DIGEST OF ENACTMENTS 2000 123rd General Assembly (1999-2000) Ohio Legislative Service Commission Columbus, Ohio March 2001 DIGEST OF ENACTMENTS 2000 123rd General Assembly (1999-2000) Ohio Legislative Service Commission Senate Members Richard H. Finan, Chairman Greg L. DiDonato Randy Gardner Leigh Herington Jay Hottinger Bruce E. Johnson Doug White House Members Larry Householder, Vice-Chairman Gary Cates Patricia Clancy Ray Miller Jon M. Peterson James P. Trakas Charles A. Wilson, Jr. Director Robert M. Shapiro March 2001 TABLE OF CONTENTS SUBJECT ENACTMENT PAGE Introduction........................................................................................... i Agriculture Agriculture law revisions..................................................................H.B. 645 1 Concentrated animal feeding facilities...............................................S.B. 141 3 Appropriations Capital improvements......................................................................H.B. 640 8 Allocation and appropriation of Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement revenue...................................................S.B. 192 13 Grants to county emergency management agencies...........................S.B. 239 14 Reappropriations; program modifications and corrections.................S.B. 245 14 Medicaid funding; Tobacco Oversight Accountability Panel reporting date............................................S.B. 346 16 Constitutional Amendments Issuance of bonds for environmental and related conservation and revitalization purposes.....................................H.J.R. 15 17 Courts and Procedures Child support termination with DNA paternity exclusion...................H.B. 242 18 Garnishment processing; court costs collection; check-cashing business loan fees; child support collection agents.......................H.B. 294 19 Procedures for the transfer of real property upon death; summary release of estate from administration............................H.B. 313 22 Commercial arbitration agreement modifications...............................H.B. 401 25 Modification of forms for living wills and durable powers of attorney for health care..........................................................H.B. 494 25 Elimination of social security numbers from marriage licenses and related probate records; time period after an application during which a marriage license may be issued ................................................................H.B. 519 26 Election of clerks of the Barberton, Cuyahoga Falls, and Toledo Municipal courts; compensation of clerk of the Lorain County Municipal Court ...............................H.B. 559 27 Jurisdiction of Summit County Court of Common Pleas Domestic Relations Division to hear cases dealing ii with paternity, custody, visitation, child support, and allocation of parental rights..................................................H.B. 583 27 Creation of Columbiana County Municipal Court; replacement of Champaign County Municipal Court part-time judge with full-time judge ..................................H.B. 599 28 Lawful abandonment of newborn infants ..........................................H.B. 660 29 Intestate succession for surviving spouses.........................................S.B. 152 31 Crime Victims Reparations Law revision..........................................S.B. 153 32 Revision of Juvenile and Compulsory Education Laws relating to truancy; other changes in Juvenile Law.......................S.B. 181 33 Court approval of transfers of structured settlement payment rights...........................................................................S.B. 260 39 Appointment of administrative assistant for personnel matters by judges of municipal courts with elected clerks........................S.B. 325 40 Crimes, Correction, and Law Enforcement Theft offense involving fraud--evidence............................................H.B. 263 41 Criminal culpability when voluntarily intoxicated................................H.B. 318 41 Delay of date on which requirements regarding the recording of transactions in nitrous oxide will become operative; revision of procedure by which a court of appeals may modify or vacate and remand a sentence that imposes specified types of prison terms ...............................H.B. 331 42 Random drug testing of prisoners and certain released offenders.....................................................................H.B. 349 42 Prohibition against debarking or surgically silencing a vicious dog.............................................................................H.B. 350 44 Creation of offense of partial birth feticide and of a civil action against a person who commits that offense ................H.B. 351 45 Enhanced penalty for illegal conveyance of drugs of abuse onto the grounds of a detention facility or a mental health or mental retardation and developmental disabilities institution............................................H.B. 357 46 Theft in office--multiple offenses tried as a single offense...................H.B. 364 47 Penalties for assaulting or menacing personnel of public children services agencies and private child placing agencies; confidentiality of addresses of those personnel.............H.B. 412 47 Unlawful sexual conduct with a minor (formerly corruption of a minor)................................................................H.B. 442 48 Procedures for adjudicating specified imprisoned persons as sexual predators under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Law.................................................................H.B. 502 49 iii Expansion of the offense of voyeurism to include upskirting and downblousing......................................................H.B. 504 50 Incorporation of continuing prohibitions pertaining to preparing drugs for sale into the continuing drug trafficking offenses.....................................................................H.B. 528 51 Permission for the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to establish a prison nursery program; authorization for county sheriffs and the Adult Parole Authority to contract for the return of Ohio prisoners to Ohio ......................................................................H.B 661 51 Importuning and pandering of sexually oriented matter with regard to minors.................................................................H.B. 724 52 Regulation of the provision of internet access to prisoners.................S.B. 12 53 Requirements that DRC prisoners participate in educational programs and that children committed to DYS work toward earning high school diplomas..........................................S.B. 115 54 Revisions to juvenile delinquency and juvenile traffic offender law related to Criminal Sentencing Commission recommendations...................................................S.B. 179 56 Screening and supervision of volunteers with unsupervised access to children......................................................................S.B. 187 70 Prohibitions relating to children and tobacco products ......................S.B. 218 71 Two-year mandatory prison term for committing felony offense of violence while wearing or carrying body armor...........S.B. 222 72 Expansion of offense of criminal child enticement..............................S.B. 312 73 Prohibition against knowingly making false allegations of peace officer misconduct; qualifications and authority of House Sergeants at Arms ......................................................S.B. 317 74 Education Cut-off date for school admission....................................................H.B. 383 76 Student expulsion for bomb threat....................................................H.B. 620 76 Re-enactment of provisions adding members appointed by the Governor to the State Board of Education.......................H.B. 711 77 Tuition benefits for Ohio children and spouses of out-of- state public service officers killed in the line of duty.....................H.B. 740 77 Auxiliary services for nonpublic schools ...........................................H.B. 768 78 In-state tuition for certain non-Ohio residents...................................S.B. 53 79 School administrator contracts; certificates of available resources....................................................................S.B. 77 79 Variable College Savings Program; Ohio scholarship and fellowship programs............................................................S.B. 161 80 iv University job classification plans; terms of Bowling Green student trustees; fund deposits of technical colleges; Civil Service Review Commission..............................................S.B. 210 81 Driver training school law; administration dates of proficiency tests; teacher incentive grant qualifications .............................................................................S.B. 237 82 Acquisition of property by school boards.........................................S.B. 269 83 Construction of classroom facilities ..................................................S.B. 272 84 Ownership rights of state colleges over products of research conducted in school facilities or by employees............................S.B. 286 86 Financial solvency of school districts; state mandated set-asides..................................................................................S.B. 345 87 Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources Division of Mineral Resources Management; Lake Erie coastal erosion..........................................................................H.B.