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Members Only Briefs

LSC prepares these publications for members of the General Assembly as brief summaries of various issues or provisions of current law that are of general interest to members as determined by LSC Staff. Briefs differ from LSC Research Reports in that Research Reports are prepared pursuant to a specific legislative mandate, and often, are executed in conjunction with the activities of a select committee of legislators that is charged with examining an issue and making a report back to the full General Assembly.

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• A Guide to Legislative History in Ohio* (Jan. 26, 2010)  
• General Assembly Open Meetings Law* (Nov. 21, 2008)
• Land Conveyance Bills* (Jan. 26, 2010)  
• Laws Affecting Members Leaving the General Assembly* (Oct. 31, 2008)  
• Overview of Administrative Rule-Making in Ohio (July 30, 2008)  
• Restrictions Against Current or Former General Assembly Members Holding 
  Public Offices or positions of Public Employment (Oct. 11, 2006)
• Some Suggestions on How to Approach the Ohio Constitution (Nov. 8, 2002)

Crimes, Correction, & Law Enforcement

•  An Updated Summary of Ohio OVI and OVUAC Law* (Jan. 27, 2009)  

Education

• Highly Qualified Teachers and Paraprofessionals Under the No Child Left Behind Act (Aug. 30, 2006) 
• Interscholastic Athletics in Ohio (Jan. 8, 2007) 
• Ohio Graduation Tests (Oct. 5, 2007)  
• Public School Accountability Under the No Child Left Behind Act (Nov. 6, 2006) 
• School Calamity Days: Q & A (Oct. 31, 2008)  
• Transportation of Students (Aug. 31, 2007) 

Elections

• How an Issue Becomes a Statewide Ballot Issue* (Sept. 18, 2006) 
• Overview of Ohio's Election Process (Mar. 4, 2008)  

Environment & Natural Resources

• Ohio Law Governing Ground Water Ownership and Allocation (Dec. 20, 2007) 
• Regulation of Wetlands* (Jan. 27, 2009)  

• Medicaid and "Special Needs Trusts" in Ohio (Feb. 23, 2007) 
• Ohio Immunization Laws* (April 10, 2009)  
• The Medicaid Estate Recovery Program* (Nov. 21, 2008)

• Graduated Licensing of Teenage Drivers* (Jan. 27, 2009)  

Industry, Commerce, & Labor

• Employment-At-Will and Wrongful Discharge in Ohio* (Sept. 18, 2006) 
• Financing Unemployment Benefits--Federal Loans to Cover Shortfalls (April 10, 2009)  
• Notification of Plant Closings and Mass Layoffs Under Ohio and Federal Law* (Jan. 27, 2009)  
• Prevailing Wage Laws* (Feb. 25, 2005)

Insurance

• State Regulation of Insurance Authority, Recent Developments, and Ohio Law (Feb. 12, 2001)

Juvenile & Family Law

• Allocating and Modifying Parental Rights and Responsibilities in Ohio* (July 30, 2008) 
• Grandparent Visitation Rights in Ohio (Feb. 1, 2007) 
• Parenting Time and Visitation Orders in Ohio (Jan. 31, 2007) 

Local Government

• Municipal Home Rule* (Jan. 26, 2010)  
• State and Local Government Responsibility for Expenses of Disposing of a Dead Body (Feb. 23, 2007) 

• Ohio's Public Retirement Systems (April 10, 2009)  
• Purchasing Credit for Exempt Service under the Public Employees 
  Retirement System (Mar. 17, 2006)
• Social Security Benefit Reductions Affecting Government Employees (Dec. 3, 2007) 

State Government

• Ohio Laws Governing State Holidays* (Nov. 21, 2008)
• Ohio's Open Meeting Law* (Sept. 18, 2006) 
• Public Records Law in Ohio* (Oct. 23, 2008)  
• The Controlling Board* (Nov. 21, 2008)

* This Members Only Brief is an update of an earlier Brief on this subject.

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