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...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Recalculated average annual salary" means the highest average annual compensation of a member of the Ohio police and fire pension fund during any three years of contributions, including amounts included in terminal pay attributable to such three years, determined by dividing the member's total earnings as an employee during such years by three. (2) "Consumer price index" mean...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "License" means an authorization evidenced by a license, certificate, registration, permit, card, or other authority that is issued or conferred by a licensing authority to an individual by which the individual has or claims the privilege to engage in a profession, occupation, or occupational activity over which the licensing authority has jurisdiction. "License" does not include a...

...(A) As used in this section: "Political subdivision" has the meaning defined in sections 2744.01 and 3905.36 of the Revised Code. For purposes of this section, "political subdivision" includes municipal corporations as defined in section 5705.01 of the Revised Code. "County board" means a county board of developmental disabilities. (B) Political subdivisions and county boards that provide health care benefits for ...

...(A) The house reimbursement fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of refunds from the department of administrative services of overpayments of medical insurance premiums accumulated under division (C) of section 101.271 of the Revised Code; amounts received by the office of the chief administrative officer of the house of representatives for salvage and recycling of equipment, materials...

...Whoever willfully fails to appear in obedience to the subpoena provided for in sections 101.41 and 101.42 of the Revised Code, or appears and refuses to answer a question pertinent to the matter of inquiry, or declines to produce a paper or record in his possession or control, is liable to the penalties for contempt of the authority of the general assembly if the committee is a joint committee, or of the proper house...

...As used in sections 101.51 to 101.543 of the Revised Code: (A) "Composition" includes shape, size, paper, typeface, typeface size, line width, margins, spacing, division, binding, and other matters relating to the makeup of a document. (B) "Document" means a bill, act, resolution, journal, pamphlet law, bulletin, index, report, form, or other document that is used in the proceedings or operations of, or that is lai...

...(A) After the completion of the review of a board under section 101.63 of the Revised Code, the standing committee that conducted the review shall prepare and publish a report of its findings and recommendations. A standing committee may include in a single report its findings and recommendations regarding more than one board. The committee shall furnish a copy of the report to the president of the senate, the spea...

...(A) Subject to division (D) of this section, within thirty days of the convening of the first regular session of the general assembly, each agency required to submit reports or similar documents to the general assembly pursuant to section 103.43, 3301.07, 5139.33, 5501.07, 5537.17, or 5593.21 of the Revised Code shall send written notice to each member of the general assembly in order to determine whether the ...

...(A) Each legislative agent and each employer shall file in the office of the joint legislative ethics committee, with the updated registration statement required by division (B) of section 101.72 of the Revised Code, a statement of expenditures as specified in divisions (B) and (C) of this section. A legislative agent shall file a separate statement of expenditures under this section for each employer engaging the l...

...The attorney general and any assistant or special counsel designated by him may investigate compliance with sections 101.70 to 101.78 of the Revised Code and with section 2921.13 of the Revised Code in connection with statements required to be filed under these sections and, in the event of an apparent violation, shall report his findings to the prosecuting attorney of Franklin county, who shall institute such proce...

...(A) A sunset review committee, not later than sixty days after its first meeting, shall schedule for review each agency in existence on the first day of January in the first year of the general assembly, and that also is scheduled to expire at the end of the thirty-first day of December in the second year of that general assembly. (B) The chairperson of the committee shall send a copy of the schedule for review of ...

...(A) Each retirement system lobbyist and each employer shall file with the joint legislative ethics committee, with the updated registration statement required by division (B) of section 101.92 of the Revised Code, a statement of expenditures as specified in divisions (B) and (C) of this section. A retirement system lobbyist shall file a separate statement of expenditures under this section for each employer tha...

...The attorney general and any assistant or special counsel designated by the attorney general may investigate compliance with sections 101.90 to 101.98 of the Revised Code in connection with statements required to be filed under these sections and, in the event of an apparent violation, shall report the findings of any such investigation to the prosecuting attorney of Franklin county, who shall institute such proceedi...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Business associate" means a person with whom a member of the general assembly is conducting or undertaking a financial transaction. (2) "Contribution" has the same meaning as in section 3517.01 of the Revised Code. (3) "Employee" does not include a member of the general assembly whose nonlegislative position of employment does not involve the performance of or the authority to per...

...No member, employee, or agent of the Ohio ethics commission, board of commissioners on grievances and discipline of the supreme court, or joint legislative ethics committee shall divulge any information or any books, papers, or documents presented to the commission, joint legislative ethics committee, or board of commissioners on grievances and discipline without the consent, in writing, of the appropriate ethics com...

...As used in sections 103.144 to 103.146 of the Revised Code: (A) "Mandated benefit" means the following, when considered in the context of a sickness and accident insurance policy or a health insuring corporation policy, contract, or agreement: (1) Any required coverage for a specific medical or health-related service, treatment, medication, or practice; (2) Any required coverage for the services of specific h...

...The Ohio legislative service commission or any committee thereof when so authorized by the commission is empowered to hold public hearings, at such times and places within the state as may be determined advisable or necessary to accomplish the purposes and intent of sections 103.11 to 103.22 of the Revised Code.

...The legislative service commission shall serve as a legislative budget and program oversight commission and may delegate to any committee it creates the responsibility to: (A) Conduct program reviews of state agencies and departments or programs and activities within such agencies and departments, of the state's local assistance programs, and of state laws. As used in this section "program review" means an examinati...

...(A) As used in this section and section 103.27 of the Revised Code: "Individual" means a natural person. "Least restrictive regulation" has the meaning defined in section 4798.01 of the Revised Code. "Occupational regulation" means a statute or rule that controls an individual's practice of a trade or profession. (B) With respect to legislation that has been introduced in the house of representatives or in th...

...(A) As used in this section, "personal qualification" has the same meaning as in section 101.62 of the Revised Code. (B) Each biennium starting with an odd-numbered year, beginning in 2019, the director of the legislative service commission shall issue a report regarding approximately thirty-three per cent of occupations subject to regulation by the state and, beginning with the biennium that starts in 2025, bus...

...(A) The correctional institution inspection committee shall do all of the following: (1) Subject to division (C) of this section, establish and maintain a continuing program of inspection of each state correctional institution used for the custody, control, training, and rehabilitation of persons convicted of crime and of each private correctional facility. Subject to division (C) of this section, the committee m...

...As used in sections 103.76 to 103.79 of the Revised Code, "youth services facility" means a facility operated, or contracted for, by the department of youth services that is used for the care, protection, treatment, or secure confinement of any child committed to the department's custody.

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Agency" has the meaning defined in section 106.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Rule" includes the adoption, amendment, or rescission of a rule. (3) "Proposed rule" means the original version of a proposed rule, and each revised version of the same proposed rule, that is filed with the joint committee on agency rule review under division (D) of section 111.15 or division (C) of sectio...

...As used in sections 107.033 to 107.035 of the Revised Code: (A) "Aggregate general revenue fund appropriations" means all general revenue fund appropriations made by the general assembly except for the following: (1) Appropriations of money received from the federal government; (2) Appropriations made for tax relief or refunds of taxes and other overpayments; (3) Appropriations of money received as gifts. (B) "R...

...(A)(1) The governor, in determining the state appropriation limitation for fiscal year 2008, shall use estimates regarding the aggregate general revenue fund appropriations for fiscal year 2007. For the first fiscal year of any biennium, the governor shall use the most recent published data available regarding the rates of inflation and population change. For the second fiscal year of any biennium, the governor shall...