Taxation & Finance Bills

Bills on this page generally fall under the purview of the CCAO Taxation and Finance Standing Committee, chaired in 2025 by Pickaway County Commissioner Gary Scherer.

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 186

To authorize a reduction in school district property taxes affected by a millage floor that would limit increases in such taxes according to inflation and to require a corresponding adjustment in the school funding formula.

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House Bill 335

To modify the law governing county budget commissions, property taxation, county sales taxation, and alternative apportionment formulas for local government and public library funds.

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House Bill 309

To modify the law governing county budget commissions and property taxation.

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Senate Bill 255

To provide grants to qualifying applicants for mortgage, property tax, and utility bill assistance.

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Senate Bill 240

To increase the state minimum wage.

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Senate Bill 234

To increase the state minimum wage.

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Senate Bill 215

To modify the calculation and eligibility criteria of the homestead exemption.

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Senate Bill 206

To authorize a property tax reduction for certain owner-occupied homes.

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Senate Bill 190

To modify the law governing property, income, sales and use, severance, and lodging taxes; to provide breakfast and lunch at no cost to public and chartered nonpublic school students; to increase the Local Government Fund; to modify funding for the Low- and Moderate-income Housing Trust Fund; and to name this act A Good Deal for Ohio.

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Senate Bill 186

To create a music incubator program to provide sales tax rebates to certain music venues and festival promoters.

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House Bill 493

To sunset the sale of delinquent property tax certificates on January 1, 2027.

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Senate Bill 275

To allow eligible homeowners to defer the payment of a portion of their property taxes.

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House Bill 483

To allow eligible homeowners to defer the payment of a portion of their property taxes.

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House Bill 466

To require certain subdivisions to obtain the approval of the body that created the subdivision before levying a property tax.

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House Bill 443

To prohibit enforcement of delinquent property tax liens against certain owner-occupied homesteads.

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House Bill 422

To increase the approval threshold required for passage of certain property taxes

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House Bill 421

To allow electors to reduce unvoted property taxes by initiative

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House Bill 420

To disallow and, by 2030, eliminate property taxes levied for a continuing period of time.

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House Bill 404

To authorize a sales tax credit for the trade-in value of portable electronics or home appliances for another similar item.

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House Bill 391

To require tax rates to be expressed as a percentage of true value on tax bills and ballot language.

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House Bill 389

To eliminate the additional registration fee applicable to hybrid motor vehicles.

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House Bill 365

To authorize a refundable income tax credit or rebate for homeowners and renters whose property taxes or a portion of their rent exceed five per cent of their income and to name this act the Property Tax Refund Act.

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House Bill 355

To increase the approval threshold required for passage of local taxes subject to voter approval.

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House Bill 330

To authorize a sales tax holiday for four months each year for the sale of firearm safety and storage devices.

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House Bill 273

To modify the computation of the owner-occupancy property tax rollback and the applicability of the nonbusiness property tax rollback.

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House Bill 266

To authorize a temporary property tax credit for certain continuously owned homesteads.

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House Bill 261

To increase the amount of the standard homestead exemption.

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House Bill 215

To prohibit most property tax levies submitted at a general election from taking effect in the current tax year.

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House Bill 129

To limit the ability of school districts to reallocate unvoted property tax millage and to include certain property and school district income taxes in the calculation of a school district's effective millage floor.

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House Bill 138

To authorize the creation of tourism promotion districts and the levying of assessments therein.

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House Bill 154

To require school district approval of residential community reinvestment area property tax exemptions.

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House Bill 156

To authorize a property tax freeze for certain owner-occupied homes.

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House Bill 143

To authorize an enhanced property tax homestead exemption for certain long-term homeowners.

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House Bill 161

To extend sales and use taxes and local lodging taxes to short-term rentals and to require collection of those taxes by short-term rental platforms.

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House Bill 179

To create a statewide screening system for certain property tax reductions and to make an appropriation.

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Senate Bill 141

To authorize counties and other political subdivisions to place on the ballot tax levies supporting pre-kindergarten programs and to establish conditions on a county's use of moneys derived from the levied tax.

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House Bill 147

To exempt from sales and use tax building materials sold to a contractor under a contract valued at $25 million or more for projects in areas with a port authority.

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Senate Bill 116

To reduce the tangible personal property tax assessment rate for pipe-line companies.

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House Bill 121

To declare certain renewable natural gas producers are not public utilities.

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House Bill 137

To authorize a taxing authority to decline to submit a requested library levy or general health district levy to voters.

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Senate Bill 126

To exempt from sales and use tax items purchased by a logistics business to transport manufactured products, general merchandise, and grocery products.

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House Bill 120

To exempt from sales and use tax sales of firearm safety devices.

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House Bill 61

To modify the amount of the homestead exemptions and owner-occupancy property tax credit.

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House Bill 109

To limit the authority of local governments to regulate short-term rental properties, to extend local lodging taxes to short-term rentals, to require collection of those taxes by short-term rental platforms, and to require real estate licenses to be issued electronically.

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Senate Bill 104

To limit the authority of local governments to regulate short-term rental properties, to extend local lodging taxes to short-term rentals, to require collection of those taxes by short-term rental platforms, and to require real estate licenses to be issued electronically.

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House Bill 15

SIGNED: Effective August 14, 2025

To amend the competitive retail electric service law, make changes regarding electric company property taxation, and repeal parts of H.B. 6 of the 133rd General Assembly.

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Senate Bill 93

To declare the General Assembly's intent to establish a new school financing system that provides a statewide per-pupil funding payment to public and chartered nonpublic schools based on a single statewide property tax and increased state sales tax.

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Senate Bill 92

To authorize a total property tax exemption for the homesteads of totally disabled veterans and their surviving spouses.

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Senate Bill 43

To repeal the authorization of a special county lodging tax.

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Senate Bill 59

To exempt from the sales and use tax the sale of certain firearms and ammunition and to authorize refundable tax credits for small arms and ammunition manufacturing projects.

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Senate Bill 28

To levy a tax on certain high-volume landlords.

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House Bill 103

To increase the homestead exemption amount and income limit.

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House Bill 89

To authorize a temporary property tax reduction.

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House Bill 28

To eliminate the authority to levy replacement property tax levies.

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Senate Bill 81

To authorize a property tax freeze for certain owner-occupied homes.

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Senate Bill 66

To include emergency levies, substitute levies, all inside millage, and school district income taxes in the calculation of a school district's effective millage floor.

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House Bill 40

To increase the enhanced homestead exemption for certain disabled veterans.

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House Bill 30

To phase-down the state income tax to a flat rate of 2.75% over two years.

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Senate Bill 80

To authorize a county to implement a motor fuel quality testing program.

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House Bill 22

To authorize a full homestead exemption for surviving spouses of members of the uniformed services killed in the line of duty.

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House Bill 17

To classify certain storage condominiums as residential property for tax purposes.

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Senate Bill 22

To authorize a refundable income tax credit or rebate for homeowners and renters whose property taxes or a portion of their rent exceed five per cent of their income.

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Senate Bill 3

To phase-down the state income tax to a flat rate of 2.75% over two years.

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Senate Bill 2

To provide increased power generation and improved affordability and reliability for Ohio's electric grid.

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