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SB 1 EDUCATION STANDARDS (Robert Gardner). Am. En. & Rep. 307, 3301, 3302, 3313, 3314, 3317, 3319, 3321, 3324 & 3365. Implements recommendations of the Governor's Commission for Student Success.

SB 2 SCHOOL FUNDING (Jacobson) Am., En. & Rep. 3317. Revises the system for providing state funds to school districts beginning in fiscal year 2002.

SB 3 SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION (Hottinger) Am. & En. 109, 2151 & 2950. Applies the Sex Offender Registration Law to persons adjudicated delinquent children for committing sexually oriented offenses and clarifies that sex offender registration information held by a county sheriff is a public record.

SB 4 "PROMPT PAY" (Mumper) Am., En. & Rep. 1739, 3901 & 3902. Revises the "prompt pay" statutes applicable to third-party payers.

SB 5 ANNEXATION (Wachtmann) Am., En. & Rep. 505, 709, 929 & 5705. Revises the laws governing municipal annexations.

SB 6 ELECTION BALLOTS (Hottinger) Am. & En. 3506, 3509 & 3515. Requires designated board of elections employees in counties that use punch card ballots to remove from those ballots chads that are attached by two or fewer corners prior to counting of the ballots, specifies that no chad attached to a punch card ballot by three or four corners counts as a vote, and requires that voter instructions for punch card ballots instruct voters to remove partially attached chads from their ballots before returning them to election officials.

SB 7 DNA TESTING (Johnson) Am. & En. 2953. Establishes a mechanism for the DNA testing of certain inmates under a sentence of death.

SB 8 E-MAIL ADS (Amstutz) En. 2913. Regulates the transmission of electronic mail advertisements.

SB 9 SEXUAL EXPLOITATION (Spada) Am. & En. 2907 & 4732. Enacts the offense of "sexual exploitation of a mental health client or patient," prohibits in specified circumstances mental health professionals from engaging in sexual conduct or having sexual contact with their mental health clients or patients, provides for notice to the regulatory entity with authority over a mental health professional who is charged with or convicted of those activities, modifies the laws regarding the State Board of Psychology, and modifies the laws governing psychologist misconduct.

SB 10 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (Armbruster) Am. & En. 112 & 166. Establishes the Capital Access Loan Program in the Department of Development.

SB 11 FOREIGN STEEL (Hagan) Am. 153. Modifies the 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, and establishes a civil penalty for violation of this prohibition.

SB 12 JOINT INCOME TAX FILING (Armbruster) Am. 5747. Allows married couples to file joint or separate state income tax returns regardless of their federal filing status.

SB 13 ARMED SERVICE VOTING (Oelslager) 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 if received by the appropriate board of elections prior to 11 days after an election or prior to 21 days after a presidential primary election.

SB 14 CHICKEN POX IMMUNIZATIONS (Johnson) Am. 3313 & 3701. Requires that certain school children be immunized against chicken pox.

SB 15 LIME MINING WASTE (Mumper) En. 1514. Requires the chief of the Division of Mineral Resources Management to adopt rules governing the beneficial use of lime mining wastes.

SB 16 BICENTENNIAL BRIDGE (Carnes) En. 5. Designates Blaine Hill Bridge in Belmont County the state's Bicentennial Bridge.

SB 17 DEAN MARTIN DAY (DiDonato) En. 5. Designates the seventh day of June as Dean Martin Day.

SB 18 CAPITAL APPROPRIATIONS EQUITY (Shoemaker) Am. 126. Establishes the policy that appropriations for community improvement projects provided for in the capital improvements budget each biennium be shared more or less equally by eight districts of the state created by the director of Budget and Management on the basis of population.

SB 19 PROJECT LABOR AGREEMENTS (Shoemaker) Am. 3318. Prohibits the Ohio School Facilities Commission from prohibiting the use of project labor agreements for school building projects and prohibits the Commission from considering the use of project labor agreements in its decision to approve the building project for state building assistance.

SB 20 ALL-DAY KINDERGARTEN (Shoemaker) Am. 3317. Provides additional state funding to each school district that operates all-day kindergarten.

SB 21 HIGHWAY NAMING (DiDonato) En. 5533. Designates a portion of state route number seven within Columbiana County as the "Melvin E. Newlin Memorial Highway."

SB 22 HATE CRIMES CENTER (Fingerhut) Am. & En. 109 & 3345. Establishes the Center for the Study of Hate Crimes in Ohio to collect and maintain specified information and data related to hate crimes.

SB 23 ASSISTED LIVING (Fingerhut) 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.

SB 24 SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY EXPANSION (Johnson) Am. 2744. Include as a governmental function under the Political Subdivision Sovereign Immunity Law the operation of a bicycle motorcross, bicycling, skating, skate boarding, or scooter riding facility.

SB 25 DNA TESTING (Espy) Am. & En. 2930, 2933 & 2953. Provides DNA testing to specified adult offenders and delinquent children if the DNA evidence would have been relevant in the initial determination of guilt or adjudication of a delinquent child.

SB 26 APPLIANCE EFFICIENCY EXEMPTION (Mumper) Am. 5739. Temporarily exempts from the sales and use taxes sales of certain energy-efficient appliances.

SB 27 ADOPTION BACKGROUND NOTICE (Mumper) Am. 2151. Requires a public or private entity that places a child who has been adjudicated a delinquent child for certain acts for adoption to inform the prospective adoptive parents about the child's background and, in certain circumstances, to conduct a psychological examination of the child.

SB 28 SEX OFFENSES (Espy) Am. 2907. Increases from "under 16" to "under 18" years of age the relevant age of the victim for certain sex offense prohibitions and penalties.

SB 29 NATURAL GAS/PROPANE TAX (Hagan) Am. 5739. Expands the sales tax exemption for sales of natural gas and extends the exemption to sales of propane.

SB 30 PRIVATE PRISONS (Hagan) Am. 9. Allows a private prison that houses out-of-state prisoners to operate in Ohio only if it was constructed and the private entity that runs it had commenced its operation before this act's effective date.

SB 31 VEHICLE REGISTRATION (Oelslager) Am. 4503. Prohibits the display of Social Security numbers on motor vehicle certificates of registration.

SB 32 SECURITIES LAW (White) Am. & Rep. 1707. Makes revisions in the Securities Law.

SB 33 AWARENESS MONTH (White) En. 5. Designates March as "Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month."

SB 34 SCHOOL FACILITY FUNDING (Shoemaker) En. 3317. Provides an additional equalized subsidy to school districts for maintenance and capital improvements.

SB 35 SCHOOL TEXTBOOK FUNDING (Shoemaker) En. 3317. Provides an additional equalized subsidy to school districts for textbooks and instructional materials.

SB 36 SCHOOL CONSOLIDATION (Shoemaker) En. 3311. Allows noncontiguous school districts to consolidate.

SB 37 SOLID WASTE DISTRICTS (Oelslager) 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.

SB 38 DAY-CARE LICENSING (Wachtmann) Codifies the statute governing the Type C Family Day-care Program.

SB 39 PHYSICIAN PROFILES (Hagan) En. 4731. Requires the State Medical Board to create physician profiles and make them available to the public.

SB 40 EMERGENCY SERVICES PERSONNEL (Jordan) Am. 2903, 2909 & 2917. Extends the offenses of disrupting public services and misconduct at an emergency to activities of emergency facility personnel, increases the penalty for disorderly conduct if committed in the presence of an emergency facility person performing duties in an emergency facility, and specifies that "pattern of conduct" in menacing by stalking includes actions obstructing an emergency facility person's performance of authorized acts.

SB 41 CONSTRUCTION DEBRIS DISPOSAL (Carnes) En. 3714. Establishes a two-year moratorium on the licensing of new construction and demolition debris facilities that are planning to accept construction and demolition debris that is generated outside this state.

SB 42 ENERGY POLICY COMMITTEE (Brady) Creates the State Energy Policy Committee for the purposes of evaluating state energy policies and developing strategies for stabilizing consumer utility prices and declares an emergency.

SB 43 UTILITY AGGREGATION (Brady) En. 4929. Provides a municipal corporation, county, or township with authority for governmental aggregation of the retail natural gas loads of those consumers who are within its jurisdiction and have a choice of gas supplier.

SB 44 INCOME TAX CREDIT (Amstutz) Am. 5747. Allows more than one senior citizen income tax credit to be claimed on a joint return.

SB 45 DIABETES COVERAGE (Armbruster) En. 1751 & 3923. Requires certain health care policies, contracts, agreements and plans to provide benefits for equipment, supplies and medication for the diagnosis, treatment and management of diabetes and for diabetes self-management education.

SB 46 APPALACHIAN GRANTS (Shoemaker) Appropriates $5 million to the Governor's Office of Appalachia in fiscal year 2002 for the purpose of awarding grants to improve quality of life opportunities in the Appalachian counties.

SB 47 TEACHER SALARIES (Shoemaker) Am. 3317. Increases the state minimum salary schedule for teachers.

SB 48 TAX EXEMPTION (Shoemaker) Am. 5709. Exempts from taxation property held or occupied by veterans' organizations that qualify for income tax exemption under the Internal Revenue Code.

SB 49 NATURAL GAS MARKETERS (Fingerhut) Am. & En. 4905, 4911 & 4929. Subjects retail natural gas marketers to certification by the Public Utilities Commission.

SB 50 PROSTATE EXAMS (Jacobson) 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.

SB 51 SPEED LIMITS (Wachtmann) Am. 4511. Increases from 55 to 65 miles per hour the speed at which motor vehicles weighing more than 8,000 pounds when empty and noncommercial buses are permitted to travel on certain freeways in this state.

SB 52 NATURAL GAS TAXES (Ryan) Suspends for three months the sales and use taxes on natural gas and the excise tax on the gross receipts of natural gas companies; requires that the gross receipts tax savings be refunded to residential customers and declares an emergency.

SB 53 ENERGY EMERGENCIES (Herington) Am. 4935. Authorizes the Governor, during a declared energy emergency, to order sellers of electricity, natural gas, gas, coal or petroleum fuel to sell at a lower price; requires the Governor to declare an energy emergency under certain circumstances; requires the Governor to request a suspension of certain taxes upon such declaration and declares an emergency.

SB 54 TARTAN DAY (Mead) En. 5. Designates April 6 of each year "Tartan Day."

SB 55 HEALTH PLANS (Blessing) Am. & En. 1751. Requires all closed panel plans offered by health insurance corporations to allow enrollees to use nonparticipating providers and imposes on such enrollees a co-payment, deductible, or other out-of-pocket expense that reflects the health insuring corporation's certified actual costs and sets forth other requirements for closed panel plans.

SB 56 COMPUTER TAX EXEMPTION (Coughlin) Am. & En. 5739. Provides a one-week period each year from 2001 to 2004 during which sales of personal computer systems are exempt from the state sales and use tax.

SB 57 RETIREMENT BENEFIT EXEMPTION (Coughlin) Am. 5747. Exempts from the personal income tax up to $10,000 in state and federal government and military retirement benefits.

SB 58 MARGIN ACCOUNT INTEREST (Coughlin) Am. 5747. Permits taxpayers to deduct interest charged to margin accounts.

SB 59 VEHICLE TITLING (Amstutz) Am. & En. 1548, 4501, 4503, 4505 & 4519. Makes changes in the titling processes for motor vehicles, watercraft, outboard motors, off-highway motorcycles, and all-purpose vehicles.

SB 60 COMPENSATORY TIME (Coughlin) Am. 4111. Affords to private sector employers the option to offer and to employees to option to accrue and use compensatory time off and to afford both public and private employees and employers the option to institute biweekly work schedule programs.

SB 61 COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (Coughlin) Am. 3317 & 3327. Provides temporary transitional funding to school districts where community school enrollment growth is 1% or more of formula ADM; provides state subsidies to school districts to acquire school buses to transport community school students; permits school districts to use school bus subsidies to acquire buses by lease or lease-purchase and makes an appropriation.

SB 62 APPRENTICESHIP RATIOS (Jordan) Am. 4115 & 4139. Establishes acceptable standards for the ratio of apprentices to journeypersons for apprenticeship programs in the building and construction industry that are not governed by the provisions of a collective bargaining agreement.

SB 63 PROPERTY TAX "FREEZE" (Shoemaker) Am. 319, 323 & 5713. "Freezes" real property taxes on residences of persons age 65 or older.

SB 64 SCHOOL FACILITIES REPORT (Shoemaker) Am. 3318. Requires the Ohio School Facilities Commission to issue an annual labor force report.

SB 65 DRINKING WATER STANDARDS (Mumper) En. 6109. Specifies that if a water supplier that acquires ownership of an existing water system enters into a written agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency to bring the system into compliance with drinking water standards within a specified period of time and then does so, the water supplier has certain civil immunities concerning the system's previous failure to meet those drinking water standards and confers other qualified immunities from tort liability upon a water supplier.

SB 66 VETERANS DIPLOMA (DiDonato) En. 3313. Grants high school diplomas to surviving World War I, Korean Conflict, and Vietnam Conflict veterans.

SB 67 INTERNET AUCTION PURCHASES (Wachtmann) 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.

SB 68 ASSAULT OFFENSES (Coughlin) Am. 2903. Increases the penalty for assault on sports officials.

SB 69 INCOME TAX INDEXING (Jordan) Am. 5747. Indexes the personal income tax rate structure to increases in general price inflation.

SB 70 INCOME TAX REDUCTION (Jordan) Am. 5747. Reduces the personal income tax rates by 10% over four years.

SB 71 LANDFILL MORATORIUM (Coughlin) En. 3734. Establishes a two-year moratorium on the issuance of permits for new solid waste landfills or the modification of existing solid waste landfills and declares an emergency.

SB 72 STATE COLOR (Fingerhut) En. 5. Adopts red as the official state color.

SB 73 CONTRACTOR RETAINAGE (Hottinger) Am. 153, 1311, 4113 & 5559. Prohibits the practice of withholding a percentage of payment from contractors, subcontractors and material suppliers in the form of retainage.

SB 74 COMMERCIAL CODE (Blessing) Am., En. & Rep. 111, 317, 1301, 1302, 1303, 1304, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311, 1317, 1321, 1329, 1336, 1548, 1701, 4503, 4505 & 4519. Adopts revisions to the secured transactions portion of the Uniform Commercial Code that were recommended by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and makes related changes in the Uniform Commercial Code and the Revised Code and declares an emergency.

SB 75 MR/DD SUPPORT (Shoemaker) Appropriates funds to provide supported living services for Ohioans with mental retardation and developmental disabilities to enable them to live in the community in a residence of their choice.

SB 76 MORTGAGE BROKERS (Harris) Am. & En. 1322, 1345, 4712. Revises the laws governing mortgage brokers and loan officers.

SB 77 ENGINEERING SERVICES (Coughlin) Am. 4733. Relative to a business entity obtaining a certificate of authorization to provide professional engineering or surveying services if a combination of registered professional engineers, surveyors or architects own collectively more than fifty per cent of the business entity providing those services.

SB 78 FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS (Jordan) 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.

SB 79 AMBULANCE LICENSING (Hottinger) Am. & En. 307, 505, 4503, 4513 & 4766. Authorizes the Ohio Ambulance Licensing board to license commercial medical service organizations that operate ambulette vehicles for the transportation of persons who require the use of a wheelchair; adds two members to the board and renames the Board the Ohio Ambulance and Ambulette Licensing Board.

SB 80 BOATING SPEEDS (Harris) Am. 1547. Limits the prohibition against operating a vessel at greater than idle speed or at a speed that creates a wake within three hundred feet of certain dock and harbor areas to vessels operating on Lake Erie or the Ohio River.

SB 81 UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION (Hagan) Am. 4141. Permits employees involved in a lockout to be eligible for extended unemployment compensation benefits.

SB 82 COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (Ryan) Am. & En. 3314 & 3317. With respect to reporting of community school data.

SB 83 MINERAL MINING (Carnes) Am. & En. 1514. Revises the statutes governing the surface and in-stream mining of materials other than coal.

SB 84 SCHOOL FUNDING (Brady) Am. & En. 131, 319, 323, 5705 & 5715. Levies a statewide tax on business tangible personal property and real property to fund primary and secondary education and reduces school district taxing authority commensurately.

SB 85 RHODES HIGHWAY (Austria) En. 5533. Designates the portion of United States Route 68 from its intersection with Interstate 70 in Clark County to the boundary of Clark and Champaign counties as the "Governor James A. Rhodes Memorial Highway."

SB 86 RESIDENTIAL STATE SUPPLEMENT (Shoemaker) Appropriates funds to increase Residential State Supplement program slots by fifty percent.

SB 87 LAND CONVEYANCE (Coughlin) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate located in Summit County to Summit County.

SB 88 NEIGHBORHOOD ASSISTANCE CREDITS (Armbruster) Am. & En. 122, 5727, 5733 & 5747. Creates tax credits against public utility gross receipts, corporation franchise, or income tax liability for contributions to neighborhood assistance projects certified by the Director of Development.

SB 89 PRIVATE SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS (Amstutz) Am. 3313. Modifies the monetary amount of a basic scholarship awarded by the pilot project scholarship program.

SB 90 SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP CREDITS (Jordan) 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.

SB 91 CRIME VICTIM NOTICES (Shoemaker) Am. & En. 2903, 2929, 2930 & 4507. Relative to eligibility restrictions for judicial release; expansion of criminal victim notification; public hearings for reducing a publicly state sentence; prohibiting occupational driving privileges for certain offenders; and disciplining a prosecutor for failing to provide crime victim notifications.

SB 92 NEW VETERANS' HOMES (Shoemaker) Assists with the cost of construction of two additional state-operated, 168-bed veterans' homes to be located in counties south of Interstate 70 and no further west than counties containing State Route 23.

SB 93 UNCLAIMED FUNDS (Coughlin) Am. 169. Exempts wages of $100 or less from coverage under the unclaimed funds law.

SB 94 CONSERVATION RULES (White) En. 3734. Authorizes the Director of Environmental Protection to adopt rules in accordance with the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act by direct final rule-making procedures under certain circumstances.

SB 95 CHIROPRACTOR LICENSES (Jordan) Am. 4734. Modifies certain examination requirements that must be met to be licensed as a chiropractor and declares an emergency.

SB 96 LAKE ERIE DRILLING (Brady) Am. 1505. Bans the taking or removal of oil or natural gas from and under the bed of Lake Erie.

SB 97 VEHICLE INSURANCE (Nein) Am. 3937. Revises the Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Coverages Law and declares an emergency.

SB 98 PHYSICAL THERAPISTS (Nein) 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.

SB 99 UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION (Nein) Am., En. & Rep. 3121, 4141 & 4503. Modifies procedures for applying for determination of unemployment compensation benefits and claims for those benefits, modifies the procedures for appealing decisions relative to unemployment compensation benefits, requires that the information currently submitted by employers in two separate quarterly reports be merged into one report, and correspondingly modifies the threshold parameters for forfeiture penalties for late and improper filing of quarterly reports.

SB 100 WORKERS' COMP/PFPF BENEFITS (DiDonato) 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.

SB 101 TELEPHONE SOLICITATIONS (Spada) Am. & En. 4719. Establishes certain restrictions with respect to unsolicited calling and unsolicited telephone solicitations, provides for a do-not-call list maintained by the Attorney General, and provides certain remedies and penalties for violations.

SB 102 ELECTION PROCESS STUDY (Mallory) Creates a joint legislative committee to study the election process in Ohio, make recommendations for its reform, and evaluate costs associated with implementing the recommended reform measures.

SB 103 INMATE TELEPHONE CALLS (Ryan) En. 5120. Requires the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to create an inmate debit billing system for inmate telephone calls.

SB 104 LICENSE SUSPENSION (Randy Gardner) 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.

SB 105 ENVIRONMENTAL CIVIL ACTIONS (Hottinger) En. 3745. Establishes a five-year statute of limitations for civil actions brought under certain environmental laws.

SB 106 SCHOOL SOVEIGN IMMUNITY (Hottinger) Am. 723, 2744, 4582 & 5591. Includes as a governmental function under the Political Subdivision Sovereign Immunity Law the design, construction, reconstruction, renovation, repair, maintenance, and operation of any school athletic facility, school auditorium, or gymnasium and reenacts changes made by Am.Sub.HB350 of the 121st General Assembly to the Political Subdivision Sovereign Immunity Law as scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1, 2002.

SB 107 TORT LAW (Armbruster) Am. 2307. Enacts changes made to the tort law that were enacted by Am.Sub.HB350 of the 121st General Assembly and amended by Sub.HB547 of the 122nd General Assembly and by Sub.HB294 of the 123rd General Assembly.

SB 108 TORT LAW (Jacobson) Am. & Rep. 109, 163, 1343, 1701, 1707, 1775, 1901, 2101, 2117, 2125, 2305, 2307, 2313, 2315, 2501, 2743, 2744, 3123, 3701, 3722, 4112, 4113, 4171, 4399, 4507, 4513, 4582, 4909, 5111, 5591. Revises tort law and declares an emergency.

SB 109 BONDING REQUIREMENTS (Nein) En. 9. Prohibits and agent of a public authority, in issuing an invitation for bids or a request for proposals for a contract with the public authority, from requiring that any bond under the contract be furnished by or acquired from a particular surety or other company or a particular agent or broker.

SB 110 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE (Johnson) Am. 1701. Relative to the authority of a corporation to issue option rights or securities having conversion or option rights with respect to shares, the acts of a director of a corporation relating to an acquisition or potential or proposed acquisition of control of the corporation, and the general duties of a director of a corporation.

SB 111 UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION (Brady) Am. 4141. Changes the unemployment benefits eligibility requirement for individuals who are unemployed due to a labor dispute.

SB 112 HIGHWAY NAMING (Shoemaker) En. 5533. Names State Route 93, within Lawrence County only, the "Purple Heart Highway."

SB 113 EARNED INCOME CREDIT (Ryan) Am. & En. 5747. Grants a state earned income tax credit equal to 20% of the federal earned income tax credit.

SB 114 PREVAILING WAGE LAW (Wachtmann) Am., En. & Rep. 122, 164, 165, 166, 175, 176, 307, 351, 1551, 1710, 1728, 3383, 3706, 4115, 4116, 4582, 4981, 5122, 5123, 5540, 6117 & 6121. Modifies the Prevailing Wage Law to apply only to public improvements owned by the state and establishes a two-year statute of limitations for actions alleging violations of that law.

SB 115 FIRE SERVICES (Hottinger) Am. 9, 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.

SB 116 REGENTS AUTHORITY (Robert Gardner) Am. & En. 1713, 3332, 3333, 3365, 3366, 5107, 5910 & 5919. Permits institutions that grant baccalaureate degrees approved by the Board of Regents under Sec. 3332.05 of the Revised Code on the effective date of this act, are operated by a for-profit corporation, and are not state-assisted to be regulated exclusively by the Board of Regents.

SB 117 MEDICAL GASES (Austria) En. 4729. Establishes requirements for devices containing medical gases and requires the State Board of Pharmacy to establish a medical gases safety program.

SB 118 HOME SCHOOLING NOTICE (Shoemaker) Am. 3321. Requires parents to notify school districts of their intent to provide home instruction for their children by specified dates.

SB 119 PUBLIC RETIREMENT (Austria) Am. & En. 145, 742, 3307, 3309 & 5505. Permits multiple transfers of service credit and contributions between Ohio's state retirement systems.

SB 120 CIVIL LIABILITY (Johnson) Am., En. & Rep. 1775, 2101, 2307, 2313, 2315, 4507 & 5703. Modifies the law regarding the apportionment of liability in specified civil actions.

SB 121 NEWBORN SCREENING (Blessing) Am. 3701. Revises the law regarding required screening of newborn children for genetic, endocrine, and metabolic disorders.

SB 122 LEGAL COMPETENCY (Oelslager) Am. 2945 & revives and amends section 2945.38, and to repeal section 2945.38 of the Revised Code as it results from AmSubSB285 of the 121st General Assembly. Relative to the determination of a defendant's competency to stand trial and whether or not there is a substantial probability that the defendant will become competent to stand trial if provided with a course of treatment.

SB 123 TRAFFIC LAWS (Oelslager) Am., En. & Rep. 9, 119, 733, 1547, 1901, 1905, 1907, 2151, 2152, 2743, 2903, 2907, 2919, 2921, 2923, 2925, 2929, 2935, 2937, 2951, 2953, 3123, 3327, 3793, 3937, 4301, 4501, 4503, 4505, 4506, 4507, 4508, 4509, 4511, 4513, 4517, 4519, 4549, 4551, 4561, 4563, 4582, 4583, 5120, 5503, & 5743. Adopts, effective January 1, 2003, the Ohio Criminal Sentencing Commission's Traffic Proposals, with modifications, and related changes in the traffic laws and makes an appropriation.

SB 124 INFORMED CONSENT (Jordan) Am. & En. 3702. Relative to sanctions for a health care facility's violations of licensing requirements and quality standards, injunctions to enjoin such violations, information and informed consent compliance requirements for ambulatory surgical facility physicians, and expanded health care facility rule making authority of the Director of Health.

SB 125 AIR QUALITY CREDITS/BONDS (Blessing) Am. & En. 3706 & 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.

SB 126 AUTOMATED TELLER FEES (Hagan) En. 1349. Prohibits financial institutions from charging customers transaction fees for transactions conducted on an automated teller machine and requires the Superintendent of Financial Institutions to adopt rules to administer the act.

SB 127 PRESCRIPTION DRUGS (Hagan) Am. & En. 329 & 5110. Creates the Rx Program, requires the director of Job and Family Services, on making a specified determination, to establish maximum retail prices for prescription drugs, authorizes the director to act in the event of a severe shortage of prescription drugs, and authorizes a civil action for violation of certain prohibitions regarding pricing of prescription drugs.

SB 128 SMOKING RULES (Wachtmann) Am. 3709. Requires that any orders or rules enacted by a board of health related to the sale or use of cigarettes or other tobacco products be adopted by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation or township before those orders or rules are effective within the boundaries of that political subdivision.

SB 129 INSURANCE PRODUCERS (Nein) Am., En. & Rep. 1514, 1751, 2927, 3901, 3903, 3905, 3907, 3909, 3911, 3923, 3929, 3931, 3953, 3957, 3960 & 5703. Adopts the Insurance Producer's Licensing Act.

SB 130 CONCEALED WEAPONS (Wachtmann) Am. & En. 1547, 2921, 2923 & 2953. Authorizes county sheriffs to issue licenses to carry concealed handguns to certain persons and creates the offenses of falsification to obtain a concealed handgun license and possessing a revoked or suspended concealed handgun license.

SB 131 HOUSING SHELTER IMMUNITY (Austria) En. 2305. Confers two distinct qualified immunities from tort liability upon a shelter for victims of domestic violence and its directors, owners, trustees, officers, employees, and volunteers for harm that family or household members cause to victims of domestic violence on the shelter's premises, or on premises other than the shelter's premises, under specified circumstances.

SB 132 AEROSPACE COUNCIL (Austria) Am. 122. Creates the Ohio Aerospace and Defense Advisory Council.

SB 133 SEXUAL IMPOSITION (Herington) Am. 2907. Expands gross sexual imposition to prohibit a person who has supervisory or disciplinary authority over a person in custody or an institution from having, or causing, sexual contact with the other person.

SB 134 OPF RETIREMENT (Blessing) Am. & En. 742. Provides for the establishment of the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund deferred retirement option plan.

SB 135 WETLAND PERMITS (Johnson) En. 3745 & 6111. Requires the issuance of permits for impacts to wetlands and declares an emergency.

SB 136 RETAIL FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS (Wachtmann) 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.

SB 137 INSURANCE FRAUD (Wachtmann) 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 the 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 investigative costs.

SB 138 INSURANCE DOCUMENTS (Nein) Am. & En. 1101, 1121, 1151, 1155, 1161, 1163, 1321, 1322, 1707, 1733, 1751, 3901, 3903, 3905, 3999 & 4727. Relative to the circumstances under which the Department of Insurance and the Division of Financial Institutions may share confidential documents and information with, and receive such documents and information from, other specified regulators and officials, or otherwise disclose these documents and information.

SB 139 ELECTRIC DELIVERY LINES (Amstutz) En. 4928. Authorizes the competitive installation and operation and maintenance of electric delivery lines.

SB 140 HEAVY INDUSTRY LOANS (Brady) 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.

SB 141 PHONE SERVICE (Fingerhut) Am. 4927. Redefines "basic local exchange service" in alternative telephone regulation law to specify that the term includes basic caller identification services.

SB 142 MALPRACTICE (Ryan) En. & Rep. 2305. Increases the statute of limitations to two years for medical, dental, optometric and chiropractic malpractice actions and removes the statutory provisions for malpractice statutes of repose.

SB 143 TAX SIMPLIFICATION (Blessing) En. 5740. Enacts the Simplified Sales and Use Tax Administration Act.

SB 144 ETHANOL (Mumper) Am. & En. 122, 5733 & 5747. Creates the Ethanol Production Grant Program and creates a tax credit against corporation franchise or income tax liability for investments in ethanol plants.

SB 145 CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS (Mallory) Am. 3517. Prohibits county elected officers, candidates for county elective offices, campaign committees of those officers or candidates and others from accepting contributions from specified county employees.

SB 146 AMBULANCE DISTRICTS (Randy Gardner) Am. 505. Increases the maximum number of meetings for which the board of trustees of a joint ambulance district may be compensated each year and to increase the maximum amount of compensation that a board member may be paid for those meetings.

SB 147 CROP DESTRUCTION (Mumper) Am. 909. Prohibits damaging or destroying crops, livestock, or equipment.

SB 148 OLYMPIC GAMES (Blessing) En. 3773. Establishes the Ohio-Kentucky Olympic Coordination Authority Company in law and enters into the compact with the other signatories legally joining in it.

SB 149 WRONGFUL IMPRISONMENT (Coughlin) 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.

SB 150 WATERCRAFT EXEMPTIONS (Armbruster) Am. 1547. Provides owners of canoes, rowboats and inflatable watercraft with an optional exemption from numbering requirements and makes other changes to the law governing watercraft.

SB 151 LANDFILL SITING (Coughlin) En. 3745. Requires a local election in certain circumstances before the Environmental Protection Agency, the Hazardous Waste Facility Board, or a board of health may approve certain landfill or facility applications.

SB 152 CYBERSTALKING (Austria) Am. 2903. Expands menacing by stalking to prohibit certain types of cyberstalking and specifically includes electronic communication as a pattern of conduct.

SB 153 MEMORIAL HIGHWAY (Armbruster) En. 5533. Designates a portion of Interstate 71 within Ashland County as the "Trooper James R. Gross Memorial Highway."

SB 154 SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS (Brady) Am. 4141. Permits school bus drivers to receive unemployment compensation benefits between school years.

SB 155 SCHOOL TAX FREEZE (Shoemaker) Am. 319, 323, 4503 & 5713. "Freezes" school district property taxes on residences owned and occupied by persons 65 years of age or older.

SB 156 SUNDAY LIQUOR SALES (Mumper) Am. 4301 & 4303. Authorizes certain Sunday liquor sales to begin at 11 a.m. even if these sales previously were approved by the voters to commence at 1 p.m. and changes from 1 p.m. to 11 a.m. the time at which Sunday liquor sales may start as specified in certain local option questions submitted to the voters.

SB 157 SCHOOL FOOTBRIDGES (White) Am. 505. Increases from $1,000 to $15,000 the amount a township can expend on a footbridge across rivers and streams to access public schools.

SB 158 ORGAN DONATIONS (Wachtmann) Am. 2108. Regarding organ donor designations made by persons over age 18 and use of funds for organ donor awareness programs in schools.

SB 159 E-CHECK (Herington) Am. & En. 3704, 5733 & 5747. Changes the new vehicle exemption under the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program to six years regardless of whether legal title to the vehicle is transferred during that six-year period and grants a credit against the personal income and corporate franchise taxes in the amount of fees paid by the taxpayer to have a vehicle inspected under the emissions program, provided the vehicle is seven years of age or older.

SB 160 BACKGROUND CHECKS (Mallory) Am. 3721. Revises the law governing criminal records checks of persons under final consideration for employment with a nursing home, residential care facility. Other home subject to the residents' rights law or adult day-care program.

SB 161 SUPERSEDEAS BOND (Jacobson) Am. 2505. Specifies a maximum allowable amount for a supersedeas bond to obtain a stay of execution during an appeal.

SB 162 MORBID OBESITY TREATMENT (Hagan) En. 1751, 3923 & 5111. Requires certain health care policies, contracts, agreements, and plans to provide the same benefits for the surgical treatment of morbid obesity as for any other medically necessary surgical procedure.

SB 163 HIGHWAY SAFETY LAWS (Austria) 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.

SB 164 LAND CONVEYANCE (Jacobson) 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.

SB 165 TURNPIKE COMMISSION CONTRACTS (Armbruster) Am. 5537. Increases the bidding threshold on the Ohio Turnpike Commission's contracts from $10,000 to $50,000.

SB 166 LAND CONVEYANCE (Armbruster) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate located in Lorain County to the Village of Grafton.

SB 167 STATE CONTROLLING BOARD (McLin) Am. & En. 125 & 127. Modifies Controlling Board operating procedures, modifies the penalty for making a purchase or lease without required Controlling Board approval, and requires notice of competitively bid state purchases and public improvement contracts to be published on the Internet.

SB 168 VEXATIOUS LITIGATORS (Oelslager) Am. 2323, 2501, 2503 & 2969. Extends the application of the vexatious litigator law to actions commenced in a court of appeals and excludes the Supreme Court from the laws pertaining to collection of fees from inmates filing civil actions against a governmental entity or employee.

SB 169 STATE LAND SALE (Spada) Authorizes the sale of a residential lot in the City of Shaker Heights owned by the state and under the jurisdiction of Cleveland State University.

SB 170 CHILD SUPPORT (Harris) Requires each child support enforcement agency to review child support orders to determine whether federal law was complied with regarding state income tax refund intercepts and to apply certain provisions of federal law regarding assigned child support amounts; requires the Department of Job and Family Services to distribute payments consistent with the findings of the reviews and makes an appropriation.

SB 171 INSURANCE OFFICERS (Nein) Am. 3907. Rescinds the statutory requirement that a majority of the officers of a domestic life insurance company be citizens of this state.

SB 172 TUITION TRUST AUTHORITY (Oelslager) Am. 2329, 3334, 5111, 5115 & 5747. Modifies the Ohio Tuition Trust Authority Law with respect to the administration of the CollegeAdvantage savings plan.

SB 173 MILITARY PAY (Mumper) 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.

SB 174 ANIMAL OFFENSES (Ryan) Am. & Rep. 959. Increases the penalties for certain offenses against animals.

SB 175 SEXUAL PREDATORS (Jacobson) Am. 2950. Regarding sexual predator hearings for offenders convicted of a sexually oriented offense but acquitted of a sexually violent predator specification and declares an emergency.

SB 176 MILITARY PAY EXEMPTION (Espy) Am. 5747. Allows a deduction from an individual's adjusted gross income for compensation received for active duty in the armed forces of the United States.

SB 177 CPA/CLIENT PRIVILEGE (Austria) Am. 2317. Provides a limited testimonial privilege between Certified Public Accountant and their clients.

SB 178 DRUG OFFENDERS (Hagan) Am., En. & Rep. 2951 & 4715. Relative to treatment of certain drug offenders and makes an appropriation.

SB 179 PEER REVIEW (Wachtmann) Am. & En. 109, 1751, 2305, 3701, 4715, 4723, 4730, 4731, 4734, 4760 & 4762. Modifies the law regarding peer review committees.

SB 180 VENTURE CAPITAL PROGRAM (Armbruster) Am. & En. 122, 5733 & 5747. Creates the Ohio Venture Capital Program to provide for the direction of moneys of a private investment fund into loans and investments that are consistent with a general policy adopted by the new Ohio Venture Capital Authority and that are secured up to a specified maximum loss, first through program revenues or, if insufficient, through proceeds from the sale of transferable tax credits that may be claimed against the corporation franchise tax or the personal income tax.

SB 181 WIRELESS 911 SERVICE (Mead) Am. & En. 2913, 4931 & 5727. Provides for enhanced wireless 9-1-1, creates the Enhanced Wireless 9-1-1 Government Assistance Fund and the Ohio 9-1-1 Council, specifies local authority to request the wireless and wireline portions of enhanced wireless 9-1-1, authorizes a wireless service provider to indicate on a customer bill its compliance with the federal enhanced 9-1-1 requirement, in the form of a note about its compliance costs or a notation or line item identifying the portion or amount of the bill attributable to those costs, and authorizes the use of an existing excise tax credit mechanism to cover the nonrecurring charges for an updating or modernization of the wireline telephone network portion of a 9-1-1 system or a modification of that telephone network to provide wireless 9-1-1 service.

SB 182 EMERGENCY SERVICES DAY (Mead) En. 5. Designates the eleventh day of September as "9-1-1 Emergency Services Day."

SB 183 KOREAN HIGHWAY (Furney) Am. 5533. Designates a portion of Interstate Route 75 within Lucas County as the "Korean War Veterans' Memorial Highway."

SB 184 TERRORISM (Spada) Am. & En. 2901, 2909 & 2929. Creates the offenses of terrorism; soliciting or providing support for an act of terrorism, soliciting of providing support for an act of terrorism; making a terroristic threat and hindering prosecution of terrorism and declares an emergency.

SB 185 ELECTIONS COMPLAINT FILING (Mallory) Am. 3517. Allows complaints to be filed with the Ohio Elections Commission of a 24-hours per day, seven-days-a-week basis beginning the Friday preceding an election and ending the day of the election; requires the attorney for the Commission to make a more expedited review of complaints filed during that time period; and requires a more expedited probable cause hearing on any of those complaints that set forth a violation of the prohibitions against the making of false statements.

SB 186 INDUCING PANIC (Ryan) Am. 2152, 2917 & 2929. Increases the penalties for the offenses of inducing panic and making false alarms, to include the cost of law enforcement, fire, and emergency responses to either offense as economic harm in determining the penalty for the offense and specifically permits a court to require a person convicted of either offense to pay restitution to victims for their economic harm and reimburse political subdivisions for the cost of any such response.

SB 187 SCHOOL BOARD PAY (Nein) Am. 3313. Increases the maximum compensation for members of school district boards of education and educational service center governing boards and permits compensation to members for attendance at training programs.

SB 188 STATE MENTAL HOSPITALS (Fingerhut) Am. & En. 5119. Prohibits the closure, sale, or termination of the operation of a Department of Mental Health institution for the care and treatment of mentally ill persons without the enactment of a law by the General Assembly authorizing the closure, sale, or termination, and provides for transfers of funds for mental health services.

SB 189 GOVERNMENT HANDGUNS (Fingerhut) Am. & En. 125, 307, 504, 505 & 717. Requires state agencies that purchase handguns to give a preference to handguns produced by manufacturers that have agreed to include a locking mechanism with each handgun sold, commits funds to smart gun technology that will be incorporated into future handguns, and only permits their handguns to be sold at gun shows if background checks on all potential handgun buyers are first conducted and requires the Director of Administrative Services to publish a model act for the use of counties, townships, and municipal corporations if they choose to enact a similar preference system for their handguns purchases.

SB 190 CONTENT-BASED CENSORSHIP (Jordan) En. 3313. Permits the display of historical documents, the state motto, and the national motto in public schools if such items are donated to the school district and prohibits content-based censorship of American or Ohio history based on any religious references contained in those documents.

SB 191 MR/DD FACILITIES (Spada) Am. 5123. Revises the law governing the licensure of residential facilities for individuals with mental retardation or other development disability.

SB 192 STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION (Robert Gardner) Am. 3301. Abolishes the requirement that the State Board of Education be dissolved and recreated following the creation of new State Board of Education districts; specifies that members of the Board as of the time new districts are created shall represent their assigned districts for the term for which they were originally elected and declares an emergency.

SB 193 LINKED DEPOSITS/VENDOR REPORTING (White) Am., En. & Rep. 122, 135, 3770 & 5739. Expands the investment authority of the Treasurer of State under the Uniform Depository Act; modifies the authority of the State Board of Deposit to designate public depositories; increases the amount that may be invested in agricultural linked deposits; authorizes the Treasurer of State to establish and maintain a housing linked deposit program and to partner with a municipal corporation or county that has established a housing linked deposit program; and, modifies licensed vendor reporting requirements of a county auditor.

SB 194 PRIVATE SCHOOL BUSING (Robert Gardner) Am. & En. 3319. Permits local and exempted village school district boards of education to terminate the positions of transportation employees for reasons of economy and efficiency and contract with an independent agent to provide transportation services as long as certain conditions are satisfied.

SB 195 SCHOOL FUNDING (Shoemaker) Am. 3317. Revises the methodology for calculating state funding for school districts beginning in fiscal year 2002 and makes an appropriation.

SB 196 HEALTH CURRICULUM PILOT (Coughlin) Requires the Department of Education to establish a pilot project to implement and evaluate the effectiveness of the "Heart 'E' Heart" healthy lifestyle curriculum in selected classrooms in grades one, two and three in selected school districts in Portage and Summit counties and makes an appropriation.

SB 197 MILITARY PERSONNEL TAX PAYMENTS (Herington) 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.

SB 198 HOUSING AUTHORITIES (Coughlin) Am. 3735. Changes the composition of certain metropolitan housing authorities.

SB 199 DEMOLITION DEBRIS DISPOSAL (Carnes) Am., En. & En. 3714. Replaces the construction and demolition debris facility license fee with a disposal fee, revises the siting criteria for a construction and demolition debris facility, requires background checks for the operation of such a facility, and requires post-closure bonding for certain construction and demolition debris facilities.

SB 200 TAX LAW ADMINISTRATION (Spada) Am., En. & Rep. 323, 2935, 3317, 3734, 3769, 3924, 4305, 4307, 4503, 5117, 5703, 5711, 5715, 5717, 5727, 5728, 5733, 5735, 5739, 5741, 5743, 5745, 5747 & 5749. Amends procedures for determining the amounts of, and hearing challenges to, various tax assessments and refunds, alters the method of adjusting eligibility criteria for the homestead exemption, energy subsidies, the credit for installation of emergency telephone systems, the personal exemption, and the deduction for medical savings accounts, authorizes the released by public officials of certain information relating to vendors, increases the loss carryover period for corporations, changes record-keeping requirements for certain taxpayers, conforms state law to federal law with regard to taxation of mobile telecommunications service, increases protection of tax department employees from assault, and makes other changes relating to the administration of the tax laws by the Department of Taxation.

SB 201 SALVAGE VEHICLE DEALERS (Armbruster) Am. & En. 109 & 4738. Establishes a two-year renewal cycle for licenses and buyer's identification cards related to salvage motor vehicles, requires a compliance inspection of a licensed motor vehicle salvage dealer as a condition of license renewal and retention of any buyer's identification card, and establishes criminal records check requirements for certain motor vehicle salvage dealers and persons who hold a buyer's identification card.

SB 202 PAROLE BOARD MEMBERSHIP (Prentiss) Am. & En. 2967, 5120 & 5149. Establishes six-year terms for members of the Parole Board, requires the Governor to appoint members of the Board, and specifies certain factors that the Parole Board must consider in determining whether to grant parole to a prisoner.

SB 203 ACADEMIC STANDARDS (Prentiss) Am. & En. 3301. Requires the achievement test in social studies to test knowledge of the effects of racism, genocide, and religious persecution and requires the academic standards and model curriculum for social studies to ensure the coverage of topics related to racism, genocide, and religious persecution and related hatred and intolerance of people due to race, ethnicity, or religious beliefs.

SB 204 SICKLE CELL ANEMIA (Prentiss) En. 5. Designates September as "Sickle Cell Anemia Awareness Month."

SB 205 WORKS FIRST/FOOD STAMPS (Prentiss) Am. & En. 5101 & 5107. Revises the law governing the Ohio Works First and Food Stamp programs.

SB 206 EARLY INMATE RELEASE (Prentiss) En. 5120. Requires the Director of Rehabilitation and Correction to make various determinations with regard to inmates serving a sentence for a felony committed prior to the effective date of SB2 of the 121st General Assembly, provides for the early release of certain such inmates, and requires the Director to request the Controlling Board to transfer any funds saved from the early release of those inmates to support additional community correction services.

SB 207 EQUAL PAY STUDY (Prentiss) Am. 4111. Creates the Equal Pay Study Committee and enhances penalties for violations of the equal pay law.

SB 208 FIELD SOBRIETY TESTS (Coughlin) Am. 4511. Relative to the use, in an OMVI or OMVUAC prosecution, of the results of field sobriety tests.

SB 209 BOUNCER TRAINING (Goodman) Am. & En. 4301. Requires the Liquor Control Commission to adopt rules governing training programs for security persons hired to work where beer or intoxicating alcohol is sold for consumption on the premises and prohibits a holder of a permit issued by the Division of Liquor Control from hiring a security person who has not completed an approved training program.

SB 210 CONTRACTOR DRUG TESTING (Shoemaker) Am. 3318. Directs school district boards of education that solicit bids and contracts for the construction, repair, or renovation of school facilities with state assistance to require drug testing of owners and certain employees of companies that bid and contract to provide labor for those facilities contractors.

SB 211 CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS (Herington) En. & Rep. 3521. Establishes Congressional district boundaries for the state based on the 2000 decennial census of Ohio and declares an emergency.

SB 212 PASSENGER RAIL COMPACT (Armbruster) En. 4981. Adopts the Midwest Interstate Passenger Rail Compact.

SB 213 COUNTY CREDIT CARDS (Amstutz) Am. & En. 301 & 5705. Limits the currently permissible use of a county credit card for motor vehicle maintenance to a specified dollar amount, permits boards of county commissioners to approve the use of financial transaction devices for any work-related purchase of less than $1,000 other than a purchase permitted under the County Credit Card Law, and makes changes related to the exemption of county expenditures from the certification of availability of funds.

SB 214 "PACE" PROGRAM (Fingerhut) En. 5111. Makes the PACE program permanent.

SB 215 MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY (Fingerhut) Am. 5111. Provides that redeterminations of Medicaid eligibility may not be required to be made less than twelve months apart.

SB 216 DAY CARE FEES (Fingerhut) Am. 5104. Requires the fee amount for publicly funded child care to be redetermined every twelve months instead of every six months.

SB 217 PESTICIDES LAW (Mumper) Am., En. & Rep. 907 & 921. Revises the Pesticides Law.

SB 218 GRAND JURY OATH (Jordan) Am. 2939. Modifies the oath administered to members of a grand jury.

SB 219 LAND CONVEYANCE (Oelslager) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate located in the counties of Athens, Montgomery, Preble, Stark and Summit, and no longer needed by the State Highway Patrol.

SB 220 STATE AGENCY HIRING (Shoemaker) 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 institute, and declares an emergency.

SB 221 COMPANION ANIMALS (Goodman) 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 of abuse or neglect of animals or children.

SB 222 SCIENCE STANDARDS (Jordan) 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.

SB 223 WORKERS COMPENSATION (Wachtmann) Am. 4123. Defines "injury" for purposes of the Workers' Compensation Law to include, for emergency workers, instances when their blood or other body fluid comes in direct contact with the blood or other body fluid of another person while working.

SB 224 TOWED VEHICLES (Armbruster) Revises the procedures governing the disposition of certain towed motor vehicles by allowing a person who tows or stores a vehicle at the request of law enforcement to recover expenses for unclaimed vehicles by obtaining a certificate of title to the vehicle after notice is given to the vehicle owner and any lienholder and also by blocking the ability of the vehicle owner to register other vehicles for a period of up to five years.

SB 225 CHILD RAPE (Herington) 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; provides life imprisonment without parole for certain offenders who rape children less than thirteen years of age and declares an emergency.

SB 226 LOTTERY PRIZE TRANSFERS (Blessing) Permits the transfer of a lottery prize award upon the prior approval of a court; establishes procedures for application for such approval and requires each transferee to obtain a certificate of registration from the Director of Commerce.

SB 227 WORKERS' COMPENSATION (Nein) Modifies the subrogation provisions of the Workers' Compensation Law.

SB 228 TUITION INCREASES (Coughlin) En. 3345. Establishes a limit on the annual increase in undergraduate in-state tuition and general fees that a state university board of trustees may charge.

SB 229 INTERCHANGE NAMING (Hagan) En. 5533. Designates the intersection of State Route 711 and Gypsy Lane in Mahoning County as "Charlie Lamancusa Memorial Highway Interchange."

SB 230 SPECIAL CONSTABLES (Hagan) Am. 1711. Allows a county or municipal court judge to appoint full-time special constables for agricultural societies to assist in keeping the peace and to protect persons and property.

SB 231 MOBILITY DEVICES (Goodman) Am. & En. 4511. Exempts electric personal assistive mobility devices from the definition of "vehicle" in the traffic laws and permits their operation on sidewalks, bikeways and public streets and highways, subject to certain restrictions.

SB 232 BUTLER COUNTY JUDGE (Nein) 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.

SB 233 CONDOMINIUM LAW (Spada) Am., En. & Rep. 317, 5301, 5311 & 5721. Revises the Ohio Condominium Law.

SB 234 STATE ARCHIVES (DiDonato) Am. 149. Requires the State Archives Administration and certain entities to which the Administration transfers public records to retain and manage public records in accordance with specified retention schedules and to maintain the records and make them available for inspection and copying in accordance with the Public Records Law and requires the State Records Administration of the Department of Administrative Services to adopt rules for the operation of state archives.

SB 235 BINGO (Spada) Am. & En. 109, 119, 173, 1531, 1711, 2915, 3763 & 4301. Defines "bingo" to include bingo, instant bingo, seal cards and raffles; creates a license that authorizes certain charitable organizations to conduct bingo and instant bingo; requires the licensing of manufacturers and distributors of bingo supplies; regulates the sale of instant bingo and the conduct of raffles; prohibits the playing of bingo and games of chance that a charitable organization conducts, in a premises where beer or liquor is sold for on-premises consumption and makes other changes in the Charitable Gambling Law.

SB 236 DESIGN-BUILD USAGE (Coughlin) Am. & En. 153. Permits public authorities to use design-build firms in the construction of public improvements and establishes a two-phase procedure for selecting those firms.

SB 237 CHARACTER EDUCATION GRANTS (Coughlin) Establishes matching grants to school districts to develop pilot character education programs and makes an appropriation.

SB 238 RETIREMENT PENALTY (Hagan) Am. & En. 145, 2921, 3305, 3307, 3309 & 5505. Reduces the retirement allowance or other benefit payable to a state retirement system contributor or alternative retirement plan participant on a conviction of or plea of guilty or no contest to the offense of bribery.

SB 239 SCHOOL BOND ISSUES (Mead) Am. & En. 3318. Prescribes a manner in which boards of education may obtain specific voter approval to issue bonds for a state-assisted school facilities project in more than one series, authorizes a school district board to issue bonds for a project under the Classroom Facilities Assistance Program for a term up to the number of years authorized under the Uniform Public Securities Law, and authorizes a school district board to combine a ballot measure under the Classroom Facilities Assistance Program with other bond issue and tax levy ballot measures.

SB 240 STATE FLAG/PLEDGE (Amstutz) Am. & En. 5. Establishes requirements governing the display and disposal of the state flag, explains the symbolism of the state flag, and adopts an official pledge to the state flag.

SB 241 SEX OFFENSES (Ryan) Am. & En. 109, 173, 2151, 2152, 2901, 2905, 2907, 2929, 2935, 2937, 2945, 2950, 3301, 3313, 3701, 3712, 3721, 3722, 5103, 5104, 5123, 5126 & 5153. Prohibits the throwing, spraying, propelling, or expelling of semen at or onto another; designates the new offense a sexually oriented offense; includes the new offense within the scope of the laws dealing with criminal records checks for certain applicants, placement of children with offenders, taking DNA specimens of juvenile and adult offenders, child victim testimony by deposition, videotape, or closed circuit television, criminal child enticement and sexual imposition penalties, venereal disease and HIV testing of offenders, communicable disease notification of victims of certain offenses, prison terms for certain fifth degree felonies, warrantless arrests, permanent exclusion from public school attendance, and foster caregivers' notice of a child being found delinquent.

SB 242 TOBACCO SETTLEMENT FUNDS (Carnes) Am. & En. 126, 183 & 5743. Modifies the administration of tobacco settlement funds and makes operating and capital appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2002 and ending June 30, 2004.

SB 243 SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION FEE (Coughlin) Am. & En. 311 & 2950. Permits a sheriff to charge a registration fee to register, register a change of residence address, and periodically verify a residence address under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Law.

SB 244 NURSING HOME MEDICAID PAYMENTS (Mumper) Am. & En. 5111. Increases Medicaid payments to a nursing facility or intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded that installs, operates, and maintains energy conservation measures.

SB 245 NURSING DUTIES (Wachtmann) Am. & En. 1, 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.

SB 246 CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS (Brady) Am. 3517. Specifies that all loans, gifts and other donations made to, or received or used by, the operating fund or a state or county political party are for the purpose of influencing the next subsequent primary or general election and must be included in campaign finance reports.

SB 247 RETIREMENT BENEFITS (Blessing) Am. 145, 3307 & 3309. Creates in the State Teachers Retirement System, 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.

SB 248 STUDENT VACCINATIONS (Armbruster) 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.

SB 249 OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY (Spada) Am. 4755. Makes changes to the occupational therapy, physical therapy, and athletic trainers licensing laws.

SB 250 CREDIT CARD NUMBERS (Spada) En. 1349. Prohibits the recording of more than the last five digits of a credit card account number, or recording the expiration date of a credit card, on an electronically printed receipt provided to a credit cardholder and provides civil remedies for a violation of the act and enforcement by the Attorney General.

SB 251 PUBLIC INDECENCY (Amstutz) Am. & En. 303, 503, 519, 2505, 2506, 2907 & 3768. Modifies Ohio's public indecency law; generally regulates adult entertainment establishments; permits townships to regulate 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 or restraint of protected expression.

SB 252 CONSUMER REPORTS (Ryan) En. 1349. Requires each consumer reporting agency to furnish, upon a consumer's request and without charge, two consumer reports per year.

SB 253 COURT FEES (Austria) Am. 2903, 2919 & 3113. Clarifies that no fees related to certain protection orders and consent agreements may be charged.

SB 254 CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS (Mallory) Am. 3517. Prohibits certain campaign contributions by minors.

SB 255 RIGHTS-OF-WAY (Blessing) Am., En. & Rep. 4939. Re-enacts certain provisions of the utility and cable public right-of-way law as enacted by Am.Sub.HB283 of the 123rd General Assembly; changes the definitional section of that law, as re-enacted by this act; broadens the application of the law to gas and petroleum or other hazardous liquid pipelines; states, as an express prohibition, a provision of law relating to additional consent for an existing use of a public way; provides that only those customers of a utility service provider that receive service from the provider within a political subdivision may be charged for specified costs levied by the subdivision on the provider for the use of public ways; removes an exemption in the law concerning any legal requirements of political subdivisions, in effect prior to Jan. 1, 1999, for certain compensation for the right or privilege of use of a public way and declares an emergency.

SB 256 RACIAL PROFILING (Roberts) 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.

SB 257 PUBLIC WAYS USE (Mead) Am. & Rep. 4939. Revises statutes governing the use of public ways.

SB 258 FIREFIGHTERS/PUBLIC RECORDS (Austria) Am. & En. 109, 149, 505 & 737. Requires background checks on firefighters and exempts from the Public Records Law specified residential and familial information of a member of a fire department and certain security-related information.

SB 259 TELEPHONE SERVICE (Jordan) 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.

SB 260 EDUCATION SELF-INSURANCE (Randy Gardner) Am. 4123. Permits a state institution of higher education, a school district, a county school financing district, an educational service center, and a community school to operate as a self-insuring employer under the Workers' Compensation Law, for construction projects of more than $25 million.

SB 261 TAX INCREASE/BUDGET (Carnes) Am., En. & Rep. 5733, 5743 & 5747. Increases the rate of tax on cigarettes; requires corporations and individuals, in computing franchise or income tax liability, to add back some of the depreciation bonus permitted under federal law; makes budgetary modifications; and makes an appropriation.

SB 262 AUCTION RECOVERY FUND (Mumper) Am., En. & Rep. 4707. Creates the Auction Recovery Fund, establishes criteria and procedures for using it to reimburse persons who obtained a court judgment against an auctioneer who violated the Auctioneers Law and has not paid the judgment, and makes an appropriation.

SB 263 VEHICLE SPEED LIMITS (Randy Gardner) En. 4511. Allows a municipal corporation to establish speed limits for golf carts and similar motor vehicles operated on streets or highways within the municipal corporation.

SB 264 STATE AMPHIBIAN (Mead) En. 5. Adopts the bullfrog as the state amphibian.

SB 265 ADMINISTRATIVE RULES (Hottinger) Am. & En. 111, 119, 121 & 3375. Regulates incorporations by reference in administrative rules and permits emergency rules to be readopted as such during the legislative review carry-over period.

SB 266 PROPRIETARY SCHOOLS (Robert Gardner) Am. 955, 1713, 2741, 3332, 3333, 3334, 3365, 4742, 4743, 4762, 4763, 5107, 5747 & 5919. Makes changes to the oversight of career schools by changing the name of the State Board of Proprietary School Registration to the State Board of Career Colleges and Schools, directing the Board to establish the period of time that a career school must maintain a surety bond, requiring the corporate bonding company acting as surety to have a specified credit quality rating, eliminating the requirement that agents for career schools maintain surety bonds, altering the structure of the Board by adding an additional member with a background in career school management and by making the student representative a nonvoting member, establishing a fixed rate of compensation for Board members, eliminating the requirement that the Ohio Board of Regents recommend whether to approve applications for the issuance or renewal of program authorizations for associate degree programs, specifying that students are eligible for reimbursement of prepaid tuition losses only in the event of a school closure, paying reimbursements for prepaid tuition losses from the career school's surety bond beginning July 1, 2003, and by making other revisions to the oversight of career schools, and enables students enrolled in eligible institutions prior to July 1, 2000, to receive student workforce development grants.

SB 267 MENTAL HEALTH DECLARATION (Oelslager) Am. & En. 1337 & 2135. Permits the execution of a Declaration for Mental Health Treatment.

SB 268 PROBATE FEES (Oelslager) Am. 2101. Permits a probate court to assess additional fees to pay for special projects of the court.

SB 269 SCHOOL AIR DETECTORS (Brady) En. 3313. Requires school districts to install carbon monoxide detectors in each of their school buildings.

SB 270 ELECTRONIC GAMBLING (Blessing) Am. 1711, 3770 & 4301. Removes the requirement that total disbursements of prizes to winning lottery participants equal at least 50 per cent of the total revenue accruing from the sale of lottery tickets; requires the State Lottery Commission to conduct lotteries that provide immediate prize determinations for individual participants through use of electronic devices and to do so only through licensed lottery sales agents who are either horse racing permit holders or satellite facilities approved by the State Racing Commission and only at the permit holders' tracks or at the satellite facilities; requires the State Lottery Commission to install and operate at each track or satellite facility that is a licensed lottery sales agent the number of these electronic devices requested by the licensed lottery sales agent; and declares an emergency.

SB 271 PRESCRIPTION DRUGS (Spada) En. 1751 & 3923. Requires health care plans providing prescription drug benefits to use a uniform prescription drug information card or other standardized technology in the processing of claims.

SB 272 LAND CONVEYANCE (Mead) Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned real estate in Franklin County to the City of Columbus.

SB 273 SPORTS CLUB TAXATION (Blessing) Am. 5739. Excludes from the sales tax refundable payments for recreation and sports club service.

SB 274 PRIVATE/COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (Herington) Am. & En. 3313, 3314, 3317 and 44.07 of Am.Sub.HB94 (124th General Assembly). Establishes additional requirements for registered private schools that wish to admit scholarship students; establishes additional requirements for community; and makes conversion community schools eligible for special community school start-up grants.

SB 275 TAX STUDY COMMITTEE (Amstutz) 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.

SB 276 SCHOOL FACILITIES (Shoemaker) Am. 3318. Requires the state to pay all of the cost of additional improvements necessary during the course of a school district's state-assisted classroom facilities project to the extent that such improvements are necessary due to an error made by the Ohio school facilities commission in the district's facilities assessment.

SB 277 JOB RETENTION TAX CREDIT (Armbruster) Am. 122, 5733 & 5747. Makes the job retention tax credit a refundable credit.

SB 278 PLATTING LAW (Robert Gardner) Am. 711 & 713. Changes the definition of "subdivision" in the Platting Law, changes the procedure for the approval of plats by county or regional planning commissions, provides different methods for implementing the statute authorizing the approval of certain subdivisions without the submission of a plat, and permits the payment of compensation to the appointive members of county planning commissions.

SB 279 THOROUGHBRED RACE FUND (Blessing) Am. 3769. Credits to the Ohio Thoroughbred Race Fund all investment earnings on the cash balances in that fund, changes the allocation of money from the Ohio Thoroughbred Race Fund for races restricted to accredited Ohio thoroughbred horses, eliminates the requirement that the Ohio Standardbred Development Commission approve the distribution of moneys credited to the Ohio Standardbred Development Fund, specifies that the commission may recommend allocation of the Ohio Standardbred Development Fund moneys to four-year-old and older races, and allows harness horse racing to occur before the first day of May and after the first day of November.

SB 280 ORTHOTICS (Austria) Am., En. & Rep. 4779. Revises the law governing the practice of orthotics, prosthetics, prosthetics and orthotics and pedorthics.

SB 281 MALPRACTICE CLAIMS (Goodman) 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.

SB 282 VENDOR DEBARMENT (Ryan) Am. & En. 9 & 5513. Relative to the debarment of vendors convicted of bribery from consideration for any public contract award.

SB 283 CAMPAIGN FINANCE (Shoemaker) Am. 3517. Prohibits a campaign committee from transferring to a legislative campaign fund, and a legislative campaign fund from accepting from a campaign committee, more than $2,500 in a calendar year and prohibits a county political party from transferring to a campaign committee, and a campaign committee from accepting from a county political party, more than $5,000 in a calendar year.

SB 284 CRIME VICTIM REPARATIONS (DiDonato) Am. 2743. Relative to the crime victim reparations fund.

SB 285 ADJUTANT GENERAL (Harris) Am. 141, 3705, 4123, 529, 5911, 5913, 5919 & 5923. Clarifies Ohio's Adjutant General Law and conforms that law with federal statutes and regulations.

SB 286 SB 286 WELLNESS/CHILDREN'S TRUST (Mead) Am. 121, & 3109. Revises the law governing the Wellness Block Grant Program and the Children's Trust Fund.

SB 287 RAILROAD OPERATIONS (DiDonato) En. 4999. Prohibits a railroad, other than a passenger train, from operating a locomotive over the road between two terminals with less than two crew members present in the crew compartment and provides a criminal penalty.

SB 288 WINE SALES (Fingerhut) Am. 4301. Eliminates the Liquor Control Commission's authority to set minimum mark-ups on wine sales; prohibits wholesale distributors and retailers of wine from selling wine below the prevailing cost of the wine and creates the State Wine Sales Study Committee to study potential strategies for supporting and promoting the sale of wine produced in this state.

SB 289 RETIREMENT SYSTEM (Blessing) Am. 102. Regarding state retirement system investment activities.

SB 290 ABDUCTED CHILDREN (Coughlin) En. 5502.52 To require the Department of Public Safety to establish rules for the implementation of an emergency alert program to aid in the identification and location of abducted children and to declare an emergency.

SB 291 CAMPAIGN FINANCE (Randy Gardner) En. 3517 To revise the Campaign Finance Law.

SB 292 CONTRACEPTIVE INSURANCE (Mead) 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.

SB 293 OHIO TURNPIKE COMMISSION (Coughlin) Rep. 5503. Abolishes the Ohio Turnpike Commission, creates the Division of Toll Projects within the Department of Transportation, and transfers the duties, powers, and functions of the Turnpike Commission to the division.

SB 294 DRUNK DRIVING (Herington) Am. & En. 2152, 2929, 2941 & 4511. Provides an additional term of imprisonment for certain repeat OMVI and OMVUAC offenders.

SB 295 VETERANS SERVICE COMMISSIONS (Shoemaker) Am. & Rep. 5901. Terminates certain boards of county commissioners' power to appoint additional members to the veterans service commission in their county.

SB 296 BIOTERRORISM (Mead) Am. & En. 339, 3701, 3707, 3901, 4736 & 6111. Modifies the powers and duties of the Department of Health, Public Health Council, and boards of health relative to bioterrorism and other public health matters.

SB 297 NURSING HOME INSURANCE (Shoemaker) Am., En. & Rep. 3929. Requires the joint underwriting association to provide medical malpractice insurance to nursing homes and creates a stabilization reserve fund for the association.

SB 298 MENTAL RETARDATION/DEATH PENALTY (Mallory) En. 2929. Defines mental retardation for use in determining whether a person convicted of aggravated murder and a specification of an aggravating circumstance is a person with mental retardation.

SB 299 LOCOMOTIVE OPERATIONS (Hagan) En. 4907. Prohibits the operation of a nonpassenger train locomotive by remote control outside a railway yard and prohibits certain locomotive operations within a railway yard except by a most stringently certified locomotive engineer.

SB 300 LOAN PROGRAM (Armbruster) En. 166.12. Establish the Innovation Ohio Loan Program.

SB 301 TELEPHONE MARKETERS (Hagan) En. 4719. Prohibits a telephone solicitor from blocking the disclosure of the telephone number from which a residential telephone solicitation is made, prohibits a telephone solicitor from making a telephone solicitation to a residential telephone number that appears on the "do-not-call list" to be developed and maintained by a nonprofit organization under contract with the Attorney General, imposes other requirements on telephone solicitors, and provides for enforcement by the Attorney General under the Consumer Sales Practices Act.

SB 302 OHIO WORKS FIRST (Fingerhut) Am. & En. 5107. Revises the law governing the Ohio Works First Program's work activity under which participants are enrolled full-time in post-secondary education leading to vocation.

SB 303 CAMPAIGN FINANCE (Fingerhut) Am. 3517. Revises the Campaign Finance Law.

SB 304 STATE TREASURER'S CONTRACTS (Fingerhut) Am. & En. 113. Requires the Treasurer of State to award contracts for certain services by competitive sealed bidding or competitive sealed proposals; requires that persons seeking these contracts provide specified campaign contribution information as part of their submitted bid or proposal; requires the Treasurer of State to establish and implement annual goals for these contracts and to make certain information available on the Internet; and creates the Investment Advisory Committee in the Treasurer of State's Office.

SB 305 CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT (Harris) Am., En. & Rep. 1349, 2151, 3111, 3113, 3119, 3121, 3123, 3924 & 4705. Revises the law governing child support enforcement and declares an emergency.

SB 306 KOREAN WAR VETERAN DIPLOMA (Wachtmann) Am. 3313. Grants high school diplomas to veterans of the Korean Conflict.

SB 307 MUTUAL AID PROGRAM (Amstutz) En. 5502. 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.

SB 308 INTERNET LOTTERY (Robert Gardner) Am. 1711, 3770 & 4301. Authorizes the State Lottery Commission to allow lottery games to be played over the Internet under certain conditions.

SB 309 PHYSICIAN REFERRALS (Goodman) 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.

SB 310 SECURITIES INDUSTRY (Coughlin) Am. 1707 & 2913. 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 to increase the criminal penalty for certain theft offenses and creates a new criminal aggravated theft offense.

SB 311 MALPRACTICE INSURANCE (Fingerhut) 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.

SB 312 ATTORNEY CERTIFICATIONS (Fingerhut) 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.

SB 313 VIDEO LOTTERY ESTABLISHMENTS (Blessing) Am. & En. 1711, 3770 & 4301. Requires the State Lottery Commission to establish licensing procedures for electronic lottery sales agents that are live horse racing permit holders and conduct lotteries that provide immediate prize determinations for individual participants through the use of electronic gaming devices at the permit holders' tracks and declares an emergency.

SB 314 INSURANCE POLICIES (Roberts) Am. 3901. Prohibits an insurer's use of a credit history or credit score in fixing a premium rate for, or the terms and conditions of, an insurance policy, or in determining whether to issue, continue or renew an insurance policy.

SB 315 MALPRACTICE INSURANCE (Fingerhut) En. 3937. Establishes a term of five years, or to guarantee renewal for five years, for medical malpractice insurance policies and caps premium increases during that period.

SB 316 MALPRACTICE INSURANCE (Fingerhut) 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.