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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.31 | Duties of Certain Officers.

Effective:
March 9, 1999
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 649 - 122nd General Assembly
The clerk of the senate, the chief administrative officer and the clerk of the house of representatives, and the sergeant at arms of each house shall be present and assist in the organization of the next succeeding general assembly.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.32 | Control of Assistants - Dismissal.

Effective:
March 9, 1999
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 649 - 122nd General Assembly
The clerk of the senate, the chief administrative officer of the house of representatives, and the sergeant at arms of each house shall have control of their respective assistants, and each house by resolution may dismiss any of them whose services are not needed or who do not perform their duties satisfactorily.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.33 | Temporary Officials.

Effective:
March 9, 1999
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 649 - 122nd General Assembly
During the absence or disability of the clerk of the senate, clerk of the house of representatives, or sergeant at arms of either house, the respective house of the general assembly may constitute one of the assistant clerks, clerk pro tempore, or one of the assistant sergeant at arms, sergeant at arms pro tempore, and the assistant so appointed shall have the powers to perform the duties required of the assistant's principal.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.351 | Goal of Rule Watch System.

Effective:
September 17, 2014
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 3 - 130th General Assembly
The goal of the rule watch system is to provide one world wide web portal through which a person can obtain information about the rules of, and about rule-making by, state agencies.
The joint committee on agency rule review shall establish, maintain, and improve a rule watch system. The rule watch system shall be designed so that a person may register electronically to receive an electronic mail alert when an agency files a rule for review by the joint committee.
The joint committee shall integrate the common sense initiative office into the rule watch system. The joint committee is the principal member of the rule watch system, but shall work in collaboration with the common sense initiative office to achieve the integration.
Failure of the rule watch system to transmit an electronic mail alert to a person is not grounds for questioning the validity of a rule or the validity of the process by which the rule was adopted.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.353 | Request for Appearance Before Joint Committee Regarding Agency's Failure to Adopt Rule.

Effective:
October 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
If the joint committee on agency rule review becomes aware, such as through its own inquiries or by receiving complaints from interested parties or stakeholders, that an agency subject to its jurisdiction is required expressly or impliedly by a statute to adopt a rule but appears neither to have done so nor to have commenced the rule-making process, the chairperson of the joint committee responsible for calling and conducting meetings under section 101.35 of the Revised Code, in that chairperson's sole discretion, may request the agency to appear before the joint committee to address its apparent dereliction. The request shall specify the time and place at which a designee of the agency is to appear before the joint committee to address, and answer the joint committee's questions concerning, the agency's apparent dereliction. The request shall identify the statute that expressly or impliedly requires rule-making and that apparently has not been complied with. The joint committee shall transmit the request to the agency electronically. The joint committee also shall publish the request on its web site, and shall indicate in conjunction with the published request that any person is invited to appear before the joint committee when the agency appears to offer and make comments to the joint committee concerning the agency's apparent dereliction.
Upon receiving the request, the agency shall designate a suitable agency officer or employee to appear on behalf of the agency before the joint committee as directed in the request. The agency electronically shall notify the joint committee of the name, title, telephone number, and electronic mail address of the officer or employee who has been designated to appear before the joint committee in response to the request.
Upon appearing before the joint committee, the agency's designee shall address why the agency apparently has neither adopted a rule nor commenced the rule-making process as expressly or impliedly required by the statute. The members of the joint committee may question the agency's designee concerning the agency's apparent dereliction. Any person may offer and make comments to the joint committee concerning the agency's apparent dereliction.
After the appearance has concluded, the joint committee, by vote of a majority of its members, in writing may advise the agency to commence rule-making proceedings under the statute, as soon as it is reasonably feasible for the agency to do so. The joint committee shall transmit the advisory electronically to the agency. The joint committee also shall publish the advisory on its web site.
Last updated September 7, 2023 at 2:06 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.354 | Agency Inventories of Regulatory Restrictions and Report.

Effective:
June 8, 2022
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 9 - 134th General Assembly
(A) The joint committee on agency rule review shall advise and assist state agencies in preparing revised inventories of regulatory restrictions and shall advise and assist state agencies in achieving specified percentage reductions in regulatory restrictions in the Administrative Code in accordance with sections 121.95, 121.951, 121.952, 121.953, and 121.954 of the Revised Code.
(B)(1) Not later than June 15, 2022, the executive director of the joint committee shall prepare a report aggregating the base inventories received from state agencies under section 121.95 of the Revised Code.
(2) Beginning in 2023, not later than the fifteenth day of December each year, the executive director of the joint committee shall prepare an historical report aggregating the reports received from state agencies for the preceding fiscal year. In the report, the executive director also shall describe the work of the joint committee over the preceding fiscal year with respect to reduction of regulatory restrictions and shall indicate, out of the total number of regulatory restrictions inventoried by state agencies, the percentage by which state agencies have reduced those regulatory restrictions. The report also shall provide recommendations for statutory changes, where appropriate, brought to the attention of the joint committee as contributing to the adoption of regulatory restrictions.
(3) The executive director shall submit the report required under divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section to the members of the joint committee, which shall publish the report on its web site and transmit copies of the report electronically to the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate.
Last updated March 15, 2022 at 4:30 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.355 | Regulatory Restriction Database and Website.

Effective:
June 8, 2022
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 9 - 134th General Assembly
The joint committee on agency rule review, in consultation with legislative information systems, shall do both of the following:
(A) Create and maintain a system that state agencies shall use to enter regulatory restriction data, create required inventories, and transmit copies of inventories, reports, and any other documents to the joint committee and the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate under sections 121.95, 121.951, and 121.953 of the Revised Code, and that will assist the joint committee in aggregating reports and performing other prescribed duties under sections 101.354, 121.95, 121.951, 121.952, and 121.953 of the Revised Code;
(B) Establish, maintain, and improve the cut red tape system, which shall include a web site and shall allow members of the public to request information about regulatory restrictions and to communicate with the joint committee about regulatory restrictions.
Last updated March 15, 2022 at 4:31 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.36 | General Assembly Authority to Rescind Department of Health Orders or Rules.

Effective:
June 23, 2021
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 22 - 134th General Assembly
(A)(1) If the department of health issues a special or standing order or rule for preventing the spread of contagious or infectious disease under section 3701.13 of the Revised Code, the general assembly may rescind that special or standing order or rule, in whole or in part, by adopting a concurrent resolution.
(2) If the director of health takes an action to control and suppress the cause of disease or illness, including contagious, infectious, epidemic, pandemic, or endemic conditions, under section 3701.14 of the Revised Code, the general assembly may rescind that action, in whole or in part, by adopting a concurrent resolution.
(3) If the general assembly rescinds a special or standing order or rule or an action by the department of health, in whole or in part, pursuant to division (A)(1) or (2) of this section, the department shall not reissue that special or standing order or rule or rescinded portion thereof, issue a substantially similar special or standing order or rule or rescinded portion thereof, take that action or rescinded portion thereof or a substantially similar action or portion thereof again, or issue a restriction contained in the rescinded special or standing order or rule, rescinded action, or portion thereof, for a period of sixty calendar days following the adoption of a concurrent resolution by the general assembly.
(B) Within sixty calendar days of the general assembly rescinding a special or standing order or rule or action under division (A)(1) or (2) of this section, the governor, on behalf of the department of health or director of health, may submit a request to the general assembly to permit the department or director to issue a special or standing order or rule, or take an action, rescinded by the general assembly. Upon review, the general assembly may adopt a concurrent resolution authorizing the department or director to issue that rescinded special or standing order or rule or take that rescinded action, in whole or in part.
(C) A special or standing order or rule issued, or action taken, by the department or director in violation of this section is invalid and has no legal effect.
Last updated May 4, 2021 at 1:28 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.41 | Chairman of Committee Authorized to Subpoena Witnesses.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The chairman of a standing or select committee, or a subcommittee thereof, of the general assembly, or of either house thereof, authorized to send for persons and papers, may subpoena witnesses in any part of the state to appear before such committee or subcommittee at a time and place designated in the subpoena, to testify concerning matters of inquiry committed to the committee or subcommittee and may require the production of books, papers, and records by such witnesses.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.42 | Subpoena.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
If the subpoena referred to in section 101.41 of the Revised Code is issued by a joint committee or a subcommittee thereof, it may be delivered to the sergeant at arms of either house as the chairman determines; if it is issued by a committee of one house, or a subcommittee of such committee, it shall be directed to the sergeant at arms of such house; but in either case it may be directed to the sheriff of any county. The officer to whom such subpoena is directed, or his assistant or deputy, shall serve and return it to the chairman issuing it, as subpoenas issued by courts of record are served and returned. The subpoena shall be substantially in the following form:
The State of Ohio _____________________ County, ss.:
To the sergeant at arms of the ______________, or the sheriff of the county of __________ (as the case may be):
By authority of the (insert, general assembly, senate, or house of representatives, as the case may be) of the state of Ohio, you are hereby commanded to summon ___________, of ______________, to appear before the ______________ committee of the said ________________, at _____________ on the __________ day of ____________, A.D. ________, at the hours of _____________; then and there to testify concerning matters of inquiry committed to such committee, and not to depart without leave of such committee. Of this writ make due return with your proceedings in this behalf indorsed thereon.
Witness my hand this __________ day of _____________, A.D. ____________
_________________ Chairman.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.43 | Punishment for Disobeying Subpoena or Refusing to Answer.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Whoever willfully fails to appear in obedience to the subpoena provided for in sections 101.41 and 101.42 of the Revised Code, or appears and refuses to answer a question pertinent to the matter of inquiry, or declines to produce a paper or record in his possession or control, is liable to the penalties for contempt of the authority of the general assembly if the committee is a joint committee, or of the proper house of the general assembly if the committee is appointed by one house, and shall be dealt with by the general assembly, or such house, according to parliamentary rules and usages in cases of contempt. The chairman of the committee before which such person fails to appear or refuses to answer or produce a paper or record on its order shall report the facts to the proper house, and on like order issue a warrant for the arrest and conveyance of the witness before that house to answer for the contempt. The sergeant at arms or sheriff to whom such warrant is directed shall forthwith execute it. Proceedings against a witness, or his punishment by the general assembly or either house thereof, for contempt, shall not prevent or affect his indictment and punishment for the same offense in a court of competent jurisdiction.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.44 | Testimony Before Committee Not to Be Used in Criminal Prosecution of Witness - Exception.

Effective:
January 17, 1977
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 545 - 111th General Assembly
Except a person who, in writing, requests permission to appear before a committee or subcommittee of the general assembly, or of either house thereof, or who, in writing, waives the rights, privileges, and immunities granted by this section, the testimony of a witness examined before a committee or subcommittee shall not be used as evidence in a criminal proceeding against such witness. This section does not exempt a witness from the penalties for perjury.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.45 | Fees of Sheriffs and Witnesses.

Effective:
July 1, 2009
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 525 - 127th General Assembly
Sheriffs shall be paid the same fees for services as are allowed in the court of common pleas for similar services. Witnesses shall be paid the same fees and mileage as witnesses are provided under section 119.094 of the Revised Code. Such fees and mileage shall be paid from the state treasury on the certificate of the chairperson of the committee or subcommittee which issued the subpoena.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.46 | Chairman or Member of Committee May Administer Oaths.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The chairman, or a member of a committee or subcommittee of the general assembly, or of either house thereof, may administer oaths to witnesses appearing before such committee or subcommittee.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.47 | Deposition on Complaint.

Effective:
October 7, 1977
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 42 - 112th General Assembly
A complaint praying for an investigation of the official conduct of an officer liable to impeachment may be presented to the house of representatives. The person preferring such complaint may take depositions of witnesses to substantiate the complaint, and use such depositions as testimony before the house, in determining whether it will impeach such officer. Such depositions may be taken before a person authorized by law to take depositions.
Notice of the time and place of taxing such depositions shall be given in the manner required by sections 2319.15 to 2319.17 of the Revised Code; but if the officer against whom the complaint is made or is about to be made is out of the state, notice may be left at his place of residence in the state. If he has no known place of residence in the state, such notice may be published in a newspaper published in the county of the state where he last resided, for three consecutive weeks next preceding the time of taking the depositions.
If an impeachment is preferred to the senate, and the officer impeached is convicted, the person who has caused depositions to be taken shall be allowed the legal fees accruing thereon.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.51 | Printing of Legislative Document Definitions.

Effective:
March 9, 1999
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 649 - 122nd General Assembly
As used in sections 101.51 to 101.543 of the Revised Code:
(A) "Composition" includes shape, size, paper, typeface, typeface size, line width, margins, spacing, division, binding, and other matters relating to the makeup of a document.
(B) "Document" means a bill, act, resolution, journal, pamphlet law, bulletin, index, report, form, or other document that is used in the proceedings or operations of, or that is laid before, the senate or house of representatives.
(C) "Method of printing" means a method of printing that mechanically or electronically produces or reproduces a document by completely and accurately transferring to paper or to electronic memory, the characters of which the text of the document is composed.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.52 | Responsibility for Printing.

Effective:
March 9, 1999
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 649 - 122nd General Assembly
The clerk of the senate and the clerk of the house of representatives are custodians of the documents in possession of the senate or house of representatives, and are responsible for the printing of a document when its printing becomes necessary in the course of the proceedings or operations of the clerk's respective house. The clerk shall discharge this responsibility for printing, whether for a particular document or for a particular class of documents, by printing the document internally in the clerk's office, by contracting with a private printer outside the clerk's office, by participating in the public printing services provided by the department of administrative services, or by requesting the director of administrative services to let a contract for the printing. In choosing among these methods of printing a document or class of documents, the clerk shall not select a method unless it reasonably appears under the circumstances that the method will enable the clerk successfully and efficiently to discharge the clerk's responsibility for printing the document or class of documents.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.521 | Internal Printing.

Effective:
March 9, 1999
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 649 - 122nd General Assembly
If the clerk of the senate or the clerk of the house of representatives prints a document or class of documents internally in the clerk's office, the clerk shall compose the document and select the method of printing to be used. Except for matters of composition and quantity prescribed by law, by rule of the senate or house of representatives, by joint rule of both houses, or by order of the senate or house of representatives, the clerk, taking into consideration means of effectively communicating the content of the document, shall determine the composition of the document, and, taking into consideration the uses to which the document foreseeably is to be put, shall determine the approximate quantity of the document to be printed.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.522 | Contracts With Private Printers.

Effective:
March 9, 1999
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 649 - 122nd General Assembly
If the clerk of the senate or the clerk of the house of representatives contracts with a private printer outside the clerk's office to print a document or class of documents, the clerk shall negotiate and agree with the printer upon those terms as are necessary and proper with respect to the printing job being contracted for. The terms are to include provisions with respect to:
(A) Composition of the document, reflecting means of effectively communicating the content of the document, subject to matters of composition prescribed by law, by rule of the senate or house of representatives, by joint rule of both houses, or by order of the senate or house of representatives;
(B) Method of printing to be used;
(C) Delivery to the clerk of proof sheets, return to the printer of corrected proofs, and making of corrections;
(D) Approximate quantity to be printed, reflecting the uses to which the document foreseeably is to be put, subject to matters of quantity prescribed by law, by rule of the senate or house of representatives, by joint rule of both houses, or by order of the senate or house of representatives;
(E) Deadlines;
(F) Compensation to be paid to the printer for services rendered and materials provided, and any liquidated damages to be charged against the printer for misfeasance or nonfeasance;
(G) Term of the contract, and
(H) Other matters as are necessary and proper for efficient, timely, and successful performance of the printing job.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.523 | Participating in Public Printing Services Provided by Department of Administrative Services.

Effective:
March 9, 1999
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 649 - 122nd General Assembly
If the clerk of the senate or the clerk of the house of representatives prints a document or class of documents by participating in the public printing services provided by the department of administrative services, the clerk shall negotiate and agree with the director of administrative services with respect to the printing services the department is to provide to the clerk. Terms of participation, except as may be limited by the law governing the department's public printing services, are the same as those to be included in a contract with a private printer. The clerk and the director shall memorialize their agreement in a memorandum.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.524 | Director of Administrative Services to Let Contract for Printing.

Effective:
March 9, 1999
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 649 - 122nd General Assembly
Upon request of the clerk of the senate or the clerk of the house of representatives to let a contract for printing, the director of administrative services shall negotiate and enter into a contract for the printing requested by the clerk.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.53 | Format for Printing Bills.

Effective:
May 9, 2000
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 495 - 123rd General Assembly
Bills shall be printed in the exact language in which they were passed, under the supervision of the clerk of the house in which they originated. The legislative service commission, by rule adopted under section 111.15 of the Revised Code, shall direct how new matter shall be indicated and old matter omitted.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.531 | Printing Pamphlet Laws and Session Laws Line Numbering.

Effective:
March 19, 2003
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 406 - 124th General Assembly
The material used in printing or producing bills shall be held and used to print or produce pamphlet laws and the session laws. The lines of each bill shall be numbered.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.532 | Separate Appropriations Bills for Industrial Commission and Bureau of Workers' Compensation.

Effective:
June 30, 2011
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly
The main operating appropriations bill shall not contain appropriations for the industrial commission or the bureau of workers' compensation. Appropriations for the bureau shall be enacted in one bill, and appropriations for the industrial commission shall be enacted in a separate bill.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.54 | Journals of General Assembly.

Effective:
September 29, 2015
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 141 - 131st General Assembly
The clerk of the senate and the clerk of the house of representatives shall keep a daily journal of the proceedings of the clerk's house of the general assembly, which shall be read and corrected in the clerk's presence. After the reading, correction, and approval of the journal, it shall be attested by the clerk and recorded. The recorded journals shall be deposited with the Ohio history connection and be the true journals. The original daily journal, as kept, corrected, approved, and attested, shall be used by the clerk to print the journals.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.541 | Appendix to House and Senate Journals.

Effective:
March 9, 1999
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 649 - 122nd General Assembly
To each final journal there shall be an appendix of petitions and memorials, reports of committees, special reports, communications of officers or boards, and other papers and documents laid before either or both houses. The abstract of votes for governor and other state officers shall be printed in the appendix to the senate journal. The standing rules shall be printed in the appendix to each journal.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.542 | Index of Journals and Appendix.

Effective:
March 9, 1999
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 649 - 122nd General Assembly
The clerk of the senate and the clerk of the house of representatives shall make an index to the journals of the senate and house of representatives, and an index to the appendix to both journals. The clerk of the senate and the clerk of the house of representatives shall print the indexes in the appendix to the final senate and house of representatives journals.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.543 | Printing and Binding of Daily and Final Journals.

Effective:
June 30, 2006
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 530 - 126th General Assembly
As used in this section, "published" means to produce an electronic record that is accessible to the public.
The daily journals of the senate and house of representatives shall be printed or published daily during each session of the general assembly. The composition used in printing or publishing the daily journals shall be retained for use in printing the final journals.
The final journals and appendixes of the senate and house of representatives shall be printed after adjournment sine die and be bound in half law binding. The respective journal of each house and its proper appendix shall compose one volume unless the clerk of the senate or clerk of the house of representatives, as the case may be, directs that they be bound in separate volumes.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.60 | General Assembly Identification Cards.

Effective:
September 29, 2015
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
A state agency, its officers, employees, and contractors, shall recognize the state identification card of an individual who is a member, officer who is not a member, or employee of the general assembly as a form of identification at all entry points and check points within the state agency's building or office and may not require any additional credential or photograph.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.64 | Testimony From Common Sense Initiative Office.

Effective:
April 5, 2019
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 255 - 132nd General Assembly
The president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives shall notify the chief of the common sense initiative office, established under section 107.61 of the Revised Code, when a board is identified to be reviewed by a standing committee under section 101.63 of the Revised Code. The chief or the chief's designee shall appear and testify before the standing committee, with respect to the board, and shall testify on at least all of the following:
(A) Whether or not the common sense initiative office has, within the previous six years, received commentary related to the board through the comment system established under section 107.62 of the Revised Code;
(B) Whether or not the common sense initiative office has, within the previous six years, received advice from the small business advisory council with respect to rules of the board;
(C) Any other information the chief believes will elucidate the effectiveness and efficiency of the board and in particular the quality of customer service provided by the board.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.65 | Report of Findings and Recommendations.

Effective:
April 5, 2019
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 255 - 132nd General Assembly
(A) After the completion of the review of a board under section 101.63 of the Revised Code, the standing committee that conducted the review shall prepare and publish a report of its findings and recommendations. A standing committee may include in a single report its findings and recommendations regarding more than one board. 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 board. Any published report shall be made available to the public on the standing committee's internet web site, and in the offices of the house of representatives and senate clerks during reasonable hours. As part of a report, the standing committee may present its recommendations to the general assembly in bill form.
(B) Recommendations made by the standing committee shall indicate how or whether their implementation will do each of the following:
(1) Improve efficiency in the management of state government;
(2) Improve services rendered to citizens of the state;
(3) Simplify and improve preparation of the state budget;
(4) Conserve the natural resources of the state;
(5) Promote the orderly growth of the state and its government;
(6) Promote that occupational regulations shall be construed and applied to increase economic opportunities, promote competition, and encourage innovation;
(7) Provide for the least restrictive regulation by repealing the current regulation and replacing it with a less restrictive regulation that is consistent with the policies expressed in section 4798.02 of the Revised Code;
(8) Improve the effectiveness of the services performed by the service departments of the state;
(9) Avoid duplication of effort by state agencies or boards;
(10) Improve the organization and coordination of the state government in one or more of the ways listed in divisions (B)(1) to (9) of this section.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.69 | Senate Miscellaneous Sales Fund - House Miscellaneous Sales Fund.

Effective:
March 9, 1999
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 649 - 122nd General Assembly
All money collected by the senate clerk's office from the sale of flags, insignia, seals, frames for resolutions, and similar items shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the senate miscellaneous sales fund, which is hereby created. Money credited to the fund shall be used solely to pay costs of procuring such items. Any costs of procuring such items in excess of the money available in the fund shall be paid out of the regular appropriation to the senate.
All money collected by the office of the chief administrative officer of the house of representatives for the sale of flags, insignia, seals, frames for resolutions, and similar items shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the house miscellaneous sales fund, which is hereby created. Money credited to the fund shall be used solely to pay costs of procuring such items. Any costs of procuring such items in excess of the money available in the fund shall be paid out of the regular appropriation to the house of representatives.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.691 | Excess or Surplus State Supplies Disposal by Director of Administrative Services.

Effective:
November 5, 2004
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 204 - 125th General Assembly
(A) Either house of the general assembly or any legislative agency may dispose of any excess or surplus supplies that it possesses by sale, lease, donation, or other transfer, including, but not limited to, sale by public auction over the internet. Nothing in this division prohibits either house of the general assembly or a legislative agency from having the director of administrative services dispose of excess or surplus supplies of that house under sections 125.12 to 125.14 of the Revised Code.
(B) Any proceeds from sales, leases, or other transfers made under division (A) of this section shall be deposited in the house reimbursement fund, the senate reimbursement fund, or a legislative agency special revenue fund identified by the director of the agency, as appropriate.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.71 | Prohibited Acts.

Effective:
May 12, 1994
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 492 - 120th General Assembly
(A) No legislative agent or employer shall knowingly fail to register as required under section 101.72 of the Revised Code.
(B) No legislative agent or employer shall knowingly fail to keep a receipt or maintain a record that section 101.73 of the Revised Code requires the person to keep or maintain.
(C) No person shall knowingly fail to file a statement that section 101.73 or 101.74 of the Revised Code requires the person to file.
(D) No person shall knowingly file a false statement that section 101.73 or 101.74 of the Revised Code requires the person to file.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.711 | Contracts With Legislative Agents.

Effective:
September 29, 2011
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly
(A) As used in this section:
(1) "Legislative agent" has the meaning defined in section 101.70 of the Revised Code.
(2) "State agency" has the meaning defined in section 117.01 of the Revised Code.
(3) "State institution of higher education" means any state university or college as defined in division (A)(1) of section 3345.12 of the Revised Code, community college established under Chapter 3354. of the Revised Code, state community college established under Chapter 3358. of the Revised Code, university branch established under Chapter 3355. of the Revised Code, or technical college established under Chapter 3357. of the Revised Code.
(B) No state agency or state institution of higher education shall enter into a contract with a legislative agent, with a cost exceeding fifty thousand dollars in a calendar year, without the approval of the controlling board.
This section does not apply to an employment contract pursuant to which an individual is employed directly by a state agency or state institution of higher education as a legislative agent.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.74 | Statement of Financial Transactions.

Effective:
May 12, 1994
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 492 - 120th General Assembly
(A) Any legislative agent who has had any financial transaction with or for the benefit of any member of the general assembly, any member of the controlling board, the governor, the director of a department created under section 121.02 of the Revised Code, or any member of the staff of any public officer or employee listed in this division shall describe the details of the transaction, including the name of the public officer 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 101.72 of the Revised Code. The statement shall be filed at the times specified in section 101.72 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, any employer who has had any financial transaction with or for the benefit of any member of the general assembly, any member of the controlling board, the governor, the director of a department created under section 121.02 of the Revised Code, or any member of the staff of any public officer or employee listed in this division shall describe the details of the transaction, including the name of the public officer 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 101.72 of the Revised Code. The statement shall be filed at the times specified in section 101.72 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) An employer or legislative agent who is required to file a statement describing a financial transaction under this section shall deliver a copy of the statement to the public officer or employee with whom or for whose benefit the transaction was made at least ten days before the date on which the statement is filed.
(D) No employer shall be required to file any statement under this section or to deliver a copy of the statement to a public officer 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 legislative agent engaged by the employer.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.75 | Filing Complaint With Joint Legislative Ethics Committee.

Effective:
May 12, 1994
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 492 - 120th General Assembly
If a dispute arises between any member of the general assembly, any member of the controlling board, or a member of the staff of the general assembly or controlling board and an employer or legislative agent with respect to an expenditure or financial transaction alleged in any statement to be filed under section 101.73 or 101.74 of the Revised Code, the member, employer, or legislative agent may file a complaint with the joint legislative ethics committee. The committee shall proceed to investigate the complaint as provided for other complaints in section 101.34 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 joint committee. This extension does not extend the time for filing the nondisputed portions of an expenditure statement or of the details of a financial transaction. The joint committee shall notify the parties of its final decision by certified mail. If the committee decides that the disputed expenditure or financial transaction should be reported, the employer or legislative agent shall include the matter in an amended statement and file the amended statement not later than ten days after the employer or agent receives notice of the decision of the committee by certified mail.
An employer or legislative agent who files a false statement of expenditures or details of a financial transaction is liable in a civil action to any public officer 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 101.76 | Efforts Excepted From Coverage.

Effective:
April 10, 1991
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 174 - 118th General Assembly
(A) Sections 101.72 and 101.73 of the Revised Code do not apply to efforts to actively advocate by any of the following:
(1) Appearances before public hearings of the controlling board or committees of the general assembly;
(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) Sections 101.70 to 101.79 of the Revised Code do not affect professional services in drafting bills or resolutions, preparing arguments thereon, or in advising clients and rendering opinions as to the construction and the effect of proposed or pending legislation, if the services are not otherwise connected with actions to actively advocate.
(C) Nothing in sections 101.70 to 101.79 of the Revised Code shall require the reporting of, or prohibit a member of the general assembly or the governor from soliciting or accepting, a contribution from or 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 101.77 | Prohibition Against Contingent Fees.

Effective:
January 1, 1991
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 538 - 118th General Assembly
No person shall engage any person to actively advocate in exchange for compensation that is contingent in any way upon the passage, modification, or defeat of any legislation. No person shall accept any engagement to actively advocate in exchange for compensation that is contingent in any way upon the passage, modification, or defeat of any legislation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.78 | Initial Registration, Statement of Expenditures and Financial Transactions to Be Public.

Effective:
May 12, 1994
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 492 - 120th General Assembly
(A) The joint legislative ethics committee shall keep on file the statements required by sections 101.72, 101.73, and 101.74 of the Revised Code. Those 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 upon request and may charge a reasonable fee not to exceed the cost of copying and delivering each statement.
(B) The joint committee shall prescribe and make available an appropriate form for filing the information required by sections 101.72, 101.73, and 101.74 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."
(C) The joint committee shall publish a handbook that explains in clear and concise language sections 101.70 to 101.79 and 101.99 of the Revised Code and make it available free of charge to members of the general assembly, legislative agents, employers, and any other interested persons.
(D) Not later than the last day of February and October of each year, the joint committee shall compile from registration statements filed with it a complete and updated list of registered legislative agents and their employers and distribute the list to each member of the general assembly, each member of the controlling board who is not a member of the general assembly, and the governor. The joint committee shall provide copies of the list to the general public upon request and may charge a reasonable fee not to exceed the cost of copying and delivering the list.
(E) The joint committee may adopt rules as necessary to implement sections 101.70 to 101.79 of the Revised Code, and any such rules it adopts shall be adopted in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 101 | General Assembly › Section 101.79 | Investigation of Violations.

Effective:
January 1, 1991
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 538 - 118th General Assembly
The attorney general and any assistant or special counsel designated by him may investigate compliance with sections 101.70 to 101.78 of the Revised Code and with section 2921.13 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 his findings to the prosecuting attorney of Franklin county, who shall institute such proceedings as are appropriate.