2002 Local Impact Statements

HB0065EN
Exempts from taxation property held or occupied by veterans' organizations that qualify for income tax exemption under the Internal Revenue Code.
HB0070EN
To include appurtenances to roads and bridges to enhance the safety of animal-drawn vehicles, pedestrians, and bicycles in the types of projects for which local subdivisions may receive financial assistance through the Ohio Public Works Commission.
HB0150EN
Require a hearing screening for each newborn born in a hospital.
HB0198EN
Requires delinquent property tax collections to be distributed among taxing districts in proportion to current tax rates, rather than the rates in effect while the taxes were outstanding and makes slight changes regarding county auditor's tax valuation certifications.
HB0221EN
Establish a drug repository program for the collection and redistribution of prescription drugs that are in their original unopened packaging.
HB0327EN
Clarifies certain provisions of the Felony Sentencing Law, corrects the penalty provisions for illegal processing of drug documents, clarifies the eligibility criteria for intervention in lieu of conviction, requires applicants for nurse licensure and dialysis technician certification to have a criminal records check, expands the offense of unauthorized use of property to specifically include nonconsensual access to a cable service or cable system, revises certain provisions of the law governing nurses and dialysis technicians as to licensing or certification, duties, and training, specifies that the members of the Ohio Council for Interstate Adult Supervision serve without compensation but are to be reimbursed for expenses, and extends until July 1, 2002, the date by which the State Criminal Sentencing Commission must recommend changes to the state's criminal forfeiture laws.
HB0329EN
Allows local government funds under certain circumstances to be distributed under an alternative apportionment scheme without the approval of the largest city in the county.
HB0364EN
Expands community school law.
HB0384EN
To require public and nonpublic schools to have an employee trained in the performance of the Heimlich maneuver present during periods of food service to students, and limits the liability of nonpublic school employees.
HB0416EN
Provides property tax exemptions for certain retirement homes, nursing homes, and independent living facilities belonging to a tax-exempt organization.
HB0426EN
Modifies appraisal requirements for state agencies and political subdivisions making real property acquisitions from private owners.
HB0490EN
Implements the recommendations of the Criminal Sentencing Commission pertaining to misdemeanor sentencing generally and makes other changes in the criminal law, including changes in the law regarding matter harmful to juveniles, and in certain provisions regarding the issuance of motor vehicle registrations or driver's licenses.
HB0499EN
Adds one additional judge for the general division of the Butler County Court of Common Pleas to be elected in 2002 for a term to begin January 3, 2003 and declares an emergency.
HB0510EN
Amends existing law relative to the operation of the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, including the treatment of prisoners, the Adult Parole Authority, and the confidentiality of certain reports and information, expands the offense of sexual battery, creates the offense of illegal conveyance of a communications device onto the grounds of a detention facility, and provides for the auditing of community-based correctional facilities.
HB0515EN
Makes changes relating to the board of township trustees' journal, meeting minutes, and publication of resolutions in a home rule township; and allows civil service townships that are urban townships to appoint any one of the three highest scorers on a police or fire department promotional exam.
HB0530EN
Modifies the small county exception to the drawing, summoning, and service of jurors for a term or part of a term of a court of common pleas, allows the board of trustees of a fire district to issue bonds for the purpose of acquiring fire-fighting equipment, buildings, and sites, allows municipal court judges and county court judges to be paid in biweekly installments, confirms certain amendments of Sub. H.B. 8 of the 124th General Assembly relating to the creation of an additional term of the drug court judge of the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas, creates the Brown County Municipal Court with one full-time judgeship in that court and abolishes the Brown County County Court, continues the authority of the mayor of Georgetown to conduct a mayor's court, creates the Morrow County Municipal Court with one full-time judgeship in that court and abolishes the Morrow County County Court, continues the authority of the mayor of Mount Gilead to conduct a mayor's court, and declares an emergency.
SB0123EN
Amends various traffic laws to include recommendations from the Ohio Criminal Sentencing Commission.
SB0134EN
Provides for establishment of the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund deferred retirement option plan.
SB0144EN
Establishes the Ethanol Incentive Board, creates corporate franchise and personal income tax credits for ethanol plants, expands the definition of air quality facilities to include ethanol and biofuels plants, and declares an emergency.
SB0175EN
Revises the law regarding sexual predator hearings for offenders convicted of a sexually oriented offense but acquitted of a sexually violent predator specification, revises the law regarding Department of Rehabilitation and Correction employees' immunity for acts under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Law, makes certain importuning violations a sexually oriented offense, expands the sex offender community notification provisions to give more neighbors notice and earlier notice, changes the law regarding sexual predators and certain habitual sex offenders providing a notice to sheriffs of an intent to reside at a premise, increases the amount of prior notice sex offenders must provide relative to changing residence, changes the relevant age of the victim and offender for the offense of importuning, and declares an emergency.
SB0180EN
Creates the Ohio Venture Capital Program to provide for the direction of moneys from loans into investments in venture capital funds secured through Program revenues and refundable and nonrefundable tax credits that may be claimed against the corporation franchise tax, the personal income tax, the domestic insurance tax or the foreign insurance tax; requires state and county taxing officials to notify local taxing authorities of pending pollution control tax exemption applications; allows certain real property taxpayers to file a complaint with the Board of Tax Appeals; prohibits municipal corporations from taxing S corporations shareholders' distributive shares of net profits; and makes changes to the job retention tax credit.
SB0223EN
Requires payment, under Workers' Compensation Law, for the costs of medical diagnostic tests for on or off-duty police, fire and emergency first responders that have come into contact with the body fluid of another person.
SB0255EN
Revises the provisions on the use of public right-of-ways by utility service providers and cable operators and makes other changes.