MRR Ohio Legislative Updates: April 8, 2016 – April 21, 2016
Notes from the House of Representatives:
- H.B. 511 was introduced 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
- H.B. 335 was passed upon third consideration to specify the jurisdiction of municipal and county courts over municipal traffic ordinances and to establish requirements governing fines, fees, or other charges for traffic violations and infractions imposed by a municipal corporation that does not have the authority to establish a mayor’s court
- H.B. 518 was introduced to permit an elected officeholder of this state or a political subdivision of this state who holds a valid concealed handgun license to carry a concealed handgun in a government facility of Ohio or a political subdivision of Ohio
- H.B. 520 was introduced to revise the law governing the state’s public retirement systems
- Sub. H.B. 425 was passed upon third consideration regarding student religious expression in school districts and community schools
- Sub. H.B. 113 was passed upon third consideration to require public schools to provide students with instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of an automated external defibrillator and to require training for school district and community school employees in the use of an automated external defibrillator, was taken up for consideration the third time
- H.B. 523 was introduced to authorize the use of marijuana for medical purposes and to establish the Medical Marijuana Control Program
- H.B. 525 was introduced to require multi-line telephone systems to have a default configuration that permits users to directly initiate a call to 9-1-1 without dialing any additional digit or code
- H.B. 528 was introduced to regulate the collection, use, and retention of certain information obtained from an applicant during the employee selection process
- Sub. H.B. 413 was passed upon third consideration to add to the purposes for which a board of township trustees may go into executive session, to permit a township to charge for recycling services, to reduce the population threshold for a township to adopt a limited home rule form of government, to authorize a township to purchase, lease, or provide underwater rescue and recovery equipment for fire and rescue purposes, to authorize boards of township trustees to pay for group life insurance for any employee, to expand the cemetery purposes for which such boards may levy a tax or expend township funds, to make other changes to the township laws, to allow taxing units to use the proceeds of a fire, police, or emergency services tax levy to pay costs related to the service for which the tax is levied, to establish a lien for unpaid rates or charges for refuse collection or disposal services established by a municipal corporation, and to expand the public infrastructure improvements townships, municipal corporations, and counties may pay for using money from their public improvement tax increment equivalent funds
- Sub. H.B. 173 was passed upon third consideration to authorize a county recorder or county veterans service office, with the approval of the board of county commissioners, to issue Ohio veterans identification cards
- Sub. H.B. 277 was passed upon third consideration to authorize a county, township, or municipal corporation to impose a 9-1-1 system levy in only the portion of the subdivision that would be served by the 9-1-1 system
Notes from the Senate:
- S.B. 307 was introduced 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
- Sub. S.B. 204 was passed upon third consideration to make the suspension of an offender’s driver’s license for a violation of specified drug offenses discretionary rather than mandatory, except in specified circumstances; to authorize a court to terminate a driver’s license suspension imposed for specified drug offenses committed out-of-state; to generally authorize a court to terminate a previously imposed mandatory suspension for specified drug offenses; to provide for the suspension of an offender’s driver’s license for possessing nitrous oxide in a motor vehicle; and to make consistent the provisions of law governing the ability of a court to grant limited driving privileges
- Sub. S.B. 27 was passed upon third consideration to provide that a firefighter who is disabled as a result of specified types of cancer is presumed for purposes of the laws governing workers’ compensation and the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund to have incurred the cancer while performing official duties as a firefighter
For questions or more information on MRR’s Ohio Legislation Updates, contact:
Stacy V. Pollock – MRR Columbus
Phone: 614.324.0163
Email: spollock@mrrlaw.com
