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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.81 | Contempt of the General Assembly.

Effective:
January 1, 1974
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 511 - 109th General Assembly
(A) In order to secure information with respect to any pending or contemplated legislative action, or any alleged breach of its privileges or misconduct by its members, the general assembly may order any person in Ohio to appear and testify before it, before either of its houses, or before any of its standing or select committees, and may order such person to produce books, papers, and other tangible evidence.
(B) An order under division (A) of this section, to appear or to produce books, papers, and other tangible evidence, may be issued by the general assembly, by either of its houses, or, within the limits of its charge by the general assembly or either of its houses, by a standing or a select committee. Such order shall be in writing, and may be directed to an appropriate officer anywhere in Ohio, for service and return in the same manner as a subpoena.
(C) No person shall fail to obey an order issued under this section, or, having appeared pursuant to such order, refuse to answer a question pertinent to the matter under inquiry.
(D) Whoever violates division (C) of this section is guilty of contempt of the general assembly, a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.83 | Expiration Date of Agencies - Renewal.

Effective:
April 12, 2021
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 331 - 133rd General Assembly
(A) It is the intent of the general assembly that an agency shall expire by operation of sunset review law, sections 101.82 to 101.87 of the Revised Code, four years more or less after the effective date of the act that established the agency. Unless renewed in accordance with division (E) of this section:
(1) An agency created during an even-numbered general assembly expires at the end of the thirty-first day of December in the second year of the next odd-numbered general assembly;
(2) An agency created during an odd-numbered general assembly expires at the end of the thirty-first day of December in the second year of the next even-numbered general assembly; and
(3) An agency renewed by a prior sunset review committee expires on the expiration date specified in the act that renewed the agency.
(B) Any act renewing an agency shall contain a distinct section providing a specific expiration date for the agency in accordance with this section. With respect to an agency scheduled to expire through operation of sunset review law, sections 101.82 to 101.87 of the Revised Code, the specific expiration date shall be the thirty-first day of December in the second year of a general assembly.
(C) If the general assembly does not renew or transfer an agency on or before its expiration date, it expires on that date.
The director of budget and management shall not authorize the expenditure of any moneys for any agency on or after the date of its expiration.
(D) The general assembly may provide by law for the orderly, efficient, and expeditious conclusion of an agency's business and operation. The rules, orders, licenses, contracts, and other actions made, taken, granted, or performed by the agency continue in effect according to their terms notwithstanding the agency's abolition, unless the general assembly provides otherwise by law. The general assembly may provide by law for the temporary or permanent transfer of some or all of a terminated or transferred agency's functions and personnel to a successor agency or officer.
The abolition, termination, or transfer of an agency does not cause the termination or dismissal of any claim pending against the agency by any person, or any claim pending against any person by the agency. Unless the general assembly provides otherwise by law for the substitution of parties, the attorney general shall succeed the agency with reference to any pending claim.
(E) An agency may be renewed by passage of a bill that continues the statutes creating and empowering the agency, that amends or repeals those statutes, or that enacts new statutes, to improve agency usefulness, performance, or effectiveness.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.84 | Sunset Review Committee.

Effective:
October 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
(A) A sunset review committee shall be convened during each general assembly. The committee shall be composed of nine members. The president of the senate shall appoint three members of the senate to the committee, not more than two of whom shall be members of the same political party. The speaker of the house of representatives shall appoint three members of the house of representatives to the committee, not more than two of whom shall be members of the same political party. The governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint three members to the committee, not more than two of whom shall be members of the same political party. Members shall be appointed within forty-five days after the commencement of the first regular session of each general assembly.
(B) Each member of the committee who is a member of the general assembly shall serve for the duration of the committee, or until that committee member no longer is a member of the senate or the house of representatives. Each member of the committee who is appointed by the governor shall serve for the duration of the committee, but not later than the thirty-first day of December in the second year of the general assembly. A vacancy on the committee shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment.
In the first year of the general assembly, the chairperson of the committee shall be a member of the house of representatives, and the vice-chairperson of the committee shall be a member of the senate. In the second year of the general assembly, the chairperson of the committee shall be a member of the senate, and the vice-chairperson of the committee shall be a member of the house of representatives.
Members of the committee shall receive no compensation, but shall be reimbursed for their necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties.
(C) The committee shall meet not later than thirty days after the first day of the first year of the general assembly to choose a chairperson and to commence establishment of the schedule for agency review provided for in section 101.85 of the Revised Code or perform other committee duties under sections 101.82 to 101.87 of the Revised Code. Five members of the committee constitute a quorum for the conduct of committee business.
(D) The sunset review committee, after having prepared and published a report of its findings and recommendations, and furnished the report, as required under section 101.87 of the Revised Code, ceases to exist for the remainder of the biennial general assembly.
Last updated September 7, 2023 at 2:41 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.85 | Schedule for Review of Agencies.

Effective:
April 12, 2021
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 331 - 133rd General Assembly
(A) A sunset review committee, not later than sixty days after its first meeting, shall schedule for review each agency in existence on the first day of January in the first year of the general assembly, and that also is scheduled to expire at the end of the thirty-first day of December in the second year of that general assembly.
(B) The chairperson of the committee shall send a copy of the schedule for review of agencies for each regular session of the general assembly to each of the agencies scheduled for review during that session and to the director of the legislative service commission. The director shall publish a copy of the schedule in the register of Ohio. The commission shall provide the committee with a list of agencies described in division (A) of this section, to assist the committee in identifying agencies and in exercising its duties under sections 101.82 to 101.87 of the Revised Code with respect to those agencies.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.86 | Evaluating Usefulness, Performance, and Effectiveness of Agency.

Effective:
April 12, 2021
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 331 - 133rd General Assembly
(A) Not later than six months before the date on which an agency is scheduled to expire, the sunset review committee shall hold hearings to receive the testimony of the public and of the chief executive officer of each agency scheduled for review, and otherwise shall consider and evaluate the usefulness, performance, and effectiveness of the agency.
(B) Each agency that is scheduled for review shall submit to the committee a report that contains all of the following information:
(1) The agency's primary purpose and its various goals and objectives;
(2) The agency's past and anticipated workload, the number of staff required to complete that workload, and the agency's total number of staff;
(3) The agency's past and anticipated budgets and its sources of funding;
(4) The number of members of its governing board or other governing entity and their compensation, if any.
(C) Each agency shall have the burden of demonstrating to the committee a public need for its continued existence. In determining whether an agency has demonstrated that need, the committee shall consider all of the following:
(1) The extent to which the agency has permitted qualified applicants to serve the public;
(2) The cost-effectiveness of the agency in terms of number of employees, services rendered, and administrative costs incurred, both past and present;
(3) The extent to which the agency has operated in the public interest, and whether its operation has been impeded or enhanced by existing statutes and procedures and by budgetary, resource, and personnel practices;
(4) Whether the agency has recommended statutory changes to the general assembly that would benefit the public as opposed to the persons regulated by the agency, if any, and whether its recommendations and other policies have been adopted and implemented;
(5) Whether the agency has required any persons it regulates to report to it the impact of agency rules and decisions on the public as they affect service costs and service delivery;
(6) Whether persons regulated by the agency, if any, have been required to assess problems in their business operations that affect the public;
(7) Whether the agency has encouraged public participation in its rule-making and decision-making;
(8) The efficiency with which formal public complaints filed with the agency have been processed to completion;
(9) Whether the programs or services of the agency duplicate or overlap those of other agencies;
(10) Whether the purpose for which the agency was created has been fulfilled, has changed, or no longer exists;
(11) Whether federal law requires that the agency be renewed in some form;
(12) Changes needed in the enabling laws of the agency in order for it to comply with the criteria suggested by the considerations listed in divisions (C)(1) to (11) of this section.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.87 | Report of Committee's Findings and Recommendations; Cooperation by Other Agencies.

Effective:
April 12, 2021
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 331 - 133rd General Assembly
(A) After the completion of the evaluation of all agencies under section 101.86 of the Revised Code, the sunset review committee shall prepare and publish a report of its findings and recommendations. The committee shall furnish a copy of the report to the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, the governor, and each affected agency. The report shall be made available to the public in the offices of the house of representatives and senate clerks during reasonable hours. As part of the report, the committee shall recommend to the general assembly, in bill form, one or more of the following:
(1) Amendment or repeal of the statutes that created and empowered an agency, to abolish or terminate the agency;
(2) Amendment or repeal of the statutes that created and empowered an agency, or enactment of new statutes, to terminate the agency, to transfer the agency, or to improve the agency's usefulness, performance, or effectiveness;
(3) Amendment or repeal of the statutes that created and empowered two or more agencies, or enactment of new statutes, to reorganize or transfer them and thereby improve agency usefulness, performance, or effectiveness;
(4) Amendment or continuation of the statutes that created and empowered an agency, or enactment of new statutes, to renew the agency.
(B) Recommendations made by the committee shall indicate how or whether their implementation will do each of the following:
(1) Promote economy in the operation of state government;
(2) Improve efficiency in the management of state government;
(3) Improve services rendered to citizens of the state;
(4) Simplify and improve preparation of the state budget;
(5) Conserve the natural resources of the state;
(6) Promote the orderly growth of the state and its government;
(7) Improve the effectiveness of the services performed by the service departments of the state, including the office of budget and management and the department of administrative services;
(8) Avoid duplication of effort by state agencies;
(9) Improve the organization and coordination of the state government in one or more of the ways listed in divisions (B)(1) to (8) of this section.
(C) The office of budget and management, department of administrative services, auditor of state, legislative service commission, and any other state agency shall supply, upon the committee's request, the committee with material, information, and reports needed for the preparation of the report and its recommendations.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.91 | Retirement System Lobbyists and Employers - Registration and Filing Requirements.

Effective:
September 15, 2004
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 133 - 125th General Assembly
(A) No person shall knowingly fail to register as required under section 101.92 of the Revised Code.
(B) No person shall knowingly fail to keep a receipt or maintain a record that section 101.93 of the Revised Code requires the person to keep or maintain.
(C) No person shall knowingly fail to file a statement that section 101.93 or 101.94 of the Revised Code requires the person to file.
(D) No person shall knowingly file a false statement that section 101.93 or 101.94 of the Revised Code requires the person to file.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.921 | Disqualification as Retirement System Lobbyist for Certain Offenses.

Effective:
September 30, 2021
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly
(A) No person shall be permitted to register as a retirement system lobbyist under division (A) or (B) of section 101.92 of the Revised Code if the person is convicted of or pleads guilty to committing on or after the effective date of this section any felony offense listed or described in divisions (A)(1) to (6) of section 101.721 of the Revised Code in the circumstances specified in the particular division.
(B) If a retirement system lobbyist has registered with the joint legislative ethics committee under division (A) or (B) of section 101.92 of the Revised Code, and, on or after the effective date of this section and during the period during which the registration is valid, the retirement system lobbyist is convicted of or pleads guilty to any felony offense listed or described in divisions (A)(1) to (6) of section 101.721 of the Revised Code in the circumstances specified in the particular division, the joint legislative ethics committee immediately upon becoming aware of the conviction or guilty plea shall terminate the registration of the person as a retirement system lobbyist, and, after the termination, the ban imposed under division (A) of this section applies to the person.
(C) The ban imposed under division (A) of this section is a lifetime ban, and the offender is forever disqualified from registering as a retirement system lobbyist under section 101.92 of the Revised Code.
(D) For purposes of divisions (A) and (B) of this section, a violation of section 2923.32 of the Revised Code or any other violation or offense that includes as an element a course of conduct or the occurrence of multiple acts is "committed on or after the effective date of this section " if the course of conduct continues, one or more of the multiple acts occurs, or the subject person's accountability for the course of conduct or for one or more of the multiple acts continues, on or after the effective date of this section .
Last updated May 12, 2022 at 10:28 AM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.94 | Retirement System Lobbyists and Employers - Statement of Financial Transactions With Certain Board Members.

Effective:
September 15, 2004
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 133 - 125th General Assembly
(A) Each retirement system lobbyist who has had any financial transaction with or for the benefit of a member of a board of a state retirement system, a state retirement system investment official, or an employee of a state retirement system whose position involves substantial and material exercise of discretion in the investment of retirement system funds shall describe the details of the transaction, including the name of the member, official, or employee, the purpose and nature of the transaction, and the date it was made or entered into, in a statement filed with the joint legislative ethics committee with the updated registration statement required by division (B) of section 101.92 of the Revised Code. The statements shall be filed at the times specified in section 101.92 of the Revised Code. Each statement shall describe each financial transaction that occurred during the four-calendar-month period that ended on the last day of the month immediately preceding the month in which the statement is required to be filed.
(B) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, each employer who has had any financial transaction with or for the benefit of a member of a board of a state retirement system, a state retirement system investment official, or an employee of a state retirement system whose position involves substantial and material exercise of discretion in the investment of retirement system funds shall describe the details of the transaction, including the name of the member, official, or employee, the purpose and nature of the transaction, and the date it was made or entered into, in a statement filed with the joint committee with the updated registration statement required by division (B) of section 101.92 of the Revised Code. The statement shall be filed at the times specified in section 101.92 of the Revised Code. Each statement shall describe each financial transaction that occurred during the four-calendar-month period that ended on the last day of the month immediately preceding the month in which the statement is required to be filed.
(C) At least ten days before the date on which the statement is filed, each employer or retirement system lobbyist who is required to file a statement describing a financial transaction under this section shall deliver a copy of the statement to the member, official, or employee with whom or for whose benefit the transaction was made.
(D) No employer shall be required to file any statement under this section or to deliver a copy of the statement to a member, official, or employee with whom or for whose benefit the transaction was made if the financial transaction to which the statement pertains is reported by a retirement system lobbyist engaged by the employer.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.95 | Retirement System Lobbyists and Employers - Complaint Involving Dispute With Certain Board Members.

Effective:
September 15, 2004
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 133 - 125th General Assembly
If a dispute arises between a member of a board of a state retirement system, a state retirement system investment official, or an employee of a state retirement system whose position involves substantial and material exercise of discretion in the investment of retirement system funds and an employer or retirement system lobbyist with respect to an expenditure or financial transaction alleged in a statement to be filed under section 101.93 or 101.94 of the Revised Code, the member, official, or employee, employer, or retirement system lobbyist may file a complaint with the Ohio ethics commission. The commission shall proceed to investigate the complaint as though it were filed under section 102.06 of the Revised Code.
The complaint shall be filed at least three days prior to the time the statement is required to be filed with the joint legislative ethics committee. The time for filing a disputed expenditure or financial transaction in any statement of expenditures or the details of a financial transaction shall be extended pending the final decision of the commission. This extension does not extend the time for filing the nondisputed portions of either type of statement. The commission shall notify the parties of its final decision by certified mail. If the commission decides that the disputed expenditure or financial transaction should be reported, the employer or retirement system lobbyist shall include the matter in an amended statement and file the amended statement not later than ten days after receiving notice of the decision of the commission by certified mail.
An employer or retirement system lobbyist who files a false statement of expenditures or details of a financial transaction is liable in a civil action to any member, official, or employee who sustains damage as a result of the filing or publication of the statement.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.96 | Retirement System Lobbyists and Employers - Scope of Regulations.

Effective:
September 15, 2004
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 133 - 125th General Assembly
(A) Sections 101.92 and 101.93 of the Revised Code do not apply to efforts to influence retirement system decisions or conduct retirement system lobbying activity by any of the following:
(1) Appearances at public hearings of a retirement system or at other public meetings;
(2) News, editorial, and advertising statements published in bona fide newspapers, journals, or magazines, or broadcast over radio or television;
(3) The gathering and furnishing of information and news by bona fide reporters, correspondents, or news bureaus to news media described in division (A)(2) of this section;
(4) Publications primarily designed for and distributed to members of bona fide associations or charitable or fraternal nonprofit corporations.
(B) Nothing in sections 101.90 to 101.98 of the Revised Code requires the reporting of, or prohibits a retirement system board member from soliciting or accepting, a contribution from or an expenditure by any person if the contribution or expenditure is reported in accordance with Chapter 3517. of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.97 | Retirement System Lobbyists and Employers - Conflicts of Interest.

Effective:
September 15, 2004
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 133 - 125th General Assembly
(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, no person shall engage any person to influence retirement system decisions or conduct retirement system lobbying activity for compensation that is contingent in any way on the outcome of a retirement system decision and no person shall accept any engagement to influence retirement system decisions or conduct retirement system lobbying activity for compensation that is contingent in any way on the outcome of a retirement system decision.
(B) Division (A) of this section does not prohibit and shall not be construed to prohibit any person from compensating the person's sales employees pursuant to an incentive compensation plan, such as commission sales, if the incentive compensation plan is the same plan used to compensate similarly situated sales employees who are not retirement system lobbyists.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.98 | Retirement System Lobbyists and Employers - Statements as Public Records - List of Registrants - Form for Filings.

Effective:
September 15, 2004
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 133 - 125th General Assembly
(A) The joint legislative ethics committee shall keep on file the statements required by sections 101.92, 101.93, and 101.94 of the Revised Code. These statements are public records and open to public inspection, and the joint committee shall computerize them so that the information contained in them is readily accessible to the general public. The joint committee shall provide copies of the statements to the general public on request and may charge a reasonable fee not to exceed the cost of copying and delivering the statement.
(B) Not later than the last day of February and October of each year, the joint committee shall compile from the registration statements filed with it a complete and updated list of registered retirement system lobbyists and their employers, and distribute the list to each member of the general assembly, elected executive official, and the director of each retirement system, who shall distribute the list to the appropriate personnel under the director's jurisdiction. The joint committee shall provide copies of the list to the general public on request and may charge a reasonable fee not to exceed the cost of copying and delivering the list.
(C) The joint committee shall prescribe and make available an appropriate form for the filings required by sections 101.92, 101.93, and 101.94 of the Revised Code. The form shall contain the following notice in boldface type: "ANY PERSON WHO KNOWINGLY FILES A FALSE STATEMENT IS GUILTY OF FALSIFICATION UNDER SECTION 2921.13 OF THE REVISED CODE, WHICH IS A MISDEMEANOR OF THE FIRST DEGREE."
(D) The joint committee may adopt rules as necessary to implement sections 101.90 to 101.98 of the Revised Code. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code.
(E) The joint committee shall publish a handbook that explains in clear and concise language the provisions of sections 101.90 to 101.98 of the Revised Code and make it available free of charge to retirement system lobbyists, employers, and any other interested persons.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.981 | Retirement System Lobbyists and Employers - Attorney General May Investigate Compliance.

Effective:
September 15, 2004
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 133 - 125th General Assembly
The attorney general and any assistant or special counsel designated by the attorney general may investigate compliance with sections 101.90 to 101.98 of the Revised Code in connection with statements required to be filed under these sections and, in the event of an apparent violation, shall report the findings of any such investigation to the prosecuting attorney of Franklin county, who shall institute such proceedings as are appropriate.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.99 | Penalty.

Effective:
September 15, 2004
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 133 - 125th General Assembly
(A) Whoever violates division (A), (B), or (C) of section 101.71 or of section 101.91, or section 101.77 or 101.97 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(B) Whoever violates division (D) of section 101.71 or of section 101.91 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 102 | Public Officers - Ethics › Section 102.022 | Certain Financial Information Substituted in Statements of Local Officials and College and University Trustees.

Effective:
September 29, 2017
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly
Each person who is an officer or employee of a political subdivision, who receives compensation of less than sixteen thousand dollars a year for holding an office or position of employment with that political subdivision, and who is required to file a statement under section 102.02 of the Revised Code; each member of the board of trustees of a state institution of higher education as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code who is required to file a statement under section 102.02 of the Revised Code; and each individual set forth in division (B)(2) of section 187.03 of the Revised Code who is required to file a statement under section 102.02 of the Revised Code, shall include in that statement, in place of the information required by divisions (A)(2)(b), (g), (h), and (i) of that section, the following information:
(A) Exclusive of reasonable expenses, identification of every source of income over five hundred dollars received during the preceding calendar year, in the officer's or employee's own name or by any other person for the officer's or employee's use or benefit, by the person filing the statement, and a brief description of the nature of the services for which the income was received. This division shall not be construed to require the disclosure of clients of attorneys or persons licensed under section 4732.12 of the Revised Code or patients of persons licensed under section 4731.14 of the Revised Code. This division shall not be construed to require a person filing the statement who derives income from a business or profession to disclose the individual items of income that constitute the gross income of the business or profession.
(B) The source of each gift of over five hundred dollars received by the person in the officer's or employee's own name or by any other person for the officer's or employee's use or benefit during the preceding calendar year, except gifts received by will or by virtue of section 2105.06 of the Revised Code, received from parents, grandparents, children, grandchildren, siblings, nephews, nieces, uncles, aunts, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, fathers-in-law, mothers-in-law, or any person to whom the person filing the statement stands in loco parentis, or received by way of distribution from any inter vivos or testamentary trust established by a spouse or by an ancestor.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 102 | Public Officers - Ethics › Section 102.07 | No Divulging of Information in Disclosure Statements.

Effective:
May 12, 1994
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 285, House Bill 492 - 120th General Assembly
No member, employee, or agent of the Ohio ethics commission, board of commissioners on grievances and discipline of the supreme court, or joint legislative ethics committee shall divulge any information or any books, papers, or documents presented to the commission, joint legislative ethics committee, or board of commissioners on grievances and discipline without the consent, in writing, of the appropriate ethics commission, unless such books, papers, or documents were presented at a public hearing, except as provided in section 102.06 of the Revised Code.
No person shall divulge information that appears on a disclosure statement and is required to be kept confidential under division (B) of section 102.02 of the Revised Code.
The Legislative Service Commission presents the text of this section as a composite of the section as amended by multiple acts of the General Assembly. This presentation recognizes the principle stated in R.C. 1.52(B) that amendments are to be harmonized if reasonably capable of simultaneous operation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 102 | Public Officers - Ethics › Section 102.09 | Furnishing Financial Disclosure Form to Candidates.

Effective:
March 9, 1999
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 649 - 122nd General Assembly
(A) The secretary of state and the county board of elections shall furnish, to each candidate for elective office who is required to file a financial disclosure statement by section 102.02 of the Revised Code, a financial disclosure form, and shall notify the appropriate ethics commission, within fifteen days of the name of the candidate, and of the subsequent withdrawal, disqualification, or death of the candidate. The candidate shall acknowledge receipt of the financial disclosure form in writing.
(B) The secretary of state and the county board of elections shall furnish to each person who is appointed to fill a vacancy for an unexpired term in an elective office, and who is required to file a financial disclosure statement by section 102.02 of the Revised Code, a financial disclosure form, and shall notify the appropriate ethics commission within fifteen days of being notified by the appointing authority, of the name and position of the public official and the date of appointment. The person shall acknowledge receipt of the financial disclosure form in writing.
(C) The public agency or appointing authority that employs, appoints, or promotes any public official or employee who, as a result of such employment, appointment, or promotion, is required to file a financial disclosure statement by section 102.02 of the Revised Code, shall, within fifteen days of the employment, appointment, or promotion, furnish the public official or employee with a financial disclosure form, and shall notify the appropriate ethics commission of the name and position of the public official or employee and the date of employment, appointment, or promotion. The public official or employee shall acknowledge receipt of the financial disclosure form in writing.
(D) Within fifteen days after any public official or employee begins the performance of official duties, the public agency with which the official or employee serves or the appointing authority shall furnish the official or employee a copy of Chapter 102. and section 2921.42 of the Revised Code, and may furnish such other materials as the appropriate ethics commission prepares for distribution. The official or employee shall acknowledge their receipt in writing. The requirements of this division do not apply at the time of reappointment or reelection.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 102 | Public Officers - Ethics › Section 102.99 | Penalty.

Effective:
April 4, 2023
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 288 - 134th General Assembly
(A) Whoever violates division (C) of section 102.02 or division (C) of section 102.031 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(B) Whoever violates division (D) of section 102.02 or section 102.021, 102.03, 102.04, or 102.07 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(C) In addition to the penalty provided in division (B) of this section, whoever violates division (M)(1), (2), or (3) of section 102.03 of the Revised Code forfeits the individual's office or employment.
(D) In addition to the penalty provided in division (B) of this section, any person who violates division (F) of section 102.03 of the Revised Code is subject to the following:
(1) The court may prohibit the person from participating in a public contract with any public agency in this state for a period of two years if recommended by the agency by whom the offending public official or employee was employed.
(2) The court may order the person to pay an additional fine equal to the amount of any thing of value given in violation of division (F) of section 102.03 of the Revised Code.
(E) Upon application of the Ohio ethics commission, the court shall order a person who is convicted of a violation of section 102.021, 102.03, or 102.04 of the Revised Code to pay the costs incurred to investigate and prosecute the case. The amount ordered under this division shall not exceed the amount a person unlawfully secured, solicited, or accepted; the amount a person received as improper compensation, as an unlawful honorarium, or from the unlawful sale of goods or services; or the amount otherwise applicable under section 102.021, 102.03, or 102.04 of the Revised Code. These costs are in addition to any other cost or penalty provided in the Revised Code or any other provision of law.
Last updated March 8, 2023 at 10:53 AM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 103 | Legislative Services › Section 103.03 | Use of Books and Documents of Other State Agencies.

Effective:
September 29, 2015
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 141 - 131st General Assembly
The director of the legislative service commission shall arrange with the proper officials of the Ohio state university, the Ohio history connection, the supreme court law library, and the Ohio state library, for the use of general books and references in their custody, and the proper officials of the Ohio state university, the Ohio history connection, and the Ohio state library are hereby directed to lend to the commission for the use of said commission such books and documents as the director may require. The director is also authorized to give or lend to the proper officials of the Ohio state university, the Ohio history connection, and the Ohio state library, any books and documents which are not required by the director.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 103 | Legislative Services › Section 103.051 | Register of Ohio.

Effective:
October 1, 1999
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 11 - 123rd General Assembly
The "Register of Ohio" is an electronic publication that functions as a gazette to which members of the public may readily resort for notice of and information about rule-making processes. The director of the legislative service commission shall publish the register. The register is to include all rule-making documents that are required by statute to be published in the register. The director shall display the register free of charge on the internet, and shall ensure that printed copies of all or part of a document published in the register can be easily produced by users of the internet.
The director, taking into consideration the public notice and information functions performed by the register, shall update the register at reasonable intervals, but not less often than weekly. The director shall establish a reasonable deadline before each updating. A document received by the director on or before a deadline is to be published in the register upon the register's next updating. The director shall purge a document from the register when its display no longer serves the public notice and information functions performed by the register.
The director upon request of any person shall provide the person with a printed copy of all or part of a document published in the register. The director may charge and collect a fee for this service. Any such fee is not to exceed the actual cost of printing and delivering the printed copy to the person requesting it. The director shall deposit the fees into the state treasury to the credit of the register of Ohio fund.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 103 | Legislative Services › Section 103.052 | Assistance by State Agencies in Publishing Register of Ohio.

Effective:
October 1, 1999
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 11 - 123rd General Assembly
The director of the legislative service commission may request an agency to provide the director with assistance that is within the agency's competence and that is reasonably necessary to ensure the director's successful, efficient, and timely electronic publication of the register of Ohio.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 103 | Legislative Services › Section 103.053 | Reimbursement of Costs From Agency.

Effective:
October 1, 1999
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 11 - 123rd General Assembly
To recover a portion of the cost of publishing the register of Ohio, the director of the legislative service commission may seek reimbursement from an agency of actual costs the director incurs in publishing the agency's documents in the register. The amount sought for reimbursement is to be an amount proportional to the internet space allocated to the agency for publishing the agency's documents in the register, and is to be reduced by the value of assistance the agency has provided to the director with respect to publication of the register. The director shall deposit reimbursements into the state treasury to the credit of the register of Ohio fund.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 103 | Legislative Services › Section 103.054 | Register of Ohio Fund.

Effective:
October 1, 1999
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 11 - 123rd General Assembly
The register of Ohio fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The director of the legislative service commission shall use money in the fund to defray costs of publishing the register of Ohio. Investment earnings of the fund are to be credited to the fund.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 103 | Legislative Services › Section 103.0511 | Electronic Rule-Filing System Established.

Effective:
August 18, 2019
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 221 - 132nd General Assembly
The director of the legislative service commission shall establish and maintain, and enhance and improve, an electronic rule-filing system connecting:
(A) The legislative service commission, the joint committee on agency rule review, and the secretary of state;
(B) The governor, the senate and house of representatives, and the clerks of the senate and house of representatives;
(C) Each agency that files rules and other rule-making and rule-related documents with the legislative service commission, the joint committee on agency rule review, the department of aging, the governor, the secretary of state, the general assembly, or a committee of the senate or house of representatives under section 106.02, 106.022, 106.024, 106.031, 107.54, 111.15, 117.20, 119.03, 119.0311, 119.04, 121.39, 121.82, 173.01, or 5117.02 of the Revised Code or any other statute;
(D) The several publishers of the Administrative Code;
(E) The common sense initiative office; and
(F) Any other person or governmental officer or entity whose inclusion in the system is required for the system to be a complete electronic rule-filing system.
The electronic rule-filing system is to enable rules and rule-making and rule-related documents to be filed, and official responses to these filings to be made, exclusively by electronic means.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 103 | Legislative Services › Section 103.0512 | Rule Filings During System Shutdown.

Effective:
April 1, 2002
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 11 - 123rd General Assembly
If there is an expected or unexpected shut down of the whole or part of the electronic rule-filing system, such as for maintenance or because of hardware or software failure, the director of the legislative service commission may temporarily authorize an agency that is required to file rules and other rule-making and rule-related documents exclusively in electronic form nevertheless to file rules and other rule-making and rule-related documents in print form.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 103 | Legislative Services › Section 103.0521 | Removal of Obsolete Rules.

Effective:
October 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
If a rule currently in effect is obsolete because the rule was adopted by an agency that is no longer in existence and jurisdiction over the rule has not been transferred to another agency, and if that status is verified by the executive director of the joint committee on agency rule review, the executive director shall prepare, for consideration of the joint committee, a motion that the director of the legislative service commission remove the obsolete rule from the Administrative Code. The executive director shall transmit a copy of the motion to the common sense initiative office before the next meeting of the joint committee.
The chairperson of the joint committee responsible for calling and conducting meetings under section 101.35 of the Revised Code, or another member of the joint committee delegated by that chairperson, shall offer the motion at the next meeting of the joint committee. If the motion is agreed to by the joint committee, the executive director shall transmit a copy of the motion to the director of the legislative service commission. The executive director shall certify on the copy transmitted that the motion was agreed to by the joint committee.
Upon receiving the certified motion, the director of the legislative service commission shall remove the obsolete rule from the Administrative Code as directed in the motion. The director thereafter shall maintain the removed obsolete rule in a file of obsolete rules. The file of obsolete rules may be maintained in electronic form.
Last updated September 7, 2023 at 2:43 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 103 | Legislative Services › Section 103.11 | Ohio Legislative Service Commission Organization.

Effective:
September 30, 2021
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly
There is hereby created, in the legislative branch of government, the Ohio legislative service commission consisting of fourteen members as follows: six members shall be members of the senate appointed by the president of the senate, not more than four of whom shall be members of the same political party; six members shall be members of the house of representatives appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, not more than four of whom shall be members of the same political party; the president of the senate; and the speaker of the house of representatives.
The members of the commission shall serve only so long as they are members of the general assembly. A vacancy in the office of any member of the commission shall be filled for the unexpired term in the same manner as the original appointment.
In each even-numbered general assembly, the president of the senate shall serve as chairperson of the commission and the speaker of the house of representatives shall serve as vice-chairperson. In each odd-numbered general assembly, the speaker of the house of representatives shall serve as chairperson of the commission and the president of the senate shall serve as vice-chairperson.
The members of the commission and members of committees thereof shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties.
Last updated July 29, 2021 at 3:46 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 103 | Legislative Services › Section 103.12 | Ohio Legislative Service Commission Committees.

Effective:
November 11, 1965
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 328 - 106th General Assembly
The Ohio legislative service commission may appoint committees consisting of members of the general assembly and such citizens having special knowledge on a particular subject as the commission may determine, to study and report on assigned subjects. At least one member of the commission shall be a member of each committee.
No committee study or report shall be published by the commission until such study or report has been approved for publication by a majority of the committee making the study or report.