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H. B. No. 388 As Introduced

As Introduced

128th General Assembly

Regular Session

2009-2010

H. B. No. 388

Representatives McClain, Gardner

Cosponsors: Representatives Burke, Beck, Martin, Morgan, Blair, Jordan, Adams, J., Derickson, Huffman, Snitchler, Boose, Lehner, Baker, Hackett, Balderson, Bubp, Ruhl, Evans, Uecker, Wagner, Hall, Grossman, Mecklenborg, Wachtmann, Batchelder, Goodwin, Combs, Amstutz, Maag, Hite, Stebelton, Oelslager, McGregor, Blessing, Bacon, Adams, R., Zehringer, Stautberg, Hottinger, Daniels, Sears, Chandler

A BILL

To enact sections 101.16, 101.161, and 101.162 of the Revised Code to require conference committee reports of appropriations and revenue bills to be made publicly available forty-eight hours prior to consideration by either house.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:

Section 1. That sections 101.16, 101.161, and 101.162 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:

Sec. 101.16. As used in sections 101.16 to 101.162 of the Revised Code:

(A) "Appropriations bill" means any of the following:

(1) The main operating appropriations bill;

(2) The operating appropriations bill for state agencies supported by motor fuel tax revenue;

(3) The operating appropriations bill or bills for the bureau of workers' compensation and the industrial commission;

(4) Any bill that makes the principal operating appropriations for one or more state agencies;

(5) Any bill that primarily contains corrections and supplemental appropriations to the main operating appropriations bill;

(6) The main capital appropriations bill;

(7) The bill that primarily contains reappropriations from previous capital appropriations bills.

(B) "Revenue bill" means any bill raising revenue through taxes, fees, or similar impositions.

(C) "Publicly available" means the posting of a bill on the legislature's web site.

Sec. 101.161. (A) Neither house of the general assembly may consider a report of conference committee of an appropriations or revenue bill until forty-eight hours after the bill is made publicly available, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, unless the house considering the report of conference committee is in session on such a day.

(B) The time the report of conference committee is made publicly available shall be posted on the legislature's web site.

Sec. 101.162. Either house of the general assembly, by a two-thirds vote of its members, may waive application of section 101.161 of the Revised Code. The clerk of the house that waives application shall enter the following into the daily journal of that house with respect to the bill:

"The Legislature waives the forty-eight hour moratorium on consideration of the report of conference committee required in section 101.161 of the Revised Code."