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SB 2 CRIMINAL SENTENCING (Greenwood) Implements recommendations of the Criminal Sentencing Commission and makes other changes in the criminal law. Effective: November 9, 1995 (Certain sections on other dates)

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. Effective: September 21, 1995

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. Effective: August 23, 1995 (Certain sections on other dates)

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. Effective: August 24, 1995 (Certain sections on other dates)

SB 16 WORKERS' COMPENSATION (Cupp) Increases the threshold amount the Administrator of Workers' Compensation uses in calculating construction industry employers' premiums. Effective: June 23, 1995

SB 18 INVESTMENT CREDIT (Horn) Provides a tax credit for investors who make qualified investments in an Ohio early stage investment entity. Effective: November 19, 1996

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. Effective: September 8, 1995

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. Effective: September 14, 1995

SB 31 WATER LICENSES (Gaeth) Exempts churches from the licensing requirements for public water systems. Effective: March 5, 1996)

SB 34 CAPITOL SQUARE (Finan) Authorizes the State Highway Patrol to enforce rules of the Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board governing Capitol Square. Effective: October 25, 1995

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. Effective: July 14, 1995

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. Effective: September 19, 1996

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. Effective: November 15, 1995

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. Effective: April 20, 1995 (Certain sections on other dates)

SB 61 CONVEYANCE FEES (Cupp) Exempts from a conveyance fee the post-death transfer of real estate from a living trust. Effective: November 19, 1996

SB 62 MEDICAID OVERSIGHT (Drake) Abolishes the Legislative Committee on Medicaid Oversight, creates the Joint Legislative Committee on Medicaid, and declares an emergency. Effective: August 25, 1995

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. Effective: November 1, 1995

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. Effective: March 5, 1996

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. Effective: September 27, 1996 (Certain sections on January 1, 1997)

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. Effective: December 6, 1996 (Certain sections later)

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. Effective: November 15, 1995

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. Effective: December 5, 1995

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. Effective: July 26, 1995 (Certain sections on other dates)

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. Effective: September 14, 1995

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. Effective: October 25, 1995

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. Effective: November 24, 1995

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. Effective: May 8, 1996 (Sections 5 & 6 on July 1, 1997)

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. Effective: November 19, 1996

SB 122 MOBILE HOME PARKS (Suhadolnik) Reduces the required distance between homes in manufactured home parks constructed after June 30, 197. Effective: May 16, 1996

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. Effective: May 30, 1996 (Allowed to become law without governor's signature)

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. Effective: November 24, 1995

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. Effective: August 25, 1995

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. Effective: March 13, 1997

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. Effective: March 5, 1996 (Certain sections on other dates)

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. Effective: January 31, 1996

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. Effective: November 21, 1995

SB 150 HEALTH INSURANCE (Dix) Addresses health and insurance matters associated with HB 478 of the 119th General Assembly and makes other revisions in the Health Care and Insurance laws. Effective: November 24, 1995

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. Effective: September 10, 1996 (Certain provisions on November 15, 1996 and September 10, 1997)

SB 155 BULK TRANSFERS (Greenwood) Repeals the Bulk Transfer Law. Effective: August 15, 1996

SB 156 CERTIFICATE OF NEED (Drake) Revises the certificate of need and other health care regulatory provisions enacted by Am. Sub. SB 50 of the 121st General Assembly and declares an emergency. Effective: June 30, 1995

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. Effective: May 8, 1996

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. Effective: January 27, 1997

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. Effective: October 25, 1995 (Certain sections on other dates)

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. Effective: October 16, 1996

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. Effective: October 17, 1996 (Certain sections on other dates)

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. Effective: March 3, 1997

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. Effective: September 17, 1996

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. Effective: December 3, 1996 (Allowed to become law without governor's signature)

SB 188 TAX CREDITS (Gillmor) Allows credits against the corporation franchise and state income taxes for a 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 or 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 the tax at a rate greater than eight percent; and declares an emergency. Effective: July 19, 1995

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. Effective: June 13, 1996 (Sections 3 & 4 on July 1, 1996)

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. Effective: October 17, 1996

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. Effective: August 20, 1996

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. Effective: September 26, 1996

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. Effective: November 20, 1996

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. Effective: November 6, 1996 (Certain sections in 120 days)

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. Effective: October 1, 1996

SB 223 SOCIAL WORKERS (Kearns) Revises the laws regarding the Counselor and Social Worker Board. Effective: March 18, 1997

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. Effective: March 7, 1997

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. Effective: October 29, 1996 (Certain sections later)

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. Effective: September 6, 1996

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. Effective: September 3, 1996 (Sections 3 & 4 on November 15, 1996)

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. Effective: January 31, 1996

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. Effective: November 6, 1996

SB 250 GOLD STAR (Watts) Designates the last Sunday in September "Gold Star Mothers Day." Effective: August 8, 1996

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. Effective: May 15, 1996 (Certain provisions on August 15, 1996)

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. Effective: October 16, 1996

SB 259 CODE CORRECTIONS (Drake) Corrects errors in the enrollment of Am. Sub. HB 218 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. Effective: November 6, 1996

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. Effective: November 20, 1996

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. Effective: March 18, 1997

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. Effective: November 20, 1996

SB 264 CAPITAL REAPPROPRIATIONS (Ray) Amends Sec. 45 and 177 of Am.Sub.HB 117 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. Effective: June 13, 1996 (Certain provisions on March 14, 1996)

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.. Effective: November 20, 1996

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. SB 2 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. SB 2 of the 121st General Assembly. Effective: June 28, 1996 (Certain sections on May 15, 1997)

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. Effective: March 31, 1997

SB 282 ORPHAN SCHOLARSHIPS (Watts) Makes changes to the War Orphan Scholarship program and declares an emergency. Effective: December 2, 1996

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. Effective: March 13, 1997 (Certain sections on July 1, 1997)

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. Effective: March 13, 1997

SB 289 AVIATION WEEK (Kearns) Creates Ohio Aviation and Aerospace History Education Week in December and changes the slogan on motor vehicle license plates to "Birthplace of Aviation." Effective: September 27, 1996

SB 291 CHILD CARE WEEK (Gillmor) Designates the week of April 19 as "Child Care Worker Appreciation Week in Ohio." Effective: March 31, 1997

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. Effective: November 6, 1996

SB 293 GOVERNMENT RESTRUCTURING (Gillmor) Addresses matters associated with Am. Sub. SB 162 of the 121st General Assembly and makes other changes relative to the reorganization of various state agency functions. Effective: September 26, 1996 (Appropriation section effective June 27, 1996)

SB 295 WATERCRAFT REGULATION (Gillmor) Revises the statutes governing the operation and regulation of watercraft Effective: March 18, 1997

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. Effective: March 13, 1997

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. Effective: June 18, 1996)

SB 310 BUDGET/SCHOOL MANAGEMENT (Ray) Amends sections of the biennial budget act (HB 117) 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. Effective: June 19, 1996 (Certain sections later & certain line items vetoed)

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