Tracking Status Report
Amanda Sines
To enact the Repeat Offender Act to create a repeat offender classification, to create and modify certain firearm specifications, to increase the penalties for certain firearm offenses and specifications, to broaden the scope of relief from firearms disability, and to modify the sealing procedure for misdemeanors and fourth and fifth degree felonies.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in Senate (5/28/2025; Judiciary Committee)
Higher Education
Young, T.
To enact the Advance Ohio Higher Education Act regarding the operation of state institutions of higher education.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (1/28/2025; Workforce & Higher Education Committee)
Biomarkers
White, A.
To require health benefit plan and Medicaid program coverage of biomarker testing.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Health Committee (4/30/2025; CONTINUED-AMENDED (See separate story) )
Imitation Food
Klopfenstein, R. Daniels, J.
To regulate imitation meat and egg products.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in Senate (6/18/2025; Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee)
Administrative Rule Reviews
Ferguson, R. Lorenz, B.
To require legislative approval of administrative rules and other regulatory actions under specified conditions, to allow a JCARR chairperson to request a third-party fiscal analysis of a rule, and to require state agencies to publicly post policy documents.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Government Oversight Committee (3/25/2025; CONTINUED (No testimony))
Prescription Drugs
Gross, J. Swearingen, D.
Regards prescribing, dispensing, and administering drugs and to name this act the Jeff, Dave, and Angie Patient Right to Try Act.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Health Committee (6/11/2025; CONTINUED-AMENDED (No testimony))
HB 15
Enacted
Electric Service and Public Utilities
Klopfenstein, R.
To amend the competitive retail electric service law, modify taxation of certain public utility property, and repeal parts of H.B. 6 of the 133rd General Assembly.
Text & Analysis
Signed by the Governor
(5/15/2025; Signed: May 15, 2025, Effective: August 12, 2025)
Alcohol Consumption
Bird, A. Williams, J.
To reduce the mental state, from knowingly to recklessly, that applies to the prohibition against allowing an underage person to possess or consume alcohol in a private or public place.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Judiciary Committee (2/12/2025; CONTINUED)
Emergency Responders
Hall, T. Plummer, P.
To prohibit a person from knowingly harassing or impeding an emergency service responder who is engaged in the lawful performance of a legal duty and to clarify that heightened penalties apply for menacing a probation officer.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in Senate (6/25/2025; Judiciary Committee)
Medigap Policies
Callender, J. Sweeney, B.
To provide Medigap policies for Medicare-eligible individuals under the age of 65.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Insurance Committee (5/13/2025; CONTINUED)
Minimum Wage
Jarrells, D. Mohamed, I.
To increase the state minimum wage.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (2/5/2025; Commerce & Labor Committee)
To allow a state income tax deduction for overtime wages.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Ways & Means Committee (4/2/2025; CONTINUED)
Citizenship and Immigration Status
Fischer, T. Williams, J.
To require certain agencies to collect and report data concerning the citizenship or immigration status of persons with whom they come into contact.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Government Oversight Committee (5/20/2025; CONTINUED-AMENDED (No testimony))
To prohibit a federally licensed firearms dealer from transferring a firearm unless the transferee passes a background check.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (2/5/2025; Public Safety Committee)
Firearms
Thomas, C. Grim, M.
To enact the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act to allow certain persons to obtain a court order that temporarily restricts a person's access to firearms under specified circumstances.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (2/5/2025; Public Safety Committee)
Occupations - Nurse Anesthetists
Deeter, K.
To revise the law governing the practice of certified registered nurse anesthetists.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in Senate (6/25/2025; Health Committee)
HB 54
Enacted
Transportation Budget
Stewart, B.
To make appropriations for programs related to transportation for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2027, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of those programs.
Text & Analysis
Signed by the Governor
(3/31/2025; Signed: March 31, 2025, Effective: March 31, 2025)
School Policies
Jarrells, D. Williams, J.
Regards school policies on the administration of overdose reversal drugs.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Education Committee (6/24/2025; CONTINUED-SUBSTITUTE)
Occupational Regulations
Fowler Arthur, S. Hiner, M.
To revise and streamline the state's occupational regulations.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (2/12/2025; General Government Committee)
Higher Education
Pizzulli, J. Bird, A.
Regards the College Credit Plus Program.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Education Committee (4/29/2025; CONTINUED)
HB 64
Enacted
Hunting and Fishing
Thomas, D. Deeter, K.
To allow Ohio residents who are 65 and up, instead of 66 and up, to qualify for discounted hunting and fishing licenses and permits.
Text & Analysis
Signed by the Governor
(7/1/2025; Signed: July 1, 2025, Effective: 90 days)
HB 65
Enacted
To make specified day and week designations relating to agriculture and to name this act the Agriculture Appreciation Act.
Text & Analysis
Signed by the Governor
(7/1/2025; Signed: July 1, 2025, Effective: 90 days)
To allow a concealed handgun licensee to carry a handgun in a building or structure that is not a courthouse but in which a courtroom is located in specified circumstances and to permit a nonresident of Ohio to obtain statutory relief from firearms disability based on an Ohio conviction, guilty plea, or delinquent child adjudication.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Public Safety Committee (6/17/2025; CONTINUED)
Fracking Disclosure
Brennan, S.
To require horizontal oil and gas well owners that drill in state parks to disclose the chemical components of the materials used in the drilling operation.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Natural Resources Committee (4/9/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Abortion/Death Penalty
Schmidt, J. Mathews, A.
To prohibit public funding for and insurance coverage of the use of lethal injection drugs in nontherapeutic abortions and assisting suicide, to abolish the death penalty, and to modify the number of jurors that may be challenged in cases where a defendant may be sentenced to life imprisonment.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Judiciary Committee (3/5/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
HB 81
Enacted
Workers Compensation Budget
Stewart, B.
To make appropriations for the Bureau of Workers' Compensation for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2027, to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of the Bureau's programs, and to make changes to the Workers' Compensation Law.
Text & Analysis
Signed by the Governor
(6/27/2025; Signed: June 27, 2025, Effective: Immediate Effect)
To increase penalties for drug trafficking above certain amounts, to prohibit organized trafficking of persons, to require schools and institutions of higher education to incorporate instruction and policies on fentanyl awareness and abuse prevention, and to designate the month of August as "Fentanyl Poisoning Awareness Month."
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Judiciary Committee (3/26/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Brain Injuries
Odioso, M. Deeter, K.
To establish the Traumatic Brain Injury Treatment Accelerator Program and to make an appropriation.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Workforce & Higher Education Committee (6/10/2025; CONTINUED (No testimony))
HB 96
Enacted
State Operating Budget
Stewart, B.
To make operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2027, to levy taxes, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.
Text & Analysis
Signed by the Governor
(7/1/2025; Signed: June 30, 2025, Effective: 90 days)
Student Meals
Brewer, D. Mohamed, I.
To require public schools to provide meals and related services to students.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Education Committee (3/11/2025; CONTINUED)
Workforce Programs
Santucci, N. Williams, J.
To establish the Community Connectors Workforce Program and to make an appropriation.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Finance Committee (6/3/2025; CONTINUED)
Insurance Regulations
Peterson, B.
To exclude nonprofit agricultural membership organizations from insurance regulations.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Insurance Committee (4/8/2025; CONTINUED-AMENDED (See separate story))
Donated Goods Retailers
Santucci, N. Rogers, E.
To authorize a temporary grant program for certain retailers that sell donated goods and to make an appropriation.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Ways & Means Committee (6/18/2025; CONTINUED)
Non-Recourse Litigation Funding
Craig, M. Thomas, J.
To revise and supplement state regulations concerning non-recourse litigation funding agreements.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Insurance Committee (6/17/2025; CONTINUED-SUBSTITUTE)
School Safety
King, A. Miller, M.
To enact Alyssa's Law to establish a pilot grant program for public and chartered nonpublic schools to purchase panic alert systems or contract for artificial intelligence firearm detection software and to make an appropriation.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Finance Committee (5/20/2025; CONTINUED-AMENDED)
Short-Term Rentals
Pizzulli, J.
To limit the authority of local governments to regulate short-term rental properties, to extend local lodging taxes to short-term rentals, to require collection of those taxes by short-term rental platforms, and to require real estate licenses to be issued electronically.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Development Committee (3/26/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Medical Interventions
Gross, J. Lear, B.
To prohibit discrimination against an individual for the refusal of certain medical interventions for reasons of conscience, including religious convictions, and to name this act the Conscientious Right to Refuse Act.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (2/26/2025; Judiciary Committee)
Kindergarten Admissions
Bird, A. Ritter, K.
Regards age requirements for kindergarten admission.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Education Committee (6/17/2025; CONTINUED (No testimony))
Graduation and Month Designation
Williams, J. Santucci, N.
To enact the Graduation Readiness and Development (GRAD) Act regarding exit orientation programs at public high schools and to designate September as "Workforce Development Month."
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Education Committee (4/1/2025; CONTINUED)
Firearm Safety Devices
Brewer, D. Gross, J.
To exempt from sales and use tax sales of firearm safety devices.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Ways & Means Committee (5/14/2025; CONTINUED)
School Attendance
Hall, T. Creech, R.
Regards excused absences from school to participate in 4-H and FFA programs.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Education Committee (5/13/2025; CONTINUED (No testimony))
Abortion
Tims, D. Somani, A.
Regards abortion, abortion-related laws, and reproductive health protections.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (2/26/2025; Health Committee)
Health Tax Credit
Craig, M.
To authorize a nonrefundable income tax credit for small employers that cover their employees with an individual coverage health reimbursement arrangement.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in Senate (6/11/2025; Ways & Means)
Food Regulation
Gross, J. Humphrey, L.
To authorize the sale of certain homemade foods under a microenterprise home kitchen operation registration.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Agriculture Committee (6/18/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Discrimination
Rader, T. Lett, C.
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
Referred
in House (3/5/2025; Judiciary Committee)
To authorize the creation of tourism promotion districts and the levying of assessments therein.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Arts, Athletics & Tourism Committee (4/29/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Instructional School Hours
Bird, A.
Regards the minimum number of hours in a school year.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Education Committee (5/20/2025; CONTINUED)
Minor Labor Laws
McNally, L. White, E.
To require school employees to report certain minor labor law violations, to increase penalties for certain minor labor law violations, and to create the Minor Labor Law Enforcement Fund; and to make an appropriation.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (3/19/2025; Commerce & Labor Committee)
School Board Elections
Lear, B. Hall, T.
To require state and school district board members to be nominated by primary election and to appear on the ballot with a party designation.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House General Government Committee (4/29/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
To prohibit diversity, equity, and inclusion in public schools.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Education Committee (5/20/2025; CONTINUED)
School Meals
Brennan, S. Hoops, J.
To enact the Hunger-Free Campus Act to establish the Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program and designation and to make an appropriation.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Workforce & Higher Education Committee (5/20/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Liquor and Cannabis
Stewart, B.
To revise specified provisions of the liquor control, hemp, and adult-use marijuana laws and to levy taxes on marijuana.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Judiciary Committee (5/7/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Short-Term Rentals
Bird, A. Thomas, J.
To extend sales and use taxes and local lodging taxes to short-term rentals and to require collection of those taxes by short-term rental platforms.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Development Committee (4/30/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Medical Records
Click, G.
Relates to medical records of minors and to name the act the My Child-My Chart Act.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Health Committee (6/18/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Education Oversight
Robinson, P. Miller, J.
To reinstate the Joint Education Oversight Committee and to make an appropriation.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Education Committee (4/1/2025; CONTINUED)
Implicit Bias Training
Miller, J. Brewer, D.
Regards implicit bias training for licensed educators and to make an appropriation.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Education Committee (4/1/2025; CONTINUED)
Mental Health
Newman, J.
To prohibit the provision of mental health services to minors without parental consent.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Health Committee (5/21/2025; CONTINUED)
Submetering
Thomas, D.
To exempt from regulation as a public utility certain persons or entities providing behind-the-meter utility services and to allow the Public Utilities Commission to register providers of such services.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Energy Committee (5/14/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Watercraft Mirrors
Dean, L.
To allow an operator of a vessel to use a rearview mirror to observe water skiers, barefoot skiers, and others who are being towed by the vessel as an alternative to having an additional person in the vessel for observation purposes.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (3/26/2025; Public Safety Committee)
Behavioral Threat Management
Hall, T. Ghanbari, H.
Regards a statewide behavioral threat management operational process for public and chartered nonpublic schools.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Education Committee (4/29/2025; CONTINUED)
Gender Pronouns
Newman, J. Williams, J.
To enact the Given Name Act regarding the use of gender pronouns in public schools.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Education Committee (4/29/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
To regulate the manufacture, distribution, and sale of inhalable and ingestible hemp products.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Judiciary Committee (5/7/2025; CONTINUED)
Catalytic Converters
Roemer, B. Plummer, P.
Regards the sale of used catalytic converters.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in Senate (6/11/2025; Judiciary Committee)
Healthcare Coverage
Miller, K.
To require the Medicaid program and certain health insurers to report data about prior authorization requirements and to require an exemption to such requirements for certain providers.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Insurance Committee (5/20/2025; CONTINUED)
Health Insurers
Deeter, K.
To establish network adequacy standards for health insurers.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Insurance Committee (5/6/2025; CONTINUED)
Prior Authorizations
Workman, H.
Regards health insurance and Medicaid program prior authorization requirements.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Insurance Committee (5/27/2025; CONTINUED)
Parental Control
Miller, M.
To require application stores to offer parental control options and to obtain parental consent before permitting individuals under 16 years of age to download certain applications.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Judiciary Committee (5/28/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Firearm Tax Credit
Lawson-Rowe, M. Brewer, D.
To authorize a nonrefundable income tax credit for the cost of handgun training and firearms storage and locking devices.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (4/30/2025; Ways & Means Committee)
To protect assisted reproduction care.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (4/30/2025; Health Committee)
Campaign Finance
Sweeney, B. Isaacsohn, D.
To modify the campaign finance law and to name this act the Ohio Anti-Corruption Act.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (5/7/2025; General Government Committee)
Medical Debt
Grim, M. Schmidt, J.
To limit the rate of interest on medical debt, to prohibit reporting medical debt to a consumer reporting agency, and to name this act the Ohio Medical Debt Fairness Act.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Health Committee (6/4/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Submetering
Brennan, S. Fischer, T.
To regulate resellers of public utility services as public utilities.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Energy Committee (6/4/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
School Curriculum
Ritter, K. Newman, J.
Regards success sequence and character education curriculum.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Education Committee (6/3/2025; CONTINUED)
Food Dyes and Additivies
Pizzulli, J. Robb Blasdel, M.
To prohibit the use of certain food dyes and additives, the release of substances into the atmosphere for certain purposes, and intentionally added PFAS in various products, to revise the law governing fluoride, and to name this act the Protecting Utility and Resources for Enhanced Living, Improved Food, and Environment Act.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House General Government Committee (6/10/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Emergency Services
Thomas, D. Hall, T.
To require townships and municipal corporations to provide firefighting services and emergency medical services and to establish the Fire and EMS Shared Services Reimbursement Grant Program.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Local Government Committee (5/28/2025; CONTINUED)
Drug Manufacturers
John, M. Holmes, A.
To prohibit drug manufacturers from taking certain actions regarding reimbursements made to 340B covered entities.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Insurance Committee (6/17/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Health Care Workers
Craig, M. Deeter, K.
To specify that a health care worker is not the employee of a health care worker platform or health care facility for purposes of specified laws under certain circumstances.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Commerce & Labor Committee (6/4/2025; CONTINUED)
Immigration Laws
Williams, J.
Regards hospitals and the enforcement of federal immigration law.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Public Safety Committee (6/11/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Internet Gaming
Sweeney, B. Isaacsohn, D.
To restrict the purposes for which the tax revenue from any legal internet gaming in this state may be used.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (5/21/2025; Finance Committee)
Health Care Coverage
Rader, T. Grim, M.
To establish and operate the Ohio Health Care Plan to provide universal health care coverage to all Ohio residents
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (5/21/2025; Insurance Committee)
Internet Gaming
Stewart, B. John, M.
To legalize and regulate internet gambling in this state, to levy a tax on businesses that provide internet gambling, and to prohibit online sweepstakes games.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Finance Committee (6/3/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Conversion Therapy
Brownlee, K. Lett, C.
To prohibit certain licensed health care professionals from engaging in conversion therapy for minor patients.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (5/28/2025; Health Committee)
Electronic Repairs
Mathews, A.
To enact the Digital Fair Repair Act.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Technology & Innovation Committee (6/10/2025; CONTINUED)
Age Verification
Workman, H. Plummer, P.
To establish age verification and parental consent requirements for certain developers and application stores.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Judiciary Committee (6/4/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
To establish penalties for trafficking in pressed pill fentanyl, to require a death certificate to indicate if a death is caused by fentanyl poisoning, and to name this act Logan's Law.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (5/28/2025; Judiciary Committee)
Week Designation
White, E. Hoops, J.
To designate the third full week of May as "EMS week in Ohio."
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (6/4/2025; Public Safety Committee)
To designate the walleye as the official fish of the state.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Arts, Athletics & Tourism Committee (6/10/2025; CONTINUED)
Public Record Requests
Isaacsohn, D. Ray, S.
To restrict harassing or disruptive public records requests and permit private contractors to respond to voluminous public records requests.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (6/4/2025; Judiciary Committee)
Clinical Teaching Subsidy
Young, T.
To enact the Clinical Teaching Subsidy Reform Act regarding the state university clinical teaching subsidy.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (6/4/2025; Workforce & Higher Education Committee)
Unemployment Compensation
Peterson, B.
To increase the taxable wage base under the Unemployment Compensation Law and require a contributory employer's employees to pay a contribution when the employer has a negative account balance in the Unemployment Compensation Fund.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Public Insurance & Pensions Committee (6/18/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Drug Sales
Mathews, A. Craig, M.
To prohibit certain sales of drugs causing severe adverse effects, to establish conditions on the prescribing of such drugs, and to name this act the Patient Protection Act.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Health Committee (6/11/2025; CONTINUED)
Health Care
Brownlee, K. Brewer, D.
To protect parents' rights to equitable access to medical care, behavioral health care, hygiene care, and educational opportunities for their children and to name this act the Parents' Rights to Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (P.R.I.D.E.) Act.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (6/11/2025; Children & Human Services Committee)
Firearm Tax Holiday
Deeter, K. Fischer, T.
To authorize a sales tax holiday for four months each year for the sale of firearm safety and storage devices.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (6/11/2025; Ways & Means Committee)
Firearm Suppressors
Deeter, K. Fischer, T.
To remove firearm mufflers and suppressors from the classification of dangerous ordnance.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (6/11/2025; Public Safety Committee)
To require that gun trigger locks be attached and provided with firearms sales by federally licensed firearms dealers.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (6/11/2025; Public Safety Committee)
To expand the locations and manner in which electronic instant bingo may be conducted, to authorize and establish regulations for retailer video lottery terminals, and to levy a tax on electronic instant bingo.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Finance Committee (6/17/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Child Safety
Kishman, M. Williams, J.
To enact V.J.'s Law to require mandatory reporters of child abuse or neglect to report to both a peace officer and the public children services agency.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (6/11/2025; Public Safety Committee)
Concealed Handguns
Isaacsohn, D. Lawson-Rowe, M.
Regards a concealed handgun licensee's duty to carry the license and notify law enforcement if the licensee is carrying a concealed handgun and to rename concealed handgun licenses as basic competency licenses.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (6/18/2025; Public Safety Committee)
Firearms
Thomas, C. Grim, M.
To prohibit certain conduct regarding trigger cranks, bumpfire devices, and other items that accelerate a semi-automatic firearm's rate of fire but do not convert it into an automatic firearm.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (6/18/2025; Public Safety Committee)
To establish the Ohio Task Force on Gun Violence.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (6/18/2025; Public Safety Committee)
Domestic Violence
Brewer, D.
To expand the offense of domestic violence to include a person with whom the offender is in a dating relationship and to expand the offense of weapons under disability to include a person subject to a domestic violence protection order and a person convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (6/18/2025; Judiciary Committee)
Physician Assistants
Lampton, B. Manning, G.
To change the professional title used by physician assistants to "physician associate."
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (6/18/2025; Health Committee)
Domestic Violence
Grim, M. Abdullahi, M.
To enact the Keeping Our Survivors Safe Act to prohibit a person who has been convicted of first degree misdemeanor domestic violence from possessing a firearm or dangerous ordnance.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (6/18/2025; Public Safety Committee)
Medicaid
Dovilla, M.
To require an audit and corrective action plan for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled Medicaid eligibility group and to make an appropriation.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (6/18/2025; Finance Committee)
Firearm Storage
Brewer, D. Fischer, T.
To require distribution of information on firearm storage.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (6/18/2025; Public Safety Committee)
Food Allergens
Abdullahi, M. Young, T.
To require food service operations to denote certain allergens on their menu.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (6/18/2025; Agriculture Committee)
Storage Facilities
Mathews, A. Swearingen, D.
To authorize self-service storage facility owners to dispose of property in expired storage spaces and to modify the threshold of liability relating to said spaces.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (6/18/2025; Transportation Committee)
To enact the Universal Background Checks Act to require a firearm transfer to be made through a dealer, through a law enforcement agency, or pursuant to a specified exception, and to require a background check when a firearm is transferred.
Text & Analysis
Introduced
in House (6/23/2025)
Community Schools
Fowler Arthur, S.
To establish a small district magnet community school pilot program.
Text & Analysis
Introduced
in House (6/23/2025)
Firearms
Fischer, T.
To enact the Second Amendment Protection Act to safeguard the right to keep and bear arms.
Text & Analysis
Introduced
in House (6/25/2025)
Health Benefits
Schmidt, J.
To prohibit health plan issuers from requiring or inducing providers to collect copayments and other cost sharing amounts.
Text & Analysis
Introduced
in House (7/1/2025)
Schools
Brenner, A.
Proposing to enact Section 12 of Article VIII of the Constitution of the State of Ohio to conditionally authorize the issuance of state obligations to refund pending school district obligations, to conditionally waive, beginning in 2027, the requirement that schools levy property taxes to pay debt charges on their obligations, and to conditionally authorize a treasury fund that is restricted exclusively to educational purposes.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in Senate (2/12/2025; Finance Committee)
Hunting and Fishing
Ferguson, R. Santucci, N.
Proposing to enact Section 23 of Article I of the Constitution of the State of Ohio to establish a constitutional right to hunt and fish.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House General Government Committee (3/25/2025; CONTINUED)
SB 1
Enacted
Higher Education
Cirino, J.
To enact the Advance Ohio Higher Education Act regarding the operation of state institutions of higher education.
Text & Analysis
Signed by the Governor
(3/28/2025; Signed: March 28, 2025, Effective: June 25, 2025)
Energy Generation
Reineke, B.
To amend sections of the Revised Code regarding public utilities and competitive retail electric and natural gas services, to make changes regarding electric company property taxation, and to repeal parts of H.B. 6 of the 133rd General Assembly.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (3/26/2025; Energy Committee)
Income Tax
Lang, G. Huffman, S.
To phase-down the state income tax to a flat rate of 2.75% over two years.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate (1/29/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story); Ways & Means)
Residential Property
Brenner, A. Huffman, S.
To provide for the expedited removal of unauthorized occupants from residential property and to prohibit the use and sale of fraudulent deeds.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Judiciary Committee (2/12/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Substance Abuse Instruction
Johnson, T.
Regards instruction for public and chartered nonpublic school students in the harmful effects of substance use.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (4/30/2025; Education Committee)
Unions
Huffman, S.
To prohibit a public employer from providing paid leave or compensation for a public employee to engage in certain union activities.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Government Oversight and Reform Committee (3/19/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
State Regulations
Wilson, S. Lang, G.
To revise and supplement state regulations concerning non-recourse litigation funding agreements.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Judiciary Committee (6/18/2025; CONTINUED)
Employment Relationships
Blessing, L. DeMora, B.
To prohibit agreements that restrain engaging in a lawful profession or business after the conclusion of an employment relationship.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Judiciary Committee (3/5/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Academic Intervention
Brenner, A.
With regard to academic intervention services at public schools and the establishment of mathematics improvement and intervention plans.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Education Committee (3/25/2025; CONTINUED-SUBSTITUTE)
SB 20
Enacted
Week Designation
Antonio, N. Manning, N.
To designate the first week of May as "Ohio Stroke Awareness Week."
Text & Analysis
Signed by the Governor
(5/28/2025; Signed: May 28, 2025, Effective: August 25, 2025)
Sun Lamp Tanning
Johnson, T.
To prohibit the provision of sun lamp tanning services to individuals under age 16.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Health Committee (4/2/2025; CONTINUED)
Retail Merchants
Blessing, L. Ingram, C.
To require retail merchants to give customers the option to pay by cash.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Small Business and Economic Opportunity Committee (5/15/2025; CONTINUED-SUBSTITUTE)
Historical Documents
Johnson, T.
To enact the Historical Educational Displays Act regarding the display of certain historical documents in public schools.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Education Committee (4/8/2025; CONTINUED-SUBSTITUTE)
Optometry
Cirino, J.
To revise the law governing the practice of optometry.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Health Committee (4/2/2025; CONTINUED)
Lodging Tax
O'Brien, S. Lang, G.
To repeal the authorization of a special county lodging tax.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Ways & Means (3/4/2025; CONTINUED)
Education
Ingram, C.
To require disclosure of the for-profit status of community school operators and post-secondary educational institutions on various promotional materials and contracts for employment.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Education Committee (2/11/2025; CONTINUED)
Chartered Nonpublic Schools
Ingram, C.
Regards the auditing of chartered nonpublic schools.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Education Committee (2/11/2025; CONTINUED)
School District Property
Ingram, C.
To eliminate the right of first refusal for certain schools in the acquisition of school district real property.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Education Committee (2/11/2025; CONTINUED)
Youth Work Hours
Schaffer, T.
Regards age and schooling certificate requirements and work hours for a person under sixteen years of age.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Commerce & Labor Committee (6/11/2025; CONTINUED)
To change the laws pertaining to operating a vehicle or watercraft while under the influence of marihuana and the admissibility of evidence for purposes of OVI statutes.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Judiciary Committee (6/18/2025; CONTINUED-AMENDED)
Marijuana
Huffman, S.
To consolidate the administration of the marijuana control program, revise the medical and adult-use marijuana laws, and to levy taxes on marijuana.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Judiciary Committee (6/24/2025--Canceled)
Firearms and Ammunition
Cutrona, A. Schaffer, T.
To exempt from the sales and use tax the sale of certain firearms and ammunition and to authorize refundable tax credits for small arms and ammunition manufacturing projects.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Ways & Means (2/11/2025; CONTINUED)
Veterinarian Telehealth
Wilkin, S. Huffman, S.
To establish requirements and procedures for veterinarian telehealth visits.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Agriculture Committee (6/18/2025; CONTINUED)
Civil Rights
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
Referred
in Senate (2/12/2025; Government Oversight and Reform Committee)
Conversion Therapy
Antonio, N. Liston, B.
To prohibit certain licensed health care professionals from engaging in conversion therapy for minor patients.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in Senate (2/12/2025; Health Committee)
To increase the penalty for failure to report a lost or stolen firearm.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in Senate (2/12/2025; Judiciary Committee)
Universal Health Care
Hicks-Hudson, P. DeMora, B.
To establish and operate the Ohio Health Care Plan to provide universal health care coverage to all Ohio residents.
Text & Analysis
Pricing Algorithms
Blessing, L. Blackshear, W.
To regulate the use of pricing algorithms.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Financial Institutions, Insurance and Technology Committee (3/4/2025; CONTINUED)
Intoxicating Hemp
Wilkin, S. Huffman, S.
To generally prohibit the sale of intoxicating hemp products, except for sales at licensed dispensaries; to regulate drinkable cannabinoid products, and to levy taxes on drinkable cannabinoid products and other intoxicating hemp products that may be sold.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (5/7/2025; General Government Committee)
School Funding
Brenner, A.
To declare the General Assembly's intent to establish a new school financing system that provides a statewide per-pupil funding payment to public and chartered nonpublic schools based on a single statewide property tax and increased state sales tax.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in Senate (2/12/2025; Finance Committee)
To authorize a nonrefundable income tax credit for the cost of handgun training and firearms storage and locking devices.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Ways & Means (2/25/2025; CONTINUED)
Domestic Violence
Craig, H. Weinstein, C.
To prohibit a person who is charged with or has been convicted of first degree misdemeanor domestic violence from possessing a firearm or dangerous ordnance.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in Senate (2/12/2025; Judiciary Committee)
SB 100
Enacted
Insurance Regulations
Manchester, S.
To exclude nonprofit agricultural membership organizations from insurance regulations.
Text & Analysis
Signed by the Governor
(7/1/2025; Signed: July 1, 2025, Effective: 90 days)
Short-Term Rentals
Brenner, A.
To limit the authority of local governments to regulate short-term rental properties, to extend local lodging taxes to short-term rentals, to require collection of those taxes by short-term rental platforms, and to require real estate licenses to be issued electronically.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Local Government Committee (5/28/2025; CONTINUED-SUBSTITUTE (See separate story))
School Panic Alerts
Reynolds, M.
To enact Alyssa's Law to require public and chartered nonpublic schools to implement a wearable panic alert system and to make an appropriation.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in Senate (2/19/2025; Finance Committee)
EV Charging Stations
Reineke, B.
To regulate the ownership of electric vehicle charging stations.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Public Utilities Committee (3/26/2025; CONTINUED)
Submetering
Brenner, A.
To exempt from regulation as a public utility certain persons or entities providing behind-the-meter utility services and to allow the Public Utilities Commission to register providers of such services.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Public Utilities Committee (3/5/2025; CONTINUED)
School Meals
Blessing, L. Smith, K.
To provide breakfast and lunch at no cost to public and chartered nonpublic school students, and to make an appropriation.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in Senate (2/19/2025; Finance Committee)
School DEI Ban
Brenner, A.
To prohibit diversity, equity, and inclusion in public schools.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Education Committee (3/25/2025; CONTINUED)
Month Designation
Blackshear, W.
To designate April as "Counseling Awareness Month."
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Health Committee (6/4/2025; CONTINUED)
Public Schools
Brenner, A.
Regards closure requirements or other actions for poor-performing public schools.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Education Committee (4/1/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Health Plan Premiums
Koehler, K.
To authorize a refundable tax credit for a portion of employer group health plan premiums.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Ways & Means (3/18/2025; CONTINUED)
Prison Sentences
Antonio, N. Huffman, S.
To abolish the death penalty and to modify the number of jurors that may be challenged in cases where a defendant may be sentenced to life imprisonment.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in Senate (3/19/2025; Judiciary Committee)
Prison Sentences
Antonio, N. Huffman, S.
To abolish the death penalty, to modify the number of jurors that may be challenged in cases where a defendant may be sentenced to life imprisonment, and to prohibit public funding for the use of lethal injection drugs in nontherapeutic abortions, assisting suicide, and executing a death sentence.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in Senate (3/19/2025; Judiciary Committee)
Overdose Reversal Drugs
Johnson, T.
To require hospitals to provide overdose reversal drugs under certain circumstances.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Health Committee (6/18/2025; CONTINUED (No testimony))
SB 138
Enacted
Mental Health and Addiction
Johnson, T.
To modify various laws regarding boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services and to impose penalties for not registering recovery housing residences.
Text & Analysis
Signed by the Governor
(7/1/2025; Signed: July 1, 2025, Effective: 90 days)
School Curriculum
Cutrona, A.
Regards the success sequence curriculum.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Education Committee (6/24/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Cellphone Use
Timken, J.
To generally prohibit student cellular telephone use in public schools.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Education Committee (6/3/2025; CONTINUED)
Medications
Liston, B. Johnson, T.
Regards prescription drugs and medication switching.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Financial Institutions, Insurance and Technology Committee (6/17/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
To require the Director of Job and Family Services to seek permission to exclude certain items from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Health Committee (5/28/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Health Insurers
Blessing, L.
Regards the timeframe for health insurer recoupment from health care providers.
Text & Analysis
Health Insurers
Cutrona, A.
To regulate the use of artificial intelligence by health insurers.
Text & Analysis
Insurers
Manchester, S.
To prohibit a health insuring corporation or sickness and accident insurer from reducing or denying a claim based on certain factors.
Text & Analysis
Health Insurers
Manning, N.
To prohibit fees for electronic claims submission by health insurer and the Medicaid program.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in Senate (4/2/2025; Medicaid Committee)
Parental Controls
Reynolds, M.
To require certain application store-based parental controls.
Text & Analysis
Investigational Treatments
Huffman, S. Roegner, K.
Regards individualized investigational treatments for life-threatening or severely debilitating illnesses.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Health Committee (6/18/2025; CONTINUED-AMENDED)
Age Verification
Patton, T.
To establish age verification and parental consent requirements for certain developers and application stores.
Text & Analysis
Digital Repairs
Blessing, L.
To enact the Digital Fair Repair Act.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Small Business and Economic Opportunity Committee (5/15/2025; CONTINUED)
Taxes and Programs
Blessing, L. Smith, K.
To modify the law governing property, income, sales and use, severance, and lodging taxes; to provide breakfast and lunch at no cost to public and chartered nonpublic school students; to increase the Local Government Fund; to modify funding for the Low- and Moderate-income Housing Trust Fund; and to name this act A Good Deal for Ohio.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in Senate (5/7/2025; Finance Committee)
Gaming
Manning, N.
To legalize internet gambling and levy a tax on businesses that provide internet gambling, to permit internet lottery gaming and online wagering on horse racing, to make other changes to the Gambling Law, and to make an appropriation.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Select Committee on Gaming (5/28/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Drug Manufacturers
Koehler, K.
To prohibit drug manufacturers from taking certain actions regarding reimbursements made to 340B covered entities.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in Senate (5/14/2025; Health Committee)
To revise the milk inspection fees, to require large agricultural commodity handlers to execute a surety bond in case of failure, and to make an appropriation.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in Senate (5/28/2025; Finance Committee)
Health Insurance
Manchester, S. Liston, B.
To prohibit certain health insurance cost-sharing practices.
Text & Analysis
Regards prescribing, dispensing, and administering drugs and to name this act the Jeff, Dave, and Angie Patient Right to Try Act.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in Senate (5/28/2025; Health Committee)
Dangerous Ordnance
Koehler, K.
To remove firearm mufflers and suppressors from the classification of dangerous ordnance.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Armed Services, Veterans Affairs and Public Safety Committee (6/25/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Medical Services
Manchester, S.
To establish community paramedicine programs and to require insurance coverage for services provided under those programs.
Text & Analysis
Medicaid
Roegner, K.
To require an audit and corrective action plan for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled Medicaid eligibility group and to make an appropriation
Text & Analysis
Referred
in Senate (6/18/2025; Finance Committee)
Insulin
Craig, H.
To cap cost sharing for prescription insulin drugs.
Text & Analysis
Introduced
in Senate (7/1/2025)
Pharmacists
Romanchuk, M.
To authorize pharmacists to screen, test, and provide treatment for certain respiratory health conditions.
Text & Analysis
Introduced
in Senate (7/7/2025)
Minimum wage
Craig, H. Smith, K.
To increase the state minimum wage.
Text & Analysis
Introduced
in Senate (7/9/2025)
Firearms
Smith, K. Craig, H.
To prohibit certain conduct regarding trigger cranks, bumpfire devices, and other items that accelerate a semi-automatic firearm's rate of fire but do not convert it into an automatic firearm.
Text & Analysis
Introduced
in Senate (7/9/2025)
Food Safety
Santucci, N. Gross, J.
To urge Congress to investigate the U.S. food supply to safeguard the future of our country by ensuring that all dangerous toxins and chemicals are removed from our food.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Agriculture Committee (3/26/2025; CONTINUED)
To urge Ohioans to safely store and secure firearms.
Text & Analysis
Introduced and Referred
in House (6/18/2025; Public Safety Committee)
Perinatal Mental Health
Somani, A. Ray, S.
Recognizing the importance of perinatal mental health.
Text & Analysis
Introduced and Referred
in House (4/30/2025; Health Committee)
Fentanyl
Johnson, T.
To urge the 119th Congress to introduce and pass legislation similar to the Stop Our Scourge Act of 2023, directing the Secretary of Homeland Security to designate illicit fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (3/5/2025; Community Revitalization Committee)
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