General Government Bills

Bills on this page generally fall under the purview of the CCAO General Government Standing Committee, chaired in 2024 by Franklin County Commissioner John O'Grady.

You can view the General Government section of the Association's Legislative Platform here.

A bill's inclusion on this page does not mean that the committee has discussed the bill or that the Association has taken a position.

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House Bill 647

To require a county auditor to transfer certain funds from the county's dog and kennel fund to municipal corporations within the county that employ dog wardens.

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Senate Bill 236

To prioritize designating a clerk of a court of common pleas as a deputy registrar in certain counties.

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Senate Bill 255

To revise the law governing coroners and death certificates.

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Senate Bill 253

To revise the law governing lead testing, certification, and tax credits.

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House Bill 491

To require a political subdivision or state retirement system to provide information on expenditures to the Treasurer of State for inclusion in the Ohio State and Local Government Expenditure Database.

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House Bill 559

Concerning workers' compensation coverage for peace officers, firefighters, and emergency medical workers diagnosed with psychiatric conditions arising from employment without an accompanying physical injury.

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House Bill 497

To make various changes regarding county law

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House Bill 555

To prohibit certain public nuisance actions.

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House Bill 507

To extend legal safe harbor to political subdivisions that implement a specified cybersecurity program.

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House Bill 496

To revise the law governing property taxes and county auditors.

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House Concurrent Resolution 6

FULLY ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

To urge Congress to repeal the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset.

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House Bill 430

Regarding county engineers.

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House Bill 86

To revise specified provisions of the liquor control, hemp, and adult-use marijuana laws and to levy taxes on marijuana.

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Senate Bill 9

Revise medical marijuana law

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House Bill 391

Revise laws governing accessible parking

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Senate Bill 96

To allow employers to post certain labor law notices on the Internet.

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Senate Bill 94

ENACTED: Effective July 24, 2024

Regards the Treasurer of State, recorded instruments, powers of attorney, judgment liens, mortgage subrogation, law enforcement towing laws, and state stock banks, and to make an appropriation.

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Senate Bill 18

To modify the law governing data storage and notifications issued by state agencies.

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Senate Bill 158

Regarding the disbursement of municipal funds by residents and to declare an emergency.

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Senate Bill 132

To enact the Ohio Fairness Act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity or expression, to add mediation as an informal method that the Ohio Civil Rights Commission may use, and to uphold existing religious exemptions under Ohio's Civil Rights Law.

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Senate Bill 113

To prohibit a person who fails to comply with the Military Selective Service System from holding a public office or employment with the state.

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House Bill 94

Regarding transfers or purchases of certain retirement service credit.

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House Bill 87

To prohibit the state or a political subdivision from purchasing a United States or Ohio flag that was not made in the United States.

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House Bill 76

To modify the law governing data storage and notifications issued by state agencies, and to amend the version of section 3951.03 of the Revised Code scheduled to take effect on December 29, 2023, to continue the changes on and after that date.

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House Bill 74

Regarding the state's information technology systems and shared services.

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House Bill 69

To require county veterans service commissions to include two members who served in the military after September 11, 2001, and to require one member of the commission to be appointed by the board of county commissioners.

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House Bill 65

To amend section 3737.83 and to enact section 3781.062 of the Revised Code relating to the State Fire Code and Building Code and to amend the version of section 3737.83 of the Revised Code that is scheduled to take effect December 29, 2023, to continue the provisions of this act on and after that effective date.

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House Bill 4

To enact Ohio's Fair Access to Financial Services Act regarding financial institutions and other businesses that conduct economic boycotts or discriminate against certain companies or customers based on certain factors and to make an appropriation.

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House Bill 354

To modify the law governing the cultivation, processing, dispensing, testing, and taxation of adult use cannabis and to levy a gross receipts tax on marijuana cultivators.

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House Bill 331

To modify the law regarding village dissolution.

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House Bill 327

To require government contractors, private nonresidential contractors, and certain employers to use E-verify.

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House Bill 305

To provide for the electronic filing of pleadings or documents in courts of common pleas except a probate or juvenile court, in municipal courts, and in county courts, to permit the clerk to disburse funds for the computerization of the clerk's office without the court's authorization, and to permit municipal and county courts to increase the maximum amount of their additional fees from ten dollars to twenty dollars to cover the computerization of the clerk's office.

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House Bill 304

To create the State and Municipal Government Commission.

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House Bill 296

To increase contribution amounts that employers of full-time municipal police officers must make to the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund.

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House Bill 273

To allow employers to post certain labor law notices on the internet.

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House Bill 261

To make emergency medical services workers 'public safety officers' under the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System.

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House Bill 257

To authorize certain public bodies to meet virtually.

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House Bill 238

To revise and streamline the state's occupational regulations and to make an appropriation.

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House Bill 215

To modify the qualifications of county engineers in certain counties.

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House Bill 211

To name this act the Free to Speak Act and to require a public body to permit members of the public to comment or testify about matters of public concern before the public body at its public meeting.

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House Bill 203

To require owners of private construction projects to timely pay contractors.

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House Bill 201

ENACTED: Effective March 28, 2024

To prohibit a state agency, county, or township from restricting the sale or use of a motor vehicle based on the energy source used to power the motor vehicle; to prohibit a state agency from adopting the California emissions standards for motor vehicles; and to change the requirements for natural gas company infrastructure development riders and economic development projects.

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House Bill 2

ENACTED: Effective June 28, 2024

To provide authorization and conditions for the operation of certain state programs, to make capital appropriations and reappropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 2026, to make other appropriations, and to declare an emergency.

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House Bill 180

To prohibit a municipal corporation or charter county from imposing a curfew except in certain cases.

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House Bill 16

To enact the Ethics and Financial Disclosure Reform Act to revise the law governing ethics and lobbying.

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House Bill 101

ENACTED: Generally effective April 30, 2024, some provisions effective January 30, 2024, and some January 1, 2025

To make appropriations and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs, and to amend the versions of certain sections of the Revised Code that are scheduled to take effect January 1, 2025, to continue the provisions of this act on and after that effective date.

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