GOVERNOR SIGNS BILLS
COLUMBUS (December 9, 2003) - Governor Bob Taft today signed the following bills, which will be filed with the Secretary of State's office.
House Bill 75, sponsored by state Representative Steve Buehrer, (R-Delta),
allows a board of education to grant a high school diploma to veterans of the
Korean Conflict.
The bill contains an emergency clause, and goes into effect immediately.
Amended Substitute House Bill 85, sponsored by state Representative Jim Raussen, (R-Cincinnati), requires licensure of ambulettes and medical air transport vehicles. Parts of the bill go into effect 90 days after it is signed by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State, and parts of the bill go into effect January 1, 2004.
Substitute House Bill 179, sponsored by state Representative Larry Wolpert,
(R-Hilliard), permits suspension of the driver's licensees of offenders convicted
of thefts by reason of causing a motor vehicle to leave the premises of a retail
gasoline establishment without full payment for gasoline dispensed into the
motor vehicle's fuel tank or another container; declares that those sections
in the Revised Code that regulate theft of gasoline in certain circumstances
are general laws; prohibits motion picture piracy; authorizes the detention
of individuals suspected of motion picture piracy; and extends from January
1, 2004, to January 1, 2009, the time by which environmental audits must be
completed in order to be within the scope of certain privileges and immunities
that apply to such audits. Parts of the bill go into effect 90 days after it
is signed by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State, and parts of
the bill go into effect January 1, 2004.
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Contact: Orest Holubec, press secretary, at (614) 644-0957.