129th GA - Veteran Related Legislation Report Text and status of all bills can be viewed at the 129th General

Assembly website at: www.legislature.state.oh.us

Prepared by: Rachael Jones Report created on February 13, 2012

HB15

LOCAL GOVERNMENTS NAME HIGHWAYS (SEARS B) To require supportive resolutions from affected local governments to name highways by statute, to allow local governments to erect appropriate markers naming highways. Current Status: 2/9/2011 - House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (First Hearing) HIGHWAY NAME DESIGNATION (DRIEHAUS D) To designate Interstate Route 75 as the "Tuskegee Airmen Memorial Trail." Current Status: 1/31/2012 - House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (Second Hearing) HIGHWAY NAME DESIGNATIONS (COMBS C) To designate a portion of State Route 4 within the municipal corporation of Fairfield only as the "Lance Corporal Taylor Prazynski Memorial Highway." Current Status: 6/21/2011 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 9/23/2011 WAR ORPHANS SCHOLARSHIP (WACHTMANN L) To qualify for the War Orphans Scholarship children of military veterans who served in Grenada during the intervention. Current Status: 5/18/2011 - House Veteran's Affairs, (Second Hearing) CRIMINAL SENTENCING REVISIONS (BLESSING L, HEARD T) To revise and clarify the guidelines for the sentencing of certain crimes and offenses. Current Status: 6/29/2011 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 9/30/2011 RENTAL AGREEMENT - ARMED FORCES MEMBER (PILLICH C) To enable members of the armed services and the Ohio National Guard terminate a rental agreement when the member receives military orders to deploy or for a permanent change of station. Current Status: 3/3/2011 - House Financial Institutions, Housing and Urban Development, (First Hearing) ACTIVE MILITARY SERVICE PARENTS (ROSENBERGER C) Regarding child custody and visitation rights of parents called to active military service. Current Status: 6/9/2011 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 6/9/2011 BIENNIAL BUDGET (AMSTUTZ R) To make operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2011, and ending June 30, 2013, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs. Current Status: 6/30/2011 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Effective 6/30/2011; some sections different dates, 7 line item vetos CIVIL SERVICE EXAMS - VETERANS (STEBELTON G, BUBP D) To eliminate the requirement that a veteran be a resident of Ohio to qualify to receive the veterans preference on civil service examinations.

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HB162

Current Status: 1/25/2012 - Senate State & Local Government & Veterans Affairs, (Third Hearing)

HB165

BINGO/INSTANT BINGO PROFITS (GOODWIN B, LUNDY M) To exclude property taxes from the calculation of net profit from the proceeds of the sale of instant bingo for veterans, fraternal organizations, no charitable organization is required to pay property taxes on premises leased for bingo. Current Status: 5/4/2011 - House Ways and Means, (Third Hearing) MILITARY LICENSE PLATES (STEBELTON G, GONZALES A) To permit the surviving spouse of a recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, Silver Star, Bronze Star, or Purple Heart who was issued the specified license plate to retain or obtain such plates until death or remarriage. Current Status: 3/30/2011 - Referred to Committee House Veteran's Affairs VIETNAM VETERANS DAY (MURRAY D) To designate March 29 as "Vietnam Veterans' Day." Current Status: 1/25/2012 - House Veteran's Affairs, (First Hearing) BLUE STAR/GOLD STAR BANNER DISPLAYS (COLEY II W, DEGEETER T) To prohibit condominium associations, neighborhood associations, and landlords from restricting the display of blue star/gold star banners and other service flags and prohibit restricting the display of the United States flag. Current Status: 5/19/2011 - REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, House Financial Institutions, Housing and Urban Development, (Third Hearing) VETERANS' ORGANIZATION PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION (UECKER J) To eliminate the rental income limit that is a condition for the veterans' organization property tax exemption. Current Status: 6/15/2011 - REPORTED OUT, House Veteran's Affairs, (Third Hearing) ELECTION LAW (MECKLENBORG R, BLESSING L) To revise the Election Law. Current Status: 7/1/2011 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 9/30/2011 LICENSE SKILL-BASED AMUSEMENT MACHINE OPERATORS (ANIELSKI M, BAKER N) To provide licensing of skill-based amusement machine operators and distributors and sweepstakes terminal device operators and distributors and to make changes to bingo and other gambling law. Current Status: 12/14/2011 - House State Government and Elections, (Fourth Hearing) PROFESSIONAL LICENSING FOR SERVICE MEMBERS (PILLICH C) To provide certain professional licensing and certification rights to service members and their spouses, and veterans,and to eliminate the civil service employee exemption from counselor worker licensure and certification. Current Status: 6/1/2011 - House Veteran's Affairs, (First Hearing) AMERICAN HISTORY STATE ACADEMIC STANDARDS (ADAMS J) To include content on specified historical documents in the state academic standards and in the high school

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HB211

American history and government curriculum. Current Status: 6/1/2011 - House Education, (Third Hearing) HB224 ABSENT VOTER'S BALLOTS (DOVILLA M, STINZIANO M) To permit uniformed services and overseas voters to request ballot applications and absent voter's ballots by electronic mail or internet delivery; Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot may be used as a voter registration form and absent voter's ballot. Current Status: 7/27/2011 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff, 7/27/2011 OHIO NATIONAL GUARD SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM (DOVILLA M, WACHTMANN L) To authorize the administrators of the Ohio National Guard Scholarship Program and the Ohio War Orphans Scholarship Program to apply for, and receive/accept grants, and to receive/accept gifts from public and private sources. Current Status: 2/8/2012 - House Veteran's Affairs, (Second Hearing) HIGHWAY NAME DESIGNATION (MARTIN J) To designate State Route 235 within the municipal corporation of Fairborn the "Army Specialist Jesse Adam Snow Memorial Highway." Current Status: 11/16/2011 - House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (First Hearing) CHARITY GAMES OF CHANCE ON FAIRGROUNDS (RUHL M) To remove the prohibition that an agricultural society must not permit, during, for one week before, or three days after a fair, a charitable organization to conduct games of chance or bingo on the fairground. Current Status: 1/24/2012 - House Local Government, (Third Hearing) ADDITION-OHIO'S GREAT SEAL (BUTLER, JR. J, ROSENBERGER C) To add a representation of the Wright Brothers' first piloted airplane to the Coat of Arms and Great Seal of the State of Ohio. Current Status: 12/7/2011 - House State Government and Elections, (First Hearing) HIGHWAY NAME DESIGNATION (SCHURING K, HAGAN C) To designate a portion of U.S. Route 62 in Stark County as the "U.S. Army Spc. Zachary Grass Memorial Highway." Current Status: 11/16/2011 - House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (First Hearing) HIGHWAY NAME DESIGNATION (SCHURING K) To designate a portion of State Route 172 in Stark County as the "Lt. Jason S. Manse Memorial Highway." Current Status: 11/16/2011 - House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (First Hearing) MILITARY SACRIFICE LICENSE PLATES (JOHNSON T, BUBP D) To create "Military Sacrifice" license plates. Current Status: 11/16/2011 - House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (First Hearing) HIGHWAY NAME DESIGNATION (PETERSON B) To designate a portion of State Route 773 within Ross County the "Staff Sergeant Joshua Gire Memorial Highway."

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HB321

Current Status: 11/16/2011 - House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (First Hearing)

HB325

HIGHWAY NAME DESIGNATION (LANDIS A) To designate a portion of State Route 39 within Tuscarawas County the "Lance Corporal Peter James Clore Memorial Highway." Current Status: 9/15/2011 - Referred to Committee House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security COMMERCIAL DRIVERS' LICENSES (ROSENBERGER C) Make changes in the law governing commercial drivers' licenses, including hazardous material endorsements, medical certification requirements, disqualifications, conviction records, establish texting while driving as serious traffic violation. Current Status: 1/27/2012 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 1/27/2012 GOLD STAR FAMILY LICENSE PLATES (UECKER J) To redefine eligibility for issuance of a "Gold Star Family" license plate. Current Status: 11/9/2011 - Referred to Committee House Veteran's Affairs HIGHWAY NAME DESIGNATION (YOUNG R) To designate a portion of State Route 84 in Lake County as the "Sgt. Mark T. Smykowski Memorial Highway." Current Status: 11/9/2011 - Referred to Committee House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security HIGHWAY NAME DESIGNATIONS (BUBP D, JOHNSON T) To designate a portion of State Route 41 in Adams County the "LCpl. Luke C. Scott Memorial Highway" and a portion of United States Route 62 in Brown County the "Pfc. Seth Blevins Memorial Highway." Current Status: 1/25/2012 - House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (First Hearing) HIGHWAY NAME DESIGNATION (TERHAR L, STAUTBERG P) To designate a portion of State Route 264 in Hamilton County as the "Sergeant David Kreuter Memorial Highway." Current Status: 1/25/2012 - House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (First Hearing) MILITARY VETERANS-OHIO NATIONAL GUARD RIGHTS (ROSENBERGER C) To allow extra credit to military veterans and reserve component members on state civil service examinations, to provide for the reemployment of nonteaching school employees following military service in accordance with federal law. Current Status: 1/25/2012 - House Veteran's Affairs, (First Hearing) HIGHWAY NAME DESIGNATION (PETERSON B) To designate a portion of United States Route 50 within Ross County the "Lance Cpl. Aaron Reed Memorial Highway." Current Status: 1/25/2012 - House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (First Hearing) HIGHWAY NAME DESIGNATION (SCHURING K, SLESNICK S) To designate a portion of State Route 172 in Stark County as the "U.S.M.C. Sgt. Daniel J. Patron Memorial Highway." Current Status: 1/25/2012 - House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (First Hearing)

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HB431

HIGHWAY NAME DESIGNATION (LANDIS A, CERA J) To designate a portion of Interstate Highway 70 in Belmont County the "Staff Sgt. Jesse Ault Memorial Highway." Current Status: 2/8/2012 - Referred to Committee House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security HIGHWAY NAME DESIGNATION (HAGAN C) To designate in Stark County the "First Lt. Ashley White-Stump Memorial Highway," the "Sgt. Michael Barker Memorial Highway," and the "Captain Daniel Stiles Memorial Highway." Current Status: 2/8/2012 - Introduced BRAIN INJURY AWARENESS (STINZIANO M, O'BRIEN S) Declaring March 2011 as Brain Injury Awareness Month in Ohio. Current Status: 4/6/2011 - Referred to Committee Senate Health, Human Services & Aging F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER (BUBP D, MARTIN J) To urge the Congress of the United States to continue the full funding and production of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Current Status: 5/18/2011 - REPORTED OUT, House Veteran's Affairs, (Second Hearing) HONOR VIETNAM VETS ON ANNIVERSARY OF FIRST CASUALTY (BECK P) To honor and commemorate veterans of the Vietnam War on the fifty-fifth anniversary of the first casualty of the war. Current Status: 12/13/2011 - ADOPTED BY SENATE; Vote 33-0 SUCCESSFUL OPERATION AGAINST BIN LADEN (BUTLER, JR. J, ROSENBERGER C) To commend and honor the members of the United States Armed Forces, including the United States Special Forces, the national security agencies and intelligence community in conducting the operation against Osama bin Laden. Current Status: 1/18/2012 - REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, Senate State & Local Government & Veterans Affairs, (First Hearing) HONOR AND REMEMBER FLAG (UECKER J, COMBS C) To designate the Honor and Remember Flag as Ohio's emblem of the service and sacrifice by those in the United States Armed Forces who have given their lives in the line of duty. Current Status: 6/22/2011 - House Veteran's Affairs, (Third Hearing) TAPS SESQUICENTENNIAL (BECK P, PILLICH C) To honor "Taps" on its sesquicentennial and urge all Ohioans to take part in appropriate celebratory events. Current Status: 1/25/2012 - House Veteran's Affairs, (First Hearing) WOMEN IN ARMED SERVICES (PILLICH C) To memorialize the President and Congress to end the ban on women serving in combat and to make other provisions regarding the training, equipment, and assignment policy for women in the armed forces. Current Status: 4/13/2011 - House Veteran's Affairs, (First Hearing) HR 2070 (BUBP D) To urge Congress to enact HR 2070 requiring the installation in the area of the WWII Memorial in Washington D.C., a suitable plaque or inscription with the words that President Franklin D. Roosevelt prayed with the nation on June 6, 1944 Current Status: 7/13/2011 - ADOPTED BY HOUSE; Vote 90-0

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SB134

VIETNAM VETERANS' DAY (WAGONER M) To designate March 29 as "Vietnam Veterans' Day." Current Status: 4/6/2011 - Senate State & Local Government & Veterans Affairs, (First Hearing) JOHN GLENN FRIENDSHIP 7 DAY (CATES G, SAWYER T) To designate February 20 as "John Glenn Friendship 7 Day." Current Status: 12/21/2011 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 12/21/2011 CURRICULUM REQUIREMENTS (OBHOF L) To include content on specified historical documents in the state academic standards and in the high school American history and government curriculum. Current Status: 1/10/2012 - Consideration of House Amendments; The Senate did not agree to House Amendments Vote-31-0 CHARITABLE ELECTRONIC INSTANT BINGO (GRENDELL T) To permit veterans, fraternal, and sporting organizations to conduct charitable electronic instant bingo. Current Status: 5/17/2011 - Referred to Committee Senate Finance VETERANS' COMMISSION MEMBERS (LAROSE F) To correct an obsolete reference and to eliminate the authority for additional Veterans' Commission members in counties with a population of more than five hundred thousand. Current Status: 5/25/2011 - Referred to Committee Senate State & Local Government & Veterans Affairs HIGHWAY NAME DESIGNATION (GRENDELL T) To designate a portion of U.S. Route 322 within Geauga County "Chief Warrant Officer Christopher R. Thibodeau Memorial Hwy." and establishes maximum loads for vehicles subject to vehicle weight allowances. Current Status: 7/27/2011 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 7/27/2011 STATE ACADEMIC STANDARDS (TURNER N, TAVARES C) To include content on specified historical documents in the state academic standards and in the high school American history and government curriculum. Current Status: 9/20/2011 - Referred to Committee Senate Education PROPERTY OWNERS RESPONSIBILITY-TRESPASSER (SEITZ B) To specify the responsibility of a possessor of real property to a trespasser. Current Status: 2/15/2012 - House Criminal Justice, (First Hearing) ART THERAPY (SKINDELL M, GRENDELL T) To regulate the practice of art therapy. Current Status: 9/20/2011 - Referred to Committee Senate Health, Human Services & Aging HUNTING LICENSE (BURKE D) To exempt certain persons including military service members from completing a hunter education course to obtain a license. Current Status: 9/20/2011 - Referred to Committee Senate Agriculture, Environment & Natural Resources

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DISPLAY FLAGS ALONG INTERSTATES (BURKE D) To require certain flags to be displayed at rest areas along the state's interstates and the Ohio Turnpike. Current Status: 1/24/2012 - Referred to Committee House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE TEST (BURKE D) To establish a waiver for the commercial driver's license skills test for drivers with military commercial motor vehicle experience. Current Status: 12/7/2011 - Senate Highways & Transportation, (First Hearing) PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION-DISABLED VETERANS (SCHAFFER T) To exempt from property taxation the primary residences of military veterans who are 100% disabled from a service-connected disability. Current Status: 1/24/2012 - Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development, (First Hearing) TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY AWARENESS DAY (BALDERSON T) To designate the ninth day of July as "Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Day." Current Status: 2/8/2012 - REPORTED OUT, House Health and Aging, (First Hearing) DISABLED VETERAN LICENSE PLATES FEES (TAVARES C) To allow a veteran with a service-connected disability of less than 100 per cent to apply for disabled veteran license plates upon payment of one-half of the applicable fees. Current Status: 11/9/2011 - Referred to Committee Senate Highways & Transportation HIGHWAY NAME DESIGNATION (OBHOF L, LAROSE F) To designate a portion of Interstate Route 71 within Wayne County the "First Lieutenant John L. Runkle, Jr. Memorial Highway." Current Status: 1/24/2012 - Referred to Committee House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security HIGHWAY NAME DESIGNATION (SEITZ B) To designate a portion of State Route 264 in Hamilton County as the Sergeant David Kreuter Memorial Highway. Current Status: 1/18/2012 - Referred to Committee Senate Highways & Transportation HIGHWAY NAME DESIGNATION (BALDERSON T) To designate State Route 78 in Athens County only as the "78th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry Highway." Current Status: 1/18/2012 - Referred to Committee Senate Highways & Transportation OHIO MILITARY CODE OF JUSTICE (LAROSE F) To conform the Ohio Code of Military Justice to the United States Code of Military Justice, and to make other changes to the Ohio Code of Military Justice. Current Status: 2/1/2012 - Introduced WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB (WIDENER C) To urge the President and the NASA Administrator to select the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-

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Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, for public display of a space shuttle orbiter. Current Status: 3/15/2011 - PASSED BY HOUSE; Vote 97-0 SCR7 HONOR OHIO ANCESTORS-CIVIL WAR (SEITZ B) To honor Ohio ancestors for the unrivaled contribution they made to winning the American Civil War and in observing the Sesquicentennial years of the War, 2011 through 2015, to urge Ohioans to draw inspiration from Ohio ancestors. Current Status: 2/8/2012 - REPORTED OUT, House Veteran's Affairs, (Second Hearing) AVIATION AWARENESS MONTH (WILSON J) Declaring May 2011 as Aviation Awareness Month in Ohio. Current Status: 5/10/2011 - Referred to Committee Senate Highways & Transportation HONOR PRESIDENT OBAMA (SMITH S) To honor President Barack Obama and the United States Armed Forces for the successful operation against Osama bin Laden on Sunday, May 2, 2011. Current Status: 5/25/2011 - Referred to Committee Senate State & Local Government & Veterans Affairs MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT FOR COMBAT PERSONNEL (BURKE D) To urge Congress to support the provision of efficient and comprehensive mental health treatment to combat military personnel and combat veterans who are suffering from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Current Status: 2/15/2012 - Senate State & Local Government & Veterans Affairs, (Third Hearing) UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS TESTING (WIDENER C) To urge the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to select Ohio as a site for testing the integration of Unmanned Aerial Systems into the National Airspace System. Current Status: 2/8/2012 - Referred to Committee House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security BLACK BRIGADE COMMENDATION (KEARNEY E) To commend the members of the Black Brigade for their defense of Cincinnati in 1862. Current Status: 2/15/2012 - Senate State & Local Government & Veterans Affairs, (First Hearing) SUCCESSFUL OPERATION AGAINST BIN LADEN (GRENDELL T) To commend and honor the U.S. Armed Forces, Navy Seal Team 6, the CIA, the George W. Bush Administration and the Barack H. Obama Administration for the successful operation against Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011. Current Status: 5/24/2011 - Referred to Committee Senate State & Local Government & Veterans Affairs HR 2070 (GRENDELL T) To urge Congress to enact HR 2070 requiring the installation in the area of the WWII Memorial in Washington D.C., a suitable plaque/inscription with the words that President Franklin D Roosevelt prayed with the nation on June 6, 1944. Current Status: 6/15/2011 - Referred to Committee Senate State & Local

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