Note: This list includes actions taken by the governor on House bills, including bills that have been subject to whole or partial vetoes. Selecting the bill will display the text of the final version of the bill and also allow you to view all versions of the bill and related documents, including an analysis of the bill, a fiscal impact statement, and the bill's sponsors and co-sponsors.

HB 3 ENVIRONMENTAL BONDS (Blasdel) Provides for the implementation of programs to finance brownfields revitalization projects, natural resource projects, and farmland preservation projects through the issuance of obligations of the state, and makes an appropriation. Signed: July 26, 2001 - Effective: July 26, 2001

HB 5 ELECTION BALLOTS (Lendrum) 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. Signed: May 29, 2001 - Effective: August 28, 2001

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.  Signed: May 8, 2001 - Effective: August 7, 2001

HB 8 ELECTRONIC PORNOGRAPHY (Hughes) Expands the definition of "material" in the Sex Offense Laws to include any image appearing on a computer monitor or similar display device or recorded on a computer disk, magnetic tape, or similar data storage device; creates exemptions and an affirmative defense to certain offenses under those laws and creates an additional term for the drug court judge of the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas.  Signed: May 6, 2001 - Effective: August 5, 2002

HB 9 NATURAL GAS SALES (Setzer) Requires certain governmental aggregators and retail natural gas suppliers to be certified by the Public Utilities Commission; authorizes governmental aggregation for competitive retail natural gas services under specified circumstances; authorizes the Commission to require large natural gas companies to provide distribution service on a fully open, equal and nondiscriminatory basis to its nonmercantile distribution customers upon Commission approval of an application of a retail gas supplier, or of a governmental aggregator within the area of a governmental aggregation; consolidates consumer protection enforcement authority with respect to natural gas transactions; authorizes Project Temporary Heating Assistance for Warmth and makes an appropriation.  Signed: March 27, 2001 - Effective June 26, 2001 [Appropriation sections on March 27, 2001]

HB 10 VETERANS SERVICE COMMISSIONS (Hartnett) Includes the Korean War Veterans Association among the organizations that may recommend persons to be appointed to a county Veterans Service Commission.   Signed: December 14, 2001 - Effective: March 15, 2002

HB 11 BUTLER COUNTY COURT (Webster) Adds one additional judge for the Juvenile Division of the Butler County Court of Common Pleas to be elected in 2002 and one additional judge to the Muskingum County Court of Common Pleas as judge of the Domestic Relations Division to be elected in 2002 and maintains the provisions of this act on and after January 1, 2002. Effective: January 1, 2002.

HB 17 UNDERAGE DRINKING (Willamowski) Generally prohibits an underage person from being under the influence of beer or intoxicating liquor, revises the prohibitions regarding an underage person ordering, paying for, sharing the cost of, attempting to purchase, or consuming or possessing beer or intoxicating liquor, and provides a diversion program for persons charged with violating these prohibitions. Signed: July 12, 2002 - Effective: October 11, 2002

HB 21 PURCHASE CERTIFICATES (Core) 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.  Signed: May 29, 2001 - Effective: August 28, 2001

HB 35 SUPERSEDEAS BOND (Grendell) Exempts nonmonetary administrative-related appeals from the requirement of a supersedeas bond.  Signed: April 10, 2001 - Effective: July 11, 2001

HB 38 INDEPENDENT LIVING (Metzger) Regarding 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. Signed: August 1, 2002 - Effective: November 1, 2002

HB 46 SELECTIVE SERVICE/DRIVING PRIVILEGES (Goodman) Establishes that any applicant for a driver's license, permit, or identification card under twenty-six years of age 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, requires the Bureau to submit the applicable information to the Selective Service System, and prohibits the display of a person's social security number on the person's driver's license, commercial driver's license, temporary instruction permit, or identification card unless the person requests that the number be displayed on the license or card. Signed: November 2, 2001 - Effective: August 1, 2002

HB 48 "SCHOOL BUS DRIVER DAY" (Ogg) Designates the first Monday in May as "School Bus Drivers Appreciation Day." Signed: April 23, 2002 - Effective: July 23, 2002

HB 57 UNRULY CHILDREN (Willamowski) Requires counties to develop a service coordination 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 Ohio Family and Children First Cabinet Council to collect 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 Job and Family Services. Signed: November 2, 2001 - Effective: February 19, 2002

HB 65 PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION (Calvert) Exempts from taxation property held or occupied by veterans' organizations that qualify for income tax exemption under the Internal Revenue Code, except real property used to generate annual gross income of more than a specified amount. Signed: January 2, 2003 - Effective: April 3, 2003

HB 70 ROADWAY SAFETY GRANTS (Latell) Includes appurtenances to roads and bridges to enhance the safety of animal-drawn vehicles, pedestrians, and bicycles in the types of projects for which local subdivisions may receive finance assistance through the Ohio Public Works Commission. Signed: January 6, 2003 - Effective: April 7, 2003

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. Signed: March 30, 2001 - Effective: June 29, 2001 [Certain sections on March 30, 2001] Line item veto of Section 12 regarding creation of task force to study ways to fund the State Highway Patrol.

HB 74 INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION BUDGET (Williams) Exempts the Industrial Commission from the list of agencies reviewed by the Sunset Review Committee and makes appropriations for the Industrial Commission for the biennium beginning July 1, 2001 and ending June 30, 2003.  Signed: April 10, 2001 - Effective: April 10, 2001 - Section 101.82 on July 11, 2001

HB 75 WORKERS' COMPENSATION BUDGET (Williams) 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. Signed: April 10, 2001 - Effective: April 10, 2001 - Certain sections on other dates

HB 77 VETERANS' DIPLOMAS (Hollister) Grants high school diplomas to World War II veterans and makes an appropriation.  Effective: July 12, 2001

HB 84 RETIREMENT RESTRICTION (Schmidt) Prohibits an elected official from receiving a Public Employees Retirement System pension while earning a salary for the same public office, subjects employee contributions to a higher education alternative retirement plan to certain local taxes, and declares an emergency. Effective: July 31, 2001

HB 85 ESTATE ADMINISTRATION (Hughes) 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 and relative to a probate court procedure for declaring a man to be the father of an adult child if specified conditions are met. Effective: October 31, 2001

HB 94 EDUCATION/OPERATING BUDGET (Carey) Am. 133, 3301, 3313, 3314, 3317, 3318, 3319, 3323, 3333, 3770 & 5126. Makes appropriations for education programs and general government operations from the biennium beginning July 1, 2001 and ending June 30, 2003.  Signed: June 6, 2001 - Effective: June 6, 2001 - Certain sections on other dates

HB 117 HANDICAPPED DEVICE EXEMPTION (Willamowski) 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 wheelchairs.  Effective: October 8, 2001

HB 120 GOVERNMENT PURCHASES (Raga) 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. Effective: October 26, 2001

HB 122 VIADUCT/BRIDGE NAMING (Distel) Names the viaduct spanning the Ashtabula River, located in the city of Ashtabula and Ashtabula Township, the "Reverend Dr. Sam Wells, Jr., Memorial Viaduct" and designates the bridge that spans the Paddy Creek near the village of Proctorville in Lawrence County and is part of State Route 7 the "Judge Kenneth B. Alter Bridge." Signed: March 18, 2002 - Effective: June 18, 2002

HB 123 MEMORIAL DAY EXPENSES (Distel) 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. Signed: February 28, 2002 - Effective: May 30, 2002

HB 125 "TARTAN DAY" (Kearns) Designates April 6 of each year "Tartan Day." Signed: December 14, 2001 - Effective: March 15, 2002

HB 126 ANTITRUST LAW ACTIONS (Seitz) Provides a four-year statute of limitation on any civil or criminal action or proceeding under the Antitrust Law and increases the amount of damages in a civil action under that law. Signed: November 21, 2001 - Effective: February 20, 2002

HB 129 COUNTY TAX BUDGET (Webster) Permits a county budget commission to waive the requirement that a taxing authority adopt a tax budget for a subdivision or taxing unit, requires that certain adjustments in state aid be reduced if a school district received a grant from the catastrophic expenditures account for the same reason that the adjustment was made, modifies the notification procedure for potential school district fiscal deficits, revises the percentages of the kilowatt-hour and natural gas tax receipts that a credited to the school district and local government property tax replacement funds, modifies the manner of recomputing basic aid for school districts affected by bankrupt taxpayers, and corrects printing errors in county official salary schedules. Signed: March 4, 2002 - Effective: June 3, 2002.

HB 130 FIREARM SENTENCING (DePiero) Requires a mandatory prison term or a commitment to the Department of Youth Services for discharging a firearm at a peace officer or a corrections officer. Signed: January 6, 2003 - Effective: April 7, 2003

HB 143 FIRE CHIEF RESIDENCY (Young) 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.  Signed: October 26, 2001 - Effective: January 25, 2002

HB 149 HIGHWAY NAMING (Redfern) Designates State Route 2, within Erie County only, as the "Jackie Mayer Miss America Highway."  Signed: May 30, 2002 - Effective: August 29, 2002

HB 150 HEARING SCREENING (Schuring) Requires universal hearing screening for newborns and infants. Signed: May 1, 2002 - Effective: August 1, 2002

HB 157 PENSION BENEFITS (Schuring) 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 and provides pension and death benefits to certain surviving spouses of former members of local police or firemen's pension funds established under former Chapter 741 of the Revised Code. Signed: November 2, 2001 - Effective: February 1, 2002

HB 158 PERS LAW ENFORCEMENT BENEFIT (Schuring) Permits certain Public Employees Retirement System members with at least 25 years of law enforcement service credit to retire with full benefits at age 48 and increases the employee contribution rate for those members, includes transit and highway patrol police officers as law enforcement officers for PERS purposes, and makes survivors of PERS law enforcement officers eligible for benefits regardless of the length of the officer's PERS membership. Signed: November 2, 2001 - Effective: February 1, 2002

HB 161 FIREWORKS LAW (Flowers) Reenacts amendments and enactments made to the Fireworks Law by Am.Sub.HB215 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.  Effective: June 29, 2001

HB 165 ABUSE AWARENESS (Salerno) Designates the month of April as "Ohio Child Abuse Awareness Month."  Signed: December 14, 2001 - Effective: March 15, 2002

HB 170 INMATE HEALTH CARE (Schuring) Relative to health care services provided to offenders who are in the custody or under the supervision of the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, to the revision of the procedures by which costs related to a prisoner's confinement in a local detention facility are collected and the consolidation of the provisions containing those procedures, and increases from $30 to $50 the daily fine credit given to an offender jailed for failure to pay a fine. Signed: June 7, 2002 - Effective: September 6, 2002

HB 174 TOWNSHIP ROADS (Raga) Specifies that township road projects may include landscaping and beautification.  Effective: October 8, 2001

HB 175 FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS (White) Establishes the Task Force on Nonprofit, Faith-Based and Other Nonprofit Organizations and requires that it recommend the best means for the state to assist nonprofit, faith-based and other nonprofit organizations in providing public services and in cooperating with public agencies in assisting those who receive public services.  Effective: October 31, 2001

HB 178 DISABILITY TRUSTS (Salerno) Relative to the creation of trusts to fund supplemental services for certain beneficiaries with physical or mental disabilities.  Effective: October 26, 2001

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. Effective: May 16, 2002

HB 181 PROFICIENCY TEST STIPEND (Buehrer) Makes an appropriation for the 12th Grade proficiency stipend.  Signed: May 29, 2001 - Effective: May 29, 2001

HB 182 BMV COMMITTEE (Schuring) Creates the Citizens Advisory Committee within the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. Signed: November 20, 2001 - Effective: February 19, 2002

HB 188 PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS (Schaffer) Exempts commissioned peace officers from licensing requirements concerning private investigators and security guards when acting as an employee or as an independent contractor for a person licensed as a private investigator, security guard, or both. Signed: December 23, 2002 - Effective: March 24, 2003

HB 192 FIREARMS LAWSUITS (Callender) 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. Effective: October 8, 2001

HB 196 ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS (Husted) Permits school districts that establish certain alternative schools to contract with nonprofit or for profit entities to operate those schools, provides additional standards for alternative school operated by nonprofit or for profit entities; eliminates the requirement that educator licensing rules are subject to the approval of the General Assembly through a concurrent resolution; requires the State Board of Education to issue a one-year conditional teaching permit for individuals intending to seek an alternative educator license; establishes a three-year period for the issuance of one-year conditional teaching permits in the area of intervention specialist; permits an individual holding an educator license or certificate to teach in an area or grade level different from the individual's licensed or certificated area or grade level for two years under certain conditions; permits personally identifiable information about a student to be reported to a third party for purposes of assigning a data verification code; allows the Department of Education to administer the High Schools that Work Program; changes the set-aside for tech-prep consortia; specifies the curriculum requirement for a diploma, to change from Dec. 31, 2001 to Dec. 31, 2002, the date by which the Instructional Subsidy and Challenge Review Committee must submit its report to the General Assembly; requires the Governor's Commission on Successful Teachers to recommend alternative pathways for obtaining educator licenses and declares an emergency. Signed: November 20, 2001 - Effective: November 20, 2001

HB 198 DELINQUENT PROPERTY TAXES (Peterson) 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 and requires that a county auditor's tax valuation certification be issued ten days after requested and be filed with any resolution or ordinance certified to a county board of elections by a taxing authority. Signed: December 30, 2002 - Effective: March 31, 2003

HB 200 FARM MACHINERY (Calvert) 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. Effective: October 26, 2001

HB 206 HIGHWAY NAMING (Krupinski) 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." Signed: December 23, 2002 - Effective: March 24, 2003

HB 208 SPOUSAL SUPPORT PAYMENTS (Raga) 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; clarifies the court of common pleas' jurisdiction in a motion for relief from a final judgment or administrative determination of parentage or related child support, and modifies the amount of a child support payment that is for an arrearage, and modifies the procedures a child support enforcement agency may take to collect an arrearage. Signed: October 26, 2001 - Effective: January 25, 2002

HB 212 REINSURANCE AGREEMENTS (Wolpert) 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; permits assuming insurers to introduce defenses in an insolvency proceeding that it deems to be available to the ceding insurer and permits insurers to invest in limited liability company membership interests of insurance, financial, investment and investment management companies. Effective: October 31, 2001

HB 214 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS (Willamowski) Revises the licensing program for landscape architects. Signed: April 23, 2002 - Effective: July 23, 2002

HB 221 PRESCRIPTION DRUGS (Schuring) Establishes under the direction of the State Board of Pharmacy a drug repository program to accept and dispense donated prescription drugs. Signed: January 6, 2003 - Effective: April 7, 2003 (Section 3715.873 on April 7, 2003)

HB 226 COUNTY INTERNET AUCTIONS (Collier) Authorizes counties, townships and statutory municipal corporations to dispose of unneeded, obsolete or unfit personal property by Internet auction and, if that property has no value, to discard or salvage it. Signed: October 26, 2001 - Effective: January 25, 2002

HB 229 RETAIL INSTALLMENT CONTRACTS (Salerno) 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.  Signed: November 20, 2001 - Effective: February 19, 2002

HB 230 AEROSPACE ADVISORY COUNCIL (DeWine) Creates the Ohio Aerospace Advisory Council. Signed: July 25, 2001 - Effective: October 24, 2001

HB 231 WETLAND PERMITS (Faber) En. 6111. Requires permits for and mitigation of impacts to isolated wetlands. Effective: July 17, 2001

HB 233 ATTORNEY'S FEES (Womer Benjamin) 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. Signed: October 26, 2001 - Effective: January 25, 2002

HB 242 SIMULTANEOUS DEATH ACT (Salerno) Am., En. & Rep. 2105, 2106, 2107 & 2121. Enacts the Uniform Simultaneous Death Act.  Effective: May 16, 2002

HB 244 OPFP REPORTS (Niehaus) 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. Signed: November 20, 2001 - Effective: February 19, 2002

HB 245 VILLAGE OFFICES (Evans) 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. Signed: November 2, 2001 - Effective: February 1, 2002

HB 247 JUVENILE RECORDS (Core) 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. Signed: February 28, 2002 - Effective: May 30, 2002

HB 248 CHILD LEAD POISONING (Williams) With respect to the prevention of childhood lead poisoning, the Wellness Block Grant Program, and the Children's Trust Fund. Signed: January 6, 2003 - Effective: April 7, 2003

HB 256 HIGHWAY NAMING (Perry) Designates a portion of Interstate Route 75 within Lucas County as the "Korean War Veterans' Memorial Highway." Signed: July 25, 2002 - Effective: October 24, 2002

HB 269 ADULT OFFENDER COMPACT (Latta) Withdraws from the Interstate Compact for the Supervision of Parolees and Probationers; joins the Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervisions and enacts related regulations and provides for the approval of plans for jails, workhouses and lockups by the Division of Parole and Community Services.  Signed: October 26, 2001 - Effective: January 25, 2002

HB 271 COMMUNITY SERVICE (Stapleton) Authorizes courts to impose periods of community service upon offenders who fail to pay judgments for court costs relating to the criminal action with a credit upon the judgment at the minimum wage rate per hour of service. Signed: December 23, 2002 - Effective: March 24, 2003

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. Signed: January 4, 2002 - Effective: April 5, 2002

HB 273 HARMFUL INTOXICANTS (DePiero) Classifies Gamma Butyrolactone and 1.4 Butanediol as harmful intoxicants.  Signed: April 23, 2002 - Effective: July 23, 2002

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. Effective: May 16, 2002

HB 279 RECORDABLE DOCUMENTS (Faber) 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.  Signed: November 2, 2001 - Effective: February 1, 2002

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.  Effective: June 29, 2001

HB 299 BUDGET CORRECTIONS (Carey) Changes a scheduled deputy registrar fee increase relative to duplicate or replacement identification cards from $3.75 to $2.75; makes other budget-related corrections; provides for the continued operation of any county tuberculosis hospital that existed on the effective dated of Sub. SB 173 of the 123rd General Assembly; permits a school district to apply a "local donation contribution" toward a total or partial offset of its obligation to raise maintenance money; returns the imputed occupancy percentage for a nursing home's IFC-MR's indirect care costs for fiscal 2003 from 87% to 85%; requires the Department of Job and Family Services to use money in the Nursing Facility Stabilization Fund to pay nursing facilities an amount equal to $1.50 per Medicaid day for fiscal years 2002 and 2003; makes an appropriation and declares an emergency. Effective: September 5, 2001 (Certain sections on June 29, 2001)

HB 301 ESTATE TAX INTEREST (Hoops) Prohibits the charging of interest on recoupments of erroneously distributed estate tax revenue and provides, until Jan. 1, 2001, a procedure for converting certain municipal permanent improvement property tax levies to five-year term levies, subject to voter approval. Signed: February 28, 2002 - Effective: May 30, 2002

HB 309 IDENTITY THEFT (Hughes) Revises the elements of taking the identity of another. Signed: June 28, 2002 - Effective: September 27, 2002

HB 312 TELEPHONE SOLICITATIONS (Goodman) Prohibits a telephone solicitor from intentionally blocking, or intentionally authorizing or causing to be blocked, the disclosure of the telephone number from which a telephone solicitation is made and provides for enforcement for some telephone solicitors under the telemarketing fraud law and for enforcement for all telephone solicitors under the law governing consumer sales practices. Signed: January 8, 2003 - Effective: April 9, 2003

HB 313 "TEACHER DAY" (Woodard) Designates the first Wednesday of the first full week in May as "Teacher Appreciation Day." Signed: May 15, 2002 - Effective: August 14, 2002

HB 319 EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT (Webster) Establishes the Emergency Management Assistance Compact in law, enters into the compact with all other jurisdictions legally joining in it, and declares an emergency. Signed: February 1, 2002 - Effective: February 1, 2002

HB 322 FUNERAL IMMUNITY (Wolpert) 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. Signed: January 6, 2003 - Effective: April 7, 2003

HB 326 ORGAN DONOR LEAVE (Jolivette) Grants full-time state employees 30 days paid leave per year to serve as a liver or kidney donor and seven days paid leave per year to serve as a bone marrow donor. Signed: April 23, 2002 - Effective: July 23, 2002

HB 327 FELONY SENTENCING (Latta) Clarifies certain provisions of the Felony Sentencing Law, corrects the penalty provisions for illegal processing of drug documents, clarifies the eligibility criteria for intervention in lieu of convictions, requires applicants for nurse licensure and dialysis technician certification to have a criminal records checks, expands the offense of unauthorized use of property to specifically include nonconsensual access to a cable service or cable system, revises certain provisions of the law governing nurses and dialysis technicians as to licensing or certification, duties, and training, specifies that members of the Ohio Council for Interstate Adult Supervision serve without compensation but are to be reimbursed for expenses, 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. Signed: April 8, 2002 - Effective: July 8, 2002 (Certain sections later)

HB 329 LOCAL GOVERNMENT FUNDS (Blasdel) 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.  Signed: May 30, 2002 - Effective: August 29, 2002

HB 330 LIQUOR PERMITS (Peterson) 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; eliminates the restriction against the same person operating or having an interest in more than sixteen agency stores in the state or more than eight agency stores in the same county; requires the Division to adopt rules governing the allocation and equitable distribution of agency store contracts; allows a restaurant located at an airport operated by a port authority to be issued a D-5b liquor permit; removes the prohibition against more than one D-5b permit being issued in the same county; and allows permit holders that sell beer or intoxicating liquor for consumption on the premises to operate an agency store adjacent to the premises. Signed: July 12, 2002 - Effective: October 11, 2002

HB 337 ENGINEER/SURVEYOR LICENSING (Lendrum) Makes changes to the engineer and surveyor licensing law. Signed: May 7, 2002 - Effective: August 6, 2002

HB 338 SOIL & WATER ASSESSMENTS (Core) Authorizes referendums on assessments levied for improvements of soil and water conservation districts to be conducted under the statutes governing counties rather than under the statutes governing those districts, requires that property owners be notified of uniform assessments under the soil and water conservation statutes by first class mail in lieu of notification by publication, and requires a county recorder to record any restrictions on the use of property identified pursuant to the State Fire Marshal's rules regarding releases from petroleum underground storage tanks. Signed: July 2, 2002 - Effective: October 1, 2002

HB 344 STEAM BOILER SAFETY (Calvert) 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. Signed: July 25, 2002 - Effective: October 24, 2002

HB 345 PROPERTY TRANSFERS (Womer Benjamin) 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; establishing an age requirement to witness a will; discretionary distributions by a fiduciary; lost, spoliated or destroyed wills; statute of limitations for certain revocable trusts; interest on proceeds of sickness and accident insurance policies due to death; and declares an emergency. Signed: April 23, 2002 - Effective: July 23, 2002 (Certain sections on April 23, 2002 & May 16, 2002)

HB 349 PARTNERSHIP LAWS (Goodman) 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. Signed: April 5, 2002 - Effective: July 5, 2002

HB 355 INMATE COMMITMENTS (Willamowski) Modifies the administrative procedures for inmate commitments to correctional institutions. Signed: April 23, 2002 - Effective: July 23, 2002

HB 362 ELECTROCUTION (Trakas) 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, provides a procedure for determining the manner of execution of a sentence of death if lethal injection is determined to be unconstitutional and declares an emergency. Signed: November 21, 2001 - Effective: November 21, 2001

HB 364 COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (Husted) Expands the sponsorship of community schools, adds "academic watch" school districts to those districts in which start-up community schools may be established, establishes the Community School Revolving Loan Fund and the Community School Security Fund, and makes other changes in the community school law, clarifies that certain crimes carry enhanced penalties when committed on community school property or at community school activities, prohibits school districts and community schools from offering certain monetary incentives for students to enroll in their districts, requires the Legislative Office of Education Oversight to study the cost of E-schools, permits a local school district superintendent to designate the superintendent of the educational service center to which the district belongs as the authority to issue age and schooling certificates to students residing in the district, requires that Disadvantaged Pupil Impact Aid payments be calculated using single-year district and statewide totals of the number of students living in families with incomes not exceeding federal poverty guidelines and receiving family assistance rather than the five-year average of such district and statewide totals, changes the deadline for the correction of reporting errors to the Education Management Information System, and adds a representative from the Auditor of State's Office to the Alternative Education Advisory Council. Signed: January 7, 2003 - Effective: April 8, 2003 (Certain provisions January 1, 2004)

HB 365 GOVERNMENT FISCAL WATCH (Setzer) 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. Signed: February 28, 2002 - Effective: May 30, 2002

HB 366 COUNTY/TOWNSHIP ROADS (Core) 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. Signed: July 25, 2002 - Effective: October 24, 2002

HB 371 LIQUOR SALES (Trakas) Revises the definition of beer; exempts the sale of beer and intoxicating liquor at publicly owned golf courses 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 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; creates the F-4 permit to be issued for certain events coordinated by nonprofit associations and corporations; makes changes in the Open Container Law and the law governing local option elections on beer and liquor sales at a specific premises; requires suppliers of wine that is bottled outside this state to furnish invoices to the Tax Commissioner for shipments into this state and specifies that those invoices are open to public inspection; and makes other changes in the Liquor Control Law. Signed: July 12, 2002 - Effective: October 11, 2002

HB 373 HIGHWAY PATROL RETIREMENT (Hughes) Revises the laws governing the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund's Deferred Retirement Option Plan and the State Highway Patrol Retirement System. Signed: December 23, 2002 - Effective: March 24, 2003

HB 374 THERAPIST LICENSING (Schmidt) Provides for the licensing of independent marriage and family therapists and marriage and family therapists.  Signed: January 6, 2003 - Effective: April 7, 2003 (Section 4757.02 on April 7, 2004)

HB 384 SCHOOL HEALTH (Oakar) 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. Signed: June 7, 2002 - Effective: September 6, 2002

HB 385 CLEAN OHIO FUNDS (Blasdel) Revises the procedures to be followed by park districts when applying for natural resources and parks and recreation grants, creates a revolving loan fund for repayments of loans made from the Clean Ohio Revitalization Fund, provides that the Department of Agriculture is a coholder of and may share in enforcing local Clean Ohio Agricultural Easement Fund easements, and makes an appropriation. Signed: February 28, 2002 - Effective: May 30, 2002 (Certain sections February 28, 2002)

HB 386 FINANCIAL SERVICE REGULATION (Blasdel) Conforms Ohio law with the federal Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act of 1994 with respect to specified consumer loans, prohibits other practices relative to those loans, creates the Office of Consumer Affairs within the Division of Financial Institutions, 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, establishes the Predatory Lending Study Committee to report to the General Assembly about predatory lending practices in mortgage lending or origination, and makes an appropriation. Signed: February 22, 2002 - Effective: February 22, 2002

HB 390 PROPERTY TAX COMPLAINTS (Carey) Extends the time within which taxpayers may file complaints against manufactured home or real property taxes with the board of revision; 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 duty 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; adds references to the kilowatt-hour tax in the calculation of the temporary stabilization of local government fund distributions and clarifies the distributions; and declares an emergency. Signed: March 4, 2002 - Effective: March 4, 2002.

HB 394 MOMENT OF SILENCE (Damschroder) Permits the board of education of a school district to provides for a period of silence each school day for reflection or meditation upon a moral, philosophical or patriotic theme; prohibits boards of education, schools, or employees of the school district from requiring a pupil to participate in such a period of since; and prohibits the board of education of a school district from adopting certain policies pertaining to religion or religious expression.  Signed: May 2, 2002 - Effective: August 1, 2002

HB 396 TAX CLAIM COMPROMISES (Latta) Relative to the attorney general's authority to compromise claims for taxes and other amounts due the state. Signed: March 14, 2002 - Effective: June 13, 2002.

HB 400 DELINQUENT CHILDREN (Faber) 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 and revises the formula for calculating the per diem cost for the care and custody of felony delinquents. Signed: January 2, 2003 - Effective: April 3, 2003 (Certain sections January 1, 2004)

HB 402 SCHOOL CERTIFICATES (Collier) 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. Signed: May 29, 2002 - Effective: August 28, 2002

HB 405 BUDGET CORRECTION/MRDD FORMULA (Peterson) Regarding services for persons with mental retardation or other developmental disabilities, revises the law governing membership of county boards of MR/DD, grants property tax exemptions for Edison program grantees, modifies Local Government Fund and Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement Fund distributions, expands the uses of the Corporate and Uniform Commercial Code Filing Fund, revises provisions of the TANF Housing Program suspends the net operating loss deduction and expand the add-back of certain expenses paid to related members under the corporate franchise tax, eliminates certain exemptions under the sales tax, taxes certain trust income, modifies the Local Government Fund and Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement Fund distributions, expands the uses of the Corporate and Uniform Commercial Code Filing Fund, revises provisions of the TANF Housing Program within the Department of Development, authorizes transfers from the Budget Stabilization Fund to the General Revenue Fund, establishes the Capital Access Program in the Department of Development, creates a nonrefundable credit against the corporate franchise and personal income taxes for job retention, exempts temporarily certain new high-technology companies from the net worth calculation of the corporate franchise tax, establishes the Rural Development Initiative Fund in the state treasury, permits the disbursement of grants from that fund in conjunction with loans from the Rural Industrial Park Loan Program, extends the sunset of the Rural Industrial Park Loan Program to July 1, 2007, permits political subdivisions in economically distressed areas to employ tax increment financing throughout a designated incentive district, revises the criteria for the award and use of certain TANF Funds for Appalachia, permits a county to enter into an agreement with a political subdivision authorizing the county to receive payments of certain revenue in the county treasury that are due a political subdivision as a credit against amounts otherwise owed to the county, requires the Department of Education in fiscal years 2002 and 2003 only to pay a subsidy to certain community schools in which at least half of the total number of students enrolled are severe behaviorally handicapped students, specifies control over Ohio Government Telecommunications and associated funds, requires the State Lottery Commission to enter into a multistate lottery if the Governor so directs, alters the liability of county clerks of court and recorders, increases the membership of the Nursing Facility Reimbursement Study Council, makes corrections and makes appropriations.  Signed: December 13, 2001 - Effective: December 13, 2001 [Some sections on other dates]

HB 406 STATE DOCUMENTS (Reidelbach) Authorizes Secretary of State to distribute certain documents in an electronic format. Signed December 18, 2001 - Effective: March 19, 2003

HB 407 DRIVER EDUCATION (Buehrer) Transfers jurisdiction over driver education courses in high schools from the Department of Education to the Department of Public Safety; requires school districts and educational service centers that offer driver education courses to meet the same standards as private driving training schools after Dec. 31, 2003; prohibits awarding course credit for driver education courses conducted by high schools after Dec. 31, 2003; requires driver education courses to include dissemination of information relating to anatomical gifts and anatomical gift procedures; specifically prohibits the reporting of a student's name, address and social security number to the Department of Education under the Education Management Information System; transfers $50,000 from the Department of Education to the Department of Public Safety in fiscal year 2003 and designates March as "Eye Donor Month in Ohio." Signed: July 12, 2002 - Effective: October 11, 2002

HB 409 MEMORIAL HIGHWAY (Fessler) Designates State Route 571, within Miami County only, the "Robert E. Netzley Highway" and permits the Director of Transportation to erect markers along the highway indicating its name, provided sufficient private contributions are received to pay all costs associated with the markers. Signed: January 6, 2003 - Effective: April 7, 2003

HB 411 WEAPONS OFFENSES (White) 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. Signed: June 28, 2002 - Effective: September 27, 2002

HB 412 NURSING CARE LIABILITY (Seitz) 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. Signed: August 8, 2002 - Effective: November 7, 2002

HB 415 COSMETOLOGY (Hollister) Revises the law governing the State Board of Cosmetology and the professions and facilities that the Board regulates. Signed: January 6, 2003 - Effective: April 7, 2003

HB 416 PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTIONS (Trakas) Provides property tax exemptions for retirement or nursing homes belonging to tax-exempt organizations and occupied by persons who have retired from uncompensated service to a charitable, religious, fraternal, or educational institution. Signed: June 7, 2002 - Effective: September 6, 2002

HB 421 FUNERAL INSURANCE (G. Smith) Relative to insurance policies that are issued, sold, or assigned for the purpose of purchasing funeral or burial goods or services, interest earned under the Standard Nonforfeiture Law for Individual Deferred Annuities, and acquisitions conducted under the Holding Company Systems Law.  Signed: May 7, 2002 - Effective: August 6, 2002

HB 424 CHILD CARE (Raga) 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. Signed: December 13, 2002 - Effective: March 14, 2003

HB 425 GASOLINE BLENDS/WELL LOCATION (Reinhard) Generally prohibits the sale of gasoline blended with methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) in certain quantities and authorizes the Department of Natural Resources to specify minimum distances for the location of oil and gas well facilities from bodies of water. Signed: May 29, 2002 - Effective: August 28, 2002

HB 426 EMINENT DOMAIN (Young) 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. Signed: June 7, 2002 - Effective: September 6, 2002

HB 427 DNA SPECIMENS (Womer Benjamin) Expands the offenses for which DNA specimens are collected from delinquent children and criminal offenders, delays the implementation of the expansion of DNA specimen collection until the Superintendent of the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation gives official notification that the state DNA laboratory is prepared to accept DNA specimens of that nature, pays the costs of DNA specimen collection from the Reparations Fund, removes the requirement that DNA specimens be collected by specified medical practitioners in certain cases, and expands the circumstances in which a person returning to incarceration must submit to a DNA specimen collection procedure to include misdemeanants covered by the DNA Specimen Collection Law who are on probation.  Signed: May 30, 2002 - Effective: August 29, 2002

HB 428 INDUSTRIAL COMPLIANCE (Widowfield) Modifies the laws administered and enforced by the Division of Industrial Compliance governing elevators, boilers, bedding and stuffed toys. Signed: May 29, 2002 - Effective: August 28, 2002

HB 442 SCHOOLS & FIREARMS (Schuring) 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. Signed: July 12, 2002 - Effective: October 11, 2002

HB 445 BALLOT ISSUE ARGUMENTS (Kearns) 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 state 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; specifies that an election to fill an unexpired term of certain judicial offices must be held at the first general election for the office that occurs more than 40 days after the governor's appointment to fill the vacant office; includes members of a board of elections in the definition of an "election official" for purposes of statutes relating to elections and political communications; prohibits a petition from being withdrawn after it is filed in a public office; requires the designation of "Independent" to be printed on a ballot under the name of each nonjudicial candidate who files a nominating petition and requests that designation; specifies that non person may seek to be a candidate for two or more specified offices that will be voted on at the same election; requires a board of elections or the Secretary of State to reject any declaration of candidacy, declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate, or a nominating petition filed by a person who is a candidate for a specified office at the same election; requires a board of elections or the Secretary of State to disqualify any such candidate based on certain criteria; and removes the requirement that a write-in candidate for the position of committeeperson of a political party controlling committee receive the same number of votes as petition signatures necessary to qualify the person for the printing of the person's name on the ballot in order to win an election by receiving the greatest number of votes cast for the position. Signed: December 23, 2002 - Effective: December 23, 2002

HB 454 LOCAL GOVERNMENT SPENDING (Coates) Raises the threshold amount below which the fiscal officer of a political subdivisions can approve expenditures made without a certificate of available funds. Signed: January 6, 2003 - Effective: April 7, 2003

HB 455 AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY MARKETING (Aslanides) Revises certain provisions of the law governing agricultural commodity marketing programs and authorizes the Director of Agriculture to award grants for the purpose of promoting agriculture. Signed: April 5, 2002 - Effective: July 5, 2002

HB 458 CONSTRUCTION INSURANCE (Williams) 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. Signed: June 21, 2002 - Effective: September 20, 2002

HB 464 COURT CONTRACTS (Willamowski) 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, the use of certain interest for computerization of the clerk's office, and allowing a collection agency to collect from the holder any charge imposed by a financial institution on a negotiable instrument that has been returned or dishonored. Signed: May 29, 2002 - Effective: August 28, 2002

HB 470 REAL PROPERTY INSTRUMENTS (Faber) Modifies the statutory forms of certain real property instruments and declares an emergency. Signed: January 30, 2002 - Effective: February 1, 2002

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.  Signed: January 24, 2002 - Effective: January 24, 2002

HB 473 LAND CONVEYANCE (Carey) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate located in Jackson County to the Jackson City Board of Education, authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate located in Delaware County to Delaware County, conveyance of state-owned real estate located in Perry County to the Board of Trustees of the Hocking Technical College, corrects a legal description in a previous conveyance of real property the Adjutant General determined was no longer needed for armory or military purposes, authorizes the conveyance and transfer of state-owned personal property comprising part of the Flat Branch Sewage Treatment Plant located in Logan County to the Logan County Board of Commissioners, authorizes the conveyance of two parcels of state-owned real estate in Franklin County to the City of Columbus, and declares an emergency. Signed: June 18, 2002 - Effective: June 18, 2002

HB 474 ASSISTED SUICIDE (Kearns) 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. Signed: December 23, 2002 - Effective: March 24, 2003

HB 485 CHILD RAPE (Widowfield) 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. Signed: June 13, 2002 - Effective: June 13, 2002

HB 490 MISDEMEANOR SENTENCING (Latta) Implements recommendations of the Criminal Sentencing Commission pertaining to misdemeanor sentencing generally and makes other changes in the criminal law, including changes in the law regarding matter harmful to juveniles, and in certain provisions regarding the issuance of motor vehicle registrations or driver's licenses. Signed: January 2, 2003 - Effective: January 1, 2004 (Certain provisons April 3, 2003)

HB 493 SUNDAY HUNTING (Latta) Eliminates the special requirements governing Sunday hunting and revises the law governing the disposition of deer killed by motor vehicles. Signed May 15, 2002 - Effective: August 14, 2002

HB 496 DRUG DEPENDENCY BOARD (Peterson) Creates the Chemical Dependency Professionals Board, requires licensure or certification of chemical dependency counselors, authorizes certification of alcohol and other drug prevention specialists, and makes an appropriation. Signed: December 23, 2002 - Effective: December 23, 2002 (Certain sections later)

HB 498 JAMES HIGHWAY (S. Smith) Designates a portion of Interstate Number 490 within the City of Cleveland as the "Troy Lee James Highway." Signed December 18, 2001 - Effective: March 19, 2003

HB 499 BUTLER COUNTY JUDGE (Cates) 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.  Signed February 21, 2002 - Effective: February 21, 2002

HB 506 CREDIT UNION LAWS (Salerno) 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. Signed June 28, 2002 - Effective: September 27, 2002

HB 507 LAND CONVEYANCE (Metzger) Authorizes conveyance of two parcels of state-owned real estate located in Guernsey County, one parcel to Cambridge Township and the other parcel jointly to Cambridge Township, the City of Cambridge, Guernsey County, the Guernsey County Port Authority, and the Cambridge-Guernsey County Improvement Corporation and authorizes the conveyance of two parcels of state-owned real estate located in Summit County to the Nordonia Hills City School District. Signed: June 18, 2002 - Effective: September 17, 2002

HB 509 TRUST COMPANIES (Womer Benjamin) 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, expands the investment authority of fiduciaries under the Probate Fiduciaries Law, and restricts bequests and other property transfers to persons adopted as adults, unless such persons are expressly included in the instrument of transfer. Signed: December 13, 2002 - Effective: March 14, 2003

HB 510 REHABILITATION & CORRECTION (Womer Benjamin) Relative to the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction and auditing of community-based correctional facilities. Signed: December 30, 2002 - Effective: March 31, 2003

HB 512 BINGO (Husted) Defines "bingo" to include bingo, instant bingo, seal cards, punch boards, and raffles; increases the license fee to two hundred dollars for a license that authorizes charitable organizations to conduct bingo; creates a separate license that authorizes charitable organizations to conduct instant bingo with a license fee based on all money or assets received from instant bingo and allows the Attorney General to set the license fee for new licensees; requires the licensing of manufacturers and distributors of bingo supplies; regulates the conduct of instant bingo and raffles, and; makes other changes in the Charitable Gambling Law. Signed: January 2, 2003 - Effective: April 3, 2003

HB 513 TOWNSHIP AUTHORITY (Seitz) 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. Signed: December 30, 2002 - Effective: March 31, 2003

HB 514 MECHANIC'S LIEN LAW (Seitz) 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, establishes new criteria for determining whether a notice, affidavit, or other document has been served as required under that law, and specifies that the excavation, cleanup, or removal of hazardous material from real property is an improvement for purposes of the Mechanic's Lien Law. Signed: December 13, 2002 - Effective: March 14, 2003

HB 515 TOWNSHIP POWERS/EMPLOYMENT (Schmidt) 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. Signed: December 30, 2002 - Effective: March 31, 2003

HB 518 COUNTY LODGING TAX (Schmidt) Authorizes boards of county commissioners of certain counties to levy an additional excise tax on lodging. Signed: June 7, 2002 - Effective: September 6, 2002

HB 520 MANUFACTURED HOUSING (Hoops) 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; excludes manufactured homes and mobile homes from the abandoned vehicle statutes; provides a procedure for the removal of abandoned property from a recreational vehicle park, recreation camp, combined park-camp, or temporary park-camp; gives qualified immunity to manufactured home park operators and amends the version of section 4503.061 of the Revised Code that is scheduled to take effect January 1, 2004, to continue the provisions of this act on and after that effective date. Signed: January 2, 2003 - Effective: April 3, 2003 (Certain provisons January 1, 2004)

HB 522 FIDUCIARY LAW (Willamowski) 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, limits the holding in Sherman v. Sherman (1966), 5 Ohio St. 2d 27, modifies state bond law, and declares an emergency. Signed: December 9, 2002 - Effective: December 9, 2002 [Certain sections on January 1, 2003]

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. Signed March 28, 2002 - Effective: June 28, 2002, certain sections effective March 28, 2002.

HB 527 LAPOINTE PARKWAY (Strahorn) 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." Signed: January 6, 2003 - Effective: April 7, 2003

HB 530 JUROR SELECTION/COUNTY COURTS (Peterson) 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; creates the Brown County Municipal Court in Georgetown on February 9, 2003, establishes one full-time judgeship in that court, abolishes the Brown County County Court on that date, designates one of the part-time judges of the Brown County County Court to continue after that court is abolished as the full-time judge of the Brown County Municipal Court from February 9, 2003, until December 31, 2005, and continues the authority of the mayor of Georgetown to conduct a mayor's court; creates the Morrow County Municipal Court in Mount Gilead on January 1, 2003, establishes one full-time judgeship in that court, abolishes the Morrow County County Court on that date, designates the part-time judge of the Morrow County County Court to continue after that court is abolished as the full-time judge of the Morrow County Municipal Court from January 1, 2003, until December 31, 2005, and continue the authority of the mayor of Mount Gilead to conduct a mayor's court; and declares an emergency. Signed December 18, 2001 - Effective: December 18, 2002 (Certain sections January 1, 2004)

HB 533 PHYSICIAN-PATIENT PRIVILEGE (Buehrer) Permits the testimonial privilege between a physician and a deceased patient to be waived by any party to a will contest action. Signed: December 30, 2002 - Effective: March 31, 2003

HB 539 FLAG DISPLAY/DEED RESTRICTIONS (Raga) 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. Signed: January 6, 2003 - Effective: April 7, 2003

HB 545 SPECIAL POLICE OFFICERS (Setzer) Requires certain special police officers of certain airports to receive peace officer training and certification and annual firearms requalification; designates those special police officers as law enforcement officers for certain purposes; exempts certain certification examinations from the Public Records Law; requires the Executive Director of the Peace Officer Training Commission to cause a criminal records check of any person seeking peace officer basic training certification before the person's completion of an approved program, and authorizes the conveyance of state-owned land in Madison County to the Kirkwood Cemetery Association. Signed December 18, 2001 - Effective: March 19, 2003

HB 548 COURT FEES (Manning) Clarifies that no fees, cost, deposit, or money may be charged relative to certain protection orders and consent agreements or relative to the filing or prosecution of domestic violence charges and expands the out-of-state protection orders that are within the scope of the laws regarding out-of-state protection orders. Signed: December 30, 2002 - Effective: March 31, 2003

HB 580 MEMORIAL HIGHWAY (Hughes) Designates a portion of Interstate 270 within Franklin County as the "Trooper Frank G. Vazquez Memorial Highway." Signed: January 6, 2003 - Effective: April 7, 2003

HB 605 DISASTER RESPONSE (White) Establishes an intrastate mutual aid program for emergency preparedness and disaster response and recovery to be known as the Intrastate Mutual Aid Compact and declares an emergency. Signed: December 23, 2002 - Effective: December 23, 2002

HB 657 CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT (Reidelbach) Revises the law governing child support enforcement and declares an emergency. Signed: December 13, 2002 - Effective: December 13, 2002

HB 675 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS (Calvert) Makes capital appropriations, modifies other appropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 2004, and provides authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs. Signed: December 13, 2002 - Effective: December 13, 2002 [Line item was vetoed - See Ohio Report No. 237, Dec. 13, 2002]