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SB 1 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (Kearns) Relative to the issuance and enforcement of domestic temporary protection orders, domestic violence civil protection orders and consent agreements, anti-stalking protection orders, and protections orders of those types issued by courts of another state, the removal of mayor's courts of jurisdiction over domestic violence and similar cases and over the issuance of domestic violence temporary protection orders, and the conformance of mayor's court OMVI jurisdiction with changes in OMVI law made by Am.Sub.SB166 of the 121st General Assembly. Effective: Oct. 21, 1997 Full text

SB 2 MARIHUANA USE (Blessing) Eliminates the "medical purposes" affirmative defense to the offense of possession of marihuana. Effective: June 20, 1997 Full text

SB 5 EMERGENCY SERVICES (Howard) Establishes training and continuing education requirements for emergency service telecommunicators, requires the state board of education to develop and administer a training program for emergency service telecommunicators, allows public agency telecommunicators to be trained in the program at no tuition or materials charge to the agency or telecommunicator, and makes an appropriation. Effective: February 4, 1998 (Appropriation sections November 5, 1997). Full text

SB 6 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 transfer the powers and duties of a board of trustees of a state university or college under a fiscal watch to a conservator and alternative governance authority, and requires the development of a model for training members of boards of trustees of state universities or colleges and of the Board of Regents regarding their authority and responsibilities, and makes an appropriation. Sections making or relating to the appropriation are effective March 21, 1997 while other sections are effective June 20, 1997 Full text

SB 7 CHILDREN'S HOME (Kearns) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned land in Greene County known as the Ohio Veterans' Children's Home to Green County, repeals Sec. 139 of Amended Substitute House Bill One Hundred Seventeen of the 121st General Assembly which created Fund 4ZO, the Veterans' Plaza Fund, and provided that $1 million of the proceeds of the sale of the Ohio Veterans' Children's Home be deposited into that fund. Effective: June 6, 1997 Full text

SB 11 RADIOACTIVE WASTE (Suhadolnik) Clarifies that the Board of Directors of the Ohio Low-Level Radioactive Waste Facility Development Authority may select more than one contractor to execute the duties assigned to a contractor for the development and operation of such a facility and makes other changes in the statutes governing the Board. Effective: August 6, 1997 Full text

SB 17 SCHOOL TAXES (Nein) Permits a school board to propose to the electors, as one ballot question, a school district income tax and bond issue, or a property tax for the dual purposes of operating expenses and permanent improvements and declares an emergency. Effective: February 13, 1997 Full text

SB 18 LAND CONVEYANCE (Ray) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate in Summit County to the trustees of Sagamore Hills Township, authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate in Summit County to the City of Akron, and authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate in Summit County to the FIJI House Corporation of the University of Akron. Effective: August 21, 1997 Full text

SB 22 AGE DISQUALIFICATION (Drake) Provides that a person who attains the age of 35 years while attending a training school for prospective state highway patrol troopers cannot be disqualified as over age. Effective: April 22, 1997 Full text

SB 24 LIBRARY LEVIES (Ray) Provides that when a voter-approved library tax is levied for a specific permanent improvement or class of improvements, the period for which notes may be issued in anticipation of the revenue be increased from five to 10 years. Effective: August 6, 1997 Full text

SB 25 WATER SYSTEM IMMUNITY (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. Effective: August 21, 1997 Full text

SB 30 AMBULANCE LAW (Dix) Makes changes in the laws regarding ambulances and the duties of the Ohio Ambulance Licensing Board and makes corrections in the laws regarding emergency medical services. Effective May 6, 1998 Full text

SB 31 MEDICAL CORPORATIONS (Suhadolnik) Authorizes optometrists, chiropractors, psychologists, nurses, pharmacists, physical therapists, 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 their professions by using certain of the latter forms of business entities, modifies the criteria for disciplining doctors for dividing fees, and requires that a completed insurance claim submitted to a third-party payer under the insurance law include certain information. Effective: April 10, 1998 Full text

SB 32 CRIMINAL OFFENSES (Howard) Expands the offense of aggravated murder to also prohibit purposely causing the death of a victim under 13 years of age and prohibits causing the death of a victim under 13 years of age as a proximate result of committing or attempting to commit felonious assault or aggravated assault against the victim, includes as a capital offense aggravating circumstance the commission of the aggravated murder against a victim under 13 years of age when the offender was the principal offender or committed the aggravated murder with prior calculation and design. Effective: August 6, 1997 Full text

SB 35 DRIVING PRIVILEGES (B. Johnson) Revises the conditions under which a driver's license is issued to a person under age 18. Effective: January 30, 1999 (Sections regarding temporary licenses at age 15 1/2 effective July 1, 1998) Full text

SB 37 CHARITABLE GAMING/OFF-TRACK BETTING (Blessing) Eliminates the restriction on the frequency with which a governmental unit may lease certain premises to charitable organizations to conduct festivals at which games of chance are conducted, allows more frequent leasing of premises to charitable organizations for this purpose by a veteran's or fraternal organization, prohibits persons convicted of felony gambling offenses or certain other felonies from owning the premises on which a satellite facility that receives simulcasts of horse races is established or from being the operator or an employee of such a satellite facility, and declares an emergency. Effective: July 26, 1997 Full text

SB 40 INTERSTATE BANKING (White) Relates to interstate branching by and interstate acquisitions of savings and loan associations and savings banks, interstate branching by banks, assessments upon savings and loan associations and savings banks, cooperative examination arrangements and frequency of examinations for savings and loan associations and savings banks, the Trust Company Law enacted by Am.Sub.HB538 of the 121st General Assembly, and declares an emergency. Effective: May 21, 1997 Full text

SB 45 WORKERS' COMPENSATION (Cupp) Makes various changes in the structure, payment and determination of benefits, reduces the number of weeks an employee can receive nonworking wage loss, permits an employer to have an employee excepted from the workers' compensation laws for religious reasons, changes the duration of the continuing jurisdiction of the Industrial Commission to three years, requires hearing officers to report suspected fraudulent activity, limits recovery for aggravation of a preexisting condition, changes the definition of occupational disease, permits certain nonattorneys to represent parties in hearings before the Industrial Commission, creates the presumption concerning alcohol or a controlled substance as the cause of an employee's injury, excepts buildings and land used for agricultural production from safety rules that apply to workshops and factories, provides criminal penalties for employers who intentionally misclassify their employees for workers' compensation purposes, prohibits kickbacks from health care providers under the workers' compensation law, prohibits health care providers from receiving payments for false claims under the workers' compensation law, provides that records kept by the Division of Safety and Hygiene are confidential, specifies that records produced by an attorney in connection with a workers' compensation claim are the property of the claimant and makes other changes in the workers' compensation law. Special note: This act was effectively repealed by a statewide referendum conducted Tuesday, November 4, 1997. Had the referendum not been successful, the act would have become effective July 22, 1997.

SB 46 OIL/GAS AGENCY (Carnes) Provides for the establishment of an oil and natural gas marketing program and adds requirements for eligibility to receive payment from the Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Financial Assurance Fund. Effective: December 18, 1997 Full text

SB 49 LAND CONVEYANCE (Oelslager) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate in Stark County to Leonard Cooper. Effective: September 16, 1997 Full text

SB 52 WELFARE ELIGIBILITY (Carnes) Denies eligibility for certain public assistance to fugitive felons and probation or parole violators; requires the Department of Human Services to exchange data with law enforcement agencies concerning fugitive felons and probation and parole violators; requires the Department to provide information regarding public assistance recipients to law enforcement agencies for purposes of investigations, prosecutions, or criminal or civil proceedings; requires the Department to exchange information regarding public assistance recipients with the Auditor of State and other government entities performing similar functions; requires the Auditor of State to report certain information to the Governor and the General Assembly; requires 25% of all money earned by prisoners to be paid to the state Department of Human Services or a county child support enforcement agency under certain circumstances; requires the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to enter into agreements to share information with the Department of Human Services; permits the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to exchange psychiatric hospitalization and mental health records and information with a county sheriff's office; and permits the Adult Parole Authority to enter into an agreement with a person or government entity to share information, personnel, and services for certain purposes. Effective: September 3, 1997 Full text

SB 53 VIDEO TESTIMONY (Nein) Expands the list of offenses for which a criminal or juvenile court may admit videotaped testimony of a child victim of the offense or order the child victim's testimony taken outside the courtroom and televised into or videotaped for replay in the courtroom and permits the procedures to be used when the victim is under 13 years of age. Effective: October 14, 1997 Full text

SB 55 HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION (Watts) Codifies the minimum requirements for graduation from high school; increases the total number of units of credit necessary for graduation from eighteen to twenty; increases the required units of English language arts from three to four; increases the required units of each of the areas of mathematics and social studies from two to three; increases the required units of science incrementally from one to three; reduces the elective units incrementally from nine to six; and requires the Ohio Board of Regents to recommend a plan to increase the number of math and science teachers. Effective: November 21, 1997 Full text

SB 58 LEGAL PRACTICE (Latta) Increases the criminal penalties for engaging in the unauthorized practice of law and repeals the prohibition against a deputy sheriff engaging in the practice of law. Effective: September 30, 1997 Full text

SB 59 PROPERTY TAXES (Nein) Permits all real property taxpayers to participate in a system for prepayment of taxes, changes the terms under which delinquent taxes are payable in installments after the property is certified for foreclosure action, allows delinquent taxes charged against minerals to be deemed uncollectible after fives years and removed from the tax list, and makes other changes to the county treasurer law. Effective: October 14, 1997 Full text

SB 60 VEHICLE TITLING/AUCTIONEERS (Oelslager) Makes changes in the law governing the operation, registration and titling of motor vehicles and in the law governing the operation of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles and requires auctioneers to disclose all written materials advertising motor vehicles for sale when a motor vehicle listed or described in such materials has a nonfunctional odometer. Effective: Oct. 21, 1997 Full text

SB 62 LOCAL GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS (Blessing) Authorizes a county, municipal corporation or township to participate in contracts of other counties, municipal corporations, or townships for the acquisition of equipment, materials, supplies or services and authorizes such political subdivisions to issue self-supporting securities for the purpose of paying the costs of their own and other subdivisions' permanent improvements. Effective: November 5, 1997 Full text

SB 66 PHARMACY PRACTICE (Drake) Revises the laws pertaining to drugs and the practice of pharmacy. Effective: July 22, 1998 Full text

SB 67 HEALTH INSURANCE (Gillmor) Provides for the establishment, operation and regulation of health insuring corporations; repeals the laws governing prepaid dental plan organizations, medical care corporations, health care corporations, dental care corporations and health maintenance organizations; eliminates certain provisions of the act on and after Feb. 9, 2004 by repealing Sec. 1751.64, and declares an emergency. Effective: June 4, 1997 Full text

SB 69 JURY SERVICE (B. Johnson) Eliminates exemptions from service as a juror and increases the compensation of jurors and grand jurors. Effective: April 16, 1998 Full text

SB 70 LIFE/HEALTH INSURANCE (Dix) Makes it an unfair practice for an insurer to take certain adverse actions against policies and contracts of life and health insurance based on an applicant's or insured's status as a victim of domestic violence and provides civil and criminal immunity to an insurer acting in compliance with this act. Effective: Oct. 21, 1997 Full text

SB 71 CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS (Cupp) Voids various types of provisions of a construction contract or subcontract that are considered to be against public policy and establishes new requirements and limitations relative to exercising rights under a bond for certain public improvements. Effective: September 30, 1998. Full text

SB 77 FINANCIAL REPORTS (Gillmor) Requires certain public offices to publish a notice announcing the completion and availability of their annual financial reports instead of publishing the reports themselves, requires notification of the Auditor of State upon the creation or dissolution of a public office, allows the Auditor of State to audit the accounts of Medicaid providers receiving public money, authorizes employees designated by the Auditor of State to issue subpoenas and exercise other authority, and specifies that the rulemaking procedure the Auditor of State must follow in adopting rules under certain statutes applies to all rules the Auditor of State adopts. Effective: August 12, 1998. Full text

SB 80 OMVI (B. Johnson) Provides that, if a person is arrested for OMVI and the person's driver's license is suspended under the Administrative License Suspension (ALS) provisions of the Implied Consent Law, the ALS terminates if the person is convicted of the underlying OMVI charge, provides that a person who is arrested for OMVI and whose driver's license is suspended under the ALS provisions and also later by a court is liable for payment of only one driver's license reinstatement fee when the person's license is returned or reissued, increases the reinstatement fee from $280 to $405, and expands the uses of a county indigent drivers alcohol treatment fund, a county juvenile indigent drivers treatment fund, or a municipal indigent drivers treatment fund when the court with control of the fund declares a surplus in the fund. Effective: September 16, 1998 Full text

SB 82 VOYEURISM (Sheerer) Modifies the elements and penalty for the offense of voyeurism. Effective: January 30, 1998 Full text

SB 83 LAND USE VIOLATIONS (B. Johnson) Aids in the eradication of urban and rural blight by authorizing municipal corporations within the jurisdiction of the environmental division of a municipal court to establish noncriminal land use infractions and provide civil enforcement procedures for those infractions and by granting the environmental division of a municipal court additional jurisdiction to enforce nuisance abatement and other environmental laws and to enforce its judgments, modifies the procedure by which service is effected in an eviction action, and eliminates references in title insurance policies and certain documents involving registered land transactions to racial and other restrictive covenants that, if exercised, honored, or included in a transfer, rental, or lease of housing accommodations, constitute an unlawful discriminatory practice. Effective: March 30, 1999 Full text

SB 85 TRANSPORTATION BUDGET CORRECTION (Oelslager) Corrects an inadvertent omission from HB 210 of the 122nd General Assembly, as it was reported by the Senate Highways & Transportation Committee, of certain amendments adopted by the committee but not included in the bill when it was assembled for the committee report, including a requirement for the district deputy directors of the Department of Transportation to maintain a coffee break program, an exception to the prohibition against possession of an open container granted to an F liquor permit holder during an outdoor music festival, a requirement for the Department to continue a program to lease unneeded state property for billboards, an exclusion from the "Buy America" provisions of law for the purchase of rock salt by the Department of Transportation and allowing a church bus to be painted yellow if it previously was registered as a school bus and meets other requirements and declares an emergency. Effective: May 15, 1997 (Certain sections other dates) Full text

SB 87 DAIRIES (White) Revises the law governing dairies, dairy products, maple syrup, and cider. Effective: October 21, 1997 Full text

SB 88 PARTITION ACTIONS (Latta) Changes the qualifications and required number of commissioners in partition actions. Effective: October 14, 1997 Full text

SB 90 MEDICAL COLLEGE AT TOLEDO (Furney) Authorizes the Medical College of Ohio at Toledo Board of Trustees to convey two parcels of real estate or portions of real estate located in Lucas County, authorizes the Governor to convey a parcel of real estate or portions of a parcel of real estate located in Lucas County and owned by the Medical College of Ohio at Toledo Foundation, authorizes the Governor to convey two parcels of state-owned real estate in Columbiana County to George W. Morris, and declares an emergency. Effective: July 21, 1997 Full text

SB 96 SPEECH PATHOLOGY (Cupp) Requires studies of the shortage of school speech-language pathologists and audiologists, permits the State Board of Education to issue temporary educator licenses in the specialty of school speech-language pathology, permits school districts and educational service centers to contract with speech-language pathologists and audiologists who are licensed by the Board of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, exempts certain handicapped students of nonpublic schools from proficiency tests, modifies provisions pertaining to the conditional employment of individuals in positions that involve providing direct care to older adults, eliminates issuance of the temporary educator licenses in school speech-pathology on January 1, 2002, and declares an emergency. Effective: June 11, 1997 Full text

SB 98 CHARGE DISMISSAL (B. Johnson) Provides that a court is not authorized to dismiss criminal charges when the only reason for dismissal is the request of the complaining witness and the prosecutor objects to the dismissal and specifies that domestic violence criminal temporary protection orders issued by a municipal court or county court continue in effect subsequent to the transfer of the case to a court of common pleas until disposition of the case on the issuance of a domestic violence civil protection order. Effective: March 17, 1998 Full text

SB 102 SCHOOL COMMISSION/PREVAILING WAGE (Dix) Creates the Ohio School Facilities Commission, transfers responsibility for the Classroom Facilities Assistance Program from the State Board of Education to the Commission, makes other changes in the Classroom Facilities Assistance Law, exempts from prevailing wage law public improvements and construction undertaken by school districts and educational service centers, requires the Legislative Budget Office of the Legislative Service Commission to study the effects of that prevailing wage exemption, and makes an appropriation. Effective: May 20, 1997 (Certain sections on August 19, 1997) Full text

SB 103 SUNDAY HUNTING (Gardner) Permits hunting on any day during open season on state public hunting areas and certain private lands, to allow grandchildren under age eighteen to hunt on their grandparents' land without a license, to make changes in the penalty applying to violation of the prohibition against trespassing while hunting or trapping, to provide a qualified immunity from liability to owners of land upon which a violation of the prohibition occurs, to make other changes to the law governing hunting, and to prohibit discharging a firearm on or within 1,000 feet of the boundaries of the tract of land on which a church is located. Effective: June 1, 1998 Full text

SB 107 DEATH SENTENCE (Blessing) Revises the mechanism for vacating a sentence of death because it is imposed upon an offender under 18 and revises the mechanism for suspending the execution of a pregnant or insane offender who is sentenced to death. Effective: July 29, 1998 Full text

SB 110 EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE (Blessing) Authorizes a county agency, common pleas court, county court, or county-operated municipal court to recognize outstanding employee performance. Effective: April 16, 1998 Full text

SB 111 PRISON LAW (B. Johnson) Relates to the law governing the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, certain corrections-related matters, quality assurance records of the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction and the Department of Mental Health, the competence as electors of felons who are on judicial release or under post-release control, and the examination and testing for tuberculosis, HIV infection, and other contagious diseases of convicted and certain accused offenders who are confined. Effective: March 17, 1998 Full text

SB 112 CHILD CUSTODY (Schafrath) Creates the Task Force on Family Law and Children to study ways to improve existing processes regarding the parenting of children whose parents do not reside together and submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the Speaker and Minority Leader of the House and the President and Minority Leader of the Senate by December 31, 1999. Effective: Sept. 1, 1998 Full text

SB 113 LAND CONVEYANCE (Latta) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate in Lucas County to Community Residential Services, Inc.; authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate in Ottawa County to Ottawa Residential Services, Inc.; and authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate in Wood County to the Wood County Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Board. Effective: Oct. 21, 1997 Full text

SB 116 ELECTIONS LAW (Gardner) Changes certain penalties in the Elections Law, makes changes in regard to the use of personal funds for a campaign for statewide office or office of member of the General Assembly, makes changes regarding what funds a campaign committee may "carry into" an election, requires certain statewide candidates in a contested primary election to file additional statements of contributions, requires that, if the Secretary of State files to be a candidate for another office, the Secretary of State must contract with a private certified public accounting firm to conduct the examination of campaign finance statements of all candidates for that other office, exempts, under certain circumstances, specified local candidates from filing all campaign finance statements, makes other changes in the Elections Law to terminate certain provisions of this act on January 1, 1999, and declares an emergency. Effective: December 9, 1997 Full text

SB 117 FUNERAL DIRECTORS (Dix) Makes changes in the Embalmers and Funeral Directors Law and regulates crematories. Effective: August 5, 1998 Full text

SB 123 PROPERTY TAXES (White) Provides additional opportunity for the owner of certain injured or destroyed property to receive a reduction in the valuation of such property for the current tax year, authorizes a waiver or refund of taxes on destroyed manufactured homes and declares an emergency. Effective: October 22, 1997 Full text

SB 130 NATIONAL GUARD PAY (Watts) Exempts more clearly Reserve and Ohio National Guard pay and allowances from municipal taxation, gives statutory effect to the federal exemption for military vehicles from the state Commercial Driver's License Law, conforms more closely to federal regulations state law governing the Ohio National Guard and the state military, repeals the state Military Census Law, makes other changes in the law governing the Ohio military, and declares an emergency. Effective: September 18, 1997 Full text

SB 132 MOVING COMPANIES (Blessing) Provides a new state certification system for household goods moving companies in Ohio that generally eliminates restrictions as to area of service; subjects to that certification system existing certificate holders and also previously exempt household goods moving companies; authorizes county and township zoning of public utilities engaged in the business of transporting persons or property with an exemptions and makes an appropriation. Effective: September 30, 1998. Full text

SB 134 SORE LOSERS LAW (Kearns) Permits a loser in a primary election to be a candidate at the following general election for certain types of nonpartisan office, creates in statute the term "political contributing entity" and makes any such entity subject to the reporting requirements and contribution limitations of the Campaign Finance Law and other provisions of the Elections Law. Effective: July 13, 1998 (Certain sections January 1, 2000) Full text

SB 140 UNIDENTIFIED BODIES (Latta) Requires coroners to submit DNA specimens and fingerprints of unidentified dead bodies to the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation for inclusion in its unidentified person database, authorizes the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation to establish a relatives of missing persons database to compare the relatives of missing persons database with the unidentified persons database and requires the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation to notify the coroner or law enforcement agency that submitted an unidentified person's DNA specimen if the person is identified. Effective: May 21, 1998 Full text

SB 142 MANUFACTURED HOUSING (B. Johnson) Revises the sales and use taxes applicable to manufactured homes; requires that all manufactured and mobile homes pay either a real property tax or a manufactured home tax, and makes various other changes relative to the taxation of manufactured and mobile homes; clarifies that state and local building codes do not govern manufactured homes, but that all manufactured homes must be built pursuant to federal standards and carry a permanent tag to indicate compliance; requires that manufactured homes that meet specified appearance criteria and are permanently sited be treated as single-family homes for zoning purposes if they meet all local zoning requirements that do not conflict with roof pitch and federal construction standards; and makes various other changes in the law concerning manufactured and mobile homes. Effective: March 30, 1999 Full text

SB 144 CIVIL SERVICE (Watts) Makes various changes in the Civil Service, Excess and Surplus Supplies and State Printing Laws and in other laws that affect the Department of Administrative Services. Effective: March 30, 1999 Full text

SB 148 MEMORIAL HIGHWAY (Cupp) Designates U.S. Route 68 from the north side of the Simon Kenton Memorial Bridge at Aberdeen, Ohio to the north boundary of Kenton, Ohio as the "Simon Kenton Memorial Highway." Effective: June 1, 1998 Full text

SB 153 ZOONOTIC DISEASES (Suhadolnik) Clarifies the definition of "infectious wastes" in the Solid, Infectious, and Hazardous Waste Law through the inclusion of references to zoonotic diseases. Effective: September 30, 1998. Full text

SB 154 INSURANCE AGENTS (Nein) Revises the Insurance Agents law, specifies that a fraternal benefit society organized under the laws of another state and admitted to transact business in Ohio may become a domestic insurer, provides than an insurer is not prohibited from transferring its domicile to Ohio because its charter or bylaws contain characteristics of both a mutual and stock insurance company, and, if Am.Sub.HB248 of the 122nd General Assembly is enacted, to supersede sections 3905.49 and 3905.491 of the Revised Code as they result from that act. Effective: June 30, 1998 (Certain sections on October 10, 1998) Full text

SB 164 PROPERTY SEIZURES/JUDGESHIPS (Blessing) Eliminates the requirement that the Attorney General send to the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives copies of reports of drugs or other property seized by law enforcement agencies and other entities and eliminates the requirement that the Attorney General produce or receive certain other documents, eliminates the waiver that authorized persons who wish to be candidates in 1998 for two new Lorain County judgeships to file nominating petitions and statements of candidacy by August 20, 1998, requires them to comply with filing provisions of general Election Law, and declares an emergency. Effective: January 15, 1998 Full text

SB 170 WAGE GARNISHMENT (Cupp) Permits a continuous order of wage garnishment under specified circumstances and eliminates the thirty-day limitation upon successive wage garnishment. Effective: March 30, 1999 Full text

SB 173 PREPAID PHONE CARDS (B. Johnson) Provides that, on and after January 1, 2000, prepaid authorization numbers used to make telephone calls or prepaid telephone calling cards are subject to the state sales tax at the time of sale, rather than taxing the calls as they are made, specifies that a business person commits a deceptive trade practice under the Deceptive Trade Practices Law if, under specified circumstances, the person's use of a fictitious business name in a local telephone directory or directory assistance database misrepresents the person's geographic location to consumers of goods or services, and makes associated changes in that law. Effective: March 30, 1999 (Certain sections later) Full text

SB 183 HEPATITIS C AWARENESS (Drake) Designates the month of October as "Ohio Hepatitis C Awareness Month." Effective: July 22, 1998 Full text

SB 188 LAND CONVEYANCE (Kearns) Authorizes the conveyance of a parcel of real estate located in Clark County and known as the Springfield Post of the State Highway Patrol to the Community Improvement Corporation of Springfield and Clark County, authorizes the conveyance of a parcel of real estate located in Trumbull County to Clifton W. Brewster and Darla W. Brewster and declares an emergency. Effective Feb. 4, 1998 Full text

SB 189 HOSPITAL TRUSTEES (Gaeth) Eliminates the requirement that members of a board of county hospital trustees represent in equal numbers the county's two main political parties. Effective: March 9, 1999 Full text

SB 192 WATER QUALITY (Furney) Regarding the bacterial testing of waters adjacent to public swimming beaches and the posting of advisory signs. Effective: March 9, 1999 Full text

SB 193 CAPITAL OFFENSES (Suhadolnik) Expands aggravated murder to also include purposely causing the death of another while under detention for a felony conviction or after having broken that detention and in specified circumstances causing the death of a law enforcement officer or a specified Department of Rehabilitation and Correction employee, includes in the capital punishment aggravating circumstance that relates to committing the offense while under detention the circumstance of committing the offense while at large after having broken detention, authorizes the Governor to appoint the Lieutenant Governor as director of the Office of Criminal Justice Services, and declares an emergency. Effective: December 29, 1998 Full text

SB 197 RAILROAD RIGHTS-OF-WAY (Schafrath) Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to investigate and enforce existing laws pertaining to maintenance of fences, destruction of noxious vegetation, and provision of waterways along railroad rights-of-way. Effective: March 9, 1999 Full text

SB 200 ACCOUNTING LAW (Cupp) Permits certain persons who do not hold a license to practice as an accountant to acquire an ownership interest in public accounting firms, adds a statutory definition of the "practice of public accounting" and modifies or adds other definitions in the Accountancy Board Law, expands the discipline that may be imposed for infractions of that law, and makes other related changes in that law. Effective: March 30, 1999 Full text

SB 201 WATER & SEWER DISTRICTS (Oelslager) Requires the political subdivision or subdivisions proposing the establishment of a regional water and sewer district to hold a public meeting before filing the petition for the establishment, provides for the removal of appointment members from the board of trustees of a district, requires additional study prior to the establishment of a district if the court in which the petition is heard orders that study, allows a board of health to charge a fee for inspections of all semipublic disposal systems conducted under contract with the Environmental Protection Agency, requires the county prosecuting attorney to act as legal advisor to any township board or commission, allows the compensation of a mayor's court magistrate to be fixed by contract, specifies that the clerk of the Medina Municipal Court shall be appointed by the judges of that court irrespective of whether the territorial population of that court is less than, equals, or exceeds 100,000, requires ballots proposing property taxes that would apply to the same year in which the taxes are voted on to state expressly that the tax would apply in that year, requires taxing authorities to obtain certain information regarding proposed taxes from the county auditor before submitting the question of the tax to electors, requires a board of education to conduct public hearing if proposed changes in its inside millage will result in a tax increase in the district, makes changes to a notice in real property tax bills, clarifies language governing application for the 2.5% residential property tax reduction, authorizes political subdivisions to use newsletters and other means to communicate information to the public within the political subdivision and to other persons affected by the political subdivision, and declares an emergency. Effective: December 21, 1998 Full text

SB 208 CORONER DUTIES (Latta) Requires the coroner to serve as county commissioner whenever two of a county's commissioners are absent because of illness or injury and requires a county budget commission to include, in the information that it certifies to a taxing authority after completing its work on a tax budget, the expiration date of each levy. Effective: March 30, 1999 Full text

SB 212 RESIDENTIAL/DAY CARE CAMPS (Nein) Requires an administrator or employee of a residential camp or a child day care camp to report known or suspected child abuse to the public children services agency or a municipal or county peace officer. Effective: September 30, 1998. Full text

SB 213 MOTOR VEHICLE LAWS (Oelslager) 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, permits the holder of a temporary instruction permit, driver's license, commercial driver's license or state identification card to prohibit the display of the holder's Social Security number unless such display is required by federal law; permits a disabled veteran who has a service-connected disability rated at 100% by the Veterans' Administration to apply to the Registrar of Motor Vehicles or a deputy registrar for the issuance of a state identification card without payment of any fee; permits historical license plates issued to a person's historical motor vehicle to be transferred to another historical motor vehicle owned by that person; modifies the provisions relating to out-of-service orders issued to holders of commercial driver's licenses; modifies the definition of "owner" of a motor vehicle for purposes of the Financial Responsibility Law; permits a law enforcement officer who observes the operator of a motor vehicle commit one of certain specified moving violations to radio another law enforcement officer to arrest the operator or issue a citation for the violation; provides that a warning relating to a possible fine that must be included in the written notice that is given to the operator of a vehicle who is arrested for OMVI or the owner of such a vehicle because the vehicle may be subject to future impoundment or forfeiture, instead be given to the person in court; requires the director of Budget and Management to transfer certain moneys into the Highway Safety Federal Reimbursement Fund, includes within the definition of "peace officer" in the provisions of the Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission a person serving as a special police officer of the State Highway Patrol on a permanent basis on October 21, 1997, and who has satisfactorily completed an approved peace officer basic training program, permits an application for a certificate of title to be filed electronically by electronic image transmission in any county in which the clerk of common pleas permits such filing, modifies the definition of "remanufacturer" for purposes of the motor vehicle dealer law, and permits a motor vehicle that is leased by a motor vehicle leasing dealer to another motor vehicle leasing dealer to be the subject of a sublease, in certain circumstances. Effective: July 29, 1998 (Certain sections later) Full text

SB 215 STALKING (Sheerer) Makes any repeat violation of menacing by stalking a felony of the fifth degree. Effective: March 30, 1999 Full text

SB 219 RISK MANAGEMENT PLANS (Gardner) Requires the owners or operators of stationary sources that have more than the threshold quantity of a regulated substance to submit a risk management plan related to that regulated substance, establishes the requirements of the risk management program and revises the statutes relating to environmental audits. Effective: September 30, 1998. Full text

SB 223 LAND USE (Drake) Clarifies the agricultural land uses that may be the subject of conservation easements, authorizes only the Director of Agriculture, certain local governments and charitable organizations to acquire conservation easements in order to preserve the agricultural use of land, permits counties to levy or increase the rate of a sales or use tax to acquire conservation easements and retire bonds issued for their purchase, permits local governments to levy a tax outside the ten-mill limitation to acquire, supervise and enforce conservation easements and to issue general obligation bonds to finance them and authorizes the extinguishment of those conservation easements under specified circumstances. Effective: April 5, 1999 Full text

SB 229 TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT (Oelslager) Makes changes in certain laws governing the Department of Transportation in the areas of appropriation of property for political subdivisions for transportation purposes and the purchase of certain supplies by the department; creates pilot program establishing the career professional service within the classified civil service of the Department of Transportation and authorizes the department to appoint persons to positions within the career professional service until June 30, 2003; eliminates the right of certain unclassified employees of the department to return to classified positions they previously held, creates a scenic byway program in the Department, creates the Federal Rail Fund, allows an employee of the Ohio Cooperative Extension Service whose position is transferred from the unclassified to the classified civil service and who holds the office of president of a city legislative authority to complete the existing term of office as president, permits outdoor advertising devices to be erected on the premises of a professional sports facility if the devices conform to rules adopted by the Director of Transportation, and designates a portion of U.S. Rt. 224 as the "Cliff Skeen Memorial Highway." Effective: September 16, 1998 Full text

SB 230 CAPITAL REAPPROPRIATIONS (Ray) Eliminates the Elected Officials Compensation Commission, makes an appropriation for the Department of Transportation and transfers cash between funds, makes capital appropriations for the Public Works Commission, makes capital reappropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 2000, and provides real property tax relief contingent upon voter approval of a sales tax increase on May 5, 1998. Effective: June 30, 1998 (Certain sections on March 31, 1998) Full text

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