Rules and Reference Committee
Ron Amstutz, Chair
Referral Report
February 11, 2015
Representative Celebrezze reported for the Rules and Reference Committee recommending that the following House Bills
be considered for the second time and referred to the following committees for consideration.
H.B. No. 56 – Representatives Schuring and Slesnick
To limit the use of criminal records in the hiring and employment practices of public employers.
To the committee on Commerce and Labor
H.B. No. 57 – Representative Maag
To change the sentence for aggravated murder.
To the committee on Judiciary
H.B. No. 58 – Representatives Cera and Rogers
To require motor vehicle operators to take certain actions upon approaching a stationary waste collection
vehicle collecting refuse on a roadside.
To the committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
H.B. No. 59 – Representative Cera
To increase to ten years the mandatory prison term for a person who is convicted of a felony and who possessed
a firearm while committing the felony, if the person displayed or brandished the firearm, indicted possession of
it, or used it to facilitate the felony or if the firearm was an automatic firearm or was equipped with a muffler or
silencer.
To the committee on Judiciary
Rules and Reference Committee
State Representative Ron Amstutz, Speaker Pro Tempore, Chair
Speaker Clifford A. Rosenberger, Vice Chair
State Representative Dorothy Pelanda, Assistant Majority Whip
State Representative Andrew Brenner
State Representative Cheryl L. Grossman
State Representative Bill Hayes
State Representative Ron Hood
State Representative Stephanie Kunze
State Representative Fred Strahorn, Minority Leader, Ranking Member
State Representative Nicholas Celebrezze, Assistant Minority Leader
State Representative Kevin Boyce, Minority Whip
State Representative Nickie J. Antonio, Assistant Minority Whip
State Representative Dan Ramos
H.B. No. 60 – Representatives Patmon and Hall
To revise provisions and penalties regarding treatment of companion animals, to revise the definition of
“companion animal” in the Offenses Relating to Domestic Animals Law, and to provide a state collaborative
effort to assist veterinarians in identifying clients who may use their animals to secure opioids for abuse.
To the committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
H.B. No. 61 – Representatives Buchy and Hall
To generally prohibit the application of fertilizer or manure in Lake Erie’s western basin on frozen ground or
saturated soil and during certain weather conditions, to require publicly owned treatment works either to
monitor monthly total and dissolved phosphorous or to prepare optimization studies that evaluate their ability to
reduce phosphorous, and to prohibit a person, beginning July 1, 2020, from depositing dredged material in
Ohio’s portion of Lake Erie and its direct tributaries that resulted from harbor or navigation maintenance
activities unless authorized to do so by the Director of Environmental Protection.
To the committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
H.B. No. 62 – Representative Buchy
To designate the second week of September as “Krabbe Disease Awareness Week.”
To the committee on Health and Aging
H.B. No. 63 – Representatives Pelanda and Grossman
To require mandatory reporters of child abuse or neglect to notify the county public children services agency
when an attorney in fact under a document that purports to grant parental rights requests services from them, to
require the agency to investigate the child’s placement with the attorney in fact, and to require the agency to file
a dependency complaint if it determines that the placement is unsafe for the child.
To the committee on Community and Family Advancement
H.B No. 64 – Representative Smith, R.
To make operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2015, and ending June 30, 2017, and to
provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.
To the committee on Finance
Rules and Reference Committee
State Representative Ron Amstutz, Speaker Pro Tempore, Chair
Speaker Clifford A. Rosenberger, Vice Chair
State Representative Dorothy Pelanda, Assistant Majority Whip
State Representative Andrew Brenner
State Representative Cheryl L. Grossman
State Representative Bill Hayes
State Representative Ron Hood
State Representative Stephanie Kunze
State Representative Fred Strahorn, Minority Leader, Ranking Member
State Representative Nicholas Celebrezze, Assistant Minority Leader
State Representative Kevin Boyce, Minority Whip
State Representative Nickie J. Antonio, Assistant Minority Whip
State Representative Dan Ramos
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Ron Amstutz
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Fred Strahorn
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Clifford A. Rosenberger
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Nickie J. Antonio
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Andrew Brenner
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Kevin Boyce
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Cheryl L. Grossman
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Nicholas Celebrezze
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Bill Hayes
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Dan Ramos
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Ron Hood
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Stephanie Kunze
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Dorothy Pelanda
Rules and Reference Committee
State Representative Ron Amstutz, Speaker Pro Tempore, Chair
Speaker Clifford A. Rosenberger, Vice Chair
State Representative Dorothy Pelanda, Assistant Majority Whip
State Representative Andrew Brenner
State Representative Cheryl L. Grossman
State Representative Bill Hayes
State Representative Ron Hood
State Representative Stephanie Kunze
State Representative Fred Strahorn, Minority Leader, Ranking Member
State Representative Nicholas Celebrezze, Assistant Minority Leader
State Representative Kevin Boyce, Minority Whip
State Representative Nickie J. Antonio, Assistant Minority Whip
State Representative Dan Ramos