Ohio § 101.01

§ 101.01.

(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 succeeding day if the first Monday

of January is a legal holiday, and in second regular session on the same date of the

following year.  The second regular session of each general assembly shall be in 1 a continuum of the first regular session.  At the second regular session, the general assembly shall consider matters held

over from the first regular session, revenue and appropriation bills, and other measures

agreed to by a majority of the members elected to either house or recommended by the

governor in a public proclamation or a message to the general assembly. (B) At one-thirty p.m. of the day specified for the beginning of the first regular session

of the general assembly, the president of the senate during the preceding biennium

or in the case of his absence or inability to act, the president pro tempore of the

senate during the preceding biennium shall take the chair and call the senate to order.  He shall also call the senatorial districts in their numerical order, and as they

are called the persons claiming to be senators-elect therefrom shall present their

certificates and take the oath of office. If neither the president nor the president pro tempore designated in this division

is available to preside at the beginning of the first regular session, the senators

and senators-elect shall designate by party caucus the person who shall preside over

the organization of the senate. 1

 Prior and current versions differ although no amendment to this language was indicated

in 1978 S 437;  “be in” appeared as “be” in 1973 H 994.