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On January 30, 2013, the first two pieces of legislation were introduced into the Ohio House of Representatives and they address the Kasich administration’s plan to tie the state’s 90 one-stop employment centers into the OhioMeansJob brand, according to The Daily Reporter and Gongwer Ohio (see our January 3, 2013, blog post for more information). H.B. 1, which was introduced by Reps. Timothy Derickson (R-Hanover Twp.) and Mark Romanchuk (R-Ontario), would “require a local workforce investment area to use OhioMeansJobs as the local workforce investment area's job placement system” and would rename all county one-stop systems “OhioMeansJobs ______ County,” according to the bill and Gongwer Ohio. H.B. 2, introduced by Reps. Derickson and Tim Brown (R-Bowling Green), would “require an unemployment compensation claimant to register with OhioMeansJobs to be eligible for unemployment compensation benefits” and would require these claimants to “contact a local one-stop office beginning with the eighth week of filing for unemployment compensation benefits” to ensure that the claimants are “maximizing their job search opportunities,” according to the bill and Gongwer Ohio. For more, read The Daily Reporter story, as well as the full text of H.B. 1 and H.B. 2.