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To enact sections 101.16, 101.161, and 101.162 of the | 1 |
Revised Code to require conference committee | 2 |
reports of appropriations and revenue bills to be | 3 |
made publicly available forty-eight hours prior to | 4 |
consideration by either house. | 5 |
Section 1. That sections 101.16, 101.161, and 101.162 of the | 6 |
Revised Code be enacted to read as follows: | 7 |
Sec. 101.16. As used in sections 101.16 to 101.162 of the | 8 |
Revised Code: | 9 |
(A) "Appropriations bill" means any of the following: | 10 |
(1) The main operating appropriations bill; | 11 |
(2) The operating appropriations bill for state agencies | 12 |
supported by motor fuel tax revenue; | 13 |
(3) The operating appropriations bill or bills for the bureau | 14 |
of workers' compensation and the industrial commission; | 15 |
(4) Any bill that makes the principal operating | 16 |
appropriations for one or more state agencies; | 17 |
(5) Any bill that primarily contains corrections and | 18 |
supplemental appropriations to the main operating appropriations | 19 |
bill; | 20 |
(6) The main capital appropriations bill; | 21 |
(7) The bill that primarily contains reappropriations from | 22 |
previous capital appropriations bills. | 23 |
(B) "Revenue bill" means any bill raising revenue through | 24 |
taxes, fees, or similar impositions. | 25 |
(C) "Publicly available" means the posting of a bill on the | 26 |
legislature's web site. | 27 |
Sec. 101.161. (A) Neither house of the general assembly may | 28 |
consider a report of conference committee of an appropriations or | 29 |
revenue bill until forty-eight hours after the bill is made | 30 |
publicly available, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal | 31 |
holidays, unless the house considering the report of conference | 32 |
committee is in session on such a day. | 33 |
(B) The time the report of conference committee is made | 34 |
publicly available shall be posted on the legislature's web site. | 35 |
Sec. 101.162. Either house of the general assembly, by a | 36 |
two-thirds vote of its members, may waive application of section | 37 |
101.161 of the Revised Code. The clerk of the house that waives | 38 |
application shall enter the following into the daily journal of | 39 |
that house with respect to the bill: | 40 |
"The Legislature waives the forty-eight hour moratorium on | 41 |
consideration of the report of conference committee required in | 42 |
section 101.161 of the Revised Code." | 43 |