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HB 1 OHIOREADS (Brading) En. 121, 3301 & 3333. Implements the OhioReads initiative through the creation of classroom and community reading grants, establishes the Ohio Schools Best Practices Center, the OhioReads Office, and the OhioReads Council and abolishes the Council on July 1, 2004, and makes an appropriation. Effective: March 30, 1999

HB 2 ELDERLY/DISABLED EXPLOITATION (Tiberi) Enhances the penalty for committing the offenses of theft, unauthorized use of a vehicle, unauthorized use of property, misuse of credit cards in specified circumstances, fraud, and securing writings by deception when the victim of the offense is an elderly person or disabled adult, permits for sentencing purposes the aggregation in accordance with specific statutory guidelines all property, services, losses to the victims, and debts for which credit cards are held in security involved in the commission of any of those offenses as part of a course of conduct involving those theft offenses when the victim of the offense is an elderly person or disabled adult, and permits evidence that the victim lacked the capacity to give consent to be admitted in the prosecution of a theft offense to show that the victim did not give consent. Effective: November 10, 1999

HB 3 DELINQUENCY VICTIMS (Evans) Relative to rights of victims in delinquency proceedings and the rights of victims of crime. Effective: November 22, 1999

HB 4 HEALTH INSURER LIABILITY (Gardner) Holds a health insuring corporation responsible for harm to an enrollee proximately caused by the health insuring corporation's failure to exercise ordinary care in making a health care coverage decision, makes changes to the Health Insuring Corporation Law, provides for speedy review of enrollee appeals of adverse determinations, allows female enrollees to obtain health care services from a participating obstetrician or gynecologist without a referral, requires health insuring corporations to name a licensed physician to act as a corporation's medical director, require that at least one telephone number provided to enrollees for health-care-plan information via toll free number and make additional information available to enrollees, and permit personal income tax deductions for certain medical expenses and long-term care insurance premiums. Effective: October 14, 1999 (Certain sections later)

HB 6 VOTING PROXIES (D. Miller) Includes electronic transmission as a method of appointing a voting proxy. Effective: September 13, 1999

HB 13 FISCAL ANALYSES (Mottley) Creates a one-year pilot program under which the Legislative Budget Office of the Legislative Service Commission analyzes the economic impact of certain bills and resolutions on Ohio businesses; requires the Legislative Budget Officer of the Legislative Budget Office of the Legislative Service Commission to cause certain tasks to be performed that will facilitate the carrying out of the office's economic impact analyses-related functions; creates another pilot program under which two state rule-making agencies analyze the economic impact of rules on Ohio businesses; allows the Director of the Legislative Service Commission to employ a professional staff member to gather technological data and information; exempts the Wright Technology Network from the matching contribution requirement for a grant under the Thomas Alva Edison Grant Program for the 1999-2002 biennium and declares an emergency. Effective: December 16, 1999

HB 15 RETIREMENT SERVICE CREDIT (Mottley) Allows a member of the Public Employees Retirement System, School Employees Retirement System, or State Teachers Retirement System to purchase by payroll deduction service credit for certain prior service covered by one of the other systems. Effective: November 3, 1999

HB 16 HEALTH CARE STUDY (Mottley) Creates a task force to study consumer access to preferred provider plans, point of service plans, and other open panel plans for health care coverage and declares an emergency. Effective: June 15, 1999

HB 18 BURIAL CONTRACTS (Schuler) Revises laws dealing with the operation and registration of cemeteries and with preneed burial vault contracts. Effective: October 20, 1999

HB 19 STATE PROPERTY INTERESTS (Schuler) Requires that any instrument by which the state or an agency of the state acquires an interest in real property shall identify the agency for whose use and benefit the real property is acquired; authorizes the board of park commissioners of a metropolitan park district to sell park lands for conservation uses or for park or recreation purposes, in accordance with specified procedures, to the state, a park district or other political subdivision of the state, or the federal government, and authorizes a board of county commissioners to donate personal property to the federal government, the state, or another political subdivision of the state. Effective: October 26, 1999

HB 21 MOTOR VEHICLE LAWS (Mottley) Makes the Nonconforming New Motor Vehicle Law apply to motor vehicles leased for a period of one month or more, requires the certificate of title to a vehicle returned under that law to be marked as a "buyback" vehicle, and makes other changes in that law. Effective: September 15, 1999

HB 27 PROPERTY TAX ABATEMENT (Grendell) Specifies that certain places of business where electricity is generated are facilities eligible for tax abatements under the enterprise zone program, prohibits the sales of forfeited lands to delinquent property taxpayers, and permits, for a limited time, the abatement of unpaid property taxes, penalties, and interest owed on property that would have been tax exempt except for a failure to comply with certain tax exemption procedures. Effective: September 24, 1999

HB 29 POLICE ORDERS (Grendell) Increases the penalty for "failure to comply with an order or signal of a police officer" regarding the dangerous operation of a motor vehicle. Effective: October 29, 1999

HB 32 SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS (Jolivette) Permits school districts to purchase electronic textbooks under the same conditions as textbooks are purchased and permits school districts to furnish electronic textbooks to students in lieu of traditional textbooks provided the electronic textbooks are furnished free of charge. Effective: May 25, 1999

HB 35 WORK CAMPS (Taylor) Eliminates the requirement that a person who maintains a work camp pay to a municipal corporation, township or county where the camp is located any expenses caused by contagious or infectious diseases that originate or exist in the camp and declares an emergency. Effective: June 17, 1999

HB 37 RECKLESS HOMICIDE (Taylor) Creates the offense of reckless homicide. Effective: September 29, 1999

HB 48 LAND CONVEYANCE (Patton) Authorizes the conveyance of two parcels of state-owned real estate in Mahoning County to Carl Vaccar and Robin S. Vaccar. Effective: October 20, 1999

HB 55 UNCLAIMED PROPERTY (Schuler) Permits municipal police departments of dispose of certain unclaimed property by donating it to public agencies or nonprofit organizations. Effective: September 29, 1999

HB 58 DECLARATORY JUDGMENTS (Womer Benjamin) Prohibits an award of attorney's fees under the Declaratory Judgments Law unless a statute expressly authorizes the award in connection with a claim for declaratory relief under that Law or unless an award of attorney's fees is authorized by the Frivolous Conduct Law, the Civil Rules, or an award of punitive or exemplary damages; prohibits injured parties or their legal representatives from commencing a declaratory relief action or another type of civil action based on liability insurance coverage against an insurance company until a judgment for damages has been awarded against an insured tortfeasor; specifies the binding legal effect of a judgment rendered in a declaratory relief action between an insured and an insurance company relative to the coverage of a liability insurance policy upon the insured's assignees and certain judgment creditors and permits insurance companies to assert against certain judgment creditors coverage defenses generally available against insureds under liability insurance policies. Effective: September 24, 1999

HB 59 PROBATE LAWS (Womer Benjamin) Revises the Probate Laws, changes the name of the Charitable Foundations Section of the Attorney General's office to the Charitable Law Section, exempts grandparents from specified adoption requirements, and eliminates the generally required bond for an administrator or executor of an estate who is the sole beneficiary of the estate. Effective: October 29, 1999

HB 60 POSTJUDGMENT INTEREST (Womer Benjamin) Eliminates the condition that the state must have appealed a judgment or determination in a civil action not based on tortious conduct in order for a prevailing claimant on appeal to recover specified postjudgment interest. Effective: March 17, 2000

HB 61 LICENSE SUSPENSION (Womer Benjamin) Provides that a judge may impose a pretrial suspension of the driver's or commercial driver's license of a person who is charged with the offense of aggravated vehicular homicide, vehicular homicide that is a felony, or aggravated vehicular assault if the judge determines that the person's continued driving will be a threat to public safety, and enhances the penalty for vehicular homicide if the offender was under license suspension or revocation at the time of the offense. Effective: August 25, 1999

HB 62 PRISONER RIGHTS (Coughlin) Regulates the receipt and retention of specified inflammatory materials and other types of materials by prisoners in state correctional institutions. Effective: November 3, 1999

HB 71 PATIENT BEHAVIOR (Vesper) With regard to actions by mental health professionals and organizations to predict, warn of, or take precautions to prevent the violent behavior of mental health clients or patients. Effective: September 15, 1999

HB 76 LOCAL DEBT LIMIT (Brading) Exempts from the calculation of a subdivision's debt limit a specified portion of the principal amount of securities issued for permanent improvements if payments in lieu of taxes are pledged to repay those securities. Effective: November 3, 1999

HB 78 GENERAL CORPORATION LAW (Womer Benjamin) Modifies the General Corporation Law, including modifications to alter the requirements for the formation of a corporation, including the contents of the articles of incorporation, the terms of and subscription for shares, and the adoption of corporate regulations; specifies limits on pre-emptive rights to shareholders; specifies the rights of fractional shareholders; specifies the liability of shareholders to the corporation and its creditors; specifies the determination of the date for measuring the effect of a dividend or distribution on a corporation; specifies a record date for determining the eligibility of shareholders for a dividend or distribution; specifies the authority of incorporators, initial directors and subsequent directors of a corporation to amend the articles of incorporation and makes nonsubstantive technical modifications to the law. Effective: March 17, 2000

HB 80 OMVI VEHICLE FORFEITURE (Coughlin) Requires the criminal forfeiture to the state of the motor vehicle a person was operating at the time the person committed a third state or local OMVI offense within a six-year period, rather than the impoundment of the motor vehicle for 180 days. Effective: June 8, 2000

HB 86 ACCIDENT SCENES (Bateman) Requires the driver of a motor vehicle, upon approaching a stationary public safety vehicle that is displaying its red or blue emergency light, to proceed with due caution and, if possible and with due regard to the road, weather, and traffic conditions, change lanes into a lane that is not adjacent to that of the stationary public safety vehicle or, if it is not possible to change lanes or if to do so would be unsafe, proceed with due caution, reduce the speed of the motor vehicle, and maintain a safe speed for the road, weather, and traffic conditions; establishes that a person who owns or more vehicles that are subject to regulation by the Public Utilities Commission may not administer vehicle inspections of the person's vehicle; specifies that the Department of Transportation road and highway contracts are not subject to the general public improvements requirement for separate bids for certain classes of work; extends until August 1, 1999, the deadline for the task force studying the Bureau of Motor Vehicles' existing method of random selection to verify financial responsibility to complete its duties; and declares an emergency. Effective: June 29, 1999 (Certain sections on other dates)

HB 87 SAFETY/HYGIENE PRACTICE/NURSES (Bateman) Prohibits persons from using certain titles relating to the practice of occupational safety or the practice of industrial hygiene unless they meet specified requirements, establishes those requirements, and establishes requirements for the administration of intravenous therapy by licensed practice nurses. Effective: September 24, 1999

HB 90 ALTERNATIVE MEDICAL TREATMENT (Terwilleger) Permits physicians to use alternative medical treatments if the care is reasonable when compared to conventional medical care, the patient provides informed consent, and the treatment is consistent with the standards enforced by the State Medical Board. Effective: October 10, 2000

HB 91 TOWNSHIP PARTIONING (Terwilleger) Provides that a township reduced at the request of a municipal corporation to less than 22 square miles may continue as a reduced township unless a petition is filed by the township electors and changes the procedure for partitioning a township. Effective: November 3, 1999

HB 92 TAX LEVY APPROVAL (Terwilleger) Permits a simple majority of voters at a special election to approve certain tax levies. Effective: October 20, 1999

HB 93 CHILD LABOR (Terwilleger) Exempts minors aged 16 and 17 from having to provide an age and schooling certificate to be employed during a specified seasonal period at a seasonal amusement or recreational establishment. Effective: May 25, 1999

HB 99 TAX REFUND INTEREST (Young) Eliminates the payment of interest by a taxpayer on certain excess refunds of state income or corporation franchise taxes. Effective: September 29, 1999

HB 100 FELONIOUS ASSAULT (Young) Includes within the offense of felonious assault a prohibition against any person, who knows that the person tested positive for HIV, engaging in sexual conduct with a minor or an unsuspecting adult partner, and requires that a person arrested for violating that prohibition be tested for HIV under certain circumstances. Effective: March 23, 2000

HB 101 LABOR REQUIREMENTS (Young) Prohibits public authorities from imposing certain labor requirements as a condition of performing public works. This bill was allowed to become effective without the governor's signature. Effective: October 11, 1999

HB 105 MUNICIPAL JUDGESHIP (Bateman) Adds an additional judge to the Clermont County Municipal Court. Effective: July 29, 1999

HB 107 ATHLETE AGENTS (Tiberi) Establishes a system for the registration and regulation of athlete agents. Effective: March 22, 2001

HB 116 SCHOOL CURRICULUM (Harris) Requires school districts to devote time on or about Veterans' Day to an observance that would convey the meaning and significance of that day. Effective: November 3, 1999

HB 118 VETERAN DEFINITION (Maier) Includes in the definition of veteran for certain purposes an individual who served as a member of the United States Merchant Marine, Army Transport Service or Naval Transport Service and either has an honorable report of separation from the active duty military service or died during active duty while serving in a war zone during World War II. Effective: March 17, 2000

HB 119 CAMPAIGN FINANCE (Amstutz) Provides for the electronic filing of campaign finance statements beginning Jan. 1, 2001; requires the secretary of state to make available on the Internet contribution and expenditure information from all statements filed electronically or otherwise; makes changes to the Ohio Elections Commission Law; continues existing provisions of the Campaign Finance Reporting Law pertaining to the use of personal funds and what funds may be "carried into" an election; makes other changes in the Elections Law and declares an emergency. Effective: December 22, 1999

HB 121 ASTHMA INHALERS (Gardner) Permits students of school districts, community schools, and chartered nonpublic schools to carry asthma inhalers approved by the students' physicians and parents and grants immunity to school districts, community schools, and chartered nonpublic schools and their employees for good faith actions in connection with this permission. Effective: November 3, 1999

HB 122 REBUTTABLE PRESUMPTION (Cates) Provides a rebuttable presumption that the proximate cause of an injury of an employee, who, through a blood, breath, or urine test, tests positive for the use of alcohol or a controlled substance not prescribed by a physician, is the alcohol or controlled substance. Effective: April 10, 2001

HB 123 VANITY PLATE FEES (Cates) Eliminates the additional fee that a person pays to compensate the Bureau of Motor Vehicles for additional services when issuing special license plates to those who served in certain combat zones and when renewing the registration of a motor vehicle bearing such license plates. Effective: October 29, 1999

HB 128 OHIO WORKS FIRST (Boyd) Creates for a period of six months the Employment Disqualification Study Committee to study provisions of the Revised Code that disqualify persons who are convicted of or plead guilty to certain offenses from obtaining specified employment, contracts, or licensing or from being permitted to perform specific duties, determines the impact of those provisions on the Ohio Works First program, seeks federal funds to assist in conducting the study, and, within six months after this act's effective date, to make recommendations to the General Assembly regarding possible revisions to those provisions, and declares an emergency. Effective: July 28, 1999

HB 137 EMERGENCY SITES (Carey) Extends the offenses of disrupting public services and misconduct at an emergency to activities of emergency medical services personnel; increases the penalties for misconduct at an emergency and obstructing official business if risk of physical harm is involved; increases the penalty for disorderly conduct if committed in the presence of certain authorized persons performing duties at the scene of an emergency; and specifies that "pattern of conduct" in menacing by stalking includes actions obstructing a public official's, firefighter's rescuer's or emergency medical services person's performance of authorized acts; increases the penalty for menacing by stalking in specified circumstances; permits the denial of bail for a person accused of menacing by stalking in circumstances in which it is a felony and revises who may request, or be protected by, an anti-stalking temporary protection order or domestic violence temporary protection order. Effective: March 10, 2000

HB 138 TRAUMA CARE (Schuck) Provides quality assurance for adult and pediatric trauma care and makes other changes in the laws regarding emergency medical services and fire services. Effective: November 3, 2000

HB 148 HANDICAPPED PARKING (Williams) Increases the penalties for a violation of the special parking privileges established for persons with certain disabilities and makes changes in the application process for removable windshield placards. Effective: July 15, 1999 (Certain sections later)

HB 152 EMERGENCY PHONE ASSESSMENT (Logan) Provides for a monthly charge not exceeding 50-cents on telephone access lines to fund the operating and equipment costs of establishing and maintaining no more than one public safety answering point of a countywide 9-1-1 system that previously lacked funding. Effective: September 21, 2000

HB 157 PRIMARY ELECTION (Cates) 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 March. Effective: September 20, 1999

HB 160 DRIVER EDUCATION (Logan) Eliminates the $50 limit on the course fee that a board of education may charge a pupil enrolled in a driver education course. Effective: October 29, 1999

HB 161 CHARITABLE TRUSTS (Womer Benjamin) Enacts the "Institutional Trust Funds Act" to define income and establish spending standards for trust assets that are held for the benefit of charities. Effective: September 15, 1999

HB 162 CHILD ABUSE (Salerno) Expands the offense of murder to also prohibit causing the death of another as a proximate result of committing a specified child abuse-related offense; creates the offense of permitting child abuse; and includes the new offense and the offense of endangering children in certain circumstances as offenses of violence. Effective: August 25, 1999

HB 163 TRANSPORTATION BUDGET (Core) Makes appropriations for programs related to transportation and public safety for the biennium beginning July 1, 1999 and ending June 30, 2001 and provides authorization and conditions for the operation of those programs. Effective: July 1, 1999

HB 167 ARCHITECT RECIPROCITY (Healy) Permits reciprocity of licensure in this state for architects who are registered in another jurisdiction if that jurisdiction offers similar reciprocity for architects registered in this state and the applicant meets specified criteria. Effective: October 29, 1999

HB 176 CHILD DAY-CARE (Winkler) Revises the law governing custody in child protection cases, eliminates the requirement that a copy of an adoption decree by forwarded to the Department of Human Services, and authorizes the use of child day-care providers located in states bordering Ohio for publicly funded child day-care. Effective: October 29, 1999

HB 177 UTILITY SERVICES (Goodman) Prohibits any person from switching a consumer's provider of natural gas or public telecommunications service without first obtaining the consumer's verified consent and provides various remedies and penalties for violations. Effective: May 17, 2000

HB 178 BOARD OF EDUCATION (Williams) Removes the prohibition against an employee or officer of a public or private college, university, or other institution of higher education from serving on the State Board of Education. Effective: September 13, 1999

HB 180 WORKERS' COMP BUDGET (Corbin) Makes appropriations for the Bureau of Workers' Compensation for the biennium beginning July 1, 1999, and ending June 30, 20001, and provides authorization and conditions for the operation of the Bureau of Workers' Compensation programs. Appropriations sections effective July 1, 1999 (Certain sections on August 6, 1999)

HB 181 INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION BUDGET (Corbin) Makes appropriations for the Industrial Commission for the biennium beginning July 1, 1999, and ending June 30, 2001. Appropriations sections effective July 1, 1999 (Certain sections on August 6, 1999)

HB 185 COUNTY BUDGET COMMISSIONS (Myers) Relative to alternative apportionment of the undivided local government fund and undivided local government revenue assistance fund by a county budget commission and declares an emergency. Effective: July 26, 1999

HB 186 PERS CREDIT (Jolivette) Changes the method of computing the cost of purchasing military service credit for eligible members of the Public Employees Retirement System and permits PERS and School Employees Retirement System retirants to authorize dues checkoffs on behalf of certain organizations composed of retired public employees. Effective: March 17, 2000 (Section 145.564 is effective March 17, 2001)

HB 187 TOWNSHIP GOVERNMENT (Olman) Refers to townships that have adopted the limited self-government form of township government as "limited home rule government" townships, makes changes in the laws governing those townships, permits any township, for specified purposes, to issue securities or change the provisions for issuing debt, changes the composition and voting practices of county planning commissions, authorizes townships to reimburse officers and employees for certain health care premiums and changes the Subdivision Law to give townships notice of proposed changes. Effective: September 20, 1999

HB 189 MUNICIPAL POPULATION COUNT (Taylor) Excludes persons under detention in a detention facility from persons counted to determine the population of a municipal corporation for purposes of classifying the municipal corporation as a village or a city. Effective: October 29, 1999

HB 191 CHILD CUSTODY (Clancy) Denies custody and visitation rights to, and terminates existing custody or visitation rights of, a parent who has been convicted of aggravated murder, murder, or involuntary manslaughter of the other parent of the child. Effective: October 20, 1999

HB 194 HOUSING TAX EXEMPTION (Jones) Exempts from taxation residential real property constructed or rehabilitated and held by a nonprofit charitable organization for the purpose of transferring the property to qualified low-income families. Effective: November 24, 1999

HB 197 SLUDGE DISPOSAL (Krebs) Authorizes the Director of Environmental Protection to issue permits for the use, storage, treatment, or disposal of sludge and sludge materials, imposes an annual sludge fee, and otherwise regulates sludge and sludge materials. Effective: March 17, 2000

HB 202 RECORDS TAMPERING (Winkler) Prohibits substituting adulterating or altering any dangerous drug or any package or receptacle containing dangerous drugs, prohibits in certain circumstances treatment in lieu of conviction for a person charged with violating the new prohibition, makes changes in the law relative to the offense of menacing by stalking and declares an emergency. Effective: February 9, 2000 (Section 2903.211 on another date)

HB 203 EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS (Wilson) Prohibits an employer from terminating an employee who is a volunteer firefighter or a volunteer provider of emergency medical services when that employee misses or is late to work because of an emergency to which the employee was dispatched as a volunteer firefighter or volunteer provider of emergency medical services. Effective: March 15, 2001

HB 204 JOINT FIRE DISTRICTS/FIREWORKS (Schuler) Permits the political subdivisions that comprise a joint fire district to pay the district's charges for ambulance or emergency medical services provided to their respective residents under certain circumstances, permits a fee to be charged for false fire alarms from residential buildings to townships or fire districts, and extends to December 15, 2002 the general moratorium on the issuance of new licenses to manufacturers or wholesalers of fireworks and on approvals of the transfer of their licenses to other locations. Effective: November 16, 1999

HB 205 TORT IMMUNITY (Corbin) Amends the definition of "governmental function" in the political subdivision tort immunity law to include the operation of all types of aquatic facilities. Effective: September 24, 1999

HB 216 RECREATION BOARDS (Buchy) Changes the residency requirements of the representatives that a board of education appoints to a recreation board. Effective: March 10, 2000

HB 220 SCHOOL DISTRICT ACCOUNTS (Householder) Permits school districts to establish petty cash accounts to be accessed by district officials by check or debit card; changes the time period for local public officials to deposit public moneys; decreases the frequency with which subdivisions must designate their public depositories; permits subdivisions to change the designated depositories under certain circumstances; exempts school district-issued securities from debt limits to the extent certain payments in lieu of taxes are pledged to repaying the securities; requires school boards to advertise for bids for construction contracts at least two consecutive weeks instead of four consecutive weeks; modifies the terms of school district lease-purchase agreements for buildings and permits joint vocational school districts to enter into such agreements. Effective: November 2, 1999

HB 221 MANDATED BENEFIT REPORT (Van Vyven) Requires, under certain circumstances, the Legislative Budget Officer to arrange for independent healthcare actuarial reviews of bills that include a mandated benefit and makes an appropriation. Effective: January 1, 2001 (Certain sections on July 20, 2000)

HB 222 POLICE/FIREMEN'S FUND (Van Vyven) Changes the name of the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund to the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund and the name of the Firemen and Policemen's Death Benefit Fund to the Ohio Public Safety Officers Death Benefit Fund. Effective: November 2, 1999

HB 223 FOOD SERVICE (Terwilleger) Makes changes in the laws pertaining to food service operations and requires the licensing of retail food establishments. Effective: November 3, 1999 (Certain sections February 1, 2001)

HB 225 FIREFIGHTER LICENSE PLATE (Sykes) Creates a special International Association of Firefighters license plate. Effective: October 27, 2000

HB 228 BALLOT PRODUCTION (Willamowski) Allows a board of elections to have a reduced number of ballots prepared for an election and requires a board that so chooses to supply additional ballots to a precinct on demand. Effective: October 29, 1999

HB 235 REAL ESTATE AUCTION (Perz) Authorizes the Director of Administrative Services to offer for sale at public auction certain state-owned real estate located in Lucas County. Effective: October 29, 1999

HB 238 PUPIL SERVICES EMPLOYEES (Womer Benjamin) Authorizes school districts and educational service centers to employ under administrative contracts individuals licensed as pupil services employees or administrative specialists or their equivalent who are not school counselors and spend less than 50% of their time teaching or working with students and declares an emergency. Effective: June 8, 1999

HB 241 PRESCRIPTIVE AUTHORITY (Hollister) Permits certified registered nurse anesthetists, clinical nurse specialists, certified nurse-midwives, and certified nurse practitioners to prescribe drugs and therapeutic devices. Effective: May 17, 2000

HB 242 CHILD SUPPORT (Jones) Requires a court to grant relief from a final judgment, order, or administrative determination that determines paternity or requires the payment of child support and prohibits an award of arrearages for child support for the failure to support a child prior to the date the court issues an order requiring a parent to pay current support of a child if the parent had no knowledge of his alleged paternity of the child and the child is three years of age or older. Effective: October 27, 2000

HB 261 HEALTH INSURANCE LIABILITY (Roman) Repeals the scheduled repeal of the laws that establish qualified immunity from civil liability for health care providers that provide free health care services to indigent and uninsured persons and extends that immunity to retired dentists and dental hygienists who provide free dental services to such persons. Effective: June 8, 2000

HB 262 TAX MATERIALS (Roman) Prohibits the Department of Taxation from putting social security numbers on the outside of materials mailed to taxpayers, makes changes to the law regarding the adoption of a tax budget by taxing units that do not levy taxes, and allows the Ohio coal tax credit to be taken for additional compliance facilities. Effective: June 8, 2000 (Section 5733.39 effective January 1, 2002)

HB 263 RENTED PROPERTY THEFT (Cates) Expands the activities that may be considered evidence of an intent to commit theft of rented property. Effective: April 10, 2001

HB 264 CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS (Salerno) Substitutes the term "disability" for the term "handicap" in the law pertaining to the Ohio Civil Rights Commission and certain other related laws. Effective: March 17, 2000

HB 268 SCHOOL INCOME TAX (Krebs) Clarifies that the ballot language concerning renewal of school district income tax include a statement that the proposed tax is a renewal, allows school district emergency levies to be placed on the ballot at specified special elections regardless of whether a primary election is scheduled, permits school districts to proposed the renewal of more than one property tax levy in a single ballot measure, and declares an emergency. Effective: August 16, 1999

HB 275 OPFPF BENEFITS (Vesper) Increases benefits paid to surviving spouses of members of members of the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund and eliminates the eligibility limits for cost-of-living allowances that apply to certain OPFPF members. Effective: March 17, 2000

HB 280 ADULT CARE (James) Designates April 18 as Exemplary Adult Care Provider Day. Effective: March 22, 2001

HB 281 SCHOOL AGE (Hartnett) Requires a child under the age of six who attends kindergarten to be considered of compulsory school age. Effective: October 29, 1999

HB 282 EDUCATION BUDGET (Thomas) Makes appropriations for education programs for the biennium beginning July 1, 1999 and ending June 30, 2001 and provides authorization and conditions for the operation of those programs. Effective: June 29, 1999 (Certain sections on other dates)

HB 283 BIENNIAL BUDGET (Thomas) Makes operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 1999 and ending June 30, 2001 and provides authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs. Effective: June 30, 1999 (Certain sections on other dates)

HB 287 NAMED HIGHWAYS/TRAC (Padgett) Designates U.S. route 23, from the junction with IR-475 to the Michigan border, as the "General Walter Churchill Highway", modifies the conflict of interest standards applicable to members of the Transportation Review Advisory Council, designates U.S. Route 36, between the municipal corporations of Coshocton and the boundary of Coshocton and Tuscarawas counties, as the "William Green Memorial Highway", designates SR 800, within the community of Hendrysburg in Belmont County only, as the "William 'Hopalong Cassidy' Boyd Memorial Highway", and designates U.S. 36, between the boundary of Coshocton and Tuscarawas counties and IR 77, and between the boundary of Champaign and Miami counties and the Indiana border the "Korean War Veterans' Memorial Highway." Effective: November 2, 1999

HB 292 ATTORNEY'S FEES (Willamowski) Provides for the enforceability of commitments to pay attorney's fees in commercial contracts of indebtedness. Effective: May 11, 2000

HB 294 COURT COSTS (Willamowski) Relative to the collection of amounts due under judgments for court costs. Effective: August 29, 2000

HB 297 ALSTON HIGHWAY (Krebs) Designates State Route 177, within the community of Darrtown in Butler County only, as the "Walter 'Smokey' Alston Memorial Highway. Effective: November 22, 1999

HB 306 WATERCRAFT SALES (Carey) Provides that a place of business that is used for selling, displaying, offering for sale, or dealing in motor vehicles by a licensed new motor vehicle dealer shall be considered as used exclusively for those purposes even though outdoor power equipment, watercraft and related products, or in the case of a licensed new motor vehicle dealer, products manufactured or distributed by a motor vehicle manufacturer with which the motor vehicle dealer has a franchise agreement, are sold or displayed there, modifies eligibility for issuance of a motor vehicle placard used by persons other than manufacturers, dealers, or distributors, reduces from ten to seven years the length of time that a clerk of court of common pleas is required to retain watercraft certificates of title, creates the definition of a watercraft dealer for purposes of the Watercraft Law, and requires a person who leases, hires, or rents a powercraft powered by more than ten horsepower to sign a statement, rather than an affidavit, that the person has successfully complete an approved boater safety course or a proficiency examination. Effective: November 22, 1999 (Certain sections January 1, 2000)

HB 309 MEMORIAL HIGHWAY (Trakas) Designates State Route 60 in Ashland County only, the "Thomas A. Van Meter Memorial Highway." Effective: November 3, 1999

HB 312 LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (Salerno) Eliminates the requirement that articles of organization of a limited liability company specify an address for obtaining copies of the company's operating agreement or company bylaws and that the articles must be amended if that address is changed; eliminates certain distribution rights of a member upon withdrawal from the company and instead to treat the withdrawing member as an assignee of the member's membership interest in the company; specifies that the withdrawal of a member does not dissolve a limited liability company if certain requirements are satisfied and declares an emergency. Effective: December 3, 1999

HB 313 PROBATE (Salerno) Permits, without appointing a fiduciary or following release from administration procedures, the transfer of titled assets of a decedent to certain persons who pay or are obligated to pay the decedent's funeral expenses; permits any person, entity, or organization to be a beneficiary of a POD bank account; removes the requirement that the value of the two automobiles that a decedent's surviving spouse may select from the decedent's estate be determined by an appraisal and permits the surviving spouse to select a truck under that law even if the decedent owned an automobile; extends the statutory exemption to the doctrine of ademption to a sale of specifically devised or bequeathed property by an agent acting under a power of attorney or durable power of attorney; specifies the circumstances under which a spendthrift provision in a trust that holds property granted to a skip person and qualifying as a nontaxable gift for purposes of the federal generation-skipping transfer tax would or would not cause a forfeiture or postponement of an interest in that property and permits an owner of an interest in real property to designate on a deed one or more beneficiaries to take title to the interest upon the death of a grantee under the deed without having to go through probate. Effective: August 29, 2000

HB 315 TOWNSHIP ROADS (Haines) Authorizes township trustees to enter into a contract with one or more other townships to obtain or provide road construction or maintenance services. Effective: April 5, 2001

HB 318 INTOXICATION LIABILITY (Willamowski) Relative to the criminal liability of a person who is intoxicated. Effective: October 27, 2000

HB 331 CRIMINAL SENTENCING (DePiero) Modifies the procedure pursuant to which a court of appeals may modify or vacate and remand a sentence that imposes prison terms that imposes specified types of prison terms, and delays until July 1, 2001 the date on which requirements regarding the recording of transactions involving the dispensation of distribution of nitrous oxide will become operative. Effective: October 10, 2000

HB 332 CHILD CARE TRAINING (Ford) Establishes preplacement and continuing training requirements for foster caregivers, provides for public children services agencies, private child placing agencies, and private noncustodial agencies to operate training programs, and permits a recommending agency to recommend that a foster home certificate not be renewed under certain circumstances. Effective: January 1, 2001

HB 338 REAL ESTATE APPRAISERS (Britton) Requires real estate appraisers initially to complete a course on federal, state and municipal fair housing law in order to be eligible for certification or licensure as a real estate appraiser. Effective: June 8, 2000

HB 341 ACUPUNCTURE (Schuring) Regarding the State Medical Board's authority to regulate acupuncturists, physicians, and physician assistants. Effective: August 10, 2000.

HB 349 PRISONER DRUG TESTS (Coughlin) Requires the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to establish and administer a statewide random drug testing program for prisoners; authorizes the department to contract with laboratories to perform random drug testing of prisoners in state correctional institutions; authorizes county and municipal authorities to enter into such contracts for the random drug testing of county jail prisoners and municipal prisoners; specifically permits probation authorities and the Adult Parole Authority to cause offenders on probation, suspension of sentence, community control sanction, parole or post-release control to submit to random drug testing; authorizes the imposition of a fee for the test and the imposition of bad time upon certain prisoners who fail the drug test; and increases the penalty for illegal conveyance of drugs of abuse onto the grounds of a detention facility or a mental health or mental retardation and developmental institution. Effective: September 22, 2000

HB 350 BARKING DOGS (Olman) Prohibits debarking or surgically silencing a vicious dog; prohibits the possession of a debarked or surgically silenced vicious dog; prohibits falsely attesting on a written waiver from prior to having a dog debarked or surgically silenced that the dog is not a vicious dog; provides an affirmative defense to the prohibitions created by the bill for a veterinarian who obtains before a dog is debated or surgically silenced a written waiver form attesting that the dog is not a vicious dog and increases the penalty for a subsequent violation of the dogfighting law.Effective: October 10, 2000

HB 351 PARTIAL BIRTH FETICIDE (Luebbers) Creates the offense of partial birth feticide; allows specified persons to commence a civil action for partial birth feticide, and repeals the prohibition against performing a dilation and extraction procedure on a pregnant woman and the related civil action. Effective: August 18, 2000.

HB 357 DRUG CONVEYANCE (Cates) Enhances the penalty for illegal conveyance of drugs of abuse onto the grounds of a detention facility or a mental health or mental retardation and developmental disabilities institution. Effective: August 10, 2000.

HB 360 LAND CONVEYANCE (Opfer) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate located in Ottawa County from the Ohio Department of Transportation to Paul Hemrick Jr. Effective: March 10, 2000

HB 362 TOBACCO PAYMENTS (Coughlin) Requires a tobacco product manufacturer who sells cigarettes in this state but is not part of a settlement agreement with the Attorney General to place specified amounts of money into a qualified escrow fund each year to be used to pay any future judgment or settlement on a claim brought against the manufacturer regarding tobacco products and declares an emergency. Effective: June 30, 1999

HB 364 THEFT IN OFFICE (Goodman) Provides that a series of offenses an offender commits under the theft in office statute in the offender's same employment, capacity, or relationship to another may be tried as a single offense, and that, if the series of offenses is so tried, the value of the property or services for purposes of a prosecution is the aggregate value of all property or services involved. Effective: September 14, 2000

HB 368 SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS (Schuler) Expands the types of permissible provisions of initial services plans for special improvement districts, clarifies the meaning of church property for purposes of the special improvements districts law, increases the time for providing notices to property owners under that law, and requires property owners to give transferees notices under that law. Effective: June 27, 2000

HB 378 LAND CONVEYANCE (Mead) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate in Franklin County from the Department of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities to the Friendship Baptist Church. Effective: March 10, 2000

HB 379 TOWNSHIP EMPLOYEE BENEFITS (Peterson) Provides townships with the option of offering health benefits, or cash payments in lieu of these benefits, to their officers and employees through a "cafeteria plan" meeting the requirements of the Internal Revenue Code and allows townships to authorize the making of cash payments to their officers or employees in lieu of offered insurance benefits. Effective: September 5, 2000

HB 381 DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS (Perz) Regarding the regulation of dietary supplements. Effective: March 22, 2001

HB 383 SCHOOL AGE (Brading) Permits school district boards beginning with the 2000-2001 school year to adopt the first day of August, instead of the thirtieth day of September, as the date by which a child must be five years of age to be admitted to kindergarten and six years of age to be admitted to the first grade. Effective: February 13, 2001

HB 384 MINE SAFETY/COAL TAX (Householder) Revises qualifications for membership on the Mine Examining Board, clarifies provisions governing appeals involving the Board, revises qualifications for first aid providers who must be on duty at surface mines, requires all surface miners to receive first aid training, and makes other changes governing mine safety and operation, including the elimination of certain provisions involving weighing and measuring the explosions at coal mines. Effective: November 24, 1999 (Certain sections January 1, 2002)

HB 389 LIBRARY RECORDS (Austria) Provides that library records and patron information are confidential except if the parent, guardian, or custodian of a minor child requests a library record or patron information pertaining to that child and in certain other situations. Effective: October 5, 2000

HB 400 LIBRARY BOARDS (Salerno) Permits a board of library trustees to employ legal counsel to represent the board, irrespective of whether the prosecuting attorney is able to serve or is adversely interested. Effective: August 29, 2000

HB 401 ARBITRATION LAW (Salerno) Makes certain changes applicable to commercial construction contracts in the Arbitration Law. Effective: March 15, 2001

HB 403 NURSING FACILITY GUIDE (Tiberi) Requires the publication of the Ohio Long-Term Care Consumer Guide; creates a nursing facility technical assistance program; changes the method of calculating nursing facilities' and intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded's Medicaid reimbursement rates for indirect care and capital costs; specifies in the law governing nursing homes that neglect does not include allowing a resident to receive only treatment by spiritual means through prayer in accordance with the tenets of a recognized religious denomination; requires the Department of Health to investigate valid, unresolved complaints that the State Long-Term Care Ombudsberson refers to the Department; makes an exception to the certificate of need implementation deadline and makes an appropriation. Effective: June 27, 2000 (Certain sections on September 27, 2000)

HB 405 FIREWORKS LICENSE (Trakas) Requires the suspension or revocation of the fireworks exhibitor license of a person who is convicted of violating fireworks exhibition safety standards, requires a fire chief or fire prevention officer, in consultation with a police chief, to complete a detailed checklist while inspecting the premises before a fireworks exhibition takes place to ensure compliance with all applicable statutory and rule requirements, requires the State Fire Marshal to adopt uniform standards for the stability of fireworks exhibition fireworks storage racks, and generally prohibits dismantling, repositioning or otherwise disturbing an accident site of a fireworks exhibition. Effective: October 19, 2000

HB 407 DAY CARE (Hoops) Extend the pilot project that permits persons in certain counties to provide day-care as type C family day-care homes. Effective: March 27, 2000

HB 408 PURPLE HEART HIGHWAY (Verich) Designates Interstate Route 76 the "The Military Order of the Purple Heart Memorial Highway." Effective: March 15, 2001

HB 412 MENACING/PUBLIC RECORDS (Salerno) Increases penalties for assaulting or menacing personnel of public children services agencies and private child placing agencies and declares their residential addresses to be confidential information that is not subject to disclosure by specified persons or obtainable as a part of a public record. Effective: April 10, 2001

HB 416 PERS CONTRIBUTIONS (Ford) Eliminates a provision that allowed Public Employee Retirement System members making contributions as elected officials to elect to contribute an additional amount to PERS on the basis of earnable salary as an employee of a not-for-profit corporation formed for the purpose of owning, managing, or operating a professional sports organization, clarifies that the limit prescribed in federal drug law for purchases of certain types of service credit applies to service credit purchased for service and an elected official, permits certain PERS members with at least 25 years of law enforcement service credit to retire with full benefits at age 48, and revises the law governing employee and employer contribution rates for PERS law enforcement. Effective: October 13, 2000 (Certain sections January 1, 2001)

HB 417 TOWNSHIP PARK DISTRICTS (O'Brien) Revises the Township Park District law; provides for the conversion of certain township park districts for a temporary time period and permits a township to submit a combined tax levy for recreational purposes and greenspace. Effective: September 21, 2000

HB 428 DRUG SCHEDULE (Calvert) Makes gamma-hydroxy-butyrate a schedule II controlled substance and revises the state controlled substances schedules according to federal drug laws. Effective: May 17, 2000

HB 434 CONTRACTOR CERTIFICATION (Buehrer) Requires statewide certification of specified contractors and makes additional modifications to the Construction Industry Certification Law. Effective: March 22, 2001 (Certain sections on January 1, 2002)

HB 442 SEX OFFENSES (Winkler) Renames the offense of corruption of a minor as the offense of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor and increases the penalties for that offense when the offender previously has been convicted of certain sex offenses or when the offender is ten or more years of age older than the victim of the offense. Effective: October 17, 2000

HB 448 CHILD LAWS (Metzger) Revises the law governing audits of public children services agencies, private child placing agencies and private noncustodial agencies; requires the establishment in each county or region of a board for the purpose of reviewing deaths of children under age eighteen; permits a public children services agency to employ legal counsel without the consent of the court of common pleas; establishes rules and procedures for fiscal accountability of child welfare services, establishes educational requirements for caseworkers hired by public children services agencies; makes changes to the law governing foster care; requires the Department of Job and Family Services to develop a schedule of education programs for assessors; revises the law governing how reports of child abuse or neglect are maintained; establishes the Ohio Child Welfare Training program; permits certain former employees of a public children services agency to perform the duties of an adoption assessor; permits the Counselor and Social Worker Board to seek injunctions in certain cases; changes the amount of the Children's Trust Fund that the Department of Job and Family Services and boards of county commissioners may use for administrative expenses; changes the law governing administrative agents for county family and children first councils; enacts law relative to foster caregivers adopting their foster children. Effective: October 5, 2000 (Certain sections later)

HB 452 UTILITY TAKE-OVERS (Goodman) Requires a report by the Public Utilities Commission on whether acceptance of a hostile control bid for an Ohio natural gas utility or its holding company will promote the public convenience and result in the provision of adequate utility service at a reasonable rate and declares an emergency. Effective: November 11, 1999

HB 467 PAWNBROKERS (Schuler) Revises the Pawnbroker Licensing Law. Effective: April 5, 2001

HB 470 DEPARTMENT MERGER (Harris) Transfers the functions of the Bureau of Employment Services to the Department of Job and Family Services and the Department of Commerce, renames the Department of Human Services and the county departments of human services, implements the federal "Workforce Investment Act of 1998" and makes other changes to the law governing job and family services, maintains the provisions of this act until April 1, 2001, by amending the version of section 119.03 of the Revised Code that takes effect on that date, maintains the provisions of this act on and after April 1, 2002, by amending the version of section 119.03 of the revised Code that takes effect on that date, and to make an appropriation. Effective: March 14, 2000 (Appropriation section on December 14, 1999 - Certain sections later)

HB 471 DEPARTMENT MERGER (Harris) Replaces references to the Bureau or Administrator of Employment Services with the Department of Director of Job and Family Services and the department of Commerce, replaces references to the Department or Director of Human Services with the Department or Director of Job and Family Services, replaces references to county department of human services with the county department of job and family services, replaces references to human services with family services, and maintains the provisions of this act on and after Jan. 1, 2001, by amending the versions of sections 3109.15, 3109.16 and 3109.18 of the Revised Code that take effect on that date, on and after April 1, 2001, by amending the version of section 4141.14 of the Revised Code that takes effect on that date, and on and after April 1, 2002, by amending the version of section 4141.14 of the Revised Code that takes effect on that date. Effective: July 1, 2000 (Certain sections later)

HB 473 INVESTMENT AUTHORITY (Myers) Modifies the investment authority of counties and political subdivisions relative to the types of investments made, the collateral requirements applicable to the receipt of public funds and the investment of public funds in repurchase agreements; modifies the designation period of public depositories by the State Board of Deposit and by county commissioners, and the designation authority of political subdivisions; authorizes a political subdivision or a county investment advisory committee to retain the services of an investment advisor meeting certain requirements; modifies investment recordkeeping requirements of county treasurers and authorizes electronic presentment of warrant information to a county treasurer; permits county auditors to issue, and county treasurers to redeem, electronic warrants authorizing direct deposit for payment of county obligations in accordance with rules adopted by the Auditor of State; and makes related changes. Effective: June 15, 2000

HB 476 TEMPORARY LICENSE PLACARDS (Barnes) Requires temporary license placards to bear a distinctive combination of six letters, numerals, or letters and numerals and incorporates a security feature that prevents tampering with any of the information that is entered upon a placard when it is issued. Effective: October 27, 2000

HB 477 INCOME TAX AUTHORITY (Mottley) Modifies the authority of municipal corporations to impose income taxes. Effective: July 26, 2000.

HB 479 STATE ARMORIES (Damschroder) Authorizes the Adjutant General to transfer specified parcels of state-owned real estate no longer needed for armory or military purposes to the grantor of each parcel pursuant to the reversionary clause in each parcel's deed, authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate that the Adjutant General has determined is no longer required for military or armory purposes to a buyer or buyers to be determined at a later date, and authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate known as the Blanchester Armory to Thomas J. Lagos. Effective: September 1, 2000

HB 481 ANNIE OAKLEY HIGHWAY (Buchy) Names State Route 127 in Darke County "Annie Oakley Highway." Effective: August 29, 2000

HB 483 ELECTRIC UTILITY TAXATION/SALES TAX COLLECTION (Mottley) Prescribes a uniform set of procedures and remedies regarding municipal taxation of electric light company income; provides for the collection of municipal taxes on those companies by the state and authorizes the Tax Commissioner to discuss with other states the development of a system to collect and administer sales and use taxes from remote sellers. Effective: September 21, 2000

HB 484 TRACTOR LIGHTS (Buehrer) Requires, effective one year after the effective date of this act, all multi-wheel agricultural tractors operated or traveling on a street or highway at night and certain other times to be equipped with specified lamps and reflectors that indicate the extreme left or right projections of the tractors; grants tax credits to farms and farmers up to $1,000 for the cost of equipping existing multi-wheel agricultural tractors with the required lights and reflectors; and requires vehicles operated on the public streets from sunset to sunrise to display lighted lights and illuminating devices, rather than from one-half hour after sunset to one-half hour before sunrise as specified in current law.Effective: October 5, 2000

HB 488 ELECTRONIC RECORDS (Terwilleger) Enacts the Electronic Transactions Act by providing for regulation of electronic records and signatures, provides for consumer electronic transactions and security procedures between parties, and provides for the use of electronic records and signatures by state agencies. Effective: September 14, 2000

HB 490 PUBLIC PROJECT PAYMENTS (Willamowski) Modifies the time period within which a lawsuit must be brought to recover money due to any person for labor or work performed or materials furnished in a public improvement project. Effective: February 12, 2001

HB 491 CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS (Willamowski) Specifies that a construction contract containing a provision subjecting the contract to the laws of another state is void. Effective: March 22, 2001

HB 493 DELINQUENT TAXES (Core) Provides county treasurers with greater flexibility in entering into agreements with delinquent taxpayers, authorizes county treasurers to accept partial payment of taxes under certain circumstances, authorizes county treasurers to accept partial payment of taxes under certain circumstances and makes other changes related to tax foreclosures and tax certificates. Effective: October 27, 2000

HB 494 LIVING WILLS (Womer Benjamin) Requires that certain statements in a living will or a durable power of attorney for health care be in conspicuous type instead of capital letters and makes other changes in the form of living wills and durable powers of attorney for health care. Effective: March 15, 2001

HB 495 BILL DRAFTING (Terwilleger) Requires the Legislative Service Commission to direct by rule how insertion of new matter and omission of old matter is to be indicated in bills, eliminates references to "19_" dates found in various statutory forms to permit that accurate use to the year 2000 and the future and declares an emergency. Effective: May 9, 2000 (Certain sections on July 1, 2000).

HB 496 MEMORIAL HIGHWAY (Schuler) Designates U.S. Route 250 within Harrison County only, as the "William J. Brown Memorial Highway." Effective: August 29, 2000

HB 499 AUTOPSY RECORDS (Brading) Authorizes coroners, deputy coroners, or their representatives to request medical and psychiatric records in connection with an autopsy, protects those records from disclosure as public records, and requires coroners to complete continuing education requirements. Effective: February 13, 2001

HB 502 SEX OFFENDERS (DePiero) Modifies the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Law relative to procedures for adjudicating specified imprisoned persons to be sexual predators. Effective: March 15, 2001

HB 504 VOYEURISM (Jerse) Expands the offense of voyeurism to specifically prohibit "upskirting," "downblousing," and similar types of activities.Effective: October 10, 2000

HB 505 RESPIRATORY CARE (Schuring) Revises the laws regarding the powers and duties of the Ohio Respiratory Care Board. Effective: October 27, 2000

HB 506 CHIROPRACTORS (Schuring) Revises the laws pertaining to the regulation of chiropractors. Effective: April 10, 2001

HB 508 MEDICAL RECORDS FEES (Olman) Relative to the fees health care providers and medical records companies may charge for providing copies of medical records. Effective: March 22, 2001

HB 509 UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION (Corbin) Makes changes in the Unemployment Compensation Law. Effective: September 21, 2000

HB 510 CREDIT UNION COUNCIL (Evans) Revises the qualifications and duties of members of the Credit Union Council. Effective: September 22, 2000

HB 511 ADVANCE PRACTICE NURSES (Schuring) Revises the laws regarding the practice of nursing and the licensing and enforcement duties of the Board of Nursing and establishes the confidentiality of records held by peer review and utilization review committees of long-term care facilities and immunities from civil liability related to those committees. Effective: April 10, 2001 (Certain sections on June 27, 2001)

HB 519 MARRIAGE LICENSES (Williams) Eliminates the requirement that social security numbers be included on marriage licenses; authorizes probate courts to use a reference number as an alternative to social security numbers on marriage licenses; requires probate courts, except under certain circumstances, to delete social security numbers of the parties to a marriage from records pertaining to marriage licenses when those records are made available for inspection by the public, and eliminates the limitation on the period of time after application is made during which a marriage license may be issued. Effective: February 12, 2001

HB 524 REAL ESTATE LAW (Corbin) Includes limited liability companies and limited liability partnerships in the definition of real estate broker and establishes changes in the real estate licensing law. Effective: September 22, 2000

HB 528 DRUG TRAFFICKING (Callender) Expands the drug trafficking offenses to also include a prohibition against certain acts related to the shipment, transportation, delivery, or distribution of a controlled substance for sale or resale. Effective: February 13, 2001

HB 529 RABIES REIMBURSEMENT (Taylor) Increases the cap on the amount of reimbursement that a person may receive for treatment of a rabies bite and generally limits reimbursement payments to injured persons who cannot, without deprivation of basic needs, provide for the payment of the treatment expenses themselves. Effective: October 13, 2000

HB 531 CEMETERY FEES (Hollister) Exempts certain political subdivisions from the requirement of paying a cemetery registration fee; makes changes to the law governing fees for the issuance of burial permits; revises the permissible uses of dividend and interest income from cemetery endowment care trusts; exempts family cemeteries from the requirement of maintaining an endowment care trust; revises the depository requirements for sellers of preneed cemetery merchandise and services contracts and generally exempts cemeteries owned and operated by fraternal organizations, municipal corporations or other political subdivisions of the states and national and family cemeteries, from the requirements pertaining to preneed cemetery merchandise and services contracts. Effective: September 22, 2000

HB 533 FORECLOSURES (D. Miller) Eliminates the time limit within which holders of tax certificates purchased through private sales may request foreclosure, but retain the limit on the accrual of interest on those certificates.Effective: October 10, 2000

HB 534 BIRTH DEFECTS INFORMATION (Salerno) Requires the Director of Health to establish a Birth Defects Information System and repeals the act four years after the effective date of this act in compliance with agency sunset provisions. Effective: October 5, 2000

HB 535 MARITAL PROPERTY (Willamowski) Permits a public retirement system , pursuant to a court order, to make payments to a participant's former spouse for the purpose of dividing marital property; authorizes the transfer of service credit and contributions between the Cincinnati Retirement System and Ohio's state retirement systems; makes changes to the alternative requirement program available to academic and administrative employees of public institutions of higher education and makes other changes to the law governing Ohio's state retirement systems. Effective: April 1, 2001 (Certain sections January 1, 2002)

HB 537 DOMESTIC RELATIONS (Calvert) Allows a court in a domestic relations proceeding to require that children attend parenting classes or counseling with the children's parents. Effective: Octoer 5, 2000

HB 538 MENTAL RETARDATION (Calvert) Revises law governing the Department of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities and county boards of mental retardation and developmental disabilities and the law governing criminal records checks conducted by the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation. Effective: September 22, 2000

HB 539 PUBLIC RECORDS (Goodman) Excludes from the Public Records Law information pertaining to the recreational activities of a person under 18 years of age, to exclude from the exception to the definition of a "public record" certain peace officer residential and familial information, includes the Superintendent and troopers of the State Highway Patrol within the definition of a peace officer for purposes of the peace officer residential and familial information exception, and declares an emergency. Effective: June 21, 2000

HB 544 PLANNING COMMISSIONS (Peterson) Authorizes a regional or county planning commission to send certain notices by electronic mail as well as regular mail, requires a regional or county planning commission to send notices to all townships at least 30 days before a public hearing on the adoption or amendment of its rules, makes changes to the composition of county planning commissions, extends the period of time over which property owners may pay special assessments for county road improvements and the maturity of related bonds from ten to 20 years, states that the procedures for adopting resolutions in the Township Limited Home Rule Government Law apply only to resolutions adopted pursuant to that Law, increases the maximum fines for violating county and township zoning regulations from $100 to $500, temporarily permit the transfer of surplus moneys in a township artificial lighting fund to another township fund, authorizes certain county appointing authorities to county prior service with a regional council of government for the purpose of determining years of service in the accrual of earned vacation leave and for the purpose of determining the credit for unused sick leave when an employee transfers, and declares an emergency. Effective: June 14, 2000

HB 548 SUNSET REVIEW (Terwilleger) Extends the expiration date of a number of state agencies, creates the Sunset Review Committee, and terminates certain provisions of this act on Dec. 31, 2004. Effective: March 22, 2001

HB 549 PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS (Terwilleger) Modifies certain road improvement and water supply, sanitary, and drainage facilities laws to permit permanent improvements to be made more efficiently and effectively by simplifying, clarifying, and supplementing the procedures for constructing and financing them. Effective: March 12, 2001

HB 551 VIATICAL SETTLEMENTS (Salerno) Adopts the Viatical Settlements Model Act of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and makes other changes in the Securities Law, including changes relative to exempt securities, consent to service of process, application for a dealer's, investment advisor's, or salesperson's license, private civil actions seeking damages arising from the sale of a security, and expedited rulemaking authority. Effective: April 5, 2001 (Certain section on October 5, 2001)

HB 559 COURT CLERK ELECTION (Coughlin) Provides for the election of the clerk of the Barberton and Cuyahoga Falls municipal courts in a specified manner; and provides that the salary of the clerk of Lorain County Municipal Court is 85 percent of the salary of the judge of that court. Effective: September 21, 2000

HB 561 STATE LAND SALE (Salerno) Authorizes the Director of Administrative Services to convey state-owned real estate located in Franklin County to a purchaser to be determined at public auction. Effective: September 22, 2000

HB 574 TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS COMMITTEE (Krebs) Creates a joint legislative committee to study the impact of high technology start-up businesses on economic development and small businesses in Ohio. Effective: January 1, 2001

HB 583 COURT JURISDICTION (Williams) Specifies that, in Summit County, jurisdiction over paternity, custody, visitation, child support and allocation of parental rights and responsibilities for the care of children cases, over post-decree proceedings arising from those cases, and over Uniform Interstate Family Support Act proceedings generally is in the Domestic Relations Division of the Summit County Court of Common Pleas and declares an emergency. Effective: June 14, 2000

HB 585 PHYSICIAN LICENSING (Vesper) Specifies that the practice of medicine in this state includes certain activities performed in person or through the use of any communication, including oral, written, or electronic communication, establishes requirements for obtaining a telemedicine certificate, modifies the exceptions to the law governing physician licensure, requires the adoption of rules regarding authority of optometrists to delegate the performance of optometric tasks, authorizes physical therapists and athletic trainers to apply topical prescription drugs, and changes references in statutes governing the practice of medicine from "podiatry" to "podiatric medicine and surgery." Effective: April 10, 2001

HB 589 PUBLIC UTILITY TAX (Hoops) Requires public utilities to pay only the undisputed portion of property taxes if the utility disputes the Tax Commissioner's valuation, provides for notification of any disputes be given to county auditors and affected taxing districts, and allows electricity generation plants and equipment to be exempted from taxation under the enterprise zone law even if they operate during nonpeak periods and for more than one-half of a year. Effective: October 17, 2000

HB 595 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION (D. Miller) Permits occupants of housing cooperatives to apply for the homestead exemption. Effective: April 5, 2001

HB 597 NONPROFIT CORPORATION LAW (Womer Benjamin) Modifies the Nonprofit Corporation Law, including creating two new types of nonprofit corporate entities; changes references from trustees to directors; modifies membership rights, notice and voting provisions and merger provision; and makes related changes. Effective: April 10, 2001

HB 599 JUDGESHIPS (Logan) Creates the Columbiana County Municipal Court on January 1, 2002, establishes two full-time judgeships in that court; abolishes the Columbiana County Court on that date and replaces the part-time judge of the Champaign County Municipal Court with a full-time judge to be elected in 2001. Effective: January 1, 2002 (Section 1901.08 effective September 21, 2000)

HB 600 DRIVERS' LICENSE LAW/TOW FEES (Clancy) Establishes a bus safety inspection program conducted by the State Highway Patrol; revises the law governing the disclosure of personal information from records of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles; allows driver's license reciprocity with foreign countries; makes changes in Commercial Motor Vehicle Law and vehicle equipment requirements; makes other changes in the law governing drivers' licenses; creates a committee to study the feasibility of requiring insurance companies to report policy information to the Registrar of Motor Vehicles; establishes maximum vehicle dimensions for recreational vehicles; prohibits the Bureau of Motor Vehicles from disclosing the residence address of certain peace officers as contained in the Bureau's records if the officer requests that the information be confidential; makes changes to the Public Utilities Commission inspection program for vehicles transporting passengers; increases the towing and storage fees that must be paid when a person claims a motor vehicle that has been ordered into storage by a law enforcement official or removed from a private tow-away zone; makes an appropriation for the Bus Inspection Program and declares an emergency. Effective: September 1, 2000 (Certain sections effective June 1, 2000)

HB 601 MINERAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (Vesper) Creates the Division of Mineral Resources Management in the Department of Natural Resources by combining the Division of Mines and Reclamation with the Division of Oil and Gas, transfers responsibility for the control of shore erosion along Lake Erie from the Division of Engineering to the Division of Water in that department, and declares an emergency. Effective: June 14, 2000

HB 607 TRAIN WARNINGS (Robinson) Allows the use of the alternative audible warning system signaling the approach of a locomotive engine, subject to approval by the Public Utilities Commission. Effective: October 27, 2000

HB 611 WORKERS' COMPENSATION (Cates) Requires the Administrator of Workers' Compensation and the Industrial Commission of Ohio jointly to adopt rules governing the submission and sending of documents via electronic transmission, modifies the processing requirements for claim applications that are not written, and declares an emergency. Effective: June 14, 2000

HB 612 TAXPAYER SERVICES (Jolivette) Authorizes the electronic filing of certain documents with the tax commissioner and treasurer of state, extends the time for filing petitions for reassessments, makes various charges and penalties discretionary rather than mandatory, changes the method of service of notices by the tax commissioner, authorizes the use of delivery services instead of the postal service for delivery of certain documents to the tax commissioner, board of tax appeals, and treasurer of state, redefines and specifies certain vehicles for purposes of the highway use and motor fuel taxes, establishes procedures for claiming exemptions from the use tax, and makes other changes related to the administration of the tax laws by the department of taxation. Effective: September 29, 2000

HB 617 CONSERVANCY DISTRICTS (Mottley) Updates the provisions of the Conservancy District Law for both technical and substantive purposes, including modifications to notifications and other procedures relative to appraisals, anticipatory notes, bonds, and assessments. Effective: September 21, 2000

HB 620 SCHOOL EXPULSIONS (Cates) Permits a school district board to adopt a resolution authorizing expulsion for up to one year of any student making a bomb threat to a school or a school activity. Effective: March 12, 2001

HB 624 MEMORIAL HIGHWAY (Netzley) Designates a portion of State Route 7 within Belmont County the "A.G. Lancione Memorial Highway." Effective: March 12, 2001

HB 625 LAND CONVEYANCE (Hartnett) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate located in Richland County to the Mansfield Reformatory Preservation Society, Inc. and authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate located in Richland County to the City of Mansfield.Effective: October 10, 2000

HB 628 PERS BENEFITS (Hollister) Increases certain benefits paid by the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS), requires PERS to establish a defined contribution retirement plan, relocates the provisions governing the Ohio Deferred Compensation Program, and requires that an employer of an Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund member respond to a request for information within a specified time period. Effective: September 21, 2000

HB 640 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS (Corbin) Makes capital appropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 2002; makes supplemental appropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 2001 and corrects and modifies authorizations and conditions established for the operation of state programs. Effective: June 15, 2000 (Certain sections later)

HB 642 STROKE PREVENTION (Clancy) Creates the Council on Stroke Prevention and Education. Effective: February 13, 2001

HB 645 AGRICULTURE (Vesper) Revises the statutes governing agriculture. Effective: March 22, 2001

HB 660 CHILD ENDANGERMENT (Winkler) Provides that a parent who deserts a child under 72 hours old in accordance with certain procedures does not commit any criminal offense in this state and may not be subject to criminal prosecution for deserting the child. Effective: April 9, 2001

HB 661 PRISON NURSERIES/PRISONER TRANSPORT (Winkler) Permits the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to establish a prison nursery program permitting certain incarcerated women and the children born to them while incarcerated to reside together in an institution operated by the Department; specifically authorizes county sheriffs and the Adult Parole Authority to contract with any private person or entity, subject to specified criteria, for the return of Ohio prisoners from outside of Ohio into Ohio; and specifically include within the definition of "detention" a prisoner's confinement in any vehicle, airplane, or place while being returned to Ohio under such a contract. Effective: March 15, 2001

HB 672 MANUFACTURED HOUSING (Peterson) Specifies the application date of certain provisions of Am.Sub.SB142 of the 122nd General Assembly and makes other clarifications regarding the taxation of manufactured and mobile homes. Effective: April 9, 2001

HB 701 DOG REGISTRATION (Peterson) Authorizes county auditors to allow for the registration of dogs via the Internet and accept the payment of dog registration fees by financial transaction devices. Effective: April 9, 2001

HB 705 TOWNSHIP MONUMENTS (Aslanides) Permits township trustees, on their own initiative, to erect a monument commemorating deceased members of the armed forces and increases the maximum appropriation for the monument from $500 to $5,000. Effective: April 10, 2001

HB 711 STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION (Brading) Enacts as a separate act the sections of law adding eight members appointed by the Governor to the State Board of Education. Effective: October 5, 2000

HB 712 PAY RAISES (HOOPS) Increases the compensation of county elected officials, township trustees and clerks, members of boards of election, judges and justices of the courts, statewide elected executive officials, and members of the General Assembly; reduces the number of population classifications used to determine the compensation of county elected officials; permits the presiding judge of certain municipal courts to set the compensation of the court's clerk if the court's revenues during the preceding calendar year equal or exceed the expenditures for the court's operation during that year and declares an emergency. Effective: December 8, 2000 (Certain sections January 1, 2002)

HB 714 HEALTH INSURERS (Evans) Applies, with modifications, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' Risk-Based Capital for Insurers Model Act to health insuring corporations. Effective: March 15, 2001

HB 724 SEXUAL ACTIVITY (Austria) Expands the offense of importuning so that it prohibits soliciting another by means of a computer or telecommunications device to engage in sexual activity under specified circumstances; increases the penalty for that offense in certain circumstances and enhances the penalty for pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor in specified circumstances. Effective: March 22, 2001

HB 730 BAIL BOND AGENTS (Goodman) Relative to the regulation of surety bail bond agents and the apprehension or arrest of a principal on bond. Effective: October 9, 2001 (Certain sections April 9, 2001).

HB 738 MEMORIAL DAY (Brading) Corrects a reference to federal law in the Ohio laws designating Memorial Day as a state holiday. Effective: April 10, 2001

HB 740 TUITION WAIVERS (Gardner) Waives tuition payments for children and spouses of public service officers killed in the line of duty. Effective: March 22, 2001

HB 768 PRIVATE/PUBLIC SCHOOLS (Gardner) Expands the use of computer hardware and instructional materials purchased by school districts for use by students enrolled in nonpublic schools within the districts, permits all nonpublic auxiliary services to be delivered through contracts with educational service centers; permits the Department of Education to make payments to school districts for auxiliary services and payments to chartered nonpublic schools for reimbursement of mandated service costs without submission of disbursement requests to the Controlling Board for approval; specifies the duration of educators licenses for substitute teaching; requires the State Board of Education to issue provisional licenses to certain individuals working toward masters degrees in speech-language pathology and to qualify them for waivers of examination and academic requirements by the Board of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and declares an emergency. Effective: December 14, 2000

HB 769 STATE AUDITS (Mettler) Changes the law governing the Auditor of State's audits of public offices. Effective: March 12, 2001

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