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Section 101.68(B) of the Revised Code requires that when reports must be submitted to the General Assembly, copies of the reports must be submitted to the Director of the Legislative Service Commission (LSC). Section 101.68(C) requires LSC to monthly inform each member of the General Assembly of the reports received. Below is the annotated bibliography of reports recently submitted to LSC. The bibliography, compiled by the LSC Library staff, also includes other documents that may be of interest to legislators. The links to electronic copies of the documents are included; click "View Report" to open a document. Please call the LSC Library at (614) 466-5312 if you would like to receive more information about this document.
ANNUAL REPORT, 2023, 32 pages
Report required by R.C. 3706.13; describes the activities of the Authority in 2023, including issuing more than $431 million in revenue bond financing for 15 projects to improve air quality, and $80,000 in grants to small businesses; provides overview of some of the major state projects that received financing; contains audit of expenditures and revenues of the Authority in 2023.
CAPITAL CRIMES: STATE AND FEDERAL CASES, 2023, 424 pages
Report required by R.C. 109.97(B); provides legislative history of capital punishment in Ohio; explains the statutes, executive clemency review, the law as it relates to individuals with disability, and DNA testing; presents statistics, including demographic characteristics, about individuals receiving death sentences; includes case history sheets for every case that resulted in a death sentence since 1981, noting state and federal procedural events.
SECOND QUARTER FINANCIAL REPORTS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2023, April 3, 2024, 3 pages + electronic zip file, size 11,676 KB
Report required by R.C. 3345.72; part one contains responses to 12 questions, designed to probe for serious cash flow problems, answered by the campus fiscal officers of all 37 of Ohio's state-supported colleges and universities for which the desired answer is no; Eastern Gateway Community College and Lakeland Community College each answered yes to two of the twelve questions; contact the LSC Library for copies of the individual university reports.
LOCAL IMPACT STATEMENT REPORT: FOR BILLS ENACTED IN 2023, March 2024, 16 pages
Report required by R.C. 103.143; contains a compilation of "As Enacted" fiscal notes for bills requiring a local impact statement in 2023; includes comments from four local government associations.
RENEWABLE PORTFOLIO STANDARD REPORT TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY BY THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF OHIO FOR THE 2022 COMPLIANCE YEAR, 12 pages
Report required by R.C. 4928.64; addresses compliance activities in meeting benchmarks for renewable energy resources, solar, and nonsolar, describes the average annual renewable energy credits costs purchased by utilities and companies, and describes reported strategies for utility and company compliance or activities to encourage the use of renewable energy resources to satisfy the state's electricity demand. Prior to the 2020 compliance year, Ohio's Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) included a specific annual solar requirement. That solar requirement has since been eliminated, but solar resources still can be applied to the overall renewable requirement.
OHIO RETIREMENT SYSTEMS: 1998-2022; ORSC STAFF REPORT ON THE HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE OF THE FIVE OHIO RETIREMENT SYSTEMS SINCE 1998, April 11, 2024, 92 pages
Comprehensive historical report on the state retirement systems: Public Employees Retirement System (PERS), State Teachers Retirement System (STRS), School Employees Retirement System (SERS), Highway Patrol Retirement System (HPRS), and Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund (OP&F); provides a review of incoming contribution rates (employee and employer contributions and investment gains on those contributions), outgoing benefits (both vested and unvested), exercise of board authority, and resulting funding levels; contains recommendations for future legislation.
REPORT, 2024, 94 pages
The Select Committee was created to investigate steps the state can take to encourage home ownership and remove barriers to neighborhood revitalization; contains statements from committee members, including senators who attended regional hearings; presents housing stock and cost data in the state and compares similarly-sized cities; identifies issues and recommendations specific to smaller regions throughout the state; makes recommendations in areas such as tax credits to workers, modernizing building codes and zoning laws, and introducing education campaigns to encourage Ohioans to embrace housing and economic development in their communities.
STATE AND PERMISSIVE (LOCAL) SALES AND USE TAX COLLECTIONS FOR INDUSTRIES RELATED TO TRAVEL AND TOURISM, JULY 1, 2023 - DECEMBER 31, 2023, April 23, 2024, 2 pages
Report required by R.C. 5739.36; summarizes and publishes sales and use tax collections for industries related to travel and tourism for the reporting period.
CANINE RESEARCH REPORT TO THE OHIO GENERAL ASSEMBLY for 2023, May 2024, 55 pages
Report required by R.C. 955.14; reports on research funded by funds set aside from each county dog license fee; identifies completed research, provides interim progress reports, and describes new research projects; reports the amount of money allocated to the research projects; inlcudes table that identifies on a county basis the amount of funds contributed, the number and types of tags sold, and the number of kennels registered; explains the grant review process; includes blank grant application.