Regarding broadband expansion, including access to electric cooperative easements and facilities, to make an appropriation, and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: GREEN

CATEGORY ASSIGNED:

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller

To amend Section 30 of H.B. 197 of the 133rd General Assembly to modify the laws governing certain health professionals and educator preparation programs due to COVID-19 and other circumstances and to modify the electric utility laws regarding energy efficiency programs; to amend the version of section 4729.92 of the Revised Code that is scheduled to take effect on October 9, 2021, to continue the changes to that section on and after that date; and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/14/2021 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. Immediately, Sections 3 and 4 eff. 10/9/21

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED:

Staff ASSIGNED:Lora Miller

To prohibit sales of dextromethorphan without a prescription to persons under age 18.

  CURRENT STATUS

7/1/2021 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 9/30/21

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Pharmacy

Staff ASSIGNED:Lora Miller

To modify the campaign finance law and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

4/15/2021 - House Government Oversight, (Second Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Campaign Finance

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke/Lora Miller

Regarding state retirement system fiduciary duties, Public Employees Retirement System management fees and employee pay, and creating the Committee on Pension Salaries and Fees.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/4/2021 - Referred to Committee House Financial Institutions

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Retirement Systems

Staff ASSIGNED:Lora Miller

Regarding charging workers' compensation experience in firefighter cancer claims.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/10/2021 - House Insurance, (First Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Workers Comp

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke 

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.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/23/2021 - House Civil Justice, (Second Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Foreclosures/Evictions

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke/Lora Miller

To increase the criminal penalties associated with failing to secure a load on a vehicle.

  CURRENT STATUS

11/29/2022 - Senate Judiciary, (First Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Transportation

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke 

To make changes to the laws governing accessible parking.

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED:

Staff ASSIGNED: 

To halt the collection of all debt owed to any state institution of higher education or hospital operated by a state institution of higher education, to freeze the accrual of interest and collection of fees on all outstanding debt owed to those entities, and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/2/2021 - House Civil Justice, (Second Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Consumer Data

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke 

Regarding emergency prescription refills.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/2/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 6/1/22

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Pharmacy

Staff ASSIGNED:Lora Miller

To waive state testing requirements for the 2020-2021 school year, to provide exemptions from state report cards and other provisions related to test results, and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/9/2021 - House Primary and Secondary Education, (First Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Education

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke 

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Taxation

Staff ASSIGNED:Lora Miller

To exempt specified liquor permit holders from the requirement to renew their permits in calendar year 2021, to eliminate a prohibition against the use of gift cards to purchase beer or intoxicating liquor for on-premises consumption, and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/10/2021 - House Commerce and Labor, (Second Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Alcohol & Tobacco

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke 

To require the Director of Transportation to establish an electric vehicle charging station grant rebate program and to make an appropriation.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/22/2021 - BILL AMENDED, House Transportation and Public Safety, (Fourth Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Transportation

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke 

To expressly incorporate changes in the Internal Revenue Code since March 27, 2020, into Ohio law and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/9/2021 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: GREEN

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Taxation

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller

To allow municipalities, townships, and counties to establish minimum wage requirements higher than the state minimum wage.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/4/2021 - WITHDRAWN

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: RED

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Labor

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke 

To repeal the changes made by H.B. 6 of the 133rd General Assembly to the laws governing electric service, renewable energy, and energy efficiency and the changes made to other related laws.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/17/2021 - House Public Utilities, (First Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Energy

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke 

To designate the State of Ohio as a Second Amendment Sanctuary State and to name this act the Ohio Second Amendment Safe Haven Act.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/9/2021 - House State and Local Government, (Third Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Merchant Security

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke 

To amend the law regarding eminent domain and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/2/2021 - House Civil Justice, (Second Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Transportation

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke 

To allow veterans' and fraternal organizations to conduct electronic instant bingo, to make other changes to the law governing bingo, and to amend the version of section 109.572 of the Revised Code that is scheduled to take effect on October 9, 2021, to continue the change on and after that date.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/4/2021 - Referred to Committee House Finance

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Lottery & Gaming

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke 

To waive state testing requirements for the 2020-2021 school year, to require the Department of Education to seek a waiver from federal testing requirements, and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/20/2021 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. Immediately

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Education

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

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

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Labor Relations

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke 

To increase the state minimum wage.

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: RED

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Labor Relations

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke 

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.

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: GREEN

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Transportation

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke 

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.

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: GREEN

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Workers Comp

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke 

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.

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: GREEN

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Workers Comp

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke 

With regard to nationally standardized college admissions assessment and to revise the state report card and accountability systems.

  CURRENT STATUS

7/1/2021 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 9/30/21

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Education

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke 

To require commercial roofing contractors to have a license.

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Labor Relations

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke 

To establish legislative oversight of the Governor's executive orders, certain public health orders, and emergency rules, including by establishing the Ohio Health Oversight and Advisory Committee.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/24/2021 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, House State and Local Government, (Third Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Health

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller

To make changes to the Address Confidentiality Program administered by the Secretary of State, to make changes to county recorder fees, to modify certain requirements for the 2022 primary election, and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

1/28/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. Immediately

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: GREEN

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Consumer Data

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

To provide for a permanent registration option for noncommercial trailers.

  CURRENT STATUS

10/6/2021 - Senate Transportation, (First Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Transportation

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke 

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

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Transportation

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke 

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.

  CURRENT STATUS

7/1/2021 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; effective 7/1/21

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: GREEN

CATEGORY ASSIGNED:

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller & Alex Boehnke 

To enact the Ohio Computer Crimes Act.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/13/2022 - REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, Senate Judiciary, (Fourth Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: GREEN

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Merchant Security

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller & Alex Boehnke

To require inclusion of safety specifications in wind farm certificate applications, to modify wind turbine setbacks, and to permit a township referendum vote on certain wind farm and solar facility certificates.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/12/2021 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, House Public Utilities, (Fourth Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED:

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke 

To equalize the pass-through entity withholding and the business income tax rate.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/23/2021 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Taxation

Staff ASSIGNED:Lora Miller

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

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Taxation

Staff ASSIGNED:Lora Miller

To establish relief for businesses that have violated COVID-19 orders by vacating and expunging the violations and by refunding fines to those businesses and to make an appropriation.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/5/2021 - Re-Referred to Committee

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED:

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

To make changes regarding electric utility service law, to repeal certain provisions of H.B. 6 of the 133rd General Assembly, and to provide refunds to retail electric customers in the state.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/31/2021 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 6/30/21

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Energy

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke 

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

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Labor Relations/Workforce

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke 

Relating to commerce, to repeal the version of section 1322.24 of the Revised Code that is scheduled to take effect October 9, 2021, and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/2/2021 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. Immediately

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Taxation

Staff ASSIGNED:Lora Miller

To authorize a county to implement a motor fuel quality testing program.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/16/2021 - House Transportation and Public Safety, (First Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Transportation

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke 

Regarding prescription drugs and medication switching.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/16/2021 - House Insurance, (Third Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Pharmacy

Staff ASSIGNED:Lora Miller

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.

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: RED

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Food Safety/Labor Relations

Staff ASSIGNED:Lora Miller/Alex Boehnke

To amend Section 29 of H.B. 197 of the 133rd General Assembly to modify municipal income tax employer withholding rules for COVID-19-related work-from-home employees.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/2/2021 - Referred to Committee Senate Ways and Means

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Taxation

Staff ASSIGNED:Lora Miller

To temporarily authorize a nonrefundable tax credit for the retail sale of high-ethanol blend motor fuel.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/15/2022 - Senate Ways and Means, (First Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Energy/Transportation

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

To remit funds from the State Fiscal Recovery Fund to repay unemployment advances, to provide funds to support improvements at pediatric behavioral health care facilities, to require the Development Services Agency to establish the Water and Sewer Quality Program, and to make appropriations.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/29/2021 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. immediately

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: GREEN

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Economic Development

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller

To make appropriations to support recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/23/2021 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 12/23/21

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: GREEN

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Economic Development

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller

To revise the Fireworks Law and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

11/8/2021 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. immediately

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Consumer Merchandise

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller

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

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED:

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller

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

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Labor Relations

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

To prohibit counties, townships, and municipal corporations from prohibiting energy generation from fossil fuels and gas pipelines.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/6/2021 - House Energy and Natural Resources, (Third Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Energy

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

Regarding electronic prescriptions and Schedule II controlled substances.

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Pharmacy

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller

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

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Taxation/Workforce

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller/Alex Boehnke

To prevent local governments from limiting use of natural gas and propane.

  CURRENT STATUS

7/1/2021 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 9/30/21

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Energy

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

To void the order of the Interim Director of Health requiring the use of facial coverings throughout the state and prohibit the Governor or other administrative department heads from requiring the use of facial coverings without approval by the General Assembly.

  CURRENT STATUS

4/22/2021 - House Government Oversight, (First Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Health

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller

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.

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED:

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller

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

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Labor Relations

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

To enact The Business Fairness Act.

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED:

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

To allow vendors to deduct sales tax remitted for certain bad debts charged off as uncollectible by credit account lenders.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/22/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 3/23/23

To generally extend the firearm possession provisions that apply to a concealed handgun licensee to also apply to a person who is age 21 or older and not prohibited by Ohio or federal law from possessing a firearm without need for the person obtaining a license.

  CURRENT STATUS

11/30/2021 - Referred to Committee Senate Veterans and Public Safety

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED:

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

To enact the Ohio Equal Pay Act to address wage disparities in public and private employment.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/22/2021 - House Commerce and Labor, (First Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Labor Relations

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

To require the Ohio Civil Rights Commission to establish a system for individuals to anonymously report wage discrimination.

  CURRENT STATUS

4/14/2021 - Referred to Committee House Commerce and Labor

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: RED

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Labor Relations

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

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

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Taxation

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller 

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

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Labor relations

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

To make various changes regarding recorded instruments, powers of attorney, judgment liens, mortgage subrogation, law enforcement towing laws, and state stock banks, and to make an appropriation.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/13/2022 - REPORTED OUT, House Finance, (Fourth Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED:

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

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

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Health & Sanitation

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller

To amend Section 29 of H.B. 197 of the 133rd General Assembly to modify the municipal income tax withholding rule for employees working at a temporary worksite.

  CURRENT STATUS

4/22/2021 - Referred to Committee House Ways and Means

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Taxation

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller 

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.

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED:

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller 

To establish a natural gas infrastructure development program and fund to help meet Ohio's natural gas supply needs.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/6/2021 - House Energy and Natural Resources, (First Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Energy

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

Regarding transparency by large-volume third-party sellers in online marketplaces.

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED:

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

Regarding intervention and legal representation in actions challenging statutes and to require the Attorney General to seek legislative approval before settling certain actions.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/9/2021 - House State and Local Government, (Third Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED:

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

To establish requirements for electronic benefit transfer cards issued under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/12/2021 - Referred to Committee House State and Local Government

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED:

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller 

To create a temporary sales tax exemption for electric vehicle production parts and to create the Electric Vehicle Commission.

  CURRENT STATUS

11/30/2021 - Referred to Committee Senate Transportation

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Taxation

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller 

To modify the law governing absent voting, to make other changes to the Election Law, and to make an appropriation.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/12/2022 - REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, House Government Oversight, (Sixth Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED:

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

To enact "The Consumer Utility Billing Transparency Act" requiring the itemization of all riders, charges, taxes, and other costs on certain utility bills.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/19/2021 - House Public Utilities, (First Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Energy

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

To to ban the taking or removal of oil or natural gas from and under the bed of Lake Erie.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/20/2021 - House Energy and Natural Resources, (First Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Energy

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

To alter the minimum setback requirement for wind farms of five or more megawatts.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/19/2021 - House Public Utilities, (First Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Energy

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

To modify the campaign finance law, and to name this act the Ohio Anti-Corruption Act.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/1/2022 - House Government Oversight, (First Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED:

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

To repeal electric security plans and make other changes to the law regarding competitive retail electric service.

  CURRENT STATUS

11/15/2022 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, House Public Utilities, (Seventh Hearing)

To require the Ohio Ethics Commission to post certain financial disclosure statements online and to make an appropriation.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/10/2021 - Referred to Committee House Government Oversight

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED:

Staff ASSIGNED:

To alter the definitions of "plugin electric motor vehicle" and "hybrid motor vehicle" under the motor vehicle law and to halve the additional registration fees for those two types of motor vehicles.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/13/2022 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, House Transportation and Public Safety, (Second Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Energy

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

To make changes to the Unclaimed Funds Law.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/29/2022 - Senate Finance, (First Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Taxation

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller 

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.

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Pharmacy

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller 

To enact the Ohio Personal Privacy Act.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/22/2022 - Re-Referred to Committee

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Merchant Security

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

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.

  CURRENT STATUS

8/24/2021 - Introduced

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Workers Comp

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

Regarding the sale of used catalytic converters, and to make an appropriation.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/8/2022 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, House Criminal Justice, (Third Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Tire & Automotive

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

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.

  CURRENT STATUS

9/8/2021 - Introduced

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Pharmacy

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller 

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.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/3/2022 - House Criminal Justice, (Second Hearing)

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.

  CURRENT STATUS

9/20/2021 - Introduced

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Pharmacy

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller 

Regarding data breaches on state agency computer systems.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/7/2022 - House Technology and Innovation, (First Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Merchant Security

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

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.

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Pharmacy

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller 

To create the offense of postal package theft.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/1/2022 - House Criminal Justice, (First Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Merchant Security

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

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

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Workers/Unemployment Comp 

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

Regarding the deduction and recovery of bad debts for cigarette and tobacco and vapor products taxes, the taxation of certain vapor product manufacturers and importers, and local regulation of tobacco products and alternative nicotine products.

  CURRENT STATUS

1/5/2023 - VETOED BY GOVERNOR

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Tobacco

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

Regarding filing false or fraudulent claims with the state and defrauding the state of money or property.

  CURRENT STATUS

11/15/2022 - House Civil Justice, (Second Hearing)

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

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Unemployment Comp

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

To revise the law governing the sale or furnishing of beer and intoxicating liquor at certain events held at a private residence without a permit.

  CURRENT STATUS

11/15/2022 - House Commerce and Labor, (Third Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Alcohol

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

To increase microdistillery production limits and allow specified persons to provide spirituous liquor tasting samples at agency stores free of charge.

  CURRENT STATUS

11/15/2022 - House Commerce and Labor, (Second Hearing)

Regarding the sealing of eviction records.

  CURRENT STATUS

11/15/2022 - House Civil Justice, (First Hearing)

To authorize the operation of remote dispensing pharmacies.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/13/2022 - PASSED BY HOUSE; Vote 90-2

To revise the law governing the review of patient information in the Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System, to establish requirements on the dispensing of opioid analgesics, to provide for a cash transfer, and to amend the version of section 4723.481 of the Revised Code that is scheduled to take effect on September 30, 2024, to continue the changes to that section on and after that date.

  CURRENT STATUS

11/29/2022 - House Health, (Second Hearing)

To increase the penalty for illegally providing alcohol to a minor if the offense proximately causes the death of another.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/2/2022 - BILL AMENDED, House Criminal Justice, (First Hearing)

To prohibit financial institutions and other businesses from discriminating against customers based on certain factors.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/18/2022 - Referred to Committee House Civil Justice

Regarding certain off-label use of drugs, products, and devices approved or authorized by the United States Food and Drug Administration and to name this act the Preventative Care Act.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/18/2022 - Referred to Committee House Health

To authorize the creation of areas within which tax and other incentives are available to encourage the development of natural gas pipelines and other infrastructure and to make an appropriation.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/13/2022 - House Energy and Natural Resources, (Second Hearing)

To amend Sections 219.10, 221.10, 221.13, 223.10, 223.15, 227.10, 229.10, 229.20, 237.10, and 237.13 of H.B. 597 of the 134th General Assembly to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of certain state programs, to make capital appropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 2024, and to make other appropriations.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/14/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 6/14/22

To modify various aspects of the law regarding crimes and corrections, correctional officers and employees, coroner records, inmate internet access, civil protection orders, delinquent child adjudications, youthful offender parole review, OVI and other traffic offenses, and criminal record sealing and expungement.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/1/2022 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, House Criminal Justice, (Second Hearing)

To prohibit price gouging of infant formula and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

11/15/2022 - Referred to Committee House Families, Aging and Human Services

To call on legislators at the state and federal level and other communities and jurisdictions to support an amendment to the United States Constitution that would abolish corporate personhood and the doctrine of money as speech.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/25/2021 - Referred to Committee House Government Oversight

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED:

Staff ASSIGNED: 

Regarding broadband expansion, including access to electric cooperative easements and facilities, and to make an appropriation.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/17/2021 - Referred to Committee House Finance

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: GREEN

CATEGORY ASSIGNED:

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED:

Staff ASSIGNED:Lora Miller

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Energy

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED:

Staff ASSIGNED:Lora Miller

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.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/6/2021 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, Senate Government Oversight and Reform, (Fourth Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED:

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller

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.

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Taxation

Staff ASSIGNED:Lora Miller

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

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Health & Pharmacy

Staff ASSIGNED:Lora Miller

To require the Director of Transportation to establish an electric vehicle charging station grant rebate program and to make an appropriation.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/17/2021 - Senate Transportation, (First Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Transportation/Energy

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke 

To prohibit a rental agreement from including a mandatory cable television fee.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/9/2021 - Senate Financial Institutions and Technology, (First Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Miscellaneous

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller

To eliminate the 20-year statute of limitation for felonious assault and aggravated assault if the victim is a peace officer, to modify the law regarding records retention schedules developed by counties, municipal corporations, and townships, to modify the penalties for aggravated assault, tampering with evidence, falsification, and falsification in a theft offense, and to name this act Cooper's Law.

  CURRENT STATUS

9/21/2021 - Senate Judiciary, (Second Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Consumer Data

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke 

Regarding cigarette minimum pricing.

  CURRENT STATUS

7/1/2021 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 9/30/21

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Alcohol & Tobacco

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

To repeal the nuclear resource credit payment provisions, and amend, and rename as solar resource, the renewable resource credit payment provisions of H.B. 6 of the 133rd General Assembly.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/9/2021 - Referred to Committee House Public Utilities

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Energy

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

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

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Taxation

Staff ASSIGNED:Lora Miller

To increase the state minimum wage and to allow municipalities, townships, and counties to establish higher minimum wage requirements.

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: RED

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Labor Relations

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke 

Relating to commerce and taxation.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/23/2021 - Senate Financial Institutions and Technology, (Third Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Taxation

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller

To regulate and require the registration of roofing contractors.

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED:

Staff ASSIGNED:Lora Miller

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.

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Labor Relations

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke 

To prohibit employers from seeking a prospective employee's wage or salary history.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/17/2021 - Senate Small Business and Economic Opportunity, (First Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Labor Relations

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke 

To authorize a county to implement a motor fuel quality testing program.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/24/2021 - Referred to Committee Senate Transportation

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Energy/Environmental

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke 

To require voter approval of any increase in the rate of a county sales tax.

  CURRENT STATUS

9/21/2021 - Senate Ways and Means, (First Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Taxation

Staff ASSIGNED:Lora Miller

To modify municipal income tax employer withholding rules for COVID-19-related work-from-home employees

  CURRENT STATUS

5/12/2021 - Senate Ways and Means, (First Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Taxation

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller

To exempt from sales and use tax things used primarily to move completed manufactured products or general merchandise.

  CURRENT STATUS

9/21/2021 - Senate Ways and Means, (First Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Taxation

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller

To revise specified provisions of the liquor control law.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/22/2021 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 3/23/22

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Alcohol & Tobacco

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

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

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: GREEN

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Economic Development

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller

To revise the Fireworks Law.

  CURRENT STATUS

7/9/2021 - VETOED BY GOVERNOR

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Consumer Merchandise

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller

To exempt from sales and use tax the sale of child and adult diapers.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/31/2021 - Senate Ways and Means, (First Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Taxation

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller

To require a person to provide proof of identity at a local employment office before receiving unemployment compensation or pandemic unemployment assistance and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/24/2021 - Senate Insurance, (Second Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Unemployment Comp

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

To repeal the renewable resource credit payment provisions enacted under H.B. 6 of the 133rd General Assembly.

  CURRENT STATUS

9/21/2021 - Senate Energy and Public Utilities, (Third Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Energy

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

To prevent local governments from limiting use of natural gas.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/12/2021 - Senate Energy and Public Utilities, (Second Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Energy

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

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.

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED:

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller

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

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED:

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

To amend the law regulating multiple employer welfare arrangements.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/24/2021 - Referred to Committee Senate Insurance

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED:

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

To enact the Consumer Protection Call Center Act regarding the eligibility of employers that relocate a call center to a foreign country to receive state grants, loans, and other benefits.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/8/2022 - Senate Finance, (Second Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED:

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller 

To revise the state report card system.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/1/2021 - Senate Primary and Secondary Education, (Fifth Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Education

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

Related to expungement of eviction case court files.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/6/2022 - Senate Judiciary, (Third Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Consumer Data

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

To require municipal corporations with more than $100 million in annual income tax collections to provide a tax credit to nonresident taxpayers.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/4/2021 - Introduced

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Lottery & Gaming

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

To enact the Ohio Pregnant Workers Fairness Act to generally require employers to make reasonable accommodations for employees who are pregnant or breastfeeding.

  CURRENT STATUS

10/20/2021 - Senate Workforce and Higher Education, (First Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED:

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

Regarding transparency by large-volume third-party sellers in online marketplaces.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/8/2022 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, House Commerce and Labor, (First Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Lottery & Gaming

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

To provide a three-day sales tax "holiday" each March during which sales of qualifying Energy Star products are exempt from sales and use taxes.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/1/2022 - Senate Ways and Means, (First Hearing)

To establish legislative oversight of executive action regarding voluntary federal unemployment compensation programs.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/15/2021 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, Senate Insurance, (Third Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Unemployment Comp

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

To modify the campaign finance law and to name this act the Ohio Anti-Corruption Act.

  CURRENT STATUS

9/22/2021 - Referred to Committee Senate Local Government and Elections

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED:

Staff ASSIGNED:

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

  CURRENT STATUS

12/14/2022 - Bills for Third Consideration

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Taxation

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller

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)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Miscellaneous

Staff ASSIGNED:

To create a regulatory sandbox program for novel financial products and services.

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED:

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

To clarify that the State Lottery Commission has the authority to operate certain internet lottery games and to prohibit the Commission from conducting internet lottery game versions of certain number match lottery games.

  CURRENT STATUS

11/15/2022 - Referred to Committee House Finance

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Lottery/Gaming

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

To revise terminology used in the residential landlord-tenant law.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/2/2022 - Senate Small Business and Economic Opportunity, (First 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)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Transportation/Motor Fuel

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

To modify various aspects of the law regarding crimes and corrections, trial procedures, correctional officers and employees, coroner records, inmate internet access, civil protection orders, delinquent child adjudications and case transfers, youthful offender parole review, OVI and other traffic offenses, certificates of qualification for employment, licensing collateral sanctions, criminal record sealing and expungement, State Criminal Sentencing Commission duties, and certain assisted reproduction matters.

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Criminal Justice/Merchant Security

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller & Alex Boehnke

To authorize tax incentives relating to nonprofit management and operations.

  CURRENT STATUS

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

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Taxation

Staff ASSIGNED: Lora Miller

To authorize incentives for the manufacture and usage of electric vehicles, to permit electric distribution utilities to create, and recover costs of, transportation electrification programs, and to make an appropriation.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/6/2022 - Senate Energy and Public Utilities, (Fifth Hearing)

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Energy

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke

To enact the Digital Fair Repair Act.

  CURRENT STATUS

11/15/2022 - Referred to Committee Senate Financial Institutions and Technology

To urge the Governor of the State of Michigan and the Director of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to make all efforts to keep Enbridge Line 5 operating.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/16/2021 - ADOPTED BY SENATE; Vote 33-0

COMMENTS

KEY CODE: YELLOW

CATEGORY ASSIGNED: Energy

Staff ASSIGNED: Alex Boehnke