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(124th General Assembly)
(Substitute House Bill Number 406)
AN ACT
To amend sections 101.531, 111.12, 149.09,
149.091,
and 149.11
of the Revised Code to authorize the
Secretary of
State to distribute certain documents
in an
electronic format.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio:
SECTION 1. That sections 101.531, 111.12, 149.09, 149.091,
and 149.11
of the Revised Code be amended to read as follows:
Sec. 101.531. 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.
Sec. 111.12.
The
(A) Except as otherwise provided in
division (B) of this
section, the secretary of state shall compile
and publish
biennially
in a paper, book, or other nonelectronic
format
twenty-five hundred copies of the election statistics of
Ohio,
four thousand
copies of the official roster of federal,
state, and
county officers, and
twenty-five hundred copies of the
official
roster of township and municipal
officers.
(B) The secretary of state may compile and publish
biennially the election statistics of Ohio, the official roster of
federal, state, and county officers, and the official roster of
township and municipal officers in an electronic format instead of
compiling and publishing these documents biennially in a paper,
book, or other nonelectronic format in the numbers specified in
division (A) of this section.
If the secretary of state does so,
the secretary of state
shall maintain the ability to provide
copies of the election statistics of Ohio,
the official roster of
federal, state, and county officers, and
the official roster of
township and municipal officers in accordance with section 149.43
of the Revised Code.
Sec. 149.09. The
(A) Except as otherwise provided in division
(B) of this section, the secretary of state shall distribute
the
pamphlet laws in the following manner: one copy of
each
pamphlet
law shall be forwarded to each county law
library, one
copy of
each pamphlet law shall be
forwarded to each county
auditor, and
one hundred
copies of each pamphlet law shall be
forwarded to the
state library board, which shall forward to each
library
that
receives publications under section 149.12
of the
Revised Code one
copy of each pamphlet law
received.
Any
The
secretary of state
shall distribute any remaining copies of each
pamphlet law
received by the secretary of state shall be
distributed
by the
secretary of state on the request of
interested
persons.
(B)(1) If the secretary of state chooses to distribute the
pamphlet laws in an electronic format instead of distributing
copies as provided in division (A) of this section in a paper
format, the secretary of state shall notify the clerk of the house
of representatives and the clerk of the senate that the
printing
of paper copies for purposes of this section is no longer
necessary and that the secretary of state intends to produce and
distribute the pamphlet laws in an electronic format. The
secretary of state shall be responsible for paying for the cost of
producing and distributing the pamphlet laws in an electronic
format.
(2) The secretary of state shall establish, by rule, a
schedule for the distribution of pamphlet laws in an electronic
format to county law libraries, county auditors, and the state
library board.
(3) The secretary of state may compile one or more pamphlet
laws in the same electronic distribution.
(4) The secretary of state shall maintain the ability to
provide copies of the pamphlet laws in accordance with section
149.43 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 149.091.
The
(A) Except as otherwise provided in
division (C) of this
section, the secretary of state shall
compile, publish, and
distribute
either annually or biennially in
a paper format a
maximum of nine hundred copies of the session
laws
in permanently
bound form, either annually or biennially.
The
permanently bound
volumes
annual or biennial publication shall
contain
copies of all
enrolled
acts and joint
resolutions, and.
The secretary of state
shall
contain
cause to be printed with each
compilation of
enrolled acts and joint resolutions distributed a
subject index
and,
a table
indicating Revised Code sections
affected. The
secretary
of state
shall cause to be printed in
each volume, and
the secretary
of state's
certificate
that the
laws, as
assembled
therein
compiled and distributed,
are true
copies of the
original enrolled
bills
acts or joint
resolutions in
the secretary
of state's office. The secretary of state shall distribute the
permanently
bound
volumes
compilations of the session laws in the following manner: (A) One hundred nine
copies shall be forwarded to the
clerk
of the house of representatives.
(B) Forty-three
copies shall be forwarded to the clerk of
the senate.
(C)(1) One
copy shall be forwarded to each county auditor.
(D)(2) One
copy shall be forwarded to each county law
library.
(E) Seventy-five
copies shall be forwarded to the Ohio
supreme court.
(F) Two
copies shall be forwarded to the division of the
library of congress.
(G) Two
copies shall be forwarded to the state library.
(H) Two
copies shall be forwarded to the Ohio historical
society.
(I) Thirteen
copies shall be forwarded to the legislative
service commission.
(J)(3) Two hundred
copies may be distributed, free of
charge,
to public officials.
(K)(4) Remaining
copies
compilations may be sold by the
secretary of
state
at a price
to be determined by the department
of
administrative
services, but
such selling price
that shall not
exceed
by ten per cent
the
actual cost of publication and
distribution.
(B) Notwithstanding division (C) of this section, the secretary of state shall compile, publish, and
distribute, either annually or biennially, in permanently bound
volumes, a minimum of twenty-five copies of the session laws. The
annual or biennial volumes shall contain copies of all enrolled
acts and joint resolutions. The secretary of state shall cause to
be printed with each volume of enrolled acts and joint resolutions
distributed a subject index, a table indicating Revised Code
sections affected, and the secretary of state's certificate that
the laws so assembled are true copies of the original enrolled
acts or joint resolutions in the secretary of state's office.
The secretary of state shall distribute the permanently
bound volumes of the session laws in the following manner:
(1) Five copies shall be forwarded to the clerk of the
house of representatives.
(2) Five copies shall be forwarded to the clerk of the
senate.
(3) Five copies shall be forwarded to the legislative
service commission.
(4) Two copies shall be forwarded to the Ohio supreme
court.
(5) Two copies shall be forwarded to the division of the
library of congress.
(6) Two copies shall be forwarded to the state library.
(7) Two copies shall be forwarded to the Ohio historical
society.
(8) Two copies shall be retained by the secretary of state. (C) The secretary of state annually or biennially may
compile,
publish, and distribute the session laws in an electronic
format
instead of compiling and publishing the session
laws as
provided
in division (A) of this
section. If the
secretary of
state
compiles and publishes the session laws in
an
electronic
format,
the following apply: (1) The session laws in electronic format shall include
copies of all enrolled acts and joint resolutions and shall
contain a subject index and a table indicating Revised Code
sections affected. (2) Each compilation of the session laws in electronic
format
shall include the secretary of state's certificate that the
laws so compiled and
published are true copies of the original
enrolled acts and joint resolutions in the secretary of state's
office. (3) The session laws may be
distributed in an electronic
format to public officials free of
charge. (4) The session laws may be sold in an
electronic format to
individuals or entities not specified in division (A) or (B) of
this
section. The price shall not exceed the actual cost of
producing and distributing the session laws
in an electronic
format.
Sec. 149.11. Any department, division, bureau, board, or
commission of the state government issuing a report, pamphlet,
document, or other publication intended for general public use
and
distribution, which publication is reproduced by duplicating
processes such as mimeograph, multigraph, planograph, rotaprint,
or multilith, or printed internally or through a contract awarded
to any person, company, or the state printing division of the
department of administrative services, shall cause to be
delivered
to the state library one hundred copies of
such
the publication,
subject to the provisions of section 125.42 of the
Revised Code. The state library board shall distribute the publications
so
received as follows: (A) Retain two copies in the state library; (B) Send two copies to the document division of the
library
of congress; (C) Send one copy to the Ohio historical society and to
each
public or college library in the state designated by the
state
library board to be a depository for state publications.
In
designating which libraries shall be depositories, the board
shall
select those libraries
which
that can best preserve
such
those
publications and
which
that are so located geographically as will
make
the publications conveniently accessible to residents in all
areas of the state;. (D) Send one copy to each state in exchange for like
publications of
such
that state. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any
publication of the general assembly or to the publications
described in sections 149.07, 149.08,
149.09
149.091, and 149.17
of the
Revised Code, except that the secretary of state shall
forward to
the document division of the library of congress two
copies of
all journals,
seven
two copies of
the session laws in
bound form as provided for
in section
149.09
149.091 of the
Revised Code, and
seven
two copies of all
appropriation laws in
separate form.
SECTION 2. That existing sections 101.531, 111.12, 149.09,
149.091, and 149.11 of the Revised Code are hereby repealed.
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