Ohio Revised Code Chapter 101 - General Assembly

• Section 101.01 - Regular Session Of The General Assembly.
  (A) The first regular session of each general assembly shall convene on the first Monday of January in the odd-numbered year, or on the...
• Section 101.02 - Election Of Officers Of The Senate.
  After the senators-elect have taken the oath of office, if there is a quorum present, the senate shall elect a president, president pro tempore,...
• Section 101.03 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 12-23-1986
• Section 101.11 - House Called To Order - Appointment Of Clerk Pro Tempore - Presentation Of Certificates - Oath Of Office.
  At two p.m. of the day appointed for the beginning of the first regular session of the general assembly, the speaker of the house...
• Section 101.12 - Presiding Officer Designated By Party Caucus.
  In the event neither the speaker nor the speaker pro tempore, designated in section 101.11 of the Revised Code, is available to preside at...
• Section 101.13 - Election Of Officers Of The House.
  After the representatives-elect have taken the oath of office, if there is a quorum present, the house of representatives shall elect a speaker, a...
• Section 101.15 - Public Committee Meetings.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Caucus" means all of the members of either house of the general assembly who are members of...
• Section 101.21 - Majority Required To Tenth Voting.
  A majority of the votes given at an election for an officer of either house shall be necessary to elect. If a choice is...
• Section 101.22 - Evidence Of Membership.
  For the purpose of organizing the senate and house of representatives of the general assembly, a certificate of election from the board of election...
• Section 101.23 - Oaths.
  The oath of office of senators and representatives; the president and president pro tempore of the senate; the speaker and speaker pro tempore of...
• Section 101.24 - Powers Of Each House Compelling Attendance.
  Upon a call of either house, if a quorum of members is not present, or a member is absent, the members present may direct...
• Section 101.25 - Resignation Of Member.
  During a regular session of the general assembly, a senator who desires to resign shall do so by presenting a letter of resignation to...
• Section 101.26 - Members Ineligible To Certain Appointments And Employment.
  No member of either house of the general assembly, except in compliance with this section, shall knowingly do any of the following: (A) Be...
• Section 101.27 - Compensation Of Members.
  (A) (1) Every member of the senate, except the members elected president, president pro tempore, assistant president pro tempore, majority whip, minority leader, assistant...
• Section 101.271 - Medical Insurance For Members Of General Assembly.
  (A) As used in this section, "medical insurance premium" means any premium payment made under a contract with an insurance company, nonprofit health plan,...
• Section 101.272 - House Reimbursement Fund - Senate Reimbursement Fund.
  (A) The house reimbursement fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of refunds from the department of administrative services...
• Section 101.28 - Joint Conventions.
  Joint conventions of the two houses of the general assembly shall be held in the hall of the house of representatives, unless otherwise ordered...
• Section 101.29 - Legislative Employees.
  The senate and the house of representatives shall choose their own officials and employees, respectively, and fix their compensation. The clerk of the senate,...
• Section 101.30 - Maintenance Of Confidential Relationship Between Legislative Staff And General Assembly Members And Staff.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Legislative document" includes, but is not limited to, all of the following: (a) A working paper, work...
• Section 101.301 - Attorney-client Testimonial Privilege Applies To Caucuses.
  (A) As used in this section, "caucus" means all of the members of the house of representatives, or all of the members of the...
• Section 101.31 - Duties Of Certain Officers.
  The clerk of the senate, the chief administrative officer and the clerk of the house of representatives, and the sergeant at arms of each...
• Section 101.311 - Sergeant At Arms Of House And Assistants.
  (A) As used in this section, "capitol square" has the same meaning as in section 105.41 of the Revised Code. (B) (1) The speaker...
• Section 101.312 - Authority Of Senate Sergeant Of Arms Or Assistant Senate Sargeant Of Arms.
  (A) The person serving as the senate sergeant at arms or employed as an assistant senate sergeant at arms has all of the authority...
• Section 101.32 - Control Of Assistants - Dismissal.
  The clerk of the senate, the chief administrative officer of the house of representatives, and the sergeant at arms of each house shall have...
• Section 101.33 - Temporary Officials.
  During the absence or disability of the clerk of the senate, clerk of the house of representatives, or sergeant at arms of either house,...
• Section 101.34 - Joint Legislative Ethics Committee - Fund.
  (A) There is hereby created a joint legislative ethics committee to serve the general assembly. The committee shall be composed of twelve members, six...
• Section 101.35 - Joint Committee On Agency Rule Review.
  There is hereby created in the general assembly the joint committee on agency rule review. The committee shall consist of five members of the...
• Section 101.351 - Goal Of Rule Watch System.
  The goal of the rule watch system is to provide one world wide web portal through which a person can obtain information about the...
• Section 101.36 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 12-02-1996
• Section 101.37 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.39, SB 171, §2, eff. 6/30/2011.
• Section 101.38 - Cystic Fibrosis Legislative Task Force.
  (A) As used in this section, "relative" means a spouse, parent, parent-in-law, sibling, sibling-in-law, child, child-in-law, grandparent, aunt, or uncle. (B) There is hereby...
• Section 101.39 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 130th General Assembly File No. 50, SB 206, §3, eff. 3/20/2014.
• Section 101.391 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 130th General Assembly File No. 50, SB 206, §3, eff. 3/20/2014.
• Section 101.41 - Chairman Of Committee Authorized To Subpoena Witnesses.
  The chairman of a standing or select committee, or a subcommittee thereof, of the general assembly, or of either house thereof, authorized to send...
• Section 101.42 - Subpoena.
  If the subpoena referred to in section 101.41 of the Revised Code is issued by a joint committee or a subcommittee thereof, it may...
• Section 101.43 - Punishment For Disobeying Subpoena Or Refusing To Answer.
  Whoever willfully fails to appear in obedience to the subpoena provided for in sections 101.41 and 101.42 of the Revised Code, or appears and...
• Section 101.44 - Testimony Before Committee Not To Be Used In Criminal Prosecution Of Witness - Exception.
  Except a person who, in writing, requests permission to appear before a committee or subcommittee of the general assembly, or of either house thereof,...
• Section 101.45 - Fees Of Sheriffs And Witnesses.
  Sheriffs shall be paid the same fees for services as are allowed in the court of common pleas for similar services . Witnesses shall...
• Section 101.46 - Chairman Or Member Of Committee May Administer Oaths.
  The chairman, or a member of a committee or subcommittee of the general assembly, or of either house thereof, may administer oaths to witnesses...
• Section 101.47 - Deposition On Complaint.
  A complaint praying for an investigation of the official conduct of an officer liable to impeachment may be presented to the house of representatives....
• Section 101.50 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 03-09-1999
• Section 101.51 - Printing Of Legislative Document Definitions.
  As used in sections 101.51 to 101.543 of the Revised Code: (A) "Composition" includes shape, size, paper, typeface, typeface size, line width, margins, spacing,...
• Section 101.52 - Responsibility For Printing.
  The clerk of the senate and the clerk of the house of representatives are custodians of the documents in possession of the senate or...
• Section 101.521 - Internal Printing.
  If the clerk of the senate or the clerk of the house of representatives prints a document or class of documents internally in the...
• Section 101.522 - Contracts With Private Printers.
  If the clerk of the senate or the clerk of the house of representatives contracts with a private printer outside the clerk's office to...
• Section 101.523 - Participating In Public Printing Services Provided By Department Of Administrative Services.
  If the clerk of the senate or the clerk of the house of representatives prints a document or class of documents by participating in...
• Section 101.524 - Director Of Administrative Services To Let Contract For Printing.
  Upon request of the clerk of the senate or the clerk of the house of representatives to let a contract for printing, the director...
• Section 101.53 - Format For Printing Bills.
  Bills shall be printed in the exact language in which they were passed, under the supervision of the clerk of the house in which...
• Section 101.531 - Printing Pamphlet Laws And Session Laws Line Numbering.
  The material used in printing or producing bills shall be held and used to print or produce pamphlet laws and the session laws. The...
• Section 101.532 - Separate Appropriations Bills For Industrial Commission And Bureau Of Workers' Compensation.
  The main operating appropriations bill shall not contain appropriations for the industrial commission or the bureau of workers' compensation. Appropriations for the bureau shall...
• Section 101.54 - Journals Of General Assembly.
  The clerk of the senate and the clerk of the house of representatives shall keep a daily journal of the proceedings of the clerk's...
• Section 101.541 - Appendix To House And Senate Journals.
  To each final journal there shall be an appendix of petitions and memorials, reports of committees, special reports, communications of officers or boards, and...
• Section 101.542 - Index Of Journals And Appendix.
  The clerk of the senate and the clerk of the house of representatives shall make an index to the journals of the senate and...
• Section 101.543 - Printing And Binding Of Daily And Final Journals.
  As used in this section, "published" means to produce an electronic record that is accessible to the public. The daily journals of the senate...
• Section 101.55 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 101.532.
  Effective Date: 03-09-1999
• Section 101.60 - General Assembly Identification Cards.
  A state agency, its officers, employees, and contractors, shall recognize the state identification card of an individual who is a member, officer who is...
• Section 101.61 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 101.54.
  Effective Date: 03-09-1999
• Section 101.611 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 01-08-1979
• Section 101.62 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 03-09-1999
• Section 101.63 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 101.541.
  Effective Date: 03-09-1999
• Section 101.64 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 03-09-1999
• Section 101.65, 101.66 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 101.542, 101.543.
  Effective Date: 03-09-1999
• Section 101.67 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 03-09-1999
• Section 101.68 - Availability Of Agency Reports.
  (A) Subject to division (D) of this section, within thirty days of the convening of the first regular session of the general assembly, each...
• Section 101.69 - Senate Miscellaneous Sales Fund - House Miscellaneous Sales Fund.
  All money collected by the senate clerk's office from the sale of flags, insignia, seals, frames for resolutions, and similar items shall be deposited...
• Section 101.691 - Excess Or Surplus State Supplies Disposal By Director Of Administrative Services.
  (A) Either house of the general assembly or any legislative agency may dispose of any excess or surplus supplies that it possesses by sale,...
• Section 101.70 - Legislative Lobbying Definitions.
  As used in sections 101.70 to 101.79 and 101.99 of the Revised Code: (A) "Person" means any individual, partnership, trust, estate, business trust, association,...
• Section 101.71 - Prohibited Acts.
  (A) No legislative agent or employer shall knowingly fail to register as required under section 101.72 of the Revised Code. (B) No legislative agent...
• Section 101.711 - Contracts With Legislative Agents.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Legislative agent" has the meaning defined in section 101.70 of the Revised Code. (2) "State agency" has...
• Section 101.72 - Contents Of Initial Registration Statement.
  (A) Each legislative agent and employer, within ten days following an engagement of a legislative agent, shall file with the joint legislative ethics committee...
• Section 101.721 - Disqualification As Legislative Agent For Certain Offenses.
  (A) No person shall be permitted to register as a legislative agent under division (A) or (B) of section 101.72 of the Revised Code...
• Section 101.73 - Statements Of Expenditures.
  (A) Each legislative agent and each employer shall file in the office of the joint legislative ethics committee, with the updated registration statement required...
• Section 101.74 - Statement Of Financial Transactions.
  (A) Any legislative agent who has had any financial transaction with or for the benefit of any member of the general assembly, any member...
• Section 101.75 - Filing Complaint With Joint Legislative Ethics Committee.
  If a dispute arises between any member of the general assembly, any member of the controlling board, or a member of the staff of...
• Section 101.76 - Efforts Excepted From Coverage.
  (A) Sections 101.72 and 101.73 of the Revised Code do not apply to efforts to actively advocate by any of the following: (1) Appearances...
• Section 101.77 - Prohibition Against Contingent Fees.
  No person shall engage any person to actively advocate in exchange for compensation that is contingent in any way upon the passage, modification, or...
• Section 101.78 - Initial Registration, Statement Of Expenditures And Financial Transactions To Be Public.
  (A) The joint legislative ethics committee shall keep on file the statements required by sections 101.72, 101.73, and 101.74 of the Revised Code. Those...
• Section 101.79 - Investigation Of Violations.
  The attorney general and any assistant or special counsel designated by him may investigate compliance with sections 101.70 to 101.78 of the Revised Code...
• Section 101.81 - Contempt Of The General Assembly.
  (A) In order to secure information with respect to any pending or contemplated legislative action, or any alleged breach of its privileges or misconduct...
• Section 101.82 - Sunset Review Committee Definitions.
  As used in sections 101.82 to 101.87 of the Revised Code: (A) "Agency" means any board, commission, committee, or council, or any other similar...
• Section 101.83 - [Repealed Effective 12/31/2016] Expiration Date Of Agencies - Renewal.
  (A) An agency in existence on January 1, 2011, shall expire on December 31, 2016, unless the agency is renewed in accordance with division...
• Section 101.84 - [Repealed Effective 12/31/2016] Sunset Review Committee.
  (A) There is hereby created the sunset review committee, to be composed of nine members and function in calendar years 2015 and 2016. The...
• Section 101.85 - [Repealed Effective 12/31/2016] Schedule For Review Of Agencies.
  (A) The sunset review committee, not later than sixty days after its first meeting in 2015, shall schedule for review each agency in existence...
• Section 101.86 - [Repealed Effective 12/31/2016] Evaluating Usefulness, Performance, And Effectiveness Of Agency.
  (A) Not later than six months prior to the date on which an agency in existence on January 1, 2015, is scheduled to expire...
• Section 101.87 - [Repealed Effective 12/31/2016] Report Of Committee's Findings And Recommendations; Cooperation By Other Agencies.
  (A) After the completion of the evaluation of all agencies under section 101.86 of the Revised Code, the sunset review committee shall prepare and...
• Section 101.90 - Retirement System Lobbyists And Employers - Definitions.
  As used in sections 101.90 to 101.99 of the Revised Code: (A) "Person" and "compensation" have the same meanings as in section 101.70 of...
• Section 101.91 - Retirement System Lobbyists And Employers - Registration And Filing Requirements.
  (A) No person shall knowingly fail to register as required under section 101.92 of the Revised Code. (B) No person shall knowingly fail to...
• Section 101.92 - Retirement System Lobbyists And Employers - Registration Statements - Fee - Review.
  (A) Each retirement system lobbyist and each employer shall file with the joint legislative ethics committee, within ten days following the engagement of a...
• Section 101.921 - Disqualification As Retirement System Lobbyist For Certain Offenses.
  (A) No person shall be permitted to register as a retirement system lobbyist under division (A) or (B) of section 101.92 of the Revised...
• Section 101.93 - Retirement System Lobbyists And Employers - Statement Of Expenditures - Receipts To Be Retained.
  (A) Each retirement system lobbyist and each employer shall file with the joint legislative ethics committee, with the updated registration statement required by division...
• Section 101.94 - Retirement System Lobbyists And Employers - Statement Of Financial Transactions With Certain Board Members.
  (A) Each retirement system lobbyist who has had any financial transaction with or for the benefit of a member of a board of a...
• Section 101.95 - Retirement System Lobbyists And Employers - Complaint Involving Dispute With Certain Board Members.
  If a dispute arises between a member of a board of a state retirement system, a state retirement system investment official, or an employee...
• Section 101.96 - Retirement System Lobbyists And Employers - Scope Of Regulations.
  (A) Sections 101.92 and 101.93 of the Revised Code do not apply to efforts to influence retirement system decisions or conduct retirement system lobbying...
• Section 101.97 - Retirement System Lobbyists And Employers - Conflicts Of Interest.
  (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, no person shall engage any person to influence retirement system decisions or conduct retirement...
• Section 101.98 - Retirement System Lobbyists And Employers - Statements As Public Records - List Of Registrants - Form For Filings.
  (A) The joint legislative ethics committee shall keep on file the statements required by sections 101.92, 101.93, and 101.94 of the Revised Code. These...
• Section 101.981 - Retirement System Lobbyists And Employers - Attorney General May Investigate Compliance.
  The attorney general and any assistant or special counsel designated by the attorney general may investigate compliance with sections 101.90 to 101.98 of the...
• Section 101.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates division (A), (B), or (C) of section 101.71 or of section 101.91, or section 101.77 or 101.97 of the Revised Code...

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