Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Pending Legislation

Some new bills pending, in case you missed them in the OSBA Report:

H.B 205 and H.B. 210 pertain to freezing taxes on primary residences owned & occupied
by persons 65 years of age or older.

H.B. 212 and S.B. 136 concern accelerating the effective date of county sales taxes.

H.B. 214 seeks to remove clerks of courts from procedures regarding the filing by
private persons of affidavits alleging a person committed a criminal offense.

H.B. 216 deals with the removal of life support systems from adult patients in
permanently unconscious states.

H.B. 219 is on the consolidation of local government services in attempts to reduce
expenditures.

H.B. 220 would permit debtors domiciled in Ohio to exempt the same property from
bankruptcy judgments that are exempted under federal bankruptcy law.

S.B. 137 will increase the penalty for failing to report child abuse or neglect incidents
from a fourth degree misdemeanor to one of the first degree.

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