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HB 1 ACADEMIC STANDARDS (Hoops) Am., En. & Rep. 3301, 3302, 3313, 3314, 3317, 3319, 3321, 3324 & 3365. Implements recommendations of the Governor's Commission for Student Success.

HB 2 SCHOOL FINANCE (Calvert) Directs the General Assembly's deliberations to reformulate the state education financing system.

HB 3 ENVIRONMENTAL BONDS (Blasdel) En. 1559. Declares it to be the public policy of the state to establish the Clean Ohio Fund for the purpose of achieving certain goals related to the protection of the environment and preservation of the state's natural resources.

HB 4 PRESCRIPTION DRUGS (Hagan) Am. & En. 149 & 173. Creates a prescription drug discount program for Ohio residents who are age 60 or older or disabled and provides that the names of participants in the program or the Golden Buckeye Card program are not a public record.

HB 5 ELECTION BALLOTS (Lendrum) Am. & En. 303, 519, 3375, 3501, 3504, 3505, 3506, 3509, 3511, 3513, 3515 & 3519. Revises the Election Law by requiring designated board of elections employees to examine punch card ballots prior to their counting and, in specified circumstances, to remove partially detached chads from them or remake ballots voted backwards, by specifying that no chad attached to a punch card ballot by three or four corners counts as a vote, by specifying that armed service absent voter's ballots from voters who will be outside of the United States on election day that do not have any postmark or have an illegible postmark are valid if mailed prior to the close of the polls on election day and if received within the appropriate period, and by making other changes, and creates the Election System Study Committee.

HB 6 TAX INCREMENT FINANCING (Hollister) Am. & En. 122, 166 & 5709. Establishes the Capital Access Program in the Department of Development and permits political subdivisions in economically distressed areas to employ tax increment financing throughout a designated area.

HB 7 ILLEGAL DRUGS (Manning) Am. & En. 905, 2925, 2933, 3734, 3745 & 4507. Provides a comprehensive mechanism to assist in combating the illegal manufacture or production of methamphetamine.

HB 8 ELECTRONIC PORNOGRAPHY (Hughes) Am. 2907. Expands the definition of "material" in the Sex Offense Laws to include any image appearing on a computer monitor or similar display device, transmitted through the Internet, or recorded on a computer disk, magnetic tape, or similar data storage device.

HB 9 NATURAL GAS SALES (Setzer) Am. & En. 4905, 4911 & 4929. Subjects retail natural gas suppliers and governmental aggregators to certification by the Public Utilities Commission, authorizes governmental aggregation for competitive retail natural gas services, and authorizes the PUCO, upon application by a governmental aggregator, to require a natural gas company to provide distribution service on a comparable and nondiscriminatory basis within the area of the governmental aggregation.

HB 10 VETERANS SERVICE COMMISSIONS (Hartnett) Am. 5901. Includes the Korean War Veterans Association among the organizations that may recommend persons to be appointed to a county Veterans Service Commission.

HB 11 BUTLER COUNTY COURT (Webster) Am. 2301. Adds one additional judge for the Juvenile Division of the Butler County Court of Common Pleas to be elected in 2002.

HB 12 APPOINTED COUNSEL (Core) Am. 2151. Limits the right to appoint counsel in a juvenile court.

HB 13 TUITION REIMBURSEMENT (Britton) Am. 124. Requires that the Professional Development Fund include, for elected state officials and for state employees exempt from collective bargaining, a program of college tuition reimbursement that is equivalent to the college tuition reimbursement program available to state employees covered by collective bargaining.

HB 14 ELECTION BALLOTS (Flannery) Am. & En. 3506. Requires election judges in precincts that use punch card ballots to remove from those ballots chads that are attached by two or fewer corners prior to the counting of the ballots and specifies that no chad attached to a punch card ballot by three or four corners counts as a vote.

HB 15 ESTATE ADMINISTRATION (Willamowski) Am. 2109 & 2113. Extends the time periods within which an executor or administrator of an estate must render an account of the administration of the estate or complete the administration of the estate.

HB 16 APPROPRIATION PROCEEDINGS (Willamowski) Am. & En. 163. Allows both an owner and an agency to appeal determinations with respect to preliminary matters in appropriation of property proceedings, requires descriptions of property sought to be appropriated to include U.S. imperial measurements in equivalent detail to any metric measurements an agency uses, requires a jury to consider in awarding damages, restrictions, impairments, or limitations of an owner's ingress and egress to the residue that an agency causes in specified manners, provides for supplemental appropriation proceedings under certain circumstances, and updates various provisions of the Appropriation of Property Law.

HB 17 INTOXICATION (Willamowski) Am. 4301. Prohibits a person under 21 years of age from being under the influence of beer or intoxicating liquor in a public or private place.

HB 18 TRAFFIC FINES (Willamowski) Am. & En. 4511. Imposes an additional one dollar fine for state moving violations and requires that the additional fine money be used to maintain and upgrade public safety equipment used by police officers.

HB 19 STATE FISH (Core) En. 5. Adopts the smallmouth bass as the state fish.

HB 20 AFRICAN AFFAIRS OFFICE (R. Miller) En. 122. Creates the Office of African Advancement and Affairs within the Department of Development.

HB 21 PURCHASE CERTIFICATES (Core) Am. 5705. Enables super blanket certificates to be used by subdivisions and local taxing units for qualified purchases amounting to $5,000 or less, not just those amounting to more than $5,000.

HB 22 ELECTION BALLOTS (D. Miller) Am. 3505 & 3506. Prohibits the use of a ballot, a ballot card, or a ballot label that lists candidates for the same office or for different offices, or lists such candidates and one or more issues or questions, on both sides of the area in which the ballot is to be marked.

HB 23 VOTING IMPROVEMENTS (D. Miller) Creates a special committee to study technological and procedural improvements to advance the ease and reliability of voting and vote tabulation in Ohio and makes an appropriation.

HB 24 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION (D. Miller) Am. 323 & 4503. Increases the reduction in taxable value of property eligible for the homestead exemption.

HB 25 ENERGY CREDITS (D. Miller) Am. 5117. Increases eligibility for the Ohio energy credit program.

HB 26 HEALTH PLANNING (D. Miller) En. 3701 & 5119. Creates the offices of strategic planning in the departments of Health and Mental Health.

HB 27 OHIO SLAG USE (D. Miller) Am. 125 & 153. Designates iron slag and steel slag as products included in both the Buy Ohio Program and the requirement that steel used in capital improvement projects be made in the United States.

HB 28 JURY DUTY (DePiero) Am. 2313. Permits a person who is 70 years of age or older to be excused from jury duty.

HB 29 HOME INSPECTION LICENSING (DePiero) En. 4768. Creates the State Board of Home Inspectors, requires the licensure of home inspectors, provisional home inspectors, and associate home inspectors, and otherwise to regulate performance of home inspections.

HB 30 VICTIM NOTIFICATION (DePiero) Am. 2151 & 2953. Requires notification of a victim and that victim's family if an offender applies for the sealing of the offender's conviction record.

HB 31 MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY (Barrett) Am. & En. 5111. Requires the director of Job and Family Services to apply for a federal waiver to expand eligibility for the Medicaid Program to individuals who are between 19 and 64 years of age and have family incomes not exceeding 200% of the federal poverty guidelines.

HB 32 ASSISTED LIVING WAIVER (Barrett) En. 173 & 5111. Creates an assisted living program to be administered by the Department of Aging pursuant to a home and community-based services waiver granted by the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.

HB 33 MENTAL HEALTH INSURANCE (Olman) Am., En. & Rep. 1739, 1751 & 3923. Prohibit discrimination in health care policies, contracts, and agreements in the coverage provided for the diagnosis, care, and treatment of mental illness and substance abuse or addition.

HB 34 NURSING HOME STAFFING (Barrett) Am. & En. 3701 & 3721. Requires nursing homes to maintain specified ratios of nurses and nurse aides to residents.

HB 35 SUPERSEDEAS BOND (Grendell) Am. 2505. Exempts nonmonetary administrative-related appeals from the requirement of a supersedeas bond.

HB 36 EMISSION TESTS (Young) Am. 3704. Changes the new vehicle exemption under the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program to five years regardless of whether legal title to the motor vehicle is transferred during that five-year period.

HB 37 WATER FLUORIDATION (Metzger) Am. 6109. Provides for a special election pertaining to the fluoridation of water to be used by political subdivisions that opted out of the fluoridation requirement as allowed by law in 1969 and 1970 and authorizes municipal corporations that opted out of the requirement to adopt an ordinance requiring fluoridation.

HB 38 WELFARE SERVICES (Metzger) Am. & En. 2151, 5153 & 6301. Requires the provision of independent living services, Medicaid, and work force development services and activities for certain children and young adults so they may become independent adults.

HB 39 DENTAL CARE INSURANCE (Metzger) En. 1751 & 3923. Requires policies, contracts, and agreements of health insuring corporations and sickness and accident insurers to cover, under certain circumstances, general anesthesia and hospital services connected with the provision of a dental care service to an insured or enrollee.

HB 40 TRAFFIC FINES (Sulzer) En. 2949. Imposes an additional court cost of $1 in cases involving a person who is convicted of or pleads guilty to a motor vehicle speeding violation, creates the Spinal Cord Injury and Head Injury Cure Research Fund, and requires the additional court cost to be deposited into that fund.

HB 41 MUNICIPAL INVESTMENTS (Sulzer) Am. 731. Permits a municipal corporation to include the treasurer of a city or village, rather than the city director of law or village solicitor, among the officials who may order the investment of moneys in the municipal corporation's treasury.

HB 42 INDIGENT DEFENSE COSTS (Sulzer) Am. 120. Requires the state to reimburse counties for 50% of the total costs associated with the defense of certain indigent persons.

HB 43 MORTGAGE COST DISCLOSURES (Britton) Am. & En. 1349. Requires creditors to make certain disclosures to consumers prior to entering into high cost mortgage transactions; prohibits creditors, with respect to these transactions, from charging certain prepayment penalty fees, from including certain terms in the transaction, and from requiring consumers to pay certain fees or charges for refinancing the transaction; requires the Superintendent of Financial Institutions to administer the act; provides for the act's enforcement under the Consumer Sales Practices Law; and provides civil remedies and a criminal penalty for violations.

HB 44 HORSE DOPING (Damschroder) En. 901. Prohibits a person from entering or driving a horse that has a drug in the horse's body in a pulling contest and establishes related provisions on enforcement and rulemaking by the director of Agriculture.

HB 45 ANNEXATION (Seitz) Am., En. & Rep. 505, 709, 929 & 5705. Revises the laws governing municipal annexations.

HB 46 SELECTIVE SERVICE/DRIVING PRIVILEGES (Goodman) En. 4507. Establishes that any applicant for a driver's license, permit, or identification card who is required to register with the Selective Service System is deemed to have given consent for the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to forward the necessary registration information to the Selective Service System and requires the Bureau to submit the applicable information to the Selective Service System.

HB 47 NORTH-SOUTH TURNPIKE (Ogg) Am. & En. 101, 126, 2937, 5503, 5538, 5728, 5735. Creates a North-South Turnpike Authority with all authority necessary to construct and operate a north-south turnpike system.

HB 48 "SCHOOL BUS DRIVER DAY" (Ogg) En. 5. Designates the first day of May as "School Bus Drivers Appreciation Day."

HB 49 VETERANS BONUS (Ogg) Establishes a veterans bonus for veterans of Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm and makes an appropriation.

HB 50 EMPLOYMENT REPORTING PENALTY (Goodman) Am. 4141. Prohibits the director of Jobs and Family Services from assessing more than one forfeiture per quarter for an employer's failure to file the two quarterly reports that are required.

HB 51 EMISSION TEST CONTRACT (Williams) En. 3704. Requires the Attorney General to negotiate the termination of all contracts that have been awarded to administer the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program.

HB 52 EMISSION TEST (Williams) Am. 3704. Changes the new vehicle exemption under the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program to five years regardless of whether legal title to the motor vehicle is transferred during that five-year period.

HB 53 PRESCRIPTION SERVICES (Williams) En. 1753 & 3923. Relative to coverage for prescription drug services provided by "any willing pharmacies" under policies of sickness and accident insurers and health insuring corporations.

HB 54 LICENSE PLATE DISPLAY (Williams) Am. & En. 4503 & 4549. Requires that motor vehicles carry only one license plate, to be displayed on the rear of the vehicle.

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

HB 56 PERSONAL INCOME TAX (Callender) Am. 5747. Extends the joint filing tax credit against the personal income tax to all joint filers.

HB 57 UNRULY CHILDREN (Willamowski) Am. 121, 181 & 2151. Revises the definition of an unruly child, requires counties to develop a process to deal with children alleged to be or at risk of becoming unruly children, provides an additional disposition for children adjudicated unruly, requires the Office of Criminal Justice Services to collect and analyze information regarding resources serving these children, and expands the opportunities juvenile courts have to obtain federal funds under an agreement with the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services.

HB 58 MINORITY ENTERPRISES (Williams) Am. 121, 122, 123, 125, 135, 153, 164, 166, 169, 307, 340, 351, 3354, 3355, 3357, 3358, 3383, 3734, 4115, 4301, 4503, 4582, 4981, 5111 & 5126. Changes the term "minority business enterprise" to "challenged business enterprise" for purposes of the laws governing public contract set asides, minority business development loans, and minority business bonds; revises the definition of and criteria for becoming certified as a challenged business enterprise; limits the permissible period of certification as a challenged business enterprise to five years; renames the Minority Development Financing Advisory Board as the Challenged Business Development Financing Advisory Board and renames the Department of Development's Minority Business Development Division as the Challenged Business Development Division; eliminates the programs for public contract set asides, challenged business development loans, and challenged business bonds ten years after the effective date of this act.

HB 59 ELECTION BALLOTS (Schuring) Am. 3511. Specifies that armed service absent voter's ballots from voters who will be outside of the United States on election day that do not have any postmark or have an illegible postmark are valid if mailed prior to the close of the polls on election day and received by the appropriate board of elections prior to 11 days after an election or prior to 21 days after a presidential primary election.

HB 60 NATURAL GAS PRICE STUDY (Schuring) En. 4929. Creates a joint legislative study committee to examine the high prices for natural gas in Ohio and submit to the Governor and General Assembly a report of its findings and recommendations and any legislation regarding possible state actions for relief for Ohio consumers and declares an emergency.

HB 61 NATURAL GAS AGGREGATION (DePiero) En. 4929. Provides a municipal corporation, county, or township with authority for automatic governmental aggregation of the retail natural gas loans of those consumers who are within its jurisdiction and have a choice of gas supplier.

HB 62 EMISSIONS TEST CREDIT (Grendell) Am. & En. 5747. Grants a credit against the personal income tax in the amount of fees paid by the taxpayer to have a vehicle inspected under the emissions inspection program.

HB 63 EMISSIONS TEST (Grendell) En. 3704. Prohibits the renewal of existing contracts for the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program; prohibits the letting of new contracts for that program; and requires the Director of Environmental Protection to terminate the program upon the expiration or termination of all existing contracts.

HB 64 SALES TAX EXEMPTION (Calvert) Am. & En. 5739. Provides a one-week period each year from 2001 to 2004 during which sales of personal computer systems are exempt from the state sales and use tax.

HB 65 PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION (Calvert) Am. 5709. Exempts from taxation property held or occupied by veterans' organizations that qualify for income tax exemption under the Internal Revenue Code.

HB 66 BUSINESS STREET SIGNS (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.

HB 67 STATE INVESTIGATION COSTS (Latell) Am. & En. 120, 2151, 2929, 2335, 2941 & 2947. Generally provides for state payment of investigation, prosecution, and defense costs related to a felony committed in a Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, Youth Services, Mental Health, or Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities institution or facility.

HB 68 MEDICAL CONSENT (Latell) En. 3109. Permits minor parents to consent to medical, dental, or hospital services for their children.

HB 69 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.

HB 70 AMISH BUGGY GRANTS (Latell) Allocates funds from the State Capital Improvements Fund in the form of grants for approved projects enhancing Amish buggy safety on Ohio's highways.

HB 71 PHARMACY DISPENSING (Faber) Am. & En. 4729. Provides that a pharmacist may refuse to dispense a drug on the basis of ethical or religious principles.

HB 72 SALES TAX EXEMPTION (Stapleton) Am. 5739. Exempts sales by certain school-related organizations from the sales tax.

HB 73 TRANSPORTATION BUDGET (Buehrer) Am., En. & Rep. 151, 163, 4501, 4503, 4509, 5501, 5502, 5503, 5516, 5517, 5526 & 5529. Makes appropriations for programs related to transportation and public safety for the biennium beginning July 1, 2001 and ending June 30, 2003 and provides authorization and conditions for the operation of those programs.

HB 74 INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION BUDGET (Williams) Makes appropriations for the Industrial Commission for the biennium beginning July 1, 2001 and ending June 30, 2003.

HB 75 WORKERS' COMPENSATION BUDGET (Williams) Am. & Rep. 4121 & 4123. Makes appropriations for the Bureau of Workers' Compensation for the biennium beginning July 1, 2001 and ending June 30, 2003 and provides authorization and conditions for the operation of those programs.

HB 76 "TRIO" PROGRAM FUNDING (R. Miller) Makes an appropriation for the provision of state matching funds for federal TRIO programs at Ohio institutions of higher education for the 2001-2003 biennium.

HB 77 VETERANS' DIPLOMAS (Hollister) En. 3313. Grants high school diplomas to World War II veterans.

HB 78 HEALTH FACILITY STAFFING (Womer Benjamin) Am. & En. 3701 & 3728. Requires a health care facility to meet minimum staffing requirements based on a system that assesses patient health needs.

HB 79 CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS (Redfern) Am. 3517. Limits campaign contributions by minors by prohibiting contributions from individuals under the age of eleven, and limiting to $250 the maximum contribution from individuals age eleven through seventeen.

HB 80 SALES TAX EXEMPTION (Jerse) Am. 5741. Exempts the first $2,000 of an individual's purchases from the state and county sales taxes.

HB 81 SPECIAL LICENSE PLATE (Callender) En. 4501 & 4503. Creates Rock and Roll Hall of Fame license plates.

HB 82 SALES TAX EXEMPTION (Callender) Am. 5739. Eliminates the sales tax on employment services and employment placement services.

HB 83 SOLID WASTE DISTRICTS (Schuring) Am. & En. 343. Requires arbitration prior to withdrawal of a county from a joint solid waste management district under specified circumstances and revises the requirements for withdrawal of a county from a joint solid waste management district under those circumstances.

HB 84 RETIREMENT RESTRICTION (Schmidt) Am. 145. Prohibits an elected official from receiving a Public Employees Retirement System pension while earning a salary for the same public office and declares an emergency.

HB 85 ESTATE ADMINISTRATION (Hughes) Am., En. & Rep. 2106, 2107, 2109, 2113, 2115, 2117 & 5905. Relative to a surviving spouse's election whether to take under the will, will contests, the final and distributive account of an estate's administration, and other provisions of probate law.

HB 86 DIABETES INSURANCE (Beatty) 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.

HB 87 ELECTION BALLOTS (Boccieri) Am. 3511. Generally requires armed service absent voter's ballots from voters who will be outside of the United States on election day to be postmarked in a specified manner in order to be valid and counted, permits those ballots that are not so postmarked or have an illegible postmark to be counted however, if they are mailed prior to the close of the polls on election day and if they are received by the appropriation board of elections prior to 11 days after an election or prior to 21 days after a presidential primary election, and requires the Secretary of State to reimburse boards of elections if they receive those ballots postage due.

HB 88 "CHOOSE LIFE" PLATES (Young) En. 4501 & 4503. Creates "Choose Life" license plates and the "Choose Life" License Plate Fund and provides that moneys in the fund be used to pay for programs offered by certain crisis pregnancy centers.

HB 89 TRANSIT AUTHORITY TAX ISSUES (Flowers) Am. 306. Changes the ballot form for a tax levy of a county or regional transit authority in order to permit the ballot to state one or more specific transit authority purposes for the proposed tax.

HB 90 HOME HEATING ASSISTANCE (Flannery) Suspends for a specified period a portion of a natural gas or combined company's gross receipts tax liability, requires that each county's Prevention, Retention, and Contingency Program include a component that pays the home heating costs incurred by certain assistance groups and declares an emergency.

HB 91 NATURAL GAS (Barnes) Creates the People's Natural Gas Relief Initiative as a joint legislative study committee to report to the Governor and General Assembly regarding strategies for providing additional heating assistance to low-income residential consumers, as well as assistance to the general public, and entrepreneurs, especially at times of rising natural gas prices and declares an emergency.

HB 92 POLITICAL ACTIVITIES (Driehaus) Am. & En. 3517. Prohibits the Secretary of State from serving on the campaign committee of a candidate for an office that will appear on a ballot in Ohio and prohibits the Secretary of State from soliciting contributions, making contributions and speaking on behalf of any such candidate.

HB 93 LOTTERY STUDY (Flowers) 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 findings and recommendations and prohibits changes in the types of super lottery games offered to the public or the manner in which lottery games are played until the task force issues its report.

HB 94 EDUCATION BUDGET (Carey) Am. 133, 3301, 3313, 3314, 3317, 3318, 3319, 3323, 3333, 3770 & 5126. Makes appropriations for education programs from the biennium beginning July 1, 2001 and ending June 30, 2003 and provides authorization and conditions for the operation of education programs.

HB 95 BIENNIAL BUDGET (Carey) Am., En. & Rep. 9, 105, 111, 118, 120, 121, 122, 125, 126, 131, 133, 166, 173, 175, 179, 181, 183, 329, 340, 901, 917, 1309, 1329, 1501, 1502, 1503, 1507, 1509, 1514, 1521, 1531, 1533, 1547, 1553, 1561, 1701, 1702, 1703, 1705, 1746, 1747, 1775, 1782, 1785, 1901, 1907, 2151, 2303, 2317, 2329, 2715, 2716, 2921, 2953, 3109, 3301, 3333, 3383, 3517, 3702, 3721, 3729, 3733, 3734, 3745, 3748, 3769, 3773, 3902, 3923, 4105, 4115, 4121, 4123, 4301, 4701, 4713, 4715, 4717, 4723, 4729, 4731, 4736, 4741, 4743, 4771, 4775, 4905, 5101, 5103, 5107, 5108, 5111, 5119, 5123, , 5139, 5153, 5727, 5733, 5735, 5739, 5747, 5749, 6109 & 6111. Makes operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2001 and ending June 30, 2003, and provides authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.

HB 96 CAMPAIGN FINANCE (R. Miller) Am. 3517. Requires specified entities that engage in any form of advertising that names or otherwise identifies a particular candidate to file campaign finance statements.

HB 97 LITERACY EDUCATION (R. Miller) Makes an additional appropriation to the Department of Education for the purposes of funding nonschool, community-based adult literacy programs.

HB 98 PROFICIENCY TESTS (R. Miller) Am. & En. 3301, 3313, 3314 & 3325. Specifies that the proficiency test requirements with which students must comply to earn their diplomas are those in effect for the school year in which they fulfill the high school curriculum requirement.

HB 99 ARSON PENALTY (R. Miller) Am. 2909. Increases the penalties for aggravated arson, arson, criminal damaging or endangering, and criminal mischief.

HB 100 DIABETES INSURANCE (Schneider) En. 1751 & 3923. Requires certain health care policies, contracts, agreements, and plans to provide benefits for equipment, supplies, and medication for the diagnoses, treatment, and management of diabetes and for diabetes self-management education.

HB 101 DEATH SENTENCING (Jones) Am. 2901 & 2929. Prohibits the imposition of a sentence of death unless the offender is convicted beyond any doubt of aggravated murder and an aggravating circumstance and the aggravating circumstance outweigh beyond any doubt the mitigating factors.

HB 102 DEATH SENTENCING (Jones) Am. 109 & 2929. Permits the presentation of evidence at the sentencing hearing in capital cases to show that the death penalty has been imposed in a demographically disparate manner and requires that demographic information be included in the Attorney General's annual capital case status report.

HB 103 CORPORATE DIRECTORSHIPS (Jones) En. 111. Requires the Secretary of State to establish, develop, and maintain a registry of women and minorities available to serve on corporate boards of directors; specifies the information that may be maintained in the registry; provides for the publication of a directory of eligible women and minorities; and provides for access to registry information, fees, and administrative reporting requirements.

HB 104 PLAYGROUND STANDARDS (Jones) Am. & En. 3301, 3781 & 5104. Requires the Board of Building Standards to adopt rules to establish specified safety provisions applicable to playgrounds accessible to the public and grants immunity from civil and criminal liability to owners and operators of playgrounds who comply with those rules.

HB 105 PROFICIENCY TESTS (Jones) Am. 3313 & 3325. Requires that high school diplomas be granted to students who pass all but one of the ninth grade proficiency tests and achieve in high school at least a 3.00 grade point average or its equivalent and a 95% attendance rate.

HB 106 IDENTITY CONCEALMENT (Jones) En. 2917. Prohibits a person from wearing a mask, hood, or other device that hides or covers a substantial portion of the wearer's face so as to conceal the identity of the wearer when the person is on the private property of another without written permission or is in any public place.

HB 107 ESTATE EXCLUSION (Jones) En. 2131. Excludes from a probate estate the amount received through a legal settlement or program that compensates a person for injury related to certain governmental actions or omissions.

HB 108 RACIAL PROFILING (Jones) En. 109. Requires every law enforcement agency to record detailed data whenever one of its law enforcement officers causes the operator of a motor vehicle to stop the motor vehicle, requires the data to be submitted to the Attorney General, and requires the Attorney General to analyze the data, draw conclusions from the data, and report the data, analysis, and conclusions to the General Assembly.

HB 109 OMVI LICENSE SUSPENSION (Ford) Am. 4511. Relative to the length of a license suspension for refusing to submit to a blood alcohol test following an auto accident that results in serious physical harm or death to a person and for refusing to submit to the test following a combination of four or more prior refusals and alcohol-related motor vehicle convictions.

HB 110 HEARING AID INSURANCE (R. Miller) En. 1751, 3923 & 5111. Requires health insuring corporations and sickness and accident insurers to cover fifty per cent of the cost of hearing aids for enrollees and insureds and requires the medical assistance program to cover the total cost of hearing aids for persons covered thereunder.

HB 111 DAY-CARE PROVIDERS (Jerse) En. 2919. Creates the offenses of misrepresentation by a child day-care provider and failure to disclose the death or serious injury of a child.

HB 112 FOREIGN STEEL USE (Patton) Am. 153. Modifies criteria regarding the use of foreign steel products for public improvements, authorizes the director of Administrative Services to investigate and the Attorney General to enforce the prohibition against impermissible use of foreign steel, establishes a civil penalty for violation of this prohibition, and declares an emergency.

HB 113 SEAT BELT USE (Damschroder) Am. & Rep. 2151 & 4513. Requires all passengers in an automobile to wear a seat belt and revises the amounts of and liability for seat belt violations.

HB 114 ESTATE TAXATION (Latta) Am., En. & Rep. 5709 & 5731. Phases out the basic estate tax by 2006 and thereafter retaining only the tax that picks up the maximum federal credit for state estate taxes.

HB 115 BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS (Willamowski) Am. 2329. Increases the amounts of certain property interests exempt from execution, garnishment, attachment, or sale to satisfy a judgment or order and exempt in bankruptcy proceedings, similarly exempts certain small life insurance policies, generally exempts listed property interests from the imposition of a judgment lien, creates a presumption relative to the purpose of a deposit of assets in certain retirement accounts, annuities, or plans, and clarifies the applicability of listed property interests in bankruptcy proceedings.

HB 116 JUROR POOLS (Willamowski) Am. & En. 2311. Relatives to the drawing of a jury from an adjoining county in connection with certain civil or criminal actions in the court of common pleas and to the compensation of those jurors.

HB 117 HANDICAPPED DEVICE EXEMPTION (Willamowski) Am. 5739. Exempts from the sales and use tax items used to assist handicapped persons in operating motor vehicles or to modify motor vehicles for the transportation of devices that aid human perambulation.

HB 118 PRIVATE PRISONS (Willamowski) Am., En. & Rep. 9, 307, 341, 753, 2929, 5120 & 5145. Eliminates the statutory authority for the private operation of state or local correctional facilities for Ohio prisoners, eliminates the provisions requiring the private operation of a Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections medium/minimum security prison, eliminates the provisions requiring the private operation of initial Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections intensive program prison for third and fourth degree felony OMVI offenders, and declares an emergency.

HB 119 SCHOOL PROPERTY TAX (D. Miller) Am. & En. 319, 323 & 5705. Permits school boards to levy, with voter approval, a property tax of up to five mills that would not be subject to existing limitations on revenue growth.

HB 120 GOVERNMENT PURCHASES (Raga) Am. & En. 9, 125, 307, 505 & 717. Permits the Department of Administrative Services and political subdivisions to purchase supplies or services through a competitive reverse auction process via the Internet and makes changes in the notice required when the Department purchases supplies or services by competitive selection.

HB 121 PHYSICAL THERAPY SERVICES (Williams) Am. 4755. Eliminates a provision prohibiting the practice of physical therapy other than pursuant to the prescription or referral of a physician, dentist, podiatrist, or chiropractor.

HB 122 VIADUCT NAMING (Distel) En. 5533. Names the viaduct spanning the Ashtabula River, located in the city of Ashtabula and Ashtabula Township, the "Reverend Dr. Sam Wells, Jr., Memorial Viaduct."

HB 123 MEMORIAL DAY EXPENSES (Distel) Am. 307. Increases to $500 the maximum amount of annual appropriation a veterans' organization may receive from a board of county commissioners for Memorial Day expenses and changes the application period for a grant of those moneys.

HB 124 ABSENTEE VOTING (Coates) Am. 3509. Allows any qualified elector to vote by absent voter's ballots.

HB 125 "TARTAN DAY" (Kearns) En. 5. Designates April 6 of each year "Tartan Day."

HB 126 ANTITRUST LAW ACTIONS (Seitz) Am. 1331. Provides a four-year statute of limitation on any civil or criminal action or proceeding under the Antitrust Law.

HB 127 PRISON/YOUTH DETENTION EDUCATION (Willamowski) En. 2151, 3333 & 5120. Prohibits the expenditure of public funds for the post-secondary education of any person who is serving a term of imprisonment or any person who is a delinquent child committed to the legal custody of the Department of Youth Services.

HB 128 PHYSICAL EXAM INSURANCE (Coates) En. 1751 & 3923. Requires certain policies, contracts, and agreements of health insuring corporations and sickness and accident insurers to provide benefits for the expenses of specified examinations, tests, and counseling associated with periodic physical examinations.

HB 129 COUNTY TAX BUDGET (Webster) Am. 5705. Permits a county budget commission to waive the requirement that a taxing authority adopt a tax budget for a subdivision or taxing unit.

HB 130 FIREARM SENTENCING (DePiero) Am. & En. 2151, 2929 & 2941. Requires a mandatory prison term or a commitment to the Department of Youth Services for discharging a firearm at a peace officer and maintains the provision of the act on and after Jan. 1, 2002.

HB 131 GRAPE INDUSTRIES (Redfern) Am. 924. Adds a member of the General Assembly to the Ohio Grape Industries Committee.

HB 132 DRUG COURT (Brinkman) Am. 2301. Creates an additional term for the drug court judge of the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas and amends the version of 2301.03 of the Revised Code that is scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, 2002.

HB 133 COCAINE DEFINITION (Patton) Am. 2925 & 2929. Eliminates the distinction between powdered cocaine and crack cocaine in the Drug Abuse Law and maintains provisions of the act on and after Jan. 1, 2002.

HB 134 CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURES (R. Miller) Am. 3517. Limits, in accordance with a population-based formula, the aggregate amount of campaign contributions that a campaign committee of a candidate for a state or county elective office can expend during an entire election cycle in connection with the nomination and election of the candidate.

HB 135 JURY POOLS (R. Miller) Am. 2313. Requires the annual jury list of each county to be made up of qualified driver licenses and registered voters.

HB 136 STATE HEALTH BENEFITS (R. Miller) Am. 124. Requires the state to include benefits for hearing examinations and hearing aids as part of the health coverage benefits offered to State of Ohio employees who are paid directly by warrant of the Auditor of State.

HB 137 MENTAL HEALTH JUDGE (R. Miller) Am. & En. 1901, 2921, 2935, 5119, 5122 & 5123. Requires the Franklin County Municipal Court to designate one of its judges as a Mental Health Court Judge for the purpose of hearing cases involving certain nonviolent misdemeanors committed by allegedly mentally ill or mentally retarded offenders and ordering mental health evaluations and treatments of those offenders.

HB 138 WORK SCHEDULES (Husted) Am. 4111. Affords to private sector employers the option to offer and to employees the option to accrue and use compensatory time off and affords both public and private employees and employers the option to institute biweekly work schedule programs.

HB 139 CHILD CARE WORKERS (Ford) Am. & En. 125, 3729 & 4757. Provides for the regulation of professional child and youth care workers and child and youth care assistants.

HB 140 VOTING HOURS (Rhine) Am. 1, 5, 124, 325, 511, 3313, 3319, 3501 & 3509. Designates the day of the general election in even-numbered years as a state holiday, generally requires polls to be open on the day of an election from 5:30 a.m. through 9 p.m., and allows any qualified elector to vote by absent voter's ballots.

HB 141 SALES TAX EXEMPTION (Willamowski) Am. 5739. Provides a nine-day period in August each year during which sales of clothing and footwear are exempt from the sales and use tax.

HB 142 HEALTH INSURANCE OVERPAYMENTS (Damschroder) En. 1753 & 3923. Requires health insuring corporations and sickness and accident insurers to provide a health care provider with written notice of an overpayment within one year or lose the right to make an adjustment or correction to the health care provider's account or to otherwise seek reimbursement for the overpayment.

HB 143 FIRE CHIEF RESIDENCY (Young) Am. & En. 9, 505, 733 & 737. Specifies that state law does not require a municipal corporation fire chief to be a resident or elector of the municipal corporation, does not require a township fire chief to be a resident of the township, and does not require a township fire district fire chief, joint fire district fire chief, or fire and ambulance district fire chief to be a resident of the township fire district, joint fire district, or fire and ambulance district.

HB 144 SMOKE DETECTOR EXEMPTION (Ogg) Am. & En. 5747. Grants a credit against the personal income tax for purchase of a smoke detector for a home.

HB 145 COUNTY RECORDERS (Setzer) En. 317. Requires county recorders to complete certain continuing education programs and provides that completion or failure to complete the programs does not affect their eligibility to hold the office of county recorder.

HB 146 SCHOOL TERRITORY TRANSFERS (Jones) Am. 3311. Revises the requirements under which school district boards of education or voters may request the State Board of Education to transfer territory to an adjoining school district.

HB 147 SCHOOL PURCHASING (Seaver) En. 3301. Requires the Department of Education to inform school district boards about the potential of regional councils of government for the purpose of joint purchase of goods and assists districts to form such councils.

HB 148 POLICE/FIRE TAX EXEMPTION (Reinhard) Am. & En. 5747. Allows a credit against the personal income tax for amounts paid by firefighters and auxiliary police officers for training programs, clothing, and equipment for fire fighting and law enforcement purposes.

HB 149 HIGHWAY NAMING (Redfern) En. 5533. Designates State Route 2, within Erie County only, as the "Jackie Mayer Miss American Highway."

HB 150 HEARING SCREENING (Schuring) Am. & En. 3701. Requires a hearing screening for each newborn born in a hospital.

HB 151 STRS BOARD (Manning) Am. 3307. Changes the composition of the State Teachers Retirement Board.

HB 152 RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT (Ford) Am. & En. 733 & 737. Prohibits a municipal corporation from requiring any police or fire officer or employee to reside within the municipal corporation.

HB 153 INCOME TAX INDEXING (Young) Am. & En. 5747. Indexes personal income tax rate brackets and credits to increases in the gross domestic product deflator.

HB 154 SUBSTITUTE TEACHER EDUCATION (Barnes) En. 3319. Provides state-funded grants for certification of substitute teachers in the subjects of math and science.

HB 155 SUBSTITUTE TEACHER TUITION (Barnes) En. 3319. Requires state universities to admit certain substitute teachers, free of tuition charge and for credit, to courses required for teaching mathematics or science courses or special education, if there are vacancies in the courses.

HB 156 CHILD RESTRAINT (Beatty) Am. 4511. Requires children younger than 13 years of age to be properly secured in a motor vehicle restraint system while being transported in a motor vehicle.

HB 157 PENSION BENEFITS (Schuring) Am. 145, 742, 3307, 3309 & 5505. Provides that the annual cost of living increase paid to retired members and beneficiaries of Ohio's state retirement systems will be three per cent.

HB 158 PERS LAW ENFORCEMENT BENEFIT (Schuring) Am. 145 & 3309. Permits Public Employees Retirement System members with at least 25 years of law enforcement service credit to retire with full benefits at age 48, includes transit and highway patrol police officers as law enforcement officers for PERS purposes, and increases the employee contribution rate for law enforcement service credit.

HB 159 SCHOOL FUNDING REVIEW (Flannery) Requires the Legislative Office of Education Oversight to review all bills proposing changes in the state school funding system introduced in the 124th General Assembly before March 23, 2001, and to issue, by May 1, 2001, a report that recommends which of the bills best satisfies the order of the Supreme Court of Ohio in DeRolphII and declares an emergency.

HB 160 SCHOOL FUNDING (Flannery) Am., En. & Rep. 319, 323, 3302, 3314, 3317, 3318, 3365 & 5715. Establishes a new method of funding elementary and secondary education, temporarily reduces to 20 mills the rate of school district taxation on real property for current expenses, establishes the common school trust fund in the state treasury from which the Department of Education must pay grants to school districts for enhancement of education programs and pay stipends to school districts that have developed innovative education programs, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish an academic performance improvement consultation team for academic emergency school districts that have not shown improvement within five preceding school years, expands the Emergency School Building Repair Program to include repair of buildings that are over fifty years old, permits school districts to apply certain capital improvement investments toward their future local shares of facilities, limits a school district's portion of a project under the Classroom Facilities Assistance Program to nine per cent of the district's tax valuation, eliminates the ten per cent and two and one-half per cent property tax rollbacks for all tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2002, and requires annual real property value updates.

HB 161 FIREWORKS LAW (Flowers) Am. & En. 3743. Reenacts amendments and enactments made to the Fireworks Law by Am.Sub.HB 215 of the 122nd General Assembly to protect the sections against a challenge that their amendment or enactment violated the one-subject rule and makes other changes in the Fireworks Law relating to fireworks incidents and their investigation.

HB 162 STUDENT TRUSTEES (Salerno) Am. 3335, 3337, 3339, 3341, 3343, 3344, 3345, 3352, 3356, 3359, 3360, 3361 & 3362. Gives students serving on college boards of trustees full voting power and entitles them to attend executive sessions of the board, unless a conflict of interest exists for the student trustee.

HB 163 ILLEGAL VIDEOTAPING (Salerno) Am. & En. 2913 & 2935. Prohibits unauthorized videotaping of movies in theaters, authorizes the detention under specified circumstances of a suspected violator of that prohibition, and includes a violation of the prohibition as a "theft offense."

HB 164 CHILD ENTICEMENT (Salerno) Am. 2905 & 2919. Modifies the penalties for criminal child enticement and provides examples of ways in which the offense is committed, authorizes a temporary protection order based on the rape of a family or household member, and refers to the rape of a family or household member in certain domestic violence-related provisions.

HB 165 ABUSE AWARENESS (Salerno) En. 5. Designates the month of April as "Ohio Child Abuse Awareness Month."

HB 166 SOLID WASTE PERMIT MORATORIUM (Metzger) Establishes a moratorium on the issuance of permits for new solid waste landfills until the Director of Environmental Protection implements the recommendations for changes to siting criteria for those facilities made by a Solid Waste Landfill Siting Criteria Legislative Task Force.

HB 167 TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES (Coates) Am. 303, 519 & 5501. Requires any telecommunications facilities for which the Department of Transportation provides a lease, easement or license to comply with local zoning regulations.

HB 168 PROPERTY TAX REDUCTIONS (Jerse) Am. 319. Requires property tax reduction factors to be adjusted to account for five years' worth of property value changes resulting from property tax complaints.

HB 169 CHILD SUPPORT CHECKS (Beatty) En. 3125. Prohibits the imposition of fees for cashing support checks by an entity under contract with the state to collect and disburse support and declares an emergency.

HB 170 INMATE HEALTH CARE (Schuring) Am. & En. 3924 & 5120. Relative to health care services provided to offenders who are in the custody or under the supervision of the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.

HB 171 MOTOR VEHICLE INSPECTION (Jolivette) Am. 3704. Exempts vehicles driven 1,000 miles or less per year from the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program.

HB 172 TECHNOLOGY TAX CREDIT (Calvert) Am. & En. 122, 5722 & 5747. Authorizes a corporation franchise or personal income tax credit for high technology companies that agree to hire new employees.

HB 173 TECHNOLOGY FUND (Calvert) Am. & En. 145, 168, 3307, 3309 & 4123. Creates the Ohio Technology fund, a venture capital investment fund to invest in high technology businesses with moneys provided by the Public Employees Retirement System, the State Teachers Retirement System, the School Employees Retirement System and the Bureau of Workers' Compensation and with moneys appropriated from the state's General Revenue Fund.

HB 174 TOWNSHIP ROADS (Raga) Am. 5573. Specifies that township road projects may include landscaping and beautification.

HB 175 FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS (White) Establishes the Task Force on Faith-Based Organizations and requires that it recommend the best means for the state to assist faith-based organizations in providing public services and in cooperating with public agencies in assisting those who receive public services.

HB 176 SPECIAL LICENSE PLATE (Setzer) En. 4501 & 4503. Creates a "Share the Road" license plate.

HB 177 LANDFILL ARBITRATION (Kearns) Am. 3734. Applies to private sanitary landfills certain arbitration procedures related to the siting or modification of landfills and changes the definition of "affected community" in the law related to those arbitration procedures.

HB 178 DISABILITY TRUSTS (Salerno) Am. 1339, 5111 & 5121. Relative to the creation of trusts to fund supplemental services for certain beneficiaries with physical or mental handicaps.

HB 179 FISHING TOURNAMENT (Young) En. 5. Recognizes the "Perch-Fishing Tournament" held during the annual Perch Fest in Lake County as Ohio's Best Perch Fishing Tournament and recognizes the winner of the tournament as Ohio's Best Perch Fishing Champion for that year.

HB 180 CHILD CONFINEMENT (Young) Am. 2151. Permits confinement of a child who is a danger or threat to others; generally requires the adjudicatory hearing for a confined child to be held within 15 days after the complaint is filed and to amend the versions of sections 2151.28 and 2151.31 of the Revised Code that are scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, 2002, to continue the provisions of this act on and after that effective date.

HB 181 PROFICIENCY TEST STIPEND (Buehrer) Makes an appropriation for the 12th Grade proficiency stipend.

HB 182 BMV COMMITTEE (Schuring) Creates the Citizens Advisory Committee within the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.

HB 183 PRESCRIPTION DRUG PROGRAM (Coates) Am. & En. 149 & 5112. Creates a prescription drug discount program for uninsured Ohio residents who are not eligible for government programs that provide prescription drug coverage and provides that the names of participants in the program are not a public record.

HB 184 TELEPHONE SOLICITATIONS (Flannery) Am. & En. 4719. Prohibits a telephone solicitor or salesperson from making an unsolicited telephone solicitation to a telephone number more than 30 days after the number appears on a no telephone solicitation registry to be developed, operated and maintained by the Attorney General and provides for enforcement by the Attorney General.

HB 185 CITIZENSHIP CURRICULUM (Flannery) En. 3301. Revises the model curriculum for citizenship to include coverage of the Irish Potato Famine.

HB 186 MACBRIDE PRINCIPLES (Flannery) En. 125 & 153. Requires firms that contract with the state to supply goods, render services, or construct public improvements, to implement the MacBride Principles of Fair Employment with respect to their business activities in Northern Ireland.

HB 187 FIREARM BACKGROUND CHECKS (Flannery) Am. & En. 109, 149, 2923, 2945, 5122 & 5123. Requires the Superintendent of the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation to establish a database of relevant information regarding certain mentally ill persons subject to hospitalization by court order and mentally retarded persons subject to institutionalization by court order for purposes of performing instant mental competence records checks of potential purchasers of firearms from federally licensed firearms dealers and establishes procedures for requesting and performing those mental competence records checks.

HB 188 PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS (Schaffer) Am. & En. 109 & 4749. Makes changes in the licensing requirements concerning private investigators and security guards and transfers the duties under these areas currently held by the Director of Commerce to the Superintendent of Real Estate and Professional Licensing.

HB 189 FALSE ACCUSATIONS (Lendrum) Am. 2921. Increases the penalty for making or causing a false report of child abuse or child neglect.

HB 190 MORTGAGE BROKERS (Salerno) Am. 1322 & 1345. Revises the laws governing mortgage brokers and loan officers.

HB 191 MUNICIPAL TAXES (Schaffer) En. 718. Requires municipal corporations with more than $100 million in annual income tax collections to pay a portion of a nonresident individual's municipal income tax liability to the township or municipal corporation where the individual resides.

HB 192 FIREARMS LAWSUITS (Callender) En. 2305. Provides a qualified immunity from civil liability and injunctive relief to members of the firearms industry that will be both prospective and retroactive in its application.

HB 193 HEAVY INDUSTRY LOANS (Oakar) En. 166. Creates the heavy industry loan fund to provide loans or loan guarantees to eligible projects that produce or refine basic material used in manufacturing and makes an appropriation.

HB 194 LAKE ERIE MINERALS (Redfern) Am. 1505. Bans the taking or removal of oil or natural gas from and under the bed of Lake Erie.

HB 195 TEACHER TAX EXEMPTION (Woodard) Am. 5747. Exempts from the personal income tax the salaries of public school teachers in the first five years of service.

HB 196 ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS (Husted) Am. 3313 & 3319. Permits school districts that establish certain alternative schools to contract with nonprofit or for profit entities to operate those schools, provides that teachers employed by those entities may be licensed in the same manner as employees of nontax-supported schools, and provides additional standards for alternative schools operated by nonprofit or for profit entities.

HB 197 DISABLED VETERANS (Redfern) Am. & En. 1501, 1533, 1541, 1547, 4503, 4507 & 5901. Allows a disabled veteran to receive a reduction in certain fees at a percentage equal to the disabled veteran's percentage of disability upon displaying the Ohio Disabled Veteran Identification Card and requires county veterans service commissions to issue Ohio Disabled Veteran Identification Cards.

HB 198 DELINQUENT PROPERTY TAXES (Peterson) Am. 319, 321, 323, 5719, 5721 & 5722. Requires delinquent property tax collections to be distributed among taxing districts in proportion to current tax rates, rather than the rates in effect while the taxes were outstanding.

HB 199 TELEPHONE SOLICITATIONS (Damschroder) Am. & En. 4719. Prohibits blocking the telephone number of a telephone solicitation, restricts the time of day during which unsolicited telephone solicitations may be made, prohibits the use of automated dialing equipment to make such unsolicited calls, provides that certain contracts pursuant to telephone solicitations are unenforceable unless reduced to writing and signed, prohibits a telephone solicitor or salesperson from making an unsolicited telephone solicitation to a telephone number more than 30 days after the number appears on a no telephone solicitation list to be developed, operated and maintained by the Attorney General, and provides for enforcement by the Attorney General.

HB 200 FARM MACHINERY (Calvert) Am. & En. 1353. Includes compact tractors as a type of farm machinery and construction equipment in the law governing the relationship between dealers and suppliers of farm machinery and construction equipment, prohibits a supplier of farm machinery and construction equipment, without good cause, from terminating, failing to renew or substantially altering the competitive circumstances of certain agreements that the supplier has entered into with a dealer of farm machinery and construction equipment, and requires a supplier to provide written notice to a dealer before terminating or not renewing such an agreement.

HB 201 CAMPAIGN FINANCE STATEMENTS (Womer Benjamin) Am. 3517. Changes the filing requirements for two-business-day campaign finance statements for candidates for the office of Chief Justice or Justice of the Supreme Court.

HB 202 SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP CREDITS (Gilb) Am., En. & Rep. 5733 & 5747. Allows nonrefundable credits against the corporation franchise tax and the personal income tax for amounts contributed to qualifying nonprofit organizations that provide tuition scholarships to low-income children and a nonrefundable credit against the personal income tax for a child's educational expenses.

HB 203 TEACHER DEGREE PAYMENT (Rhine) En. 3319. Reimburses 75% of the average cost per credit hour of obtaining a master's degree to certain teachers who have taught full time for at least eight years.

HB 204 STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS (Williams) Am. & En. 3302 & 3313. Establishes child-centered scholarship programs in school districts in a state of academic emergency.

HB 205 SCHOOL FINANCE (Williams) En. 3302. Exempts effective school districts from certain financial requirements.

HB 206 HIGHWAY NAMING (Krupinski) En. 5533. Designates the portion of State Route 7 and Rush Run Road in Jefferson County to the boundary of Jefferson and Belmont counties as the "Bill Mazeroski Highway."

HB 207 STATE COLOR (Jerse) En. 5. Adopts red as the official state color.

HB 208 SPOUSAL SUPPORT PAYMENTS (Raga) En. 3121. Gives courts authority to permit direct payment of spousal support in cases involving no minor children, instead of requirement payment through the Department of Job and Family Services.

HB 209 COUNTY AUDITS (Driehaus) Am. 117. Authorizes a county auditor to request the Auditor of State to conduct an audit of county programs or expenditures and requires the Auditor of State, upon receiving the request, either to conduct the audit or authorize the county auditor to do so.

HB 210 FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS (Schaffer) Am. 3717. Exempts pharmacies from the licensing requirement of the Retail Food Establishment Law.

HB 211 CHILD CUSTODY POWERS (Reidelbach) Am. & En. 3109 & 3313. Permits the execution of a power of attorney or caretaker authorization affidavit permitting certain persons with who a child resides authority over the care, custody, and control of the child including the ability to enroll the child in school in the district in which the person resides and to consent to medical care for the child.

HB 212 REINSURANCE AGREEMENTS (Wolpert) Am. 3901 & 3903. Permits assuming insurers, in the event of the insolvency of a ceding insurer, to make reinsurance payments directly to an insured or beneficiary when this is provided for in a reinsurance agreement and permits assuming insurers to introduce defenses in an insolvency proceeding that it deems to be available to the ceding insurer.

HB 213 NAZI REPARATIONS EXEMPTION (Trakas) Am. 5747. Exempts from the personal income tax amounts received as restitution or reparations by victims of Nazi persecution.

HB 214 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS (Willamowski) Am., En. & Rep. 4703. Revises the licensing program for landscape architects.

HB 215 PERS/LAW ENFORCEMENT (Willamowski) Am. 145. Includes municipal park rangers in the law enforcement division of the Public Employees Retirement System.

HB 216 ELECTRONIC MONITORING (Key) Am. & En. 3721. Allows a resident of a home or resident's sponsor to have electronic monitoring devices installed and used in the resident's room.

HB 217 MEDICAID SERVICES (Sullivan) En. 5111. Requires the Director of Job and Family Services to submit a state Medicaid plan amendment to the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services to implement the Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Act of 2000 and makes an appropriation.

HB 218 MORTGAGE TRANSACTIONS (R. Miller) Am. & En. 1349. Requires creditors to make certain disclosures to consumers prior to entering into high cost mortgage transactions; prohibits creditors, with respect to these transactions, from charging certain prepayment penalty fees, from including certain terms in the transaction, and from requiring consumers to pay certain fees or charges for refinancing the transaction; requires the Superintendent of Financial Institutions to administer the act; provides for the act's enforcement under the Consumer Sales Practices Law; and provides civil remedies and a criminal penalty for violations.

HB 219 UNCLAIMED FUNDS (Grendell) Am. & En. 169 & 321. Modifies the Unclaimed Funds Law by increasing the mandatory delay between a holder's mailing of notice to owners of unclaimed funds and the holder's reporting of such funds to the Director of Commerce, by requiring each holder to submit a copy of its annual unclaimed funds report to the county treasurer of the county in which the holder is located and the county treasurer of each county in which is located the last known address of an owner named in the report, and by requiring each county treasurer to create and maintain an unclaimed funds directory.

HB 220 ALCOHOL CONCENTRATION (Ford) Am. 2317. Requires a health care provider to supply the results of a test of a person's blood, breath or urine to specific officers if they indicate a prohibited blood, breath or urine alcohol concentration and if either the person operate a vehicle that was in an accident within the two hours preceding the test or the provider knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the person operated a motor vehicle within that two-hour period.

HB 221 PRESCRIPTION DRUGS (Schuring) Am. & En. 3701 & 5747. Establishes under the direction of the Director of Health a drug repository program for the collection and redistribution of prescription drugs that are in their original unopened packaging and grants a personal income tax credit for a portion of the value of drugs donated under the program.

HB 222 TAX LAWS (Schuring) Creates a committee to review the tax laws of Ohio and the reports commissioned to study or reform such laws and provides for the drafting of tax reform legislation.

HB 223 PARTITION FENCE LAW (Kearns) Rep. 971. Repeals the partition fence law.

HB 224 EMS STUDY COMMITTEE (Carmichael) Creates the Volunteer Firefighter, Emergency Medical Technician, and Paramedic Study Committee to study the status of volunteer firefighters, emergency medical technicians, and paramedics in Ohio.

HB 225 CONCEALED WEAPONS (Brinkman) Am. & Rep. 109, 1531, 1533, 1547 & 2923. Permits the carrying of concealed weapons and repeals the offenses of improperly handing firearms in a motor vehicle and improperly handling firearms in a watercraft.

HB 226 COUNTY INTERNET AUCTIONS (Collier) Am. 307. Authorizes boards of county commissioners to dispose of unneeded, obsolete, or unfit county personal property by Internet auction.

HB 227 CHILD TAX CREDIT (Britton) Am. & En. 5747. Grants an earned income tax credit to families with children, the refundable portion of which may be counted toward the state's required TANF expenditures.

HB 228 MORTGAGE LENDER FEES (Salerno) Am. 1321. Authorizes a mortgage lender to collect one over-the-limit charge per billing cycle, not exceeding $25, from a borrower when the borrower obtains advances of money that exceed the borrower's designated credit line.

HB 229 RETAIL INSTALLMENT CONTRACTS (Salerno) Am. 1317. Eliminates, in the purchase, assignment, or transfer of a retail installment contract the prohibition against a retail seller, receiving in excess of 2% of the principal balance on that contract, and eliminates related provisions.

HB 230 AEROSPACE ADVISORY COUNCIL (DeWine) Am. & En. 122. Creates the Ohio Aerospace Advisory Council.

HB 231 WETLAND PERMITS (Faber) En. 6111. Requires permits for and mitigation of impacts to isolated wetlands.

HB 232 EMISSION TESTING (Grendell) En. 3704. Prohibits motor vehicle emissions inspections from testing for nitrogen oxides emissions unless mandated by the U.S. EPA under federal law.

HB 233 ATTORNEY'S FEES (Womer Benjamin) Am. 2721. Excludes from the prohibition against awarding attorney's fees in declaratory relief claims the award of attorney's fees to a fiduciary, beneficiary, or other interested party to be paid out of trust or estate property in accordance with equitable principles.

HB 234SAME-SEX MARRIAGES (Seitz) Am. 3101. Specifically declares that same-sex marriages are against the strong public policy of the state, declares that the recognition or extension of the specific benefits of legal marriage to nonmarital relationships is against the public policy of the state, and makes other declarations regarding same-sex marriages.

HB 235 SCHOOL GUIDANCE COUNSELORS (Barrett) Am. 3317. Increases the number of full-time equivalent educational service personnel employed by school districts from five to six per 1000 students and requires that one of these full-time equivalent educational service persons be a high school guidance counselor.

HB 236 SCHOOL NURSES (Barrett) Am. 3317. Increases the number of full-time equivalent educational service personnel employed by school districts from five to six per 1000 students and requires that one of these full-time equivalent educational service persons be a school nurse.

HB 237 TOBACCO SALES (Patton) Am. 2927. Increases the penalty for the illegal distribution of cigarettes or other tobacco products to minors who had direct access to the cigarettes or other tobacco products from a self-service display at a retail establishment.

HB 238 MOTORCYCLE DISCRIMINATION (Patton) Am. & En. 4112. Prohibits the denial of access to public accommodations to persons because they operate motorcycles or wear clothing that displays the name of a motorcycle-related organization or association.

HB 239 PREVAILING WAGE/SCHOOL FACILITIES (Cirelli) Am. 4115. Makes school facilities construction subject to the Prevailing Wage Law.

HB 240 INCOME TAX DEDUCTIONS (Cirelli) Am. 718 & 5747. Allows a municipal income tax deduction for amounts paid by individuals in federal and state income taxes and a state income tax deduction for amounts paid by individuals in federal income taxes.

HB 241 PHOTO TRAFFIC CONTROL (Latta) Am. & En. 4501 & 4511. Establishes standards, procedures, and a non-criminal enforcement mechanism that apply when any municipal corporation, county, or township authorizes the installation of traffic control signal photo-monitoring devices at intersections.

HB 242 SIMULTANEOUS DEATH ACT (Salerno) Am., En. & Rep. 2105, 2106, 2107 & 2121. Enacts the Uniform Simultaneous Death Act.

HB 243 FEDERAL FUNDS ACCESS (Barnes) En. 103. Creates the Community Organizations Access Procedure Act for Unspent Federal Grants, allows counties and tax-exempt not-for-profit organizations, if consistent with federal law, to participate in federal grant programs intended for the state whenever a state agency cannot or decides it will not participate itself, and declares an emergency.

HB 244 OPFP REPORTS (Niehaus) Am. & En. 742. Modifies the penalties assessed against employers who fail to submit certain reports and information to the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund and reduces the amount of certain penalties currently owed by employers.

HB 245 VILLAGE OFFICES (Evans) En. 733. Permits the offices of village clerk and treasurer to be combined into an appointed office of village fiscal officer and permits the appointed office to be subsequently abolished and replaced by the elected office of village clerk-treasurer.

HB 246 CHILD LEAD POISONING (Schaffer) Am. & En. 3314. 3318 & 3742. With respect to the prevention of childhood lead poisoning and causes the advisory council created to expired Dec. 31, 2004.

HB 247 JUVENILE RECORDS (Core) Am. 2151, 2152 & 2951. Ensures that prior delinquent child adjudication and disposition records are available for use in preparing presentence investigation reports for persons convicted of a criminal offense.

HB 248 CHILD LEAD POISONING (Williams) Am. 3314, 3318, 3701 & 3742.With respect to the prevention of childhood lead poisoning and causes the advisory council created to expired Dec. 31, 2004.

HB 249 STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS (Trakas) Am. 3313. Modifies the monetary amount of a basic scholarship awarded by the pilot project scholarship program.

HB 250 COUNTY RECORDER RECORDS (Blasdel) Am. 317. Authorizes the county recorder to allow persons who request copies of documents from the recorder's office to make copies by using their own equipment under conditions that preserve the documents' security and integrity and the orderly administration of the recorder's office.

HB 251 TEACHER DEVELOPMENT (Woodard) En. 3319. Requires school districts to provide a total of six days of professional development for classroom teachers by 2004.

HB 252 PREVAILING WAGE LAW (Boccieri) Am. 125, 153, 3704 & 4115. Makes school facilities construction subject to the Prevailing Wage Law and prohibits a board of education of a school district or the governing board of an educational service center from awarding a contract for construction, repair, or other work on a public improvement that is supported in whole or in party by the state to a contractor that does not have a principal place of business in Ohio.

HB 253 PREGNANCY TESTS (Cirelli) En. 3701. Requires physicians to offer pregnant women the opportunity to have HIV testing and counseling.

HB 254 TELEPHONE SOLICITATIONS (Cirelli) Am. & En. 4719. Prohibits a telephone solicitor or salesperson from making an unsolicited telephone solicitation to a residential telephone number more than thirty days after the number appears on a do-not-call list to be developed, operated, and maintained by the Attorney General and provides for enforcement by the Attorney General.

HB 255 TORT ACTIONS (Young) Am. 2307. Expands the bar against the recovery of damages in tort actions commenced by criminal offenders.

HB 256 HIGHWAY NAMING (Perry) Am. 5533. Designates a portion of Interstate Route 75 within Lucas County as the "Korean War Veterans' Memorial Highway."

HB 257 VEHICLE INSURANCE (DeWine) Am. 3937. Revises the Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Coverages Law and declares an emergency.

HB 258 RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS (Flowers) Am. & En. 3 & 733. Prohibits certain political subdivisions from requiring their employees, and municipal corporations from requiring police or fire officers, to reside within any specific area of this state.

HB 259 SPECIAL PLATES (Salerno) En. 4503. Creates a special motorcycle license plate for retired and honorably discharged veterans.

HB 260 HIGHWAY NAMING (Rhine) En. 5533. Designates a portion of state route number four within Clark County as the "Heritage Parkway."

HB 261 SCHOOL LIBRARIANS (Fessler) En. 3313. Requires the board of education of each city, exempted village, and local school district to maintain a library in each school building under the board's control and ensure libraries are supervised by a licensed librarian.

HB 262 LEGISLATIVE OPEN MEETINGS (Flannery) Am. 101. Requires that meetings of working groups that include one or more General Assembly members be publicized and open to the public.

HB 263 WRONGFUL IMPRISONMENT (Sykes) Am. 2743. Increases the amount that a wrongfully imprisoned individual, in an action brought in the Court of Claims, is entitled to for each year of imprisonment.

HB 264 TOBACCO SETTLEMENT RIGHTS (Oakar) Am. 183. Requires that the state's right to receive tobacco settlement payments for the period from July 1, 2002, through June 30, 2012, be sold and that the proceeds be used for the purposes originally provided and to meet budgetary needs of the state.

HB 265 HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS (Kearns) 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 "consumer portability surcharge" for any service other than emergency service rendered by a nonparticipating provider and sets forth other requirements for closed panel plans.

HB 266 CANCER COVERAGE (Hollister) En. 1751, 3923 & 5111. Requires certain health care policies, contracts, agreements, and plans, as well as the state's Medicaid program, to provide benefits for prostate and colorectal examinations and laboratory tests for cancer.

HB 267 FIREFIGHTER IMMUNITY/BENEFITS (Flowers) Am. & En. 9, 124, 146, 3737 & 4765. Provides limited civil immunity for Ohio Fire Academy instructors, provides that the State Fire Marshal's Office is a fire department for purposes of allowing a qualified team from the Ohio Fire Academy to assist with local fire suppression and emergencies, provides for paid leave for service as a volunteer firefighter or emergency medical services worker, increases the benefits to survivors of volunteer firefighters, and statutorily authorizes the State Fire Commission's maintenance of the Ohio Fire Services Hall of Fame and the payment of associated recognition and commemoration expenses with state moneys.

HB 268 TOWNSHIP CIVIL SERVICE (Carano) Am. & En. 504. Permits a limited home rule township to adopt a civil service system other than that established in state law.

HB 269 ADULT OFFENDER COMPACT (Latta) Am., En. & Rep. 5149. Withdraws from the Interstate Compact for the Supervision of Parolees and Probationers and joins the Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervisions.

HB 270 ALCOHOL LEVEL (Damschroder) Am. 1547 & 4511. Reduces the prohibited concentrations of alcohol in a person's blood, breath or urine for purposes of the state OMVI law, implied consent law and watercraft law.

HB 271 COMMUNITY SERVICE (Stapleton) Am. 2947. Authorizes courts to impose periods of community service upon offenders who fail to pay judgments for court costs relating to the criminal action.

HB 272 COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE (G. Smith) Allows a real estate broker licensed in another state to transact business on commercial property in Ohio in cooperation with an Ohio licensed real estate broker and implements a three-year license and renewal system for real estate salespersons and brokers not later than January 1, 2005.

HB 273 HARMFUL INTOXICANTS (DePiero) Classifies Gamma Butyrolactone and 1.4 Butanediol as harmful intoxicants.

HB 274 CONCEALED WEAPONS (Aslanides) Authorizes county sheriffs to issue licenses to carry concealed handguns to certain persons and creates the offense of falsification of a concealed handgun license, falsification of a concealed handgun license and possessing a revoked or suspended concealed handgun license.

HB 275 HEALTH CARE DEPARTMENT (R. Miller) Am., En. & Rep. 101, 109, 119, 121, 127, 145, 169, 173, 329, 340, 742, 1339, 1751, 2113, 2151, 2305, 2744, 2913, 2921, 2933, 2945, 3107, 3111, 3307, 3309, 3313, 3323, 3599, 3701, 3702, 3712, 3721, 3722, 3727, 3729, 3793, 3923, 3924, 4123, 4723, 4731, 4753, 5101, 5107, 5111, 5112, 5115, 5117, 5119, 5121, 5123, 5126, 5505, 5725, 5729, 5747 & 5907. Transfers administration of the Medicaid Program, Hospital Care Assurance Program, and Children's Insurance Program Parts I and II from the Department of Job and Family Services to the Department of Health Care Administration and makes an appropriation.

HB 276 VISION SCREENING (R. Miller) Am. 3313. Requires vision screening for pupils in third, eighth, and tenth grades.

HB 277 BUY OHIO LAW (R. Miller) Am. 125, 307, 505 & 717. Alters the Buy Ohio Law to include services as well as products and requires state agencies other than the Department of Administrative Services to comply with the Buy Ohio Law insofar as is practicable.

HB 278 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE (Manning) Am. 1701. Permits the directors of Ohio corporations to make specific, limited changes to the articles of incorporation and requires a corporation to send written notice to its shareholders following any amendment of the articles of incorporation by the directors.

HB 279 RECORDABLE DOCUMENTS (Faber) Am. & Rep. 1337, 5301 & 5309. Eliminates the requirement that deeds, mortgages, land contracts, leases and memoranda of leases of real property, memoranda of trust, certain powers of attorney, and other recordable instruments and transactions pertaining to real property be signed and attested to in the presence of witnesses.

HB 280 MOBILE PHONE USAGE (Barrett) En. 4511. Prohibits any person from operating certain vehicles while engage in any activity that impairs the ability of the person to control fully the vehicle, prohibits any person from operating a moving vehicle and simultaneously using a mobile telephone that is not capable of being operated in a hands-free manner other than to report an emergency, prohibits without exception any person with a temporary instruction permit from operating a moving vehicle and simultaneously using a mobile telephone, and requires the State Highway Patrol to compile monthly data and statistics on motor vehicle accidents in which mobile telephone use was a material factor.

HB 281 MOBILE PHONE USE PENALTY (Barrett) Am. & En. 4511 & 5503. Requires a fine of two times the usual amount if a person commits a moving traffic violation while using a hand-held mobile telephone other than to report an emergency and requires the State Highway Patrol to compile monthly data and statistics on motor vehicle accidents in which mobile telephone use was a material factor.

HB 282 UNCLAIMED FUNDS (Olman) Am. 169. Modifies requirements on the frequency and type of notice by holders of unclaimed funds to owners and beneficiaries of the funds and requires that the holders make an additional attempt to notify an owner or other person entitled to the unclaimed funds valued at $1,000 or more.

HB 283 THEFT OFFENSES (Calvert) Am. 2913. Includes refusal to pay a hire or rental as prima-facie evidence of purpose to defraud in prosecutions for theft.

HB 284 RENEWABLE FUEL CREDIT (Faber) Am. & En. 122, 5733 & 5747. Allows nonrefundable credits against the corporate franchise and personal income tax for the production of renewable fuels.

HB 285 GASOLINE PRACTICES (Grendell) Creates the Gasoline Practices Oversight Commission for the period beginning December 31, 2002.

HB 286 RECREATIONAL USE LIABILITY (Distel) Am. 1533. Specifies that the operation of a snowmobile or all-purpose vehicle is a recreational activity subject to landowner's immunity from liability for a recreational user's injuries.

HB 287 ELECTRONIC CONTRACT ENFORCEMENT (Willamowski) En. 1306. Specifies provisions applicable to the enforcement of a computer information agreement where a party against whom enforcement is sought is an Ohio resident or has its principal place of business in Ohio, including provisions relating to choice of law and the location of any litigation, arbitration, or other dispute resolution process.

HB 288 DIETETIC TECHNICIANS (Jones) Am. & En. 1337, 2133, 2305, 2925, 3709, 4759 & 4769. Licenses dietetic technicians; adds to the Ohio Board of Dietetics a dietetic technician registered with the Commission on Dietetic Registration and an educator who prepares dietetic technicians to meet requirements for licensure; and extends the application of other laws relative to dietitians to dietetic technicians.

HB 289 SCHOOL CALAMITY DAYS (Blasdel) Permits payment in fiscal year 2002 to school districts that exceed the number of permitted "calamity" days in fiscal year 2001 as a result of closing schools to prevent the spread of meningococcal disease and declares an emergency.

HB 290 RX PROGRAM (D. Miller) En. 5110. Creates the Rx program.

HB 291 ZOO LICENSE PLATES (Damschroder) En. 4501 & 4503. Creates "Ohio Zoo" license plates.

HB 292 COUNTY DRAINAGE (Grendell) Am. 307. Permits counties to include in their building codes regulations to protect existing surface and subsurface drainage.

HB 293 OPTICAL DISPENSERS (Salerno) Am., En. & Rep. 4725. Makes changes to the law governing optical dispensing and ocularistry.

HB 294 ENTERPRISE ZONES (Metelsky) Am. 5709. Eliminates the requirement that expenditures to expand a facility in a proposed enterprise zone equal at least 10% of the market value of the facility.

HB 295 CONTINUATION BUDETS (White) Am. 126. Establishes a procedure by which the General Assembly would biennially make recommendations to the governor regarding the continuation of appropriations for certain agency programs.

HB 296 VOTER REGISTRATION (Flannery) Am. 109, 2901, 2921, 2935, 3313, 3503, 3735 & 4123. Requires voter registration application forms be provided to all applicants for housing assistance from a metropolitan housing authority, to all graduates of a public high school or vocational school or chartered nonpublic high school, and to all adult applicants for a public library card.

HB 297 GRADUATION RATE (Rhine) Am. 3302. Prevents inclusion in the school district graduation rate of students who are expelled because of committing a crime.

HB 298 POLICE & FIRE BENEFITS (Ford) Am. 742. Provides monthly pension benefits for remarried surviving spouses of former members of local police or firemen's pension funds established under former Chapter 741 of the Revised Code.

HB 299 REGISTRAR FEES (Carey) Am. 4507. Changes a scheduled deputy registrar fee increase relative to duplicate or replacement identification cards from $3.75 to $2.75 and declares an emergency.

HB 300 UTILITY METER READINGS (Seaver) En. 4905. Prohibits a natural gas company from providing for actual, company readings of customer meters less often that once every two months.

HB 301 ESTATE TAX INTEREST (Hoops) Am. 5731. Prohibits the charging of interest on recoupments of erroneously distributed estate tax revenue.

HB 302 CHILD CIGARETTE SALES (Key) Am. 2151. Prohibits a child from selling cigarettes, other tobacco products or papers used to roll cigarettes within the scope of a child's employment.

HB 303 FIREARM OWNERSHIP (Young) En. 9. Generally authorizes any person to own, possess, purchase, otherwise acquire, transport, carry, sell or otherwise transfer a firearm, a component of a firearm, or ammunition for a firearm.

HB 304 ENERGY USE TAX CREDIT (Hughes) Am. & En. 5747. Allows a nonrefundable credit against the personal income tax for the installation of energy-efficient devices in homes.

HB 305 EQUINE MARKETING (Core) Am. & En. 924. Enables certain persons associated with the equine industry to establish an equine marketing program.

HB 306 RETAIL FOOD LICENSING (Grendell) Am., En. & Rep. 3709, 3715, 3717, 4303. Exempts certain retail food establishments from the licensing requirement of the Retail Food Establishment Law, modifies requirements relative to wholesale food establishments, establishes new requirements for cottage food production operations and specified other food producers, and declares an emergency.

HB 307 DRIVER CHEMICAL TESTS (Ford) Am. 4511. Requires the operator of a vehicle to submit to a chemical test of the person's blood, breath or urine if the operator is stopped by a police officer who observes an opened alcoholic beverage container in the vehicle or is arrested for OMVI and either admits to consuming alcoholic beverages or is involved in an accident that results in death or serious physical harm to a person.

HB 308 POLICE PURSUIT (Beatty) Am. 2935. Relative to peace officer motor vehicle pursuit policies.

HB 309 IDENTITY THEFT (Hughes) Am. 2913. Revises the elements of taking the identity of another.

HB 310 TAX PREPARERS (Hughes) Am. 5747. Requires a box on personal income tax returns that a taxpayer may check to authorize a paid tax preparer to speak to the Department of Taxation about certain matters concerning the return.

HB 311 PROPERTY TAX RATES (Olman) Am. 133, 319, 345, 511, 513, 1545, 3317, 3318, 4582, 5705, 5713, 5715 & 5748. Makes the taxable value of real property equal to true value in money, reduces tax rates on real property accordingly to offset the increase in the taxable property base, and changes the way in which property tax rates are expressed.

HB 312 TELEPHONE SOLICITATIONS (Goodman) En. 4719. Prohibits a telephone solicitor from blocking by any means the disclosure of the telephone number from which a telephone solicitation is made.

HB 313 "TEACHER DAY" (Woodard) En. 5. Designates the first Wednesday of the first full week in May as "Teacher Appreciation Day."

HB 314 DIETETICS BOARD (Reidelbach) Am. & Rep. 101 & 4759. Eliminates the authority of the Ohio Board of dietetics to investigate and seek injunctions against persons not licensed by the Board and requires the Board to be reviewed by the Sunset Review Committee.

HB 315 SEX OFFENDER RESIDENCY (Seitz) Am. & En. 1923, 2950 & 5321. Prohibits a person convicted of sexually oriented offenses from residing within 500 feet of any school premises and permits landlords to evict from residential premises located within 500 feet of school premises any person discovered to be on the state registry of sexual offenders.

HB 316 "WALLEYE" LICENSE PLATE (Redfern) En. 4501 & 4503. Creates the "Walleye Capital of the World" license plates.

HB 317 RAILROAD QUIET ZONES (Kilbane) Am. 2744. Includes as a governmental function, for the purposes of the Political Subdivision Sovereign Immunity Law, the establishment, construction and maintenance of a railroad quiet zone for public roads rail crossings and amends Sec. 2744 scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, 2002, to continue the provisions of this act on and after that date.

HB 318 HEALTH CARE COVERAGE (Webster) En. 1751 & 3923. Requires certain health care policies, certificates, contracts, agreements and plans to provide benefits for polypeptide-based or amino-acid-based, formulas when prescribed to treat specified diseases and disorders.

HB 319 EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT (Webster) En. 5502. Establishes the Emergency Management Assistance Compact in law and enters into the compact with all other jurisdictions legally joining in it.

HB 320 WETLANDS (Faber) En. 3745 & 6111. Requires the issuance of dredge and fill permits for impacts to wetlands and other waters of the state and declares an emergency.

HB 321 STATE SEAL (Husted) Am. 5. Adds a representation of the Wright Brothers' first piloted airplane to the Coat of Arms and Great Seal of the State of Ohio.

HB 322 FUNERAL IMMUNITY (Wolpert) Am. 4511. Establishes civil immunity in connection with the movement of a funeral procession and allows the use of orange and white pennants on vehicles in a funeral procession.

HB 323 WORKERS COMP BENEFITS (Sykes) Am. 742 & 4123. Provides that a firefighter or emergency medical services worker who is disabled as a result of cancer or certain contagious or infectious diseases is presumed for purposes of the laws governing workers' compensation and the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund to have incurred the disease while performing official duties as a firefighter or emergency medical services worker.

HB 324 GRADUATION RATES (Womer Benjamin) En. 3302. Ensures that correct graduation rates are published on the state's report cards for schools and creates an appeals process to solve any disputes regarding state report card criteria.

HB 325 HEALTH INSURANCE (Trakas) En. 1751 & 3923. Expressly permits two or more health care providers to jointly negotiate with health insuring corporations and sickness and accident insurers over non-fee-related, and in certain circumstances, fee-related, provisions of provider contracts; authorizes enforcement of the act by the Superintendent of Insurance and the Attorney General and terminates the provisions of this act on the date that is three years after the effective date of this act.

HB 326 ORGAN DONOR LEAVE (Jolivette) Am. & En. 124. Grants state employees 30 days paid leave per year to serve as an organ donor and seven days paid leave per year to serve as a bone marrow donor.

HB 327 FELONY SENTENCING (Latta) Am. 181, 2925, 2929, 2951, 3719 & 5120. Clarifies certain provisions of the Felony Sentencing Law, corrects the penalty provisions for certain drug abuse offenses, clarifies the eligibility criteria for intervention in lieu of convictions, and extends until July 1, 2002 the date by which the State Criminal Sentencing Commission must recommend changes to the state's criminal forfeiture laws.

HB 328 TAX REFUND EXEMPTION (Young) En. 5747. Exempts from the personal income tax federal tax refunds and rebates.

HB 329 LOCAL GOVERNMENT FUNDS (Blasdel) Am. 5705 & 5747. Allows local government funds under certain circumstances to be distributed among subdivisions under an alternative apportionment scheme without the approval of the largest municipal corporation in the county.

HB 330 LIQUOR PERMITS (Peterson) Am. 4301. Allows the Division of Liquor Control to base the population quota restrictions for agency stores that sell spirituous liquor on the Division's behalf on state population estimates determined by the Department of Development between federal decennial censuses; changes these population quota restrictions and the compensation paid to operators of agency stores; allows the Division to enter into additional contracts for agency stores with certain class C permit holders notwithstanding these population quota or other restrictions and eliminates the restriction against the same person operating or have an interest in more than eight agency stores in the state or more than four agency stores in the same county.

HB 331 PENSION BENEFIT CREDIT (Krupinski) En. 5747. Allows a personal income tax deduction for certain retirees whose defined benefit pension plans have terminated.

HB 332 REAL ESTATE CONVEYANCE (Aslanides) Releases certain conditions and conveys the state's possibility of reverter with respect to the conveyance of real estate to the Board of County Commissioners of Muskingum County under Am. Sub. SB 136 of the 113th General Assembly.

HB 333 NURSE TUITION REIMBURSEMENT (Latell) En. 4723. Establishes a tuition reimbursement program for registered nurses.

HB 334 BOOSTER SEAT REQUIREMENTS (DeWine) Am. 4511. Requires children who are between four and eight years of age, weigh between forty and eighty pounds, or both, to be secured on booster seats when being transported in a motor vehicle, and requires children who are not required to be secured in child restraint systems or on booster seats to be secured in occupant restraining devices when being transported.

HB 335 HOME PARENTING FUND (Flannery) Am. 5747 & En. 3315 & 5747. Creates the parent-child home program fund for the establishment of home-based parenting and family literacy programs and creates a tax refund contribution system to provide money for the fund.

HB 336 BUS DRIVER UNEMPLOYMENT (Flannery) Am. 4141. Permits school bus drivers to receive unemployment compensation benefits between school years.

HB 337 ENGINEER/SURVEYOR LICENSING (Lendrum) Am., En. & Rep. 4703 & 4733. Makes changes to the engineer and surveyor licensing law.

HB 338 SOIL & WATER ASSESSMENTS (Core) Am. & Rep. 1515. Eliminates the authority for referendums on assessments levied for improvements under the soil and water conservation statutes and requires that property owners be notified of uniform assessments under those statutes by first class mail in lieu of notification by publication.

HB 339 ABORTION CONSENT (Seaver) En. 2919. Relative to requiring paternal consent before an abortion may be performed.

HB 340 LANDFILL PERMIT ELECTION (Widowfield) En. 3745. Requires a local election in certain circumstances before the Ohio EPA, the Hazardous Waster Facility Board, or a board of health may approve certain landfill or facility applications.

HB 341 TAX ABATEMENTS (Metelsky) Am. 5709. Requires that an enterprise zone tax abatement agreement contain a tax repayment clause for failure to comply with certain terms of the agreement.

HB 342 VEHICLE RECOVERY (Calvert) Am. 4503 & 4511. Requires a person whose motor vehicle is immobilized or forfeited as a result of a violation of certain motor vehicle laws to pay for any expenses or charges incurred as a result of the removal and storage of the vehicle.

HB 343 ARBITRATION ACT (Womer Benjamin) Am., En. & Rep. 1907, 2711 & 5525. Enacts the Uniform Arbitration Act.

HB 344 STEAM BOILER SAFETY (Calvert) Am. 4104. Eliminates an exemption from the Boilers Law for specified historical steam boilers and requires the Board of Building Standards to establish standards for operating historical steam-powered tractors and testing operators of those tractors.

HB 345 PROPERTY TRANSFERS (Womer Benjamin) Am. & En. 1339, 1340, 1547, 1548, 2106, 2109, 2113, 2131, 2117, 4503, 4505 & 4549. Relative to the valuation limit for the termination of small trusts; transfer on death of a motor vehicle, watercraft or outboard motor; reimbursement for payment of a decedent's debt; issuance of a certificate of transfer of real property; continuing a decedent's business after death and discretionary distributions by a fiduciary.

HB 346 DEATH SENTENCE (R. Miller) Am. 2929 & 2945. Prohibits the imposition of a sentence of death upon an offender who is determined pursuant to a specific procedure to be a mentally retarded person.

HB 347 UTILITY CRAMMING (Goodman) Am. & En. 1345, 4165 & 4905. Prohibits placing an unauthorized, misleading or deceptive charge for a good, service, franchise or intangible on a bill for utility service; provides for the enforcement of the act and modifies the statutory placement and enforcement of, and makes certain conforming changes to, the law prohibiting unauthorized switching of a consumer's gas or telecommunications service.

HB 348 VEHICLE SEIZURE (Wilson) Am. 4549. Modifies the guidelines governing seizure of a motor vehicle by a law enforcement officer when the identity of the vehicle cannot be determined and establishes limited civil liability if the law enforcement officer or agency fails to comply with specified guidelines.

HB 349 PARTNERSHIP LAWS (Goodman) Am. & En. 1775, 1745 & 1782. Modifies the Uniform Partnership Law relative to the accounting a partner must make to the partnership and mergers and consolidations involving a general partnership, and modifies the Limited Partnership Law relative to the standard of care owed a partnership by the general partners and self-dealing by a partner.

HB 350 TOWNSHIP ZONING (Grendell) Am. 519. Extends the purposes for which a board of township trustees may adopt zoning resolutions to include the purpose of promoting general welfare.

HB 351 BATTERED WOMAN SYNDROME (Woodard) Am. 2901 & 2945. Applies the "battered woman syndrome" to juvenile courts.

HB 352 ASSAULT OFFENSES (Fessler) Am. 2903. Enhances the penalty for assault when the victim of the offense is an educational assistant and declares and emergency.

HB 353 UNCLAIMED FUNDS REPORTS (Willamowski) Am. 169. Prohibits the Department of Commerce from requiring an unclaimed funds report if there are no unclaimed funds to report for that reporting period.

HB 354 FIREARM THEFT (Willamowski) Am. 2913 & 2929. Increases the penalty for theft of a firearm.

HB 355 INMATE COMMITMENTS (Willamowski) Am. 5120. Modifies the administrative procedures for inmate commitments to correctional institutions.

HB 356 PAROLE OFFICER VEHICLES (Willamowski) En. 5149. Prohibits employees of the Adult Parole Authority from using private vehicles during the course of their employment.

HB 357 INSURANCE BOND INTEREST (Willamowski) Am. 4509. Entitles the owner of money and bonds deposited with the Treasurer of State as proof of financial responsibility with respect to the operation of a motor vehicle to receive annually all income earned on the money and bonds deposited.

HB 358 SATELLITE RACING FACILITIES (Willamowski) Am. 3769. Alters the process by which a track seeking to establish a satellite facility gains approval for that facility and requires ten per cent of the profits of such a facility to be paid into the general revenue fund of the county in which the facility is located.

HB 359 ATTORNEY'S FEES (Willamowski) Am. & En. 3105. Relative to the award of attorney's fees and litigation expenses in domestic relations cases.

HB 360 ABORTION DRUG (Brinkman) Am. & En. 2919, 3719 & 4731. Regarding the provision or use of RU-486 (mifepristone) for an abortion.

HB 361 MEDICAL SAVINGS USE (Seitz) Am. 3924. Includes fitness club dues among the expenses that may be paid from a Medical Savings Account without Ohio income tax liability being incurred.

HB 362 ELECTROCUTION (Trakas) Am. 2949. Eliminates electrocution as an option for the execution of a death sentence, requires the use of lethal injection as the means of executing all death sentences, and declares an emergency.

HB 363 FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY LAW (Husted) Am. 4509. Increases the minimum coverage requirements of the Financial Responsibility Law.

HB 364 COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (Husted) Am. & En. 149, 3313, 3314, 3317, 3318, 3319, 3327 & 3365. Expands the sponsorship and area of the state in which community schools may be established, allows certain unlicensed teachers to teach in community schools, establishes the State Board of Community Schools, establishes the Community School Classroom Facilities Assistance Program, and makes other changes in the community school law.

HB 365 GOVERNMENT FISCAL WATCH (Setzer) Am. 118. Authorizes the Auditor of State to declare a fiscal watch when the projected fiscal year-end deficit of a municipal corporation, county, or township exceeds one-twelfth of its general fund revenue from the preceding fiscal year.

HB 366 COUNTY/TOWNSHIP ROADS (Core) Am. & En. 711 & 5552. Allows counties to regulate access to county and township roads and townships to regulate access to township roads and permits the local platting authority to require compliance with those regulations before a parcel of land is subdivided.

HB 367 AGRICULTURAL SECURITY AREAS (Core) Am. & En. 931, 5709, 5733 & 5747. Provides for the establishment of agricultural security areas, limits development within those areas, and provides certain tax exemptions and criteria for land within those areas.

HB 368 JUVENILE DETENTION COSTS (Sulzer) En. 2151. Authorizes juvenile courts to require reimbursement to counties for costs of confinement of children in places of juvenile detention.

HB 369 VETERAN VEHICLE FEES (Sulzer) En. 5903. Waives initial registration, certification, and licensing fees for veterans.

HB 370 FAMILY DAY-CARE (Hoops) Am. 5104. Codifies the statute governing the Type C Family Day-care Program.

HB 371 LIQUOR SALES (Trakas) Am. 1333, 1502, 3719, 4301, 4303, 4305, 4399, 5733 & 5739. Changes the definition of beer to explicitly include ale, porter, stout, sake, and other fermented beverages brewed or produced from malt or malt substitutes; exempts the sale of beer and intoxicating liquor from the effects of local option elections and allows Sunday liquor sales at these golf courses whether or not those sales have been approved at local option elections; forbids an employee or member of the immediate family of a wholesale distributor from having any financial interest in any retail dealer; creates the D-5k permit to be issued to certain nonprofit organizations that own or operate a botanical garden; makes changes in the Open Container Law and the law governing local option elections on beer and liquor sales at a specific premises; and makes other changes in the Liquor Control Law.

HB 372 MEDICAID SERVICES (Stapleton) En. 5111. Allows a Medicaid recipient eligible for home and community-based services and hospice services to receive the services concurrently.

HB 373 HIGHWAY PATROL RETIREMENT (Hughes) Am. & En. 145, 742, 3307, 3309 & 5505. Revises the law governing the State Highway Patrol Retirement System.

HB 374 THERAPIST LICENSING (Schmidt) Am. & En. 125, 2151, 2317 & 4757. Provides for the licensing of independent marriage and family therapists and marriage and family therapists.

HB 375 PROPERTY SALE (Trakas) Authorizes the sale of a residential lot in the City of Cleveland owned by the state and under the jurisdiction of Cleveland State University.

HB 376 TERRORIST AID (R. Miller) Distributes money from the Victims of Crime Compensation Program to the State of New York for the purpose of assisting victims of the World Trade Center terrorist attack and makes an appropriation.

HB 377 TRAFFIC FINES/ALCOHOL AWARENESS (Setzer) Am. 4511. Allows nonprofit alcohol awareness programs and agencies to utilize a percentage of fines imposed for certain violations to inform the public of the laws governing the operation of a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol and other related information.

HB 378 FAILURE TO DISPERSE (Womer Benjamin) Am. 2917. Increases the penalty for failure to disperse.

HB 379 LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES (Flannery) Am. 101. Requires that all committees of the General Assembly keep a complete transcript of their proceedings.

HB 380 LEGISLATIVE MEETINGS (Flannery) Am. 101. Requires that meetings of working groups that include one or more members of the General Assembly be publicized and open to the public and requires that all committees and working groups keep a complete transcript of their proceedings.

HB 381 LAND CONVEYANCE (Hughes) Authorizes, in accordance with the act, the conveyance of specified state-owned real estate located in the counties of Cuyahoga, Franklin, Hamilton, Lorain, Madison, Medina, and Ross and declares an emergency.

HB 382 DEATH PENALTY (Latta) Am. 2949. Requires that the execution of a sentence of death be by lethal injection if the execution of the sentence was to be by electrocution and that procedure is determined to be unconstitutional and provides a procedure for determining the manner of execution of a sentence of death if both electrocution and lethal injection are determined to be unconstitutional.

HB 383 SCHOOL SPEED ZONES (R. Miller) Am. 4511. Doubles the fine for a speeding violation that occurs in a school zone during restricted hours.

HB 384 SCHOOL HEALTH (Oakar) En. 3313. Requires public and nonpublic schools to have an employee trained in the performance of the Heimlich maneuver present during periods of food service to students.

HB 385 PUBLIC WORKS FUNDS (Blasdel) En. 126. Specifies that the release of appropriations to the Public Works Commission for purposes of certain projects involving natural resources and parks and recreation does not require the approval of the Controlling Board.

HB 386 FINANCIAL SERVICE REGULATION (Blasdel) En. 1. States the intent of the General Assembly on the relationship of state and local laws regarding the regulation of loans and other forms of credit.

HB 387 HOUSEHOLD WASTE DISPOSAL (Grendell) Am. 6111. Authorizes the issuance of a general discharge permit by the Ohio EPA for household sewage disposal systems, establishes the parameters of the general permit, and declares an emergency.

HB 388 HIGHWAY VANDALISM (Kearns) Am. & En. 2151, 2152, 2705, 4511 & 5579. Prohibits specifically the dropping or throwing of articles or objects from or upon any part of a lane, road, street, alley, bridge, or overpass and creates the Highway, Bridge, and Overpass Vandal Fence Fund and the Highway, Bridge, and Overpass Vandal Fence Task Force.

HB 389 NURSE AID DEDUCTION (Carey) Am. 5747. Authorizes a personal income tax deduction for certified nurse aides.

HB 390 PROPERTY TAX COMPLAINTS (Carey) Am. 4503 & 5715. Extends the time within which taxpayers may file complaints against manufactured home or real property taxes with the board of revision.

HB 391 RED CROSS FUND (Kilbane) En. 4501 & 4503. Creates the American Red Cross Fund to support the disaster services and other purposes of the American Red Cross and requires the Registrar of Motor Vehicles and deputy registrars to request contributions to the fund from applicants for motor vehicle registration and renewal.

HB 392 MILITARY PAY (Fedor) Am. & En. 145, 742, 3307, 3309, 5505 & 5923. Provides for the payment of specified compensation to certain public employees called to active duty for more than 31 days, requires public employers, under group policies, contracts, and plans, to continue the health benefit coverage of employees called to active duty, and declares an emergency.

HB 393 JUVENILE LAW (Latta) Am. 2151, 2152, 2950 & 5139. Revises the Juvenile Law and declares an emergency.

HB 394 MOMENT OF SILENCE (Damschroder) Am. 3313. Permits the board of education of a school district to provide for a period of silence each school day for reflection or meditation upon a moral, philosophical or patriotic them; prohibits boards of education, schools or employees of the school district from requiring a pupil to participate in such a period of silence and prohibits the board of education of a school district from adopting certain policies pertaining to religion or religious expression.

HB 395 CITIZENS' REWARD PROGRAMS (Hughes) Am. & En. 9. Provides testimonial privilege to persons who provide information to citizens' reward programs, permits county commissions to enter into an agreement of affiliation with a citizen's reward program, and requires the imposition of one dollar in additional court costs to assist in the funding of affiliated citizen's reward programs.

HB 396 TAX CLAIM COMPROMISES (Latta) Am., En. & Rep. 131, 5703, 5727, 5733 & 5747. Relative to the attorney general's authority to compromise claims for taxes and other amounts due the state.

HB 397 COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT AID (Boccieri) Am. 126. Requires that each district of the state receive its proportional share of community improvement projects.

HB 398 NURSE INCOME EXEMPTION (Boccieri) Am. 5747. Exempts from the personal income tax the salaries of certain nurses in the first five years of employment.

HB 399 MILITARY PAY EXEMPTION (Evans) Am. 5747. Exempts from Ohio income taxation the military pay and allowances of Armed Forces reservists and National Guard members on active duty status regardless of whether they serve in an officially declared combat zone or area of hostilities.

HB 400 DELINQUENT CHILDREN (Faber) Am. 2151 & 2152. Specifically permits the confinement of adjudicated delinquent children in a juvenile detention facility and the confinement of a person under a disposition imposed for a delinquent child or juvenile traffic offender disposition, after the person attains 18 years of age, in a facility other than one for juveniles.

HB 401 LIABILITY SELF-INSURANCE (Hagan) Am. 4740. Establishes, under specified circumstances, self-insurance as a means for members of religious organizations to satisfy liability insurance requirements for certain contractors' licenses.

HB 402 SCHOOL CERTIFICATES (Collier) Am. & Rep. 3331 & 4109. Requires the electronic filing of age and schooling certificates and, for nonpublic schools, requires the chief administrative officer of a nonpublic school to issue age and schooling certificates instead of the superintendent of the school district, and makes other changes relative to age and schooling certificates.

HB 403 UNIFORM BUILDING CODE (Kilbane) Am. & En. 3703 & 3781. Establishes a statewide uniform building code and two advisory committees to assist the Board of Building Standards in developing and interpreting the Ohio building code.

HB 404 PERS ELIGIBILITY (Faber) Am. 145. Includes certain county and independent agricultural society employees in the Public Employees Retirement System.

HB 405 MR/DD FORMULA (Peterson) Am. 511, 5123, 5126 & 5705. Regarding services for persons with mental retardation or other developmental disabilities, revises the law governing membership of county boards of MR/DD, and declares an emergency.

HB 406 STATE DOCUMENTS (Reidelbach) Am. 101, 111 & 149. Authorizes Secretary of State to distribute certain documents in an electronic format subject to certain conditions.

HB 407 DRIVER EDUCATION (Buehrer) Am. 3301 & 4508. Requires certain driver education course to include thirty minutes of instruction relating to anatomical gifts and anatomical gift procedures.

HB 408 TELECOMMUNICATION TOWERS (Fessler) Am. 303 & 519. Extends county and township zoning authority for telecommunications towers in areas that are not specifically zoned for residential use but in which residential use is permitted.

HB 409 MEMORIAL HIGHWAY (Fessler) En. 5533. Designates State Route 571, within Miami County only, the "Robert E. Netzley Highway" and requires the Director of Transportation to erect markers along the highway indicating its name.

HB 410 TOWNSHIP EXPENDITURES (Wolpert) En. 505. Permits a township to appropriate general fund moneys to certain municipal corporations for specific public purposes.

HB 411 WEAPONS OFFENSES (White) Am. 2917. Increases the penalties for the offenses of inducing panic and making false alarms if the act that is the basis of the particular offense pertains to a purported, threatened, or actual use of a weapon of mass destruction.

HB 412 NURSING CARE LIABILITY (Seitz) Am. & En. 2305, 2315, 2711, 3721 & 5111. Relative to the results of a home inspection or nursing facility survey, liability of a residential care facility or a home for employee actions, liability of a residential care facility or a home for punitive damages, and expansion of the definition of "medical claim" in the state of limitations.

HB 413 PUBLIC RECORDS EXEMPTION (Fessler) Am. 149. Exempts from the Public Records Law specified residential and familial information of a member of a fire department.

HB 414 NUCLEAR ENERGY STUDY (Britton) Creates the Nuclear Energy Study Committee as a joint legislative study committee to report to the Governor and General Assembly regarding any expanded role for nuclear energy in meeting the future energy needs of Ohio.

HB 415 COSMETOLOGY (Hollister) Am. 2925, 4709 & 4713. Revises the law governing the State Board of Cosmetology and the professions and facilities that the Board regulates.

HB 416 CHURCH PROPERTY EXEMPTION (Trakas) Am. 5709. Provides property tax exemptions for church-owned dwellings inhabited by retired clergy or members of a religious order.

HB 417 HEALTH CARE SANCTIONS (Schuring) Am. & En. 3702. Relative to sanctions for a health care facility's violations of licensing requirements and quality standards, injunctions to enjoin such violations, informed consent compliance requirements for ambulatory surgical facility physicians, and expanded health care facility rule making authority of the Director of Health.

HB 418 ALTERNATIVE TELEPHONE REGULATION (Schuring) En. 4947. Denies alternative regulation to a telephone company, and provides for traditional regulation of a telephone company already operating under alternative regulation, if the Public Utilities Commission determines that the company is not in compliance with minimum standards of telephone service prescribed by the Commission pursuant to existing authority.

HB 419 ELECTRIC UTILITY COMPETITION (Niehaus) En. 4928. Authorizes the competitive installation and operation and maintenance of electric delivery lines.

HB 420 ETHANOL INCENTIVES (Faber) Am. & En. 901, 3706, 5733 & 5747. Creates the Ethanol Incentive Board, creates a tax credit against corporation franchise or income tax liability for investments in ethanol plants whose business plans have been approved by the Board, and provides that ethanol plants are air quality facilities eligible for Ohio Air Quality Development Authority financing.

HB 421 FUNERAL INSURANCE (G. Smith) Am. 3905. Relative to insurance policies that are issued, sold, or assigned for the purpose of purchasing funeral or burial goods or services.

HB 422 EXECUTION SALES (Flowers) Am. & Rep. 311, 1523, 2105, 2323, 2329, 4969 & 5305. Relative to the appraisal of real estate being sold at a judicial or execution sale.

HB 423 ZONING REGULATIONS (Flowers) En. 303 & 519. Limits the ability of counties and townships to adopt, implement, or enforce zoning regulations in a manner that imposes a substantial burden on the exercise of religion.

HB 424 CHILD CARE (Raga) Am. 5103. Grants the Director of Job and Family Services authority to seek injunctive relief to enjoin the operation of a facility that cares for children without a certificate and increases the penalty for violations.

HB 425 GASOLINE BLENDS (Reinhard) En. 3704. Prohibits the sale of gasoline blended with methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE).

HB 426 EMINENT DOMAIN (Young) Am. 163. Requires acquiring state agencies to make every reasonable effort to provide a copy of the appraisal to the owner of real property appraised at more than $10,000, requires those agencies to update or obtain new appraisals under certain circumstances, and specifies that their acquisition of property must be for a clearly defined public purposes that is to be achieved in a defined and reasonable period of time.

HB 427 DNA SPECIMENS (Womer Benjamin) Am. 2151, 2152, 2743 & 2901. Expands the offenses for which DNA specimens are collected from delinquent children and criminal offenders and pays the costs of DNA specimen collection from the Reparations Fund.

HB 428 INDUSTRIAL COMPLIANCE (Widowfield) Am., En. & Rep. 121, 3713, 4104, 4105 & 4739. Modifies the laws administered and enforced b y the Division of Industrial Compliance governing elevators, boilers, bedding and stuffed toys.

HB 429 PHARMACY MEDICAID REIMBURSEMENT (Schneider) En. 5111. Relative to the Medicaid reimbursement rate for pharmacy services provided to nursing home residents in state fiscal years 2003 and 2004.

HB 430 EMA FUNDING (Fessler) Creates a grant program for fiscal years 2002 and 2003 that is to be administered by the Ohio Emergency Management Agency and that is to provide funds for certain purposes to countywide and county emergency management agencies and regional authorities for emergency management and makes an appropriation.

HB 431 CHARITABLE TAX EXEMPTION (Seitz) Am. 5747. Allows a deduction from the personal income tax for the value of real property interests donated to the state, political subdivision, or tax-exemption organizations.

HB 432 CONTRACEPTIVE DRUG INSURANCE (Coates) En. 1751 & 3923. Requires certain sickness and accident insurance policies, public employee benefit plans, and health insurance corporation policies, contracts, and agreements to provide coverage for prescription contraceptive drugs and devices and any outpatient services directly related to such drugs or devices.

HB 433 SEXUAL OFFENDERS (Manning) Am. 2950. Continues the effects and modifies Ohio's adult offender SORN law to comply with federal law and declares an emergency.

HB 434 DEFENSE LICENSE PLATE (Stapleton) En. 4503. Creates "National Defense" license plates.

HB 435 TELECOMMUNICATIONS TOWERS (Schuring) Am. & En. 303, 519 & 4905. Authorizes a county or township zoning authority to prohibit or otherwise regulate any telecommunications tower located within 1,000 feet of a residential structure in a residentially zoned area under its jurisdiction, with an exception made for certain attached towers to encourage reasonable collocation and requires the Public Utilities Commission to exercise its regulatory authority so as to encourage the reasonable collocation of any telecommunications tower proposed for any residentially zone area.

HB 436 DIABETES TRUST (Jerse) En. 3701, 4506 & 4507. Establishes the Juvenile Diabetes Research Trust Fund and permits persons to donate one dollar to the fund at the time of acquiring an initial driver's license or the renewal of a license.

HB 437 ENERGY RESOURCES (Schuring) Am. & En. 1509, 4905 & 4929. Addresses matters related to state energy resources, by prohibiting natural gas meters from being read less often than once a month from November through March, requiring performance bonds of retail natural gas suppliers and requiring that the bonds be sufficient to cover the difference between contract rates and the rates of default providers, requiring that the Public Utilities Commission prescribe natural gas storage requirements for default providers during periods of peak demand, creating a joint legislative study committee to examine state energy policy and submit a report to the governor and the Division of Mineral Resources Management to specify minimum distances between oil and gas wells and rivers and other bodies of water.

HB 438 STUDENT TRUSTEES (Britton) Am. & En. 3345, 3354, 3357 & 3358. Appoints two student members to the boards of trustees of state community college districts, community college districts, and technical college districts and gives student trustees full voting power on the boards except when a conflict of interest exists for a student trustee.

HB 439 ANIMAL CRUELTY (Lendrum) Am. 959. Increases the penalty for violation of the animal cruelty statute.

HB 440 VEHICULAR OFFENSES (DePiero) Am. 2903 & 4507. Modifies the offenses of aggravated vehicular homicide and aggravated vehicular assault.

HB 441 HIV/AIDS PREVENTION (S. Smith) Am. & En. 3701. Creates the Minority HIV and AIDS Task Force, requires the Department of Health to develop and implement a statewide HIV and AIDS prevention campaign directed toward at risk members of minority groups, and makes an appropriation.

HB 442 SCHOOLS & FIREARMS (Schuring) Am. 2923. Prohibits, in specified circumstances, the discharge of a firearm within 1,000 feet of any school building or of the boundaries of any school premises.

HB 443 STATE GRANT PROCEDURES (Schuring) En. 125. Requires state agencies that award certain grants to enter into contracts with the recipients that contain specific information, requires a recipient to report information on the use of a grant to the awarding agency, and requires an awarding agency to randomly audit grant recipients.

HB 444 PAWNBROKERS/PRECIOUS METALS (Manning) Am. 715, 4727 & 4728. Makes changes in the laws that regulate pawnbrokers and precious metal dealers.

HB 445 BALLOT ISSUE ARGUMENTS (Kearns) Am. 3505 & 3519. Requires the Ohio Ballot Board or a group of persons designated by the Board to prepare and file arguments in support of or in opposition to each constitutional amendment proposed by the General Assembly, each constitutional amendment or law proposed by an initiative petition, and each law, section, or item of law subject to a referendum petition, if the persons designated to prepare those arguments fail to timely prepare and file them; specifies that the positions of the four appointed Board members must be considered vacant if the Board fails to have the missing arguments prepared and filed; and requires the Board to certify ballot language and explanations to the Secretary of State at least 80 days prior to an election.

HB 446 STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION (Seitz) Am., En. & Rep. 3301 & 3513. Changes the voting membership of the State Board of Education to consist of a member from each of several electoral districts with boundaries coinciding with the state's Congressional districts and a president to be appointed by the Governor if there is an even number of such electoral districts and provides for a fixed term of appointment for the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

HB 447 ANIMAL OFFENSES (Sferra) Am. & Rep. 959. Increases the penalties for certain offenses against animals.

HB 448 MILITARY PERSONNEL TAX PAYMENTS (Cirelli) Extends the time within which members of the National Guard and reserve components of the Armed Forces of the United States who have been called to active or other duty under Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Noble Eagle, or the Governor's directive of September 28, 2001, must pay real property and manufactured home taxes and declares an emergency.

HB 449 PARK COMMISSION EMINENT DOMAIN (Lendrum) Am. 511, 755 & 1545. Eliminates the right of appointed boards of park commissioners of metropolitan park districts, municipal corporations, and township park districts to acquire, through an exercise of eminent domain, land for park use.

HB 450 EQUAL PAY STUDY (Sykes) Am. 4111. Creates the Equal Pay Study Committee and enhances penalties for violations of the equal pay law.

HB 451 SPECIAL LICENSE PLATE (Fessler) En. 4501 & 4503. Creates an "Ohio Lions" license plate.

HB 452 ELECTRONIC SECURITY (Trakas) Am. 4749. Creates the Commission on Electronic Security System Regulation in the Department of Commerce; licenses electronic security system companies and their employees who perform electronic security system services and certifies electronic security system training programs and their instructors.

HB 453 HOME MEDICAL EQUIPMENT (Collier) Am. & En. 4745, 4752 & 4761. Requires licensure of home medical equipment services providers by the Ohio Respiratory Care Board.

HB 454 LOCAL GOVERNMENT SPENDING (Coates) Am. 5705. Raises the threshold amount below which the fiscal officer of a political subdivisions can approve expenditures made without a certificate of available funds.

HB 455 AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY MARKETING (Aslanides) Am. 924. Revises certain provisions of the law governing agricultural commodity marketing programs.

HB 456 SCHOOL MOTTO DISPLAYS (Faber) Am. & En. 3313 & 3314. Requires school districts and community schools to display the mottoes of the United States of America and the State of Ohio in each school building.

HB 457 HOME MEDICAL EQUIPMENT TAX (G. Smith) Am. 5739. Exempts from the sales and use tax home medical equipment and supplies sold to an individual and paid for by a federal or state program.

HB 458 CONSTRUCTION INSURANCE (Williams) Am. 9. Modifies standards for determining financial responsibility in the awarding of construction contracts to the lowest and most responsible bidder and makes certain financial information confidential.

HB 459 WASTE COMMISSION (Schuring) Creates the Solid Waste and Construction and Demolition Debris Commission for the purpose of evaluating various aspects of the solid waste and construction and demolition debris laws.

HB 460 INSIDIOUS WEAPONS (Cirelli) Am. & En. 1531, 1533 & 2923. Prohibits using or dealing in insidious weapons.

HB 461 SCHOOL CURRICULUM (Fessler) Am. 3313. Requires one unit of American history and government and two units of social studies for graduation from high school and requires the study of specified historical documents be included in the high school American history curriculum.

HB 462 CONGRESSIONAL PRIMARY (Cates) Changes the date of the 2002 primary election for nomination for the office of member of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States and for election as a member of the state central committee of a political party to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in August; permits boards of elections to chance precinct boundaries for that primary if necessitated by impending changes in Congressional districts; specifies that any person elected to a county central committee in the May 2002 primary election need not be a resident of the precinct from which the person is elected if its boundaries are affected by those impending changes; makes an appropriation and declares an emergency.

HB 463 TAX PAYMENT EXTENSION (Trakas) Extends the time within which members of the National Guard and reserve components of the Armed Forces of the United States who have been called to active or other duty under Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Noble Eagle, or the Governor's directive of Sept. 28, 2001, must pay real property and manufactured home taxes.

HB 464 COURT CONTRACTS (Willamowski) Am. 2303 & 2335. Relative to the terms of a contract entered into by a clerk of a court with a public agency or private vendor for the collections of amounts due under judgments for costs.

HB 465 DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES (Willamowski) Am. 4165. Makes the performance of a service for compensation without a required license, certificate, permit, or registration a deceptive trade practice and creates a civil cause of action for injunctive relief and damages under the Deceptive Trade Practices Law against a person who performs a service without a required license, certificate, permit, or registration.

HB 466 AIR QUALITY TAX CREDIT (Raga) Am. & En. 3706, 4906 & 5733. Allows a tax credit against the corporation franchise tax for air quality equipment expenditures and expands the authority of the Ohio Air Quality Development Authority to issue bonds or make loans or grants for air quality facilities.

HB 467 CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS (DePiero) En. & Rep. 3521. Establishes Congressional district boundaries for the state based on the 2000 decennial census of Ohio and declares an emergency.

HB 468 PUBLIC RECORD EXEMPTION (Trakas) Am. & En. 149 & 3781. Exempts private single-family dwelling architectural plans in the possession of a public agency from disclosure as a public record with exceptions.

HB 469 PUBLIC INDECENCY (Roman) Am., En. & Rep. 503, 2505, 2506, 2907 & 3768. Modifies Ohio's public indecency law; generally regulates adult entertainment establishments; permits townships to regulation the location and operation of those establishments; creates an expedited appeal from orders, adjudications, or decisions denying an application for, or suspending or revoking, a license or permit to locate or operate such an establishment; and creates an expedited appeal in any case in which a court determines there is a threat of restrain of protected expression.

HB 470 REAL PROPERTY INSTRUMENTS (Faber) Am. 147 & 5302. Modifies the statutory forms of certain real property instruments and declares an emergency.

HB 471 CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS (Cates) En. & Rep. 3521. Establishes Congressional district boundaries for the state based on the 2000 decennial census of Ohio and declares an emergency.

HB 472 TOWNSHIP LIGHTING CONTRACTS (Schmidt) Am. 515. Exempts lighting contracts awarded to public utilities by a board of township trustees from a ten-year limitation, exempts those contracts from competitive bidding requirements, and allows those contracts to be continually renewed.

HB 473 LAND CONVEYANCE (Carey) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate located in Jackson County to the Jackson County Board of Education, and declares an emergency.

HB 474 ASSISTED SUICIDE (Kearns) Am. & En. 3795, 4723, 4730, 4731 & 4761. Declares that assisted suicide is against the public policy of the state and creates the Compassionate Care Task Force to study and make recommendations on treatment of intractable pain.

HB 475 DANGEROUS DRUG DATABASE (Raga) Am., En., & Rep. 4729. Requires the State Board of Pharmacy to establish and maintain a dangerous drug database to monitor the use, misuse and diversion of dangerous drugs.

HB 476 HOUSING AUTHORITIES (Williams) Am. & En. 3735. Permits a metropolitan housing authority to appoint, in specified situations in districts with a population of less than one million, a sixth member who is a resident of housing owed or operated by the authority or is a Section 8 housing recipient.

HB 477 MIDWIFERY BOARD (Fessler) En. 3779. Establishes the Midwifery Board.

HB 478 GRADUATION CEREMONIES (Fessler) En. 3313. Prohibits school districts from not permitting students who complete all requirements for a diploma prior to the end of their senior hear in high school to participate in end-of-year graduation ceremonies

HB 479 WATER POLLUTION LAW (Core) En. 6111. Establishes requirements for the use of credible data in administering the Water Pollution Control Law.

HB 480 ANIMAL CRUELTY (Grendell) Am. & En. 109, 959, 1717 & 2151. Prohibits specified acts with respect to a companion animal; establishes a procedure for the care of an impounded companion animal during the pendency of charges against a person who violates the prohibition; requires training for humane agents; increases the penalty for committing certain offenses against animals if the commission of the offense also involves criminal trespass and establishes requirements concerning the reporting by certain authorities or abuse or neglect of animals or children.

HB 481 EVOLUTION (Reidelbach) En. 3313. Requires that whenever an explanation for the origins of life and its diversity is included in the instructional program of a school district or educational service center the instructional program shall encourage the presentation of scientific evidence and objectively and disclose the historical nature of origins of life science and any material assumptions on which the explanation is based.

HB 482 ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT (Buehrer) Am. & En. 1306. Adopts the "Electronic Government Services Act" to prohibit a government agency from providing duplicative or competing electronic commerce services with the private sector unless the government agency complies with procedures established by the act.

HB 483 SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES (Seaver) En. 4501 & 4503. Creates 4-H license plates and the 4-H License Plate Fund and provides that money in the fund be used to pay for the educational activities of the 4-H Youth Development Program of the Ohio State University Extension Service.

HB 484 SCIENCE CURRICULUM STANDARDS (Reidelbach) Provides that before the science curriculum standards that are to be adopted by the State Board of Education prior to December 31, 2002, may be effective, those standards must be approved by a concurrent resolution passed by both houses of the General Assembly.

HB 485 CHILD RAPE (Widowfield) Am. 2907. Eliminates the requirement of force or a threat of force for a sentence of life imprisonment for the rape of a child who is less than ten years of age and declares an emergency.

HB 486 INTANGIBLES DEALER TAX (Kilbane) Am. 5725. Exempts S corporations and unincorporated persons from the tax on dealers in intangibles.

HB 487 FARM BUS INSPECTIONS (Hagan) Am. 4513. Exempts farm buses from the bus safety inspection provisions.

HB 488 PEER REVIEW COMMITTEES (Aslanides) Am. & En. 109, 1751, 2305, 3701, 4715, 4723, 4730, 4731, 4734, 4760 & 4762. Modifies the law regarding peer review committees.

HB 489 CIVIL RIGHTS LAW (Reidelbach) Am. & En. 4112. Excludes employees from personal liability and creates a uniform statute of limitations for purposes of filing a civil action under the Ohio Civil Rights Law.

HB 490 MISDEMEANOR SENTENCING (Latta) Am., En. & Rep. 1, 109, 120, 149, 306, 307, 311, 321, 341, 505, 509, 511, 737, 753, 1501, 1503, 1517, 1702, 1713, 1905, 2101, 2152, 2301, 2305, 2313, 2903, 2905, 2907, 2919, 2923, 2925, 2929, 2935, 2937, 2945, 2947, 2949, 2950, 2951, 2953, 2961, 2963, 2967, 2969, 3313, 3321, 3345, 3719, 3734, 3735, 3748, 3793, 3937, 3959, 4507, 4511, 4517, 4734, 4761, 4973, 5101, 5119, 5120, 5122, 5123, 5145, 5147, 5149, 5321, 5502, 5743, 5907 & 6101. Implements recommendations of the Criminal Sentencing Commission pertaining to misdemeanor sentencing generally and makes other changes in the criminal law.

HB 491 ORIENT PRISON EMPLOYEES (Sulzer) Requires state agencies to fill vacant job positions by giving preferential treatment in hiring to former or present Orient Correctional Institution employees who are or may be laid off because of the closing of the Institution and declares an emergency.

HB 492 COMMUNITY SCHOOL START-UPS (Strahorn) Am. 3314. Extends until July 1, 2006 the requirement that no more than 125 contracts between the State Board of Education and start-up community schools outside the pilot project area may be in effect at any one time.

HB 493 SUNDAY HUNTING (Latta) Am. & Rep. 1531 & 1533. Eliminates the special requirements governing Sunday hunting and revises the law governing the disposition of deer killed by motor vehicles.

HB 494 RENTAL LATE FEES (Grendell) Am. & En. 5322. Permits the assessment of reasonable late fees for the failure to pay rent for a self-storage facility and establishes conditions for the collection of late fees.

HB 495 UNDERGROUND RR LICENSE (Britton) En. 4501 & 4503. Creates Underground Railroad license plates.

HB 496 DRUG DEPENDENCY BOARD (Peterson) Am. & En. 2317, 3793, 4745, 4757 & 4748 and Secs. 6, 7 & 8 of Am. Sub. 172 (123rd General Assembly). Creates the Chemical Dependency Professionals Board, requires licensure or certification of chemical dependency counselors and certification of alcohol and other drug prevention specialists and makes an appropriation.

HB 497 OPTOMETRY LICENSES (Wolpert) Am. 4725. Permits the Ohio State Board of Optometry to license without examination optometrists licensed by another state or a Canadian province regardless of whether the other state or the province similarly licenses holders of Ohio licenses.

HB 498 JAMES HIGHWAY (S. Smith) Designates a portion of Interstate Number 490 within the City of Cleveland as the "Troy Lee James Highway."

HB 499 BUTLER COUNTY JUDGE (Cates) Am. 2301. Adds one additional judge for the general division of the Butler County Court of Common Pleas to be elected in 2002 and declares an emergency.

HB 500 INTERNET PHOTOS (Manning) En. 9. Requires state and county offices to send a notice to property owners that permits them to opt out of publication, before the offices publish photographs of the owners' homes or businesses on the Internet and prescribes the form of that notice.

HB 501 MOBILITY DEVICES (Husted) Am. & En. 4511. Exempts electric personal assistive mobility devices from the definition of "vehicle" in the traffic laws and to permit their operation on sidewalks, bikeways, and public streets and highways, subject to certain restrictions.

HB 502 CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (S. Smith) Creates a Capital Case Commission to study the imposition and administration of capital punishment in Ohio and make recommendations for improving Ohio's procedures in capital cases and its capital sentencing procedures.

HB 503 UNEMPLOYMENT COMP EXCLUSION (Williams) Am. 4141. Extends to Indian tribes the same exclusions from the federal unemployment compensation laws that are currently available to state and local governments, as allowed by recently enacted federal legislation.

HB 504 DRIVER LICENSE SUSPENSION (Manning) Am. 2913. Requires a suspension of the driver's license of a person who causes a motor vehicle to leave the premises of a retail gasoline establishment without full payment for gasoline dispensed into the motor vehicle's fuel tank or another container.

HB 505 CONDOMINIUM LAW (Salerno) Am., En. & Rep. 317, 5301, 5311 & 5721. Revises the Ohio Condominium Law.

HB 506 CREDIT UNION LAWS (Salerno) Am. 1761. Modifies the Credit Union Guaranty Corporations Law regarding insurable credit union share accounts, composition of a board of directors, eligibility requirements for licensure, powers of a corporation, reporting requirements, funds to be included in a guarantee fund, and eligible investments by a corporation.

HB 507 LAND CONVEYANCE (Metzger) Authorizes conveyance of state-owned real estate located in Guernsey County to Cambridge Township.

HB 508 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (Schuring) Am. 2919 & 3313. Enhances the penalty for domestic violence for certain aggravating circumstances and makes other changes regarding domestic violence.

HB 509 TRUST COMPANIES (Womer Benjamin) En. 1111. Allows a trust company, under certain circumstances, to purchase products or services through or from the trust company or an affiliate or from a syndicate or selling group that includes the trust company or an affiliate.

HB 510 REHABILITATION & CORRECTION (Womer Benjamin) Am. & En. 2151, 2301, 2907, 2921, 2933, 2949, 2951, 2967, 3101, 5120, 5139, 5145 & 5149. Relative to the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.

HB 511 INSURANCE FRAUD (DeWine) Am. 2929. Requires courts to order persons convicted of insurance fraud in connection with policies, contracts, and agreements of health care, to make restitution to health insuring corporations and sickness and accident insurers harmed by the fraud, and requires the amount of the restitution to include reimbursement for reasonable attorneys' fees and investigate costs.

HB 512 BINGO (Husted) Am. & En. 173, 1531, 1711, 2915, 3763, 4301 & 4303. Defines "bingo" to include bingo, instant bingo, seal cards, punch boards, and raffles; creates a license that authorizes charitable organizations to conduct bingo, instant bingo, seal cards, and punch boards; requires the licensing of manufacturers and distributors of bingo supplies; regulates the conduct of instant bingo and raffles; authorizes charitable organizations that hold D-4 and D-5 liquor permits to conduct certain types of bingo and serve beer or intoxicating liquor at the same time; increases the amount that certain charitable organizations may retain from gross receipts as consideration for use of the premises; allows fraternal, civic, and veteran's organizations to use 45% of the net profits generated from instant bingo; and makes other changes in the Charitable Gambling Law.

HB 513 TOWNSHIP AUTHORITY (Seitz) Am. & Rep. 505, 507, 517 & 5705. Authorizes taxing authorities to create multiple reserve balance accounts for rainy day funds; expands the authority of townships pertaining to the permanent endowment fund for their cemeteries; authorizes townships to sell real property under certain circumstances without a public auction or competitive bidding; authorizes townships to declare a road obstruction to be a nuisance and to order its removal; and permits authorized township officers and employees to incur obligations of up to $2500 without prior approval.

HB 514 MECHANIC'S LIEN LAW (Seitz) Am. 1311. Expands the time within which lien rights of subcontractors and materials suppliers are preserved under the Mechanic's Lien Law when a timely notice of commencement is not filed by the owner of an improvement, and establishes new criteria for determining whether a notice, affidavit, or other document has been served as required under that law.

HB 515 TOWNSHIP POWERS/EMPLOYMENT (Schmidt) Am. 504, 505 & 4123. Makes changes relating to the keeping of the board of township trustees' journal, the taking of minutes of board meetings, and the public of board resolutions in a home rule township; allows civil service townships that are urban townships to appoint any one of the three highest scorers on a police or fire department promotional exam; and places urban township employees in the same occupational classifications as municipal employees for workers' compensation purposes.

HB 516 TUITION LIMITS (Redfern) En. 3345. Establishes a limit on the annual increase in undergraduate in-state tuition and general fees that a state-assisted university or college board of trustees may charge.

HB 517 "CHIPS" COVERAGE (Fessler) Am. 5101. Provides that the Children's Health Insurance Program Part I and Part II may cover individuals from conception through eighteen years of age.

HB 518 COUNTY LODGING TAX (Schmidt) Am. 5739. Authorizes boards of county commissioners of certain counties to levy an additional excise tax on lodging.

HB 519 INSURANCE "SCORING" (Jolivette) En. 3937. Regulates the use of credit scoring in determining rates for motor vehicle insurance and requires the Department of Insurance to study the impact of insurers' use of credit scoring on motor vehicle insurance rates.

HB 520 MANUFACTURED HOUSING (Hoops) Am. & En. 1923, 3733, 4503 & 4513. Revises the forcible entry and detainer law relative to writs of execution issued in connection with manufactured home park residential premises and the removal, storage, and potential sale or destruction of an abandoned manufactured home, mobile home, or recreational vehicle on those premises; expands the types of information included in the register of manufactured or mobile homes that make use of a manufactured home court, park, or similar property; and excludes manufactured homes and mobile homes from the abandoned vehicle statutes.

HB 521 STUDENT DRIVERS (Collier) Am. & En. 4507. Provides that when a temporary instruction permit is issued, the Registrar of Motor Vehicles or deputy registrar also issue a removable sticker or banner that reads "student driver."

HB 522 FIDUCIARY LAW (Willamowski) Am., En. & Rep. 1340 & 2109. Revises the Fiduciary Law by adopting the Uniform Principal and Income Act (1997) regarding the apportionment and distribution of income to trust beneficiaries and regarding a fiduciary's allocation of receipts and disbursements to or between principal and income and by specifying the extent of a trustee's liability with respect to authorized adjustments between principal and income.

HB 523 GRAIN DRYER POLLUTION (Willamowski) En. 3704. Exempts the owner or operator of a grain dryer that has been in operation for at least ten years from the requirement to obtain an air pollution control permit to install for the prior installation or modification of that grain dryer.

HB 524 CAPITAL REAPPROPRIATIONS (Carey) Am. & En. 105, 151 & 3318. Modifies conditions for the operation of state programs, makes certain supplemental and capital appropriations, and makes capital reappropriations for the biennium beginning June 30, 2004.

HB 525 LIQUOR LICENSES (Key) Am. 4301 & 4303. Requires the Division of Liquor Control to notify child-care entities and the owners of personal residences located with 500 feet of an existing or proposed liquor permit premises or agency store regarding applications for the issuance, transfer of ownership or transfer of location of a liquor permit for or to the premises or regarding the entry or consent to the assignment of an agency contract for or at the location; authorizes those child-care entities and owners of personal residences to request a hearing on the advisability of the issuance, transfer, entry or consent to the assignment; requires the division to consider whether an issuance or transfer of ownership or location of a liquor permit will affect or interfere with the normal and orderly conduct of child-care entities.

HB 526 PROPERTY FORECLOSURES (Cirelli) En. 323. Authorizes an expedited procedure for foreclosing liens for long-delinquent property taxes.

HB 527 LAPOINTE PARKWAY (Strahorn) En. 5533. Designates the continuous portion of State Route 49 located within the municipal corporations of Trotwood and Clayton as the "Joseph Guy LaPointe Jr. Memorial Parkway."

HB 528 RETIREMENT BENEFIT EXEMPTION (Oakar) Am. 5747. Exempts from the personal income tax up to $10,000 in state and federal government and military retirement.

HB 529 LIQUOR PERMITS (Wolpert) Am., En. & Rep. 109, 307, 351, 924, 4301, 4303 & 4399. Eliminates the authority of the Division of Liquor Control to order liquor permit holders to stop selling intoxicating liquor to certain persons; authorizes the Division to share social security numbers with other state agencies for specific purposes and to seek BCII or FBI criminal records checks; changes the annual permit fees for A-2, B-2, and B-4 permit holders; allows the Division to sell spirituous liquor in 50 milliliter sealed containers to airlines that hold an E permit; revises the deadline for paying a permit fee when a person applies for a liquor permit; changes provisions that require the disclosure of shareholders of or holders of membership interests in a corporation or limited liability company applying for a liquor permit; corrects references to the "Department of Liquor Control" and "Director of Liquor Control;" and revises other provisions of the liquor control law.

HB 530 JUROR SELECTION (Peterson) Am. 2313. Modifies the small county exception to the drawing, summoning, and service of jurors for a term or part of a term of a court of common pleas.

HB 531 PUBLIC INDECENCY (Setzer) Am. 2907. Expands and modifies the penalty for the offense of public indecency.

HB 532 PHYSICAL EXAMINATIONS (Kearns) Am. & En. 124, 503, 505, 709, 737, 911, 1561, 2151, 2743, 2907, 3107, 3111, 3319, 3327, 3331, 3773, 3919, 4506, 4507, 4715, 4933, 5103, 5104 & 5503. Provides that certain medical physical examinations required by statute may be performed by clinical nurse specialists, certified nurse practitioners, and certified nurse-midwives.

HB 533 PHYSICIAN-PATIENT PRIVILEGE (Buehrer) Am. 2317. Permits the testimonial privilege between a physician and a deceased patient to be waived by any party to a will contest action.

HB 534 STUDENT VACCINATIONS (Hagan) En. 1713, 3332, 3345 & 3701. Establishes a requirement that institutions of higher education require students living in on-campus housing to be vaccinated for meningitis or obtain a waiver of the vaccination requirement.

HB 535 RETIREMENT FUND BENEFITS (McGregor) Am. 145, 3307 & 3309. Creates in the State Teachers Retirement System (STRS), School Employees Retirement System, and Public Employees Retirement System the option of receiving retirement benefits as a partial lump sum followed by a reduced monthly allowance and makes other changes to the law governing STRS.

HB 536 PROPERTY TAX DEFERRAL (Kilbane) Am. & En. 133, 319 & 323. Authorizes boards of county commissioners to permit homeowners who are elderly or disabled to defer the payment of property tax increases and authorizes those boards to issue securities in order to cover the revenue foregone by such deferrals until the deferred taxes are paid.

HB 537 DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED (Kilbane) Am. & En. 5123. Establishes the Family Support Board to develop a family-centered and family-directed system for children with developmental disabilities and makes an appropriation.

HB 538 CAMPAIGN FINANCE (Sulzer) 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.

HB 539 FLAG DISPLAY/DEED RESTRICTIONS (Raga) En. 5301 & 5311. Declares as against public policy and as unenforceable deed restrictions and condominium, homeowner, neighborhood, and civil association rules, regulations, bylaws, and other governing documents to the extent they prohibit the display of or the placement of flagpoles for the display of the United States flag in certain manners.

HB 540 AMBULETTE LICENSING (Raga) 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 two members to the Board, and renames the Board the Ohio Ambulance and Ambulette Licensing Board.

HB 541 JURY TRIAL WAIVER (Latta) Am. 2945. Permits a defendant to waive a trial by jury only with the approval of the court and the consent of the prosecuting attorney.

HB 542 HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULUM (Beatty) Am. 3313. Requires every high school to include in the requirements for graduation from any curriculum one-half unit in economics emphasizing personal finance and consumer credit.

HB 543 HEALTH INSURANCE CONTINUATION (Oakar) Am. & En. 124 & 4145. Establishes the Health Care Continuity Program for individuals who would be eligible for COBRA continuation coverage if not for their former employer ceasing to provide a group health plan to employees and terminates the provisions of the act in two years after the effective date.

HB 544 UNCLAIMED FUNDS (Driehaus) Am. 169. Requires that notice of unclaimed funds be mailed to owners by holders of the funds either by regular or certified mail depending upon the value of the funds and authorizes charges for certain mailings of notice.

HB 545 SPECIAL POLICE OFFICERS (Setzer) Am. 109 & 2901. Provides for the training of special police officers of certain airports and designates those special police officers as law enforcement officers.

HB 546 DRIVERS LICENSE DISQUALIFICATION (Carano) Am. 4507. Requires the Registrar of Motor Vehicles to provide a licensed driver who is subject to re-examination because of alleged incompetency or other disqualification, information concerning the allegation and also the opportunity for a hearing either before or after the license examination.

HB 547 BUSINESS TAX CREDITS (Young) Am. 715 & 5733. Increases the amount of and expands the tax credit against corporation franchise or income tax liability for new manufacturing machinery or equipment purchases.

HB 548 COURT FEES (Manning) Am. 2903 & 2919. Clarifies that no fees related to certain protection orders and consent agreements may be charged.

HB 549 TEACHER TAX CREDITS (Schaffer) Am. & En. 5747. Allows a credit against the personal income tax for amounts spent by licensed teachers for instructional materials.

HB 550 EMS REPORT EXEMPTION (Grendell) Am. 4765. Exempts emergency medical service organizations in which fifty percent or more of the persons providing services are volunteers from reporting information to the State Board of Emergency Medical Services for inclusion in the emergency medical services reporting system.

HB 551 TRAILER TITLING (Boccieri) Am. & Rep. 4503 & 4505. Applies the motor vehicle certificate of title law to trailers and semitrailers that weigh 4,000 pounds or less.

HB 552 NRA LICENSE PLATES (Schaffer) En. 4501 & 4503. Creates the National Rifle Association Foundation license plates and the National Rifle Association Foundation License Plate Fund.

HB 553 MEDICAL TAX DEDUCTION (Britton) Am. 5747. Allows a personal income tax deduction for a portion of unreimbursed medical expenses incurred by certain elderly or disabled relatives of a taxpayer and paid for by the taxpayer.

HB 554 RETIREE HEALTH CARE (Latell) Am. & En. 124 & 4145. Establishes the Retirants' Health Care Continuity Program for retirants who se health benefits under an employee welfare benefit program are terminated and makes an appropriation.

HB 555 SECURITIES GAINS EXEMPTION (Young) Am. 5747. Exempts from the personal income tax gains from the sale of securities first issued and sold by an Ohio business corporation during the first five years of the corporation's existence.

HB 556 SCHOOL BUILDING ASSISTANCE (Carey) En. 3318. Establishes the Rural Accelerated School Building Assistance Program to provide early state assistance for classroom facilities acquisition for school districts with territories greater than three hundred fifty square miles.

HB 557 DNA EVIDENCE (Latell) Am. 2305. Requires the statute of limitations for a civil cause of action for assault and battery that is based upon rape to accrue from the date of the offense or the date when DNA evidence links the offender to the offense.

HB 558 INCOME TAX INDEXING (Gilb) Am. 5747. Indexes the personal income tax to increases in a broad measure of price inflation.

HB 559 TAX EXEMPTION APPLICATIONS (Distel) Am. & En. 5703 & 6111. Authorizes state and county taxing officials to notify local taxing authorities of pending pollution control tax exemption applications.

HB 560 MR/DD TAX EQUITY (McGregor) Am. 5126. Revises the law governing the Department of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities' tax equity program.

HB 561 SCHOOL MANAGEMENT SERVICES (Williams) En. 3313. Permits school district boards of education to contract with public or nonpublic entities for management services.

HB 562 PARKING VIOLATIONS (Williams) Am. 4521. Permits a local authority to consider for purposes of the Local Noncriminal Parking Law a fine of up to $500 for a violation of an ordinance, resolution, or regulation that regulates the standing or parking of a vehicle in a disability parking space and provides that if a person fails to pay a fine for such a violation and the fine exceeds $100 that person may not be permitted to register a motor vehicle in that person's name.

HB 563 HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Metzger) Am. 121 & 149. Revises laws governing certain Ohio Historical Society operations.

HB 564 FLAG DISPLAY (Carmichael) Am. & En. 5. Establishes requirements governing the display and disposal of the state flag, explain the symbolism of the state flag, and adopts an official pledge to the state flag.

HB 565 STATE AMPHIBIAN (Fedor) En. 5. Adopts the bullfrog as the state amphibian.

HB 566 ELECTION PROCEDURES (Lendrum) Am., En. & Rep. 3501, 3503, 3504, 3505, 3506, 3509, 3511, 3513, 3517, 3519 & 3599. Specifies procedures for recounting ballots, removing political party affiliation as a reason for challenging a person's right to vote in a primary election, specifies counting standards for armed service absent voter's ballots and optical scan ballots, creates the Election System Study Committee, and makes other changes in the Election Law.

HB 567 LICENSE PLATE (Reidelbach) En. 4501 & 4503. Creates a license plate honoring the bicentennial of the city of Worthington.

HB 568 SECURITIES LAW (Coates) Am. 1707. Authorizes the Division of Securities, when taking any action under the Securities Law, to make a claim for restitution, rescission or damages on behalf of the persons injured by the violation of that law.

HB 569 COLLEGE TUITION (Oakar) En. 3345. Establishes a limit on the annual increase in undergraduate in-state tuition and general fees that a state-assisted university or college board of trustees may charge without submitting a request for an increase to the Board of Regents and giving the General Assembly ninety days to disapprove such an increase by concurrent resolution; increases the state share of instructional costs and makes an appropriation.

HB 570 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE (Faber) Am. 3313. Requires school district boards of education to set aside a period of time each day for the oral recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.

HB 571 CAMPAIGN FINANCE (Flannery) Am. 3517. Revises the Campaign Finance Law and makes an appropriation.

HB 572 VOYEURISM (Damschroder) Am. 2907. Expands the offense of voyeurism.

HB 573 TELEPHONE SERVICE (Schuring) Am. & En. 4927. Requires an incumbent telephone company to provide comparable interconnection and network access; provides that compliance with the interconnection requirement is measured by the company's performance; specifies performance measurements for certain incumbent telephone companies eligible to seek of having authority to provide intrastate long distance service and specifies remedies for noncompliance with those measurements.

HB 574 CHILD DAY CARE (Calvert) Am. 5104. Creates an exception to the requirement that child day-care centers and type A family day care homes display reports of inspections by the Department of Job and Family Services.

HB 575 PARKS LICENSE PLATE (Core) Am. & En. 1541 & 4503. Creates Ohio State Parks license plates.

HB 576 ORAL EXAMINATIONS (Reidelbach) Am. 124. Allows promotional examinations for firefighters to contain an oral component and creates a promotional board to conduct the oral component of a promotional examination.

HB 577 TRANSPORTATION DISTRICTS (Schneider) Am. 307. Permits a board of county commissioners to enter into an agreement with a transportation improvement district for the county to exercise any power, or perform or render any function or service, on behalf of the district.

HB 578 NATIONAL GUARD SCHOLARSHIPS (Latta) Am. 5919. Extends the period of eligibility under the Ohio National Guard Scholarship Program for individuals assigned to active duty and declares an emergency.

HB 579 BICENTENNIAL BARN (Damschroder) En. 5. Designates the historical barn located on the Sandusky County Fairgrounds in Sandusky County the state's official Bicentennial Barn.

HB 580 MEMORIAL HIGHWAY (Hughes) En. 5533. Designates a portion of Interstate 270 within Franklin County as the "Trooper Frank G. Vazquez Memorial Highway."

HB 581 HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY (Schneider) Am. & Rep. 169, 175, 176 & 1349. Removes the Ohio Housing Finance Agency from the Department of Development, making the Ohio Housing Finance Agency an independent agency, and makes other changes to the Ohio Housing Finance Agency Law.

HB 582 TOW-AWAY ZONES (DeBose) Am. 4513. Modifies the requirements for signs indicating the establishment of a private tow-away zone and reduces the towing and storage fees that may be charged for vehicles removed from private residential property and private tow-away zones and changes the penalty for improper removal of vehicles from private property or private tow-away zones.

HB 583 COASTAL MANAGEMENT (Lendrum) Am. & En. 1506 & 1521. Revises the law governing coastal management and the control of shore erosion along Lake Erie.

HB 584 SEX OFFENDERS (Coates) En. 2929. Permits the use of chemical treatment for habitual sex offenders and requires the use of chemical treatment for sexually violent predators.

HB 585 SLAVE REPARATIONS (Britton) Am. & En. 2913 & 2923. Prohibits profiting or attempting to profit from a fraudulent promise to recover reparations owed or purported to be owned as a result of a person's ancestors having been a slave, permits the Attorney General to recover in a civil action restitution for victims defrauded by a violation of the prohibition and the costs of investigating the prosecuting the violation, and permits the seizure and forfeiture of property to satisfy the judgment in the civil action.

HB 586 BALLOT DESIGNATIONS (Wilson) Am. 3505. Requires the designation of "Independent" to be printed on a ballot under the name of each candidate who files a nominating petition.

HB 587 SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES (Key) En. 4501 & 4503. Creates National Association for the Advancement of Colored People license plates and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People License Plate Fund.

HB 588 FOREIGN INSURANCE COMPANIES (Stapleton) Am., En. & Rep. 3909 & 3927. Relative to the appointment of agents by foreign insurance companies doing business in Ohio.

HB 589 FOREIGN LANGUAGE (Fedor) Am. 3313. Requires school districts to include the study of foreign language in the district curriculum.

HB 590 POLYMER INDUSTRY (Manning) Am. & En. 122. Creates the Ohio Polymer Industry Advisory Board.

HB 591 CHILD ABUSE/RELIGIOUS ORDERS (Mason) Am. 2151 & 2317. Requires a member of the clergy, rabbi, priest, or regularly ordained, accredited, or licensed minister of an established and legally cognizable church, denomination, or sect, or any person or layperson acting as a leader, official, delegate, or other designated function on behalf of any church, religious society, or faith to report the abuse or neglect of a child to a public children services agency or a municipal or county peace officer in the county in which the child resides or in which the abuse or neglect occurred and grants a testimonial privilege to any person or layperson acting as a leader, official, delegate, or other designated function on behalf of any church, religious society, or faith, concerning a confession or information confidentially communicated.

HB 592 HISTORICAL SOCIETY SITES (Raga) Am. 111 & 149. Requires the Ohio Historical Society to adopt rules pertaining to the acquisition or disposition of historical and archaeological sites and establishes other requirements pertaining to those sites.

HB 593 HISTORICAL SOCIETY FACILITIES (Metzger) Creates the Ohio Historical Society Facility Study Committee to conduct a study and make recommendations regarding the facilities owned or operated by the Ohio Historical Society.

HB 594 PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT ELIGIBILITY (Schaffer) En. 2961. Prohibits a person who is convicted of certain theft offenses, or any other felony or misdemeanor involving fraud, deceit, or theft, from holding a public office or position of public employment, or serving in certain unpaid volunteer positions, that involve substantial management or control of certain public or private property.

HB 595 EDUCATION PILOT (Flannery) Establishes a two-year pilot program to award grants of $125,000 per year to promote science, mathematics, engineering and technology-based learning for school-age children through the creation of after-school SMET invention centers.

HB 596 ENVIRONMENTAL PENALTIES (McGregor) En. 3745. Requires criminal fines collected for a violation of an environmental law to be paid to the law enforcement agency or agencies responsible for or involved in making the arrest of, and in prosecuting, the offender.

HB 597 JURY FEES (Jerse) Am. 2335. Eliminates the four-day maximum on the amount of jury fees that are taxed as costs in a civil action.

HB 598 MERCURY USE (Key) En. 4715. Establishes restrictions on the use of mercury and mercury amalgam fillings in dentistry.

HB 599 SCHOOL EMPLOYEE ASSAULT (Perry) Am. 2903. Includes additional education employees in the provision of law pertaining to assault on teachers.

HB 600 SCHOOL SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY (Carano) Am. 2744. Provides a full defense to liability under the motor vehicle exception to qualified sovereign immunity for a public school in cases involving negligent operation of a privately-owned motor vehicle that is not a school bus and prohibits the Department of Education from regulating the use of certain privately-owned motor vehicles for student transportation.

HB 601 PUBLIC SAFETY RETIREMENT (Willamowski) Am. 145. Creates special provisions in the Public Employees Retirement System for public safety officials.

HB 602 HOMICIDE LAWS (Hughes) Am. & En. 2152, 2903, 2929, 2941, 4511 & 5501. Expands the offenses of aggravated vehicular homicide and vehicular assault to also prohibit causing death or physical harm as a proximate result of committing a reckless operation or speeding violation in a construction zone; imposes a five-year mandatory prison term for a conviction of aggravated murder and a peace officer specification and imposes a three-year mandatory prison term for a conviction of aggravated vehicular homicide and a specification of three OMVI-related violations.

HB 603 DIVORCE/EDUCATION COSTS (Webster) En. 3109. Requires parents in a proceeding for a divorce, dissolution of marriage, legal separation, annulment or allocation of parental rights and responsibilities to consider the cost of each child's postsecondary education.

HB 604 DENTAL BOARD (Willamowski) Am. 4715. Makes various changes to the State Dental Board.

HB 605 DISASTER RESPONSE (White) En. 5502. Establishes an intrastate mutual aid program for disaster response and recovery and declares an emergency.

HB 606 COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT AUDITS (Fessler) Am. 1724 & 1726. Exempts community improvement corporations and development corporations with annual revenues or expenditures of less than $300,000 from mandatory audits conducted or reviewed by the Auditor of State.

HB 607 COUNTY TREASURERS (Trakas) Am. & En. 135, 321, 323, 4503, 5713 & 5721. Modifies the investment authority of county treasurers, specifies when penalties may be imposed on property subject to delinquent tax contracts, modifies procedures for the sale and redemption of tax certificates, prohibits certain contacts between tax certificate holders and property owners, and makes other changes related to the administration of laws relating to real property, public utility property, and manufactured home taxes.

HB 608 AUTISM SPECTRUM WAIVER (Carano) En. 5111. Requires the Director of Job and Family Services to seek federal permission for the Autism Spectrum Disorder Medicaid Waiver.

HB 609 PAROLE BOARD HEARINGS (Kilbane) Am. & En. 2930, 2967 & 5149. Permits the victim of an offense of violence, or the victim's representative, to testify at a panel hearing of the Parole Board regarding the parole of the offender who committed the offense of violence.

HB 610 PRISON LABOR USE (Carano) Am. 5145. Eliminates the use of prison labor by public and private entities for employment in construction and in trade industries on jobs subject to competitive bidding requirements.

HB 611 MEDICAID SPEND DOWN (Carano) En. 5111. Requires the Director of Job and Family Services to alter the methodology used to determine an aged, blind or disabled individual's countable income under the spend down provision of the Medicaid program.

HB 612 TOWNSHIP ROAD EQUIPMENT (Willamowski) Am. 5549. Permits a board of township trustees to enter into a lease for road equipment.

HB 613 CONSTRUCTION VEHICLE LIGHTS (D. Miller) Am. 4507, 4511 & 4513. Authorizes the Department of Transportation or the local authority with jurisdiction over road construction to require that vehicles display lighted lights within the construction zone during the hours of actual work within the zone and assesses one point against an offender's driving record for a violation of the requirement to display lights, in addition to the criminal penalty.

HB 614 COURT CLERKS (Driehaus) En. 1901, 1907, 2101, 2151, 2153, 2301 & 2303. Regulates the information various clerks of courts place on the Internet.

HB 615 MUSKINGUM RIVER DEBRIS (Hollister) En. 1541. Requires the Division of Parks and Recreation in the Department of Natural Resources to inspect and remove accumulated debris from around bridge supports in the Muskingum River Parkway and provides for the reimbursement of costs incurred under specified circumstances.

HB 616 WELLNESS GRANT (Kearns) Am. 121 & 3109. Revises the law governing the Wellness Block Grant Program and the Children's Trust Fund.

HB 617 CONSTRUCTION NOTICES (Grendell) Am. 5517 & 5543. Requires that written notice of certain highway, bridge and culvert closures be given to owners of homes and businesses located within a one-mile radius of all points at which the highway, bridge or culvert will be closed to traffic.

HB 618 CAMPAIGN RESTRICTIONS (Flannery) En. 3599. Prohibits a person who holds an elective state office and who is a candidate for that same or another elective office from appearing in specified public service announcements or informational advertisements during the six months immediately preceding the general election for that office.

HB 619 EDUCATION LICENSING RULES (DeWine) Am. 3319. Limits the provision requiring a delayed effective date for educator licensing rules to only those rules that require curriculum changes in teacher preparation programs and for amendment or rescission of such rules, clarifies that an Alternative Educator License be issued to an applicant upon the request of specified school officials, prescribes the timing of the subject area professional licensing examination required for individuals employed as intervention specialists under Alternative Educator Licenses, and provides a qualified immunity for teacher performance assessors, trainers and coordinators and for teacher performance assessment entities in civil actions concerning the conduct of teacher performance assessments of candidates for Professional Educator Licenses.

HB 620 CAR SALES/EMISSION CHECKS (Kearns) Am. & En. 3704. Requires anyone who sells or offers for sale a used motor vehicle to a person who resides in a county that is subject to the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program to first have the vehicle inspected by an inspection contractor, requires the seller to have necessary repairs performed in order for the vehicle to pass the inspection and provide the inspection certificate obtained for the vehicle to the purchaser of the vehicle, and provides for a refund to the purchaser if the seller fails to have the vehicle inspected and provide the inspection certificate.

HB 621 MILITARY DIPLOMAS (Seaver) Am. 3313. Grants high school diplomas to veterans of the armed forces who served on active military duty.

HB 622 COGNOVIT NOTES (Flannery) Am. & En. 1303 & 2323. Prohibits in all transactions the use of warrants of attorney to confess judgment.

HB 623 ANIMAL TREATMENT (Redfern) Am. 955 & 959. Prohibits the use of a firearm to destroy an animal at a publicly owned or operated animal shelter.

HB 624 FIREARM DEFINITION (Jerse) Am. 2923. Expands the definition of "firearm."

HB 625 STATE SONG (Coates) En. 5. Adopts "Happy Trails" as the official country song of the state.

HB 626 STUDENT DEBIT CARDS (Webster) En. 3345. Requires that if a state university provides students with a financial transaction device issued through the university, the university must make the opportunity to participate available to off-campus vendors.

HB 627 MUSHROOM SALES (Core) En. 2925.031 To prohibit the possession, sale, transportation, and cultivation of spores or mycelium capable of producing mushrooms that contain psilocin or psilocybin.

HB 628 PROBATE LAW (Hughes) Am. & En. 2101, 2106, 2107, 2109, 2113 & 2117. Relative to the election by a surviving spouse, notice of admission of a will to probate, accounts of administrators and executors, distribution of estate assets, presentation of creditors' claims to distributees, and dispute resolution procedures in probate court.

HB 629 ELECTED OFFICIAL PENSIONS (Olman) Am. 145. Prohibits an elected official from receiving a pension from the Public Employees Retirement System while earning a salary for the same term or a subsequent term of the same public office.

HB 630 CONTRACEPTIVE INSURANCE (Fedor) En. 1751 & 3923. Requires certain sickness and accident insurance policies, public employee benefit plans, and health insuring corporation policies, contracts, and agreements to provide coverage for prescription contraceptive drugs and devices and outpatient services related to the provision of such drugs and devices.

HB 631 CHILD CUSTODY (Flannery) Am., En. & Rep. 109, 313, 2111, 2151, 2152, 2301, 2307, 2317, 2701, 2705, 2901, 2919, 3101, 3105, 3109, 3110, 3111, 3113, 3115, 3119, 3125, 3313, 3319, 3321, 3323, 3333, 3701, 3902, 5104, 5120, 5123 & 5153. Amends, reorganizes, and recodifies the child custody, parenting time, and visitation laws governing domestic relations cases.

HB 632 CAMPAIGN FINANCE (Grendell) Am. & En. 3517. Revises the Campaign Finance Law.

HB 633 POLLING PLACES (Flannery) En. 3599. Prohibits candidates from distributing specified material within 100 feet of a polling place.

HB 634 VETERANS SERVICE COMMISSIONS (Carey) Am. 5901. Requires that the additional members of the county veterans service commission appointed in certain counties under certain conditions be veterans and prohibits these members from participating in the commission's deliberation and voting on the budget that the commission must submit to the board of county commissioners before the last Monday in May each year.

HB 635 PUBLIC/PRIVATE LABOR LAW (Brinkman) Am. & En. 9, 4113, 4117 & 4119. Removes any requirement under the Public Employees Collective Bargaining Law that public employees join or pay dues to any employee organization, expands the scope of unfair labor practices under that law, makes other changes in the Public Employees Collective Bargaining Law, prohibits any requirement that employees of private employers join or pay dues to any employee organization and requires public and private employers to post notices to that effect, prohibits certain actions by private employers relative to employee organization membership, and establishes civil and criminal penalties against private employers who violate those prohibitions.

HB 636 SPECIAL HOSPITAL REFERRALS (R. Miller) Am. 4731. Makes services provided at special hospitals subject to the law prohibiting certain referrals by physicians.

HB 637 CERTIFICATE OF NEED (R. Miller) Am. 3702. Restores the requirement of a certificate of need for the establishment of a new hospital or certain other health-related activities.

HB 638 DOG CONTROL LAWS (Metzger) Am. 955. Increases the penalty for a violation of a local ordinance enacted or resolution adopted under the Dogs Law to control dogs.

HB 639 INTERNET PROPERTY RECORDS (Husted) En. 9. Allows a real property owner, if a state agency or county office places specified information about that person's property on the Internet, and if the information is searchable by the property owner's name through an internal search engine, to request that the agency or office remove or disable the ability to search the information in such manner, and requires any agency or office receiving such a request to promptly remove or disable that search capability.

HB 640 UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES (Koziura) En. 3333. Directs the Ohio Board of Regents to adopt rules requiring state universities to guarantee that a full-time undergraduate student with a declared major field of study can complete the coursework for that program of study in a specified time period.

HB 641 TURNPIKE COMMISSION BUDGET (Manning) Am. & En. 5537. Subjects the budget of the Ohio Turnpike Commission to the approval of the General Assembly through the appropriations process.

HB 642 SEX OFFENSES (Trakas) Am. 2905, 2907 & 2971. Imposes a mandatory prison term for kidnapping with a sexual motivation specification and a sexually violent predator specification and for rape with a sexual violent predator specification.

HB 643 TURNPIKE COMMISSION BUDGET (Boccieri) Am. & En. 5537. Subjects the budget of the Ohio Turnpike Commission to the approval of the General Assembly through the appropriations process.

HB 644 VILLAGE DISBANDMENT (Wolpert) Am. & En. 703. Permits the board of county commissioners to dissolve a village under certain circumstances.

HB 645 VEHICLE REGISTRATION (Schneider) Am. & En. 3704, 4501 & 4503. Requires the Registrar of Motor Vehicles to adopt rules permitting the owners of certain vehicles to register their vehicles on a biennial basis and requires the Registrar and all deputy registrars to accept credit cards for transactions with the Registrar or deputy.

HB 646 AMBER ALERT SYSTEM (Reidelbach) En. 5502. Requires the Department of Public Safety to create the Child Emergency Alert System to aid in the identification and location of abducted children and makes an appropriation.

HB 647 HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Metzger) Am. & Rep. 149, 307, 317 & 1506. Eliminates the Ohio Historical Society's state registries of historic and archaeological landmarks, modifies Society publication and instructional material requirements, and authorizes counties to fund historic preservation societies.

HB 648 SALES TAX (Coates) Am. 5739. Exclude core charges from the price of motor vehicle parts for sales tax purposes.

HB 649 LOAN PROGRAM (Manning) En. 166.12. Establish the Innovation Ohio Loan Program.

HB 650 CHILD ABDUCTION ALERT (Lendrum) En. 5502. Creates the Ohio Child Abduction Alert System to aid in the identification and location of abducted children.

HB 651 LAND REGISTRATION METHODS (Seitz) Am. & En. 5309 & 5310. Allows a county recorder to maintain registered land records by the use of photographic, magnetic, electronic, or certain other processes, means, or displays.

HB 652 SEX OFFENDERS (Grendell) Am. 2950. Expands the victim and community notification provisions of the SORN Law and specifically authorizes specified use of the Internet for those provisions; provides a five dollar supervision fee for certain persons convicted of sexually oriented offenses; establishes the Sex Offender Technology Fund for a sex offender tracking program established by the Attorney General; authorizes the use of the Internet for the tracking program; provides for an annual $60 compliance fee for persons convicted of or adjudicated delinquent children for a sexually oriented offense; expands the information included in a registration or residence address verification form under the SORN Law; modifies the deadline imposed for address verification under that Law and authorizes a sheriff who uses the Internet for the victim and community notification provisions of the SORN Law to receive funds from the Sex Offender Technology Fund and in certain cases from the board of trustees of the law library association.

HB 653 HOUSING PROGRAMS (Boccieri) Am. 175. Requires the Ohio Housing Finance Agency to develop and implement a program to provide housing for low-income grandparents who are guardians for grandchildren or have legal or permanent custody of grandchildren.

HB 654 SCHOOL BUILDING SUBMISSIONS (Oakar) En. 3318. Requires a person bidding on a state-assisted school facilities acquisition project to submit specified documents.

HB 655 SCHOOL DISCIPLINE LIABILITY (Faber) Am. & En. 2744 & 3313. Confers immunity from civil liability upon school districts, nonpublic schools, and school employees for an alleged injury to a student caused by school discipline, provided that such discipline does not result in child endangerment.

HB 656 SEX OFFENDER COMMITMENT (DePiero) Am. & En. 2945, 2950 & 5122. Authorizes the civil commitment of certain sexually aberrant persons.

HB 657 CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT (Reidelbach) Am., En. & Rep. 1349, 2151, 3111, 3113, 3119, 3121, 3123, 3924 & 4705. Revises the law governing child support enforcement and declares an emergency.

HB 658 SEX OFFENDER NOTIFICATION (Carmichael) Am. & En. 2945, 2950 & 5122. Expands the victim and community notification provision of the SORN Law and authorizes the civil commitment of certain sexually aberrant persons.

HB 659 CONTRACTOR LICENSING (Buehrer) Am. & Rep. 307, 505, 715, 3703, 3722, 3781, 3791, 4703, 4733, 4740 & 4929. Requires statewide licensing of residential contractors, establishes a statewide uniform building code for commercial and residential buildings, establishes a process for granting variances from the statewide uniform building code, and makes other changes in the laws governing contractors and construction.

HB 660 UNDERWRITING ASSOCIATION (Willamowski) Am. En. & Rep. 3929. Recreates and provides for the operation of the Joint Underwriting Association relative to the issuance of medical malpractice insurance and to establish a stabilization reserve fund for the Joint Underwriting Association.

HB 661 LIFE SENTENCING (Schmidt) Am. 2929. Permits the imposition of a sentence of life imprisonment without parole, life imprisonment with parole eligibility after serving 25 full years of imprisonment, or life imprisonment with parole eligibility after serving 30 full years of imprisonment when an offender is convicted of or pleads guilty to aggravated murder and is not charged with or convicted of an aggravated circumstance.

HB 662 INTERNET LOTTERY (Schmidt) Am. 1711, 3770 & 4301. Authorizes the State Lottery Commission to allow lottery games to be played over the Internet under certain conditions.

HB 663 KOREAN WAR VET DIPLOMAS (Buehrer) Am. 3313. Grants high school diplomas to veterans of the Korean Conflict.

HB 664 SECURITIES REGISTRATION (Manning) Am. & En. 1707 & 2913. Modifies the Securities Law with respect to requirements for registration of securities, the Division of Securities enforcement authority on behalf of persons injured by a violation, the liability of persons having a controlling interest, statutes of limitations governing an action for specified violations, prohibitions against certain false representations or misleading or deceptive actions, and increases the criminal penalty for certain theft offenses and creates a new criminal aggravated theft offense.

HB 665 MEDICAL MALPRACTICE CLAIMS (Grendell) Am., En. & Rep. 1751, 2117, 2305, 2317, 2323, 2711, 2743, 2919, 3923, 3929, 4705 & 5111. Relative to medical claims, dental claims, optometric claims, and chiropractic claims and a court's power to grant remittitur in certain tort actions.

HB 666 PHYSICIAN REFERRALS (Peterson) Am. 4731. Prohibits a physician or podiatrist from making certain referrals for inpatient hospital services and makes other revisions to the law prohibiting certain referrals for designated health services.

HB 667 RECKLESS DRIVING (Hughes) Am. 4549. Increases the penalty for failure to stop after an accident if the violation caused the death of a person.

HB 668 TOWNSHIP OFFICER INSURANCE (Faber) Am. 505. Permits a township to obtain individual life insurance coverage for township officers.

HB 669 TOLL-FREE LEGISLATIVE NUMBERS (Grendell) En. 101. Establishes toll-free telephone access to the offices of General Assembly members.

HB 670 MALPRACTICE INSURANCE (Jerse) Am., En. & Rep. 3929. Re-creates and provides for the operation of the Joint Underwriting Association relative to the issuance of medical malpractice insurance and establishes a stabilization reserve fund for the Joint Underwriting Association.

HB 671 ATTORNEY CERTIFICATIONS (Jerse) En. 2309. Specifies an attorney's or party's certifications to the court upon the presentation of pleadings or papers and provides for sanctions for violations of those certifications.

HB 672 MALPRACTICE INSURANCE STUDY (Jerse) En. 3929. Creates the Medical Malpractice Insurance Review Commission and provides for the assessment of insurance companies and health insuring corporations to cover the Commission's operating expenses.

HB 673 CIVIL SERVICE (Buehrer) Am., En. & Rep. 9, 119, 124, 302, 325, 329, 1513, 411, 5107 & 5155. Implements the recommendations of the Civil Service Review Commission.

HB 674 TELEPHONE HARASSMENT (Clancy) Am. 2917. Modifies the offense of telephone harassment.

HB 675 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS (Calvert) Am., En. & Rep. 102, 109, 122, 123, 124, 133, 145, 151, 152, 166, 183, 184, 307, 715, 718, 1561, 1565, 1711, 2113, 2901, 2921, 2935, 3318, 3354, 3355, 3357, 3383, 3385, 3519, 3702, 3721, 3737, 4117, 4123, 4582, 5709, 5715, 5717, 5731, 5733, 5739, 5747, 5902, 5907 & 6103. Makes capital appropriations, modifies other appropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 2004, and provides authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.

HB 676 FOOD SERVICE (Oakar) Am. 3717. Requires that a person certified in food protection be present at a food service operation and a retail food establishment during all hours of operation.