| Pending Legislation |
| Legislation currently under consideration by House and Senate Committees. |
| Lasted updated by Ellen Hawkey Feb. 25, 2008 |
- SB 221 - Revises state energy policy to address electric service price regulation, new bonding authority for advanced energy projects, advanced (including renewable) energy portfolio standards, energy efficiency standards, and greenhouse gas emission reporting and carbon control planning requirements. Sponsor: Schuler
The Ohio Sierra Club is an interested party in this legislation.
Click here to view the testimony of Ned Ford, Ohio Chapter Energy Chair.
- HB 416 -Ratifies the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact and establishes related requirements. Sponsor: Dolan
- HB 487 - Establishes alternative energy benchmarks for electric distribution utilities and electric services companies, provides for the use of renewable energy credits, establishes energy efficiency standards for electric distribution utilities and requires the Department of Development to establish energy efficiency programs, creates the Ohio Renewable Energy Authority to provide loans and grants to renewable energy businesses, establishes policies regarding the geologic storage of carbon dioxide, and requires greenhouse gas emission reporting and carbon control planning for generating facilities. Sponsor: McGregor, J.
Click here to view the testimony of Ned Ford, Ohio Chapter Energy Chair.
| Environmental Legislation |
| Introduced legislation that is not currently under consideration by a House or Senate Committee |
| Lasted updated by Ellen Hawkey Feb. 25 , 2008 |
Ohio Senate:
- SB 28 - Creates an ethanol and
biodiesel
producer grant program. Sponsor: Kearney
- SB 29 -
Establishes
a grant program to pay lead hazard removal costs
incurred
by qualified homeowners and to make an appropriation. Sponsor: Kearney
- SB 78 - Creates the Great Lakes Compact Task Force for the purpose of determining whether Ohio should enter into the Great Lakes Compact. Sponsor: Grendell
- SB 86 - Expands the sales and use tax exemption for sales of natural gas, and to extend a sales and use tax exemption to sales of
propane
and fuel oil used for home heating purposes. Sponsor: Boccieri
- SB 90 - Authorizes the Director of Agriculture to establish a motor fuel quality testing program. Sponsor: Grendell
- SB 101 - Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a motor fuel quality testing program under which county auditors may conduct such testing. Sponsor: Gardner
- SB 107 - Creates a tax credit for individuals who purchase a new hybrid vehicle. Sponsor: Mason
- SB 122 -
Establishes
a schedule for E85 blend fuel to be made available at service stations located on the Ohio
Turnpike
. Sponsor: D. Miller
- SB 128 - Creates the Ohio Climate Commission for the purpose of studying the probable impacts that global climate
change
will have on the state of Ohio and for the purpose of recommending appropriate
state
responses to address global climate change and problem. Sponsor: D. Miller
- SB 142 - Temorarily exempts from sales and use taxes sales of certain energy-efficient appliances. Sponsor: Schuler
- SB 166 - Protects property from the clear-cutting of interstate gas pipeline companies. Sponsor: Goodman. Ohio Sierra Club supports this legislation.
- SB 172 - Delays the application of the rules adopted under the Household and Small Sewage Treatment Systems Law that are related to the rehabilitation, renovation, improvement, or replacement of an existing household sewage treatment system, to establish the Household Sewage Treatment System Revolving Loan Program and the Household Sewage Treatment System Grant Program in the Department of Health to provide loans and grants to eligible persons for repairs to or upgrades of household sewage treatment systems, to make appropriations, and to declare an emergency. Sponsor: Cafaro
- SB 189 - Revises the law governing coastal management and the control of erosion along Lake Erie. Sponsor: Grendell
- SB 193 - Makes charging a price for a grade of gasoline that does not bear a reasonable relationship to the costs of making the particular grade of gasoline available to consumers an unfair or deceptive consumer sales practice; to require refiners and wholesalers of petroleum products to submit monthly reports to the Director of Commerce regarding petroleum products shipped into, used in, and exported from this state; to require retail sellers of gasoline to submit a written notice to the Director if the retail seller increases the price of gasoline sold at the pump by seven cents or more during a calendar week; and to create the Gasoline Practices Oversight Commission. Sponsor: Grendell
- SB 198 - Creates tax credits for investing in renewable energy property. Sponsor: Mason
- SB 199 - Creates tax credits for constructing energy efficient and environmentally responsible buildings. Sponsor: Mason
- SB 200 - Exempts sales of solar and wind energy devices from sales and use taxation. Sponsor: Mason
- SB 213 - Requires the Director of Administrative Services to ensure that a certain percentage of state agencies' total electricity purchases are from renewable energy systems. Sponsor: Mason
- SB 214 - Prohibits the sale of dishwasher detergent that contains above a specified amount of phosphorus. Sponsor: Niehaus
- SB 239 - Requires that the amount spent by counties on energy conservation measures be unlikely to exceed the amount saved in energy and operating costs over the average system life of the measures, and to require that financed measures be paid for within their average system life. Sponsor: Gardner
- SB 242 - Creates a renewable energy portfolio standard for electric suppliers and authorize a state system of tradable renewable energy credits. Sponsor: D. Miller
- SB 265 - Exempts purchases of energy-saving devices from sales and use taxation. Sponsor: Mason
- SB 276 - Authorizes a county, municipal corporation, or township to issue public obligations to provide, or assist in providing, grants, loans, loan guarantees, or contributions for conservation and revitalization purposes. Sponsor: Stivers
- SB 291- Ratifies the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact and establishes related requirements. Sponsor: Grendell
- SB 292 - Allows a board of county commissioners to adjust the permanent base of a ditch improvement that is used for maintenance fund assessments and allows a board to use certain ditch maintenance procedures to maintain soil and water conservation district improvements. Sponsor: Roberts
Ohio House:
- HB 40 - Creates the Council on Sustainable Energy Development and
specifies
its duties. Sponsor: Skindell
- HB 54- Requires that blended biodiesel and E85 blend fuel be available at all service stations located on the Ohio Turnpike not later than Jan 1, 2010, and to permit the Ohio Turnpike Commission to apply for grants made by the Department of Development under the Alternative Fuel Transportation Grant Program. Sponsor: Foley
- HB 76 - Establishes an annual renewable energy requirement for electric utilities and electric services companies that provide retail electric generation service in Ohio and to authorize the Public Utilities
Commission
to establish a system of renewable energy credits. Sponsor R. Hagan
- HB 77 - Requires electric generating facilities to comply with certain requirements regarding mercury emissions. Sponsor: R. Hagan
- HB 80 - Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a motor fuel quality testing program under which county auditors may conduct testing. Sponsor Healy and Peterson
- HB 110 - Rescinds rules related to sewage treatment systems and reinstates the rules related to those systems that were in effect prior to 1/1/2007. Sponsor: Distel
- HB 153 - Directs the Chief of the Division of Wildlife in the Department of Natural Resources to enter into the Wildlife Violators Compact and to authorize the Chief to enter into agreements with law enforcement agencies outside of this state for joint law enforcement operations. Sponsor: Latta
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HB 158 - Allows a nonrefundable credit against the personal income tax for the installation of energy-efficient devises in homes. Sponsor: Hughes
- HB 169 - Establishes requirements governing the disposal and collection of used lead-acid batteries. Sponsor: Wagner
- HB 227 - Authorizes regional water and sewer districts to establish police departments.
Sponsor: Yuko
- HB 233 - Creates the Ohio Agriculture to Chemicals, Polymers, and Advanced Materials Task Force. Sponsor: Reinhard
- HB 235 - Establishes notification requirements for the discharge of untreated or partially treated sewage onto land or into the waters of the state. Sponsor: Oelslager
- HB 250 - To amend sections 4929.01 and 4929.02 and to enact section 4929.051 of the Revised Code relative to revenue decoupling for natural gas utilities and energy conservation. Sponsor: Jones
- HB 288 - Levies an annual tax on the net income of a petroleum business engaged in, or that is part of a unitary business engaged in, the business of petroleum refining. Sponsors: Foley and Letson
- HB 289 - Makes changes to the law governing agricultural security areas. Sponsor: Core
- HB 290 - Requires a landlord or manufactured home park operator, in general, to supply electric, gas, water, and sewage disposal service and related fixtures and appliances and to pay the required amount due for the service in a timely manner unless the service to the tenant's or resident's dwelling unit is individually metered by a meter accessible to the tenant or resident, the landlord or operator notifies the tenant or resident in writing that the tenant or resident is liable for the cost of electric, gas, water, and sewage disposal service, the tenant or resident is the customer with the public utility supplying the service, and the tenant or resident is billed only the cost that the public utility assesses for supplying the service to the dwelling unit. Sponsors: Budish and Foley
- HB 295 - Requires that the amount spent by counties on energy conservation measures be unlikely to exceed the amount saved in energy and operating costs over the average system life of the measures, and to require that financed measures be paid for within their average system life. Sponsor: Wagoner
- HB 298 - Establishes requirements governing oceangoing vessels on the state waters of Lake Erie in order to control aquatic nuisance species. Sponsor: Skindell
- HB 305 - Continues an electric distribution utility's current rate stabilization plan until the Public Utilities Commission determines there is effective competition in retail generation service within the utility's distribution territory and to require the Commission to ensure adequate generating capacity in Ohio through specified means. Sponsor: Blessing
- HB 313 - Creates a renewable energy portfolio standard for electric suppliers and authorize a state system of tradable renewable energy credits. Sponsor: Skindell
- HB 322 - Requires the Director of Administrative Services to adopt rules governing construction and demolition debris recycling and water and energy usage with respect to certain public works projects. Sponsors: Hughes and Skindell
- HB 357 - Modifies and expands the laws governing energy development and supply in the state. Sponsor: J. McGregor.
The Ohio Sierra Club is an interested party in this legislation.
Click here to view the testimony of Ned Ford, Ohio Chapter Energy Chair.
- HB 373 - Requires a person shipping certain radioactive material within or through this state to provide the Emergency Management Agency with notice of the shipment and pay the Department of Public Safety a fee for each shipment, and to establish the Radiation Response Fund. Sponsor: Skindell
- HB 378 - Requires the Director of Environmental Protection to structure the jurisdiction of the Environmental Protection Agency's district offices so that every solid waste facility in a solid waste management district is within the jurisdiction of the same district office for purposes of administering the law governing solid waste facilities. Sponsor: Sayre
- HB 385 - Permits land acquired by a board of township trustees for the purpose of protecting or preserving "greenspace" to be used for recreational purposes. Sponsor: Hottinger
- HB 402 - Partially exempts conservation easement property from taxation. Sponsors: Peterson, Heard
- HB 403 - Extends the period for which a wild animal collecting permit is valid from one year to three years. Sponsor: Heard
- HB 407 - Expands the sales tax exemption for sales of natural gas, and extends exemption to sales of propane. Sponsor: Hagan, R.
- HB 415 - Increases the penalty for animal fighting, including cockfighting and dogfighting. Sponsors: Blessing, Domenick
- HB 418 - Revises the penalties and sentencing provisions regarding violations of the cruelty to animals statutes and includes the protection of companion animals in temporary protection orders, domestic violence protection orders, anti-stalking protection orders, and related protection orders. Sponsors: Combs, Williams, B.
- HB 422 - Creates the Water Resources and Economic Development Study Committee. Sponsor: Setzer
- HB 446 - Revises the statutes governing animal control. Sponsor: Webster
- HB 472 - Allows a board of county commissioners to adjust the permanent base of a ditch improvement that is used for maintenance fund assessments and to allow a board to use certain ditch maintenance procedures to maintain soil and water conservation district improvements. Sponsor: Setzer
- HB 476 - Requires owners of single-family and multifamily dwellings that utilize fossil fuels for heating or other purposes to have carbon monoxide alarms installed in those dwellings. Sponsor: Reinhard
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