SB 1 JUVENILE CRIMES (Howard) Creates a new bindover procedure for certain children charged with certain violent or habitual felonious acts and extends the existing bindover procedure to children who are at least 14; specifies that a person whose case has been transferred for criminal prosecution thereafter must be prosecuted as an adult for all felonies; specifies that children who are at least 14 and are arrested, adjudicated delinquent, or convicted of crime for a violent or habitual felonious act may be fingerprinted and photographed in the same manner as an adult criminal offender; requires courts to consider a child's prior delinquency record as a prior conviction for certain purposes; provides a graduated schedule of maximum fines for delinquent children and juvenile traffic offenders; clarifies that a juvenile court commitment generally may last until the subject child attains 21 years of age; and specifies that 10% of the proceeds of forfeitures ordered in juvenile courts must be used for drug and alcohol addiction treatment programs.

SB 2 CRIMINAL SENTENCING (Greenwood) Implements recommendations of the Criminal Sentencing Commission and makes other changes in the criminal law.

SB 3 REPEAT OFFENDERS (Watts) Requires life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for any person who is convicted of or pleads guilty to certain serious offenses and who on at least two previous occasions has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any two or more of such offenses; authorizes courts and the Department of Rehabilitation & Correction to give warnings about the penalty for such a person; and requires the Governor, if a pardon or commutation is granted to such a person, to make an annual report regarding the person's activities.

SB 4 POSTCONVICTION RELIEF (B. Johnson) Requires a petition for postconviction relief from a judgment of conviction be filed within 180 days after the trial transcript is filed in the direct appeal of the judgment; makes other changes in the Postconviction Relief Law; and revises the appellate jurisdiction and procedure for cases in which the death penalty has been imposed to reflect the amendment to the Ohio Constitution made by referendum on November 8, 1994.

SB 5 DNA DATABASE (Carnes) Permits the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation to establish a DNA database and requires certain persons who commit certain crimes to submit blood samples for DNA testing.

SB 6 GUN VIOLENCE (Kearns) Adopts the recommendations of the Ohio Task Force on Gun Violence with certain modifications.

SB 7 POLICE ASSAULT (Dix) Makes the penalty for the aggravated murder of a peace officer either death or life imprisonment without parole and requires law enforcement agencies to develop procedures for notifying and providing support to the next of kin of an officer whose death occurs in the line of duty.

SB 8 CAMPAIGN FINANCE (Cupp) Limits or prohibits campaign contributions from specified sources to campaign committees of candidates for member of the General Assembly and statewide elected offices and to certain other political entities effective in the 1996 primary; requires those campaign committees to file a notice regarding the expenditure of personal funds under certain circumstances; establishes what contributions may be "carried in" to a campaign; requires identification on political advertising paid from independent expenditures and the reporting of certain independent expenditures; imposes on labor organizations campaign contribution restrictions similar to those imposed on corporations; prohibits disbursements from employee accounts set up for political contributions without the employee making a written designation of the recipient; prohibits public employers from making payroll deductions for political purposes, prohibits state and county elected officers and candidates from soliciting contributions from certain state and county employees; prohibits the transfer of funds from a candidate's federal campaign committee to his campaign committee for elective office; imposes additional reporting requirements regarding a campaign contributor's employer or occupation, in-kind contributions at fundraising events, and certain other contributions, requires federal political committees that make contributions to state or local political action committees to disclose the names and addresses of Ohio residents who made contributions to the federal political committee; allows the Secretary of State to prescribe the format in which campaign finance statements must be filed and requires him to store the information from certain such statements on computer; allows an income tax credit for taxpayers who make campaign contributions to candidates for certain public offices to first apply in the taxable year beginning in 1995; creates a Task Force on the Media in Campaigns and a Campaign Finance Reform Review Committee; and makes other changes in the Campaign Finance Law.

SB 9 ELECTIONS COMMISSION (Greenwood) Makes the Ohio Elections Commission independent from the Secretary of State's office; changes the Commission's method of operation; changes the Commission's composition beginning January 1, 1996, changes the penalties for violating certain elections laws; and declares an emergency.

SB 10 SEX OFFENDERS (Snyder) Makes the Sex Offender Registration Law apply to persons who are convicted of or plead guilty to any of the listed sex offenses for the first time and makes numerous modifications in the law.

SB 11 OBSCENITY (Snyder) Increases by one degree the penalty for pandering obscenity involving a minor and pandering sexually-oriented material involving a minor.

SB 12 LICENSE PLATES (Horn) Requires that motor vehicle license plates bear the slogan "Birthplace of Aviation" and an appropriate symbol representing aviation.

SB 13 POLL HOURS (Finan) Provides for closing polling places at 6:30 p.m. instead of 7:30 p.m..

SB 14 OPEN MEETINGS (Finan) Includes discussions of economic development strategies as a purpose for which an executive session may be held and closed to the public under the Open Meetings Law.

SB 15 SCHOOL IMPROVEMENTS (Snyder) Requires the Office of Budget and Management to make an annual transfer of $150 million from the Lottery Profits Education Fund to the Education Facilities Bond Service Fund; creates the Education Facilities Fund for the purpose of making monetary grants to school districts to assist in financing classroom facilities projects; creates the Education Facilities Commission to award such grants; requires the State Board of Education to establish standards and procedures for awarding such grants; and authorizes the issuance of obligations to provide money for the Education Facilities Fund.

SB 16 WORKERS' COMPENSATION (Cupp) Increases the threshold amount the Administrator of Workers' Compensation uses in calculating construction industry employers' premiums.

SB 17 ETHICS EXCLUSION (Cupp) Excludes school treasurers and superintendents from the requirements of the omnibus ethics act, Am. Sub. HB492, enacted by the 120th General Assembly relative to the contents of their financial disclosure statements and the acceptance of honoraria and related expenses.

SB 18 INVESTMENT CREDIT (Horn) Provides a tax credit for investors who make qualified investments in an Ohio early stage investment entity.

SB 19 RADIOACTIVE WASTE (Suhadolnik) Establishes an administrative structure and process for the siting, development, and operation of a regional low-level radioactive waste disposal facility, including the establishment of siting criteria; amends the Midwest Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact; and authorizes the Department of Health on behalf of the state to seek agreement state status with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

SB 20 GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS (Greenwood) Eliminates the requirement that a central office of each state agency be located in Columbus; establishes the Legislative Committee on Decentralization of State Government; requires the Committee to issue a written report of its findings and recommendations with 12 months after the effective date of this act; and abolishes the Committee upon the submission of its report.

SB 21 REPEAT OFFENDERS (Snyder) Requires life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for any person who is convicted of or pleads guilty to any offense of violence that is a felony and who on at least one previous occasion has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any such offense; requires the imposition of a term of actual incarceration for offenses of violence that are aggravated felonies; authorizes courts and the Department of Rehabilitation & Correction to give warnings about the penalty for such a person; requires the governor, if a pardon or commutation is granted to such a person, to make an annual report regarding the person's activities; abolishes "good time" for prisoners and permits extensions of sentences for prisoners who commit certain violations while in prison; requires the Department of Transportation to request, and the Department of Rehabilitation & Correction to furnish, convict labor to repair and maintain state highways; requires boards of county commissioners to use convict labor to repair and maintain county roads; requires the Department of Rehabilitation & Correction to establish a program for the construction of semi-permanent buildings for housing prisoners; requires the Department of Rehabilitation & Correction to establish a program for the renovation and utilization of abandoned or under-utilized facilities to house prisoners; requires basic literacy as a prerequisite for parole; and prohibits the early release of any person who is convicted of or pleaded guilty to any offense of violence.

SB 22 DRIVING PRIVILEGES (Finan) Prohibits the operation of a motor vehicle between the hours of midnight and 6 a.m. by a person who is under 18 years of age unless he is accompanied by a person aged 21 or over and that person has a valid driver's or commercial driver's license by this or any other state.

SB 23 SCHOOL CALENDAR (Schafrath) Eliminates counting up to five calamity days toward the minimum 182 days that schools must annually be open for instruction with pupils in attendance and prohibits school districts from additionally compensating employees for make-up days when they have already been compensated for the emergency days on which they did not work.

SB 24 INTERSCHOLASTIC ACTIVITIES (Watts) Requires boards of education to adopt rules for participation in interscholastic extracurricular activities by high school and junior high school students and restricts participation in such activities by students who are not making satisfactory educational progress.

SB 25 COLLEGE GRANTS (Watts) Excludes from eligibility for Ohio Instructional Grants or Ohio Student Choice Grants any person who has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a felony and is serving a term of imprisonment.

SB 26 STUDENT INFORMATION (Horn) Requires the release of certain directory information about high school students to military recruiters and permits school districts to charge for mailing costs connected to the release of such information.

SB 27 BIKEWAYS/PEDWAYS (Boggs) Recognizes that the accommodation of bicyclists and pedestrians serves a highway and transportation; authorizes the Director of Transportation to purchase or appropriate land for bikeways, bicycle transportation facilities and pedestrian walkways under certain situations; clarifies that counties, townships and municipal corporations may use fuel tax moneys for the planning, construction, maintenance and repair of bikeways, bicycle transportation facilities and pedestrian walkways.

SB 28 COLUMBUS OFFICES (Furney) Eliminates requirement that certain state agencies maintain an office in Columbus.

SB 29 PRESCRIPTION DRUGS (Snyder) Prohibits certain limitations on the selection of pharmacies and pharmacists under public employee benefit plans and individual and group health insurance policies and contracts that provide coverage for pharmaceutical services.

SB 30 DISINTERMENT (Finan) Establishes procedures for the disinterment of a body, pursuant to court order, upon the application of a person other than the decedent's surviving spouse.

SB 31 WATER LICENSES (Gaeth) Exempts churches from the licensing requirements for public water systems.

SB 32 PROFICIENCY TESTS (Watts) Requires students graduating from high school on or after September 15, 1998 to pass the statewide 12th-grade proficiency tests at the 12th-grade competency level to receive Ohio instructional grants or student choice grants; provides a 10% increase in Ohio instructional grant amounts to students graduating on or after September 15, 1998 and passing the 12th-grade proficiency tests at the competency level required for honors diplomas; prohibits state universities and colleges from giving certain advanced placement credit to freshman students graduating from Ohio high schools on or after September 15, 1998 unless they have passed the 12th-grade proficiency tests at the 12th-grade competency level; requires for state chartering that nonpublic schools elect to administer the 12th-grade proficiency tests beginning July 1, 1998; and requires high school diplomas and transcripts issued by public schools or chartered nonpublic schools to bear the students' scores on the 12th-grade proficiency tests.

SB 33 DAY-CARE TAX CREDIT (Watts) Allows credits against the corporation franchise and state income taxes for an employer that establishes a child day-care center or provides child day-care for dependents of its employees.

SB 34 CAPITOL SQUARE (Finan) Authorizes the State Highway Patrol to enforce rules of the Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board governing Capitol Square.

SB 35 SETTLEMENT INTEREST (Finan) Establishes the interest rate applicable to settlements and judicial judgments, orders and decrees for payment of moneys arising out of tortuous conduct, contracts or other transactions at 5% over the federal discount rate at the time the settlement is entered into or the judgment, order or decree is rendered.

SB 36 OPEN RECORDS (Oelslager) Revises the Open Records Law.

SB 37 LICENSE REVOCATION (Latell) Requires the suspension or revocation and denial until age 21 of the driver's license or temporary instruction permit of a person who conveys or possesses a deadly weapon or dangerous ordnance onto or on school property and authorizes the termination of the suspension, revocation or denial if the person subsequently obtains a high school diploma.

SB 38 COUNTY TAXES (Schafrath) Permits a county deemed to be in fiscal distress to propose a sales and use tax at a special election to be held in May 1995, repeals this act on May 3, 1995 and declares an emergency.

SB 39 LIQUOR LAW (Suhadolnik) Permits passengers in chauffeured limousines to consume beer or intoxicating liquor when they are located in the limousine or bus and extends until June 30, 1997 the Open Container Law exception relative to holders of certain liquor permits during music festivals.

SB 40 HOUSING AUTHORITIES (Finan) Authorizes metropolitan housing authorities to provide free housing to certain law enforcement officers and specifies that the provision of such housing, the provision of related public utility services either for free or at a reduced rate, and the provision to such officers of special home loan incentives by financial institutions do not violate conflict-of-interest laws.

SB 41 AKRON COURT (Ray) Places certain employees of the office of the Clerk of the Akron Municipal Court in the classified civil service of the City of Akron; provides for the clerk's management, maintenance and operation of the court's computerization; modifies the additional court costs provisions of the Municipal Court Law; and specifies the fiscal responsibility of legislative authorities with respect to municipal court and clerk office computerization.

SB 42 SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM (Snyder) Establishes pilot project scholarship programs.

SB 43 SCHOOL FUNDING (Snyder) Changes the distribution of state funds to school districts.

SB 44 KINDERGARTEN ADMISSION. (Snyder) Phases in over four years a general prohibition against admitting children to kindergarten or first grade at the beginning of a school year unless they are five or six years of age, respectively, by the first day of June instead of by the 30th day of September.

SB 45 NEGLECTED CHILDREN (Snyder) Provides that certain drug-exposed infants are "neglected children,"; creates offense of pre-natal child neglect, and permits women who are convicted of or plead guilty to that offense to receive probation if they voluntarily undergo drug treatment, agree to drug testing or participate in a contraceptive program.

SB 46 HOUSING FINANCE (Ray) Modifies the Ohio Housing Finance Agency Law and the laws governing certain economic development programs within the Department of Development, raises the debt limit for bonds issued to fund those economic development programs, and requires an applicant for economic development assistance to indicate on the application for assistance certain liabilities owed a governmental entity.

SB 47 CHARTER SCHOOLS (Snyder) Provides for creation of charter schools.

SB 48 TEACHERS RETIREMENT (Snyder) Changes the membership of the State Teachers Retirement Board and increases the membership from nine to 13 members.

SB 49 BIDCOS (Greenwood) Licenses and regulates business and industrial development enterprises; expands the investment authority of the state retirement systems, the Administrator of Workers' Compensation, certain financial institutions, and domestic insurance companies to invest in business and industrial development enterprises for eight years after the effective date of this act; creates tax credits for investments in business and industrial development enterprises; creates the Business and Industrial Development Enterprise Advisory Committee; and terminates the committee and tax credits effective December 31, 2003.

SB 50 CERTIFICATE OF NEED (Drake) Revises and continues the certificate of need program; restricts CON review beginning May 1, 1997 to activities related to long-term care; abolishes the CON Review Board following the final disposition of all appeals of CON decisions issued prior to the effective date of this act; continues indefinitely the moratorium on recategorization of hospital beds to skilled nursing beds by amending ORC 3702.68 on July 1, 1997; establishes accreditation standards for ambulatory surgical facilities; and declares an emergency.

SB 51 MOHICAN FOREST (Schafrath) Prohibits the commercial extraction of timber from lands comprising the newly designated Mohican Memorial Interpretive State Forest that are managed by the Division of Forestry in the Department of Natural Resources, specifies that the purpose of state-managed lands within that forest is to provide a unique recreational, educational, and interpretive natural resources, requires the Division to prepare a management plan for the lands within the forest that it manages, and establishes a management council to approve and monitor the administration of the plan.

SB 52 CHILD CUSTODY (Schafrath) Requires a parent to provide the other parent with specified information when he intends to change his residence, to rename visitation of a child as parenting time with a child, establishes a pilot project for enforcement of companionship or parenting time orders, provides guidelines that a court is required to follow when determining the terms and conditions for parenting time with a child by the noncustodial parent.

SB 53 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION (Vukovich) Increases and indexes the income eligibility criteria under the homestead and manufactured home tax reductions.

SB 54 CAMPAIGN FINANCE (Watts) Establishes a system of voluntary limitations on campaign expenditures of campaign committees of candidates for General Assembly and statewide elected office; limits contributions to those campaign committees; limits the amount of contribution those campaign committees may keep after a general election; prohibits certain entities including continuing associations from making political contributions except through a political action committee; prohibits public employees from making certain campaign contributions; allows a state income tax credit for contributions to candidates; requires the Secretary of State to store on computer certain campaign finance reports; and makes other changes in the campaign finance laws.

SB 55 CAMPAIGN FINANCE (By Initiative) Imposes limitations on campaign contributions.

SB 56 SET ASIDE (Watts) Changes the term "minority business enterprise" to "challenged business enterprise" for purposes of the laws governing public contract set-asides, minority business development loans, and minority business bonds, to include businesses owned and controlled by women within the definition; confers a preference to eligible veterans in the award of set-asides, MBD loans and bonds; and restricts eligibility of challenged businesses for certification as challenged business enterprises for various purposes for five years.

SB 57 DELINQUENT CHILDREN (Cupp) Prohibits making for a delinquent child who committed a felonious act a dispositional order that can be made for an abuse, dependent, or neglected child.

SB 58 LICENSE PLATES (Greenwood) Establishes a special license plate for members of the Ohio Military Reserve.

SB 59 COURT JURISDICTION (Ray) Increases the monetary jurisdiction of a municipal court to $15,000 and of a county court to $5,000; increases the monetary jurisdiction of the small claims division of a municipal court to $3,000; specifically authorizes each municipal court and each county court to establish procedures for the resolution of disputes between parties to actions or proceedings within the court's jurisdiction and to charge a reasonable fee not exceeding five dollars for those procedures.

SB 60 INVESTIGATION COSTS (Latell) Provides in general for the state to pay certain costs and expenses that result from an investigation, prosecution, or defense of a charge of a felony offense or act committed in or on the grounds of an institution or facility operated by the Departments of Rehabilitation & Correction, Youth Services, Mental Health, or MR/DD.

SB 61 CONVEYANCE FEES (Cupp) Exempts from a conveyance fee the post-death transfer of real estate from a living trust.

SB 62 MEDICAID OVERSIGHT (Drake) Abolishes the Legislative Committee on Medicaid Oversight, creates the Joint Legislative Committee on Medicaid, and declares an emergency.

SB 63 LAND CONVEYANCE (Drake) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned land in Cuyahoga County from the Department of MR/DD to the City of Broadview Heights.

SB 64 MEDICAL IMMUNITY (Drake) Creates a special volunteer certificate for retired physicians who provide medical services to indigent persons; provides physicians, other health care personnel and nonprofit shelter or health care facilities with qualified immunities from tort and other civil liability for providing free health care services to indigent persons; requires nonprofit shelter and health care facilities to register annually with the state; requires the Department of Health to study the effect of such qualified immunity; and sunsets the law after four years.

SB 65 DAY-CARE (Gaeth) Permits, under certain circumstances, more than six children to be cared for at one time in an unlicensed day-care home and provides for establishment of a pilot program allowing certain type A family day-care homes to be certified as type C family day-care homes.

SB 66 PRISON ACTIVITIES (Long) Prohibits prisoners in state correctional institutions from using certain exercise equipment that would increase a prisoner's physical strength and prohibits prisoners from participating in boxing, wrestling, or martial arts programs that would allow prisoners to increase their fighting skills.

SB 67 LOCAL INVESTMENTS (Boggs) Creates the Local Government Investments Board; specifies the composition and duties of the board, which duties include administering a process for approving the sale of obligations or securities, and the persons making any such sales, to local governments; requires persons to obtain the board's approval before selling or offering for sale any obligations or securities to local governments; requires the state treasurer to maintain and make available to local governments lists of board-approved persons and investments and places a cap on commissions or discounts that local governments may pay in connection with the purchase of government investments.

SB 68 CONCEALED WEAPONS (Vukovich) Authorizes a sheriff to issue licenses to carry concealed firearms to certain persons.

SB 69 LOCAL COSTS (Long) Requires the approval of two-thirds of the members elected to a house of the General Assembly to bring up for a floor vote in that house bills that impose a net additional cost on school districts, counties, townships or municipal corporations, except for bills that enforce rights against discrimination of any type and except for bills the General Assembly must pass to fulfill requirements of the Ohio Constitution.

SB 70 BINGO GAMES (Cupp) Increases from $250 to $450 the maximum amount a charitable organization may pay to rent a premise to conduct a bingo session, increases from $450 to $600 the maximum amount a charitable organization may deduct from gross receipts when it owns the building in which the session is conducted, and allows a volunteer firemen's organization or a volunteer rescue service organization that conducts not more than five bingo sessions in a calendar year to conduct more than two bingo sessions in a seven-day period.

SB 71 BINGO GAMES (Ray) Defines "bingo" to include bingo, instant bingo, punch boards and raffles; creates a license that authorizes charitable organizations to conduct bingo, instant bingo, punch boards and raffles; requires the licensing of manufacturers and distributors of bingo supplies; regulates the sale of instant bingo tickets; creates the State Bingo Commission and transfers the authority to issue bingo licenses and regulate the conduct of bingo from the Attorney General to the Commission; authorizes the creation of the Bingo Advisory Council; and makes other changes in the Charitable Gambling Law.

SB 72 DETENTION HOMES (Nettle) Imposes a consecutive sentence on person convicted of offense of assault committed by a person under the custody in a county or district detention home against an employee of the county or of one or more of the counties that the detention home serves.

SB 73 CREDIT REPORT (Nettle) Requires consumer reporting agencies to include in a credit report the name of any guardian appointed for an individual who has been adjudicated an incompetent.

SB 74 CONSUMER SALES (Nettle) Establishes as a determinant of an unconscionable act or practice under the Consumer Sales Practices Act whether a supplier knowingly took advantage of a consumer by using information obtained by eavesdropping on a conversation of the consumer for which the consumer had a reasonable expectation of privacy.

SB 75 ABANDONED VEHICLE (Nettle) Increases from $400 to $1,000 the dollar value component of the definition of "abandoned junk motor vehicle" and makes changes in the law relative to the storage of collector's motor vehicles on private property.

SB 76 SELF-DEFENSE (Nettle) Codifies the common law principles pertaining to self-defense and defense of third persons within the home and on owned, leased or rented real property.

SB 77 BUILDING CONTRACTORS (Nettle) Provides for the licensing of general building contractors.

SB 78 PROFICIENCY TESTS (Nettle) Exempts foreign exchange students from having to take or pass any proficiency tests in order to receive a regular diploma from a public or nonpublic school.

SB 79 PERSONAL TAX EXEMPTION (Johnson) Increases to $850 and indexes for inflation the state income tax personal exemption.

SB 80 MAIL BALLOTS (Howard) Allows a board of elections to conduct an election by mail ballot when the board has certified no candidates for placement on the ballot at that election.

SB 81 INVESTMENT AUTHORITY (Finan) Makes changes in the investment authority of local governments under the Uniform Depository Act, including prohibiting investment in derivatives, certain repurchase agreements, and certain local government investment pools; places limitations on investment in the Ohio Subdivision's Fund; provides investment maturity restrictions; requires local governments to file investment policies with the Auditor of State; authorizes public depositories to secure repayment of local government public moneys by pledging obligations or securities issued or insured or guaranteed by federal government instrumentalities; provides limitations on no-load money market mutual funds pledged as security for repayment of public moneys; eliminates certain territorial limitations on local governments; requires political subdivisions and county treasurers to complete continuing education requirements; alters the structure of the county investment advisory committee; specifies requirements for settlement of investment contract disputes by arbitration; authorizes county hospitals to deposit certain funds in obligations or securities issued or guaranteed by agencies or instrumentalities of the federal government; and makes conforming changes.

SB 82 RETIREMENT SYSTEMS (Snyder) Expands the investment authority of the state retirement system, the Ohio Tuition Trust Authority, and the Bureau of Workers' Compensation by eliminating the statutory list of permissible investments; requires that each system reduce its amortization period for unfunded pension liabilities to not longer than 30 years; requires that except in certain circumstances disability benefit recipients undergo annual medical examinations; causes a Public Employees Retirement System retirant reelected to public office to forfeit the pension portion of the retirement allowance during the term of office; makes other changes to the laws governing the state retirement systems; and declares an emergency.

SB 83 MEDICAID OFF-SET (Boggs) Increases the amount of money a Medicaid recipient who receives care in a nursing facility is eligible to retain as a personal needs allowance.

SB 84 LEGAL NOTICES (Nettle) Allows certain newspapers for which no subscription price is paid to qualify as newspapers of general circulation for the purpose of publishing legal notices, requires that a newspaper of general circulation have a specified content and level of home delivery, exempts officially designated court calendars from these requirements and allows publication of legal notices and advertising for statewide ballot issues to be made by inserts.

SB 85 PRESCRIPTION DRUGS (Nettle) Authorizes dispensing and sale of dimethyl sulfoxide by prescription for human use.

SB 86 LANE RESTRICTION (Nettle) Limits the use of the left-hand lane of divided highways.

SB 87 COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS (Nettle) Creates the Ohio Higher Education Scholarship Fund and permits contributions to be made to the fund from state income tax refunds under the existing income tax refund contribution system and by voluntary payroll deductions from public employees' wages.

SB 88 VEHICLE HEADLIGHTS (Nettle) Requires the headlights of a vehicle to be lighted when its windshield wipers are in use.

SB 89 NUISANCE ABATEMENT (Greenwood) Authorizes boards of township trustees to adopt resolutions that regulate or restrict adult-oriented businesses in the unincorporated area of the township, grants electors of a township the power to initiate such resolutions and allows boards of township trustees to abate as nuisances adult-oriented businesses in the unincorporated area of the township where such resolutions are repeatedly violated.

SB 90 MINE SUBSIDENCE (Carnes) Changes from mandatory to optional the provision of mine subsidence insurance coverage in certain counties of the state and makes other related changes.

SB 91 CRIME VICTIMS (Carnes) Extends the Son of Sam Law to family members of offenders and their agents and assignees, permits the imposition of fines up to $1 million in connection with certain offenders, specifies that fines imposed for any offense constitute a judgment in favor of the state that may be collected by means of garnishment, attachment or other execution proceedings and creates and provides for the funding of the Crime Victims Recovery Fund.

SB 92 TRADE-IN CREDIT (Gaeth) Permits the trade-in allowance to be deducted from the total sales price for the purpose of computing sales and use tax on a used motor vehicle.

SB 93 PORT AUTHORITY (Latell) Permits the police department of a township or a township police district, or the office of a township constable, to enter into a contract with a port authority under which the department's members or the office's constables perform police functions for that port authority.

SB 94 SMALL LOANS (McLin) Authorizes a check-cashing business to obtain a license to make six-month loans of $500 or less, provides for interest rates and other fees and charges in connection with the loans, provides for the licensure and regulation of check-cashing businesses making these loans by the Superintendent of Consumer Finance, provides a criminal penalty for failing to comply with these licensing and lending provisions and makes conforming changes in the Small Loan Law.

SB 95 PROPERTY TAX (Gaeth) Eliminates over a five-year period the tax on tangible personal property used in business.

SB 96 TOWNSHIP DISTRICTS (Finan) Authorizes the creation and operation of township special improvement districts, makes changes to the public auction requirements for townships, and declares an emergency.

SB 97 STATE PRINTING (Horn) Replaces a requirement that bonds accompany bids for state term printing and paper purchase contracts with an authorization for the imposition of such a requirement by administrative action; eliminates the requirements that state printing contracts be executed in Ohio and that certain state printing contracts be executed in Franklin County; makes state printing contracts subject to the Buy Ohio Law; excludes certain state printing contracts from the Prevailing Wage Law; and modifies restrictions on the scope of office reproduction services.

SB 98 GENDER LANGUAGE (Finan) Creates a rule of statutory construction that provides that the intent of the General Assembly in enacting an act that replaces gender specific language with gender neutral language is nonsubstantive, unless stated otherwise; removes the requirement that the administrative code be published in a loose-leaf format, in separate volumes, and in monthly supplements; authorizes the administrative code to be published in an electronic format; prohibits the Director of the Legislative Service Commission from publishing the Administrative Code unless no other person is willing and qualified to publish an approved version of the Code; requires the Director to take necessary measures to protect the integrity and security of legislative documents stored in an electronic format.

SB 99 CIVIL SERVICE (Watts) Makes changes in the State Civil Service Law, Purchasing Law, Printing Law, and Public Works Law, and makes changes in other laws administered by the Department of Administrative Services.

SB 100 STATE COMPETITION (Snyder) Establishes the Ohio Private Enterprise Review Commission to review commercial activities of state agencies; prohibits state agencies from performing commercial activities that are ruled inappropriate; and terminates this act six years after its effective date.

SB 101 SCHOOL SERVICES (Snyder) Authorizes school boards to contract with for-profit and nonprofit entities to perform generally any activity, educational service, or function school boards are authorized to provide and permits the exemption of these contracts from all provisions of civil service and collective bargaining law and all but certain provisions of school law.

SB 102 DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS (Oelslager) Permits additional municipal corporations and townships to enter into contracts creating joint economic development districts, and increases the amount of territory that may be encompassed by such a district.

SB 103 IMPROPER SEIZURE (Schafrath) Authorizes Susan and Harold Fritz to commence a civil action in the Court of Claims to recover damages from the Department of Highway Safety and the Bureau of Motor Vehicles for harm allegedly resulting from the improper seizure of the driver's license of Susan Fritz.

SB 104 STATE MANDATES (Espy) Requires the General Assembly to include, in every bill that imposes a net additional cost on counties, townships, municipal corporations, or school districts as reflected in a local impact statement, an appropriation to cover the amount of that net additional cost before the bill may be voted on.

SB 105 LABOR LAW (Cupp) Exempts from the Minor Labor Law minors acting or performing in motion pictures, radio, or television productions in accordance with rules adopted by the director of Industrial Relations.

SB 106 CONTRACTOR PAYMENTS (Cupp) Voids various types of provisions of a construction contract that are considered to be against public policy, prohibits construction contracts from requiring the purchasing of specified liability insurance, and establishes new requirements and limitations relative to exercising rights under a bond for certain public improvements.

SB 107 PRESCRIPTION DRUGS (Drake) Prohibits health care corporations, health maintenance organizations, sickness and accident insurers, and public employee benefit plans that provide coverage of prescription drugs from limiting or excluding coverage for a federally-approved drug on the basis that the drug has not received federal approval for treatment of the particular indication for which the drug is prescribed, makes a correction to the definition of an ambulatory surgical facility, and explicitly harmonizes the law that prohibits trafficking in food stamps.

SB 108 MARRIAGE LICENSES (Drake) Requires a blood test for AIDS and syphilis prior to obtaining a marriage license and requires each party to a marriage to inform the other of the results.

SB 109 CRIMINAL PLEAS (Drake) Provides that, if a person found not guilty by reason of insanity of a felony is to be discharged or released from the hospital or institution to which he was committed or if a person convicted of a felony is to be released from the correctional institution in which he was imprisoned, the superintendent of the State Highway Patrol and certain law enforcement officials must be provided at least two weeks' notice of the discharge or release.

SB 110 CRIMINAL SENTENCING (Greenwood) Requires an eight-year term of actual incarceration for committing a felony while in or on a motor vehicle and armed with a firearm.

SB 111 ANNEXATION (B. Johnson) Revises the laws governing municipal annexations and mergers and the changing of township boundaries.

SB 112 LIVESTOCK TAMPERING (Gaeth) Allows the Director of Agriculture to adopt rules governing exhibitions; prohibits tampering with livestock, sabotage of livestock and use of unapproved drugs on animals; and creates the Advisory Committee on Livestock Exhibitions and declares an emergency.

SB 113 SCHOOL STRIKES (Snyder) Prohibits strikes by school district employees and establishes an additional level of mediation for such employees.

SB 114 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING (Snyder) Defines "unauthorized strike" for the purpose of the Public Employees Collective Bargaining Law and prohibits public employees from engaging in partial or intermittent strikes, whether conducted during or after the expiration of the term of a collective bargaining agreement or during or after the pendency of a settlement procedure under the law.

SB 115 TEACHER EVALUATION (Snyder) Changes the requirements for obtaining a continuing teaching contract; requires periodic evaluations of all school district employees under all teaching contracts and one-year remediation periods for correcting unsatisfactory performance; and permits contract termination for failing to correct unsatisfactory performance during a remediation period.

SB 116 PENSION FUNDS (Snyder) Makes changes related to disability benefits of the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund, limits fund expenditures for benefit recipient health care coverage to no more than 6.5% of employee payroll, limits reimbursement under the fund for insurance coverage under Part B of the federal Medicare program and declares an emergency.

SB 117 ESTATE DECLARATIONS (Boggs) Relative to estate distribution declarations.

SB 118 BUILDING STANDARDS (Cupp) Makes various changes in the Board of Building Standards Law.

SB 119 DISARMING POLICE (Carnes) Creates the offense of disarming a law enforcement officer.

SB 120 ESTATE PARTITIONS (Long) Changes the qualifications and required number of commissioners in partition actions.

SB 121 VEHICLE REGISTRATION (Suhadolnik) Prohibits Registrar of Motor Vehicles from issuing a motor vehicle certificate of registration for a vehicle owned by a person who fails to pay a traffic ticket or fails to satisfy a judgment entered in a case involving a traffic offense, provides that a collector's vehicle that meets certain criteria is a junk motor vehicle and can be regulated by a township as any other junk motor vehicle, modifies the types of employment-related accidents that insurers are prohibited from considering with regard to an applicant's or policyholder's private automobile insurance policy, eliminates the Department of Transportation's committee established to review accidents involving Department employees charged with traffic offenses, permits, in certain circumstances, an employee of a unit of local government with a population of 3,000 persons or less who does not possess a commercial driver's license to operate a vehicle to remove snow or ice from a roadway, and permits farm machinery and vehicles escorting farm machinery to display a flashing, oscillating, or rotating amber light when being operated on a street or highway.

SB 122 MOBILE HOME PARKS (Suhadolnik) Reduces the required distance between homes in manufactured home parks constructed after June 30, 1971.

SB 123 PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS (Dix) Provides increased compensation to prosecuting attorneys in counties with a population of 70,000 or less who choose not to engage in the private practice and provides for payment of part of the cost by the state.

SB 124 BUILDING PLANS (Cupp) Specifies that plans and other materials relative to obtaining building permits are not required to be prepared by registered architects for certain buildings and structures; requires certain contractors to demonstrate proof of financial responsibility; and permits third parties to contract with a registered architect to provide architectural services for another person.

SB 125 ZONING REFERENDUM (Gaeth) Authorizes the holding of a special election on May 23, 1995 for submission of a zoning referendum and declares an emergency.

SB 126 MINIMUM WAGE (Boggs) Increases the state minimum wage.

SB 127 PUBLIC DEPOSITORY (Latell) Eliminates the requirement that a public depository have an office in Columbus to be eligible as a public depository of active deposits of state public moneys and makes conforming changes.

SB 128 BICYCLE HELMETS (Drake) Requires children under age 18 to wear protective helmets when operating a bicycle and establishes the Bicycle Safety Fund in order to assist low-income families in the purchase of protective bicycle helmets.

SB 129 TESTAMENTARY TRUSTS (Gillmor) Specifies requirements with respect to investment in affiliated investment companies by fiduciaries, including reasonable fee and disclosure requirements and permits exceptions to be filed with a probate court limiting such investment by a fiduciary and specifies the effect of final adoption decrees issued by Ohio courts or courts of foreign jurisdiction with respect to statutes, documents, wills, or trust instruments created or executed before or after the effective date of this act.

SB 130 GENERAL ASSISTANCE (Finan) Abolishes the General Assistance program and makes changes in the law governing the Disability Assistance program.

SB 131 STUDENT LOANS (Finan) Authorizes the issuance by the state of revenue obligations to raise money to be used to acquire loans made to eligible students attending certain post-secondary educational institutions or to persons borrowing on behalf of such students.

SB 132 RADIOACTIVE WASTE (Burch) Provides that when a site in Ohio has been recommended for use as a regional facility for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste in fulfillment of Ohio's responsibilities as the host state under the Midwest Interstate Compact on Low-Level Radioactive Waste, an election must be held to allow the electors of the county in which the site is located to approve or disapprove the use of the site for that purpose.

SB 133 SCHOOL BORROWING (Greenwood) Relative to cash flow borrowings by school districts and declares an emergency.

SB 134 MANUFACTURED HOMES (Oelslager) Establishes a separate professional license issued by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles for persons engaging in business as a manufactured home broker and declares an emergency.

SB 135 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION (Burch) Increases the income levels used to determine eligibility for the homestead and manufactured home exemptions.

SB 136 PRISONER ACTIVITIES (Carnes) Prohibits prisoners in state correctional institutions and county, municipal and joint county and municipal jails, workhouses and correctional centers from using certain exercise equipment designed to increase muscle mass and physical strength and from participating in boxing, wrestling or martial arts programs designed to improve fighting skills.

SB 137 COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (Snyder) Authorizes the creation of community schools.

SB 138 ENVIRONMENTAL AUDITS (Suhadolnik) Establishes a privilege of nondisclosure in criminal, civil, and administrative proceedings for persons voluntarily conducting environmental audits and grants such persons immunity from administrative and civil penalties under certain circumstances.

SB 139 SEX HARASSMENT (J. Johnson) Defines, for purposes of unlawful discriminatory employment practices based upon sex, "sexual harassment"; makes sexual harassment practices actionable under the Ohio civil rights laws; prohibits state and local agencies from distributing funds to entities that fail to comply with sexual harassment policies adopted by the Ohio Civil Rights Commission; and makes other changes in the civil rights laws.

SB 140 SEWAGE SLUDGE (Suhadolnik) Authorizes the Ohio EPA director to establish and administer a program for the management of land application of sewage sludge and permits a board of health of a city or general health district to enter into agreements with the Ohio EPA to perform certain functions of the program.

SB 141 TREATMENT WORKS (Finan) Authorizes political subdivisions operating publicly-owned treatment works pretreatment programs to adopt rules establishing administrative penalties for violations of rules governing the programs and provides for the enforcement of the rules.

SB 142 BRAIN INJURY FUND (Drake) Creates the Traumatic Brain Injury Trust Fund for operating a system of consumer-oriented case management services for survivors of head injury and for funding neural trauma research; levies an additional fine for speeding and driving while intoxicated; transfers the head injury program and Head Injury Advisory Council from the Rehabilitation Services Commission to the Department of MR/DD and terminates certain provisions of this act by July 1, 2000.

SB 143 PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS (Drake) Revises the laws pertaining to physician assistants and respiratory care professionals and revises the minimum score needed to demonstrate proficiency in English to the State Medical Board.

SB 144 WEIGHTS & MEASURES (Kearns) Authorizes a county board of county commissioners to conduct a cost-analysis study and establish fees for the weights and measures services of the county auditor or another designated employee or official.

SB 145 COMPETITIVE BIDDING (Gaeth) Increases the dollar amounts above which county, township and municipal corporation road and bridge contracts and village contracts for purchases of equipment, services and supplies must be competitively bid.

SB 146 STATE PAYMENTS (Gaeth) Provides that any payment mailed to a state agency is received on time if the postmark date is on or before the due date of the payment.

SB 147 LAND CONVEYANCE (Ray) Authorizes the transfer of state-owned real estate in Summit County to the city of Akron, authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate in Summit County to the FIJI House Corporation of the University of Akron, and declares an emergency.

SB 148 TORT LAW (Snyder) Makes comprehensive changes in laws pertaining to tort and other civil actions.

SB 149 LIQUOR PERMITS (Gaeth) Requires the renewal of a liquor permit, after the permit has not been renewed because of the permit holder's tax delinquency or liability, if the permit holder withdraws the permit holder's appeal to the Liquor Control Commission and the delinquency or liability is resolved, eliminates the authority to conduct certain local option elections on a particular premises, changes the definition of "low-alcohol beverage", allows the holder of a D-5i permit to sell beer or intoxicating liquor for on-premises consumption until 2:30 a.m., and makes other changes in the Liquor Control Law.

SB 150 HEALTH INSURANCE (Dix) Addresses health and insurance matters associated with HB478 of the 119th General Assembly and makes other revisions in the Health Care and Insurance laws.

SB 151 TURNPIKE PROJECTS (Furney) Requires that all new turnpike projects and construction and capital improvement projects for the current turnpike be approved by the General Assembly through the adoption of a concurrent resolution.

SB 152 TURNPIKE TOLLS (Furney) Provides that before any increase by the Ohio Turnpike Commission of the toll schedule that is applicable to vehicles traveling on a turnpike project is effective, it must be approved by the General Assembly through adoption of a concurrent resolution and declares an emergency.

SB 153 HEALTH INSURANCE (Kearns) Prohibits sickness and accident insurers, health maintenance organizations and health care corporations from requiring that enrollees, subscribers and insureds obtain a referral from a primary care physician as a condition to payment for or reimbursement of dermatological services.

SB 154 NURSING PROFESSION (Kearns) Provides for authorization by the Board of Nursing of the practice of nursing as a certified registered nurse anesthetist, clinical nurse specialist, certified nurse-midwife, or certified nurse practitioner.

SB 155 BULK TRANSFERS (Greenwood) Repeals the Bulk Transfer Law.

SB 156 CERTIFICATE OF NEED (Drake) Revises the certificate of need and other health care regulatory provisions enacted by Am. Sub. SB50 of the 121st General Assembly and declares an emergency.

SB 157 OHIO TURNPIKE (Furney) Maintains in effect for one year the toll schedule of the Ohio Turnpike Commission that applied to vehicles traveling on the Ohio Turnpike on May 1, 1995 and declares an emergency.

SB 158 PROPERTY TAXES (Greenwood) Requires interest to be paid on amounts of real property taxes that are overpaid or erroneously charged or collected; establishes continuing education requirements for county auditors; explicitly provides for the collection by the county auditor of the transfer fee imposed upon the transferring of deeds into the name of certain public transferees; requires a successor trustee to submit an affidavit to the county auditor to remove a prior trustee from the tax list; requires a trustee to submit an affidavit to the county auditor before the title of real estate can pass from a trust; permits the taxable value of damaged real property to be reduced on a prorated basis according to the time of the year it is damaged; permits money in county real estate assessment funds to be used to pay the expenses of county boards of revision; permits counties to publish a notice announcing the completion and availability of the annual county financial report instead of publishing the report itself; requires liens for environmental clean-up costs incurred by the state to be recorded by the Director of Environmental Protection rather than by county auditors; requires boards of elections, rather than county auditors, to validate certain referendum petitions; requires county auditors and county engineers to jointly adopt land conveyance standards; requires boundary surveys to be submitted for approval to county engineers under certain circumstances; removes county auditors from township records commissions; eliminates county public assistance examining committees; allows a board of county commissioners levying a sales tax to reduce inside millage; and narrows a certain exception from statutory rules governing conflicts of interest of trust fiduciaries.

SB 159 TAX CREDITS (Greenwood) Authorizes municipal corporations to grant real property tax credits to persons who purchase and abate nuisances on tax foreclosed property and prohibits municipal corporations from placing on the tax list the cost of abating a nuisance on property that has been forfeited to the state.

SB 160 BACKGROUND CHECKS (Gillmor) Requires nursing homes, residential care facilities, county and district homes, homes for the aging, adult care facilities, hospice care programs, PASSPORT agencies, and home health agencies to request a criminal records check through the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation of each person under final consideration for employment in a position that involves providing direct care to an older adult, prohibits certain offenders from being employed in those positions, and revises the type C family day-care home pilot project.

SB 161 OHIO TURNPIKE (Zaleski) Creates the Legislative Toll Evaluation Committee to evaluate and either disapprove or recommend for approval by the General Assembly toll increases proposed by the Ohio Turnpike Commission; requires the Commission to send written notice of its meetings and agendas to all members of the General Assembly; and prohibits any person who contributes more than $1,000 to the governor or his campaign committee from participating in any manner in the issuance of bonds or refunding bonds by the Ohio Turnpike.

SB 162 GOVERNMENT REORGANIZATION (Gillmor) Abolishes the Department of Industrial Relations and transfers its duties to the Departments of Commerce and Natural Resources, the Bureau of Workers' Compensation, and the Bureau of Employment Services; creates a Division of Financial Institutions and a Division of Liquor Control within the Department of Commerce; transfers plumbing inspection functions of the Department of Health and the Travel Agents Promoters Registration Program in the Office of the Secretary of State to the Department of Commerce; transfers the Emergency Management Agency, law enforcement functions of the Department of Liquor Control, transportation inspection functions of the Public Utilities Commission, and food stamp trafficking enforcement functions of the Department of Human Services to the Department of Public Safety; abolishes the Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Commission and the State Private Investigator and Security Guard Provider Advisory Commission; authorizes the reimbursement of landowners for the cost of plugging abandoned oil and gas wells located on their property under certain circumstances; provides reimbursements for the sale of National Guard armories to local governments; and makes other changes relative to the reorganization of various state programs.

SB 163 INMATE HEALTH CARE (Latell) Provides for the filing and payment of health insurance claims of persons who are covered by health insurance and confined in local jails, workhouses, and correctional facilities and of persons otherwise under the custody of a law enforcement officer.

SB 164 REAL ESTATE LAW (Watts) Revises the Real Estate Brokers Law, including changes to provide statutory standards and penalties governing the agency relationships and duties of real estate agents; requires the Ohio Real Estate Commission to adopt rules that establish disciplinary sanctions to be applied to violations of the Real Estate Brokers Law; establishes staggered deadlines for license renewal applications; adopts guidelines to permit organizations that sponsor continuing education classes to offer members a fee reduction; limits the age 70 exemption from the continuing education requirements; enables real estate licensees engaged in the management of property to exercise signatory authority for withdrawals from property management accounts; and enables property management accounts to earn interest.

SB 165 INSPECTOR GENERAL (J. Johnson) Establishes a procedure by which the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court appoints the Inspector General.

SB 166 OMVI PENALTY (B. Johnson) Classifies a fourth or subsequent state OMVI conviction as a felony of the fourth degree and a subsequent conviction of operating a vehicle during a period of license suspension for an OMVI conviction as a felony of the fourth degree.

SB 167 SCHOOL LICENSE PLATES (Long) Authorizes the issuance of special school district license plates and creates the School District License Plate fund.

SB 168 CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS (Zaleski) Prohibits state agencies from awarding to a financial service provider a contract relating to the issuance of bonds or notes or from awarding to an underwriter a contract for a new issuance of bonds or notes by a negotiated sale if the service provider or underwriter has made campaign contributions to candidates for statewide elective office; voids such contracts if those campaign contributions are made during the three-year period after the contract is awarded; requires underwriters and financial service providers to file with the Ohio Department of Commerce a copy of the most recent Form G-37 they have filed with the federal Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board.

SB 169 EMERGENCY TELECOMMUNICATIONS (Howard) Provides qualified civil immunity to certified emergency service providers and telecommunicators and creates the Emergency Service Telecommunications Board to establish minimum standards for the provision of emergency service telecommunications to accredit instructional programs and certify emergency service telecommunicators.

SB 170 CLASS ACTIONS (B. Johnson) Specifies circumstances under which an order granting or denying a provisional remedy is a final appealable order.

SB 171 CIVIL LAWSUITS (B. Johnson) Eliminates the 60-day limit on the computation of postjudgment interest in civil actions against the state in the Court of Claims if the action is not based on tortious conduct and if the state appeals the judgment and does not prevail on appeal.

SB 172 WATER SYSTEMS (Schafrath) Revives, in part, the requirement that the Director of Transportation provide for the relocation of facilities of certain water supply systems.

SB 173 AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS (Gaeth) Relative to a tort action for disparagement of a perishable agricultural product.

SB 174 LICENSE PLATE (Long) Authorizes the issuance of a Children's Trust license plate and creates Children's Trust License Plate Trust Fund.

SB 175 LAKE ERIE (Greenwood) Defines the natural shoreline of Lake Erie insofar as Sandusky Bay is a part of it.

SB 176 CAPITAL GAIN DEDUCTION (Kearns) Grants a personal income tax deduction for investment earnings and capital gains on stock issued by corporations with an Ohio presence and grants a deduction from the value of a taxable estate equal to the value of such stock included in the estate.

SB 177 UNCLAIMED FUNDS (Horn) Establishes a limit of $200 on the amount of administrative fees that the Director of Commerce must retain from an unclaimed funds claim.

SB 178 VETERANS PROGRAM (Long) Requires the Adjutant General to establish the Silver Veteran Card program.

SB 179 ELECTION BALLOTS (McLin) Provides for a ballot choice designated as "none of the above."

SB 180 DEBT COLLECTION (Cupp) Allows creditors to file actions as joint creditors for the collection of debts, allows a collection agency to take assignments of debts from creditors and allows a collection agency to commence a civil action in its own name for the collection of assigned debts.

SB 181 TORT ACTIONS (Cupp) Prescribes a new statute of repose relative to tort actions arising from defective and unsafe conditions of improvements to real property.

SB 182 VEHICLE DEALERS (Oelslager) Abolishes the motor vehicle wholesaler's permit; makes other changes in the law governing motor vehicle dealers; and allows owners of repair garages or storage facilities to obtain a certificate of title for an unclaimed motor vehicle valued at less than $2,500.

SB 183 DIABETES COVERAGE (Drake) Requires certain health care policies, contracts and plans to provide benefits for specified equipment and supplies for the treatment of diabetes and for diabetes self-management education.

SB 184 ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES (Long) Provides for the regulation of electric cooperatives by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.

SB 185 RURAL DEVELOPMENT (Long) Creates the rural site development and speculative building programs and the Rural Development Fund in the Department of Development to promote economic development in rural areas.

SB 186 EMPLOYER LICENSING (Cupp) Requires professional employers to be licensed.

SB 187 CLINICAL LAB LICENSURE (Drake) Creates the Clinical Laboratory Science Board and requires licensure of clinical laboratory science practitioners.

SB 188 TAX CREDITS (Gillmor) Allows credits against the corporation franchise and state income taxes for an taxpayer that purchases new manufacturing machinery and equipment; expressly permits agreements whereby school districts receive payments in lieu of taxes on public recreational facilities exempted from taxation; permits a board of county commissioners currently levying a tax on alcoholic beverages and cigarettes to reimpose such a tax effective upon expiration of the existing tax with or without voter approval; allows agreements between counties, municipal corporations, port authorities, and other parties for the construction or renovation of sports facilities; exempts securities issued to finance certain sports facilities from county and municipal debt limits; permits a board of county commissioners, with voter approval, to reduce the rate of a sales and use tax for transit purposes and simultaneously increase the rate of such a tax by the same extent for the purpose of constructing or renovating a sports facility; permits a convention facilities authority to levy a tax on alcoholic beverages and cigarettes subject to voter approval; prohibits any municipal corporation that levies a tax on motor vehicle parking from levying a tax at a rate greater than eight percent; and declares an emergency.

SB 189 MORTGAGE LOAN LAW (Dix) Makes revisions in the Mortgage Loan Law and exempts certain persons from licensure under the Insurance Premium Finance Company Law.

SB 190 SECURITIES LAW (Dix) Authorizes the Treasurer of State to designate a private entity as the State Information Depository in accordance with federal securities law, requires the State Information Depository to maintain certain information pertaining to municipal securities offerings; and specifies that the State Information Depository is not a state agency or instrumentality.

SB 191 RECREATIONAL THERAPY (Drake) Creates the Recreational Therapy Board and requires the licensure of recreational therapy consultants, recreational therapists and recreational therapy assistants.

SB 192 DETENTION (Dix) Prevents alleged or adjudicated abused, neglected or dependent children from being placed in secure detention facilities and limits the period of time an alleged unruly child may remain in a secure detention facility.

SB 193 SIMULCASTS (Carnes) Authorizes the State Racing Commission to approve designated simulcast days between December 15 and the following March 15 at certain thoroughbred race tracks, in which all races are simulcast from facilities in other states.

SB 194 HAZARDOUS WASTE (Dix) Revises the requirements and procedures governing modifications of hazardous waste facility installation and operation permits.

SB 195 PEACE OFFICERS (Watts) Raises by one degree the level of an offense if the offender causes physical harm to or the death of a peace officer in committing the offense.

SB 196 FRIVOLOUS LAWSUITS (Watts) Establishes procedures for handling a civil action commenced against the state or a state employee in a court of common pleas by an inmate and to broaden the costs and expenses that may be awarded for frivolous conduct in a civil action.

SB 197 INDUSTRIAL PARKS (Carnes) Creates the rural industrial park loan program and the Rural Industrial Park Loan Fund in the Department of Development to promote economic development in rural areas, makes an appropriation and terminates the provisions of this act on January 1, 1999.

SB 198 COUNTY SALES TAX (Long) Allows a board of county commissioners of a county that is currently levying a county sales tax to adopt, at any time during which the county sales tax is in effect, a resolution reducing the rate of any tax the county is currently levying for current expenses.

SB 199 POSTNATAL CARE (Drake) Requires health maintenance organizations, sickness and accident insurers, public employers, and components of the state's Medicaid program that offer benefits for maternity care to provide coverage of minimum amounts of inpatient care for a mother and her newborn child, requires coverage of certain services provided as follow-up care, and authorizes the use of tests to detect phenylketonuria in infants who are less than 48 hours old.

SB 200 WORKERS' COMPENSATION (Herington) Permits the Administrator of the Bureau of Workers' Compensation to give discounts on premium rates for employers who establish an employee-management safety committee and implement official recommendations of that safety committee.

SB 201 DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE (Herington) Requires employers receiving state economic development assistance to undergo a workplace safety inspection by the Bureau of Workers' Compensation's Division of Safety and Hygiene.

SB 202 STUDENT DRIVER LICENSE (Watts) Prohibits issuance of temporary instruction permits, driver's licenses and commercial driver's licenses to certain individuals under nineteen years of age who have not passed all portions of the ninth grade proficiency test.

SB 203 EROSION FUND (Boggs) Establishes the Lake Erie Erosion Hazard Area Low-Interest Loan Fund to provide low-interest loans to certain owners of dwellings within Lake Erie's erosion hazard area for the purchase and installation of erosion control devices.

SB 204 LAND CONVEYANCE (Boggs) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate in Ashtabula County to Dillon International, Inc., authorizes the conveyance of real estate in Lake County to the Lake County Board of County Commissioners, and authorizes the termination of the lease of that real estate in Lake County from the Lake County Board of County Commissioners.

SB 205 SCHOOL EMPLOYEES (Boggs) Entitles certain temporary nonteaching employees of school districts, other than city school districts, to certain amounts of sick leave only upon becoming regular employees of such districts or upon becoming employed by city school districts or public entities other than school districts.

SB 206 SCHOOL EMPLOYEE LEAVE (Boggs) Prohibits employers of 25 or more employees from disciplining, discharging or discriminating against an employee who, subject to giving reasonable notice, takes up to 40 hours of leave annually to participate in the school activities of a child of the employee or a child in the custody or guardianship of the employee.

SB 207 DAIRY COMMITTEE (Drake) Establishes the Ohio Dairy Industry Committee to monitor implementation of the Ohio Dairy Industry Strategic Plan and foster communication and cooperation among the Department of Agriculture, the Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, the various segments of the dairy industry in this state and ancillary industries; terminates the committee on December 31, 1999 and makes an appropriation.

SB 208 DENTAL HYGIENE (Gillmor) Allows a dentist to authorize a dental hygienist to provide dental hygiene services when the dentist is not physically present if certain conditions are met.

SB 209 PERINATAL LICENSING (Drake) Licenses perinatal units and freestanding birth centers and establishes perinatal regions.

SB 210 INCOME TAX CREDIT (Sheerer) Grants a nonrefundable credit against the state income tax equal to the amount of municipal income taxes paid for the benefit of a school district.

SB 211 LOTTERY COMMISSION (Nein) Prohibits persons convicted of specified crimes from being employed by the State Lottery Commission; permits the Director of the Lottery Commission to establish additional prohibited vehicular offenses for Commission employees; prevents specified persons from contracting with the Commission, requires the Director to appoint an assistant director and regional managers, requires bonding of lottery sales agents; prohibits persons under 18 years of age from attempting to purchase lottery tickets; creates a penalty of a minor misdemeanor when specified persons attempt to claim a lottery prize and makes other changes in the State Lottery Law.

SB 212 SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS (Dix) Permits school districts to terminate a school bus driver, or to remove a school bus driver from driving service and reassign the driver to other duties, if the bus driver is refused motor vehicle insurance coverage and exempts such matters from collective bargaining.

SB 213 STATE SEAL (Ray) Specifies that the Coat of Arms and the Great Seal of the State of Ohio contain a cluster of thirteen rays and requires that any official seal of a public office acquired after March 1, 2003, contain the new official coat of arms.

SB 214 TELEPHONE SOLICITORS (Carnes) Requires certain telephone solicitors to obtain a certificate of registration from the Attorney General, establishes certain requirements and prohibited practices for those telephone solicitors; provides for civil and criminal actions and penalties for violations; and renames the Consumer Frauds and Crimes Section in the office of the Attorney General the Consumer Protection Division.

SB 215 UNIVERSITY TRUSTEES (Furney) Requires that approximately half of the people appointed by the governor to serve on boards of trustees of state institutions of higher education be women.

SB 216 TELEPHONE SERVICE (Boggs) Authorizes a board of county commissioners to establish extended area service within the county at flat rates prescribed by the Public Utilities Commission and subject to the payment of compensation for specified revenue losses incurred by the affected local exchanges.

SB 217 INTERSTATE BANKING (Dix) Addresses rules relating to interstate banking, including interstate acquisition of, and agency authority for, Ohio banks, savings and loan associations, and savings banks, and revises the bank examination frequency guidelines.

SB 218 CAMPUS POLICE (Herington) Permits a state university or college to enter into an agreement to provide police services to another state university or college.

SB 219 RAPE (Horn) Redefines sexual conduct to include the insertion of any body part or object into the vaginal cavity of another and merges the offense of felonious sexual penetration into the offense of rape.

SB 220 CONTROLLED DRUGS (Dix) Excepts from the Schedule V controlled substances schedule a drug product containing a limited quantity of ephedrine derived from the plant genus Ephedra.

SB 221 RURAL/AGRICULTURAL PROPERTY (Cupp) Fosters the protection of private property, especially rural, agricultural property, by requiring governmental agencies to utilize guidelines promulgated by the Attorney General in considering all governmental actions that may result in a taking of property requiring compensation under the Ohio Constitution and the United States Constitution and requires the preparation of written assessments of such governmental actions.

SB 222 FORGED DOCUMENTS (Herington) Establishes the offenses of forging educational or government documents and of using or trafficking in forged educational or government documents.

SB 223 SOCIAL WORKERS (Kearns) Revises the laws regarding the Counselor and Social Worker Board.

SB 224 ESTATE TAXES (Long) Excludes from the value of a decedent's estate for taxation purposes the value of annuities and other payments to the extent contributed by the decedent's employer by reason of employment.

SB 225 SCHOOL BOARDS (J. Johnson) Allows large city school districts to have appointed rather than elected boards of education and declares an emergency.

SB 226 STUDENT TRANSPORTATION (Snyder) Allows certain nonpublic schools to use church buses to transport students to school functions and establishes church bus identification standards.

SB 227 OPEN MEETINGS/RECORDS (Cupp) Closes to the public certain records and meetings of a private nonprofit organization that carries out the powers and duties of a county economic development office.

SB 228 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION (Boggs) Increases and indexes for inflation the income levels used to determine eligibility for the homestead and manufactured home exemptions.

SB 229 EYEGLASS TAX EXEMPTION (Boggs) Exempts from retail sales taxation the purchases of prescription eyeglasses and prescription contact lenses.

SB 230 TEACHER LICENSES/SCHOOLNET (Snyder) Requires the State Board of Education to issue educator licenses instead of teachers' certificates; requires teacher education programs to ensure that program graduates are skilled in integrating educational technology in the instruction of children; permits certain local school districts to enter into certain administrative agreements with educational service centers; allows the Board of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology to license speech-language pathologists and audiologists practicing in schools and state agencies and waives, under specified conditions, the examination and educational requirements and initial licensure fee for these individuals; establishes the Technology Advisory Committee and the Office of Information, Learning, and Technology Services, and places the administration of SchoolNet and SchoolNet Plus programs under that office.

SB 231 EDUCATION BOARD VOTES (Boggs) Requires the State Board of Education to record votes on certain resolutions using roll calls of its members and, upon the request of a member, to also require the Board to record the votes on any other resolution or motion using a roll call.

SB 232 CONCRETE INSTALLERS (Kucinich) Requires a person who tests or installs concrete to be certified by the American Concrete Institute or other similar national organization.

SB 233 FINANCIAL INSTITUTION CHARGES (Kucinich) Prohibits a bank, savings and loan association, savings bank, or credit union from charging a fee for transferring a customer's utility bill payment to the utility provider.

SB 234 TICKET SCALPING (Kucinich) Creates the offense of ticket scalping.

SB 235 PRIVATIZATION (Kucinich) Requires that a private employer that performs functions formerly performed by a public agency provide at least the same level of compensation and employee benefits as the public agency provided and observe any collective bargaining agreement that the public agency entered into, and prescribes a penalty for violations.

SB 236 EPA PERMITS (Kucinich) Establishes a local option regarding the issuance of permits by the Ohio EPA director and the Hazardous Waste Facility Board.

SB 237 LOBBYIST REGULATION (Kucinich) Prohibits legislative agents and executive agency lobbyists from being engaged by the same employer for more than four consecutive years.

SB 238 INSURANCE SUPERINTENDENT (Kucinich) Requires that the Superintendent of Insurance be elected in nonpartisan elections.

SB 239 FETUS DEATH (Nein) Expands the definition of person that applies to offenses in the Criminal Code to also include, subject to certain exceptions for legal abortions and acts or omissions of a pregnant woman, viable unborn humans, to include the unlawful termination of another's pregnancy within the state's homicide statutes and includes causing harm to another's unborn within the state's assault and menacing statutes.

SB 240 BOXING COMMISSION (Schafrath) Abolishes the State Boxing Commission, creates the Ohio Athletic Commission to regulate the sports of boxing, wrestling, kick boxing, karate, and tough man or tough guy contests; levies a five per cent tax on the gross proceeds from ticket sales to events involving these sports; makes other changes in the State Boxing Law, and declares an emergency.

SB 241 SALES REP CONTRACTS (Drake) Regulates contracts for the solicitation by a sales representative of product orders whether or not the place of business of the manufacturer or distributor of the product is in Ohio, permits the contracts to be in writing and contain certain information including the rate of commissions and the time for their payment, defines "good cause" for purposes of terminating or failing to renew a contract, specifies that exemplary damages awarded upon failure to timely pay commissions due "equals" three times the amount of the commissions owed.

SB 242 SPEED LIMITS (Horn) Establishes a speed limit of 65 mph on all interstate freeways and state freeways that are constructed to interstate freeway standards and provides a procedure whereby the speed limit on a portion of such a freeway can be reduced to 55 mph.

SB 243 PREVAILING WAGE (Snyder) Repeals the Prevailing Wage Law.

SB 244 SEPTIC SYSTEMS (Snyder) Requires installers of household sewage disposal systems and septage haulers to be registered by local boards of health, requires property on whose property such systems are to be installed, altered or operated to obtain a permit from those boards and requires those boards to provide for periodic basic system assessments of such systems installed on or after the act's effective date.

SB 245 TAX LEVIES (Finan) Provides that an election on a tax levy increasing property taxes beyond the 10-mill limitation that is held on the day of a presidential primary election needs the approval of only a majority, rather than 55%, of the electors voting on the levy and declares an emergency.

SB 246 DRUG SALES (Drake) Prohibits explicitly the sale or delivery of a drug after its expiration date, authorizes the possession of hypodermics and insulin for education purposes, and makes corrections in the laws pertaining to pure food and drugs..

SB 247 HUNTING (Gaeth) Authorizes grandchildren to hunt on their grandparents' property without obtaining a hunting license.

SB 248 PROPERTY TAXES (Kucinich) Ends the authority of municipal corporations, counties and townships to grant property tax exemptions.

SB 249 BUS DRIVERS (Kucinich) Permits school bus drivers to receive unemployment compensation benefits between school terms.

SB 250 GOLD STAR (Watts) Designates the last Sunday in September "Gold Star Mothers Day."

SB 251 SPEED LIMIT (Oelslager) Maintains on certain highways the 55- or 65-mph speed limits established for those freeways prior to October 1, 1995, provides a procedure whereby the speed limit on a portion of such a freeway can be changed, and declares an emergency.

SB 252 MANDATORY SENTENCE (Herington) Requires the imposition of a mandatory prison term of three, five, or ten years upon a person who possesses or uses a dangerous ordnance of a specified type while committing an offense.

SB 253 PARK DISTRICTS (Long) Requires that when a metropolitan park district owns or acquires land in an outlying county, an additional member be appointed to the district's board of park commissioners from that county.

SB 254 HIGHWAY TRAFFIC LANES (Latell) Earmarks funds made available under the Ohio Constitution for the addition of traffic lanes for animal-drawn vehicles on either side of state routes in Amish communities.

SB 255 DRUNK DRIVING (Latell) Provides that if a person pleads guilty to or is convicted of an OMVI offense in another state, that conviction counts as a prior OMVI conviction for purposes of the OMVI laws of this state.

SB 256 UNINSURED MOTORISTS (Ray) Modifies Ohio's uninsured and underinsured motorists law by limiting the insured's right to recover when the owner or operator of the uninsured motor vehicle has an immunity; allowing commercial vehicle insurance to be issued without the offer of uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage; requiring proof of physical contact to recover for injuries caused by an unidentified motorist; making coverage excess over other sources of recovery; limiting the use of default judgments against insurers; and by making modifications to the scope and coverage under the uninsured and underinsured motorists law.

SB 257 PUBLIC WORKS COMMISSION (Oelslager) Modifies the Ohio Public Works Commission Law in part to reflect the adoption of Section 2m of Article VIII of the Ohio Constitution.

SB 258 RESENTENCING (Carnes) Specifies a procedure for resentencing certain offenders whose sentences of death are vacated on appeal and specifies procedures for appointing counsel for postconviction relief petitioners who are under a sentence of death.

SB 259 CODE CORRECTIONS (Drake) Corrects errors in the enrollment of Am. Sub. HB218 of the 121st General Assembly that provides certain health care professionals and workers and nonprofit shelter or health care facilities with qualified immunities from civil liability for providing free health care services, eliminates certain patient notification requirements for a physician or podiatrist who provides volunteer services in nonprofit shelters and facilities, modifies the laws pertaining to issuance of volunteer's certificates to retired physicians, maintains in statute the current x-ray equipment inspection fees for dentists, physicians, and chiropractors, modifies the membership of the Radiation Advisory Council, allows two or more physicians to make simultaneous applications for approval to supervise physician assistants, clarifies the authority of physician assistants to administer regional anesthetics, clarifies circumstances under which the State Medical Board is not required to hold a hearing, revises the definition of "athletic training" and defines "athletic injury" for purposes of the laws regulating athletic trainers, and authorizes the Department of Health to establish fee schedules for the Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers and requires applicants for the program to provide their Social Security numbers.

SB 260 CPA EXAM PAPERS (Ray) Eliminates the requirement that CPA examination papers be available for inspection or copying and declares an emergency.

SB 261 BALLOT ISSUES (Nein) Requires that local questions and issues be rotated on the ballot beginning in calendar year 1997; prevents a person who seeks party nomination to an office or position at a primary election as a write-in candidate from being a candidate for office at the next general election by nominating petition or as a write-in candidate; changes the time within which the appropriate committee of a political party may appoint a person to fill a vacancy when an officeholder dies or resigns; makes changes in the law that prohibits state and county elected officers and candidates for state and county elective offices to solicit contributions from employees; and changes the number of signatures required on a petition to submit to the electorate the question of whether the rate of a property tax levy should be decreased in a political subdivision.

SB 262 REAL ESTATE TITLES (Yarbrough) Modifies requirements for recording of the content of affidavits of facts relating to the title of real estate and makes other changes in the law governing the transfer of, and title to, real estate.

SB 263 JUDGE DISQUALIFICATION (Yarbrough) Modifies the procedures for filing and determining an affidavit of disqualification regarding a judge of a court of appeals, court of common pleas, probate court, municipal court, or county court.

SB 264 CAPITAL REAPPROPRIATIONS (Ray) Amends Sec. 45 and 177 of Am. Sub. HB117 of the 121st General Assembly to alter the fund structure for school building program assistance, modifies the requirements for certain institutions of higher education to administer their capital projects locally, and makes capital reappropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 1998.

SB 265 EMPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS (Suhadolnik) Prohibits a political subdivision from requiring its employees to reside in any specific area of the state.

SB 266 SALES/INCOME TAXES (Finan) Specifies the taxable party for sales tax purposes in certain transactions involving printed matter that is distributed free of charge and changes the extent to which school districts and municipal corporations must overlap in order for them to share revenue from a municipal income tax..

SB 267 SANITARY DISTRICTS (Drake) Requires prior approval of the proposed annual budget and the issuance of bonds by the advisory council of a sanitary district organized wholly for the reduction of populations of biting arthropods, establishes a right of referendum on the dissolution of such a sanitary district and provides for the payment of expenses, retirement of any bonds and distribution of any assets of such a sanitary district after its dissolution.

SB 268 MINE SAFETY (Carnes) Creates the position of and establishes the qualifications for Mine Safety Director in the Division of Mines and Reclamation in the Department of Natural Resources.

SB 269 SENTENCING/JUDGESHIP (B. Johnson) Conforms certain newly enacted or amended laws to the new sentencing and corrections law; makes clarifying and technical changes relative to the provisions criminal sentencing law; adjusts the penalty structure that applies to a person convicted of aggravated murder and a specification of an aggravating circumstance who is not sentenced to death in light of certain sentencing changes; eliminates from the offense of falsification a prohibition that pertains to the provision of false information to newspapers; expands the offense of insurance fraud to also include fraudulent actions taken regarding the Ohio Fair Plan Underwriting Association; re-enacts an offense pertaining to kickbacks, bribes, or rebates in return for referring a person for health care services or goods paid for by a health care insurer that was repealed by Am. Sub. SB2 of the 121st General Assembly; adds a new judge to the Domestic Relations Division to the Court of Common Pleas of Franklin County; and makes other changes to the criminal law provisions enacted by Am. Sub. SB2 of the 121st General Assembly.

SB 270 PASSENGER RAIL SERVICE (Ray) Requires liability coverage of persons operating passenger rail service on a right-of-way owned by another.

SB 271 SCIENCE SCHOLARSHIPS (Herington) Establishes a program of funding science scholarships at state universities and makes an appropriation.

SB 272 GIFT DISCLOSURE (Zaleski) Requires disclosure by General Assembly members of gifts from the same source that, when aggregated during a calendar year, exceed $75 in the case of a source who is not a legislative agent and $25 in the case of a source who is a legislative agent; prohibits the receipt by General Assembly members of gifts from a legislative agent that, when aggregated during a calendar year, exceed $75; and requires the reporting of certain financial transactions between legislative agents and General Assembly members or their immediate family members.

SB 273 TRAFFIC OFFENSES (Boggs) Creates the offense of failing to merge into a merging zone at a construction zone, permits a law enforcement officer to utilize a photographic camera or videotape camera to record the image of any motor vehicle that fails to merge into a merging zone and send the owner of such a vehicle a citation, ticket or summons charging the person with the offense of failing to merge into a merging zone, and permits a law enforcement officer who is utilizing such a camera to utilize the camera and a radar unit to identify motor vehicles that are exceeding the speed limit and send the owner of such a vehicle a citation, ticket or summons charging the person with a speeding offense.

SB 274 FUNERAL LAW (Dix) Makes changes in the Embalmers and Funeral Directors Law and regulates crematories.

SB 275 DRUG SALES (Dix) Requires manufacturers of dangerous drugs to sell such drugs to wholesale distributors, terminal distributors and mail-order distributors of dangerous drugs on the same terms and conditions.

SB 276 SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY (Kearns) Enacts a comprehensive law for the registration of persons who commit sexually violent offenses and for the notification of victims and certain members of the public regarding the place of residence of sexually violent predators and repeat sexually violent offenders and declares an emergency.

SB 277 TRADEMARK LAW/PUBLIC RECORDS (Watts) Creates the offense of trademark counterfeiting, specifies that offense as theft offense and as a corrupt activity for purposes of the Corrupt Activity Law, provides for the forfeiture of goods and certain personal property associated with that offense, and establishes an "intellectual property" exemption and a public institution of higher education "donor profile" exemption from the Public Records Law.

SB 278 TEACHER BENEFITS (Snyder) Prohibits a member of the State Teachers Retirement System or School Employees Retirement System from receiving a disability benefit on certificate revocation or contract termination due to sexual activity with a student, requires reporting of the sexual activity to the State Board of Education and declares an emergency.

SB 279 STUDENT CONDUCT (Nein) Authorizes the boards of education of school districts to adopt certain policies related to student conduct, dress and discipline.

SB 280 PRIMARY ELECTION (Burch) Changes the date of the primary election held in presidential election years from the third Tuesday in March to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May.

SB 281 POLICE ASSAULT (Carnes) Refutes the decision of the First District Court of Appeals of Ohio, Hamilton County, in State v. Wilson insofar as the decision failed to take judicial notice of the harmonized version of Sec. 2903 as amended by SB116 and HB571 of the 120th General Assembly regarding felony assault of a police officer acting in the line of duty.

SB 282 ORPHAN SCHOLARSHIPS (Watts) Makes changes to the War Orphan Scholarship program and declares an emergency.

SB 283 PRISONER MONITORING (B. Johnson) Repeals sections three, four and five of HB725 of the 119th General Assembly, which permits the state to grant certain prisoners electronically monitored early release.

SB 284 INSURANCE REGULATION (Gillmor) Provides for the establishment, operation and regulation of health insuring corporations; repeals the law governing prepaid dental plan organizations, medical care operations, health care corporations and health maintenance organizations and makes other changes.

SB 285 INSANITY PLEA (Yarbrough) Modifies the procedures that are used in determining whether a criminal defendant is incompetent to stand trial or not guilty by reason of insanity and the procedures that apply after a criminal defendant has been found incompetent to stand trial or not guilty by reason of insanity.

SB 286 JUDGE PAY (Yarbrough) Modifies certain provisions pertaining to the compensation of the judges of the courts of common pleas and makes an appropriation.

SB 287 HIGHWAY CONTRACTORS (Dix) Authorizes the director of the Ohio Department of Transportation to make changes in the process of qualifying contractors, requires the director to establish a Prequalification Review Board within the Department of Transportation and authorizes the department to establish various pilot projects relative to construction bidding and projects.

SB 288 LAND CONVEYANCE (Finan) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate in Warren County to the Shaker Run Golf Club in exchange for other real estate.

SB 289 AVIATION WEEK (Kearns) Creates Ohio Aviation and Aerospace History Education Week in December.

SB 290 DRUG SAMPLES (Gaeth) Provides that the use tax does not apply to prescription drugs distributed to physicians free of charge.

SB 291 CHILD CARE WEEK (Gillmor) Designates the week of April 19 as "Child Care Worker Appreciation Week in Ohio."

SB 292 CHILD SUPPORT (Suhadolnik) Permits child support enforcement agencies to impose standardized collection costs on obligors in default under child support orders given for collection to collection agents and allows the publication and distribution of posters displaying child support obligors who are delinquent in their support payments to continue beyond Oct. 1, 1996; and revises the law governing best interest determinations in contested adoptions.

SB 293 GOVERNMENT RESTRUCTURING (Gillmor) Addresses matters associated with Am. Sub. SB162 of the 121st General Assembly and makes other changes relative to the reorganization of various state agency functions.

SB 294 SCHOOL CONTRACTS (Cupp) Makes certain changes in law governing employment contracts boards of education enter into with assistant school superintendents, principals, assistant principals and certain other administrators other than school superintendents.

SB 295 WATERCRAFT REGULATION (Gillmor) Revises the statutes governing the operation and regulation of watercraft.

SB 296 SOLID WASTE FEES (Long) Requires the solid waste management committee of a county or joint solid waste management district to levy fees on the disposal of solid wastes generated outside the boundaries of the district, but inside this state, at a rate not more than the rate charged for the disposal of solid wastes generated outside the boundaries of this state.

SB 297 HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS (White) Prohibits a school district or high school maintained by a school district from belonging to an organization that regulates interscholastic athletics or sponsors or sanctions a statewide interscholastic basketball championship tournament program, or from participating in any games or events sponsored or sanctioned by such an organization, unless the organization's rules governing its statewide high school basketball final and semifinal championship tournament games within each division and for each gender contain specified provisions allowing appeals of certain decisions of referees and other tournament officials made during the final two minutes of regulation play and the final two minutes of each period of overtime play.

SB 298 DIALYSIS DRUGS (Drake) Exempts the sale of peritoneal dialysis solutions from the requirement that registered pharmacists sell the drugs and control their pharmacies and permits retail sellers to sell peritoneal dialysis solutions under specified conditions.

SB 299 PRECINCT BOUNDARIES (Cupp) Generally requires boards of elections, by April 1, 2000, to use U.S. census geography to determine precinct boundaries and requires boards on and after that date to report precinct boundary changes to the Secretary of State.

SB 300 ORGAN DONORS (Drake) Creates the Second Chance Trust Fund to promote organ, tissue and eye donation; requires the Registrar of Motor Vehicles and deputy registrars to request one-dollar donations to the fund from applicants for licenses and identification cards; establishes the Second Chance Trust Fund Board to approve the development of projects and the distribution of funds; and abolishes the board on Dec. 31, 1999.

SB 301 SCHOOL DISTRICT LINES (Sheerer) Changes the extent to which school districts and municipal corporations must overlap in order for them to share revenue from a municipal income tax.

SB 302 INEFFECTIVE COUNSEL (Carnes) Requires the Attorney General to annually prepare and file with specified individuals a capital case status report and prohibits the appointment of an attorney found to have provided ineffective assistance of counsel in a capital case or in an appeal of a capital case in which a sentence of death was imposed to represent an indigent defendant in a similar type of case or appeal.

SB 303 ATTORNEY FEES (Boggs) Permits a court to award attorney's fees to a plaintiff in a civil action against the parents of a minor whose acts caused certain harm or damage to the person or property of the plaintiff.

SB 304 IRA DISTRIBUTIONS (Kucinich) Provides that individual retirement account distributions are not included in total income for purposes of determining eligibility for the homestead and manufactured home exemptions.

SB 305 SANITARY DISTRICTS (White) Abolishes special sanitary districts.

SB 306 TELEPHONE REGULATION (Finan) Makes changes in procedures and authority pertaining to an application for alternative rate regulation of basic local exchange service or another eligible public telecommunications service, vests the Public Utilities Commission with authority under the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 and declares an emergency.

SB 307 SEX EDUCATION (Schafrath) Requires public school venereal disease education to emphasize abstinence from sexual activity.

SB 308 VEHICLE SEIZURE (Finan) Requires a 48-hour period of seizure for a motor vehicle used in the commission of or an attempt to commit soliciting and provides for the forfeiture of a motor vehicle used a second time in the commission of or attempt to commit soliciting.

SB 309 CHILD ENDANGERING (McLin) Increases by one degree the offense category of an offense if it is committed in the presence of a minor child, increases the penalty for endangering children under certain circumstances, requires psychological counseling for offenders who commit endangering children under certain circumstances, and requires a first offender convicted of endangering children under certain circumstances to wait seven years before applying to have the record of conviction sealed.

SB 310 BUDGET/SCHOOL MANAGEMENT (Ray) Amends sections of the biennial budget act (HB117) and modifies the authorizations and conditions established for the operation and administration of certain state programs, provides special commission for the supervision or management and control of school districts determined to be fiscally unsound; and makes supplemental appropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 1997.

SB 311 WEAPON POSSESSION (Kucinich) Creates the presumption that a person who uses a deadly weapon while committing a felony offense of violence intends to cause the death of the victim of the offense.

SB 312 TAXPAYER NOTICE (Long) Provides expedited procedures for, and increased notice to taxpayers of, mandated increases in valuation of real property.

SB 313 EMISSIONS TESTING (Herington) Provides a procedure for the electors of a county to vote to terminate the enhanced motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program in that county.

SB 314 WORKERS' COMP (Horn) Permits public employers to become self-insuring employers for purposes of the Workers' Compensation law; permits certain associations with a membership consisting of public employers to qualify for self-insuring status; requires the administrator of Workers' Compensation to adopt rules regarding third-party administrators in self-insured programs; changes the number of votes necessary for the Self-Insuring Employers Evaluation Board; revokes an employer's self-insured status; and requires the Bureau to pay claims of a defaulting self-insuring public employer within thirty days of the default.

SB 315 MEMORIAL HIGHWAY (Suhadolnik) Designates State Route 94 the "94th Infantry Division Memorial Highway."

SB 316 MUNICIPAL WATER (Yarbrough) Allows a municipal corporation to transfer to its general fund, for economic development purposes, certain moneys collected from municipal water customers outside the municipal corporation.

SB 317 AIRPORT DISTRICTS (Yarbrough) Authorizes the Chief of the Division of Aviation to designate and regulate territory surrounding certain airports as airport district zones to ensure that land use in the area is compatible with the operation of the airports.

SB 318 WATER QUALITY (Boggs) Removes the requirement that the director of Environmental Protection establish an antidegradation policy in accordance with specific statutory principles and requires the director to adopt an antidegradation rule that is identical to the rule in existence prior to the enactment of that section.

SB 319 TOBACCO SALES (Furney) Sanctions a retail dealer's cigarette license on a second or subsequent offense of illegal distribution of cigarettes or other tobacco products.

SB 320 LIBRARY TAX NOTES (Ray) Provides that when a voter-approved library tax is levied for a specific permanent improvement or class of improvements, notes may be issued in anticipation of the revenue to be collected over a ten-year period instead of a five-year period.

SB 321 BANKRUPTCY EXEMPTIONS (Boggs) Increases the amounts of certain property interests exempt from execution, garnishment, attachment, or sale to satisfy a judgment or order and exempt in bankruptcy proceedings, similarly exempts certain small life insurance policies, generally exempts listed property interests from the imposition of a judgment lien, creates a presumption relative to the purpose of a deposit of assets in certain retirement accounts, annuities, or plans, and clarifies the applicability of listed property interests in bankruptcy proceedings.

SB 322 STUDENT AID COMMISSION (Dix) Transfers certain programmatic responsibilities of the Ohio Student Aid Commission to the Ohio Board of Regents; creates the Governor's Program on Employment Initiatives; modifies the state income tax treatment of income from tuition credits sold by the Ohio Tuition Trust Authority; creates the Ohio School Net Telecommunity Fund; makes certain modifications in the law creating the State Infrastructure Bank; eliminates the provision of law declaring a transportation improvement district to be an instrumentality of the state; extends until June 30, 1997 the date by which the Task Force on the Enforcement of the Financial Responsibility Laws of Ohio is to present its report; creates in the Rehabilitation Services Commission the Governor's program on Employment Initiatives; provides for the local administration of certain capital project contracts; modifies the definition of "trust business"; delays the application of the Trust Company law enacted by Am.Sub.HB 538 of the 121st General Assembly with respect to certain persons; exempts child day-care provide to pre-school children by a child day camp operated by an organized religious body from licensure as a child day-care center; authorizes counties to issue sales tax supported bonds to finance permanent improvements; exempts sales tax supported bonds from the county debt limitation; authorizes counties to lease-finance permanent improvements without following competitive bidding requirements; permits impacted cities, under a tax increment financing ordinance, to use payments in lieu of taxes from a tax-exempt parcel to finance public improvements that do not directly benefit that parcel; requires notice to school boards 45 business days, instead of 30 calendar days, in advance of granting certain development-motivated property tax exemptions; allows school boards to waive the requirement that they be notified of possible tax exemptions by the county, township, or municipal corporation granting the exemption; provides a manner for school districts to be held harmless for property tax exemptions granted under the municipal tax increment financing law; appropriates money from the Capital Donations Fund; and declares an emergency.

SB 323 FUEL SERVICING (Watts) Requires certain motor vehicle fuel service stations to provide refueling service to disabled persons at a cost no greater than the price charged the general public for motor vehicle fuel without refueling service.

SB 324 FIRE LIABILITY (White) Provides immunity from civil liability for certain nonprofit corporations that own or operate a rural water supply and for regional water and sewer districts in connection with the failure of a hydrant controlled by such a corporation or district to provide sufficient water to suppress a fire.

SB 325 BENEFIT ASSIGNMENTS (Yarbrough) Exempts qualified domestic relations orders from the state retirement systems' prohibitions against benefit assignments and the use of legal process.

SB 326 PERS RETIREMENT (Kucinich) Allows a member of the Public Employees Retirement System to retire at any age after obtaining 27 years of service credit while serving as a transit worker or county corrections officer.

SB 327 MURDER IMPRISONMENT (Watts) Prohibits confinement of certain persons convicted of aggravated murder or murder in a state correctional institution other than the Lucasville State Correctional Institution or another state correctional institution, or portion of a state correctional institution, that is used exclusively for the imprisonment of inmates of maximum security.

SB 328 CHARITABLE HEALTH CARE (Kucinich) Regulates the merger or consolidation of, and material sales of the assets of, charitable health care entities.

SB 329 LAND CONVEYANCE (Kearns) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned land in Greene County known as the Ohio Veterans' Children's Home to Greene County and repeals Sec. 139 of HB117 of the 121st General Assembly, which created fund 4Z0, the Veterans' Plaza Fund, and provides that $1 million of the proceeds of the sale of the Ohio Veterans' Children's Home be deposited to that fund.

SB 330 PAY RAISES (Ray) Requires that state agencies notify the chairpersons of the House and Senate Finance Committees regarding any compensation increase granted to certain executive employees that exceeds the cumulative percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index since the employees' last compensation increase.

SB 331 DAY-CARE CREDIT (Gillmor) Creates corporation franchise and state income tax credits for businesses that enter into agreements with child day-care centers to make support payments for children of employees, that establish on-site child day-care centers, or that reimburse employee child day-care expenses.

SB 332 UNIVERSITY FINANCES (Kearns) Requires the Ohio Board of Regents to place a state university or college on a fiscal watch under certain circumstances, authorizes the governor under certain circumstances to replace the board of trustees of a state university or state college that is under a fiscal watch with a conservator and alternative governance authority, and requires the members of boards of trustees of state universities and colleges to receive training regarding the authority and responsibilities of a board of trustees.

SB 333 INCOME TAXES (Kearns) Permits taxpayers who pay both a municipal income tax and a joint economic development district income tax to claim a state income tax deduction for a portion of the taxes paid to the joint economic development district.

SB 334 HEALTH CARE CONVERSIONS (Drake) Requires that the Attorney General review transfers of assets by certain nonprofit health care entities to for-profit entities.

SB 335 HEALTH CARE PRACTICES (Suhadolnik) Authorizes optometrists, chiropractors, and doctors of medicine and surgery, osteopathic medicine and surgery, or podiatric medicine and surgery to engage in their respective practices in a combined form of a professional corporation, limited liability company, partnership, or professional association and removes the uncodified law prohibition against those types of doctors practicing in their professions by using certain of the latter forms of business entities.

SB 336 TELEPHONE AREA CODES (Kucinich) Provides that each municipal corporation must have no more than one area code within its boundaries.

SB 337 OIL/NATURAL GAS AGENCY (Carnes) Creates the Oil and Natural Gas Resources Agency to conduct specified activities regarding the oil and natural gas industry; levies an assessment on oil and natural gas production to pay for those activities and terminates the provisions of this act on December 31, 1999.