Tracking Status Report
Amanda Sines
Tracking group: Ohio ACEP
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)
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 (4/2/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
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
Committee Hearing
in House Public Safety Committee (3/25/2025; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Occupations - Nurse Anesthetists
Deeter, K.
To revise the law governing the practice of certified registered nurse anesthetists.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (2/5/2025; 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 House Education Committee (4/8/2025; CONTINUED (No testimony))
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))
Brain Injuries
Odioso, M. Deeter, K.
To establish the Traumatic Brain Injury Treatment Accelerator Program and to make an appropriation.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (2/12/2025; Workforce & Higher Education Committee)
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
Passed
in House (4/9/2025; 60-39 (AMENDED)(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)
Abortion
Tims, D. Somani, A.
Regards abortion, abortion-related laws, and reproductive health protections.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (2/26/2025; Health Committee)
Medical Records
Click, G.
Relates to medical records of minors and to name the act the My Child-My Chart Act.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (3/19/2025; Health Committee)
Mental Health
Newman, J.
To prohibit the provision of mental health services to minors without parental consent.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (3/19/2025; Health Committee)
Behavioral Threat Management
Hall, T. Ghanbari, H.
Regards a statewide behavioral threat management operational process for public and chartered nonpublic schools.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (3/26/2025; Education Committee)
Health Insurers
Deeter, K.
To establish network adequacy standards for health insurers.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (4/9/2025; Insurance Committee)
To protect assisted reproduction care.
Text & Analysis
Introduced
in House (4/17/2025)
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)
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))
Week Designation
Antonio, N. Manning, N.
To designate the first week of May as "Ohio Stroke Awareness Week."
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Health Committee (4/9/2025; CONTINUED)
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)
Optometry
Cirino, J.
To revise the law governing the practice of optometry.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Health Committee (4/2/2025; CONTINUED)
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
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
Referred
in Senate (3/19/2025; Health Committee)
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)
Investigational Treatments
Huffman, S. Roegner, K.
Regards individualized investigational treatments for life-threatening or severely debilitating illnesses.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in Senate (4/9/2025; 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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