Ohio Amend Worker's Compensation Law Referendum (1997)
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| Topic Workers' compensation laws |
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| Type Veto referendum |
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Ohio Amend Worker's Compensation Law Referendum was on the ballot as a veto referendum in Ohio on November 4, 1997. It was defeated.
A "yes" vote supported amending Workers' Compensation laws and regulations. |
A "no" vote opposed amending Workers' Compensation laws and regulations. |
Election results
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| Yes | 1,305,040 | 42.99% | ||
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1,730,502 | 57.01% | ||
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title for Amend Worker's Compensation Law Referendum was as follows:
| “ | "Shall amended substitute Senate Bill No. 45 relative to Ohio's Worker's Compensation Laws, passed by the General Assembly of Ohio, approved by the governor, and filed in the office of the Secretary of State be approved?" "AMENDED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL NO. 45 amends Ohio's Workers' Compensation laws to make various changes in the structure, payment, and determination of benefits, to provide criminal penalties for employers who intentionally misclassify their employees for workers' compensation purposes, to prohibit kickbacks from health care providers under the Workers' Compensation Law, to permit certain nonattorneys to represent parties in hearings before the Industrial Commission, to require hearing officers to report suspected fraudulent activity, to prohibit health care providers from receiving payments for false claims under the Workers' Compensation law, to except buildings and land used for agricultural production from safety rules that apply to workshops and factories, to change the definition of occupational disease, to specify the records produced by an attorney in connection with a workers' compensation claim are the property of the claimant, to permit an employer to have an employee excepted from the Workers' Compensation Laws for religious reasons, to provide that records kept by the Division of Safety and Hygiene are confidential, to change the duration of the continuing jurisdiction of the Industrial Commission generally to five years with specified exceptions for certain occupational diseases or prosthetic device cases, to create the presumption concerning alcohol or a controlled substance as the cause of an employee's injury, to limit recovery for aggravation of a preexisting condition, to reduce the number of weeks an employee can receive nonworking wage loss, and to make other changes in the Workers' Compensation Law." If approved, these amendments and enactments shall take effect immediately. A majority yes vote is necessary for passage. SHALL THE PROPOSED LAW BE APPROVED? | ” |
Path to the ballot
A veto referendum is a citizen-initiated ballot measure that asks voters whether to uphold or repeal an enacted law. This type of ballot measure is also called statute referendum, popular referendum, people's veto, or citizen's veto. There are 23 states that allow citizens to initiate veto referendums.
In Ohio, the number of signatures required for a veto referendum is equal to 6% of the votes cast in the last gubernatorial election. Signatures for veto referendums are due 90 days after the targeted law is signed. A simple majority vote is required for voter approval.
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