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

HB 2 ELDERLY/DISABLED EXPLOITATION (Tiberi) En. 2913. Creates the offense of exploitation of an elderly person or disabled adult.

HB 3 DELINQUENCY VICTIMS (Evans) Am. 109, 2151 & 2930. Relative to rights of victims in delinquency proceedings.

HB 4 HEALTH INSURER LIABILITY (Gardner) Am. 1751 & 1753. Holds a health insuring corporation responsible for harm to an enrollee proximately caused by the health insuring corporation's failure to exercise ordinary care in making a health care coverage decision, makes changes to the Health Insuring Corporation Law, provides for speedy review of enrollee appeals of adverse determinations, allows female enrollees to obtain health care services from a participating obstetrician or gynecologist without a referral, requires health insuring corporations to name a licensed physician to act as a corporation's medical director, require that at least one telephone number provided to enrollees for health-care-plan information via toll free number and make additional information available to enrollees, and permit personal income tax deductions for certain medical expenses and long-term care insurance premiums.

HB 5 ELECTRIC DEREGULATION (Mead) En. 4928. Declares that the public policy of the State of Ohio is to effect the restructuring of the electric industry pursuant to specified goals permitting effective competition in the provision of retail electric service to all Ohio consumers.

HB 6 VOTING PROXIES (D. Miller) Am. 1701. Includes electronic transmission as a method of appointing a voting proxy.

HB 7 INCOME TAX INDEX (D. Miller) Am. & En. 5747. Indexes the personal income tax rate brackets and other income-dependent quantities to increases in the gross domestic product deflator, revises the income tax withholding tables, and requires an annual adjustment of the tables.

HB 8 DRUG NUISANCES (D. Miller) Am. 3719. Authorizes certain municipal law enforcement officials to designate as nuisances, and to close, premises where felonious drug-related offenses have occurred.

HB 9 LOTTERY PRIZES (Schuck) En. 3770. Requires that advertisements about Ohio Lottery games contain information about the current, rather than future, value of prizes awarded, the odds of winning a prize, and the taxation of prizes and that this information be presented in a specified manner.

HB 10 EARNED INCOME CREDIT (D. Miller) Am. & En. 5747. Grants a state earned income tax credit equal to 15% of the federal earned income tax credit.

HB 11 SPEED LIMIT (Hood) Am. 4511. Increases from 55 to 65 miles per hour the speed at which motor vehicles weighing more than 8,000 pounds when empty and noncommercial buses are permitted to travel on certain freeways in this state.

HB 12 LICENSE PLATES (Hood) Am. & En. 4503. Requires that motor vehicles carry only one license plate, to be displayed on the rear of the vehicle.

HB 13 FISCAL ANALYSES (Mottley) Requires the Legislative Budget Office of the Legislative Service Commission to include in its fiscal analysis of a bill or resolution, and each of certain agencies to include in its fiscal analysis of a proposed rule, information explaining the economic impact of the bill, resolution, or rule on Ohio businesses.

HB 14 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 15 RETIREMENT SERVICE CREDIT (Mottley) Am. & En. 145, 3307 & 3309. Allows a member of the Public Employees Retirement System, School Employees Retirement System, or State Teachers Retirement System to purchase by payroll deduction service credit for certain prior service covered by one of the other systems.

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

HB 17 OHIO SEAL (Mottley) Am. 5. Adds a representation of the Wright Brothers' first piloted airplane to the Coat of Arms and Great Seal of the State of Ohio.

HB 18 BURIAL CONTRACTS (Schuler) Am., En. & Rep. 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 19 STATE PROPERTY INTERESTS (Schuler) Am. & En. 9, 121, 123, 125, 149, 152, 154, 163, 165, 175, 319, 901, 902, 991, 1501, 1514, 1515, 1517, 1519, 1523, 1551, 3301, 3354, 3355, 3357, 3358, 3375, 3377, 3706, 3747, 3793, 4582, 4981, 5119, 5120, 5123, 5301, 5501, 5503, 5519, 5529, 5537, 6121 & 6161. Requires that any instrument by which the state or an agency of the state acquires an interest in real property shall identify the agency for whose use and benefit the real property is acquired.

HB 20 PREVAILING WAGE (Hood) Am. & Rep. 119, 122, 125, 164, 165, 166, 175, 176, 307, 351, 1311, 1551, 1710, 1728, 3706, 4115, 4141, 4582, 6117 & 6121. Repeals the Prevailing Wage Law.

HB 21 MOTOR VEHICLE LAWS (Mottley) Am. & En. 1345 & 4505. 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 22 SCHOOL TAXES (Mottley) Am. & En. 319, 323 & 5705. Permits school boards to levy, with voter approval, a property tax of up to five mills that would not be subject to existing limitations on revenue growth.

HB 23 CONCEALED WEAPONS (Hood) Am. & Rep. 109, 1531, 1533, 1547 & 2923. Permits the carrying of concealed weapons and repeals the offenses of improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle and improperly handling firearms in a watercraft.

HB 24 VEHICLE EMISSIONS TEST (Grendell) Am., En. & Rep. 3704, 3706, 4503 & 5739. Repeals the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program and requires the director of the Ohio EPA to negotiate alternatives to the program.

HB 25 EMISSION TEST CREDIT (Grendell) Am. & En. 5747. 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 26 ASSEMBLY TAX EXEMPTION (Grendell) En. & Rep. 101 & 718. Prohibits the General Assembly from explicitly exempting 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 27 PROPERTY TAX ABATEMENT (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 28 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 29 POLICE ORDERS (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 30 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION (Olman) Am. 323. 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 31 ESTATE TAXES (Jolivette) Am. 5731. Changes the rate of interest paid on overpayments of estate taxes.

HB 32 SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS (Jolivette) Am. 3313, 3317 & 3329. Permits school districts to purchase electronic textbooks under the same conditions as textbooks are purchased and permits school districts to furnish electronic textbooks to students in lieu of traditional textbooks provided the electronic textbooks are furnished free of charge.

HB 33 INSURANCE TAX DEDUCTION (Jolivette) Am. 5747. Creates a state income tax deduction for long-term care insurance premiums.

HB 34 RELOCATION EXPENSES (Taylor) En. 5501. Requires the director of Transportation to provide for the relocation of facilities of certain water supply, waterworks, or sewerage systems.

HB 35 WORK CAMPS (Taylor) Rep. 3707. Eliminates the requirement that a person who maintains a work camp pay to a municipal corporation, township or county where the camp is located any expenses caused by contagious or infectious diseases that originate or exist in the camp.

HB 36 CRIME TEST REIMBURSEMENT (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 purposes of the program.

HB 37 RECKLESS HOMICIDE (Taylor) En. 2903. Creates the offense of reckless homicide.

HB 38 BAIL DENIAL (Jacobson) Am., 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 39 PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES (Coughlin) Am. 4111. 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 40 CONTRACT PREFERENCE (Jolivette) En. 153. Requires certain political subdivisions to provide a preference, under specified circumstances, when comparing bids for the awarding of public improvement contracts.

HB 41 COMPUTER GIFT CREDIT (Jolivette) Am. & En. 3301, 5725, 5727, 5733 & 5747. Grants tax credits for contributions of computer equipment for the benefit of educational institutions, school districts, or disabled individuals.

HB 42 BIRTH CONTROL COVERAGE (Schuck) 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 contraceptive devices and drugs requiring a physician's prescription.

HB 43 STUDENT SPEECH RIGHTS (Schuck) Am. & En. 3345, 3354, 3355, 3357 & 3358. 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 44 INCOME TAX INDEX (Schuck) Am. & En. 5747. Indexes personal income tax rate brackets and credits to increases in the gross domestic product deflator, beginning January 1, 2001.

HB 45 SALES TAX EXEMPTION (Mottley) Am. 5739. Exempts the sale of gym memberships from sales taxation.

HB 46 GUN LOCKS (Patton) Am. & En. 181 & 2923. 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, prohibits a person from purchasing a handgun from such a dealer unless the person purchases a trigger lock for the handgun or the 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 47 LICENSE PLATES (Patton) En. 4503. Authorizes the issuance of Children's Trust license plates.

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

HB 49 DRUG ABUSE (Patton) Am. 2925 & 2929. Eliminates the distinction between powdered cocaine and crack cocaine in the Drug Abuse Law.

HB 50 DRUNK DRIVING (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 51 EMINENT DOMAIN (Taylor) Am. 163. 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% or more.

HB 52 HEALTH INSURER LIABILITY (Jacobson) Am. 1751 & 1753. 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 reach 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 additional information available to enrollees, makes changes to the Health Insuring Corporation Law in relation to utilization review and enrollee appeals, allows female enrollees to obtain health care services from a particular obstetrician or gynecologist without a referral, and requires health insuring corporations to name a licensed physician to act as a corporation's medical director.

HB 53 MENTAL HEALTH COVERAGE (Olman) Am., En. & Rep. 1739, 1751 & 3923. Prohibits discrimination in health care policies, contracts, and agreements in the coverage provided for the diagnosis, care, and treatment of mental illness and substance abuse or addiction.

HB 54 WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL (Coughlin) Appropriates money for a contribution to the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.

HB 55 UNCLAIMED PROPERTY (Schuler) Am. 737. Permits municipal police departments of dispose of certain unclaimed property by donating it to public agencies or nonprofit organizations.

HB 56 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION (D. Miller) Am. 323 & 4503. Raises the homestead exemption income eligibility limits and indexes for inflation those limits and the amounts homestead taxes can be reduced.

HB 57 ENERGY CREDIT PROGRAM (D. Miller) Am. 119, 5117 & 5703. Transfers administration of the Ohio Energy Credit Program from the Tax Commissioner to the Department of Development and bases eligibility for the program on income rather than age or disability.

HB 58 DECLARATORY JUDGMENTS (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 59 PROBATE LAWS (Womer Benjamin) Am., En. & Rep. 1340, 2103, 2107, 2131 & 5731. Revises the Probate Laws.

HB 60 POSTJUDGMENT INTEREST (Womer Benjamin) 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 61 LICENSE SUSPENSION (Womer Benjamin) Am. 2903 & 4511. Provides that a judge may impose a pretrial suspension of the driver's or commercial driver's license of a person who is charged with the offense of aggravated vehicular homicide, vehicular homicide that is a felony, or aggravated vehicular assault if the judge determines that the person's continued driving will be a threat to public safety, and enhances the penalty for vehicular homicide if the offender was under license suspension or revocation at the time of the offense.

HB 62 PRISONER RIGHTS (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 63 PRISON PRIVATIZATION (Coughlin) Am. 9. Requires generally that the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction contract for the private operation and management of state correctional institutions constructed after the effective date of this act.

HB 64 RETIREMENT INCOME (Coughlin) Am. 5747. Exempts from the personal income tax up to $10,000 in state and federal government retirees' retirement benefits.

HB 65 MARGIN ACCOUNT DEDUCTION (Coughlin) Am. 5747. Permits taxpayers to deduct interest charged to margin accounts.

HB 66 CAPITAL GAINS EXEMPTION (Coughlin) Am. 5747. Exempts capital gains from taxation under the state personal income tax.

HB 67 WATER RIGHTS (Coughlin) Am. & En. 1501. Provides that a withdrawal of water by certain municipal corporations from either the Lake Erie or Ohio River drainage basin and transfer to another basin is a diversion for the purposes of certain permitting requirements regardless of whether the water is returned to its basin of origin.

HB 68 LOTTERY PROFITS (Coughlin) Am. & En. 3770. Increases the percentage of the total revenue from the sale of lottery tickets that must be deposited in the Lottery Profits Education Fund, restricts the percentage of that revenue that may be spent on advertising or other promotion of the lottery, and creates the Lottery Oversight Committee and terminates the committee on December 31, 2002.

HB 69 ELEVATOR CERTIFICATES (Perz) Am. 4105. Requires that a copy of the most recently issued certificate of operation be posted in an elevator.

HB 70 PROPERTY TAX DEFERRAL (Schuler) Am. & En. 113, 319, 323, 5703 & 5713. Permits elderly and disabled taxpayers with incomes of $20,800 or less to defer payment of real property taxes due on their homesteads.

HB 71 PATIENT BEHAVIOR (Vesper) Am. & En. 2305 & 5122. With regard to actions by mental health professionals and organizations to predict, warn of, or take precautions to prevent the violent behavior of mental health clients or patients.

HB 72 ESTATE TAX (Coughlin) Am. & Rep. 129, 135, 325, 1339, 1555, 1709, 2101, 2113, 5528, 5731 & 5747. Repeals the estate tax for the estates of decedents dying on or after July 1, 2000 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 73 SCHOOLNET/EQUIPMENT (Barnes) Am. & En. 125, 131, 3301, 3345, 3354, 3357, 3358 & 5513. Requires the transfer of unexpended appropriations for the operations of state agencies to the Ohio SchoolNet Office for use in providing technology services to school districts and requires the transfer of excess and surplus computer hardware and software owned by state agencies, state colleges and universities, branch universities, community colleges, technical colleges, and state community colleges to the Ohio SchoolNet Office for distribution to school districts.

HB 74 SCHOOL CURRICULUM (Barnes) Am. & En. 3313. Requires all school districts to provide certain instruction in personal responsibility to high school students and requires districts declared to be in a state of academic emergency to provide one unit of such instruction in each of grades 9-12.

HB 75 HAIR STYLISTS (Barnes) Am. 4709 & 4713. Exempts natural hair stylists from the Cosmetology Law and Barbers Law.

HB 76 LOCAL DEBT LIMIT (Brading) Am. 133. Exempts from the calculation of a subdivision's debt limit a specified portion of the principal amount of securities issued for permanent improvements if payments in lieu of taxes are pledged to repay those securities.

HB 77 DRUG PENALTIES (Brading) Am. 2923, 2925 & 3719. Increases certain penalties for cultivation of marihuana, possession of marihuana, and possession of hashish.

HB 78 GENERAL 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; limits 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; specifies the authority of incorporators, initial directors, and subsequent directors of a corporation to amend the articles of incorporation; and makes nonsubstantive modifications in the law.

HB 79 EMPLOYEE COMPUTER PROFICIENCY (Netzley) Am. & En. 124 & 125. Requires the Director of Administrative Services to adopt rules requiring employer computer proficiency, excludes the requirements as subjects for collective bargaining under the Public Employees' Collective Bargaining Law, and creates the State Computer Purchasing Committee for the purposes of employing an Administrator of Computer Purchasing to coordinate the purchase of computer systems and software by all state agencies.

HB 80 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 81 STATE FRUIT (Tiberi) En. 5. Adopts the Melrose apple as the official state fruit.

HB 82 SCHOOL PROJECT (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 83 AGENCY OVERSIGHT (Haines) En. 101. Establishes the Joint Committee on State Agency Oversight to study state agencies' implementation of newly enacted laws.

HB 84 FARM INCOME TAX (Haines) Am. & En. 5733 & 5747. Exempts certain nonresidents who receive income from farms organized as pass-through entities from the requirement to pay estimated income taxes.

HB 85 SELF-POLLINATED SEEDS (Haines) Am. & En. 907. Creates a system of registration for persons who clean or condition self-pollinated seeds.

HB 86 ACCIDENT SCENES (Bateman) En. 4511. Provides that, at the scene of a motor vehicle accident in which any person is killed or injured, under certain circumstances the speed limit at that scene is reduced by ten miles per hour and requires every person operating a motor vehicle in the same direction of travel applicable to the roadway in which such an accident is located to make a reasonable effort to operate the vehicle in the traffic land that is located farthest from the motor vehicle accident scene, if such a lane exists.

HB 87 SAFETY/HYGIENE PRACTICE (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 88 INSURANCE TAX 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 premiums 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 89 SCHOOL DISCIPLINE (Terwilleger) Am. & En. 2744 & 3313. Permits public school teachers to use certain disciplinary measures for specified purposes and confers an absolute immunity from civil liability upon teachers when they use the measures for those purposes.

HB 90 ALTERNATIVE MEDICAL TREATMENT (Terwilleger) En. 4731. Permits physicians to use alternative medical treatments if the risk of harm is reasonable when compared to the potential benefit, the patient provides informed consent, and the treatment is consistent with the standards enforced by the State Medical Board.

HB 91 TOWNSHIP PARTIONING (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, to change the procedure for partitioning a township, and changes who may petition in a township to have the unincorporated township territory separated from the unincorporated township territory.

HB 92 TAX LEVY APPROVAL (Terwilleger) Am. 5705. Permits a simple majority of voters at a special election to approve certain tax levies.

HB 93 CHILD LABOR (Terwilleger) Am. 4109. Exempts minors aged 16 and 17 from having to provide an age and schooling certificate to be employed during a specified seasonal period at a seasonal amusement or recreational establishment.

HB 94 ENGLISH LANGUAGE (Terwilleger) Am. & En. 5 & 3345. Requires the use of the English language by state and local government entities in official actions and proceedings, subject to certain exemptions, and requires state institutions of higher education to refund fees to students who cannot reasonably understand the spoken language utilized by teaching personnel.

HB 95 PUBLIC RECORDS (Terwilleger) Am. 149 & 733. Awards reasonable expenses to the relator if a writ of mandamus is issued in a taxpayer's suit and authorizes a similar award plus court costs to a prevailing aggrieved person in a mandamus action under the Public Records Law.

HB 96 LAND CONVEYANCE (Terwilleger) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate in Warren County to the Warren County Board of County Commissioners.

HB 97 CHILD LABOR (Terwilleger) Am., En. & Rep. 3331, 4109 & 4123. Permits the employment of minors between the ages of nine and 13 in specified types of employment, eliminates certain employer reporting requirements and all age and schooling certificate requirements under the Minor Labor Law, and creates new exemptions under the Workers' Compensation Law relative to casual employment and the employment of minors.

HB 98 ANNEXATION LAW (Terwilleger) Am., En. & Rep. 505, 709 & 929. Revises the laws governing municipal annexation.

HB 99 TAX REFUND INTEREST (Young) Am. & En. 5733 & 5747. Eliminates the payment of interest by a taxpayer on certain excess refunds of state income or corporation franchise taxes.

HB 100 FELONIOUS ASSAULT (Young) Am. 2903, 2907 & 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, and requires that a person arrested for violating that prohibition be tested for HIV under certain circumstances.

HB 101 LABOR REQUIREMENTS (Young) En. 4116. Prohibits public authorities from imposing certain labor requirements as a condition of performing public works.

HB 102 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 103 WORKERS' COMP REFUNDS (Mottley) En. 4123. Specifies requirements concerning premium refunds issued by the Bureau of Workers' Compensation to state fund employers.

HB 104 SCHOOL INCOME TAX (Mottley) Am. 5748. Authorizes school boards levying an income tax to grant an additional senior credit and to exempt S corporation distributions from the tax.

HB 105 MUNICIPAL JUDGESHIP (Bateman) Am. 1901. Adds an additional judge to the Clermont County Municipal Court and declares an emergency.

HB 106 INCOME TAX CREDIT (Tiberi) Am. & En. 5747. Grants a refundable personal income tax credit for contributions to charitable organizations.

HB 107 ATHLETE AGENTS (Tiberi) Am., En. & Rep. 3773 & 4771. Establishes a system for the registration and regulation of athlete agents.

HB 108 COMPANION ANIMALS (Tiberi) Am., En. & Rep. 959. Prohibits specified acts with respect to a companion animal and establishes a procedure for the care of an impounded animal during the pendency of charges against a person who violates the prohibition.

HB 109 VETERAN'S CARD (Sulzer) Am. & En. 5913. Requires the Adjutant General to establish the Silver Veteran Card Program.

HB 110 VETERANS BONUS (Ogg) Establishes a veterans bonus for veterans of Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm and makes an appropriation.

HB 111 SCHOOL LOANS (Patton) Am. & En. 3313 & 5705. Replaces the current state subsidy for emergency school loans with a requirement that the state pay school districts for the costs of paying off outstanding emergency school loans and requires districts to repay the state within 20 years and without interest the full amount received to pay off those loans.

HB 112 SEX OFFENSES (Depiero) Am. 2950. Includes the offense of disseminating matter harmful to juveniles in the definition of "sexually oriented offense."

HB 113 SEX OFFENSES (Depiero) Am. & En. 2945 & 5122. Authorizes the civil commitment of certain sexually aberrant persons.

HB 114 PHOTO TRAFFIC CONTROL (Corbin) En. 4511. Permits counties and townships to install traffic control signal photo-monitoring devices at county and township intersections and establishes a pilot project involving installation of one of these devices at one intersection in each of the seven largest cities of this state.

HB 115 JUVENILE DETENTION COSTS (Sulzer) En. 2151. Authorizes juvenile courts to require reimbursement to counties for detention center costs for housing children.

HB 116 SCHOOL CURRICULUM (Harris) Am. 3313. Requires school districts to devote at least one hour on Veterans' Day to an observance that would convey the meaning and significance of that day.

HB 117 RACING COMMISSION (Luebbers) Am. 3769. Specifies that the Ohio Racing Commission has the power to sue and be sued in its own name, grants the Court of Common Pleas of Franklin County original jurisdiction over actions against the Commission and appellate jurisdiction over decisions of the Commission, and requires that the Commission's principal office be located in Franklin County.

HB 118 VETERAN DEFINITION (Maier) Am. & En. 351, 3735, 5901, 5903 & 5910. Defines "veteran," as generally used in the Revised Code, to include a former member of the merchant marine in service to the United States during a specified period of time during World War II.

HB 119 CAMPAIGN FINANCE (Amstutz) Am. 3517. Provides for the electronic filing of campaign finance reports.

HB 120 FOOD SERVICE EMPLOYEES (Barnes) Am. & En. 3732 & 4117. Requires food service operations to cause each employee to undergo an examination for infection with a communicable disease.

HB 121 ASTHMA INHALERS (Gardner) Am. & En. 3313. Permits students of school districts, community schools, and chartered nonpublic schools to carry asthma inhalers approved by the students' physicians and parents and grants immunity to school districts, community schools, and chartered nonpublic schools and their employees for good faith actions in connection with this permission.

HB 122 REBUTTABLE PRESUMPTION (Cates) Am. 4123. 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 123 VANITY PLATE FEES (Cates) Am. 4503. Eliminates the additional fee that a person pays to compensate the Bureau of Motor Vehicles for additional services when issuing special license plates to those who served in certain combat zones and when renewing the registration of a motor vehicle bearing such license plates.

HB 124 MUNICIPAL INVESTMENTS (Sulzer) Am. 731. Permits a municipal corporation to include 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 125 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 126 EMPLOYER WITHHOLDING (Boyd) En. 718. Permits municipal corporations to require employers located outside the municipal corporation to withhold income taxes imposed by the municipal corporation on its residents.

HB 127 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 128 OHIO WORKS FIRST (Boyd) Creates for a period of six months the Employment Disqualification Study Committee to study provisions of the Revised Code that disqualify persons who are convicted of or plead guilty to certain offenses from obtaining specified employment, contracts, or licensing or from being permitted to perform specific duties, determines the impact of those provisions on the Ohio Works First program, seeks federal funds to assist in conducting the study, and, within six months after this act's effective date, to make recommendations to the General Assembly regarding possible revisions to those provisions, and declares an emergency.

HB 129 UNIVERSITY TRUSTEES (Boyd) Am. & En. 3333 & 3345. Requires 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 130 SCHOOL BUSES (Boyd) En. 4511. Requires all school buses to be equipped with a cross-view mirror system.

HB 131 CORRECTIONS REHABILITATION (Boyd) Am. & En. 5120, 5139 & 5145. 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 132 DIETITIANS (BOYD) Am. 1337, 2133, 2305, 2925, 3709, 4759 & 4769. 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 to the Ohio Board of Dietetics two dietetic technicians registered with the Commission on Dietetic Registration; extends the application of other laws relative to dietitians to dietetic technicians; and provides for certain provisions to sunset on November 15, 2000.

HB 133 VEHICLE REGISTRATION (Sullivan) Am. 4503. Establishes that a current, valid driver's license, commercial driver's license, temporary instruction permit, or identification card issued by the Registrar of Motor Vehicles is sufficient proof of an applicant's social security number for vehicle registration purposes.

HB 134 REAL ESTATE PURCHASES (Sullivan) En. 3503. Requires real estate brokers and real estate salespersons to provide change-of-residence forms to buyers of real estate who intend to resident at the real estate.

HB 135 PROPERTY TAXATION (Sullivan) Am. 319, 323, 4503 & 5713. "Freezes" property taxes on residences owned and occupied by persons 65 years of age or older.

HB 136 TRUCK WEIGHT LIMITS (Carey) Am. 5577. Provides that, under certain circumstances, coal trucks that exceed by no more than 5% the established motor vehicle weight limit law are not subject to the penalty for violating that law.

HB 137 EMERGENCY SITES (Carey) Am. 2903, 2909, 2917 & 2921. Extends the offenses of disrupting public services and misconduct at an emergency to activities of emergency medical services personnel; increases the penalties for misconduct at an emergency and obstructing official business if risk of physical harm is involved; increases the penalty for disorderly conduct if committed in the presence of certain authorized persons performing duties at the scene of an emergency; and specifies that "pattern of conduct" in menacing by stalking includes actions obstructing a public official's performance of authorized acts.

HB 138 TRAUMA CARE (Schuck) Am. & En. 9, 125, 733, 1547, 2929, 2949, 3375, 3702, 3729, 3737, 4501, 4513, 4765, 4766, 4767, 5502 & 5739. Provides quality assurance for trauma care and makes other changes in the laws regarding emergency medical services and fire services.

HB 139 TRUST 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 and requires nonresident shareholders in an Ohio S corporation to pay tax on capital gains from selling those shares.

HB 140 STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION (Netzley) Am. 3301. Requires the State Board of Education to hold meetings in a certain manner, prohibits the State Board and Department of Education from spending state funds on certain activities, and prohibits any State Board policy regarding board member conduct from taking effect without General Assembly approval.

HB 141 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 142 HIGHWAY NAMING (Carey) En. 5533. Designates the portion of U.S. Route 35 in Ohio the "Veterans' Highway."

HB 143 INVENTORY TAX (Cates) Am. 5711 & 5727. Reduces, over a five-year period, the rate at which inventory property is assessed for taxation, from 25% to 15% of true value.

HB 144 TRUCK SPEED LIMIT (Williams) Am. 4511. Increases from 55 to 65 miles per hour the speed at which motor vehicles weighing more than 8,000 pounds when empty and noncommercial buses are permitted to travel on certain freeways in this state.

HB 145 VEHICLE EMISSIONS TEST (Williams) Am., En. & Rep. 3704, 3706, 4503, 5735 & 5739. Replaces the enhanced motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program with a biennial basic program in certain areas of the state; requires the implementation in those areas of other programs needed to maintain compliance with the carbon monoxide and ozone standards; eliminates the emissions inspection fee and replaces it by levying a statewide excise tax on motor vehicle fuel; stipulates that motor vehicles that are unable to pass an emissions inspection after receiving a one-year waiver may not be registered in this state; specifies that new motor vehicles are exempt for five years under a motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program regardless of a change of ownership; requires prosecution of, and imposes sanctions against, persons who falsify motor vehicle emissions tests; makes other changes regarding motor vehicle emissions inspections; requires the Director of Environmental Protection to take specified actions regarding air quality monitoring; and makes an appropriation.

HB 146 CHILDREN SERVICES (Williams) En. 5153. Permits public children services agencies to contract with law enforcement agencies for services related to investigations of child abuse and neglect and makes an appropriation.

HB 147 SCHOOL FISCAL ACCOUNTABILITY (Williams) Am. & En. 3302, 3313, 3314 & 3317. Exempts effective school districts from certain financial requirements enacted by Sub.HB412 of the 122nd General Assembly; establishes child-centered scholarship programs in school districts under an academic watch or in a state of academic emergency; and permits students to attend community schools located in other school districts.

HB 148 HANDICAPPED PARKING (Williams) Am. 3781, 4503 & 4511. Increases the penalties for a violation of the special parking privileges established for persons with certain disabilities and makes changes in the application process for removable windshield placards.

HB 149 SALES TAX EXEMPTION (Stapleton) Am. 5739. Exempts sales by certain school-related organizations from the sales tax.

HB 150 LOCAL DEBT LIMIT (Mottley) Am. 133. Exempts from subdivision debt limits certain securities issued to finance the construction of a performing arts center.

HB 151 INSURANCE COVERAGE APPEALS (Mottley) Am. & En. 1751, 1753 & 3901. Grants the director of Health authority to adopt rules relative to enrollee appeals of denials or reductions of health care coverage under the Health Insuring Corporation Law and specifies that the Superintendent of Insurance has similar authority with regard to policyholder appeals of denials or reductions of health care coverage under the Sickness and Accident Insurance Law.

HB 152 EMERGENCY PHONE ASSESSMENT (Logan) Am. 4931. Provides for a monthly charge not exceeding 50-cents on telephone access lines to fund the operating and equipment costs of establishing and maintaining no more than one public safety answering point of a countywide 9-1-1 system that previously lacked funding.

HB 153 INDIGENT DEFENSE COSTS (Callender) Am. 120. Requires the state to reimburse counties for 50% of the total costs associated with the defense of certain indigent persons.

HB 154 PERS BENEFITS (Stapleton) Am. 145. Exempts from the Public Employees Retirement System membership public employees under age 18 if the employment is intended to be for less than six months and changes the deadline for filing a PERS disability benefit application.

HB 155 SCHOOL SECURITY (Boyd) Am. & En. 109, 3313 & 3319. Permits 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 protect property and authorizes training programs that qualify persons as school security personnel officers.

HB 156 POLITICAL SOLICITATIONS (Jacobson) Am. 3517. Prohibits elected officers and candidates for an elective office of any political subdivision from soliciting contributions from certain employees of the political subdivision.

HB 157 PRIMARY ELECTION (Cates) Am. 511, 1545, 1901, 3501, 3503, 3505, 3509, 3511, 3513 & 5705. 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 158 RURAL HOSPITALS (Ogg) Am. & En. 4731. Permits rural hospitals to employ physicians.

HB 159 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 160 DRIVER EDUCATION (Logan) Am. 3301. Eliminates the $50 limit on the course fee that a board of education may charge a pupil enrolled in a driver education course.

HB 161 CHARITABLE TRUSTS (Womer Benjamin) En. 1340. Enacts the "Institutional Trust Funds Act" to define income and establish spending standards for trust assets that are held for the benefit of charities.

HB 162 CHILD ABUSE (Salerno) Am. & En. 2901 & 2903. Expands the offense of murder to also prohibit causing the death of another as a proximate result of committing a specified child abuse-related offense; creates the offense of permitting child abuse; and includes the new offense and the offense of endangering children in certain circumstances as offenses of violence.

HB 163 TRANSPORTATION BUDGET (Core) Am. & Rep. 109, 145, 742, 2925, 2933, 2935, 4301, 4501, 4503, 4561, 4563, 4906, 5501, 5502, 5517 & 5525. Makes appropriations for programs related to transportation and public safety for the biennium beginning July 1, 1999 and ending June 30, 2001 and provides authorization and conditions for the operation of those programs.

HB 164 FLAG DISPLAY (Barnes) En. 101. Relative to the provision of the United States and Ohio flags for display in the legislative offices of members of the General Assembly and to the provision of these flags and the Great Seal of Ohio for display in the House reception areas of the Vern Riffe Center for Government and the Arts.

HB 165 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 166 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION (Cates) Am. 323 & 4503. Increases periodically the homestead exemption income qualification limits by indexing those limits to consumer price inflation and modifies the computation of income under the homestead exemption in order to prevent elderly homeowners from becoming disqualified for the exemption because of a change in the classification of their benefits from disability to retirement benefits.

HB 167 ARCHITECT RECIPROCITY (Healy) Am. 4703. Permits reciprocity of licensure in this state for architects who are registered in another jurisdiction if that jurisdiction offers similar reciprocity for architects registered in this state and the applicant meets specified criteria.

HB 168 CABLE TV FEES (Healy) Am. & En. 1349. 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 169 VEHICLE TRADE-INS (Healy) Am. 5739 & 5741. 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 170 FUEL TAX EXEMPTION (Healy) Am. 5735. Exempts from the motor fuel tax sales of motor fuel sold for use in school buses.

HB 171 COUNTY FUNDS (Healy) Am. 321. Authorizes counties to contract with financial institutions to receive, by electronic funds transfer, payments and fees owed or payable to the county.

HB 172 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 173 HEALTH INSURANCE (Winkler) En. 1751 & 3923. Requires policies, contracts, and agreements of health insuring corporations and sickness and accident insurers to cover, under certain circumstances, general anesthesia and hospital services connected with the provision of a dental care service to an insured or enrollee.

HB 174 VILLAGE MONEY (Winkler) Am. 703. Requires that money remaining after a village's surrender of corporate powers be distributed to the one or more school districts with territory located within the village.

HB 175 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING (Hood) Am. & En. 9, 4113, 4117 & 4119. Removes any requirement under the Public Employees Collective Bargaining Law that public employees join or pay dues to any employee organization, expands the scope of unfair labor practices under that law, makes other changes in the Public Employees Collective Bargaining Law, prohibits any requirement that employees of private employers join or pay dues to any employee organization and requires public and private employers to post notices to that effect, prohibits certain actions by private employers relative to employee organization membership, and establishes civil and criminal penalties against private employers who violate those prohibitions.

HB 176 CHILD DAY-CARE (Winkler) Am. 5104. Authorizes the use of child day-care providers located in states bordering Ohio for publicly funded child day-care.

HB 177 UTILITY SERVICES (Goodman) Am. & En. 1345 & 4933. Prohibits any person from switching a consumer's provider of natural gas or public telecommunications 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 178 BOARD OF EDUCATION (Williams) Am. 3301. Removes the prohibition against an employee or officer of a public or private college, university, or other institution of higher education from serving on the State Board of Education.

HB 179 HOMESTEAD TAX CREDIT (Jordan) Am. & En. 5747. Grants a refundable income tax credit for a portion of the annual increase in homestead property taxes.

HB 180 WORKERS' COMP BUDGET (Corbin) Am. & En. 121, 4121, 4123, 5703 & 5747. Makes appropriations for the Bureau of Workers' Compensation for the biennium beginning July 1, 1999, and ending June 30, 20001, and provides authorization and conditions for the operation of the Bureau of Workers' Compensation programs.

HB 181 INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION BUDGET (Corbin) Makes appropriations for the Industrial Commission for the biennium beginning July 1, 1999, and ending June 30, 2001.

HB 182 TEACHER PREPARATION (Jordan) Am. 3319. Prohibits the State Board of Education from requiring that teacher preparation programs meet the standards of a specific organization that accredits teacher education programs.

HB 183 STATE SOIL (Buchy) En. 5. Designates the Miamian Soil Series as the official state soil.

HB 184 PSYCHOLOGY LICENSE (Cates) En. 4732. Requires the State Board of Psychology, at the request of an applicant for a psychologist license who is diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, to provide an oral licensing examination that is equivalent to the Board's written licensing examination.

HB 185 COUNTY BUDGET COMMISSIONS (Myers) Am. 5747. Requires that alternative apportionment of the undivided local government fund and undivided local government revenue assistance fund by a county budget commission be subject to approval of the legislative authority of the city having the greatest population residing in the county.

HB 186 PERS CREDIT (Jolivette) Am. 145. Changes the method of computing the cost of purchasing military service credit for eligible members of the Public Employees Retirement System.

HB 187 TOWNSHIP GOVERNMENT (Olman) Am. & En. 109, 133, 309, 504, 505, 709, 711, 713, 1901, 2921, 3737, 4301, 5543, 5549. Refers to townships that have adopted the limited self-government form of township government as "limited home rule government" townships, makes changes in the laws governing those townships, permits any township, for specified purposes, to issue securities or change the provisions for issuing debt, changes the composition and voting practices of county planning commissions, and changes the Subdivision Law to give townships notice of proposed changes.

HB 188 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 189 MUNICIPAL POPULATION COUNT (Taylor) Am. 703. Excludes persons under detention in a detention facility from persons counted to determine the population of a municipal corporation for purposes of classifying the municipal corporation as a village or a city.

HB 190 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 191 CHILD CUSTODY (Clancy) Am. & En. 3109. Denies custody and visitation rights to, and terminates existing custody or visitation rights of, a parent who has been convicted of aggravated murder, murder, or involuntary manslaughter of the other parent of the child.

HB 192 SCHOOL RESERVE ACCOUNTS (Gardner) Am. 5705. Allows school districts who must now credit 1% of their revenue to a reserve balance account to offset all or part of that requirement if they credited more than 1% in prior years.

HB 193 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 194 HOUSING 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 195 FATHERHOOD COMMISSION (Jones) En. 5101. Creates the Ohio Commission on Fatherhood.

HB 196 FIRE COMPANIES (Maier) Am. 9 & 125. Allows private fire companies to participate in the cooperative purchasing and salvage supply programs operated by the Department of Administrative Services and grants those companies the immunity from tort liability granted to political subdivisions.

HB 197 SLUDGE DISPOSAL (Krebs) Am. 3709, 3745 & 6111. Authorizes the Director of Environmental Protection to issue permits for the use, storage, treatment, or disposal of sludge and sludge materials, imposes an annual sludge fee, and otherwise regulates sludge and sludge materials.

HB 198 JUDGE QUALIFICATION (Trakas) Am. & En. 2153, 2301, 2501 & 2503. Increases from six to ten years the length of time a person must practice law or serve as a judge before being qualified to be the Chief Justice or a justice of the Supreme Court or a judge of a court of appeals or court of common pleas and permits the electors of a county with a population of less than 250,000 served by a court of common pleas to vote at a special election to instead require the county's common pleas court judges to have at least six years of prior practice of law.

HB 199 ALTERNATIVE PUBLIC PENSION (Cates) Am. 145, 742, 2907, 2921, 3305, 3307, 3309 & 5505. Creates an alternative retirement program for public employees covered by Ohio's state retirement systems.

HB 200 STUDENT IMMUNIZATIONS (Van Vyven) Suspends the requirement that a pupil who begins kindergarten during or after the school year beginning in 1999 be immunized by a Department of Health-approved method of immunization against hepatitis B, the requirement that local governments and boards of health provide the means of immunization against hepatitis B, and the authority of the Department to approve means of immunization against hepatitis B.

HB 201 PUBLIC RECORDS (Jacobson) Am. & En. 149 & 2921. Generally prohibits the release of specified peace officer residential and familial information kept by a peace officer's employer.

HB 202 RECORDS TAMPERING (Winkler) Am. 2913, 2925 & 2951. Expands the offense of tampering with records to also prohibit tampering with any package or receptacle containing dangerous drugs or the contents of any such package or receptacle, prohibits treatment in lieu of conviction for a person charged with violating the new prohibition, renames the offense as "tampering with records or drugs," and increases the penalty for tampering with records or drugs when it involves records required to be kept under the drug laws.

HB 203 EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS (Wilson) En. 4113. Prohibits an employer from terminating an employee who is a volunteer firefighter or a volunteer provider of emergency medical services when that employee misses or is late to work because of an emergency to which the employee was dispatched as a volunteer firefighter or volunteer provider of emergency medical services.

HB 204 JOINT FIRE DISTRICTS (Schuler) Am. 505. Permits the political subdivisions that comprise a joint fire district to pay the district's charges for ambulance or emergency medical services provided to their respective residents under certain circumstances.

HB 205 TORT IMMUNITY (Corbin) Am. 2744. Amends the definition of "governmental function" in the political subdivision tort immunity law to include the operation of all types of aquatic facilities.

HB 206 TITLE PLEDGE LENDER (Stapleton) Am. & En. 1321 & 4727. Establishes a new type of lender, the Title Pledge Lender, to offer loans secured by a security interest in a motor vehicle.

HB 207 ELECTRIC DEREGULATION (Young) En. 4928. Effects an immediate overall rate reduction for residential and small commercial and industrial customers of incumbent, investor-owned electric utilities and for any such customers assigned a competitive supplier through a bidding or auction process, if retail electric service is restructured in Ohio.

HB 208 STATE ROCK (Taylor) En. 5. Adopts sandstone as the official state rock.

HB 209 SALVAGE VEHICLES (Bateman) Am. 4549. Provides, in certain circumstances, an affirmative defense for a licensed motor vehicle salvage dealer or an insurance company authorized to do business in this state to a criminal change involving a motor vehicle or motor vehicle parts that bear defaced, covered, altered, or destroyed vehicle identification numbers or are missing such numbers.

HB 210 MEDICAL SAVINGS ACCOUNTS (Netzley) Am. 3924. Requires certain private-sector employers to open a medical savings account on behalf of an employee, upon the employee's request.

HB 211 INVENTORY TAX (Wilson) Am. 5711 & 5727. Reduces the rate at which inventory property is assessed for taxation, from 25% to 15% of true value.

HB 212 PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATES (Callender) Am. & En. 4732 & 4757. Requires the State Board of Psychology license psychological associates.

HB 213 TAX DEDUCTION (Logan) Am. 5747. Creates a state income tax deduction of up to $750 for amounts paid by fire fighters or auxiliary police officers for training programs, clothing, and equipment for fire fighting or law enforcement payments.

HB 214 TITLE AGENTS (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 215 PERSONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (Terwilleger) Am. & En. 109, 2953, 3701, 5101, 5111, 5116 5119, 5123. Creates the Personal Assistance Services Program; establishes requirements for home and community-based Medicaid waiver programs; allows representatives of centers for independent living to participate in nursing facility preadmission screenings and makes an appropriation.

HB 216 RECREATION BOARDS (Buchy) Am. 755. Changes the residency requirements of the representatives that a board of education appoints to a recreation board.

HB 217 SATELLITE RACING (Healy) Am. 3769. Specifies that questions on the operation of a proposed satellite racing facility must be submitted to the electors of the municipal corporation or the unincorporated area of the township in which the facility will be located rather than to the electors of the county in which it will be located.

HB 218 INFANT FORMULA (Krebs) Am. 1751. Includes infant formula prescribed by a participating provider as a basic health care service to be provided by health insuring corporations.

HB 219 COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES (Householder) En. 121. Establishes to Ohio Private Enterprise Review Commission to review commercial activities of state agencies; prohibits state agencies from performing commercial activities that are ruled inappropriately competitive with private enterprise; and abolishes the Ohio Private Enterprise Review Commission on December 31, 2002.

HB 220 SCHOOL DISTRICT ACCOUNTS (Householder) Am. & En. 9, 122, 135 & 3313. Permits school districts to establish petty cash accounts to be accessed by district officials by check or debit card; changes the time period for local public officials to deposit public moneys; decreases the frequency with which subdivisions must designate their public depositories; permits subdivisions to change the designated depositories under certain circumstances; exempts school district-issued securities from debt limits to the extent certain payments in lieu of taxes are pledged to repaying the securities; requires school boards to advertise for bids for construction contracts at least two consecutive weeks instead of four consecutive weeks; modifies the terms of school district lease-purchase agreements for buildings and permits joint vocational school districts to enter into such agreements.

HB 221 MANDATED BENEFIT REPORT (Van Vyven) En. 103 & 105. Requires the Ohio Legislative Service Commission to prepare a mandated benefit report for each bill that receives second consideration, provides for the establishment and operation of the Ohio Mandated Benefits Review Council and terminates provisions of the act on December 33, 2003.

HB 222 POLICE/FIREMEN'S FUND (Van Vyven) Am. 9, 124, 133, 145, 146, 154, 164, 165, 166, 171, 175, 306, 351, 505, 709, 717, 737, 742, 902, 1555, 1557, 2329, 2907, 2921, 3111, 3113, 3307, 3309, 3318, 3345, 3366, 3377, 3706, 3729, 3737, 4582, 4981, 5505, 5528, 5531, 5537, 5540, 5705, 5731, 5747, 6121 & 6123. Changes the name of the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund to the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund and the name of the Firemen and Policemen's Death Benefit Fund to the Ohio Public Safety Officers Death Benefit Fund.

HB 223 FOOD SERVICE (Terwilleger) Am. 901, 911, 915, 2305, 3701, 3707, 3709, 3715, 3724, 3732, 4303, 4736, 4745, 5104 & 5739. Makes changes in the laws pertaining to food service operations and requires the licensing of retail food establishments.

HB 224 BILL OF RIGHTS DAY (Haines) En. 5. Designates December 15 as Bill of Rights Day.

HB 225 FIREFIGHTER LICENSE PLATE (Sykes) Am. & En. 4503. Creates a special Professional Firefighter license plate.

HB 226 YOUTH COMMISSION (Ford) En. 105. Provides for the establishment and operation of the Commission on Youth and Suicide and terminates provisions of the act five years after the effective date.

HB 227 SALES TAX DISCOUNT (Myers) Am. 5739. Increases the sales tax discount for vendors.

HB 228 BALLOT PRODUCTION (Willamowski) Am. 3505. Allows a board of elections to have a reduced number of ballots prepared for an election and requires a board that so chooses to supply additional ballots to a precinct on demand.

HB 229 PRIVATE PRISONS (Willamowski) Am. & En. 9, 307, 341, 753, 2929 & 5120. Eliminates the statutory authority for the private operation of state or local correctional facilities for Ohio prisoners; eliminates the provisions requiring the private operation of a Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections medium/minimum security prison and eliminates provisions requiring the private operation of the initial Department of Rehabilitation and Correction intensive program prison for fourth-degree felony OMVI offenders and declares an emergency.

HB 230 ENERGY CREDIT (Willamowski) Am. & En. 5117. Provides for an increase, beginning Jan. 1, 2000, in the income standards used to determine eligibility for the Ohio Energy Credit Program and provides for annual adjustments to the Ohio Energy Credit Programs income standards to reflect any increase in the Consumer Price Index.

HB 231 STUDENT EXPULSION (Calvert) Am. 3313. Requires a school district superintendent to expel a pupil who has committed an act warranting expulsion 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; permits a school district board to adopt a policy authorizing the superintendent to expel for up to one year any pupil who has committed an act at school or on other school property that is a criminal offense if committed by an adult and that results in serious physical harm to either persons or property and makes other revisions to the school discipline laws.

HB 232 RELIGIOUS DESECRATION (Padgett) 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 233 ADOPTION/CUSTODY (Pringle) Am. & En. 3107 & 3109. Eliminates the right of a parent of a child to deny consent to, and to receive notice of a proceeding for, adoption of a child; prohibits a court from granting, and to terminate existing orders that grant, a parent of a child custody of or visitation or other rights with respect to a child and prohibits a court from granting companionship or visitation rights to the parent's relatives if the child was conceived as the result of a sex offense committed by the parent.

HB 234 CHILD ENDANGERMENT (Pringle) Am. & En. 109, 340, 2151, 2903 & 5153. Clarifies the criminal prohibition against endangering children; makes public record all public children services records concerning a child when the child dies and makes other substantive changes to the law governing child welfare and protection orders.

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

HB 236 VISITATION (Pringle) Am. 3107 & 3109. Authorizes visitation by grandparents and other relatives after a stepparent adoption if the visitation is in the best interest of the child.

HB 237 HOMESTEAD TAXES (Mottley) Am. 323 & 5747. Increases the real property tax rollback on homesteads to 7.5% and reduces personal income tax rates by at least 5%.

HB 238 PUPIL SERVICES EMPLOYEES (Womer Benjamin) Am. 3319. Authorizes school districts and educational service centers to employ under administrative contracts individuals licensed as pupil services employees or administrative specialists or their equivalent who are not school counselors and spend less than 50% of their time teaching or working with students.

HB 239 TOBACCO SETTLEMENT (R. Miller) En. 105. Establishes the Tobacco Settlement Task Force and terminates the provisions of the act three years after its effective date.

HB 240 INCOME TAX RATE (Jordan) Am. 5747. Reduces the personal income tax rates by 5%.

HB 241 PRESCRIPTIVE AUTHORITY (Hollister) Am. & En. 2925, 3719, 4723, 4729 & 4731. Permits certified registered nurse anesthetists, clinical nurse specialists, certified nurse-midwives, and certified nurse practitioners to prescribe drugs and therapeutic devices.

HB 242 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 and requires the termination of visitation or companionship rights with the child if a genetic test finds that there is less than a five per cent chance that the party or a male minor is the father of the child for whose benefit the support is required or with whom the companionship or visitation rights are granted.

HB 243 STUDENT TRANSFERS (Stapleton) Am. 3313. Limits the circumstances under which a student may transfer to a school district under the "well-being clause" and disqualifies students who transfer under the well-being clause more than once in a school year from extracurricular activities for the rest of that year.

HB 244 LOBBYIST REGULATION (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, and creates the Lobbying Regulatory Council, beginning July 1, 1999, and abolishes the Lobbying Regulatory Council on December 31, 2001.

HB 245 EMISSIONS TESTS (Grendell) Am. 3704. Exempts from the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program vehicles registered to individuals 65 years of age or older if the vehicles are ten or more years old and on average driven 5,000 or fewer miles per year.

HB 246 SUPERSEDEAS BOND (Grendell) Am. 2505. Exempts nonmonetary administrative-related appeals from the requirement of a supersedeas bond.

HB 247 PUCO REPORTERS (Barnes) En. 4901. Provides for state publication of a reporter covering final orders of the Public Utilities Commission.

HB 248 TAX PENALTY AMNESTY (Barnes) Grants a temporary penalty amnesty for delinquent corporate franchise tax, state sales and use taxes, and personal income tax and uses the proceeds to fund education technology in school districts that spend less per pupil than the state average.

HB 249 RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT (Tiberi) En. 3. Prohibits a political subdivision from requiring its employees to reside in any specific area of the state.

HB 250 PERS CONTRIBUTIONS (Patton) Am. 145. Includes the value of housing provided by the employer in which an employee must live as a condition of employment as earnable salary for the purpose of determining Public Employees Retirement System contributions and benefits.

HB 251 CELLULAR PHONES (Barrett) En. 4511. Prohibits any person from operating certain vehicles while engaged in any activity that impairs the ability of the person to control fully the vehicle; prohibits any person from operating a moving vehicle and simultaneously using a mobile telephone other than to report an emergency; prohibits without exception any person with a temporary instruction permit from operating a moving vehicle and simultaneously using a mobile telephone and requires the State Highway Patrol to compile monthly data and statistics on motor vehicle accidents in which a mobile telephone was a material factor.

HB 252 AGGRAVATED ARSON (Beatty) Am. 2909, 2929 & 2941. Specifies a mandatory prison term for an offender convicted of aggravated arson or arson involving a church.

HB 253 MEDICAL RECORDS FEES (Beatty) Am. & En. 1333 & 3701. Specifies the fees health care providers and health insuring corporations may charge for providing medical records, provides that a medical records company must be formed as a domestic corporation and specifies that a medical records company is subject to regulation by the Department of Commerce.

HB 254 SCHOOL BUILDING PROJECTS (Beatty) Am. 3318 & 4115. Specifically permits the boards of school districts and educational service centers to apply the prevailing wage law to their building projects, requires the Ohio School Facilities Commission to adjust the basic project cost to reflect a board's election to apply those laws to a state-assisted project and prohibits the commission and the Controlling Board from considering a board's election to apply the prevailing wage law to its project in the decision to approve the project for state building assistance.

HB 255 TAX CREDIT (Beatty) Am. & En. 5747. Grants a state earned income tax credit equal to 10 percent of the federal earned income tax credit.

HB 256 PROPERTY TAXES (Beatty) Permits, for a limited time, the abatement of unpaid property taxes, penalties and interest owed on churches.

HB 257 CHURCH PROPERTY (Beatty) Permits the abatement of unpaid taxes, penalties and interest for churches and church property used for retreats or church camping if application for a tax exemption is made by May 31, 2000.

HB 258 CHILD SELLING (Beatty) Am. & En. 2151 & 2919. Creates the felony offense of selling a child and designates a child who is the subject of the offense as a neglected child.

HB 259 GAME BIRDS/ANIMALS (Beatty) Am. 1533. Specifies that a commercial propagating license is required for Ohio residents only and requires a nonresident who sells game birds, game quadrupeds or fur-bearing animals in Ohio to furnish a current propagator permit number from the state of residence.

HB 260 SPONGE TAX (Tiberi) Am., En. & Rep. 129, 1339, 1555, 1709, 2101, 2113, 5528, 5709, 5731 & 5747. Adopts a sponge tax as the estate tax.

HB 261 HEALTH INSURANCE LIABILITY (Roman) Rep. Secs. 2 & 3 of Am. Sub. HB 218 of the 121st General Assembly. Repeals the scheduled repeal of the laws that establish qualified immunity from civil liability for health care providers that provide free health care services to indigent and uninsured persons.

HB 262 TAX MATERIALS (Roman) En. 5703. Prohibits the Department of Taxation from putting social security numbers on the outside of materials mailed to taxpayers.

HB 263 RENTED PROPERTY THEFT (Cates) Am. 2913. Expands the activities that may be considered evidence of an intent to commit theft of rented property.

HB 264 CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS (Salerno) 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 265HB 265 SOLICITATION CALLS (Peterson) En. 4719. Requires the Attorney General to maintain a "no sales solicitation calls" list of telephone customers, requires the Attorney General to adopt rules to carry out this act, including provisions pertaining to inclusion on the list and fees for inclusion on or obtaining the list, makes a violation by a telephone solicitor enforceable under the Consumer Sales Practices Law and provides for a private cause of action for violation of this act.

HB 266 VEHICLE NOISE (Roberts) En. 505. Authorizes a board of township trustees to adopt regulations to prohibit generally the operation of a motor vehicle on a street or highway in the unincorporated area of a township if the sound amplification system is discernible outside the vehicle at a distance of 100 feet or more.

HB 267 FARMLAND PRESERVATION (Krebs) Am. & En. 163, 164, 303, 307, 901, 4503 & 5731. Requires the Director of Agriculture to be notified when land in an agricultural security area is to be appropriated by eminent domain, requires the Ohio Public Works Commission to consider unnecessary duplication of infrastructure and gives priority, to the extent possible, to "certified well-planned counties" when granting financial assistance for local infrastructure projects for the year 2003 and thereafter, makes changes regarding household sewage disposal systems, provides for the issuance of farmland preservation license plates and makes certain farmland-related changes in the estate tax law.

HB 268 SCHOOL INCOME TAX (Krebs) Am. 5748. Clarifiesd that the ballot language concerning renewal of school district income tax include a statement that the proposed tax is a renewal.

HB 269 APPOINTED COURT CLERKS (Coughlin) Am. 1901, 1907, 2303, 2743 & 2949. Requires that the salary of the appointed 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 court clerk transmission of certain additional court costs to the Treasurer of State.

HB 270 MEDICAID ESTATE RECOVERY (Jones) Am. 5111. Excludes from the Medicaid estate recovery program amounts received through legal settlements or programs that compensate persons for injury related to certain governmental actions or omissions.

HB 271 MORTGAGE FEES (Britton) En. 1349. Requires a person or financial institution to charge reasonable fees, as established by the Superintendent of the Financial Institutions, in connection with the referring, making or servicing of a reverse mortgage loan.

HB 272 OSTEOPEROSIS (Britton) En. 1751 & 3923. Requires all health insuring corporation policies, contracts, and agreements, sickness and accident insurance policies, and public employee benefit plans to provide coverage for services related to the diagnosis, treatment and appropriate management of osteoperosis.

HB 273 SINGLE-GENDER SCHOOLS (Britton) En. 3313. Permits school districts with a Formula ADM of 25,000 or more students to establish single-gender schools for grades seven to twelve.

HB 274 LIQUOR SALES (Jacobson) Am. 4301. Allows a municipal corporation to prohibit, in specified areas of the municipal corporation, the sale of bee or intoxicating liquor in glass containers that exceed a specified number of ounces.

HB 275 PFDPF BENEFITS (Vesper) Am. 742. Increases benefits paid to surviving spouses of members of the Police & Firemen's Disability & Pension Fund; eliminates the cost-of-living allowances that apply to certain PFDPF members and declares an emergency.

HB 276 SCHOOL CONSOLIDATION (D. Miller) Am. 3311. Requires that the question of joining a school district to an existing joint vocational school district be subject to a referendum of the electors of the school district.

HB 277 ETHNIC INTIMIDATION (Beatty) Am. & En. 2927, 2929, 2941 & 2967. Broadens the scope of the offense of ethnic intimidation; designates ethnic intimidation by 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 278 RACIAL EQUITY STUDY (Barrett) En. 101. Establishes the Commission to Study Racial Equity in the Justice System and terminates the provisions of this act thirty-eight months after its effective date by repealing Sec. 101 of the Revised Code on that date.

HB 279 UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (Barrett) En. 149. Establishes the Ohio Network-to-Freedom Commission to preserve, promote and educate the general public about, the Underground Railroad.

HB 280 ADULT CARE (James) En. 5. Designates April 18 as Exemplary Adult Care Provider Day.

HB 281 SCHOOL AGE (Hartnett) Am. 3313, 3317, 3321 & 3323. Requires a child under the age of six who attends kindergarten to be considered of compulsory school age.

HB 282 EDUCATION BUDGET (Thomas) Am., En. & Rep. 125, 3301, 3313, 3314, 3316, 3317, 3318, 3319, 3332, 3333, 5747 & 5910. Makes appropriations for education programs for the biennium beginning July 1, 1999 and ending June 30, 2001 and provides authorization and conditions for the operation of those programs.

HB 283 BIENNIAL BUDGET (Thomas) Am, En. & Rep. 101, 109, 111, 117, 118, 120, 122, 124, 125, 126, 127, 131, 166, 173, 307, 329, 901, 924, 1155, 1163, 1181, 1309, 1508, 1507, 1509, 1513, 1521, 2305, 2949, 3109, 3353, 3383, 3701, 3702, 3704, 3721, 3734, 3742, 3745, 3748, 3750, 3773, 3793, 4105, 4115, 4117, 4163, 4301, 4511, 4703, 4713, 4717, 4723, 4725, 4729, 4730, 4731, 4732, 4736, 4741, 4747, 4759, 4766, 4773, 4905, 4937, 4981, 5101, 5107, 5112, 5115, 5123, 5139, 5502, 5703, 5709, 5733, 5739, 5743, 5749, 5907, 5919 & 6109. Makes operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 1999 and ending June 30, 2001 and provides authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.

HB 284 FALSE IDENTITY (Salerno) En. 2913. Creates the offense of taking the identity of another.

HB 285 STUDENT REPORTING (Myers) Am. 3301, 3317 & 5126. Requires school districts and other entities to report the number of handicapped preschool children in classes eligible to be approved for state unit funding units for the first school day of December instead of reporting an average for the first full week of October.

HB 286 DESIGN-BUILD (Coughlin) Am. & En. 153. Permits public authorities to use design-build contractors in the construction of public improvements and establishes a two-phase procedure for selecting those contractors.

HB 287 MEMORIAL HIGHWAY (Padgett) En. 5533. Designates U.S. Route 36, between the municipal corporations of Coshocton and Newcomerstown, as the "William Green Memorial Highway."

HB 288 SET-ASIDE CONTRACTS (Williams) Am. 121, 122, 123, 125, 135, 153, 164, 166, 169, 307, 340, 351, 3354, 3355, 3357, 3358, 3383, 3734, 4115, 4301, 4503, 4582, 4981, 5111 & 5126. Changes the term "minority business enterprise" to "challenged business enterprise" for purposes of the laws governing public contract set asides, minority business development loans, and minority business bonds; revises the definition of and criteria for becoming certified as a challenged business enterprise; limits the permissible period of certification as a challenged business enterprise to five years; renames the Minority Development Financing Development Board the Challenged Business Development Financing Advisory Board and renames the Minority Business Development Division the Challenged Business Development Division; and eliminates the programs for public contract set asides, challenged business development loans, and challenged business development bonds ten years after the effective date of this act.

HB 289 ESTATE TAX (Maier) Am. & En. 5731. 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 290 SEAT BELT USAGE (Peterson) Am. 4513. Makes a seat belt violation a primary offense that is enforceable as any other traffic offense and limits the search authority of a law enforcement officer who stops a vehicle for a seat belt violation.

HB 291 APPROPRIATION PROCEEDINGS (Willamowski) Am. & En. 163. Allows both an owner and an agency to appeal determinations with respect to preliminary matters in appropriation of property proceedings, requires descriptions of property sought to be appropriate to include U.S. imperial measurements in equivalent detail to any metric measurements an agency uses, requires a jury to consider in awarding damages, restrictions, impairments, or limitations of an owner's ingress and egress to the residue that an agency causes in specified manners, provides for supplemental appropriation proceedings under certain circumstances, and updates various provisions of the Appropriation of Property Law.

HB 292 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 293 SALES TAX EXEMPTION (Willamowski) Am. 5739. Provides two one-week periods each year during which sales of clothing and footwear are exempt from the sales and use tax.

HB 294 COURT COSTS (Willamowski) Am. 2335. Relative to the collection of amounts due under judgments for court costs.

HB 295 Y2K LIABILITY IMMUNITY(Terwilleger) Am. 1710, 2743, 2744, 3345, 4113 & 5101. Provides immunity from liability to the state and to political subdivisions from harm relating to the Year 2000 computer problem.

HB 296 CIVIL RIGHTS LAW (R. Miller) Am. 4112 & 4122. Makes employees of any employer, including employers who are credit grantors and educational institutions, individually or jointly liable with the employer for violations of the Civil Rights Law.

HB 297 ALSTON 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 298 SMOKING RULES (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 299 DEATH PENALTY (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 300 DEATH PENALTY (Jones) Am. 2901 & 2929. Prohibits the imposition of a sentence of death unless the offender is convicted beyond any doubt or aggravated murder and one or more specifications of an aggravating circumstance and the sentencing authority finds beyond any doubt that the aggravating circumstances outweigh the mitigating factors present in the case.

HB 301 PLAYGROUND IMMUNITY (Jones) Am. & En. 3301, 3781 & 5104. Requires the Board of Building Standards to adopt rules to established specified safety provisions applicable to playgrounds accessible to the public and grants immunity from civil and criminal liability to owners and operators of playgrounds who comply with those rules.

HB 302 BINGO LICENSES (Britton) Am. 2915. Includes nonprofit job training organizations among the charitable organizations eligible to receive a charitable bingo license.

HB 303 UNFUNDED MANDATES (Buchy) En. 105. Creates the Local Government Mandates Commission; requires the Commission to conduct hearings and determine whether an unfunded mandate has been imposed upon a political subdivision, court, or state institution of higher education; exempts those entities from implementing unfunded mandates under certain conditions; and abolishes the Commission on December 31, 2002.

HB 304 WORKS FIRST (D. Miller) Am. & En. 5107. Revises the law governing the Ohio Works First Program's work activity under which participants are enrolled full-time in post-secondary education leading to vocation.

HB 305 PHYSICAL THERAPY (Coughlin) Am. 3729, 3902 & 4755. Makes revisions in the laws governing the practice of physical therapy.

HB 306 WATERCRAFT SALES (Carey) Am. 4517. Provides that a place of business that is used for selling, displaying, offering for sale, or dealing in motor vehicles by a licensed new motor vehicle dealer shall be considered as used exclusively for those purposes even though watercraft and related products or products manufactured or distributed by a motor vehicle manufacturers with which the motor vehicle dealer has a franchise agreement are sold or displayed there.

HB 307 PRESCRIPTION SERVICES (Williams) En. 1753 & 3923. Relative to coverage for prescription drug services provided by "any willing pharmacies" under policies of sickness and accident insurers and health insuring corporations.

HB 308 TRUANCY (Stapleton) Am. 3321. Increases the fine for truancy and increases the amount of surety bond that may be required of parents of truant students.

HB 309 MEMORIAL HIGHWAY (Trakas) En. 5533. Designates State Route 60 in Ashland County only, the "Thomas A. Van Meter Memorial Highway."

HB 310 9-1-1 SERVICE (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 and 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 311 CIGARETTE TAX STAMPS (Cates) Am. 5743. Repeals the law that prohibits the Tax Commissioner from delivering cigarette tax stamps and meter impressions on credit in the months of May and June.

HB 312 LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (Salerno) Am. 1705. Eliminates the requirement that articles of organization of a limited liability company specify an address for obtaining copies of the company's operating agreement or company bylaws, eliminates certain distribution rights of a member upon withdrawal from the company and instead to treat the withdrawing member as an assignee of the member's membership interest in the company, and specifies that the withdrawal of a member does not dissolve a limited liability company if certain requirements are satisfied.

HB 313 PROBATE (Salerno) Am. & En. 319, 1109, 1339, 2101, 2106, 2107, 2113, 2131, 511, 5302 & 5731. Permits, without appointing a fiduciary or following release from administration procedures, the transfer of titled assets of a decedent to certain persons who pay or are obligated to pay the decedent's funeral expenses; permits any person, entity, or organization to be a beneficiary of a POD bank account; removes the requirement that the value of the two automobiles that a decedent's surviving spouse may select from the decedent's estate be determined by an appraisal and permits the surviving spouse to select a truck under that law even if the decedent owned an automobile; extends the statutory exemption to the doctrine of ademption to a sale of specifically devised or bequeathed property by an agent acting under a power of attorney or durable power of attorney; and permits an owner of an interest in real property to designate on a deed one or more beneficiaries to take title to the interest upon the death of the grantee under the deed without having to go through probate.

HB 314 TELEPHONE REGULATION (Van Vyven) Am. & En. 4927. Provides an additional regulatory option for certain incumbent local exchange carriers.

HB 315 TOWNSHIP ROADS (Haines) Am. 5571. Authorizes township trustees to enter into a contract with one or more other townships to obtain or provide road construction or maintenance services.

HB 316 WAGE DISCRIMINATION (Sutton) Am. & En. 4112. Eliminates discriminatory wage practices based on sex, race, or national origin for jobs of comparable worth and declares an emergency.

HB 317 URBAN EDUCATION (R. Miller) En. 3343. Establishes the Institute for Urban Education at Central State University and makes an appropriation.

HB 318 INTOXICATION LIABILITY (Willamowski) Am. 2901. Relatives to the criminal liability of a person who is intoxicated.

HB 319 UNDERAGE DRINKING (Willamowski) Am. 4301. Prohibits a person under 21 years of age from being under the influence of beer or intoxicating liquor in a public or private place.

HB 320 TRAFFIC FINES (Willamowski) Am. & En. 4511. Imposes an additional one dollar fine on persons who plead guilty to or are convicted of violating a state moving violation and on a child who is adjudicated a delinquent child or a juvenile traffic offender for committing an act that if committed by an adult would be a state moving violation and requires that the additional fine money be used to maintain and upgrade public safety equipment used by police officers.

HB 321 BATTERED CHILD SYNDROME (Sutton) Am. 2901 & 2945. Provides for the introduction and confiscation of testimony of the "battered child syndrome" in establishing in a criminal trial the defense of self-defense or a finding of not guilty by reason of insanity.

HB 322 BACKGROUND RECORDS (Buehrer) Am. 2953. Permits a sheriff, other administrator or authorized employee of a jail, detention home or other facility for delinquent children to have access to the sealed conviction and bail forfeiture records for pre-employment background investigations.

HB 323 TEACHER SALARIES (R. Miller) Am. 3317. Increases the state teachers' minimum salary schedule.

HB 324 MINORITY CONTRACTS (R. Miller) Requires the Department of Administrative Services to conduct a study on discrimination in the awarding of state contracts and subcontracts for goods, services and construction with respect to specified minorities and makes an appropriation.

HB 325 TEACHER EDUCATION (R. Miller) Am. 3319. Directs the State Board of Education to adopt rules under which teacher education programs would have to form partnerships with elementary, middle and high schools for the purpose of those schools serving as teacher-training laboratories in which the institutions of higher education would test the education theories that they teach.

HB 326 TUITION REIMBURSEMENT (R. Miller) En. 3351. Establishes the Science and Mathematics Teacher Tuition Reimbursement Program to reimburse tuition to participants who receive a baccalaureate degree in science or mathematics from a state university and teach science or mathematics for five years in an urban or low-wealth rural school district.

HB 327 NEIGHBOR'S DAY (Goodman) En. 5. Designates the last Saturday in September as "Neighbor's Day."

HB 328 BREAST FEEDING (Allen) Am. 2907. Declares that a mother generally has the right to breast-feed her child in any public or private location and excludes from the definition of "nudity" in the sex offense laws the showing of a breast of a mother who is breast-feeding her child.

HB 329 STALKING (Jones) Am. & En. 2903, 2919 & 2937. Increases the penalty for menacing by stalking, permits, at the time bail is set, the judge or magistrate to determine whether a first offense of menacing by stalking is to be prosecuted as a misdemeanor of the first degree or a felony of the fifth degree, revises who may request an anti-stalking protection order or a domestic violence protection order, and revises who may be protected by those orders.

HB 330 CORPORATE BOARDS (Jones) En. 111. Requires the Secretary of State to establish, develop, and maintain a registry of women and minorities available to serve on corporate boards of directors; specifies the information that may be maintained in the registry; provides for the publication of a directory of eligible women and minorities; and provides for access to registry information, fees and administrative reporting requirements.

HB 331 CRIMINAL SENTENCING (Depiero) Am. 2953. Modifies the procedure pursuant to which a court of appeals may modify or vacate and remand a sentence that imposes prison terms that must be served consecutively.

HB 332 CHILD CARE TRAINING (Ford) Am. & En. 2151, 3313, 5101, 5103, 5123 & 5153. Establishes precertification and continuing training requirements for foster caregivers and provides for public children services agencies, private child placing agencies, and private noncustodial agencies to operating training programs.

HB 333 UTILITY PROPERTY (Callender) Restates the General Assembly's intent underlying the method of valuing electric production equipment for purposes of taxation.

HB 334 PUBLIC BUILDINGS (Callender) En. 9. Prohibits any owner of a public building from claiming the protection of trademark for its shape, design, image, or structure.

HB 335 SCHOOL TAXATION (Logan) Am. 323. Provides additional tax relief for residences located in a school district where the tax reduction factor is suspended because of the 20-mill floor guarantee by increasing the 2.5% property tax rollback to 22.5%

HB 336 SCHOOL TAXATION (Logan) Am. & En. 5747. Provides additional property tax relief for homeowners residing in school districts where the tax reduction factor is suspended because of the 20-mill floor guarantee by granting an income tax credit.

HB 337 COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (Britton) En. 3314. Creates the community schools oversight committee to inspect community schools and report to the General Assembly on the compliance of community schools with state law and makes an appropriation.

HB 338 REAL ESTATE APPRAISERS (Britton) Am. 4763. Requires real estate appraisers initially to complete a court on federal, state and municipal fair housing law in order to be eligible for certification or licensure as a real estate appraiser.

HB 339 COUNTY AUDIT COMMITTEE (Cates) En. 353. Creates a county audit committee in each county to provide for financial reviews and internal audits of county offices, boards, commissions, departments and agencies.

HB 340 ASSEMBLY VACANCIES (Damschroder) En. 3. Prohibits a member of the Senate or House who is elected to fill a vacancy by the members of a caucus in the Senate or House from holding that office for a period of four years after the last day of the member's term.

HB 341 ACUPUNCTURE (Schuring) En. 4762. Regarding the practice of acupuncture.

HB 342 GAS PIPELINE 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 for the construction of a natural gas pipeline.

HB 343 PROPERTY TAXATION (Logan) Am. & En. 319, 321 & 5715. Provides additional property tax relief for vacant residential and agricultural land by preventing the growth in taxes on such land from exceeding the growth in taxes on all residential and agricultural land in the county.

HB 344 FACULTY SALARIES (Netzley) Am. & En. 3345 & 4117. Establishes a method of determining salaries of faculty members of state universities and creates state and university faculty salary evaluation boards.

HB 345 HOME INSPECTORS (DePiero) En. 4768. Creates the State Board of Home Inspectors, requires the licensure of home inspectors and associate home inspectors, and otherwise regulates the performance of home inspections.

HB 346 TOBACCO ENFORCEMENT (R. Miller) Am. & En. 5502. Authorizes a Department of Public Safety enforcement agent to arrest and detain, without warrant, a person illegally distributing cigarettes or other tobacco products to minors if the agent is lawfully on the premises and witnesses the violation.

HB 347 CHILD ABUSE AWARENESS (Salerno) En. 5. Designates the month of April as "Ohio Child Abuse Awareness Month."

HB 348 COLLEGE BOARDS (Salerno) Am. 3335, 3337, 3339, 3341, 3343, 3344, 3345, 3352, 3356, 3359, 3360, 3361 & 3362. Gives students serving on college boards of trustees full voting power and entitles them to attend executive sessions of the board, unless a conflict of interest exists for the student trustee.

HB 349 PRISONER DRUG TESTS (Coughlin) Am. & En. 307, 341, 753, 2305, 2921, 2929, 2951, 2967, 4511 & 5120. Requires the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to establish and administer a statewide random drug testing program for prisoners; authorizes the department to contract with laboratories to perform random drug testing of prisoners in state correctional institutions; authorizes county contracts for the random drug testing of county jail prisoners and municipal prisoners; permits probation authorities and the Adult Parole Authority to cause offenders on probation, suspension of sentence, community control sanction, parole or post-release control to submit to random drug testing; authorizes the imposition of a fee for the test and the imposition of bad time upon certain prisoners who fail the drug test; and increases the penalty for illegal conveyance of drugs of abuse onto the grounds of a detention facility or a mental health or mental retardation and developmental institution.

HB 350 BARKING DOGS (Olman) Am. 955 & 2923. Prohibits debarking or surgically silencing a vicious dog; prohibits the possession of a debarked or surgically silenced vicious dog and stipulates that a vicious dog that has been debarked or surgically silenced is a deadly weapon.

HB 351 PARTICAL BIRTH INFANTICIDE (Luebbers) Am., En. & Rep. 2305, 2307, 2901, 2903 & 2919. Creates the offense of partial birth infanticide; allows specified persons to commence a civil action for damages when a child is killed by partial birth infanticide and repeals the prohibition against performing a dilation and extraction procedure on a pregnant woman and the related civil action.

HB 352 DELIQUENT CHILDREN (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 and 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.

HB 353 RECREATIONAL TRAILS (Taylor) En. 1519. Requires the Director of Natural Resources to erect and maintain a privacy fence between a state recreational trail used for hiking or bicycling and private land that is adjacent to the trail upon the written request of the owner of the land.

HB 354 PRISON SMOKING (Damschroder) En. 5145. Prohibits smoking at specified state correctional facilities.

HB 355 ARREST WARRANTS (Barnes) Am. 4503 & 4507. Provides that if a person has an outstanding arrest warrant issued by a mayor's court, the person may not be eligible to be issued a certificate of registration to a motor vehicle in that person's name or a driver's license.

HB 356 TOWNSHIP NAME (Cates) En. 503. Authorizes the board of township trustees or the electors of an unincorporated township to cause the question of a proposed name change for the township to be submitted to the electors of the unincorporated area of the township.

HB 357 DRUG CONVEYANCE (Cates) Am. 2921. Enhances the penalty for illegal conveyance of drugs of abuse onto the grounds of a detention facility or a mental health or mental retardation and developmental disabilities institution.

HB 358 SCHOOL PHOTO CONTRACTS (Cates) Am. 3319. Prohibits school officials from entering into contracts or agreements with photographers for the taking of senior photographs that prohibit students from hiring other photographers and prohibits school officials form refusing to use noncontracting photographers' photographs in school publications.

HB 359 PUBLIC WORKS CONTRACTS (Krebs) Am. & Rep. 123, 153, 307, 715, 3318, 3354, 3355, 3357, 3747 & 5911. Eliminates the general requirement that a public agency award separate contracts for each separate and distinct trade or kind of labor on a public works project; revises the bidding and contracting requirements applying to community college districts, state community college districts, university branch districts and technical college districts; increases the bidding threshold on state public works projects from $10,000 to $50,000.

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

HB 361 BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVELS (Damschroder) Am. 2151, 2929, 4503, 4506, 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 362 TOBACCO PAYMENTS (Coughlin) En. 1346. Requires a tobacco product manufacturer who sells cigarettes in this state but is not part of a settlement agreement with the Attorney General to place specified amounts of money into a qualified escrow fund each year to be used to pay any future judgment or settlement on a claim brought against the manufacturer regarding tobacco products.

HB 363 VEHICLE POLICE STOPS (Jones) En. 109. Requires every law enforcement agency to record detailed data whenever one of its law enforcement officers causes the operator of a motor vehicle to stop the motor vehicle; requires the data to be submitted to the Attorney General; and requires the Attorney General to analyze the data, draw conclusions form the date and report the data, analysis and conclusions to the General Assembly.

HB 364 THEFT IN OFFICE (Goodman) Am. 2921. Increases the penalty for theft in office to all cases to a felony of the third degree.

HB 365 PUBLIC OFFICE SUSPENSION (Goodman) En. & Rep. 305, 319 & 321. Provides for the automatic suspension of elected county officers upon the filing of an indictment or information charging an officer with any felony offense.

HB 366 TEAM LOGO (Trakas) En. 9. Prohibits a public agency generally from forbidding any person, including any of its officers or employees, from wearing or possessing on any public property under the public agency's control any item of apparel or any personal property that displays an athletic team's logo or symbol, if the display is expression protected by the United States or Ohio Constitution.

HB 367 PROPERTY TAX RELIEF (Jacobson) Am. & En. 319, 321 & 5715. Provides additional residential property tax relief in school districts where residences bear a relatively high proportion of the property tax burden.

HB 368 SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS (Schuler) Am. & En. 1710. Expands the types of permissible provisions of initial services plans for special improvement districts, clarifies the meaning of a church and church property for purposes of the special improvements districts law, increases the time for providing notices to property owners under that law, and requires property owners to give transferees notices under that law.

HB 369 YEAR 2000 SUITS (Grendell) En. 1349. Limits the adverse financial ramifications that may be experienced by the citizens of this state resulting from electronic computing device failures associated with the year 2000 date change by permitting default and other adverse enforcement actions relating to certain business transactions to be initiated only after a reasonable period of time has elapsed after the full restoration of an individual's ability to transact business in a regular, normal manner relative to the individual's financial obligations, terminates provides of this act on January 1, 2007 and declares an emergency.

HB 370 LICENSE PLATES (Salerno) Am. 4503. Eliminates all state and local fees and taxes charged or levied in connection with the issuance and renewal of a Purple Heart special license plate.

HB 371 SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS (Netzley) En. 3319. Prohibits a school district from employing more than one administrator for every four classroom teachers employed by the board.

HB 372 SALES TAX EXEMPTION (Callender) Am. 5709 & 5739. Eliminates the sales tax on employment services and employment placement services.

HB 373 LEGISLATIVE PAY RAISE (Corbin) Am. 101. Increases the compensation of officers and members of the General Assembly.

HB 374 FRANCHISE TAX CREDIT (Harris) Am. & En. 5733. Allows nonrefundable credits against the corporate franchise tax for qualified research expenses for certain job training programs and terminates the job training credit on January 1, 2004.

HB 375 PATROL RETIREMENT (Jordan) Am. & En. 5505. Reduces the member contribution rate under the State Highway Patrol Retirement System, increases pensions and lump-sum death benefit provided by the system, provides for refunds of purchased service credit that does not increase a pension, and allows a person who retired prior to September 21, 1994, to choose a joint and survivor annuity.

HB 376 OPEN LEGISLATIVE MEETINGS (Flannery) Am. 101. Requires that meetings of working groups that include one or more General Assembly members be publicized and open to the public.

HB 377 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 management and operation, before this act's effective date.

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

HB 379 TOWNSHIP EMPLOYEE BENEFITS (Peterson) Am. 505. Provides townships with the option of offering health benefits, or cash payments in lieu of these benefits, to their officers and employees through a "cafeteria plan" meeting the requirements of the Internal Revenue Code and allows townships to authorize the making of cash payments to their officers or employees in lieu of offered insurance benefits.

HB 380 RAILROAD SAFETY EDUCATION (Flannery) Am. 3313. Includes railroad safety education in the required health education curriculum.

HB 381 DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS (Perz) En. 3715. Regarding the regulation of dietary supplements.

HB 382 PROFICIENCY TESTS (Coughlin) Am. & Rep. 3301, 3302, 3313, 3317 & 3365. Eliminates the 12th grade proficiency test.

HB 383 SCHOOL AGE (Brading) Am. 3321. Phases in over two years a requirement that by the first day of August, instead of the thirtieth day of September, a child must be five years of age to be admitted to kindergarten and six years of age to be admitted to the first grade.

HB 384 MINE SAFETY (Householder) Am. & En. 1509, 1513, 1561, 1563, 1565 & 6111. Revises qualifications for membership on the Mine Examining Board, clarifies provisions governing appeals involving the Board, revises qualifications for first aid providers who must be on duty at surface mines, requires all surface miners to receive first aid training, and makes other changes governing mine safety.

HB 385 SCHOOL TAXATION (Netzley) Am. & En. 319, 5715 & 5748. Permits school boards, when proposing a school district income tax, to propose an equivalent reduction in residential and agricultural real property taxes.

HB 386 BUDGET STABILIZATION FUND (Flannery) Am. 131. Provides for an increase in the balance that the General Assembly intends to maintain in the Budget Stabilization Fund.

HB 387 WRONGFUL IMPRISONMENT CLAIM (Logan) Allows Terry Achberger to bring an action or proceedings to obtain a determination from the Court of Common Pleas as to whether or not he is a wrongfully imprisoned individual.

HB 388 MUNICIPAL TAXATION (Grendell) Am. 718. Prohibits any municipal corporation other than the municipal corporation of residence from levying a new tax on the income of an individual.

HB 389 LIBRARY RECORDS (Austria) En. 149. Provides that library records and patron information are confidential except if the parent, guardian, or custodian of a minor child requests a library record or patron information pertaining to that child and in certain other situations.

HB 390 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION (Flannery) Am. 131, 323 & 4503. Increases the maximum homestead exemption tax reduction in amounts in any year there are state budget surpluses.

HB 391 SCHOOL HEALTH INSURANCE (Stapleton) Am. & En. 9 & 125. Permits a school district to offer health care benefits to its employees through participation in state employee health care plans.

HB 392 PORT AUTHORITIES (Olman) Am., En. & Rep. 9, 109, 349, 1724, 2901, 2921, 2935 & 4582. Comprehensively revises the powers and duties of port authorities, enhances the ability of port authorities and other political subdivisions to cooperate in the accomplishment of mutual objections, establishes more consistency between the statutes governing port authorities established on or before July 9, 1982, and those established after that date, and makes other changes in the laws governing port authorities.

HB 393 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 in this state.

HB 394 TRAFFIC TICKET QUOTAS (Young) En. 2921. Prohibits ticket quota policies requiring peace officers to issue a minimum number of traffic tickets on any periodic basis and prohibits public officials from using data on the issuance of traffic tickets as a major component of evaluating a peace officer's job performance.

HB 395 SCHOOL CURRICULUM (Verich) Am. 2313. Requires the observance of Ohio Astronauts Day in Ohio history classes on February 20 of each year.

HB 396 CAPITAL GAINS EXCLUSION (Taylor) Am. 5733. Allows deductions from the corporation franchise tax and the personal income tax for capital gains from the appropriation of real property through eminent domain proceedings.

HB 397 MUNICIPAL DEVELOPMENT (Schuler) En. 763. Permits municipal corporations to create a municipal development commission to act as an urban renewal and redevelopment agency for the municipal corporation.

HB 398 EDUCATION STANDARDS (Flannery) Directs the Legislative Office of Education Oversight to compile and review the competency-based education standards that districts have developed and, with the assistance of an advisory committee, develop recommendations for a statewide set of standards.

HB 399 RAILROAD INTERSECTIONS (Krebs) Am. & En. 5589. Prohibits a railroad company from blocking the intersection of a railroad track and a public road or a private road when either is used as the primary means of ingress and egress by a landowner or business enterprise for a continuous period of more than 25 minutes.

HB 400 LIBRARY BOARDS (Salerno) Am. 309. Permits a board of library trustees to employ legal counsel to represent the board, irrespective of whether the prosecuting attorney is able to serve or is adversely interested.

HB 401 ARBITRATION LAW (Salerno) Am. 2711. Makes certain changes in the Arbitration Law.

HB 402 ADULT CABARETS (Schuck) Am. 4301 & 4303. Creates the D-5j liquor permit to be issued to adult cabarets where certain sexually explicit activity occurs and establishes a local option election question regarding beer and liquor sales at adult cabarets that can be submitted to the electors of the precinct where the cabarets are located.

HB 403 NURSING FACILITY GUIDE (Tiberi) Am. & En. 3701, 3721 & 5111. Requires the publication of the Ohio Nursing Facility Consumer Guide and makes an appropriation.

HB 404 AGRICULTURAL USE (Krebs) Am. & En. 163, 307, 901, 929, 1514, 5301 & 5713. Revises the statutes governing the current agricultural use valuation property tax program, permits, under specified conditions, the purchase of agricultural easements with recoupment charges from that program, and revises the statutes governing agricultural districts.

HB 405 FIREWORKS LICENSE (Trakas) Am. 3743. Requires the suspension or revocation of the fireworks exhibitor license of a person who is convicted of violating fireworks exhibition safety standards, increases the distance or establishes physical barricades between fireworks discharge sites and spectator viewing sites and prohibits dismantling, repositioning or otherwise disturbing the discharge site of a fireworks exhibition at which an accident has occurred.

HB 406 FLAG POLICY (Damschroder) En. 9. Prohibits any flag, other than the flag of the United States or of this state, from being flown on state property without the specific approval of the Governor.

HB 407 FAMILY DAY-CARE (Hoops) Extends the pilot project that permits persons in certain counties to provide day-care as type C family day-care homes.

HB 408 PURPLE HEART HIGHWAY (Verich) En. 5533. Designates Interstate Route 76 the "The Military Order of the Purple Heart Memorial Highway."

HB 409 CLASSROOM FACILITIES (Haines) Am. & En. 3318. Establishes a program to provide state assistance to school districts for the acquisition of sites on which to construct new classroom facilities.

HB 410 UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION (Opfer) Am. 4141. Permits time during which an individual is on temporary total disability under the Workers' Compensation Law or on excused unpaid leave to be included as a qualifying week for purposes of determining eligibility for unemployment compensation benefits.

HB 411 STATEHOUSE FLAGS (Ogg) Am. 105. Designates the types of flags that may be flown in Capitol Square.

HB 412 MENACING/PUBLIC RECORDS (Salerno) Am. & En. 2151 & 2903. Increases penalties for assaulting or menacing personnel of public children services agencies and private child placing agencies and declares their residential addresses to be confidential information that is not subject to disclosure by specified persons or obtainable as a part of a public record.

HB 413 PERS HEALTH CARE (Britton) Am. 145. Allows former state elected officials subject to term limits under the Ohio Constitution to receive Public Employee Retirement System health care coverage with eight years of service credit.

HB 414 DRUG SALES (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 415 METHADONE DRUG STUDY (Ford) Establishes the Methadone Review Council to study the use of methadone as a mode of drug treatment.

HB 416 PERS CONTRIBUTIONS (Ford) Rep. 145. Eliminates a provision that allowed Public Employee Retirement System members making contributions as elected officials to elect to contribute an additional amount to PERS on the basis of earnable salary as an employee of a not-for-profit corporation formed for the purpose of owning, managing, or operating a professional sports organization.

HB 417 TOWNSHIP PARK DISTRICTS (O'Brien) Am., En. & Rep. 511 & 755. Revises the Township Park District law.

HB 418 NONPROFIT REPORTING (Netzley) En. 109 & 3924. Requires certain organizations that are exempt from federal taxation to file copies of the information that the organization annually furnishes to the Internal Revenue Service with the Attorney General and with the county recorder of the county in which the organization maintains its principal office, and requires every domestic nonprofit insuring corporation and every domestic mutual insurance company engaged in the business of sickness and accident insurance to annually report the salaries of their directors, chief executive officers, and the five highest paid employees, when such salary is in the excess of fifty thousand dollars.

HB 419 SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS (Netzley) Am. & En. 3319 & 3313. Requires that after the effective date of this act all new or renewed employment of a school district superintendent be at the pleasure of the school district board, requires the school district treasurer to send a copy of the annual financial statement to the school district superintendent and each member of the school district board for their examination and return to the treasurer, and imposes a penalty for failure to send or return the financial report as required.

HB 420 LATE CREDIT FEES (Netzley) Am. 1109 & 1317. Provides that late or delinquent payments be included in calculating the maximum permitted finance charge rates on revolving credit agreements of banks and specifies that no late fee or delinquency charge be assessed pursuant to a revolving credit agreement of a retail seller or holder if a payment is postmarked before or on the payment due date.

HB 421 COMPENSATION AWARD (Jones) Authorizes an award of compensation to Anne D. Rosemond, the victim of a brutal rape and attempted murder, requires the Court of Claims to determine the amount of that award, and requires the Controlling Board to pay the award from the appropriation made to the board for emergency purposes.

HB 422 SALES TAX EXEMPTION (Callender) Am. 5739. Exempts from the sales tax of exterminating services for buildings or structures used for agricultural purposes.

HB 423 SALES TAX EXEMPTION (Callender) Am. 5739. Exempts sales of landscaping and lawn care services from the sales tax.

HB 424 FOSTER CARE/CHILD DEATHS (Ford) Am. & En. 109, 121, 149, 305, 307, 2151, 2317, 3107, 3313, 3323, 3705, 4731, 5101, 5102, 5103, 5105, 5111, 5119, 5123, 5126, 5139, 5153. Revises the law governing foster care, requires the establishment in each county or region of a board for the purpose of reviewing the deaths of children under age 18, and permits public children services agencies to employ legal counsel without the consent of the court of common pleas.

HB 425 PROPERTY TITLE (Carey) Am. & En. 2305, 5303 & 5309. Tolls the period of limitations that applies to actions to recover title to or possession of real property during each period of time for which the person entitled to bring the action has paid real property taxes due on the property and generally restricts the acquisition of title to or an interest in real property by adverse possession or prescription if, during the 21-year period asserted to establish the adverse possession or prescription, the title or interest holder has paid property taxes due on the real property.

HB 426 OFFICERS' FUNERAL EXPENSES (Tiberi) Am. 4123. Increases the maximum amount the Administrator of Workers' Compensation must pay for funeral expenses for firefighters, police officers and emergency medical technicians who die from work-related injury or occupational disease.

HB 427 EDUCATION TRUST (Kilbane) Am. & En. 3334 & 5747. Creates the Ohio Better Education Savings Trust Program.

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

HB 429 MEMORIAL HIGHWAY (Harris) Am. & En. 5533. Designates U.S. Route 42, running in a northeasterly and southwesterly direction and located wholly within Ashland County, as the "Dr. L. Eugene Byers Memorial Highway."

HB 430 LAND CONVEYANCE (Carey) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate located in Gallia County from the Department of Development to Claude Burnett and Helen Burnett.

HB 431 COMMUNITY IMPACT ANALYSIS (Olman) Am. & En. 103. Requires the Legislative Budget Office of the Legislative Service Commission to prepare a community impact analysis for each bill or resolution requiring the relocation of state offices or employees.

HB 432 ABSENTEE BALLOTS (Sykes) Am. 3509. Allows any qualified elector to vote by absent voter's ballots.

HB 433 FIREFIGHTER APPOINTMENTS (Britton) En. 3737. Prohibits fire-fighting agencies from appointing to serve as firefighters a person who has served as a firefighter and who has been convicted of an arson offense and to require the State Fire Marshal to keep a record of those convictions.

HB 434 CONTRACTOR CERTIFICATION (Buehrer) Am. & En. 715, 3781 & 4740. Requires statewide certification of specified contractors and makes additional modifications to the Construction Industry Certification Law.

HB 435 STATE AMPHIBIAN (Callender) En. 5. Adopts the green frog as the state amphibian.

HB 436 COUNTY SHERIFFS (Amstutz) Exempts from certain law enforcement experience requirements during calendar year 2000 any person who holds the office of sheriff on the effective date of this act and who is a candidate for re-election to that office and declares an emergency.

HB 437 LIEN FILINGS (Verich) Am. 2329, 4123, 4141, 5719 & 5747. Requires the inclusion on lien filings of the social security number, state of Ohio taxpayer identification number, driver's license number and state of issue of that license, or the federal employer identification number of the person against whom a lien is filed.

HB 438 SCHOOL STANDARDS (Buchy) Am. 3302. Exempts effective school districts from all state requirements applicable to school districts other than statewide proficiency testing requirements.

HB 439 FARM TAX DEFERRAL (Sulzer) Permits owners of certain agricultural land to defer the payment of 1999 property taxes, makes an appropriation and declares an emergency.

HB 440 LAW LIBRARIES (Womer Benjamin) Am., En. & Rep. 733, 1901, 1905, 1907, 2335 & 3375. Modifies the provisions governing the distribution of fines, penalties, and forfeited bail to law library associations.

HB 441 NATIONAL FORESTS (Hollister) Am. 1503. Revokes the consent of the state given to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service to acquire land in specified counties.

HB 442 SEX OFFENSES (Winkler) Am. 2151 & 2907. Expands the offense of rape by including within that offense a prohibition against a person who previously has been convicted of certain sex offenses and is 18 or older from engaging in sexual conduct with a person who is 13 or older but less than 16 and a prohibition against a person engaging in sexual conduct with another person who is ten or more years of age younger, thirteen years of age or older, and less than sixteen years of age and renames the offense of corruption of a minor as the offense of sexual assault on a minor.

HB 443 PERS RETIREMENT INCENTIVE (Gerberry) Am. 145. Allows a member of the Public Employees Retirement System to participate in a retirement incentive plan without having attained the age of retirement eligibility if the member agrees to terminate employment and retire on reaching that age.

HB 444 MEDICAID EXPANSION (Barrett) Am. & En. 5111. Requires the Director of Human Services to seek federal approval to expand, not sooner than January 1, 2001, eligibility for the Medicaid Program to employed, residential parents of children under age nineteen with family incomes not exceeding 150% of the federal poverty guidelines and makes an appropriation.

HB 445 SCHOOL COUNSELORS (Barrett) Am. 3317. Increases the number of full-time equivalent educational service personnel employed by school districts from five to six per 1000 students, and requires that one of these full-time equivalent educational service persons be a high school guidance counselor.

HB 446 SCHOOL NURSES (Barrett) Am. 3317. Increases the number of full-time equivalent educational service personnel employed by school districts from five to six per 1000 students, and requires that one of these full-time equivalent educational service persons be a school nurse.

HB 447 YOUTH GAMING (Maier) En. 2915. Prohibits the operator of a charitable game or scheme of chance other than bingo from knowingly permitting the participation of minors in the game or scheme of chance.

HB 448 CHILD LAWS (Metzger) Am. & En. 117, 121, 149, 305, 307, 2151, 2317, 3701, 3705, 4731, 5101 & 5153. Revises the law governing audits of public children services agencies, private child placing agencies and private noncustodial agencies; requires the establishment in each county or region of a board for the purpose of reviewing deaths of children under age eighteen' permits a public children services agency to employ legal counsel without the consent of the court of common pleas; requires that procedures for fiscal accountability of child welfare services be established and followed and revises the law governing how reports of child abuse or neglect are maintained.

HB 449 ANNEXATION (Young) Am. 709. Relative to the annexation of municipally owned property by municipal petition where the property is to be transferred back to prior owners within a certain period of time after annexation.

HB 450 E-CHECK EXEMPTION (Young) Am. 3704. Changes the new vehicle exemption under the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program to five years regardless of whether legal title to the motor vehicle is transferred during that five-year period.

HB 451 COUNTY RECORDERS (Buchy) Am. 317. Adds additional requirements of form for certain instruments presented to the county recorder for recording.

HB 452 UTILITY TAKE-OVERS (Goodman) En. 4905. Requires a report by the Public Utilities Commission on whether acceptance of a tender offer or invitation for tenders for the equity securities of an Ohio natural gas utility or its holding company will promote the public convenience and result in the provision of adequate utility service at a reasonable rate.

HB 453 HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION (R. Miller) Am., En. & Rep. 101, 109, 117, 119, 121, 127, 145, 169, 173, 329, 340, 742, 1751, 2113, 2151, 2301, 2305, 2744, 2913, 2921, 2933, 2945, 3107, 3111, 3113, 3307, 3309, 3313, 3323, 3599, 3701, 3702, 3712, 3721, 3722, 3727, 3729, 3793, 3795, 3923, 3924, 4123, 4723, 4731, 4753, 5101, 5107, 5111, 5112, 5115, 5119, 5121, 5123, 5126, 5505, 5725, 5729, & 5907. Creates the Department of Health Care Administration and transfers administration of the Medicaid Program, Hospital Care Assurance Program, and Children's Health Insurance Program Parts I and II from the Department of Human Services to the Department of Health Care Administration, and makes an appropriation.

HB 454 MINORITY HEALTH COMMISSION (R. Miller) Am. 3701. Authorizes legislative and other members of the Commission on Minority Health to receive a specified hourly compensation for performing official duties on the Commission.

HB 455 TOBACCO SETTLEMENT (R. Miller) Am. & En. 3701. Establishes the Minority Health Tobacco Settlement Fund and provides that a percentage of the funds from the tobacco settlement agreement are to be used by the Commission on Minority Health to make grants to organizations that serve the health needs of minority group members.

HB 456 SCHOOL BOARD PAY (R. Miller) Am. 3313. Creates a statewide pay scale that school districts may adopt for members of the boards of education.

HB 457 CONTRACT AWARDS (R. Miller) En. 125. Requires the Department of Administrative Services and other state agencies to provide written notification to successful vendors, within ten business days after opening bids or receiving proposals, of the decision to award a contract to that vendor and requires execution of a contract within 30 days after providing the notification.

HB 458 DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS (R. Miller) Am. & En. 3715. Defines "dietary supplement," regulates the labeling and packaging of dietary supplements, requires manufacturers of dietary supplements in this state to register annually with the Director of Agriculture, requires the Director to conduct random inspections of establishments where dietary supplements are manufactured, processed, packed, or held for introduction into commerce, requires the Director to adopt rules concerning the registration and inspections, and makes applicable to dietary supplements certain current law provisions governing food.

HB 459 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GRANTS (R. Miller) En. 122. Creates a program to provide capital grants to community-based organizations from the Urban and Rural Community Development Fund.

HB 460 ARSON/ENDANGERING PENALTIES (R. Miller) Am. 2909. Increases the penalties for aggravated arson, arson, criminal damaging or endangering, and criminal mischief.

HB 461 HEALTH CARE CONTRACTS (Van Vyven) Am. & En. 1751, 3923 & 3959. Prohibits health insuring corporations, sickness and accident insurers, and third-party administrators from using "most favored nation" clauses when contracting with providers or health care facilities.

HB 462 EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTERS (Gardner) Amends Sec. 4.12 of Am.Sub.HB282 of the 123rd General Assembly to permit educational service centers to apply for and receive competitive grants for the operation of alternative educational programs.

HB 463 RENOVATION TAX CREDITS (Hollister) Am. & En. 5733, 5747. Grants corporate franchise and income tax credits for the renovation and maintenance of historic property.

HB 464 AGRICULTURAL USE VALUES (Krebs) Reduces current agricultural use values by 50% for the 1999 tax year, makes an appropriation, repeals section 1 & 2 of this act effective June 30, 2001 and declares an emergency.

HB 465 SCHOOL DISTRICT REVENUE (Mottley) Am. & En. 3317 & 5711. Provides compensation to school districts for revenue foregone because of the scheduled reduction in inventory property tax assessment rates.

HB 466 DRUG FELONIES (Damschroder) Am. 2951, 4715, 4717, 4730 & 4731. Specifies that certain felony offenders who are drug dependent or in danger of becoming drug dependent are not eligible for treatment in lieu of conviction.

HB 467 PAWNBROKERS (Schuler) Am. & En. 4727. Revises the Pawnbroker Licensing Law.

HB 468 NURSING HOMES (Barrett) Am. & En. 3701 & 3721. Requires nursing homes to maintain specified ratios of nurses and nurses aides to residents.

HB 469 BINGO COMMISSION (Corbin) Am. & En. 173, 1531, 2915, 3763, 4301 & 4303. Defines "bingo" to include bingo, instant bingo, and raffles; creates a license that authorizes charitable organizations to conduct bingo, instant bingo, and raffles; requires the licensing of manufacturers and distributors of bingo supplies and equipment; regulates the sale of instant bingo tickets and the conduct of bingo; creates the Charitable Gaming Commission and transfers to it the authority over charitable gaming now exercised by the Attorney General; levies a tax on the sale of bingo supplies or equipment by distributors to charitable organizations; and makes other changes in the Charitable Gambling Law.

HB 470 DEPARTMENT MERGER (Harris) Am., En. & Rep. 119, 121, 124, 125, 126, 127, 149, 153, 307, 329, 330, 763, 2151, 2301, 2705, 3313, 4112, 4141, 5101, 5103, 6301 & HB 283, 123rd General Assembly. Transfers the functions of the Bureau of Employment Services to the Department of Job and Family Services and the Department of Commerce, renames the Department of Human Services and the county departments of human services, implements the federal "Workforce Investment Act of 1998" and makes other changes to the law governing job and family services, maintains the provisions of this act until April 1, 2001, by amending the version of section 119.03 of the Revised Code that takes effect on that date, maintains the provisions of this act on and after April 1, 2002, by amending the version of section 119.03 of the revised Code that takes effect on that date, and to make an appropriation.

HB 471 DEPARTMENT MERGER (Harris) Am. 9, 101, 109, 117, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 131, 135, 145, 149, 153, 169, 173, 176, 307, 329, 331, 742, 1347, 1553, 1701, 1702, 1703, 1729, 1743, 1751, 1925, 2101, 2113, 2151, 2301, 2305, 2317, 2705, 2715, 2716, 2744, 2913, 2949, 2950, 2951, 2953, 3101, 3107, 3109, 3111, 3113, 3301, 3304, 3307, 3309, 3313, 3314, 3317, 3319, 3321, 3323, 3331, 3335, 3354, 3501, 3599, 3701, 3702, 3705, 3721, 3722, 3724, 3727, 3729, 3733, 3737, 3750, 3770, 3781, 3793, 3923, 3924, 3929, 4109, 4111, 4112, 4115, 4121, 4123, 4141, 4167, 3403, 4582, 4731, 5101, 5103, 5104, 5107, 5108, 5111, 5112, 5115, 5119, 5120, 5123, 5126, 5139, 5153, 5502, 5505, 5703, 5709, 5733, 5747 & 5902. Replaces references to the Bureau or Administrator of Employment Services with the Department of Director of Job and Family Services and the department of Commerce, replaces references to the Department or Director of Human Services with the Department or Director of Job and Family Services, replaces references to county department of human services with the county department of job and family services, replaces references to human services with family services, and maintains the provisions of this act on and after Jan. 1, 2001, by amending the versions of sections 3109.15, 3109.16 and 3109.18 of the Revised Code that take effect on that date, on and after April 1, 2001, by amending the version of section 4141.14 of the Revised Code that takes effect on that date, and on and after April 1, 2002, by amending the version of section 4141.14 of the Revised Code that takes effect on that date.

HB 472 TORT ATTORNEY FEES (Krebs) En. 2323. Requires a court to award to the prevailing party in a tort action reasonable attorney's fees, court costs, and other reasonable expenses incurred in the prosecution or defense of the claims for relief or assignments of error upon which that party prevailed.

HB 473 INVESTMENT AUTHORITY (Myers) Am. 135 & 321. Modifies the investment authority of counties and political subdivisions relative to the collateral requirements applicable to the receipt of public funds and the investment of public funds in repurchase agreements; modifies the designation period of public depositories by county commissioners; authorizes a political subdivision to retain the services of an investment advisor; authorizes electronic presentment of warrant information to a county treasurer; and makes related changes.

HB 474 AIR CONDITIONING REQUIREMENTS (Britton) Am. & En. 3701 & 3781. Requires air conditioning in existing and newly-constructed facilities intended primarily to house seniors and disabled persons.

HB 475 PHYSICIAN PROFILES (Van Vyven) En. 4731. Requires the State Medical Board to create physician profiles and make them available to the public.

HB 476 TEMPORARY LICENSE PLACARDS (Barnes) Am. 4503. Requires the Registrar of Motor vehicles to implement procedures for the reporting of information from applications for temporary license placards and windshield stickers to the Bureau of Motor vehicles so that the information from the applications is available to law enforcement agencies no later than four days after the date on which a temporary license placard or windshield sticker is issued, and requires temporary license placards to bear a distinctive combination of six letters, numerals, or letters and numerals and incorporate a security feature that prevents tampering with any of the information that is entered upon a placard when it is issued.

HB 477 INCOME TAX AUTHORITY (Mottley) Am. & En. 718, 733 & 5703. Modifies the authority of municipal corporations to impose income taxes.

HB 478 TAX EXEMPTION (Olman) Am. 5709. Exempts from taxation certain real and tangible personal property held or occupied by a nonprofit veterans organization.

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

HB 480 NEWBORN CARE (Maier) Am. & En. 3701. Requires a hearing screening for each newborn born in a hospital.

HB 481 ANNIE OAKLEY HIGHWAY (Buchy) En. 5533. Names State Route 127 in Darke County "Annie Oakley Highway."

HB 482 VEHICLE SALES (Hartley) Am. & En. 3704. 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 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 483 ELECTRIC UTILITY TAXATION (Mottley) Am. & En. 718. Prescribes a uniform set of procedures for municipal taxation of electric companies.

HB 484 TRACTOR LIGHTS (Buehrer) Am. & En. 4511, 5733 & 5747. Requires, effective one year after the effective date of this act, all multi-wheel agricultural tractors operated or traveling on a street or highway at night and certain other times to be equipped with specified lamps and reflectors that indicate the extreme left or right projections of the tractors, requires all other agricultural tractors operated or traveling on a street or highway at night and at certain other times to be equipped with specified lamps and reflectors, and grants tax credits to farms and farmers up to $500, $250, and $250 for the three years immediately following the effective date of this act for the cost of equipping agricultural tractors with the required lights and reflectors.

HB 485 SCHOOL AID COMPUTATIONS (Logan) En. 3317. Requires basic aid to be recomputed for a school district when a significant share of its property value becomes exempted from taxation and declares an emergency.

HB 486 NONPUBLIC SCHOOL STANDARDS (Ford) Am. & En. 3313 & 3314. Establishes additional requirements for registered private schools that wish to admit scholarship students, establishes additional requirements for community schools, and makes conversion of community schools eligible for special community school start-up grants.

HB 487 TRUANCY PREVENTION (Smith) En. 3321. Requires the Director of Human Services to establish a truancy prevention pilot program in certain municipal school districts and repeals this act five years after its effective date.

HB 488 ELECTRONIC RECORDS (Terwilleger) Am. & En. 1306 & 2913. Enacts the Electronic Records and Signatures Act by providing for regulation of electronic signatures, including digital signatures, and electronic records; creates the Electronic Commerce Division to regulate security and enforcement relative to electronic records and electronic signatures; provides for state agency use of electronic records and signatures; and provides civil remedies and criminal penalties for violations and terminates the Electronic Commerce Division four years after the effective date of this act.

HB 489 UNCLAIMED FUNDS (Grendell) Am. 169. Modifies the Unclaimed Funds Law by increasing the mandatory delay between a holder's mailing of notice to owners of unclaimed funds and the holder's reporting of such funds to the Director of Commerce and by requiring each holder to submit a copy of its annual unclaimed funds report to the county treasurer of each county in which is located the last known address of an owner named in the report.

HB 490 PUBLIC PROJECT PAYMENTS (Willamowski) Am. 153. Modifies the time period within which a lawsuit must be brought to recover money due to any person for labor or work performed or materials furnished in a public improvement project.

HB 491 CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS (Willamowski) Am. 4113. Specifies that a construction contract containing a provision subjecting the contract to the laws of another state is void.

HB 492 CRIMINAL SENTENCING (Mottley) Am. 2929. Permits the imposition of life imprisonment without parole on offenders who are convicted of aggravated murder when the indictment or the count in the indictment charging aggravated murder does not contain one or more specifications of an aggravating circumstance.

HB 493 DELINQUENT TAXES (Core) Am. & En. 321, 323, 5709, 5713, 5715, 5719 & 5721. Provides county treasurers with greater flexibility in entering into agreements with delinquent taxpayers, authorizes county treasurers to accept partial payment of taxes under certain circumstances, and makes other changes related to tax foreclosures and tax certificates.

HB 494 LIVING WILLS (Womer Benjamin) Am. 1337 & 2133. Requires that certain statements in a living will or a durable power of attorney for health care be in conspicuous type instead of capital letters and makes other changes in the form of living wills and durable powers of attorney for health care.

HB 495 BILL DRAFTING (Terwilleger) Am. 101, 153, 317, 981, 1311, 2715, 2737, 2935, 2941, 3113, 3501, 3509, 3513, 3769, 4561, 4703, 5309, 5721, 5901, 5907, 5919, 5920, 5921 & 6101. Requires the Legislative Service Commission to direct by rule how insertion of new matter and omission of old matter is to be indicated in bills, eliminates references to "19_" dates found in various statutory forms to permit that accurate use to the year 2000 and the future and declares an emergency.

HB 496 MEMORIAL HIGHWAY (Schuler) En. 5533. Designates U.S. Route 250 within Harrison County only, as the "William J. Brown Memorial Highway."

HB 497 SCHOOL FACILITIES (Flannery) Am. 3318. Requires the Ohio School Facilities Commission to establish and administer a program to provide assistance for emergency repairs to school buildings that are at least fifty years old and makes an appropriation.

HB 498 FIREARMS LIABILITY (Callender) En. 2305. Provides a qualified immunity from civil liability and injunctive relief to members of the firearms industry that will be both prospective and retroactive in its application.

HB 499 AUTOPSY RECORDS (Brading) Am. & En. 313. Authorizes coroners, deputy coroners, or their representatives to request medical and psychiatric records in connection with an autopsy, protects those records from disclosure as public records, and requires coroners to complete continuing education requirements.

HB 500 MINORITY BUSINESSES (Britton) Am. 122. Limits to Ohio residents eligibility for participation in programs encouraging the establishment and expansion of minority business enterprises.

HB 501 TAX REFUND NOTICES (Netzley) Am. 5747. Requires the Tax Commissioner to indicate the amount a taxpayer had paid when notifying the taxpayer of the possibility of a refund as a result of an overpayment of the personal income tax.

HB 502 SEX OFFENDERS (DePiero) Am. 2950. Clarifies the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Law regarding the time within which a court must determine that specified imprisoned persons are sexual predators.

HB 503 FAMILY FIRST COUNCILS (Redfern) En. 121. Requires the Department of Youth Services to use appropriate funds available to the department to pay a membership fee that a county family and children first council charges the representative of the department's regional office to serve on the council.

HB 504 VOYEURISM (Jerse) Am. 2907. Expands the offense of voyeurism to specifically prohibit "upskirting," "downblousing," and similar types of activities.

HB 505 RESPIRATORY CARE (Schuring) Am. & En. 4761. Revises the laws regarding the powers and duties of the Ohio Respiratory Care Board.

HB 506 CHIROPRACTORS (Schuring) Am. & En. 119, 121, 125, 2305, 2317, 2929, 3701, 3719, 3729, 4734, 4755 & 5903. Revises the laws pertaining to the regulation of chiropractors.

HB 507 PUBLIC OFFICERS (Brading) Am. 2961. Provides that a person who is convicted of a felony is incompetent to be a candidate for or appointee to an office of honor, trust, or profit.

HB 508 MEDICAL RECORDS FEES (Olman) Am. & En. 3701. Relatives to the fees health care providers and medical records companies may charge for providing copies of medical records.

HB 509 UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION (Corbin) Am. & En. 2301, 3111, 3113, 4141 & 5104. Makes changes in the Unemployment Compensation Law.

HB 510 CREDIT UNION COUNCIL (Evans) Am., En. & Rep. 1733. Revises the qualifications and duties of members of the Credit Union Council.

HB 511 ADVANCE PRACTICE NURSES (Schuring) Am., En. & Rep. 121, 3313, 3701, 3702, 3719, 3721, 3727, 4113, 4723, 4731, 4743, 4751 & 5111. Completes termination of the advanced practice nurse pilot project on January 1, 2010 and revises the laws regarding the practice of nursing and the licensing and enforcement duties of the Board of Nursing.

HB 512 STEEL PRODUCTS (D. Miller) Am. 125 & 153. Designates steel slag as a product included in both the Buy Ohio Program and the requirement that steel used in capital improvement projects be made in the United States.

HB 513 DELINQUENT TAX DISBURSEMENTS (Peterson) Am. 319, 323, 5719, 5721 & 5722. Requires delinquent property tax collections to be distributed among taxing districts in proportion to current ax rates, rather than the rates in effect while the taxes were outstanding.

HB 514 CORPORAL PUNISHMENT (Pringle) Am. 2151 & 2919. Defines corporal punishment for purposes of the Revised Code and clarifies that a child subjected to such punishment is not an abused child or a victim of the offense of child endangering.

HB 515 SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS (Tiberi) En. 3327 & 4507. Requires the Registrar of Motor Vehicles to notify the Department of Education, and the Department of Education to notify the appropriate board of education of a school district, governing board of an educational service center, or county board of mental retardation and development disabilities, when a person employed as a school bus driver violates a traffic law and has points assessed against the person's driving record.

HB 516 RAILROAD CROSSINGS (Damschroder) Am. & En. 5589. Allows a sheriff or a chief law enforcement officer of a municipal corporation to designate a railroad grade crossing as a no stop emergency crossing and prohibits a railroad company and the conductor or other person in charge of a train from obstructing an emergency crossing.

HB 517 GASOLINE PRICES (Taylor) En. 2927. Prohibits the sale of gasoline and other motor vehicle fuels at a price that is higher than the advertised price.

HB 518 DRUNK DRIVING (Clancy) Am. 4507. Prohibits the granting of occupational driving privileges to any person who is a second-time or subsequent OMVI or OMVUAC offender and who, at the time of the person's arrest for OMVI or OMVUAC, refused a request to submit to a chemical test of the person's blood, breath or urine to determine its alcohol content.

HB 519 MARRIAGE LICENSES (Williams) Am & En. 3101. Eliminates the requirement that social security numbers be included on marriage licenses and requires probate courts, except under certain circumstances, to delete social security numbers and maiden names of the mothers of the parties to a marriage from records pertaining to marriage licenses when those records are requested.

HB 520 REISSUED WARRANTS (Wilson) Am. & En. 1349. Prohibits any person from charging a fee for recovering or assisting in the recovery of money in the form of drafts or warrants that were voided but subsequently reissued, unless pursuant to an agreement meeting specified conditions.

HB 521 DISGUISE PROHIBITION (Jones) En. 2917. Prohibits any person who is masked or disguised from congregating or remaining in public with others who are similarly masked or disguised and provides a criminal penalty.

HB 522 SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS (Ogg) En. 5. Designates the first day of May as "School Bus Drivers Appreciation Day."

HB 523 TEACHER TAX CREDIT (Carey) Am. & En. 5747. Creates a refundable credit against the personal income tax for teachers.

HB 524 REAL ESTATE LAW (Corbin) Am. 4735. Includes limited liability companies and limited liability partnerships in the definition of real estate broker and establishes changes in the real estate licensing law.

HB 525 CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS (Redfern) Am. 3517. Limits campaign contributions by minors by prohibiting contributions from individuals under the age of 11 and limiting to $250 the maximum contribution from individuals age 11-17.

HB 526 FIREARMS STORAGE (Womer Benjamin) Am. & En. 181 & 2923. Requires the Office of Criminal Justice Services to prepare and distribute to firearms dealers a brochure summarizing the safe storage of firearms laws; prohibits the storage of firearms in a manner that results in a minor gaining improper access to the firearms; and requires federally licensed firearms dealers to offer a trigger lock to the purchaser of any firearm.

HB 527 SURGERY LICENSING (Buchy) Am. 4731. Requires the State Medical Board to discipline a physician for performing any surgery, including abortion, in an ambulatory surgical facility that is operating without a license.

HB 528 DRUG TRAFFICKING (Callender) Am. & Rep. 2925 & 2929. Expands the drug trafficking offenses to also include a prohibition against certain acts related to the shipment, transportation, delivery, or distribution of a controlled substance for sale or resale.

HB 529 RABIES REIMBURSEMENT (Taylor) Am. 955. Increases the cap on the amount of reimbursement that a person may receive for treatment of a rabies bite.

HB 530 BACKGROUND CHECKS (Roberts) Am. & En. 109. Requires a criminal records check for each person who is seeking to be, or currently is, appointed or employed as a person working with children.

HB 531 CEMETERY FEES (Hollister) Am. 3705 & 4767. Exempts certain political subdivisions from the requirement of paying a cemetery registration fee and makes changes to the law governing fees for the issuance of burial permits.

HB 532 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION (D. Miller) Am. 323. Increases the reduction in taxable value of property eligible for the homestead exemption and increases the homestead exemption appropriation.

HB 533 FORECLOSURES (D. Miller) Am. 5721. Eliminates the time limit within which holders of tax certificates may request foreclosure.

HB 534 BIRTH DEFECTS INFORMATION (Salerno) En. 3705. Requires the Director of Health to establish a Birth Defects Information System and provides for repeal of the act.

HB 535 MARITAL PROPERTY (Willamowski) Am. & En. 145, 742, 3305, 3307, 3309 & 5505. Permits a state retirement system, pursuant to a court order, to make payments to a member's former spouse for the purpose of dividing marital property.

HB 536 UNRULY CHILDREN (Willamowski) Am. 121, 181 & 2151. Revises definition of an unruly child, requires counties to develop a process to deal with children alleged to be at risk of become unruly children, provides an additional disposition for children adjudicated unruly, requires the Office of Criminal Justice Services to collect and analyze information regarding resources serving these children and expands the opportunities juvenile courts have to obtain federal funds under an agreement with the Ohio Department of Human Services.

HB 537 DOMESTIC RELATIONS (Calvert) Am. 3109. Allows a court in a domestic relations proceeding to require that children attend parenting classes or counseling with the children's parents.

HB 538 MENTAL RETARDATION (Calvert) Am., En. & Rep. 109, 5123 & 5126. Revises law governing the Department of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities and county boards of mental retardation and developmental disabilities.

HB 539 PUBLIC RECORDS (Goodman) Am. 149. Excludes from the Public Records Law information pertaining to a person under 18 years of age who seeks to use community recreational facilities.

HB 540 CONSTRUCTION/DEMOLITION FEES (Schuring) Am., En. & Rep. 1514 & 3714. Replaces the current construction and demolition debris facility license fee with a disposal fee, excludes certain operations involving the movement of dirt and minerals at construction and demolition debris facilities and solid waste facilities from the surface mining law and makes other changes in the construction and demolition debris law.

HB 541 VETERAN LICENSE PLATE (Taylor) Am. 4503. Eliminates the additional $10 fee that a person pays when first obtaining or renewing U.S. Armed Forces retiree or honorably discharged veteran licenses plates, Purple Heart license plates, Marine Corps League license plates and Pearl Harbor license plates.

HB 542 ECONOMICS EDUCATION (Schuck) Am. 3313. Requires one unit of study in economics for graduation from high school.

HB 543 VOUCHER PROGRAM (Trakas) Am. 3313. Transfers administration of the Pilot Project Scholarship Program from the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to the Auditor of State and makes an appropriation.

HB 544 PLANNING COMMISSIONS (Peterson) Am. 711, 713 & 5555. Authorizes a regional or county planning commission to send certain notices by electronic mail as well as regular mail, requires a regional or county planning commission to send notices to all townships at least 30 days before a public hearing on the adoption or amendment of its rules, makes changes to the composition of county planning commissions, and extends the period of time over which property owners may pay special assessments for county road improvements and the maturity of related bonds from ten to 20 years.

HB 545 TORT ACTIONS (Logan) Am. & En. 3746. Establishes an immunity from tort actions for nonprofit corporations under certain circumstances pertaining to voluntary actions and provides immunity from civil and criminal actions pertaining to voluntary actions for political subdivisions and special improvement districts.

HB 546 STATE FISH (Core) En. 5. Adopts the smallmouth bass as the state fish.

HB 547 SAME-SEX MARRIAGES (Jordan) Am. 3101. Specifically declares that same-sex marriages are against the public policy of this state and makes other declarations about same-sex marriages.

HB 548 SUNSET REVIEW (Terwilleger) Am. & En. 101, 3109 & 3318. Extends the expiration date of a number of state agencies, creates the Sunset Review Committee, and terminations certain provisions of this act on Dec. 31, 2004.

HB 549 PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS (Terwilleger) Am., En. & Rep. 1, 133, 315, 5555, 6103 & 6117. Modifies certain road improvement and water supply, sanitary, and drainage facilities laws to permit permanent improvements to be made more efficiently and effectively by simplifying, clarifying, and supplementing the procedures for constructing and financing them.

HB 550 VANDALISM STATUTE (Buchy) Am. 2902. Includes all private property within the scope of the vandalism statute.

HB 551 VIATICAL SETTLEMENTS (Salerno) Am. 1707. Makes all viatical settlement interests subject to the Ohio Securities Law.

HB 552 INDUCING PANIC (Jolivette) Am. 2917. Clarifies that the school-related penalty provisions for the offense of inducing panic apply to false alarms that do not result in an evacuation of a school.

HB 553 RAILROAD TRESPASS (Jolivette) En. 4999. Creates the offense of criminal trespass upon a railroad track.

HB 554 STATE FISH (Redfern) En. 5. Adopts the Walleye as the state fish.

HB 555 RAILROAD CROSSINGS (Cates) Am. 4511. Increases the fine that courts may impose on persons in connection with railroad grade crossing violations, requires persons issued citations for railroad grade crossing violations to appear in court, and creates the Railroad Safety Education Fund in the state treasury.

HB 556 EDUCATION SERVICE CENTERS (Cates) Am. & En. 3311. Permits the electors residing in the territory of an educational service center to rename the service center as a "county school district" or "joint county school district."

HB 557 STATUTE CHALLENGES (Sutton) Am. & En. 2743. Provides a mechanism pursuant to which a party, other than the state, to a court action in which a statute, the application of a statute, or a grant or limitation contained in a statute is found to be unconstitutional may recover the party's reasonable attorney's fees related to the challenge of the unconstitutional statute, application, grant, or limitation if the Court of Claims determines in a separate action that the General Assembly had reasonable cause to believe during its consideration of the statute that the statute, application, grant, or limitation was unconstitutional.

HB 558 DOMESTIC SHELTER IMMUNITY (Austria) En. 2305. Confers two distinct qualified immunities from tort liability upon a shelter for victims of domestic violence and its owners, trustees, officers, employees, and volunteers for harm that family or household members cause to victims of domestic violence on the shelter's premises, or on premises other than the shelter's premises, under specified circumstances.

HB 559 COURT CLERK ELECTION (Coughlin) Am. 1901. Provides for the election of the clerk of the Barberton and Cuyahoga Falls municipal courts in a specified manner.

HB 560 ENGINEERS/SURVEYORS/ARCHITECTS (Coughlin) Am., En. & Rep. 153, 4703 & 4733. Makes changes to the engineer and surveyor licensing law and the architect licensing law.

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

HB 562 NATUROPATHIC EXAMINERS (Smith) Am. & En. 2925, 4729, 4731 & 4779. Creates the State Board of Naturopathic Medical Examiners, provides for the licensing and regulation of naturopathic physicians, authorizes pharmacists to fill prescriptions ordered by naturopathic physicians, and exempts naturopathic physicians from certain drug and controlled substance criminal laws when their conduct is in accordance with naturopathy law.

HB 563 ESTATE TAX EXEMPTION (Wilson) Am. & En. 5731. Exempts the value of family-owned businesses from the estate tax when such a business passes to family members.

HB 564 BUSINESS INCOME DEDUCTION (Wilson) Am. & En. 5747. Permits owners of small businesses to deduct up to $10,000 in business profits in determining taxable personal income.

HB 565 RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT (Young) Am. & En. 9, 505, 733 & 737. Specifies that state law does not require a municipal corporation fire chief or village fire prevention officer to be a resident or elector of the municipal corporation, does not require a township fire chief or fire prevention officer to be a resident of the township, and does not require a township fire district fire chief, joint fire district fire chief, or fire and ambulance district fire chief to be a resident of the township fire district, joint fire district, or fire and ambulance district.

HB 566 WELFARE IDENTIFICATION (Mead) En. 5101. Requires that the Director of Job and Family Services implement a statewide automated finger imaging system to prevent an individual from receiving assistance under more than one name from a Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program or, if federal matching funds are provided, the Food Stamp Program and makes an appropriation.

HB 567 MEMORIAL HIGHWAY (Krupinski) En. 5533. Designates State Route 800, running through Freeport Township in Harrison County, as the "Arthur 'Brady' Milleson Memorial Highway."

HB 568 ESTATE TAX EXEMPTION (Young) Am. 5731. Exempts from the estate tax the interest of a decedent in a qualifying small business.

HB 569 TAX STUDY (Schuring) Creates a joint legislative committee to review the tax laws of Ohio and tax reform proposals and provides for the drafting of legislation reforming such laws.

HB 570 CARDIOVASCULAR TECHNOLOGISTS (Boyd) Am. 4773. Provides for the licensing of cardiovascular technologists by the Department of Health.

HB 571 VOTING BY MAIL (Peterson) Am. & En. 3501 & 3507. Allows a board of elections to conduct an election by mail when the board has certified no candidates for placement on the ballot at that election and certain circumstances apply.

HB 572 BMV RECORDS (Jacobson) Am. & En. 4501. Prohibits the Bureau of Motor Vehicles from disclosing a peace officer's residential address contained in the bureau's records if the officer requests that the information be confidential.

HB 573 PUBLIC FUNDS REPORTING (Jacobson) Am. & En. 117, 122, 149 & 1702. Imposes various reporting, auditing, and other requirements on non-profit and other organizations that receive public moneys, and provides civil and criminal remedies for misuse of public moneys.

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

HB 575 CHILD ABUSE REVIEW (Schuring) Am. & En. 124, 2151 & 2303. Permits juvenile judges to establish and assemble county or regional child abuse and neglect assessment teams to review and assess, to assist public children services agencies with investigations of, child abuse and neglect reports, establishes the child protection oversight committee in the Department of Human Services, and makes an appropriation.

HB 576 EMANCIPATED MINORS (Pringle) Am. & En. 149, 307, 505, 517, 709, 1321, 1337, 1339, 1533, 2107, 2108, 2113, 2131, 2133, 2151, 2307, 2743, 2901, 2907, 2923, 2929, 2938, 3101, 3107, 3109, 3313, 3319, 3730, 3770, 4109, 4112, 4301, 4505, 4507, 4511, 4519, 4728, 5104, 5107, 5121, 5122, 5153 & 5310. Establishes a procedure for the emancipation of certain minors and specifies the rights and responsibilities of emancipated minors.

HB 577 FIREARM SALES (Flannery) Am. & En. 109, 149, 2923, 2945, 5122, 5122 & 5123. Requires the Superintendent of the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation to establish a database of relevant information regarding certain mentally ill persons subject to hospitalization by court order and mentally retarded persons subject to institutionalization by court order for purposes of performing instant mental competence records checks of potential purchasers of firearms from federally licensed firearms dealers and establishes procedures for requesting and performing those mental competence records checks.

HB 578 OHIO WORKS PROGRAM (D. Miller) Am. & En. 5107. Revises the law governing sanctions and time limits under the Ohio Works First Program.

HB 579 VEHICLE NOISE (Grendell) Am. 4513. Permits a board of county commissioners or board of township trustees to prohibit the manipulation of the engine speed or transmission of a motor vehicle in a manner that results in the exhaust system emitting a loud, cracking or chattering noise unusual to its normal operation.

HB 580 READING ASSISTANCE (Netzley) En. 3313. Requires school districts to adopt parental reading assistance programs.

HB 581 MOTOR VEHICLE TITLING (Terwilleger) Am., En. & Rep. 4501, 4503 & 4505. Makes changes in the motor vehicle titling and registration processes.

HB 582 INTERNET ACCESS (Terwilleger) En. 1349. Requires a cable operator that is a wireline broadband internet access transport provider and that is, or is an affiliate of, an internet service provider, to provide any other requesting internet service provider with open access to its broadband internet access transport service.

HB 583 COURT JURISDICTION (Williams) Am. 2301. Specifies that, in Summit County, jurisdiction over paternity, custody, visitation, child support and allocation of parental rights and responsibilities for the care of children cases, over post-decree proceedings arising from those cases, and over Uniform Interstate Family Support Act proceedings generally is in the Domestic Relations Division of the Summit County Court of Common Pleas and declares an emergency.

HB 584 HEALTH INSURANCE PLANS (Tiberi) Am. & En. 1751. Requires all closed panel plans offered by health insuring corporations to allow enrollees to use nonparticipating providers and imposes on such enrollees a copayment, deductible or other out-of-pocket expense that reflects the health insuring corporation's certified actual costs and sets forth other requirements for closed panel plans.

HB 585 PHYSICIAN LICENSING (Vesper) Am. & En. 4731. Provides, with certain exceptions, that a physician licensed by another state who provides medical services in this state, either in person or through the use of any communication, including oral, written, or electronic communication, must comply with all laws governing the practice of medicine in this state and submit to the jurisdiction of the State Medical Board and the courts of this state.

HB 586 LICENSE PLATES (Taylor) Am. 4503. Permits the spouses of veterans to be issued U.S. Armed Forces retiree or honorably discharged veteran license plates, Purple Heart license plates, Marine Corps League license plates, and Pearl Harbor license plates in their own names.

HB 587 INSTALLMENT SALES PRACTICES (Vesper) Am. 1317. Provides that under the Retail Installment Sales Act a retail seller has sixty days after written notification of an improper overcharge or contract error to refund the overcharge or contract error to refund the overcharge or correct the error, permits any recovery imposed for a violation of that act to be applied to any outstanding principal balance owed by the retail buyer, and provides that actions under that act be brought within one year.

HB 588 AVIATION FUEL TAX (Netzley) Am. & En. 4561 & 5739. Provides that sales taxes paid on aviation fuel are to be used for airport maintenance and improvement grants.

HB 589 PUBLIC UTILITY TAX (Hoops) Am. 5727. Requires public utilities to pay only the undisputed portion of property taxes if the utility disputes the Tax Commissioner's valuation and provides for notification of any disputes be given to county auditors and affected taxing districts.

HB 590 READING PROFICIENCY (Gardner) Am. 3313. Provides that the fourth grade reading requirement for promotion to fifth grade does not create a cause of action or substantive legal right for any person.

HB 591 LIQUOR PERMITS (Trakas) Am. & En. 4301, 4303 & 4399. Allows C-1, C-2, and C-2x permit holders to sell tasting samples of the alcoholic beverages they are authorized to sell, creates the D-8 permit to be issued to certain retail stores to allow the sale of tasting samples of beer, wine, and mixed beverages, allows agency stores to sell spirituous liquor in 50 milliliter containers under certain conditions, allows local option elections on the Sunday sale of intoxicating liquor between the hours of 10 a.m. and midnight, and makes changes in the law governing local option elections on beer and liquor sales at a specific premises.

HB 592 CIVIL RIGHTS (Stapleton) Am. 4112. Excludes employees from personal liability under the Ohio Civil Rights Law and restores to effectiveness as part of the law certain amendments that were enacted in violation of the one-subject rule.

HB 593 INSURANCE ADJUSTERS (D. Miller) Am. & En. 3951. Provides for reciprocal certification of public insurance adjusters with other states and eliminates the requirement that public insurance adjusters be Ohio residents.

HB 594 HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE (D. Miller) En. 1751 & 3923. Requires certain health insuring corporation policies, contracts, and agreements, sickness and accident insurance policies, and public employee benefit plans to provide benefits for the diagnosis and medically necessary treatment of social anxiety disorder.

HB 595 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION (D. Miller) Am. & En. 323 & 5715. Permits occupants of housing cooperatives to apply for the homestead exemption.

HB 596 HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS (D. Miller) Am. 5111. Permits, under certain circumstances, Medicaid recipients participating in the managed care system to receive medical services from a provider that is not designated as a participating provider.

HB 597 NONPROFIT CORPORATION LAW (Womer Benjamin) Am. 1702. Modifies the Nonprofit Corporation Law, including creating two new types of nonprofit corporate entities; changes references from trustees to directors; modifies membership rights, notice and voting provisions and merger provision; and makes related changes.

HB 598 BINGO (Netzley) Am. 173, 1531, 2915, 3763, 4301 & 4303. Defines "bingo" to include bingo, instant bingo, punch boards and raffles; authorizes charitable organizations that hold D-4 and D-5 liquor permits to conduct certain types of bingo and serve beer or intoxicating liquor at the same time; increases the amount that certain charitable organizations may retain from gross receipts as consideration for use of the premises; allows fraternal, civic and veteran's organizations to use 45% of the net profits generated from instant bingo; and makes other changes in the Charitable Gambling Law.

HB 599 JUDGESHIPS (Logan) Am. 1901 & 1907. Creates the Columbiana County Municipal Court on January 1, 2002, establishes two full-time judgeships in that court, and abolishes the Columbiana County Court on that date.

HB 600 DRIVERS' LICENSE LAW (Clancy) Am. & En. 4501, 4503, 4506, 4507, 4511, 4513 & 5577. Revises the law governing the disclosure of personal information from records of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, allows driver's license reciprocity with foreign countries, makes changes in Commercial Motor Vehicle Law and vehicle equipment requirements, and makes other changes in the law governing drivers' licenses.

HB 601 MINERAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (Vesper) Am. 124, 124, 127, 1501, 1505, 1509, 1510, 1513, 1514, 1561, 1563, 1565, 1567, 1571, 5749 & 6111. Creates the Division of Mineral Resources Management in the Department of Natural Resources by combining the Division of Mines and Reclamation with the Division of Oil and Gas and declares an emergency.

HB 602 STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION (Brading) Am. & En. 3, 3301 & 3501. Enacts as a separate act the sections of law adding eight members appointed by the Governor to the State Board of Education.

HB 603 STRUCTURED SETTLEMENTS (Jolivette) En. 2323. Requires approval of a court of the transfer of payment rights of a payee under a structured settlement for periodic payments of damages in tort actions upon injury to person and establishes procedures for application of such approval by a transferee of those payment rights.

HB 604 SCHOOL BOARD AUTHORITY (Peterson) En. 5705. Prohibits school boards from converting unvoted current expense millage to another purpose.

HB 605 SERVICE MEDAL (Krupinski) En. 5923. Allows the Governor to present in the name of the State of Ohio a distinguished service medal to those persons who meet certain conditions.

HB 606 RECREATIONAL DISTRICTS (Krupinski) Am. 6101. Creates the Joint Legislative Recreational Conservancy District Oversight Committee; creates a Recreational Conservancy District Nominating Committee for each recreational conservancy district; gives those committees responsibility for appointing the members of the board of directors of such a district; increases the membership of such a board from five to nine members and decreases the length of the members' terms from five to three years.

HB 607 TRAIN WARNINGS (Robinson) Am. 4955. Allows the use of the alternative audible warning system signaling the approach of a locomotive engine, subject to approval by the Public Utilities Commission.

HB 608 HUMAN CONCEPTION (Jordan) Am. 2919. Prohibits a person from paying or receiving any fee for services involved in, or for any activity related to, harvesting or delivering the product of human conception.

HB 609 SCHOOL CURRICULUM (Flannery) En. 3301. Revises the model curriculum for citizenship to include coverage of the Irish Potato Famine.

HB 610 CONCEALED WEAPONS OFFENSE (DePiero) Am. 2923. Expands the definition to the offenses of carrying concealed weapons and illegal possession of a firearm in liquor permit premises that applies to specified governmental officers, agents, and employees and law enforcement officers so that the exception also applies while they are not acting within the scope of their duties.

HB 611 WORKERS' COMPENSATION (Cates) Am. 4121 & 4123. Requires the Administrator of Workers' Compensation and the Industrial Commission of Ohio jointly to adopt rules governing the submission and sending of documents via electronic transmission, modifies the processing requirements for claim applications that are not written, and declares an emergency.

HB 612 TAXPAYER SERVICES (Jolivette) Am., En. & Rep. 3734, 3769, 4301, 4303, 4305, 5703, 5705, 5711, 5717, 5727, 5728, 5733, 5735, 5739, 5741, 5743, 5747 & 5749. Authorizes the electronic filing of certain documents with the tax commissioner and treasurer of state, extends the time for filing petitions for reassessments, makes various charges and penalties discretionary rather than mandatory, changes the method of service of notices by the tax commission, authorizes the use of delivery services instead of the postal service for delivery of certain documents to the tax commissioner, board of tax appeals, and treasurer of state, redefines and specifies certain vehicles for purposes of the highway use and motor fuel taxes, establishes procedures for claiming exemptions from the use tax, and makes other changes related to the administration of the tax laws by the department of taxation.

HB 613 TELEPHONE COMPETITION (Cates) Am. & En. 4905. Prescribes for telephone utilities interconnection and other requirements related to the competitive provision of telecommunications services and provides various remedies and forfeitures for violations of or failures to comply with those requirements.

HB 614 LITTER TAXES (Roberts) Am. & Rep. 5733. Provides that all payments received by the Treasurer of State from the litter taxes be credited to the Recycling and Litter Prevention.

HB 615 LAND CONVEYANCE (Amstutz) Authorizes the conveyance of approximately 6.863 acres of state-owned real estate in Wayne County to the Village of Apple Creek and declares an emergency.

HB 616 SECURITIES REGISTRATION (Jacobson) Am. 1707. Provides that securities purchased by up to 15 of the issuer's officers, managers, closely associated individuals, or closely associated entities are exempt from registration with the Division of Securities if the issuance or sale of the securities meets other requirements of the Ohio Securities Law.

HB 617 CONSERVANCY DISTRICTS (Mottley) Am. 5511 & 6101. Updates the provisions of the Conservancy District Law for both technical and substantive purposes, including modifications to notifications and other procedures relative to appraisals, anticipatory notes, bonds, and assessments.

HB 618 MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY (Barrett) Am. & En. 5111. Requires the director of Human Services to apply for a federal waive to expand eligibility for the Medical Program to individuals who are between nineteen and 64 years of age and have family incomes not exceeding 200% of the federal poverty guidelines.

HB 619 ADULT IMMUNIZATIONS (Barrett) Am. & En. 173, 3701, 3721 & 3722. Requires adult care facilities, adult day-care programs, home health agencies, homes, and PASSPORT agencies to immunize employees, residents, and participants against influenza and pneumonia.

HB 620 SCHOOL EXPULSIONS (Cates) Am. 3313. Permits a school district board to adopt a resolution authorizing expulsion for up to one year of any student making a bomb threat to a school or a school activity.

HB 621 FIREFIGHTER EXAMS (Cates) Am. 124. Allows promotional examinations for firefighters to be oral as well as written in nature.

HB 622 AGRICULTURAL WATER USE (Young) Am. 1521. Exempts agricultural entities from registration and reporting requirements regarding water use.

HB 623 RETIREMENT PLANS (Cates) Am. & En. 143, 145, 742, 2907, 2921, 3307 & 3309. Establishes a new defined contribution retirement plan for certain public employees who are elective officials or are in the state's unclassified civil service in positions exempt from collective bargaining.

HB 624 MEMORIAL HIGHWAY (Netzley) En. 5533. Designates a portion of State Route 7 within Belmont County the "A.G. Lancione Memorial Highway."

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

HB 626 ENTERPRISE ZONE REPORT (Mottley) Am. 5709. Modifies requirements concerning the Department of Development's annual enterprise zone report.

HB 627 WORKERS' COMPENSATION (Mottley) Am. 4123. Permits public employers, other than the state, to become self-insuring employers for purposes of the Workers' Compensation Law.

HB 628 PERS BENEFITS (Hollister) Am., En. & Rep. 124, 145, 306, 308, 2329, 2907, 2921, 3105, 3375, 3381 & 6121. Increases certain benefits paid by the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS), provides that the annual cost of living increase paid to retired PERS members and their survivors will be three per cent, allows PERS to establish a defined contribution retirement plan, and relocates the provisions governing the Ohio Deferred Compensation Program.

HB 629 AUTO INSURANCE (Schuring) Am. 3937. Prohibits insurers from canceling or refusing to write an automobile insurance policy solely because of the age of the insured or applicant.

HB 630 ILLEGAL ALIEN EMPLOYEES (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 631 SCHOOL FACILITIES (Carey) Am., En. & Rep. 133 & 3318. Permits any school district to participate in the School Building Assistance Expedited Local Partnership Program, codifies the program to set aside classroom facilities assistance moneys for low wealth school districts with exceptional needs, establishes a program to provide classroom facilities assistance moneys to joint vocational school districts, establishes a program to provide classroom facilities assistance moneys to school districts that have suffered natural disasters, authorizes accelerated service under the Classroom Facilities Assistance Program to big-eight school districts, authorizes alternative methods for school districts to generate their respective shares of projects under the Classroom Facilities Assistance Program, and makes other changes to the Classroom Facilities Assistance Program.

HB 632 PERS SERVICE CREDIT (Kilbane) Am. 145. Permits any member of the Public Employees Retirement System who resigned due to adoption of a child to purchase up to one year of service credit.

HB 633 PARK EMINENT DOMAIN (Taylor) Am. 511, 755 & 1545. Eliminates the right of the appointed boards of park commissioners of metropolitan park districts, municipal corporations, and township park districts to acquire, through an exercise of eminent domain authority, land for park use.

HB 634 SPECIAL FOSTER HOMES (Grendell) Am. & En. 2151 & 5103. Establishes special guidance foster homes for children who have committed acts that would be an offense of violence, theft offense, or a sex offense involving sexual activity if committed by an adult; prohibits those children from being placed in any other type of foster home; and makes other changes and additions to the law governing foster care in relation to those children.

HB 635 INVENTORY TAXATION (Britton) En. 5709. Exempts inventory located in a federally designated empowerment zone from property taxes.

HB 636 PRIVACY RIGHTS (Damschroder) Am. 149 & 4501. Prohibits the disclosure of personal information contained in a public record to a person intending to use the information for surveys, marketing, solicitation, or resale for commercial purposes unless the subject of the record signs a written authorization permitting that disclosure.

HB 637 WEAPONS DISABILITY (Young) Am. 2923 & 2929.Enhances the penalties for the offense of having weapons while under disability.

HB 638 AUTO INSURANCE (Salerno) Am. 3937. Relatives to an insured's recovery under uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage regarding wrongful death and other actions.

HB 639 RESIDENTIAL LEASES (Sullivan) En. 5321. Permits a tenant to terminate a residential lease agreement without penalty when, for medical reasons, the tenant or the tenant's spouse, aged 62 or older, enters a nursing home or other specified care facility.

HB 640 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS (Corbin) Am. & En. 101, 123, 124, 126, 129, 135, 151, 149, 153, 154, 164, 169, 1347, 1551, 1555, 1557, 3313, 3314, 3317, 3318, 3333, 3383, 3701, 3770, 4115, 4751, 4905, 4906, 5528, 5735 & 5743. Makes capital appropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 2001 and corrects and modifies authorizations and conditions established for the operation of state programs.

HB 641 ALTERNATIVE ENERGY CREDIT (Hartley) Am. & En. 1551, 4933, 5709, 5733, 5739 & 5747. Provides, until 2010, for a tax credit against corporation franchise and personal income tax liability for the purchase and installation of a solar, wind, biomass, or hydrothermal energy system or an energy efficiency system and exempts such systems from sales and real property taxes.

HB 642 STROKE PREVENTION (Clancy) En. 3701. Creates the Council on Stroke Prevention and Education.

HB 643 LOTTERY GAMES (Mottley) Am. & En. 119 & 3770. Authorizes the State Lottery to participate in multistate lotteries; eliminates the minimum profit percentage required for the state lottery; requires the Commission to prepare a problem gambling impact statement for certain rules it adopts; requires the Commission to rescind or modify a rule, and authorizes the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review to recommend invalidation of a rule, if excessive problem gambling results from a rule for which the Commission prepared a problem gambling impact statement; and explicitly authorizes the Department of Mental Health to provide assistance to county boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services to treat gambling disorders.

HB 644 SOLID WASTE DISTRICTS (Schuring) Am. & En. 343. Requires mediation prior to withdrawal of a county from a joint solid waste management district under specified circumstances and revises the requirements for withdrawal of a county from a joint solid waste management district under those circumstances.

HB 645 AGRICULTURE (Vesper) Am. & En. 917, 918, 921, 924, 926 & 1327. Revises the statutes governing agriculture.

HB 646 SPECIAL PLATES (O'Brien) En. 4501 & 4503. Creates an "Ohio Lions" license plate.

HB 647 TOBACCO SALES (Stapleton) Am. & En. 2151, 2927, & 3510. Expands the offense of illegal distribution of cigarettes or other tobacco products; to create the offense of permitting children to use cigarettes or other tobacco products; prohibits children from possessing, using, purchasing, or receiving cigarettes or other tobacco products; and requires sellers to sign a certification regarding the prohibitions and requirements incident to sales of cigarettes or other tobacco products and to demand proof of age of purchasers believed to be under eighteen years of age.

HB 648 FARM EQUIPMENT DEALERS (Calvert) Am. & En. 1353. Includes compact tractors as a type of farm equipment in the law governing the relationship between dealers and suppliers of farm equipment; prohibits a supplier of farm equipment, without good cause, from terminating, failing to renew, or substantially altering the competitive circumstances of certain agreements that the supplier has entered into with a dealer of farm equipment; and requires a supplier to provide written notice to a dealer before terminating or not renewing such an agreement.

HB 649 ELECTRONIC SECURITY REGULATION (Trakas) Am. & En. 4749. Creates the Commission on Electronic Security System Regulation under the Department of Commerce and to license persons who perform electronic security system services.

HB 650 BEER DEFINITION (Trakas) Am. 1333, 1502, 3719, 4301, 4303, 4305, 4399, 5733 & 5739. Changes the definition of beer to explicitly include ale, porter, stout, sake, and other fermented beverages brewed or produced from malt or malt substitutes.

HB 651 INTERNET VOTING (Robinson) Am., En. & Rep. 3501, 3503, 3505, 3513, 3517, 3523 & 3599. Creates the Internet Voting Advisory Council to advise the Secretary of State regarding rules relative to Internet voting, requires the Secretary of State to adopt rules for Internet voting, establishes a pilot project for Internet voting in Franklin County in the 2001 general election, establishes a pilot project for Internet voting in ten counties in the 2002 primary election, permits all electors to vote via the Internet in the 2002 general election, and eliminates authority to challenge a voter's right to vote on the basis of a change in party affiliation.

HB 652 FARM OPERATIONS (Buchy) Am. & En. 307, 505, 903, 1511, 3745 & 6111. Transfers authority to issue permits for the construction of new or modification of existing concentrated animal feeding operations from the Director of Environmental Protection to the Director of Agriculture, provides for the regulation of concentrated animal feeding operations, transfers authority to issue national pollutant discharge elimination system permits for agricultural operations and certain other entities from the Director of Environmental Protection to the Director of Agriculture, and makes an appropriation.

HB 653 CIVIL SERVICE REVIEW (Buehrer) Creates the Civil Service Review Commission to review Ohio's civil service laws, rules, practices, and procedures, and requires the Commission to issue a report that makes recommendations for changing them.

HB 654 COLLEGE DISTRICT DEPOSITS (Schuring) Am. 3357. Eliminates the requirement for a technical college district to select a depository for its funds in accordance with the Uniform Depository Act.

HB 655 POLICE & FIRE PENSIONS (Schuring) Am. 742. Provides that the annual cost of living increase paid to retired members and beneficiaries of the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund will be three per cent.

HB 656 STATE FLAG (Amstutz) Am. & En. 5. Establishes requirements governing the display and disposal of the state flag, explains the symbolism of the state flag, and adopts an official pledge to the state flag.

HB 657 DRUNK DRIVING (Ford) Am. 4511. Requires the operator of a vehicle to submit to a chemical test of the person's blood, breath, or urine if the operator is stopped by a police officer who observes an opened alcoholic beverage container in the vehicle or is arrested for OMVI and either admits to consuming alcoholic beverages or is involved in an accident that results in death or serious physical harm to a person.

HB 658 ANATOMICAL DONATIONS (Jolivette) Am. & En. 2108 & 4501. Requires the Department of Health to contract with a private entity to establish a donor registry, specifies that a declaration of an anatomical gift takes precedence over the contrary wishes of the donor's family, provides that family consent is not needed if an anatomical gift is provided for in such a declaration, requires the private entity to establish a toll-free telephone number and send information to individuals who decline to become organ donors, and requires the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to send certain information to the entity that maintains the registry.

HB 659 NATURAL GAS TAXES (Mottley) Am. & En. 3709, 4933, 5703, 5705 & 5727. Reduces the assessment rate on tangible personal property owned by natural gas companies, levies an excise tax on the distribution of natural gas, and modifies the determination of the true value of current gas stored underground.

HB 660 CHILD ENDANGERMENT (Winkler) Am. & En. 2919, 2151, 4765 & 5153. Provides a procedure for deserting a child who is under 30 days old and provides an affirmative defense to a charge of nonsupport or endangering children for a parent who deserts pursuant to that procedure a child who is under 30 days old.

HB 661 PRISON NURSERIES (Winkler) En. 5120. Permits the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to establish a prison nursery program permitting certain incarcerated women and the children born to them while incarcerated to reside together in an institution operated by the Department.

HB 662 DRUG REPOSITORY PROGRAM (Schuring) En. 3701. Establishes under the direction of the Director of Health a drug repository program for the collection and redistribution of prescription drugs that are in their original unopened packaging.

HB 663 PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS/AUCTIONEERS (Schuring) Am. 4707 & 4749. Allows the Director of Commerce to enter into agreements with testing service vendors and establishes a staggered license renewal system under the law governing private investigators and security guards and allows the Director to establish a staggered license renewal system under the law governing auctioneers.

HB 664 NONVIOLENCE AWARENESS (Roberts) En. 5. Designates "A Season for Nonviolence in Ohio," from January 30th to April 4th of every year.

HB 665 INCOME TAX CREDIT (Callender) Am. 5747. Extends the joint filing tax credit against the personal income tax to all joint filers.

HB 666 GUARD PAY EXEMPTION (Callender) Am. 5747. Exempts pay and allowances received for service in the Ohio national guard from taxation.

HB 667 INSURANCE OVERPAYMENTS (Damschroder) En. 1753 & 3923. Requires health insuring corporations and sickness and accident insurers to provide physicians with written notice of an overpayment within one year or lose the right to make an adjustment or correction to the physician's account or to otherwise seek reimbursement for the overpayment.

HB 668 MORTGAGE LAW (Tiberi) Am. 5301. Modifies the law regarding improperly witnessed mortgages and declares an emergency.

HB 669 STUDENT SUCCESS COMMISSION (Roman) En. 3302. Establishes the Governor's Commission for Student Success.

HB 670 WRONGFUL IMPRISONMENT (Taylor) Am. 2305 & 2743. Modifies the existing mechanism governing a civil action by a wrongfully imprisoned individual to recover a sum of money from the state because of an individual's wrongful imprisonment.

HB 671 CLASSROOM SILENCE PERIOD (Young) Am. 3313. Permits school districts to establish the observance of a daily period of silence in each classroom.

HB 672 MANUFACTURED HOUSING (Peterson) Am. 319, 321, 323, 4501, 4503, 4505, 4513 & 4517. Specifies the application date of certain provisions of Am.Sub.SB142 of the 122nd General Assembly and makes other clarifications regarding the taxation of manufactured and mobile homes.

HB 673 VEHICLE WEIGHT LIMITS (Peterson) Am. & En. 5577. Allows a board of county commissioners, upon request by a board of township trustees, to reduce the maximum vehicle weights limits on a county or township road or a section of a road within its jurisdiction.

HB 674 PRESCRIPTION DRUGS (Brading) En. 1751 & 3923. Requires health insuring corporations, sickness and accident insurers, and administrators of health benefit plans to issue uniform prescription drug information cards to the beneficiaries of policies, plans, contracts, and agreements that provide coverage for prescription drugs.

HB 675 UNIVERSITY RESEARCH PROFITS (Mead) Am. 3345. Permits the board of trustees of a state college or university to establish rules that describe circumstances in which an employee of that institution may solicit or may be given a financial interest in any firm, corporation or other association to which the board has assigned, licensed, transferred or sold the institution's interest in discoveries, inventions, intellectual property or patents resulting from research conduct at or by employees of the institution and prescribes coordination of the development of such rules with the Ohio Ethics Commission.

HB 676 READING PROFICIENCY TEST (Jones) Suspends the operation of the statutory prohibitions on promoting to the fifth grade certain fourth grade students who do not pass the fourth grade reading proficiency test until the General Assembly reviews the recommendation of the Governor's Commission for Student Success and enacts a law to reinstate that prohibition.

HB 677 SCHOOL TERRITORY TRANSFER (Jones) Am. 3311. Revises the requirements under which school district boards of education or voters may request the State Board of Education to transfer territory to an adjoining school district.

HB 678 TEACHER RETIREMENT (Mettler) Am. & En. 3307, 3317 & 4117. Reduces the time a retired teacher must wait to return to full-time teaching without a loss of retirement benefits, provides that in determining salary a retired teacher who returns to full-time teaching is not to be given credit for prior teaching service, and provides that the salary limit is not subject to collective bargaining.

HB 679 EDUCATION CURRICULUM (Hood) En. 3313. Requires that, whenever the theory of evolution is included in the instructional program of a school district or educational service center, the scientific evidence both supportive and not supportive of the theory be included.

HB 680 PARENT-TEACHER DUES EXEMPTION (Robinson) Am. & En. 5747. Creates a one-time, nonrefundable credit against the personal income tax for membership in a parent-teacher association.

HB 681 SCHOOL PERSONNEL (Trakas) Am. 3319. Removes the three-year limitation on employing certain unlicensed veterans as regular or substitute teachers and allows such veterans to serve in administrative positions.

HB 682 FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (Roman) Am. 4503, 4507 & 4509. Eliminates the authority of the Registrar of Motor Vehicles to randomly select motorists to verify financial responsibility, eliminates the requirement that the Registrar adopt rules providing for random verification programs, and requires the demonstration of proof of financial responsibility as a condition of renewing the registration of a motor vehicle.

HB 683 ANATOMICAL GIFTS (Schuck) Am. & En. 124, 2108, 3301, 4503 & 5703. Makes changes to the laws regarding anatomical gifts.

HB 684 "PROMPT PAY" LAWS (Coughlin) Am., En. & Rep. 1739, 3901 & 3902. Revises the "prompt pay" statutes applicable to third-party payers.

HB 685 VOTE CHALLENGES (Trakas) Am., En. & Rep. 3501, 3503, 3513 & 3517. Eliminates authority to challenge a voter's right to vote on the basis of party affiliation, permits electors to designate or change party affiliation at any time, and extends from two years to four years the amount of time in which an elector remains affiliated with a political party after voting in that party's primary election.

HB 686 LICENSE PLATES (Salerno) En. 4503. Creates a special motorcycle license plate for retired and honorably discharged veterans.

HB 687 INSURANCE FORMS STUDY (Schuring) Creates a task force to evaluate the forms used by health insurers and make recommendations regarding standardization of health insurance forms.

HB 688 MOTOR VEHICLES STUDY (Schuring) En. 4501. Creates the Citizens Advisory Committee within the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.

HB 689 SALES TAX EXEMPTION (Robinson) Am. 5739. Exempts from the sales and use tax sales of electronic information services used in business.

HB 690 INCOME TAX CREDITS (Robinson) Am. 122, 5733 & 5747. Authorizes a corporation franchise or personal income tax credit for information technology companies that agree to hire new employees.

HB 691 TECHNOLOGY VENTURE CAPITAL (Robinson) Am. & En. 145, 168, 3307, 3309 & 4123. Creates the Ohio Technology Fund, a venture capital investment fund to invest in information technology businesses with moneys provided by the Public Employees Retirement System, the State Teachers Retirement System, the School Employees Retirement System, and the Bureau of Workers' Compensation and with moneys appropriated from the state's General Revenue Fund, and makes an appropriation.

HB 692 ESTATE TAX REPEAL (Trakas) Am. & En. 129, 1339, 1555, 2113, 5528 & 5731. Repeals the estate tax for the estates of decedents dying on or after July 1, 2000, except the estate taxes that "pick up" certain federal estate tax credits, requires the Tax Commissioner to make payments to municipal corporations and townships over a five-year period to replace a portion of revenue lost due to the elimination of the estate tax, and makes an appropriation.

HB 693 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION (Healy) Am. 323 & 4503. Expands eligibility for the homestead exemption.

HB 694 SCHOOL FUNDING (Roberts) Am. 3317. Adjusts the calculation of state base-cost funding for school districts whose three-year average formula ADMs exceed their current-year formula ADM and experience increasing number of resident students attending community schools, and makes an appropriation.

HB 695 SCHOOL FUNDING (Roberts) Am. 3317. Adjusts the calculation of state base-cost funding for school districts whose three-year average formula ADMs exceed their current-year formula ADM and experience increasing number of resident students attending community schools, and makes an appropriation.

HB 696 MINORITY HEALTH (Smith) Am. & En. 3701. Creates the Minority HIV and AIDS Task Force and requires the Department of Health to develop and implement a statewide HIV and AIDS prevention campaign directed toward at risk members of minority groups.

HB 697 COUNTERFEIT CHECKS (Tiberi) En. 2913. Prohibits a person from issuing or transferring or causing to be issued or transferred a counterfeit check.

HB 698 LAND CONVEYANCE (Gardner) Authorizes Bowling Green State University to convey state-owned real estate located in Wood County and authorizes the Governor to convey state-owned real estate located in Wood County.

HB 699 SCHOOL FUNDING (Mottley) Requires the Department of Education to complete a study of how the base cost formula may adversely affect school districts because of the impact of community schools or because of the temporary state aid cap, authorizes the Controlling Board to make supplemental payments to school districts based on results of the study, and makes an additional appropriation to the Department of Education for the purposes of funding a pilot community school transportation program.

HB 700 SOLID WASTE (Schuring) Am. 3734. Decreases the time within which a permit application for a solid waste landfill must be approved or disapproved, prohibits the expansion of a landfill over the top of solid waste placement areas that do not include a liner, and declares an emergency.

HB 701 DOG REGISTRATION (Peterson) Am. & En. 301 & 955. Authorizes county auditors to allow for the registration of dogs via the Internet and accept the payment of dog registration fees by financial transaction devices.

HB 702 SURFACE MINING (Widener) Am. & En. 1514. Revises the statutes governing the surface mining of materials other than coal.

HB 703 DISABILITY PLACARDS (Distel) Am. 4503. Establishes special conditions for a person with a permanent disability to register a vehicle and obtain special license plates or a removable windshield placard.

HB 704 WATER CHARGES (Taylor) Am. 6103. Authorizes a board of county commissioners to allow tap-in charges to be paid by installments for the purpose of connecting to county-owned distributing pipes used to supply water.

HB 705 TOWNSHIP MONUMENTS (Aslanides) Am. 517. Permits township trustees, on their own initiative, to erect a monument commemorating deceased members of the armed forces and increases the maximum appropriation for the monument from $500 to $5,000.

HB 706 STATE MANDATES (Buchy) Am. & En. 101 & 103. Requires the termination of an unfunded state mandate created on or after the effective date of this act no later than six years after the date of its creation unless it is renewed and requires the Legislative Budget Officer to determine whether a local impact statement should be prepared for a bill for which no local impact statement was initially prepared but which is amended in committee.

HB 707 BINGO LICENSE (Roberts) Am. 2915. Requires the Attorney General to establish by rule a temporary license that authorizes a charitable organization to conduct bingo at a special event that does not exceed two consecutive days.

HB 708 HOUSING LAW (Mettler) Am. 4112. Conforms the Ohio Fair Housing Law to federal regulations with respect to advertisements that indicate that shared housing accomodations are available for persons of only one sex.

HB 709 "PET FRIENDLY" PLATES (Schuler) En. 955 & 4503. Creates the "Pet Friendly" license plate, the Pet-Friendly Program Funding Board, the Pet Support Fund, and provides that moneys in the fund be used to pay for spaying and neutering, and for education programs that benefit dogs and cats.

HB 710 ADULT ABUSE (Sullivan) Am. & En. 2901, 2903 & 2935. Creates the offense of permitting the abuse of an elderly or functionally impaired adult, makes the new offense an offense of violence, and provides criteria for determining whether to prosecute a crime when an elderly or functionally impaired victim does not cooperate or wishes to drop the charges.

HB 711 STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION (Brading) Am. 3, 3301 & 3501. Enacts as a separate act the sections of law adding eight members appointed by the Governor to the State Board of Education.

HB 712 PAY RAISES (HOOPS) Am., En. & Rep. 325, 505 & 507. Provides a 3% compensation increase to nonjudicial county elected officials in 2001; reduces the number of population classifications used to determine the compensation of those officials beginning in 2001; provides a cost-of-living increase capped at 3% for calendar years 2002 and thereafter for all of those officials except county auditors; provides a cost-of-living increase capped at 3% for calendar year 2003 and thereafter for county auditors, township trustees, and township clerks; and requires that certain county elected officials receive the increase in compensation in 2001 based on additional responsibilities.

HB 713 RAILROAD QUIET ZONES (Kilbane) Am. 2744. Includes as a governmental function, for the purposes of the Political Subdivision Sovereign Immunity Law, the establishment, construction, and maintenance of a railroad quiet zone for public roads rail crossings.

HB 714 HEALTH INSURERS (Evans) Am. & En. 1753. Applies, with modifications, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' Risk-Based Capital for Insurers Model Act to health insuring corporations.

HB 715 COURTS COSTS/SPINAL INJURY (Sulzer) En. 2949. Imposes an additional court cost of $1 in cases involving a person who is convicted of or pleads guilty to a motor vehicle speeding violation, creates the Spinal Cord Injury Cure Research Fund, and requires the additional court cost to be deposited into that fund.

HB 716 CONVICTION RECORD NOTICE (DePiero) Am. 2151 & 2953. Requires notification of a victim and that victim's family if an offender applies for the sealing of the offender's conviction record.

HB 717 PASSENGER RAIL (Mettler) En. 4981. Adopts the Midwest Interstate Passenger Rail Compact.

HB 718 SCHOOL FUNDING (Krebs) Am., En. & Rep. 107, 133, 319, 3311, 3313, 3316, 3317, 3365 & 5727. Phases in a new method of funding elementary and secondary education.

HB 719 STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION (R. Miller) Am. 3301 & 3513. Immediately dissolves the State Board of Education insofar as it consists of voting members appointed prior to the effective date of this act other than to fill a vacancy among the elected voting members and increases the voting membership of the Board of Education beginning January 1, 2003, to consist of thirty-three members, one each elected from the state Senate districts.

HB 720 INSURANCE PREMIUM TAX (Mottley) Am. & En. 5725, 5729 & 3901. Reduces the premium tax imposed on the premium rate payments received from health insuring corporation policies, contracts, and agreements that offer subscribers a qualified point of service option.

HB 721 HEALTH PROVIDER CONTRACTS (Trakas) En. 1751 & 3923. Expressly permits health care providers to negotiate with health insuring corporations and sickness and accident insurance over non-fee-related, and in certain circumstances, fee-related, provisions of provider contracts with health insuring corporations and insurers; authorizes enforcement of the act by the Superintendent of Insurance and the Attorney General and terminates the provisions of this act on the date that is three years after the effective date of the act by repealing sections 1751 & 3923 on that date.

HB 722 RAILROAD IMPROVEMENTS (Tiberi) Am. 4955 & 5561. Revises the notification procedures when a railroad is making improvements to a highway crossing and allows the costs of the improvement to be placed on the tax duplicate as a lien on the railroad property when the state or local government makes the improvement to the highway crossing.

HB 723 DRUG SENTENCES (Tiberi) Am. & En. 2925 & 2967. Provides that, if an offender is convicted of a drug trafficking or possession offense, illegal manufacture of drugs, or illegal cultivation of marihuana when the offense is a felony and the prosecution proves that the offense constituted, or was part of, a jointly undertaken criminal activity that included the offender and proves reasonably foreseeable quantities of controlled substances that were illegally sold, offered for sale, cultivated, manufactured, produced, obtained, possessed, or used within the scope of and in furtherance of the jointly undertaken criminal activity, the sentencing court generally must sentence the offender to a specified mandatory prison term based on the entire amount of involved controlled substances.

HB 724 SEXUAL ACTIVITY (Austria) Am. 2907. Expands the offense of importuning so that it prohibits soliciting another by means of a computer or telecommunications device to engage in sexual activity under specified circumstances; increases the penalty for that offense in certain circumstances and enhances the penalty for pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor in specified circumstances.

HB 725 AMBULANCE DISTRICTS (Gardner) Am. 505. Increases the maximum number of meetings that the board of trustees of a joint ambulance district may hold each year and increases the maximum amount of compensation that a board member may be paid per meeting.

HB 726 EVIDENCE OF INSURANCE (Stapleton) En. 3929. Deems an evidence of insurance written in conformity with this act an insurance policy for the purpose of providing that the insured has the property or casualty insurance coverage specified in the evidence of insurance.

HB 727 HIV TESTS (Schuler) Am. & En. 2317. Allows law enforcement officers to obtain existing HIV test results of offenders.

HB 728 CAMPAIGN FUNDS (Robinson) Am. 3517. Revises the Campaign Finance Law by specifying that generally all loans, gifts, and other donations that are made, received or used by a state or county political party or a legislative campaign fund are for the purpose of influencing the results of an election; specifies that all disbursements or uses of contributions by a state or county political party or a legislative campaign fund are expenditures either for the purpose of influencing an election or making a charitable donation; requires a legislative campaign fund to file campaign finance reports in even-numbered years and permits a legislative campaign fund to file those reports in odd-numbered years; and provides that any state or country political party or legislative campaign fund failing to file a complete and accurate campaign finance statement may be fined up to one hundred dollars for each day of violation.

HB 729 SEWERAGE CHARGES (Britton) Am. 504, 6101, 6115, 6117 & 6119. Requires conservancy districts, sanitary districts, sewer districts, regional water and sewer districts and home rule townships that provide sewerage services to pay for the tap-in or connection charges to recipients of these services who are already being charged for these services.

HB 730 BAIL BOND AGENTS (Goodman) Am. & En. 2927 & 3905. Relative to the regulation of surety bail bond agents and the apprehension or arrest of a principal on bond.

HB 731 DRIVING PRIVILEGES (Callender) Am. 4507. Allows a court to grant occupational driving privileges to a person whose probationary driver's license, restricted license or temporary instruction permit is suspended for having committed two separate violations of specified offenses.

HB 732 DJFS FORFEITURES (Goodman) Am. 4141. Prohibits the Director of Job and Family Services from assessing more than one forfeiture per quarter for an employer's failure to file the two quarterly reports that are required.

HB 733 CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (Smith) Establishes a moratorium on the execution of any sentence of death until such time as the General Assembly, by act, terminates the moratorium; and requires the leadership of the General Assembly and the Governor to jointly appoint a Capital Punishment Review Commission to review and study the imposition of capital punishment in Ohio specifically with respect to the fairness of the mechanism used in administering and imposing capital punishment and to the possibility that a sentence of death might have been imposed upon one or more innocent persons and make recommendations regarding necessary changes in the law.

HB 734 SCHOOL EQUITY AID (Carey) Am. 3317. Revises the formula for paying equity aid to school districts beginning in fiscal year 2001, eliminates the caps on state funds to school districts beginning in fiscal year 2001 and makes an appropriation.

HB 735 ARTS FACILITIES/LODGING TAX (Coughlin) Am. & En. 307 & 5739. Authorizes cooperative undertakings by counties, municipal corporations, port authorities and nonprofit corporations to provide for educational and cultural performing arts facilities; authorizes counties to levy an excise tax on lodging transactions for that purpose and declares an emergency.

HB 736 CLASSROOM FACILIITIES (Carey) Am. 3318. Limits the school district's portion of the cost of its project under the Classroom Facilities Assistance Program in the case of any school district that is located in a "distressed county" and that has one of the three hundred lowest three-year average adjusted valuations per pupil.

HB 737 INCOME TAX SHARING (Logan) Am. 718. Terminates the authority of municipal corporations to propose to the electors income taxes to be shared with school districts and declares an emergency.

HB 738 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 739 ADULT LITERACY (R. Miller) Makes additional appropriations to the Department of Education for the purposes of funding non-school, community-based adult literacy programs.

HB 740 TUITION WAIVERS (Gardner) Am. 3333. Waives tuition payments for children and spouses of public service officers killed in the line of duty.

HB 741 COUNTY BUILDING CODES (Peterson) Am. 307. Permits counties to include in their building codes regulations to protect existing surface and subsurface drainage.

HB 742 JURY DUTY (DePiero) Am. 2313. Permits a person who is 70 years of age or older to be excused from jury duty.

HB 743 HEARING AID COVERAGE (R. Miller) En. 1751, 3923 & 5111. Requires health insuring corporations and sickness and accident insurers to cover 50% of the cost of hearing aids for enrollees and insureds and requires the medical assistance program to cover the total cost of hearing aids for persons covered thereunder.

HB 744 NATURAL GAS BILLS (Britton) En. 4929. Relives elderly or disabled customers who have met their percentage of income payment plan program responsibilities from liability for arrears accrued for natural gas services as of the effective date of this act.

HB 745 COMMUNITY SCHOOL FUNDING (Coughlin) Am. 4, 32, 3317 & 3327. Provides temporary transitional funding to school districts where community school enrollment growth is 1% or more of formula ADM, provides state subsidies to school districts to acquire school buses to transport community school students, permits school districts to use state school bus subsidies to acquire buses to lease or lease-purchase and makes an appropriation.

HB 746 ELECTRIC AGGREGATION PROGRAM (Britton) En. 4911. Requires the Office of Consumers' Counsel to make available an aggregation training program for nonprofit community organizations, churches and other nonprofit groups and organizations and declares an emergency.

HB 747 SENIOR TAX CREDIT (Amstutz) Am. 5747. Allows more than one senior citizen income tax credit to be claimed on a joint return.

HB 748 PROFICIENCY TESTS (Tiberi) Am. & Rep.3301, 3302, 3313, 3316 & 3365. Eliminates the twelfth grade proficiency tests.

HB 749 PUBLIC NOTICES (Damschroder) En. 7. Requires state agencies to make public notices available on the Internet at the state's World Wide Web site, authorizes state agencies to make their publications available via the Internet and requires state agencies to make information pertaining to their grant and other financial assistance programs available via the Internet.

HB 750 ESTATE EXECUTION (Willamowski) Am. 2109 & 2113. Extends the time periods within which an executor or administrator of an estate must render an account of the administration of the estate or complete the administration of the estate.

HB 751 DISABLED VETERAN DISCOUNTS (Redfern) Am. 1501, 1533, 1541, 1547, 4503, 4507 & 5901. Allows a disable veteran to receive a reduction in certain fees at a percentage equal to the disabled veteran's percentage of disability upon displaying an Ohio Disabled Veteran Identification Card and requires county veterans service commissions to issue Ohio Disabled Veteran Identification Cards.

HB 752 PROPERTY VALUATION (Jerse) Am. 319. Requires property tax reduction factors to be adjusted to account for five years' worth of property tax value changes resulting from property tax complaints.

HB 753 INCOME TAX RETURNS (Tiberi) Am. 5747. Allows married couples to file joint or separate state income tax returns independently of their federal filing status.

HB 754 SCHOOL IMCOME TAX (Netzley) Am., En. & Rep. 145, 319, 3307, 3309, 3311, 3317, 5505, 5705 & 5748. Levies a school district income tax in each school district to replace voter-approved current expense taxes on real property.

HB 755 PROFICIENCY EXAMS (Metzger) Am. & En. 3301, 3302, 3313 & 3317. Eliminates the science and citizenship fourth grade proficiency tests; postpones for one year the prohibition on promoting to fifth grade certain fourth grade students who do not demonstrate fourth grade reading skill; specifies additional measures for assessment of fourth grade reading skill; and requires school districts to establish reading assessment teams to review the academic preparedness for promotion to fifth grade of certain fourth grade students.

HB 756 LONG-TERM CARE (Terwilleger) Creates the Long-Term Care Personnel Task Force to review issues related to the availability of workers who provide long-term care services.

HB 757 PFPF (DePiero) Am. 742. Regarding the purchase of service credit for out-of-state or federal service by members of the Ohio Police and Fire Fund.

HB 758 VETERANS' DIPLOMAS (Hollister) En. 3313. Grants high school diplomas to World War II veterans.

HB 759 RECKLESS ASSAULT (Jerse) En. 2903 & 2919. Creates the offense of reckless assault of a child by a child day-care provider and misrepresentation by a child day-care provider.

HB 760 REGISTRATION FEE EXPEMPTION (Schuck) En. 4503. Allows "Combat Infantryman Badge" recipients to register one vehicle without payment of any state or local registration fee or tax or service fee.

HB 761 MANDATORY SENTENCE (DePiero) Am. & En. 2151, 2929 & 2942. Requires a seven-year mandatory prison term and permits and three year commitment to the Department of Youth Services for discharging a firearm at a peace officer.

HB 762 VEHICLE TRADE-INS (Schuck) Am. 5739 & 5741. Permits a trade-in allowance to be deducted from the total sales price of a used motor vehicle when computing sales or use taxes.

HB 763 CHILD ENTICEMENT (Salerno) Am. 2905 & 2919. Modifies the scope of and penalties for criminal child enticement; authorizes a temporary protection order based on the rape of a family or household member and refers to the rape of a family or household member in certain domestic violence-related provisions.

HB 764 SEX OFFENDER NOTIFICATION (Salerno) En. 2950. Requires specified persons who care for children and who receive community notification under the Sex Offender Registration Law to notify the parents, guardians or legal guardians of the children under their care that they have received the notice and how the parents may receive further information.

HB 765 CHARITABLE BINGO (Salerno) Am. 2915. Specifies that organizations that are organized exclusively to operate, or that are organized to contribute to the support of organizations organized exclusively to operate, shelters for victims of domestic violence qualify to be issued a charitable bingo license.

HB 766 INCOME TAX CREDIT (Young) Am. 5747. Increases from $50 to $150 the income tax credit for taxpayers age 65 or older and authorizes a $300 credit on a joint return filed by such taxpayers.

HB 767 ASSISTED LIVING (Barrett) En. 173 & 5111. Creates an assisted living program to be administered by the Department of Aging pursuant to a home and community-based waiver granted by the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.

HB 768 PRIVATE/PUBLIC SCHOOLS (Gardner) Am. 3317. Expands the use of computer hardware and instructional materials purchased by school districts for use by students enrolled in nonpublic schools within the districts, permits all nonpublic auxiliary services to be delivered through contracts with educational service centers, and declares an emergency.

HB 769 STATE AUDITS (Mettler) Am. 117. Changes the law governing the Auditor of State's audits of public officers and private persons who receive public funds.

HB 770 STUDENT SUCCESS COMMISSION (Young) En. 3302. Creates the Governor's Commission for Student Success and establishes the School Performance Bonus Award Program and makes an appropriation.

HB 771 CHILD CARE AUTHORITY (Clancy) Am. & En. 3109 & 3313. Permits the execution of a power of attorney or caretaker authorization affidavit permitting certain persons with whom a child resides authority over the care, custody, and control of the child including the ability to enroll the child in school in the district in which the person resides and consent to medical care for the child.

HB 772 BUTLER COUNTY JUDGESHIP (Cates) Am. 2301. Adds one additional judge for the Juvenile Division of the Butler County Court of Common Pleas to be elected in 2002.

HB 773 SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES (Callender) En. 4501 & 4503. Creates the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame license plates.

HB 774 DELINQUENT CHILDREN (Young) Am. 2151. Permits confinement of a child who is a danger or threat to others and permits the adjudicatory hearing for a confined child to be held within 15 days after the complaint is filed.

HB 775 STUDENT RECORDS (Callender) Am. & En. 3301, 3313, 3314 & 3319. Requires school districts, community schools, and chartered nonpublic schools to obtain written parental consent before collecting Social Security numbers and certain other information from students and requires school districts, community schools, and chartered nonpublic schools to expunge a student's Social Security number from its records upon request.

HB 776 INTERNET SUPPLY PURCHASES (Terwilleger) Am. & En. 125. Permits the Department of Administrative Services to purchase supplies through a competitive reverse auction process via the Internet.

HB 777 LAND CONVEYANCE (Salerno) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate located in Logan County to the Ohio Department of Transportation, authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate located in Franklin County to the City of Columbus, authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate located in Noble County to the Ohio Department of Transportation, authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate located in Franklin County to Lifeline of Ohio, Inc., authorizes the sale of state-owned real estate in Union County, authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate located in Franklin County to Columbus Wood Products, Inc., and declares an emergency.

HB 778 JUVENILE COURT PROCEEDINGS (Core) Am. 2151. Limits the right to appoint counsel in specified proceedings in a juvenile court.

HB 779 MEMORIAL HIGHWAY (Logan) En. 5533. Designates a portion of state route number seven within Columbiana County as the "Melvin E. Newlin Memorial Highway."

HB 780 OMVI TESTING (Ford) Am. 4511. Relative to the length of a license suspension for refusing to submit to a blood alcohol test following an auto accident that results in serious physical harm or death to a person and for refusing to submit to the test following a combination of four or more prior refusals and alcohol-related motor vehicle convictions.

HB 781 SCHOOL FUNDING (Flannery) Am., En. & Rep. 319, 323, 3317, 3302, 3318 & 5705; Am. Sec. 18 of Am. Sub. HB 650, 122nd General Assembly as subsequently amended; & Am. Sec. 17 of Am. Sub. HB 282 of the 123rd General Assembly as subsequently amended. Establishes a new method of funding elementary and secondary education; reduces to 20 mills the rate of school district taxation on real property for current expenses; establishes the common school trust fund in the state treasury from which the Department of Education must pay grants to school districts for enhancement of education programs and may pay stipends to school districts that have developed innovative education programs; requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish an academic performance improvement consultation team for academic emergency school districts that have not shown improvement within five preceding school years; expands the Emergency School Building Repair Program to include repair of buildings that are over fifth years old; and eliminates the ten per cent and two and one-half per cent property tax rollbacks for all tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2001.

HB 782 LOCAL GOVERNMENT FUNDS (Logan) Am. 5705 & 5747. Allows local government funds under certain circumstances to be distributed among subdivisions under an alternative apportionment scheme without the approval of the largest municipal corporation in the county.

HB 783 SALES TAX HOLIDAY (Coughlin) Am. & En. 5739. Provides a one-week period each year from 2001 to 2004 during which sales of personal computer systems are exempt from the state sales and use tax.

HB 784 PROFICIENCY TESTS (Widener) Am. 3301, 3302, 3313 & 3314. Directs the State Board of Education to designate multiple scores for the fourth grade reading proficiency test and specifies a score necessary for promotion to fifth grade, requires teachers in each school to score the proficiency tests prior to sending copies to the Department of Education, requires the participation of Ohio teachers in the development of the proficiency tests, requires all proficiency tests to become public records thirty days after their administration, and changes the names assigned to school district performance classifications.

HB 785 RACING COMMISSION (Hoops) Am. 3769. Gives the State Racing Commission Operating Fund priority over other specified funds in receiving allocations from the horse racing tax, removes the limit on the amount of money that the State Racing Commission Operating Fund may receive in a calendar year, alters the formula for determining the tax reduction granted to horse racing permit holders who undertake a capital improvement project, removes the September 19, 1996, deadline for the approval of tax reductions for certain capital improvement projects, and makes an appropriation to the State Racing Commission Operating Fund.

HB 786 TOBACCO PRODUCT DISPLAYS (Patton) Am. 2927. Prohibits self-service displays of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products

HB 787 SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS (Flannery) Am. 4141. Permits school bus drivers to receive unemployment compensation benefits between school years.

HB 788 FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES (Sullivan) Am. 3313. Requires school districts to include the study of foreign language in the district curriculum.

HB 789 PRESCRIPTION DRUGS (Gooding) Am. & En. 329 & 5110. Creates the Rx Program; Requires the director of Job And Family Services, on making a specified determination, to establish maximum retail prices for prescription drugs; authorizes the director to act in the event of a severe shortage of prescription drugs; and authorizes a civil action for violation of certain prohibitions regarding pricing of prescription drugs.

HB 790 PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION (Calvert) Am. 5709. Exempts from taxation property held or occupied by veterans' organizations that qualify for income tax exemptions under the Internal Revenue Code.

HB 791 PATIENT ASSISTANCE OUTREACH (Kilbane) Am. & En. 329 & 5101. Requires the Department of Job and Family Services to establish an outreach program to educate the public and assist individuals in obtaining, at minimal or no cost, prescription drugs through patient assistance programs offered by drug manufacturers and requires the department to distribute and make available information on patient assistance programs.

HB 792 SEX OFFENSE (Hughes) Am. 2907. Expands the definition of "material" in the Sex Offense Laws to include any image appearing on a computer monitor or similar display device, transmitted through the Internet, or recorded on a computer disk, magnetic tape, or similar data storage device.

HB 793 LICENSE PLATES (Britton) En. 4501. Authorizes the issuance of Underground Railroad license plates.

HB 794 UNCOMPENSATED CARE (Salerno) En. 5112. Provides for distribution of funds to hospitals based on uncompensated care provided and makes an appropriation.

HB 795 UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS (Corbin) Am., En. & Rep. 2301, 3111, 3113 & 4141. Modifies procedures for applying for determination of unemployment compensation benefits and claims for those benefits, and the procedures for appealing decisions relative to unemployment compensation benefits.

HB 796 ANNEXATION PROCEDURES (Mottley) Am. & En. 707 & 709. Provides for the incorporation of certain non-contiguous territory and permits for a limited time expedited annexations of that territory using special procedures, one set of procedures to be effective in the year 2002 and the other set of procedures to be effective in 2003 and thereafter.

HB 797 SCHOOL PROPERTY TAXES (Mottley) Am. & En. 133, 319, 3316, 3317, 3318, 5705 & 5727. Replaces some school district property taxes with property taxes levied to fund foundation program aid and special education, modifies the computation of certain elements of state school aid, modifies the school facilities assistance program, provides funds to assist school district in complying with certain mandates, and makes an appropriation.

HB 798 MOVIE VIDEOTAPING (Salerno) Am. & En. 2913 & 2935. Prohibits unauthorized videotaping of movies in theaters, authorizes the detention under specified circumstances of a suspected violator of that prohibition and includes a violation of the prohibition as a "theft offense."

HB 799 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (Cates) Am. 2919 & 2929. Requires a mandatory term of imprisonment for a second or subsequent offense of domestic violence.

HB 800 CRIMINAL SENTENCING (Cates) Am. & En. 2929, 2941 & 5120. Enhances the penalty for specified offenses of violence if the victim is under 13 years of age.

HB 801 DEATH PENALTY APPEAL (Cates) Am. 2929 & 2945. Permits the prosecuting attorney to appeal as a matter of right a court's decision not to impose the death penalty as recommended by the jury.

HB 802 "CHOOSE LIFE" PLATES (Young) En. 4501 & 4503. Creates "Choose Life" license plates and the "Choose Life" License Plate Fund and provides that moneys in the fund be used to pay for programs offered by certain crisis pregnancy centers.

HB 803 CHIEFS OF POLICE (Britton) Am. 124 & 737. Requires cities organized under the statutory form of government that have a police department to elect their chief of police.

HB 804 SCHOOL MANDATES (Jacobson) Am. & En. 3315, 3316 & 5705. Addresses certain school district mandates and establishes additional procedures for avoiding fiscal problems in school districts.

HB 805 TOBACCO OVERSIGHT (Carey) Makes certain changes in existing appropriations for fiscal year 2001 and changes the reporting date of the Tobacco Oversight Accountability Panel.

HB 806 SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM (Goodman) En. 4507. Establishes that any applicant for a driver's license, permit or identification card who is required to register with the Selective Service System is deemed to have given consent for the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to forward the necessary registration information to the selective Service System and requires the Bureau to submit the applicable information to the Selective Service System.

HB 807 SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL (Metzger) Establishes a moratorium on the issuance of permits for new solid waste disposal facilities until the Ohio EPA implements the recommendations for changes to the siting criteria for those facilities made by a Solid Waste Disposal Facility Legislative Task Force.

HB 808 "SUPER BLANKET" CERTIFICATES (Core) Am. 5705. Enables super blanket certificates to be used by subdivisions and local taxing units for qualified purchases amounting to $5,000 or less, not just those amounting to more than $5,000.

HB 809 CAMPAIGN FINANCE (R. Miller) Am. 3517. Requires specified entities that engage in any form of advertising that names or otherwise identifies a particular candidate to file campaign finance statements.

HB 810 LOCAL GOVERNMENT FUND (Logan) Am. 5747. Modifies how Local Government Fund money is distributed among counties.

HB 811 PROBATE LAW (Hughes) Am., En. & Rep. 2106, 2107, 2109, 2113 & 2117. Relative to a surviving spouse's election whether to take under the will, will contests, the final and distributive account of an estate's administration, and other provisions of probate law.

HB 812 "BAD TIME" SENTENCES (Hughes) Am. & En. 9, 2925, 2929, 2930, 2943, 2945, 2949, 2951, 2953, 2967, 4511, 5120 & 5145. Provides a "bad time" mechanism for prisoners convicted of a felony who are sentenced to a prison term and declares an emergency.

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