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.
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 15To 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 29To 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 |
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