130th Ohio General Assembly
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H. B. No. 365As Passed by the House
As Passed by the House

124th General Assembly
Regular Session
2001-2002
H. B. No. 365


REPRESENTATIVES Setzer, Clancy, Goodman, Husted, Kearns, Webster, Carmichael, Lendrum, Schmidt, Seaver, Roman, Wolpert, Carano, Coates, Distel, Driehaus, Fessler, Flowers, Hughes, Otterman, Salerno, Sferra, Stapleton, Strahorn, White, Widowfield, McGregor, Calvert, Trakas, Aslanides, Schneider, Grendell, Barnes, Evans, Jones, Cirelli, Williams, Raga, Niehaus, Fedor, Manning, Collier, Reidelbach



A BILL
To amend section 118.022 of the Revised Code to authorize the Auditor of State to declare a fiscal watch when the projected fiscal year-end deficit of a municipal corporation, county, or township exceeds one-twelfth of its general fund revenue from the preceding fiscal year.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That section 118.022 of the Revised Code be amended to read as follows:
Sec. 118.022.  (A) Any one of the following conditions constitutes grounds for a fiscal watch:
(1) The existence of either of the following situations:
(a) All accounts that were due and payable from the general fund of a municipal corporation, county, or township at the end of the preceding fiscal year that had been due and payable for at least thirty days at the end of the fiscal year or to which a penalty was added for failure to pay by the end of the fiscal year, less the year-end balance in the general fund, exceeded one-twelfth of the general fund budget for that year.
(b) All accounts that were due and payable at the end of the preceding fiscal year from all funds of the municipal corporation, county, or township and that had been due and payable for at least thirty days at the end of the fiscal year or to which a penalty was added for failure to pay by the end of the fiscal year, less the year-end balance in the general fund and in the respective special funds available to pay such those accounts, exceeded one-twelfth of the available revenues during the preceding fiscal year, excluding nonrecurring receipts, of the general fund and of all special funds from which such those accounts are payable.
(2) The aggregate of deficit amounts of all deficit funds at the end of the preceding fiscal year, less the total of any year-end balance in the general fund and in any special fund that may be transferred as provided in section 5705.14 of the Revised Code to meet such that deficit, exceeded one-twelfth of the total of the general fund budget for that year and the receipts to those deficit funds during that year other than from transfers from the general fund.
(3) At the end of the preceding fiscal year, moneys and marketable investments in or held for the unsegregated treasury of the municipal corporation, county, or township, minus outstanding checks and warrants, were less in amount than the aggregate of the positive balances of the general fund and those special funds, the purposes of which the unsegregated treasury is held to meet, and such that deficiency exceeded one-twelfth of the total amount received into the unsegregated treasury during the preceding fiscal year.
(4) Based on an examination of the financial forecast approved by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation, county, or township, the auditor of state certifies that the general fund deficit at the end of the current fiscal year will exceed one-twelfth of the general fund revenue from the preceding fiscal year.
(B) As used in this section, "accounts" includes, but is not limited to, final judgments, fringe benefits payments due and payable, and amounts due and payable to persons and other governmental entities, and including any interest and penalties thereon on those judgments, payments, or amounts. Accounts that are due and payable do not include any account, or portion thereof of any account, that is being contested in good faith.
Section 2. That existing section 118.022 of the Revised Code is hereby repealed.
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