HB 1 JUVENILE RELEASE (Williams) Creates a Release Authority in the Department of Youth Services to grant releases to certain children committed to the Department, establishes a procedure for the judicial release of certain children in the Department's custody and establishes an Office of Victims' Services in the Release Authority

HB 2 GANG LAWS (Garcia) Establishes the offense of participating in a criminal gang, permits any person to report criminal gang participation or association to a law enforcement officer, enhances the penalty imposed upon an offender or delinquent child who commits a felony, an offense of violence or certain misdemeanors while participating in 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 3 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (Mason) Relative to the enforcement of temporary protection orders issued in domestic violence situations, protection orders and consent agreements issued or approved by a court of domestic relations, and protection orders of those types issued by courts of another state and maintains the provisions of this act on and after July 1, 1997, by amending the versions of sections 1901 and 3113 of the Revised Code that take effect on that date.

HB 4 MANDATORY SENTENCES (Winkler) Requires the imposition of a mandatory prison term and an additional three year mandatory prison term for certain felony offenses of violence committed against a victim thirteen years of age or younger, expands the offense of aggravated murder to also prohibit purposely causing the death of a victim thirteen years of age or younger and includes as a capital offense aggravating circumstance the commission of the aggravated murder against a victim thirteen years of age or younger.

HB 5 FELONY OFFENSES (Taylor) Expands the offense of murder by prohibiting 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 provisions regarding proof of specific intent and the use of interference in an aggravated murder trial.

HB 6 FIREWORKS LAW (Carey) Prohibits the issuance of a license or permit under the Fireworks Law to certain convicted felons, increases safety requirements relating to sales, storage and exhibitions of fireworks, increases license fees and the limits of liability coverage under the Fireworks law, requires licensed wholesalers of fireworks and fireworks exhibitors to complete eight hours of continuing education each years, removes the requirement that Class C fireworks be taken out of Ohio within specified periods and allows their discharge in Ohio and makes other changes.

HB 7 DAY CARE (Schuck) Creates corporation franchise and state income tax credits for employers that provide on-site child day care for employees.

HB 8 EMISSIONS TESTING (Grendell) Repeals the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program and requires the Director of Environmental Protection to negotiate alternatives to the program.

HB 9 UNIVERSITY REGULATION (Reid) Requires the Ohio Board of Regents to place a state university or college on a fiscal watch under certain circumstances, authorizes the governor under certain circumstances to 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 of state colleges and universities to receive training regarding the authority and responsibilities of a board of trustees.

HB 10 TAX CREDITS (Fox) Grants tax credits for contributions of computer equipment for the benefit of educational institutions, school districts and disabled individuals.

HB 11 GANG CRIME (Mottl) Requires the court to consider whether an offense, offender or delinquent act or child is gang-related or has gang ties in imposing a sentence or disposition, provides a mandatory two-year prison term for a felony drug abuse offense or felony offense of violence committed with at least two other persons and provides an additional one year period of Department of Youth Services institutionalization for a delinquent act that would be an offense of that type if committed by an adult.

HB 12 VIATICAL CONTRACTS (Mottl) Provides the Superintendent of Insurance the authority to regulate viatical settlement contract and the registration viatical settlement brokers and certain viatical settlement providers.

HB 13 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION (Mottl) Expands eligibility for the homestead exemption by increasing the minimum qualifying income limits.

HB 14 HOMESTEAD INCOME (Mottl) Excludes social security benefits and retirement benefits received from specified retirement systems from the definition of total income used to calculate the homestead exemption and the manufactured home exemption.

HB 15 EMISSIONS TESTING (Mottl) Repeals the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program.

HB 16 LLRW PROHIBITION (Mottl) Prohibits the storage or disposal in this state of low-level radioactive waste generated in another state, provides for the withdrawal of this state from the Midwest Interstate Compact on Low-Level Radioactive Waste and provides for the establishment of standards and requirements governing a facility for low-level radioactive waste as generated in this state.

HB 17 SAFETY VEHICLES (Taylor) Includes within the definition of "public safety vehicle" the vehicles of emergency management directors or coordinators or their designees when responding to emergency assistance calls and the vehicles of coroners, deputy coroners and investigators appointed by coroners, in certain circumstances.

HB 18 DEATH PENALTY STATUS (Taylor) Requires the Attorney General to annually prepare and file with specified individuals a capital case status report and provides that an attorney who is found to have provided ineffective assistance of counsel in a capital case in which a sentence of death was imposed thereafter cannot be appointed to represent and indigent defendant in a similar type of case or appeal.

HB 19 FACILITY RELOCATION (Taylor) Requires the Director of Transportation to provide for the relocation of facilities of certain water supply, waterworks or sewerage systems.

HB 20 PROPERTY INSURANCE (Beatty) Prohibits insurers, under certain circumstances, from canceling or refusing to renew or increase the premium for any fires insurance policy covering religious property.

HB 21 EMPLOYMENT COSTS (Wise) Requires the inclusion on payroll earnings statements 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 22 SUBDIVISION PLATS (Wise) Eliminates the requirement that subdivision plats in certain unincorporated territory be approved by a city planning commission or by a village planning commission, platting commissioner or legislative authority before being recorded and requires plat approval instead by a county or regional planning commission and permits platting rules to require proof of compliance with all applicable township zoning resolutions.

HB 23 STATES' RIGHTS (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 Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and establishes a procedure for challenging the constitutionality of federal laws that impose mandates on the state.

HB 24 DECEPTIVE TRADE (Lucas) Makes the use of the name in the course of business that misrepresents the geographic origin or location of a person a deceptive trade practice and subject to certain criminal penalty.

HB 25 TATTOOING (Lucas) Regulates the businesses that offer tattooing or body piercing services.

HB 26 SANITARY DISTRICTS (Lucas) Alters the composition and method of appointment of the members of the boards of directors of certain 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 27 JACKSON COUNTY JUDGE (Carey) Changes the status of the judge of the Jackson County Municipal Court from part-time to full-time, changes the date on or before which the Elected Officials Compensation Commission must file its recommendations for adjusting the salaries of elected officials, and declares an emergency.

HB 28 ELDERLY CRIME VICTIMS (Winkler) Requires the imposition of a mandatory prison term and an additional three-year mandatory prison term for certain felony offenses of violence committed against a victim 65 years of age or older.

HB 29 E-CHECK (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 exemptions for new vehicles under the program; revises the waiver limits for motor vehicles needing repairs under the program.

HB 30 PROFESSIONAL LICENSES (Reid) Requires a licensing board to suspend the professional license of an individual on receipt of notice that the individual is in default on a federally or state-guaranteed educational loan or service-conditional scholarship.

HB 31 BANKRUPTCY (Reid) Exempts certain property from execution, garnishment, attachment or sale to satisfy a judgment from bankruptcy proceedings involving Ohio domicilaries.

HB 32 SEX OFFENSES (Reid) Increases criminal penalties for gross sexual imposition when the offender administers a controlled substance to the victim surreptitiously or by force, threat of force, or deception, makes sexual battery a third degree felony in all circumstances, modifies the definition of sexual conduct, clarifies that a court must impose a mandatory term upon an offender who has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to rape, and requires that the mandatory prison term for rape when the offender administered a controlled substance to the victim surreptitiously or by force, threat of force, or deception must be at least five years.

HB 33 VETERANS' 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 Sec. 130 of Amended Substitute House Bill One Hundred Seventeen of the 121st General Assembly, which created Fund 4Z0, the Veterans' Plaza Fund, and provided that $1 million of the proceeds of the sale of the Ohio Veterans' Children's Home be deposited into that fund.

HB 34 ENERGY CONSERVATION (Reid) Designates the third Friday in March as School Energy Conservation Day in Ohio.

HB 35 EXECUTIVE STATE EMPLOYEES (Reid) Requires that state agencies notify 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.

HB 36 LODGING TAXES (Olman) Permits boards of county commissioners to increase the rate of existing lodging taxes for convention and visitors bureaus.

HB 37 HARASSMENT BY INMATE (Bateman) Creates the offense of harassment of an employee by an inmate.

HB 38 TELECOMMUNICATION 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 services to the new excise tax; subjects telephone companies and other providers of local telephone service to the corporate franchise tax; lowers the rate of the public utility excise tax for telephone companies and imposes that tax at the new lower rate on other providers of new telephone service; provides that the sales tax does not apply to long distance and cellular telephone telecommunications service excise tax revenue designed in part to offset local government revenue losses caused by the other changes.

HB 39 VEHICLE TITLE TAXES (Mottley) Authorizes the clerks of courts of common pleas to accept additional methods of payment for motor vehicle title taxes and establishes procedures to ensure collection of the funds.

HB 40 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 by an employer.

HB 41 SOLICITING (Mottley) Requires a 48-hour period of seizure of a motor vehicle used in the commission of or an attempt to commit soliciting, engaging in solicitation after a positive HIV test, loitering to engage in solicitation, or loitering to engage in solicitation after a positive HIV test; provides for the forfeiture of a motor vehicles used a second time in the commission of or attempt to commit any of those offenses.

HB 42 GYM MEMBERSHIP (Mottley) Exempts the sale of gym memberships from sales taxation.

HB 43 E-CHECK (Colonna) Suspends the 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; requires the director of Environmental Protection to evaluate alternatives to the program; declares an emergency.

HB 44 EMPLOYEE TERMINATION (Wilson) Prohibits an employer from terminating an employee who is a volunteer fire fighter or a volunteer provider of emergency medical services when that employee misses or is late to work because of an emergency to which the employee was dispatched as a volunteer fire fighter or volunteer provider of emergency medical services.

HB 45 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; prohibits retaliation for participating in meetings related to lot rent increases; limits the amount the park operator may charge residents for water purchased or supplied from a water system; requires the park operator, when a manufactured home park is sold for uses other than as a manufactured home park, to offer residents a right of first refusal to collectively purchase the park and to pay specified relocation costs to each manufactured home owner who had lived in the park at least 10 years.

HB 46 NUISANCE PROPERTY (Garcia) Permits municipal corporations to recover the cost of abating nuisances by actions against any real property owned by the owner of the nuisance property.

HB 47 HOME SCHOOL (Schuck) Requires that any child receiving home education be permitted to participate in classes and extracurricular activities operated at the school to which that child otherwise would be assigned.

HB 48 GOVERNMENT AD SPACE (Schuck) Permits state agencies and certain political subdivisions to contract to sell commercial advertising space and to accept and distribute goods containing commercial advertising that are provided free of charge to a state agency or political subdivision.

HB 49 STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS (Schuck) Extends to 20 years the time within which certain serious offenses may be prosecuted.

HB 50 LOCAL GOVERNMENT 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 51 STUDENT EXPRESSION (Batchelder) Limits the restriction of student expression by public post-secondary educational institutions and permits a civil action by a student aggrieved by restrictions of expression that violate state law.

HB 52 ACCOUNTANT-CLIENT PRIVILEGE (Batchelder) Creates an accountant-client testimonial privilege.

HB 53 PRIMARY ELECTION DATE (Kasputis) 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 54 PROPERTY TAX (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 55 BEHAVIORAL CONNECTIONS (Gardner) Authorizes the conveyance of the state's interest in the restrictions and reversions imposed by specified instruments to Behavioral Connections in Wood County, Inc., an Ohio nonprofit corporation; specifies permissible research uses for land previously conveyed by the state to the City of Cincinnati and limits the application of the reversion clause in the legislation that conveyed that land; and declares an emergency.

HB 56 SCHOOL CONTRACTS (Callender) Permits a school board to enter into administrative contracts with nonlicensed employees who are considered to be supervisory or management level employees for the purposes of collective bargaining, permits a school district that has been declared to be in a state of fiscal emergency to issue, following approval of the district voters of a new operating levy and approval of such school district's financial planning and supervision commission, securities not to exceed ten years for the purpose of restructuring or refinancing its outstanding debt obligations, and declares an emergency.

HB 57 SCHOOL RESIDENCY (Jacobson) Permits a child to complete high school in a school district without payment of tuition if the child's parents move from the district after the conclusion of the child's junior year, provided the district in which the child attends school approves such attendance; 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 58 PREVAILING WAGE (Jacobson) Exempts public improvements and construction undertaken by, or under contract for, boards of education, school districts and institutions of high education from the Prevailing Wage Law.

HB 59 HEALTH INSURANCE CO-PAY (Fox) Requires that co-payment 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 60 SUNDAY HUNTING (Fox) Permits hunting on Sundays and maintains the provisions of the act on and after March 4, 1998, by amending the version of section 1531.08 of the Revised Code that takes effect on that date.

HB 61 RECKLESS MANSLAUGHTER (Fox) Creates the offense of reckless manslaughter and includes that offense in statutory provisions that pertain to voluntary and involuntary manslaughter.

HB 62 ADC/MEDICAID (Fox) Revises the Aid to Dependent Children and Medicaid programs; provides for maternal and child health services; establishes penalties for causing an infant to be drug or alcohol impaired; and requires hospitals to provide the Department of Mental Health post-discharge information about mental health patients.

HB 63 CHILD SUPPORT (Fox) Permits the Tax Commission and any child support enforcement agency to enter into an agreement to allow the Tax Commissioner to collect child support arrearages.

HB 64 RETIREMENT CREDIT (Fox) Changes the requirements for eligible members of the Public Employees Retirement System to purchase military service credit and the method of computing a member's payment for the credit; allows military service credit purchased to apply toward the total service credit needed to obtain group hospitalization insurance as a retirant.

HB 65 CHARITY BINGO (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 66 CITY NUISANCES (Fox) Authorizes certain municipal law enforcement officials to designate as nuisances, and to close, premises where felonious drug-related offenses have occurred.

HB 67 VOLUNTEERS OFFICE (Fox) Creates the Office of Volunteers in Service to Ohio Advisory Council; authorizes the office to assign full-time and part-time volunteers to approved volunteer programs sponsored by public agencies and nonprofit organizations; provides for the establishment of county volunteer service commission and authorizes them to assign volunteers in the same manner; grants credits against the corporate franchise tax to taxpayers who contribute funds to the Office or a county volunteer service commission; grants credits against the state income tax to part-time volunteers assigned by the office or a commission; makes an appropriation and sunsets provisions of the act on December 31, 2000.

HB 68 NAME CHANGE (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; permits an exemption from the parental consent requirement to a minor's change of name under specified circumstances; requires certain inmates and former inmates to obtain the written consent of the director of Rehabilitation and Correction or the director's designee before filing a change-of-name application and requires the director or designee to give notice when an inmate's change-of-name application is approved by the probate court.

HB 69 NAME CHANGE (Fox) Requires certain inmates and former inmates to obtain the written consent of the director of Rehabilitation and Correction before filing a change-of-name application and requires the director to give notice when an inmate's or former inmate's change-of-name application is approved by the probate court.

HB 70 SCHOOL DRUG TESTING (Fox) Allows a board of education to adopt a policy providing for drug and alcohol testing of students in grades seven through twelve.

HB 71 ELECTRONIC TEXTBOOKS (Fox) Permits school districts to purchase electronic textbooks under the same conditions as textbooks are purchased, permits school districts to furnish electronic textbooks to students in lieu of traditional textbooks provided the electronic textbooks are furnished free of charge, and requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to deduct amounts from a school district's state aid payments if the district misspends money appropriated to purchase other instructional materials or textbooks.

HB 72 CONTINUING TEACHER CONTRACT (Fox) Changes the requirements for obtaining a continuing teaching contract; requires periodic evaluations of all school district employees under all teaching contracts and one-year remediation periods for correcting unsatisfactory performance during a remediation period; maintains the provisions of this act on and after July 1, 1998 by amending the version of Sec. 3319.11 of the Revised Code that takes effect on that date.

HB 73 SCHOOL ADVERTISING (Fox) Allows a board of education to contract to sell commercial advertising space on a school bus owned by or operated under contract with the board's school district.

HB 74 WORKER COMP (Fox) Excludes prisoners performing community service work of any kind for a charitable organization or political subdivision from coverage under the Workers' Compensation Laws; disallows civil actions for the injury or death of such prisoners and maintains the provisions of the act on and after May 15, 1997, by amending the version of section 2919.22 of the Revised Code that takes effect on that date.

HB 75 COMMUNITY SERVICE (Fox) Provides that the use of prisoners for work or community service work by an employer does not affect the employer's merit rating for workers' compensation purposes.

HB 76 OVERTIME WAGE RECOVERY (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 77 SCHOOL LEVIES (Fox) Authorizes boards of education to propose to electors property tax levies from which recipients of the homestead exemption would be exempted.

HB 78 SCHOOL LEVIES (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 a property tax and grants a credit to property owners who are subject to both taxes.

HB 79 NONTESTAMENTARY TRANSFERS (Fox) Relative to universal succession and nontestamentary transfers.

HB 80 SCHOOL DISTRICT TAX (Fox) Modifies the foundation formula to discount the effects on the formula of revisions in real property values and apportions among all taxing districts the costs incurred by school districts in challenging real property assessments.

HB 81 SCHOOL LEVIES (Fox) Allows school districts to propose more than one tax levy in a single ballot issue.

HB 82 SOLICITING (Fox) Requires the seizure of a motor vehicle if the operator of or a passenger in the motor vehicle commits or attempts to commit soliciting, soliciting after a positive HIV test, loitering or engage in solicitation, loitering to engage in solicitation after a positive HIV test or a violation of a substantially equivalent municipal ordinance; provides procedures and conditions for the return or forfeiture of the seized motor vehicle.

HB 83 WITNESS EXCLUSIONS (Fox) Provides new exceptions to the provisions permitting courts to exclude witnesses from court proceedings; extends the "rape shield law" to other specified sex offenses; authorizes a victim of certain sex offenses to designate a person to be with the victim during criminal justice system contacts; extends rape to include sexual conduct when a drug or intoxicant has been administered with consent for purposes of medical or dental examination, treatment or surgery.

HB 84 PRISONER SUITS (Fox) Establishes an affirmative defense in favor of the state in connection with certain prisoners' civil actions in the Court of Claims.

HB 85 PORNOGRAPHY TORT (Fox) Creates a tort action against persons who commit pornography offenses in favor of victims of distinct sex offenses whose perpetrators were incited or otherwise influenced to commit the sex offenses by an obscene, sexually oriented or nudity-oriented material or performance.

HB 86 CAPITAL SPECIFICATIONS (Fox) Expands the aggravating circumstances permitting the imposition of the death penalty to include an aggravated murder committed in an especially cruel or depraved manner.

HB 87 CRIMES UNDER INFLUENCE (Fox) Requires the imposition of a specified additional prison term upon an offender who commits an offense of violence while under the influence of alcohol, a drug of abuse or both alcohol and a drug of abuse.

HB 88 SEX OFFENSES (Fox) Relative to witnesses in prosecutions for sex offenses involving minors as victims.

HB 89 TOBACCO PRODUCTS (Fox) Prohibits the use of tobacco products in a detention facility.

HB 90 ANNEXATION (Fox) Requires a vote of the electors of the affected territory to determine school district affiliation when a municipal annexation occurs, except if an annexation agreement governing the affected territory is in effect.

HB 91 TELEPHONE SERVICE (Taylor) Requires the Public Utilities Commission to implement banded local area telephone service throughout the state.

HB 92 PRIMARY ELECTIONS (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 93 STALKING ORDERS (Reid) Authorizes the issuance of anti-stalking protection orders upon the filing of a complaint that alleges the commission of an assault offense or a violation of certain municipal ordinances.

HB 94 E-CHECK TAX CREDIT (Grendell) Grants a credit against the personal income tax in the amount of fees paid by the taxpayer to have a vehicle inspected under the emissions inspection program.

HB 95 FUGITIVE ADDRESSES (Jacobson) Requires a county department of human services to provide the address of a fugitive felon or probation or parole violator who is a public assistance recipient at the request of a law enforcement agency.

HB 96 CONCEALED WEAPONS (Fox) Authorizes police chiefs, sheriffs and prosecuting attorneys to issue licenses to certain persons to carry a concealed firearm and maintains the provisions of this act on and after July 1, 1997 by amending the version of section 109 of the Revised Code that takes effect on that date.

HB 97 LAND CONVEYANCE (Salerno) Authorizes the conveyance to 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, a.k.a. the Franklinton Floodwall, authorizes the conveyance of any additional parcels of real estate necessary for the completion of the project; authorizes the conveyance of two parcels of state-owned real estate located in Mahoning County to the Mahoning County Mental Health Board, and declares an emergency.

HB 98 GAMBLING (Mottley) Requires legislative validation of a compact between the Governor and an Indian tribe authorizing gaming, or of a grant by the Governor of authority for an Indian tribe to place land in trust to be used for gamin and requires that such a compact contain an expiration date.

HB 99 TAX CREDITS (Mottley) Provides employers with a tax credit when they provide or offer a traditional fee-for-service plan or a preferred provides plan that permits an employee a choice of health care providers.

HB 100 TANF ACCOUNTS (Kasputis) Authorizes the establishment of individual development accounts for recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.

HB 101 BOAT DOCKING (Kasputis) Authorizes the owner of a private dock to order the towing of any vessel found moored, anchored or tied there without permission.

HB 102 COSMETOLOGY/BARBERING (Kasputis) Allows cosmetologists to practice cosmetology in barber shops and barbers to practice barbering in beauty salons.

HB 103 MENTALLY ILL PLEA (Mottl) Establishes the plea of guilty but mentally ill, authorizes a court of jury to find a defendant guilty but mentally ill under certain circumstances, to commit such a person to a mental health facility until no longer mentally ill and then to a correctional facility, changes the burden of proof in hearings on the continued commitment of a person who was found not guilty by reason of insanity and was committed and conforms a provision of Amended Substitute Senate Bill Two Hundred Sixty-nine of the 121st General Assembly to provisions of Amended Substitute Senate Bill One Hundred Sixty-six of the 121st General Assembly.

HB 104 INVENTORY TAXES (Hodges) Reduces the rate at which inventory property is assessed for taxation over a ten-year period, from 25% to 15% of true value.

HB 105 ACCIDENT REPORTS (Shoemaker) Permits sheriffs to charge a fee of three dollars for each copy of a motor vehicle accident report they furnish.

HB 106 SCHOOL OFFICIAL ASSAULT (Winkler) Makes assault a felony of the fourth degree when the victim is a member of the State Board of Education, a board of education or the governing body of an educational service center or a nonpublic schools, a school teacher, supervisor or administrator, a school employee, or a school bus operator and the assault occurs at a meeting of the board of education, on the business premises of a board of education, on school premises, in a school building, or, under certain circumstances, outside of school premises.

HB 107 TAX DEDUCTIONS (Tiberi) Authorizes the deduction from the personal income tax for charitable contributions.

HB 108 RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS (Tiberi) Removes the limitations on a person's right to hold the assets in, and the payments from, an individual retirement account or an individual retirement annuity exempt from execution, garnishment or attachment.

HB 109 COLLEGE ENROLLMENT (Fox) Permits students attending nonpublic nonchartered schools to enroll in college courses under the Post-Secondary Enrollment Options Program.

HB 110 CONDENSED BALLOT ISSUES (Fox) Permits a school board to propose to the electors, as one ballot question, a school district income tax and bond issue, or a property tax for the dual purposes of operating expenses and permanent improvements, including issuing bonds for permanent improvements and declares an emergency.

HB 111 ALCOHOL & DRUG TREATMENT (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 prisoners, delinquent children or juvenile traffic offenders in institutions under the jurisdiction of the appropriate department.

HB 112 PUBLIC NUDITY (Terwilleger) Prohibits a person using land or waters in this state owned, operated, regulated or administered by the Forest Services 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 113 BAKERY REGULATION (Terwilleger) Requires that a bakery that is an integrated portion of an establishment licensed as a food service operation be regulated only under the law governing food service operations, rather than being regulated concurrently under the law governing bakeries.

HB 114 RELATOR COMPENSATION (Terwilleger) Awards reasonable expenses to the relator when a writ of mandamus is issued.

HB 115 ANNEXATION (Terwilleger) Revises the laws governing municipal annexations and detachments.

HB 116 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 117 FAIR PROPERTY (Terwilleger) Authorizes the board of county commissions of a county in which there exists a county agricultural society to appropriate any amount the board considers necessary for the purchase of a site for holding fairs, the erection of buildings or other improvements on such a site or payments of rent or other forms of indebtedness of the agricultural society and removes the requirement that the question of a tax levy be submitted to qualified electors of a county in which the board appropriates more than fifty thousand dollars in one year for those purposes.

HB 118 OPLIN (Terwilleger) Amends Section 69 of Amended Substitute House Bill One Hundred Seventeen of the 121st General Assembly, as subsequently amended, to establish in statute the Ohio Public Library Information Network and a governing board of trustees to broaden the board's powers and duties, specifies what entities may participate in the network and abolishes the network and the board on Dec. 31, 1999 by repealing parts of section 3375 of the Revised Code on that date.

HB 119 DRIVER EDUCATION (Terwilleger) Raises the driver education course fee from fifty to seventy-five dollars and the state's contribution to driver education from fifty to seventy-five dollars per pupil.

HB 120 AGGRAVATED MURDER (Mottl) Includes in the offense of aggravated murder a prohibition against causing the death or the unlawful termination of another's pregnancy by means of a deadly weapon or dangerous ordnance.

HB 121 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 122 CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES (Myers) Prohibits the possession, transport, delivery, or distribution of a controlled substance for sale or resale.

HB 123 SUNSET REVIEW (Terwilleger) Creates the Sunrise and Sunset Review Committee, provides for the review of proposals for legislation creating an agency, and generally requires the endorsement of such proposals by the Sunrise and Sunset Review Committee prior to a floor vote on the legislation in the originating house.

HB 124 "SELL OHIO" (Krupinski). Requires the Director of Administrative Services to establish a "Sell Ohio" program to require certain state agencies and retail operators to stock specified levels of merchandise made in Ohio.

HB 125 STUDENT DISCIPLINE (Garcia) Requires school districts to expel for one year a student who assaults a school employee or another student or knowingly causes a school employee or another student to believe the student will cause serious physical harm to the employee or student 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 126 SUBDIVISION NEWSLETTERS (Schuck) Authorizes political subdivisions to use newsletters and other means to communicate information to the public within the political subdivision and to other persons affected by the political subdivision, subject to certain restrictions.

HB 127 TOWNSHIP ZONING (Bateman) Excludes from the definition of "agriculture" in the township zoning law the care and raising of dogs and cats for purposes other than breeding.

HB 128 TRADE PRACTICES (Reid) Makes the use of a name in the course of business that misrepresents the geographic location of a person a deceptive trade practice.

HB 129 CRIMINAL SENTENCING (Reid) Establishes the plea of guilty but mentally ill, authorizes a court or jury to find a defendant guilty but mentally ill under certain circumstances, commits such a person to a mental health facility until no longer mentally ill and then to a correctional facility, changes the burden of proof in hearings on the continued commitment of a person who was found not guilty by reason of insanity and was committed, and makes certain conforming changes.

HB 130 PAROLE GUIDELINES (Thomas) Permits a judge to object in writing to the Adult Parole Authority's recommendation of pardon or commutation or granting of parole to a prisoner convicted of an offense of violence and with respect to an offense committed prior to July 1, 1996 to deny shock parole to such a prisoner if the judge objects in writing to the shock parole.

HB 131 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION (Thomas) Effectively exempts persons qualifying for the homestead reduction from liability for future increases in school district property tax rates.

HB 132 MEDICAL TAX DEDUCTION (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 133 AIRPORT TERRITORY (Thomas) Authorizes the Administrator of the Office 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 the airports.

HB 134 HEALTH INSURANCE (Thomas) Makes it an unfair practice for any insurer to cancel or to refuse to issue or renew any individual life or health insurance policy or contract because the applicant or insured is a victim of domestic violence, prohibits insurers from taking other adverse actions based on an applicant's or insured's status as a victim of domestic violence and provides civil and criminal immunity to an insurer acting in compliance with this act.

HB 135 PRISONER HOUSING (Thomas) Requires the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to establish a program for the construction of semipermanent buildings for housing prisoners and permits a board of county commissioners and a sheriff to establish a similar program.

HB 136 GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS (Thomas) Requires high school students to perform community service in order to receive a diploma and eliminates certain requirements for school districts and the State Board of Education related to community service education and programs.

HB 137 WORKERS' COMPENSATION (Mottley) Permits public employers to become self-insuring employers for purposes of the Workers' Compensation Law, permits certain organizations with a membership consisting of public employers to qualify for self-insuring status, requires the Administrator of Workers' Compensation to adopt rules regarding claims administrators, decreases the number of votes necessary for the Self-Insuring Employers Evaluation Board to revoke an employer's self-insuring status, and requires the Administrator to provide for the payment of claims of a defaulting self-insuring employer within 30 days after the default.

HB 138 MOTOR FUEL TAX USE (Shoemaker) Eliminates payment of the expenses of administering and enforcing the state's motor vehicle laws as a purpose for which motor vehicle fuel taxes are levied.

HB 139 SPOUSAL SUPPORT (Shoemaker) Relatives to the termination or modification of spousal support provided in a separation agreement arising from a dissolution of marriage.

HB 140 RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT (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 or Representatives must have resided, for at least one year prior to the election by those members, in the district the person will represent.

HB 141 MOTOR VEHICLES (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 142 SOLID WASTE SITING (Metzger) Requires that the Director of Environmental Protection notify by certified mail certain landowners who property is within 1,500 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 either type of application has been submitted to the Director and to so notify those landowners of the date, time, and location of the public hearing on the application.

HB 143 VEHICLE REPAIR BOARD (Metzger) Requires the registration of motor vehicle collision repair operators and creates the Board of Motor Vehicle Repair Registration.

HB 144 LICENSE FEE EXEMPTION (Metzger) Exempts veterans who have a service-connected disability rated at 100% 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 145 SALES TAX EXEMPTION (Whalen) Exempts from the sales tax landscaping and lawn care services provided to persons who are 60 years or age or older or disabled.

HB 146 CORPSE ABUSE (Whalen) Provides an enhanced penalty for "tampering with evidence" if the offense involves a human corpse and creates the offense of "aggravated abuse of a corpse."

HB 147 FREE COLLEGE CREDIT (Whalen) Allows senior citizens to receive tuition-free college credit.

HB 148 PRISON PRIVATIZATION (Thomas) Allows the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction and a board of county commissioners to contract for the private operation and management of certain correctional facilities that house at least 200 inmates.

HB 149 IMPACTED CITIES (Thomas) Permits impacted cities to use payments in lieu of taxes arising from property developed under a tax increment financing ordinance to finance infrastructure at a remote location in the city.

HB 150 COMPETITIVE 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 estimate cost for bridge construction and maintenance, above which counties must follow competitive bidding procedures.

HB 151 CRIMINAL SENTENCING (Thomas) Expands the offense of aggravated robbery to specifically include disarming or attempting to disarm a law enforcement officer, increases the penalty for resisting arrest when the offender causes physical harm to a law enforcement officer or brandishes a deadly weapon, and expands the types of law enforcement officers within the scope of the "killing a peace officer" aggravating circumstance for capital offenses.

HB 152 SCHOOL SECURITY (Boyd) Allows a board of education of a school district or the governing board of an educational service center to employ school security personnel officers to maintain the safety and welfare of students and employees on school grounds or premises and to protect property.

HB 153 MUNICIPAL TAX WITHHOLDING (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 154 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, adds two dietetic technicians registering with the Commission on Dietetic Registration to the Ohio Board of Dietetics, extends the application of other laws relative to dietitians to dietetic technicians, and provides that the provisions of section 2305.234, as amended by this act, terminate on November 15, 1998, when section 2305.234 of the ORC is repealed on that date.

HB 155 INMATE ASSESSMENT (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 156 SCHOOL BUS SAFETY (Boyd) Requires all school buses to be equipped with a cross-view mirror system.

HB 157 SCHOOL CURRICULUM (Schuck) Requires one unit of study in economics for graduation from high school.

HB 158 BROKER LIEN RIGHTS (Schuler) Creates lien rights for real estate brokers on certain commercial property, provides for the perfection, enforcement, release or satisfaction, and extinguishment of liens, establishes lien priority, and permits the awarding of attorney's fees and costs to prevailing parties.

HB 159 INSURANCE BENEFITS (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 160 SAME-SEX MARRIAGE (Hottinger) Specifically declares that same-sex marriages are against the public policy of this state and makes other declarations about same-sex marriages.

HB 161 OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE (Hottinger) Expands the offense of obstructing justice to include aiding a child who commits a delinquent act.

HB 162 MUNICIPAL WATER 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 163 INCOME TAX CREDIT (Jacobson) Grants a refundable credit against the personal income tax to persons who adopt children.

HB 164 DISTANCE LEARNING (Fox) Authorizes the Office of Information, Learning, and Technology Services to provide funding to school districts for the acquisition, installation, and operation of interactive video distance learning equipment in certain schools and makes an appropriation.

HB 165 HAIR STYLING (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 166 ACUPUNCTURISTS (Whalen) Establishes licensing standards for acupuncturists, creates the State Board of Acupuncture, 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 their study to the courts.

HB 167 COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (Perz) Establishes a six-year pilot project in one county in order to test the effects on the state education system of permitting the operation of community schools and makes an appropriation.

HB 168 PREVAILING WAGE (Hood) Repeals the Prevailing Wage Law.

HB 169 CARJACKING (Whalen) Establishes the offense of carjacking.

HB 170 COMMERCIAL CODE (Womer Benjamin) Adopts the Revised Article 8 of the Uniform Commercial Code - Investment Securities.

HB 171 HIGHWAY PATROL ELIGIBILITY (Wise) Provides that a person who attains the age of 35 years while attending a training school for prospective state highway patrol troopers cannot be disqualified as over age.

HB 172 VEHICLE EMISSIONS (Johnson) Replaces the enhanced motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program with a biennial basic motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program in certain areas of the state; allows local governments in those areas to approve alternative strategies for complying with Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990; specifies that new motor vehicles are exempt for two years under a motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program regardless of a change of ownership; requires prosecution of, and impose other sanctions against, persons who falsify motor vehicle emissions tests; abolishes the Motor Vehicle Inspection and Maintenance Program Legislative Oversight Committee; requires the director of the Ohio EPA to develop procedures to prevent erroneous and fraudulent certification that a motor vehicle has passed a motor vehicle emissions test, request invalidation of certain air quality monitoring data, and evaluate the number and locations of ambient air quality monitors and the cost effectiveness of technology that remotely senses motor vehicle emissions; and authorizes the director of the Ohio EPA to conduct a pilot project to test the cost effectiveness of technology that remotely senses motor vehicle emissions.

HB 173 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 conduct periodic psychiatric examinations of a foster child who has been adjudicated a delinquent child for committing certain violent acts.

HB 174 CHILD SELLING (Beatty) Creates the felony offense of selling a child and designates a child who is the subject of the offense as a neglected child.

HB 175 SCHOOL CURRICULUM (Beatty) Requires every high school to include in the requirements for graduation from any curriculum one-half unit in economics emphasizing personal finance and consumer credit.

HB 176 OUTPATIENT PROCEDURES (Beatty) Prohibits health care corporations and health maintenance organizations from requiring that mastectomies be performed as outpatient procedures.

HB 177 PROPERTY TAX REDUCTION (Jones) Requires regular notification to homeowners of their right to the 2.5% reduction in property taxes and permits county auditors to grant the reduction presumptively to all owners of residential real property.

HB 178 SCHOOL GOVERNANCE (Brady) Places on the November 4, 1997 ballot in any city school district reporting average daily membership exceeding 70,000 the question of having the State Board of Education divide the district into five separate city school districts and provides for the division and the election of new boards of education if the electors approve the question.

HB 179 INCOME TAX INTEREST (Schuck) Changes the method of computing interest on Ohio income taxes found to have been underpaid as a result of an adjustment to the taxpayer's federal income tax return.

HB 180 MOTOR FUEL SALES (Netzley) Prohibits the sale at retail, on and after January 1, 1998, 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 181 EMISSION TESTING (Netzley) Repeals the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program.

HB 182 TELEPHONE HARASSMENT (Core) Enhances the penalties for telephone harassment, inducing panic, and making false alarms.

HB 183 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING (Fox) Requires the certificate of available resources required when a school district enters into a contract to cover the term of any collective bargaining agreement entered into by the district and makes all parties to a collective bargaining agreement liable for school district funds paid on such a contract if it is executed without such certification.

HB 184 CHARACTER EDUCATION (Fox) Establishes a program in the Department of Education for the provision of grants to certain schools for the creation and maintenance of character education programs and makes an appropriation.

HB 185 CHILD SUPPORT (Fox) Prevents a court from requiring a parent to pay support for a child for the period exceeding two years prior to the date of the filing of a paternity complaint, creates new penalties for contempt of domestic relations orders, requires notice to parties to domestic relations proceedings of their right to be present at all hearings, meetings, or discussions concerning their case, requires county child support enforcement agencies to create lists of obligors in default under child support orders for possible publication, requires courts to take certain actions in divorce, dissolution of marriage, and legal separation proceedings involving a child when a spouse conceals assets, requires child support enforcement agencies to report obligors in default to consumer reporting agencies, and excludes certain social security benefits from consideration in calculating child support obligations.

HB 186 HOME RULE SCHOOLS (Fox) Authorizes a city, exempted village, or local school district to become a home rule school district and operate in a certain deregulated manner.

HB 187 PAIN CONTROL (Thomas) Regarding the authority of physicians to prescribe, dispense, and administer controlled substances for management of intractable pain.

HB 188 TUITION REIMBURSEMENT (Britton) Establishes a state employee tuition reimbursement program.

HB 189 SEX EDUCATION (Roman) Requires public school venereal disease education to emphasize abstinence from sexual activity.

HB 190 EMISSION TESTING (Young) Repeals the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program.

HB 191 RETAIL SECURITY (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 192 EMERGENCY SERVICES (Carey) Creates the Small Government Fire Department Services Revolving Loan Program to help certain municipal corporations and townships meet specified fire fighting and emergency medical needs and makes an appropriation.

HB 193 PHYSICIAN PRACTICES (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 State Medical Board.

HB 194 PFDPF BENEFITS (Vesper) Institutes certain monetary and qualification adjustments for pensions, cost-of-living allowances, and death benefits for the survivors of certain Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund retirees.

HB 195 LICENSE PLATES (Krebs) Authorizes the issuance of an Ohio Court-Appointed Special Advocate/Guardian Ad Litem license plate and creates a fund for this purpose.

HB 196 SANDUSKY BAY (Opfer) Defines the natural shoreline of Lake Erie insofar as Sandusky Bay is a part of it and maintains the provisions of act on and after March 4, 1998, by amending the version of Sec. 1506.11 of the Revised Code that takes effect on that date.

HB 197 JOINT POLICE DISTRICTS (Opfer) Authorizes townships and municipal corporations to create joint police districts and provides for the distribution of traffic and parking fine moneys collected in such joint police districts.

HB 198 VETERANS CHILDREN'S HOME (Netzley) Authorizes the conveyance by sale or auction of state-owned land in Greene County known as the Ohio Veterans' Children's Home and repeals Sec. 139 of Am. Sub. HBOne Hundred Seventeen of the 121st General Assembly, which created Fund 4Z0, the Veterans' Plaza Fund, and requires that the net proceeds of the sale of the home be used to pay any unpaid debt of Central State University.

HB 199 GRANT HIGHWAY (Vesper) Designates a portion of US Route 52 as the "U.S. Grant Memorial Highway," and declares an emergency.

HB 200 HOMESTEAD TAXES (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 201 SAVINGS & LOANS (Batchelder) Relative to interstate branching by and interstate acquisitions of savings and loan associations and savings banks and interstate branching by banks.

HB 202 STATE 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 203 FISHING/HUNTING 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; makes changes to facilitate implementation of a new point-of-sale system for the issuance of hunting and fishing licenses, wetlands habitat stamps, deer or wild turkey permits and fur taker permits, including authorizing certain provisions governing the licenses, stamps and permits to be changed by rule; increases the fee for reissuance of a lost, destroyed, or stolen hunting or fishing license, deer or wild turkey permit, or fur taker permit; allows license agents, in addition to clerks of courts of common pleas, to reissue such licenses and permits if the chief authorizes it; eliminates the requirement that a hunter or trapper wear a tag on the back of the hunter's or trapper's outer garment; and prohibits the taking of mussels or the sale of mussels taken in state.

HB 204 GOVERNMENT PURCHASES (Wachtmann) Allows certain political subdivisions to purchase supplies and services outside of a Department of Administrative Services purchase contract and without complying with competitive selection procedures if the purchase can be made at a lower price than is available through such a contract.

HB 205 INTERPRETER CERTIFICATION (Mason) Requires generally that interpreters and transliterators for deaf persons hold national certification.

HB 206 RECORDER FEES (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 instrument nonconforming.

HB 207 DANGEROUS PRIZES (Ford) Prohibits the awarding of dangerous prizes to minors.

HB 208 HIGHWAY NAME (Opfer) Names the portion of I-280 running between Oregon and Toledo as the "Catholic War Veterans of the USA Highway."

HB 209 SHOOTING RANGES (Roman) Provides limited immunity from civil and criminal liability to persons who operate or use shooting ranges.

HB 210 TRANSPORTATION BUDGET (Core) Makes appropriations and reappropriations for highways for the 1997-1999 biennium; provides authorizations and conditions for the operation programs related to transportation and public safety; eliminates the ethanol credit allowed against the motor fuel tax; eliminates the program to reimburse hospitals for indigent care using motor fuel tax money; eliminates the authority of the Registrar of Motor Vehicles to suspend the driver's license of a person who fails to submit a motor vehicle accident report; raises the competitive bidding threshold for purchases by a regional airport authority or conservancy district; and requires the Department of Commerce have two assistant directors.

HB 211 SCHOOL FORMULA (Logan) Provides that the value of certain tangible personal property is not included in the charge-off formula for state aid to public schools.

HB 212 MEDICAL SAVINGS ACCOUNTS (Netzley) Gives state employees the option of choosing medical savings accounts for their health care coverage.

HB 213 COMPUTER PROFICIENCY (Netzley) Requires the director of Administrative Services to adopt rules requiring employee computer proficiency; excludes such requirements as subjects for collective bargaining under the Public Employees' Collective Bargaining Law; creates 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 214 EDUCATION BOARD MEETINGS (Netzley) Requires the State Board of Education to hold meetings in a certain manner; prohibits the State 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 215 BIENNIAL BUDGET (Johnson) Makes operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 1997 and ending June 30, 1999 and provides authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.

HB 216 REBUTTABLE PRESUMPTION (Cates) Provides a rebuttable presumption that the proximate cause of an injury of an employee, who, through a blood, breath or urine test, tests positive for the use of alcohol or a controlled substance not prescribed by a physician, is the alcohol or controlled substance.

HB 217 HIGHWAY USE TAX (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 218 PATERNITY (Reid) Provides for use of an administrative paternity determination to change the father's name on a birth record.

HB 219 NARCOTICS DOGS (Reid) Authorizes the issuance without a fee or annual registration for narcotics detector canines of specified law enforcement agencies.

HB 220 ELECTRIC COMPETITION (Amstutz) Establishes a state policy promoting competition and customer choice in the supply of electricity within the 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 choices; removes from regulation by the commission, as of January 1, 1998, all electric services except the distribution of an electric utility; requires such distribution services, as of January 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 221 UNFUNDED MANDATES (Buchy) Exempts a political subdivision and certain courts from fulfilling a requirement imposed by the state if the requirement would result in expenditures by the political subdivision or court and state funds have not been appropriated to pay or reimburse the political subdivision or court for any cost of fulfilling the requirement.

HB 222 WORKER COMP REFORM (Thompson) Makes various changes in the structure, payment and determination of benefits; reduces the number of weeks an employee can receive nonworking wage loss; permits an employer to have an employee excepted from the Workers' Compensation Law for religious reasons; changes the duration of the continuing jurisdiction of the Industrial Commission to three years; requires hearing officers to report suspected fraudulent activity; limits recovery for aggravation of a preexisting condition; changes the definition of occupational disease; permits certain nonattorneys to represent parties in hearings before the Industrial commission; creates the presumption concerning alcohol or a controlled substance as the cause of an employee's injury; excepts buildings and land used for agricultural production from safety rules that apply to workshops and factories; provides criminal penalties for employers who intentionally misclassify their employees for workers' compensation purposes; prohibits kickbacks from health care providers under the Workers' Compensation Law; prohibits health care providers from receiving payments for false claims under the Workers' Compensation law; provides that records kept by the Division of Safety and Hygiene are confidential; specifies that records produced by an attorney in connection with a workers' compensation claim are the property of the claimant; and makes other changes in the Workers' Compensation Law.

HB 223 CHILD SAFETY (Beatty) Requires child day-care centers to establish programs to ensure the security of children.

HB 224 VANITY LICENSE PLATES (Perz) Makes changes in certain special license plate programs.

HB 225 UNION DUES (Jacobson) Limits nonunion public employees' fair share fees to twenty five percent of the dues paid by public employees who are union members, unless the union can prove that the cost of bargaining for the agreement exceeds the amount that would be collected under such a limitation.

HB 226 SCHOOL GOVERNANCE (Whalen) Places on the ballot of a municipal school district the question of having its board of education remain organized as it currently is, reorganizing it as a nine-member board appointed by a mayor, or reorganizing it in accordance with a petition submitted by electors and provides for the mayoral appointed board if the electors choose that option.

HB 227 MANAGED CARE (Tavares) Adopts the Managed Care Consumer Protection Act.

HB 228 PUBLIC TRANSIT (Corbin) Authorizes regional transit authorities to use the lease and leaseback financing technique to finance their facilities, removes from the Regional Transit Authority Law a reference to an obsolete provision of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 and declares an emergency.

HB 229 LIBRARY TAXES (Coughlin) Provides that when a voter-approved library tax is levied for a specific permanent improvement or class of improvements the period for which notes may be issued in anticipation of the revenue be increased from five to ten years.

HB 230 E-CHECK (Reid) Establishes a procedure for local officials in areas that meet attainment standards under the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 to evaluate participation in enhanced motor vehicle inspection and maintenance testing, specifies that new motor vehicles are exempt for two years under the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program regardless of a change in ownership, abolishes the Motor Vehicle Inspection and Maintenance Legislative Oversight Committee, requires the director of Environmental Protection to request invalidation of certain air quality monitoring data and repeals sections 3704.143 and 3704.144 three hundred days after the effective dates of this act.

HB 231 SCHOOL PROGRAMS (Prentiss) Establishes in certain school districts a Third Grade Guarantee Program, including the provision of all-day kindergarten, reduced classroom teacher-pupil ratios, parent and teacher training programs and family resource centers and makes an appropriation.

HB 232 SCHOOL BREAKFASTS (Prentiss) Phases in a mandatory school breakfast program in schools where at least one-fifth of the students are entitled to free or reduced price meals under federal law and makes an appropriation.

HB 233 MINORITY TEACHERS (Prentiss) Promotes recruitment of minority teachers by providing grants to college students who agree to teach in public schools after graduation, requires school districts with Individual Career Plan and Passport programs to identify minority students interested in teaching, continues the W.E.B. DuBois Talented Tenth Teacher Training Academy, establishes a minority teacher recruitment coordinator position at the Department of Education and makes an appropriation.

HB 234 AFTER-HOURS PROGRAMS (Prentiss) Establishes Peaceful School Grants for certain school districts and provides assistance to certain school districts to keep schools open after regular hours, establishes grants for after school youth programs operated jointly by certain school districts and public or private nonprofit social agencies and makes an appropriation.

HB 235 AFTER-SCHOOL GRANTS (Prentiss) Establishes Peaceful School Grants for certain schools and provides assistance to certain school districts to keep schools open after regular hours and makes an appropriation.

HB 236 AFTER-SCHOOL GRANTS (Prentiss) Establishes grants for after school youth programs operated jointly by certain school districts and public or private nonprofit social service agencies and makes an appropriation.

HB 237 REMEDIATION CLASSES (Prentiss) Permits school districts to establish "high academic standards with a helping hand" by authorizing grants to school districts for fourth and sixth grade summer school remediation and permits school districts to retain fourth, sixth and eighth grade students for an additional year if the fail three out of the five proficiency tests given in those grades and fail to attend summer school remediation and makes an appropriation.

HB 238 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (Coughlin) Specifies additional circumstances in which the offense of domestic violence is a felony of the fifth degree.

HB 239 SURVIVOR BENEFITS (Tavares) Provides for payment under certain circumstances of survivor benefits to children of a deceased member of the Public Employment Retirement System who was the obligor under a child support order.

HB 240 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION (Miller) Indexes the homestead exemption income eligibility limits to increase in consumer price inflation.

HB 241 EQUINE ACTIVITY (Grendell) Relative to civil and criminal remedies pertaining to fraudulent conduct by a purchaser or donee of a horse when the purchase or donee enters into a specified type of transfer agreement and when the conduct results under specified circumstances in the subsequent slaughter of the horses.

HB 242 NON-PROFIT ASSETS (Van Vyven) Requires that the Attorney General review transfers of assets by certain nonprofit health care entities to for-profit entities and declares an emergency.

HB 243 SIGNATURE CODES (Van Vyven) Establishes standards for using electronic signatures and computer-generated signature codes in records of health care facilities.

HB 244 OPERATION FEES (Van Vyven) Requires that the county auditor place on the general tax list and duplicate as a lien on real property any unpaid operation permit or inspection fee for a household sewage disposal system.

HB 245 RECLAIMED LAND (Carey) Requires that a description of land reclaimed from a strip mine or underground coal mine be recorded in the county recorder's office before the release of a performance bond or deposit covering that land, and requires that in a conveyance of reclaimed land, the deed state that the land is reclaimed.

HB 246 CAR STEREOS (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 247 FIRE COMPANIES (Maier) Allows private fire companies to participate in the cooperative purchasing and salvage supply programs operated by the Department of Administrative Services and grants such companies the immunity from tort liability granted to political subdivisions.

HB 248 INSURANCE FRAUD (Reid) Requires insurers to adopt an antifraud program that includes written procedures for pursuing insurance fraud, requires insurers to report persons suspected of insurance fraud to the Department of Insurance, requires insurers to provide the Department with a list of those employees who will investigate insurance fraud, while limiting the immunity relating to the exchange of information on fraud to these employees; and requires the persons convicted of a felony while licensed as agents or solicitors to report the conviction to the Department.

HB 249 DPIA (Jacobson) Makes receipt of the full amount of DPIA funds contingent upon a school district's students meeting or making progress toward meeting certain performance levels.

HB 250 CHURCH FIRES (Beatty) Specifies a mandatory prison term for an offender convicted of aggravated arson or arson involving a church.

HB 251 E-CHECK (Wise) Establishes a moratorium on any motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program in this state until there is final determination by a court that the Clean Air Act does not violate the provisions and principles of the U.S. Constitution.

HB 252 HMO PROVIDERS (Beatty) Imposes limitations on altering health maintenance organization provider panels and drug formularies during an enrollee's current period of coverage.

HB 253 TAX FORECLOSURE (Beatty) Hastens the commencement of tax foreclosure actions against delinquent real property.

HB 254 GRANDPARENT VISITATION (Garcia) Authorizes grandparent visitation after a stepparent adoption if the visitation is in the best interests of the grandchild.

HB 255 PRISONER EDUCATION (Beatty) Requires, as a condition of judicial release in relation to a prison term of at least five years and as a condition of parole eligibility, that a prisoner who did not have a high school degree or Ohio certificate of high school equivalence at the commencement of imprisonment obtain such a certificate during imprisonment.

HB 256 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 Financial Institutions 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 257 WELFARE BENEFITS (Beatty) Denies Temporary Assistance to Needy Families and Disability Assistance to assistance groups unless members of the groups 18 years of age or older, who are eligible to register to vote, register to vote.

HB 258 MANAGED CARE (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 need to complete a claim.

HB 259 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 260 ETHNIC INTIMIDATION (Beatty) Broadens the scope of the offense of ethnic intimidation, designates ethnic intimidation by an organization as the offense of "domestic terrorism," and enhances the penalty for an offense if the offender purposely selects the person or property that is the subject of the offense because of a person's race, color, religion, gender, disability, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry.

HB 261 VEHICLE INSURANCE (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 262 PILOT SCHOOLS (Haines) Creates a pilot project 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 263 LICENSE PLATE DISPLAY (Hood) Requires that motor vehicles carry only one license plate to be displayed on the rear of the vehicle.

HB 264 TOWNSHIP ROAD SIGNS (Stapleton) Permits the board of township trustees of any township, irrespective of the population or any other characteristic of the township, to request the Department of Transportation to erect signs on state highways located within the township indicating the boundaries of that township.

HB 265 HEALTH INSURANCE (VanVyven) Provides for the establishment, operation, and regulation of health insuring corporations; repeals the laws governing prepaid dental plan organizations, medical care corporations, health care corporations, dental care corporations, and health maintenance organizations; eliminates certain provisions of this act on and after February 9, 2004, by repeal section 1751.64 of the Revised Code on that date.

HB 266 PATIENT PROTECTION ACT (Fox) Enacts the Patient Protection Act for the purpose of ensuring the beneficiary of a health care plan the right to choose the provider of the beneficiary's choice.

HB 267 ECONOMIC IMPACT (Mottley) Requires the Legislative Budget Office of the Legislative Service Commission to include in its fiscal analysis of a bill, and each of certain agencies to include in its fiscal analysis of a proposed rule, information explaining the economic impact of the bill or rule on Ohio businesses.

HB 268 SOLID WASTE DISTRICTS (Carey) Permits the appointment of environmental enforcement officers in solid waste management districts.

HB 269 SCHOOL GOVERNANCE (Wise) Authorizes the mayor of a municipal corporation to appoint a nine-member school board in a municipal school district operating under a federal court order and permits the voters to decide four or more years later whether or not to continue that method of selecting school board members or to return to an elected board, and makes an appropriation.

HB 270 TUITION GRANTS (Jordan) Provides college tuition grants to students who earn a high school diploma in fewer than eight semesters.

HB 271 ANATOMICAL GIFTS (Schuck) Specifies that a declaration of an anatomical gift takes precedence over contrary wishes of the donor's family; provides that a hospital need not request the approval of a donor's family if an anatomical gift is provided for in such a declaration; requires the Department of Health and certain other state agencies to encourage the donation of anatomical gifts; authorizes the recording of declarations of anatomical gifts with the county recorder and authorizes county recorders to charge a fee for recording these declarations; requires the Department of Public Safety to adopt rules requiring law enforcement officers and emergency medical service providers to determine, when they encounter a fatality, whether the decedent has completed a declaration of an anatomical gift and to grant immunity from civil liability to them in performing this duty; and makes other changes in the Anatomical Gift Law.

HB 272 EMPLOYEE RESIDENCE (Tiberi) Prohibits a subdivision from requiring its employees to reside in an specific area of this state.

HB 273 LOTTERY PROFITS (Gerberry) Requires the Director of Budget and Management to estimate by July 15, 1997 the total amount of lottery profits for fiscal year 1998 and requires that, beginning in that fiscal year, lottery profits in excess of that estimated amount be distributed on a per-pupil basis to city, local and exempted village school districts, educational service centers, county boards of mental retardation and developmental disabilities and chartered nonpublic schools.

HB 274 BUILDING STANDARDS (Garcia) Makes various changes in the Board of Building Standards Law.

HB 275 FIREARMS (Haines) Specifies that the offense of improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle is not committed when, under specified circumstances, the alleged offender discharges a firearm from, or transports or possesses a firearm in, a motor vehicle on real property owned by the alleged offender or a family member.

HB 276 AGENCY OVERSIGHT (Haines) Establishes the Joint Committee on State Agency Oversight to study state agencies' implementation of newly-enacted laws.

HB 277 ELECTION LAW (Haines) Prohibits a person from running as an independent candidate for an office for which candidates may be nominated at a primary election if that person voted as a member of a political party at any primary election within the current calendar year or the immediately preceding two calendar years.

HB 278 CHILD ABUSE (Haines) Requires that a board of education adopt a policy specifying that school employees who are acting in their official capacities must report the knowledge or suspicion of child abuse and to allow a policy to include a requirement that such school employees consult with one or more administrators prior to filing a report of child abuse.

HB 279 RETIREMENT SYSTEMS (Thompson) Exempts qualified domestic relations orders from the state retirement systems' prohibition against benefit assignment through execution, garnishment or other processes of law.

HB 280 ZONING (Schuler) Permits the establishment of planned-unit developments in county and township zoning codes under which property owners may elect to have either the planned-unit development regulations or regular underlying zoning regulations apply to their property.

HB 281 TAX INDEXING (Schuck) Indexes personal income tax rate brackets, credits and exemptions to increases in consumer price inflation beginning January 1, 1999.

HB 282 FARM MACHINERY (Hodges) Permits farm machinery and vehicles escorting farm machinery to display simultaneously flashing turn signals or warning lights when being operated on a street or highway.

HB 283 DISTRICT SEPARATION (Bender) Permits electors of a school district to establish a task force to reorganize the district into two or more new school districts.

HB 284 TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES (Schuck) Allows a township to change the number of members of the board of township trustees from three to five, to appoint, rather than elect, the township clerk and to reverse any such action to reverse any such changes that it makes.

HB 285 CHILD ABUSE HOMICIDE (Salerno) Creates the offense of homicide by child abuse.

HB 286 CHILD CARE PERSONNEL (Salerno) Increases the penalties for assaulting or menacing personnel of public children services agencies and private child placing agencies, declares their residential addresses to be confidential information that is not subject to disclosure by specified persons or obtainable as a part of public record and provides for court orders protecting the personnel while they are engaged or anticipate engaging in the scope of their official responsibilities or duties.

HB 287 DEATH REVIEWS (Salerno) Requires the board of county commissioners of each county to appoint a health commissioner of each county to appoint a health commissioner to establish a review group for the purpose of reviewing deaths of persons under age eighteen.

HB 288 DRUG OFFENSES (Salerno) Authorizes the parent or guardian of a child to bring a civil action against a person who illegally supplied a controlled substance to the child.

HB 289 CHILD ABUSE TRAINING (Salerno) Requires certain professionals mandated to report child abuse and neglect to have training in the recognition of child abuse and neglect.

HB 290 DISTRICT REORGANIZATION (Prentiss) Places on the ballot of a school district operating under a federal court order the question of reorganizing its board of education to consist of five members elected from subdistricts, three members appointed by a mayor, city legislative authority and board of county commissioners, respectively, one member appointed by parent organizations, and one nonvoting student member and provides for the reorganization if a majority of the electors vote in the affirmative.

HB 291 INCOME TAX CREDIT (Gardner) Grants a credit against the personal income tax for cash contributions to primary and secondary schools.

HB 292 FIREWORKS SALES (Bender) Prohibits the sale of fireworks to any person other than a licensed manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer or exhibitor of fireworks.

HB 293 CHILD DETENTION (Gerberry) Amends the definition of "detention" to expressly include the confinement in any public or private facility or alleged or convicted offenders or alleged or adjudicated delinquent or unruly children who violate or allegedly violate a law of the state, another state or the United States.

HB 294 PROPERTY TAKING (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 requiring compensation under the Ohio Constitution and the United States Constitution and requires the preparation of written assessments of such governmental actions.

HB 295 VETERANS' PROGRAM (Sulzer) Requires the Adjutant General to establish the Silver Veteran Card Program.

HB 296 DRIVER'S LICENSES (Stapleton) Establishes a three-tier system of probationary drivers' licenses with separate conditions and suspension penalties applicable to each tier and requires the Registrar of Motor Vehicles to develop an advanced driving examination.

HB 297 BUILDING TRADEMARKS (Callender) Prohibits any owner of a public building from claiming the protection of trademark for its shape, design, image or structure.

HB 298 STATE SOIL (Buchy) Designates the Miamian Soil as the official state soil.

HB 299 JUROR COMPENSATION (Beatty) Increases the compensation of jurors.

HB 300 TAX DEDUCTION (Logan) Creates a state income tax deduction of up to $750 for amounts paid by a fire fighter or auxiliary police officer for training programs, clothing, and equipment used primarily for fire fighting or law enforcement purposes.

HB 301 HEALTH CARE CONVERSION (Netzley) Provides for the process of conversion of a nonprofit health care entity to a health care entity operated for profit or for its sale to any entity operated for profit and for the distribution of its assets at the time of the conversion or sale.

HB 302 STALKING (Myers) Authorizes the issuance of a civil protection order to protect a person who has been a victim of menacing by stalking.

HB 303 LEGAL PRACTICE (Womer Benjamin) Increases the criminal penalties for engaging in the unauthorized practice of law.

HB 304 TOWNSHIP ROADS (Clancy) Allows township trustees to adopt a resolution to provide snow removal from undedicated roads and requires the agree of township trustees as a condition of acceptance by county commissioners or the county engineer of a street that will be a township road.

HB 305 SPEED LIMITS (Hood) Increases from 55 to 65 mph the speed at which motor vehicles weighing more than 8,000 pounds when empty and noncommercial buses are permitted to travel of certain freeways in this state.

HB 306 CRIME VICTIM COMPENSATION (Jones) Permits limited awards from the Reparations Fund to victims of crime that occurred between January 1, 1973, and September 29, 1976.

HB 307 SCHOOL BOARDS (Jones) Places on the ballot of a school district operating under a federal court order the question of reorganizing its board of education to consist of three members elected at-large, four members elected from subdistricts, and six members appointed by the mayor or presiding municipal court judge of a municipal corporation, and provides for the reorganization and specifies certain duties and powers of the board if a majority of the electors vote in the affirmative on the question.

HB 308 ADOPTION (Pringle) Eliminates the right of a natural father of a child to deny consent to, and to receive notice of a proceeding for, adoption of his child, prohibits a court from granting a natural father of a child custody of or visitation or other rights with respect to the child, and prohibits a court from granting the natural father's relatives companionship or visitation rights if the child was conceived as a result of a sex offense of which the natural father was convicted.

HB 309 SCHOOL LAND TRANSFERS (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 310 ENERGY CREDITS (Miller) Provides for an increase, beginning January 1, 1998, in the income standards used to determine eligibility for the Ohio Energy Credit Program, which under this act is keyed to an increased maximum total income cap of $10,000, and provides for subsequent annual adjustments to the income standards to reflect any increase in the Consumer Price Index plus, but only in the initial ten-year period, two percent.

HB 311 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 312 TRADE-IN DEDUCTION (Healy) Permits a trade-in allowance to be deducted from the total sales price of a used motor vehicle purchase for the purpose of computing sales and use taxes.

HB 313 FUEL TAX EXEMPTION (Healy) Exempts from the motor vehicle fuel tax sales of motor vehicle fuel sold for use in school buses.

HB 314 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 315 AUTOMATED TELLERS (Healy) Requires the installation of 9-1-1 emergency alarms on or near automated teller machines operating within the territory of an enhanced 9-1-1 system.

HB 316 TEACHING HOSPITALS (Britton) Provides for the creation of public teaching hospital authorities and declares an emergency.

HB 317 SCHOOL INDEBTEDNESS (Lawrence) Permits a school district to increase its unvoted indebtedness if the funds are used for one or more energy conservation measures where the capital costs of such improvements are likely to be equaled by savings in the operational costs of energy during an average period of 15 years or less, instead of during a 10-year period; permits school districts to purchase energy conservation measures on a 15-year installment plan instead of a 10-year installment plan.

HB 318 FIREFIGHTER TRAINING (Kasputis) Requires applicants to chartered firefighter training programs and the Ohio fire academy to satisfactorily complete a criminal records check before being permitted to receive a certificate of satisfactory completion of the chartered firefighter training program or to graduate from the Ohio fire academy and to require specified other persons to satisfactorily complete a criminal records check before being issued a certificate from the executive director of the State Board of Emergency Medical Services authorizing the person to be employed as a firefighter.

HB 319 MUNICIPAL CLERKS (Kasputis) Makes each elected municipal clerk responsible for the management, maintenance, operation and modernization of the computer systems of the clerk's office.

HB 320 HUNTING PROHIBITION (Kasputis) Authorizes a township in a county that has a population of 1,300,000 or more people to prohibit hunting.

HB 321 DRINKING WATER (Householder) Authorizes the director of Environmental Protection to develop and implement a drinking water assistance loan program consistent with the federal Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996 and to receive and distribute federal capitalization grant moneys for the purpose of that program and makes other changes in the state's safety drinking water program in accordance with that act.

HB 322 FIDDLING CHAMPIONSHIP (Householder) Recognizes "The Nelsonville Parade of the Hills Festival's Old Time Fiddlers Competition" as the State Fiddling Championship and recognizes the winner of the annual competition as the State Champion Fiddler for that year.

HB 323 INCOME TAX EXEMPTION (Jordan) Indexes the personal income tax exemption to increases in consumer price inflation.

HB 324 INCOME TAX CREDIT (Jordan) Grants a personal income tax credit of $100 for each of a taxpayer's dependents.

HB 325 INCOME TAX CREDIT (Jordan) Grants a refundable personal income tax credit for contributions to charitable organizations for the purpose of alleviating or preventing poverty.

HB 326 INCOME TAX CREDIT (Jordan) Grants a credit against the personal income tax for tuition expenses.

HB 327 INCOME TAX DEDUCTION (Stapleton) Authorizes a personal income tax deduction of 25 percent of the amount paid to postsecondary institutions for college tuition.

HB 328 PARKING PERMITS (Mottl) Requires that whenever special parking locations are provided for persons with handicaps and those with disabilities that limit or impair the ability to walk, an equal number of special parking locations be designated for use by pregnant women.

HB 329 BRADY ACT (Young) Prohibits any public official to charge a fee or tax under Public Law 103-159 (the Brady Act) for any action taken to implement that Act and prohibits persons in possession of any information about any individual obtained under that Act to communicate it to any person not entitled to receive it or fail to destroy such information as required by this law.

HB 330 OIL & GAS WELLS (Gerberry) Authorizes 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 and gas well within 500 feet of a single- or multi-family dwelling.

HB 331 RACIAL EQUITY (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.

HB 332 PRISONER HIRING (Tavares) Establishes two pilot programs to provide incentives to hire persons who have served a prison term in a state correctional institution or 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 effective Jan. 1, 2003.

HB 333 OFFENDER 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 334 COCAINE (Patton) Eliminates the distinction between powdered cocaine and crack cocaine in the Drug Abuse Law.

HB 335 SUPPORT SERVICES (Britton) Requires the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction and Department of Youth Services to establish a program for family members or other volunteers to provide support service to prisoners in a state correctional institution, certain released prisoners, delinquent children in the custody of DYS and certain released delinquent children.

HB 336 ANTICIPATION NOTES (O'Brien) Permits taxing authorities to issue property tax anticipation notes at any time during the life of the tax levy, permits townships to levy a property tax for the purpose of building or maintaining walkways and similar improvements or for that purpose and for general street repair and modifies the statement of purpose for property taxes levied for "greenspace."

HB 337 INCOME TAXES (Miller) Indexes personal income tax rate brackets and other income-dependent quantities to increases in consumer price inflation and requires an annual adjustment of the income tax withholding tables.

HB 338 UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE (Callender) Adopts Revised Article V - Letters of Credit of the Uniform Commercial Code.

HB 339 STRS (Vesper) Increases benefits under the State Teachers Retirement System.

HB 340 PUBLIC RECORDS (Callender) Generally excludes specified peace officer residential and familial information kept by a peace officer's employer from the requirements of the Public Records Law.

HB 341 SOLICITATIONS (Gerberry) Permits townships to regulate the time, place, and manner of door-to-door solicitations.

HB 342 POLICE PROTECTION (Householder) Expands the authority of a county sheriff to provide aid to other specified political subdivisions and expands a township's authority to obtain additional police protection by contract.

HB 343 WAR ORPHANS (Padgett) Makes corrective and other changes in the War Orphans Law.

HB 344 WORK SCHEDULES (Coughlin) Affords to private sector employers the option to offer and to employees the option to accrue and use compensatory time off and affords to both public and private employees and employers the option to institute biweekly work schedule programs.

HB 345 EMINENT DOMAIN (Taylor) Requires agencies to pay in just amounts determined by a court the attorney's fees, witness fees, and other actual expenses that a property owner incurs in eminent domain proceedings if the compensation and damages that the jury assesses for the affected property exceed the agency's highest offer for the property by 10 per cent or more.

HB 346 CURFEWS (Ford) Establishes curfews for persons under 18 years of age, provides that a child who violates a curfew is an unruly child, and establishes related prohibitions and criminal penalties.

HB 347 AUTO TELLER FEES (Mottl) Requires financial institutions to charge customers reasonable transaction fees for transactions conducted on an automated teller machines and requires the Superintendent of Financial Institutions to adopt rules to administer the act.

HB 348 STATE EMPLOYMENT (Schuck) Makes conviction of certain felonies a separate basis for disciplining a classified employee, prohibits appeals to the State Personnel Board of Review or a local civil service commission if the subject of the appeal is a classified employee's discipline for conviction of certain felonies, deprives a person convicted of certain felonies of tenure rights to state employment, specifies the date when a disciplinary order is served upon a classified employee and requires a juror to sign a statement affirming that the juror has not been convicted of a felony.

HB 349 TAX RETURNS (Olman) Permits a taxpayer to file a simplified return if all of the taxpayer's tangible personal property is exempt.

HB 350 PROPERTY TAXES (Stapleton) Requires that the person charged with taxes on a real property parcel receive a duplicate tax bill of the first-half taxes when the taxes are paid by a financial institution by agreement with the county treasurer.

HB 351 TAXICABS (Stapleton) Requires that the owner of a taxicab maintain a specified number of child restraint systems and make the systems available upon request.

HB 352 CHILD SUPPORT (Winkler) Makes changes in the laws governing child support.

HB 353 JUDICIAL ELECTIONS (Stapleton) Prohibits a member of the Supreme Court from seeking or holding any elective office, other than a judicial office, for one year after ceasing to be a member of the court.

HB 354 MEDICAL RESUSCITATION (Terwilleger) Relative to "do not resuscitate" identifications, orders and protocols.

HB 355 VOYEURISM (Jerse) Modifies the elements of and penalty for the offense of voyeurism.

HB 356 FIREFIGHTER PLATES (Sykes) Creates a special professional firefighter license plate.

HB 357 DEFERRED COMP (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 358 SCHOOL FOUNDATION COUNCIL (Olman) Creates the School Foundation Review Council, terminates the provisions of this act on Dec. 31, 2000 and makes an appropriation.

HB 359 LOTTERY PROFITS (Weston) Requires lottery profits to be distributed to school districts under an equitable formula established by the State Board of Education.

HB 360 SCHOOL FEES (Olman) Permits school districts to submit to electors the question of establishing an annual, per student fee of up to $500.

HB 361 PHYSICIAN-HEALTH PLAN PARTNERSHIP (Van Vyven) Adopts the Physician-Health Plan Partnership Act.

HB 362 INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION (Thompson) Designates the chairperson of the Industrial Commission as the chief executive officer of the commission, specifies the authority of the chairperson, limits the authority of the members of the commission to rulemaking, appeals, reconsiderations and other adjudicatory powers, removes the requirement that the commission appoint district and staff hearing officers, requires the governor to appoint the chairperson and makes appropriations for the Industrial Commission for the biennium beginning July 1, 1997 and ending June 30, 1999.

HB 363 BWC BUDGET (Thompson) Makes appropriations for the Bureau of Workers' Compensation for the biennium beginning July 1, 1997 and ending June 30, 1999 and provides authorization and conditions for the operation of the Bureau of Workers' Compensation programs.

HB 364 PRIMARY ELECTION (Tavares) Changes the date for holding a primary election other than a presidential primary election from the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in September.

HB 365 ESTATES (Mottl) Increases to $50,000 the maximum value of a decedent's estate that can be relieved from administration if the surviving spouse is not entitled to inherit all assets of the estate.

HB 366 ESTATES (Mottl) Increases to $100,000 the maximum value of a decedent's estate that can be relieved from administration if the surviving spouse is entitled to inherit all assets of the estate under testate or intestate circumstances.

HB 367 SCHOOL ATTENDANCE (Hartley) Increases the penalty that may be imposed upon a parent, guardian, or other person having care of a child of compulsory school age who fails to cause the child to attend school.

HB 368 YARD WASTE (Mottley) Specifies that property taxes levied for the purpose of collecting and disposing of garbage or refuse may be used for collecting and disposing of yard waste.

HB 369 AUTO INSURANCE (Schuring) Prohibits insurers from canceling or refusing to write an automobile insurance policy solely because of the age of the insured or applicant.

HB 370 INSURANCE ORGANIZATION (Batchelder) Permits a mutual insurance company to raise capital by reorganizing as a stock insurance company that is a majority-owned subsidiary of a mutual insurance holding company.

HB 371 DELINQUENT TAXES (Hodges) Permits county treasurers of counties having populations of at least 200,000 to collect delinquent real property taxes by selling certificates entitling the bearers to liens against the property in the amount of the delinquency.

HB 372 EMERGENCY TELEPHONE (Grendell) Authorizes county commissioners to propose a county charge billed monthly through telephone bills to pay for one or more public safety answering points of a countywide 9-1-1 emergency telephone system and requires a county that imposes such a charge to reimburse participating subdivisions for the training of public safety answering point telecommunicators.

HB 373 CIVICS CLASSES (Wise) Relative to teaching the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Ordinance of 1787 in elementary and secondary schools.

HB 374 INSURANCE PORTABILITY (Van Vyven) Relative to the implementation of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and insurance coverage of follow-up care for a mother and newborn.

HB 375 DAIRY INDUSTRY (Padgett) 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, Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, the various segments of the dairy industry in this state, and ancillary industries, terminates the Director's authorization to establish the committee on Dec. 31, 1999, and makes an appropriation.

HB 376 WORKERS' COMPENSATION (Hartley) Makes various changes in the structure, payment, and determination of workers' compensation benefits, permits hearing officers to report suspected fraudulent activity, changes the definitions of injury and occupational disease, permits certain nonattorneys to represent parties in hearings before the Commission, provides criminal penalties for employers who intentionally misclassify their employees for workers' compensation purposes, prohibits kickbacks from health care providers under the Workers' Compensation Law, prohibits health care providers from receiving payments for false claims under that Law, provides that records kept by the Division of Safety and Hygiene are public records, and makes other changes in the Workers' Compensation Law.

HB 377 FLAG DISPLAY INSTRUCTION (Kasputis) Requires instruction in public schools regarding respect for the flag of the United States and its display and use.

HB 378 VICTIM REPARATIONS (Kasputis) Includes terrorism as a criminally injurious conduct for purposes of the Crime Victims Reparations Awards Law.

HB 379 SCHOOL ADMISSION (Brading) Authorizes school boards to adopt a date earlier than the thirtieth day of September of the year of admission as the date by which children must be five or six years old, respectively, in order to be automatically admitted to kindergarten or first grade.

HB 380 ACADEMIC YEAR (Sulzer) Permits a school to be open for instruction fewer than the required number of days during the 1996-97 school year if the school was closed due to flooding and is located in a county in which an emergency was declared, or which was declared a disaster area, due to the flooding.

HB 381 LOCKSMITH LICENSURE (Garcia) Requires the licensure of locksmiths and establishes the Locksmith Licensing Board.

HB 382 INDUCING PANIC (Ogg) Increases the penalty for the offense of inducing panic when the public place involved in the offense is a school.

HB 383 CHESAPEAKE BYPASS (Carey) Earmarks funds from the Ohio Department of Transportation for the Chesapeake Bypass in Lawrence County and the Ravenswood Connector in Meigs County

HB 384 SCHOOL FUNDS (Stapleton) Increases funds set aside for payments to educational service centers during fiscal year 1997 and provides three additional calamity days for schools closed during the 1996-97 school year due to flooding if the school district meets certain requirements.

HB 385 LAND CONVEYANCE (Perz) Authorizes the board of trustees of the Medical College of Ohio at Toledo to convey two parcels of real estate or portions of two parcels of real estate located in Lucas County, authorizes the governor to convey a parcel of real estate or portions of a parcel or real estate located in Lucas County and owned by the Medical College of Ohio at Toledo Foundation and declares an emergency.

HB 386 LABOR REQUIREMENTS (Young) Prohibits authorities from imposing certain labor requirements as a condition of performing public works.

HB 387 VEHICLE DISPLAY (Padgett) Governing the display of motor vehicles at a fair or exhibition conducted by a county or independent agricultural society.

HB 388 ZONING (Haines) Provides for the appointment of two alternate members to a county board of zoning appeals and a township board of zoning appeals.

HB 389 DISABLED CHILD SUPPORT (Pringle) Establishes a duty of support for certain developmentally disabled who have reached the age of majority and requires courts to consider for the purposes of determining spousal support a party's inability to work outside the home because of the party's duties as caretaker of a developmentally disabled child.

HB 390 LIQUOR LOCAL OPTION (Sawyer) Allows a local option liquor election on the sale of beer and intoxicating liquor at a particular location if the petitioner for the election is an applicant for the issuance of a liquor permit at or the transfer of a liquor permit to that location.

HB 391 PERS (Miller) Allows a member of the Public Employees Retirement System to retire at any age after obtaining 25 years of service credit while serving as an emergency medical services worker, regional transit authority worker or county corrections officer.

HB 392 ANESTHESIA (Olman) Requires that certified registered nurse anesthetists be supervised by physicians who are anesthesiologists, provides that dentists may administer anesthesia only for purposes of the practice of dentistry, provides that podiatrists may administer only conscious sedation and clarifies other provision related to the use of anesthesia in the practices of medicine, dentistry and podiatry.

HB 393 BCII RECORDS (Mason) Expands the list of offenses for which the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation keeps records, revises the procedures by which a person or child must be fingerprinted, and requires every relevant clerk of a court of record to submit to the Bureau specified information regarding cases involving offenses for which the Bureau must keep records.

HB 394 APPEALABLE ORDERS (Mason) Specifies circumstances under which an order granting or denying a provisional remedy is a final appealable order.

HB 395 ABORTION (Hottinger) Prohibits the use of state funds to provide healthcare insurance benefits for nontherapeutic abortions received by officers and employees of the state.

HB 396 SCHOOL DIPLOMAS (Mead) Permits the "home" school districts of students receiving high school diplomas from the State School for the Blind or State School for the Deaf to also grant these students high school diplomas.

HB 397 ESTATE TAX (Maier) Grants an exemption from the estate tax for the property of a family farm that will continue to be operated as such by the qualified heirs.

HB 398 STUDENT TRUSTEES (Salerno) Gives students serving on college boards of trustees full voting power and entitle them to attend executive sessions of the board unless a conflict of interest exists for the student trustee.

HB 399 USED VEHICLES (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 400 SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS (Miller) Permits a school district or educational service center to pay an annual salary to members of its board of education or governing board, which salary may not exceed 60% of the annual salary paid to county commissioners of a county of equal population to that district or service center.

HB 401 DRUG FORFEITURES (Ford) Gives 30% of the moneys and of the sale proceeds of property seized on the premises of a metropolitan housing authority and forfeited under the Felony Drug Abuse Offense Forfeiture Law to the metropolitan housing authority to use for community preventative education programs.

HB 402 BEER ADVERTISING (Schuler) Removes the prohibition against a liquor permit holder advertising the retail price of beer and malt beverages off the permit holder's premises.

HB 403 SPORTS INVESTMENTS (Schuler) Permits a county treasurer to invest in securities issued by a Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, National Football League, National Hockey League or Major League Soccer sports franchise that plays most of its home games in a tax-supported facility located in the same county as the county treasurer.

HB 404 CHILD CUSTODY (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 405 GRAIN MOISTURE METERS (Weston) Specifies that grain moisture meters are subject to the Weights and Measures Law.

HB 406 OBES REFERRALS (Hartley) Prohibits the Ohio Bureau of Employment Services from referring unemployed individuals to temporary services agencies.

HB 407 FUEL TAX (Young) Increases the rate of the state's tax on motor vehicle fuel if and only upon the scheduled expiration of the temporary federal fuel tax rate increase on Sept. 30, 1999, with the result that the net combined federal and state tax rate will decrease and revenue previously received by the federal government will be received by the state; and repeals the increase in the state's tax rate in two stages after six years.

HB 408 WELFARE REFORM (Lawrence) Abolishes the Aid to Dependent Children and the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training Program, creates the Ohio Works First Program and revises the law governing the Disability Assistance Program, Title XX social services, day care, confidentiality of public assistance records and administration of human services, children services and child support enforcement.

HB 409 OIL/GAS LINE ABANDONMENT (Gerberry) Requires that the Director of Environmental Protection be notified following the abandonment of a crude oil or natural gas line that is under or adjacent to a water source for a public water system and provides for the coordination at the state and local levels of any action needed to prevent the abandoned line from contaminating the water source.

HB 410 FARM MACHINERY (Weston) Allows, under certain circumstances farm trucks and farm machinery to exceed by no more than ten percent the established motor vehicle weight laws.

HB 411 ALCOHOL/INVENTORY TAX (Krebs) Imposes a new tax on certain permit holders that deliver beer and wine, changes the manner in which projects may be funded under the School Building Assistance Program as of July 1, 1998, 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 a portion of beer and wine tax revenue to support the School Building Assistance Program, increases the rates of the excise taxes on beer and wine, modifies or eliminates certain laws governing the sale of beer and wine, creates the Joint Committee to Study the Privatization of Spirituous Liquor Sales and the Joint Committee to Study Direct Mail Order Beer and Liquor Sales and reduces the rate at which inventory property is assessed for taxation from 25% to 20% of true value.

HB 412 PERFORMANCE AUDITS (Cates) Authorizes the Auditor of State to conduct performance audits of school districts in a state of fiscal watch or fiscal emergency.

HB 413 PROFICIENCY TESTS (Coughlin) 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 414 CHILD ABUSE (Buchy) Requires in certain circumstances that an adjudication that a child is an abused child be supported by competent medical, psychiatric or psychological evidence.

HB 415 VEHICLE MANIPULATION (Opfer) Permits a board of county commissioners to prohibit any person, when operating a motor vehicle, from manipulating the engine speed and transmission of the motor vehicle for the purpose of causing a reduction in the speed of that motor vehicle if such manipulation also causes the motor vehicle to produce excessive or unusual noise.

HB 416 LICENSE PLATES (Gerberry) Allows a person to combine a request for issuance of a license plate with call letters of an amateur or commercial radio station or commercial television station with a request for issuance of a license plate to a person with a disability that limits or impairs the ability to walk.

HB 417 LODGING TAXES (Householder) Grants subdivisions the option of applying the lodging tax to lodging establishments having fewer than five rooms.

HB 418 MEMORIAL HIGHWAY (Verich) Designates I-76 the "Military Order of the Purple Heart Memorial Highway."

HB 419 COUNTY OFFICES (Householder) Allows county commissioners to hold regular sessions at a location in the county other than at its office location in the county seat and allows the commissioners to provide the county engineer with an office at a location outside the county seat.

HB 420 INSURANCE COVERAGE (Tavares) En. 3924. Prohibits discrimination in the coverage of mental illnesses in all health insurance contracts and policies delivered or issued for delivery in this state.

HB 421 ABORTION NOTICE (Luebbers) Am. 2317. Regarding patient notification prior to an abortion.

HB 422 SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS (Mottl) Am. & En. 4501, 4506 & 4507. Prohibits the issuance by the Registrar of Motor Vehicles of a driver's license, temporary instruction permit, commercial driver's license, or identification card bearing the social security number assigned to the holder of the license, permit, or card and requires the Registrar to collect and verify the social security number of an applicant for a license, permit, or card for purposes of complying with federal law governing acceptable forms of identification.

HB 423 LICENSE SUSPENSIONS (Womer Benjamin) Am. 4511. Provides that a judge may impose a pre-trail suspension of a person who is charged with the offense of aggravated vehicular homicide, vehicular homicide that is a felony, or aggravated vehicular assault if the judge determines that the person's continued driving will be a threat to public safety.

HB 424 ESTATE TAXES (Wachtmann) Am. 5731. Changes the rate of interest paid on overpayments of estate taxes.

HB 425 AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES (Thompson) Am. & En. 926. Changes the definition of an agricultural commodity handler, increases the total net worth than an applicant for an agricultural commodity handler's license must maintain, increases the penalty for engaging in agricultural commodity handling without a license, and makes other revisions to the law governing agricultural commodity handling.

HB 426 LOCAL GOVERNMENT FUNDS (Clancy) Am., En. & Rep. 305, 505, 3316, 5705 & 5747. Permits taxing authorities of subdivisions to create accounts in which funds may be reserved for budget stabilization, self-insurance claim payments, the payment of claims under retrospective ratings plans for workers' compensation, accumulated employee leave, capital projects, and nonexpendable trusts, and specifies that such reserves shall not affect state revenue distributions to certain subdivisions through local government funds.

HB 427 INSURANCE CANCELLATION (Hartley) Am. 3901. Makes it an unfair practice for any insurer to cancel or refuse to issue or renew any individual life or health insurance policy or contract because the applicant or insured is a victim of domestic violence or to release any information relating to the applicant's or insured's status as a victim of domestic violence, prohibits insurers from taking other adverse actions based on an applicant's or insured's status as a victim of domestic violence, and provides civil and criminal immunity to an insurer acting in compliance with this act.

HB 428 ESCROW REQUIREMENTS (Britton) En. 1349. Prohibits a lending institution from requiring a mortgagor to pay the cost of continuing mortgage guaranty insurance when the paid principal amount of the real estate loan represents 25% or more of the real estate's appraised value at the time the loan was made.

HB 429 CEMETERY VANDALISM (Ogg) Am. 1, 2909 & 2927. Defines "cemetery" and includes the term "cemetery" in the vandalism and desecration law.

HB 430 TURNPIKE AUTHORITY (Ogg) Am. & En. 101, 126, 2937, 5503, 5538, 5728 & 5735. Creates a North-South Turnpike Authority with all authority necessary to construct and operate a north-south turnpike system.

HB 431 CAPITAL GAINS EXEMPTION (Coughlin) Am. 5747. Exempts capital gains from taxation under the personal income tax.

HB 432 ESTATE TAX (Coughlin) Am. & En. 129, 135, 321, 325, 1339, 1555, 1709, 2101, 2113, 5528, 5731 & 5747. Repeals the estate tax for the estates of decedents dying on or after July 1, 1999 and provides for the continuing determination, administration, collection, and distribution of estate tax revenue arising from the taxation of the estates of decedents dying before that date.

HB 433 MEMORIAL HIGHWAY (Thomas) En. 5533. Designates United States Route 33 the "Marine Corps League Memorial Highway."

HB 434 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ZONES (Schuring) Am & En. 715, 718 & 5709. Makes various changes in procedures governing the creation of joint economic development zones and certain joint economic development zones and certain joint economic development districts, grants additional authority to subdivisions joining in certain kinds of joint economic development zones regarding the issuance of industrial development bonds, sharing property taxes, and granting property tax exemptions and authorizes municipal corporations, counties, townships, the state and certain persons and private entities to enter into cooperative economic development agreements.

HB 435 SPEED LIMITS (Damschroder) Am. 4511. Allows a village to establish a speed limit of not less than 25 miles per hour on a highway that carries a United States route designation if the statutory speed limit changes at least four time within a distance of less than one and one-half miles within the jurisdiction of the village.

HB 436 TORT IMMUNITY (Tiberi) En. 2305. Creates a qualified immunity from tort liability for bowling centers and their operators in connection with inherent risks associated with bowling or being on the premises of a bowling center.

HB 437 ANIMAL ABUSE (Tiberi) Am., En. & Rep. 959. Clarifies the prohibitions against cruelty to and neglect of an animal, increases the penalty for a second or subsequent violation of the prohibition against neglecting an animal, and increases the penalty for an offender who is cruel to an animal, including authorizing a court to require the offender to forfeit the animal and to obtain psychological counseling.

HB 438 TELEPHONE AREA CODES (Miller) En. 4931. Provides that each municipal corporation must have no more than one area code within its boundaries.

HB 439 PERS (Mead) Am. 145. Permits a member of the Public Employees Retirement System who resigned due to pregnancy to purchase up to one year of service credit.

HB 440 VENTURE CAPITAL (Verich) Am. & En. 166, 5733 & 5747. Creates the Ohio Venture Capital Program to provide for the direction of moneys of a private investment fund into loans and investments that are consistent with a general policy adopted by the new Ohio Venture Capital Authority and that are guaranteed up to a specified maximum loss, first through program revenues or, if insufficient, through proceeds from the sale of transferable tax credits that may be claimed against the public utility excise tax, corporation franchise tax or personal income tax.

HB 441 TANF (Jacobson) Am. & En. 5104 & 5107. Establishes a family cap for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program and an earned income disregard for families subjected to the family cap.

HB 442 FOSTER HOMES (Bender) Am. 5103. Permit a family foster home to provide room, board or both to a boarder age 65 or older.

HB 443 PROFICIENCY TEST (Gerberry) Am. 3301 & 3770. Provides $1,000 scholarships as incentive to pass the 12th-grade proficiency tests and requires that the scholarship be paid from the Lottery Profits Education Fund.

HB 444 JUDGES (Taylor) Am. 2301. Adds two judges to the Lorain County Court of Common Pleas, one to be elected to the Division of Domestic Relations of that Court.

HB 445 MAYOR VACANCY (Logan) Am. 733. Requires that when a vacancy in the office of mayor of a city occurs under certain circumstances, an election be held to fill the office for part of the unexpired term.

HB 446 ADOPTIVE/ FOSTER PARENTS (Williams) Am. & En. 2101, 2151 & 3107. Regarding adoption assessors, prefinalization assessments and rehabilitation standards a person with a criminal background must meet to become an adoptive or foster parent.

HB 447 CHURCH PROPERTY (Beatty) Permits the abatement of unpaid taxes, penalties and interest for church property if application for a tax exemption is made by May 31, 1998.

HB 448 PROPERTY VALUES (Beatty) En. 3207. Creates a civil action in favor of real property owners, lessees and renters who suffer economic harm or diminution in their property's fair market value because other real property in the vicinity is used to commit harmful to juveniles or pornography offenses.

HB 449 SEAT BELTS (Metelsky) Am. 4513. Enables a law enforcement officer to charge or arrest a person for a violation of the seat belt requirements as a primary offense, regardless of whether any other violation is suspected.

HB 450 PRISONER TRANSPORT (Pringle) Am. & En. 341, 753 & 2941. Requires in certain instances that peace officers who transport prisoners be informed of the mental and physical condition and criminal record of the prisoners.

HB 451 ESCAPE OFFENSES (Pringle) Am. En. 2929 & 2941. Authorizes the imposition of an additional five-year mandatory prison term for persons who commit the offense of escape if in committing the offense the offender breaks detention and eludes or flees, or attempts to elude or flee, a police officer by means of a motor vehicle.

HB 452 HOUSING TRUST FUND (Johnson) Am. & En. 175, 176, 317, 319, 1309, 1563, 1702, 2505, 4141, 4509, 5111, 5310, 5719, 5727, 5733, 6101 & 6115. Requires that county recorders collect housing trust fund fees for the benefit of the Low- and Moderate-Income Housing Trust Fund in the state treasury, establishes housing trust fund fees as an amount equal to 50% of the fees that county recorders charge for specified services, permits counties to retain one percent of housing trust fund fees for administrative purposes and requires that counties pay the remainder to the Treasurer of State, directs the Treasurer of State to deposit the first $22.5 million of housing trust fund fees received each year into the Low- and Moderate-Income Housing Trust Fund in the state treasury and deposit any fees received in excess of that amount into the General Revenue Fund, changes the name of the "Housing Trust Fund Advisory Committee" to the "Housing Trust Fund Oversight Committee" and expands its membership by eight members, charges the Committee with overseeing the distribution of trust fund moneys, requires that the Department of Development adopt rules governing the mechanisms and criteria to be used in distributing trust fund moneys and requires that no trust fund moneys be distributed without the Oversight Committee's recommendation, specifies that the rules include requirements for the long-term maintenance of housing, that distributions not conflict with local housing plans and that trust fund moneys not be used to replace existing project-based Section 8 rent subsidies, and increases trust fund allocations for rural areas from 35% to 40%.

HB 453 COURT JURISDICTION (Kasputis) Am. 1901 & 1907. Specifies that a municipal or county court, in which a forcible entry and detainer action is pending and a counterclaim that exceeds the court's monetary jurisdiction is filed, must in specified circumstances transfer only the counterclaim to the court of common pleas.

HB 454 CONCEALED WEAPONS (Hood) Am. & Rep. 109, 1531, 1533, 1547 & 2923. Permits the carrying of concealed weapons.

HB 455 COURT CLERKS & FEES (Weston) Am. 1901, 1907, 2743 & 2949. Requires that the salary of the clerk of a county court or certain municipal courts be set by the court's presiding judge instead of by a legislative authority and changes the deadline for transmission of certain court fees to the Treasurer of State.

HB 456 TAX LAW STUDY (Schuring) Creates a joint legislative committee to review proposals for reforming the tax laws of Ohio and provides for the drafting of legislation for reforming such laws.

HB 457 CHILDREN'S SERVICES (Pringle) En. 2151. Makes public children services agency records concerning a child and the child's family public records if the child dies.

HB 458 TEACHER PREPARATION (Jordan) Am. 3319. Prohibits the State Board of Education from requiring teacher preparation programs to meet standards of a specific nationally recognized and accredited organization that accredits teacher education programs.

HB 459 ADDICTION PROGRAMS (Ford) Am. 3793. Requires alcohol and drug addiction programs certified by the Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services to implement and maintain procedures for contacting patients successfully discharged from their programs.

HB 460 DRUGS (Ford) Am. 3719. Prohibits the selling of certain drugs in excess of the quantity and concentration or length of time of use approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

HB 461 PARKING METERS (Miller) Am. & En. 1901, 1905, 1907, 2151, 2305, 2921 & 2931. Grants immunity from criminal prosecution and from damages and equitable relief in a civil action to a person who places money into a parking meter regardless of whether or not it has expired, to a person whose parking meter is so paid and for a violation of specified offenses allegedly committed in relation to the previously described immunities and removes jurisdiction from courts of records and mayor's court to hear and determine prosecutions and civil actions related to the immunities.

HB 462 LICENSE PLATES (Tiberi) En. 4501 & 4503. Provides for the issuance of motor vehicle license plates bearing the logos of professional sports teams, provides for the collection of a contribution of $40 for each set of such license plates issued and uses those contributions to provide funds to the sports commissions of those counties in which are located professional sports teams that contract with the Bureau of Motor Vehicles for the display of their logos on such license plates.

HB 463 JUDGESHIP (Mason) Am. 1901. Creates one additional judge for the Franklin County Municipal Court and declares an emergency.

HB 464 TRADEMARK LAW (Mason) Am. 1329. Revises the definitions of trademark and service mark in the Ohio Trademark Law, modifies the procedures for registering a trademark or service mark, and makes other changes in the Ohio Trademark Law.

HB 465 JUDGESHIP (Taylor) Am. & En. 2101 & 2301. Adds one judge to the Erie County Court of Common Pleas to be elected to the Division of Domestic Relations, adds certain types of cases to the jurisdiction of that Division effective on January 2, 1999, provides that the Probate Division of that Court ceases to have jurisdiction over those types of cases on that date, grants the judge elected in 1998 to the General Division concurrent jurisdiction over certain probate matters cognizable by the Probate Division, and grants to the probate judge elected in 2002 concurrent jurisdiction over cases cognizable by the General Division.

HB 466 MECHANICS' LIEN (Stapleton) Am. 1311. Extends certain provisions of the mechanics' lien law and public improvements preference-claim law to architects, landscape architects, professional engineers, professional surveyors, real estate brokers, and real estate salespersons who provide professional services in furtherance of an improvement.

HB 467 MUNICIPAL INVESTMENTS (Sulzer) Am. 731. Includes the treasurer of a city or village rather than the city director of law or village solicitor among the officials who may order the investment of moneys in the municipal corporation's treasury.

HB 468 MILITARY (Thomas) Am. En. & Rep. 111, 124, 141, 145, 718, 1737, 1738, 1742, 3319, 3923, 4115, 4117, 4506, 5101, 5903, 5911, 5913, 5917, 5919, 5920, 5921 & 5923. Exempts more clearly Reserve and Ohio National Reserve pay and allowances from municipal taxation; exempts federally-funded military reserve component training projects from the state Prevailing Wage Law; gives statutory effect to the federal exemption for military vehicles from the state Commercial Driver's License Law; conforms more closely to federal regulations state law governing the Ohio National Guard and the state military; repeals the state Military Census Law; and makes other changes in the law governing the Ohio military.

HB 469 SECURITY SALES (Callender) Am. & En. 133. Requires that school district sales of securities of $1 million or more must be competitively bid.

HB 470 DENTAL HYGIENE (Tiberi) Am. 4715. Allows a dentist to authorize a dental hygenist to provide dental hygiene services when the dentist is not physically present if certain conditions are met and authorizes the State Dental Board to adopt rules allowing qualified dental personnel to polish the clinical crowns of teeth.

HB 471 CRIME VICTIM REPARATIONS (Metzger) Am. 2743. Permits a minor child or surviving spouse of a deceased crime victim to receive an award of reparations based on a dependent's economic loss and replacement services loss even if the child is adopted or the spouse remarries.

HB 472 ESTATE TAX (Schuring) En. 5731. Permits a person to prepay in cash a portion of the estate tax anticipated to be charged against the person's estate and designate a particular purpose for which the payment will be used, subject to an agreement with a township or municipal corporation.

HB 473 LAND CONVEYANCE (Logan) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate to Columbiana County to George W. Morris.

HB 474 SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT (Terwilleger) Am. & En. 343, 505, 3707 & 3734. Revises the statutes governing the management of solid wastes.

HB 475 EMERGENCY SERVICES (Cates) Am. 307, 505, 4501, 4513, 4765, 4766 & 5502. Replaces the State Board of Emergency Medical Services with the State Board of Fire and Emergency Medical Services and specifies procedures to be followed by the board in renewing the certification of emergency medical technicians.

HB 476 FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE (Netzley) En. 3924. Requires every domestic nonprofit health insuring corporation and mutual health insurance company and every nonprofit hospital to annually report the salaries of their directors, chief executive officers and five highest-paid employees and to report amounts paid to independent consultants.

HB 477 SCHOOL LAWS (Gardner) Am. 3313, 3319 & 3327. Places certain limitations on student transfers due to safety concerns; makes revisions to school discipline laws, permits local school district superintendents to nominate persons for administrative positions and permits a school board to enforce tuition payments by withholding student grades, credits or diplomas.

HB 478 UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS (Corbin) Am. & Rep. 2743 & 4141. Makes changes in the determination of benefits by the Administrator of the Bureau of Employment Services, makes changes in the appeals process for unemployment compensation claims, clarifies when an employer receives an experience-rated unemployment tax rate, changes the notice requirements for employers, eliminates the provisions regarding seasonal employment, permits the Bureau to charge the mutualized account then there is no other account to which benefits may be charged, specifies that all information maintained by the Administrator is confidential, authorizes the acceptance of reports required from employers and unemployment claims from claimants by electronic means, deletes the calendar year 1990 costs of automation surcharge on all employers, provides that the Bureau receives legal process in child support enforcement matters rather than the Department of Human Services, includes limited liability companies in the definition of "employer," changes the definition of independent contractor, makes conforming changes in response to changes in the Federal Unemployment Tax Act and makes other changes in the Unemployment Compensation Law.

HB 479 UTILITY PAYMENTS (Jones) En. 4905. Provides for the deposit of utility service payments with a municipal or county clerk of court, subject to provisions similar to the deposit of tenant rental payments, if a significant disruption of the customer's utility service occurs.

HB 480 PRIVATE CLUB MEMBERSHIP (Sykes) Am. 4112. Prohibits membership discrimination by organizations, institutions and clubs that are not distinctly private and authorizes the Ohio Civil Rights Commission to award affirmative relief, including actual damages, certain punitive damages and reasonable attorney fees, for violations of the Public Accommodations Law.

HB 481 BAD CHECKS (Pringle) Am. 2913. Permits the aggregation of a series of bad checks when determining the penalty for the offense of passing bad checks.

HB 482 CAMPAIGN ETHICS (Boggs) Am. & En. 3513 & 3517. Prescribes a code of campaign ethics that a candidate for public office may voluntarily agree to, requires each candidate to file a statement of the candidate's qualifications with the Secretary of State or board of elections, prohibits a candidate from knowingly misrepresenting certain information, and creates additional prohibitions regarding a candidate's campaign practices.

HB 483 MERGING ZONES (Boggs) En. 4511 & 5501. 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 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 484 CHILD CUSTODY (Schuring) Am. & En. 2151. Requires a court to consider whether it is in the best interests of a child to remain in the custody or care of the child's grandparents when determining whether an abused, neglected, or dependent child should be returned to the custody of the child's parents.

HB 485 LIBRARY TAX ISSUES (Schuring) Am. & En. 5705. Permits the taxing authority of the political subdivision to whose jurisdiction a board of library trustees is subject to propose to the electors, as one ballot question, a property tax for the dual purposes of current expenses and permanent improvements for a public library, including issuing bonds for permanent improvements.

HB 486 LAND CONVEYANCE (Mead) Authorizes the conveyance of two parcels of state-owned real estate located in Franklin County to the City of Columbus.

HB 487 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (Jones) Am. 3113. Eliminates the priority for funding domestic violence shelters in existence on January 18, 1980.

HB 488 MANUFACTURED HOMES (Sulzer) En. 4503. Authorizes a waiver or refund of taxes on destroyed manufacturer homes and declares an emergency.

HB 489 COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (Fox) Am. & En. 2744, 3307, 3309, 3319, 3323 & 4117. Authorizes the creation of community schools.

HB 490 BARBER/BEAUTY SHOPS (Tiberi) Am. & En. 4709 & 4713. Assures equity and responsibility in industry practices by prohibiting certain business relationships in barber shops and beauty salons.

HB 491 COUNTY OFFICER PAY (Corbin) Am. 325. Grants compensation increases to county auditors in calendar years 1999 through 2002, county commissioners is calendar years 2001 and 2002, and county treasurers in calendar years 1999 through 2001 and declares an emergency.

HB 492 HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMAS (Jones) Am. 3313 & 3325. Requires that high school diplomas be granted to students who pass all but one of the ninth-grade proficiency tests and achieve in high school at least a 3.00 grade point average or its equivalent and a 95% attendance rate.

HB 493 LAKE ERIE COAST (Opfer) Am. & En. 1506. Establishes the Lake Erie Coastal Erosion Areas Low-Interest Loan Fund to provide low-interest loans to certain owners of dwellings within Lake Erie coastal erosion areas for the purchase and installation of erosion control devices.

HB 494 MEMORIAL DAY (Brading) Am. 1, 124 & 3313. Corrects a reference to federal law in the Ohio laws designating Memorial Day as a state holiday.

HB 495 ELECTION LAWS (Womer Benjamin) Am. & En. 305, 503, 3311, 3501, 3503, 3504, 3505, 3509, 3511, 3513, 3519, 3599, 5705 & 5739. Changes the name of armed service absent voter's ballots to armed service and overseas absent voter's ballots and allows persons living temporary overseas to vote by those ballots, requires that boards of elections affected by a change in school district boundaries be notified of the change, allows full-time college and university students and persons on jury duty to vote by absent voter's ballots, allows a person who lost in a primary election to be a candidate at the following general election for certain types of nonpartisan offices, requires that, when a Congressional candidate of a minor or intermediate political party withdraws or dies, a person to fill the vacancy be selected by the party without the holding of a special election, allows for written protests against persons selected by a party committee to fill a vacancy when a candidate withdraws or dies, raises the dollar amount above which competitive bidding is required for certain contracts entered into by a board of elections, requires certain referendum petitions to be filed with the board of elections instead of the county auditor, eliminates archaic terms in the Elections Law, and makes other changes in that Law.

HB 496 SCHOOL PERFORMANCE (Jordan) En. 3313. Requires school districts that fail to meet specified high school graduation and proficiency test passage thresholds to provide scholarships or tutorial assistance grants to students entitled to attend school in the district upon request of the parents of such students.

HB 497 OPEN ENROLLMENT (Williams) Am. 3313. Permits school districts and joint vocational school districts to admit students from any school district in the state under open enrollment and prohibits any school district from preventing its students from leaving the district to enroll in another district under open enrollment.

HB 498 OPEN ENROLLMENT (Jordan) Am. 3313. Permits school districts and joint vocational school districts to admit students to a district vocational education program from any school district in the state under open enrollment.

HB 499 DOGFIGHTING (Ford) Am. 959. Increases the penalty for violation of the dogfighting prohibitions from a fifth degree felony to a fourth degree felony.

HB 500 CHECK CASHING/LIQUOR PERMITS (Jones) Am. 4301. Prohibits liquor permit holders and their agents or employees from cashing the paychecks of patrons at establishments where beer or intoxicating liquor is sold for on-premises consumption.

HB 501 RELIGIOUS DESECRATION (Reid) Am. 2307 & 2927. Increases the penalties for desecration that involves a place of worship or an object of reverence or sacred devotion and increases to $15,000 the maximum compensatory damages recoverable from a minor's parent in a civil action based upon the minor's acts constituting any form of desecration, vandalism, or ethnic intimidation.

HB 502 BOATING EDUCATION (Damschroder) Am. & En. 1547. Prohibits a person born on or after January 1, 1982 from operating powercraft powered by more than ten horsepower unless the person successfully has completed a safe boater course or proficiency examination and makes other changes to the law governing the operation of powercraft.

HB 503 HIGHWAY HEARINGS (Schuring) Am. 5517 & 5543. Requires the director of Transportation or a county engineer, in certain circumstances, to hold a public meeting when a highway, bridge, or culvert improvement project involves the closing of a highway, bridge, or culvert to travel.

HB 504 CONCEALED WEAPONS (Padgett) Am. & En. 109, 1547, 2921, 2923 & 2953. Authorizes county sheriffs to issue licenses to carry concealed handguns to certain persons and creates the offenses of falsification to obtain a concealed handgun license, falsification of a concealed handgun license, and possessing a revoked or suspended concealed handgun license.

HB 505 UNLAWFUL COVENANTS (Sutton) Am. & En. 317, 3953 & 5309. Eliminates references in title insurance policies and certain documents involving registered land transactions to racial and other restrictive convenants that, if exercised, honored, or included in a transfer, rental, or lease of housing accommodations, constitute an unlawful discriminatory practice.

HB 506 CHILD ABUSE REPORTS (Wachtmann) Am. 2151. Requires a public children services agency to destroy all records concerning an unsubstantiated report of child abuse or neglect and requires that interviews of minors in connection with a report of abuse or neglect be tape-recorded.

HB 507 SMALL CLAIMS COURTS (Bateman) Am. 1925. Permits state universities to file more than 24 claims in the small claims division of any municipal or county court within any calendar year.

HB 508 CLINICAL LABORATORIES (Mead) Am. & En. 2925, 3701, 3728, 4745, 4769 & 5903. Creates the Clinical Laboratory Advisory Council in the Department of Health and requires licensure of clinical laboratory science practitioners.

HB 509 PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION (Jones) Am. 5709. Exempts from taxation residential real property constructed or rehabilitated and held by a nonprofit charitable organization for the purpose of transferring the property to qualified low-income families.

HB 510 WATER POLLUTION PERMITS (Bender) En. 6111. Provides that unless the applicant for a water pollution control permit to establish or expand an animal feeding operation with or to a capacity of 5,000 or more animal units and persons associated with the applicant, in connection with the operation of such facilities in this state, have a history of compliance with the Water Pollution Control Law and rules adopted and terms and conditions of permits, variances, and orders issued under that law demonstrating sufficient reliability, expertise, and competence to operate the new or expanded animal feeding operation in substantial compliance with that law and regulatory requirements adopted or issued under it, the Director of Environmental Protection is authorized to deny the application.

HB 511 NUISANCE ABATEMENT (Fox) Am. 3767. Expands the definition of "nuisance," permits the abatement as a nuisance of any unlawful obstruction of passage or use of a public place and makes a violation of an injunction against such unlawful obstruction a first degree misdemeanor.

HB 512 TRADE SECRETS (Tavares) Am. & En. 9 & 149. Requires state agencies and political subdivisions to follow certain procedures when they expect to receive trade secrets in the course of awarding a contract and protects such trade secrets from public disclosure.

HB 513 TELEPHONE SERVICE (Grendell) En. 4905. Requires the Public Utilities Commission, upon subscriber application, to order extended area service, including two-way services, between requested exchanges wholly or partly located within the subscribers' county or between their exchange and some or all exchanges wholly or partly located within a contiguous metropolitan area.

HB 514 MANUFACTURED HOUSING (Tiberi) Am. & En. 303, 305, 319, 321, 322, 323, 325, 519, 1151, 1345, 1506, 1521, 1923, 3733, 3781, 3791, 4501, 4503, 4505, 4511, 4517, 4703, 4733, 4905, 5117, 5701, 5728 & 5739. Defines "mobile home," "manufactured home," "industrialized unit," and "recreational vehicle" to create distinct classifications of housing; defines "manufactured home park" to provide exceptions from the definition; revises the sales and use taxes applicable to manufactured homes; requires that all manufactured and mobile homes pay either a real property tax or a manufactured home tax; specifies that homes taxed as real property must be attached to a permanent foundation on land owned by the owner of the home; permits manufactured and mobile homes located in the state prior to January 1, 1998, to continue to pay manufactured home taxes pursuant to the existing depreciation schedule; bases the manufactured home tax for homes locating in the state or changing ownership on or after January 1, 1998, on the assessed value of the home and calculated in a manner similar to real property; establishes procedures for surrender of the certificate of title when a home is to be taxed as real property; specifies conditions under which trailers and park trailers are taxed as manufactured and mobile homes; defines homestead to included specified manufactured and mobile homes and makes changes in the homestead law to treat those homes as real property under that law; clarifies that state and local building codes do not govern manufactured homes but that all manufactured homes must be built pursuant to federal standards and carry a permanent tag to indicate compliance; deems that manufactured homes built to federal standards meet Ohio and local energy standards for one-, two-, and three-family homes; requires that manufactured homes that meet specified appearance criteria and are permanently sited be treated as single-family homes for zoning purposes if they meet all local zoning requirements that do not conflict with roof pitch and federal construction standards; establishes requirements regarding the sale of individual lots in manufactured home parks; clarifies the duty of park operators and extends that duty to all types of housing in a manufactured home park; requires a moving permit be obtained prior to moving a manufactured or mobile home on a public roadway and establishes violations for not obtaining a permit; expands local control of manufactured and mobile homes by requiring the clerk of court to notify owners that the home must be registered with the auditor, requires a certificate of title when a manufactured addition is made to a manufactured home; requires that certificates of title be kept for 30 years instead of five years; and changes the motor vehicle law to reflect that manufactured homes are not motor vehicles.

HB 515 LOCAL GOVERNMENT PAYMENTS (Householder) Am. & En. 301. Allows the use of county credit cards to pay for work-related transportation and Internet service provider expenses and authorizes a board of county commissioners to pass a resolution specifying financial transfer devices that may be accepted for the payment of expenses to county offices.

HB 516 MOMENT OF SILENCE (Garcia) Am. 3313. Permits the board of education of a school district to provide for a period of silence each school day for reflection or mediation upon a moral, philosophical or patriotic theme, prohibits boards of education, schools, or employees of the school district from requiring a pupil to participate in such a period of silence and prohibits the board of education of a school district from adopting certain policies pertaining to religion of religious expression.

HB 517 CHILD DAY CARE (Jerse) Am. & En. 5104. Requires child day care centers to establish programs to ensure the security of children.

HB 518 CHILD SUPPORT (Jones) Am. & En. 2151, 3105, 3109, 3111, 3113 & 3115. Requires a court to relieve a party from a final judgment, order or proceeding that requires the party to pay child support if the party submits to a genetic test that finds that there is less than a five per cent chance of the party being the father of the child for whose benefit the support is required.

HB 519 TURNPIKE SPEEDS (Damschroder) Am. 5537. Requires a uniform speed limit for all vehicles operating on a turnpike project and requires the Ohio Turnpike Commission and the Ohio Department of Transportation to conduct safety studies of the effect of this act and report the results to the General Assembly.

HB 520 BINGO (Corbin) Am. & En. 119, 173, 1531, 2915 & 3763. Defines "bingo" to include bingo, instant bingo, and raffles, creates a license that authorizes charitable organizations to conduct bingo and instant bingo, requires the licensing of manufacturers and distributors of bingo supplies, regulates the sale of instant bingo and the conduct of raffles, and makes other changes in the Charitable Gambling Law.

HB 521 DENTAL HYGIENISTS (Sykes) Am. & En. 4715. Increases the continuing educational required for renewal of registration by a dental hygienist and specifies the courses that satisfy the requirement and allows a dental hygienist to retire temporarily from practice.

HB 522 MORTGAGE REGULATION (Schuler) Am., En. & Rep. 1322. Requires mortgage originators to register with the Superintendent of Financial Institutions and specifies other requirements relative to mortgage originators; modifies the registration requirements of mortgage brokers; specifies requirements about the location of a mortgage broker; eliminates the net worth requirements of mortgage brokers and substitutes certain surety bond requirements; modifies the examination authority of the Superintendent relative to mortgage brokers; and specifies fines to be charged for a violation of a law or rule adopted under the Mortgage Broker Law.

HB 523 CRIME VICTIMS (Salerno) Am. 2743. Increases the amount of recoverable funeral expense under the Crime Victims Reparations Law and revises the information an applicant must submit in an application for a reparations award under that Law.

HB 524 CONSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS (Schuck) Am. & En. 1 & 103. Requires the staff of the Legislative Service Commission to prepare a constitutional analysis of bills and resolutions when certain committee or floor actions occur and specifies that an act that violates the single-subject requirement of the Ohio Constitution is invalid in its entirety.

HB 525 EMINENT DOMAIN (Sulzer) Am. En. & Rep. 163, 306, 504, 717, 719, 747 & 755. Generally prohibits a political subdivision from using eminent domain to acquire real or personal property outside the political subdivision's boundaries.

HB 526 DNA (Clancy) Am. 2151 & 2901. Expands the circumstances under which a DNA specimen must be taken from a convicted offender or adjudicated deliquent child.

HB 527 TRUSTS (Wachtmann) Am. 5302. Specifies that the filing of an informational affidavit regarding the termination of a trustee of a trust containing real property does not constitute the transfer of the property in the trust.

HB 528 EDUCATION BUDGET (Sykes) Am. & En. 107, 126 & 3333. Requires that an education budget act for a biennium must become law before the Governor can submit a budget for other state operations to the General Assembly.

HB 529 RULES ASSESSMENT (Schuck) Am. & En. 121, 122 & 5101. Requires certain state agencies to include in their rule summaries of proposed rules an assessment of the impact of each rule on family formation, maintenance and well-being and requires the Director of Human Services to designate an office in the Department of Human Services to carry out specified duties associated with such proposed rules.

HB 530 DEBT LIMITS (Brading) Am. 133. Exempts from the calculation of a subdivision's debt limit any securities issued for permanent improvements if payments in lieu of taxes are pledged to repay those securities.

HB 531 CHURCH-AFFILIATED CHARITIES (Stapleton) Am. 1111. Exempts certain church-affiliated charities from the Trust Company Law and permits certain church-affiliated charities to provide estate planning to church members at no cost.

HB 532 PHARMACISTS (Williams) Am. 121, 3719 & 4729. Makes changes to the laws regulating pharmacists and pharmacy interns.

HB 533 INMATE DRUG TESTING (Coughlin) Requires the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to contract with private laboratories to perform random drug testing of prisoners in state correctional institutions; authorizes county and municipal authorities to enter into such contracts for the random drug testing of county jail prisoners and municipal prisoners; specifically permits probation authorities and the Adult Parole Authority to cause offenders on probation, suspension of sentence, community control sanction, parole or post-release control to submit to random drug testing; and imposes a civil fine or extends a prison term for bad time if a prisoner fails the drug test.

HB 534 TEXTBOOK LEASING (Metelsky) Permits a board of education or governing board of an educational service center to lease or lease purchase textbooks.

HB 535 CHILD DEATHS (O'Brien) Requires the establishment of a board for the purpose of reviewing deaths of children under age 18 and provides for the release of information concerning the death of such a child.

HB 536 SOLID WASTES (Schuck) Revises the statutes governing the management of solid wastes.

HB 537 PUBLIC INDECENCY (Perz) Increases penalty for the offense of public indecency and clarifies that urination in public is disorderly conduct rather than public indecency.

HB 538 LICENSE PLATES (Core) Authorizes the issuance of an Eastern Star license plate.

HB 539 PAWNBROKER/PROPERTY (Fox) Prohibits pawnbrokers from charging the true owners of allegedly stolen property more than the amount the pawnbroker loaned or paid for that property.

HB 540 REAL ESTATE APPRAISAL (Tiberi) Prohibits the appraisal of real estate without state certification or license.

HB 541 EDUCATIONAL SERVICES (Gardner) Permits certain state-funded diagnostic, therapeutic and remedial services and instructional equipment associated with the services to be provided on the premises of religiously affiliated schools and requires that transportation of nonpublic school pupils to off-premises service sites be paid from school districts' auxiliary services funds and not from their general funds.

HB 542 APPRENTICE TAX CREDIT (Sulzer) Grants a refundable credit against the corporation franchise and personal income taxes for businesses training apprentices under a qualified apprenticeship program.

HB 543 JUVENILE DETENTION (Sulzer) Authorizes juvenile courts to require reimbursement to counties for detention center costs for housing children.

HB 544 INSURANCE AGENTS (Olman) Revises the insurance agents law.

HB 545 NEWSPAPER TAX (Opfer) Changes the definition of "newspaper" in the Sales Tax Law to include monthly newspapers.

HB 546 PUBLIC WORKS DISTRICTS (Opfer) Authorizes the appointment of alternate members of executive committees of district public workers integrating committees to vote in the absence of executive committee members on any action taken by vote of the executive committee.

HB 547 TORT RECOVERY (Grendell) Expands the bar against the recovery of damages in tort actions commenced by criminal offenders to include felony and misdemeanor violations of Ohio and federal law; establishes an offender's related assumption of the inherent risk of the occurrence of harm as a result of a victim's or other person's use of reasonably necessary force for defense purposes; and establishes a specified type of self-defense and defenses of a third person as an affirmative defenses to aggravated menacing and menacing.

HB 548 FORGING DOCUMENTS (Hartley) Establishes the offenses of forging educational or government documents and of using or trafficking in forged educational or government documents.

HB 549 SALVAGE CERTIFICATES (Sawyer) Allows a township zoning inspector to obtain a salvage certificate of title and dispose of a motor vehicle removed under a township's nuisance abatement authority.

HB 550 TAX INCENTIVES (Hodges) Allows local tax incentives review councils to require local authorities to provide information on the number of jobs at a tax exempt project site.

HB 551 TUITION CREDIT (Hottinger) Permits the parents of a handicapped child to receive a tuition credit in the amount of the cost of the child's individualized education plan and to enroll the child in another public school or in a chartered non-public school utilizing the credit to defray tuition costs.

HB 552 LAND CONVEYANCE (Thomas) Authorizes the sale of state-owned real estate controlled by the Ohio Schools for the Deaf and Blind and located in Franklin County to the City of Columbus (Division of Water), authorizes the conveyance of three easements over state-owned real estate controlled by the Ohio Schools for the Deaf and Blind and located in Franklin County to the City of Columbus (Division of Water), authorizes the conveyance of a conservation easement over state-owned real estate controlled by the Ohio Schools for the Deaf and Blind and located in Franklin County to the Franklin County Soil and Water Conservation District and declares an emergency.

HB 553 OPTOMETRY (Coughlin) Eliminates a provision that prohibits a person seeking a license to practice optometry from taking the licensing examination more than four times.

HB 554 AMBULANCE SERVICES (Schuler) Authorizes a board of fire district trustees of a joint fire district and a board of trustees of a joint fire and ambulance district to establish charges for ambulance or emergency medical services.

HB 555 PRISONER PAYMENTS (Sulzer) Prevents payment to a state prisoner, ex-prisoner or family member of either of any portion of an award of damages against the state in favor of that prisoner or ex-prisoner, requires payment of the remainder of such an award, after allowable deductions, to the Reparations Fund for crime victims and declares an emergency.

HB 556 JUDGESHIP (Opfer) Adds one judge to the Erie County Court of Common Pleas to be elected to the General Division of that court.

HB 557 LAND CONVEYANCE (Core) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate located in Logan County, known as the Flat Branch Sewage Treatment Plant, to the Board of County Commissioners of Logan County.

HB 558 WORKERS' COMPENSATION (Wise) Provides workers' compensation coverage for off-duty police officers who are injured or killed while responding to an emergency situation.

HB 559 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 560 BACKGROUND CHECKS (Jerse) Generally requires the Attorney General to conduct a criminal records check of the prospective transferee of a handgun before the transfer may be completed and imposes certain duties on the prospective transferor relative to the transfer.

HB 561 SICKNESS/ACCIDENT INSURANCE (Winkler) Requires those policies of sickness and accident insurance, and those policies, contracts and agreements of health insuring corporations that provide dental care services to cover anesthesia and hospital services connected with a dental care service under certain circumstances.

HB 562 STUDENT AID COMMISSION (Damschroder) Removes statutory references to the Ohio Student Aid Commission.

HB 563 ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES (Terwilleger) Allows any customer within a community reinvestment area, enterprise zone, joint economic development district, or joint economic development zone, and to allow any political subdivision, to purchase electricity and related electric service from any supplier as of the act's effective date; authorizes a governmental entity creating such an area, district, or zone to be a retail supplier to such a customer; authorizes such a governmental, retail supplier to be a retail supplier also to an electric load center of any political subdivision within its jurisidictional boundaries; and terminates the provisions of this act on January 1, 2003.

HB 564 MEDICAID OUTREACH (Verich) Establishes the Ohio Medicaid Outreach Program for the purpose of reimbursing schools for performing certain services in the identification of pupils who have or are at risk of developing educational or health-related problems.

HB 565 COMPUTER/ TELECOMMUNICATIONS OFFENSES (Terwilleger) Relative to computer and telecommunications offenses.

HB 566 VETERANS' HOME (Brading) Makes changes to the laws pertaining to the Ohio Veterans' Home.

HB 567 COVENANT MARRIAGES (Young) Relative to covenant marriages.

HB 568 LICENSE PLATES (Wachtmann) Authorizes the issuance of a Ducks Unlimited license plate.

HB 569 PERS RETIREMENT (Williams) Permits members of the Public Employees Retirement System Law Enforcement Division to retire at age 48 with full benefits.

HB 570 FOOD PROGRAMS (Winkler) Provides for the State Board of Education to approve youth development centers' participation in the Child and Adult Care Food Program and declares an emergency.

HB 571 PUBLIC CONTRACTS (Tiberi) En. 9 & Rep. 5719. Allows state agencies, political subdivisions and public officers and employees to reject bids submitted by vendors who are delinquent in the payment of taxes, workers' compensation insurance premiums, unemployment compensation contributions, ,child support, court costs, or any other obligation discoverable in a public record.

HB 572 STATE PROPERTY (Schuler) Requires that the title of any instrument by which the state or an agency of the state acquires an interest in real property shall specify the agency for whose use and benefit the real property is acquired.

HB 573 LICENSE PLATES (Patton) Authorizes the issuance of Children's Trust license plates.

HB 574 FIREARM SAFETY (Patton) Prohibits a federally licensed firearms dealer from selling a handgun unless the dealer sells the purchaser a trigger lock for the handgun or a trigger lock is an integral component of the handgun and prohibits a federally licensed firearms dealer from selling a firearm without providing the buyer notice of specified firearms laws.

HB 575 BUDGET CORRECTIONS (Johnson) Am. 50 of Am. Sub. HB215 of the 122nd General Assembly. Makes corrections to dollar amounts for the supplemental unit allowance at entities other than city, exempted village or local school districts.

HB 576 PROPERTY TAX LEVIES (Clancy) Temporarily extends the deadline for certain municipal corporations to certify the property tax levies for appearance on the Nov. 4, 1997 election ballot, repeals Section 1 of this act effective Nov. 5, 1997 and declares an emergency.

HB 577 ATM's (Jerse) En. 1349. Adopts the Automated Teller Machine Safety Act.

HB 578 PERS (Luebbers) Am. & En. 145. Allows a member of the Public Employees Retirement System's law enforcement division to use years of Ohio service as a corrections officer in computing years of service for retirement in the law enforcement division is payment is made to the retirement system.

HB 579 CORPORATE FILINGS (Coughlin) Am. & En. 111, 1329, 1701, 1702, 1703, 1705, 1733, 1775, 1782 & 5733. Revises the manner in which the Secretary of State records certain filings made by corporations, limited liability companies, foreign limited liability companies, credit unions, limited partnerships and foreign limited partnerships; modifies the conditions under which a partnership becomes and continues to be a registered domestic limited liability partnership and allows such partnerships to file with the Secretary of State a statement of corrections regarding its registration application; specifies the conditions under which a foreign limited liability partnership's registration ceases; specifies the contents of a fictitious name report; provides for the cancellation of marks of ownership; provides for one year of name protection from the date of any corporate cancellation; and makes other revisions in the law governing the availability of trade names, trademarks and service marks, and for-profit and non-profit corporate names, the use of fictitious names, mark of ownership statements, merger certificates, the amending of articles of incorporation and applications filed by a foreign corporation for profit to conduct business in this state.

HB 580 PUCO CERTIFICATES (Schuck) Am. 4933 & 6112. Eliminates the requirement that the Public Utilities Commission issue certificates of public convenience and necessity for certain private sewage disposal systems and for sewage disposal system companies and waterworks companies that are not public utilities.

HB 581 HEALTH BOARDS (Batchelder) En. 3707. Allows the board of health of a city or general health district to own property.

HB 582 WATER & SEWER DISTRICTS (Maier) Am., En. & Rep. 6119. Provides for the filing of a petition of remonstrance to preclude the establishment of a regional water and sewer district or to preclude the construction by such a district of a water resource project that will be wholly or partially financed through special assessments.

HB 583 THEFT (James) Am. 2913. Enhances the penalty for theft when the offender has a prior theft offense conviction.

HB 584 COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY TRUSTEES (Boyd) Am. 3333, 3335 & 3345. Requires mandatory fiscal, fiduciary and ethical training of the board of trustees of a university or college that has been found to have significant financial problems and requires the board of trustees of each university or college to submit an annual fiscal and institutional well-being report to the General Assembly.

HB 585 CHILD ABUSE (Grendell) En. 5107. Denies cash assistance under the Ohio Works First Program to an individual who has had parental rights permanently terminated due to abuse or neglect or is guilty of abuse or neglect that resulted in a child's death.

HB 586 SCHOOL DONATIONS (Grendell) Am. & En. 5747. Grants a refundable credit against the personal income tax for individuals' cash donations to school districts.

HB 587 RECIPROCAL PREFERENCES (Wachtmann) En. 153. Establishes reciprocal preferences for contractors who contract to perform public improvements for political subdivisions other than chartered municipal corporations.

HB 588 CHILD SUPPORT EXEMPTION (Pringle) Am. 3113. Exempts amounts paid as federal, state, or local income taxes from consideration when determining child support payments.

HB 589 ART THERAPISTS (Grendell) Am. & En. 125 & 4757. Establishes licensure requirements for art therapists, changes the name and composition of the Counselor and Social Worker Board, and exempts licensed art therapists from testifying in certain cases.

HB 590 PRIVATE PRISON OPERATIONS (Coughlin) Am. 9. Requires the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to contract for the private operation and management of state correctional institutions constructed after the effective date of this act.

HB 591 OMVI VEHICLE FORFEITURE (Coughlin) Am. 4503, 4507 & 4511. Requires the criminal forfeiture to the state of the motor vehicle a person was operating at the time the person committed a third state or local OMVI offense within a six-year period, rather than the impoundment of the motor vehicle for 180 days.

HB 592 SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT LOANS (Callender) En. 3318. Establishes a loan program for school districts undertaking projects to improve, repair, renovate, or reconstruct permanent improvements and makes an appropriation.

HB 593 INTERIOR DESIGNERS (Tiberi) Am. & En. 153, 4745 & 4768. Permits interior designers who meet certain requirements to be certified as Ohio Certified Interior Designers.

HB 594 HEALTH CARE IMMUNITY (Roman) Rep. Sec. 2 & 3 of Am. Sub. HB218 of the 121st General Assembly, as subsequently amended, to provide for the continuing operation of the laws that established qualified immunity from civil liability for health care providers who provide free health care services to indigent and uninsured persons.

HB 595 VEHICLE EMISSIONS (Roman) Am. 3704. Specifies that a new motor vehicle is exempt for one year under a basic motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program regardless of a change of ownership of the vehicle and specifies that a motor vehicle inspection certificate is valid for one year under a basic program and two years under an enhanced program regardless of whether the legal title to the motor vehicle has been transferred during that period.

HB 596 HOUSING AUTHORITY POLICE (James) Am. 3735. Authorizes a metropolitan housing authority and a political subdivision to enter into an agreement that permits housing authority police officers to exercise police powers in specified areas of the political subdivision.

HB 597 DEPUTY REGISTRAR FEES (Bateman) Am. 4503, 4505, 4506, 4507 & 4519. Increases the service fees charged by deputy registrars for issuance of a motor vehicle certificate of registration, driver's license, and identification card, and to increase the fee for conducting a physical inspection of a vehicle last previously registered out of state.

HB 598 SALVAGE VEHICLES (Bateman) Am. 4505 & 4549. Provides that, in the case of certain motor vehicles, when an insurance company assigns a salvage certificate of title to such a motor vehicle to a salvage motor vehicle auction or salvage motor vehicle pool, the insurance company also must issue to the auction or pool an affidavit that lists all the motor vehicle components that are present in or on that motor vehicle that are required by federal law to bear vehicle identification numbers, and states that all the vehicle identification numbers on those components are present.

HB 599 HIGHWAY PATROL AUXILIARY (Bateman) En. 5503. Authorizes the Superintendent of the State Highway Patrol to establish a State Highway Patrol Auxiliary.

HB 600 COOPERATIVE LAW (Householder) Am., En. & Rep. 917, 1707 & 1729. Establishes the "Ohio Cooperative Law" by revising the agricultural cooperative law, by repealing the law governing consumers' and worker-owned cooperatives and by enacting provisions for mergers, consolidations, divisions and dissolutions of cooperatives.

HB 601 PFDPF (Hartley) Am. 742. Permits a recipient of partial disability benefits from the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund to apply for benefits based on permanent and total disability.

HB 602 JUDGESHIP (Callender) Am. 2301. Adds one General Division judge to the Court of Common Pleas of Lake County to be elected at the general election in November 2000.

HB 603 LAWMAKER EXEMPTIONS (Grendell) En. & Rep. 101 & 718. Prohibits the General Assembly from passing laws that exempt General Assembly members from the operation of state statutes or local ordinances or resolutions and eliminates the exemption granted to General Assembly members and their employees from paying certain municipal income taxes.

HB 604 SURVEY REQUIREMENTS (Wachtmann) Am. 315 & 319. Precludes county auditors and county engineers from requiring a survey in connection with certain types of real property transfers by deed.

HB 605 UTILITY TAX PAYMENTS (Householder) Am. 5727. Revises the notice requirements for appeals of public utility tangible personal property tax assessments and requires that a separate account be established in the amount of the tax payment to which a public utility objects.

HB 606 STATE MEDICAL BOARD (Schuring) Am. & En. 119, 121, 503, 1785, 2151, 2317, 2925, 3701, 3719, 4713, 4730, 4731, 4773 & 5123. Makes revisions in the disciplinary procedures used by the State Medical Board and makes other changes regarding the Board's licensing and enforcement duties.

HB 607 ARTISTS' RIGHTS (James) En. 4777. Relative to the rights of artists and the authorship and preservation of works of fine art.

HB 608 EXTERMINATING SERVICES (Amstutz) Am. 5739. Exempts from the sales and use tax sales of exterminating services for buildings or structures used for agricultural purposes.

HB 609 SCHOOL DISTRICTS (Householder) Am. & En. 9, 133, 725, 1728, 3313, 3735 & 5709. Changes the time period the school districts have to review tax exemption agreements entered into by political subdivisions, permits school districts to establish petty cash accounts to be accessed by district officials by check or debit card, changes the time period for local public officials to deposit public moneys, permits school districts to acquire motor vehicles by various financing methods, requires school boards to advertise for bids at least two consecutive weeks instead of four consecutive weeks and permits joint vocational school districts to enter into lease-purchase agreements for buildings.

HB 610 TURNPIKE TOLLS (Wachtmann) En. 5537. Eliminates the charging of tolls for motor vehicles weighing in excess of 8,000 pounds traveling on the western portion of the Ohio Turnpike from the interchange with I-75 to the Indiana border, requires the Department of Public Safety to conduct a safety study of the effects of this act and report the results to the General Assembly, and terminates this act two years after its effective date.

HB 611 VEHICLE TITLES (Harris) Am. & En. 4519. Requires that owners of certain off-highway motorcycles and all-purpose vehicles obtain certificates of title for the vehicles.

HB 612 MEDICAL LIABILITY EXEMPTION (Metzger) Am. 2305. Exempts dentists who volunteer as athletic team dentists and provide emergency care or first aid treatment to participants in school athletic events from liability in civil damages unless their actions constitute willful or wanton misconduct.

HB 613 SENIOR VOLUNTEERS (Wise) En. 323 & 3315. Allows boards of education to establish programs under which senior citizens can volunteer in the public schools in exchange for real property tax relief.

HB 614 CHILD WELFARE (Metzger) Am. & En. 2151 & 3793. Clarifies what is meant by reasonable efforts concerning attempts to prevent the removal of a child from the child's home and to return a child to the home, clarifies when reasonable efforts must be made, and requires the Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services to develop and implement as a priority a program to identify, treat and rehabilitate parents and families of children who are at imminent risk of becoming abused or neglected.

HB 615 TAX LEVIES (Schuler) Am. 319. Requires that county auditors give notice to the taxing authorities of the county of the expiration of a tax levy.

HB 616 HOME HEALTH CARE (Householder) En. 4752. Requires the licensure of home medical equipment services providers by the Ohio Respiratory Care Board.

HB 617 PROPERTY TAXES (Colonna) Am. 319 & 323. Freezes the taxable value of residence owned and occupied by persons 65 years of age or older.

HB 618 ACCIDENT SCENE (Opfer) Am. 4549. Increases penalty for leaving the scene of an accident that results in bodily harm.

HB 619 DEALER FRANCHISES (Perz) Am. & En. 4517. Makes changes in the law governing motor vehicle dealer franchises.

HB 620 RECKLESS HOMICIDE (Taylor) En. 2903. Creates the offense of reckless homicide.

HB 621 FARM LOANS (Haines) Am. & En. 122, 166 & 901 and Sec. 47 of Am. Sub. HB215 to create the Family Farm Loan Program and the Family Farm Loan Fund in the Department of Agriculture to omote agricultural development and terminates the provisions of this act on June 30, 1999 by repealing Secs. 901 of the Revised Code on that date and makes an appropriation.

HB 622 INTEREST DEDUCTIONS (Coughlin) Am. 5747. Permits taxpayers to deduct interest charged to margin accounts.

HB 623 POLITICAL ACTIVITY (Pringle) Am. 124. Eliminates certain restrictions on the partisan political activity of classified employees by generally making restrictions on such activity similar to the restrictions imposed on the political activity of federal employees.

HB 624 ASSAULT OFFENSES (Pringle) Am. 2903. Increases the penalty for certain assault offenses if the victim of the assault is a law enforcement officer.

HB 625 ELECTRIC RATES (Batchelder) Am. & En. 1309, 4905 & 4928. Authorizes electric utilities to issue rate reduction bonds to finance or refinance certain eligible costs and maintains the provisions of the act on and after July 1, 1998 by amending the version of Sec. 1309.04 of the Revised Code that takes effect on that date.

HB 626 PARISH HIGHWAY (Bateman) En. 5533. Designates SR 125 within Clermont County the "Edward J. Parish Highway."

HB 627 MOTOR VEHICLE OPERATION (Ford) En. 4511. Prohibits any person from operating a motor vehicle while engaged in any activity that impairs the ability of the person to control fully the vehicle.

HB 628 JUVENILE JUSTICE OVERSIGHT (Ford) En. 103 & Am. Sec. 76 of Am. Sub. HB215 of the 122nd General Assembly. Creates the Legislative Juvenile Justice Oversight Committee and makes an appropriation.

HB 629 CANDIDACY DECLARATION (Cates) Am. 3501. Gives a candidate whose declaration of candidacy, nominating petition or declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate is found to be invalid an opportunity to correct the declaration or petition prior to the filing deadline.

HB 630 FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (Cates) Am. 4503 & 4507. Requires an applicant for the registration of a motor vehicle and an applicant for the issuance or renewal of a driver's license, to provide a description of the proof of financial responsibility maintained by the applicant or on the applicant's behalf, with respect to the motor vehicle or the applicant's operation of a motor vehicle.

HB 631 SCHOOL AGE (Tavares) Am. 3313, 3317, 3321 & 3323. Requires a child under the age of six who attends kindergarten to be considered of compulsory school age.

HB 632 ELDERLY EXPLOITATION (Tiberi) En. 2913. Creates the offense of exploitation of an elderly person or disabled adult.

HB 633 HAZARDOUS DRUGS (Hodges) En. 4729. Requires the State Board of Pharmacy to establish a list of drugs that may be hazardous when different brands or generic equivalents are interchanged and requires a pharmacist refilling a prescription for such a drug to notify the patient and receive the prescribing physician's permission before dispensing another brand or a generic equivalent of the drug.

HB 634 PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION (Hodges) Am. 5709. Exempts from taxation the property held by a veterans organization although not organized exclusively for charitable purposes.

HB 635 BLOOD/ALCOHOL LIMIT (Damschroder) Am. 1547, 2903 & 4511. Reduces the prohibited concentrations of alcohol in a person's blood, breath or urine for purposes of the state OMVI law, watercraft law and related laws.

HB 636 LAW LIBRARIES (Grendell) Am. 1901, 1907 & 3375. Requires a county treasurer to disburse to the law library association in the county only 25% of the finds and forfeited bail moneys that the clerks of municipal and county courts in the count pay to the country treasury in relation to certain state liquor laws and the state traffic laws.

HB 637 SET ASIDES (Wise) Am. & Rep. 121, 122, 125, 153, 164, 169, 307, 340, 351, 3354, 3355, 3357, 3383, 4301, 4503, 4582, 4981, 5111 & 5126 and repeals Sec. 122.75 of the Revised Code as enacted by Am. Sub. HB117 of the 121st General Assembly and Sec. 122.75 of the Revised Code as enacted by Am. Sub. HB356 of the 121st General Assembly to eliminate the minority business enterprise development and set asides program and maintains the provisions of this act on and after March 4, 1998, by amending the version of Sec. 4301 of the Revised Code that takes effect on that date.

HB 638 FUEL TAX (Carey) Am. & En. 5735 & 5512. Reduces from four to two cents the portion of motor fuel taxes that may be used to administer and enforce the state's motor vehicle laws and requires that the Director of Transportation develop a process to assign new and existing highway projects to one of three tiers and requires that no Tier III highway project be funded by motor fuel taxes.

HB 639 SCHOOL AID (Carey) Am. 3317. Revises the formula for paying equity aid to school districts so that it equalizes the yield of 20 mills up to an adjusted valuation per pupil of $82,500 beginning in fiscal year 1999 and makes an appropriation.

HB 640 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (Sutton) Am. 2935. 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.

HB 641 HEALTH CARE (Sutton) En. 3924. Creates a cause of action against sickness and accident insurers and health insuring corporations that cause injury or damages as a result of interfering with the provision certain health care services.

HB 642 CONCEALED WEAPONS (Young) Am. & En. 109, 1547, 2151, 2921, 2923 & 4507. Establishes, consistent with Secs. 1 and 14 of Article I of the Ohio Constitution, an objective standard for an affirmative defense to carrying concealed weapons, as requested by the Court of Appeals for Ross County in State v. Orin (Ross County, 1992), 84 Ohio App. 3d 812, and certain other weapons offenses, requires the Registrar of Motor Vehicles to issue a family protection card to persons who satisfy the objective standard and maintains the provisions of this act on and after January 1, 1999, by amending the version of the Revised Code that takes place on that date.

HB 643 NATIONAL GUARD DAY (Carey) En. 2213. Designates July 25 as Ohio National Guard Day.

HB 644 SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES (Cates) Am. 4503. Eliminates the additional $10 fee that a person pays to compensate the Bureau of Motor Vehicles for additional services when issuing special license plates to those who served in certain combat zones and when renewing the registration of a motor vehicle bearing such license plate.

HB 645 FARMLAND PRESERVATION (Krebs) Am. & En. 121, 122, 123, 126, 135, 155, 164, 173, 303, 307 317, 519, 711, 713, 901, 903, 1501, 3701, 3709, 3745, 3793, 3901, 4503, 5101, 5120, 5119, 5123, 5139, 5501, 5502, 5512, 5535, 4440, 5713, 5731 & 5739. Provides for the preservation of farmland through agricultural conservation easements and the Farmland Preservation Linked Deposit Program; requires certain state agencies to preserve farmland whenever possible; provides for the issuance of farmland preservation license plates; requires the Director of Agriculture to be notified when land in an agricultural security changes in the county and township zoning laws and the platting law; provides for countywide comprehensive land use plans and requires transportation improvement districts to comply with any such plan; exempts from sales and use taxes building materials used in a community reinvestment area; makes changes in the estate tax law; makes changes regarding household sewage disposal systems; creates the Building Permit Uniformity Study Committee; requires permits for the construction or establishment of access connections providing access to a public street, road or highway in a county that has adopted a countywide comprehensive land use plan; and maintains the provisions of the act on and after July 1, 1998 by amending the version of Sec. 5139 of the Revised Code that takes effect on that date.

HB 646 SCHOOL FUNDING (Krebs) Am. En. & Rep. 319, 3315, 3317 & 5711. Phases-in a new method of funding elementary and secondary education that bases schools districts' state aid on their tax effort/capacity ratio.

HB 647 ATTORNEY FEES (Womer Benjamin) Am. & En. 2721, 2907 & 3709. Prohibits an award of attorney's fees under the Declaratory Judgments Law unless a statute expressly authorizes the award in connection with a particular type of declaratory relief action or proceeding.

HB 648 DISABILITY BENEFITS (Van Vyven) Am., En. & Rep. 145, 171, 742, 3307, 3309, 4123, 5505, 5703 & 5731. Makes changes to the disability benefit programs offered by the five state retirement systems, makes other changes in the law governing the state retirement systems and declares an emergency.

HB 649 LEGISLATIVE OPERATIONS (Gardner) Am. 101, 102, 103, 105, 123, 124, 125, 127, 129, 149, 164, 1555, 2331, 317, 5117, 5119, 5123 & 5528. Improves the operations of the General Assembly by permitting members to resign without a vote of acceptance, transferring responsibility for preservation of the final journals to the Ohio Historical Society, retitling the Legislative Clerk of the House as the Clerk of the House, retitling the Executive Secretary of the House as the Chief Administrative Officer of the House, updating the mileage paid to certain officers of the Senate and House and clarifying that only the principal sergeant at arms is to be paid mileage.

HB 650 EDUCATION BUDGET (Johnson) Am. & Rep. 50, 3317 & 3318. Makes specific appropriations and certain increases and decreases in existing appropriations for fiscal year 1999 and changes the use of the fiscal year 1998 year-end balance in the General Revenue Fund for purposes of funding elementary and secondary education beginning July 1, 1998.

HB 651 STATE SEAL (Mottley) Am. 5. Adds a representation of the Wright Brother's first piloted airplane to the Coat of Arms and Great Seal of the State of Ohio.

HB 652 TOWNSHIP DAY (Schuler) En. 5. Designates the first day of February of each year as Ohio Township Day.

HB 653 TREE TRIMMING (Schuler) Am. 715 & 5543. Authorizes municipal corporations, counties, and townships under certain conditions to remove or trim trees and shrubs located in the public right-of-way without the consent of, or without paying compensation to, abutting landowners.

HB 654 SCHOOL FUNDING (Jordan) Am., En. & Rep. 319, 321, 323, 3313, 3314, 3317, 3327, 65, 3770 & 5747. Implements child-centered school funding beginning July 1, 1999.

HB 655 JUDICIAL QUALIFICATION (Tavares) Am. 1901, 1907, 2301 & 2503. Includes any practice of law in the armed forces as practice that qualifies an attorney to serve as a judge.

HB 656 LAND CONVEYANCE (Opfer) Authorizes the conveyance of approximately 1.5 acres of real estate of the Department of Natural Resources in Erie County, located in an area known as the Kelleys Island State Park, to the Kelleys Island Board of Education.

HB 657 TRANSIENT VENDORS (O'Brien) Am. 505. Changes law that authorizes regulation of the activities of certain transient vendors by the boards of township trustees and allows such boards to prohibit these activities.

HB 658 NETWORK-TO-FREEDOM (Tavares) En. 149. Establishes the Ohio Network-to-Freedom Commission to preserve and promote and educate the general public about the Underground Railroad.

HB 659 SPORTS OFFICIAL ASSAULTS (Reid) Am. & En. 2903. Prohibits specified assaults on and harassment of sports officials.

HB 660 PATIENT DEATHS (Reid) Am. & En. 2108 & 2903. Creates the offense of hastening the death of a patient to facilitate an anatomical gift.

HB 661 CONDOMINIUM LAW (Kasputis) Am., En. & Rep. 317, 1335, 5301 & 5311. Revises the Ohio Condominium Law.

HB 662 TAX ABATEMENTS (Brady) Am. 133, 725, 1728, 3735 & 5709. Requires the legislative authority of a political subdivision that grants certain property tax exemptions to fully reimburse school districts for the amount of tax revenue that would have been received had the property not been exempted.

HB 663 ADULT DETENTION (Callender) Am. 341, 2151, 2301 & 4521. Permits adults suspected of, or adjudicated a delinquent child or a juvenile traffic offender, committing an offense while a juvenile to be detained in an adult detention facility and changes certain references to court referee to court magistrate.

HB 664 SCHOOL BOARDS (Mottley) Am. 3313. Expands the flexibility of school district voters to provide for the organization, composition, and method of selection of boards of education.

HB 665 WATER DIVERSION (Coughlin) Am. 1501. Provides that a withdrawal of water from either the Lake Erie or Ohio River drainage basis is a diversion for the purposes of certain permitting requirements regardless of whether the water is returned and declares an emergency.

HB 666 CHILD SUPERVISORS (Roberts) Am. & En. 109 & 2151. Requires a criminal records check of any person used as a hired employee or volunteer to supervise, direct, coach, judge, or act as an official or referee with respect to children as part of an organized activity for children.

HB 667 DRUG PRESCRIPTION AUTHORITY (Hodges) Am., En. & Rep. 2925, 3719, 4723, 4729, 4731, 5111 & 5123. Permits certified registered nurse anesthetists, clinical nurse specialists, certified nurse-midwives, and certified nurse practitioners to prescribe drugs and therapeutic devices.

HB 668 CHILD DAY-CARE (Winkler) Establishes a pilot project to permit the Hamilton County Department of Human Services to contract with Indiana and Kentucky child day-care providers for the purchase of publicly funded child day care.

HB 669 VISITATION RIGHTS (Winkler) Am. 2151 & 3109. Prohibits a court from granting custody or visitation rights to a noncustodial parent or relative of a noncustodial parent where the mother of the child was unmarried, the custodial parent has died and the noncustodial parent or relative has failed to communicate with the child without just cause.

HB 670 SEXUAL CONDUCT (Winkler) Am. & Rep. 109, 145, 742, 2151, 2901, 2907, 2929, 2935, 2937, 2945, 2950, 2953, 3301, 3307, 3309, 3319, 3701, 5104, 5126, 5153 & 5153. Expands the offense of rape to prohibit a person over eighteen years of age from engaging in sexual conduct with a person who is thirteen years of age or older but less than sixteen years of age.

HB 671 PERFORMANCE EXEMPTIONS (Batchelder) Am. & En. 3302 & 3314. Exempts a school district that meets at least 72% of the state performance standards from certain specified provisions of law including the requirement to reserve portions of annual revenues for specific purposes, the continuous improvement plan for school districts not at the level of an effective district, the prohibition against promoting a student who has not passed the fourth grade reading proficiency test and other specified mandates.

HB 672 DEADLINE EXTENSION (Johnson) Extends until February 4, 1998 the date by which the General Assembly must develop a plan to provide itemized appropriations to the Department of Education for the 1999 fiscal year and declares an emergency.

HB 673 SERS BENEFITS (Padgett) Am. & Rep. 3309. Increases the School Employees Retirement System (SERS) service retirement benefit for retirants with more than 30 years' service credit, increases the SERS death benefit to $1,000, and increases the SERS reimbursement for insurance coverage under Medicare Part B.

HB 674 REGIONAL LIBRARIES (Carey) Am. & Rep. 3375. Authorizes certain libraries to form regional library systems.

HB 675 HUMAN CLONING (Kasputis) En. 3728 & 4731. Prohibits the cloning of a human being and establishes the Human Cloning Advisory Council and terminates the provisions of the act five years after its effective date.

HB 676 PERCH FISHING (Young) En. 5. Recognizes the Perch Fishing Tournament held during the annual Perch Fest in Lake County as the State Perch-Fishing Championship and recognizes the winner of the tournament as the State Champion Perch Fisher for that year.

HB 677 HEALTH INSURANCE (Gardner) En. 1751. Relative to a health insuring corporation's liability for its utilization review determinations.

HB 678 BAIL DENIAL (Jacobson) En. & Rep. 2937. Enacts procedures to implement the amendment to Section 9 of Article I of the Ohio Constitution adopted in the November 1997 general election pursuant to which a judge may deny bail to a person accused of specified offenses.

HB 679 FOOD SERVICE (Mottl) Am. & En. 3732. Requires food service workers to wear sanitary gloves and a hair net or hat and food service operators to post a summary of inspection results.

HB 680 LSC/LBO & CIVIL SERVICE (Jacobson) Am. 103 & 124. Places certain employees of the Legislative Service Commission and the Legislative Budget Office in the classified civil service.

HB 681 TRAUMA SYSTEM (Schuck) Am., En. & Rep. 9, 125, 307, 505, 733, 2929, 2949, 3375, 3728, 3729, 3737, 4501, 4513, 4765, 4766, 4767, 5502, 5503 & 5739. Creates a statewide trauma system and makes other changes in the laws regarding emergency medical services and fire services.

HB 682 SCHOOL MAKE-UP (Hottinger) Am. 3313. Establishes the conditions under which a school district may make up required school days by extending the length of a school day of schools closed due to unforeseen delays in construction projects involving the schools and declares an emergency.

HB 683 CHILD SUPPORT (Mason) Am., En. & Rep. 145, 149, 169, 329, 742, 909, 917, 918, 919, 921, 926, 927, 943, 1321, 1322, 1347, 1349, 1533, 1541, 1547, 1561, 1565, 1905, 2151, 2301, 2317, 2329, 2705, 2919, 3103, 3105, 3107, 3109, 3111, 3113, 3115, 3119, 3301, 3304, 3305, 3307, 3309, 3319, 3332, 3701, 3705, 3710, 3719, 3723, 3727, 3737, 3742, 3770, 3773, 3783, 3905, 3921, 3924, 3931, 3941, 3949, 3951, 3959, 4104, 4123, 4141, 4506, 4507, 4511, 4701, 4703, 4705, 4707, 4709, 4713, 4715, 4717, 4723, 4725, 4727, 4728, 4729, 4730, 4731, 4732, 4733, 4734, 4735, 4736, 4738, 4739, 4740, 4741, 4747, 4749, 4751, 4753, 4755, 4757, 4759, 4761, 4763, 4765, 5101, 5104, 5107, 5123, 5126, 5153, 5505, 5703 & 5747. Makes changes to the laws governing child support and terminates provisions of this act on January 1, 1999 by repealing Secs. 3111 and 3113 on that date.

HB 684 MAYOR'S COURT COMPENSATION (Schuler) Am. 1905. Allows the compensation of a mayor's court magistrate to be fixed by contract.

HB 685 HEALTH INSURANCE (Jacobson) Am. & En. 1751. Holds a health insuring corporation responsible for harm to an enrollee proximately caused by the health insuring corporation's failure to exercise ordinary care in making a health care coverage decision or by the health insuring corporation's delay in reaching a decision; requires the Department of Insurance to annually prepare a brochure that enables the public to evaluate and make a meaningful comparison of health care plans of health insuring corporations; makes utilization review for the determination of the eligibility of an enrollee for health care services available at the request of an enrollee; requires health insuring corporations to consult with a knowledgeable physician with regard to utilization review; and requires the Superintendent of Insurance to review an enrollee's appeal of certain adverse coverage decisions of health insuring corporations.

HB 686 SEXUAL CONDUCT (Young) Am. 2903 & 3701. Includes within the offense of felonious assault a prohibition against any person, who knows that the person tested positive for HIV, engaging in sexual conduct with a minor or an unsuspecting adult partner.

HB 687 ISLAND TOWNSHIP TAX (Opfer) Am. 511. Permits an island township to levy a property tax, with voter approval, for the purpose of acquiring additional park land.

HB 688 JUNK VEHICLES (Jacobson) Am. 505. Defines "junk collector's motor vehicle" for purposes of the township junk motor vehicle law.

HB 689 SCHOOL REPAIR PROGRAM (Carey) Am. 3318 and Secs. 50, 130 & 147 of Am. Sub. HB215, 122nd General Assembly and Sec. 5 of Am. Sub. SB 102, 122nd General Assembly. Expands the beginning eligibility for participation in the emergency school building repair program to those districts with an adjusted valuation per pupil less than the adjusted valuation per pupil less than the adjusted valuation per pupil of the school district with the 458th lowest adjusted valuation per pupil in the state and makes an appropriation.

HB 690 SCHOOL BUSES (Stapleton) Am. 4511. Requires drivers of other vehicles to stop for any bus operated by an agency offering a Head Start program when the bus is equipped and marked as a school bus and is stopped to receive or discharge a child attending the program and declares an emergency.

HB 691 EMERGENCY SCHOOL LOANS (Patton) Am. & En. 3313 & 5705. Prohibits the approval of emergency school loans; requires the state to pay a school district for the costs of paying off its outstanding emergency school loans approved on or before January 31, 1997; and requires a district to repay the state within 20 years and without interest the full amount received from the state to pay off those loans.

HB 692 SCHOOL FUNDING (Johnson) Am., En. & Rep. 102, 3301, 3311, 3313, 3314, 3315, 3316, 3317, 3318, 3319, 3323, 3327, 3365 & 5707; Am. 50, 69, 76 & 130. Establishes a new system for funding education; makes specific appropriations and certain increases and decreases in existing appropriations for fiscal year 1999; makes certain appropriations contingent on approval of a constitutional amendment; and changes the use of the fiscal year 1998 year-end balance in the General Revenue Fund for purposes of funding elementary and secondary education beginning July 1, 1998.

HB 693 TRANSPORTATION COUNCIL (Olman) Am. 5512. Increases by two the membership of the Transportation Review Advisory Council.

HB 694 LEGAL PRACTICE (Schuler) Am. 5715. Clarifies who may file a complain with a county board of revision and declares that the filing of a complaint does not constitute the unauthorized practice of law.

HB 695 INVESTMENT ADVISORS (Stapleton) Am. & En. 1707. Modifies the securities law, including modifications to the list of securities transactions exempt from registration, provisions for notice filings by investment companies and in connection with covered security offerings, provisions for electronic filing, provisions for the registration and regulation of investment advisors and investment advisor representatives and other provisions for related changes.

HB 696 POSTJUDMENT INTEREST (Mason) Am. 2743. Eliminates the condition that the state must have appealed a judgment or determination in a civil action not based on tortious conduct in order for a prevailing claimant on appeal to recover specified postjudgment interest.

HB 697 SALES TAX INCREASE (Johnson) Am. & En. 319, 5711, 5727, 5739 & 5747. Levies an additional one-half per cent sales and use tax, the proceeds of which must be used for schools and provide for property tax relief; reduces from 10% to % the property tax reduction for nonresidential, nonagricultural real property; reduces the assessment rate on business inventory for property tax purposes; authorizes taxpayers to claim a refundable income tax credit for a portion of their residential property tax payments; makes an appropriation; and provides that the act take effect only after being approved by the electors.

HB 698 HEALTH INSURANCE (Van Vyven) Am. & En. 1739, 1751, 1907, 2305, 3901, 3923, 3924, 3999 & 5112. Conforms provisions in the health insuring corporation law and the sickness and accident insurance law with the health insurance portability and accountability act of 1996; clarifies other provisions in these laws; and specifies how health insuring corporations are to bring their net worth into compliance with the health insuring corporation law.

HB 699 MENTAL HEALTH CARE (Ford) Am. 5122. Specifies the circumstances under which a mental health care provider has a duty to protect a person from a threat of serious physical harm made by the provider's client and when that duty is discharged.

HB 700 YOUTH COMMISSION (Ford) En. 105. Provides for the establishment and operation of the Commission on Youth and Suicide and terminates the provisions of the act on December 31, 2001.

HB 701 PRUDENT INVESTOR ACT (Mason) Am. & En. 1111, 1339, 2109 & 2109. Adopts the Uniform Prudent Investor Act of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.

HB 702 LAW LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS (Womer Benjamin) Am., En. & Rep. 733, 1901, 1905, 1907, 2335 & 3375. Modifies the provisions governing the distribution of finds, penalties and forfeited bail to law library associations.

HB 703 PROBATE LAWS (Womer Benjamin) Am., En. & Rep. 1340, 2107, 3131 & 5731. Revises the Probate Laws.

HB 704 FALSE IDENTIFY (Ford) En. 2913. Creates the offense of taking the identity of another.

HB 705 TOWNSHIP GOVERNMENT (Batchelder) Am. & En. 109, 133, 309, 504, 505, 709, 711, 1901, 2921, 3737, 3767, 3781, 4301, 5543, 5549 & 5573. Refers to townships that have adopted the limited self-government form of township government as "limited home rule townships," makes changes in the laws governing those townships and permits any township to issue securities or change the provisions for issuing debt, for specified purposes.

HB 706 CORPORAL PUNISHMENT (Ford) Am. 3113. Exempts from the definition of domestic violence the administration of discipline or corporal punishment to a child in a manner that is not a violation of the offense of endangering children.

HB 707 ALCOHOL TESTING (Ford) Am. 2317. Requires a health care provider to supply the results of a test of a person's blood, breath or urine to specified officers if they indicate a prohibited blood, breath or urine alcohol concentration and if either the person operated a vehicle that was in an accident within the two hours preceding the test or the provider knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the person operated a motor vehicle within that two-hour period.

HB 708 SCHOOL BOARD LEVY (Mottley) Am. & En 319, 323 & 5705. Permits school boards to levy, with voter approval, a property tax of up to 5 mills that would not be subject to existing limitations on revenue growth.

HB 709 HOSPITAL TRUSTEES (Wachtmann) Am. 339. Eliminates the requirement that a board of county hospital trustees have an equal number of members from each of the county's two main political parties.

HB 710 MINING (Vesper) Am. & En. 1514. Authorizes the chief of the Division of Mines and Reclamation to adopt rules establishing certain requirements and standards governing surface mining operations, requires applicants for a surface mining permit to include provisions in their mining and reclamation plans to meet those requirements and standards, establishes public notice requirements for surface mining permit applications similar to the public notice requirements for coal mining permit applications, requires an applicant for a surface mining operation to include a schedule of past violations of certain environmental laws as part of the permit application and requires applicants to certify that they will comply with state environmental laws and with laws and ordinances of local governments.

HB 711 PRIVATE ENTERPRISE (Householder) En. & Rep. 121. Establishes the Ohio Private Enterprise Review Commission to review commercial activities of state agencies, prohibits state agencies from performing commercial activities that are ruled inappropriate and abolishes the Ohio Private Enterprise Review Commission on Dec. 31, 2001.

HB 712 HANDICAPPED PARKING (Williams) Am. 3781, 4503, 4507 & 4511. Increases penalties for a violation of the special parking privileges established for persons with certain disabilities and makes changes in the application process for removable windshield placards.

HB 713 SPORTS FACILITIES (Ogg) En. 9. Requires that tax levies to fund construction of professional sports facilities must be resubmitted to the electors if cost estimates grow by at least 20 percent.

HB 714 HEALTH INSURANCE (Britton) En. 1742 & 3923. Requires all health maintenance organization contracts, policies of sickness and accident insurance and public employee benefit plans to provide coverage for services related to the diagnosis, treatment and appropriate management of osteoporosis.

HB 715 REVERSE MORTGAGE LOANS (Britton) En. 1349. Requires a person or financial institution to charge reasonable fees, as established by the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, in connection with the referring, making or servicing of a reverse mortgage loan.

HB 716 CORPORATION LAW (Womer Benjamin) Am., En. & Rep. 1151 & 1701. Modifies the General Corporation Law, including modifications to alter the requirements for the formation of a corporation, including the contents of the articles of incorporation, the terms of and subscription for shares, and the adoption of corporate regulations; specifies the liability of directors for improper dividends, distributions, purchases, and redemptions of shares; limits the indemnification of directors; specifies limits on pre-emptive rights of shareholders; specifies the rights of fractional shareholders; specifies the liability of shareholders to the corporation and its creditors; specifies the determination of the date for measuring the effect of a dividend or distribution on a corporation; specifies a record date for determining the eligibility of shareholders for a dividend or distribution; permits a reduction in the size of executive and other committees of directors; and specifies the authority of incorporators, initial directors, and subsequent directors of a corporation to amend the articles of incorporation.

HB 717 DEFIBRILLATION/LIABILITY (Vesper) En. 2305 & 3701. Authorizes the performance of automated external defibrillation and provides civil and criminal immunity.

HB 718 INSURANCE COVERAGE (Olman) En. 3924. Prohibits discrimination in the coverage of severe mental illnesses in all health insurance contracts and policies delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed in this state.

HB 719 MENTAL HEALTH BEHAVIOR (Vesper) Am. & En. 2305 & 5122. Regarding actions by mental health professionals and organizations to predict, warn of, or take precautions to prevent the violent behavior of mental health clients or patients.

HB 720 PRESCRIPTION DRUGS (Batchelder) En. 1753 & 3923. Relative to coverage for prescription drug services provide by "any willing pharmacies" under policies of sickness and accident insurers and health insuring corporations.

HB 721 OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY (Bateman) En. 4777. Prohibits persons from using certain titles relating to the practice of occupational safety or the practice of industrial hygiene unless they meet specified requirements, establishes those requirements, and generally prohibits political subdivisions from restricting the practice of occupational safety or of industrial hygiene by those who meet specified requirements.

HB 722 MEMORIAL HIGHWAY (Batchelder) En. 5533. Designates a portion of SR 7 within Belmont County the "A.G. Lancione Memorial Highway."

HB 723 AWARENESS DAY (Opfer) En. 5. Designates the twelfth day of May as Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome Awareness Day.

HB 724 LINKED DEPOSITS (Beatty) Am. & En. 135. Requires the Treasurer of State to establish the Minority Development Linked Deposit Program.

HB 725 CHURCH TAXES (Beatty) Permits, for a limited time, the abatement of unpaid property taxes, penalties and interest owed by churches.

HB 726 JUROR COMPENSATION (Beatty) Am. 2313 & 2939. Increases the compensation of jurors.

HB 727 ELECTION BALLOTS (Williamowski) Am. 3505. Allows a board of elections to choose to have a reduced number of ballots prepared for an election and requires a board that so chooses to supply additional ballots to a precinct on demand.

HB 728 TAX REFUNDS (Young) Am. & En. 5737 & 5747. Eliminates the payment of interest by a taxpayer on certain excess refunds of state income or Corporation franchise taxes.

HB 729 LOBBYISTS ETHICS (Jacobson) Am. & En. 101, 102 & 121. Transfers from the Joint Legislative Ethics Committee to the Office of Legislative Inspector General the administration and enforcement of the laws governing legislative agents and executive agency lobbyists; makes other changes in these laws; crates the Lobbying Regulatory Council and abolishes the Lobbying Regulation Council on December 31, 2001 by repealing Sec. 101.80 of the Revised Code on that date.

HB 730 PERS MILITARY CREDIT (Jolivette) Am. 145. Changes the requirements for eligible members of the Public Employees Retirement System to purchase military service credit and the method of computing a member's payment for the credit.

HB 731 DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES (Callender) Am., En. & Rep. 109, 123, 145, 149, 1501, 1502, 1503, 1504, 1505, 1506, 1507, 1509, 1511, 1513, 1515, 1517, 1518, 1520, 1521, 1531, 1533, 1541, 1547, 1548, 2935, 3937, 4905, 5749 & 6111. Revises the statutes governing the Department of Natural Resources.

HB 732 ELECTRIC DEREGULATION (Mead) Am., En. & Rep. 113, 718, 1551, 3317, 4905, 4906, 4909, 4911, 4913, 4928, 4933, 4935, 5703, 5705, 5727 & 5733. Provides for competition in retail electric service, including provisions regarding market structure, consumer protection, retail marketing areas, and transition revenues; levies a kilowatt-hour excise tax on electric distribution companies; revises taxes for electric companies and rural electric companies; and reduces tax assessment rates on the tangible personal property of electric companies and rural electric companies, except for transmission and distribution property.

HB 733 STATE FRUIT (Tiberi) En. 5. Adopts the Melrose apple as the official state fruit.

HB 734 RURAL HOSPITALS (Ogg) Am. & En. 4731. Permits rural hospitals to employ physicians.

HB 735 CPR INSTRUCTION (Roberts) Am. & En. 3313 & 3701. Requires that licensed and nonlicensed individuals who teach, direct, supervise, or coach school or municipal recreation activities that involve athletics, physical education, or physical exercise be trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and in other emergency procedures, requires that all pupils who participate in school or municipal indoor recreation activities that involve athletics, physical education, or physical exercise be given basic instruction in how to perform CPR and in other emergency procedures, requires that schools and municipal gymnasiums and indoor recreation centers post information about how to perform CPR and other emergency procedures, and requires that schools and municipal gymnasiums or indoor recreation centers include respirators in their first aid kits.

HB 736 SCHOOL INCOME TAX (Krebs) Am. 5748. Clarifies that the ballot language concerning renewal of a school district income tax include a statement that the proposed tax is a renewal.

HB 737 EXCAVATION CALL SYSTEM (Olman) En. & Rep. 3781. Provides for the establishment and operation of a single, statewide, one-call notification system as a means of preventing or minimizing damage to subsurface facilities as a result of excavations occurring in this state.

HB 738 PRIVATE PRISON MORATORIUM (Gerberry) Places a five-year moratorium on the privatization of state correctional facilities, except for such facilities required by law to be privatized and establishes the Joint Legislative Committee to Study the Privatization of State Correctional Facilities.

HB 739 ATTORNEY'S FEES (Willamowski) Am. & En. 1301 & 1309. Provides for the enforceability of commitments to pay attorney's fees in commercial contracts of indebtedness.

HB 740 COURT COSTS (Willamowski) Am. 2301, 2335, 3113 & 5101. Regarding the collection of court costs.

HB 741 PROFESSIONAL SURVEYORS (Garcia) En. 4733. Provides professional surveyors with a right of entry onto lands and water to conduct surveys, limits the liability of the surveyor when exercising that right and limits the liability of the landowner for injuries to a surveyor exercising that right.

HB 742 INTOXICATION LIABILITY (Mason) Am. 2901. Relative to the criminal liability of a person who is intoxicated.

HB 743 STATE CONTRACTS (Schuring) En. 9. Prohibits state agencies from awarding contracts to a person who has employed unauthorized aliens and encourages political subdivisions to impose sanctions upon such employers.

HB 744 SEPTIC/DRAINAGE BOND (Amstutz) Am. & En. 1723 & 3707. Authorizes a board of health of a city or general health district to require a performance bond or other cash surety to indemnify the board and landowners against damage to septic systems and drainage tiles caused by excavation of land by a company that enters or appropriates the land pursuant to the Corporate Appropriation of Property Law.

HB 745 VEHICLE SALVAGE DEALERS (Bateman) Am. 4549. Provides an affirmative defense for a licensed motor vehicle salvage dealer to a criminal charge involving a motor vehicle or motor vehicle parts that bear defaced, covered, altered, or destroyed vehicle identification numbers or are missing such numbers, if the dealer obtained the vehicle or parts from an insurance company authorized to do business in this state via a licensed salvage motor vehicle auction or salvage motor vehicle pool.

HB 746 SINGLE-SEX SCHOOLS (Britton) En. 3313. Permits school districts with an average daily membership of 25,000 or more students to establish single-gender schools for grades seven to twelve.

HB 747 POLITICAL TAX CREDIT (Britton) Am. 5747. Provides that the Ohio political contributions credit, which may be claimed on the Form IT-1040 Ohio income tax return, also may be claimed on the Form IT-1040EZ return for single filers with no dependents.

HB 748 BINGO LICENSES (Britton) Am. 2915. Includes nonprofit job training organizations among the charitable organizations eligible to receive a charitable bingo license.

HB 749 FOSTER CARE (Boyd) En. 5101. Requires the Department of Human Services to establish a system to approve a relative's provision of foster care to a child who needs foster care and is eligible for federal foster care maintenance payments.

HB 750 DISABILITY/HANDICAP (Sutton) Am. 124, 125, 153, 175, 176, 306, 717, 1501, 2927, 3781, 4112, 4117, 4735, 4757, 5119 & 5123. Substitutes the term "disability" for the term "handicap" in the law pertaining to the Ohio Civil rights Commission and certain other related laws.

HB 751 LEGISLATIVE DOCUMENTS (Batchelder) Designates as confidential certain documents prepared by the staff of the Legislative Service Commission for members of the General Assembly and certain materials related to these documents.

HB 752 CHILD ENTICEMENT (Ford) Am. 2905. Expands the offense of criminal child enticement.

HB 753 JUVENILE OFFENSES (Gerberry) Am. 2151, 2941, 2971 & 5139. Provides that, if a juvenile court does not bind over for criminal prosecution a juvenile alleged to be a delinquent child for committing an act that would be aggravated murder or murder if committed by an adult, the juvenile court must conduct delinquency adjudication and disposition hearings in accordance with the Criminal Code and Criminal Rules; provides that a juvenile court may impose on a child adjudicated a delinquent child for committing an act that would be aggravated murder or murder if committed by an adult a dispositional sentence comparable to the life sentences that may be imposed on a person convicted in a criminal prosecution of aggravated murder or murder and maintains the provisions of this act on and after Jan. 1, 1999, by amending the version of section 2151 of the Revised Code that take effect on that date.

HB 754 VETERANS' HOMES (Brading) En. 5709. Creates the Committee to Establish the Veterans' Home Network to study the establishment of a network of facilities to expand the delivery of certain services to veterans and authorizes the Board of Trustees of the Ohio Veterans' Home to enter into certain agreements to provide those services.

HB 755 UNRULY CHILDREN (Willamowski) Am. 121 & 2151. Revises the definition of an unruly child, requires counties to develop a process to deal with children alleged to be or at risk of becoming unruly children, and requires the Office of Criminal Justice Services to collect and analyze information regarding resources serving these children.

HB 756 EYE HEALTH FUND (Jolivette) En. 3701 & 4503. Creates the Save Our Sight Fund to support eye health and safety programs for children, requires the Registrar of Motor Vehicles and deputy registrars to request contributions to the fund from applicants for motor vehicle registration and renewal, and requires the Department of Health to develop informational materials on eye care and safety.

HB 757 SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY FUNDING (Callender) Specifies that the existing fiscal year 1999 appropriation for the Special Education Enhancements line item (Am.Sub.HB650) includes funding for school psychology interns.

HB 758 MINIMUM WAGE (Britton) Am. 4111. Increases the state minimum wage.

HB 759 WILDLIFE GIFT CERTIFICATES (Opfer) En. 1533. Authorizes the chief of the Division of Wildlife in the Department of Natural Resources to sell gift certificates for hunting and fishing licenses, permits, and stamps.

HB 760 CABLE TELEVISION (Olman) Am. & En. 324, 718, 1771, 5701, 5709, 5733 & 5739. Provides for fair competition in the provision of cable television services by establishing conditions under which governmental cable operators may be formed, including the franchising of those operators by the Public Utilities Commission, and by taxing such operators in the manner of private cable operators.

HB 761 ARCHITECT RECIPROCITY (Healy) Am. 4703. Limits reciprocity of licensure in this state for architects who are registered in another jurisdiction only if that jurisdiction offers similar reciprocity for architects registered in this state.

HB 762 VILLAGE PROPERTY (Schuler) Am. 703. Requires that property of a village that surrenders its corporate powers be divided among the townships located within the village.

HB 763 BURIAL CONTRACTS (Schuler) Am. & En. 517, 759, 1111, 1151, 1161, 1319, 1345, 1721, 1733, 2117, 2925, 4735 & 4767. Revises laws dealing with the operation and registration of cemeteries and with preneed burial vault contracts.

HB 764 VISITATION RIGHTS (Reid) Am. & En. 2151, 2705, 3109, 3113, 5104 & 5153. Requires a court to deny visitation rights to a parent who has been convicted of causing the death of the other parent of the child.

HB 765 TOWNSHIP PARTITIONING (Terwilleger) Am. 503. Provides that a township reduced at the request of a municipal corporation to less than 22 square miles may continue as a reduced township unless a petition is filed by the township electors, changes the procedure for partitioning a township, and changes who may petition in a township to have the unincorporated township territory separated from the incorporated township territory.

HB 766 ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES (Reid) En. 1751 & 3923. Requires certain sickness and accident insurance policies, public employee benefit plans, and health insuring corporation policies, contracts, and agreements to provide coverage for oral contraceptives.

HB 767 REAL ESTATE APPRAISERS (Tiberi) Am. 4763. Changes the experience, education, and continuing education requirements of real estate appraisers.

HB 768 SLUDGE PERMITS (Krebs) Am. 3745 & 6111. Authorizes the Ohio EPA director to issue permits for the use, storage, treatment, or disposal of sludge and sludge materials, imposes an annual sludge fee, and otherwise regulates sludge.

HB 769 RETIREMENT BENEFIT EXEMPTION (Coughlin) Am. 5747. Exempts from the personal income tax up to $10,000 in state and federal government retirees' retirement benefits.

HB 770 BUDGET CORRECTIONS (Johnson) Am. & Rep. numerous sections of the ORC. Corrects, supplements, and modifies certain authorizations and conditions established for the operation and administration of state programs and makes appropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 1999.

HB 771 INSURANCE DIRECTORS (Batchelder) Am. & En. 3901 & 3906. Relative to training for boards of directors of insurers, audit committees of such boards, audits of insurers by independent auditors, examinations of insurers by the Superintendent of Insurance, and approval of certain compensation schedules, payments, and other transactions of insurers.

HB 772 ALTERNATIVE MEDINCE (Terwilleger) Am. 4731. Permits physicians to use alternative medical treatments if the risk of harm is reasonable when compared to the potential benefit, the patient p enforced by the State Medical Board.

HB 773 FORECLOSURES (Garcia) En. 323. Authorizes foreclosure actions against the principal residence of the owner of tax-delinquent real property.

HB 774 FOSTER CARE (Ford) En. 5103. Establishes training requirements for foster caregivers and operators of group homes, requires audits of payments made for the training and imposes conditions on the rectification of a group home that has its certificate revoked for operating in a manner that poses a threat to the safety of children.

HB 775 VICTIM RIGHTS (Evans) Am. 109, 2151 & 2930. Relative to the rights of victims in delinquency proceedings.

HB 776 EQUITY AID (Carey) Am. 3317. Partially offsets the phase-out of equity aid by guaranteeing the fiscal year 1998 equity school districts at least five per cent annual increase in state basic aid per pupil.

HB 777 FRANCHISE TAX/SCHOOL FUNDS (Brady) Am. 5733. Increases the corporation franchise tax rate on net income and requires that the resultant additional revenue be used for primary and secondary education

HB 778 LICENSE PLATE (Britton) En 4501 & 4503. Creates a special license plate for cancer research and establishes that contributions for obtaining the special license plate be deposited in a fund to be used by the Department of Health to help finance grants for cancer research.

HB 779 APPRAISER EDUCATION (Britton) Am. 4763. Requires real estate appraisers to complete a course of continuing education on federal, state and municipal fair housing law in order to be eligible for certification or licensure as a real estate appraiser.

HB 780 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION (Olman) Am. 323 & 4503. Modifies the computation of income under the homestead exemption in order to prevent elderly homeowners from becoming disqualified for the exemption because of the change in the classification of their benefits from disability to retirement benefits.

HB 781 NON-PUBLIC EDUCATION (Wise) En 9, 3313 & 3345. Prohibits public employers from discriminating in hiring based on the fact that the applicant received a primary or secondary education using an alternative other that public education, prohibits state universities and colleges from discriminating in admissions or placement decisions on that basis, requires such institutions to accept credit from other institutions of higher education regardless of whether they are accredited and specifies the manner in which students who were excused from public school attendance are to be placed if they return to school.

HB 782 PRISON MATERIALS (Coughlin) En. 5120. Codifies provisions governing the receipt and retention of specified inflammatory materials, specified obscene or other sexually-oriented materials and other types of materials by prisoners in state correctional institutions.

HB 783 SMOKING ORDINANCES (Schuler) Am. 3709. Requires that any orders or rules enacted by a board of health related to smoking be adopted by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation or township before those orders or rules are effective within the boundaries of that political subdivision.

HB 784 HIGHWAY BUSINESS SIGNS (Tiberi) Am. 4511. Extends the business logo sign program operated by the Department of Transportation to include highways located in urban as well as rural areas.

HB 785 EMANCIPATION DATE (Ford) En. 5. Designates the nineteenth day of June as "Juneteenth Day" to commemorate the emacipation of the last black slaves in 1865.

HB 786 TITLE PAGE LENDER (Stapleton) Am. & En. 1321 & 4727. Establishes a new type of lender, the Title Page Lender, to offer loans secured by a security interest in a motor vehicle.

HB 787 COMMISSIONER COMPENSATION (Stapleton) En. 325. Requires that the compensation paid to each county commissioner whose term commences on or after January 1, 1999, be equal to that of each other county commissioner with in the same county.

HB 788 MEDICAL ADAPTIVE EQUIIPMENT (Tiberi) Am. & En. 5111. Establishes the Adaptive Equipment Review Committee to review denials under the Medicaid Program of adaptive equipment for certain Medicaid recipients and makes other changes to the law governing the Medicaid Program.

HB 789 SENIOR AUTO INSURANCE (Verich) Am. 3937. Relative to the type of examination required by motor vehicle accident prevention courses, the successful completion of which may result in an automobile insurance premium reduction for insureds who are 60 years of age or older.

HB 790 COUNTY/TOWNSHIP ROADS (Lawrence) En. 307 & 505. Authorizes counties and townships to impose admission surcharges on events causing extraordinary wear and tear on county and township roads.

HB 791 CARE PROVIDER DAY (James) En. 5. Designates the eighteenth day of April as "Exemplary Care Provider Day."

HB 792 TORT EXEMPTION/GUIDE DOGS (Netzley) Am. 955. 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 793 WELFARE REVISION (Prentiss) Am. 5101, 5104, 5107, 5111, 5115. Revises the law governing the Ohio Works First and Food Stamp programs and declares an emergency.

HB 794 MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSE (Grendell) Am. 2921. Increases the penalty for "failure to comply with an order or signal of a police officer" regarding the dangerous operation of a motor vehicle.

HB 795 FLOOD DISASTER RELIEF (Johnson) Am. Section 40 of Am. Sub. HB215. Appropriates additional funds for 1998 flood disaster relief.

HB 796 LIQUOR PERMITS (Miller) Am. 4303. Requires that the appropriate local legislative authority approve the transfer of certain liquor permits to a business that the Superintendent of Liquor Control has designated as an economic development project.

HB 797 PROXY VOTING (Miller) Am. 1701. Permits a voting proxy of a shareholder or other authorized person to be signed by the shareholder or person electronically, provided that the electronic signature meets specified requirements.

HB 798 TOWNSHIP PARKS (O'Brien) Am. & En. 511. Revises the Township Park District Law.

HB 799 COUNTY OFFICES (Buchy) Am. & Rep. 120, 307, 339, 3319, 3709 & 5705. Allows, rather than requires, the board of county commissioners to provide and equip offices for educational service centers; clarifies that the board of county commissioners is permitted, but is not required, to furnish suitable quarters for certain boards of health or health departments; requires the state to reimburse counties for 50% of the total costs associated with the defense of certain indigent persons; and generally requires the state to reimburse counties for certain costs associated with the care of individuals with tuberculosis.

HB 800 CHILD ENDANGERMENT (Young) Am. 2919. Increases the penalties, under certain circumstances, for violation of the offense of endangering children if the offender previously has been convicted of the offense of domestic violence or violation of a municipal ordinance substantially similar to the offense of domestic violence.

HB 801 CHILD SUPPORT (Netzley) Am. & En. 2705, 3109, 3113 & 3115. 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 802 CORPORATE TAXATION (Jerse) Am. & En. 5733 & 5747. Taxes income received by an electing small business trust on account of the distributive share of income or gain from an S corporation.

HB 803 MUNICIPAL INCOME TAXES (Thomas) Am. 718 & 733. Enacts new sections to prescribe uniform payment, reporting, and interest provisions for municipal income taxes and to make other changes in municipal income tax laws.

HB 804 ACCIDENT NOTIFICATION (Thomas) Am. 4549. Requires that the parent or guardian of a minor involved in a motor vehicle accident be notified of the accident, and in general, requires that the minor receive a medical evaluation and treatment.

HB 805 COUNTY BID PREFERENCES (Ford) Am. 307. Allows a board of county commissioners to adopt a system of preference in county purchasing for bidders whose business is located within the county.

HB 806 VETERANS HIGHWAY (Stapleton) En. 5533. Designates US Route 35 within Fayette County the "Veterans Memorial Highway."

HB 807 UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS (Brady) Am. 4141. Changes the unemployment benefits eligibility requirements for those individuals who are unemployed due to a labor dispute.

HB 808 NEEDLE EXCHANGE (Ford) En. 2925. Permits municipal corporations with a population of at least 300,000 to establish a needle exchange program for drug abusers and addicts and terminates the provisions of the act two years after the effective dates of the act by repealing sec. 2925.52.

HB 809 PRE-NEED FUNERAL (James) Am. 1111 & 1721. Requires that a pre-need funeral contract or a pre-need burial vault contract clearly specify contract terms and conditions, disclose the goods and services included in the contract, specify any additional costs for which the purchaser of the contract may be liable and itemize the costs of the contract; provides that any such additional costs may not exceed the corresponding costs in effect at the time of the initial contract.

HB 810 HEALTH CARE RECORDS (Hartley) En. 2927. Prohibits the sale of health care records.

HB 811 RAILROAD SAFETY WEEK (Opfer) En. 5. Designates the second full week in May as "Ohio Railroad Safety Week."

HB 812 CHIROPRACTIC PRACTICE (Schuring) Am. & En. 119, 121, 125, 1701, 1705, 1785, 2305, 2317, 2929, 3701, 3719, 3729, 4723, 4725, 4729, 4731, 4732, 4734, 4755 & 5903. Revises the laws pertaining to the practice of chiropractic.

HB 813 SENIOR SERVICES TAX (Sulzer) Am. 5705. Permits property taxes for senior citizens services or facilities to be levied for a continuing period of time.

HB 814 UTILITY SLAMMING (Goodman) Am. 1345 & 4933. Prohibits any person from switching a consumers provider of natural gas or public telecommunications service or effecting a consumer's subscription to new service, without first obtaining the consumer's verified consent in accordance with rules of the Public Utilities Commission and provides various remedies and penalties including application of those under the Consumer Sales Practices Act.

HB 815 TITLE INSURANCE AGENCY (Stapleton) Am. 3953. Eliminates the prohibition against lending institutions and real estate companies acting as agents for a title insurance company and permits, under certain circumstances, controlled business arrangements in the provision of title insurance business.

HB 816 PRIVATE PRISONS (Gerberry) Am. 9. Allows a private prison that houses out-of-state prisoners to operate in Ohio only if it was constructed and the private entity that runs it had commenced its operation before this act's effective date.

HB 817 SCHOOL FUNDING (Netzley) Am. 3317, 3770 & 5747. Earmarks 88% of the personal income tax for primary and secondary education expenditures, in addition to all lottery profits, and creates a new method for distributing state aid among school districts.

HB 818 INDIGENT DEFENSE COSTS (Sulzer) Am. 120. Requires the state to reimburse counties for 50% of the total costs associated with the defense of certain indigent persons.

HB 819 FIREWORKS SAFETY (Brady) Am. 3743. Requires that wire or other material designated in rules of the State Fire Marshall be used in fireworks exhibitions to secure launching equipment and prohibits the improper dismantling or repositioning of materials used in a fireworks exhibition.

HB 820 PATIENTS' RIGHTS (Maier) Am. 1751, 1753. Establishes the Office of Patient Advocate in the Department of Health, makes changes to the Health Insuring Corporation Law regarding the liability and operation of health insurance corporations, including changes to make health insurance corporations liable for harm to enrollees caused by their health care, requires that a licensed physician fill the medical director's position at health insuring corporations, increases enrollees access to external appeals when denied coverage and makes other changes.

HB 821 PUPIL EXPULSION (Brading) Am. 3313. Permits a school district superintendent to expel a pupil who has brought a firearm or knife to a school or has possessed a firearm or knife at such school or on school property even if the pupil withdraws from the school before the superintendent has conducted an expulsion hearing or has made the decision to expel the pupil.

HB 822 RECORDS EXPUNGEMENT (Callender) Am., En. & Rep. 2151. Revises the procedure by which a juvenile court may expunge records of alleged and adjudicated delinquent and unruly acts and repeals the juvenile court's authority to expunge juvenile traffic offender records.

HB 823 AGRICULTURAL LABOR CAMP (Taylor) Rep. 3707. Eliminates the requirement that a person who maintains an agricultural labor camp pay to a municipal corporation, township or county where the camp is located an expenses caused by contagious or infectious diseases that originate or exist in the camp.

HB 824 DRUNK DRIVING (Damschroder) Am. 2151, 2929, 4507, 4509 & 4511. Establishes reduced prohibited concentrations of alcohol in a person's blood, breath or urine for persons with a previous state or local OMVI offense within a six-year period.

HB 825 ATHLETE AGENTS (Tiberi) Am., En. & Rep. 3773 & 4771. Establishes a system for the registration and regulation of athlete agents.

HB 826 TAX ABATEMENTS (Grendell) Permits, for a limited time, the abatement of unpaid property taxes, penalties and interest owed on property that would have been tax exempt except for a failure to comply with certain tax exemption procedures.

HB 827 SCHOOL DONATIONS (Grendell) En. 5748. Requires that school district income tax return forms include a check-off space to allow taxpayers to donate refunds to the school district.

HB 828 DEATH PENALTY EVIDENCE (Jones) Am. 109 & 2929. Permits the presentation of evidence at the sentencing hearing in capital cases to show that the death penalty has been imposed in a demographically disparate manner and requires that demographic information be included in the Attorney General's annual capital case status report.

HB 829 FATHERHOOD COMMISSION (Jones) En. 5101. Creates the Ohio Commission on Fatherhood.

HB 830 IDENTITY THEFT (Mottl) En. 2913. Creates the offense of taking the identity of another.

HB 831 MARIHUANA (Brading) Am. 2923, 2925 & 3719. Increases certain penalties for cultivation of marihuana, possession of marihuana and possession of hashish.

HB 832 COUNTY OFFICIALS PAY (Harris) Am., En. & Rep. 321, 325, 1901, 1907, 2303, 2501, 2933 & 5731. Reduces the number of population classifications used to determine the compensation of elected county officials, requires boards of county commissioners to fix the compensation of elected county officials in accordance with specified procedures, and requires that compensation paid to each county commissioner whose term commences after January 1, 1999, be equal to that of each other county commissioner within the same county.

HB 833 SCHOOL EXPULSIONS (Stapleton) Am. 3313. Requires a school superintendent to initiate expulsion proceedings against a pupil who has brought a firearm or knife to a school or other school property in the district or has possessed a firearm or knife on such school or on school property before the superintendent has conducted an expulsion hearing or has made the decision to expel the pupil and prohibits other school districts from admitting such a pupil until the period of expulsion has expired.

HB 834 CRIMINAL TESTING (Taylor) Am. & En. 181. Establishes a program of state financial assistance to municipal corporations and townships with a population not exceeding 5,000 for the cost of criminal justice-related testing that was performed by or at the request of a law enforcement agency of the municipal corporation or township and makes an appropriation for the purposes of the program.

HB 835 MEDICAL SAVINGS ACCOUNTS (Netzley) Am. 3924. Requires certain private-sector employers to offer their employees the option of opening medical savings accounts.

HB 836 TOWNSHIP LEGAL COUNSEL (Haines) Am. 309. Requires the county prosecuting attorney to act as legal advisor to any township or county zoning commission or board of zoning appeals requesting the prosecuting attorney's assistance and declares an emergency.

HB 837 COUNTY AUDITS (Wise) En. 353. Creates a county audit committee to determine the necessity of auditing any county office, board, commission, department or agency and provides for the performance of such an audit.

HB 838 FOREIGN STEEL (Patton) Am. 153. Prohibits persons from supplying foreign steel products for public improvements; authorizes the Superintendent of the Division of Industrial Compliance to investigate and the Attorney General to enforce this prohibition and establishes a civil penalty for violation of this prohibition.

HB 839 PUBLIC NOTICE (Clancy) Am. 5501. Provides for consideration of local interests in the siting of a telecommunications facility in rights of way or other transportation facilities of the Department of Transportation that are contiguous to land zoned residential, by specifying certain notice and public hearing procedures and establishing certain standards with respect to the continued authority of the Director of Transportation to grant a lease, easement or license in transportation facilities.

HB 840 COUNTY AUDITS (Thomas) Am. 353. Creates a financial report and internal control review committee in each county to provide for financial reviews and internal audits of county offices, boards, commissions, departments and agencies.

HB 841 PRISONER EDUCATION (Willamowski) Am. 2151, 3333 and 5120. Prohibits the expenditure of public funds for post-secondary education of any person who is serving a term of imprisonment or any person who is a delinquent child committed to the legal custody of the Department of Youth Services.

HB 842 PRIVATE PRISONS (Willamowski) Am., En. & Rep. 9, 307, 341, 753, 2929 & 5120. Eliminates the statutory authority for the private prison operation of state or local correctional facilities for Ohio prisoners. Eliminates provisions requiring private operation of Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections medium/minimum security prison and intensive program prison for fourth-degree felony OMVI offenders and declares an emergency.

HB 843 ALSTON MEMORIAL HIGHWAY (Krebs) En. 5533. Designates State Route 177, within the community of Darrtown in Butler County only, as the "Walter 'Smokey' Alston Memorial Highway."

HB 844 CHILD ABUSE (Ford) Am. & En. 109, 2151 & 5103. Requires two caseworkers for a public children services agency to investigate reports of child abuse or neglect if a risk of harm is determined to exist for a caseworker; requires, before issuing a family foster home certificate to a prospective foster parent, a background check of the foster parent and the foster parent's son or daughter who is age 14 or older and who lives with the foster parent to determine if they have committed certain acts; prohibits certification, and to revoke certification, of a family foster c are home if the foster parent or the foster parent's son or daughter has committed certain acts; requires notification of certain background information about a child to be given to an operator of a group home or a children's residential center caring for the child; requires the operator to provide the background information about a child to staff that work directly with the children in the home or centers; imposes a criminal penalty for failure of an operator to provide the background information to the staff and clarifies that a foster home is a family foster home.

HB 845 POLICE/FIRE PENSION (Van Vyven) Am. 717. Allows a municipal corporation to enter into an agreement with other municipal corporations certain securities for the purpose of paying the employer's accrued liability to the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund.

HB 846 CAMPAIGN FINANCE (Amstutz) Am. 3517. Requires, effective January 1, 2000, the electronic filing of statements of contributions and expenditures of campaign committees of candidates for statewide office if the total contributions or expenditures for a reporting period exceed $10,000; permits, effective January 1, 2000, and requires, effective January 1, 2002, the electronic filing of statements of contributions and expenditures of campaign committees of candidates for the General Assembly, political action committees and political contributing entities that file statements with the Secretary of State, legislative campaign funds, and state political parties if the total contributions or expenditures exceed $10,000 for the reporting period; requires, effective January 1, 2002, the electronic filing of statements of individuals and certain entities that make independent expenditures for or against statewide candidates or statewide issues if the total independent expenditures exceed $10,000 for a reporting period; and requires, effective on those applicable dates, the Secretary of State to make available on the internet information from all statements filed electronically or otherwise by those committees or entities.

HB 847 NONURBAN HIGHWAYS (Sulzer) En. 5531. Creates the Nonurban Highway Construction Fund and requires $150 million of the moneys the state receives under the federal "Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century" for fiscal years 1999 through 2003 to be expended for planning, constructing, maintaining, and repairing nonurban highways.

HB 848 WIRELESS 9-1-1 (Mead) Am. & En. 2913, 4931 & 5727. Provides for enhanced wireless 9-1-1, including requirements for its operation, administration, funding, and regulation and permits a telephone company that is a wireline service provider to fund through an existing excise tax credit mechanism the total nonrecurring rates and charges for an updating or modernization of the wireline telephone network portion of a 9-1-1 system or a modification of that telephone network to provide wireless 9-1-1 service.

HB 849 EARNED INCOME CREDIT (Beatty) Am. & En. 5747. Grants a state earned income tax credit equal to 10 per cent of the federal earned income tax credit.

HB 850 CAPITAL APPROPRIATIONS (Johnson) Makes capital appropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 2000 and provides authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.

HB 851 KOREAN WAR HIGHWAY (Reid) Designates US Route 35 within Green County the "Korean War Veterans' Memorial Highway."

HB 852 EMPLOYMENT DISQUALIFICATION STUDY (Boyd) Creates for a period of six months the Employment Disqualification Study Committee to study the provisions of the Revised Code that disqualify persons who are convicted of or plead guilty to certain offenses from obtaining specified employment, contracts, or licensing or from being permitted to perform specified duties, determines the impact of those provisions on the Ohio Works First program, seeks federal funds to assist in conducting the study, and, within six months after this act's effective date, makes recommendations to the General Assembly regarding possible revisions to those provisions, and declares and emergency.

HB 853 LAND CONVEYANCE (Terwilleger) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate in Warren County to the Warren County Board of County Commissioners.

HB 854 HEALTH INSURANCE CREDIT (Terwilleger) Am. & En. 124, 145 & 5747. Allows a tax credit for a portion of the premiums paid by an individual for long-term care insurance, requires the state to pay a portion of the premium charged for long-term care insurance covering certain state employees, and permits the Department of Administrative Services to establish a self-insured long-term care insurance program for state employees.

HB 855 TAX VALUATION (Callender) Restates the General Assembly's intent underlying the method of valuing electric production equipment for purposes of taxation.

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