Jamie Callender
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Jamie Callender is an Ohio Republican politician, attorney, and professor. He is an alumnus of University of Kentucky, Cleveland State University, and Cleveland-Marshall College of Law (1992).
He was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives
from 1997–2004. Even though he is a conservative Republican, he represented western Lake County
, which is traditionally a Democratic area. His district included the Cleveland suburbs of Willowick, Wickliffe, Eastlake, Willoughby, Willoughby Hills, Mentor-on-the-Lake, Concord Twp, Kirtland, Kirtland Hills, Waite Hill, Timberlake, and Lakeline. He won election four times, the maximum under term limits.
Callender was a partner in the law firm of McNamara, Hanrahan, Callender, and Loxterman in Lake County; in 2006 he merged his practice into the national firm of Buckley, King, LPA, which is based in Cleveland http://www.buckleyking.com/. He practices primarily education and public policy law and is very involved in the charter school movement http://www.uscharterschools.org/cs/sp/view/sp/12.
Callender is also Professor of State Public Policy at Kent State University, and team teaches with Dr. Vernon Sykes
, who served in the Ohio House alongside Callender, and is Chairman of the House Finance Committee http://www.house.state.oh.us/index.php?option=com_displaymembers&task=detail&district=44.
During his tenure in the Ohio House, Callender served as Chairman of JCARR (Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review) for two terms, and as Chair of the House Education Committee. Under his leadership, Ohio greatly expanded school choice, in particular Charter Schools.
Callender also served on the Ohio State Board of Education, and on the Ohio Board of Regents. He was one of Governor Taft's appointments to the Education Commission on the States, where he worked on No Child Left Behind and value added.
Callender is married to Heidi (Nolan) and has two children, Ashley and James III, and one stepchild, Meghan.
List of Bills As Introduced (see Ohio Legislative Service Commission:
122nd General Assembly
An act to amend sections 3316.06 and 3319.02 of the Revised Code to permit a school board to enter into administrative contracts with non-licensed employees who are considered to be supervisory or management level employees for purposes of collective bargaining, to permit a school district that has been declared to be in a state of fiscal emergency to issue, following approval of the district voters of a new operating levy and approval of such school district's financial planning and supervision commission, securities not to exceed ten years for the purpose of restructuring or refinancing its outstanding debt obligations, and to declare an emergency.
Passed in House 2/26/97; Governor Signed 3/31/97
A bill to enact section 9.561 of the Revised Code to prohibit any owner of a public building from claiming the protection of trademark for its shape, design, image, or structure.
Passed in House 6/25/97
Assigned to Senate State and Local Government Committee - 6/25/97
An act to amend sections 1301.05, 1302.56, 1309.01, 1309.03, 1309.04, 1309.23, and 1309.24, to enact new sections 1305.01 to 1305.16, and to repeal sections 1305.01, 1305.02, 1305.03, 1305.04, 1305.05, 1305.06, 1305.07, 1305.08, 1305.09, 1305.10, 1305.11, 1305.12, 1305.13, 1305.14, 1305.15, and 1305.16 of the Revised Code to adopt Revised Article V--Letters of Credit of the Uniform Commercial Code.
Passed in House 5/28/97
Governor Signed 8/06/97
A bill to amend section 149.43 and to enact section 149.432 of the Revised Code to exclude a peace officer's personnel administrative information incidental to employment from the requirements of the Public Records Law.
Assigned to House Energy, Technology, and Environment Committee - 3/19/97
A bill to amend sections 133.24 and 133.30 and to enact section 133.43 of the Revised Code to require that school district sales of securities of $1,000,000 or more must be competitively bid.
Assigned to House Education Committee - 5/28/97
A bill to enact sections 3318.80 and 3318.81 of the Revised Code to establish a loan program for school districts undertaking projects to improve, repair, renovate, or reconstruct permanent improvements, and to make an appropriation.
Assigned to House Finance and Appropriations - 9/23/97
An act to amend sections 2301.02 and 2301.51 of the Revised Code to add one General Division judge to the Court of Common Pleas of Lake County to be elected at the general election in November 2000, and, in courts of common pleas in which the presiding judge is not a judge of the court's general division, to transfer certain functions regarding community-based or district community-based correctional facilities and programs from the presiding judge to the administrative judge of the court's general division.
Passed in House 5/21/98
Governor Signed 12/29/98
A bill to amend sections 341.11, 2151.16, 2151.31, 2151.311, 2151.312, 2301.03, 4521.06, and 4521.08 of the Revised Code to permit adults suspected of, or adjudicated a delinquent child or a juvenile traffic offender for, committing an offense while a juvenile to be detained in an adult detention facility, to change certain references to court referee to court magistrate, and to maintain the provisions of this act on and after July 1, 1998, by amending the version of section 2151.312 of the Revised Code that takes effect on that date.
Assigned to House Criminal Justice - 1/09/08
A bill to amend sections 109.71, 109.751, 109.77, 109.801, 109.802, 123.01, 145.01, 145.33, 149.01, 1501.01, 1501.02, 1501.10, 1502.01, 1502.03, 1502.04, 1502.05, 1502.99, 1503.01, 1503.05, 1503.29, 1503.43, 1504.02, 1505.10, 1505.99, 1506.02, 1506.11, 1507.05, 1509.01, 1509.06, 1509.07, 1509.071, 1509.072, 1509.13, 1509.14, 1509.22, 1509.222, 1509.31, 1511.02, 1511.022, 1513.02, 1513.18, 1513.181, 1513.20, 1513.30, 1513.37, 1515.03, 1515.08, 1515.24, 1517.10, 1517.14, 1517.99, 1518.20 to 1518.27, 1518.99, 1520.01 to 1520.03, 1521.03, 1521.05, 1531.01, 1531.06, 1531.13, 1531.20, 1531.33, 1531.99, 1533.01, 1533.06, 1533.08, 1533.10, 1533.12, 1533.171, 1533.24, 1533.67, 1533.68, 1533.70, 1533.71, 1533.82, 1533.99, 1541.03, 1541.10, 1547.01, 1547.03, 1547.04, 1547.08, 1547.09, 1547.111, 1547.12, 1547.13, 1547.131, 1547.14, 1547.15, 1547.22, 1547.25, 1547.251, 1547.26, 1547.30, 1547.302, 1547.31, 1547.33, 1547.39, 1547.40, 1547.52, 1547.521, 1547.531, 1547.57, 1547.69, 1548.01, 1548.05, 1548.06, 2935.01, 2935.03, 3937.42, 4905.03, 5749.02, and 6111.42; to amend, for the purpose of adopting new section numbers as indicated in parentheses, sections 1518.20 (1533.86), 1518.21 (1533.87), 1518.22 (1533.88), 1518.23 (1533.881), 1518.24 (1533.882), 1518.25 (1533.89), 1518.26 (1533.891), and 1518.27 (1533.90); to enact sections 1501.013, 1531.202, and 1531.34; and to repeal sections 1515.06 and 1515.071 of the Revised Code to revise the statutes governing the Department of Natural Resources; to maintain the provisions of this act on and after March 4, 1998, by amending the version of section 1506.11 of the Revised Code that takes effect on that date; and to maintain the provisions of this act on and after January 1, 2000, by amending the version of section 1547.31 of the Revised Code that takes effect on that date.
Assigned to House Agriculture and Natural Resources - 3/26/98
A bill to amend Section 50.13 of Am. Sub. H.B. 215 of the 122nd General Assembly, as amended by Am. Sub. H.B. 650 of the 122nd General Assembly, to specify that the existing fiscal year 1999 appropriation for the Special Education Enhancements line item includes funding for school psychology interns.
Assigned to House Finance and Appropriations - 5/07/98
A bill to amend section 2151.313, to enact new section 2151.358, and to repeal section 2151.358 of the Revised Code to revise the procedure by which a juvenile court may expunge records of alleged and adjudicated delinquent and unruly acts, to repeal the juvenile court's authority to expunge juvenile traffic offender records, and to maintain the provisions of this act on and after January 1, 1999, by amending the version of section 2151.313 of the Revised Code that takes effect on that date.
Assigned to House Criminal Justice - 9/01/98
123rd General Assembly
A bill to amend sections 120.18, 120.28, 120.33, 120.34, and 120.35 of the Revised Code to require the state to reimburse counties for 50% of the total costs associated with the defense of certain indigent persons.
Assigned to House State Government Committee - 2/08/99
A bill to amend sections 4732.01, 4732.09, 4732.10, 4732.13, 4732.14, 1732.141, 4732.15, 4732.17, 4732.19, 4732.20, 4732.21, 4732.22, 4732.23, 4732.24, 4757.41, and 4757.42 and to enact section 4732.131 of the Revised Code to have the State Board of Psychology license psychological associates.
Assigned to House Commerce and Labor - 3/02/99
A bill to amend section 5701.03 of the Revised Code to clarify that certain kinds of personal property that are capitalized on a utility's records constitute electric production equipment for purposes of taxation.
Assigned to House Ways and Means Committee - 5/11/09
A bill to enact section 9.561 of the Revised Code to prohibit any owner of a public building from claiming the protection of trademark for its shape, design, image, or structure.
Passed in House 6/09/99
Assigned to Senate State and Local Government Committee - 6/10/99
A bill to amend sections 5739.01, 5739.02, 5709.033, and 5739.17 of the Revised Code to eliminate the sales tax on employment services and employment placement services.
Assigned to House Ways and Means Committee 6/01/99
A bill to amend section 5739.02 of the Revised Code to exempt from the sales tax sales of exterminating services for buildings or structures used for agricultural purposes.
Assigned to House Ways and Means Committee - 8/17/99
A bill to amend sections 5739.01, 5739.02, 5739.033, and 5739.17 of the Revised Code to exempt sales of landscaping and lawn care services from the sales tax.
Assigned to House Ways and Means Committee - 8/17/99
A bill to enact section 5.033 of the Revised Code to adopt the green frog as the state amphibian.
Assigned to House State Government Committee - 9/08/99
A bill to enact section 2305.401 of the Revised Code to provide a qualified immunity from civil liability and injunctive relief to members of the firearms industry that will be both prospective and retroactive in its application.
Assigned to House Civil and Commercial Law - 11/16/99
An act to amend sections 2925.03, 2929.13, and 2929.18 and to repeal section 2925.07 of the Revised Code to expand the drug trafficking offenses to also include a prohibition against certain acts related to the shipment, transportation, delivery, or distribution of a controlled substance for sale or resale.
Passed in House 5/09/00
Governor Signed 11/14/00
A bill to amend section 5747.05 of the Revised Code to extend the joint filing tax credit against the personal income tax to all joint filers.
Assigned to House Ways and Means Committee - 4/18/00
A bill to amend section 5747.01 of the Revised Code to exempt pay and allowances received for service in the Ohio national guard from taxation
Assigned to House Ways and Means Committee - 4/18/00
A bill to amend section 4507.162 of the Revised Code to allow a court to grant occupational driving privileges to a person whose probationary driver's license, restricted license, or temporary instruction permit is suspended for having committed two separate violations of specified offenses.
Assigned to House Transportation and Public Safety - 6/13/00
A bill to enact sections 4501.34 and 4503.74 of the Revised Code to create Rock and Roll Hall of Fame license plates.
Assigned to House Transportation and Public Safety - 9/12/00
A bill to amend sections 3301.0714 and 3314.03 and to enact sections 3313.473 and 3319.323 of the Revised Code to require school districts, community schools, and chartered nonpublic schools to obtain written parental consent before collecting Social Security numbers and certain other information from students and to require school districts, community schools, and chartered nonpublic schools to expunge a student's Social Security number from its records upon request.
Assigned to House Education Committee - 9/12/00
124th General Assembly
A bill to amend section 5747.05 of the Revised Code to extend the joint filing tax credit against the personal income tax to all joint filers.
Assigned to House Ways and Means Committee 2/01/01
A bill to enact sections 4501.34, 4503.74, and 4503.82 of the Revised Code to create Rock and Roll Hall of Fame license plates and to permit the creation of additional varieties of a nonstandard license plate at the rate of one variety for every 20,000 motor vehicle registrations involving the original nonstandard license plate and its varieties.
Passed in House 10/17/01
Assigned to Senate
A bill to amend sections 5739.01, 5739.02, 5739.033, and 5739.17 of the Revised Code to eliminate the sales tax on employment services and employment placement services.
Assigned to House Ways and Means Committee - 2/08/01
An act to enact section 2305.401 of the Revised Code as a general law to provide a qualified immunity from civil liability and injunctive relief to members of the firearms industry that will be both prospective and retroactive in its application.
Passed in House 5/16/01
Governor Signed 7/06/01
125th General Assembly
A bill to amend section 4501.21 and to enact sections 4503.551 and 4503.82 of the Revised Code to create Rock and Roll Hall of Fame license plates and to permit the creation of additional varieties of a nonstandard license plate at the rate of one variety for every 20,000 motor vehicle registrations involving the original nonstandard license plate and its varieties.
Passed in House 06/18/03
To amend sections 1739.05, 1751.01, 3923.51, 4732.01, 4732.09, 4732.10, 4732.13, 4732.14, 4732.141, 4732.15, 4732.17, 4732.19, 4732.20, 4732.21, 4732.22, 4732.23, 4732.24, 4757.41, and 4757.42, to enact new section 3923.28 and sections 3923.281 and 4732.131, and to repeal sections 3923.28, 3923.29, and 3923.30 of the Revised Code to prohibit discrimination in health care policies, contracts, and agreements in the coverage provided for the diagnosis, care, and treatment of mental illness, and to permit the State Board of Psychology to license psychological associates.
Assigned to House Insurance Committee - 02/12/03
A bill to enact section 317.082 of the Revised Code to generally prohibit the inclusion of an individual's social security number on documents submitted for recording in the office of the county recorder and to create an affirmative defense to associated civil liability of a good faith effort to comply with the noninclusion requirement.
Passed in House 06/25/03
A bill to amend sections 1533.10, 1533.101, 1533.11, 1533.111, 1533.112, 1533.12, 1533.19, and 1533.32 of the Revised Code to decrease the fees for hunting, trapping, and fishing licenses, permits, and stamps to the amounts that were in effect prior to September 26, 2003, and to restore free licenses, permits, and stamps for senior citizens.
Assigned to House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee - 12/10/03
A bill to amend sections 504.01 and 504.02 of the Revised Code to provide additional ways of determining the population of the unincorporated territory of a township for purposes of meeting the population requirements for adopting a limited home rule government.
Passed in House 05/11/04
A bill to enact section 5.033 of the Revised Code to adopt the American toad as the state amphibian.
Assigned to House State Government Committee - 02/04/04
A bill to amend sections 323.152 and 4503.065 of the Revised Code to increase the total income brackets used to determine eligibility for the homestead exemption and to increase the reductions in taxable value of property eligible for that exemption.
Assigned to House Ways and Means Committee - 02/04/04
A bill to amend sections 4507.50 and 4507.52 of the Revised Code to provide for the issuance of state identification cards at no charge to Medicaid recipients.
Assigned to House Health Committee - 11/23/04
List of Biographical Boards and Commissions
Mentor Public Library Board
Member
2009 – Present
Lake County Republican Party
Member, Central Committee; 1988 – Present
Member, Executive Committee; 1992 – Present
Ohio Association of Charter School Authorizers (OACSA)
Chairman/President and Founding Board Member
2005–2009
Education Commission of the States
Ohio’s Representative, appointed by Governor Robert Taft
2000–2003
Ohio Coalition for Suicide Prevention, Ohio Department of Mental Health
Member, Board of Directors
1998–2004
Lifeline for the Empowerment and Development of Consumers
Member, Board of Directors
2001–2003
Lake County Emergency Coordination Taskforce
Member
2000–2002
Lakeland Community College (Kirtland, Ohio)
Member, Paralegal Advisory Board
1995–2007
Ohio State Board of Education
Member
2001–2003
Ohio Board of Regents
Member
2001–2003
OhioReads Council
Founding Member
2000–2002
Ohio Closing Achievement Gaps Taskforce
Member, appointed by Governor
2002–2003
Governors Commission on Teaching Success
Member, appointed by Governor
2001–2002
Ohio State Bar Association
Board of Editors, Ohio Law Magazine, 2002–2004
Lecturer at Continuing Legal Education classes
Lake County Historical Society
President 1995–1998
Member 1993–2000
City of Willowick, Recreation Board
Chairman 1993–1995
Member 1991–1995
Retinitas Pigmentosa Foundation of Ohio
Chairman and Founding Board Member
Raised over $10 million dollars for research on degenerative eye disease
1989–1992
Lake County Young Republicans
President 1990
Vice President 1989
Secretary 1988
Member 1988–1994
List of Biographical Honors and Awards
Ohio Association of Gifted Students
Legislator of the Year, 2003
Ohio Person of Courage Award
2002
Watchdog of the Treasury of Ohio
Awards, 1998 and 2000
Bridges Mental Health Consumer Empowerment
Citizen of the Year Award, 2003
Charter School Association of Ohio
Person of Courage and Leadership Award, 2003
Lake/Geauga Young Republicans
Hall of Fame, 2003
Ohio Staffing Services Association
Legislator of the Year, 1999
Ohio Advocates for Mental Health
Legislator of the Year, 1998
Ohio Trial Lawyers Association
Legislator of the Year, 2004
Best Friends of LEAF
Service Award
Ohio Staffing Services
Advocate of the Year Award, 1999
Ohio Association of County Boards of Mental Retardation
Legislative Leadership Award, 2004
List of Publications, etc.
As Primary Author
Callender, J. (2009). State Government in Ohio. Ohio; Lake Publishing
Callender, J. (2004, Spring) Value-added Student Assessment. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, Vol. 29. No. 1, p. 5
Callender, J. (2001 through 2002) monthly columnist. The Bridge, Senior Citizens Monthly News Journal
Co-Author, Editor, or Contributor
Wind Energy in Ohio: Our past, present, and future. Ohio; Lake Publishing, Callender, Heidi (May 2010) Chapter author. Amazon: Wind Energy in Ohio
Jamie and Heidi's Honeymoon Guidebook. (with Heidi Callender); Lake Publishing (July, 2009) Co-Author. http://www.amazon.com/Jamie-Heidis-Honeymoon-Guidebook-compilation/dp/144866103X
Miller, E.(1918). History of Educational Legislation in Ohio; 1803 to 1850. Ohio; Lake Publishing, Callender, J. (April 2010) Re-printed.Amazon: History of Educational Legislation in Ohio
Ohio’s Suicide Prevention Plan. Ohio Department of Mental Health, Coalition for Suicide Prevention, Callender, J. (May 2002) Named contributor.
Ohio Lawyer Magazine. Ohio State Bar Association, Callender, J. (July 2002 – July 2004) Editor.
Referenced or Cited-in
Cain B., Donovan T. & Tolbert C. (2008). Democracy in the States: Experiments in Election Reform. Washington D.C.; Brookings Institution Press
Steinglass S. & Scarselli G. (2004) Ohio State Constitution: A Reference Guide. Connecticut; Praeger Publishers
He was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives
Ohio House of Representatives
The Ohio House of Representatives is the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Ohio; the other house of the bicameral legislature being the Ohio Senate....
from 1997–2004. Even though he is a conservative Republican, he represented western Lake County
Lake County, Ohio
Lake County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of 2010, the population was 230,041. The county seat is Painesville, and the county name comes from its location on the southern shore of Lake Erie....
, which is traditionally a Democratic area. His district included the Cleveland suburbs of Willowick, Wickliffe, Eastlake, Willoughby, Willoughby Hills, Mentor-on-the-Lake, Concord Twp, Kirtland, Kirtland Hills, Waite Hill, Timberlake, and Lakeline. He won election four times, the maximum under term limits.
Callender was a partner in the law firm of McNamara, Hanrahan, Callender, and Loxterman in Lake County; in 2006 he merged his practice into the national firm of Buckley, King, LPA, which is based in Cleveland http://www.buckleyking.com/. He practices primarily education and public policy law and is very involved in the charter school movement http://www.uscharterschools.org/cs/sp/view/sp/12.
Callender is also Professor of State Public Policy at Kent State University, and team teaches with Dr. Vernon Sykes
Vernon Sykes
Vernon Sykes is a Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives who has represented the 44th District since 2007. He also served in the House from 1983 through 2000. He is the ranking member of the House Finance and Appropriations Committee.-Career:...
, who served in the Ohio House alongside Callender, and is Chairman of the House Finance Committee http://www.house.state.oh.us/index.php?option=com_displaymembers&task=detail&district=44.
During his tenure in the Ohio House, Callender served as Chairman of JCARR (Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review) for two terms, and as Chair of the House Education Committee. Under his leadership, Ohio greatly expanded school choice, in particular Charter Schools.
Callender also served on the Ohio State Board of Education, and on the Ohio Board of Regents. He was one of Governor Taft's appointments to the Education Commission on the States, where he worked on No Child Left Behind and value added.
Callender is married to Heidi (Nolan) and has two children, Ashley and James III, and one stepchild, Meghan.
List of Bills As Introduced (see Ohio Legislative Service Commission:
122nd General Assembly
- HB 56 - School board-contract w/ non-licensed-management-level
An act to amend sections 3316.06 and 3319.02 of the Revised Code to permit a school board to enter into administrative contracts with non-licensed employees who are considered to be supervisory or management level employees for purposes of collective bargaining, to permit a school district that has been declared to be in a state of fiscal emergency to issue, following approval of the district voters of a new operating levy and approval of such school district's financial planning and supervision commission, securities not to exceed ten years for the purpose of restructuring or refinancing its outstanding debt obligations, and to declare an emergency.
Passed in House 2/26/97; Governor Signed 3/31/97
- HB 297 - Public buildings-trademark therefore prohibited
A bill to enact section 9.561 of the Revised Code to prohibit any owner of a public building from claiming the protection of trademark for its shape, design, image, or structure.
Passed in House 6/25/97
Assigned to Senate State and Local Government Committee - 6/25/97
- HB 338 - Adopt UCC-Revised Art V-Letters of Credit
An act to amend sections 1301.05, 1302.56, 1309.01, 1309.03, 1309.04, 1309.23, and 1309.24, to enact new sections 1305.01 to 1305.16, and to repeal sections 1305.01, 1305.02, 1305.03, 1305.04, 1305.05, 1305.06, 1305.07, 1305.08, 1305.09, 1305.10, 1305.11, 1305.12, 1305.13, 1305.14, 1305.15, and 1305.16 of the Revised Code to adopt Revised Article V--Letters of Credit of the Uniform Commercial Code.
Passed in House 5/28/97
Governor Signed 8/06/97
- HB 340 - Peace officers-personal info-confidential
A bill to amend section 149.43 and to enact section 149.432 of the Revised Code to exclude a peace officer's personnel administrative information incidental to employment from the requirements of the Public Records Law.
Assigned to House Energy, Technology, and Environment Committee - 3/19/97
- HB 469 - School district-security-$1 million-competitive bid
A bill to amend sections 133.24 and 133.30 and to enact section 133.43 of the Revised Code to require that school district sales of securities of $1,000,000 or more must be competitively bid.
Assigned to House Education Committee - 5/28/97
- HB 592 - School district building repair loan program
A bill to enact sections 3318.80 and 3318.81 of the Revised Code to establish a loan program for school districts undertaking projects to improve, repair, renovate, or reconstruct permanent improvements, and to make an appropriation.
Assigned to House Finance and Appropriations - 9/23/97
- HB 602 - Lake County Common Pleas-add judge
An act to amend sections 2301.02 and 2301.51 of the Revised Code to add one General Division judge to the Court of Common Pleas of Lake County to be elected at the general election in November 2000, and, in courts of common pleas in which the presiding judge is not a judge of the court's general division, to transfer certain functions regarding community-based or district community-based correctional facilities and programs from the presiding judge to the administrative judge of the court's general division.
Passed in House 5/21/98
Governor Signed 12/29/98
- HB 663 - Adult juvenile offenders-adult detention
A bill to amend sections 341.11, 2151.16, 2151.31, 2151.311, 2151.312, 2301.03, 4521.06, and 4521.08 of the Revised Code to permit adults suspected of, or adjudicated a delinquent child or a juvenile traffic offender for, committing an offense while a juvenile to be detained in an adult detention facility, to change certain references to court referee to court magistrate, and to maintain the provisions of this act on and after July 1, 1998, by amending the version of section 2151.312 of the Revised Code that takes effect on that date.
Assigned to House Criminal Justice - 1/09/08
- HB 731 - Department of Natural Resources-revise law
A bill to amend sections 109.71, 109.751, 109.77, 109.801, 109.802, 123.01, 145.01, 145.33, 149.01, 1501.01, 1501.02, 1501.10, 1502.01, 1502.03, 1502.04, 1502.05, 1502.99, 1503.01, 1503.05, 1503.29, 1503.43, 1504.02, 1505.10, 1505.99, 1506.02, 1506.11, 1507.05, 1509.01, 1509.06, 1509.07, 1509.071, 1509.072, 1509.13, 1509.14, 1509.22, 1509.222, 1509.31, 1511.02, 1511.022, 1513.02, 1513.18, 1513.181, 1513.20, 1513.30, 1513.37, 1515.03, 1515.08, 1515.24, 1517.10, 1517.14, 1517.99, 1518.20 to 1518.27, 1518.99, 1520.01 to 1520.03, 1521.03, 1521.05, 1531.01, 1531.06, 1531.13, 1531.20, 1531.33, 1531.99, 1533.01, 1533.06, 1533.08, 1533.10, 1533.12, 1533.171, 1533.24, 1533.67, 1533.68, 1533.70, 1533.71, 1533.82, 1533.99, 1541.03, 1541.10, 1547.01, 1547.03, 1547.04, 1547.08, 1547.09, 1547.111, 1547.12, 1547.13, 1547.131, 1547.14, 1547.15, 1547.22, 1547.25, 1547.251, 1547.26, 1547.30, 1547.302, 1547.31, 1547.33, 1547.39, 1547.40, 1547.52, 1547.521, 1547.531, 1547.57, 1547.69, 1548.01, 1548.05, 1548.06, 2935.01, 2935.03, 3937.42, 4905.03, 5749.02, and 6111.42; to amend, for the purpose of adopting new section numbers as indicated in parentheses, sections 1518.20 (1533.86), 1518.21 (1533.87), 1518.22 (1533.88), 1518.23 (1533.881), 1518.24 (1533.882), 1518.25 (1533.89), 1518.26 (1533.891), and 1518.27 (1533.90); to enact sections 1501.013, 1531.202, and 1531.34; and to repeal sections 1515.06 and 1515.071 of the Revised Code to revise the statutes governing the Department of Natural Resources; to maintain the provisions of this act on and after March 4, 1998, by amending the version of section 1506.11 of the Revised Code that takes effect on that date; and to maintain the provisions of this act on and after January 1, 2000, by amending the version of section 1547.31 of the Revised Code that takes effect on that date.
Assigned to House Agriculture and Natural Resources - 3/26/98
- HB 757 - Funding for school psychology interns
A bill to amend Section 50.13 of Am. Sub. H.B. 215 of the 122nd General Assembly, as amended by Am. Sub. H.B. 650 of the 122nd General Assembly, to specify that the existing fiscal year 1999 appropriation for the Special Education Enhancements line item includes funding for school psychology interns.
Assigned to House Finance and Appropriations - 5/07/98
- HB 822 - Juvenile offenses-revise expungment proceed
A bill to amend section 2151.313, to enact new section 2151.358, and to repeal section 2151.358 of the Revised Code to revise the procedure by which a juvenile court may expunge records of alleged and adjudicated delinquent and unruly acts, to repeal the juvenile court's authority to expunge juvenile traffic offender records, and to maintain the provisions of this act on and after January 1, 1999, by amending the version of section 2151.313 of the Revised Code that takes effect on that date.
Assigned to House Criminal Justice - 9/01/98
123rd General Assembly
- HB 153 - Indigent defense-state reimburse county 50 percent
A bill to amend sections 120.18, 120.28, 120.33, 120.34, and 120.35 of the Revised Code to require the state to reimburse counties for 50% of the total costs associated with the defense of certain indigent persons.
Assigned to House State Government Committee - 2/08/99
- HB 212 - Psychological associates-license
A bill to amend sections 4732.01, 4732.09, 4732.10, 4732.13, 4732.14, 1732.141, 4732.15, 4732.17, 4732.19, 4732.20, 4732.21, 4732.22, 4732.23, 4732.24, 4757.41, and 4757.42 and to enact section 4732.131 of the Revised Code to have the State Board of Psychology license psychological associates.
Assigned to House Commerce and Labor - 3/02/99
- HB 333 - Electric production equipment-tax valuation
A bill to amend section 5701.03 of the Revised Code to clarify that certain kinds of personal property that are capitalized on a utility's records constitute electric production equipment for purposes of taxation.
Assigned to House Ways and Means Committee - 5/11/09
- HB 334 - Public buildings-prohibit trademarking of
A bill to enact section 9.561 of the Revised Code to prohibit any owner of a public building from claiming the protection of trademark for its shape, design, image, or structure.
Passed in House 6/09/99
Assigned to Senate State and Local Government Committee - 6/10/99
- HB 372 - Employment services-sales tax exemption
A bill to amend sections 5739.01, 5739.02, 5709.033, and 5739.17 of the Revised Code to eliminate the sales tax on employment services and employment placement services.
Assigned to House Ways and Means Committee 6/01/99
- HB 422 - Extermination-agriculture building-no sales tax
A bill to amend section 5739.02 of the Revised Code to exempt from the sales tax sales of exterminating services for buildings or structures used for agricultural purposes.
Assigned to House Ways and Means Committee - 8/17/99
- HB 423 - Landscaping/lawn care-no sales tax
A bill to amend sections 5739.01, 5739.02, 5739.033, and 5739.17 of the Revised Code to exempt sales of landscaping and lawn care services from the sales tax.
Assigned to House Ways and Means Committee - 8/17/99
- HB 435 - State amphibian=green frog
A bill to enact section 5.033 of the Revised Code to adopt the green frog as the state amphibian.
Assigned to House State Government Committee - 9/08/99
- HB 498 - Firearms industry-immunity
A bill to enact section 2305.401 of the Revised Code to provide a qualified immunity from civil liability and injunctive relief to members of the firearms industry that will be both prospective and retroactive in its application.
Assigned to House Civil and Commercial Law - 11/16/99
- HB 528 - Drug trafficking offenses-expand
An act to amend sections 2925.03, 2929.13, and 2929.18 and to repeal section 2925.07 of the Revised Code to expand the drug trafficking offenses to also include a prohibition against certain acts related to the shipment, transportation, delivery, or distribution of a controlled substance for sale or resale.
Passed in House 5/09/00
Governor Signed 11/14/00
- HB 665 - Joint filing tax credit-to all joint filers
A bill to amend section 5747.05 of the Revised Code to extend the joint filing tax credit against the personal income tax to all joint filers.
Assigned to House Ways and Means Committee - 4/18/00
- HB 666 - National Guard-pay/allowances-tax exempt
A bill to amend section 5747.01 of the Revised Code to exempt pay and allowances received for service in the Ohio national guard from taxation
Assigned to House Ways and Means Committee - 4/18/00
- HB 731 - Occupational driving privilege-expand eligibility
A bill to amend section 4507.162 of the Revised Code to allow a court to grant occupational driving privileges to a person whose probationary driver's license, restricted license, or temporary instruction permit is suspended for having committed two separate violations of specified offenses.
Assigned to House Transportation and Public Safety - 6/13/00
- HB 773 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame license plates
A bill to enact sections 4501.34 and 4503.74 of the Revised Code to create Rock and Roll Hall of Fame license plates.
Assigned to House Transportation and Public Safety - 9/12/00
- HB 775 - Schools-collect social security number-get parental consent
A bill to amend sections 3301.0714 and 3314.03 and to enact sections 3313.473 and 3319.323 of the Revised Code to require school districts, community schools, and chartered nonpublic schools to obtain written parental consent before collecting Social Security numbers and certain other information from students and to require school districts, community schools, and chartered nonpublic schools to expunge a student's Social Security number from its records upon request.
Assigned to House Education Committee - 9/12/00
124th General Assembly
- HB 56 - Joint filing tax credit—to all joint filers
A bill to amend section 5747.05 of the Revised Code to extend the joint filing tax credit against the personal income tax to all joint filers.
Assigned to House Ways and Means Committee 2/01/01
- HB 81 - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame license plates
A bill to enact sections 4501.34, 4503.74, and 4503.82 of the Revised Code to create Rock and Roll Hall of Fame license plates and to permit the creation of additional varieties of a nonstandard license plate at the rate of one variety for every 20,000 motor vehicle registrations involving the original nonstandard license plate and its varieties.
Passed in House 10/17/01
Assigned to Senate
- HB 82 - Sales tax on employment services—eliminate
A bill to amend sections 5739.01, 5739.02, 5739.033, and 5739.17 of the Revised Code to eliminate the sales tax on employment services and employment placement services.
Assigned to House Ways and Means Committee - 2/08/01
- HB 192 - Provide immunity from civil liability and injunctive relief to firearms industry
An act to enact section 2305.401 of the Revised Code as a general law to provide a qualified immunity from civil liability and injunctive relief to members of the firearms industry that will be both prospective and retroactive in its application.
Passed in House 5/16/01
Governor Signed 7/06/01
125th General Assembly
- HB 56 - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame License Plates
A bill to amend section 4501.21 and to enact sections 4503.551 and 4503.82 of the Revised Code to create Rock and Roll Hall of Fame license plates and to permit the creation of additional varieties of a nonstandard license plate at the rate of one variety for every 20,000 motor vehicle registrations involving the original nonstandard license plate and its varieties.
Passed in House 06/18/03
- HB 57 - Prohibit discrimination in health care & allow SBP to license associates
To amend sections 1739.05, 1751.01, 3923.51, 4732.01, 4732.09, 4732.10, 4732.13, 4732.14, 4732.141, 4732.15, 4732.17, 4732.19, 4732.20, 4732.21, 4732.22, 4732.23, 4732.24, 4757.41, and 4757.42, to enact new section 3923.28 and sections 3923.281 and 4732.131, and to repeal sections 3923.28, 3923.29, and 3923.30 of the Revised Code to prohibit discrimination in health care policies, contracts, and agreements in the coverage provided for the diagnosis, care, and treatment of mental illness, and to permit the State Board of Psychology to license psychological associates.
Assigned to House Insurance Committee - 02/12/03
- HB 170 - Prohibit inclusion of social security number on documents submitted for record
A bill to enact section 317.082 of the Revised Code to generally prohibit the inclusion of an individual's social security number on documents submitted for recording in the office of the county recorder and to create an affirmative defense to associated civil liability of a good faith effort to comply with the noninclusion requirement.
Passed in House 06/25/03
- HB 351 - Decrease fee for hunting permits
A bill to amend sections 1533.10, 1533.101, 1533.11, 1533.111, 1533.112, 1533.12, 1533.19, and 1533.32 of the Revised Code to decrease the fees for hunting, trapping, and fishing licenses, permits, and stamps to the amounts that were in effect prior to September 26, 2003, and to restore free licenses, permits, and stamps for senior citizens.
Assigned to House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee - 12/10/03
- HB 355 - Determining population for limited home rule government
A bill to amend sections 504.01 and 504.02 of the Revised Code to provide additional ways of determining the population of the unincorporated territory of a township for purposes of meeting the population requirements for adopting a limited home rule government.
Passed in House 05/11/04
- HB 403 - Adopt American toad as state amphibian
A bill to enact section 5.033 of the Revised Code to adopt the American toad as the state amphibian.
Assigned to House State Government Committee - 02/04/04
- HB 404 - Increase income brackets used to determine homestead exemptionHomestead exemptionHomestead exemption is a legal regime designed to protect the value of the homes of residents from property taxes, creditors, and circumstances arising from the death of the homeowner spouse...
A bill to amend sections 323.152 and 4503.065 of the Revised Code to increase the total income brackets used to determine eligibility for the homestead exemption and to increase the reductions in taxable value of property eligible for that exemption.
Assigned to House Ways and Means Committee - 02/04/04
- HB 583 - Provide Medicaid recipients insurance ID card free of charge
A bill to amend sections 4507.50 and 4507.52 of the Revised Code to provide for the issuance of state identification cards at no charge to Medicaid recipients.
Assigned to House Health Committee - 11/23/04
List of Biographical Boards and Commissions
Mentor Public Library Board
Member
2009 – Present
Lake County Republican Party
Member, Central Committee; 1988 – Present
Member, Executive Committee; 1992 – Present
Ohio Association of Charter School Authorizers (OACSA)
Chairman/President and Founding Board Member
2005–2009
Education Commission of the States
Ohio’s Representative, appointed by Governor Robert Taft
2000–2003
Ohio Coalition for Suicide Prevention, Ohio Department of Mental Health
Member, Board of Directors
1998–2004
Lifeline for the Empowerment and Development of Consumers
Member, Board of Directors
2001–2003
Lake County Emergency Coordination Taskforce
Member
2000–2002
Lakeland Community College (Kirtland, Ohio)
Member, Paralegal Advisory Board
1995–2007
Ohio State Board of Education
Member
2001–2003
Ohio Board of Regents
Member
2001–2003
OhioReads Council
Founding Member
2000–2002
Ohio Closing Achievement Gaps Taskforce
Member, appointed by Governor
2002–2003
Governors Commission on Teaching Success
Member, appointed by Governor
2001–2002
Ohio State Bar Association
Board of Editors, Ohio Law Magazine, 2002–2004
Lecturer at Continuing Legal Education classes
Lake County Historical Society
President 1995–1998
Member 1993–2000
City of Willowick, Recreation Board
Chairman 1993–1995
Member 1991–1995
Retinitas Pigmentosa Foundation of Ohio
Chairman and Founding Board Member
Raised over $10 million dollars for research on degenerative eye disease
1989–1992
Lake County Young Republicans
President 1990
Vice President 1989
Secretary 1988
Member 1988–1994
List of Biographical Honors and Awards
Ohio Association of Gifted Students
Legislator of the Year, 2003
Ohio Person of Courage Award
2002
Watchdog of the Treasury of Ohio
Awards, 1998 and 2000
Bridges Mental Health Consumer Empowerment
Citizen of the Year Award, 2003
Charter School Association of Ohio
Person of Courage and Leadership Award, 2003
Lake/Geauga Young Republicans
Hall of Fame, 2003
Ohio Staffing Services Association
Legislator of the Year, 1999
Ohio Advocates for Mental Health
Legislator of the Year, 1998
Ohio Trial Lawyers Association
Legislator of the Year, 2004
Best Friends of LEAF
Service Award
Ohio Staffing Services
Advocate of the Year Award, 1999
Ohio Association of County Boards of Mental Retardation
Legislative Leadership Award, 2004
List of Publications, etc.
As Primary Author
Callender, J. (2009). State Government in Ohio. Ohio; Lake Publishing
Callender, J. (2004, Spring) Value-added Student Assessment. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, Vol. 29. No. 1, p. 5
Callender, J. (2001 through 2002) monthly columnist. The Bridge, Senior Citizens Monthly News Journal
Co-Author, Editor, or Contributor
Wind Energy in Ohio: Our past, present, and future. Ohio; Lake Publishing, Callender, Heidi (May 2010) Chapter author. Amazon: Wind Energy in Ohio
Jamie and Heidi's Honeymoon Guidebook. (with Heidi Callender); Lake Publishing (July, 2009) Co-Author. http://www.amazon.com/Jamie-Heidis-Honeymoon-Guidebook-compilation/dp/144866103X
Miller, E.(1918). History of Educational Legislation in Ohio; 1803 to 1850. Ohio; Lake Publishing, Callender, J. (April 2010) Re-printed.Amazon: History of Educational Legislation in Ohio
Ohio’s Suicide Prevention Plan. Ohio Department of Mental Health, Coalition for Suicide Prevention, Callender, J. (May 2002) Named contributor.
Ohio Lawyer Magazine. Ohio State Bar Association, Callender, J. (July 2002 – July 2004) Editor.
Referenced or Cited-in
Cain B., Donovan T. & Tolbert C. (2008). Democracy in the States: Experiments in Election Reform. Washington D.C.; Brookings Institution Press
Steinglass S. & Scarselli G. (2004) Ohio State Constitution: A Reference Guide. Connecticut; Praeger Publishers