| HB5 | EMINENT DOMAIN (GIBBS, B) Implements recommendations made by the Eminent Domain Task Force, |
| | Current Status: | 6/19/2007 Referred to Senate State and Local Government and Veterans Affairs Committee |
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| HB20 | MORTGAGE BROKER RENEWAL LICENSE FEE (CARANO, K) To require the Superintendent of Financial Institutions to prorate the renewal fee for a new certificate of registration or license for a mortgage broker or loan officer. |
| | Current Status: | 3/22/2007 House Financial Institutions, Real Estate and Securities, (Second Hearing) |
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| HB26 | URBAN HOMESTEAD ZONES (WOLPERT, L) To permit the creation of urban homestead zones in cities to encourage the repopulation of certain city cores, to create a state urban homestead scholarship program, and to require that increment financing in urban homestead zones that participate in the scholarship program to help fund the program. |
| | Current Status: | 5/10/2007 House State Government and Elections, (Third Hearing) |
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| HB41 | SECURITY SYSTEMS (UECKER, J) To require the licensure of persons operating security systems companies, to provide for the registration of individuals performing specified types of security systems work, to provide for the
regulation of security systems companies and employees, and to establish the Security Systems
Advisory Board in the Department of Commerce. |
| | Current Status: | 6/19/2007 SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED & REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED |
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| HB59 | PROPERTY TAXES (COMBS, C) To defer increases in taxes on residences owned and occupied by individuals age 65 or older. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2007 Referred to House Finance and Appropriations Committee |
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| HB88 | CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTORS (DOMENICK, J) To direct the Board of Building Standards to adopt rules requiring a carbon monoxide detector be installed in each residential dwelling unit in a multifamily building. |
| | Current Status: | 3/27/2007 House Commerce and Labor, (First Hearing) |
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| HB92 | MOTOR VEHICLES--DRUG MANUFACTURING (DYER, S) To require law enforcement agencies to report to the Director of Public Safety the location of any real property on which and the vehicle identification number of any motor vehicle in which an illegal methamphetamine manufacturing laboratory has been discovered, to require the Director of
Public Safety to maintain on the Department of Public Safety web site a database of properties on which and motor vehicles in which illegal methamphetamine manufacturing laboratories have been discovered, to authorize a county recorder to record an instrument identifying any property that has been included in that database may receive certification from the Director of Environmental Protection that the property or motor vehicle has been cleared of methamphetamine residue and have the property or motor vehicle removed from the database. |
| | Current Status: | 3/21/2007 House Infrastructure, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs, (First Hearing) |
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| HB103 | UNPAID WATER RATES (BLESSING, L) To modify the circumstances under which a lien may be created to collect unpaid water rates and charges owed local authorities and to specify certain requirements prior to creation of the lien. |
| | Current Status: | 5/31/2007 House Local and Municipal Government and Urban Revitalization, (Fifth Hearing) |
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| HB110 | SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEMS (DISTEL, G) To require the Public Health Council to rescind rules related to sewage treatment systems and reinstate the rules related to those systems that were in effect prior to January 1, 2007, to require
the Council subsequently to adopt statutorily required rules related to those systems, to revise the requirements governing sewage treatment systems rules that the Council must adopt, to require the Director of Health to develop rules with the Sewage Treatment System Advisory Committee that establish standards for approving a sewage treatment system or components of a system, to revise the membership of the Committee, and to declare an emergency. |
| | Current Status: | 3/28/2007 House Economic Development and Environment, (First Hearing) |
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| HB119 | BIENNIAL BUDGET (DOLAN, M) To make operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2007 and ending June 30, 2009, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs. |
| | Current Status: | 6/30/2007 - 6/30/2007 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR, appropriations eff. 6/30/2007-some sections different dates |
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| HB132 | UNLAWFUL PROPERTY BURNING (HUGHES, J) To create the offense of unlawful property burning. |
| | Current Status: | 5/17/2007 House Criminal Justice, (Third Hearing) |
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| HB132 | UNLAWFUL PROPERTY BURNING (HUGHES, J) To create the offense of unlawful property burning. |
| | Current Status: | 5/17/2007 House Criminal Justice, (Third Hearing) |
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| HB138 | JUDICIAL SALE-PROPERTY (FOLEY, M) To require purchasers of real property at a judicial sale to provide certain identifying information and to make other changes in judicial sales of real property. |
| | Current Status: | 6/13/2007 REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED |
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| HB158 | TAX CREDIT-ENERGY EFFICIENT DEVICES (HUGHES, J) To allow a nonrefundable credit against the personal income tax for the installation of energy-efficient devices in homes. |
| | Current Status: | 5/30/2007 House Ways and Means, (Third Hearing) |
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| HB161 | RESIDENTIAL RENTAL AGREEMENTS (RAUSSEN, J) To permit a tenant to terminate a residential rental agreement without penalty if the tenant or the
tenant's spouse is 62 years of age or older and, for medical reasons, enters a nursing home or other specified care facility. |
| | Current Status: | 6/19/2007 - 6/19/2007 House Commerce and Labor, (Second Hearing) |
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| HB171 | ISSUANCE OF PROFESSIONAL LICENSES (WILLIAMS, S) To revise the laws governing issuance of certain professional licenses. |
| | Current Status: | 6/19/2007 - 6/19/2007 House Commerce and Labor, (First Hearing) |
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| HB206 | SCRAP COPPER/ALUMINUM DEALERS (DOMENICK, J) To establish new record-keeping requirements for dealers in scrap copper, scrap aluminum siding, or scrap catalytic converters. |
| | Current Status: | 6/19/2007 - 6/19/2007 House Commerce and Labor, (First Hearing) |
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| HB220 | OHIO PLANNED COMMUNITY LAW (BEATTY, J) To establish the Ohio Planned Community Law. |
| | Current Status: | 6/21/2007 - 6/21/2007 House Financial Institutions, Real Estate and Securities, (First Hearing) |
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| HB222 | LAND SALE PUBLIC NOTICES (ZEHRINGER, J) To permit instead of require that public notices and advertisements of the sale of lands and tenements taken in execution contain a description of the lands and tenements and to permit those advertisements to be made on the sheriff's web site. |
| | Current Status: | 5/31/2007 - 5/31/2007House Local and Municipal Government and Urban Revitalization, (First Hearing) |
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| HB241 | SORN LAW (HEARD, T) To provide that any person required to register under Ohio's Sex Offender Registration and Notification Law who establishes or occupies residential premises within one thousand feet of any school premises, recreation center, playground, or other place where it is reasonable to expect children to frequent or linger is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree and to require a court to order a violator to vacate the premises as part of any injunctive relief granted for the violation. |
| | Current Status: | 6/12/2007 Referred to House Criminal Justice Committee |
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| HB257 | HOME INSPECTORS (SCHNEIDER, M) To require certification of home inspectors and to regulate the certification and performance of home inspectors. |
| | Current Status: | 6/26/2007 House Commerce and Labor, (First Hearing) |
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| HB261 | SALE OF TAX CERTIFICATES (BOLON, L) To revise the procedures governing the sale of tax certificates on lands that have delinquent property tax charges. |
| | Current Status: | 6/20/2007 House Ways and Means, (First Hearing) |
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| HB269 | TAX EXPENDITURES (DRIEHAUS, S) To provide for an appraisal of the effectiveness of tax expenditures and for their expiration after appraisal if not renewed. |
| | Current Status: | 6/21/2007 Referred to House Ways and Means Committee |
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| HB285 | SMALL BUSINESSES (MCGREGOR, R) To waive fines or penalties for paperwork violations that are first-time offenses committed by small
businesses. |
| | Current Status: | 7/10/2007 Introduced |
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| HB290 | TENANT'S UTILITIES (BUDISH, A) To require a landlord or manufactured home park operator, in general, to supply electric, gas, water, and sewage disposal service and related fixtures and appliances and to pay the required
amount due for the service in a timely manner unless the service to the tenant's or resident's dwelling unit is individually metered by a meter accessible to the tenant or resident, the landlord or operator notifies the tenant or resident in writing that the tenant or resident is liable for the cost of electric, gas, water, and sewage disposal service, the tenant or resident is the customer
with the public utility supplying the service, and the cost that the tenant or resident is billed only the cost that the public utility assesses for supplying the service to the dwelling unit. |
| | Current Status: | 7/26/2007 Introduced |
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| HB304 | CANCELED MORTGAGE OBLIGATIONS (DRIEHAUS, S) To exclude from income taxation discharges of indebtedness attributable to canceled residential mortgage obligations. |
| | Current Status: | 8/28/2007 Introduced |
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| SB7 | EMINENT DOMAIN (GRENDELL, T) To formally state the G.A.'s intentions in its upcoming deliberations on reforming Ohio's laws regulating the exercise of eminent domain. |
| | Current Status: | 7/10/2007 SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 10/10/2007 |
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| SB29 | LEAD HAZARD REMOVAL (KEARNEY, E) Establish a grant program to pay lead hazard removal costs incurred by qualified homeowners. |
| | Current Status: | 2/20/2007 Introduced |
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| SB103 | PROPERTY TITLE (MUMPER, L) To require that a person have paid all taxes and special assessments due on property while in their possession in order to use that period of possession to establish title to the property through adverse possession. |
| | Current Status: | 5/15/2007 Senate State and Local Government and Veterans Affairs, (Third Hearing) |
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| SB105 | HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION (GOODMAN, D) To extend the homestead exemption to homeowners that have annual incomes of fifty thousand dollars or less and to change the matter in which the homestead exemption tax reduction is calculated for certain eligible homeowners. |
| | Current Status: | 3/14/2007Referred to Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development Committee |
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| SB119 | TAX-DELINQUENT LAND REUTILIZATION (SCHULER, R) To modify the tax-delinquent land reutilization law by authorizing political subdivisions to prosecute property tax foreclosures, acquire such land through foreclosures before the land is offered at a tax sale, and sell such property at less than appraised market value; and to impose a one-year limit on property owners' option to obtain a delinquent tax installment payment contract. |
| | Current Status: | 5/2/2007 Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development, (Second Hearing) |
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| SB142 | ENERGY-EFFICIENT APPLIANCES (SCHULER, R) To temporarily exempt from sales and use taxes sales of certain energy-efficient appliances. |
| | Current Status: | 4/18/2007 Referred to Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development Committee |
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| SB162 | INCOME TAX EXEMPTION (STIVERS, S) To exempt form the personal income tax any unearned income of an individual who is age sixty-
five or older. |
| | Current Status: | 6/20/2007Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development, (First Hearing) |
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| SB170 | CONSERVANCY DISTRICT BOARDS (AMSTUTZ, R) To revise the membership of the board of directors of a conservancy district that includes all or parts of more than sixteen counties, to require the board of directors of such a district rather than the conservancy court to perform certain functions under the Conservancy Districts Law, to prohibit the levying of an assessment by such a conservancy district under specified circumstances, and to make other changes concerning the levying of an assessment by such a conservancy district. |
| | Current Status: | 6/27/2007 Senate Environment and Natural Resources, (Third Hearing) |
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| SB172 | HOUSEHOLD AND SMALL SEWAGE TREATMENT (CAFARO, C) To delay the application of the rules adopted under the Household and Small Sewage Treatment Systems Law that are related to the rehabilitation, renovation, improvement, or replacement of an existing household sewage treatment system, to establish the Household Sewage Treatment System Revolving Loan Program and the Household Sewage Treatment System Grant Program in the Department of Health to provide loans and grants to eligible persons for repairs to or upgrades
of household sewage treatment systems, to make appropriations, and to declare an emergency. |
| | Current Status: | 5/22/2007 Referred to Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
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| SJR1 | TAKING OF PRIVATE PROPERTY (COUGHLIN, K) Provide limits on the power of a public authority to take private property for public use. |
| | Current Status: | 6/27/2007 BILL FAILED |
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| SJR2 | REAL PROPERTY TAXES (COUGHLIN, K) To limit increases in the taxable value of real property to two per cent per year. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2007 - Referred to Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development Committee |
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| SJR3 | TAKING PUBLIC PROPERTY (COUGHLIN, K) To provide limits on the power of a public authority to take private property for a public use. |
| | Current Status: | 8/14/2007 Introduced |
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