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SB 1 SCHOOL SAFETY PLAN (Gardner) Am. & En. 2901, 2903, 2917, 2923, 2925, 2929, 2941, 3313 & 3318. Requires each school district board of education to adopt a comprehensive school safety plan for each building in the district; requires the Ohio School Facilities Commission to consider student and staff safety when reviewing design plans for classroom facility construction projects; defines "school safety zone" for purposes of the Criminal Code; substitutes "school safety zone" for "vicinity of a school," "school," "school premises," or similar terms used to define certain offenses or enhance their penalties; grants a court discretion to enhance the penalty for any offense of violence committed in a school safety zone; 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.

SB 2 MULTIPLE VICTIM THEFTS (Carnes) Am. 2913. Clarifies that theft offenses committed as a part of a common scheme or plan to defraud multiple victims may be tried as a single offense.

SB 3 ELECTRIC DEREGULATION (Johnson) 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.

SB 4 ADOPTION TAX CREDIT (Mumper) Am. & En. 5747. Grants a nonrefundable credit against the personal income tax to persons who adopt children.

SB 5 HEALTH PLANS (Drake) Am., En. & Rep. 1751 & 1753. Requires health care plans to establish complaint procedures that are consistent with listed requirements and provides rule-making authority to the Director of Health for the implementation of these complaint procedures; establishes office of the Managed Care Patient Advocate in the Department of Health to act in connecting with complaints against health care plans; requires health care plans to notify enrollees prior to terminating or limiting covered health care services; permits female enrollees to designate an obstetrician or gynecologist as a primary care provider; and requires health insuring corporations to name a licensed physician to act as a corporation's medical director.

SB 6 HOMESTEAD ELIGIBILITY (Armbruster) Am. 323 & 4503. Increases the maximum income limit used to determine eligibility for the homestead exemption and indexes to inflation the income brackets used to determine the amount of a homesteader's tax reduction.

SB 7 FALSE IDENTITY (Oelslager) En. 2913. Creates the offenses of taking the identity of another.

SB 8 BAIL DENIAL (Blessing) Am., En. & Rep. 2937. Enacts procedures to implement the amendment to Sec. 9, Art. 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.

SB 9 AGGRAVATING FACTORS IN SENTENCING (Mumper) Am. 2929 & 2951. Requires the court to consider as an aggravating factor in determining the sentence of an offender convicted of domestic violence, felonious assault, aggravated assault, or assault the fact that the offender committed the offense in the sight or hearing of the offender's or victim's child and permits the court to order an offender of that nature to undergo counseling.

SB 10 INMATE JUDGMENT AWARD (Blessing) Am. & En. 2743, 2929, 2943, 2947, 2949, 2969 & 5120. Relative to the deduction, from any judgment, settlement or consent judgment that any inmate recovers against the state, a political subdivision or an employee of the state or a political subdivision, of the amount of any judgment obtained by a victim or an offense committed by the inmate, the amount of any overdue child support owed by the inmate and the amount of any other court-related award relating to the inmate.

SB 11 ADMINISTRATIVE RULES (Kearns) Am. & En. 101, 103 & 119. Improves opportunities for public participation in the rule-making process by enhancing the ability of the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review to achieve a quorum; authorizes the Joint Committee and its staff to attend agency rule-making hearings; requires agency rule-making hearings to be held before Joint Committee hearings, clarifies that rule-making hearings are legislative in form; authorizes public comment before and after rule-making hearings; provides for rule-making hearings to be recorded other than stenographically; authorizes use of advisory committees in the development of rules; requires publication of a Register of Ohio and Requires agencies to prepare guides for public participation in rule-making.

SB 12 PRISONER INTERNET ACCESS (Mumper) Am. & En. 9, 341, 753, 2921 & 5145. Prohibits prisoners in state, county and municipal and privately operated correctional facilities from having access to the Internet.

SB 13 FIRST OFFENDER EXPUNGEMENT (Blessing) Am. 2953. Expands the definition of "first offender" in the expungement law to include, in certain situations, offenders who have two or more convictions resulting from the same incident, information, complaint, guilty plea or official proceeding.

SB 14 RACING COMMISSION (Blessing) Am. 3769. Specifies that the Ohio Racing Commission has the power to sue and be used in its own name; grants the Court of Common Pleas of Franklin County original jurisdiction over actions against decisions of the commission; and requires that the commission's principal office be located in Franklin County.

SB 15 TOWNSHIP TRAFFIC CONTROL (Gardner) Am. & Rep. 5571. Specifically permits a board of township trustees, at township road intersections, to erect and maintain suitable signposts and to purchase or lease and erect and maintain suitable traffic control devices and traffic control signals.

SB 16 PHYSICIAN PRACTICES (Gardner) En. 4731. Specifies that a physician who leaves a group medical practice established on or after the act's effective date cannot be prohibited by any terms of the document establishing the practice from contacting, and continuing to provide health-care services to, person who were the physician'' patients while in the practice.

SB 17 NEWBORN SCREENING (Drake) Am. 3701. Revises the law regarding rules requiring the screening of newborn children for genetic, endocrine and metabolic disorders.

SB 18 SALES CONTRACTS (Drake) Am. 1335. Regulates contracts for the solicitation by a sales representative of product or service orders whether or not the place of business of the manufacturer or distributor of the product is in Ohio; defines "termination" of a contract; specifies that exemplary damages may be awarded for a failure to pay on a timely basis commissions due that constitutes willful, wanton, or reckless misconduct or bad faith; creates a presumption when bad faith exists.

SB 19 NURSING PRACTICE (Drake) Am. & En. 4113, 3701 & 4723. Relative to the practice of nursing and issues relating to patient safety.

SB 20 ANTIDEGRADATION (Cupp) Am. 6111. Declares, for purpose of the state antidegradation statute, that a historically channeling watercourse provides technical, social and economic benefits and precludes the Director of Environmental Protection from requiring further antidegradation review upon making specific findings, including a finding that work is necessary to restore or maintain such a watercourse.

SB 21 PRISONER CLOTHING (Johnson) Am. 9, 341, 753, 5120 & 5145. Prohibits the wearing of street clothes by a prisoners; requires the consideration of pending criminal charges in determining the security classification of a prisoner; requires immediate notification of law enforcement officials when a prisoner escapes from a correctional facility; permits Department of Rehabilitation & Correction inspection of internal and perimeter security of correctional facilities operated by a private entity; revises the restriction on the type of out-of-state prisoners who may be housed in a correctional facility operated by a private contractor; and declares and emergency.

SB 22 DRUNK DRIVING (Johnson) Am. 2323, 2929, 3793, 4503, 4507, 4511 & 5120. Establishes stricter penalties for a person who commits state OMVI and has a concentration of .17 of one gram or more by weight of alcohol per 210 liters of the person's breath, or a concentration of .238 of one gram or more by weight of alcohol per 100 milliliters of the person's urine.

SB 23 PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTIONS (Hagan) Am. 725, 1728, 3735 & 5709. Limits the extent to which property may be exempted from taxation if the exemption is granted to a business that has relocated from one political subdivision to another.

SB 24 LIVING WAGE (Hagan) En. 122. Requires certain businesses receiving state financial assistance for economic development to pay at least a living wage to their employees.

SB 25 ATM FEES (Hagan) En. 1349. Prohibits financial institutions from charging customers transaction fees for transactions conducted on an automated teller machine and requires the Superintendent of Financial Institutions to adopt rules to administer the act.

SB 26 PRIVATE PRISONS (Hagan) 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 operations before the effective date of the act.

SB 27 FOREIGN STEEL (Hagan) Am. 153. Prohibits persons form 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; establishes a civil penalty for violation of this prohibition.

SB 28 PATIENT ADVOCATE OFFICE (Hagan) Am. & En. 1751 & 1753. Establishes the Office of Patient Advocate in the Department of Health; makes changes in the Health Insuring Corporation Law in relation to the liability and operation of health insuring corporations; makes changes to the Health Insuring Corporation Law in relation to enrollees' rights; requires the offering of more coverage options in the group market and increases the information provided in a subscriber's evidence of coverage.

SB 29 LEASED VEHICLES (Watts) 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.

SB 30 EXECUTION SALES (Latta) Am. 2329. Requires that a specified written notice be given to certain parties to the underlying action prior to an execution sale of real or personal property and specifies the consequences of an execution sale that occurs after that notice and public notice by newspaper publication has been given.

SB 31 PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEES (Latta) Am. 164. Requires the appointing authorities that appoint members of district public works integrating committees to appoint alternates for those members to act in their absence.

SB 32 SEXUALLY ABERRANT PERSONS (Latta) Am. & En. 2945 & 5122. Authorizes the civil commitment of certain sexually aberrant persons.

SB 33 SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES (Wachtmann) En. 4501 & 4503. Authorizes the issuance of a Ducks Unlimited license plate.

SB 34 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (Blessing) Am. 2919 & 3113. Defines "residing with or has resided with" as used in the definition of "family or household member" in the domestic violence laws to mean living together in the same household, dwelling place, or residence.

SB 35 SENIOR VOLUNTEER TAX CREDIT (Drake) En. 323 & 3315. Allows boards of education to establish programs under which senior citizens can volunteer in the public schools in exchange for real property tax relief.

SB 36 WRONGFUL DEATH (Latell) Am. 2125. Establishes a discovery rule relative to the period of limitations for wrongful death actions.

SB 37 STUDENT ACTIVITIES (Watts) Am. 3313. Requires that the minimum grade point average established as a condition for students to participate in interscholastic extracurricular activities be not less than 2.0 or a 4.0 scale.

SB 38 LIQUOR SALES (Horn) Am. 4301. Allows a municipal corporation to prohibit the sale of beer or intoxicating liquor in glass containers that exceed a specified number of ounces in specified areas of the municipal corporation.

SB 39 JUROR EXCUSALS (Blessing) Am. 2313. Eliminates the restriction that limits the granting of an excuse to a prospective juror only to the judge presiding in the case.

SB 40 STATE FRUIT (Watts) En. 5. Adopts the Melrose apple as the official state fruit.

SB 41 TRANSFER TAX BREAK (Gardner) Am. & En. 322. Authorizes lower real property and manufactured home transfer tax rates for property owners who receive the homestead exemption.

SB 42 TOWNSHIP NOISE CONTROL (Gardner) Am. 505. Extends the authority of townships to adopt noise control regulations.

SB 43 COASTAL EROSION LOANS (Gardner) Am. & En. 317, 1507 & 6121. Creates a coastal erosion loan program to provide financial assistance to property owners for the construction of erosion control structures in coastal erosion areas.

SB 44 ANTITRUST LAW (Blessing) Am. 1331. Provides a four-year statute of limitations on any civil or criminal action or proceeding under the antitrust law.

SB 45 LICENSE PLATES (Watts) Am. 4503. Requires the payment of the existing additional $10 fee in connection with a Purple Heart special license plate only when a license place is issued and eliminates the payment of the additional fee when the Purple Heart special license plate is renewed.

SB 46 RESIDENCE REQUIREMENT (Schafrath) En. 3. Prohibits a political subdivision from requiring its employees to reside in any specific area of this state.

SB 47 PRECINCT BOUNDARIES (Cupp) Am. 3501. Generally requires boards of elections, by April 1, 2000, to use U.S. census geography to determine precinct boundaries and requires those boards on and after that date to report precinct boundary changes to the Secretary of State.

SB 48 MULTIFAMILY HOUSING (Cupp) Am. 175. Requires rules governing multifamily housing constructed with the assistance of the Ohio Housing Finance Agency, or pursuant to a program the agency administers, to contain additional public notice and approval requirements and establishes a filing deadline for rules adopted pursuant to this act.

SB 49 "SPEEDY TRIAL" LAW (Cupp) Am. 2945. Clarifies the manner in which the "speedy trial" law applies to a criminal defendant charged with multiple offenses of different degrees.

SB 50 PRIMARY ELECTION (Brady) Am. 511, 1545, 1901, 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.

SB 51 RELIGIOUS DESECRATION (Kearns) 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.

SB 52 TICKET SALES (Carnes) En. 505. Permits a township to regulate, by license or otherwise, the resale of tickets to theatrical, sporting or other public amusements.

SB 53 IN-STATE TUITION (Carnes) Am. & En. 3333, 3345, 3354, 3355 & 3357 & Sec. 99 of Sub. HB 215 of the 122nd General Assembly. Grants in-state tuition rates and subsidies at certain public institutions of higher education to residents of contiguous states who are employed in Ohio and whose employers contract to pay their tuition and fees.

SB 54 RIGHT OF PUBLICITY (Carnes) En. 2741. Creates a right of publicity in an individual's "persona;" declares that the right of publicity is a property right; specifies that the right of publicity is transferrable and descendible; creates a cause of action for the unauthorized commercial use of an individual's persona and provides a four-year statute of limitations for bringing an action of that nature.

SB 55 COUNTY HOSPITALS (White) Am. 121, 133, 149, 325, 339 & 4115. Makes changes regarding the authority of boards of county hospital trustees.

SB 56 RURAL HOSPITALS (White) Am. & En. 4731. Permits rural hospitals to employ physicians.

SB 57 MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE (Hottinger) Am. 3937. Clarifies a component of the definition of automobile liability or motor vehicle liability policy of insurance for purposes of the Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Law.

SB 58 CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS (Hottinger) Am. & En. 5747. Grants a refundable personal income tax credit for contributions to charitable organizations.

SB 59 WILDLIFE GIFT CERTIFICATES (Furney) En. 1533. Authorizes the chief of the Division of Wildlife in the Department of Natural Resources to sell gift certificates for hunting and fishing licenses, permits, and stamps.

SB 60 PROJECT LABOR AGREEMENTS (Shoemaker) Am. 3318. Prohibits the Ohio School Facilities Commission from prohibiting the use of project labor agreements for school building projects and prohibits the Commission from considering the use of project labor agreements in its decision to approve the building project for state building assistance.

SB 61 ALL-DAY KINDERGARTEN (Shoemaker) Am. 3317 Provides additional state funding to each school district that operates all-day kindergarten.

SB 62 JOINT VOCATIONAL DISTRICTS (Shoemaker) Am. 3318. Qualifies joint vocational school districts for the programs and funds administered by the Ohio School Facilities Commission.

SB 63 LOTTERY PROFITS (Shoemaker) Am. 3318 & 3770. Requires that $250 million of lottery profits be credited each year to the Public School Building Fund and used for the Classroom Facilities Assistance Program.

SB 64 FLEA MARKET SALES (Wachtmann) En. 1349. Requires each person that offers new and unused personal property for sale to the general public at a flea market or other location to maintain a record of the person's purchases of the property.

SB 65 CONTRACTING PREFERENCES (Wachtmann) En. 153. Requires certain political subdivisions to provide a preference, under specified circumstances, when comparing bids for the awarding of public improvement contracts.

SB 66 SCHOOL FINANCE (Shoemaker) Am. 3318 & 3770. Earmarks $500 million per year for 10 years from the lottery profits education fund to retire a $4 billion bond issue to fund classroom building assistance to school districts and makes an appropriation.

SB 67 CABLE COMPETITION (Hottinger) 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.

SB 68 PRIMARY ELECTION (Watts) Am. 3505 & 3513. Changes the date of the primary election held in presidential election years from the third Tuesday in March to the first Tuesday in March.

SB 69 PLAT APPROVAL (Gardner) Am. 711 & 713. Changes the procedure for the approval of plats by county or regional planning commissions, provides that the statute authorizing the approval of certain subdivisions without the submission of a plat applies only to parcels of no more than twenty acres, and permits the payment of compensation to members of county planning commissions.

SB 70 TOLL PROJECTS (Wachtmann) Am., En. & Rep. 101, 126, 2937, 3354, 3355, 3357, 5503, 5533, 5537, 5539, 5728 & 5735. Abolishes the Ohio Turnpike Commission, creates the Division of Toll Projects within the Department of Transportation, transfers the duties, powers, and functions of the Turnpike Commission to the Division of Toll Projects, creates the Toll Projects Fund, and authorizes the issuance of revenue bonds of the state to finance toll projects.

SB 71 VOLUNTEER TAX BREAK (DiDonato) Am. 5747. Creates a state income tax deduction of up to $750 for amounts paid by a volunteer firefighter, volunteer emergency medical service provider, or auxiliary police officer for training programs, clothing, and equipment used primarily for fire-fighting, emergency medical service, or law enforcement purposes.

SB 72 INSTRUCTIONAL GRANTS (Drake) Am. 3333. Awards additional Ohio Instructional Grants to higher education students who enroll full-time for extra terms within an academic year.

SB 73 TITLE PLEDGE LENDER (Blessing) 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.

SB 74 MEDICAL RECORD FEES (Blessing) Am. & En. 1333 & 3701. Specifies the fees health care providers 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.

SB 75 THERAPIST LICENSES (Schafrath) Am. & En. 125, 2151, 2317, 3729 & 4757. Provides for the licensing of independent marriage and family therapists and marriage and family therapists.

SB 76 TRUCK SPEEDS (Schafrath) 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.

SB 77 SCHOOL PERSONNEL (Cupp) Am. & En. 3314, 3316 & 3319. Makes certain changes concerning the termination, suspension, and evaluation of certain administrative personnel of school districts and educational service centers.

SB 78 PUBLIC RECORDS (Oelslager) Am. 149. Generally grants members of the public the option of choosing the medium in which they will receive copies of public records and requires a public office to transmit copies of a public record through the United States mail if so requested.

SB 79 BUSINESS ADDRESSES (Latell) En. 3781. Requires the Board of Building Standards to establish guidelines to aid businesses in displaying their street numbers so that the numbers are readily visible from the street, road, or highway adjacent to the place of business.

SB 80 MASTECTOMY PROCEDURES (Latell) En. 1751, 3923 & 5111. Requires certain sickness and accident insurance policies, public employee benefit plans, and health insuring corporation policies, contracts, and agreements, as well as the state's Medicaid program, to provide coverage for a second opinion following a recommendation for a mastectomy, for the amount of inpatient care following the mastectomy that is recommended by the treating physician, for breast reconstructive surgery, and for physician-directed follow-up care related to the mastectomy.

SB 81 PENSIONS/COURT ORDERS (McLin) Am. 145, 742, 3307, 3309 & 5505. Exempts qualified domestic relations orders from the state retirement systems' prohibition against benefit assignment through execution, garnishment, or other processes of law.

SB 82 PUBLIC FUNDS INVESTMENT (Johnson) Am. 135 & 321. Permits subdivision or county treasurers to invest in certain no-load money market mutual funds in the absence of a written investment policy on behalf of the subdivision or county or in the cases of exemptions from or noncompliance with specified initial or continuing education requirements by the subdivision or county treasurer.

SB 83 TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS (Nein) Am. 307 & 5555. Authorizes a transportation improvement district to enter into an agreement with a county authorizing the county to perform the functions and exercise the powers of the transportation improvement district or vice versa, removes a monetary limit on certain purchases made by a county on behalf of a township, changes the repayment period for county road assessments, and declares an emergency.

SB 84 INVENTORY TAX (Mumper) 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.

SB 85 PUBLIC DEFENDERS (Mumper) Am. 120. Specifically requires the State Public Defender to provide technical assistance on reducing costs to local public defender offices, specifically requires local public defender offices to include financial disclosure forms with requests for payments, and requires the state to reimburse counties for the full amount of 50% of the total costs associated with the defense of certain indigent persons.

SB 86 ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL FUNDING (Shoemaker) Makes an appropriation to Educational Service Centers operating joint alternative schools.

SB 87 RULES REVIEW (Blessing) Am., En. & Rep. 101, 111, 117, 119, 121, 122, 127, 145, 742, 3307, 3309, 3702, 3737, 3746, 4141, 5117, 5501, 5505, 5703 & 5902. Provides for legislative review of proposed and adopted rules by subject matter-specialized rule review committees.

SB 88 BREAST-FEED/NUDITY (McLin) Am. & En. 9 & 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 the breast of a mother who is breast-feeding her child.

SB 89 ENVIRONMENT COURT (Johnson) Am. 1901. Clarifies the jurisdiction of the environmental division of a municipal court in foreclosure actions and declares an emergency.

SB 90 SPORTS OFFICIALS (Schafrath) Am. 2903. Prohibits assaults on sports officials.

SB 91 DRUG OFFENSES (Hagan) Am. & En. 2919, 2925, 2929 & 2941. Expands the definition of "committed in the vicinity of a juvenile" that applies in determining the penalty for certain drug abuse offenses; generally doubles the additional prison term for committing a felony drug abuse offense while possessing a firearm; requires the imposition of an additional one-year prison term for a felony drug abuse offense committed while in possession of or in the vicinity of $10,000; generally increases by one degree the penalty for committing certain drug trafficking-related offenses in the vicinity of a juvenile under thirteen; and expands the offense of endangering children to also prohibit drug trafficking or possession in the vicinity of a juvenile.

SB 92 HAIR STYLISTS (Wachtmann) Am. & En. 4709 & 4713. Requires natural hair stylists to register with the state board of cosmetology and comply with sanitation standards.

SB 93 LAW ENFORCEMENT RETIREMENT (Watts) Am. 145. Permits members of the Public Employees Retirement System Law Enforcement Division with at least 25 years of total service credit to retire at age 48 with full benefits.

SB 94 STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION (Shoemaker) Am. 3, 3301 & 3501. Changes the composition of the state board of education by increasing the number of elected members from 11 to 22, with two members elected from each state board of education district, and eliminating appointed members from the board.

SB 95 SCHOOLNET FUNDS (Shoemaker) Transfers $100 million from the General Revenue Fund in fiscal years 2000 and 2001 to the SchoolNet Plus Fund (4Y4) and makes an appropriation.

SB 96 STATE CROP (Mumper) En. 5. Adopts corn as the state crop.

SB 97 PRISON PROSECUTION (Latell) Am. & En. 109, 120, 2151, 2335, 2941, 2947 & 2929. Provides in general for the state to pay certain costs and expenses that result from the investigation, prosecution or defense of a charge of a felony offense or act committed in or one the grounds of an institution or facility operated by the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, Department of Youth Services, Department of Mental Health or Department of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities.

SB 98 TOBACCO STAMPS (Nein) Am. & En. 5743. Prohibits the affixing of tax stamps to certain packages of cigarettes and declares an emergency.

SB 99 PRESCRIPTIVE AUTHORITY (Kearns) Am., En. & Reps. 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.

SB 100 AUTO PARTS (Blessing) 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 the state to a criminal charge involving a motor vehicle or motor vehicle parts that bear defaced, covered, altered or destroyed vehicle identification numbers or are missing such numbers.

SB 101 CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS (Shoemaker) Am. & En. 9, 5120 & 5503. Authorizes the Director of Rehabilitation and Correction to contract with county sheriffs to undertake investigations at state correctional institutions.

SB 102 HUMAN CLONING (Ray) En. 109 & 2927. Prohibits the cloning of a human being and terminates provisions of this act five years after its effective date.

SB 103 LEGISLATIVE PAY (Ray) Am. 101. Increases the compensation of officers and members of the General Assembly.

SB 104 STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION (Ray) 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.

SB 105 SEPTIC SYSTEMS (Gardner) Am. & En. 319, 711, 3707, 3709, 3718 & 4736. Requires septage haulers, installers of household sewage disposal systems, site evaluators, and service providers to be registered by local boards of health, requires property owners on whose property household sewage disposal systems are to be installed, altered, or operated to obtain a permit from those boards, and requires periodic basic system assessments of such systems.

SB 106 PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS (Shoemaker) Am. 126. Establishes a policy that appropriations for community improvement projects provided for in the capital improvements budget each biennium be shared more or less equally by eight districts of the state created by the director of Budget and Management on the basis of population.

SB 107 CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE LAW (Latta) Am., En. & Rep. 2901, 2923, 2925, 2927, 2929, 2935, 2937, 2941, 2949, 2951, 2953, 2967, 3719, 4715, 4729, 4730, 4731 & 5120. Clarifies and modifies certain provisions of the Controlled Substance Law and Drug Abuse Law that were affected by Am.Sub.SB2 and Am.Sub.SB269 of the 121st General Assembly, modifies the felony sentencing law as modified by those acts, and clarifies that section 2929.181 of the Revised Code was repealed by Am.Sub.SB269 of the 121st General Assembly, effective July 1, 1996.

SB 108 ESTATE TAX (Latta) Am. 5731. Reduces the estate tax by 36% over five years and phases out the share of the estate tax paid to the state.

SB 109 AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION (Schafrath) Establishes a temporary Joint Legislative Committee on Agricultural Production Operations to examine the existing and potential economic, social, and environmental impacts likely to result from agricultural operations in the state.

SB 110 SCHOOL GRANTS (White) En. 3313. Establishes the Ohio Alternative Schools Grant Program to authorize grant awards for the operation of alternative disciplinary schools by school districts in collaboration with local agencies and organizations.

SB 111 DIALYSIS TECHNICIANS (Drake) Am. & En. 121 & 4723. Provides certification of dialysis technicians and approval of dialysis training programs by the Board of Nursing.

SB 112 SCHOOL IMPROVEMENTS (Shoemaker) En. 3317. Provides an additional equalized subsidy to school districts for maintenance and capital improvements.

SB 113 SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS (Shoemaker) En. 3317. Provides an additional equalized subsidy to school districts for textbooks and instructional materials.

SB 114 MILITARY SERVICE CREDIT (Furney) En. 742. Requires the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund to recalculate the cost of military service credit for certain members of the Fund whose purchase of the credit was based on calculations made between the introduction date of Am. Sub. HB 450 of the 121st General Assembly and the act's effective date.

SB 115 PRISON EDUCATION (Mallory) Am. 5139 & 5145. Requires that prisoners in the custody of the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction participate in educational programs and that children who are committed to the Department of Youth Services work toward earning a high school diploma, and generally limits designated types of prisoner employment to prisoners who have earned a high school diploma or certificate of high school equivalence.

SB 116 Y2K FUNDS (Armbruster) Creates a $20 million state grant program that will provide funding to local governments to cope with Year 2000 computer problems and makes an appropriation.

SB 117 SELECTIVE SERVICE (Watts) Am. & En. 9 & 124. Requires that a male person 18 years of age or older be registered, or exempt from registering, with the Selective Service System as a condition for being employed by or serving with a state agency or a political subdivision.

SB 118 PFDPF BENEFITS (Blessing) Am. 145 & 742. Increases benefits paid to surviving spouses of members of the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund (PFDPF), eliminates the eligibility limits for cost-of-living allowances that apply to certain PFDPF members, allows magistrates to purchase additional service credit in the Public Employees Retirement System, and declares an emergency.

SB 119 FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (Herington) Am. 4503. Requires proof of financial responsibility to be demonstrated as a condition of registering a motor vehicle in this state.

SB 120 VETERANS' SERVICES (Watts) Am. & En. 5, 3301, 4503, 5901 & 5902. Requires members of county veterans service commissions and county veterans service officers to file a copy of their discharge certificates with the Governor's Office of Veterans Affairs; designates November 10 of each year as "Veterans Educate Today's Students Day"; requires the Department of Education to distribute to school libraries a book and videotape relating to the Ohio Veterans Plaza; requires the payment of the existing additional $10 fee in connection with a Purple Heart special license plate only when a license plate is issued and eliminates the payment of the additional fee when the Purple Heart special license plate is renewed; and requires Ohio burgees placed in the Ohio Veterans Plaza be flown continuously from each May 6 to December 8.

SB 121 SB TOBACCO SALES (Drake) Am., En. & Rep. 319, 321, 322, 1333, 2151, 2927, 3709, 3718, 5703 & 5743. Increases to 21 the age at which cigarettes and tobacco products may be sold to an individual, prohibits persons under the age of 21 from possessing cigarettes and tobacco products, transfers responsibility for licensing retail and wholesale tobacco operations from the Tax Commissioner to boards of health, and authorizes the boards to impose monetary penalties for violations of the laws pertaining to tobacco operations.

SB 122 SET-ASIDE CONTRACTS (Watts) 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.

SB 123 WORKS FIRST (Fingerhut) 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.

SB 124 SCHOOL INCOME TAX (Shoemaker) Am. 5748. Clarifies the ballot language concerning renewal of a school district income tax by including a statement that the proposed tax is a renewal.

SB 125 MEDICAL DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS (Horn) Am. 4731. Specifies that utilization of alternative, integrative, and complementary medical treatments by a doctor of medicine or osteopathic medicine or a podiatrist is not in itself grounds for discipline by the State Medical Board.

SB 126 HEALTH PLANS (DiDonato) Am. 1753. Requires a health insuring corporation to furnish an application to any health care provider seeking to enter into a participation contract with the health insuring corporation; reduces, from 120 to 90 days, the period in which a health insuring corporation is to notify a provider seeking to enter into a participation contract of the status of the provider's application; requires a health insuring corporation to provide a written explanation to any health care provider denied a participation contract and deems a health insuring corporation's failure to act on an application within 120 days of a denial.

SB 127 KOREAN HIGHWAY (DiDonato) En. 5533. Designates U.S. Route 36 between the boundary of Coshocton and Tuscarawas counties and Interstate 77, the "Korean War Veterans' Memorial Highway."

SB 128 PERSONAL INCOME TAX (Wachtmann) Am. 5747. Eliminates the personal income tax on adjusted gross incomes of $20,000 or less and reduces the rates on adjusted gross incomes of more than $20,000 by 10%.

SB 129 SCHOOL FUNDING (Carnes) Am. 3317. Reinstates, for purposes of paying state base cost funding to school districts, the phase-in of the income factor to the recognized valuation of school districts where median incomes are less than or equal to the statewide median income and makes an appropriation.

SB 130 DRUG SALES (Drake) En. 4729. Requires the State Board of Pharmacy to establish a list of drugs that may be hazardous when different brands or generic equivalents are interchanged and requires a pharmacist refilling a prescription for such a drug to notify the patient and the prescribing physician concerning dispensing another brand or a generic equivalent of the drug.

SB 131 BEETLE STUDY (Latell) Creates the Asian Long-Horned Beetle Study Committee and makes an appropriation.

SB 132 ADOPTION LAW (Blessing) Am. & En. 3107. Requires that a parent of a child who contests the child's adoption deposit with the court reasonable child support for the period that the adoptive parents had uncontested physical custody of the child.

SB 133 WAGE DISCRIMINATION (Prentiss) Am. & En. 4112. Eliminates discriminatory wage practices based on sex, race, or national origin for jobs of comparable worth and declares an emergency.

SB 134 SCHOOL UNIFORMS (Watts) Am. & En. 3313. Requires boards of education to adopt both a plan for early identification and a policy on whether or not the district will require school uniforms in one or more schools.

SB 135 TOWNSHIP BIDDING (Schafrath) Am. 505, 511, 515, 521, 5549 & 5575. Increases the monetary thresholds for determining when competitive bidding is necessary for boards of township trustees.

SB 136 PROTECTIVE SERVICES (Furney) Am. 5101. Requires that county departments of human services expand their programs for adult protective services.

SB 137 PORT AUTHORITIES (Oelslager) Am., En. & Rep. 9, 109, 349, 1424, 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 objectives, 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.

SB 138 INTERIOR DESIGNERS (Cupp) Am. & En. 153, 4745 & 4768. Permits interior designers who meet certain requirements to be certified as Ohio Certified Interior Designers.

SB 139 PUCO SCHEDULE (Blessing) Am. 4901. Authorizes the chairperson of the Public Utilities Commission to prescribe the Commission's office schedule.

SB 140 MILITARY TASK FORCE (Watts) En. 5902. Creates the Military Activation Task Force at specified times in the Governor's Office of Veterans Affairs.

SB 141 ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATIONS (Mumper) Am. & En. 307, 903, 1521, 5516, & 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, to provide for the regulation of concentrated animal feeding operations, and to make an appropriation.

SB 142 PEACE OFFICER ASSAULT (Spada) Am. 2903, 2929 & 2937. Requires the court to impose a mandatory prison term for felonious assault, aggravated assault, and assault if the victim of the offense is a peace officer and suffers serious physical harm as a result of the offense and explicitly requires the court or a magistrate to set bail in cases involving the felonious assault, aggravated assault, or assault of a peace officer.

SB 143 GOVERNMENT AUDITS (DiDonato) Am. 117. Authorizes municipal corporations, county offices, and townships to engage an independent certified public accountant to conduct a biennial or special audit of the municipal corporation, county office, or township in accordance with standards approved by the Auditor of State.

SB 144 PERS PAYMENTS (Johnson) Am. & En. 145, 3307 & 3309. Requires the Public Employees Retirement System to credit interest on a member's contributions and, under certain circumstances, pay an amount of the employer contributions on the death of a member or withdrawal of a member's contributions.

SB 144 PERS PAYMENTS (Johnson) Am. & En. 145, 3307 & 3309. Requires the Public Employees Retirement System to credit interest on a member's contributions and, under certain circumstances, pay an amount of the employer contributions on the death of a member or withdrawal of a member's contributions.

SB 145 INVENTORY TAX (Wachtmann) Am. 5711. Reduces, over a ten-year period, the rate at which tangible personal property used in business is assessed for taxation, from 25% to 15% of true value.

SB 146 IMPORTED FOODS (Schafrath) En. 918. Requires wholesalers and retailers of imported meat products, poultry product, eggs or butter to label the products as imported and name of country of origin.

SB 147 DIABETES INSURANCE (Drake) En. 1751 & 3923. Requires certain health care policies, contracts, agreements, and plans to provide benefits for equipment, supplies, and medication for the diagnosis, treatment, and management of diabetes and for diabetes self-management education.

SB 148 SEX OFFENSES (Hottinger) Am. 109, 2151 & 2950. Applies the Sex Offender Registration Law to persons adjudicated delinquent children for committing sexually oriented offenses.

SB 149 PAROLE BOARD (Blessing) Am. & En. 2967 & 5149. Establishes terms for members of the Parole Board, requires the chief of the Division of Parole and Community Services in consultation with the director of Rehabilitation and Correction to appoint nine members of the board to six-year terms and the director to appoint three members of the board to four-year terms, specifies certain factors that the board must consider and other factors that it may consider in determining whether to grant parole to a prisoner, and specifies certain general factors that the Adult Parole Authority must consider in making pardon, sentence-commutation, reprieve, and parole decisions.

SB 150 LIVESTOCK PRICES (Schafrath) En. 943. Prohibits price discrimination in the purchase of livestock and requires daily reporting of prices paid for livestock.

SB 151 EDUCATOR LICENSING BOARD (Mumper) Am. & En. 2317, 3301, 3319, 3332, 4117, 4753, 5104 & 5126. Establishes a State Educator Standards Board and transfers the educator licensing functions of the State Board of Education to the new board.

SB 152 PROBATE (Cupp) Am., En. & Rep. 319, 1547, 1548, 1775, 2101, 2105, 2106, 2107, 2109, 2113, 2115, 2117, 2127, 2129, 2329, 4503, 4505, 4549 & 5731. Adopts the provisions of the Uniform Probate Code in regard to the elective share of a surviving spouse in the augmented estate of the decedent spouse.

SB 153 CRIME VICTIMS (Spada) Am., En. & Rep. 2743. Transfers from the Court of claims to the Attorney General the responsibility to make awards of reparations under the Crime Victims Reparations Law; expands the benefits available under that law to also include reimbursement for crime scene cleanup and property destroyed by evidence collection and eliminates the filing fee for an application requesting an award of reparations under that law and makes other changes in that law.

SB 154 PHYSICIAN PROFILES (Hagan) En. 4731. Requires the State Medical Board to create physician profiles and make them available to the public.

SB 155 LAND CONVEYANCE (Drake) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate located in Cuyahoga County to the Village of Chagrin Falls.

SB 156 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS (Cupp) Am., En. & Rep. 4703. Revises the licensing program for landscape architects.

SB 157 EDUCATION LOAN PROGRAM (Drake) En. 3333. Creates a science and technology education loan program and authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to finance the program.

SB 158 FORFEITED PROPERTY (Shoemaker) Am. & Rep. 505, 715, 3929, 5722 & 5723. Requires townships and municipal corporations, under certain circumstances and pursuant to specified procedures, to commence forfeiture and sale proceedings against property on which are located buildings or other structures that have been declared insecure, unsafe, structurally defective, or unfit for human habitation.

SB 159 TELEPHONE SOLICITATORS (Watts) Am. 4719. Increases the criminal penalty for certain violations of the Telephone Solicitors Law if the victim is 65 years of age or older or a disabled adult.

SB 160 BWC COMPUTERS (Shoemaker) Am. 4121. Allows the Bureau of Workers Compensation to transfer surplus computers and computer equipment to a county board of mental retardation and developmental disabilities.

SB 161 TUITION TRUST SAVINGS (Gardner) Am. & En. 3334 & 5747. Authorizes the Ohio tuition trust authority to establish a variable college savings program.

SB 162 ELECTRONIC RECORDS (Fingerhut) Am. & En. 1306 & 2913. Provides for regulation of electronic signatures and electronic records, regulation by the Secretary of State of security procedures relative to electronic records, and regulation of digital signatures; provides for state agency use of electronic records and signatures; and provides civil remedies and criminal penalties for violations.

SB 163 HEALTH INSURANCE (Blessing) 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.

SB 164 JUDGESHIPS (Oelslager) Am. 2301 & 2501. Adds one additional judge for the Fifth District Court of Appeals to be elected in 2000, one additional judge for the Eleventh District Court of Appeals to be elected in 2000, and two additional judges for the Court of Common Pleas of Summit County to be elected in 2000 and 2002, respectively.

SB 165 HAZARDOUS WASTE (Furney) Am. 3734. Increases the fees levied on the disposal and treatment of hazardous waste in this state, specifies that moneys in the Hazardous Waste Facility Management Fund may be used for the same purposes as moneys deposited in the Hazardous Waste Cleanup Fund, and declares an emergency.

SB 166 FAMILY DAY-CARE (Wachtmann) Extends the pilot project that permits persons in certain counties to provide day-care as type C family day-care homes.

SB 167 FIREWORKS LAW (Drake) 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 establish 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.

SB 168 OPTICIAN LICENSING (Cupp) Am., En. & Rep. 4725 & 4769. Revises the laws pertaining to the licensing of dispensing opticians.

SB 169 PUBLIC EMPLOYER INSPECTIONS (Wachtmann) Am. 4167. Eliminates the biennial safety inspection required for a public employer that is exempt from the Public Employment Risk Reduction Program and substitutes an optional inspection.

SB 170 SPEED LIMITS (White) Am. & En. 505, 4511 & 4513. Authorizes boards of township trustees to alter prima-facie speed limits on roads under their jurisdiction upon submitting a request to and obtaining the approval of the Director of Transportation; allows boards of township trustees to alter prima-facie speed limits on county roads with the approval of the county engineer; reduces from 60,000 to 15,000 the population of townships and township police districts whose law enforcement officers may enforce traffic laws on those portions of all state highways, and highways included as part of the interstate highway system, located in the township or township police district and permits boards of township trustees to adopt traffic regulations, with the approval of the county engineer, for township roads.

SB 171 ABUSE REGISTRY (Spada) Am. 2151, 5123 & 5126. Establishes a registry of persons found by the Department of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities to have abused or neglected an individual with mental retardation or a developmental disability; requires the Department to investigate reports of abuse and neglect involving children with mental retardation or a developmental disability and limits the types of abuse and neglect reports that are referred to law enforcement agencies.

SB 172 PHARMACISTS (Drake) Am. & En. 121, 2317, 3719 & 4729. Establishes a pharmacist-client testimonial privilege, permits a pharmacist who has completed a course in drug administration approved by the State Board of Pharmacy to administer drugs, revises the law governing consult agreements between physicians and pharmacists, prohibits withdrawing an application for licensure without the Board's approval, and makes other changes to the law governing the practice of pharmacy.

SB 173 TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL (Drake) Am. 124, 329, 339, 3107, 3313, 3317, 3701, 3702, 3707, 3727 & 5705. With regard to the prevention and control of tuberculosis.

SB 174 LAND TRANSFER (Mallory) Authorizes the transfer of jurisdiction over state-owned real estate located in Hamilton County in conjunction with the Colerain Connector Project from the Ohio Department of Transportation to the City of Cincinnati.

SB 175 EXECUTION STATEMENTS (Watts) Am. 2949. Requires that a person upon whom the death sentence is imposed be asked to write a last statement prior to execution if the person so chooses.

SB 176 TRAFFIC LAWS (Oelslager) Am, En & Rep. 9, 11, 733, 1547, 1901, 1905, , 1907, 2151, 2301, 2323, 2743, 2901, 2903, 2907, 2919, 2921, 2923, 2925, 2929, 2930, 2935, 2937, 2951, 2953, 3327, 3793, 3937, 4501, 4503, 4505, 4506, 4507, 4508, 4509, 4510, 4511, 4513, 4517, 4519, 4549, 4551, 4561, 4563, 4582, 4583, 5120, 5503 & 5743. Adopts the Ohio Criminal Sentencing Commission's Traffic Proposals and related changes in the traffic laws.

SB 177 HEALTH CARE (Spada) Am. and En. Sections 125, 305, 505 & 731. Permits counties, townships and municipal corporations to offer health care benefits to employees through participation in state employee health care plans.

SB 178 RESIDENTIAL CARE FACILITIES (Schafrath) Am. & En. 3721. Provides that a county home or district home may be licensed as a residential care facility and, if licensed, the laws and rules governing residential care facilities apply to the home.

SB 179 JUVENILE CRIME (Latta) Am., En. & Rep. 109, 133, 2151, 2152, 2153, 2301, , 2701, 2744, 2919, 2921, 2923, 2925, 2929, 2930, 2938, 2941, 2945, 2950, 3301, 3313, 3321, 3730, 4109, 5103, 5120, 5139 & 5705. Implements the recommendations of the Criminal Sentencing Commission pertaining to juvenile offender transfers of alleged delinquent children to criminal court for prosecution, dispositions of delinquent children and juvenile traffic offenders, and other changes to the Juvenile Court Law and the Juvenile Code.

SB 180 CHILD SUPPORT (Kearns) Am., En. & Rep. 109, 145, 149, 169, 329, 742, 909, 917, 918, 919, 921, 926, 927, 943, 1321, 1322, 1347, 1349, 1533, 1541, 1547, 1561, 1565, 1905, 2151, 2301, 2317, 2329, 2705, 2716, 2919, 3103, 3105, 3107, 3109, 3111, 3113, 3115, 3121, 3123, 3125, 3301, 3304, 3305, 3307, 3309, 3319, 3332, 3701, 3705, 3710, 3719, 3723, 3727, 3737, 3742, 3770, 3773, 3783, 3905, 3921, 3924, 3931, 3941, 3949, 3951, 3959, 4104, 4123, 4141, 4501, 4506, 4507, 4511, 4701, 4703, 4705, 4707, 4709, 4713, 4715, 4717, 4723, 4725, 4727, 4728, 4729, 4730, 4731, 4732, 4733, 4734, 4735, 4736, 4738, 4739, 4740, 4741, 4747, 4749, 4751, 4753, 4755, 4757, 4759, 4761, 4763, 4765, 5101, 5104, 5107, 5123, 5126, 5153, 5505, 5703 & 5747. Makes changes in the laws governing child support.

SB 181 JUVENILE CRIME (Spada) Am., En. & Rep. 2151, 2901, 3321, 3730 & 4109. Requires the parent, guardian, or legal custodian of a child to attend all juvenile proceedings regarding the child; authorizes a juvenile court to impose upon certain delinquent children an adult conviction and sentence or a blended sentence with a delinquent child adjudication and disposition and an adult conviction and sentence; expands the list of offenses and delinquent acts for which criminal offenders and delinquent children must submit DNA specimens; defines "habitual truant" and "chronic truant" and designates a chronic truant as a delinquent child; requires a school district board of education or educational service center governing board to adopt intervention strategies addressing pupils' habitual truancy; grants a juvenile court exclusive original jurisdiction over the failure of a responsible adult to cause a truant child's attendance at school, other Compulsory School Age Law violations, and parental education neglect; provides that unruly child complaints of habitual truancy and delinquent child complaints of chronic truancy be filed jointly against the child and the person having care of the child; authorizes a juvenile court to impose specified orders against an habitually truant unruly child and the person having care of that child; authorizes a juvenile court to impose delinquent child dispositional orders against a chronically truant delinquent child and specified orders against the person having care of that child; makes other changes in Compulsory School Age Law; specifically permits a juvenile court to commit a delinquent child to a detention home; requires the notification of school officials if a child who is 14 years of age or older is adjudicated a delinquent child for any of a list of specified acts; prohibits sealing records of children found to be delinquent children for any of a list of specified acts; provides specified law enforcement officials with access to sealed delinquent child records for specified purposes; and provides victims of delinquent acts with specified access to certain records related to the perpetrator of the delinquent act.

SB 182 PRIVATE SCHOOL STANDARDS (Prentiss) Am. 3313. Prohibits the Superintendent of Public Instruction from making any exception to the requirement that private schools accepting pilot project scholarship students must comply with state minimum standards for chartered nonpublic schools and requires site visits of registered private schools.

SB 183 NEEDLE SAFETY (Brady) Am. & En. 4167. Requires each public employer that employs public health care workers to develop an exposure control plan incorporating the use of needleless systems and sharps with injury protection devices.

SB 184 READING PROFICIENCY (Watts) Am. & En. 3301 & 3313. Requires that students who fail the fourth grade reading proficiency test or three or more of the fourth or sixth grade proficiency tests participate in summer remediation to be considered for promotion to the next grade level; requires parental approval to promote to fifth grade students who fail the fourth grade reading proficiency test; adds EMIS data requirements concerning student retention and participation in summer remediation; establishes the Education Retention Committee to recommend guidelines for promoting students who fail the fourth grade reading proficiency test or three or more of the fourth or sixth grade proficiency tests; and clarifies the civil immunity of school districts and their employees with respect to promoting students to the next grade level.

SB 185 SCHOOL EMPLOYMENT (Hottinger) Am. & En. 3319. Requires the State Board of Education to establish a program to conduct independent complete background checks on applicants for teacher licenses and permits and establishes a nonteaching school employees registry; requires the State Board to make the information contained in reports from the background checks and registry available to school district, educational service center, and charter nonpublic school hiring authorities upon request; and requires those hiring authorities to request such information when considering applicants for employment in positions requiring care, custody, or control of a child.

SB 186 EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP (Herington) Extends the sunset date of the Employee Ownership Assistance Program (HB668, 120th General Assembly) from December 31, 1999 to December 31, 2004.

SB 187 BACKGROUND CHECKS (Johnson) Am. & En. 109. Provides, upon the request of a child's parent or guardian, for BCII criminal records checks regarding any person who is an employee or volunteer of a specified type of institution, organization, or local government entity that provides specified services to children and who regularly has unsupervised access to a child.

SB 188 SECOND CHANCE TRUST FUND (Drake) Am. & Rep. 2108. Eliminates the scheduled sunset of the Second Chance trust Fund Board.

SB 189 HIGHWAY PATROL RETIREMENT SYSTEM (Spada) Am. & En. 5505. Reduces the member contribution rate under the State Highway Patrol Retirement System, increases pensions and the 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 Sept. 21, 1994 to chose a joint and survivor annuity.

SB 190 STRS (Blessing) Am. 145, 742, 2329, 3305, 3307, 3309, 3313, 3317, 3319, 5101 & 5505. Increases certain benefits paid by the State Teachers Retirement System and requires the System to establish a defined contribution plan that members can select as an alternative to the System's existing defined benefit plan.

SB 191 JUDGESHIPS (Herington) Am. 2301. Adds two additional judges for the Court of Common Pleas of Summit County to be elected in 2000 and 2002, respectively.

SB 192 TOBACCO MONEY DISTRIBUTION (Ray) Am. & En. 102, 107 & 183. Provides for the distribution of money received by the state pursuant to the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement and makes an appropriation.

SB 193 UTILITY EXCAVATIONS (Blessing) En. & Rep. 153 & 3781. Provides for the establishment and operation of a single, statewide, one-call notification system as a means of preventing or minimizing damage to subsurface facilities as a result of excavations occurring in this state.

SB 194 HEALTH INSURANCE (Hagan) Am. 1753 & 3923. Prohibits health insuring corporations and sickness and accident insurers from requiring or requesting an enrollee or policyholder with an emergency medical condition to contract an emergency telephone number operated by the health insurance corporation or insurer.

SB 195 UTILITY TAKEOVERS (Blessing) 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.

SB 196 ABSENTEE VOTING (Watts) Am. 3509. Allows any qualified elector to vote by absent voter's ballots.

SB 197 NONPUBLIC SCHOOL STANDARDS (Espy) 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.

SB 198 SANITARY DISTRICTS (White) Am. & Rep. 1541, 3709, 3745, 6111 & 6117. Abolishes special sanitary districts.

SB 199 SCHOOL TAX EXEMPTION (Spada) Am. & En. 319, 323, 4503 & 5705. Authorizes school boards to exempt persons qualifying for the homestead exemption reduction from liability for future increases in school district property tax rates.

SB 200 ALCOHOL/TOBACCO SALES (Armbruster) Am. & En. 2927, 4301, 5733 & 5747. Grants liquor permit holders and sellers of tobacco products, and their agents and employees, an affirmative defense against a charge of selling cigarettes, other tobacco products, beer, intoxicating liquor, or low-alcohol beverages to an underage person if a transaction scan of the purchaser's driver's or commercial driver's license or Ohio identification card indicates it is valid; restricts the use of the information obtained through a transaction scan; requires the Registrar of Motor Vehicles to adopt rules relating to the use of transaction scan devises; and grants a credit against the corporate franchise or personal income tax for the purchase or lease of a transaction scan device.

SB 201 INTERNET SALES (Blessing) Am. 1301, 2307 & 5739. Requires a delivery vendor who makes sales via the Internet to display its Ohio license number on the Internet; makes such sales subject to the Consumer Sales Practices Act; and prohibits noncomplying vendors from bringing collection actions against Ohio purchasers.

SB 202 EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTER (Johnson) Am. 3, 3311 & 3313. Expands the territory of an educational service center to include the territory of any city or exempted village school district that is a client district of the educational service center and eliminates the requirement that a client district have an average daily membership of no more than 13,000 students.

SB 203 STATE FISH (Johnson) En. 5. Adopts the northern largemouth bass - micropterus salmoides salmoides - as the state fish.

SB 204 COUNTY MR/DD FUNDS (Shoemaker) Am. 5705. Provides that county mental retardation and developmental disabilities general and capital funds retain their investment earnings.

SB 205 SCHOOL FACILITIES (Hottinger) Am. 3318. Permits the Ohio School Facilities Commission to enter into agreements under the School Building Assistance Expedited Local Partnership Program in fiscal year 2000 with the school district boards that have certified their intent to participate in the program on or before Oct. 7, 1999 and declares an emergency.

SB 206 BONDING POWERS (Carnes) Provides for the implementation of Sections 2nd and 17 of Article VIII of the Ohio Constitution relative to the General Assembly's bonding authority, makes an appropriation and declares an emergency.

SB 207 RAILROAD CROSSINGS (Armbruster) Am. 5589. Increases the penalty for obstruction of a street, road, or highway by a railroad, requires that fines for the violation be paid to the county or municipal corporation in which the violation occurred, and requires the fines to be used for railroad highway grade crossing improvements.

SB 208 HIGHWAY NAME (Cupp) En. 5533. Designates for ten years a portion of U.S. Route 33 within Logan County as the "Edward K. Core Memorial Highway," requires the Director of Transportation to erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name, and requires the markers to be presented to the family of Edward K. Core upon expiration of the highway designation.

SB 209 TEACHERS RETIREMENT CREDIT (Cupp) Am. 3307. Permits a member of the State Teachers Retirement System to purchase service credit for teaching service in a private school that received grant support from the U.S. Department of State.

SB 210 UNIVERSITY EMPLOYMENT (Ray) Am. 124. Clarifies the authority of boards of trustees of, or officers designated by the boards of trustees of, state-supported colleges or universities over decision-making related to employees of these institutions.

SB 211 JOB SAFETY/STATE LOANS (Herington) En. 122. Requires employers receiving state economic development assistance to undergo a workplace safety inspection by the Division of Safety and Hygiene of the Bureau of Workers' Compensation and conditions continuing assistance on correction of discovered safety violations.

SB 212 JOB SAFETY INCENTIVES (Herington) Am. 4123. Permits the Administrator of Workers' Compensation to give discounts on premium rates for employers that establish an employee-management safety committee and implement official recommendations of that safety committee.

SB 213 STATE SEAL (Horn) 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.

SB 214 SCHOOL FUND BALANCES (Hagan) Am. 3315. Permits a school district that deposits more than the required amount in its capital and maintenance fund to deduct the excess amount from its deposits in future years and requires the Auditor of State to adopt rules directing school districts how to deduct such excess amounts.

SB 215 CLASSROOM FACILITIES ASSISTANCE (Hagan) Permits a Big-8 school district that is eligible for but has not received conditional approval for the Classroom Facilities Assistance Program before September 1, 1999, to participate in the program to assist Big-8 school districts in renovations, repairs, and additions to school facilities.

SB 216 CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS (Mallory) Am. 3517. Prohibits campaign contributions by minors.

SB 217 MEDICAL CONSENT (Latell) En. 3109. Permits minor parents to consent to medical, dental or hospital services for their children.

SB 218 TOBACCO PRODUCTS (Mumper) Am. & En. 2151 & 2927. Expands the offense of illegal distribution of cigarettes or other tobacco products; creates 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 demand proof of age of purchasers believer to be under eighteen years old.

SB 219 GUN LIABILITY (Wachtmann) En. 2305. Provides a qualified immunity from civil liability and injunctive relief to members of the firearms industry.

SB 220 PROFICIENCY TESTS (Prentiss) Am. 3301. Requires the proficiency test in citizenship to test knowledge of the effects of racism, genocide and religious persecution and revises the model curriculum for citizenship to ensure the coverage of topics related to racism, genocide and religious persecution and to hatred and intolerance of people due to race, ethnicity or religious beliefs.

SB 221 DISABILITY DEDUCTION (Cupp) Am. 5117. Maintains the disability deduction for certain elderly persons who previously qualified for the Ohio Energy Credit Program on the basis of disability and continues the provisions of this act on an after July 1, 2000, by amending Sec. 5117 of the Revised Code as it results from Am. Sub. SB 3 of the 123rd General Assembly, for that same purpose.

SB 222 BODY ARMOR (Watts) Am. & En. 2151, 2929 & 2941. Enhances the penalties for an offender who wears or carries body armor while committing a felony and makes more severe the dispositions available for a child who is adjudicated a delinquent child for committing an act that would be a felony if committed by an adult while wearing or carrying body armor.

SB 223 FIREARM STORAGE (Fingerhut) En. 109 & 2923. Prohibits storing or leaving a firearm in a manner that results in a person under eighteen years of age obtaining possession of it, prohibits selling or transferring firearms without a warning about proper firearm storage, requires the Attorney General to report annually to the General Assembly data and recommendations regarding the enforcement of those prohibitions and the prohibition against improperly furnishing firearms to a minor.

SB 224 SCHOOL OFFICIAL LIABILITY (Shoemaker) Am. 5705. Specifies that school district officials are not personally liable for incorrect estimates on a certificate of available resources when the district's state funding is reduced by one percent or more.

SB 225 CLASSROOM FACILITIES PROGRAM (Shoemaker) En. 3318. Prohibits the Ohio School Facilities Commission from denying approval of any classroom facilities assistance project proposed by a school district based on the district's selection of a construction manager for the proposed project.

SB 226 OSFC AUDIT (Shoemaker) Establishes a task force to conduct a performance audit of the Ohio School Facilities Commission and requires the task force to report its findings to the General Assembly by Dec. 31, 2000.

SB 227 CLASSROOM LOAN PROGRAM (Shoemaker) Am. & En. 3318. Establishes priorities for allocation of moneys appropriated for classroom facilities assistance and establishes the classroom facilities loan program.

SB 228 LOCAL SCHOOL PROGRAM (Shoemaker) Am. 3318. Permits any school district in the state to participate in the School Building Assistance Expedited Local Partnership Program.

SB 229 EMBRY WAY (Kearns) En. 5533. Names a portion of US Route 40 within Clark County the "Wayne Embry Way."

SB 230 FIREARMS STORAGE (Drake) 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.

SB 231 SMALL LOAN/MORTGAGE (White) Am. 1321. Makes revisions in the Small Loan Law and the Mortgage Loan Law, including changes relative to maximum license or certificate of registration fees, application of the law, examinations and investigations by the Division of Financial Institutions, permissible charges by registrants, and penalties for violations.

SB 232 LICENSE PLATE FEES (Oelslager) Am. 4503. Eliminates the additional $10 fee that a person pays to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles when first obtaining or renewing Ohio National Guard license plates, U.S. Armed Forces Reserves license plates, U.S. Armed Forces retiree or honorably discharged veteran license plates, Purple Health license plates, Marine Corps League license plates, and Pearl Harbor license plates.

SB 233 UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION (Hagan) Am. 4141. Permits employees engaged in a lockout to be eligible for extended unemployment compensation benefits when the employer is found to have committed an unfair labor practice.

SB 234 SALES TAX EXEMPTION (Watts) Am. 5739. Exempts from the sales tax sales to local posts of a veterans' organization.

SB 235 TELEPHONE COMPETITION (Ray) Am. & En. 4927. Promotes telecommunications competition and enhance Ohio's telecommunications infrastructure by allowing a transition to competitively priced services by an electing local exchange carrier making certain infrastructure investment, removing restrictions on service areas for certain local exchange carriers, and specifying state regulation of wholesale public telecommunication services and retain pay phone service, and authorizes protective orders for certain information filed by a public utility.

SB 236 RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT (Gardner) Am. 733. Allows a municipal ordinance to waive any statutory requirement that a municipal fire chief or fire prevention officer be a municipal resident or elector.

SB 237 DRIVER TRAINING (Cupp) Am. & En. 4508. Permits a joint vocational school district to be licensed as a commercial driver training school and offer instruction and training to students other than regular full-time students in the operation of trucks, commercial cars, and commercial tractors, trailers and semi-trailers.

SB 238 ORTHOTICS BOARD (White) En. 4779. Establishes the State Board of Orthotics, Prosthetics, and Pedorthics and provides for the licensure of orthotists, prosthetists, and pedorthists.

SB 239 EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT (Cupp) Creates a grant program for the 2000-2001 biennium that is to be administered by the Ohio Emergency Management Agency and that is to provide funds for certain purposes to countywide emergency management agencies and regional authorities for emergency management and makes an appropriation.

SB 240 SAME-SEX MARRIAGES (Hottinger) Am. 3101. Specifically declares that same-sex marriages are against the public policy of this state and makes other declarations about same-sex marriages.

SB 241 COMMERCIAL FISHING (Gardner) Am. 1531 & 1533. Authorizes the chief of the Division of Wildlife in the Department of Natural Resources to adopt commercial fishing rules that are effective for a period longer than five years and establishes fishing season dates and length limits for certain commercial fish.

SB 242 VEHICLE REGISTRATION (Oelslager) Am. 4503. Permits the renewal of motor vehicle registrations by electronic means.

SB 243 VOCATIONAL EDUCATION (Shoemaker) En. 3301 & 3313. Requires the State Board of Education to prescribe skill areas on the ACT WorkKeys test and designates minimum passing scores in those skill areas for vocational education students and permits vocational education students to receive diplomas or honors diplomas if they attain those minimum scores in lieu of passing the tenth grade proficiency tests.

SB 244 POLICE NOTIFICATION (Mumper) En. 4501. Requires every law enforcement agency whose law enforcement officers investigate motor vehicle accidents to develop and adopt a written policy governing the procedures for notifying the next of kin of any person who is found dead or is pronounced dead at the scene of a motor vehicle accident or who suffers a serious, life-threatening injury in a motor vehicle accident.

SB 245 CAPITAL REAPPROPRIATIONS/BUDGET CORRECTIONS (Ray) Am. & Rep. 124, 126, 127, 166, 1547, 3313, 3314, 3317, 3318, 3734, 5101, 5111, 5117 & 5528. Corrects, clarifies, supplements, and modifies certain authorizations and conditions established for the operation and administration of state programs and makes capital reappropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 2002.

SB 246 TURNPIKE COMMISSION (Wachtmann) Am. & En. 5537. Requires the Ohio Turnpike Commission to deposit certain moneys into the state treasury, thus requiring an appropriation in order for that money to be spent, requires the authorization of the General Assembly before the Commission may issue bonds, and clarifies that rules of the Commission are subject to the Administrative Procedures Act.

SB 247 STATE COLOR (Fingerhut) En. 5. Adopts red as the official state color.

SB 248 PHARMACIST LAW (Drake) Am. 4729. Permits a pharmacist who has completed a course in drug administration approved by the State Board of Pharmacy to administer drugs.

SB 249 ASSISTED LIVING (Fingerhut) En. 173 & 5111. Creates an assisted living program to be administered by the Department of aging pursuant to a home a community-based waiver granted by the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.

SB 250 LAND CONVEYANCE (Armbruster) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate located in Lorain County to Robert E. and Corrine E. Peak.

SB 251 CONCEALED WEAPONS (Wachtmann) Am. & En. 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.

SB 252 SALES TAX EXEMPTION (Wachtmann) Am. 5739. Exempts the sale of gym memberships from sales taxation.

SB 253 PATIENT ABUSE (Spada) Am. & En. 2907 & 4732. Imposes criminal penalties on psychologists, school psychologists, and psychiatrists who engage in sexual conduct or have sexual contact with their patients and makes changes to the laws governing psychologist misconduct.

SB 254 IMMUNIZATIONS (Johnson) Am. 3313 & 3701. Requires that certain school children be immunized against chicken pox.

SB 255 HEARING SCREENING (Watts) Am. & En. 3701. Requires a hearing screening for each newborn born in a hospital.

SB 256 TAX EXEMPTION (Watts) Am. 5739. Exempts from the sales and use tax certain items designed for use by children under the age of two years.

SB 257 ESTATE TAX EXEMPTION (White) 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.

SB 258 INTERNET ACCESS (Fingerhut) 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.

SB 259 FFA LICENSE PLATE (White) En. 4501 & 4503. Authorizes issuance of Future Farmers of American license plates.

SB 260 DAMAGE SETTLEMENTS (Nein) En. 2323. Requires approval by 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 for such approval by a transferee of those payment rights.

SB 261 POLITICAL ACTIVITIES (Shoemaker) Am. 124. Allows classified employees to engage in political activities during nonworking hours; broadens the prohibition against coercion or harassment of classified employees for political reasons; makes such coercion or harassment subject to action by the State Personnel Board of Review or a local civil service commission; and makes changes in the Classified Employee Lay-Off Law and the County Employee Sick Leave Law.

SB 262 LIQUOR PERMITS (Gardner) 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.

SB 263 RESOURCE RECOVERY RULES (White) En. 3734. Authorizes the Director of Environmental Protection to adopt rules in accordance with the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act by direct final rule-making procedures under certain circumstances.

SB 264 HOSPITAL CARE PAYMENTS (Ray) En. 5112. Provides for distribution of funds to hospitals based on uncompensated care provided and makes an appropriation.

SB 265 ENTERPRISE ZONE REPORT (Horn) Am. 5709. Modifies requirements concerning the Department of Development's annual enterprise zone report.

SB 266 WORKERS' COMPENSATION (Horn) Am. 4123. Permits public employers, other than the state, to become self-insuring employers for purposes of the Workers' Compensation Law.

SB 267 MOTORISTS INSURANCE (Ray) Am. 3937. Relative to an insured's recovery under uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage.

SB 268 PROFICIENCY TESTS (Latell) Am. 3301, 3302 & 3313. Eliminates the prohibition on promoting to the fifth grade certain fourth grade students who fail to pass the fourth grade reading proficiency test.

SB 269 SCHOOL PROPERTY (Nein) Am. 3313. Authorizes a board of education to acquire real property needed for school purposes by exchanging real property that the board owns for the property or by using real property that the board owns as consideration in the purchase of the property.

SB 270 SERS BENEFITS (Drake) Am. & En. 3309. Increases certain benefits paid by the School Employees Retirement System, increases the SERS reimbursement for insurance coverage under Medicare Part B, provides that the annual cost of living increases paid to SERS retirants and beneficiaries will be three percent and makes other changes to the law governing SERS.

SB 271 MOTORCYCLE OPERATORS (Wachtmann) Am. 4507. Provides that persons who successfully complete a course of basic instruction provided by the motorcycle safety and education program not be required to drive a motorcycle under the supervision of an examining officer in order to obtain a motorcycle operator's endorsement or a restricted license that permits only the operation of a motorcycle.

SB 272 SCHOOL FACILITIES (Cupp) Am. & En. 3318. Permanently sets aside school facilities assistance moneys for school districts with exceptional needs, phases-in an increased number of school districts that annually may participate in the School Building Assistance Expedited Local Partnership Program, and makes other changes to the Classroom Facilities Assistance Program.

SB 273 9-1-1 SERVICE (Schafrath) Am. & En. 305 & 4931. Authorizes a board of county commissioners to provide for a monthly charge on residential and business customer originating service telephone access lines to fund specified costs of establishing and operating the public safety answering points of a countywide 9-1-1 system to provide wireline 9-1-1, including costs of upgrading an existing system, with the initial charge set at fifty cents per month for a continuing period or specified period of time and with authority to adjust the charge at the level of fifty or twenty-five cents per month or suspend the charge.

SB 274 LAND CONVEYANCE (Drake) 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.

SB 275 OHIO WORKS FIRST (Prentiss) Am. & En. 5107. Revises the law governing sanctions and time limits under the Ohio Works First Program.

SB 276 SURFACE MINING (White) Am. & En. 1514. Revises the statutes governing the surface mining of minerals other than coal.

SB 277 PERS BENEFITS (Drake) Am., En. & Rep. 124, 145, 306, 308, 2329, 2907, 2921, 3105, 3375, 3381 & 6121. Increases certain benefits paid by the Public Employees Retirement System to provide that the annual cost of living increase paid to retired PERS members and their survivors will be three percent; allows PERS to establish a defined contribution retirement plan and relocates the provisions governing the Ohio Deferred Compensation Program.

SB 278 ANESTHESIOLOGIST ASSISTANTS (Drake) Am. 4731 & 4760. Provides for the regulation of anesthesiologist assistants.

SB 279 CONSERVANCY DISTRICTS (Horn) 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.

SB 280 LITTER TAXES (Mumper) 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 Fund.

SB 281 TITLE INSURANCE (Ray) Am. 3953. Permits, under certain circumstances, affiliated business arrangements in the provision of title insurance business.

SB 282 RAILROAD IMMUNITY (Nein) En. 4955. Provides limited immunity from civil and criminal liability to a railroad company, engineer, or other employee of a railroad company if the engineer or other employee fails to sound a locomotive engine whistle or bell at a highway or street crossing or private crossing in compliance with a municipal ordinance regulating the use of whistles and bells within the municipal corporation.

SB 283 FIREARMS SALES (Espy) Am. & En. 2923. Prohibits a federally licensed firearms dealer from selling or otherwise transferring a handgun unless the dealer sells the purchaser a trigger lock for the handgun or a trigger lock is an integral component of the handgun and prohibits a person from purchasing or otherwise receiving a handgun from a federally licensed firearms dealer unless the person purchases a trigger lock for the handgun or the trigger lock is an integral part of the handgun.

SB 284 VOTER AFFILIATION (Watts) Am. 3513 & 3517. Eliminates the ability to challenge a voter's right to vote on the basis of a change in party affiliation.

SB 285 SOLID WASTE DISTRICTS (Oelslager) Am. 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.

SB 286 UNIVERSITY EMPLOYEES (Gardner) 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.

SB 287 GAS COMPANY PROPERTY (Blessing) Am. & En. 3709, 4933, 5703, 5705 & 5727 & Am. Secs. 3 & 4, Am. Sub. 3 (123rd General Assembly) & Sec. 194, HB 283 (123rd General Assembly). 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.

SB 288 VEHICLE WEIGHT VIOLATIONS (Kearns) Am. 5577. Increases the monetary penalties for violations of the motor vehicle weight limit law.

SB 289 ANNEXATIONS (Cupp) Am., En. & Rep. 505, 709, 729 & 5705. Revises the law governing municipal annexations.

SB 290 HOME CARE (Hagan) Modifies the requirements that must be met to provide services under the Ohio Home Care Program.

SB 291 AMBULANCE LICENSING (Hottinger) Am. & En. 307, 505, 4503, 4513 & 4766. Authorizes the Ohio Ambulance Licensing Board to license commercial medical service organizations that operate ambulette vehicles for the transportation of persons who require the use of a wheelchair, adds one member to the Board, and renames the Board the Ohio Ambulance and Ambulette Licensing Board.

SB 292 PUBLIC UTILITY TAX (Blessing) 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.

SB 293 SALES TAX COLLECTION (Blessing) Authorizes the Tax Commissioner to discuss with other state the development of a system to collect and administer sales and use taxes from remote sellers, and issue a joint request for information regarding specifications for the system.

SB 294 CONTRIBUTION DISCLOSURE (Herington) Am. 3517 Specifies that all loans, gifts, and other donations made to, or received or used by, the operating fund of a state or county political party are for the purpose of influencing the next subsequent primary or general election and must be included in campaign finance reports.

SB 295 CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS (Oelslager) Am., En. & Rep. 129, 4582, 5501, 5511, 5515, 5521, 5525 & 5529. Revises the law governing Department of Transportation construction contracts, revises the sale and acquisition of property by the Department of Transportation, makes other changes in the law governing the Department of Transportation and repeals requirements for a port authority to have a plan for future development.

SB 296 HANDGUN PURCHASES (Fingerhut) Am. & En. 125, 307, 504, 505 & 717. Requires state agencies that purchase handguns to give a preference to handguns produced by manufacturers that have agreed to include a locking mechanism with each handgun sold, commits funds to smart gun technology that will be incorporated into future handguns, and only permits their handguns to be sold at gun shows if background checks on all potential handgun buyers are first conducted; and requires the Director of Administrative Services to publish a model act for the use of counties, townships, and municipal corporations if they choose to enact a similar preference system for their handgun purchases.

SB 297 STATE MOTTO (Espy) Am. 5. Adopts "In God We Trust" as the official state motto.

SB 298 INCOME/ESTATE TAXES (Spada) Am. 5731 & 5747. Reduces estate taxes and increases the income tax personal exemption and joint filing credit.

SB 299 BICENTENNIAL BRIDGE (Carnes) En. 5. Designates Blaine Hill Bridge in Belmont County the state's Bicentennial Bridge.

SB 300 LAND CONVEYANCE (Latta) Authorizes the Board of Trustees of 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.

SB 301 VENTURE CAPITAL (Horn) Am. & En. 122, 5733 & 5747. Creates the Ohio Venture Capital Program to provide for the direction of moneys of a private investment fund into loans and investments that are consistent with a general policy adopted by the new Ohio Venture Capital Authority and that are guaranteed up to a specified maximum loss, first through program revenues or, if insufficient, through proceeds from the sale of transferable tax credits that may be claimed against the corporation franchise tax or the personal income tax.

SB 302 MANUFACTURED HOMES (Johnson) Am. 319, 321, 323, 4501, 4513 & 4517. Specifies the application date of certain provisions of Am. Sub. SB 142 of the 122nd General Assembly and makes other clarifications regarding the taxation of manufactured and mobile homes.

SB 303 DRUG SALES TAX (Drake) Am. 5739. Exempts from the sales tax of drugs to be furnished or administered by a licensed health professional and removes the exemption from the sales tax of epoetin alfa.

SB 304 COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (Cupp) Am. 3314. Provides state vocational education funding to community schools.

SB 305 EMISSION CHECKS (Herington) Am. & En. 3704, 5733 & 5747. Changes the new vehicle exemption under the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program to six years regardless of whether legal title to the vehicle is transferred during that six-year period and grants a credit against the personal income and corporate franchise taxes in the amount of fees paid by the taxpayer to have a vehicle inspected under the emissions inspection program, provided that the vehicle is seven years of age or older.

SB 306 SEX OFFENSES (White) Am. 2907. Expands the offense of importuning so that it prohibits soliciting another by means of a computer or another 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.

SB 307 REAL ESTATE APPRAISERS (Shoemaker) Am. & En. 4763. Prohibits a person not registered, certified or licensed as a real estate appraiser from providing real estate appraisal services.

SB 308 ANIMAL CRUELTY (Hagan) Am. 959. Makes repeat violations of the cruelty to animals statute a felony of the third degree and authorizes courts to require repeat offenders to undergo psychological or psychiatric evaluation and possible treatment.

SB 309 "BE PET FRIENDLY" PLATES (Hagan) En. 955, 4501 & 4503. Creates the "Be Pet Friendly" license plate and the Pet Support Fund and provides that moneys in the fund be used to pay for programs that address pet overpopulation issues, including spay and neuter programs, and humane education.

SB 310 ARTS FACILITIES (Ray) 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.

SB 311 PRESCRIPTION DRUGS (Hagan) 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.

SB 312 CHILD ENTICEMENT (Latta) Am. 2905. Expands the offense of criminal child enticement to prohibit knowingly soliciting, coaxing, enticing or luring a child under fourteen years of age to accompany the person.

SB 313 COUNTY WATER SYSTEMS (Latell) Am. 6103. Allows a board of county commissioners to enter into a contract for the management, maintenance, operation and repair of a public water supply or water-works system within its county or sewer district.

SB 314 SCHOOL FUNDING (Ray) Am. 3316 & 3317. 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 by lease or lease-purchase and makes an appropriation.

SB 315 MEMORIAL DAY (Schafrath) Am. 1, 124 & 3313. Corrects a reference to federal law in the Ohio laws designating Memorial Day as a state holiday.

SB 316 INDIANS PLATE (Spada) Am. 4503. Establishes Cleveland Indians special license plates bearing the image of Chief Wahoo, under certain circumstances.

SB 317 FALSE COMPLAINTS (Latta) En. 2921. Prohibits a person from knowingly filing a false complaint alleging peace officer misconduct; requires each Ohio law enforcement agency to adopt a written policy for making complaints of alleged peace officer misconduct and procedures for investigating the complaints and requires each Ohio law enforcement agency, at the time of accepting any complaint of alleged peace officer misconduct, to provide the complainant with a specified notice regarding the complaint and the possibility of criminal prosecution for false complaints.

SB 318 GAS TAX (Brady) Suspends the motor fuel excise tax for sixty days; makes up resultant revenue losses from the Budget Stabilization Fund and declares an emergency.

SB 319 VEHICLE REGISTRATION (Oelslager) Am. 4503. Prohibits the display of Social Security numbers on motor vehicle certificates of registration.

SB 320 PURPLE HEART HIGHWAY (Shoemaker) En. 5533. Names SR 93, within Lawrence County only, the "Purple Heart Highway."

SB 321 FOOD LICENSING (Latta) Am. 3717. Specifies that the food safety licensing exemptions that apply to certain nonprofit and other organizations extend to an individual or group raising funds for the benefits of an exempt organization.

SB 322 SCHOOL GRADUATION (Latell) Am. & En. 3313 & 3325. Grants certificates of achievement to students who have meet all of the criteria for high school graduation except for passage of the tenth grade proficiency tests and allows such students to participate in graduation ceremonies.

SB 323 MOTORCYCLE PASSENGERS (Latell) Am. 4511. Prohibits children ten years old or younger from riding as passengers on motorcycles.

SB 324 LIME BYPRODUCTS (Mumper) En. 1514. Requires the chief of the Division of Mines and Reclamation in the Department of Natural Resources to adopt rules governing the beneficial use of lime byproducts.

SB 325 MUNICIPAL COURTS (Oelslager) Am. 1901. Permits judges of a municipal court with an elected clerk to appoint an administrative assistant for personnel matters.

SB 326 DAY-CARE ABUSE (Kearns) En. 2903 & 2919. Creates the offenses of reckless assault of a child by a child day-care provider and misrepresentation by a child day-care provider.

SB 327 "PROMPT PAY" LAW (Mumper) Am., En. & Rep. 1739, 3901 & 3902. Revises the "prompt pay" statutes applicable to third-party payers.

SB 328 LOTTERY STUDY (Shoemaker) Creates the Task Force to Study the Impact of the Ohio Lottery on Ohio Communities; requires the Task Force to issue a report of its finding and recommendations and prohibits changes in the types of lottery games offered to the public or the manner in which lottery games are played until the Task Force issues its report.

SB 329 STATE AUDITS (Hottinger) Am. 117. Makes changes in the law governing the Auditor of State's audits of public offices and private persons who receive public funds.

SB 330 SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY (Spada) 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.

SB 331 TAX FILING STATUS (Spada) Am. 5747. Allows married couples to file joint or separate state income tax returns regardless of their federal filing status.

SB 332 LAND CONVEYANCE (Drake) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate in Wayne County, adjacent to the Apple Creek Developmental Center, to The Ohio State University for the use of its College of Food, Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, and declares an emergency.

SB 333 BINGO LICENSES (Kearns) Am. 2915. Requires that an application for a bingo license be accompanied by a copy of Internal Revenue Service Form 990 and any other Internal Revenue Service income statement form that the Attorney General may require.

SB 334 VEHICLE FUEL PRICES (Herington) Am. 4935. Includes within the statutory concept of "energy emergency" a twenty per cent or more increase within one year in the average retail price per gallon within Ohio of a grade or type of motor vehicle fuel.

SB 335 DNA SAMPLES (Espy) Am. & En. 2930, 2933 & 2953. Provides DNA testing to specified adult offenders and delinquent children if the DNA evidence would have been relevant in the initial determination of guilt or adjudication of a delinquent child.

SB 336 SEAT BELT OFFENSE (Prentiss) Am. & En. 3937 & 4513. Makes a seat belt violation a primary offense that is enforceable as any other traffic offense, limits the search authority of a law enforcement officer who stops a vehicle for a seat belt violation, and prohibits an insurer from increasing the cost of certain automobile insurance policies based on the insured's being charged with a seat belt violation.

SB 337 MEMORIAL HIGHWAY (DiDonato) En. 5533. Designates a portion of state route number seven within Columbiana County as the "Melvin E. Newlin Memorial Highway."

SB 338 HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMAS (Harris) En. 3313. Grants high school diplomas to World War II veterans.

SB 339 AMISH BUGGY SAFETY (Latell) Allocates funds from the State Capital Improvement Fund in the form of grants for approved projects enhancing Amish buggy safety on Ohio's roadways.

SB 340 JOB TRAINING CREDIT (Harris) Am. & En. 9, 5717, 5725, 5729, 5733 & 5747. Extends the job training tax credit to businesses and industries that currently cannot claim the credit, increases the maximum credit, and makes other changes in the job training tax credit.

SB 341 NATURAL GAS TAX (Hagan) Am. 5739. Expands the sales tax exemption for sales of natural gas.

SB 342 ORGAN DONOR PLATE (Drake) En. 4501 & 4503. Creates the Organ Donor license plates, creates the Organ Donor License Plate Fund, and provides that moneys in the fund be used to pay for programs to educate the public about the importance of organ, eye, and tissue donation.

SB 343 PROFICIENCY TESTS (Gardner) Am. & En. 3301, 3302, 3313 & 3319. Requires the State Board of Education to designate a basic skills score for the fourth grade reading proficiency test, assigns that score as the score for promotion to fifth grade under the fourth grade guarantee, eliminates the fourth grade citizenship and science proficiency tests beginning in the 2001-2002 school year, requires annual rather than triennial performance classifications of school districts, and specifies the duration of educator licenses for substitute teaching.

SB 344 VEHICLE TITLING (Carnes) Am. & En. 4501, 4503, 4505 & 4519. Makes changes in the titling processes for motor vehicles, off-highway motorcycles and all purpose vehicles.

SB 345 SCHOOL MANDATES (Gardner) Am. & En. 3315, 3316 & 5705. Addresses certain school district mandates and establishes additional procedures for avoiding fiscal problems in school districts.

SB 346 MEDICAID SPENDING (Ray) Makes certain changes in existing appropriations for fiscal year 2001 and changes the reporting date of the Tobacco Oversight Accountability Panel.

SB 347 TAX CREDITS (Armbruster) Am. & En. 122, 5727, 5733 & 5747. Creates tax credits against public utility gross receipts, corporation franchise or personal income tax liability for contributions to neighborhood assistance projects approved by the Director of Development.

SB 348 HATE CRIMES (Fingerhut) Am. & En. 109 & 3345. Establishes the Center for the Study of Hate Crimes in Ohio to collect and maintain specified information and data related to hate crimes.