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 | House Bill 109To 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. Read More | Senate Bill 104To 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. Read More |
House Bill 15SIGNED: Effective August 14, 2025To 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. Read More | Senate Bill 93To 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. Read More | Senate Bill 92To authorize a total property tax exemption for the homesteads of totally disabled veterans and their surviving spouses. Read More |
Senate Bill 59To 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. Read More | ||
Senate Bill 66To include emergency levies, substitute levies, all inside millage, and school district income taxes in the calculation of a school district's effective millage floor. Read More | ||
House Bill 22To authorize a full homestead exemption for surviving spouses of members of the uniformed services killed in the line of duty. Read More | ||
House Bill 17To classify certain storage condominiums as residential property for tax purposes. 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 | ||




