LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS

Bills Introduced Since 4/29/2024

HB508

SUPER BOWL ENTOURAGE EXPENSE ACT (FORHAN E) To create a public records exception for certain documents related to the Governor and to name this act the Super Bowl Entourage Expense Act.

HB509

APPLY DRUG REBATES TO COST-SHARING REQUIREMENTS (BARHORST T, BAKER R) To apply prescription drug rebates to cost-sharing requirements.

HB510

ROBERT MELNICK MEM HWY (CUTRONA A) To designate a portion of State Route 11 in Mahoning County as the “Army Lt. Col. Robert R. Melnick Memorial Highway.”

HB511

RESIDENTIAL LANDLORDS, TENANTS (ISAACSOHN D, HUMPHREY L) To amend the law regarding residential landlords and tenants.

HB512

EMERGENCY PLACEMENT FACILITIES FOR CHILDREN (PAVLIGA G) To create a streamlined licensure process for emergency placement facilities for children and to require the Ohio Family and Children First Cabinet Council to work with stakeholders to develop treatment and placement solutions for children with developmental or intellectual challenges and high acuity behaviors.

HB513

MODIFY CRIMINAL PROVISIONS ON HIV, AIDS (CARRUTHERS S) To modify definitions and criminal and professional disciplinary provisions relating to HIV or AIDS and to amend the versions of sections 2950.11 and 2950.13 of the Revised Code that are scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2025, to continue the change on and after that date.

HB514

BMV – ANNUAL JURY SOURCE LIST (SIMS V, THOMAS C) To require names submitted by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to be included on the annual jury source list.

HB515

NORTON MUSIC BOOSTERS LICENSE PLATE (ROEMER B) To create the “Norton Music Boosters” license plate.

SB252

DESIGNATE FOSSETT MEMORIAL BRIDGE (INGRAM C) To designate a bridge connecting I-75 and I-74 in Hamilton County as the “Peter and Sarah Fossett Memorial Bridge.”

SB253

REVISE LEAD TESTING LAW (LANG G) To revise the law governing lead testing, certification, and tax credits.

SB254

DESIGNATE BRIGID KELLY NORWOOD LATERAL (INGRAM C, BLESSING III L) To designate State Route 562 in Hamilton County as the “Brigid Kelly Norwood Lateral.”

SB255

REVISE LAW-CORONERS, DEATH CERTIFICATES (HUFFMAN S, JOHNSON T) To revise the law governing coroners and death certificates.

SB256

MINIMUM WAGE-EITC (BLESSING III L) To modify the state’s earned income tax credit, to increase the basic state minimum hourly wage, and to declare an emergency.

SB257

MILITARY ELIGIBILITY-HOMEOWNERSHIP SAVINGS PROGRAM (CHAVEZ B, JOHNSON T) To make active duty members of the uniformed services eligible to participate in the homeownership savings linked deposit program.

HB1

PROPERTY, INCOME TAX CHANGES (MATHEWS A) To modify the law regarding property taxation and income tax rates.

Current Status:   

4/25/2023 – House Ways and Means, (Seventh Hearing)

HB2

STATE FUNDING-CAPITAL APPROPRIATIONS (CUTRONA A, UPCHURCH T) To create local jail facility funding programs and to make certain capital appropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 2026.

Current Status:   

4/10/2024 – Referred to Committee Senate Finance

HB3

AFFORDABLE HOUSING TAX CREDIT (PAVLIGA G, MCNALLY L) To authorize a nonrefundable tax credit for the construction or rehabilitation of certain federally subsidized rental housing and to authorize a uniform method for the tax valuation of most such housing.

Current Status:   

6/13/2023 – SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, House Economic and Workforce Development, (Fifth Hearing)

HB10

PHASE-IN SCHOOL FUNDING SYSTEM (CALLENDER J, SWEENEY B) To express the intent of the General Assembly to continue phasing-in the school financing system established in H.B. 110 of the 134th General Assembly and, if practicable, fully phase it in.

Current Status:   

2/16/2023 – Referred to Committee House Finance

HB33

FY24-25 OPERATING BUDGET (EDWARDS J) To make operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2025, to levy taxes, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.

Current Status:   

1/24/2024 – Consideration of Governor’s Veto; Senate Overrides Veto, Vote 24-8

HB64

EMINENT DOMAIN LAW CHANGES (KICK D, CREECH R) To modify the law regarding eminent domain.

Current Status:   

2/6/2024 – SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, House Civil Justice, (Fifth Hearing)

HB85

LAND BANKS – DELINQUENT PROPERTY (PATTON T) To expand the methods by which land banks can acquire delinquent property.

Current Status:   

5/9/2023 – House State and Local Government, (Second Hearing)

HB181

RECORDED INSTRUMENTS, POWERS OF ATTORNEY (HILLYER B, WILLIAMS J) To make various changes regarding recorded instruments, powers of attorney, judgment liens, mortgage subrogation, law enforcement towing laws, and state stock banks, and to make an appropriation.

Current Status:   

10/11/2023 – House Finance, (Third Hearing)

HB187

PROCEDURES FOR PROPERTY TAX VALUES (HALL T, BIRD A) To make changes to the law governing real property valuation and tax complaints, to temporarily modify the computation of the homestead exemption, to abate property taxes on certain municipal and community improvement corporation property, to make an appropriation, and to declare an emergency.

Current Status:   

12/6/2023 – PASSED BY SENATE; Vote 31-0, Emergency Clause 29-2

HB263

PROPERTY TAX FREEZE (ISAACSOHN D, HALL T) To authorize a property tax freeze for certain owner-occupied homes.

Current Status:   

2/6/2024 – SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, House Ways and Means, (Fourth Hearing)

HB344

PROPERTY TAX LEVIES, COMPLAINTS (MATHEWS A, HALL T) To eliminate the authority to levy replacement property tax levies and to modify the law governing certain property tax complaints.

Current Status:   

4/30/2024 – SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED & REPORTED OUT, House Ways and Means, (Sixth Hearing)

HB375

TAX FORECLOSURE, LAND REUTILIZATION CORPORATIONS (DEMETRIOU S, PATTON T) To make changes to the law relating to tax foreclosures and county land reutilization corporations

Current Status:   

4/30/2024 – House Economic and Workforce Development, (Second Hearing)

HB386

PHASE OUT STATE INCOME TAX (MATHEWS A, LAMPTON B) To phase-out the state income tax on nonbusiness income over six years and to repeal the commercial activity tax after 2029.

Current Status:   

4/9/2024 – House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)

HB478

EXPEDITED REMOVAL-UNAUTHORIZED OCCUPANTS (EDWARDS J, LARE J) To provide for the expedited removal of unauthorized occupants of residential property and to prohibit the use and sale of fraudulent deeds.

Current Status:   

5/7/2024 – House Criminal Justice, (First Hearing)

HB480

EXPEDITED REMOVAL-UNAUTHORIZED OCCUPANTS (YOUNG T, DEMETRIOU S) To provide for the expedited removal of unauthorized occupants of residential property, to prohibit the use and sale of fraudulent deeds, and to declare an emergency.

Current Status:   

5/7/2024 – House Criminal Justice, (First Hearing)

HB499

HOUSING GRANTS; REVISE PROPERTY LAW (ISAACSOHN D, MATHEWS A) To create grant programs for housing developments near megaprojects and for townships and municipalities that adopt pro-housing policies, to modify the community reinvestment area law relating to residential property, and to limit the 10% nonbusiness property tax credit.

Current Status:   

5/7/2024 – House Government Oversight, (First Hearing)

SB2

LOCAL PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTIONS (SCHURING K) To authorize certain subdivisions to designate areas within which certain residential property is wholly or partially exempted from property taxation.

Current Status:   

1/17/2023 – Referred to Committee Senate Finance

SB3

COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION PROGRAM (SCHURING K) To create the Ohio Community Revitalization Program, authorizing nonrefundable income tax credits for undertaking community projects.

Current Status:   

1/17/2023 – Referred to Committee Senate Ways and Means

SB25

REAL PROPERTY FORECLOSURES (HACKETT R) Relating to real property foreclosures.

Current Status:   

1/24/2024 – Senate Judiciary, (Fourth Hearing)

SB41

LAW CHANGES-BUILDING INSPECTIONS (ROEGNER K) To make changes to the law relating to building inspections.

Current Status:   

10/3/2023 – House Economic and Workforce Development, (Third Hearing)

SB75

JEDD FORMATION REQUIREMENTS (BLESSING III L) To allow two or more municipalities to create a joint economic development district without involving a township.

Current Status:   

4/16/2024 – House Economic and Workforce Development, (First Hearing)

SB76

HIGH-VOLUME LANDLORD TAX (BLESSING III L, ANTONIO N) To levy a tax on certain high-volume landlords.

Current Status:   

3/22/2023 – Senate Ways and Means, (Second Hearing)

SB94

MORTGAGE, JUDICIAL PRACTICES, TOWING (BRENNER A, LANDIS A) To make various changes regarding recorded instruments, powers of attorney, judgment liens, mortgage subrogation, law enforcement towing laws, and state stock banks, and to make an appropriation.

Current Status:   

4/23/2024 – REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, Senate Financial Institutions and Technology, (Fourth Hearing)

SB120

TIF PAYMENTS-LAND BANKS (SCHURING K) To allow a portion of tax increment financing service payments to be designated for use by land banks.

Current Status:   

5/17/2023 – Referred to Committee Senate Ways and Means

SB153

TEMPORARY TAX VALUATION CHANGES (LANG G, JOHNSON T) To temporarily modify the method for valuing farmland and other real property for tax purposes.

Current Status:   

10/11/2023 – Senate Ways and Means, (Fourth Hearing)

SB192

REAL ESTATE-LICENSE EXPANSION (BRENNER A, BLESSING III L) To expand the scope of activities for which a real estate broker’s license is required and to require wholesalers to make certain disclosures in transactions involving residential real property.

Current Status:   

2/28/2024 – Senate Government Oversight, (First Hearing)

SB216

STATE INCOME TAX-PHASE OUT (LANG G, HUFFMAN S) To phase-out the state income tax on nonbusiness income over six years and to repeal the commercial activity tax after 2029.

Current Status:   

1/24/2024 – Referred to Committee Senate Ways and Means

SB241

EXPEDITED REMOVAL-RENTAL OCCUPANTS (HUFFMAN S, BRENNER A) To provide for the expedited removal of unauthorized occupants of residential property and to prohibit the use and sale of fraudulent deeds.

Current Status:   

4/24/2024 – Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary

SB245

REVISE ORC HOUSING LAWS (REYNOLDS M, CRAIG H) To revise the law governing eviction, real estate representation agreements, residential building code enforcement, and real property transfers, and to amend the version of section 3781.10 of the Revised Code that is scheduled to take effect January 1, 2025, to continue the changes after that date.

Current Status:   

5/8/2024 – Senate Select Committee on Housing, (First Hearing)

SB246

RENAME DEPARTMENT TO HOUSING AND DEVELOPMENT (REYNOLDS M, CRAIG H) To rename the Department of Development the Department of Housing and Development and to otherwise modify the law related to housing, and to amend the versions of sections 3742.32 and 5104.30 of the Revised Code that are scheduled to take effect January 1, 2025, to continue the changes after that date.

Current Status:   

4/24/2024 – Referred to Committee Senate General Government