To amend Sections 265.220, 307.270, 343.30, and 701.70 of H.B. 110 of the 134th General Assembly, Sections 219.10 as subsequently amended, 221.10 as subsequently amended, 221.13 as subsequently amended, and 237.13 as subsequently amended of H.B. 597 of the 134th General Assembly, and Sections 207.15, 221.10, 221.13, 223.10, 223.15, 237.10, and 237.13 of H.B. 687 of the 134th General Assembly and to repeal Section 715.20 of H.B. 110 of the 134th General Assembly to make appropriations and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.

  CURRENT STATUS

1/6/2023 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. immediately

To require owners of private construction projects to timely pay a contractor.

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5/25/2022 - BILL AMENDED, Senate Workforce and Higher Education, (Fourth Hearing)

To make appropriations for programs related to transportation and public safety for the biennium beginning July 1, 2021, and ending June 30, 2023, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of those programs.

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3/31/2021 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. immediately

To make appropriations for the Bureau of Workers' Compensation for the biennium beginning July 1, 2021, and ending June 30, 2023, to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of the Bureau's programs, and to make changes to the Workers' Compensation Law.

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6/29/2021 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 7/1/21

To make appropriations for the Industrial Commission for the biennium beginning July 1, 2021, and ending June 30, 2023, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of Commission programs.

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6/2/2021 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 7/1/21

To require commercial roofing contractors to have a license.

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3/16/2022 - Referred to Committee Senate Government Oversight and Reform

To authorize certain public entities to enter into public-private initiatives with a private party through a public-private agreement regarding public facilities.

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9/29/2021 - House Infrastructure and Rural Development, (Third Hearing)

To alter the annual registration tax for non-apportioned commercial trailers and semitrailers.

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2/10/2021 - Referred to Committee House Transportation and Public Safety

To revise the Elevator Law and to repeal sections 4105.30, 4785.01, 4785.02, 4785.021, 4785.03, 4785.04, 4785.041, 4785.05, 4785.051, 4785.06, 4785.07, 4785.08, 4785.09, 4785.091, 4785.092, 4785.10, and 4785.99 of the Revised Code on the date that is ten years after the effective date of this act to subsequently eliminate licensure of elevator contractors and mechanics in ten years.

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1/2/2023 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 4/3/23

To require local governments that contest property values to formally pass an authorizing resolution for each contest and to notify property owners.

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4/21/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 7/21/22

To establish the Commercial Truck Driver Student Aid program and to make an appropriation.

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3/10/2021 - House Economic and Workforce Development, (First Hearing)

To allow political subdivisions, special districts, and state institutions of higher education to elect to apply the Prevailing Wage Law to public improvement projects.

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6/23/2021 - House Commerce and Labor, (Second Hearing)

To require a licensing authority to issue an occupational license to an applicant who completes a registered apprenticeship program and meets other requirements.

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4/5/2022 - House Commerce and Labor, (Fourth Hearing)

To require an employer to provide earnings and deductions statements to each of the employer's employees.

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10/27/2021 - Senate Small Business and Economic Opportunity, (First Hearing)

To authorize a temporary income tax credit for an employer's expenses to train a commercial vehicle operator.

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3/15/2022 - Senate Ways and Means, (First Hearing)

To require an occupational licensing authority to issue a license or government certification to an applicant who holds a license, government certification, or private certification or has satisfactory work experience in another state under certain circumstances and to amend the version of section 3319.22 of the Revised Code that is scheduled to take effect on April 12, 2023, to continue the changes on and after that date.

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11/15/2022 - Referred to Committee Senate Workforce and Higher Education

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.

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11/29/2022 - House Commerce and Labor, (First Hearing)

To enact The Business Fairness Act.

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12/1/2021 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 3/2/22

To address medical requirements for employees and students; to address qualified civil immunity regarding certain coronaviruses; to authorize emergency medical technicians to administer COVID-19 tests; to expressly cover COVID-19 vaccine injuries under the workers' compensation system; and to repeal sections 3792.05, 3792.07, and 3792.08 of the Revised Code on September 30, 2025.

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12/7/2021 - Senate General Government Budget, (Second Hearing)

To repeal the commercial activity tax with a five-year phase-out.

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5/24/2022 - House Ways and Means, (Third Hearing)

To enact the High Hazard Training Certification (HHTC) Act regarding construction services performed under a contract at a stationary source.

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5/31/2022 - REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, House Commerce and Labor, (Fifth Hearing)

To amend the law related to plumbing inspections.

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5/26/2021 - Referred to Committee Senate Health

To authorize an individual to decline a vaccination and to name this act the Vaccine Choice and Anti-Discrimination Act.

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8/24/2021 - House Health, (Sixth Hearing)

Regarding proof of COVID-19 vaccinations.

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5/18/2021 - BILL AMENDED, House Health, (First Hearing)

To limit the duration of public health orders and to allow the General Assembly to act via concurrent resolution in response to a public health emergency if the Governor or Department of Health does not.

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5/4/2021 - Referred to Committee House State and Local Government

To expand political subdivision joint purchasing authority to expressly include purchases for construction services.

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5/12/2021 - House Commerce and Labor, (First Hearing)

With regard to career-technical education and the compensation of joint vocational school districts located in community reinvestment areas.

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6/16/2021 - House Economic and Workforce Development, (First Hearing)

To enact the Fair and Open Competition Act regarding project labor agreements in public improvement contracts.

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5/18/2021 - Referred to Committee House Commerce and Labor

To prohibit mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations, requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination, and certain other actions relating to an individual's COVID-19 vaccination or health status and to declare an emergency.

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6/22/2021 - House Civil Justice, (First Hearing)

To make changes to the law relating to building inspections.

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5/25/2022 - Referred to Committee Senate Small Business and Economic Opportunity

To exempt an injury or disability caused by an employer-mandated COVID-19 vaccination from the Workers' Compensation Law and to allow the employee to sue the employer for damages.

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8/24/2021 - Introduced

To prohibit mandatory disclosures related to an individual's COVID-19 vaccination status, to name the act the Individual Privacy and Anti-Discrimination Act, and to declare an emergency.

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9/8/2021 - Introduced

To prohibit a political subdivision, public official, public school, state agency, or state institution of higher education from taking certain actions related to the COVID-19 vaccine, to codify the qualified civil immunities under H.B. 606 of the 133rd General Assembly permanently, to repeal section 3792.05 of the Revised Code on the date that is two years after the effective date of that section, and to declare an emergency.

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9/20/2021 - Introduced

To prohibit certain actions related to COVID-19 and genetic technologies.

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9/20/2021 - Introduced

To address COVID-19 vaccine requirements for employees and students; to extend certain timelines for qualified civil immunity and expand immunity to include hearing aid dealers and hearing aid fitters; to authorize emergency medical technicians to administer COVID-19 tests; to expressly cover COVID-19 vaccine injuries under the workers' compensation system; and to repeal sections 3792.05, 3792.06, 3792.07, and 3792.08 of the Revised Code on June 30, 2023.

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10/13/2021 - Bills for Third Consideration; (Pending Committee Report)

To authorize a refundable tax credit for a portion of employer group health plan premiums.

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3/8/2022 - House Ways and Means, (Third Hearing)

Regarding workers' compensation for employees who work from home and other changes to the Workers' Compensation Law.

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6/24/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 9/23/22

To authorize the Ohio community investor credit for qualifying developers of multi-family residential housing projects.

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3/29/2022 - House Ways and Means, (Second Hearing)

To prevent expulsion from school and termination from employment based on COVID-19 vaccination status.

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11/1/2021 - Introduced

To declare the General Assembly's intent to enact legislation establishing congressional district boundaries for the state based on the 2020 decennial census.

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11/12/2021 - , (Second Hearing)

To enact the COVID-19 Vaccination and Passport Protection Act to prohibit schools, institutions of higher education, employers, and places of public accommodation from requiring COVID-19 vaccines or proof of vaccination.

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11/8/2021 - Introduced

To enact the Ohio Adult Use Act and to levy a tax.

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12/6/2022 - House Finance, (First Hearing)

To revise and streamline the state's occupational regulations.

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1/5/2023 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 4/6/23

To exempt from income tax certain gains from the sale of an ownership interest in a business.

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6/24/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 9/23/22

To modify the law regarding extensions for filing municipal income tax returns and to limit penalties for late filings.

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4/6/2022 - Referred to Committee Senate Ways and Means

To make changes to the Unemployment Compensation Law and to make an appropriation.

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3/16/2022 - House Finance, (First Hearing)

To revise the law regarding priority for classroom facilities projects for which the prior conditional approval lapsed and to make capital reappropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 2024.

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4/1/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 7/1/22

To create the Major Air Hub Council, to require the Council to construct two commercial service airports, one in Fayette County and one in Portage County, and to create the Southern Ohio Airport Authority and the Northern Ohio Airport Authority to operate the airports.

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4/5/2022 - Referred to Committee House Transportation and Public Safety

To limit regulatory restrictions in administrative rules, to make various technical and
corrective changes to the liquor laws, to amend the version of section 111.15 of
the Revised Code that is scheduled to take effect September 30, 2024, to continue
the limitations on and after that date, and to make an appropriation.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/10/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Appropriations language eff. 3/10/22, Statutory language eff. 6/8/22

To terminate any approved decoupling mechanism, to modify the significantly excessive earnings determination for an electric security plan, and to provide refunds to retail electric customers in the state.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/24/2021 - Referred to Committee House Public Utilities

To shorten the period of limitations for actions upon a contract; to make changes to the borrowing statute pertaining to applicable periods of limitations; and to establish a statute of repose for a legal malpractice action.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/11/2021 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 6/16/21

To expressly incorporate changes in the Internal Revenue Code since March 27, 2020, into Ohio law, to exclude certain loan amounts forgiven under federal law from the commercial activity tax, to authorize a commercial activity tax exclusion for Bureau of Workers' Compensation dividends paid to employers, and to declare an emergency.

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3/31/2021 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. immediately

To establish legislative oversight of orders issued by the executive branch, including by establishing the Ohio Health Oversight and Advisory Committee.

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3/24/2021 - Consideration of Governor's Veto; House Overrides Veto, Vote 62-35

To enhance state and local tax inducements for businesses making substantial fixed asset and employment investments and their suppliers.

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2/23/2021 - Senate Ways and Means, (Third Hearing)

To except traveling to and from a worksite and performing certain routine tasks from the overtime pay requirement and to prohibit opt-out class actions for overtime violations.

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4/6/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 7/6/22

To regulate the use of indemnity provisions in professional design contracts related to public improvements, to modify the definition of "emergency call," to provide for the allocation of damages in certain provisions of the Political Subdivision Sovereign Immunity Law,and to provide a municipal corporation or county immunity from liability in any action arising from a hospital police officer acting in the discharge of duties in specified locations.

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12/13/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 3/14/23

To regulate and require the registration of roofing contractors.

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10/6/2021 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, Senate Government Oversight and Reform, (Third Hearing)

To establish a career pathways apprentice program.

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3/10/2021 - Senate Workforce and Higher Education, (First Hearing)

Regarding noncredit career-technical programs at community colleges and state community colleges.

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3/24/2021 - Senate Workforce and Higher Education, (First Hearing)

To provide grants to businesses, local fairs, child care providers, and veterans homes and to make an appropriation.

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5/17/2021 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. immediately

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.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/7/2022 - Senate Government Oversight and Reform, (First Hearing)

To require an occupational licensing authority to issue a license or government certification to an applicant who holds a license, government certification, or private certification or has satisfactory work experience in another state under certain circumstances, to specify that individuals may not register as credit services organizations, to specify that individuals may not be licensed as manufacturers or wholesalers of fireworks, to maintain State Teacher Retirement System membership for certain school psychologists, and to revise continuing education requirements for licensed auctioneers.

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1/2/2023 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 4/3/23

To enact The Business Fairness Act and to declare an emergency.

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6/9/2021 - House Economic and Workforce Development, (First Hearing)

To license residential only construction contractors and to make changes to the law regulating specialty construction contractors.

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10/20/2021 - Senate Small Business and Economic Opportunity, (Third Hearing)

To prohibit mandatory vaccinations against the coronavirus, to prohibit requiring proof of vaccinations generally, and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/26/2021 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, Senate Health, (First Hearing)

To legalize and regulate sports gaming in this state, to levy a tax on businesses that provide sports gaming, and to make other changes to the Gambling Law.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/22/2021 - Referred to Committee House Finance

Regarding the constitutionality of federal actions and to declare an emergency.

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3/29/2022 - Senate Judiciary, (Third Hearing)

To make changes to the law relating to building inspections.

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5/17/2022 - Referred to Committee House Commerce and Labor

With regard to mask mandates and facial covering requirements for public schools, state institutions of higher education, and businesses.

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9/8/2021 - Referred to Committee Senate General Government Budget

To modify the historic rehabilitation and the opportunity zone investment tax credits, to adjust the applicability of certain recently enacted provisions related to tax increment financing and downtown redevelopment districts, and to authorize the City of Canton to distribute moneys in the Hartford-Houtz Poor Fund to the Canton Ex-Newsboys Association or any other charitable organization.

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6/14/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 9/13/22

To exempt documentary service charges and income tax electronic filing fees from sales and use taxation.

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12/14/2022 - Bills for Third Consideration

To require retail merchants to give customers the option to pay by cash.

  CURRENT STATUS

10/27/2021 - Senate Small Business and Economic Opportunity, (Second Hearing)

To exempt from income tax certain gains from the sale of an ownership interest in a business.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/14/2021 - Senate Ways and Means, (Third Hearing)

To allow a person under sixteen years of age to be employed after 7 p.m. during the school year.

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12/13/2022 - PASSED BY SENATE; Vote 31-0

To authorize a refundable income tax credit for donations of cash, property, or services to townships.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/15/2022 - Senate Ways and Means, (First Hearing)

To expand political subdivision joint purchasing authority to expressly include purchases for construction services.

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11/15/2022 - BILL AMENDED, Senate Local Government and Elections, (Fourth Hearing)

To temporarily reduce motor fuel excise tax rates and suspend collection of the additional motor vehicle registration taxes on electric and hybrid vehicles, both for five years, and to amend the version of section 4503.10 of the Revised Code that is scheduled to take effect on October 1, 2022, to continue the changes to that section on and after that date.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/16/2022 - Senate Transportation, (First Hearing)

Regarding wages, overtime, and other matters related to the employment of domestic workers.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/16/2022 - Referred to Committee Senate Workforce and Higher Education

To make changes to the laws governing driver's license suspensions for certain drug offenses and failure to pay child support and to the laws governing penalties for failure to provide proof of financial responsibility.

  CURRENT STATUS

4/5/2022 - Senate Judiciary, (First Hearing)

To amend Section 8 of S.B. 18 of the 134th General Assembly, as subsequently amended, to make changes to the Unemployment Compensation Law.

  CURRENT STATUS

1/2/2023 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 4/3/23

To repeal the state income tax on nonbusiness income with a ten-year phase-out.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/18/2022 - Referred to Committee Senate Ways and Means

To establish the Workforce Voucher Program, to terminate the provisions of the Voucher Program two years after the bill's effective date by repealing sections 122.157, 122.158, and 3313.473 of the Revised Code on that date, to authorize tax credits for graduates of the Voucher Program, and to make an appropriation.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/18/2022 - Referred to Committee Senate Workforce and Higher Education