Tracking Status Report
Erin Ryan
Tracking group: Women's Public Policy Network
domestic violence
Boyd, J. Carruthers, S.
To add domestic violence circumstances to the offense of aggravated murder, to expand the offense of domestic violence to also prohibit strangulation of a family or household member, to require law enforcement officers to utilize a qualified lethality assessment screening tool to refer high risk victims to domestic violence resources, to create the Domestic Violence Prosecution Study Committee, to name this act Aisha's Law, and to make an appropriation.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Judiciary Committee (12/2/2020; CONTINUED-SUBSTITUTE (See separate story))
HB 8
Enacted
Regarding foster caregiver training.
Text & Analysis
Signed by the Governor
(10/20/2020; Signed: October 20, 2020, Effective: in 90 days)
kinship care
Boyd, J. Baldridge, B.
To require a region-based kinship care navigator program and to make an appropriation.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in Senate (9/10/2019; Health, Human Services & Medicaid Committee)
feminine hygiene taxes
Antani, N. Kelly, B.
To exempt from the sales tax the sale of tampons and other feminine hygiene products associated with menstruation.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Ways & Means Committee (5/7/2019; CONTINUED)
minimum wage
Kelly, B.
To increase the state minimum wage and to allow municipalities, townships and counties to establish higher minimum wage requirements.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Commerce & Labor Committee (1/22/2020; CONTINUED (See separate story))
std testing
West, T. Galonski, T.
Regarding testing women for HIV, syphilis and gonorrhea.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Health Committee (11/19/2019; CONTINUED)
benefits funding
Holmes, G. Miller, A.
To make an appropriation to continue to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families programs and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children contingent upon a lapse in federal funding.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Health Committee (9/10/2019; CONTINUED (See separate story))
snap benefits
Schaffer, T.
To establish requirements for electronic benefit transfer cards issued under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Health Committee (10/1/2019; CONTINUED)
To generally prohibit an abortion of an unborn human individual with a detectable heartbeat and to create the Joint Legislative Committee on Adoption Promotion and Support.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Health Committee (2/26/2019; CONTINUED (See separate story))
prevailing wage
Riedel, C. Manchester, S.
To allow political subdivisions, special districts, and state institutions of higher education to elect to apply the Prevailing Wage Law to public improvement projects.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Commerce & Labor Committee (12/11/2019; CONTINUED (See separate story))
educational materials
Antani, N.
To require the development of an instructional program and educational and informational materials and the dissemination of those materials to protect the humanity of the unborn child and to make an appropriation.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Health Committee (6/4/2019; CONTINUED (See separate story))
leave benefits
Boggs, K. Boyd, J.
To establish family and medical leave insurance benefits.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Insurance Committee (2/12/2020; CONTINUED)
To remove the income restriction on the earned income tax credit and to make the credit refundable.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Ways & Means Committee (1/21/2020; CONTINUED-SUBSTITUTE)
employee earnings
Kelly, B. Vitale, N.
To require an employer to provide earnings and deductions statements to each of the employer's employees.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Transportation, Commerce & Workforce Committee (3/4/2020; CONTINUED)
nurse overtime
Manning, D.
To prohibit a hospital from requiring a registered nurse or licensed practical nurse to work overtime as a condition of continued employment.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Transportation, Commerce & Workforce Committee (9/23/2020; CONTINUED)
health standards
Liston, B. Galonski, T.
Regarding the adoption of health education standards.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Primary & Secondary Education Committee (6/18/2019; CONTINUED (See separate story))
HB 166
Enacted
state budget
Oelslager, S.
To make operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2019, and ending June 30, 2021, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.
Text & Analysis
Signed by the Governor
(7/18/2019; Signed: July 18, 2019 with vetoes; Delivered to the governor July 17, 2019)
abortion coverage
Becker, J.
To prohibit insurers from offering coverage for abortion services.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Insurance Committee (5/7/2019; CONTINUED)
contraceptives
Lepore-Hagan, M.
Regarding access to contraceptive drugs and devices, hospital services for victims of sexual assault, and sexual health education in schools.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Health Committee (9/10/2019; CONTINUED)
snap benefits
Wiggam, S.
Regarding eligibility for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Health Committee (6/4/2019; CONTINUED (See separate story))
employment practices
Skindell, M. Kelly, B.
To regulate employment practices of formula retail and food services establishment employers and contractors and to require the purchaser of a formula retail or food services establishment to retain certain employees.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Commerce & Labor Committee (5/22/2019; CONTINUED)
wage discrimination
Boyd, J. Crawley, E.
To require the Ohio Civil Rights Commission to establish a system for individuals to make anonymous complaints regarding wage discrimination.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Civil Justice Committee (6/18/2019; CONTINUED (See separate story))
sex offenses
Boggs, K. Galonski, T.
To eliminate the spousal exceptions for certain sex offenses, to permit a person to testify against the person's spouse in a prosecution for any of those offenses, to eliminate the period of limitation for the criminal prosecution of a person for rape and for a civil action brought by a victim of conduct that would constitute rape, and to amend the versions of sections 2907.02 and 2907.05 of the Revised Code that are scheduled to take effect March 22, 2020, to continue the provisions of this act on and after that effective date.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Criminal Justice Committee (12/8/2020; CONTINUED)
sexual contact
Boggs, K. Crawley, E.
To prohibit unlawful sexual contact between health care professionals and patients and to revoke professional licenses for criminal misconduct.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Criminal Justice Committee (12/8/2020; CONTINUED)
tax credits
Ginter, T. Powell, J.
To authorize a refundable income tax credit for a taxpayer's cash contributions to qualifying pregnancy resource centers.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Ways & Means Committee (12/10/2019; REPORTED-AMENDED)
To enact the Ohio Equal Pay Act to require state contractors and economic incentive recipients to obtain an equal pay certificate, to require public employers to establish a job evaluation system to identify and eliminate sex-based wage disparities, to prohibit employers from seeking a prospective employee's wage or salary history, and to prohibit employer retaliation against an employee who discusses salary or wage rates with another employee.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Commerce & Labor Committee (12/1/2020; CONTINUED)
anti-prostitution
Miller, A.
To create the anti-prostitution grant program fund and to make an appropriation.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Criminal Justice Committee (1/23/2020; CONTINUED)
firearm orders
Sweeney, B.
To enact the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act to allow family members, household members, and law enforcement officers to obtain a court order that temporarily restricts a person's access to firearms if that person poses a danger to themselves or others.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Health Committee (11/10/2020; CONTINUED)
sexual abuse education
Lipps, S. Kelly, B.
With respect to age-appropriate student instruction in child sexual abuse and sexual violence prevention and inservice staff training in child sexual abuse prevention.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Primary & Secondary Education Committee (12/8/2020; REPORTED (No testimony))
domestic violence
Lepore-Hagan, M. Boyd, J.
To require a person who is subject to a civil or criminal domestic violence temporary protection order to surrender the person's firearms.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Criminal Justice Committee (12/8/2020; CONTINUED)
testimonial privilege
Stein, D. Galonski, T.
To provide generally a privilege for communications between a qualified advocate rendering advocacy services and a victim of certain crimes, to exempt the nondisclosure of that privileged communication from the offense of failure to report a crime, and to generally require a qualified advocate to report child abuse or neglect of the victim.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Criminal Justice Committee (2/20/2020; CONTINUED)
mental health
Greenspan, D.
To enact the Mental Health Awareness and Community Violence Protection Act.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Health Committee (2/4/2020; CONTINUED-AMENDED)
protection orders
Miller, A.
To prohibit a person subject to a protection order from purchasing or receiving a firearm for the duration of the order.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (10/1/2019; Civil Justice Committee)
rental agreements
Sobecki, L. Lepore-Hagan, M.
To allow a tenant to terminate a rental agreement if the tenant is a victim of a specified crime.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Civil Justice Committee (2/11/2020; CONTINUED)
HB 352
Enacted
employment laws
Lang, G. Cross, J.
To modify Ohio civil rights laws related to employment.
Text & Analysis
Signed by the Governor
(1/13/2021; Signed: January 13, 2021, Effective: in 90 days)
To require the juvenile court to expunge all records sealed pursuant to the juvenile sealing law upon the person's twenty-eighth birthday, to expand the circumstances under which a person has a weapon under disability, to specify that moderate or severe substance use disorder is a mental illness for purposes of the law governing civil commitments, to require the Director of Public Safety to create and maintain the weapons disability data portal, to impose certain consequences on specified entities that fail to comply with data submission requirements, and to make an appropriation.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Finance Committee (10/16/2019; CONTINUED)
discrimination
Skindell, M.
To enact the Ohio Fairness Act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity or expression, to add mediation as an informal method that the Ohio Civil Rights Commission may use, and to uphold existing religious exemptions under Ohio's Civil Rights Law.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Civil Justice Committee (11/19/2020; CONTINUED-SUBSTITUTE (See separate story))
insulin cost-sharing
Liston, B. Boggs, K.
To cap cost-sharing for prescription insulin drugs.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Health Committee (2/18/2020; CONTINUED)
HB 388
Enacted
out-of-network care
Holmes, A.
Regarding out-of-network care.
Text & Analysis
Signed by the Governor
(1/8/2021; Signed: January 8, 2021, Effective: in 90 days)
health insurance
Crossman, J. Clites, R.
Regarding health insurance premiums and benefits.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Insurance Committee (6/9/2020; CONTINUED)
minimum wage
Smith, K. Sobecki, L.
To increase the state minimum wage to ten dollars and fifty-five cents per hour beginning January 1, 2021.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (11/12/2019; Commerce & Labor Committee)
medical accuracy
Liston, B. Russo, A.
To establish provisions to be known as the "Clinician Integrity and Medical Accuracy Act."
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Health Committee (11/10/2020)
To create the capital offense of aggravated abortion murder and the offense of abortion murder.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (11/18/2019; Criminal Justice Committee)
prostitution proceeds
Powell, J.
To prohibit a person from receiving proceeds of prostitution.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Criminal Justice Committee (2/13/2020; CONTINUED (See separate story))
address confidentiality
LaRe, J. Abrams, C.
To make changes to the Address Confidentiality Program administered by the Secretary of State and to make changes to county recorder fees.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Local Government, Public Safety & Veterans Affairs Committee (12/16/2020; REPORTED-AMENDED)
maternal mortality
Crawley, E.
To modify the laws governing the Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review Board and to designate May as "Maternal Mortality Awareness Month."
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Health Committee (2/18/2020; CONTINUED)
health care
Crawley, E.
To enact the "Save Our Mothers Act" for the purpose of establishing continuing education requirements for birthing facility personnel and an initiative to improve birth equity, reduce peripartum racial and ethnic disparities, and address implicit bias in the healthcare system.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Health Committee (12/1/2020; CONTINUED)
insurance coverage
Russo, A.
Regarding mental health and substance use disorder benefit parity.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Health Committee (11/10/2020; CONTINUED)
endometriosis
Strahorn, F.
To require health plan issuers to cover endometriosis and to require the creation of information materials on endometriosis.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Insurance Committee (5/28/2020; CONTINUED)
tax credit
Russo, A. Boyd, J.
To authorize a refundable tax credit for certain expenses incurred by caregivers.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Ways & Means Committee (2/4/2020; CONTINUED)
statute of limitations
Rogers, J.
To eliminate the period of limitations for the criminal prosecution of a person for rape.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Criminal Justice Committee (12/9/2020; CONTINUED (No testimony))
conversion therapy
Lightbody, M.
To protect minors by prohibiting certain licensed health care professionals from engaging in conversion therapy when treating minor patients.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Health Committee (12/15/2020; CONTINUED)
women's commission
Sykes, E.
To create the Women's Policy and Research Commission and the Women's Policy and Research Center, to specify their powers and duties, and to make an appropriation.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Finance Committee (12/9/2020; SCHEDULED BUT NOT HEARD (Sponsor request))
To enact the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair (CROWN) Act to prohibit discrimination against an individual based on hair texture and protective hair styles.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Civil Justice Committee (6/10/2020; CONTINUED (See separate story))
abortion
Becker, J.
To enact the Human Life Protection Act to prohibit abortions based upon a condition precedent.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Health Committee (12/8/2020)
To prohibit foreclosure activity and the eviction of residential and commercial tenants during the state of emergency declared regarding COVID-19, to refer such proceedings caused by the state of emergency to mediation, and to declare an emergency.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Civil Justice Committee (12/3/2020; CONTINUED)
To temporarily authorize a partially refundable earned income tax credit and to declare an emergency.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Finance Committee (11/17/2020)
medicaid coverage
Clites, R.
To require insurance and Medicaid coverage of a ninety-day supply of certain covered drugs and to declare an emergency.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Insurance Committee (5/12/2020; CONTINUED)
telemedicine
Liston, B. Patton, T.
To require health plan issuers to cover telemedicine services during a state of emergency, and to declare an emergency.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Insurance Committee (9/23/2020; CONTINUED)
medicaid requirements
Russo, A. Liston, B.
To waive certain Medicaid requirements during the COVID-19 emergency declaration and to declare an emergency.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (5/5/2020; Insurance Committee)
health impact statements
Crawley, E.
To require the Legislative Service Commission to create health impact statements for introduced bills and to create the Health and Equity Interagency Team.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Health Committee (12/15/2020; CONTINUED)
To establish and modify requirements regarding the provision of telehealth services and to declare an emergency.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House (11/18/2020; CONTINUED)
Committee Hearing
in Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee (11/18/2020; CONTINUED)
impact statements
Howse, S. Crossman, J.
To require the Director of the Legislative Service Commission to prepare a human impact statement concerning a bill or resolution that proposes to amend criminal justice law.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (6/9/2020; Criminal Justice Committee)
SB 5
Enacted
prostitution
Kunze, S. Dolan, M.
To amend the penalties for promoting prostitution, to set a uniform fee for a certificate of qualification for employment, to require licensing agencies to provide additional information on the use of certificates of qualification for employment and certificates of achievement and employability, and to create a rebuttable presumption for issuance of a certificate of qualification for employment under certain circumstances.
Text & Analysis
Signed by the Governor
(12/12/2019; Signed: December 12, 2019)
discrimination
Antonio, N.
To enact the Ohio Fairness Act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity or expression, to add mediation as an informal method that the Ohio Civil Rights Commission may use, and to uphold existing religious exemptions under Ohio's Civil Rights Law.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Judiciary Committee (5/22/2019; CONTINUED (See separate story))
human trafficking
Fedor, T.
To require a juvenile court to hold a delinquency complaint in abeyance in certain cases related to prostitution or human trafficking and to provide that the same elements for the offense of human trafficking in persons that apply to a victim under the age of sixteen also apply to a victim who is age sixteen or seventeen.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Criminal Justice Committee (2/13/2020; CONTINUED (See separate story))
sex assault victims
Yuko, K. Antonio, N.
To prohibit law enforcement agencies from including identifying information of sexual assault victims in police reports posted online.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Judiciary Committee (7/17/2019; CONTINUED)
confinement
Antonio, N. Lehner, P.
To prohibit restraining or confining a woman or child who is a charged or adjudicated criminal offender or delinquent child at certain points during pregnancy or postpartum recovery.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (5/12/2020; Criminal Justice Committee)
protection orders
Williams, S.
To enact the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act to allow family members, household members, and law enforcement officers to obtain a court order that temporarily restricts a person's access to firearms if that person poses a danger to themselves or others.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Government Oversight & Reform Committee (9/10/2019; CONTINUED (See separate story))
SB 23
Enacted
abortion
Roegner, K.
To enact the Human Rights and Heartbeat Protection Act.
Text & Analysis
Signed by the Governor
(4/11/2019; Signed: April 11, 2019; earlier Delivered to the Governor)
medicaid requirements
Huffman, M.
Regarding work and education requirements for the Medicaid program.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Health, Human Services & Medicaid Committee (3/20/2019; CONTINUED)
SB 26
Enacted
educator tax deduction
Kunze, S.
To authorize a state income tax deduction for teachers' out-of-pocket expenses for professional development and classroom supplies, to modify the business income deduction and delay some tax credit repeals, to exempt feminine hygiene products and some incontinence products from sales and use tax, to abolish the Public Office Compensation Advisory Commission, and to modify a "Food Farmacy" pilot project earmark.
Text & Analysis
Signed by the Governor
(11/6/2019; Signed: November 6, 2019; Effective: in 90 days)
SB 27
Enacted
fetal remains
Uecker, J.
To impose requirements on the final disposition of fetal remains from surgical abortions.
Text & Analysis
Signed by the Governor
(12/30/2020; Signed: December 30, 2020, Effective: in 90 days)
SB 30
Enacted
women's suffrage
Kunze, S. Williams, S.
To create the Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission and to declare an emergency.
Text & Analysis
Signed by the Governor
(4/24/2019; Signed: April 24, 2019)
domestic violence
Kunze, S. Antonio, N.
To address domestic violence by means of firearms restrictions, penalty enhancements, and a prohibition against strangulation, and to make an appropriation.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Government Oversight & Reform Committee (4/2/2019; CONTINUED)
sexual conduct
Eklund, J.
To create a procedure for certain offenders convicted of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor to petition a court for reclassification or removal from duties under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Law and to permit record sealing in those cases.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Judiciary Committee (4/10/2019; REPORTED)
cultural competency
Maharath, T.
To require certain health care professionals to complete instruction in cultural competency.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Health, Human Services & Medicaid Committee (4/10/2019; CONTINUED)
minimum wage
Thomas, C. Craig, H.
To increase the state minimum wage and to allow municipalities, townships, and counties to establish higher minimum wage requirements.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Government Oversight & Reform Committee (9/25/2019; CONTINUED (See separate story))
leave benefits
Maharath, T.
To establish family and medical leave insurance benefits.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee (9/25/2019; CONTINUED)
wage payments
Maharath, T.
To enact the "Fair and Acceptable Income Required (FAIR) Act" and to revise the enforcement of the prohibitions against discrimination in the payment of wages.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate General Government & Agency Review Committee (3/20/2019; CONTINUED)
domestic workers
Maharath, T.
Regarding wages, overtime, and other matters related to the employment of domestic workers.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate General Government & Agency Review Committee (3/20/2019; CONTINUED)
pregnancy accommodations
Maharath, T.
To enact the "Ohio Pregnant Workers Fairness Act" to generally require employers to make reasonable accommodations for employees who are pregnant or breastfeeding.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Government Oversight & Reform Committee (9/10/2019; CONTINUED)
maternity coverage
Maharath, T.
To require that health benefit plans provide coverage for maternity services.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee (9/25/2019; CONTINUED)
sex assault victims
Maharath, T.
To require hospitals to provide specified services to victims of sexual assault.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Health, Human Services & Medicaid Committee (5/1/2019; CONTINUED)
health standards
Sykes, V. Kunze, S.
To require the State Board of Education to adopt health education standards and to require that only statewide venereal disease education standards and curriculum be approved by the General Assembly.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Education Committee (12/8/2020; CONTINUED-SUBSTITUTE)
conversion therapy
Maharath, T.
To prohibit certain health care professionals from engaging in conversion therapy when treating minor patients.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Health, Human Services & Medicaid Committee (9/18/2019; CONTINUED)
month designation
Maharath, T.
To designate the month of June as "Pride Month."
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Government Oversight & Reform Committee (10/2/2019; CONTINUED)
awareness week
Maharath, T.
To designate the first week of May as "Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week."
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (5/5/2020; Health Committee)
awareness month
Maharath, T.
To designate the month of May as "Maternal Mortality Awareness Month."
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (10/29/2019; Health Committee)
abortion
Lehner, P.
Regarding pretreatment notice about the possibility of reversing a mifepristone abortion.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (5/5/2020; Health Committee)
sex offenses
Antonio, N. O'Brien, S.
To eliminate the spousal exceptions for certain sex offenses, to permit a person to testify against the person's spouse in a prosecution for any of those offenses, to eliminate the period of limitation for the criminal prosecution of a person for rape and for a civil action brought by a victim of conduct that would constitute rape, and to amend the versions of sections 2907.02 and 2907.05 of the Revised Code that are scheduled to take effect March 22, 2020, to continue the provisions of this act on and after that effective date.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Judiciary Committee (2/19/2020; CONTINUED (See separate story))
sexual contact
Kunze, S. Craig, H.
To prohibit unlawful sexual contact between health care professionals and patients and to revoke professional licenses for criminal misconduct.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Judiciary Committee (10/2/2019; CONTINUED)
testimonial privilege
Eklund, J.
To provide generally a testimonial privilege for communications between a qualified advocate rendering advocacy services and a victim of domestic violence, human trafficking, menacing by stalking, or sexual violence, to exempt the nondisclosure of that privileged communication from the offense of failure to report a crime, to require a qualified advocate to report knowledge or reasonable suspicion of child abuse or neglect of the victim except for privileged communications, and to specify circumstances in which the victim is considered to have waived the privilege.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Judiciary Committee (11/18/2020; CONTINUED)
network care
Huffman, S. Antonio, N.
Regarding out-of-network care.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee (12/11/2019; CONTINUED (See separate story))
abortion
Johnson, T.
To require reports to be made after a child is born alive following an abortion or attempted abortion and to establish certain civil or criminal penalties for failing to preserve the health or life of such a child.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (5/5/2020; Criminal Justice Committee)
protected communications
Huffman, M.
To enact the Ohio Citizen Participation Act to provide protections to persons who engage in specified protected communications.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Judiciary Committee (1/22/2020; CONTINUED (See separate story))
firearms laws
Dolan, M.
To provide for the issuance in specified circumstances of a Safety Protection Order to apply regarding a person who a court determines is under a drug dependency, chronic alcoholic, or mental health-related firearms disability; to specify LEADS and NCIC reporting and removal procedures for current types of protection orders; to require the submission to the Attorney General for inclusion in LEADS of findings of IST or NGRI; to modify some of the prohibitions under the offense of "unlawful transactions in weapons" and add new prohibitions and exemptions under the offense, including a new exemption if a state background check mechanism the bill enacts is used and does not indicate that the prospective transferee is barred from firearms possession; to provide in specified circumstances for the issuance of a seller's protection certificate under the new state background check mechanism; to increase the penalty for certain firearms-related offenses in specified circumstances; to modify the law governing the entry of arrest warrants into LEADS as extradition warrants; to expand the law regarding the provision of drug and alcohol test results to law enforcement personnel; and to provide a new exception to the testimonial privilege for specified medical and dental personnel regarding certain probate court proceedings.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Government Oversight & Reform Committee (12/3/2019; CONTINUED (See separate story))
insulin cost-sharing
Craig, H. Antonio, N.
To cap cost-sharing for prescription insulin drugs.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Finance: Health & Medicaid Subcommittee (2/25/2020; CONTINUED)
sexting
Manning, N.
To generally prohibit sexting by a person under 19 years of age.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Judiciary Committee (2/5/2020; CONTINUED)
mental health coverage
Williams, S.
To amend the mental health insurance coverage parity law.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee (1/22/2020; CONTINUED)
To except traveling to and from a worksite and performing certain routine tasks from the overtime pay requirement.
Text & Analysis
Passed
in Senate (12/9/2020; 22-8; AMENDED)
prostitution database
Schaffer, T. Fedor, T.
To prohibit a person from engaging in prostitution and receiving proceeds of prostitution, to modify certain soliciting offenses and penalties, to create the Sexual Exploitation Public Database, and to make an appropriation.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Judiciary Committee (2/19/2020; CONTINUED)
mental health benefits
Gavarone, T. O'Brien, S.
Regarding mental health and substance use disorder benefit parity.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee (2/12/2020; CONTINUED (See separate story))
SB 260
Enacted
abortion drugs
Huffman, S. Rulli, M.
Regarding abortion-inducing drugs.
Text & Analysis
Signed by the Governor
(1/9/2021; Signed: January 9, 2021, Effective: in 90 days)
To prohibit foreclosure activity and the eviction of residential and commercial tenants during the state of emergency declared regarding COVID-19, to refer such proceedings caused by the state of emergency to mediation, and to declare an emergency.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate General Government & Agency Review Committee (7/21/2020; CONTINUED)
paid leave
Craig, H.
To require paid leave for an employee who is unable to work due to quarantine or mandatory isolation, to create a grant program to compensate contract workers who cannot perform services during public health emergencies, to make an appropriation, and to declare an emergency.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in Senate (5/6/2020; Finance Committee)
telemedicine
Craig, H.
To require health plan issuers to cover telemedicine services during a state of emergency and to declare an emergency.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee (12/1/2020; CONTINUED)
pregnancy board
Kunze, S. Antonio, N.
To modify the laws governing the Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review Board and to designate May as "Maternal Mortality Awareness Month."
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Health, Human Services & Medicaid Committee (9/22/2020; CONTINUED)
birth equity
Maharath, T. Kunze, S.
To enact the "Save Our Mothers Act" for the purpose of establishing continuing education requirements for birthing facility personnel and an initiative to improve birth equity, reduce peripartum racial and ethnic disparities, and address implicit bias in the healthcare system.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Health, Human Services & Medicaid Committee (9/22/2020; CONTINUED)
doula services
Maharath, T. Kunze, S.
Related to Medicaid coverage of doula services.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (11/17/2020; Health Committee)
To urge the Congress of the United States, as expeditiously as possible, to enact a Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.
Text & Analysis
Passed
in Senate (3/13/2019; 32-0)
gender representation
West, T. Carruthers, S.
To encourage equitable and diverse gender representation on the boards and in senior management of Ohio companies and institutions.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Civil Justice Committee (11/12/2019; CONTINUED (See separate story))
violence act
Galonski, T.
To urge the United States Senate to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act.
Text & Analysis
Introduced and Referred
in House (11/12/2019; Criminal Justice Committee)
health insurance
Russo, A.
To urge the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to immediately issue a special enrollment period through HealthCare.gov for uninsured Ohioans who may be unable to access COVID-19 testing and treatment.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Insurance Committee (5/19/2020; CONTINUED)
pandemic discrimination
Brent, J.
To denounce all forms of stigmatization, racism, and discrimination occurring as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House State & Local Government Committee (12/16/2020; CONTINUED)
To declare racism a public health crisis and to ask the Governor to establish a working group to promote racial equity in Ohio.
Text & Analysis
Introduced and Referred
in House (6/3/2020; State & Local Government Committee)
To declare racism a public health crisis and to ask the Governor to establish a working group to promote racial equity in Ohio.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Health, Human Services & Medicaid Committee (6/24/2020; CONTINUED (See separate story))
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