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. |
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Current Status: |
2/5/2008 - Senate Judiciary - Civil Justice, (Third Hearing) |
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1/29/2008 - Senate Judiciary - Civil Justice, (Second Hearing)
1/23/2008 - Senate Judiciary - Civil Justice, (First Hearing)
1/9/2008 - Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary - Civil Justice
12/12/2007 - PASSED BY HOUSE, Vote 90-2
12/12/2007 - Bills for Third Consideration
6/14/2007 - House Committee recommends substitute, Vote 11-1
6/13/2007 - REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, House Civil and Commercial Law, (Sixth Hearing)
6/6/2007 - House Civil and Commercial Law, (Fifth Hearing)
5/30/2007 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, House Civil and Commercial Law, (Fourth Hearing)
5/23/2007 - House Civil and Commercial Law, (Third Hearing)
5/16/2007 - House Civil and Commercial Law, (Second Hearing)
5/9/2007 - House Civil and Commercial Law, (First Hearing)
4/17/2007 - Referred to Committee House Civil and Commercial Law
3/28/2007 - Introduced |
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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. |
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Current Status: |
5/31/2007 - 5/31/2007 - House Local and Municipal Government and Urban Revitalization, (First Hearing) |
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5/22/2007 - Referred to Committee House Local and Municipal Government and Urban Revitalization
5/17/2007 - Introduced |
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HB289 |
AGRICULTURAL SECURITY AREAS (CORE, A) To make changes to the law governing agricultural security areas. |
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Current Status: |
3/12/2008 - REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED |
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All Bill Status: |
2/6/2008 - Senate Agriculture, (Second Hearing)
1/30/2008 - Senate Agriculture, (First Hearing)
1/9/2008 - Referred to Committee Senate Agriculture
12/12/2007 - PASSED BY HOUSE, Vote 93-0
12/12/2007 - Bills for Third Consideration
10/31/2007 - REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, House Agriculture and Natural Resources, (Third Hearing)
10/24/2007 - House Agriculture and Natural Resources, (Second Hearing)
10/10/2007 - House Agriculture and Natural Resources, (First Hearing)
9/10/2007 - Referred to Committee House Agriculture and Natural Resources
7/24/2007 - Introduced |
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HB357 |
ENERGY DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPLY (MCGREGOR, J) To modify and expand the laws governing energy development and supply in the state. |
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Current Status: |
12/11/2007 - House Alternative Energy, (Sixth Hearing) |
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All Bill Status: |
12/4/2007 - House Alternative Energy, (Fifth Hearing)
11/27/2007 - House Alternative Energy, (Fourth Hearing)
11/14/2007 - House Alternative Energy, (Third Hearing)
11/7/2007 - House Alternative Energy, (Second Hearing)
10/31/2007 - House Alternative Energy, (First Hearing)
10/23/2007 - Referred to Committee House Alternative Energy
10/18/2007 - Introduced |
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HB359 |
NUISANCE ABATEMENT (HUFFMAN, M) To extend to all counties the authority to utilize surplus delinquent tax collections to facilitate nuisance abatement of deteriorated residential buildings in foreclosure and to terminate the temporary authority of a county with a population exceeding 1.2 million to use such collections to prevent residential mortgage foreclosures. |
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Current Status: |
3/12/2008 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED |
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All Bill Status: |
1/30/2008 - House Ways and Means, (Third Hearing)
11/7/2007 - House Ways and Means, (Second Hearing)
10/31/2007 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
10/23/2007 - Referred to Committee House Ways and Means
10/18/2007 - Introduced |
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HB420 |
STATE SPENDING (BRINKMAN, T) To promote transparency with respect to state spending by requiring that certain information on state awards and earmarks, state real property management, state agency management, and state program effectiveness be collected and made available on-line. |
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Current Status: |
2/7/2008 - House State Government and Elections, (Third Hearing) |
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All Bill Status: |
1/31/2008 - House State Government and Elections, (Second Hearing)
1/24/2008 - House State Government and Elections, (First Hearing)
1/8/2008 - Referred to Committee House State Government and Elections
12/21/2007 - Introduced |
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HB472 |
DITCH MAINTENANCE (SETZER, A) To allow a board of county commissioners to adjust the permanent base of a ditch improvement that is used for maintenance fund assessments and to allow a board to use certain ditch maintenance procedures to maintain soil and water conservation district improvements. |
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Current Status: |
2/12/2008 - Referred to Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
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2/6/2008 - Introduced |
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HB487 |
RENEWABLE ENERGY (MCGREGOR, J) To establish alternative energy benchmarks for electric distribution utilities and electric services companies, provide for the use of renewable energy credits, establish energy efficiency standards for electric distribution utilities and require the Department of Development to establish energy efficiency programs, create the Ohio Renewable Energy Authority to provide loans and grants to renewable energy businesses, establish policies regarding the geologic storage of carbon dioxide, and require greenhouse gas emission reporting and carbon control planning for generating facilities. |
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Current Status: |
3/12/2008 - House Public Utilities, (Fourth Hearing) |
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All Bill Status: |
3/6/2008 - House Public Utilities, (Third Hearing)
3/5/2008 - Referred to Committee House Public Utilities
2/28/2008 - House Public Utilities, (Second Hearing)
2/27/2008 - House Public Utilities, (First Hearing)
2/21/2008 - Introduced |
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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. |
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Current Status: |
5/2/2007 - Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development, (Second Hearing) |
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All Bill Status: |
4/18/2007 - Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development, (First Hearing)
3/21/2007 - Referred to Committee Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development
3/20/2007 - Introduced |
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SB221 |
STATE ENERGY POLICY (SCHULER, R) To revise state energy policy to address electric service price regulation, new bonding authority for advanced energy projects, advanced (including renewable) energy portfolio standards, energy efficiency standards, and greenhouse gas emission reporting and carbon control planning requirements. |
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Current Status: |
3/12/2008 - House Public Utilities, (Seventeenth Hearing) |
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All Bill Status: |
3/6/2008 - House Public Utilities, (Sixteenth Hearing)
3/5/2008 - House Public Utilities, (Fifteenth Hearing)
2/28/2008 - House Public Utilities, (Fourteenth Hearing)
2/27/2008 - House Public Utilities, (Thirteenth Hearing)
2/21/2008 - House Public Utilities, (Twelfth Hearing)
2/13/2008 - House Public Utilities, (Eleventh Hearing)
2/5/2008 - House Public Utilities, (Tenth Hearing)
1/30/2008 - House Public Utilities, (Ninth Hearing)
1/23/2008 - House Public Utilities, (Eighth Hearing)
1/16/2008 - House Public Utilities, (Seventh Hearing)
1/9/2008 - House Public Utilities, (Sixth Hearing)
12/12/2007 - House Public Utilities, (Fifth Hearing)
12/5/2007 - House Public Utilities, (Fourth Hearing)
11/28/2007 - House Public Utilities, (Third Hearing)
11/14/2007 - House Public Utilities, (Second Hearing)
11/8/2007 - Referred to Committee House Public Utilities
11/7/2007 - House Public Utilities, (First Hearing)
10/31/2007 - Senate Committee recommends substitute, Vote 8-0
10/31/2007 - PASSED BY SENATE, Vote 32-0
10/31/2007 - Bills for Third Consideration
10/30/2007 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED & REPORTED OUT, Senate Energy and Public Utilities, (Fifteenth Hearing)
10/29/2007 - Senate Energy and Public Utilities, (Fourteenth Hearing)
10/25/2007 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, Senate Energy and Public Utilities, (Thirteenth Hearing)
10/24/2007 - Senate Energy and Public Utilities, (Twelfth Hearing)
10/23/2007 - Senate Energy and Public Utilities, (Eleventh Hearing)
10/18/2007 - Senate Energy and Public Utilities, (Tenth Hearing)
10/17/2007 - Senate Energy and Public Utilities, (Ninth Hearing)
10/16/2007 - Senate Energy and Public Utilities, (Eighth Hearing)
10/11/2007 - Senate Energy and Public Utilities, (Seventh Hearing)
10/10/2007 - Senate Energy and Public Utilities, (Sixth Hearing)
10/9/2007 - Senate Energy and Public Utilities, (Fifth Hearing)
10/4/2007 - Senate Energy and Public Utilities, (Fourth Hearing)
10/2/2007 - Referred to Committee Senate Energy and Public Utilities
10/2/2007 - Senate Energy and Public Utilities, (Third Hearing)
9/27/2007 - Senate Energy and Public Utilities, (Second Hearing)
9/25/2007 - Introduced |
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SB276 |
CONSERVATION AND REVITALIZATION (STIVERS, S) To authorize a county, municipal corporation, or township to issue public obligations to provide, or assist in providing, grants, loans, loan guarantees, or contributions for conservation and revitalization purposes. |
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Current Status: |
3/11/2008 - Senate State and Local Government and Veterans Affairs, (First Hearing) |
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All Bill Status: |
1/23/2008 - Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government and Veterans Affairs
1/22/2008 - Introduced |
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SB277 |
NUISANCE PROPERTIES (STIVERS, S) To create a new cause of action in foreclosure in the environmental or housing division of a municipal court to abate nuisance properties. |
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Current Status: |
2/5/2008 - Senate Judiciary - Civil Justice, (First Hearing) |
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All Bill Status: |
1/23/2008 - Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary - Civil Justice
1/22/2008 - Introduced |
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SB283 |
MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS (ROBERTS, T) To authorize municipal corporations to collect their unpaid costs for correcting hazardous conditions or abating nuisances caused by unsafe structures by attaching a lien against the property owner's primary residence, and to require persons with interests in real property to file identifying information with county auditors. |
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Current Status: |
1/30/2008 - Referred to State and Local Government and Veterans Affairs Committee |
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All Bill Status: |
1/29/2008 - Introduced |
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SB292 |
DITCH MAINTENANCE (ROBERTS, T) To allow a board of county commissioners to adjust the permanent base of a ditch improvement that is used for maintenance fund assessments and to allow a board to use certain ditch maintenance procedures to maintain soil and water conservation district improvements. |
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Current Status: |
3/11/2008 - Referred to Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
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2/19/2008 - Introduced |
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SB295 |
RENTAL AGREEMENT (MILLER, D) To provide that a rental agreement does not terminate upon the foreclosure of the landlord's mortgage. |
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Current Status: |
3/11/2008 - Referred to Judiciary - Civil Justice Committee |
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2/26/2008 - Introduced |
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SB300 |
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FUNDING (CAFARO, C) To create the Public Transit Funding Task Force to study Ohio's public transportation funding and issue a report by June 30, 2008. |
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Current Status: |
3/11/2008 - Referred to Highways and Transportation Committee |
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3/4/2008 - Introduced |
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SCR23 |
VACANT HOUSING PROBLEMS (MILLER, D) To urge the United States House of Representatives to pass H.R. 3498, cited as the Neighborhood Reclamation and Revitalization Program Act of 2007, to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants to assist municipalities with a vacant housing problem and additionally to urge that the appropriations be increased to $500,000,000. |
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Current Status: |
3/11/2008 - Referred to Finance and Financial Institutions Committee |
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2/26/2008 - Introduced |
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Week in Review
Friday, March 7, 2008
BUDGET
The House Finance and Appropriations Committee cleared HB496, the capital reappropriations bill, putting it on schedule to pass both houses by the end of next week. The reappropriations bill must be passed and signed by March 31 so that the funding is in place on July 1, the beginning of the next fiscal year. However, next week is the only time both houses will be holding voting sessions this month.
The Office of Budget and Management (OBM) released its preliminary budget guidance for Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011, setting Sept. 15, 2008 as the deadline for all departments to have their proposed budgets completed.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Gov. Ted Strickland formally accepted the Governors Cup economic development award from Site Selection magazine for ranking first in 2007 in the number of new plants and expansions the second consecutive year Ohio has garnered the honor.
ELECTIONS
Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has now doubled the estimate of the states cost to switch to all optical scanned paper ballots from $31 million to $64 million. Contributing to the increase, she said, was the cold reception to having multiple precincts located in one polling place.
The Ohio Supreme Court unanimously ruled Friday against Union County officials in their attempt to prevent Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner from requiring them to offer paper ballots as an alternative to their electronic voting machines, rejecting the county's claim she exceeded her authority.
Brunner is being criticized for playing partisan politics in her recent removal of members from boards of elections in Hardin, Lawrence and Summit counties and of a Republican member of the Board of Voting Machine Examiners.
The Summit County Republican Party sued over Brunners rejection of its recommendation for its Board of Elections, taking the case directly to the Supreme Court. However, the Court rejected the request to expedite the lawsuit, explaining that the case focuses on an appointment and does not cite a pending election. Sen. Tim Grendell (R-Chesterland) represents the county Republican party in the case.
ENERGY
The panel testifying before the House Public Utilities Committee this week on the constitutional issues surrounding SB221, the governors proposed energy reform and electric rereg bill, agreed 3-1 that the bill is unconstitutional, citing interstate commerce and filed rate doctrine cases.
Three leading financial institutions have developed guidelines, The Carbon Principles, to direct their policy regarding energy investment. Under these principles, companies seeking new coal-fired power plants will have to address carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
The Ohio Power Sitting Board approved a proposal from American Municipal Power-Ohio (AMP-Ohio) to construct a 960 megawatt coal-fired electric generating station near Letart Falls.
FEDERAL
Ohio Sen. George Voinovich (R) released a Government Accounting Office report that shows a spiraling pattern of supplemental and emergency spending by Congress budget practices which in the past seven years have camouflaged nearly $700 billion in appropriations not subject to full public accountability as part of the regular budget process.
Recently elected Cong. Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) was appointed to the House Agriculture and House Transportation and Infrastructure committees.
FORECLOSURES
The Ohio Housing Finance Agency received over $3 million from the National Foreclosure Mitigation Counseling Program to distribute to 18 local organizations around the state to increase the availability of foreclosure counseling.
NATURAL RESOURCES
A few fish species have lower chemical levels and can be consumed more often according to the 2008 fish consumption advisory issued by the Ohio EPA, the Ohio Department of Health and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources although some species in Dow Lake, East Fork Lake, Lake Erie, Little Miami River, Mahoning River, Muskingum River, Ohio River and the West Branch Reservoir need more stringent guidelines.
A tougher poaching law went into effect this week, increasing restitution for wild animals that are unlawfully held, taken, bought, sold or possessed by as much as five times.
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) is conducting an online survey regarding its inland lake and reservoir fishing regulations including opinions on length and creel (daily harvest) limits for several species.
STATE GOVERNMENT
Ohio received a B-minus grade from the Pew Center on the States in its recent Grading the States 2008 survey for its overall performance. The survey looked at a variety of areas from budget and finance to roads and bridges. Ohio got its best marks in money management and its worst in people, with the report noting that the state will have a coming wave of retirements that will force leaders to come up with a strategy for replacing them and retaining their institutional knowledge.
Legislative Service Commission (LSC) has finished its study called for in the current budget to look at the feasibility of transferring 15 state cultural and historical sites to local organizations, finding that they are interested but only could do so if the state continued to give some degree of financial support.
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