Higher Education Related Legislation
Status Report
Updated July 19, 2010
HB 48 – MILITARY LEAVE (Ujvagi) To 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 who is called to active duty or is injured, wounded, or hospitalized while serving on active duty.
Introduced – 2/24/09
PASSED House (86-6) – 6/17/09
PASSED Senate (32-0) – 3/24/10
Signed by Governor – 4/2/10
Effective Date – 4/2/10
HB 161 – COLLEGE GRADUATIONS (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.
HB 318 – TAX RATE FREEZE (Sykes) To postpone for two years the last of five scheduled income tax rate reductions, to create the Construction Reform Demonstration Project. Am. 101.27, 5747.02 and 5747.056 and 265.10 of Am. Sub. H.B. 1 of the 128th General Assembly
Introduced – 10/16/09
PASSED House (55-44) – 10/21/09
PASSED Senate (17-15) – 12/17/09
Signed by Governor – 12/22/09
Effective Date – 12/22/09
HB 365 – COLLECTIVE BARGAINING (Chandler) To eliminate an exemption from the Public Employees' Collective Bargaining Law for specified higher educational employees including part-time faculty, graduate assistants, residents, interns, and students working as part-time public employees. Am. 4117.01 and 4117.03
HB 370 – EDUCATION DATA SYSTEM (Garrison) To permit the Department of Education and the Chancellor of the Board of Regents to establish a longitudinal student data system. Am. 3301.0714 and to enact sections 3301.94 and 3333.0410
HB 424 – OCOG GRANTS (Williams, S.) To qualify students in non-credit community college programs for Ohio College Opportunity Grants and to require the awarding of academic credit for community colleges' career certification programs.
HB 453 – PRESCRIPTION DRUG CHANGES (Boyd) To require certain insurers to provide notification of changes to their prescription drug coverage to all network health care providers, network pharmacies, network pharmacists, and insureds, and to specify when the change may apply. En. 1751.661, 3923.602, and 3923.611
HB 461 – VETERAN AGENCIES (Pillich, Boose) To make changes to the law regarding the Ohio Veterans' Home Agency, the Department of Veterans Services, the Ohio National Guard Scholarship Program and other military-related laws and to make an appropriation.
HB 462 – CAPITAL REAPPROPRIATIONS (Sykes) To make capital reappropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 2012, and certain capital appropriations.
Introduced – 3/8/10
PASSED House (77-18) – 3/16/10
PASSED Senate (32-0) – 3/24/10
Signed by Governor – 3/31/10
Effective Date – 3/31/10
HB 472 – COLLEGE TEXTBOOKS (Lundy, Patten) To enact the "Textbook Affordability Act" with respect to college textbook sales.
HB 530 – AT-RISK STUDENTS (Driehaus, Mecklenborg) To permit the establishment of public college-preparatory boarding schools for at-risk students to be operated by private nonprofit entities.
SB 69 – STUDENT VACCINATIONS (Cates) To require that students living in on-campus housing and institutions of higher education be vaccinated for meningococcal meningitis and hepatitis B or obtain a waiver. Am. 1713.55, 3332.25, 3345.85 and 3701.133
SB 84 – UNIVERSITY BUSES (Wagoner) To require all buses purchased, leased, rented, or chartered by universities and colleges to transport students or employees to be equipped with occupant restraining devices for all passengers, to permit buses that currently are owned by universities and colleges and are not equipped with occupant restraining devices for all passengers to shuttle students or employees indefinitely.
SB 131 – BIOPRODUCTS (Gillmor) To require that the Director of Administrative Services establish a program that ensures that supplies composed of biobased products are purchased by the Department of Administrative Services, other state agencies, and state institutions of higher education. Am. 125.04, 5513.02, 125.091, 125.092 and 125.093.
Introduced – 6/3/09
PASSED Senate (30-0) – 9/29/09
PASSED House (92-1) – 2/17/10
Signed by Governor – 2/27/10
Effective Date – 5/27/10
SB 146 – MINORITY SET-ASIDES (Miller, R.) To require community colleges, state community colleges, technical colleges, and university branches to comply with minority business enterprise set aside requirements.
SB 198 – STEM TAX CREDIT (Schiavoni) To grant an income tax credit to individuals who earn degrees in science, technology, engineering or math-based fields of study and to authorize municipal corporations to grant a credit to individuals qualifying for the state credit.
SB 249 – UNIVERSITY PROPERTY (Seitz) To permit the board of trustees of a state institution of higher education to enter into an agreement to convey property used for student housing or parking to a conduit entity which will enter into a lease-leaseback arrangement with an independent funding source.
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