Bill Text: OH HB507 | 2013-2014 | 130th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: To establish the Ohio Local Government Expenditure Database.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-03-25 - To State and Local Government [HB507 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2013-HB507-Introduced.html
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Representative Butler
Cosponsors:
Representatives Henne, Becker, Thompson, Romanchuk, Young
| To enact sections 117.61, 117.62, 117.63, 117.64, | 1 |
| 117.65, and 117.66 of the Revised Code to | 2 |
| establish the Ohio Local Government Expenditure | 3 |
| Database. | 4 |
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
| Section 1. That sections 117.61, 117.62, 117.63, 117.64, | 5 |
| 117.65, and 117.66 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as | 6 |
| follows: | 7 |
| Sec. 117.61. As used in sections 117.61 to 117.66 of the | 8 |
| Revised Code: | 9 |
| "Expenditure" means a payment, loan, advance, or deposit from | 10 |
| a local government to a vendor. | 11 |
| "Local government" means a county, municipal corporation, or | 12 |
| township that has a population of more than five thousand. Local | 13 |
| government also means a school district, which includes a city, | 14 |
| local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district; a | 15 |
| science, technology, engineering, and mathematics school; an | 16 |
| educational service center; a community school; or a | 17 |
| college-preparatory boarding school. | 18 |
| "Person" includes a limited liability company. | 19 |
| "Vendor" means a person or government entity that sells, | 20 |
| leases, or otherwise provides goods or services to a local | 21 |
| government in consideration for a payment, loan, advance, or | 22 |
| deposit from a local government. | 23 |
| Sec. 117.62. The auditor of state shall establish and | 24 |
| maintain the Ohio local government expenditure database. | 25 |
| Sec. 117.63. The auditor of state shall make the Ohio local | 26 |
| government expenditure database available to the public via a web | 27 |
| site. The auditor of state shall contract with a competent person | 28 |
| for establishment and maintenance of the web site. | 29 |
| When adopting rules for the implementation of the Ohio local | 30 |
| government expenditure database web site, the auditor of state | 31 |
| shall prescribe the use of simple and intuitive methods, such as | 32 |
| color coded backgrounds to show rankings, with green indicating a | 33 |
| high rank and red indicating a low rank. | 34 |
| The web site shall do all of the following: | 35 |
| (A) Categorize local government entities by community type, | 36 |
| such as urban, suburban, rural, and mixed, and by population; | 37 |
| (B) Present expenditures made during a fiscal year of a local | 38 |
| government as follows: | 39 |
| (1) By major categories of expenditures; | 40 |
| (2) By the total value; and | 41 |
| (3) By the per capita value. | 42 |
| (C) Rank expenditures made during a fiscal year of a local | 43 |
| government as follows: | 44 |
| (1) Within major categories of expenditures; | 45 |
| (2) Based on the total value; and | 46 |
| (3) Based on per capita value. | 47 |
| (D) Allow viewers to compare local governments based on the | 48 |
| expenditures made during a fiscal year of a local government: | 49 |
| (1) Within major categories of expenditures; | 50 |
| (2) Based on the total value; and | 51 |
| (3) Based on per capita value. | 52 |
| (E) Explain the fiscal year used by each local government. | 53 |
| (F) Present subcategories within the major categories of | 54 |
| expenditures, which shall be viewable upon election of the viewer; | 55 |
| (G) Rank local government entities within the subcategories; | 56 |
| (H) Allow viewers to compare local government entities within | 57 |
| the subcategories; | 58 |
| (I) Present detailed expenses within each subcategory, such | 59 |
| as maintenance expenses and the total annual expenses a local | 60 |
| government incurs for each employee; and | 61 |
| (J) Present each local government's contracts related to | 62 |
| expenditures, such as supply or labor contracts. | 63 |
| Sec. 117.64. Each local government shall display on its web | 64 |
| site a prominent link to the Ohio local government expenditure | 65 |
| database web site. | 66 |
| The Ohio local government expenditure database web site shall | 67 |
| be available to members of the public without charge. The web site | 68 |
| shall be accessible and viewable on both mac and microsoft windows | 69 |
| operating systems and through major cellular telephone networks. | 70 |
| Sec. 117.65. If a local government does not submit data to | 71 |
| the auditor of state as required under the rules adopted by the | 72 |
| auditor of state under section 117.66 of the Revised Code, any | 73 |
| local government fund moneys or casino tax revenue fund moneys to | 74 |
| which the local government is entitled, if the local government is | 75 |
| a county, municipal corporation, or township, shall be reduced by | 76 |
| fifty per cent. If a local government does not submit data to the | 77 |
| auditor of state as required under the rules adopted by the | 78 |
| auditor of state under section 117.66 of the Revised Code, any | 79 |
| funds under the school foundation program to which the local | 80 |
| government is entitled, if the local government is a school | 81 |
| district, shall be reduced by ten per cent. | 82 |
| Sec. 117.66. The auditor of state shall adopt reasonable | 83 |
| rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that are necessary to | 84 |
| implement sections 117.61 to 117.65 of the Revised Code. The rules | 85 |
| shall establish an initial and subsequent reporting deadlines, and | 86 |
| shall include a rule that entitles a local government to correct a | 87 |
| simple, unintentional reporting error, including omissions, before | 88 |
| the auditor of state declares the local government is not in | 89 |
| compliance. | 90 |
| Section 2. The Auditor of State shall adopt rules to | 91 |
| implement the Ohio Local Government Expenditure Database not later | 92 |
| than six months after the effective date of this section. The Ohio | 93 |
| Local Government Expenditure Database shall be operational not | 94 |
| later than one year after the effective date of this section. The | 95 |
| Auditor of State shall make the Ohio Local Government Expenditure | 96 |
| Database available to the public via a web site not later than | 97 |
| eighteen months after the effective date of this section. | 98 |
| The Auditor of State shall initially implement section 117.63 | 99 |
| of the Revised Code under the following schedule: | 100 |
| Divisions (A) to (E), not later than six months after the | 101 |
| effective date of this section; | 102 |
| Divisions (F) to (H), not later than eighteen months after | 103 |
| the effective date of this section; and | 104 |
| Divisions (I) to (J), not later than thirty months after the | 105 |
| effective date of this section. | 106 |
