House Bill (HB)
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Title
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Summary
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Status
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1
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Jobs Ohio
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To authorize the Governor to create Jobs Ohio.
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Passed - Signed by Governor 2/18/11
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3
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Estate Tax (SB 90 companion)
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To repeal the estate tax for the estates of individuals dying on or after January 1, 2011.
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Voted out of House Ways & Means 2/16/11
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8
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Sales/Use Tax
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To increase the sales and use tax prompt remittance discount and to authorize a discount for prompt remittance of income tax withholding.
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Pending in House Ways & Means
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10
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Contaminated Site Remediation
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To authorize refundable tax credits through 2017 for the completion of a voluntary action to remediate a contaminated site and for the return of such sites to productive use and to exempt persons through 2017 who have been issued covenants not to sue under the Voluntary Action Program for certain fees and penalties for one year after the issuance of such a covenant.
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Pending in House Ways & Means
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11
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Patient Protection
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To prohibit state departments and agencies from implementing or enforcing a provision of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act without meeting certain conditions.
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Pending in House Health & Aging
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12
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Medicaid Services
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To establish new requirements concerning services, providers, third-party liability, and reports for the Medicaid program.
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Pending in House Health & Aging
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17
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Withholding Credit
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To authorize a $2,400 income tax withholding credit for an employer that hires and employs a previously unemployed individual.
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Pending in House Ways & Means
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18
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Business Tax Credit
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To authorize a nonrefundable tax credit for a business that increases payroll and expands into a vacant facility.
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Pending in House Ways & Means
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43
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Tax Credits
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To increase the annual and aggregate limit on the amount of tax credits the Ohio Venture Capital Authority may authorize.
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Pending in House Economic & Small Business Development
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44
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Small Business Loans
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To create the Small Business Working Capital Loan Program.
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Pending in House Economic & Small Business Development
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48
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Corporation Law
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To make changes to the law governing corporations including dissenting shareholders, the dissolution of a corporation, rights to indemnification or advancement of expenses, directors' fiduciary duties, and recording of corporate mortgages.
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Voted out of House Financial Institutions, Housing & Urban Development 3/3/11
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61
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Compensatory Time
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To give private sector employers the option to offer and employees the option to accrue and use compensatory time off in lieu of monetary overtime compensation.
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Pending in House Economic & Small Business Development
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81
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Performance Budgets
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To require performance budgeting by most state agencies.
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Pending in House State Government & Elections
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85
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Health Insurance
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To prohibit requiring an individual to obtain or maintain health insurance.
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Pending in House Health & Aging
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86
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Corrections Law
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To reform Ohio's criminal justice system.
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Passed House 5/4/11, Pending in Senate Judiciary - Criminal Justice
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94
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Small Business Rules
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To adopt a new small business rule review process.
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Pending in House Economic & Small Business Development
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101
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Job Tax Credits
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To provide for a six-year trial period in which taxpayers may include a limited number of the taxpayer's employees who work from home and whose rate of pay is at least three times the federal minimum wage as employees employed in the project for purposes of the job creation and retention credits if the recipient of the credit provides a specified level of capital investment, and to require the Director of Development to issue a report at the end of the six-year period.
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Pending in House Ways & Means
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102
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Labor Requirements
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To prohibit state agencies from requiring or prohibiting certain labor requirements as a condition of performing public works and to prohibit the appropriation of state funds for public works when political subdivisions require or prohibit certain labor requirements.
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Pending in House Commerce & Labor
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105
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Domestic Violence
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To allow an employee who is a victim of domestic violence to take unpaid leave for purposes relating to the incident of domestic violence, to allow an employee who is a victim of domestic violence to file a civil action against that employee's employer if the employer terminates the employee as a result of the employee taking unpaid leave for purposes relating to the incident of domestic violence, to allow a tenant who is a victim of domestic violence to terminate a rental agreement or have the tenant's name removed from the rental agreement under certain circumstances, to require a landlord of a tenant who is a victim of domestic violence or menacing by stalking to change the lock to the dwelling unit where the tenant resides under certain circumstances, to require a metropolitan housing authority to transfer a tenant who is a victim of domestic violence or menacing by stalking if the tenant requests such a transfer and provides the metropolitan housing authority with certain specified information, and to prohibit a county, municipal corporation, township, or law enforcement agency of such a political subdivision from charging any victim of domestic violence a fee for assisting the victim.
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Pending in House Judiciary & Ethics
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123
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BWC Budget
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To allow the Administrator of Workers' Compensation to waive criteria certain public employers must satisfy to become self-insuring employers; to require bills for medical and vocational rehabilitation services in claims that are ultimately denied to be paid from the Surplus Fund Account under specified circumstances; to make other changes to the Workers' Compensation Law; to make appropriations for the Bureau of Workers' Compensation and for the Workers' Compensation Council for the biennium beginning July 1, 2011, and ending June 30, 2013; and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of the Bureau's and the Council's programs.
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Passed - Signed by Governor 4/25/11
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131
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Employment Reports
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To prohibit employers from using a consumer report or investigative consumer report for employment purposes.
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Pending in House Commerce & Labor
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134
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Capital Gains Tax
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To reduce the income tax rate on capital gains reinvested in Ohio-based investments.
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Pending in House Ways & Means
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137
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Employee Definition
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To create a generally uniform definition of employee for specified labor laws and to create a uniform standard to determine whether an individual performing services for an employer is an employee of that employer
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Pending in House Commerce & Labor
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144
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Small Business Resources
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To create an online small business resource center on the Department of Development's internet web site.
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Pending in House Economic & Small Business Development
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150
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Transit Authorities
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To create an additional procedure for subdivisions to join a regional transit authority that levies a property tax and that includes a county having a population of at least 400,000 and to allow a subdivision that is a member of such a regional transit authority to withdraw from the authority.
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Pending in House Local Government
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153
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Biennial Budget
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To make operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2011, and ending June 30, 2013, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.
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Passed House 5/5/11, Pending in Senate Finance
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156
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Nursing Home Rates
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To revise the types of costs included in determining nursing facilities' Medicaid reimbursement rates.
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Pending in House Health & Aging
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176
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Public Contracts
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To limit the magnitude of change orders on public improvements required to be competitively bid.
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Pending in House Commerce & Labor
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186
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Employer Organizations
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To establish certain financial capacity requirements for professional employer organizations, clarify rights and liabilities of professional employer organizations and client employers, and make other changes to the professional employer organization law.
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Pending in House Commerce & Labor
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188
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Ohio Modernization Commission
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To establish the Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission and to make an appropriation.
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Pending in House State Government & Elections
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199
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State Budget Limit
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To prohibit the Governor from proposing and the General Assembly from enacting a state budget with aggregate general revenue fund appropriations that exceed ninety-five per cent of the total money received in aggregate revenue
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Pending in House Finance & Appropriations
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200
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Capital Gains
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To allow an income tax deduction of up to ten thousand dollars for net capital gains.
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Pending in House Ways & Means
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220
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Refundable Cat Credit
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To allow a refundable commercial activity tax credit for investment losses recognized by foreign entrepreneur investors who invest in certain projects in Ohio.
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Pending in House Economic & Small Business Development
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225
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County Auditor Reviews
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To vest in county auditors responsibility for reviewing and approving property tax exemption applications for some publicly owned property, to authorize county auditors and boards of township trustees to adopt a direct deposit payroll policy, and to authorize counties to increase the amount credited to "rainy day" reserve balance accounts to one-sixth of the expenditures made in the preceding fiscal year from the fund in which the reserve balance account is established.
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Introduced 5/11/11
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