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Amanda Sines
Tracking group: Ohio ACEP
HB 6
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)
HB 12
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 20
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)
HB 52
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)
HB 57
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)
HB 72
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 91
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)
HB 112
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)
HB 128
Abortion
Tims, D. Somani, A.
Regards abortion, abortion-related laws, and reproductive health protections.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (2/26/2025; Health Committee)
HB 162
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))
HB 172
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)
HB 189
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)
HB 219
Health Insurers
Deeter, K.
To establish network adequacy standards for health insurers.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Insurance Committee (5/6/2025; CONTINUED)
HB 237
Reproductive Care
Somani, A. Brown Piccolantonio, B.
To protect assisted reproduction care.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (4/30/2025; Health Committee)
HB 257
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))
HB 274
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)
HB 277
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)
HB 281
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))
HB 289
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)
HB 305
Fentanyl
Deeter, K. Williams, J.
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)
HB 311
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)
HB 319
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)
HB 324
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)
HB 327
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)
HB 346
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)
HB 353
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)
HB 356
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)
HB 390
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)
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)
SB 11
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))
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)
SB 25
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)
SB 36
Optometry
Cirino, J.
To revise the law governing the practice of optometry.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Health Committee (4/2/2025; CONTINUED)
SB 78
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
Referred
in Senate (2/12/2025; Financial Institutions, Insurance and Technology Committee)
SB 129
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)
SB 133
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)
SB 134
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)
SB 137
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 162
Health Insurers
Blessing, L.
Regards the timeframe for health insurer recoupment from health care providers.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in Senate (4/2/2025; Financial Institutions, Insurance and Technology Committee)
SB 164
Health Insurers
Cutrona, A.
To regulate the use of artificial intelligence by health insurers.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in Senate (4/2/2025; Financial Institutions, Insurance and Technology Committee)
SB 165
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
Referred
in Senate (4/2/2025; Financial Institutions, Insurance and Technology Committee)
SB 166
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)
SB 170
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)
SB 209
Medication
Cutrona, A. Reynolds, M.
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)
SB 220
Medical Services
Manchester, S.
To establish community paramedicine programs and to require insurance coverage for services provided under those programs.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in Senate (6/11/2025; Financial Institutions, Insurance and Technology Committee)
SB 222
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)
SB 230
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)
SCR 1
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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