbara (13-Cleveland)
  • QUILTER, Barney (50-Toledo)
  • RANKIN, Helen (30-Cincinnati)
  • RIFFE, Vernal (92-Wheelersburg)
  • ROBERTS, Tom (39-Dayton)
  • SAWYER, Frank (79-Mansfield)
  • SEESE, Tom (48-Coventry Township)
  • SHOEMAKER, Michael (91-Bourneville)
  • STINZIANO, Mike (23-Columbus)
  • SUSTER, Ron (14-Euclid)
  • SUTTON, Betty (47-Barberton)
  • SWEENEY, Patrick (19-Cleveland)
  • SYKES, Vernon (44-Akron)
  • TAVARES, Charleta (22-Columbus)**
  • TROY, Dan (70-Willowick)
  • VERICH, Mike (66-Warren)
  • WALSH, Katherine (63-Vermilion)
  • WESTON, Randy (90-Morral)
  • WHALEN, Vermel (12-Cleveland)
  • WISE, Dwight (89-Fremont)
REPUBLICANS (46)
  • AMSTUTZ, Ron (7-Wooster)
  • BATCHELDER, William (81-Medina)
  • BATEMAN, Sam (71-Milford)
  • BLESSING, Louis (35-Cincinnati)
  • BRADING, Charles (86-Wapakoneta)
  • BUCHY, Jim (84-Greenville)
  • BYERS, Gene (93-Loudonville)
  • CORBIN, Robert (42nd-Centerville)
  • CORE, Edward K (87-Rushsylvania)
  • DAVIDSON, Jo Ann (24-Reynoldsburg)
  • DAVIS, James (85-St. Marys)
  • FOX, Michael (59-Hamilton)
  • GARDNER, Randy (4-Bowling Green)
  • GREENWOOD, Tim (51-Sylvania)
  • GRENDELL, Diane (68-Chesterland)
  • HAINES, Joseph (74-Xenia)
  • HODGES, Richard (82-Metamora)
  • JACOBSON, Jeff (40-Vandalia)
  • JOHNSON, Tom (96-New Concord)
  • KASPUTIS, Edward (16-Westlake)
  • KREBS, Gene (60-Camden)
  • LAWRENCE, Joan (80-Galena)
  • MASON, James (25-Bexley)
  • MEAD, Priscilla (28-Upper Arlington)
  • MOTTLEY, Donald (41-West Carrollton)
  • MYERS, Jon D (6-Lancaster)
  • NEIN, Scott (58-Middletown)
  • NETZLEY, Robert (43-Laura)
  • O'BRIEN, Jacqueline (37-Cincinnati)
  • PADGETT, Joy (95-Coshocton)
  • PERZ, Sally (52-Toledo)
  • REID, Marilyn (76-Beavercreek)
  • SCHUCK, Bill (29-Columbus)
  • SCHULER, Robert (36-Sycamore Township)
  • SCHURING, Kirk (55-Canton)***
  • SINES, Raymond (69-Perry)
  • TERWILLEGER, George (2-Maineville)
  • THOMAS, E.J. (27-Columbus)
  • THOMPSON, Bill (1-Delphos)
  • TIBERI, Pat (26-Columbus)
  • VAN VYVEN, Dale (32-Sharonville)
  • VESPER, Rose (72-New Richmond)
  • WACHTMANN, Lynn (83-Napoleon)
  • WHITE, Doug (88-Manchester)
  • WINKLER, Cheryl (34-Cincinnati)
  • WISE, Mike (15-Chagrin Falls)
* - Rep. Judy Carr of the 57th District was elected by House Democrats on April 28, 1993 to succeed her husband, Rep. Francis Carr, who died.

** - Rep. Charleta Tavares of the 22nd District was elected by House Democrats on July 1, 1993 to replace Ray Miller, who resigned.

*** - Rep. J. Kirk Schuring of the 55th District was elected by House Republicans on April 15, 1993 to replace David Johnson, who resigned.

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