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... As used in sections 101.82 to 101.87 of the Revised Code: (A) "Agency" means any board, commission, committee, or council, or any other similar state public body required to be established pursuant to state statutes for the exercise of any function of state government and to which members are appointed or elected. "Agency" does not include the following: (1) The general assembly, or any commission, committee, or...

...(A) It is the intent of the general assembly that an agency shall expire by operation of sunset review law, sections 101.82 to 101.87 of the Revised Code, four years more or less after the effective date of the act that established the agency. Unless renewed in accordance with division (E) of this section: (1) An agency created during an even-numbered general assembly expires at the end of the thirty-first day of...

... (A) A sunset review committee shall be convened during each general assembly. The committee shall be composed of nine members. The president of the senate shall appoint three members of the senate to the committee, not more than two of whom shall be members of the same political party. The speaker of the house of representatives shall appoint three members of the house of representatives to the committee, not more t...

... (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) Not later than six months before the date on which an agency is scheduled to expire, the sunset review committee shall hold hearings to receive the testimony of the public and of the chief executive officer of each agency scheduled for review, and otherwise shall consider and evaluate the usefulness, performance, and effectiveness of the agency. (B) Each agency that is scheduled for review shall submit to the ...

... (A) After the completion of the evaluation of all agencies under section 101.86 of the Revised Code, the sunset review committee shall prepare and publish a report of its findings and recommendations. The committee shall furnish a copy of the report to the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, the governor, and each affected agency. The report shall be made available to the public in ...

...As used in sections 101.90 to 101.99 of the Revised Code: (A) "Person" and "compensation" have the same meanings as in section 101.70 of the Revised Code. (B) "Expenditure" means any of the following that is made to, at the request of, for the benefit of, or on behalf of a state retirement system, a member of the board of a state retirement system, a state retirement system investment official, or an employee of a ...

...(A) No person shall knowingly fail to register as required under section 101.92 of the Revised Code. (B) No person shall knowingly fail to keep a receipt or maintain a record that section 101.93 of the Revised Code requires the person to keep or maintain. (C) No person shall knowingly fail to file a statement that section 101.93 or 101.94 of the Revised Code requires the person to file. (D) No person shall knowing...

...(A) Each retirement system lobbyist and each employer shall file with the joint legislative ethics committee, within ten days following the engagement of a retirement system lobbyist, an initial registration statement showing all of the following: (1) The name, business address, and occupation of the retirement system lobbyist; (2) The name and business address of the employer or of the real party in interes...

... (A) No person shall be permitted to register as a retirement system lobbyist under division (A) or (B) of section 101.92 of the Revised Code if the person is convicted of or pleads guilty to committing on or after the effective date of this section any felony offense listed or described in divisions (A)(1) to (6) of section 101.721 of the Revised Code in the circumstances specified in the particular division. (B)...

...(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...

...(A) Each retirement system lobbyist who has had any financial transaction with or for the benefit of a member of a board of a state retirement system, a state retirement system investment official, or an employee of a state retirement system whose position involves substantial and material exercise of discretion in the investment of retirement system funds shall describe the details of the transaction, including the ...

...If a dispute arises between a member of a board of a state retirement system, a state retirement system investment official, or an employee of a state retirement system whose position involves substantial and material exercise of discretion in the investment of retirement system funds and an employer or retirement system lobbyist with respect to an expenditure or financial transaction alleged in a statement to be fil...

...(A) Sections 101.92 and 101.93 of the Revised Code do not apply to efforts to influence retirement system decisions or conduct retirement system lobbying activity by any of the following: (1) Appearances at public hearings of a retirement system or at other public meetings; (2) News, editorial, and advertising statements published in bona fide newspapers, journals, or magazines, or broadcast over radio or televisio...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, no person shall engage any person to influence retirement system decisions or conduct retirement system lobbying activity for compensation that is contingent in any way on the outcome of a retirement system decision and no person shall accept any engagement to influence retirement system decisions or conduct retirement system lobbying activity for compensation t...

...(A) The joint legislative ethics committee shall keep on file the statements required by sections 101.92, 101.93, and 101.94 of the Revised Code. These statements are public records and open to public inspection, and the joint committee shall computerize them so that the information contained in them is readily accessible to the general public. The joint committee shall provide copies of the statements to the general...

...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) Whoever violates division (A), (B), or (C) of section 101.71 or of section 101.91, or section 101.77 or 101.97 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. (B) Whoever violates division (D) of section 101.71 or of section 101.91 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

... As used in this chapter: (A) "Compensation" means money, thing of value, or financial benefit. "Compensation" does not include reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of official duties. (B) "Public official or employee" means any person who is elected or appointed to an office or is an employee of any public agency. "Public official or employee" does not include any of the fo...

... (A)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (H) of this section, all of the following shall file with the appropriate ethics commission the disclosure statement described in this division on a form prescribed by the appropriate commission: every person who is elected to or is a candidate for a state, county, or city office and every person who is appointed to fill a vacancy for an unexpired term in such an elect...

...(A)(1) For the twenty-four-month period immediately following the end of the former state elected officer's or staff member's service or public employment, except as provided in division (B) or (D) of this section, each former state elected officer or staff member who filed or was required to file a disclosure statement under section 102.02 of the Revised Code shall file, on or before the deadlines specified in divis...

...Each person who is an officer or employee of a political subdivision, who receives compensation of less than sixteen thousand dollars a year for holding an office or position of employment with that political subdivision, and who is required to file a statement under section 102.02 of the Revised Code; each member of the board of trustees of a state institution of higher education as defined in section 3345.011 of th...

... (A)(1) No present or former public official or employee shall, during public employment or service or for twelve months thereafter, represent a client or act in a representative capacity for any person on any matter in which the public official or employee personally participated as a public official or employee through decision, approval, disapproval, recommendation, the rendering of advice, investigation, or other...

...(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...

...(A) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, no person elected or appointed to an office of or employed by the general assembly or any department, division, institution, instrumentality, board, commission, or bureau of the state, excluding the courts, shall receive or agree to receive directly or indirectly compensation other than from the agency with which he serves for any service rendered or to be rende...