Legislation 2015-2016

Legislation 2015-2016

131st General Assembly

By: Tom Ash

Report created on December 31, 2016

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CHARTER SCHOOL SPONSORSHIP (DOVILLA M, ROEGNER K) With regard to sponsorship and management of community schools. Current Status: 11/1/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR ; eff. 2/1/16 More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-2 ASSESSMENT SCORE DETERMINATIONS (BUCHY J) To prohibit individual student scores from certain elementary and secondary achievement assessments administered for the 2014-2015 school year from being used to determine promotion or retention or to grant course credit. Current Status: 3/16/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR ; eff. 3/16/15 More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-7 TAX EXPENDITURE REVIEW COMMITTEE (BOOSE T) To create a Tax Expenditure Review Committee for the purpose of periodically reviewing existing and proposed tax expenditures. Current Status: 12/19/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR ; eff. 90 days More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-9 TIF-INCENTIVE DISTRICTS (BUTLER, JR. J, BURKLEY T) To establish a procedure by which political subdivisions proposing a tax increment financing (TIF) incentive district are required to provide notice to the record owner of each parcel within the proposed incentive district before creating the district. STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION MEMBERSHIP (GERBERRY R) To change the voting membership of the State Board of Education to consist of a member from each of several electoral districts with boundaries coinciding with the state's Congressional districts and a president to be appointed by the Governor if there is an even number of such electoral districts. Current Status: 2/10/2015 - Referred to Committee House Education More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-15 CONCEALED CARRY-SCHOOL SAFETY ZONE (GONZALES A, KOEHLER K) To expand and clarify the authority of a concealed handgun licensee to possess a handgun in a school safety zone. Current Status: 5/13/2015 - House State Government, (Second Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-20 Current Status: 11/30/2016 - Senate Ways and Means, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-12

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HB23

OIL-GAS LEASE INCOME (AMSTUTZ R) To use one-half of any income from oil and gas leases on state land to fund temporary income tax reductions, to modify the law governing the use of new Ohio use tax collections, and to require the Director of Budget and Management to recommend whether or not income tax rates should be permanently reduced. Current Status: 11/18/2015 - Senate Ways and Means, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-23 FOOD-DRINK SCHOOL SALES (KUNZE S) To require the State Board of Education to adopt rules regarding the sale of beverages and food during the regular school day in connection with a school-sponsored fundraiser. Current Status: 4/14/2015 - House Education, (Second Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-25 SCHOOL-CAMP INHALER PERMIT (DUFFEY M) To permit schools and camps to procure and use a metered dose inhaler or dry powdered inhaler used to alleviate asthmatic symptoms in accordance with prescribed policies and to exempt them from licensing requirements related to the possession of these inhalers. Current Status: 11/1/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR ; eff. 2/1/16 More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-39 CLASSROOM FACILITIES-PROPERTY TAX ROLLBACKS (GERBERRY R) To revise the law governing classroom facilities assistance programs and to restore the application of the 10% and 2.5% property tax rollbacks to school district tax levies approved on or after the effective date of Am. Sub. H.B. 59 of the 130th General Assembly. LOTTERY PROFITS-SCHOOLS (GERBERRY R) To require that a portion of lottery profits be distributed annually on a per pupil basis to public and chartered nonpublic schools. Current Status: 4/21/2015 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-44 VOCATIONAL SCHOOL BOARDS-OFFICE TERMS (ANIELSKI M) To revise the law regarding terms of office of members of certain joint vocational school district boards of education. Current Status: 6/9/2015 - House Education, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-54 Current Status: 3/17/2015 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-43

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HB55

THIRD-GRADE READING GUARANTEE (SPRAGUE R) To specify deadlines for the administration of reading skills assessments for purposes of the ThirdGrade Reading Guarantee. Current Status: 2/11/2015 - Referred to Committee House Education More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-55 PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT-CRIMINAL RECORDS (SCHURING K, SLESNICK S) To limit the use of criminal records in the hiring and employment practices of public employers. Current Status: 12/22/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR ; eff. 3/23/16 More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-56 CHILD ABUSE-NEGLECT REPORTING (PELANDA D, GROSSMAN C) To require mandatory reporters of child abuse or neglect to notify the county public children services agency when an attorney in fact under a document that purports to grant parental rights requests services from them. Current Status: 12/8/2016 - Senate Civil Justice, (Third Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-63 OPERATING BUDGET (SMITH R) To make operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2015, and ending June 30, 2017, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs. Current Status: 6/30/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR ; eff. 6/30/15; certain provisions effective 9/29/15, other dates More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-64 TAX-EXPENDITURE APPRAISAL (DRIEHAUS D) To provide for the periodic appraisal of the effectiveness of tax expenditures. Current Status: 3/24/2015 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-65 SCHOOL RESTRUCTURING (DRIEHAUS D, BRENNER A) To authorize school districts and community schools to initiate a community learning center process to assist and guide school restructuring. Current Status: 7/16/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR ; eff. 10/15/15 More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-70 PRIMARY-SECONDARY ASSESSMENTS (BRENNER A) With regard to the administration of state primary and secondary education assessments. Current Status: 5/27/2015 - Referred to Committee Senate Education More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-74

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HB81

SPECIAL ELECTIONS (HAMBLEY S) To eliminate the ability to conduct special elections in February and to require a political subdivision to prepay sixty-five per cent of the estimated cost of a special election. Current Status: 3/10/2015 - House Government Accountability and Oversight, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-81 CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE PREVENTION (RAMOS D) With respect to age-appropriate student instruction in child sexual abuse and sexual violence prevention and in-service staff training in child sexual abuse prevention. Current Status: 11/28/2016 - Senate Education, (Second Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-85 MEDICAID SCHOOL PROGRAM (DEVITIS A) To authorize certain Medicaid providers to make referrals for certain services under the Medicaid School Program. Current Status: 12/19/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR ; eff. 90 days More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-89 SCHOOLS EMPLOYEES-SEXUAL CONDUCT (HAGAN C) To prohibit an employee of a public or nonpublic school or institution of higher education who is not in a position of authority from engaging in sexual conduct with a minor at least four years younger than the employee who is enrolled in or attends that public or nonpublic school or who is enrolled in or attends that institution of higher education. Current Status: 1/27/2016 - Senate Government Oversight and Reform, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-92 INCOME TAX-SCHOOL FUNDING (CURTIN M) To require that an amount equal to state income tax collections, less amounts contributed to the Ohio political party fund via the income tax checkoff, be distributed for the support of elementary, secondary, vocational, and special education programs.

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HB99

Current Status: 5/5/2015 - House Ways and Means, (Second Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-99

HB113

CPR-GRADUATION REQUIREMENT (GROSSMAN C, MANNING N) To require instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of an automated external defibrillator, to revise the law regarding the Joint Education Oversight Committee, high school equivalency tests, to make other revisions regarding the operation of primary and secondary schools.

Current Status: 6/14/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR ; eff. 9/14/16 More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-113

HB114

SCHOOL DOOR-BARRICADE (ROEGNER K, BISHOFF H) To require the Board of Building Standards to adopt rules for the use of a barricade device on a school door in an emergency situation and to prohibit the State Fire Code from prohibiting the use of the device in such a situation. Current Status: 6/29/2015 - Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-114 TAX CREDIT-ENDOWMENT DONATIONS (SEARS B, AMSTUTZ R) To authorize an income tax credit for donations to the permanent endowment fund of an eligible community foundation and to require the Director of Budget and Management to reimburse the Local Government Fund and the Public Library Fund for revenue lost because of the credit. PUBLIC RECORDS-DATA BOARD (HAGAN C, DUFFEY M) To create the DataOhio Board, to specify requirements for posting public records online, to require the Auditor of State to adopt rules regarding a uniform accounting system for public offices, to establish an online catalog of public data at data.Ohio.gov, to establish the Local Government Information Exchange Grant Program, and to make an appropriation. Current Status: 9/28/2016 - Referred to Committee Senate Finance More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-130 ORGAN DONATION-HEALTH CURRICULUM (GROSSMAN C, PHILLIPS D) To require the health curriculum of each school district to include instruction on the positive effects of organ and tissue donation. Current Status: 4/26/2016 - REPORTED OUT , House Education, (Fourth Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-137 STATE TESTING WAIVER (ZELTWANGER P) To revise the requirements regarding the administration of the state achievement assessments, to require the Department of Education to request a waiver from federal testing requirements, and to declare an emergency. Current Status: 4/21/2015 - House Education, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-138 STEM PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM (MCCOLLEY R, HOWSE S) To establish the STEM Public-Private Partnership Pilot Program to provide high school students the opportunity to receive education in a targeted industry while simultaneously earning high school and college credit and to make an appropriation. Current Status: 4/14/2015 - Referred to Committee House Finance More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-145 Current Status: 6/16/2015 - House Ways and Means, (Third Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-128

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HB146

CURSIVE HANDWRITING (GROSSMAN C, BRENNER A) To require instruction in cursive handwriting. Current Status: 5/10/2016 - House Education, (Third Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-146 CLASSROOM FACILITIES ASSISTANCE (PATTERSON J) To require the Ohio School Facilities Commission to provide classroom facilities assistance to a school district resulting from the consolidation of two or more school districts or from the voluntary transfer of the entire territory of a school district if specified conditions are satisfied. Current Status: 12/1/2016 - Referred to Committee Senate Finance More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-148 PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY DATE (DOVILLA M) To change the date on which presidential primary elections are held. Current Status: 6/10/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR ; eff. 9/9/15 More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-153 CHARTER SCHOOL OVERSIGHT (ROEGNER K, PATTERSON J) To make changes to the law regarding governance, operation, and management of community schools, and to make an appropriation. Current Status: 4/21/2015 - Referred to Committee House Education More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-156 AUTOMATIC VOTER REGISTRATION (STINZIANO M, SYKES E) To amend the versions of sections 4507.05 and 4507.06 of the Revised Code that are scheduled to take effect January 1, 2017, to continue the provisions of this act on and after the effective date, to require that eligible persons in the database of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles be automatically registered to vote or have their registrations updated automatically, as applicable, unless those persons decline to be registered or to update their registrations. Current Status: 11/29/2016 - House Government Accountability and Oversight, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-179 ONLINE VOTER REGISTRATION-AUTO UPDATE (CLYDE K) To require that eligible persons in certain government and school databases be automatically registered to vote or have their registrations updated automatically unless those persons decline to do so and to create an online voter registration system. Current Status: 11/30/2016 - House Government Accountability and Oversight, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-181

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HB189

VOTER IDENTIFICATION (BRENNER A) To revise the law concerning the identification an elector must provide in order to cast absent voter's ballots, to vote in person at a polling place, or to cast a provisional ballot. Current Status: 5/12/2015 - Referred to Committee House Government Accountability and Oversight More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-189 SAFETY ENHANCEMENT STANDARDS (ROGERS J, PERALES R) To require the State Board of Education to adopt rules prescribing standards for safety enhancements to new public and nonpublic school facilities and to require the Ohio School Facilities Commission to revise its construction and design standards to comply with the State Board's standards. Current Status: 10/6/2015 - House Education, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-192 EPINEPHRINE AUTOINJECTORS (HAGAN C) Regarding procuring, storing, and accessing epinephrine autoinjectors for which there are no patient-specific prescriptions and civil immunity of health professionals. Current Status: 6/8/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR ; eff. 9/8/16 More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-200 ACADEMIC STANDARDS-CURRICULA (THOMPSON A) With regard to state achievement assessments, statewide academic content standards and model curricula, and teacher and administrator evaluations. Current Status: 2/10/2016 - House Education, (Second Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-212 TOBACCO USE-PUBLIC SCHOOLS (RUHL M, ASHFORD M) To revise the law regarding tobacco and nicotine use in public schools and at public school-sponsored functions. Current Status: 10/7/2015 - House Health and Aging, (Second Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-221 PROPERTY VALUATION COMPLAINTS (GROSSMAN C, MCCLAIN J) To require counties, municipal corporations, townships, and school boards that file complaints against the valuation of property they do not own to pass a resolution approving the complaint and specifying the compensation paid to any person retained to represent the county, municipal corporation, township, or school board in the matter of the complaint.

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HB231

Current Status: 11/17/2015 - House Local Government, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-231

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ABSENTEE VOTER BALLOTS (CLYDE K) To modify the circumstances under which the Secretary of State and other public officials and employees may mail unsolicited applications for absent voter's ballots. Current Status: 6/10/2015 - Referred to Committee House Government Accountability and Oversight More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-246 COUNTY TREASURER FEES (HACKETT R, RYAN S) To adjust the fees allowed to county treasurers for collecting property taxes. Current Status: 1/26/2016 - House Local Government, (Second Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-252 ALTERNATIVE STATE BUDGET (BECKER J) To modify the law governing re-employed retirants; to expand the immunity from liability for certain health care professionals, workers, and organizations when providing care to indigent and uninsured individuals; to require the Department of Health to ensure that certain funds are not used to perform elective abortions, or promote or affiliate with any entity that performs elective abortions; to modify the method of calculating the severance tax; to make certain changes to the sales tax; to modify the income tax rates and calculation; and to reduce General Revenue Fund appropriations for the fiscal biennium ending June 30, 2017; and to eliminate Medicaid funding for the group described in section 192(a)(10)(i)(VIII) of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)(10)(A)(i)(VIII). Current Status: 11/15/2016 - House Finance, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-257 APPRENTICESHIP LOAN PROGRAM (HAGAN C) To create a subprogram of the College Credit Plus Program that permits students to participate in certified apprenticeship programs. Current Status: 11/10/2015 - House Education, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-274 PENSIONS-FEDERAL OFFENSES (DOVILLA M, ANIELSKI M) To add extortion and perjury and certain federal offenses to the offenses that may result in forfeiture or termination of public retirement system benefits. Current Status: 9/28/2016 - Referred to Committee Senate Criminal Justice More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-284 CUSTODIAN-AUTISM SCHOLARSHIP (BLESSING III L, REZABEK J) To permit the temporary, legal, or permanent custodian of a qualified child to apply for an Autism Scholarship. Current Status: 5/31/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR ; eff. 8/31/16 More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-299

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HB309

ABSENT VOTER'S BALLOTS (CLYDE K) To eliminate the requirement that absent voter's ballots received during the ten days after the day of an election contain a postmark and to specify circumstances under which those ballots must not be counted. Current Status: 11/30/2016 - House Government Accountability and Oversight, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-309 PENSION-SALARY PERCENTAGE (SCHURING K) To base the percentage of an employee's salary that must be contributed to the State Teachers Retirement System to mitigate the effect of the employee's participation in an alternative retirement program on the average percentage used to amortize the Retirement System's unfunded actuarial accrued pension liabilities. Current Status: 9/16/2015 - Referred to Committee House Health and Aging More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-311 SCHOOL DISTRICTS-LICENSE PLATES (ANIELSKI M, PATMON B) To provide for the issuance of public school district license plates and private school license plates. Current Status: 9/30/2015 - Referred to Committee House Transportation and Infrastructure More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-323 LOCAL GOVERNMENT INNOVATION COUNCIL (AMSTUTZ R) To extend the operation of the Local Government Innovation Council, make budget corrections and declare an emergency. Current Status: 12/22/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR ; eff. 12/22/15 More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-340 PER-PUPIL STATE FUNDING (BRENNER A) To require that each city, local, and exempted village school district receive a per-pupil amount of state funding that is at least as much as the statewide per pupil amount paid for chartered nonpublic schools in Auxiliary Services funds and for administrative cost reimbursement. Current Status: 11/15/2016 - House Finance, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-346 AUTISM TREATMENT-COVERAGE (GROSSMAN C, TERHAR L) To mandate coverage of autism treatment. Current Status: 5/25/2016 - REPORTED OUT , House Government Accountability and Oversight, (Fifth Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-350

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HB372

EDUCATIONAL SERVICE PERSONNEL (PHILLIPS D) To require city, exempted village, and local school districts to employ, for each 1,000 students, at least five full-time equivalent educational service personnel in specified areas. Current Status: 11/29/2016 - House Education, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-372 ACADEMIC DISTRESS COMMISSIONS (LEPORE-HAGAN M) With regard to the operation of academic distress commissions and to modify the earmarked funding for the establishment of academic distress commissions. Current Status: 12/7/2016 - House Education, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-379 INFORMED STUDENT DOCUMENT (HAGAN C) To require one-half unit of economic and financial literacy in the high school social studies curriculum, to require the Chancellor of Higher Education to prepare an informed student document for each state institution of higher education, to require the State Board of Education to include information on the informed student document in the standards and model curricula it creates for financial literacy and entrepreneurship. Current Status: 11/28/2016 - Senate Education, (Second Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-383 CAUV COMPUTATION (HILL B) To require that the computation of the capitalization rate for the purposes of determining CAUV of agricultural land be computed using a method that excludes appreciation and equity buildup. Current Status: 5/3/2016 - House Government Accountability and Oversight, (Second Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-398 CHARTERED NONPUBLIC SCHOOLS (BRINKMAN T) With regard to requirements for chartered nonpublic schools. Current Status: 2/23/2016 - House Education, (Third Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-401 TRUANCY-NATIONAL GUARD SCHOLARSHIP (REZABEK J, HAYES B) To modify truancy and compulsory school attendance law and to specify that a National Guard scholarship recipient who fails to complete the recipient's term of enlistment in the National Guard due to enlistment, warrant, commission, or appointment in the United States armed forces is not liable for repayment of the scholarship. Current Status: 12/27/2016 - Sent to Governor for Signature More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-410

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HB420

OPT-OUTS-STATE ASSESSMENTS (ROEGNER K) To prohibit the Department of Education from including students who "opt-out" of state assessments in calculations of certain grades in the state report card and to declare an emergency. Current Status: 2/10/2016 - BILL AMENDED , House Education, (Second Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-420 RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION-STUDENTS (HAYES B) Regarding student religious expression. Current Status: 5/3/2016 - Senate Education, (Second Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-425 INTERSCHOLASTIC ACTIVITIES (MCCOLLEY R) To permit a student enrolled in a nonpublic school to participate in interscholastic activities at a school district that is not the student's resident district under certain circumstances and to prohibit a student who participates in the College Credit Plus program from being denied the opportunity to participate in interscholastic athletics solely due to participation in the program. Current Status: 11/15/2016 - Senate Education, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-441 COLLEGE CREDIT PLUS-EXTRACURRICULARS (DOVILLA M, ANIELSKI M) To make changes to the College Credit Plus program and to specify that students participating in the program shall not be denied the opportunity to participate in extracurricular activities based solely upon participation in the CCP program. Current Status: 2/16/2016 - House Education, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-445 BOARDING SCHOOL ZONE (PATTERSON J, ROEGNER K) To authorize a municipal corporation or township to establish a boarding school zone and a special speed limit within that zone. Current Status: 12/29/2016 - Sent to Governor for Signature More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-455 EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTER-AUDIT (SCHURING K) To authorize the Auditor of State to conduct a performance audit of an educational service center and to require a comprehensive performance audit of all educational service centers. Current Status: 5/24/2016 - REPORTED OUT , House Education, (Third Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-459

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MBR-HIGHER EDUCATION (BROWN T) With respect to the coordination and administration of higher education programs and the College Credit Plus program. Current Status: 5/24/2016 - House Finance Subcommittee on Higher Education, (Seventh Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-474 STUDENT ENROLLMENT REPORTING (THOMPSON A, KOEHLER K) To revise the requirements regarding student enrollment reporting for public schools, mandatory student withdrawal policies, and scholarship program eligibility relative to students who choose not to take state assessments during the 2015-2016 school year and to declare an emergency. Current Status: 5/3/2016 - REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED , House Education, (Second Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-481 EXEMPT PROPERTY-VALUE CALCULATION (DEVER J) To change the calculation of the exempt value of improved property subject to a community reinvestment area exemption, to clarify the calculation of the exempt value of property subject to a brownfield remediation exemption, and to authorize the filing of a complaint with the county auditor challenging the assessed value of fully or partially exempt property. Current Status: 11/29/2016 - House Ways and Means, (Second Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-482 MINIMUM WAGE (SMITH K, CRAIG H) To increase the state minimum wage to ten dollars and ten cents per hour beginning January 1, 2017. Current Status: 11/15/2016 - House Commerce and Labor, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-486 STATE SEAL-BILITERACY (LATOURETTE S, ROEGNER K) To require the State Board of Education to establish the state Seal of Biliteracy to be attached or affixed to the high school transcripts of qualifying students. Current Status: 12/1/2016 - Referred to Committee Senate Education More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-487 STUDENTS-UNIFORMED SERVICES (BOCCIERI J) To enact the "Student to Soldiers Support Act (S3A)" regarding the participation of students who are serving in the uniformed services in extracurricular activities at public and nonpublic schools and public and private colleges. Current Status: 12/7/2016 - House Education, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-496

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EXPULSION-THREAT OF VIOLENCE (KUNZE S) With respect to the expulsion of a student from a school district, community school, or STEM school for communicating a threat of violence to occur on school grounds. Current Status: 12/5/2016 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED , House Education, (Third Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-498 YOUTH STEM PROGRAM (DOVILLA M, ANIELSKI M) To support the Youth STEM Commercialization and Entrepreneurship Program and to make an appropriation. Current Status: 4/13/2016 - Referred to Committee House Finance More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-501 AGENCY RULE-MAKING (DUFFEY M) To reform agency rule-making and legislative review thereof. Current Status: 5/24/2016 - House Government Accountability and Oversight, (Fifth Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-503 FAMILY-MEDICAL LEAVE ACT (KUHNS C, BOYD J) To establish family and medical leave insurance benefits to provide paid leave to allow an individual to address the individual's own serious health condition, to care for a family member, or to bond with a new child and to exempt those benefits from personal income tax. Current Status: 12/6/2016 - House Insurance, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-511 PUBLIC RETIREMENT SYSTEMS (SCHURING K, RAMOS D) To revise the law governing the state's public retirement systems. Current Status: 12/29/2016 - Sent to Governor for Signature More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-520 STATE REPORT CARD MEASURE (CUPP B, SMITH R) To review the value-added progress dimension measure used for purposes of state report card ratings for school districts and schools. Current Status: 5/17/2016 - House Education, (Third Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-524 EMPLOYEE SELECTION-INFORMATION (DEVER J) To regulate the collection, use, and retention of certain information obtained from an applicant during the employee selection process. Current Status: 5/10/2016 - House Commerce and Labor, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-527

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HIGH SCHOOL CIVICS ASSESSMENT (KOEHLER K, LANDIS A) To permit high school students to take a civics assessment instead of the American government end of-course examination. Current Status: 11/10/2016 - Referred to Committee House Education More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-544 CIVIL LIABILITY-VOLUNTEER LAW ENFORCEMENT (DEVITIS A) To authorize a board of education or governing authority of a school to enter into an agreement with a volunteer who is a current or retired law enforcement officer to patrol school premises to prevent or respond to a mass casualty event, to generally provide to a board of education or governing authority of a school and to such a volunteer immunity from civil liability for injury, death, or loss arising from the volunteer's services, and to provide a tax credit for volunteer service. Current Status: 11/10/2016 - Referred to Committee House Ways and Means More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-546 SCHOOL FACILITIES-TECHNOLOGY PURCHASING (ARNDT S) To require the Ohio School Facilities Commission to establish a program assisting school districts in purchasing technology and making physical alterations to improve technology infrastructure and school safety and security. Current Status: 11/10/2016 - Referred to Committee House Education More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-550 SCHOOL DISTRICT BOUNDARIES (DUFFEY M, BISHOFF H) To make boundaries of certain school districts that are parties to an annexation agreement permanent under state law. Current Status: 5/24/2016 - House Education, (Second Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-556 PROVISIONAL BALLOTS (CLYDE K) To create a presumption of validity for certain election matters and to require certain provisional ballots cast in the wrong polling place to be remade and counted. Current Status: 5/17/2016 - Referred to Committee House Government Accountability and Oversight More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-557 COMMUNITY SCHOOL ENROLLMENT (HAMBLEY S) Regarding verification of community school enrollments. Current Status: 11/15/2016 - House Education, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-560

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INCOME TAX-LAYOFFS (RAMOS D) To provide for payments to municipalities or school districts for their lost income tax revenue after a business lays off 50 or more employees within their jurisdiction. Current Status: 11/10/2016 - Referred to Committee House Finance More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-563 STUDENT IMMUNIZATION (RAMOS D) To make changes to the law governing immunizations for pupils. Current Status: 12/7/2016 - House Health and Aging, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-564 INTERDISTRICT-OPEN ENROLLMENT (HILL B) Regarding funding for students enrolled in community schools, STEM schools, and other districts through interdistrict open enrollment. Current Status: 11/10/2016 - Referred to Committee House Education More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-570 PUBLIC EMPLOYEES-REQUIRED DUES (BECKER J) To remove any requirement under the Public Employees Collective Bargaining Law that public employees join or pay dues to any employee organization, to prohibit public employers from requiring public employees to join or pay dues to any employee organization, to prohibit an employee organization from being required to represent public employees who are not members of the employee organization, and to make an appropriation. Current Status: 11/16/2016 - Re-Referred to Committee More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-583 COMMUNITY SCHOOL AUDIT-PUBLIC MONEY (ROEGNER K) Regarding public moneys returned to the state as a result of a finding of recovery issued pursuant to an audit of a community school. Current Status: 11/10/2016 - Referred to Committee House Government Accountability and Oversight More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-594 PHOTOGRAPH-BALLOT (ANTANI N, DUFFEY M) To allow electors to photograph and make public the elector's own marked ballot. Current Status: 11/10/2016 - Referred to Committee House Government Accountability and Oversight More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-609 CAREER INFORMATION-STUDENTS (DUFFEY M, BOGGS K) Regarding the presentation of career information to students. Current Status: 11/10/2016 - Referred to Committee House Education More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-571

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HB628

SCHOOL FUNDING (BRENNER A) All subject to the approval of the electors of this state, to replace locally levied school district property taxes with a statewide property tax and require recipients of certain tax exemptions to reimburse the state for such levy revenue lost due to those exemptions; to repeal school district income taxes; to require the Treasurer of State to issue general obligation bonds to refund certain school district debt obligations. Current Status: 12/13/2016 - Introduced More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-HB-628

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HJR14

BONDS-SCHOOL DEBT (BRENNER A) Proposing to enact Section 12 of Article VIII of the Constitution of the State of Ohio to conditionally authorize the issuance of state obligations to refund pending school district obligations, to conditionally waive, beginning in 2018, the requirement that schools levy property taxes to pay debt charges on their obligations, and to conditionally authorize a treasury fund that is restricted exclusively to educational purposes. Current Status: 12/13/2016 - Introduced More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- documents?id=GA131-HJR-14

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SB3

SCHOOL DISTRICT EXEMPTION-ET AL (HITE C) To exempt from certain education laws school districts that meet specified benchmarks; to revise the administration of state assessments; to make other revisions regarding the operation of primary and secondary schools; to authorize county sheriffs to contract to provide services to community schools, nonpublic schools, and private higher education institutions; to revise the Workforce Grant Program; to validate a tax levy question the ballot for which stated an erroneous term; to exempt an arena owned by a convention facilities authority from property taxation; and to enable state colleges and universities to establish joint self-insurance pools and make other changes regarding joint self-insurance pools.

Current Status: 12/15/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR ; eff. 90 days More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-SB-3

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CHARTER SCHOOLS-RECORD KEEPING (SCHIAVONI J) Regarding audit and record- keeping requirements for community school sponsors and operators. Current Status: 3/17/2015 - Senate Education, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-SB-20 SCHOOL DISTRICT POLICY-DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR (TAVARES C) With respect to school district policies for violent, disruptive, or inappropriate behavior. Current Status: 3/17/2015 - Senate Education, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-SB-34 PEDESTRIAN RIGHT OF WAY-SCHOOL ZONE (BEAGLE B) To increase the penalties for failing to yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian who is crossing a roadway within a crosswalk when the crosswalk is located within a school zone. Current Status: 2/25/2015 - Senate Criminal Justice, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-SB-39 MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT-MINORS (BEAGLE B) Regarding minors and outpatient mental health treatment. Current Status: 11/30/2016 - REPORTED OUT , Senate Health and Human Services, (Sixth Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-SB-42 COMMUNITY SCHOOLS-STATE APPROPRIATED FUNDS (SKINDELL M) With respect to the use of state-appropriated funds by operators of community schools. Current Status: 3/17/2015 - Senate Education, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-SB-59

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GED GRANT PROGRAM (WILLIAMS S) To create the GED Grant Program for undergraduate students who have earned high school equivalence diplomas and are enrolled in two-year state institutions of higher education and to make an appropriation. Current Status: 1/20/2016 - Senate Finance, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-SB-78 GED-TEST COST (WILLIAMS S) With regard to the administration and cost of the tests of general educational development required to earn a high school equivalence diploma. Current Status: 3/4/2015 - Referred to Committee Senate Finance More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-SB-82 PROPERTY-TAX COMPLAINTS (COLEY W) To limit the right to initiate most types of property tax complaints to the property owner and the county recorder of the county in which the property is located. Current Status: 11/18/2015 - Senate Ways and Means, (Third Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-SB-85 SCHOOL SAFETY FUNDS (SCHIAVONI J) To require the State Board of Education to establish criteria and procedures for the awarding of school safety funds to school districts and to make an appropriation. Current Status: 9/27/2016 - Senate Finance, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-SB-92 BULLYING PREVENTION FUNDS (SCHIAVONI J) To require the State Board of Education to establish criteria and procedures for the awarding of bullying prevention and education funds to school districts and to make an appropriation. Current Status: 9/27/2016 - Senate Finance, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-SB-93 MEDICAID SCHOOL PROGRAM (BACON K, LEHNER P) Regarding the Medicaid School Program. Current Status: 3/25/2015 - Senate Medicaid, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-SB-94 CONTRACEPTION EDUCATION (CAFARO C) Regarding coverage for prescription contraceptive drugs and devices, the provision of certain hospital and pregnancy prevention services for victims of sexual assault, and comprehensive sexual health and sexually transmitted infection education in schools. Current Status: 10/14/2015 - Senate Health and Human Services, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-SB-101

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ADULT CHANGING STATION - PUBLIC RESTROOM (LEHNER P) To require public buildings to have at least one rest room facility with an adult changing station. Current Status: 6/3/2015 - Senate State and Local Government, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-SB-112 MENINGOCOCCAL DISEASE IMMUNIZATION (HITE C) To require pupils to be immunized against meningococcal disease at an age recommended by the Department of Health. Current Status: 7/16/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR ; eff. 10/15/15 More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-SB-121 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION (GENTILE L) To extend eligibility for the homestead exemption to elderly or disabled homeowners Current Status: 5/11/2016 - Senate Ways and Means, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-SB-122 SCHOOL EMERGENCY-BARRICADE DEVICE (LAROSE F, HOTTINGER J) To require the Board of Building Standards to adopt rules for the use of a barricade device on a school door. Current Status: 3/17/2015 - Referred to Committee Senate Transportation, Commerce and Labor More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-SB-125 INTERDISTRICT OPEN ENROLLMENT (SAWYER T) To terminate interdistrict open enrollment on that date with the possibility of renewal following the General Assembly's examination of the study's findings. Current Status: 11/29/2016 - Senate Education, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-SB-126 SCHOOL SECLUSION ROOMS (TAVARES C) To prohibit the use of seclusion on students in public schools. Current Status: 11/28/2016 - Senate Education, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-SB-136 GAMING CREDIT LIMITS (COLEY W) To require the Ohio Casino Control Commission and the State Lottery Commission to adopt rules to limit the amount of promotional gaming credits at casinos and video lottery terminal facilities and to permit the credits only under circumstances specified in the rules. Current Status: 12/8/2015 - Senate Finance, (First Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-SB-140

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CHARTER SCHOOL OVERSIGHT (LEHNER P, SAWYER T) To make changes to the law regarding governance, operation, and management of community schools, and to make an appropriation. Current Status: 5/27/2015 - Senate Finance - Education Subcommittee, (Fifth Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-SB-148 AUTOMATIC VOTER REGISTRATION (YUKO K) To require that eligible persons in certain government and school databases be automatically registered to vote. Current Status: 5/12/2015 - Referred to Committee Senate Government Oversight and Reform More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-SB-158 COMMON CORE STANDARDS (JORDAN K) With respect to the Common Core State Standards academic standards, powers of the State Board of Education, and the distribution of student information. Current Status: 5/27/2015 - Referred to Committee Senate Education More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-SB-163 STUDENT VIOLENT BEHAVIOR INFO-SUMMER FOOD PROGRAM (LAROSE F) To require the Education Management Information System to include information regarding persons at whom a student's violent behavior that resulted in discipline was directed, to require the Department of Education to submit a one-time report to the General Assembly regarding that information, and to require school districts to allow approved summer food service program sponsors to use school facilities to provide food service for summer intervention services under certain conditions. Current Status: 12/5/2016 - REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED , House Education, (Second Hearing) More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-SB-168 SPECIAL ELECTIONS (JORDAN K) To eliminate the ability to conduct special elections in February and August. Current Status: 6/3/2015 - Referred to Committee Senate Government Oversight and Reform More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-SB-173 OHIO PUBLIC EMPLOYEE-ROTH FEATURES (HOTTINGER J) To authorize the Ohio Public Employees Deferred Compensation Board and local governments to establish designated Roth account features and other tax-deferred or nontaxdeferred features permitted for government deferred compensation plans.

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Current Status: 12/19/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR ; eff. 90 days More Information: https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation- summary?id=GA131-SB-220