Tracking Status Report
Erin Ryan
Tracking group: WPPN 134 GA
Domestic Violence (Boyd, J., Carruthers, S.)
To make changes to civil and criminal law regarding domestic violence, to address State Highway Patrol arrest authority, to name the act Aisha's Law, and to make an appropriation.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in Senate Judiciary (12/7/2021; CONTINUED)
Housing (Leland, D., Crossman, J.)
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 (3/23/2021; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Birth Equity (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
Introduced and Referred in House (2/4/2021; Health)
Minimum Wage (Kelly, B.)
To allow municipalities, townships, and counties to establish minimum wage requirements higher than the state minimum wage.
Text/Analysis
Withdrawn in House (2/5/2021)
Legislative Meetings (Kelly, B.)
To allow committee meetings and general sessions of the House of Representatives to be conducted virtually and to declare an emergency.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in House Government Oversight (3/25/2021; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Tax Credit (Skindell, M., Crawley, E.)
To make the earned income tax credit partially refundable.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in House Ways & Means (5/25/2021; CONTINUED)
Women's Sports (Powell, J., Stoltzfus, R.)
To enact the “Save Women’s Sports Act” to require schools, state institutions of higher education, and private colleges to designate separate single-sex teams and sports for each sex.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in House Primary & Secondary Education (6/24/2021; CONTINUED-SUBSTITUTE (See separate story))
Minimum Wage (Kelly, B., Jarrells, D.)
To increase the state minimum wage.
Text/Analysis
Referred in House (2/10/2021; Commerce & Labor)
Caregiver 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 (5/11/2021; CONTINUED)
Address Confidentiality (Abrams, C., LaRe, J.)
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 & Elections (10/19/2021; CONTINUED-SUBSTITUTE (No testimony))
HB 110
(Enacted)State Budget (Oelslager, S.)
To make operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2021, and ending June 30, 2023, to levy taxes, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.
Text/Analysis
Signed by the Governor (6/30/2021; Signed: June 30, 2021, Effective: July 1, 2021)
Spousal Exceptions (Lanese, L., Boggs, K.)
To eliminate the spousal exceptions for the offenses of rape, sexual battery, unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, gross sexual imposition, sexual imposition, and importuning and to permit a person to testify against the person's spouse in a prosecution for any of those offenses.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in House Criminal Justice (5/26/2021; CONTINUED (See separate story))
HB 122
(Enacted)Telehealth (Fraizer, M., Holmes, A.)
To establish and modify requirements regarding the provision of telehealth services, to establish a provider credentialing program within the Medicaid program, to revise the law governing the State Medical Board's One-Bite Program, and to extend the suspension of certain programs and requirements under the state's insurance laws until January 1, 2026.
Text/Analysis
Signed by the Governor (12/22/2021; Signed: December 22, 2021, Effective: March 21, 2022)
Health Insurance (Crossman, J., Lightbody, M.)
Regarding health insurance premiums and benefits.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in House Insurance (2/24/2021; CONTINUED)
Doula Services (Crawley, E., Brinkman, T.)
Regarding doula services.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in House Families, Aging & Human Services (10/28/2021; CONTINUED (No testimony))
Child Care (Lightbody, M., White, A.)
Regarding eligibility for publicly funded child care.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in House Families, Aging & Human Services (4/15/2021; 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 (6/23/2021; CONTINUED)
Food Workers (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
Referred in House (3/3/2021; Commerce & Labor)
HB 167
(Enacted)Housing Support (Oelslager, S.)
To provide rent and utility assistance and to make an appropriation.
Text/Analysis
Signed by the Governor (5/11/2021; Signed: May 11, 2021, Effective: in 90 days)
Rental Housing (Upchurch, T., Miller, A.)
To prohibit discrimination in rental housing based on lawful source of income.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in House Civil Justice (4/27/2021; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Earning Statements (Kelly, B., Lipps, S.)
To require an employer to provide earnings and deductions statements to each of the employer's employees.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in Senate Small Business & Economic Opportunity (10/27/2021; CONTINUED)
Sexual Assault (Boggs, K., Russo, A.)
To remove the cap on damages for noneconomic loss when a victim of rape or assault brings a tort action.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in House Civil Justice (4/27/2021; CONTINUED)
Discrimination (Hillyer, B., 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
Referred in House (3/17/2021; Commerce & Labor)
AAPI Affairs (Howse, S., Galonski, T.)
To create the Ohio Asian-American and Pacific Islander Affairs Commission and the Office of Asian- American and Pacific Islander Affairs and to make an appropriation.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in House State & Local Government (6/15/2021; CONTINUED)
Wage Disparities (Howse, S., Miranda, J.)
To enact the Ohio Equal Pay Act to address wage disparities in public and private employment.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in House Commerce & Labor (6/22/2021; CONTINUED)
Civil Rights Commission (Boyd, J., Crawley, E.)
To require the Ohio Civil Rights Commission to establish a system for individuals to anonymously report wage discrimination.
Text/Analysis
Referred in House (4/14/2021; Commerce & Labor)
Sex Education (Stoltzfus, R., Fowler Arthur, S.)
To enact the Parents Right to Know Act to enforce school district compliance with venereal disease or teen pregnancy prevention instruction requirements.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in House Primary & Secondary Education (6/28/2021--Canceled)
Domestic Violence (Boggs, K., Abrams, C.)
To provide for the establishment of domestic violence fatality review boards and to amend the versions of sections 121.22 and 4731.22 of the Revised Code that are scheduled to take effect on October 9, 2021, to continue the changes to those sections on and after that date.
Text/Analysis
Referred in Senate (11/10/2021; Judiciary)
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 and to authorize an income tax credit for landlords who rented to such tenants.
Text/Analysis
Referred in House (4/15/2021; Civil Justice)
Protection Orders (Russo, A., Smith, M.)
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
Referred in House (4/15/2021; Government Oversight)
Rape (Galonski, T., Miranda, J.)
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, to extend the period of limitations for a civil action by a victim of childhood sexual abuse other than rape, and to eliminate the spousal exception for the offense of rape.
Text/Analysis
Referred in House (4/22/2021; Criminal Justice)
SNAP (Koehler, K.)
To establish requirements for electronic benefit transfer cards issued under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Text/Analysis
Referred in House (5/12/2021; State & Local Government)
Virtual Testimony (Kelly, B., Miller, A.)
To require that a committee of the General Assembly establish a means of hearing virtual testimony.
Text/Analysis
Referred in House (5/19/2021; Government Oversight)
Bail (Leland, D., Hillyer, B.)
To make changes regarding bail.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in House Criminal Justice (5/26/2021; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Human Trafficking (Galonski, T., Richardson, T.)
To allow a victim of human trafficking to expunge certain criminal records and to name this act the Expanding Human Trafficking Justice Act.
Text/Analysis
Referred in House (5/25/2021; Criminal Justice)
Legislative Service Commission (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 (6/16/2021; Criminal Justice)
Disabilities (Crawley, E., Ray, S.)
To generally prohibit a person's disability from being used to deny or limit custody, parenting time, visitation, adoption, or service as a guardian or foster caregiver, regarding a minor.
Text/Analysis
Referred in Senate (12/15/2021; Judiciary)
Pregnancy (Boggs, K., Hicks-Hudson, P.)
To authorize a pregnant minor to consent to receive health care to maintain or improve her life or the life of the unborn child she is carrying.
Text/Analysis
Referred in House (6/24/2021; Families, Aging & Human Services)
Abortion (Koehler, K., Fowler Arthur, S.)
Regards pretreatment notice about the possibility of reversing a mifepristone abortion.
Text/Analysis
Referred in House (9/16/2021; Health)
Sexual Assault (Lanese, L., John, M.)
To require governmental evidence-retention entities to secure and test sexual assault examination kits in relation to an investigation or prosecution of trafficking in persons.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in House Criminal Justice (10/26/2021; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Fair Paycheck Workplace (Smith, K., Smith, M.)
To create the fair paycheck workplace certificate.
Text/Analysis
Referred in House (9/21/2021; Commerce & Labor)
Midwives (Boyd, J., Hicks-Hudson, P.)
To regulate the practice of certified professional midwives and to name this act the Ohio
Midwife Practice Act.
Text/Analysis
Referred in House (9/21/2021; Families, Aging & Human Services)
Benefit Cliffs (Click, G., Jarrells, D.)
To address public assistance benefits cliffs in Ohio and to designate this act as the Actionable Help And New Dignity for Upward Progression (A HAND UP) Act.
Text/Analysis
Referred in House (9/21/2021; Families, Aging & Human Services)
Retirement Savings Plan (Howse, S., Brent, J.)
To establish an auto-enrollment retirement savings program for private sector employees.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in House Insurance (10/27/2021; CONTINUED)
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
Referred in House (9/21/2021; Health)
Abortions (Gross, J.)
To revise the informed consent law regarding abortions.
Text/Analysis
Referred in House (9/22/2021; Health)
Mental Illness (Galonski, T., Hillyer, B.)
To make changes to the law regarding involuntary treatment for mentally ill persons subject to a court order.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in House Civil Justice (1/18/2022; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Universal Health Care (Skindell, M.)
To establish and operate the Ohio Health Care Plan to provide universal health care coverage to all Ohio residents.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in House Insurance (10/27/2021; CONTINUED)
Sex Alteration (Click, G., Grendell, D.)
To prohibit certain procedures to alter a minor child's sex and to designate this act as the Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act.
Text/Analysis
Referred in House (10/26/2021; Families, Aging & Human Services)
Benefit Eligibility (Schaffer, T.)
Regarding eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Medicaid, work and education requirements for certain Medicaid recipients, requirements for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program electronic benefit transfer cards, and eligibility for and overpayments of unemployment compensation.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in Senate Government Oversight & Reform (5/6/2021; CONTINUED-SUBSTITUTE)
Overtime Pay (Brenner, A., Peterson, B.)
To except traveling to and from a worksite and performing certain routine tasks from the overtime pay requirement.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in House Commerce & Labor (10/26/2021; CONTINUED)
Cultural Competency (Maharath, T., Antonio, N.)
To require certain health care professionals to complete instruction in cultural competency.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in Senate Health (6/16/2021; CONTINUED)
Conversion Therapy (Maharath, T., Antonio, N.)
To protect minors by prohibiting certain licensed health care professionals from engaging in conversion therapy when treating minor patients.
Text/Analysis
Referred in Senate (2/10/2021; Health)
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 Workforce & Higher Education (3/10/2021; CONTINUED)
African Americans (Williams, S.)
To establish a committee to study the progress and challenges of African Americans in Ohio and to make an appropriation.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in Senate Finance (3/16/2021; CONTINUED)
Employment Applications (Williams, S.)
To prohibit private employers from including on an employment application any question concerning whether an applicant has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a felony.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in Senate Workforce & Higher Education (3/10/2021; CONTINUED)
Salary History (Maharath, T.)
To prohibit employers from seeking a prospective employee's wage or salary history.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in Senate Small Business & Economic Opportunity (3/17/2021; CONTINUED)
Asian-American Commission (Antani, N., Maharath, T.)
To create the Ohio Asian-American and Pacific Islander Affairs Commission and the Office of Asian- American and Pacific Islander Affairs and to make an appropriation.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in Senate Government Oversight & Reform (6/2/2021; CONTINUED)
Domestic Violence (Kunze, S., Antonio, N.)
To expand the offense of domestic violence to also prohibit a person from knowingly impeding the normal breathing or circulation of the blood of a family or household member by applying pressure to the family or household member's throat or neck or blocking the family or household member's nose or mouth.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in Senate Judiciary (6/22/2021; CONTINUED-AMENDED)
Week Designation (Maharath, T.)
To designate the first week of May as "Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week."
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in Senate Health (10/27/2021; CONTINUED)
Month Designation (Maharath, T.)
To designate the month of May as "Maternal Mortality Awareness Month."
Text/Analysis
Referred in Senate (3/3/2021; Health)
Housing Support (O'Brien, S., Williams, S.)
To provide rent and utility assistance and to make an appropriation.
Text/Analysis
Referred in House (3/24/2021; Finance)
Discrimination (Antonio, N., Rulli, 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
Referred in Senate (3/10/2021; Government Oversight & Reform)
Campaign Funds (Maharath, T.)
To allow a candidate to use campaign funds to pay certain child care costs.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in Senate Local Government & Elections (6/22/2021; CONTINUED)
Abortion (Roegner, K., O'Brien, S.)
To enact the Human Life Protection Act to prohibit abortions based upon a condition precedent.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in Senate Health (10/27/2021; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Month Designation (Kunze, S., Maharath, T.)
To enact the Save Our Mothers Act regarding birth equity, peripartum racial and ethnic disparities, and implicit bias in the health care system and to designate May as "Maternal Mortality Awareness Month."
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in Senate Health (11/17/2021; CONTINUED)
Nurse Overtime (Schaffer, T., Antonio, N.)
To prohibit a hospital from requiring a nurse to work overtime as a condition of continued employment.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in Senate Health (11/10/2021; CONTINUED)
Women's Sports (Roegner, K.)
To enact the"Save Women's Sports Act" to require schools, state institutions of higher education, and private colleges to designate separate single-sex teams and sports for each sex.
Text/Analysis
Referred in Senate (3/17/2021; Workforce & Higher Education)
Maternal Morbidity (Kunze, S., Antonio, N.)
To modify the laws governing the Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review Board and to require birthing facilities to report data on severe maternal morbidity.
Text/Analysis
Referred in Senate (3/24/2021; Health)
Protection Orders (Williams, S.)
To enact the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act.
Text/Analysis
Referred in Senate (3/24/2021; Judiciary)
Bias-Motivated Crime (Maharath, T., Antonio, N.)
To rename the offense of ethnic intimidation to bias-motivated crime; to expand the scope of bias-motivated crime; to require peace officer training on bias-motivated crime; and to require data collection and reporting on bias-motivated crime
Text/Analysis
Referred in Senate (4/21/2021; Judiciary)
SB 157
(Enacted)Abortion (Johnson, T., Huffman, S.)
To require reports to be made after a child is born alive following an abortion or attempted abortion, to establish certain civil or criminal penalties for failing to preserve the health or life of such a child, and to make changes regarding variances from written transfer agreements.
Text/Analysis
Signed by the Governor (12/22/2021; Signed: December 22, 2021, Effective: March 21, 2022)
Eviction Cases (Craig, H., Kunze, S.)
To expungement of eviction case court files.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in Senate Judiciary (10/19/2021; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Pregnant Workers (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 Workforce & Higher Education (10/20/2021; CONTINUED)
Virtual Testimony (Thomas, C.)
To require that a committee of the General Assembly establish a means of hearing virtual testimony.
Text/Analysis
Referred in Senate (5/19/2021; Government Oversight & Reform)
Bail (McColley, R., Huffman, S.)
To make changes regarding bail.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in Senate Judiciary (6/16/2021; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Human Trafficking (Fedor, T., Kunze, S.)
To allow a victim of human trafficking to expunge certain criminal records and to name this act the Expanding Human Trafficking Justice Act.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in Senate Judiciary (12/7/2021; CONTINUED-AMENDED (No testimony))
Week Designation (Antonio, N.)
To designate the week including March 22nd as Ohio Doula Week.
Text/Analysis
Referred in Senate (6/2/2021; Health)
Month Designation (Maharath, T.)
To designate the month of June as "Pride Month."
Text/Analysis
Referred in Senate (6/16/2021; Government Oversight & Reform)
Rape (Antonio, N.)
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.
Text/Analysis
Referred in Senate (6/23/2021; Judiciary)
Parenting (Hackett, B., Antonio, N.)
To generally prohibit a person's disability from being used to deny or limit custody, parenting time, visitation, adoption, or service as a guardian or foster caregiver, regarding a minor.
Text/Analysis
Committee Hearing in Senate Judiciary (10/26/2021; CONTINUED)
Public Assistance (Williams, S.)
To establish the Public Assistance Benefits Cliff Study Committee.
Text/Analysis
Referred in Senate (9/15/2021; Government Oversight & Reform)
Police Profiling (Williams, S.)
To prohibit biased policing and other status-based profiling.
Text/Analysis
Referred in Senate (10/6/2021; Judiciary)
Universal Health Care (Fedor, T., Antonio, N.)
To establish and operate the Ohio Health Care Plan to provide universal health care coverage to all Ohio residents.
Text/Analysis
Referred in Senate (10/20/2021; Insurance)
Racism (Howse, S., Crawley, E.)
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 House State & Local Government (6/23/2021; CONTINUED)
Right to Organize (Kelly, B., Sobecki, L.)
To urge the Congress of the United States to enact the Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2021.
Text/Analysis
Introduced and Referred in House (4/14/2021; Commerce & Labor)
Board Members (West, T., Russo, A.)
To encourage equitable and diverse gender representation on the boards and in senior management of Ohio companies and institutions.
Text/Analysis
Introduced in House (4/22/2021; Commerce & Labor)
Pandemic Discrimination (Brent, J., Russo, A.)
To denounce all forms of stigmatization, racism, and discrimination occurring as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Text/Analysis
Introduced and Referred in House (5/4/2021; State & Local Government)
Policing Act (Lightbody, M., Brent, J.)
To urge the United States Congress to enact H.R. 1280, the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021.
Text/Analysis
Introduced and Referred in House (5/18/2021; State & Local Government)
Pandemic Discrimination (Maharath, T., Thomas, C.)
To denounce all forms of stigmatization, racism, and discrimination occurring as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Text/Analysis
Referred in Senate (3/24/2021; Health)
Housing Inequality (Williams, S.)
To urge the state of Ohio to take steps to address housing inequality.
Text/Analysis
Referred in Senate (10/6/2021; Financial Institutions & Technology)