HB 1 JUVENILE CRIMES (Thomas) Creates a new bindover procedure for certain children charged with certain violent or habitual felonious acts and extends the existing bindover procedure to certain children and makes other changes in the juvenile justice system.

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

HB 3 POSTCONVICTION RELIEF (Fox) Requires that a petition for postconviction relief from a judgment of conviction be filed within 90 days after the trial transcript is filed in the direct appeal of the judgment and makes other changes in the Postconviction Relief Law.

HB 4 GUN VIOLENCE (Salerno) Adopts the recommendations of the Ohio Task Force on Gun Violence with certain modifications.

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

HB 6 REPEAT OFFENDERS (Krebs) Requires life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for any person who is convicted of or pleads guilty to certain serious offenses and who on at least two previous occasions has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any two or more of such offenses; authorizes courts and the Department of Rehabilitation & Correction to give warnings about the penalty for such a person; and requires the Governor, if a pardon or commutation is granted to such a person, to make an annual report regarding the person's activities.

HB 7 WORKERS' COMP (Corbin) Abolishes the Worker's Compensation Board, transfers the Workers' Compensation Board's powers and duties to the Administrator of Workers' Compensation and the Workers' Compensation Oversight Commission; creates the Workers' Compensation Oversight Commission and the Workers' Compensation Oversight Commission Nominating Committee; and makes other changes in the Workers' Compensation law.

HB 8 CAMPAIGN FINANCE (Proposed by Initiative Petition) Imposes limitations on campaign contributions.

HB 9 CAMPAIGN FINANCE (Jacobson) Limits or prohibits campaign contributions from specified sources to campaign committees of candidates for member of the General Assembly and statewide elected offices and to certain other political entities; requires those campaign committees to file a notice regarding the expenditure of personal funds under certain circumstances; limits the amount of contributions those campaign committees and caucus campaign committees may keep after a general election; requires identification on political advertising paid from independent expenditures; imposes on labor organizations campaign contribution restrictions similar to those imposed on corporations; prohibits employee payroll deductions for political contributions from being transmitted to a recipient without an employee making a written designation of the recipient; prohibits public employers from making such payroll deductions; prohibits state and county elected officers and candidates from soliciting contributions from certain state and county employees; prohibits the transfer of funds from a candidate's federal campaign committee to his campaign committee for state elective office; imposes additional reporting requirements regarding a campaign contributor's employer or occupation, in-kind contributions at fund-raising events, and certain other contributions; requires federal political committees that make contributions to state or local political action committees to disclose the names and addresses of Ohio residents who made contributions to the federal political committee; allows the Secretary of State to prescribe the format in which campaign finance statements must be filed and requires him to store the information from certain such statements on computer; allows an income tax credit for taxpayers who make campaign contributions to candidates for certain public offices beginning in taxable year 1995; creates a Task Force on the Media in Campaigns and a Campaign Finance Reform Review Committee; and makes other changes in the Campaign Finance Law.

HB 10 PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT (Wachtmann) Allows certain public employers to obtain seven-year exemptions from the Public Employment Risk Reduction Program (PERRP) as administered by the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, exempts emergency medical technicians, paramedics, law enforcement personnel of the Department of Natural Resources, and volunteers employed by public employers from the PERRP, authorizes removal of members of the PERRP Commission for misfeasance, malfeasance, or nonfeasance, revises the manner of appointment of Commission members, separately sets out the conditions under which a public employer may request an inspection under PERRP, revises the time frame governing notification of a public employer of an alleged violation under PERRP, and eliminates certain reporting requirements imposed upon public employers under PERRP.

HB 11 PROPERTY DIVISION (Lawrence) Authorizes boards of county commissioners to adopt rules, subject to voter referendum, that provide an alternative procedure for the approval of proposed divisions of certain parcels of land along existing public streets or common access drives and changes circumstances under which land may be exempted from platting requirements.

HB 12 TOWNSHIP ROADS (Luebbers) Authorizes a board of township trustees to contract for extra work on certain road improvement projects without competitive bidding.

HB 13 NEW HIRES DIRECTORY (Sykes) Creates an Ohio Directory of New Hires.

HB 14 CAMPAIGN FINANCE (Sykes) Specifies the types of rules the Secretary of State must adopt for the administration and enforcement of the Campaign Finance Reporting Law.

HB 15 DENTAL HYGIENISTS (Sykes) Increases the continuing education required for renewal of registration by a dental hygienist and specifies the courses that satisfy the requirement; allows a dental hygienist to retire temporarily from practice.

HB 16 POLLING PLACES (Sykes) Allows electors to cast ballots at polling places during specified hours on the Sunday and Monday before a general election.

HB 17 NURSING PRACTICE (Sykes) Provides for the Board of Nursing to authorize the practice of nursing as a certified registered nurse anesthetist, clinical nurse specialist, nurse-midwife or nurse practitioner.

HB 18 PARENTAL LIABILITY (Mottl) Increases parental liability for physical injury caused by a child and corrects a reference in the law governing the victim's bill of rights, to the maximum liability of parents for property damage caused by a child.

HB 19 ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIPS (Mottl) Requires school districts generally to conform interscholastic athletic activities to the athletic activities for which college scholarships are offered; requires the State Board of Education to ensure gender equity in interscholastic athletic programs and the Board of Regents to ensure gender equity in intercollegiate athletic programs.

HB 20 SCHOOL TRANSPORTATION (Mottl) Requires city, exempted village and local school districts to transport students in grades kindergarten through eight to and from school when they live more than one and four-tenths miles, rather than two miles, from school.

HB 21 SCHOOL AID (Mottl) Prohibits lottery profits from being used to make regular state aid payments to school districts and instead specify a per pupil distribution of lottery profits in addition to regular state aid payments.

HB 22 RADIOACTIVE WASTE (Mottl) Prohibits the storage or disposal in state of low-level radioactive waste generated in another state; provides for the withdrawal of state from the Midwest Interstate Compact on Low-Level Radioactive Waste; provides for the establishment of standards and requirements governing a facility for low-level radioactive waste generated in state.

HB 23 VEHICLE SAFETY COMPACT (Mottl) Withdraws Ohio from the Vehicle Equipment Safety Compact.

HB 24 VEHICLE ARBITRATION BOARDS (Mottl) Requires Attorney General to establish one or more New Motor Vehicle Arbitration Boards for the resolution of warranty disputes between the consumer and the manufacturer of new motor vehicles, its agents, or its authorized dealers and specifically includes lessees of new motor vehicles within the scope of the Lemon Law and makes other changes in that law.

HB 25 GENERAL ASSISTANCE (Mottl) Prohibits high school dropouts under age 22 from receiving General Assistance or Disability Assistance benefits.

HB 26 AUTO INSURANCE (Mottl) Requires rating plans and schedules of rates for automobile insurance policies to provide for certain reductions in premiums when a covered motor vehicle is equipped with an airbag.

HB 27 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION (Mottl) Excludes social security benefits and retirement benefits from other specified retirement systems from the definition of total income used to calculate the homestead exemption and the manufactured home exemption.

HB 28 CHILD SUPPORT (Kasputis) Requires the parents, guardians, or persons charged with the support of a delinquent child to pay the costs of the care, support, maintenance, and education of the child.

HB 29 PUPIL TRANSPORTATION (Kasputis) Specifically authorizes two school districts to contract to share transportation of a pupil.

HB 30 LOTTERY PROFITS (Kasputis) Requires the Controlling Board to transfer money to the appropriation for school district foundation aid if an appropriation is not made to primary and secondary education accounts equal to at least the amount in the Lottery Profits Education Fund and the amount of income taxes withheld from lottery prize awards.

HB 31 VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS (Kasputis) Increases the monthly benefit for a child of a volunteer firefighter who dies in the line of duty or from injuries sustained in the line of duty from the Volunteer Fire Fighters' Dependents Fund.

HB 32 PRIVATE DOCKS (Kasputis) Authorizes the owner of a private dock to order the towing of any vessel found moored, anchored, or tied there without permission.

HB 33 COUNTY TAXES (Lawrence) Permits a county deemed to be in fiscal distress to propose a sales and use tax at a special election to be held in May 1995, and repeals this act on May 3, 1995.

HB 34 COUNTY INVESTMENTS (Logan) Establishes continuing education requirements for county auditors and county treasurers; makes changes to the Uniform Depository Act, including clarifying the types of permissible investments for counties and other political subdivisions, making changes related to county investment advisory committees and establishing similar committees for other political subdivisions and creating an inventory system to record securities held by any county or other political subdivision as an investment or deposit; and expands the law prohibiting public officials from having unlawful interests in public contracts.

HB 35 CRIME REPARATIONS (Cera) Extends the Son of Sam Law to family members of offenders and their agents and assignees; permits the imposition of fines of up to $1 million in connection with certain offenders; specifies that fines imposed for any offense constitute a judgment in favor of the state that may be collected by means of garnishment, attachment, or other execution proceedings; and creates and provides for the funding of the Crime Victims Recovery Fund.

HB 36 ANNEXATION (Terwilleger) Revises the law governing municipal annexations and detachments.

HB 37 OIL SPILL LIABILITY (Haines) Provides persons responding to oil spills with a qualified immunity from liability for removal costs or damages resulting from the response.

HB 38 BANKRUPTCY (Reid) Relative to certain property exempt from execution, garnishment, attachment, or sale to satisfy a judgment and exempt in bankruptcy proceedings involving Ohio domiciliaries.

HB 39 HEARING AIDS (Reid) Requires hearing aid dealers, hearing aid fitters, physicians, and audiologists to provide a refund to a consumer who returns a hearing aid for any reason within 30 days of its original delivery, requires that hearing aid dealers and fitters complete 10 hours of continuing professional education each year, and requires the manufacturer of an assistive device that proves defective within one year of the consumer's initial possession to repair or replace the device.

HB 40 HIV TESTING (Reid) Establishes the offense of loitering to engage in solicitation, prohibits a person who knows he or she has tested HIV positive from engaging in soliciting, loitering to solicit, or prostitution, authorizes a court to require a person charged with certain sex offenses or in limited circumstances, with another offense to be tested for HIV, and changes the conditions under which certain alleged sex offenders must be examined for venereal disease.

HB 41 JUROR CONDUCT (Reid) Makes the selling of information that could become testimony in a criminal prosecution a first degree misdemeanor and makes the selling by an active juror of information concerning a criminal trial an act in contempt of court.

HB 42 EDUCATION TO WORK (Tiberi) Revises the law governing Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training Program and establishes requirements for receipt of state funds for providing adult education services to persons sixteen years of age or older.

HB 43 IMPLIED CONSENT (Suster) Provides that the suspension under the Implied Consent law of a driver's or commercial driver's license of a person who submits to a chemical test and is found to have a prohibited concentration of alcohol in his blood, breath, or urine is terminated if he pleads guilty to or no contest to and is convicted of the underlying OMVI offense and provides that a person who is arrested for OMVI and whose driver's or commercial driver's license is suspended under the Implied Consent law and also later by a court is liable for payment of only one driver's license reinstatement fee when his license is returned or reissued at the end of the suspension period that ends later in time.

HB 44 EMPLOYER IMMUNITY (Corbin) Creates a qualified immunity from civil liability for employers in connection with job performance information provided to prospective employers of current or former employees.

HB 45 CARJACKING (Whalen) Establishes the offense of carjacking.

HB 46 OPEN RECORDS (Sykes) Revises the Open Records Law.

HB 47 ACUPUNCTURE (Whalen) Establishes licensing standards for acupuncturists; creates the State Board of Acupuncture and requires the board and the Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services to study the effectiveness of using acupuncture in alcohol and drug addiction programs and provide the results of the study to the courts.

HB 48 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION (Troy) Increases the income limits used to determine eligibility for the homestead and manufactured home tax reductions.

HB 49 MOHICAN FOREST TIMBER (Sawyer) Establishes the recreation-wilderness pilot project in the Mohican State Forest and prohibits the commercial extraction of timber from land comprising the Mohican State Forest that is managed by the Division of Forestry in the Department of Natural Resources.

HB 50 TOWNSHIP REGULATION (Gardner) Authorizes township trustees to adopt resolutions that regulate or restrict adult-oriented businesses in the unincorporated area of the township; grants township voters the power to initiate such resolutions; and allows township trustees to abate as nuisances adult-oriented businesses in the unincorporated area of the township where such resolutions are repeatedly violated.

HB 51 DRUG OFFENSES (Whalen) Increases the criminal penalty for corrupting another with drugs, the drug trafficking offenses, permitting drug abuse, and illegal dispensing of drug samples if the offense took place in, at, or within 1,000 fee of a publicly-funded senior citizens services center, child day-care facility, or recreation center.

HB 52 CORPSE ABUSE (Whalen) Provides enhanced penalties for "tampering with evidence" and "obstructing justice" if either offense involves a human corpse; creates the offense of "aggravated abuse of a corpse"; requires that a sentence for a conviction of one of those offenses involving a human corpse be served consecutively with any other sentence of imprisonment; and increases the general penalty for "obstructing justice" if the underlying offense is a felony.

HB 53 NURSING HOMES (Batchelder) Eliminates provisions that concern ownership of certain nursing homes in a leased building and prohibits the director of Health from granting certain other nursing homes a certificate of need or nursing home license.

HB 54 RECREATION DISTRICTS (Schuler) Allows less than the entire territory of specified subdivisions to join in the membership of a joint recreation district.

HB 55 LIQUOR LAW (Colonna) Permits passengers in chauffeured limousines and certain commercial buses to consume beer or intoxicating liquor when they are located in the limousine or bus.

HB 56 TOWNSHIP POLICE (Vesper) Increases the fees charged for certain services rendered by township constables and makes the same fees applicable to the services of members of the police force of a township police district or joint police district.

HB 57 LIQUOR STORES (Harris) Allows state agency liquor stores to be located in any municipal corporation and in the unincorporated area of any township with a population of at least 2,000.

HB 58 HEALTH CARE (Mottley) Requires employers either to provide or offer a health care plan permitting an employee his choice of providers or to pay Ohio income or franchise tax on their employee health care expenses; requires the Superintendent of Insurance to adopt rules affording a provider due process when a third-party payer terminates the provider's contract; and subjects third-party payers to civil liability for delaying a decision on, reducing, or denying coverage for recommended health care.

HB 59 EDUCATION FUNDING (Shoemaker) Earmarks specified percentages of personal income and sales and use taxes for education expenditures; increases the basic aid per pupil subsidy; provides additional educational subsidies for certain classes having smaller pupil-teacher ratios, for curriculum resources, for school buses, for educating severely multiply-handicapped pupils, and for staff development; pledges an additional $100 million of lottery profits to repaying bonds issued for school building assistance; and makes an appropriation.

HB 60 GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS (Olman) Eliminates the requirement that a central office of each state department be located in Columbus, requires a cost-benefit analysis and legislative approval before the central office of a department is relocated from Columbus; prohibits the relocation of a state department that will increase the total number of employees of that department or the total number of employees of all state departments; establishes the Legislative Committee on Decentralization of State Government, requires the committee to issue a written report of its findings and recommendations within 18 months after the effective date of this act and abolishes the committee upon submission of its report, and exempts an application for a D liquor permit for any of the public buildings and facilities of Capitol Square from population quota restrictions.

HB 61 TRANSIT SYSTEMS (Batchelder) Permits a board of county commissioners in lieu of a county transit board to operate a county transit system and permits the board to change the governing board of the county transit system from the board to a county transit board and vice versa.

HB 62 DAY-CARE (Wachtmann) Establishes a pilot program in Paulding County that would certify certain family day-care homes as certified type-C family day-care homes.

HB 63 HOSPITAL SAFETY (Whalen) Requires that each hospital develop and provide fire safety training programs to its employees and prepare an emergency fire safety plan.

HB 64 SCHOOL TUITION (Krebs) Requires school districts to expel for one year students who bring firearms to school; allows school boards to authorize their superintendents to expel students for up to one year for bringing knives to school; and permits school districts to temporarily deny admittance to students who have been expelled for any reason from other school districts until the expulsion periods expire.

HB 65 HEALTH INSURANCE (Jones) Amends Section 3 of HB478 of the 119th General Assembly to address health and insurance matters associated with HB478 and makes other revisions in the Health Care and Insurance Laws.

HB 66 BINGO (Mottley) Defines "bingo" to include bingo, instant bingo, punch boards and raffles; creates a license that authorizes charitable organizations to conduct bingo, instant bingo, punch boards and raffles; requires the licensing of manufacturers and distributors of bingo supplies; regulates the sale of instant bingo tickets; creates the State Bingo Commission and transfers the authority to issue bingo licenses and regulate the conduct of bingo from the Attorney General to the commission; authorizes the creation of the Bingo Advisory Council and makes other changes in the Charitable Gaming Law.

HB 67 LAND CONVEYANCE (Myers) Authorizes the conveyance of real estate owned by the Ohio Historical Society and located in Fairfield County to the Fairfield County Board of Park Commissioners for use as a county park.

HB 68 FUEL TAX EXEMPTION (Healy) Exempts from the motor vehicle fuel tax sales of motor vehicle fuel sold for use in school buses.

HB 69 VEHICLE SAFETY (Healy) Requires the headlights of a vehicle to be lighted when its windshield wipers are in use.

HB 70 STYLIST LICENSING (Whalen) Establishes licensing and educational requirements for natural hair stylists, requires natural hair styling schools and salons to be licensed and creates the State Board of Natural Hair Styling.

HB 71 TAX EXEMPTION (Whalen) Exempts from the sales tax landscaping and lawn care services provided to persons who are 60 years of age or older or disabled.

HB 72 WEAPONS POSSESSION (Tiberi) Prohibits conveyance, attempted conveyance or possession of a deadly weapon or dangerous ordnance to or on a school bus; prohibits the possession of an object that is indistinguishable from a firearm on school premises or a school bus or at any school activity; repeals certain provisions enacted in Am.Sub.SB 166 of the 121st General Assembly relative to the administration of certain oaths and the acknowledgment of certain court-related documents by peace officers and State Highway Patrol Troopers and the adoption of rules governing the training of the officers and Troopers in those matters; permits peace officers who have completed certain course of in-service training approved by the appropriate chief legal officer to administer oaths and acknowledge certain court-related documents; permits a court to impose a term of up to 305 days in jail or a term of electronically monitored house arrest, in addition to the 60 days of mandatory local incarceration, upon an offender who commits a fourth degree felony state OMVI offense for the first time; permits building operation and maintenance cost savings, in addition to energy cost savings, to be used by a school district to offset the cost of financing the implementation of energy conservation measures and requires school districts to comply with certain requirements prior to entering into installment contracts for energy conservation measures; and changes the date by which the Attorney General must adopt rules pertaining to the use of information obtained under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Law to be consistent with the date by which the Attorney General must adopt all other rules under that Law.

HB 73 LAND CONVEYANCE (Jacobson) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate in Montgomery County to Harrison Township.

HB 74 MEDICAL DISCRIMINATION (Beatty) Prohibits health maintenance organizations and the Ohio Workers' Compensation Qualified Health Plan System from discriminating in the selection of health care facilities or providers or in the availability of covered services, regulates certain aspects of the relationship of health care facilities and providers with sickness and accident insurers, health maintenance organizations and preferred provider organizations; holds insurers and health maintenance organizations liable for their negligent acts or omissions resulting in the denial of prescribed testing or procedures and requires insurers, health maintenance organizations and other third-party payers to promptly notify claimants of the information needed to complete a claim.

HB 75 IMMUNITY (Pringle) Provides immunity from liability for damages for a person who communicates in good faith a complaint or information to a public entity or who communicates in good faith and without actual malice an opinion or belief concerning a public issue that affects the person.

HB 76 CRIMINAL REGISTRY (Pringle) Requires that persons who have been convicted of or pleaded guilty to certain offenses of violence and first-time sex offenders register with law enforcement officials upon release to the community.

HB 77 SUBSIDENCE INSURANCE (Johnson) Changes from mandatory to optional the provision of mine subsidence insurance coverage in certain counties of the state and makes other related changes.

HB 78 MEDICAL MALPRACTICE (Haines) Increases the statute of limitations applicable in medical malpractice cases from one year to two years.

HB 79 BUS EQUIPMENT (Haines) Requires that all new school buses be equipped with a single white strobe light to be activated at all times that the school bus is transporting children.

HB 80 TITLE APPLICATION (Haines) Requires, with certain exceptions, the presentation of a valid driver's license or commercial driver's license upon application for a certificate of title.

HB 81 SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS (Haines) Authorizes boards of education to conditionally employ and pay substitute teachers while their applications for teacher's certification are being processed, authorizes school districts to authorize their superintendents to expel students for up to one year for possessing a firearm or knife on school property, authorizes school districts within certain limits to temporarily deny admittance to students expelled from an out of state school during the remainder of the expulsion period, authorizes joint vocational school boards to adopt by resolution the rate per mile at which board members are to be reimbursed for mileage to and from board meetings, and revise temporary language regarding intensive, systematic phonics.

HB 82 STATE INSTITUTIONS (Haines) Provides in general for the state to pay certain costs and expenses that result from the investigation, prosecution or defense of a charge of a felony or act committed in or on the grounds of an institution or facility operated by the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction or Department of Youth Services or by an inmate or resident of the institution or facility.

HB 83 DIABETES COVERAGE (Boyd) Requires certain health care policies, contracts and plans to provide benefits for specified equipment and supplies for the treatment of diabetes and for diabetes self-management education.

HB 84 HOUSING BONDS (Boyd) Permits a county and a political subdivision, including a metropolitan housing authority, to enter into an agreement to provide or assist in providing housing under which the county may agree to issue general obligation bonds or revenue bonds and the contracting subdivision agrees to incur a financial obligation to the county to help pay the bond costs, establishes procedures and requirements governing the agreement, excludes bonds issued pursuant to the agreement from the calculation of net indebtedness of the county and delegates specified responsibilities to the housing advisory board.

HB 85 CHILD INTIMIDATION (Boyd) Creates the offense of intimidating a child.

HB 86 LOCAL FUNDS (Carey) Permits counties to accumulate funds in a reserve balance account for one of several purposes; prohibits a county budget commission from reducing the taxing authority of a county or municipal corporation because it has created a reserve balance account; provides that money in such accounts cannot be considered for purposes of reducing subdivisions' share of local government funds; and provides that money held by a municipal corporation for the purpose of investment only cannot be considered for purposes of reducing the municipal corporation's share of local government funds.

HB 87 CAMPAIGN FINANCE (Gardner) Establishes a system of voluntary limitations on campaign expenditures of campaign committees of candidates for members of the General Assembly and statewide elected office, limits contributions to those campaign committees, limits the amount of contribution those campaign committees may keep after a general election, prohibits certain entities including continuing associations from making political action contributions except through a political action committee, prohibits public employees from making certain campaign contributions, allows a state income tax credit for contributions to candidates, requires the Secretary of State to store on computer certain campaign finance reports and makes other changes in the campaign finance laws.

HB 88 WEAPONS POSSESSION (Schuler) Creates the offenses of illegal conveyance of a deadly weapon or dangerous ordnance into a courthouse, illegal possession of a deadly weapon or dangerous ordnance in a courthouse, and modifies the elements of the offenses of intimidation and retaliation of a crime victim or witness to cover prohibited conduct directed at an attorney.

HB 89 STUDENT INFORMATION (Wise) Requires the Department of Education to prepare and make known the availability of a pamphlet explaining parents' or guardians' rights with respect to schools.

HB 90 COUNTY INVESTMENTS (Wise) Eliminates the authority of counties to invest inactive public moneys in repurchase agreements and eliminates the authority of public depositories to pledge repurchase agreements as security for repayment of county public moneys.

HB 91 STUDENT DATA (Wise) Requires the establishment of data collection requirements for the education management information system by rule rather than by guidelines, limits the collection of certain student information to that specified by law, prohibits the reporting of personally identifiable student information to data acquisition sites, and requires establishment of a coding system for reporting information regarding individual students.

HB 92 SCHOOL AGE LIMIT (Brading) Phases in over four years a general prohibition against admitting children to kindergarten or first grade at the beginning of the school year unless they are five or six years of age, respectively, by the first day of June instead of by the 13th day of September.

HB 93 DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS (Lucas) Permits additional municipal corporations and townships to enter into contracts creating joint economic development districts.

HB 94 LOTTERY/LIQUOR AGENTS (Winkler) Requires applicants for and holders of lottery sales agent and liquor licenses to prove they have no delinquent tangible personal property tax in order to receive and retain such licenses.

HB 95 YOUTH VICTIMS (Winkler) Requires imposition of additional three-year term of actual incarceration for certain offenses of violence committed against victims 13 years of age or younger and makes the underlying offense of violence nonprobational.

HB 96 ELDER VICTIMS (Winkler) Requires the imposition of additional three-year term of actual incarceration for certain offenses of violence committed against victims 65 years of age or older and makes the underlying offense of violence nonprobational.

HB 97 HEALTH CARE DISCRIMINATION (Mottley) Prohibits health maintenance organizations and the Ohio Workers' Compensation Qualified Health Plan System from discriminating in the selection of health care facilities or providers or in the availability of covered services; prohibits HMO's from imposing fines on physicians for treatment and admission decisions not meeting the organization's directions or guidelines; requires HMO's to accept or reject provider applications within 90 days; prohibits insurers, HMO's and preferred provider organizations from charging providers unreasonable application and contract renewal fees; prohibits contractual limitations or adverse actions related to a physician's or health care provider's statements relating to insurers or their practices; holds insurers and HMO's liable for their negligent acts or omissions resulting in the denial of prescribed testing or procedures and requires insurers, HMO's and other third-party payers to promptly notify claimants of the information needed to complete a claim.

HB 98 VETERANS COMMISSIONS (Padgett) Specifies that applications and related documents filed with a veterans service commission by persons seeking financial assistance and other benefits are not public records; provides that meetings of a veterans service commission dealing with the award of such assistance are not open to the public; allows the release of information in such applications and documents if the subject of the information consents; and authorizes the Governor's Office of Veterans Affairs to examine certain files of veterans service commissions.

HB 99 ELECTIONS LAWS (Nein) Makes changes in the elections laws.

HB 100 POLL CLOSINGS (O'Brien) Changes the poll-closing time for primary elections and special elections not held on the day of a general election from 7:30 to 6:30 p.m.

HB 101 SEWAGE SLUDGE (Krebs) Requires notification of the land application of sewage sludge; requires the director of Environmental Protection, on a case-by-case basis, to set guidelines on the prevention of nuisances caused by the application of sludge; and terminates the notification requirement five years after the effective date of this act by repealing certain sections.

HB 102 LAND CONVEYANCE (Healy) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate in Start County to the Stark County Community Action Agency.

HB 103 EMPLOYMENT TORT (Thompson) Creates an employment intentional tort.

HB 104 BUSINESS FORMS (Batchelder) Requires the State Forms Management Control Center to create a single business reply form to be used by state agencies to obtain information from private businesses and requires the Center to create an on-line computer network system to allow private businesses to electronically file the single business reply form.

HB 105 STATE EDUCATION BOARD (Gerberry) Changes the number of elected members of the State Board of Education and provides for State Board of Education districts each composed of the same territory as one Congressional district.

HB 106 ENVIRONMENTAL RULES (Sines) Requires that specified information be submitted with state legislation dealing with environmental protection at the time the legislation is first heard in committee; requires agencies filing rules dealing with environmental protection to submit specified information at the time of the filing; requires that policies established by the Environmental Protection Agency comply with specified requirements and be reviewed every five years; and requires the director of EPA to submit a report regarding the Agency's compliance assistance activities.

HB 107 TRANSPORTATION BUDGET (Core) Makes appropriations and reappropriations for highways for the 1996-97 biennium and provides authorizations and conditions for the operation of state transportation-related programs.

HB 108 HEALTH CARE (Jones) Requires that a review of health care services under a health care plan be performed by utilization review agents accredited by specified accrediting organization and certified by the Superintendent of Insurance; imposes restrictions on adverse utilization review actions, the use of confidential information, compensation based on adverse utilization review actions and misleading or deceptive advertising and solicitations.

HB 109 NONPROFIT AUDITS (Perz) Imposes various reporting, auditing and other requirements on each nonprofit organization that receives public moneys from a county.

HB 110 VETERANS HOME (Opfer) Permits the Board of Trustees of the Ohio Veterans' Home to use the services of volunteers for specified purposes at the home and designate the volunteers as state employees for purposes of indemnification from liability incurred in the performance of their duties.

HB 111 PENSION WITHHOLDING (Mottley) Requires the Tax Commissioner to request to enter into an agreement with the federal government providing for the withholding of state income taxes from federal retirees' pension distributions.

HB 112 UTILITY BILLING (Garcia) Prohibits any gas, natural gas or electric utility from billing customers on the basis of average or expected energy usage without their prior, written consent.

HB 113 ART THERAPISTS (Krupinski) Exempts licensed art therapists from testifying in certain cases; establishes licensure requirements for art therapists; changes the composition and name of the Counselor and Social Worker Board.

HB 114 CHILD SUPPORT ORDER (Maier) Requires a court to include reasonable attorney's fees and collection costs as part of a judgment for amounts due under a defaulted child support order.

HB 115 PUBLIC CONTRACT (Sines) Generally requires a court to order an offender who has an unlawful interest in a public contract to make restitution for lost public moneys; authorizes withholding the restitution from specified moneys payable by a state retirement system or specified deferred compensation programs.

HB 116 MAIL BALLOTS (Kasputis) Allows a board of elections to conduct an election by mail ballot when the board has certified no candidates for placement on the ballot at the election.

HB 117 BIENNIAL BUDGET (Johnson) Makes appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 1995 and ending June 30, 1997 and provides authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.

HB 118 SCHOOL FUNDING (Kasputis) Requires an amount equal to two-thirds of the receipts from personal income and corporation franchise taxes to be expended exclusively for primary and secondary education and school district property tax relief.

HB 119 LAKE ERIE (Cain) Changes the term Lake Erie erosion hazard area to Lake Erie coastal erosion area, establishes a six-year sunset of rules adopted under the coastal management program in the Department of Natural Resources, and expands the membership of the Coastal Resources Advisory Council in the Department.

HB 120 HEALTH INSURANCE (Netzley) Creates and provides for the funding and operation of the Ohio Health Insurance Access Program to provide privately-delivered managed health care for eligible persons; provides income tax deductions for individuals and small employers that maintain health insurance coverage; specifies amounts that can be recovered in medical actions; and provides for physicians to provide price information.

HB 121 CONCEALED WEAPONS (Fox) Authorizes police chiefs, sheriffs, and prosecuting attorneys to issue licenses to certain persons to carry a concealed firearm.

HB 122 SANITARY LANDFILLS (Krebs) Provides for arbitration between certain political subdivisions and solid waste management districts for the purpose of compensating the political subdivisions for specified expenses with regard to certain sanitary landfills.

HB 123 RETIREMENT FUNDS (Krebs) Allows certain spouses of deceased members of the Public Employee Retirement System, State Teachers Retirement System and School Employees Retirement System to continue to receive survivor's benefits despite remarriage if the remarriage occurs after age 55.

HB 124 DRIVING PRIVILEGES (O'Brien) Requires the suspension for a period of 12 to 36 months of the driver's license or permit or nonresident operating privilege of any person under age 19 who is convicted of, or adjudicated a delinquent child for, conveying a deadly weapon or dangerous ordnance onto school property or possessing a deadly weapon or dangerous ordnance on school property; requires a person who commits a felony while under 18 and who is not apprehended until after the person is 21 to be tried as an adult; requires a child bound over for prosecution as an adult and held in an adult detention facility to remain beyond the range of touch of detained adults instead of being separated from them by sight and sound; clarifies court jurisdiction regarding certain mandatory bindovers; clarifies the procedures when both a mandatory and a discretionary bindover are at issue; clarifies the manner of imprisonment of a child who is bound over, convicted and sentenced to prison; eliminates warnings given to children before they plead to certain charges; permits all juvenile court dispositional orders to extend until the child is 21; specifies that the prohibitions against selling or furnishing a handgun to, or the purchase of a handgun by, a person under 21 years of age do not apply if the person is over 18 and under 21, is a properly appointed or employed law enforcement officer, and has received specified firearms training; expands the scope of the provisions regarding the taking of fingerprints of juvenile offenders to include all juvenile offenders from whom a DNA sample must be taken under Am.Sub.HB5 of the 121st General Assembly; and conforms the law governing the provisions of Am.Sub.HB 445 of the 121st General Assembly.

HB 125 DRUG LAW (Jacobson) Increases penalties for certain drug offenses.

HB 126 CRIMINAL SENTENCING (Pringle) Requires a sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of parole for a person who is convicted of murder, an aggravated felony of the first degree, certain aggravated felonies of the second degree, or aggravated murder when capital punishment is not imposed and who has two prior convictions of any such offenses.

HB 127 CRIMINAL SENTENCING (Pringle) Requires the revocation of the probation, shock probation, parole and shock parole of certain violent offenders for a recidivist crime; makes them ineligible for such releases while imprisoned for the crime; and requires the sentence be imposed for the recidivist crime to be served consecutively without any cap.

HB 128 CRIMINAL SENTENCING (Pringle) Makes life imprisonment without parole an additional sentencing alternative to the death penalty.

HB 129 CHILD CUSTODY (Pringle) Prohibits a court from granting a natural father of a child custody of or visitation or other rights with respect to the child or from granting the natural father's relatives companionship or visitation rights if the child was conceived as the result of a rape of which the natural father was convicted.

HB 130 COUNTY TRANSITS (Batchelder) Permits county commissioners in lieu of a county transit board to operate a county transit system.

HB 131 STATE RIGHTS (Troy) Creates the Constitutional Defense Council to examine and challenge certain federal activity and makes an appropriation.

HB 132 BACKGROUND CHECKS (Troy) Requires the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation and the Registrar of Motor Vehicles to perform free of charge background checks requested by certain volunteer organizations for children.

HB 133 SANITARY DISTRICTS (Lucas) Alters the composition and method of appointment of the members of the boards of directors of existing sanitary districts organized to provide a water supply for domestic, municipal, and public use and limits the compensation paid and benefits provided to board members.

HB 134 TELEPHONE SERVICE (Grendell) Requires the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, upon petition by county commissioners, to order extended area service within a county and requires the PUCO to order extended area service between a multicounty exchange and all contiguous exchanges upon petition of subscribers in the multicounty exchange.

HB 135 ABORTION (Luebbers) Prohibits performing a brain suction abortion, makes any physician who performs such procedure subject to disciplinary action, and creates a cause of action against the person who conducts or attempts to conduct such a procedure.

HB 136 SCHOOL DEBT (Mottley) Provides for the issuance of certain obligations by school districts in anticipation of receiving tax revenues.

HB 137 ELECTION COSTS (Shoemaker) Requires the county to pay the costs of a special election held on the day specified for the holding of a primary election, if the subdivision submitting the special election is a school district and there are no candidates or other issues on the ballot.

HB 138 STATE EDUCATION BOARD (Shoemaker) Increases to 33 from 11 the number of elected members of the State Board of Education on January 1, 1997, eliminates the ex officio members of the board; and provides for State Board of Education districts each composed of one state senate district.

HB 139 CHILD SUPPORT (Sines) Prohibits the issuance or renewal of, and to require the suspension of, certain professional and occupational licenses, permits and certificates of an individual who has been found by a court to be in default under a support order.

HB 140 POLICE ARRESTS (Sutton) Requires a peace officer who responds to an offense report to arrest any person who is committing or has committed the offense of violating a protection order; eliminates the additional $32 filing fee in annulment, divorce, and dissolution of marriage actions that is used to fund shelters for victims of domestic violence; and increases from $17 to $34 the additional marriage license fee that is used to fund such shelters.

HB 141 MEMORIAL HIGHWAY (Cera) Designates IR 470 the Belmont County Veterans Memorial Highway."

HB 142 SALES TAX EXEMPTION (Mottley) Exempts the sale of employment services and physical fitness facility memberships from the sales tax.

HB 143 BINGO (Schuler) Authorizes certain amateur athletic organizations that support or operate athletic activities for persons training for Olympic competition to qualify to receive a charitable bingo license.

HB 144 MALPRACTICE INSURANCE (Schuring) Requires a physician or podiatrist not covered by medical malpractice insurance to obtain a patient's signature on a notice informing the patient of the lack of such insurance coverage prior to providing nonemergency professional services; requires the physician or podiatrist to maintain the signed notice in the patient's file; and provides for enforcement of these requirements by the State Medical Board.

HB 145 PAROLE OBJECTIONS (Thomas) Permits judges to object in writing to the Adult Parole Authority's recommendation of pardon or commutation or granting of parole to prisoners convicted of offenses of violence and denies shock parole to any prisoner who is serving a sentence for an offense of violence if the judge objects in writing to the shock parole.

HB 146 PEACE OFFICERS (Thomas) Creates the offense of disarming a law enforcement officer.

HB 147 PRISON HOUSING (Thomas) Requires the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to establish a program for the construction of semipermanent buildings for housing prisoners and permits county commissioners and a sheriff to establish a similar program.

HB 148 TAX ASSESSMENTS (Thomas) Shortens the statute of limitations on personal income tax assessments from four to three years and requires the state, when notifying taxpayers of such assessments, to request a return receipt of delivery by certified mail and request address correction.

HB 149 SCHOOL CURRICULUM (Thomas) Requires high school students to complete certain community service requirements in order to receive a high school diploma and eliminates certain requirements for school districts and the State Board of Education related to community service education and programs.

HB 150 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION (Thomas) Effectively exempts persons qualifying for the homestead reduction from liability for future increases in school district property tax rates.

HB 151 COURT ADMINISTRATION (Thomas) Eliminates the authority of a court of common pleas with more than two judges to designate one of their number as the chief justice of the court, amends the definition of legal aid society, changes the disposition of legal aid fund monies reserved to pay for the actual, reasonable costs of administering legal aid society funding that are not used to pay for actual, reasonable administrative costs, creates two additional judgeships in the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas, one of which is a drug court judgeship for one term beginning in 1997 and a general division judgeship thereafter, creates an additional judgeship in the Court of Appeals of the 7th District and declares an emergency.

HB 152 PRISONER ACTIVITIES (Thomas) Prohibits prisoners in state correctional institutions and county, municipal, and joint county and municipal jails, workhouses and correctional centers from from using certain exercise equipment and from participating in boxing, wrestling, or marital arts programs designed to improve fighting skills.

HB 153 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION (Mottl) Increases the income levels used to determine eligibility for the homestead and manufactured home exemptions.

HB 154 PRISON WEAPONS (Terwilleger) Creates the offense of possession of a deadly weapon while under detention and revises the definition of detention.

HB 155 SUNSET REVIEW (Terwilleger) Changes the name of the Sunset Review Committee to the Sunrise and Sunset Review Committee; provides for the review of proposals for legislation creating an agency; generally requires the endorsement of such proposals by the committee prior to a vote on the legislation and repeals certain sections of the act on January 1, 1997.

HB 156 PROBATE (Terwilleger) Permits under specified circumstances a surviving spouse to select and to inherit outside of the probate process up to two automobiles that were owned by the deceased spouse at the time of death and that have a combined appraised value of $40,000 or less and requires an adjustment to any family support allowance to account for the transfer of a second automobile.

HB 157 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION (Suster) Modifies the homestead reduction law by increasing the income limits used to determine eligibility, allowing deductions for medical and nursing home expenses in the computation of income, and effectively exempting persons eligible for the reduction from future property tax increases.

HB 158 FIREARMS (Lawrence) Prohibits the discharging of a firearm within 1,000 feet of a residence.

HB 159 FREE SPEECH (Batchelder) Limits the restriction of student expression by secondary and post-secondary educational institutions and permits a civil action by a student aggrieved by restrictions of expression that violate state law.

HB 160 INVESTMENT POLICIES (Batchelder) Makes changes in the investment authority of local governments under the Uniform Depository Act, including prohibiting investment in derivatives, certain repurchase agreements, and certain local government investment pools; providing investment maturity restrictions; requiring local governments to file investment policies with the Auditor of State and requiring that the policies be signed by persons investing a local government's moneys or offering investment advice to the local government; and prohibiting settlement of investment contract disputes by arbitration; and makes conforming changes.

HB 161 STUDENT PRAYER (Brading) Authorizes school boards to adopt policies to permit senior graduating classes to elect to have nonsectarian and nonproselytizing benedictions and invocations given by student volunteers at their graduation ceremonies.

HB 162 HARMFUL INTOXICANTS (Brading) Relative to harmful intoxicants.

HB 163 SLUDGE (Krebs) Requires the Ohio EPA director, on a case by case basis, to set guidelines on the prevention of nuisances caused by the application of sludge and to exempt animal or livestock wastes and industrial waste water from these requirements.

HB 164 CRIME REPARATIONS (Doty) Clarifies that under the Crime Victims Reparations Law an award of reparations may not be made to a person on behalf of a victim who is a felon, and to limit the award of attorney's fees under that law.

HB 165 WATER & SEWER DISTRICTS (Abel) Authorizes regional water and sewer districts to participate in Department of Administrative Services contracts for the purchase of supplies and services.

HB 166 FIREARM SAFETY (Campbell) Prohibits storing or leaving a loaded firearm so that a child under 16 years of age obtains possession of it, requires retail firearms sellers to post and distribute notices of the prohibition, requires the Department of Education to develop a firearms safety course for schools and requires the Department of Taxation to recommend to the Department of Education a plan for an increased tax on firearms to fund the course.

HB 167 WELFARE REFORM (Lawrence) Requires the suspension of certain professional and occupational licenses, permits, certificates, and motor vehicle licenses of an individual who has been found by a court to be in default under a support order; establishes the Directory of New Hires, the Adult Emergency Assistance Program, an employment assistance program, and a nursing facility recognition program; and makes changes in laws governing paternity establishment, ADC, Disability Assistance, Medicaid estate recovery, the JOBS Training Program, food stamps, and counties' share of public assistance expenditures.

HB 168 INVENTORY TAX (Hodges) Reduces the rate at which inventory property is assessed for taxation over a 10-year period from 25% to 15% of true value.

HB 169 PUBLIC CONTRACTS (Krebs) Eliminates the requirement that a public agency award separate contracts for each separate and distinct trade or kind of labor on a public works project, increases the bidding threshold on state public works projects from $10,000 to $50,000 and requires that the notice seeking bids on state public works projects be published only once rather than once a week for four consecutive weeks.

HB 170 CHILD SUPPORT (Hagan) Prohibits the issuance or renewal of, and requires the suspension or revocation of driver's or commercial driver's licenses, motorcycle operator's licenses or endorsements, or temporary instruction permits or commercial driver's temporary instruction permits, and prohibits the issuance or reissuance of certain hunting and fishing licenses, when a person is in default under a child support order.

HB 171 TEACHERS RETIREMENT BOARD (Sines) Changes the membership of the State Teachers Retirement Board.

HB 172 WELFARE (Thompson) Revises the law governing the Aid to Dependent Children, food stamps and Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training programs.

HB 173 LIQUOR CONTROL (Campbell) Requires the Liquor Control Commission hear certain appeals relating to liquor permits at a location within 50 miles of the existing or proposed permit premises affected, prohibits the issuance or renewal of liquor permits authorizing the sale of beer, wine and mixed beverages at a premises where gasoline or other motor vehicle fuels are sold if the premises is located in a municipal corporation and the legislative authority of that municipal corporation objects and establishes the Joint Committee for Liquor Law Review.

HB 174 INCOME TAX (Jordan) Increases to $1,800 and index for inflation the state income tax personal exemption.

HB 175 CHILD ABUSE (Campbell) Requires certain professionals mandated to report child abuse and neglect to have training in the recognition of child abuse and neglect and requires a public children services agency to notify in writing an out-of-home entity that an investigation of a report of child abuse or neglect involving that entity is currently in progress.

HB 176 SHERIFF PAY (Shoemaker) Revises the compensation of sheriffs beginning in 1997 and provides sheriffs with a compensation supplement, beginning in 1997, for serving process for courts of appeals.

HB 177 EMPLOYEE CHECKS (Lucas) Requires the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation to conduct a criminal record check of a person who seeks paid employment at a nursing home, rest home or home for the aging in a nonprofessional position in which it is likely the person will have contact with a patient or resident of the home.

HB 178 GUNS IN SCHOOL (Weston) Expands offense of illegal conveyance or possession of deadly weapons or dangerous ordnance on school premises to also prohibit the possession or conveyance of electronic stun guns and power slingshots on school premises.

HB 179 MEDICAL SAVINGS ACCOUNTS (Van Vyven) Provides for the creation and administration of Medical Savings Accounts and provides tax advantages to the holders of such accounts.

HB 180 SEX OFFENDER (Jacobson) Establishes sentencing, imprisonment, assessment and monitoring procedures for persons who are convicted of certain sexually violent sex offenses and also are convicted of being sexually violent predators and establishes a comprehensive law for the registration of persons who commit sexually oriented offenses and for the notification of victims and certain members of the public regarding the place of residence of sexual predators and of habitual sex offenders.

HB 181 WIRETAPS (Jacobson) Makes changes in the Wiretapping Law.

HB 182 FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE (Olman) Requires that the financial disclosure statement filed with the Ohio Ethics Commission by the president or other chief administrative officer of a state institution of higher education be available for public inspection.

HB 183 COMPETITIVE BIDDING (Colonna) Exempts from competitive bidding the purchase of services from nonprofit organizations whose purpose is to assist handicapped individuals and the purchase of services of handicapped individuals from nonprofit organizations to work in commissaries and concessions owned by or operated by regional transit authorities.

HB 184 OBSCENITY (Fox) Increase by one degree the penalties for pandering obscenity, pandering obscenity involving a minor, pandering sexually-oriented matter involving a minor and illegal use of a minor in a nudity-oriented material or performance.

HB 185 SEX OFFENDERS (Fox) Makes the Sex Offender Registration Law apply to persons who are convicted of or plead guilty to any of the listed sex offenses for the first time and makes numerous modifications in the law.

HB 186 DESTROYER ESCORT (Netzley) Establishes the third Saturday in June as "Destroyer Escort Day in Ohio" in honor of the destroyer escort ships and the Ohioans who served on them.

HB 187 LEGISLATIVE OMBUDSMAN (Netzley) Requires the director of the Legislative Service Commission to establish a legislative ombudsman program to direct and monitor action on citizen problems with state government.

HB 188 RECREATION/NUDITY (Terwilleger) Prohibits a person using land or waters in this state owned, operated, regulated, or administered by the Forest Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, by the National Park Service of the U.S. Department of the Interior, or by the Department of Natural Resources or any division of the Department from exposing the person's private parts under circumstances in which the exposure is likely to be viewed by and affront others, not members of the person's household.

HB 189 NOISE CONTROL (Lawrence) Authorizes a board of township trustees to adopt regulations to control noise at certain premises within one mile of an area zoned as residential.

HB 190 AGGRAVATED MURDER (Myers) Makes the penalty for the aggravated murder of a peace officer either death or life imprisonment without parole and requires law enforcement agencies to develop procedures for notifying and providing support to the next of kin of an officer whose death occurs in the line of duty.

HB 191 LOTTERY PROCEEDS (Gerberry) Specifies that, beginning July 1, 1997, lottery profits in excess of $661.2 million must be distributed on a per pupil basis to city, local, and exempted village school districts for any lawful educational purpose and to chartered nonpublic schools for mandated service administrative and clerical costs.

HB 192 FIRE/AMBULANCE DISTRICTS (Schuler) Permits joint fire districts and joint ambulance districts that encompass the same geographical territory to combine into a fire and ambulance district to provide both fire and ambulance services.

HB 193 CREDIT COUNSELING (Hottinger) Changes the term "consumer credit counseling service" to "budget and debt counseling services" throughout the Revised Code.

HB 194 LOCAL BUDGETS (Mottley) Allows political subdivisions to adopt a different fiscal year for certain limited purposes, and permits county budget commissions to waive the adoption of tax budgets by political subdivisions, or modify the form of tax budgets, under certain circumstances and provides that certain local government employees are members of the unclassified service.

HB 195 WORKER COMP PREMIUMS (Mottley) Provides a credit against the corporation franchise and personal income tax owed for a percentage of workers' compensation premiums or benefits and assessments paid.

HB 196 ECONOMIC IMPACT STATEMENT (Mottley) Requires the Legislative Budget Office of the Legislative Service Commission to include in its fiscal analysis of a bill, and certain agencies to include in their fiscal analysis of a proposed rule, information explaining the economic impact of the bill or rule on Ohio businesses.

HB 197 HIGHWAY SIGNAGE (Mottl) Eliminates one of the names of I-77 from Cuyahoga County through Washington County and requires the Director of Transportation to erect two road markers along portions of that route indicating that the road has been designated as the "Vietnam Veterans' of America Highway."

HB 198 STATE OFFICER COMPENSATION (Shoemaker) Fixes the compensation of the Lieutenant Governor at the same amount as that of the Secretary of State, Auditor of State, Treasurer of State and Attorney General.

HB 199 COURT JURISDICTION (Doty) Increases the monetary jurisdiction of a municipal court to $20,000 and of a county court to $15,000; increases the monetary jurisdiction of certain small claims divisions in increments from 1966 through 1998 in certain actions between business entities; modifies the notice served upon a defendant in a small claims division.

HB 200 UNAUTHORIZED STRIKES (Wachtmann) Defines "unauthorized strike" for the purpose of the Public Employees Collective Bargaining Law and prohibits public employees from engaging in partial or intermittent strikes, whether conducted during or after the expiration of the term of a collective bargaining agreement or during or after the pendency of a settlement procedure under the law.

HB 201 GENDER LANGUAGE (Davidson) Creates a rule of statutory construction that provides that the intent of the General Assembly in enacting an act that replaces gender specific language with gender neutral language is nonsubstantive, unless otherwise stated.

HB 202 LIVESTOCK TAMPERING (Haines) Allows the Director of Agriculture to adopt rules governing exhibitions; prohibits tampering with livestock, sabotage of livestock and use of unapproved drugs on animals; creates the Advisory Committee on Livestock Exhibitions; and declares an emergency.

HB 203 COUNTY DEATH REVIEWS (Campbell) Requires county commissioners of each county to appoint a health commissioner to establish a review group for the purpose of reviewing deaths of persons under age 18.

HB 204 HMOs (Beatty) Imposes limitations on altering health maintenance organization provider panels and drug formularies during an enrollee's current period of coverage.

HB 205 PAROLE (Beatty) Requires as a condition of parole eligibility that certain prisoners, other than those certified as mentally retarded, obtain an Ohio certificate of high school equivalence during imprisonment.

HB 206 CONSUMER CREDIT (Beatty) Requires creditors to make certain disclosures to consumers prior to entering into high cost mortgage transactions; prohibits, with respect to these transactions, creditors from charging certain prepayment penalty fees, including certain terms in the transaction, and requiring consumers to pay certain fees or charges for refinancing the transaction; requires the Superintendent of Consumer Finance to administer the act; provides for the act's enforcement under the Consumer Sales Practices Law; and provides civil remedies and a criminal penalty for violations.

HB 207 AUTOPSIES (Lucas) Requires coroners to perform an autopsy at the request of the sheriff or a relative of the deceased.

HB 208 GAME ANIMAL REGULATION (Krebs) Transfers from the Department of Natural Resources to the Department of Agriculture authority to regulate aquaculture and the raising of game birds, game quadrupeds, and fur-bearing animals and establishes the Department of Agriculture's authority to regulate aquaculture and the raising of semi-domestic animals, game birds, game quadrupeds, and fur-bearing animals.

HB 209 WILDLIFE DAMAGE (Krebs) Creates a legislative study committee to inquire into the feasibility and means of implementing a wildlife indemnification program that would provide compensation to owners of property that has been damaged by wildlife or other possible alternatives to solving the problem of property damage by wildlife.

HB 210 SCHOOL CURRICULA (Jordan) Requires parental permission be granted prior to the teaching of venereal disease prevention or any class containing content dealing with human sexuality.

HB 211 DRUG SALE REGULATION (Brading) Requires manufacturers of dangerous drugs sell them to wholesale distributors of dangerous drugs and terminal distributors of dangerous drugs with the same rights and privileges given to the most favored wholesale distributor or terminal distributor.

HB 212 PUBLIC EMPLOYEE PAY (Van Vyven) Prohibits any public agency from maintaining for its employees an average annual compensation per full-time equivalent employee that exceeds a calculated amount reflecting changes in compensation in the private sector.

HB 213 ACCOUNTANT-CLIENT PRIVILEGES (Batchelder) Creates an accountant-client testimonial privilege.

HB 214 OPEN PAROLE HEARING (Fox) Makes proceedings of the Parole Board subject to the Open Meetings Law; creates the Victims of Crime Review Council to approve or disapprove Parole Board determinations; permits prosecuting attorneys, judges and victims to give testimony before the Parole Board; requires that a person convicted of the aggravated murder of a peace officer be sentenced to death or life without parole.

HB 215 PRECINCT WORKERS (O'Brien) Permits the appointment of registered voters who are at least 17 years of age as precinct workers.

HB 216 CAMPAIGN ETHICS (Boggs) Prescribes code of campaign ethics that a candidate for public office may voluntarily agree to; requires each candidate file a statement of qualifications with the Secretary of State or board of elections; prohibits a candidate from knowingly misrepresenting any factual information about self or opponent; creates additional prohibitions regarding a candidate's campaign practices; authorizes the Ohio Elections Commission to report its findings of a violation of the election law directly to a court of common pleas; makes changes in the unfair campaign practices law.

HB 217 TOURIST SIGNS (Padgett) Makes changes in the provisions governing the Tourist-Oriented Directional Sign program of the Department of Transportation.

HB 218 HEALTH PROVIDER IMMUNITY (Roman) Provides certain health care professionals and workers and nonprofit shelter or health care facilities with qualified immunities from civil liability for providing free health care services to indigent or uninsured persons and ends the program after five years.

HB 219 CERTIFICATE OF NEED (Sines) Revises and continues the Certificate of Need program until May 1, 1997; abolishes the CON Review Board following the final disposition of all appeals of CON decisions issued prior to the effective date of this act; continues indefinitely the moratorium on recategorization of hospital beds to skilled nursing beds by amending ORC 3702.68 on July 1, 1995; reduces the number of reviewable activities under CON on May 1, 1996; ensures complete termination of the program on May 1, 1997; and declares an emergency.

HB 220 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL (Boggs) Prohibits a major league baseball replacement team from playing in a publicly-funded sports facility and declares an emergency.

HB 221 CHILD ABUSE (Pringle) Adopts new procedures to remove a child who is adjudicated an abused, severely abused, neglected, or severely neglected child from the custody of a parent, guardian, or custodian under certain circumstances and makes other substantive changes to the law governing child welfare.

HB 222 FUGITIVE FELONS (Doty) Authorizes a law enforcement official to receive the address of a fugitive felon from certain records of the departments of Human Services and Taxation and provides for the apprehension of ADC, General Assistance, and Disability Assistance recipients who are fugitive felons.

HB 223 SCHOOL MANDATES (Gardner) Reduces or eliminates certain mandates for the State Board of Education, the Department of Education, and school districts; makes irrevocable school board members' elections of whether to be members of the School Employees Retirement System for particular periods; and earmarks a portion of an appropriation for proficiency testing remediation for certain students.

HB 224 CAMPAIGN FINANCE (Logan) Establishes a system of voluntary limitations on the campaign expenditures of campaign committees of candidates for member of the General Assembly and statewide elected office and limits campaign contributions to those campaign committees that do not agree to adhere to the expenditure limitations.

HB 225 SOLID WASTE (Shoemaker) Requires solid waste management districts to follow county competitive bidding requirements when entering into district contracts.

HB 226 POLICE & FIREMEN'S FUND (Sines) Makes changes related to disability benefits under the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund; permits a member, in lieu of receiving partial disability benefits, to request employment in the same police or fire department with duties he is physically and mentally capable of performing, clarifies the process by which a PERS member purchases service credit for prior service covered by PFDPF or the State Highway Patrol Retirement System, requires each public retirement system board to adopt by rule an expense reimbursement policy, makes irrevocable school board members' elections of whether to be members of SERS for particular periods, and declares an emergency.

HB 227 DISCRIMINATION (Sawyer) Includes within the public accommodations prohibitions of the law, discrimination on the basis of hair style, clothing, or mode of transportation.

HB 228 STATE REPTILE (Reid) Adopts the black racer as the state reptile.

HB 229 PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS (Reid) Exempts from licensure under the Private Investigators and Security Services Law independent insurance adjusters, experts hired by attorneys for consultation or litigation purposes, and persons who locate individuals who are due money from the State of Ohio in the form of warrants that the State voided but subsequently reissued.

HB 230 PAWNBROKERS (Tiberi) Requires pawnbrokers and precious metals dealers to return allegedly stolen property immediately to the true owner without requiring certain payments and authorizes courts to award reasonable attorney's fees if the true owner brings an action to recover the property and the court finds that the pawnbroker or dealer wrongfully withheld the property.

HB 231 BUILDING PERMITS (Tiberi) Specifies that plans and other materials relative to obtaining building permits are not required to be prepared by registered architects for certain buildings and structures; requires certain contractors to demonstrate proof of financial responsibility; specifies the bonding requirements of construction managers; and permits third parties to contract with a registered architect to provide architectural services for another person.

HB 232 FIREARM POSSESSION (Pringle) Prohibits persons subject to an anti-stalking protective order or domestic violence protection order or consent agreement or who have been convicted of menacing by stalking or domestic violence from acquiring or possessing a firearm or dangerous ordnance.

HB 233 ADOPTIONS (Pringle) Eliminates the one-year period for contesting adoption decrees.

HB 234 CHILD SUPPORT (Pringle) Requires child support enforcement agencies to report obligors who default under support orders being administered or handled by the agencies to one or more consumer reporting agencies.

HB 235 INMATE NAME CHANGES (Fox) Requires certain inmates and former inmates to obtain the written consent of the director of Rehabilitation & Correction before filing a change-of-name application and requires the director to give notice when such an inmate's or former inmate's change-of-name application is approved by the court of common pleas.

HB 236 INVESTMENT TAX DEDUCTION (Tiberi) Grants a personal income tax deduction for investment earnings and capital gains on stock issued by corporations and employing 100 or more persons in Ohio and grants a deduction from the value of a taxable estate equal to the value of such stock included in the estate.

HB 237 FIREARM REGULATION (Doty) Repeals the provision that prohibits a limited self-government township from establishing regulations affecting hunting, trapping, fishing or the possession, use and sale of firearms.

HB 238 DERIVATIVE INVESTMENTS (Doty) Eliminates the statutory authority of the Public Employees Retirement System, Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund, State Teachers Retirement System, School Employees Retirement System and State Highway Patrol Retirement System to invest in derivative instruments.

HB 239 FOOD STAMP FRAUD (Schuring) Requires the refusal to issue and the revocation of a liquor permit or lottery license upon conviction for the offense of illegal use of food stamps, increases the penalty for the offenses of trafficking in food stamps and illegal use of food stamps, includes the value of electronically transferred food stamp benefits within these offenses, and provides for the regulation of sales and the taxation of certain types of alcoholic cider.

HB 240 MINIMUM WAGE (Prentiss) Increases the state minimum wage.

HB 241 PREVAILING WAGE (Hodges) Specifies a one-year statute of limitations for actions based upon violations of the state prevailing wage law, removes the use of union contracts as the sole source for determining prevailing wage rates, requires the administrator of the Bureau of Employment Services to calculate an average prevailing rate of wages for each county, removes the requirement that the prevailing wage paid to laborers, workmen and mechanics upon public works be adjusted during the life of the contract, increases the threshold cost of projects subject to that law from $4,000 to $1 million for each of the contracts that is included in the overall project, requires contractors and subcontractors who bid on public works contracts to submit to the director of Industrial Relations copies of the collective bargaining agreements covering laborers, workmen and mechanics to be employed under the contract, prohibits labor organizations from using their funds to target jobs or to lower bids for contracts under that law and changes the determination of the residential prevailing rate of wages.

HB 242 SPECIAL ELECTION (Hodges) Authorizes the holding of a special election on May 23, 1995 for submission of a zoning referendum and declares an emergency.

HB 243 BUILDING STANDARDS (Garcia) Makes various changes in the Board of Building Standards Law.

HB 244 WORKERS' COMPENSATION (Batchelder) Exempts church employees engaged in the operation, maintenance, or conduct of a church's ministry from coverage under the Workers' Compensation Laws.

HB 245 PAYROLL TAXES (Hodges) Permits interested parties to bring an action for injunctive relief against an employer who fails to pay workers' compensation premiums or unemployment compensation contributions from the compensation of an employee as required by law; bars any suit by a construction contractor or subcontractor arising from a contract to which the person is a party; abolishes the position of deputy administrator for medical management and cost containment and transfers the deputy administrator's duties to the administrator of Workers' Compensation, authorizes the administrator to certify, rather than contract with, external vendors under the health partnership program and modifies other provisions relative to that program, permits a self-insuring employer to self-insure its own construction project upon approval of the administrator of Workers' Compensation, modifies authority relative to the classification of specified employees of the Bureau of Workers' Compensation, permits licensed private investigators and security guard providers who are not subject to the workers' compensation law or unemployment compensation law to renew their licenses without submitting evidence of compliance with those laws, redefines "employee" for purposes of the Workers' Compensation Law and "employment" for the purpose of the Unemployment Compensation Law.

HB 246 TRUCK SPEEDS (Hood) Increases to 65 MPH from 55 MPH the speed at which motor vehicles weighing more than 8,000 pounds when empty and noncommercial buses are permitted to travel on certain freeways.

HB 247 WATERCRAFT SALES (Sines) Regulates agreements between watercraft manufacturers, distributors, and dealers.

HB 248 FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (Netzley) Delays, until October 20, 1995, the application of certain provisions of the Financial Responsibility Law that require motor vehicle insurers to provide policyholders with financial responsibility identification cards and authorizes peace officers to request motor vehicle owners and operators to produce such cards as proof of financial responsibility and declares an emergency.

HB 249 GENERAL ASSISTANCE (Lawrence) Abolishes the General Assistance program and makes changes in the law governing the Disability Assistance program.

HB 250 NITROUS OXIDE (Cain) Creates the offense of possessing nitrous oxide in a motor vehicle.

HB 251 PUBLIC DEPOSITORY (Schuler) Eliminates the requirement that a public depository have an office in Columbus to be eligible as a public depository of active deposits of state public moneys and makes conforming changes.

HB 252 ESTATE LAW (Shoemaker) Excludes from the value of a decedent's estate for taxation purposes the value of annuities and other payments to the extent contributed by the decedent's employer for reason of employment.

HB 253 CHILD SUPPORT (Hagan) Allows child support enforcement agencies and the Division of Child Support in the Department of Human Services to broadcast on radio or television the names and other relevant information about obligors owing more than $2,500 in child support arrearages.

HB 254 TEACHER RETIREMENT (Campbell) Permits members of the State Teachers Retirement System, for a one year period, to purchase up to two years of service credit for time while on leave of absence for pregnancy approved prior to July 1, 1982, or for time away from employment covered by the system because of a resignation due to pregnancy prior to that date.

HB 255 PUBLIC ASSISTANCE (Beatty) Renders a public assistance group ineligible for public assistance aid unless members of the group who are 18 years of age or older are registered to vote.

HB 256 CHILD SELLING (Beatty) Creates the felony offense of selling a child and designates a child sold in violation of the offense a neglected child.

HB 257 ETHNIC INTIMIDATION (Beatty) Designates ethnic intimidation by an organization "domestic terrorism" and enhances the penalty of an offense if the offender purposely selects the person or property that is the subject of the offense because of a person's race, religion, color, disability, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry.

HB 258 SCHOOL TUITION FRAUD (Krebs) Creates the crime of fraud against a school board related to knowingly failing to pay tuition owed to a school board; permits certain school boards in case of tuition fraud to sue to collect damages equal to four times the annual amount of tuition due, plus attorney's fees and costs; authorizes school district attendance officers to investigate cases of tuition fraud; prohibits the approval of certain interstate placements of children in Ohio unless a placing agency agrees to pay tuition for a child; prohibits school boards from admitting certain out-of-state children for longer than five months unless custody orders are submitted.

HB 259 CLAIMS (Cera) Increases to $5,000 the amount of a claim against the state that the Clerk of the Court of Claims is required to determine administratively.

HB 260 RURAL DEVELOPMENT (Carey) Creates the rural site development and speculative building programs and the Rural Development Fund in the Department of Development to promote economic development in rural areas and to terminate the provisions of this act two years after the effective date of this act by repealing section 122 on that date.

HB 261 CONCEALED FIREARMS (Reid) Authorizes police chiefs, sheriffs, and prosecuting attorneys to issue licenses to certain persons to carry a concealed weapon.

HB 262 VEHICLE REGISTRATION (Suster) Prohibits the Registrar of Motor Vehicles from issuing a motor vehicle certificate of registration for a vehicle owned by a person who fails to pay a traffic ticket or fails to satisfy a judgment entered in a case involving a traffic offense.

HB 263 PUBLIC HEALTH COUNCIL (Terwilleger) Requires the membership of the Public Health Council to include a registered sanitarian, allows a person employed as a sanitarian on July 20, 1987, to receive automatic registration as a sanitarian, and specifies the meaning of serving and preparing food for purposes of the laws pertaining to licensure of food service operations.

HB 264 BACKGROUND CHECKS (Terwilleger) Requires the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation to conduct a criminal record check on any person who seeks to work with certain entities that serve older adults and prohibits certain offenders from being employed to provide direct care for older adults.

HB 265 JUVENILE DETENTION (Boyd) Prevents alleged or adjudicated abused, neglected, dependent, or unruly children from being placed in secure detention facilities and reduces the number of placement options that permit an alleged or adjudicated juvenile traffic offender to be placed in secure detention facilities.

HB 266 ADOPTION (Mottley) Allows a court to issue an adoption decree, requires the Department of Health to issue a foreign birth record with respect to a child for which an adoption decree has been issued by a court in a foreign country, provides for the correction of a certificate of marriage, permits the director of health, the state registrar, or a local registrar to issue an heirloom certificate of birth, and permits the director of health to prescribe a fee to offset the cost of issuing heirloom certificates of birth.

HB 267 PRIOR ADJUDICATIONS (Maier) Relative to the admission into evidence of prior criminal prosecutions of evidence involving felonious acts for impeachment purposes.

HB 268 PARK DISTRICTS (Schuler) Permits county commissioners and the county prosecuting attorney jointly to contract with a board of park commissioners of a metropolitan for the prosecuting attorney to provide legal services to the district park district and allows park districts and state universities and colleges to enter into mutual aid agreements for law enforcement purposes.

HB 269 DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS (Schuring) Specifies a procedure under which two or more municipal corporations may designate a joint economic development zone; permits additional municipal corporations and townships to enter into contracts creating a joint economic development district; revises and unifies the procedures under which certain municipal corporations and townships may create a joint economic development district, and makes other changes to the Joint Economic Development District Law.

HB 270 DRIVER EDUCATION (Mottl) Requires a person to submit written evidence of successful completion of a preemptive OMVI information course prior to being issued an initial driver's or commercial driver's license or permit.

HB 271 LOTTERY PROFITS (Weston) Requires lottery profits to be distributed to school districts under an equitable formula established by the State Board of Education.

HB 272 GRAIN METERS (Weston) Specifies that grain moisture meters are subject to the Weights and Measures Law.

HB 273 OFFICIAL LANGUAGE (Terwilleger) Requires the use of the English language by state and local government entities in official actions and proceedings, subject to certain exceptions, and requires state institutions of higher education to refund fees to students who cannot reasonably understand the spoken language utilized by teaching personnel.

HB 274 ABUSED CHILDREN (Mason) Makes changes to the law governing abused, neglected and dependent children and adoption.

HB 275 UNEMPLOYMENT RESERVE (Corbin) Creates a state unemployment benefit reserve fund; revises requirements concerning unemployment compensation eligibility determinations; revises the time frame within which administrator of Bureau of Employment Services must issue overpayment orders; permits benefits pursuant to certain interstate claims to be charged to the mutualized account; requires administrator to withhold federal income tax from benefits of individuals who so request; and makes other changes in the Unemployment Compensation Law.

HB 276 PREVAILING WAGE (Hood) Repeals the Prevailing Wage Law.

HB 277 PROFICIENCY TEST (Olman) Exempts foreign exchange students from having to take or pass any proficiency tests in order to receive a regular diploma from a public or nonpublic school.

HB 278 WORKER COMP BUDGET (Thompson) Makes appropriations for the Bureau of Workers' Compensation for the biennium beginning July 1, 1995 and ending June 30, 1997.

HB 279 INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION BUDGET (Thompson) Requires district and staff hearing officers to be admitted to the practice of law in this state and makes appropriations for the Industrial Commission for the biennium beginning July 1, 1995 and ending June 30, 1997.

HB 280 ARTS FACILITIES (Carey) Enables the Appalachian Public Facilities Task Force to proceed with making recommendations for certain Appalachian facilities improvements and transfers a portion of the appropriation authority for such improvements from the Ohio Arts Facilities Commission to the Ohio Board of Regents and the Department of Natural Resources; authorizes local administration of exhibit design and fabrication services for the Center of Science and Industry-Toledo; allows the director of budget and management to provide an exception to travel reimbursement rules for project contracts between the Ohio Arts Facilities Commission and the Ohio Historical Society; authorizes the transfer of certain bond proceeds to the school building assistance fund; and declares an emergency.

HB 281 TUITION WAIVERS (Mallory) Extends university tuition waivers to spouses and certain former spouses of fire fighters and peace officers killed in the line of duty.

HB 282 MORTGAGE BROKERS (Schuler) Makes changes in the Mortgage Broker Law, including increasing registration application fees, specifying certain qualifications for registration, authorizing the charging of certain service fees, and specifying the limited liability of mortgage brokers with respect to buyers upon completion of the mortgage broker services, and eliminates the separate registration, net worth, and record-keeping requirements and certain fee limitations applicable to brokers under the Mortgage Lender Law.

HB 283 LOTTERY PRIZES (Bateman) Establishes a procedure that allows winners who receive lottery prize awards in installments to use their award as collateral for a loan with court approval.

HB 284 LIBRARIES (Bateman) Authorizes boards of library trustees to finance the acquisition, construction or renovation of permanent improvements or the acquisition of motor vehicles or other personal property by issuing notes and anticipation notes to be repaid from the library's distributions from the Library and Local Government Support Fund; provides that the notes and anticipation notes are lawful investments; removes a cap of $500 a year on the compensation of certain county law library association librarians; and amends Sec. 69 of Am. Sub. HB117 of the 121st General Assembly to specify the purchasing of standardized products to create the OPLIN project.

HB 285 LIQUOR PERMITS (Tavares) Requires the Liquor Control Commission to revoke a liquor permit if the holder of the permit violates, for the third time within a five-year period, the prohibitions of the Liquor Control Law against selling or providing beer or intoxicating liquor to a person under 21 years of age.

HB 286 MENTAL ILLNESS (Tavares) Prohibits discrimination in the coverage of severe mental illnesses in all health insurance contracts and policies delivered or issued for delivery in this state.

HB 287 MOTORCYCLE HELMETS (Tavares) Mandates the use of a protective helmet by persons operating or riding a motorcycle and establishes a penalty for the operation of a motor vehicle when front seat passengers are not wearing available occupant restraining devices.

HB 288 GUARDIANSHIP (Tavares) Creates a standby guardianship for a minor.

HB 289 BRAIN INJURY FUND (Grendell) Creates the Traumatic Brain Injury Trust Fund for operating a system of consumer-oriented case management services for survivors of head injury and for funding neural trauma research; levies an additional fine for speeding and driving while intoxicated; transfers the head injury program and Head Injury Advisory Council from the Rehabilitation Services Commission to the Department of MR/DD and terminates certain provisions of this act by July 1, 2000.

HB 290 PARK COMMISSIONS (Hagan) Adds four new members appointed by the county commissioners to a board of park commissioners of a metropolitan park district created by conversion from a township park district.

HB 291 ZONING AUTHORITY (Schuler) Authorizes counties under specified conditions to zone certain telecommunications towers owned or used by public utilities and proposed to be located in unincorporated residential areas of townships and conforms to such zoning authority existing township authority to zone cellular towers.

HB 292 AGENCY RULES (Sykes) Revises the jurisdiction of the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review, allows agencies to set the effective date of emergency rules, allows the extension of emergency rules for an additional 60 days under certain circumstances and makes other changes in the Agency Rule Review Law.

HB 293 DEMOLITION DEBRIS (Maier) Authorizes municipal corporations and townships to levy a fee of not more than 25-cents per ton on the disposal of construction and demolition debris at construction and demolition debris facilities located within their boundaries for the purposes of defraying certain specified costs and losses of real property tax revenues resulting from the location and operation of such facilities within their boundaries.

HB 294 LICENSE PLATES (Reid) Requires that motor vehicle license plates bear the slogan "Birthplace of Aviation."

HB 295 COPYRIGHT (Corbin) Regulates contracts between certain proprietors and copyright owners and performing rights societies, limits unfair trade practices by copyright owners and performing rights societies, and declares an emergency.

HB 296 ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES (Carey) Permits an electric cooperative to elect to be regulated by the Public Utilities Commission and establishes certain rights and duties regarding the meetings and records of an electric cooperative.

HB 297 PREVAILING WAGE (Corbin) Specifies a one-year statute of limitations for actions based upon violations of the state prevailing wage law, removes the use of union contracts as the sole source for determining prevailing waste rates, requires the Administrator of the Bureau of Employment Services to calculate an average prevailing rate of wages for each county, removes the requirement that the prevailing wage paid to persons employed upon public works be adjusted during the life of the contract, increases the threshold cost of projects subject to that law from $4,000 to $500,000 for each of the contracts that is included in the overall project, fixes a $150,000 threshold cost for improvements within the jurisdiction of the Ohio Department of Transportation, prohibits labor organizations from using their funds to target jobs or to lower bids for contracts under that law, transfers the enforcement of the prevailing wage law from the Department of Industrial Relations to the Bureau of Employment Services, and changes the determination of the residential prevailing rate of wages.

HB 298 NAME CHANGES (Fox) Permits certain persons to obtain an exemption from the requirement of providing public notice of having filed a change-of-name application in the probate court.

HB 299 TOBACCO/SMOKING (White) Reduces the access of persons under age 18 to tobacco products, strengthens the prohibitions against the sale and distribution of tobacco products to such persons, prohibits the distribution of tobacco product samples at schools and playgrounds, prohibits the sale of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products other than in unopened packages, provides for the training of retail sales clerks regarding the law governing the sale of tobacco products, prohibits liquor permit holders and persons involved in the sale of tobacco products from adopting a policy of checking every purchaser's identification to determine the purchaser's age; provides for random, unannounced inspections of locations where tobacco products are sold; and provides for the submission of the annual reports required under Sec. 1926 of the Public Health Services Act, as amended, to regulate the use of tobacco products in public places, food service establishments, and places of employment.

HB 300 FIREARM VIOLATIONS (Garcia) Requires an eight-year term of actual incarceration for committing a felony while in or on a motor vehicle and armed with a firearm.

HB 301 SCHOOL FUNDING (Krebs) Requires the Department of Education to distribute at least 94% of the federal funds it receives to schools.

HB 302 COUNTY RECORDS (Terwilleger) Permits the creation of a county board of information services and records management in lieu of the county records commission, the county microfilming board and the county automatic data processing board.

HB 303 ENGINEERS LAW (Thompson) Makes changes in the Professional Engineers and Surveyors Registration Law.

HB 304 LAND APPRAISERS (Blessing) Provides for the certification of residential real estate appraisers and the registration of real estate appraiser assistants and makes other changes in the Real Estate Appraisal Law.

HB 305 FUEL DEALERS (Thomas) Changes the licensing requirements for motor vehicle fuel dealers and others and makes other changes in the collection and administration of the motor vehicle fuel tax.

HB 306 SCHOOL LEVIES (Shoemaker) Permits school boards, with voter approval, to levy four new kinds of property taxes and permits school boards to acquire buildings by lease-purchase agreements.

HB 307 SCHOOL FUNDING (Shoemaker) Permits county school financing districts to impose, with voter approval, a sales tax in the county.

HB 308 HIGHWAY PATROL FUND (Blessing) Increases pensions and benefits paid to certain State Highway Patrol Retirement System retirants and survivors, reduces the employee contribution rate, reduces the age of eligibility for cost of living increases to 53, changes the manner in which certain transfers of service credit are made to the Public Employees Retirement System, clarifies the participants in a certain election for membership in the School Employees Retirement System, requires Ohio's five public retirement system boards to furnish certain records to the Joint Legislative Committee to Study Ohio's Public Retirement Plans, and declares an emergency.

HB 309 COUNTY BIDDING (Thomas) Increases from $10,000 to $50,000 per mile the estimated cost for road construction and maintenance, and from $40,000 to $100,000 the estimated cost for bridge construction and maintenance above which counties must follow competitive bidding procedures.

HB 310 CANDIDATE ELIGIBILITY (Thomas) Provides that a person who is convicted of a felony is forever incompetent to hold elective public office unless that person's record is sealed and was a first offender.

HB 311 MEDICAL EXPENSES (Thomas) Permits elderly taxpayers having qualified medical expenses exceeding 25% of income to deduct those expenses from state, municipal, and school district income taxation.

HB 312 RETIREMENT SYSTEMS (Thomas) Eliminates the statutory authority of the Public Employees Retirement System, Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund, State Teachers Retirement System, School Employees Retirement System, and State Highway Patrol Retirement System to invest in derivative instruments.

HB 313 SMALL LOANS (Schuler) Authorizes a check-cashing business to obtain a license to make six-month loans of $500 or less; provides for interest rates and other fees and charges in connection with the loans; authorizes the Superintendent of Consumer Finance to license, regulate and examine check-cashing businesses making these loans; provides for enforcement by the Attorney General; provides civil remedies and a criminal penalty for failing to comply with these licensing and lending provisions; and makes conforming changes in the Small Loan Law.

HB 314 INSURANCE POLICIES (Fox) Requires that copayment charges under sickness and accident insurance policies and health maintenance organization contracts be based on actual costs paid or payable and requires insurers and health maintenance organizations to summarize the amounts paid or payable by each party on all billing statements and other correspondence relating to a covered medical cost or service.

HB 315 TEACHERS RETIREMENT (Vesper) Increases benefits under the State Teachers Retirement System.

HB 316 TURNPIKE COMMISSION (Mottl) Abolishes the Ohio Turnpike Commission; creates the Division of Toll Projects within the Department of Transportation; transfers the duties, powers, and functions of the Commission to the Division; creates the Toll Projects Fund; authorizes the issuance of revenue bonds of the state to finance toll projects; and declares an emergency.

HB 317 CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE (Taylor) Changes the threshold for a plaintiff's recovery in contributory negligence is found in negligence actions from contributory negligence that is "no greater" than the negligence of the defendant to contributory negligence that is "less than" the negligence of the defendant.

HB 318 CERTIFICATE OF NEED (Van Vyven) Revises the Certificate of Need Law and other health care regulatory provisions enacted by Sub. SB 50 of the 121st General Assembly and declares an emergency.

HB 319 OIL & GAS DRILLING (Gerberry) Authorizes township trustees of a township with a population of at least 30,000 persons residing in the unincorporated area of the township to adopt a resolution prohibiting the drilling of a new oil or gas well within 500 feet of a single- or multi-family dwelling.

HB 320 STUDENT LOANS (Womer Benjamin) Authorizes the issuance of state revenue obligations the proceeds from which would be used to acquire loans made to eligible students attending certain post-secondary educational institutions or to persons borrowing on behalf of such students.

HB 321 BINGO (Pringle) Authorizes all charitable organizations to conduct instant bingo and requires them to use the proceeds for charitable purposes; establishes licenses that must be obtained to manufacture, distribute, and sell instant bingo tickets; provides for the disbursement of amounts obtained from the fees charged for these licenses and from the sale of registration stamps that must be affixed to boxes of instant bingo tickets; creates the State Bingo Commission to issue licenses under the Charitable Gambling Law and regulates the conduct of bingo and instant bingo; authorizes and limits the payment of compensation to bingo game workers; specifies the maximum amount of door prizes that may be awarded for attending a bingo session; increases the rent that may be paid for a premises used to conduct bingo games that is larger than 4,000 square feet; and makes other changes in the Charitable Bingo Law.

HB 322 PUBLIC CONTRACTS (Pringle) Requires state agencies and recipients of state funds generally to award public works contracts to Ohio businesses and requires generally the employment of only Ohio laborers and laborers from nonrestrictive states on public works projects of the state and political subdivisions during a period of excessive unemployment.

HB 323 VEHICLE DEALERS (Pringle) Requires a motor vehicle dealer who sells, offers for sale, leases or offers to lease a used motor vehicle from a place of business located in a county that is subject to the tailpipe, basic, or enhanced motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program to first have the vehicle inspected by an inspection contractor; requires the dealer to make the inspection certificate obtained for the vehicle and a written statement of the applicable repair cost waiver amounts available for inspection by prospective purchasers; and requires the dealer to provide the inspection certificate obtained for the vehicle and statement of repair cost waiver amounts to the purchaser or lessee of the vehicle.

HB 324 FATHER REGISTRY (Pringle) Creates a putative father registry.

HB 325 NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS (Mottl) Requires nonprofit corporations to file with the Secretary of State an annual report disclosing the identity of certain contributors.

HB 326 SANITARY DISTRICTS (Amstutz) Requires prior approval of the proposed annual budget and of the issuance of bonds by the advisory council of a sanitary district organized wholly for the reduction of populations of biting arthropods; permits the creation of such districts by election; establishes a right of referendum on and other methods for the dissolution of such a sanitary district; permits a court of common pleas to merge such a sanitary district into a health district; permits such a health district to propose a property tax levy in the area that formerly constituted the sanitary district with which the health district was merged to pay for activities related to the reduction of biting arthropods; provides for the payment of the expenses, retirement of any bonds, and distribution of any assets of such a sanitary district after its dissolution; and permits agreements with health districts for the continuation of studies and surveys regarding biting arthropods previously conducted by a dissolved sanitary district.

HB 327 RETIREMENT SYSTEMS (Van Vyven) Creates a health care fund for each of the state retirement systems; increases the maximum employee and employer contribution rates of each system to cover the cost of health care coverage for retirees; requires certain retirees to pay portions of their health care coverage costs; and requires each system to annually report on how it proposes to reduce its amortization period for unfunded pension liabilities to not longer than 30 years.

HB 328 DISINTERMENT (Wachtmann) Establishes procedures for the disinterment of remains, pursuant to court order, upon the application of a person other than the decedent's surviving spouse and permits a person to apply for a court order to prevent the deceased's surviving spouse from having the remains of the deceased disinterred.

HB 329 PAYROLL DEDUCTIONS (Gerberry) Requires state and local public employers to make the payroll deductions authorized by their employees to pay membership dues to educational and professional associations.

HB 330 LIFE INSURANCE (Buchy) Provides that an employer has an insurable interest in the lives of its employees, directors and retired employees, and allows employers, upon receiving the consent of the prospective insureds, to procure individual or group insurance on the lives of its employees, directors, and retired employees.

HB 331 SCHOOL HOME RULE (Fox) Authorizes a city, exempted village, or local school district to become a home rule school district and operate in a certain deregulated manner upon approval of the district's electors.

HB 332 LIQUOR PERMITS (Mottley) Requires the renewal of a liquor permit, after the permit has been not renewed because of the permit holder's tax delinquency or liability, if the permit holder withdraws the permit holder's appeal to the Liquor Control Commission and the delinquency or liability is resolved; eliminates the authority to conduct local option elections on a particular premises; changes the definition of "low-alcohol beverage"; and makes other changes in the Liquor Control Law.

HB 333 MONEY LAUNDERING (Jacobson) Relates to transaction reporting and money laundering.

HB 334 REPLACEMENT LEVIES (Schuler) Changes the terms under which property tax levies may be replaced.

HB 335 OHIO TURNPIKE (Perz) Creates the Turnpike Oversight Committee, limits the authority of the Ohio Turnpike Commission to expend toll revenues for projects other than the project that generated the funds; requires the Commission to hold public hearings before it votes to increase tolls on a toll project or takes any action that will increase its sphere of responsibility beyond the Ohio Turnpike; allows the Committee to review future projects of the Commission and to recommend future projects; requires a procedure to be established for a political subdivision or other government agency to apply to the Commission for the construction of a turnpike project; and requires each member of the Committee and the legislative members of the Commission to represent a district in which is located or through which passes a portion of a turnpike project that is located in the vicinity of a turnpike project that is part of the Ohio Turnpike System.

HB 336 FIREARM SALES (Padgett) Clarifies that the limits on state grants to school districts for the enhancement of the safety and security of persons on school grounds apply to individual fiscal years; requires the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation to establish a system for performing criminal record checks of prospective transferees of handguns; requires certain transferors of handguns to obtain criminal record checks before transferring handguns; creates certain offenses in connection with the sale or transfer of a handgun or with administrative duties in connection with criminal record checks; specifies that individuals required to be fingerprinted once and not on a yearly basis; requires the submission of an affidavit if there have been no changes to such a disclosure statement at the end of each annual update period; and terminates the handgun transfer criminal record check provisions of this act on February 28, 1999.

HB 337 LAND CONVEYANCE (Gardner) Authorizes the conveyance of real estate owned by the state for the use of Bowling Green State University and located in Wood County to the City of Bowling Green.

HB 338 HEALTH INSURANCE (Fox) Creates the Patient Protection Act for the purpose of ensuring the beneficiary of a health care plan the right to choose the provider of his choice.

HB 339 MANUFACTURED HOUSING (Blessing) Defines "mobile home", "manufactured home", "industrialized unit", and "recreational vehicle" to create distinct classifications of housing; revises the sales and use taxes applicable to manufactured homes, to tax specified permanently sited manufactured homes as real property; licenses mobile homes under the Motor Vehicle Law and imposes an occupancy fee on mobile homes; specifies that a permanently sited manufactured home satisfies building code requirements for one-, two-, and three-family homes; and specifies that manufactured homes comply with energy requirements for one-, two-, and three-family homes.

HB 340 SCHOOL FUNDS (Netzley) Credits three percent of personal income tax receipts to the general revenue fund; earmarks for schools excess state lottery receipts and that portion of the state income tax that is not credited to the general revenue fund, local government fund; increases the amount of the income tax paid to the local government fund to six percent; and changes the way state funds are distributed to school districts.

HB 341 HEALTH DISTRICTS (Shoemaker) Requires that in a health district created by the combination of city and general health districts, the cities and the county furnish suitable quarters for the board of health or health department and share equally the cost of furnishing those quarters.

HB 342 WORKERS' COMPENSATION (Vesper) Revises certain criteria the administrator of Workers' Compensation must consider in granting self-insuring status to an employer for purposes of the Workers' Compensation Law.

HB 343 MANUFACTURING CREDIT (Harris) Expands eligibility for the credits for purchasing new manufacturing equipment by requiring taxpayers' purchases of such equipment to equal 20% of their existing manufacturing equipment rather than 20% of all of their existing property.

HB 344 INSURANCE COMPANY PAY (Mottl) Limits the total compensation and the retirement benefits that certain mutual health insurance companies and their affiliates may provide to directors, officers, and employees of the mutual health insurance companies.

HB 345 UTILITY RATES (Sawyer) Establishes an alternative, fully projected test period for which a public utility may calculate service costs for ratemaking purposes and changes the date certain for valuing utility property for such purposes.

HB 346 MINORITY SET-ASIDE (Thompson) Makes the existing requirement that 15% of certain state purchases be set aside for competition by minority business enterprises only, contingent on the submission of bids by minority business enterprises located in the county in which goods or services are to be used.

HB 347 HOTEL LAW (Healy) Defines Single Room Occupancy (SRO) facilities under the Ohio Hotel Law; provides for the separate licensure and regulation of SRO facilities under the Ohio Hotel Law; and exempts certain SRO facilities and emergency shelters from the Ohio Landlord and Tenant Law.

HB 348 VEHICLE LIENS (Healy) Prohibits the issuance of a certificate of registration and license plates for a vehicle for which a lienholder has obtained a repossession certificate of title due to a default in performance of the terms of a security agreement.

HB 349 SCHOOL SALES TAX (Cera) Permits county school financing districts in less populous counties to impose, with voter approval, sales tax in the county.

HB 350 TORT LAW (Tiberi) Relative to changes in the laws pertaining to tort and other civil actions.

HB 351 SHERIFF CANDIDATES (Tiberi) Changes certain qualifications for being a candidate for or being elected or appointed sheriff, changes requirements governing the completion of the basic training course by newly-elected sheriffs, and authorizes the Auditor of State to appoint investigators to discharge the duties of the Auditor of State.

HB 352 AGRICULTURE PRODUCT TORT (Buchy) Relative to a tort action for disparagement of a perishable agricultural product.

HB 353 MOTOR VEHICLES (Bateman) Makes changes in certain laws relating to the titling, registration, operation and equipment of motor vehicles.

HB 354 REAL ESTATE LAW (Terwilleger) Revises the Real Estate Brokers Law, including changes to provide statutory standards and penalties governing the agency relationships and duties of real estate agents; establishes disciplinary sanctions to be imposed by the Ohio Real Estate Commission upon real estate licensees who violate the Real Estate Brokers Law; establishes staggered deadlines for license renewal applications; adopts guidelines to permit organizations that sponsor continuing education classes to offer members a fee reduction; provides continuing education requirements for certain licensees 70 years of age or older; enables real estate licensees engaged in the management of property to exercise signatory authority for withdrawals from property management accounts; and enables property management accounts to earn interest.

HB 355 HEALTH DISTRICTS (Van Vyven) Modifies the powers, duties and procedures of district advisory councils for general health districts, requires the Department of Health to issue a new birth record when any correction is made in the original birth record, permits the Director of Health to collect fees for conducting initial Medicare certifications, increases the number of days certain volunteer organizations may serve meals without a food service operation license, and declares an emergency.

HB 356 DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT (Carey) Makes miscellaneous changes to the laws governing the organization and responsibilities of the Department of Development.

HB 357 PATERNITY TESTS (Doty) Permits the use of DNA tests on buccal cell samples as an alternative to blood tests in the establishment of paternity.

HB 358 DEGRADATION (Doty) Requires an antidegradation review in each case where a person seeks to degrade the waters of the state, allows such a degradation only if the review indicates that the economic benefits of the proposed degradation outweigh the costs associated with it and provides public notice of any permitted degradation of the waters of the state.

HB 359 ARBITRATION (Doty) Prohibits mandatory arbitration in consumer transactions unless the supplier meets certain conditions for the protection of the consumer.

HB 360 EMISSION TESTING (Troy) Delays implementation of the enhanced motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program until January 1, 1997 and requires the EPA director to make quarterly reports to the Motor Vehicle Inspection and Maintenance Program Legislative Oversight Committee regarding pending federal legislation and regulatory changes relating to motor vehicle inspection and maintenance programs.

HB 361 SCHOOL LEGAL EXPENSES (Troy) Requires city school districts to reimburse cities for certain legal and civil service administration services.

HB 362 VEHICULAR HOMICIDE (Logan) Enhances the penalty for vehicular homicide if the offender was under a license suspension or revocation at the time of the offense.

HB 363 FELONY CONVICTIONS (Womer Benjamin) Prohibits granting an award of reparations if the victim or claimant is convicted of a felony, or engaged in felonious conduct during the pendency of the claim or if the victim through who a claimant claims an award was convicted of a felony or engaged in felonious conduct within ten years prior to the criminally injurious conduct that is the basis of the claim, authorizes the Attorney General to issue subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum to compel the production of materials relevant to an application for an award of reparations, reduces the minimum amount of unreimbursed allowable expenses that may be the subject of an assignment of an award of reparations, authorizes the Attorney General to seek recovery of an award of reparations if it was wrongfully paid or the claimant is compensated for the expenses covered by the award, and extends the period of time for the Attorney General to investigate and issue a recommendation regarding a claim.

HB 364 SCHOOL FUNDING (Gerberry) Earmarks 34.6 percent of the General Revenue Fund for primary and secondary education.

HB 365 RETIREMENT BENEFITS (Vesper) Revises the cost-of-living formula for the five state retirement systems and increases certain benefits payable to members of the Public Employees Retirement System and requires continuation of survivor benefits, despite remarriage, to the surviving spouse of a deceased member of the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund when remarriage occurs after the spouse attains age 55.

HB 366 PHONICS (Vesper) Requires colleges of education of state universities to provide instruction in the teaching of intensive systematic phonics and requires successful completion of a course in the teaching of phonics prior to receipt of certain teaching certificates.

HB 367 LICENSE PLATES (Metzger) Requires registrar of motor vehicles to issue special license plates free of charge to Purple Heart recipients requesting the special plates.

HB 368 DIVORCE COUNSELING (Brading) Permits courts to require divorcing parents to attend parenting classes or obtain counseling.

HB 369 POLICE/FIRE RETIREES (Fox) Adjusts minimum benefits and cost-of-living allowances for certain Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund retirants.

HB 370 COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (Perz) Authorizes creation of community schools.

HB 371 I.U.D. LIABILITY (Grendell) Extends the statute of limitations for certain claimants who have filed claims against the Dalkon Shield Claimants Trust to bring an action for bodily injury or wrongful death caused by the effects of the Dalkon Shield intrauterine device and declares an emergency.

HB 372 LICENSE PLATE (Davidson) Authorizes the issuance of a special Cardinal license plate with revenues to be deposited in the nongame and endangered wildlife fund.

HB 373 SHERIFF COMPENSATION (Sines) Revises compensation for the office of sheriff beginning in 1997.

HB 374 INSURANCE LAW (Tiberi) Adopts, with modifications, proposals of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, relative to Risk-Based Capital for Insurers Model Act, the Disclosure of Material Transactions Model Act, and the model Standard Valuation Law; adopts portions of the Credit for Reinsurance Model Act and removes certain limitations on the reinsurance authority of fire insurance companies and associations; makes changes in the investment authority of domestic insurers; permits health maintenance organizations and all domestic insurers to receive advances of funds from persons for business purposes and modifies the limit on interest permitted for the use of the funds; makes confidential examination working papers of the Department of Insurance available to insurance regulatory authorities in other states that will maintain the confidentiality of the papers; subjects HMOs and prepaid dental plan organizations to Ohio's Holding Company Systems Law and makes other changes to this law; requires foreign insurers licensed to write home warranty business to meet the same capital and surplus requirements as domestic insurers writing home warranty business, authorizes the Superintendent of Insurance to establish notice requirements for health insurance coverages that are sold to persons eligible for Medicare and that are not Medicare supplement coverages, revises the order of distribution of claims filed in insurer liquidation proceedings, and declares an emergency.

HB 375 FALSE ALARMS (Gerberry) Increases the penalties for inducing panic and making false alarms.

HB 376 ADJUTANT GENERAL PROPERTY (White) Authorizes the Adjutant General to transfer certain parcels no longer needed for 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 under the control of the Adjutant General to a buyer or buyers to be determined at a later date if the Adjutant General determines that the property is no longer required for military or armory purposes; and authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate under the control of the Adjutant General to Frank E. and Marilyn A. Hill.

HB 377 COURT JURISDICTION (Myers) Relative to the jurisdiction of the domestic relations divisions of the Courts of Common Pleas of Licking and Fairfield counties to enter certain types of child support and child custody orders and changes the reference from "referees" to "magistrates" for small claims divisions and probate courts.

HB 378 PROPERTY TITLES (Myers) Permits joint tenants in real property to hold title in unequal shares.

HB 379 PERS LAW ENFORCEMENT (Gerberry) Includes Public Employees Retirement System members who are state university law enforcement officers and Hamilton County Court bailiffs in the system's law enforcement division.

HB 380 SCHOOL BUSES (Abel) Provides that a school bus owned by a school district that is returned to its manufacturer, fitted with a new body onto its chassis, and is certified by the manufacturer as meeting all applicable standards governing school buses neither loses its character as a motor vehicle, nor is changed in such a manner that is not the motor vehicle described in the certificate of title.

HB 381 COSMETOLOGISTS (Kasputis) Allows cosmetologists to practice cosmetology in barber shops and barbers to practice barbering in beauty solons.

HB 382 RENTAL PROPERTY (Kasputis) Amends the Theft and Fraud Law to define rented property, specify acts that are evidence of intent to commit theft of rented property, and establishes an affirmative defense to a charge of theft of rented property.

HB 383 CABLE TELEVISION (Healy) Prohibits a cable operator from imposing a late payment charge on any amount of an advance billing that is unpaid before the end of the service period covered by the advance billing.

HB 384 VEHICLE SALES TAX (Healy) Permits the trade-in allowance to be deducted from the total sales price for the purpose of computing sales and use tax on a used motor vehicle purchase.

HB 385 CHILD SUPPORT (Fox) Excludes certain social security benefits from consideration in calculating child support obligations.

HB 386 VEHICLE WEIGHTS (Weston) Allows, under certain circumstances, farm trucks and farm machinery to exceed by no more than 10 per cent the established motor vehicle weight laws.

HB 387 ETHANOL FUEL (Weston) Requires state officers and employees operating state vehicles to refuel such vehicles only with an ethanol-blend fuel.

HB 388 DRIVER'S LICENSES (Krebs) Makes changes regarding the issuance of driver's licenses to and the suspension of driver's licenses held by certain persons under the age of 21; increases certain requirements for driver education courses; and requires the suspension for 30 days of the driver's license of a person who is convicted of purchasing beer or intoxicating liquor without being of legal age to make the purchase.

HB 389 COUNTY RECORDERS (Mason) Adds additional requirements of form for instruments presented to the county recorder for recording and requires the recorder to charge a $10 penalty for a nonconforming instrument unless the recorder has waived the fee for the specific instrument requirements that make the document nonconforming.

HB 390 CRIMINAL FORFEITURE (Pringle) Increases the penalties for the offense of failure to comply with an order or signal of a police officer when the offender is in a motor vehicle and provides for the criminal forfeiture of the vehicle used in committing the offense.

HB 391 PROBATE (Mason) Clarifies the personal liability of guardians, conservators and attorneys in fact with respect to the contracts and debts of wards, physically infirm, competent adults, or principals; specifies that a spendthrift provision in an inter vivos or testamentary trust that holds shares of an S Corporation generally does not cause forfeiture or postponement of certain interests in the shares held; generally prohibits an inter vivos or testamentary trust from requiring or permitting the accumulation of income on certain property for more than one year, permits a to establish a trust for the benefit of any beneficiary of proceeds from a wrongful death action who is less than 25 years of age; changes the period of time after which a bona fide purchaser, lessee or encumbrancer, for value, obtains a title, estate or interest in land that is acquired from an heir or beneficiary of a decedent; extends the time within which an executor, administrator or special administrator is required to file an inventory of an estate from one month after appointment to three months after appointment; permits a surviving spouse to elect to receive the decedent spouse's interest in the mansion house as part of the surviving spouse's share of the decedent's intestate estate and the statutory allowance for support; specifies that the consent of the Tax Commissioner is not required before transferring or delivering certain intangible personal property of a decedent spouse to the surviving spouse; and modifies the types of institutions covered by, and the endowment fund net appreciation expenditure of, the Uniform Management of Institutional Funds Act.

HB 392 SPECIAL EDUCATION (Gerberry) Establishes entitlement to additional state money for school districts with extraordinary special education costs and makes an appropriation.

HB 393 LOTTERY PRIZES (Gerberry) Specifies that the approval of the director of Budget and Management is not required for the Lottery Commission to conduct a lottery in which all or any part of the prize award is paid from unclaimed prize awards.

HB 394 HIGHER EDUCATION (Shoemaker) Allows state institutions of higher education to participate in regional councils of governments.

HB 395 SCHOOL MEALS (Doty) Requires the presence of at least one adult trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and techniques for assisting choking victims at school meals for pupils.

HB 396 STATE SUPERINTENDENT (Wise) Requires that the appointment of the Superintendent of Public Instruction be subject to the advice and consent of the Senate beginning January 1, 1995.

HB 397 PREVAILING WAGE (Hartley) Makes all public improvement projects subject to the Prevailing Wage Law.

HB 398 ANIMAL RESEARCH (Grendell) Relative to civil and criminal remedies pertaining to fraudulent conduct by purchasers or donees of horses that results in the subsequent use of the horses for medical research or the slaughter of the horses.

HB 399 INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS (Fox) Authorizes the creation of independent schools operated by their own management boards.

HB 400 EXPERT WITNESSES (Terwilleger) Requires courts, upon the motion of a prosecutor, to order up to three mental condition evaluations of a defendant who enters a pleas of not guilty by reason of insanity; requires a defendant in a criminal case who intends to present expert testimony regarding a mental or medical condition bearing upon the issue of guilt to give notice to the prosecutor and requires the court, upon the prosecutor's motion, to order that the defendant be examined by a professional chosen by the prosecutor.

HB 401 EMPLOYMENT LAW (Hagan) Requires employers to grant employees a leave of absence to be a candidate for or to hold an elective public office and reinstate those individuals who take such leaves of absence to their former positions and provides a penalty for violations.

HB 402 KOREAN WAR (Reid) Establishes Korean War Veterans' Day.

HB 403 PHYS ED CLASSES (Nein) Permits students in grades seven through twelve to substitute interscholastic sports activities for physical education class if, in place of physical education class, the student attends either another class that is included in the district's graded course of study or a supervised study session.

HB 404 PARENTAL CARE (Netzley) Requires recipients of ADC to have or acquire parenting skills; requires public children services agencies to seek custody of the children of ADC recipients who fail to acquire such skills; increases the financial benefit for ADC recipients who obtain long-term contraception or are sterilized; terminates or limits ADC benefits for assistance groups in which an adult member becomes pregnant or impregnates another; makes failure to comply with a child support order a felony of the fourth degree; and requires the transfer of jurisdiction over a child support order to the county to which the obligor has relocated and found employment.

HB 405 EMERGENCY SERVICES (Logan) Authorizes the State Board of Emergency Medical Services to certify first responders and first responder training and continuing education instructors and programs, makes other changes in the law governing emergency medical services, allows nonadjoining political subdivisions to form joint fire districts, and makes changes in the law governing the certification of firefighters.

HB 406 PUBLIC RECORDS (Hood) Excludes a specified peace officer's personnel administrative information incidental to employment from the requirements of the Public Records Law.

HB 407 MEMORIAL HIGHWAY (Thomas) Designates U.S. Route 33 the "Marine Corps League Memorial Highway."

HB 408 PAY RAISES (Corbin) Provides increased compensation to prosecuting attorneys in counties with a population of 70,000 or less who choose not to engage in the private practice of law and for payment of part of the cost by the state; increases the compensation of elected executive state officials, township trustees and clerks, elected county officials, members of the boards of elections, justices of the Supreme Court and common pleas, municipal and county court judges; allows coroners to employ in the coroner's office persons with whom they are associated or whom they employ in their private medical practice; creates the Elected Officials Compensation Commission; and makes an appropriation.

HB 409 INFORMATION DEPOSITORY (Tiberi) Authorizes the Treasurer of State to designate a private entity as the State Information Depository in accordance with federal securities law, requires the State Information Depository to maintain certain information pertaining to municipal securities offerings and specifies that the State Information Depository is not a state agency or instrumentality.

HB 410 CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES (Perz) Increases the penalty for possession of a controlled substances in a detention facility from a misdemeanor to a felony, specifically permits laser timing devices to be used to determine automobile highway speeds, permits a law enforcement officer who observes the operator of a motor vehicle commit one of certain specified moving violations to radio another law enforcement officer with information to enable the other law enforcement officer to arrest the operator or issue a citation for the violation, requires an owner of an unattended automobile parked on a highway to pay the removal expenses, limits generally the fleet self-inspection program supervised by the State Highway Patrol to vehicles not subject to regulation by the Public Utilities Commission, modifies the laws governing the actions operators of motor vehicles must take at railroad grade crossings, and authorizes the State Highway Patrol to enforce the motor vehicle laws on the State Fairgrounds.

HB 411 ESTATE FILINGS (Fox) Revises the accounting and inventory filing requirements for estates.

HB 412 FUEL TAX USE (Shoemaker) Eliminates payment of the expenses of administering and enforcing the motor vehicle laws as a purpose for which motor vehicle fuel taxes are levied.

HB 413 INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION (Schuring) Allows the Industrial Commission to designate staff hearing officers to determine whether to hear appeals to the Commission, to assign claims to particular Industrial Commission service offices, to change the time requirements for publication of hearing decisions, to suspend any payment of temporary, total compensation to an individual who obstructs the vocational evaluation process, to permit the Commission, temporarily, to hire attorneys to serve as district and staff hearing officers, and to permit the Commission to establish an alternative dispute resolution process and to hire individuals as facilitators in that process.

HB 414 LAKE ERIE SHORELINE (Opfer) Defines the natural shoreline of Lake Erie to include Sandusky Bay as a part of it.

HB 415 LANDFILLS (Maier) Authorizes the board of county commissioners or directors of a solid waste district to adopt rules prohibiting the operation of more than one sanitary landfill at a time in a municipal corporation or township wholly or partially located within the district.

HB 416 INCOME TAX DEDUCTION (Maier) Allows an income tax deduction for interest and other investment income arising from deposits held in Ohio or investments in certain corporations employing 100 or more persons in Ohio.

HB 417 PAIN CONTROL (Thomas) Regarding authority of physicians to prescribe, dispense and administer controlled substance for management of intractable pain.

HB 418 INTERPRETER LICENSING (Mason) Requires licensing of persons seeking to offer services as an interpreter or transliterator for deaf persons.

HB 419 ADOPTION RECORDS (Winkler) Revises the law governing adoptions, access to adoption records and child custody.

HB 420 COUNTY SALES TAX (Kasputis) Permits a board of county commissioners, with voter approval, to divert the revenue from a sales and use tax originally levied for transit purposes to another purpose specified by the board of county commissioners.

HB 421 FIREARMS OFFENSE (Gerberry) Requires the imposition of a five-year term of actual incarceration upon an offender who commits a felony while armed with a firearm with an obliterated or altered serial number and creates the offense of committing a misdemeanor while having a firearm with an obliterated or altered serial number.

HB 422 TAX EXEMPTION (Vesper) Exempts from the state income tax military pay received by active duty military personnel serving outside of Ohio.

HB 423 LEGAL AID (Batchelder) Extends for five more years through December 31, 2002 the $15 filing fee add-on charged for filing civil actions in municipal, county, and common pleas courts, and the $7 filing fee add-on charged for filing civil actions in small claims divisions, which are used for providing financial assistance to legal aid societies, provides that the judges of a domestic relations division of a court of common pleas who exercise the powers and jurisdiction of a juvenile court generally are to serve as the clerk regarding all juvenile court-related records filed with the court, changes the date by which municipal court judges must render a report concerning the court's operations, establishes a one-year pilot program to determine the feasibility of using consumer reporting agencies to determine whether an applicant for free legal representation is indigent, and makes an appropriation.

HB 424 TAX CREDITS (Olman) Allows credits against the corporation franchise and state income taxes for a taxpayer that purchases new manufacturing machinery and equipment.

HB 425 VETERANS LICENSES (Metzger) Exempts veterans who have a service-connected disability rated at 100 percent by the Veterans' Administration from payment of any application or service fees when obtaining a driver's license or motorized bicycle license or fee for laminating such a license.

HB 426 DRIVER TESTS (Hartley) Provides that a person who is not successful in passing a driver's license examination must wait seven days before eligible to undergo a driver's license reexamination, regardless of whether or not the person has a physical disability.

HB 427 LICENSE PLATES (Mottley) Requires that Registrar of Motor Vehicles to issue special license plates free of charge to Purple Heart recipients requesting the special plates.

HB 428 VETERANS ORGANIZATIONS (Hodges) Exempts from taxation the property held by a veterans organization although not organized exclusively for charitable purposes.

HB 429 POLICE CHIEFS (Metzger) Establishes a procedure governing the suspension and removal of municipal and township police chiefs.

HB 430 MORTGAGE LOANS (Myers) Makes revisions in the Mortgage Loan Law and exempts certain persons from licensure under the Insurance Premium Finance Company Law.

HB 431 STATE SOIL (Buchy) Designates the Miamian Soil Series as the official state soil.

HB 432 CEMETERY VANDALISM (Ogg) Includes a definition of "cemetery" in the cemetery laws and the vandalism and desecration laws.

HB 433 VEHICLE NOISE (Roberts) Prohibits generally the operation of a motor vehicle on a street or highway if the sound amplification system is discernible outside the vehicle at a distance of 25 feet or more.

HB 434 TORT LAW (Blessing) Prohibits the recovery of damages in tort actions by plaintiffs who were engaged in certain violations of the law at the time harm allegedly was caused by a defendant if the defendant follows a specified motion procedure and specifies the burden of proof that must be sustained in a disciplinary or other administrative proceeding against a peace officer for allegedly using excessive deadly or other force.

HB 435 HAZARDOUS WASTE (White) Revises the requirements and procedures governing modifications of hazardous waste facility installation and operation permits.

HB 436 SALES TAX (Mottley) Exempts the sale of employment services from the sales tax.

HB 437 CHILDREN'S TRUST (Jones) Authorizes the issuance of a Children's Trust license plate and creates the Children's Trust License Plate Fund.

HB 438 MUNICIPAL & COUNTY COURTS (Wise) Increases the monetary jurisdiction of a municipal court to $15,000 and of a county court to $15,000; increases the monetary jurisdiction of the small claims division of a municipal court or county court to $3,000; makes other revisions in the Municipal Court and County Court Law; makes changes to the salaries of common pleas, municipal, and county court judges; revises certain procedures of the Financial Responsibility Law; specifically authorizes each municipal court and each county court to establish procedures for the resolution of disputes between parties to actions or proceedings within the court's jurisdiction and to charge a reasonable fee for those procedures; creates a testimonial privilege for persons who participate in mediation, and permits certain persons to file more than 24 consumer-related claims in a small claims division in a calendar year.

HB 439 STATE FACILITIES (Sutton) Requires state facilities in most circumstances to be located in urban areas exhibiting relatively high rates of unemployment and poverty and relatively low incomes.

HB 440 RURAL DEVELOPMENT (Carey). Creates the rural industrial park loan program and the Rural Industrial Park Loan Fund in the Department of Development to promote economic development in rural areas, makes an appropriation and terminates the provisions of this act on January 1, 1999.

HB 441 VOLUNTARY CLEANUP (Schuring) Allows credits against the corporation franchise and state income taxes for a taxpayer that completes the voluntary environmental clean-up of a contaminated site, permits special improvement districts to undertake voluntary clean-ups and to levy special assessments to pay the costs of those clean-ups, modifies the locational criteria governing recently-enacted manufacturing investment tax credits, clarifies the application of those manufacturing tax credits for investments made in eligible areas, and generally prohibits firms receiving jobs tax credits from relocating employees within the state.

HB 442 INDUSTRIAL PARKS (Metzger) Creates the Urban and Rural Initiative Fund in the Department of Development to promote economic development in this state by providing grants for land acquisition, infrastructure improvements, voluntary actions, and renovation of property in certain areas; commissions an economic development study to evaluate the existing and future economic development activities in the state; provides an alternative procedure by which certain municipal corporations may enter into a contract creating a joint economic development zone, authorizes zones so created to levy an income tax within the zone, terminates the provisions of this act on January 1, 1999, and makes an appropriation.

HB 443 DEVELOPMENT FINANCING (Tiberi) Grants boards of county commissioners authority with voter approval to increase the rate of sales and use taxes an additional 1% and to levy a sales and use tax for the purpose of financing economic development projects including the construction or renovation of a sports facility.

HB 444 STADIUM ADVERTISING (Tiberi) Requires the operator of a stadium or public recreational facility for athletic events that receives public funding to provide advertising at no charge to the Department of Development to promote economic development in Ohio.

HB 445 SEXUAL OFFENSES (Womer Benjamin) Redefines sexual conduct to include the insertion of any body part or object into the vaginal or anal cavity of another and merges the offense of felonious sexual penetration into the offense of rape.

HB 446 DESERT STORM (Ogg) Establishes a veterans bonus for veterans of Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm and makes an appropriation.

HB 447 DEFENSIVE ACTS (Womer Benjamin) Codifies the common law principles pertaining to self-defense and defense of third persons within the home and on owned, leased or rented real property.

HB 448 MECHANOTHERAPY (Maier) Permits mechanotherapists who completed educational requirements for mechanotherapy by January 16, 1994 to obtain a certificate to practice mechanotherapy.

HB 449 SCHOOL ATTENDANCE (Myers) Prohibits city, exempted village, local, or joint vocational school districts from receiving an open enrollment payment for a student counted in the district's ADM.

HB 450 RETIREMENT CREDIT (Netzley) Bases the cost of purchasing military service credit under the Public Employees Retirement System on a member's first year of employment after that service is covered by the Cincinnati Retirement System, permits a member of the Public Employees Retirement System to qualify for free military service credit based on re-employment in the Cincinnati Retirement System, and makes changes to the laws of the five state retirement systems in accordance with federal law regarding military service credit.

HB 451 CHILD CUSTODY (Netzley) Requires the court to consider an additional factor when determining which custody or visitation arrangement is in the best interest of a child.

HB 452 LIABILITY IMMUNITY (Netzley) Confers an immunity from tort liability upon blind, deaf, and mobility impaired persons whose handicapped assistance dogs cause harm to certain criminal offenders under specified aid or defense circumstances and specifies that those dogs are not dangerous or vicious dogs when they cause harm under those circumstances.

HB 453 CHILD SUPPORT (Netzley) Permits the impoundment of amounts paid under a child support order in situations in which the obligor's visitation rights with respect to the child are being denied by the obligee.

HB 454 COUNTY TAXES (Shoemaker) Allows a board of county commissioners of a county that is currently levying a county sales tax to adopt, at any time during which the county sales tax is in effect, a resolution reducing the rate of any property tax the county is currently levying for current expenses.

HB 455 INMATE SUITS (Roman) Establishes procedures for handling a civil action commenced against the state, a political subdivision, or an employee of either in a court of common pleas, court of appeals, county court, or municipal court or in the Supreme Court by an inmate or an appeal of such an action filed by an inmate in an applicable court; broadens the costs and expenses that may be awarded for frivolous conduct in a civil action; and provides that the exemption from process to satisfy a judgment or order that is provided regarding certain payments n account of personal bodily injury does not apply if the payments are made to a person who is an inmate and resulted from an action or proceeding against the state or an officer or employee of the state.

HB 456 INFECTIOUS SUBSTANCES (Beatty) Prohibits the improper handling of infectious substances.

HB 457 RIVER COMMISSION (Cera) Creates the Ohio River Commission and the Ohio River Commission Fund and provides for the issuance of Ohio River license plates.

HB 458 POSTNATAL CARE (Beatty) Requires health care contracts, policies and plans to provide minimum amounts of postnatal inpatient hospital care to a mother and her newly-born child.

HB 459 OFFICER OATHS (Jacobson) Authorizes peace officers to administer oaths and acknowledge and certify certain instruments in writing regarding matters related to their official duties and requires at least one hour of training in those functions.

HB 460 FACILITY RELOCATION (Taylor) Requires the Director of Transportation to provide for the relocation of facilities of a certain water supply, waterworks, or sewerage system.

HB 461 BICYCLE SIGNALS (Reid) Permits the operator of a bicycle to give a right turn signal by extending the right hand and arm horizontally and to the right side of the bicycle.

HB 462 FISCAL EMERGENCIES (Thomas) Expands the Local Fiscal Emergencies Law to include counties and townships and authorizes for a limited period of time certain boards of county commissioners to grant partial tax exemptions on homesteads and manufactured homes and to reimburse the exempted taxes with other county revenue.

HB 463 TAX CREDIT AUTHORITY (Logan) Generally prohibits the Tax Credit Authority from granting tax credits to firms that relocate operations from one to another location within Ohio and requires any officer or employee of the Department of Development or of the Tax Credit Authority to notify counties, townships or municipal corporations of plans by firms inquiring about a tax credit to relocate away from that subdivision.

HB 464 OHIO MILITARY RESERVE (Lucas) Prohibits the Department of Administrative Services from collecting a service charge or fee from the Ohio Military Reserve for use of federal surplus property acquired by the Department and transferred to the Reserve.

HB 465 TESTIMONIAL PRIVILEGE (Suster) Creates a testimonial privilege for persons who participate in mediation.

HB 466 CHARITABLE TAX DEDUCTION (Tiberi) Authorizes a deduction from the personal income tax for charitable contributions.

HB 467 STATE SONG (Womer-Benjamin) Adopts "Buckeye Pride" as the official state march.

HB 468 FRATERNAL SOCIETIES (Suster) Revises the Fraternal Benefit Societies Law, eliminates the requirement that CPA examination papers be available for inspection or copying, and declares an emergency.

HB 469 SCHOOL TAXES (Doty) Permits a school district located primarily in one or more joint economic development districts to receive a portion of income taxes levied in the district and in municipal corporations participating in the district, permits such a school district to issue debt to be repaid from its share of such taxes and declares an emergency.

HB 470 PARKS BOND (Logan) Requires that at least $10 million of the state's share of the state and local parks bond authorized under Section 21 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, be used to improve access to or the use of the Ohio River.

HB 471 PROPERTY TAXES (Lewis) Provides for a discount against taxes paid on tangible personal property used in business if the taxes are paid prior to the due date for advance payment.

HB 472 COMPUTER PURCHASING (Netzley) Requires the Director of Administrative Services to adopt rules requiring employee computer proficiency, exclude such requirements from collective bargaining under the Public Employees' Collective Bargaining Law and create the State Computer Purchasing Committee for the purpose of employing an administrator of Computer Purchasing to coordinate the purchase of computer systems and software by all state agencies.

HB 473 AGENCY RULES (Netzley) Requires the review, at least every five years, of certain rules subject to review by the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review.

HB 474 INCOME TAX (Suster) Grants a non-refundable credit against the state income tax equal to the amount of municipal income taxes paid for the benefit of a school district.

HB 475 POLICE & FIRE FUND (Jones) Increases Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund survivor benefits to surviving spouses and children and provides cost-of-living increases for the benefits.

HB 476 UTILITY VALUATION (Sawyer) Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission, upon application of a natural gas company to provide a general exemption from ORC Chapters 4905., 4909., and 4935. except sections 4905.10, 4935.01, and 4935.03, and from specified sections of Chapter 4933. of the ORC for any natural gas commodity sales service or ancillary service; authorizes the Commission, in a proceeding for a rate change, to permit the natural gas company to use alternative methods of fixing rates and charges; provides that only the commodity sales services, distribution services, and ancillary services of a natural gas company are subject to Commission jurisdiction; permits automatic adjustments in the rates of regulated natural gas services based on fluctuations in a specified cost or costs; provides exceptions similar to those of existing law regarding the public records of the Commission and the Consumers' Counsel; makes nonjurisdictional and exempt services of natural gas companies subject to the Consumer Sales Practices Act; excludes amounts billed on behalf of other entities from the gross receipts of a natural gas company, for the purpose of computing its public utility excise tax, exempts a natural gas company having 15,000 or fewer Ohio customers from certain purchased gas adjustment audit requirements, unless otherwise ordered by the Commission for good cause shown; and exempts, from long-term energy forecasting requirements, persons furnishing gas, natural gas, and electricity to 15,000 or fewer Ohio customers and persons owning or operating a majority utility facility and furnishing gas or natural gas directly to 15,000 or fewer Ohio customers.

HB 477 STUDENT TRUSTEES (Salerno) Gives students serving on college boards of trustees full voting power and entitles them to attend executive sessions of the board.

HB 478 MANUFACTURED HOMES (Garcia) Makes changes in the Manufactured Home Park Law to authorize residents to meet with a park operator to discuss an increase in lot rent, permit residents to submit a disagreement over an increase in lot rents to mediation, prohibit retaliation for participating in meetings or mediation related to lot rent increases, limit the amount the park operator may charge residents for water purchased or supplied from a water system and require the park operator when a manufactured home park is sold for use other than as a manufactured home park to pay specified relocation costs to each manufactured home owner in the park or at the owner's request to purchase the home from the owner.

HB 479 PFDPF BOARD (Vesper) Modifies the composition of the Board of Trustees of the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund.

HB 480 CORRECTIONS (Hodges) Makes certain changes regarding the reimbursement of the cost of expenses incurred by a jail, workhouse or other local correctional facility as determined in a court proceeding; clarifies the authority of a court to require a felon it sentences to a local correctional facility to pay the costs of confinement; permits local and community correctional facilities to adopt their own prisoner reimbursement programs; permits local and community correctional facilities to charge fees for medical treatments and services requested by an inmate; permits juveniles to remain within the sight and sound but not the range of touch of adult inmates during processing; prohibits physically securing a child to a stationary object during processing in an adult facility and requires visual supervision of the child during the processing; provides for inmate commissaries and commissary funds for local facilities; provides for the hiring of civilian corrections officers for local facilities; permit jails to contract for medical and other services necessary for the care and welfare of the prisoners and other persons placed in the sheriff's charge; makes certain changes regarding work-release programs; subjects minimum security jails to the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction's minimum standards for jails; establishes the Felon Medical Care Committee; clarifies the amount of a sheriff's "furtherance of justice fund"; grants investigators of the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation, while assisting a law enforcement authority, the same arrest authority as peace officers of that law enforcement authority and specifies when those investigators may render emergency assistance to a peace officer; and makes other changes regarding jails, workhouses, and other correctional facilities.

HB 481 MUNICIPAL POLICE POWERS (Lawrence) Allows a municipal corporation to protect any person located on property outside its boundaries that it owns and uses.

HB 482 RETIREMENT FUNDS (Sines) Creates an alternative retirement system for academic or administrative employees of public institutions of higher education covered by PERS, STRS or SERS

HB 483 SUBDIVISION PLATS (Wise) Eliminates the requirement that subdivision plats in certain unincorporated territory be approved by a city planning commission before being recorded and requires their approval instead by a county or regional planning commission.

HB 484 WATERCRAFT LICENSE (Ford) Requires an operator of recreational watercraft to obtain a recreational watercraft operator's license after successfully completing a boating safety education program and a recreational watercraft safety examination.

HB 485 CONCEALED WEAPONS (Hood) Permits the carrying of concealed weapons.

HB 486 POSTNATAL CARE (Salerno) Requires health care contracts, policies and plans to provide minimum amounts of postnatal, inpatient hospital care and home nursing care to a mother and her newly-born child.

HB 487 DELINQUENT CHILDREN (Cain) Creates the offense of failing to control a child, allows courts to require parents whose children are adjudicated unruly or delinquent to comply with certain requirements and changes the compensatory damage limitations in civil actions against a parent whose child commits certain acts.

HB 488 ENERGY CREDITS (Troy) Increases the income eligibility limits for the home energy credit program.

HB 489 PROTECTION ORDERS (Thomas) Requires a peace officer to arrest a person whom he has reasonable cause to believe committed the offense of violating a protection order or consent agreement.

HB 490 SCHOOL SILENT PERIOD (Britton) Permits school districts to provide for a period of silence each school day for reflection or meditation upon a moral, philosophical or patriotic theme and prohibits schools or teachers from requiring pupils to participate in such a period of silence.

HB 491 LICENSE PLATES (Hood) Requires that motor vehicles carry only one license plate to be displayed on the rear of the vehicle.

HB 492 DISCRIMINATION PREVENTION (Sykes) Prohibits membership discrimination by organizations, institutions and clubs that are not distinctly private and to authorize the Ohio Civil Rights Commission to award affirmative relief, including actual damages, certain punitive damages and reasonable attorney's fees for violations of the Public Accommodations Law.

HB 493 BUILDING NAMES (Netzley) Prohibits the naming of a building of a state agency or state college or university in honor of an individual while the individual holds a state elective office or for one year after the individual leaves office.

HB 494 DEED RECORDING (Core) Prohibits a county recorder from recording deeds or other instruments in writing executed or certified in a foreign language unless the deed or instrument is accompanied by a certified and complete English translation.

HB 495 LIMITED PARTNERSHIPS(Thompson) Makes changes in the Partnership Having Limited Liability Law, including adopting the term "limited liability partnerships," modifying the application requirements and clarifying the liability of partners of such partnerships, requiring foreign limited liability partnerships to register with the Secretary of State and to comply with annual reporting and name restrictions, eliminating certain reporting requirements for registered limited liability partnerships; making changes in the Limited Liability Company Law with respect to formation and duration requirements, operating agreements, membership interests, appointment of statutory agents and name restrictions; making changes in the Limited Partnership Law with respect to the liability of limited partners, the assignment of partnership interests and trade name filings; making modifications in the General Corporation Law with respect to agreements of merger or consolidation and dissenting shareholders rights; permitting lenders under the Small Loan Law to provide a copy of a completed loan agreement to an obligor; permitting certain copies of original signatures to the submitted with the Secretary of State filings and in certain mortgage filings; requiring corporate filings to be on a form prescribed by the Secretary of State; and makes other changes in the General Corporation, Limited Liability Company, General Partnership and Limited Partnership Laws.

HB 496 TAXATION COMPENSATION (Cera) Provides compensation to taxing districts for property taxes forgone because of the exemption from taxation of pollution control equipment.

HB 497 MUNICIPAL TAXES (Boyd) Permits municipal corporations to require employers located outside the municipal corporation to withhold income taxes imposed by the municipal corporation on its residents.

HB 498 CITY FUNDS (Ford) Allows a municipal corporation to transfer certain surplus funds in its water fund to its general fund.

HB 499 SCHOOL EMPLOYEES (Jacobson) Permits a child to complete high school in a school district without payment of tuition if the child's parents mover from that district after the conclusion of the child's junior year, provides the district in which the child attends school approves such attendance and authorizes boards of education to adopt policies under which school employees under supplemental contracts who are not district residents pay reduced tuition amounts for their children to attend district schools.

HB 500 FIRE/EMERGENCY FUNDS (Carey) Creates a state revolving loan program to help certain municipal corporations and townships meet specified fire-fighting or emergency medical needs and makes an appropriation.

HB 501 COUNTY PAYMENTS (Schuler) Authorizes a board of county commissioners to delegate by resolution any or all of its personnel functions to the county administrator, authorizes a county administrator to contract and pay claims on behalf of the board of county commissioners without requiring that a separate resolution of the board authorize each action, specifies that persons employed by and directly responsible to a county administrator and holding a fiduciary or administrative relationship to the county administrator are in the unclassified service, authorizes a board of county commissioners to enter into a three-year employment contract with a county human services director, provides for an alternative method for allocating county library and local government support fund monies among subdivisions in a county, requires the attorney general to advise township law directors, and allows townships with the limited self-government form of government to contract with the county prosecuting attorney to have the prosecuting attorney serve as the township law director.

HB 502 FLY ASH DISPOSAL (Bender) Specifies conditions under which a person may commence to construct a fly ash or bottom ash disposal facility in the unincorporated area of a township.

HB 503 DEED RECORDS (Bender) Permits the recording of deeds or other instruments in writing executed or certified in whole or in part in a foreign language if accompanied by a complete English translation.

HB 504 INCOME TAX CREDIT (Jordan) Allows a taxpayer a credit against the personal income tax for each dependent 18 years of age or younger.

HB 505 BINGO (Taylor) Allows a charitable organization that conducts not more than five bingo sessions in a calendar year to conduct more than two bingo sessions in a seven-day period.

HB 506 DANGEROUS PRIZES (Ford) Creates the offense of awarding dangerous prizes to minors.

HB 507 DISCIPLINARY SCHOOLS (Doty) Authorizes the boards of education of school districts to create alternative disciplinary middle and high schools that may operate in a certain deregulated manner.

HB 508 JURY LISTS (Bender) Specifies that certain jury records are not public records.

HB 509 OCCUPANCY LIMITS (Schuck) Establishes an occupancy limit of two persons per bedroom as reasonable for purposes of the Ohio Fair Housing Law and enables owners and managers of housing to implement other occupancy limits that would not unreasonably exclude any person because of familial status.

HB 510 DRIVER LICENSE REVOCATION (White) Provides that whenever a court is permitted or required to suspend or revoke a person's driver's license for violation of a state statute, a court may suspend or revoke a person's driver's license for violation of a municipal ordinance that is substantially similar to the state statute.

HB 511 LIQUOR CERTIFICATES (Krebs) Permits the exchange of gift certificates for beer or intoxicating liquor for off-premises consumption.

HB 512 HOME INSTRUCTION (Jordan) Requires that any child receiving home instruction be permitted to participate in extracurricular activities, including interscholastic extracurricular activities, operated by the school district in which that child resides is entitled to attend school free of charge under state law.

HB 513 PHONE SOLICITATION (Salerno) Requires certain telephone solicitors to obtain a certificate of registration from the Attorney General, establishes certain requirements and prohibited practices for those telephone solicitors and provides for civil and criminal actions and penalties for violations.

HB 514 SPORTS FACILITIES (Colonna) Requires that all of the proceeds from new state lottery games be used to retire obligations issued by the Department of Development for the purpose of financing the construction or renovation of publicly-owned professional sports facilities.

HB 515 STATE PARK CONCESSIONS (Krebs) Requires the Department of Natural Resources to follow a bidding procedure before assuming the operation of any of its public service facilities already being operated under a contract with a private entity.

HB 516 AGRICULTURAL LAND TAX (Schuck) Exempts from the agricultural-use, value-conversion charge the conversion of land acquired by a public entity by means other than eminent domain that is located within the boundaries of the public entity or, in the case of land acquired and converted by a public entity other than a park district created under the Park Districts Law, within the boundaries of a city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district wholly or partially located within the boundaries of the public entity and that thereafter is used exclusively for a public purpose that leaves the land principally undeveloped; abolishes the prohibition against a public entity directly or indirectly transferring that conversion charge to the person from who agricultural land was acquired with respect to agricultural land that was acquired by means other than eminent domain, that is converted for use for public educational, recreational, or similar open space uses, and that is located outside the boundaries of the public entity that acquired and converted the land or, in the case of agricultural land that was so acquired and converted by a public entity other than such a park district, is located outside the boundaries of the school districts located wholly or partially within the boundaries of the public entity that acquired and converted the agricultural land; and changes the amount of the penalty required to be paid for withdrawal of land from an agricultural district.

HB 517 PROPERTY TAX CREDITS (Garcia) Authorizes municipal corporations and townships to grant real property tax credits to persons who purchase and abate nuisances on tax foreclosed property and prohibits municipal corporations from placing on the tax list the cost of abating a nuisance on property that has been forfeited to the state.

HB 518 SALES TAX EXEMPTION (Wachtmann) Exempts from sales and use taxation the supplies, materials, and equipment used by automotive body repair shops.

HB 519 HYPNOTHERAPISTS (Jones) Provides for the registration of hypnotherapists.

HB 520 GUARDIAN LICENSE PLATES (Krebs) Authorizes the issuance of an Ohio Court-Appointed Special Advocate/Guardian Ad Litem license plate and creates the Ohio Court-Appointed Special Advocate/Guardian Ad Litem License Plate Fund.

HB 521 PROPERTY TAX PAYMENTS (Schuler) Permits elderly and disabled taxpayers with incomes of $20,800 or less to defer payment of real property taxes due on their homesteads.

HB 522 TUITION REIMBURSEMENT (Britton) Establishes a state employee tuition reimbursement program.

HB 523 EPHEDRINE (Schuck) Excepts from the Schedule V controlled substances schedule a food product or dietary supplement that contains a limited quantity of ephedrine and conforms to specified criteria; excepts from the schedule a drug product that contains pseudoephedrine and conforms to specified criteria, and permits the State Pharmacy Board to except from the schedule products or classes of products containing ephedrine.

HB 524 TICKET REFUND (Kasputis) Relative to refunds to season ticket holders when professional athletic teams arrange, contract, or otherwise agree to relocate within Ohio or to another state under specified circumstances.

HB 525 DRIVERS LICENSES (Tiberi) Prohibits the issuance of temporary instruction permits, driver's licenses and commercial driver's licenses to certain individuals under nineteen years of age who have not passed the portions of the ninth-grade proficiency test they must pass to receive a diploma.

HB 526 WELFARE COMMISSION (Lawrence) Adds new members to the Joint Welfare Reform Collaboration Commission and declares an emergency.

HB 527 UNINSURED MOTORISTS (Hottinger) Modifies Ohio's uninsured and underinsured motorists law by limiting the insured's right to recover when the owner or operator of the uninsured motor vehicle has an immunity; by requiring independent corroborative evidence to recover for injuries caused by an unidentified motorist; and by making other modifications to the scope of and coverage under the uninsured and underinsured motorists law.

HB 528 PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL (Jones) Specifically permits the appropriation by the state of real or personal property of a professional football team.

HB 529 PRESCRIPTION DRUGS (Perz) Prohibits pharmacists and pharmacy interns from requiring their customers to certify that their prescription is not for a work-related injury.

HB 530 TAX REDUCTIONS (Sweeney) Increases the 2.5% tax rollback for owner-occupied residences to 5%, provides additional homestead and manufactured home exemptions that effectively freeze the taxes of eligible property owners, expands eligibility for those exemptions by increasing income limits and indexing those limits to consumer price inflation, and authorizes a personal income tax deduction for college tuition expenses.

HB 531 COLLEGE CONTRIBUTIONS (Campbell) Authorizes a deduction from adjusted gross income for state income tax purposes for contributions to state colleges and universities.

HB 532 UTILITY EXCAVATION (Sawyer) Revises the laws pertaining to the protection of subsurface utility and other facilities from excavations occurring as part of private or public projects by requiring the creation of one, statewide one-call notification system in which all facility operators participate, imposing specified, uniform duties upon excavation designers, excavators, and operators, and prescribing certain rights, liabilities and civil and criminal penalties.

HB 533 RURAL/AGRICULTURAL PROPERTY (Batchelder) Fosters the protection of private property by requiring governmental agencies to utilize summaries of case law prepared by the Attorney General in considering certain governmental actions that may result in a taking of property under the Ohio and U.S. Constitutions and requires the preparation of written assessments of such governmental action.

HB 534 SPEED LIMITS (Fox) Establishes a speed limit of 65 miles per hour on all interstate freeways and state freeways that are constructed to interstate freeway standards and provides a procedure whereby the speed limit on a portion of such a freeway can be reduced to 55 miles per hour.

HB 535 SKIING LAW (Wachtmann) Changes the name of the Safety in Skiing Board to the Ski Tramway Board and makes changes regarding the compensation and terms of office of members of the Board, the annual registration fees paid by passenger tramway operators, the obligations of ski area operators to skiers, the legal responsibilities for losses or damages that result from skiing and other provision of the Skiing Safety Law, and exempts from the Amusement Ride Law all rides that are operated solely at trade shows for a limited period of time.

HB 536 LAND CONVEYANCE (Perz) Authorizes the Board of Trustees of the Medical College of Ohio at Toledo to convey a parcel or portions of a parcel of real estate located in Lucas County, authorizes the governor to convey a parcel of real estate located in Lucas County and owned by the Medical College of Ohio at Toledo Foundation, authorizes the governor to convey state-owned residential real estate located in Lucas County and held for the use of the University of Toledo, and declares an emergency.

HB 537 CORRECTIONAL CENTERS (Core) Specifies that county property tax proceeds may be used for the financial support of multicounty, municipal-county and multicounty-municipal correctional centers, that subdivision tax levies in excess of the 10-mill limitation and county additional sales tax levies may be authorized for the operation and maintenance of those types of correctional centers and that county additional sales tax levies may be authorized for making payments to a public defender agency or appointed counsel.

HB 538 BANKING LAW (Batchelder) For the purpose of enacting a revised banking law for the State of Ohio, maintaining the provisions of this act on and after July 1, 1997, by amending the version of Sec. 166.08 of the Revised Code that takes effect on that date, and maintaining the provisions of this act on and after July 1, 1996, by amending the version of sec. 1123.14 of the Revised Code that takes effect on that date.

HB 539 WATERCRAFT SAFETY (Damschroder) Prohibits a person from operating certain powercraft unless the person has successfully completed a safe boater course approved or offered by the Chief of the Division of Watercraft in the Department of Natural Resources.

HB 540 LAND CONVEYANCE (Opfer) Permits the Ohio Veterans' Home to open up to 25 additional long-term care beds without a certificate of need, authorizes the conveyance of real estate owned by the Ohio Veterans Home and located in Lucas County to the City of Toledo, and declares an emergency.

HB 541 BAIL (Tiberi) Establishes a rebuttable presumption against bail that applies in determining whether a person charged with a capital offense is entitled under the Constitution to bail and specifies that, if the person does not rebut the presumption, the person is not entitled to bail.

HB 542 SCHOOL PERSONNEL ASSAULT (Hagan) Makes assault a felony of the fourth degree when the victim is a school teacher, supervisor, or administrator and it occurs on school premises, in a school building, or within 1,000 feet of the boundaries of school premises and makes conforming changes in the Revised Code.

HB 543 LICENSE SUSPENSION (Jones) Conforms the period of time for which a court may not suspend the suspension of a driver's license under division (I) of that section for violation of the Implied Consent Law with the period of time for which such a license must be suspended under division (B)(1) of that section for such a violation.

HB 544 CIVIL SERVICE EXAMS (Koziura) Gives a city the option of reducing the veterans' credit on civil service examinations from twenty percent to five percent.

HB 545 SCRAP TIRES (Schuck) Reduces the amount of financial assurance required of scrap tire transporters, temporarily exempts certain facilities from some requirements of the Scrap Tire Recovery Facility Law, specifies that individuals required to be fingerprinted as part of a disclosure statement prior to the issuance of a permit to install for a solid, hazardous, or infectious waste facility will only be required to be fingerprinted once and not on a yearly basis, requires the submission of an affidavit if there have been no changes to a disclosure statement at the end of each annual update period, and declares an emergency.

HB 546 STATE FLAG (Lewis) Requires that the state flag be displayed at all public buildings.

HB 547 TOWNSHIP CLASSIFICATION (Schuring) Creates two classes of townships.

HB 548 VEHICLE EMISSIONS (Reid) Provides for the cessation of the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program in any county in which relevant air quality monitoring was not conducted.

HB 549 JOINT FIRE DISTRICTS (Schuler) Allows nonadjoining political subdivisions to form joint fire districts.

HB 550 FETICIDE (Schuler) Creates the offense of feticide.

HB 551 CARJACKING (Mottl) Expands the offense of murder to include causing the death of a person by locking the person in the trunk of a vehicle, expands the offense of kidnapping to include locking a person in the trunk of a vehicle and establishes the offense of carjacking.

HB 552 AGENCY SUNSET (Terwilleger) Eliminates a requirement that bills renewing or terminating agencies subject to certain sunset provisions must generally deal only with one agency, eliminates certain annual reports required of agencies and declares an emergency.

HB 553 SCHOOL PERSONNEL ASSAULT (Winkler) Makes assault a felony of the fourth degree when the victim is a school teacher, supervisor, or administrator, a school employee, or a school bus operator and it occurs on school premises, in a school building, or outside of school premises under certain circumstances.

HB 554 BENEFITS TAX EXEMPTION (Thomas) Prohibits a municipal corporation from levying an income tax on certain types of employee benefits.

HB 555 POLLWORKER TAX EXEMPTION (Thomas) Prohibits municipal corporations from subjecting to income taxation compensation paid to persons serving as precinct election officials, or compensation paid to transit system employees solely on the basis of operating transit vehicles in the municipality on an irregular basis, and declares an emergency.

HB 556 HOUSING CONSTRUCTION (Lawrence) Permits the board of education of any city, local or exempted village school district to impose a fee upon certain residential housing construction in designated development areas.

HB 557 STATE SYRUP (Grendell) Adopts maple syrup as the official state syrup.

HB 558 MOVING COMPANIES (Blessing) Eliminates price, service and route regulation of household goods moving companies by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, subjects motor transportation companies to the Consumer Sales Practices Law and authorizes county and township zoning of public utilities engaged in the business of transporting persons or property or providing or furnishing such service over a public highway.

HB 559 GANG ACTIVITY (Mottl) Establishes the offense of promoting illegal gang activity.

HB 560 TAX LEVY APPROVAL (Terwilleger) Provides that an election on a tax levy increasing property taxes beyond the ten-mill limitation that is held on the day of a presidential primary election needs the approval of only a majority, rather than 55%, of the electors voting on the levy and declares an emergency.

HB 561 HORSE RACING (Blessing) Authorizes a track to receive additional simulcast horse races, establishes the Ohio combined simulcast horse racing purse pool, provides for the collection and distribution of fees and taxes relating to these simulcast races, and makes other changes in the Horse Racing and Satellite Facility Laws.

HB 562 SCHOOL REORGANIZATION (Bender) Permits electors of a school district to establish a task force to reorganize the district into two or more new school districts.

HB 563 COMMERCIAL ADVERTISING (Schuck) Permits state agencies, state-supported colleges and universities, counties, townships, municipal corporations and school districts to contract to sell commercial advertising space.

HB 564 QUALIFIED IMMUNITY (Sines) Relative to qualified immunities from civil liability for equine activity sponsors, participants, professionals and other persons in connection with harm sustained by equine activity participants from inherent risks of an equine activity.

HB 565 SPEED LIMITS (Bateman) Maintains on certain freeways the 55 or 65 mile per hour speed limits established for those freeways prior to Oct. 1, 1995, provides a procedure whereby the speed limit of 55 mph on a portion of such a freeway can be increased, provides a procedure whereby the speed limit of 65 mph on a portion of such a freeway can be decreased, establishes a procedure whereby the speed limit on certain rural, divided, multi-lane highways can be evaluated and increased up to 65 mph, authorizes the director of Transportation to establish a reasonable and safe prima-facie speed limit for any street or highway under the director's jurisdiction, and declares an emergency.

HB 566 PEACE OFFICERS (Reid) Precludes the award of certificates of training to persons convicted of a felony, precludes the appointment or employment of such persons as peace officers, provides for the suspension or revocation after notice and hearing of the certificates of and the appointment or employment of peace officers who are convicted or plead guilty to a felony, grants investigators of the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation, while assisting a law enforcement authority, the same arrest authority as peace officers of that law enforcement authority, specifies the circumstances in which those investigators may render emergency assistance to a peace officer, and authorizes the Ohio Peace Officer Training Council executive director to certify and revoke certificates of qualified commanders at peace officer training schools.

HB 567 INSANITY PLEA/LAND CONVEYANCE (Ogg) Eliminates provisions that specify that, if a person found not guilty by reason of insanity is committed, the Attorney General must represent the entity to which the person was committed at all hearings after the initial hearing; authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate in Scioto County to Lawrence County General Hospital, dba River Valley Health System; authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate in Warren County to the Shaker Run Golf Club in exchange for other real estate; authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate located in Hocking County to Robert K. and Kath M. Shaw; authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate in Ashland County to the City of Ashland; and authorizes the conveyance of a parcel of state-owned real estate in Ross County to the City of Chillicothe in exchange for a parcel of real estate.

HB 568 UNIVERSITY POLICE (Womer Benjamin) Permits a state university or college to establish a police or security force and permits a state university or college, including a state community college, to enter into an agreement to provide police services to another state university or college.

HB 569 ABANDONED VEHICLES (Hottinger) Provides that if a motor vehicle that is not an abandoned junk motor vehicle is removed from a public street or highway and will be disposed of by a sheriff or chief of police at a public auction, the sheriff or chief of police will be issued a certificate of title for the motor vehicle instead of a salvage certificate of title.

HB 570 VEXATIOUS LITIGATORS (Mason) Creates a civil action to have certain habitual and persistent litigators declared vexatious litigators and authorizes court orders restricting their future commencement or continuous of litigation.

HB 571 FISHING LICENSES (Opfer) Requires the chief of the Division of Wildlife in the Department of Natural Resources to adopt rules providing for the issuance of one-day fishing licenses.

HB 572 TRANSPORTATION DEPT. (Bateman) Reorganizes the Department of Transportation and authorizes the Department of Transportation to oversee the safety of rail fixed guideway systems.

HB 573 CALAMITY DAYS (Hartley) Permits school districts to be closed for additional days without loss of state funds when the county sheriff closes county roads due to a weather emergency; prohibits law enforcement officers from ticketing or arresting employees of a hospital or other health care facility if the employees are traveling to or from work when the county roads are closed due to a weather emergency; permits school districts to make up days upon which they are closed by extending the regularly scheduled school day, and declares an emergency.

HB 574 VIATICAL SETTLEMENTS (Mottl) Provides the Superintendent of Insurance the authority to regulate viatical settlement contracts and to register viatical settlement brokers and certain viatical settlement providers.

HB 575 VEHICLE INSPECTION (Sines) Repeals the enhanced motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program and requires the Director of Environmental Protection to negotiate alternatives to the program.

HB 576 LODGING TAXES (Metelsky) Exempts from lodging taxes any lodging provided by the American Red Cross to afford temporary shelter to victim of disasters.

HB 577 EPHEDRINE (Jones) Excepts from the Schedule V controlled substance schedule a drug product containing a limited quantity of ephedrine derived from the plant genus Ephedra if not combined with caffeine.

HB 578 FIRE DISTRICT (Cera) Increases the compensation per meeting payable to members of a board of fire district trustees of a joint fire district and the number of meetings for which a member may be paid.

HB 579 COMPETITIVE BIDDING (Cera) Increases the statutory competitive bidding threshold applicable to various municipal contracts from $10,000 to $15,000.

HB 580 GUARDIAN AD LITEM (Pringle) Removes the requirement that a court appoint, upon the motion of either parent, a guardian ad litem for a child in a divorce, legal separation or annulment proceeding when the court interviews the child in chambers.

HB 581 VETERANS' HOME (Carey) Creates the Veterans' Care Committee to study the feasibility of locating a veterans' home in southern Ohio.

HB 582 TAX CREDIT (Fox) Grants a credit against personal income, corporation franchise and public utility excise taxes in the amount of fees paid by the taxpayer to have vehicles inspected under the emissions inspection program.

HB 583 CHILDREN'S DAY (Hagan) Establishes the second Sunday in October as "Children's Day in Ohio," to recognize children as a valuable resource and promote the well-being of children.

HB 584 MEDICAL RECORDS (Healy) Establishes 30 day deadlines for hospitals to finalize medical records and comply with requests to examine or copy medical records, expands patient access to hospital medical records in addition to finalized records, permits certain representatives of patients to examine and request copies of hospital medical records and establishes a maximum amount that hospitals may charge for copies of medical records.

HB 585 RESENTENCING (Damschroder) Specifies a procedure for resentencing certain offenders whose sentences of death are vacated on appeal.

HB 586 RETIREMENT SYSTEMS (Batchelder) Requires the State Teachers Retirement System to pay interest on a withdrawal of member contributions due to death or termination of service and creates an alternative retirement system for academic or administrative employees of public institutions of higher education covered by the Public Employees Retirement System, the State Teachers Retirement System, or School Employees Retirement System.

HB 587 ELECTRONIC LOTTERY (Schuler) Authorizes the playing of electronic lottery games in premises to which certain D liquor permits have been issued, requires the State Lottery Commission to license electronic lottery terminal manufacturers, distributors, operators and vendors, regulates electronic lottery terminals and electronic lottery games and requires that the net profit from electronic lottery terminals be paid into the Lottery Profits Education Fund.

HB 588 TELEPHONE WAGERING (Amstutz) Prohibits wagering on horse races by telephone at tracks and satellite facilities.

HB 589 TELEPHONE LEASING (James) Requires a person that bills and collects under a lease of a telephone to a residential subscriber of a local telephone company to provide the lessee annually with a specified notice regarding the purchase of a telephone.

HB 590 APPALACHIAN WATER PROGRAM (Cera) Creates the Appalachian Water Program and makes an appropriation.

HB 591 SENTENCING COMMISSION (Taylor) Expands the membership and responsibilities of the Ohio Criminal Sentencing Commission.

HB 592 PLANNING COMMISSION (Vesper) Provides that the share of the costs of a regional planning commission borne by a member political subdivision may, upon the political subdivision's request, be withheld from the semiannual apportionment of property taxes due that political subdivision and be paid directly into the funds available to the commission.

HB 593 VEHICLE INSPECTIONS (Womer Benjamin) Revises the waiver limits for motor vehicles needing repairs under the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program, precludes rules that establish tailpipe emissions improvement requirements for vehicles that fail inspection from requiring at least a 30% reduction in all categories of pollutants and declares an emergency.

HB 594 STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS (Schuck) Extends to 20 years the time within which certain serious offenses may be prosecuted.

HB 595 DIALYSIS DRUGS (Van Vyven) Exempts the sale of peritoneal dialysis solutions from the requirements that registered pharmacists sell the drugs and control their pharmacies and permits retail sellers to sell peritoneal dialysis solutions under specified conditions.

HB 596 VEHICLE REGISTRATION (Cates) Provides that if a person has an outstanding arrest warrant, the person cannot be issued a certificate of registration to a motor vehicle in that person's name or a driver's license.

HB 597 PROPERTY TAXES (Shoemaker) Grants furloughed and certain other federal employees a 90-day extension in which to pay real property taxes and manufactured home taxes without penalty or interest.

HB 598 INCOME TAXES (Grendell) Prohibits any municipal corporation other than the municipal corporation of residence from levying a tax on the income of an individual.

HB 599 TAX CREDITS (Schuck) Creates corporation franchise and state income tax credits for employers that provide on-site child day care for employers.

HB 600 SURVIVOR BENEFITS (Tavares) Provides for the payment under certain circumstances of survivor benefits to children of a deceased member of PERS who was the obligor under a child support order.

HB 601 SCHOOL DISCIPLINE (Gardner) Authorizes the boards of education of a school district to create alternative disciplinary K-12, permits boards of education to adopt certain policies related to student conduct, dress and discipline and parental education programs, increases parental liability for physical injury caused by a child to a maximum of $10,000, authorizes joint education service boards to add appointed members to these boards, makes failure to attend a required parental education program a misdemeanor of the fourth degree, and authorizes students to attend school without tuition payment in districts other than the districts where they are otherwise entitled to attend school if the superintendents of the districts involved agree that the attendance is justified.

HB 602 SCHOOL EXPULSION (Taylor) Changes the allowable time period during which students expelled from an out-of-state school may be denied admittance to a public school in Ohio; permits an expulsion to be extended for the remainder of a school year if the expulsion would otherwise terminate within fifteen days of the end of the school year, and permits schools districts to adopt policies for the designation of certificated personnel other than the district superintendent or school principals who may suspend a student from school.

HB 603 LOCAL ZONING (Olman) Removes restrictions on the use of local zoning to prevent the sale of alcoholic beverages at certain locations and prohibits the issuance, transfer of ownership or location, or renewal of a liquor permit that would violate local zoning regulations.

HB 604 FISHING LICENSES (Wachtmann) Requires the chief of the Division of Wildlife in the Department of Natural Resources to adopt rules providing for the issuance of one-day fishing licenses.

HB 605 COMMUNITY COLLEGES (Cera) Amends Sec. 92.01 of Am. Sub. HB117 of the 121st Ohio General Assembly (the budget act) to make certain projects at community colleges exempt from the accountability for debt service policy.

HB 606 SPEED LIMITS (Carey) Requires the director of Transportation to establish as a speed limit on each freeway the maximum vehicular speed that the freeway was designed and constructed to handle according to the design standards of the freeway.

HB 607 SCHOOL TRANSPORTATION (Thomas) Requires school districts to provide transportation to intradistrict open enrollment students on the same basis as districts provide transportation to students to and from their regularly assigned schools.

HB 608 FUEL TAX/PUBLIC FUNDS (Fox) Provides a refund for motor fuel taxes paid by school districts in the provision of pupil transportation services; changes the time period for local public officials to deposit public moneys and for political subdivisions to designate depositories of public moneys; changes the geographic area from which institutions may be designated as public depositories of public moneys of a political subdivision; permits a school district to acquire motor vehicles or buildings by various financing methods, including installment payments and lease-purchase and lease with an option to buy agreements; requires school boards to advertise bids at least two consecutive weeks instead of four consecutive weeks; and makes other changes pertaining to the financial affairs of school districts and other political subdivisions.

HB 609 INSTRUCTIONAL SOFTWARE (Fox) 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 textbooks provided the electronic textbooks are furnished free of charge.

HB 610 FREE TUITION (Whalen) Allows senior citizens to receive tuition-free college credit.

HB 611 HOUSING INCENTIVES (Netzley) Provides for the designation of housing rehabilitation areas and their management by local housing committees, authorizes income and corporation franchise tax incentives for housing rehabilitation, and authorizes exemptions from taxation for rehabilitated housing.

HB 612 VEHICLE INSPECTIONS (Troy) Permits peace officers to conduct inspections of motor vehicles and motor vehicle parts that have manufacturer identifying numbers and that are situated in certain specified locations, in order to establish the rightful ownership or possession of the motor vehicle or motor vehicle part.

HB 613 TAXING AUTHORITY (Troy) Provides for the reduction in the unvoted taxing authority of subdivisions that exempt a substantial amount of property from taxation and increases the unvoted taxing authority of affected school districts to compensate them for the exemptions.

HB 614 COURT DECISION (Wise) Refutes the decision of the First District Court of Appeals of Ohio, Hamilton County, in State v. Wilson insofar as the decision failed to take judicial notice of the harmonized version of R.C. 2903.13 as amended by Am. Sub. SB116 and Am. Sub. HB571 of the 120th General Assembly and declares an emergency.

HB 615 TRAFFIC OFFENSE (Boggs) Creates the traffic offense of failing to merge into a merging zone at a construction zone, permits a law enforcement officer to utilize a photographic camera or videotape camera to record the image of any motor vehicle that fails to merge into a merging zone and send the owner of such a vehicle a citation, ticket or summons charging the person with the offense of failing to merge into a merging zone and permits a law enforcement officer who is utilizing such a camera to utilize the camera and a radar unit to identify motor vehicles that are exceeding the speed limit and send the owner of such a vehicle a citation, ticket or summons charging the person with a speeding offense.

HB 616 DELINQUENT TAXES (Hodges) Permits county treasurers to collect delinquent real property taxes by selling certificates entitling the bearers to liens against the property in the amount of the delinquency.

HB 617 TAX EXEMPTIONS (Troy) Modifies certain laws governing economic development-motivated property tax exemptions and makes various nonsubstantive corrections to those laws.

HB 618 SCHOOL TAXES (Fox) Allows school districts to levy a voter approved tax that is not subject to the tax reduction factor, requires that new school district income taxes be imposed only on earnings and allows school districts to levy a school district income tax in combination with property tax and grants a corresponding credit to certain property owners.

HB 619 BOATING SAFETY (Damschroder) Makes the fines and terms of imprisonment for boating while under the influence of alcohol or drugs the same as those imposed for state OMVI, makes the OMVI seizure, impoundment and forfeiture provisions applicable to the offense of boating while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, reduces the prohibited concentrations of alcohol in a person's blood, breath or urine for purposes of the state OMVI and state boating while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, requires the suspension of the boating privileges of a person convicted of OMVI or boating while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, requires the assessment of points against the driver's license of a person who is convicted of boating while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, provides that if a person is convicted of boating while under the influence of alcohol or drugs and has previous OMVI convictions, those previous convictions must be counted for sentencing purposes when determining the number of the person's previous convictions of boating while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, provides that if a person is convicted of OMVI and has previous convictions of boating while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, those previous convictions must be counted for sentencing purposes when determining the person's number of previous OMVI convictions and makes other changes.

HB 620 TOWNSHIP TRAFFIC LAW (Maier) Enables townships having a population of ten thousand or more to adopt specified traffic regulations.

HB 621 PROVIDER COMMUNICATION (Colonna) Prohibits third-party payers from limiting health care providers' communications with their patients.

HB 622 PUBLIC NEWSLETTERS (Schuck) Authorizes any political subdivision to use newsletters and other means to communicate certain information to the general public within the political subdivision and prohibits a political subdivision from using public funds to support or oppose the nomination or election of a candidate for public office or the passage of a levy or bond issue.

HB 623 PERS CREDITS (Fox) Changes the requirements for eligible members of the Public Employees Retirement System to purchase military service credit and the method for computing a members' payment for the credit, allows military service credit to be purchased to apply toward the total service credit needed to obtain group hospitalization insurance as a retirant.

HB 624 TAX PENALTIES (Pringle) Reduces certain penalties imposed for the failure to file sales tax returns or remit sales taxes.

HB 625 INVESTMENT SECURITIES (Womer Benjamin) Adopts the Revised Article 8 of the Uniform Commercial Code - Investment Securities.

HB 626 DOMESTIC ANIMALS (Thomas) Defines and prohibits "neglect" of certain domestic animals, provides for disposition of abused and neglected animals, provides civil and criminal immunity for veterinarians who participate in the prosecution of certain crimes against animals and repeals the prohibition against servicing a mare near a public street.

HB 627 TAX INCREMENT FINANCING (Thomas) Permits impacted cities, under a tax increment financing ordinance, to use payments in lieu of taxes from a tax-exempt parcel to finance public improvements that do not directly benefit that parcel; requires notice to school boards 45 days, instead of 30 calendar days, in advance of granting certain development-motivated property tax exemptions; allows school boards to waive the requirement that they be notified of possible tax exemptions by the county, township, or municipal corporation granting the exemption; provides a manner for school districts to be held harmless for property tax exemptions granted under the municipal tax increment financing law; and declares an emergency.

HB 628 EMISSIONS INSPECTIONS (Colonna) Suspends operation of the enhanced motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program for one year or until all inspection stations are operational, whichever is earlier; requires that two state inspectors be present at each station during operation; provides for the reimbursement of unnecessary repair costs incurred by motor vehicle owners under the program and declares an emergency.

HB 629 MRDD (Terwilleger) Makes changes in the laws regarding individuals with mental retardation, developmental disabilities, and mental illness.

HB 630 EXTRADITION (Schuck) Requires the adoption of state and local standards for extradition or other means of returning offenders to this state; requires state and local recordkeeping relative to the use of such procedures; specifically permits a court to require an offender to reimburse a political subdivision or the state for its costs in seeking the offender's return to this state; and specifically permits a governmental entity to use specified forfeited money, specified sale proceeds of forfeited property and mandatory drug fines to pay costs associated with its efforts to return an offender to this state.

HB 631 VOLUNTEER FIRE FIGHTERS (Cera) Prohibits an employer from terminating an employee who is a volunteer fire fighter when that employee misses or is late to work because of an emergency to which the employee was dispatched as a volunteer fire fighter.

HB 632 EMERGENCY CALLS (Jerse) Requires certain businesses that operate after 11 p.m. and before 7 a.m. to maintain devices that activate a 9-1-1 emergency system.

HB 633 FALSE ALARMS (Lawrence) Permits townships that operate a township police department to impose a charge for false alarms received from malfunctioning security alarm systems under certain conditions and includes such false alarms answered by police constables among the false alarms for which county sheriffs and certain boards of township trustees may impose charges.

HB 634 PSYCHOLOGISTS (Jones) Qualifies persons with degrees in counseling psychology for licensure as professional counselors and registration as counselor assistants.

HB 635 GOVERNMENT AIRCRAFT (Boggs) Requires that an aircraft owned and operated by the state or a political subdivision be maintained according to one of three specified maintenance schedules and requires any pilot who pilots such an aircraft to possess the same pilot certificate and rating the pilot would be required by federal law to possess if the aircraft were owned by a civilian, nongovernmental entity.

HB 636 FORGED DOCUMENTS (Hartley) Establishes the offenses of forging educational or government documents and of using or trafficking in forged educational or government documents.

HB 637 ABSENTEE VOTING (Mallory) Allows persons aged 62 and older or who are chronically ill or permanently disabled to make a one-time application to receive absent voter's ballots indefinitely.

HB 638 UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION (Padgett) Designates conservancy districts and certain park districts as seasonal employers for purposes of the Unemployment Compensation Law.

HB 639 AUTOMATED TELLERS (Jerse) Requires the installation of 911 emergency alarms on or near automated teller machines operating within the territory of an enhanced 911 system.

HB 640 COLLECTORS' VEHICLES (Jacobson) Allows townships to require the screening of apparently inoperable collectors' vehicles stored in the open.

HB 641 EMISSION INSPECTIONS (Roman) Requires the director of the Ohio EPA to conduct a study of the scientific and economic feasibility of alternative compliance strategies that would enable the discontinuation of the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program in counties within this state in which no violations of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for carbon monoxide and ozone actually have been measured during the past three calendar years while maintaining compliance with those standards in those counties.

HB 642 COURT OF CLAIMS (Tavares) Requires a claimant for an award of reparations to give an assignment of a part of a granted award to each unpaid provider of an unreimbursed allowable expense or funeral expense and requires the Court of Claims commissioners to honor the assignments.

HB 643 SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY (Schuler) Enacts a comprehensive law for the registration of persons who commit sexually violent offenses and for the notification of victims and certain members of the public regarding the place of residence of sexually violent predators and repeat sexually violent offenders and declares an emergency.

HB 644 PUBLIC OFFICIAL INTIMIDATION (Schuck) Permits the secretary of state to refuse to accept for filing or to record a document that is not authorized by the Revised Code to be filed or recorded with the secretary of state or that the secretary of state has reasonable cause to believe is materially false or fraudulent, permits a county recorder to record instruments of writing electronically and to refuse to record an instrument of writing if the instrument is not required or authorized by the Revised Code to be recorded or the county recorder has reasonable cause to believe the instrument is materially false or fraudulent; permits the clerk of a court of record to refuse to accept for filing and to refuse to docket and index a document that is not required or authorized to be filed or to be docketed and indexed with the clerk or that the clerk has reasonable cause to believe is materially false or fraudulent; provides for judicial review when the secretary of state refuses to accept a document for filing or to record a document, a county recorder refuses to record an instrument of writing, or the clerk of a court of record refuses to accept a document for filing or refuses to docket and indexing a document, provides qualified civil immunity to the secretary of state, a county recorder, and a clerk of a court of record, under certain circumstances; expands the offense of falsification to prohibit knowingly filing or recording a false document with a county recorder or the clerk of a court of record; expands the offense of intimidation to prohibit knowingly filing, recording, or otherwise using a materially false or fraudulent writing with malicious purpose, in bad faith, or in a wanton or reckless manner in an attempt to influence, intimidate, or hinder a public servant, party official, or witness in the discharge of the person's duty; creates the offense of knowingly using sham legal process; authorizes a victim of the expanded offense of falsification, the expanded offense of intimidation, or the offense of using sham legal process to commence a civil action for damages and for reasonable attorney's fees, court costs, and other expenses incurred as a result of bringing the civil action; authorizes a county recorder to keep a record of living wills and durable powers of attorney for health care; and permits a county recorder to distribute free of charge copies of the printed forms for a living will and durable power of attorney for health care.

HB 645 BALLOT CHOICES (Damschroder) Provides for a ballot choice designated as "none of the above."

HB 646 EMISSION INSPECTIONS (Troy) Revises the waiver limits for motor vehicles needing repairs under the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program; changes the new motor vehicles exemption in the enhanced program from two years to five years; specifies that new motor vehicles are exempt for five years regardless of a change of ownership; and requires the director of the Ohio EPA to negotiate with contractors and the U.S. EPA for the termination of the program.

HB 647 SCHOOL REVIEW COUNCIL (Amstutz) Creates the School Foundation Review Council and terminates the provisions of the act on Dec. 31, 1999 by repealing Sec. 3317 of the Revised Code on that date.

HB 648 EMISSION TESTS (Reid) Requires the Director of Environmental Protection to take specified actions to discontinue the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program by July 1, 1998, while assisting the state to comply with the federal Clean Air Act Amendments; extends the exemption for new vehicles under the program and revises the waiver limits for motor vehicles needing repairs under the program.

HB 649 LAND CONVEYANCE (Hagan) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate located in Mahoning County to the Mahoning County Mental Health Board.

HB 650 LOTTERY TAXATION (Maier) Prohibits municipal corporations from taxing Ohio lottery winnings.

HB 651 FERTILIZER (Haines) Revises the law governing fertilizers and liming materials.

HB 652 DEPENDENTS (Salerno) Modifies the definition of "dependent" for purposes of determining benefits under Ohio's unemployment compensation law.

HB 653 ELECTRIC COMPETITION (Amstutz) Establishes a state policy promoting competition and customer choice in the supply of electricity within this state; requires existing electric distribution companies to receive approval by the Public Utilities Commission of their plans to make the transition to competition and customer choice; removes from regulation by the Commission, as of Jan. 1, 1998, all electric services except the distribution services of an electric utility; requires such distribution services, as of Jan. 1, 1998, to be offered on a nondiscriminatory and comparable basis; authorizes alternative ratemaking for such distribution services; authorizes the Commission to determine the financial, managerial and technical capabilities of electric distribution and electric services companies; and subjects unregulated services of an electric utility to the Consumer Sales Practices Law.

HB 654 ELECTION DAY (Jacobson) Eliminates a provision designating the afternoon of election day as a legal holiday.

HB 655 NATIVE AMERICANS (Tiberi) Replaces Native American Indian Day with Native American Week.

HB 656 JOINT ECONOMIC DISTRICTS (Schuring) Makes various changes in procedures governing the creation of joint economic development zones and certain joint economic development districts and grants additional authority to subdivisions joining in certain kinds of joint economic development zones regarding the issuance of industrial revenue bonds, sharing property taxes, and granting property tax exemptions.

HB 657 FILING FEES (Damschroder) Removes the additional filing fee charged to candidates for village offices.

HB 658 CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS (Jacobson) Prohibits elected officers and candidates for an elective office of any political subdivision from soliciting contributions from certain employees of the political subdivision.

HB 659 CANDIDATE RESIDENCY (Cates) Requires that a person who is elected by members of a caucus of the General Assembly to fill a vacancy in the Senate or House of Representatives must have resided for at least one year prior to the election in the district the person will represent.

HB 660 EMPLOYEE LIABILITY (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 drugs.

HB 661 PRIMARY ELECTION (Brady) Changes the date of the primary election held in presidential election years from the third Tuesday in March to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May.

HB 662 JOINT RECREATION DISTRICT (Brading) Authorizes the board of county commissioners of a county that is joined in a joint recreation district to levy a sales and use tax for the purpose of repaying obligations issued to finance the construction of joint recreation district facilities.

HB 663 LOCAL PHONE SERVICE (Taylor) Requires the Public Utilities Commission to implement banded local area telephone service throughout the state.

HB 664 PROFICIENCY TESTS (Olman) Names the educational proficiency tests designed to demonstrate certain levels of basic competency.

HB 665 VOED PLANNING DISTRICTS (Schuring) Permits the Superintendent of Public Instruction to provide payments to certain Vocational Education Planning Districts and makes an appropriation.

HB 666 MANUFACTURED HOMES (Shoemaker) Exempts from the tax on manufactured homes any manufactured homes owned by a charitable organization and used for a charitable purpose.

HB 667 ANTI-STALKING ORDERS (Mallory) Specifically requires all law enforcement officers in Ohio to enforce all anti-stalking protection orders issued by any court in the state and permits a person who obtains the issuance of an anti-stalking protection order to register the order in counties other than the county in which it was issued.

HB 668 SCHOOL RETIREMENT (Van Vyven) Allows the payment of restitution to a victim of a sex offense committed by a member of a public retirement system in the course of employment from the member's contributions, or pension, annuity, or allowance and declares an emergency.

HB 669 LAND CONVEYANCE (Terwilleger) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate in Warren County to the Shaker Run Golf Club in exchange for other real estate.

HB 670 AGENCY SUNSET (Terwilleger) Abolishes, retains and changes the name of certain agencies; repeals criminal penalties for violating the fuel conservation standards or the energy conservation standards adopted by the Board of Building Standards; extends until January 1, 1998, the moratorium on the issuance of new licenses of manufacturers and wholesalers of fireworks; temporarily authorizes a special election on December 10, 1996, exclusively for the purpose of allowing certain municipal corporation property tax levies to appear on the ballot; and declares an emergency.

HB 671 STUDENT EXPULSIONS (Garcia) Requires school districts to expel for one year a student who assaults a school employee or knowingly causes a school employee to believe the student will cause serious physical harm to the employee either on school district property or on a school bus, and requires school districts to provide assignments to suspended or expelled students upon request.

HB 672 LIQUOR PERMITS (Fox) Creates the D-5j liquor permit to be issued to premises where certain sexually explicit activity occurs and requires such premises to be closed as the result of a local option election held in the precinct where the premises are located.

HB 673 SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES (Perz) Makes changes in certain special license plate programs.

HB 674 BINGO/LIQUOR LICENSES (Mottley) Defines "bingo" to include bingo, instant bingo, punch boards, and raffles; creates a license that authorizes charitable organizations to conduct bingo, instant bingo, punch board, and raffles; authorizes such organizations that hold D-4 and D-5 liquor permits to conduct bingo and serve beer or intoxicating liquor at the same time; allows certain charitable organizations to retain five percent of gross receipts as consideration for use of the premises; allows certain charitable organizations to retain up to sixty percent of the net profits under certain conditions; and makes other changes in the Charitable Gambling Law.

HB 675 HEALTH INSURANCE LAWS (Van Vyven) Provides for the establishment, operation, and regulation of health insuring corporations; repeals the laws governing prepaid dental plan organizations, medical care corporations, health care corporations, dental care corporations, and health maintenance organizations.

HB 676 VEHICLE SEIZURES (Core) Modifies the definition of the term "vehicle owner" for purposes of the motor vehicle pre-trial seizure and post-conviction immobilization provisions, allows courts to prohibit the registration of a vehicle in an offender's name during the time that the offender's driver's license or operating privilege is suspended, and allows a court to fine an offender the value of a vehicle that has been ordered to be criminally forfeited to the state if the vehicle has been assigned or transferred under certain circumstances.

HB 677 STUDENT TRANSPORTATION (Jones) Provides transportation to interdistrict, open-enrollment students under certain circumstances.

HB 678 MEMORIAL HIGHWAY (Verich) Designates Interstate Route 76 "The Military Order of the Purple Heart Memorial Highway."

HB 679 INSURANCE (Batchelder) Revises the procedures for converting a mutual life insurance company to a stock life insurance company and revises the procedures for converting a mutual insurance company other than life to a stock insurance company other than life.

HB 680 SNOWMOBILES (Harris) Requires that the owners of all snowmobiles, off-highway motorcycles and all purpose vehicles obtain certificates of title and certificates of registration for the vehicles.

HB 681 DIETETICS (Boyd) Licenses dietetic technicians, expands the practices that generally may be performed only by licensed dietitians and supervised dietetic technicians to include nutritional care evaluation, planning and implementation and adds two dietetic technicians to the Ohio Board of Dietetics.

HB 682 PFDPF (Vesper) Institutes certain monetary and qualification adjustments for pensions, cost-of-living allowances and death benefits for certain Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund retirees and their survivors.

HB 683 MUNICIPAL COURT (Carey) Changes the status of the judge of the Jackson Municipal Court from part-time to full-time.

HB 684 ADOPTION CREDIT (Jacobson) Grants a refundable credit against the personal income tax to persons who adopt children.

HB 685 PROPERTY TAX ISSUES (Kasputis) Requires ballots proposing property taxes that would apply to the same year in which the taxes are voted on to state expressly that the tax would apply in that year.

HB 686 VENEREAL DISEASE EDUCATION (Roman) Requires public school venereal disease education to emphasize abstinence from sexual activity.

HB 687 HUNTING PERMIT (Opfer) Requires the Chief of the Division of Wildlife in the Department of Natural Resources to issue an annual deer or wild turkey hunting permit free of charge to a former prisoner of war who applies for one.

HB 688 GRANT MEMORIAL HIGHWAY (Vesper) Designates a portion of U.S. Route 52 as the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial Highway.

HB 689 WATER AND SEWER DISTRICT (Maier) Permits electors to petition, under certain conditions, for an election on whether a court hearing should be held to consider establishing a new regional water and sewer district encompassing at least 60% of the same territory as a dissolved district.

HB 690 CHILD ABUSE (Hood) Makes changes to the child abuse or neglect reporting law.

HB 691 INCOME TAX (Hood) Exempts certain eligible businesses and their employees from a joint economic development district income tax if the business elects not to use the benefits provided by the joint economic development district.

HB 692 EVOLUTION (Hood) Requires that, whenever the theory of evolution is included in the instructional program of a school district or educational service center, the evidence both supportive and not supportive of the theory be included.

HB 693 FOSTER CARE (Ford) Requires a public or private entity that places a child in a foster home to inform the foster caregivers about the child's background and to conduct periodic psychiatric examinations of a foster child who has been adjudicated a delinquent child for committing certain violent acts.

HB 694 IMMOBILIZED VEHICLES (Schuring) Provides that if a motor vehicle is immobilized in relation to one of a number of specified offenses, including OMVI, the owner of the motor vehicle is not eligible to be issued a certificate of title to a motor vehicle during the period of immobilization and revises the procedure a law enforcement agency is required to follow in disposing of an immobilized motor vehicle that is not claimed by its owner and after the end of the period of immobilization.

HB 695 CHILD SUPPORT POSTER (Campbell) Allows the publication and distribution of posters displaying child support obligors who are delinquent in their support payments to continue beyond Oct. 1, 1996 and declares an emergency.

HB 696 FISH AND WILDLIFE COMMISSION (Wachtmann) Abolishes the Division of Wildlife in the Department of Natural Resources and creates the Fish and Wildlife Commission, an independent agency with essentially the same powers and duties as the Division of Wildlife.

HB 697 LIEN RIGHTS (Schuler) Creates lien rights for real estate brokers on certain commercial property; provides for the attachment, enforcement, release and extinguishment of liens, establishes lien priority and provides for attorney's fees and costs to prevailing parties.

HB 698 STATE MANDATES (Buchy) Exempts a political subdivision from fulfilling a requirement imposed by the state if the requirement would result in expenditures by the political subdivision and state funds have not been appropriated to pay or reimburse the political subdivision for any cost of fulfilling the requirement.

HB 699 SOLID WASTE (Lawrence) Requires the solid waste management committee of a county or joint solid waste management district to levy fees on the disposal of solid wastes generated outside the boundaries of the district, but inside state, at a rate not more than the rate charged for the disposal of solid wastes generated within the county or joint solid waste management district.

HB 700 DOOR-TO-DOOR SOLICITATIONS (Gerberry) Permits townships to regulate the time, place and manner of door-to-door solicitations.

HB 701 DEATH PENALTY STATUS (Taylor) Requires the Attorney General to annually prepare and file with specified individuals a capital case status report and prohibits the appointment of an attorney who is found to have provided ineffective assistance of counsel in a capital case on appeal of a capital case or in an appeal of a capital case in which a sentence of death was imposed to represent an indigent defendant in a similar type of case or appeal.

HB 702 PUBLIC NUISANCES (Fox) Authorizes certain municipal law enforcement officials to designate as nuisances, and to close, premises known to be used in the sale and distribution of controlled substances.

HB 703 COURT JUDGMENTS (Damschroder) Provides that if a person obtains a judgment not exceeding $2,000 in a municipal court, county court or court of common pleas, the clerk of the court, upon the person's request, must explain to the person and assist the person in the preparation and filing of, and supply the person with necessary forms for, proceedings to collect and enforce the judgment.

HB 704 INSTITUTIONAL FUNDS (Mason) Modifies the types of institutions covered by, and the endowment fund net appreciation of expenditure provisions of, the Uniform Management of Institutional Funds Act.

HB 705 WATERCRAFT REGULATION (Damschroder) Revises the statutes governing the operation and regulation of watercraft.

HB 706 TELECOMMUNICATIONS TAXES (Mottley) Levies an excise tax on purchases of certain telecommunications services, establishes a procedure under which property tax assessment rates on telephone company tangible personal property are raised or lowered depending on whether the company elects to subject purchases of its local telephone service to the new excise tax, subjects telephone companies and other providers of local telephone service to the corporation franchise tax, lowers the rate of the public utility excise tax for telephone service, provides that the sales tax does not apply to long distance and cellular telephone service and paging system service and provides a formula for distributing telecommunications service excise tax revenue designed in part to offset local government revenue losses caused by the other tax changes.

HB 707 CHILD WORKER APPRECIATION (Garcia) Designates the week of April 19 as "Child Care Worker Appreciation Week in Ohio."

HB 708 OPLIN BOARD (Terwilleger) Establishes in statute the Ohio Public Library Information Network and its Board of Trustees, assigns powers and duties to the board, provides for the board's dissolution under certain conditions and abolishes the network and the board on Dec. 31, 1999 repealing Sec. 3375 of the Revised Code on that date.

HB 709 INCLEMENT WEATHER DAYS (Reid) Permits school districts to be closed for two additional days without loss of state funds if schools are closed due to hazardous weather and certified personnel assigned to those schools attend professional meetings or in-service programs on those days.

HB 710 WELFARE CORRECTION (Lawrence) Revises the law governing the Adult Emergency Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children, Disability Assistance, Food Stamps, JOBS and Medicaid programs; accelerates the effective dates of certain Revised Code sections concerning child support enforcement and declares an emergency.

HB 711 SCHOOL FUNDING (Haines) Creates a pilot program for three school districts that provides state funding for the total costs of instruction and instructional materials in the participating districts and establishes one collective bargaining unit for all teachers in all of the participating districts.

HB 712 SCHOOL ASSAULT (Olman) Authorizes a board of township trustees to adopt a resolution making it a first degree misdemeanor to assault school personnel or students or to disrupt or interfere with school activities.

HB 713 GOVERNMENT RESTRUCTURING (Myers) Addresses matters association with Am. Sub. SB162 of the 121st General Assembly, makes other changes relative to the reorganization of various state agency functions.

HB 714 LOCAL BALLOTS (Mottl) Authorizes a local election on the question of the elimination, retention or addition of the position of president of city council.

HB 715 RACIAL EQUITY STUDY (Tavares) Establishes the Commission to Study Racial Equity in the Justice System and terminates the provisions of this act 38 months after its effective date by repealing Sec. 101 of the Revised Code on that date.

HB 716 HIRING INCENTIVES (Tavares) Establishes two pilot programs to provide incentives to hire persons who have served a prison term in a state correctional institution or a community control sanction in a community-based correctional facility, jail, halfway house or alternative residential facility for the commission of a felony and terminates granting further incentives granted pursuant to this act Jan. 1, 2002.

HB 717 REHABILITATION PROGRAMS (Boyd) Requires the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction and the Department of Youth Services to establish and maintain multifactored assessment programs for, and to prepare individualized rehabilitation plans for, specified inmates or felony delinquents.

HB 718 COCAINE (Prentiss) Eliminates the distinction between powdered cocaine and crack cocaine in the Drug Abuse Law.

HB 719 INMATE/DELINQUENT EDUCATION (Mallory) Requires that prisoners in the custody of the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction participate in educational programs and that children who are committed to the Department of Youth Services work toward earning a high school diploma.

HB 720 INMATE/DELINQUENT SUPPORT (Britton) Requires the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction and the Department of Youth Services to establish programs for family members or other volunteers to provide support service to prisoners, delinquent children in the custody of the Department of Youth Services, and certain released delinquent children.

HB 721 SUBSTANCE ABUSE (Ford) Requires the departments of Youth Services and Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services to jointly develop specifications for alcohol and drug addiction treatment programs offered in institutions of the Department of Youth Services and authorizes the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction and the Department of Youth Services to implement alcohol and drug addiction treatment programs providing services to adult prisoners, delinquent children or juvenile offenders in institutions under the jurisdiction of the appropriate department.

HB 722 EXPELLED STUDENTS (Prentiss) Requires school districts to provide educational services to suspended or expelled students in alternative settings.

HB 723 FEDERAL MANDATES (Wise) Requires the review of each bill introduced in either house of the General Assembly to determine whether compliance with a mandate imposed by federal law is among the bill's purposes and, if so, whether the federal mandate violates Ohio's rights under the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and establishes a procedure for challenging the constitutionality of federal laws that impose mandates on this state.

HB 724 SCHOOL FINANCE (Johnson) Provides for a special commission for the supervision or management and control of school districts determined to be fiscally unsound.

HB 725 TRADEMARK COUNTERFEITING (Mason) Creates the offense of trademark counterfeiting, specifies that offense as a theft offense and provides for the forfeiture of goods and certain personal property associated with that offense.

HB 726 MUNICIPAL FUNDS (Olman) Allows a municipal corporation to transfer to its general fund, for economic development purposes, certain moneys collected from municipal water customers outside the municipal corporation.

HB 727 LIQUOR ELECTIONS (Salerno) Modifies the minimum period required between certain local option liquor elections.

HB 728 TITLE FEES (Mottley) Authorizes the clerks of the courts of common pleas to accept traditional methods of payment for motor vehicle title fees and establishes procedures to ensure collection of the funds.

HB 729 VOTER REGISTRATION (Salerno) Requires state institutions of higher education to allow persons to register to vote or change their registration during times when students are permitted to register for classes at those institutions.

HB 730 WATER SYSTEMS (Cates) Requires that two public hearings be held prior to the adoption of an increase in rates to be charged by a county water supply system, a county sewer district, or a regional water and sewer district and provides a 60-day waiting period before the increased rates go into effect.

HB 731 AUTO SALES (Hartley) Requires anyone who sells or offers for sale a used motor vehicle to a person who resides in a county that is subject to the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program to first have the vehicle inspected by an inspection contractor, requires the seller to have necessary repairs performed in order for the vehicle to pass the inspection and to provide the inspection certificate obtained for the vehicle to the purchaser of the vehicle and provides for a refund to the purchaser if the seller fails to have the vehicle inspected and provide the inspection certificate.

HB 732 WEAPONS POSSESSION (Doty) Prohibits the possession of a deadly weapon or dangerous ordnance within 1,000 feet of a school and requires the revocation of a liquor permit of a permit holder who is convicted of or pleads guilty to selling alcohol to an under-age person three times in the previous five years.

HB 733 ORGAN DONATION (Vesper) Creates the Second Chance Trust Fund to promote organ, tissue and eye donation, requires the registrar of motor vehicles and deputy registrars to request one-dollar contributions to the fund from applicants for licenses and identification cards, establishes the Second Chance Trust Fund Board to approve the development of projects and the distribution of funds and abolishes the board on Dec. 31, 1999.

HB 734 ALTERNATIVE REGULATION (Mead) Makes changes in procedures and authority pertaining to an application for alternative rate regulation of basic local exchange service or another eligible public telecommunications service and vests the public utilities commission with authority under the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996.

HB 735 PROPERTY TAX (Shoemaker) Provides expedited procedures for, and increased notice to taxpayers of, mandated increases in valuation of real property.

HB 736 ACCIDENT REPORTS (Shoemaker) Permits sheriffs to charge a fee of two dollars for each copy of a motor vehicle accident report they furnish.

HB 737 MISDEMEANORS (Taylor) Eliminates a minor misdemeanor as a predicate offense for involuntary manslaughter.

HB 738 FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (Mottl) Raises the liability limits under the Financial Responsibility Law.

HB 739 GUILTY PLEA (Mottl) Establishes the plea of guilty but mentally ill, authorizes a court or jury to find a defendant guilty but mentally ill under certain circumstances and changes the burden of proof in hearings on the continued commitment of a person who was found not guilty by reason of insanity.

HB 740 ASSAULT (Troy) Makes assault of a state wildlife officer or park officer or of a law enforcement officer of a park district a fourth degree felony.

HB 741 VEHICLE SEIZURE (Mottley) Requires a 48-hour period of seizure for a motor vehicle used in the commission of or an attempt to commit soliciting and provides for the forfeiture of a motor vehicle used a second time in the commission of or attempt to commit soliciting.

HB 742 RETIREMENT BENEFITS (Campbell) Exempts qualified domestic relations orders from the state retirement systems' prohibitions against benefit assignment through execution, garnishment, and other processes of law.

HB 743 TOURIST SIGNAGE (Vesper) Provides that if the eligible attraction of a participant in the Tourist-Oriented Directional Sign program of the Ohio Department of Transportation has been designated a National Landmark or National Monument, the participant is exempt from payment of any fee normally charged program participants.

HB 744 COUNTY FUNDS (Healy) Authorizes counties to contract with financial institutions to receive payments and fees owed or payable to the county by electronic funds transfer.

HB 745 JUDGESHIP (Beatty) Adds a new judge to the Domestic Relations Division of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas.

HB 746 DRUG FINES (Beatty) Authorizes a court to require a person convicted of a drug trafficking offense to pay a fine in addition to other required or authorized fines to be used to support certified and licensed alcohol and drug addiction programs and pay another additional fine if the total of all fines imposed does not exceed the maximum statutory fine.

HB 747 BUILDING PERMITS (Schuler) Modifies requirements concerning architect's and engineer's seals necessary for the issuance of a building permit.

HB 748 CAPITAL APPROPRIATIONS (Johnson) Makes capital appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 1996 and ending June 30, 1998.

HB 749 GASOLINE (Netzley) Prohibits the sale, at retail, on and after July 1, 1997, of any gasoline that contains an octane boosting fuel additive unless it contains the chemical compound methylcyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl up to a specified concentration.

HB 750 EMISSIONS TESTS (Netzley) Repeals the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program.

HB 751 PROFICIENCY TESTS (Tiberi) Eliminates the requirement of the State Board of Education to prescribe and administer the educational proficiency test designed to demonstrate a twelfth-grade level of basic competency.

HB 752 CAMPAIGN TAX CREDIT (Tiberi) Extends the credit against the state income tax for campaign contributions to those for candidates for additional offices and in relation to school district tax levies.

HB 753 SCHOOL FUNDS (Tiberi) Authorizes boards of education to adopt policies to charge pupils for damaged or missing items or missing funds for which pupils have accepted responsibility as part of school fund-raising activities; provides for enforcement with withholding grades or credits.

HB 754 DRUNK DRIVING (Taylor) Classifies as a felony of the fourth degree or subsequent state OMVI conviction and increases from five years to ten years the period of time during which prior OMVI convictions are counted for purposes of the post-conviction sentencing and driver's license suspension provisions.

HB 755 CHILD SUPPORT (Sawyer) Requires public utilities and municipal public utilities to provide addressed of obligors on the request of a child support enforcement agency.

HB 756 EMPLOYMENT LEAVES (Pringle) Requires employers to provide paid leave to employees engaged in temporary military service.

HB 757 DESEGREGATION COSTS (Metelsky) Prohibits a school district from being required to repay the Department of Education certain amounts paid to the district for desegregation costs.

HB 758 DEER HUNTING (Cera) Requires, under certain circumstances, the Chief of the Division of Wildlife in the Department of Natural Resources to include certain provisions in rules governing deer hunting and establishes fees for deer hunting permits in years in which rules establish an annual bag limit of more than one deer.

HB 759 WEAPON PRESUMPTION (Mottl) Creates a presumption that a person who uses a deadly weapon while committing a felony offense of violence intends to cause the death of the victim of the offense.

HB 760 WORKERS COMP (Mottley) Permits public employers to become self-insuring employers for purposes of the Workers' Compensation Law; permits certain associations with a membership consisting of public employers to qualify for self-insured programs; changes the number of votes necessary for the Self-Insuring Employers Evaluation Board to revoke an employer's self-insured status, and requires the Bureau to pay claims of a defaulting self-insuring public employer within thirty days of the default.

HB 761 ALCOHOL-INDUCED OFFENSES (Sykes) Authorizes courts to adjudicate certain persons alcohol-induced offenders; prohibits alcohol-induced offenders from purchasing, possess or consumer beer or intoxicating liquor; makes persons who sell, furnish or provide beer or intoxicating liquor to alcohol-induced offenders civilly liable for the loss or injury caused by the alcohol-induced offender who was intoxicated as a result of the sale, furnishing or giving of beer or intoxicating liquor; and makes certain other changes in the liquor law.

HB 762 MANICURISTS (Tiberi) Permits manicurists to practice in tanning facilities without requiring the tanning facility to operate as a beauty salon or nail salon.

HB 763 FALSE POLICE REPORTS (Tiberi) Prohibits making or causing to be made a false report of domestic violence, a false report of a violation of a protection order or consent agreement, or a false report of certain offenses committed against family or household members.

HB 764 ALCOHOL SERVER (Tiberi) Requires the Department of Liquor Control to establish or approve alcohol server's training programs; requires completion of such a program before certain applicants are issued a retail liquor permit; and requires certain applicants for the renewal of a retail liquor permit to certify that their employees who serve beer or intoxicating liquor have completed such a program.

HB 765 AIRPORT DISTRICTS (Thomas) Authorizes the Chief of the Division of Aviation to designate and regulate territory surrounding certain airports as airport district zones to ensure that land use in the area is compatible with the operation of airports.

HB 766 VEHICLE REPAIR REGISTRATION (Metzger) Requires the registration of motor vehicle collision repair operators and creates the Board of Motor Vehicle Collision Repair Registration.

HB 767 PHYSICAL COMBAT (Jerse) Prohibits physical combat contests and prescribes a penalty.

HB 768 LEGAL SERVICES (Womer Benjamin) Requires the Department of Administrative Services to contract for a group legal services policy covering officers and employees paid by warrant of the Auditor of State.

HB 769 STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS (Troy) Provides a two-year statute of limitations for civil rights actions except for certain age discrimination claims.

HB 770 YOUTH CURFEWS (Ford) Establishes curfews for persons under 18 years of age and establishes related prohibitions and criminal penalties.

HB 771 OVERTIME PAY (Fox) Limits an employee's recovery in a civil action for unpaid overtime wages to a maximum of thirteen weeks of unpaid overtime wages for the first time the employee's employer fails to pay overtime to any employee.

HB 772 WORKERS' COMP/INMATE SERVICE (Fox) Excludes prisoners performing community service work of any kind for or in a political subdivision from coverage under the Workers' Compensation Laws.

HB 773 WORKERS' COMPENSATION RATINGS (Fox) Provides that the use of prisoners for work or community service work by an employer does not affect the employer's experience rating for workers' compensation purposes.

HB 774 TELEPHONE HARASSMENT (Core) Enhances the penalties for telephone harassment, inducing panic and making false alarms.

HB 775 MOTOR VEHICLES (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.

HB 776 RAIL FUEL TAX (Wachtmann) Levies a tax on diesel fuel sold by dealers in this state to power non-passenger locomotives operating in or through this state, establishes the Railroad Crossing Enterprise Fund, requires the diesel fuel tax to be deposited into the fund to provide grants to pay for grade separations, the installation of active warning devices at railroad grade crossings and other measures to reduce or eliminate the threat of accidents at grade crossings.

HB 777 RETIREMENT BENEFITS (Gerberry) Regarding the eligibility of certain surviving spouses of deceased firemen for benefits from the Firemen and Policemen's Death Benefit Fund.

HB 778 SCHOOL ANNEXATIONS (Taylor) Authorizes the State Board of Education to approve certain transfers of annexed school district territory only upon receipt of an agreement negotiated by the affected school districts.

HB 779 SUPPORT ORDERS (Reid) Permits a court to terminate or modify a support order on the basis of the emancipation of the child without a hearing and on the basis of the report of a magistrate.

HB 780 STATE EMPLOYEES (Wise) Includes on the payroll earnings statement of each state official or employee paid by warrant of the Auditor of State the state employer costs incurred in employing that official or employee.

HB 781 NUCLEAR POWER (Brady) Restricts service, by a member, officer or employee of an environmental, consumer or citizen organization, on a state body that deals with specified subjects including nuclear power, radioactive waste and public health; and prohibits a public utility that owns or operates a nuclear generating facility from failing to provide notice on each customer bill of certain information regarding radioactive discharges and releases by that facility.

HB 782 EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT (Cera) Transfers the Emergency Management Agency to the Office of the Adjutant General.

HB 783 SCHOOL BUSES (Boyd) Requires all school buses to be equipped with a cross view mirror system.

HB 784 BINGO LICENSES (Fox) Allows a service organization or youth service organization that serves dependent, abused, neglected or unruly children under the care of the Department of Human Services or the juvenile court system to obtain a charitable bingo license.

HB 785 TURNPIKE AUTHORITY (Ogg) Creates a North-South Turnpike Authority with all authority necessary to construct and operate a north-south turnpike system.

HB 786 STUDENT AID (Damschroder) Transfers certain programmatic responsibilities of the Ohio Student Aid Commission to the Ohio Board of Regents and declares an emergency.

HB 787 PUBLIC HOSPITALS (Britton) Provides for the creation of public teaching hospital authorities and declares an emergency.

HB 788 DAY CARE (Campbell) Requires child day-care centers to establish programs to ensure the security of children.

HB 789 MINIMUM WAGE (Hagan) Requires an employer receiving economic development assistance from the state or political subdivisions of the state or entering into contracts with the state or its instrumentalities to pay its employees a minimum wage of $6.00 per hour.

HB 790 INSURANCE LAWS (Britton) Requires all health maintenance organization contracts and all policies of sickness and accident insurance that provide coverage for a mastectomy to also provide coverage for breast reconstructive surgery incidental to the mastectomy.

HB 791 TAX EXEMPTION (Tiberi) Excludes from adjusted gross income for state income tax purposes certain interest or dividends from deposits in financial institutions.

HB 792 PLATTING LAW (Core) Broadens the definition of "subdivision" for purposes of the Platting Law.

HB 793 CON REVIEW TERMINATION (Sines) Terminates certificate of need review of open-heart surgery on May 1, 1997, instead of one year after quality-of-care rules take effect.

HB 794 NUISANCE ABATEMENT (Garcia) Permits municipal corporations to recover the cost of abating nuisances against any real property owned by the owner of the nuisance property.

HB 795 FARM VEHICLES (Damschroder) Requires the Highway Use Tax or associated motor vehicle fuel tax to be paid annually on farm trucks instead of four times a year.

HB 796 INDUSTRIAL RETENTION (Troy) Adopts the Multistate Industrial Retention Compact; creates the Industrial Retention Board to oversee the provisions of the Compact in Ohio; and authorizes Ohio to effectuate the provisions of the Compact on the concurrence of four or more other states.

HB 797 MURDER OFFENSES (Taylor) Expands murder to also prohibit a person from causing the death of another as a proximate result of committing or attempting to commit a felony offense of violence and eliminates the "specific intent" and "permissive inference" provisions that apply regarding aggravated murder.

HB 798 STATE EDUCATION BOARD (Netzley) Requires the State Board of Education to hold meetings in a certain manner; prohibits the State Board and Department of Education from spending state funds on certain activities; and prohibits any State Board policy regarding board member conduct from taking effect without General Assembly approval.

HB 799 SCHOOL OPERATIONS (Wise) Provides for certain city school districts to be operated by the mayor of the largest municipal corporation within its boundaries, in lieu of by the board of education, and makes the board of education of such a district an advisory body.

HB 800 DRUG LIABILITY (Jerse) Establishes a tort action against persons who illegally market or forcibly administer controlled substances and in favor of persons who sustain harm as a result of the tortious actions or omissions of individuals who are under the influence of the controlled substance.

HB 801 PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY (Kasputis) Changes the date of the primary election held in presidential years from the third Tuesday in March to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May.

HB 802 DAIRY PLAN (Haines) Authorizes the Director of Agriculture to establish the Ohio Dairy Industry Committee to monitor implementation of the Ohio Dairy Industry Strategic Plan and foster communication and cooperation among the Department of Agriculture, the Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, the various segments of the dairy industry and ancillary industries; terminates the director's authorization to establish the committee on December 31, 1998 by repealing sections 917.30 & .31 of the Revised Code on that date; makes an appropriation.

HB 803 SPECIAL ELECTIONS (Blessing) Temporarily authorizes a special election on December 10, 1996, exclusively for the purpose of allowing certain municipal corporation property tax levies to appear on the ballot, repeals Sec. 1 of act effective December 11, 1996 and declares an emergency.

HB 804 FIREWORKS SALES (Bender) Prohibits the sale of fireworks to any person other than a licensed manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer or exhibitor of fireworks.

HB 805 ESTATE TAXES (Metelsky) Grants an exemption from the real estate tax for the property of a family farm that will continue to be operated as such by the qualified heirs.

HB 806 TAX INCENTIVES (Hodges) Prohibits multiple, competing proposals for enterprise zone tax incentives, equalizes the tax credits for installing new manufacturing equipment between "distressed" areas and other areas, and declares an emergency.

HB 807 LICENSE PLATES (Skyes) Creates a special professional firefighter license plate.

HB 808 CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES (Myers) Prohibits the possession, transport, delivery or distribution of a controlled substance for sale or resale.

HB 809 PUBLIC INVESTMENTS (Batchelder) Adds no-load money market mutual funds to the list of permissible investments for a subdivision or county treasurer in the absence of a written investment policy on behalf of the subdivision or county or the completion or application of specified initial or continuing education requirements.

HB 810 PREVAILING WAGE (Jacobson) Exempts improvements, repairs and construction undertaken by, or under contract for, boards of education and school districts from prevailing wage law.

HB 811 SEWAGE TREATMENT (Hodges) Requires the director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to allow the use of a wetland sanitary sewage treatment system as an alternative means of sewage treatment.

HB 812 VETERANS' CHILDREN'S HOME (Reid) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned land in Greene County known as the Ohio Veterans' Children's Home to Greene County and repeals Section 139 of Am. Sub. HB117 of the 121st General Assembly, which created the Veterans' Plaza fund, and provided that $1 million of the proceeds of the sale of the Ohio Veterans' Children's Home be deposited to that fund.

HB 813 PUBLIC BUILDINGS (Krebs) Prohibits any owner of a public building from claiming the protection of trademark for its shape, design, image or structure.

HB 814 DEFERRED COMPENSATION (Sykes) Authorizes a regional transit authority to offer its officers and employees not more than two deferred compensation programs in addition to those offered by the Ohio Public Employees Deferred Compensation Board.

HB 815 INMATE HARASSMENT (Bateman) Creates the offense of harassment of an employee by an inmate.

HB 816 COLLEGE CREDIT (Fox) Permits students attending non-public unchartered schools to enroll in college courses under the Post-Secondary Enrollment Options Program.

HB 817 GANGS (Garcia) Establishes the offense of participating in a criminal gang, permits any person to report criminal gang membership or activity to a law enforcement officer, enhances the penalty imposed upon an offender who commits a felony, an offense of violence or certain misdemeanors while being a member of a criminal gang, prescribes procedures for the forfeiture and disposition of property relating to participating in a criminal gang, and modifies the juvenile fingerprinting laws.

HB 818 TAX FORECLOSURE (Beatty) Hastens the commencement of tax foreclosure actions against delinquent real property.

HB 819 PUBLIC OFFICIAL PAY (Reid) Requires that state agencies notify the chairpersons of the House and Senate Finance Committees regarding any compensation increase granted to certain executive employees that exceeds the cumulative percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index since the employees' last compensation increase.

HB 820 UNIVERSITY FINANCES (Reid) Requires the Ohio Board of Regents to place a state university or college or a fiscal watch under certain circumstances, authorizes the governor under certain circumstances to replace the board of trustees of a state university or college that is under a fiscal watch with a conservator and alternative governance authority, and requires the members of boards of trustees of state universities and colleges to receive training regarding the authority and responsibilities of a board of trustees.

HB 821 FIRE INSURANCE (Beatty) Prohibits insurers, under certain circumstances, from canceling or refusing to renew or increasing the premium for any fire insurance policy covering religious property.

HB 822 MEDICAL SAVING ACCOUNTS (Netzley) Gives state employees the option of choosing medical savings accounts for their health care coverage.

HB 823 SOLID WASTE PERMITS (Metzger) Requires the Director of Environmental Protection to notify by certified mail certain landowners whose property is within 1500 feet of the property that is subject of an application for a permit to install or an application for a permit to modify a solid waste facility that such an application has been submitted to the Director.

HB 824 HEALTH CARE CONVERSIONS (Van Vyven) Requires that the Attorney General review transfers of assets by certain nonprofit health care entities to for-profit entities.

HB 825 HEALTH CARE CONVERSIONS (Netzley) Regulates the conversion and acquisition of nonprofit mutual insurance companies, hospitals, and health maintenance organizations into for-profit corporations or joint ventures and declares an emergency.

HB 826 ROHYPNOL (Abel) Relocates the drug flunitrazepam (Rohypnol) from Schedule IV to Schedule I of the controlled substances schedules.

HB 827 COLUMBUS FLOODWALL (Salerno) Authorizes the conveyance of two parcels of state-owned real estate located in Franklin County to the City of Columbus for construction of the West Columbus Local Protection Project aka the Franklinton Floodwall, authorizes the conveyance of any additional parcels of real estate necessary for the completion of the project and declares an emergency.

HB 828 TATTOO PARLORS (Lucas) Regulates businesses that offer tattooing and ear or body piercing services.

HB 829 PHYSICIAN CERTIFICATION (Vesper) Provides with certain exceptions that a physician licensed by another state who provides medical services in this state, either directly or through electronic communications, must obtain a certificate to practice from the Ohio State Medical Board.

HB 830 SELL OHIO (Krupinski) Requires the director of the Department of Administrative Services to establish "Sell Ohio" program to require certain state agencies and retail operators to stock specified levels of merchandise made in Ohio.

HB 831 BEER & WINE TAXES (Krebs) Changes the manner in which projects may be funded under the School Building Assistance Program; as of Jan. 1, 2004, authorizes educational service centers to apply for funds to obtain offices under the School Building Assistance Program and eliminates the requirement that counties provide offices for educational service centers; earmarks beer and wine tax revenue to support the School Building Assistance Program; increases the rates of excise taxes on beer and wine; modifies or eliminates certain laws governing the sale of beer and wine; and reduces the rate at which inventory property is assessed for taxation from 25% to 20% of true value.