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.
House Bill 186To 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. Read More | House Bill 335To modify the law governing county budget commissions, property taxation, county sales taxation, and alternative apportionment formulas for local government and public library funds. Read More | |
Senate Bill 255To provide grants to qualifying applicants for mortgage, property tax, and utility bill assistance. Read More | ||
Senate Bill 215To modify the calculation and eligibility criteria of the homestead exemption. Read More | Senate Bill 190To 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. Read More | |
Senate Bill 186To create a music incubator program to provide sales tax rebates to certain music venues and festival promoters. Read More | House Bill 493To sunset the sale of delinquent property tax certificates on January 1, 2027. Read More | Senate Bill 275To allow eligible homeowners to defer the payment of a portion of their property taxes. Read More |
House Bill 483To allow eligible homeowners to defer the payment of a portion of their property taxes. Read More | House Bill 466To require certain subdivisions to obtain the approval of the body that created the subdivision before levying a property tax. Read More | House Bill 443To prohibit enforcement of delinquent property tax liens against certain owner-occupied homesteads. Read More |
House Bill 422To increase the approval threshold required for passage of certain property taxes Read More | House Bill 420To disallow and, by 2030, eliminate property taxes levied for a continuing period of time. Read More | |
House Bill 404To authorize a sales tax credit for the trade-in value of portable electronics or home appliances for another similar item. Read More | House Bill 391To require tax rates to be expressed as a percentage of true value on tax bills and ballot language. Read More | House Bill 389To eliminate the additional registration fee applicable to hybrid motor vehicles. Read More |
House Bill 365To 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. Read More | House Bill 355To increase the approval threshold required for passage of local taxes subject to voter approval. Read More | House Bill 330To authorize a sales tax holiday for four months each year for the sale of firearm safety and storage devices. Read More |
House Bill 273To modify the computation of the owner-occupancy property tax rollback and the applicability of the nonbusiness property tax rollback. Read More | House Bill 266To authorize a temporary property tax credit for certain continuously owned homesteads. Read More | |
House Bill 215To prohibit most property tax levies submitted at a general election from taking effect in the current tax year. Read More | House Bill 129To 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. Read More | House Bill 138To authorize the creation of tourism promotion districts and the levying of assessments therein. Read More |
House Bill 154To require school district approval of residential community reinvestment area property tax exemptions. Read More | House Bill 143To authorize an enhanced property tax homestead exemption for certain long-term homeowners. Read More | |
House Bill 161To 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. Read More | House Bill 179To create a statewide screening system for certain property tax reductions and to make an appropriation. Read More | Senate Bill 141To 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. Read More |
House Bill 147To 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. Read More | Senate Bill 116To reduce the tangible personal property tax assessment rate for pipe-line companies. Read More | |
House Bill 137To authorize a taxing authority to decline to submit a requested library levy or general health district levy to voters. Read More | Senate Bill 126To exempt from sales and use tax items purchased by a logistics business to transport manufactured products, general merchandise, and grocery products. Read More | |
House Bill 61To modify the amount of the homestead exemptions and owner-occupancy property tax credit. Read More | Senate Bill 22To 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. Read More | |
Senate Bill 2To provide increased power generation and improved affordability and reliability for Ohio's electric grid. Read More | ||
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