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128th General Assembly

On this page you will find information about acts signed into law during the 128th General Assembly, which ran from 2009-2010. All links to acts are PDF documents which will open in a new window. Some of the PDFs may be large, so please allow for time to download.

Certification of General Laws

House Bills
Bill No.DescriptionEffective Date
AM SUB HB 1

Budget Bill

 

 7/17/09; some sections effectively immediately on 7/17/2009 as the sections are or relate to an appropriation for current expenses. Other sections subject to the referendum period are effective on 10/16/09.
HB 2

Appropriations Related to Transportation and Public Safety…………Emergency

 7/1/09; Certain sections effective immediately per section 901.11 of the Act.
AM SUB HB 5

To Permit Individuals Elected or Appointed to State Office to Establish Transition Funds….and to Declare an Emergency

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AM SUB HB 10

To Allow a Juvenile Court to Issue a Protection Order Against a Child

 Effective 6/17/10
AM SUB HB 15

Create the Competitive Workers' Compensation Task Force

 Some sections effective immediately on 06/30/2009 [311] Sections subject to the referendum effective 09/29/2009 [313] or as otherwise provided in the Act. 
AM SUB HB 16

To Make Certain Reductions in State Employee Benefits; Operating Appropriations………….

 Some sections effective immediately on 06/30/2009 [809.10] Sections subject to the referendum effective 09/29/2009 [809.12] or as otherwise provided in the Act. 
SUB HB 19

To Revise the Criminal Offenses that Disqualify School Bus Drivers for Employment.

 Effective 3/29/2010
AM SUB HB 27

Create Special License Plates and to Designate Certain Memorial Highways and a Memorial Bridge.

 Effective 5/31/10
SUB HB 48

Provide up to Two Weeks of Leave for Any Employee who is the Spouse, Parent, or a Person who has or had Legal Custody of a Member of the Uniformed Services

 Section 7 Provides that Amendment Of Sections 5747.01 and 409.10 are Effective Immediately on 4/2/10. Other Sections of the Act are Effective on 7/2/10.
SUB HB 50

To Modify the Prohibition Against a Pilot Carrying Passengers Unless Pilot has a Specified Certification.

 Effective 9/8/10
HB 67

To Permit Persons who are Sixteen to Donate Blood with Parental Consent

 Effective 10/6/200
SUB HB 102

Umbilical Cord Blood Donations.

 Effective 6/30/10
AM HB 150

Designate August as "Ohio Military Family Month" and to Make Operating Appropriations for the Period Beginning July 15, 2009, and Ending July 21, 2009.

 Effective Immediately, Appropriations Period Beginning 7/15/09, Ending 7/21/09.
SUB HB 190

To Allow Certain Dental Hygienists to Administer Local Anesthesia Based on Instruction Obtained while Licensed in Another State, and to Authorize the Director of Health to Establish a School-Based Fluoride Mouth Rinse Program.

 Effective 8/31/10
SUB HB 198

To Revise the Law Governing the Medicaid Reimbursement for Nursing Facilities' Tax Costs and to Declare an Emergency…..

 "6/8/10; Emergency Effective Immediately"
SUB HB 215

To Modify the Laws Governing Investigations and Hearings Conducted by the State Dental Board...

 Effective 9/13/10
AM SUB HB 238

To Require the Court in Divorce or Legal Separation Proceedings

 Effective 9/8/10
HB 245

To Make Operating Appropriations for the Period Beginning July 8, 2009, and Ending July 14, 2009

 Effective Immediately, Appropriations Period Beginning 7/8/09, Ending 7/14/09.
AM SUB HB 290

To Establish a Longitudinal Student Data System, to Extend the Deadline for Certain School Districts to Secure Voter Approval of Bonds and Tax Levies for the Districts' Shares of State-Assisted Classroom Facilities Projects, to Make Performance of the Harmon Commission's Duties Contingent on the Availability of Funding, and to Declare an Emergency.

 Effective12/28/2010, Immediately, Emergency
SUB HB 292

To Prohibit Transfer Fee Covenants in Certain Real Estate Transactions….

 Effective 9/13/10
SUB HB 300

Changes to Law Governing the Licensure and Regulation of Insurance Agents…… Declare an Emergency

 Section 7 provides that sections 1753.33 and 3903.83 will take effect Jan. 1, 2012; Section 3 provides that Sections 1 and 2 (all the other RC sections in the Act) take effect 90 days after the effective date of the Act on 5/26/10. Sections 4,5,6,8,9,10, 11 will be effective immediately on 2/25/2010.
SUB HB 313

To Authorize a County with a Population Greater than 60,000 to Organize a County Land Reutilization Corporation

 Effective 7/7/10
SUB HB 318

To Postpone for Two Years the Last of Five Scheduled Income Tax Rate Reductions, Create the Construction Reform Demonstration Project, Provide Granting of a Delay Implementing All-Day Kindergarten, and to Make an Appropriation.

 03/23/10; Sections 6, 7, 10, 11 and 12 and certain other provisions effective 12/22/09.
HB 330

To Authorize the Director of Transportation to Include School Districts in Purchase Contracts for Machinery, Materials, Supplies and Other Articles.

 Effective 3/24/11
SUB HB 338

All Issues Concerning a Person's Driver's License to be Litigated in a Single Court

 Effective 9/17/10
SUB HB 363

To Revise the Concentrated Animal Feeding Facilities Law, to Specify that Certain Provisions Amended by this Act do not Become Operative Until the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency Approves the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Program.... and to Declare an Emergency

 12/22/09 Emergency, Effective Immediately
SUB HB 393

Revise the Notice Required to be Provided by a Board of Township Trustees…. to Declare an Emergency

 "6/18/10; Emergency Effective Immediately"
AM SUB HB  398

To Revise the Waiting List Provisions of the Passport, Pace, and Assisted Living Programs

 Effective 8/31/10
SUB HB 414

Ohio Livestock Care … Emergency

 Effective 3/31/10; Emergency Act
SUB HB 449

To Make Changes to the Law Regarding the Ohio Veterans' Home Agency and the Department of Veterans Services… to Make an Appropriation.

 "9/17/10; Except that Sections 3, 4 and 5 are Effective Immediately"
SUB HB 462

To Make Capital Reappropriations for the Biennium Ending June 30, 2012, and Certain Capital Appropriations.

 Pursuant to Section 111.70 of the Act, All Sections Take Effect on 7/1/10
SUB HB 495

Postpone Operation of the Sunset Review Law Until July 1, 2011; and to Declare an Emergency.

 Effective 12/15/10 Immediately, Emergency
AM SUB HB 519

To Create the Ohio Casino Control Commission

 Effective 9/10/10

Senate Bills
Bill No.DescriptionEffective Date
AM SB 51

 Designate the Last Week of May as "Ohio Turfgrass Week."

 Effective 3/24/11
SUB SB 58

To Prohibit from Collecting any Bodily Substance of Another Person

 Effective 9/17/10
SB 73

Coal Mining with Regard to the Imposition of a Portion of the Severance Tax…...…Emergency

 6/15/09 emergency effective immediately
SUB SB 77

Expansion of DNA Testing for Certain Convicted Felons

 Effective 7/6/10
SUB SB 79

To Change the Name of the Department of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities

 Effective 10/6/09
SUB SB 85

Authorize Certain Political Subdivisions to Contract for Engineering

 Effective 6/30/10
AM SUB SB 89

Prescriptive Authority of Out-of-State Advanced Practice Nurses

 Effective 3/29/2010
SB 93

Establish the War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission, to Prescribe the Commission's Powers and Duties.

 3/18/10
SUB SB 106

To Exclude from the Application of the Savings Statute Certain Estate and Trust Proceedings.

 Effective 3/24/2010
AM SUB SB 110

To Revise the Household Sewage and Small Flow On-Site Sewage Treatment Systems Law

 Effective 9/17/10
AM SUB SB 124

To Authorize the Governor to Execute a Release of Reversionary Interest in Certain Real Estate Located in Auglaize County, and to Declare an Emergency. 

 Effective12/28/09 Immediately, Emergency
SUB SB 131

Establish a Program that Ensures that Supplies Composed of Biobased Products are Purchased by the Dept of Administrative Services, Other State Agencies, State Institutions of Higher Education, and to Extend the Income Tax Credit for Retail Sales of Alternative Fuel for Two Additional Years.

 Effective 5/31/10
SUB SB 147

Right of Disposal to the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs Regarding Unclaimed Cremated Remains of Persons who are Entitled to be Buried in a National Cemetery.

 Effective 7/2/10
SUB SB 155

General Assembly to Require that the Costs of all Bienniel Audits of State Agencies be Charged to the State Agency being Audited .... Emergency

 Effective 3/31/10; Emergency Act
SUB SB 162

To Create the Select Committee on Telecommunications Regulatory Reform.

 Effective 9/13/10
SUB SB 165

Revise the Oil and Gas Law

 Effective 6/30/10
AM SUB  SB 181

To Provide Immunity from Liability for Eligible Landowners… Make Appropriations

 Section 1 and 2 Effective 9/13/10. Sections 3 and 4 Effective 6/13/10. Sections 5 and 6 Efective 9/13/10. Section 7 Effective 6/13/10. Section 8 Effective 9/13/10. Section 9 Effective 6/13/10. Section 10 Effective  9/13/10. Sections 11,12,13,14, and 15 Effective 6/13/10. Section 16 Effective 9/13/10. Sections 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, and 22 Effective 6/13/10.
AM SB 183

To Eliminate a Grandfather Exemption from the Requirements of the Architects Law

 Effective 9/10/10
AM SUB SB 187

To Establish the Ohio Planned Community Law.

 Effective 9/10/10
AM SUB SB 194

Transmit an Income Tax Refund Directly to the Taxpayer's Checking, Savings, or Individual Retirement Account

 Effective 8/19/10
SUB SB 204

To the Termination of Franchises and Prohibited Acts Under the Motor Vehical Dealers Law.

 Effective 9/10/10
SUB SB 210

To Establish Nutritional Standards for Certain Foods and Beverages in School

 Effective 9/17/10
AM SUB SB 232

To Exempt Qualifying Energy Facilities from Property Taxation Upon County Approval… to Declare an Emergency…...

 6/17/2010; Emergency, Effective Immediately
SUB SB 235

Offenses of Trafficking in Persons and Unlawful Conduct...

 Effective 3/24/11
AM SB 270

To Authorize a Joint Recreation District Operating on the Site of the United States Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Jubilee...

 Effective 9/13/10

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Joint Resolutions
No.DescriptionDate
SUB SJR #1

Compensation to veterans of the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq conflicts

 3/11/2009
AM SUB SJR #6

Create the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board

 7/16/2009
AM SJR #8

Change the authorized location of the casino in central Ohio from Columbus to a designated site in Franklin County

 2/3/2010
AM SUB HJR #12

Issuance of additional general obligation bonds to fund research and development

 2/3/2010
SJR #12

Honoring the recipients of the Ohio Military Medal of Distinction and their families

 11/10/2010

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Statewide Ballot Issues

2009:

State Issue 1: Proposed Constitutional Amendment to authorize the state to issue bonds to provide compensation to veterans of the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq conflicts

State Issue 2: Proposed Constitutional Amendment to create the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board to establish and implement standards of care for livestock and poultry

State Issue 3: Proposed Constitutional Amendment by initiative petition to amend the constitution to allow for one casino each in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, and Toledo and distribute to all ohio counties a tax on the casinos

2010:

(Primary) State Issue 1: Proposed Constitutional Amendment to extend the Ohio Third Frontier Program by authorizing the issuance of additional general obligation bonds to promote economic growth by funding research and development to create and preserve jobs

(Primary) State Issue 2: Proposed Constitutional Amendment to change the location of the Columbus casino facility authorized by previous statewide vote from the Arena District to a vacant redevelopment site in the Columbus area formerly owned by General Motors and Delphi Automotive

Members

Members of the 128th General Assembly

List of O.R.C. sections affected

Laws passed in 2009 | Uncodified Sections Affected, 2009 

Laws passed in 2010 | Uncodified Sections Affected, 2010
(provided by the Ohio Legislative Service Commission)

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