By: Stephen D. Richman, Esq.- Senior Counsel-Kohrman,
Jackson & Krantz
Recent
bills of the 132nd General Assembly (See https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/) pending in the Ohio
House and Ohio Senate related to real property are as follows:
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House Bill 39
General Assembly: 132
Short Title: Require removal of snow and ice from abutting sidewalks.
Long Title: To enact section 505.872 of the Revised Code to authorize
certain townships to require the removal of snow and ice from sidewalks
abutting property.
Primary Sponsor: Representative Arndt, Representative Gavarone
Version/Status: As Reported by the State and Local Government Committee
Legislation Text: View Current Version
Senate Bill 50
General
Assembly: 132
Short
Title: Prohibit deep well
injection of brine and conversion of wells.
Long
Title: To amend sections 1509.01,
1509.02, 1509.03, 1509.05, 1509.06, 1509.08, 1509.21, 1509.22, 1509.222,
1509.223, 1509.224, and 1509.99, to enact section 1509.051, and to repeal
section 1509.226 of the Revised Code to prohibit land application and deep well
injection of brine, to prohibit the conversion of wells, and to eliminate the
injection fee that is levied under the Oil and Gas Law.
Primary
Sponsor: Senator Skindell
Version/Status: As Introduced/Referred to the Energy and
Natural Resources Committee
Legislation
Text: View Current Version
House Bill 52
General
Assembly: 132
Short
Title: Regulate solicitation of
certain deeds.
Long
Title: To amend section 1345.99
and to enact section 1345.032 of the Revised Code to regulate the solicitation
of certain deeds.
Primary
Sponsor: Representative Rezabek
Version/Status: As Enrolled-Effective Date- May 11, 2018
Legislation
Text: View Current Version
House Bill 118
General
Assembly: 132
Short
Title: Prohibit dismissing tax
complaint if fails to identify owner.
Long
Title: To amend section 5715.19
of the Revised Code to expressly prohibit the dismissal of a property tax
complaint for failure to correctly identify the property owner.
Primary
Sponsor: Representative Merrin
Version/Status: As Enrolled-Effective Date-February 5, 2018
Legislation
Text: View Current Version
Senate Bill 123
General
Assembly: 132
Short
Title: Limit right to initiate
property tax complaints.
Long
Title: To amend sections 307.699,
3735.67, 5715.19, 5715.27, and 5717.01 of the Revised Code to limit the right
to initiate most types of property tax complaints to the property owner and the
county recorder of the county in which the property is located.
Primary
Sponsor: Senator Coley
Version/Status: As Introduced/Referred to Ways and Means
Committee
Legislation
Text: View Current Version
House Bill 123
General
Assembly: 132
Short Title: Modify short-term, small, and mortgage loan
laws.
Long Title: To amend sections 1321.35, 1321.36, 1321.39,
1321.40, 1321.41, 1321.422, 1321.99, and 4712.99, to enact new section 1321.46
and sections 1321.141, 1321.401, 1321.402, 1321.403, 1321.411, 1321.595, and
4712.071, and to repeal sections 1321.46 and 1321.461 of the Revised Code to
modify the Short-Term Loan Act, to specify a minimum duration requirement for
loans made under the Small Loan Law and Mortgage Loan Law, and to limit the
authority of credit services organizations to broker extensions of credit for buyers.
Primary Sponsor: Representative Koehler, Representative Ashford
Version/Status: As Reported by the House Government
Accountability and Oversight Committee
Legislation Text: View Current Version
House Bill 148
General
Assembly: 132
Short Title: Register home improvement contractors.
Long Title: To amend sections 109.572, 715.27, 3781.102,
4740.01, 4776.01, and 4776.20 and to enact sections 4785.01, 4785.02, 4785.021,
4785.03, 4785.04, 4785.05, 4785.06, 4785.07, 4785.08, 4785.09, 4785.11,
4785.12, 4785.13, 4785.14, 4785.15, 4785.16, 4785.17, 4785.18, 4785.19,
4785.20, 4785.21, and 4785.99 of the Revised Code to require statewide
registration of home improvement contractors, to create the Home Improvement
Board, and to make an appropriation.
Primary Sponsor: Representative Patmon
Version/Status: As Introduced/Referred to Finance Committee
Legislation Text: View Current Version
House Bill 175 General Assembly: 132
Short Title: Allow residence owners to keep small livestock on property.
Long Title: To amend sections 303.21 and 519.21 and to enact section 901.60 of the Revised Code to allow an owner of residential property to keep, harbor, breed, or maintain small livestock on the property, and to prohibit zoning authorities from regulating certain agricultural activities conducted on residential property for noncommercial purposes.
Primary Sponsor: Representative Brinkman
Version/Status: As Introduced/Referred to Agricultural and Rural Development Committee
Legislation Text : View Current Version
House Bill 199
General
Assembly: 132
Short Title: Enact Ohio Residential Mortgage Lending Act.
Long Title: To… create the Ohio Residential Mortgage
Lending Act for the purpose of regulating all non-depository lending secured by
residential real estate, to limit the application of the current Mortgage Loan
Law to unsecured loans and loans secured by other than residential real estate,
and to modify an exemption to the Ohio Consumer Installment Loan Act.
Primary Sponsor: Representative Blessing
Version: As Enrolled-Effective Date-March 23, 2018
Legislation Text : View Current Version
House Bill 343
General
Assembly: 132
Short Title: Regards how local governments are to contest
property values.
Long Title: To amend section 5715.19 of the Revised Code to
require local governments that contest property values to formally pass an
authorizing resolution for each contest and to notify property owners.
Primary Sponsor: Representative Merrin
Version: As Passed by the House/Referred to Senate Ways
and Means Committee
Legislation
Text: View Current Version
House Bill 361
General
Assembly: 132
Short
Title: Increase time for deciding
property tax complaints.
Long Title: To amend section 5715.19 of the Revised Code to
increase the time within which boards of revision must decide property tax
complaints.
Primary
Sponsor: Representative Greenspan
Version/Status: As Reported/Amended by the House Government
Accountability and Oversight Committee
Legislation
Text: View Current Version
House Bill 390
General
Assembly: 132
Short
Title: Clarify computation of
timelines for forcible entry and detainer.
Long
Title: To amend sections 1923.04
and 1923.14 of the Revised Code to clarify how to calculate certain timelines
under which a forcible entry and detainer action must occur.
Primary
Sponsor: Representative Merrin
Version/Status: As Introduced/Referred to Financial
Institution, Housing and Development Committee
Legislation
Text: View Current Version
House Bill 407
General
Assembly: 132
Short
Title: Abolish estate by dower.
Long
Title: To amend sections 2103.02,
2103.09, and 2106.24 of the Revised Code to abolish the estate by dower.
Primary
Sponsor: Representative Dever, Representative
Seitz
Version/Status: As Reported by the House Civil Justice
Committee
Legislation
Text: View Current Version
House Bill 412
General
Assembly: 132
Short
Title: Authorize redacting
discriminatory covenants from land records.
Long
Title: To amend section 109.15
and to enact section 317.115 of the Revised Code to authorize county recorders,
at the request of certain persons, to redact discriminatory covenants from real
property instruments displayed on the internet, or to record modifications of
those instruments.
Primary
Sponsor: Representative Craig
Version/Status: As Introduced/Referred to Civil Justice
Committee
Legislation
Text: View Current Version
House Bill 460
General
Assembly: 132
Short Title: Assist creation of riparian buffers and exempt
some from taxation.
Long
Title: To amend sections 321.24,
5715.27, and 5717.02 and to enact sections 1515.12 and 5709.30 of the Revised
Code to exempt qualifying riparian buffers in the Western Basin of Lake Erie
from property taxation, to reimburse local taxing units for resulting revenue
losses, and to require soil and water conservation districts to assist
landowners with the creation and maintenance of riparian buffers.
Primary
Sponsor: Representative Patterson, Representative Sheehy
Version/Status: As Introduced/Referred to Energy and Natural
Resources Committee
Legislation
Text: View Current Version
House Bill 480
General
Assembly: 132
Short
Title: Establish requirements for
multi-parcel auctions. Long
Title: To amend sections 4707.01,
4707.023, 4707.15, 4707.20, and 4707.22 of the Revised Code to establish
requirements governing multi-parcel auctions.
Primary
Sponsor: Representative Hill
Version/Status: As Introduced/Referred to Civil Justice
Committee
Legislation
Text: View Current Version
House Bill 487
General
Assembly: 132
Short
Title: Eliminate special school
right to school district real property.
Long
Title: To amend sections 3313.41,
3318.08, and 5705.10, to enact new section 3313.411, and to repeal sections
3313.411, 3313.412, and 3313.413 of the Revised Code to eliminate the right of
first refusal for community schools, college-preparatory boarding schools, and
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics schools in the acquisition of
school district real property.
Primary
Sponsor: Representative Ingram
Version/Status: As Introduced/Referred to Education and Career
Readiness Committee
LegislationText: View Current Version
House Bill 513
General
Assembly: 132
Short
Title: Enhance homestead
exemption for spouse of killed first responder.
Long
Title: To amend sections 323.151,
323.152, 323.153, 4503.064, 4503.065, and 4503.066 of the Revised Code to
enhance the homestead exemption for surviving spouses of peace officers,
firefighters, and emergency medical personnel killed in the line of duty.
Primary
Sponsor: Representative Brenner, Representative
Ginter
Version/Status: As Introduced/Referred to Ways and Means
Committee
Legislation
Text: View Current Version
House Bill 562
General
Assembly: 132
Short
Title: Prohibit horizontal well drilling
in state and local parks.
Long
Title: To amend section 1509.06
of the Revised Code to prohibit the drilling of a horizontal well in various
state and local parks.
Primary
Sponsor: Representative Leland
Version/Status: As Introduced/Referred to Energy and Natural
Resources Committee
Legislation
Text: View Current Version
House Bill 586