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http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/H.B. 629 - Prevailing Wage (Limit the use of complaints alleging violations and findings) - Sponsored by Representative Larry Flowers (R-Canal Winchester) To amend section 9.312 and to enact section 4115.17 of the Revised Code to limit the use of complaints alleging violations of the Prevailing Wage Law and findings of the Director of Commerce concerning violations of the Prevailing Wage Law.
H.B. 483 - Elevator Contractors- Sponsored by Representative Jim McGregor (R-Gahanna); Creates the Elevator Section of the Ohio Construction Industry Licensing Board, requires licensure of elevator contractors and elevator mechanics, and makes changes to the laws governing elevator servicing and inspections.
H.B. 444 - Construction Licensing - Sponsored by Representative Jimmy Stewart (R-Albany); Makes changes to the construction industry licensing laws to discipline unlicensed contractors and eliminate unlicensed contractor activity.
H.B. 380 – Employee Records - Sponsored by Representative Bill Coley (R-Liberty); To require a commercial or public entity to maintain records regarding each worker who performs services for that entity and to establish penalties for failure to maintain those records.
H.B. 243 - Prevailing Wage - Sponsored by Representative Tom Brinkman (R-Cincinnati); Repeals the Prevailing Wage Law.
H.B. 242 - Collective Bargaining- Sponsored by Representative Tom Brinkman (R-Cincinnati); Removes any requirement under the Public Employees Collective Bargaining Law that public employees join or pay dues to any employee organization, expands the scope of unfair labor practices under that law, makes other changes in the Public Employees Collective Bargaining Law, prohibits any requirement that employees of private employers join or pay dues to any employee organization and requires public and private employers to post notices to that effect, prohibits certain actions by private employers relative to employee organization membership, and establishes civil and criminal penalties against private employers who violate those prohibitions.
H.B. 126- Competitive Bidding - Sponsored by Representative Steve Dyer (D-Tallmadge); Requires the Department of Administrative Services to maintain a web site database including apparent low bidders who failed to be awarded a contract because they were found not to be "responsible," and requires public entities to conduct investigations when apparent low bidders are suspected of failing or fail to meet the "responsible" prong of the "responsive and responsible" competitive bidding threshold.
H.B. 114- Prevailing Wage- Sponsored by Representative Lynn Wachtmann (R-Napoleon); Requires the Ohio School Facilities Commission to reduce the state funds for a school district's classroom facilities project by twenty per cent if the district requires contractors to pay the prevailing rate of wages.
- Sponsored by Senator John Carey (R – Wellston) To amend sections 122.0818, 122.452, 165.031, 166.02, 307.673, 307.696, 1551.13, 1728.07, 3706.042, 4115.032, 4115.033, 4981.23, and 6121.061 of the Revised Code relative to the application of the Prevailing Wage Law to publicly supported, private sector construction projects.
S.B. 275 - Home Contractors - Sponsored by Senator Bob Spada (R-North Royalton); Establishes the Ohio Home Improvement Contractor Law, deems that specified violations of the law constitute a violation of the Ohio Consumer Sales Practices Act, and provides civil remedies for owners who are damaged by a contractor who violates the law. (See also H.B. 437 - Home Contractors - by Representative Carol-Ann Schindel (R-Leroy))
S.B. 234 - Public Improvements - Sponsored by Senator Bob Spada (R-North Royalton); Permits the waiver of bid guaranty and performance indemnity requirements for public improvement projects valued at less than $500,000.
S.B. 139 - Prevailing Wage: Multiple/Single Prime – Sponsored by Senator Larry Mumper (R-Marion); Permit state institutions of higher education to use either single or multiple prime bidding for public improvement projects; to exempt from the Prevailing Wage Law projects constructed by state institutions of higher education and projects constructed by private, non-profit organizations that receive public moneys to construct those projects; and to prohibit the Ohio School Facilities Commission from approving school district projects that specify the payment of prevailing wages.