Higher Education Related Legislation

Higher Education Related Legislation

HB 5 – 2007-2008 EMINENT DOMAIN (Gibbs) To implement recommendations made by the Eminent Domain Task Force.
Current Status: In House State & Local Government

HB 34 – 2007-2008 GRADUATE STUDENT LOANS (Wolpert) To establish the Third Frontier Pilot Forgivable Loan Program for graduate students.
Current Status: In House Finance & Appropriations

HB 64 – 2007-2008 NURSES (Ujvagi) To create a tax credit for nurses who teach nursing at post-secondary educational institutions.
Current Status: In House Finance & Appropriations

HB 77 – 2007-2008 MERCURY EMISSIONS (Hagan, R.) To require electric generating facilities to comply with certain requirements regarding mercury emissions. 
Current Status: In House Public Utilities

HB 85 – 2007-2008 BOARD OF REGENTS (Webster) To expand the authority of the Ohio Board of Regents.
Current Status: In House Education

HB 94 – 2007-2008 UNIVERSITY DEGREES (Koziura) To require state universities to guarantee that a full-time undergraduate student with a declared major field of study can complete the coursework for that program of study in a specified time period.
Current Status: In House Education

HB 116 – 2007-2008 HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNTS (Blessing) To require public employers to make health savings accounts available to public employees.
Current Status: In House State Government & Elections

HB 126 – 2007-2008 LOW BIDDERS (Dyer) To maintain a database including low bidders not awarded contracts-not responsible.
Current Status: In House State Government & Elections

HB 133 – 2007-2008 COLLEGE INTERNS/TAX CREDITS (Hughes) To grant tax credits to businesses that provide internships to students attending Ohio's colleges and universities and that hire former interns.
Current Status: In House Finance & Appropriations

HB 142 – 2007-2008 SCHOOL THREATS/HIGHWAY PATROL (Batchelder) To authorize the state highway patrol to provide emergency assistance to a school district confronted with a bomb threat or a similar threat of imminent and catastrophic harm, and to increase the penalty for inducing panic to a felony of the second degree when a school is involved.
Current Status: Sent to Governor for signature

HB 151 – 2007-2008 RETIREMENT SYSTEM INVESTMENTS (Mandel, Jones) To specify procedures for divesting investments a public investor holds in directly held publicly traded companies conducting specified types of business in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of the Sudan and to prohibit public investors from investing in such a company and to authorize the Ohio public deferred compensation board, the alternative retirement program, and the Ohio college savings program to offer a terror-free investment option.
Current Status: Passed House

HB 152 – 2007-2008 ALTERNATIVE RETIREMENT PLANS (Widener) To establish alternative retirement plans for teachers and school employees.
Current Status: In House Financial Institutions, Real Estate & Securities

HB 185 – 2007-2008 NURSES (Beatty) To establish a tuition reimbursement program, tax credits, and mandatory overtime for nurses and nurse’s aides.
Current Status: In House Ways & Means

HB 192 – 2007-2008 HIGHER EDUCATION THREATS (Brady) To require each state institution of higher education to develop a plan for responding to threats or acts of violence on campus.
Current Status: In House Education

HB 242 – 2007-2008 PUBLIC EMPLOYEES COLLECTIVE BARGAINING (Brinkman) To remove any requirement that public employees join or pay dues to any employee organization, to expand the unfair labor practices under the Public Employees Collective Bargaining Law, and to make other changes to that law.
Current Status: In House Commerce & Labor

HB 270 – 2007-2008 STATE RETIREES (Schneider) Member of State Retirement Systems who retires and then returns to public employment in the same position will not receive a pension while earning a salary for that employment.
Current Status: In House Financial Institutions, Real Estate, & Securities

HB 271 – 2007-2008 REMEDIAL EDUCATION (Patton) To permit a school district to establish a policy guaranteeing state institutions of higher education that its graduates will not require remedial coursework in specified subject areas or the district will cover the costs of remediation.
Current Status: In House Education

HB 283 – 2007-2008 PHARMACY SCHOOLS (Webster) To permit pharmacy schools to accept for instructional purposes donations of certain dangerous drugs, including expired drugs.
Current Status: In Senate 

HB 315 – 2007-2008 STRS LAWS (Oelslager) To create the Health Care Fund in the State Teachers Retirement System (STRS) and make other changes in STRS law.
Current Status: In House Financial Institutions, Real Estate, & Securities

HB 326 – 2007-2008 GOVERNMENT COURSEWORK (Gerberry) To require state institutions of higher education to include coursework in government as a condition of awarding an undergraduate degree.
Current Status: In House Education

HB 340 – 2007-2008 CERTIFIED INTERIOR DESIGNERS (Flowers) To create the State Board for Certified Interior Designers and to permit interior designers who meet certain requirements to be certified by that Board.
Current Status: In House Commerce & Labor

HB 347 – 2007-2008 PROFESSIONAL EDUCATOR LICENSE (Setzer) To replace the Praxis III assessment as a condition for a professional educator license.
Current Status: In House Education

HB 381 – 2007-2008 COLLEGE RESEARCH PROGRAM (Webster) To increase the funds available for the Ohio Research Scholars Program and to permit a nonpublic four-year Ohio university to submit a proposal for the Ohio Research Scholars Program if the proposal is to be implemented in collaboration with a state college or university.
Current Status: In House Finance & Appropriations

HB 424 – 2007-2008 PSEO CHANGES (Setzer) To make changes in the Post-Secondary Enrollment Options Program, and to make changes in the requirement that schools offer dual enrollment programs.
Current Status: In House Education

SB 7 – 2007-2008 EMINENT DOMAIN (Grendell) To formally state the G.A.'s intentions in its upcoming deliberations on reforming Ohio's laws regulating the exercise of eminent domain.
Current Status: Signed by Governor; Eff. 10/10/2007 

SB 8 – 2007-2008 COLLEGE TUITION TAX CREDIT (Coughlin) To restore the income tax deduction for college tuition and fees.
Current States:  In Senate Ways & Means

SB 38 – 2007-2008 THEATRICAL SMOKING (Schuler) To allow smoking by theatrical performers during performances.
Current Status: In Senate Health

SB 64 – 2007-2008 TRIO PROGRAMS (Miller, R.) To provide for matching funds for federal TRIO programs at Ohio colleges.
Current Status: In Senate Finance & Financial Institutions

SB 67 – 2007-2008 BUY OHIO (Miller, R.) To further implement the Buy Ohio program by requiring the Director of Administrative Services to adopt certain rules and to declare the General Assembly's intention to encourage certain bidders to fully implement equal employment opportunity and minority business laws and to report this implementation.
Current Status: In Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor

SB 139 – 2007-2008 PREVAILING WAGE (Mumper) To permit state institutions of higher education to use either single or multiple prime bidding for public improvement projects; to exempt from the Prevailing Wage Law projects constructed by state institutions of higher education and projects constructed by private, non-profit organizations that receive public moneys to construct those projects; and to prohibit the Ohio School Facilities Commission from approving school district projects that specify the payment of prevailing wages.
Current Status: In Senate Finance & Financial Institutions

SB 148 – 2007-2008 SERS RETIREMENT ELIGIBILITY (Faber) To revise the retirement eligibility requirements for members of the School Employees Retirement System.
Current Status: In Senate Financial Institutions, Real Estate & Securities 

SB 151 – 2007-2008 TEXTBOOK PRICES (Roberts) With respect to textbook pricing at state institutions of higher education.
Current Status: In Senate Education

SB 161 – 2007-2008 SUDAN INVESTMENTS (Jacobson) To require and specify procedures for divesting investments a public authority holds in a company conducting specified types of business in Sudan.
Current Status: In Senate Finance & Financial Institutions

SB 221 – 2007-2008 ENERGY POLICY (Schuler) To revise state energy policy to address electric service price regulation, new bonding authority for advanced energy projects, advanced (including renewable) energy portfolio standards, energy efficiency standards, and greenhouse gas emission reporting and carbon control planning requirements.
Current Status: In House Public Utilities

SB 222 – 2007-2008 PEACE OFFICER TRAINING (Cates) To add a representative from the Ohio Campus Law Enforcement Association to the Peace Officer Training Commission, to require the Commission to develop recommendations for training peace officers in conducting law enforcement activities in a higher education setting, and to provide qualified immunity to an officer or employee of a private college or university who reports a potential safety risk at the college or university.
Current Status: In Senate Judiciary-Criminal Justice

SJR 4 – 2007-2008 SCHOOL FUNDING (Schuring) To devote lottery revenue and a percentage of certain taxes to fund primary, secondary, and higher education.
Current Status: In Senate

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