Each Monday morning, BASA posts a “tracking” of all Ohio House and Senate bills which the staff is monitoring. Listed in numerical order, each listed bill identifies the sponsor and features a brief caption about content. A complete history of the bill shows the dates on which official action was taken on the piece of legislation. A link to supplementary information may also be available within each bill.
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House Bills
HB21
INTERNET-BASED
COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (COMBS C) To allow new Internet- or
computer-based community schools to open under certain conditions, to require
the use of student performance data in evaluating teachers and principals for
licensure.
Current
Status:
4/27/2011
- SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 7/29/11
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
3319.22,
3319.223, 3319.227
HB30
SCHOOL
FUNDING
(GARDNER R) To eliminate spending and reporting requirements related to
the school funding system, to abolish the School Funding Advisory Council, to
eliminate the requirement that school districts offer all-day kindergarten.
DRIVER
EDUCATION COURSES (SEARS B) To require the classroom and
behind-the-wheel instruction that is given to minors in driver education
courses to include instruction on proper techniques that noncommercial motor
vehicle operators use to share roads with commercial trucks.
Current
Status:
2/9/2011
- House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (First Hearing)
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
4508.02
HB36
SCHOOL
CALAMITY DAYS
(KOZLOWSKI C, CAREY, JR. J) To excuse up to five, instead of three,
calamity days for the 2010-2011 school year, to broaden schools' authority to
make up calamity days by lengthening remaining days in the school year, and
to declare an emergency.
Current
Status:
4/13/2011
- SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 4/13/2011
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
3313.482,
3314.08, 3317.01
HB38
ASSAULT
OF SCHOOL SECURITY GUARD (LUCKIE II C) To impose the same
criminal penalties for assaulting a school security guard as are imposed for
assaulting a school teacher.
Current
Status:
3/30/2011
- House Criminal Justice, (Second Hearing)
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
2903.13
HB39
PROPRIETARY
SCHOOLS
(LUCKIE II C) To make changes to the laws regarding proprietary schools.
Current
Status:
2/16/2011
- House Education, (First Hearing)
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
3332.031,
3332.062, 3332.063, 3332.19, 3332.21
HB50
TYPE-II
ANNEXATION
(SNITCHLER T) To require that a political subdivision owner be included
in determining the number of owners needed to sign a petition for an
expedited type-II annexation.
Current
Status:
12/6/2011
- House Local Government, (Sixth Hearing)
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
09.023,
701.07, 701.071, 709.02
HB69
STATE
RETIREMENT SYSTEMS (WACHTMANN L) Regarding the state retirement
systems.
Current
Status:
3/23/2011
- House Health and Aging Retirement and Pensions Subcommittee, (Eleventh
Hearing)
PROVISIONAL
BALLOTS
(REECE A) To require a provisional ballot to be remade and counted for
the offices, questions, and issues for which the provisional voter was
eligible to vote if the official assisting failed to direct the voter to the
correct precinct.
Current Status:
4/12/2011
- House State Government and Elections, (First Hearing)
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
3503.19,
3505.181, 3505.182, 3505.183
HB96
DYSLEXIA (CELESTE T,
BRENNER A) To specify dyslexia as a specific learning disability and to
require a pilot project to provide early screening and intervention services
for children with dyslexia.
Current
Status:
11/29/2011
- REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, Senate Education, (Fourth Hearing)
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
3323.01,
3323.25
HB102
LABOR
REQUIREMENTS
(YOUNG R) To prohibit state agencies from requiring or prohibiting
certain labor requirements as a condition of performing public works and
prohibit appropriations of state funds for public works when political
subdivisions require labor requirements.
Current
Status:
5/11/2011
- REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, House Commerce & Labor, (Fourth
Hearing)
PARENT-TEACHER
CONFERENCE
(WILLIAMS S) To require parents of students enrolled in school districts
rated continuous improvement or lower to attend a parent-teacher conference.
Current
Status:
9/21/2011
- House Education, (First Hearing)
Comments:
None
ORC Sections:
3321.30
HB114
TRANSPORTATION
BUDGET
(MCGREGOR R) To make appropriations for programs related to
transportation and public safety for the biennium beginning July 1, 2011, and
ending June 30, 2013, and to provide authorization and conditions for the
operation of those programs.
Current Status:
7/13/2011
- HB114 had a provision amended by SB187
EDUCATIONAL
CHOICE SCHOLARSHIPS (STEBELTON G) To gradually increase to 20,000
the number of Educational Choice Scholarships awarded annually.
Current
Status:
3/2/2011
- House Education, (First Hearing)
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
3310.02
HB116
SCHOOL
ANTI-BULLYING ACT (BARNES, JR. J) To enact the School Day Security
and Anti-Bullying Act to require age-appropriate instruction on and parental
notification of public schools' policies prohibiting harassment,
intimidation, or bullying.
Current
Status:
12/6/2011
- Senate Education, (Second Hearing)
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
3313.666,
3313.667
HB121
ACTIVE
MILITARY SERVICE PARENTS (ROSENBERGER C) Regarding child
custody and visitation rights of parents called to active military service.
Current
Status:
6/9/2011
- SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 6/9/2011
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
3109.04,
3109.051
HB135
FREE
SCHOOL MEAL BENEFITS (BURKE D) To require direct certification of
students for free school meal benefits at least five times each school year.
Current
Status:
3/16/2011
- House Education, (Second Hearing)
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
3313.813,
3314.18
HB136
PARENTAL
CHOICE AND TAXPAYER SAVINGS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM (HUFFMAN
M) To proreplace the Educational Choice and the Cleveland scholarship
program with the Parental Choice and Taxpayer Savings Scholarship Program.
Current Status:
9/21/2011
- REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, House Education, (Eighth Hearing)
UNIFORM
DEFINITION OF EMPLOYEE (PHILLIPS D, DRIEHAUS D) To create a
generally uniform definition of employee for specified labor laws and to
create a uniform standard to determine whether an individual performing
services for an employer is an employee of that employer.
Current Status:
5/25/2011
- House Commerce & Labor, (First Hearing)
BIENNIAL
BUDGET
(AMSTUTZ R) To make operating appropriations for the biennium beginning
July 1, 2011, and ending June 30, 2013, and to provide authorization and
conditions for the operation of state programs.
Current
Status:
6/30/2011
- SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Effective 6/30/2011; some sections different
dates, 7 line item vetos
SCHOOL
BULLYING POLICIES (FEDOR T, GARLAND N) To enact the "Jessica
Logan Act" to require that public school bullying policies prohibit
bullying by electronic means and address certain acts that occur off school
property and to require staff training on the bullying policy.
Current
Status:
5/25/2011
- House Education, (Second Hearing)
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
3313.666,
3313.667, 3319.073
HB157
TEACHER
DEVELOPMENT ON DYSLEXIA (SCHURING K, LETSON T) To authorize
educational service centers to provide teacher professional development on
dyslexia.
Current
Status:
12/6/2011
- Senate Education, (Fifth Hearing)
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
3319.80
HB164
COMMUNITY
SCHOOL FOR INCARCERATED ADULTS (BLESSING L, WEDDINGTON C) To permit
the establishment of a community school to serve adults of school age who are
incarcerated or who have been released from the custody of the Department of
Youth Services and to declare an emergency.
Current
Status:
3/22/2011
- Referred to Committee House Education
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
3314.019
HB173
SCHOOL
BODY MASS SCREENINGS (GONZALES A, HUFFMAN M) To make schools'
implementation of body mass index screenings optional.
PROFESSIONAL
EMPLOYER ORGANIZATION LAW (ADAMS R) To establish certain
financial capacity requirements for professional employer organizations,
clarify rights and liabilities of professional employer organizations and
client employers, and to make other changes to the law.
Current
Status:
6/1/2011
- BILL AMENDED, House Commerce & Labor, (Third Hearing)
MINIMUM
SCHOOL YEAR
(HAYES B, PATMON B) To establish a minimum school year for school
districts based on hours, rather than days, of instruction and to prohibit
schools from being open for instruction prior to Labor Day or after Memorial
Day except in specified circumstances.
PROPERTY
TAX COMPLAINTS
(COLEY II W) To permit property tax complaints to be initiated only by
the property owner.
Current
Status:
5/12/2011
- House Financial Institutions, Housing and Urban Development, (Second
Hearing)
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
307.699,
3735.67, 5715.19, 5715.27, 5717.01
HB199
STATE
BUDGET-AGGREGATE REVENUE (BECK P) To prohibit the Governor
from proposing and the General Assembly from enacting a state budget with
aggregate general revenue fund appropriations that exceed ninety-five per
cent of the total money received in aggregate revenue.
Current Status:
4/12/2011
- Referred to Committee House Financial Institutions, Housing and Urban
Development
RETIREMENT
BENEFITS - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES (HOLLINGTON R) To limit the
retirement benefit of a re-employed retiree of a public retirement system and
eliminate the deferred retirement option plan in the Ohio Police and Fire
Pension Fund and State Highway Patrol Retirement System.
Current
Status:
4/12/2011
- Referred to Committee House Health and Aging
HYBRID
COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (DERICKSON T) To permit the establishment of
hybrid community schools that provide both remote technology-based and
classroom-based instruction.
Current
Status:
11/16/2011
- House Education, (Third Hearing)
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
3314.019
HB208
SCHOOL
ANTI-BULLYING POLICIES (STINZIANO M, ANTONIO N) To require
that school anti-bullying policies prohibit harassment, intimidation, or
bullying that is based on any actual or perceived trait or characteristic of
a student.
Current
Status:
6/15/2011
- House Education, (First Hearing)
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
3313.666
HB209
POLITICAL
SUBDIVISION/REDEPOSIT PUBLIC MONIES (ADAMS R) To permit a
political subdivision, upon the deposit of public moneys with an eligible
public depository, and to arrange for the public depository to redeposit
those moneys.
SCHOOL
LEVY CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE CONTRIBUTIONS INCOME TAX CREDIT (RAMOS D) To
grant an income tax credit for contributions to school district tax levy
campaign committees.
Current
Status:
5/3/2011
- Referred to Committee House Ways and Means
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
5747.29
HB211
AMERICAN
HISTORY STATE ACADEMIC STANDARDS (ADAMS J) To include content on
specified historical documents in the state academic standards and in the
high school American history and government curriculum.
Current
Status:
6/1/2011
- House Education, (Third Hearing)
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
3301.079,
3313.60, 3313.603
HB219
RELIGIOUS
COURSES-PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS (MCCLAIN J) To permit public school
students to attend and receive credit for released time courses in religious
instruction conducted off school property during regular school hours.
Current
Status:
11/16/2011
- House Education, (Second Hearing)
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
3313.6017
HB220
CAT
TAX CREDIT INVESTMENT LOSSES (BECK P, BAKER N) To allow a
refundable commercial activity tax credit for investment losses recognized by
foreign entrepreneur investors who invest in certain projects in Ohio.
Current
Status:
6/23/2011
- House Economic and Small Business Development, (Sixth Hearing)
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
5747.01,
5751.98
HB221
COLLEGE-PREPARATORY
BOARDING SCHOOLS (MECKLENBORG R, DRIEHAUS D) To permit the
establishment of public college-preparatory boarding schools for at-risk
students to be operated by private nonprofit entities and to establish the
College-Preparatory Boarding School Facilities Program.
ABSENT
VOTER'S BALLOTS (DOVILLA M, STINZIANO M) To permit uniformed
services and overseas voters to request ballot applications and absent
voter's ballots by electronic mail or internet delivery; Federal Write-In
Absentee Ballot may be used as a voter registration form and absent voter's
ballot.
COUNTY
AUDITORS
(PETERSON B, LANDIS A) To vest in county auditors responsibility for
reviewing and approving property tax exemption applications for some publicly
owned property, to authorize county auditors/township trustees to adopt a
direct deposit payroll policy.
EMPLOYMENT
APPLICATION QUESTIONS (WILLIAMS S) To prohibit employers
from including on an employment application any question concerning whether
an applicant has pleaded guilty to or been convicted of a felony.
Current
Status:
6/1/2011
- House Commerce & Labor, (First Hearing)
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
4113.13
HB233
AD
SPACE ON SCHOOL BUSES (LETSON T, HUFFMAN M) To authorize
school districts to sell commercial advertising space on school buses.
Current
Status:
6/22/2011
- House Education, (Second Hearing)
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
3327.20,
4511.76, 4511.761
HB242
TAX
CREDITS FOR NONPUBLIC SCHOOLS (BRENNER A, PATMON B) To authorize
nonrefundable tax credits for donations to nonprofit entities providing
scholarships to low-income students enrolling in chartered nonpublic schools.
Current
Status:
12/6/2011
- House Ways and Means, (Fourth Hearing)
POLITICAL
SUBDIVISIONS PURCHASING (ROEGNER K) To authorize political
subdivisions to purchase by reverse auction certain services and supplies
that they are currently prohibited from purchasing by reverse auction.
Current
Status:
11/15/2011
- House Local Government, (Third Hearing)
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
9.314
HB253
EQUALITY
IN PARENTAL RIGHTS (WEDDINGTON C, YOUNG R) To ensure that court
orders and decrees that allocate parental rights and responsibilities with
respect to the care of and access to children provide for equality between
the parents unless that would be harmful to the children.
Current
Status:
6/14/2011
- Referred to Committee House Judiciary and Ethics
SCHOOL
BREAKFAST PROGRAMS (GONZALES A) To require school districts and
community schools to establish school breakfast programs in academic
emergency buildings and to make other changes regarding school breakfast
programs.
Current
Status:
9/27/2011
- House Education, (Second Hearing)
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
3313.813,
3314.18
HB283
DRIVER'S
LICENSE APPLICANTS (GROSSMAN C) To require each person under
eighteen years of age applying for a driver's license to complete a first-aid
and cardiopulmonary resuscitation training course.
Current
Status:
7/12/2011
- Referred to Committee House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland
Security
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
4507.21
HB287
OHIO
HEALTH CARE PLAN (HAGAN R, FOLEY M) To enact the Ohio Health
Security Act to establish and operate the Ohio Health Care Plan to provide
universal health care coverage to all Ohio residents.
Current
Status:
7/12/2011
- Referred to Committee House Health and Aging
ELECTION
PROCESS
(STINZIANO M, REECE A) To restore local control to Ohio's election
process and increase voter participation by permitting an individual who
wishes to vote by absent voter's ballots to request the ballots via
electronic mail; G.A. appropriate funds.
Current
Status:
7/12/2011
- Referred to Committee House State Government and Elections
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
3509.03,
3509.031
HB294
LSC
PREPARATION OF LEGISLATIVE DOCUMENT (CELESTE T, GOYAL J) To
prohibit the LSC staff, when preparing a legislative document, from
communicating with outside parties without a member of the G.A. present and
to make communication between such parties and LSC staff public records.
Current Status:
7/12/2011
- Referred to Committee House State Government and Elections
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
101.30,
101.302
HB296
CAREER-TECHNICAL
PLANNING DISTRICTS (BARNES, JR. J) To require the Chancellor of the
Ohio Board of Regents to establish standards and protocols for approving
career-technical planning districts to award associate degrees.
Current
Status:
9/27/2011
- House Education, (First Hearing)
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
3333.07
HB301
MISSING
OR DECEASED CHILD (HOTTINGER J, BECK P) To require a parent, legal
guardian or custodian of a child under the age of 13 to report to a law
enforcement agency within twenty-four hours after the child is missing or the
parent or legal guardian discovers that the child is deceased.
Current
Status:
9/27/2011
- House Criminal Justice, (Second Hearing)
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
2919.2
HB315
CAMPAIGN
MATERIALS
(BAKER N, SEARS B) To increase the penalties for making a false
statement in campaign materials related to nomination or election for a
statewide office or office of a member of the General Assembly, or in regard
to any campaign for/against a ballot issue.
Current
Status:
9/13/2011
- Referred to Committee House State Government and Elections
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
3517.155,
3517.992
HB318
ELIMINATE
MARCH PRIMARY ELECTIONS (BLESSING L, O'BRIEN S) To set two
separate primary elections in 2012.
Current
Status:
10/21/2011
- SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 1/20/2012
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
3513.121
HB319
CONGRESSIONAL
DISTRICT BOUNDARIES (HUFFMAN M) To establish Congressional district
boundaries for the state based on the 2010 decennial census of Ohio.
Current
Status:
9/26/2011
- SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 9/26/2011
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
3521.01
HB323
RETIREMENT
SYSTEM
(DOVILLA M, ANIELSKI M) To add extortion and perjury to the felonies
committed by a public retirement system while serving in a position of honor,
trust or profit under the law governing the forfeiture of benefits and
termination of disability benefits.
Current
Status:
11/16/2011
- House Criminal Justice, (Second Hearing)
APPORTIONMENT
PLANS FOR G.A. MEMBERS (CLYDE K, LETSON T) To specify that
plans of apportionment for members of the General Assembly must include or be
accompanied by a district map and corresponding list of census blocks, to
specify a time when plans must be ready.
Current
Status:
9/14/2011
- Referred to Committee House State Government and Elections
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
3521.11,
3521.12
HB326
USE
OF PUBLIC FUNDS (MCCLAIN J, HILL B) To prohibit a person from
using public funds for specified purposes and to specify that a person or a
political subdivision who violates the prohibition is guilty of a first
degree misdemeanor.
Current
Status:
11/16/2011
- Informally Passed; Informally Passed
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
3599.40,
9.03
HB331
CYBERSECURITY
EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL (DOVILLA M, BUBP
D) To create the Cybersecurity, Education, and Economic Development
Council.
Current
Status:
11/29/2011
- House Economic and Small Business Development, (First Hearing)
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
121.92
HB335
SEXUAL/GENDER
DISCRIMINATION
(ANTONIO N, MCGREGOR R) To prohibit discrimination on the basis of
sexual orientation or gender identity.
Current
Status:
11/9/2011
- Referred to Committee House Commerce & Labor
COMPREHENSIVE
SEXUAL HEALTH EDUCATION (SLESNICK S) To establish statutory
standards for comprehensive sexual health education and HIV/AIDS prevention
education in public schools and to designate section 3313.6011 of the Revised
Code as the "Act for Our Children's Future."
Current
Status:
11/9/2011
- Referred to Committee House Education
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
3313.60,
3313.6011, 3314.03, 3326.11
HB355
TAXPAYERS
CONTRIBUTE TO STATE (BLAIR T) To allow taxpayers to contribute an
amount to the state through their income tax returns and designate how the
state must use the contribution.
Current
Status:
11/9/2011
- Referred to Committee House Ways and Means
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
5747.113
HB358
PRIMARY
ELECTIONS
(CARNEY J) To eliminate the requirement that Ohio conduct two primary
elections in 2012.
Current
Status:
11/9/2011
- Referred to Committee House State Government and Elections
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
None
HB363
BUDGET
STABILIZATION FUND (DUFFEY M) To increase the balance that must
exist in the Budget Stabilization Fund, from 5% to 10% of the General Revenue
Fund revenue, before revenue surpluses are applied to income tax reductions.
Current
Status:
11/9/2011
- Referred to Committee House Finance and Appropriations
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
131.43,
131.44
HB364
SECURITIZATION
COSTS STANDARDS-ELECTRIC UTILITIES (ROEGNER K, DUFFEY M) To
establish standards for the securitization of costs for electric distribution
utilities.
Current
Status:
12/7/2011
- House Public Utilities, (Third Hearing)
CONGRESSIONAL
DISTRICT BOUNDARIES (HUFFMAN M) To establish Congressional district
boundaries for the state based on the 2010 decennial census; to eliminate the
requirement that Ohio conduct two primary elections and eliminate
appropriation that would pay for second primary.
Current Status:
11/9/2011
- Referred to Committee House Rules and Reference
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
3521.01
HB371
LOCAL
GOVERNMENT INNOVATION PROGRAM (AMSTUTZ R, WEDDINGTON C) Regarding
the Local Government Innovation Program and to make an appropriation.
Current
Status:
12/6/2011
- House Finance and Appropriations, (Third Hearing)
PROPERTY
SALE BY SCHOOL DISTRICTS (BUTLER, JR. J) To allow school
districts to sell real property to private, nonprofit institutions of higher
education.
Current
Status:
12/7/2011
- House Education, (Second Hearing)
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
3313.41
HB376
HEALTH
INSURANCE COVERAGE-AUTISM (CELESTE T, GARLAND N) To prohibit
health insurers from excluding coverage for specified services for
individuals diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder.
Current
Status:
11/29/2011
- Referred to Committee House Health and Aging
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
1739.05,
1751.68, 3923.84
HB381
SCHOOL
DISTRICT PROPERTY (SLABY L) With respect to offering school
district property to state universities.
Current
Status:
11/29/2011
- Referred to Committee House Education
Comments:
None
ORC
Sections:
3313.41
HB388
PERS
RETIREE BENEFIT (DAMSCHRODER R) To suspend, during the period of
employment, the retirement benefit of a public retirement system retiree who
returns to public employment.
OHIO
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS (BATCHELDER W) To delegate to the
President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives
authority to designate groups of members to prepare arguments for and against
amendments to the Ohio Constitution.
