To create the TechCred Program and the Individual Microcredential Assistance Program, to develop a grant program to support industry sector partnerships, and to make an appropriation.

  CURRENT STATUS

1/13/2020 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 4/14/20. Reappropriation authority effective 1/13/20

Regarding the Governor's Office of Workforce Transformation and industry-recognized credentials and certificate programs.

  CURRENT STATUS

1/14/2020 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 4/14/20

Regarding foster caregiver training.

  CURRENT STATUS

10/20/2020 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 90 days

To establish the residential broadband expansion program and to make an appropriation.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/1/2020 - Senate Energy and Public Utilities, (Third Hearing)

To exempt from the income tax disability severance payments received by honorably discharged veterans.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/25/2020 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 5/26/20

To exempt from sales tax the sale of tampons and other feminine hygiene products associated with menstruation.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/7/2019 - House Ways and Means, (Fourth Hearing)

To modify political subdivision liability for an employee's negligent operation of a motor vehicle.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/19/2019 - House Civil Justice, (Third Hearing)

To create a suggested ceremonial procedure for retiring an Ohio state flag.

  CURRENT STATUS

1/6/2021 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 90 days

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

  CURRENT STATUS

1/22/2020 - House Commerce and Labor, (First Hearing)

Relating to commercial credit reports, the Business Linked Deposit Program, the General Loan Law, the Ohio Banking Law, the Consumer Installment Loan Act, and the Residential Mortgage Loan Law.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/22/2020 - PASSED BY SENATE; Vote 30-1

To require the Treasurer of State to establish the Ohio State Government Expenditure Database.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/17/2020 - PASSED BY SENATE; Vote 32-0

To provide for a new Local Government Road Improvement Fund for local governments to fund road improvements.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/12/2019 - Referred to Committee House Finance

To specify that a concealed handgun license qualifies as photo identification for voting purposes.

  CURRENT STATUS

11/20/2019 - REPORTED OUT, House State and Local Government, (Fourth Hearing)

To require certain entities to inform veterans about health care benefits available to veterans.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/12/2019 - Referred to Committee House Armed Services and Veterans Affairs

To increase the proportion of state tax revenue allocated to the Local Government Fund from 1.66% to 3.53% beginning July 1, 2019.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/12/2019 - Referred to Committee House Ways and Means

To exempt certain heating sources from sales taxation and to hold local governments and libraries harmless from the revenue effect.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/4/2020 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)

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

  CURRENT STATUS

10/1/2019 - House Health, (Second Hearing)

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

  CURRENT STATUS

3/19/2019 - House Ways and Means, (Third Hearing)

To increase the rate of and modify the distribution of
revenue from motor fuel excise taxes, to make appropriations for programs
related to transportation and public safety for the biennium beginning July 1,
2019, and ending June 30, 2021, and to provide authorization and conditions for
the operation of those programs.

  CURRENT STATUS

4/3/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Various effective dates; taxes eff. 7/1/19

To create the Supplemental State Capital Improvements Pilot Program funded by a temporary transfer from the Budget Stabilization Fund and to make an appropriation.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/20/2019 - Referred to Committee House Finance

To enact the "Ballot Uniformity and Transparency Act" to modify the form of election notices and ballot language for property tax levies.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/17/2020 - Senate General Government and Agency Review , (Sixth 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.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/11/2019 - House Commerce and Labor, (First Hearing)

To correct a drafting error in the definition of "dangerous ordnance" that resulted from Am. Sub. H.B. 228 of the 132nd General Assembly and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/11/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 3/11/19. Certain provisions effective 3/28/19

To establish family and medical leave insurance benefits.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/12/2020 - House Insurance, (Second Hearing)

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

  CURRENT STATUS

3/13/2019 - House State and Local Government, (First Hearing)

To raise the
homestead exemption income eligibility to $60,000 and increase the tax
reduction.

  CURRENT STATUS

11/5/2019 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)

To require presidential primary elections to
be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/5/2019 - Referred to Committee House State and Local Government

To authorize a property tax exemption for land used for commercial maple sap extraction.

  CURRENT STATUS

1/28/2020 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)

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

  CURRENT STATUS

5/14/2019 - House Financial Institutions, (Second Hearing)

To remove the income restriction on the earned income tax credit and to make the credit refundable.

  CURRENT STATUS

1/21/2020 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)

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

  CURRENT STATUS

3/4/2020 - Senate Transportation, Commerce and Workforce, (Second Hearing)

To grant income tax credits to persons who serve as volunteer peace officers, firefighters, or emergency medical technicians.

  CURRENT STATUS

4/30/2019 - House Ways and Means, (Second Hearing)

To enact the "Affordable Homebuilding and Housing Act" to temporarily exempt from property tax the increased value of land subdivided for residential development.

  CURRENT STATUS

4/10/2019 - House Economic and Workforce Development, (Second Hearing)

To require certain subdivisions to obtain the approval of the body that created the subdivision before levying a tax.

  CURRENT STATUS

4/10/2019 - House State and Local Government, (First Hearing)

To grant civil immunity to nonprofit corporations and persons associated with them for certain injuries, deaths, or losses resulting from the carrying of handguns.

  CURRENT STATUS

4/9/2019 - House Civil Justice, (Second Hearing)

To increase the overall cap on the motion picture tax credit from $40 million per fiscal year to $100 million per fiscal biennium.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/26/2019 - Referred to Committee House Finance

To make operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2019, and ending June 30, 2021, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.

  CURRENT STATUS

7/18/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Operating appropriations and tax levy generally effective 7/18/19. Some provisions subject to special effective dates.

To require state and local authorities to cooperate with the federal government in the enforcement of immigration laws, to sanction those that fail to do so, and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

1/23/2020 - House Criminal Justice, (First Hearing)

To modify the Weapons Law by renaming a concealed handgun license as a concealed weapons license, allowing a concealed weapons licensee to carry concealed all deadly weapons not otherwise prohibited by law, repealing a notice requirement applicable to licensees stopped for a law enforcement purpose, authorizing expungement of convictions of a violation of that requirement, allowing a person age 21 or older and not prohibited by federal law from firearm possession to carry a concealed deadly weapon without needing a license subject to the same carrying laws as a licensee, and correcting the definition of dangerous ordnance mistakenly resulting from Am. Sub. H.B. 228 of the 132nd General Assembly.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/27/2019 - Introduced

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

  CURRENT STATUS

10/22/2019 - House Ways and Means, (Second Hearing)

To modify the Weapons Law by renaming a concealed handgun license as a concealed weapons license, allowing a concealed weapons licensee to carry concealed all deadly weapons not otherwise prohibited by law, repealing a notice requirement applicable to licensees stopped for a law enforcement purpose, authorizing expungement of convictions of
a violation of that requirement, and allowing a person age 21 or older and not prohibited by federal law from firearm possession to carry a concealed deadly weapon without needing a license subject to the same carrying laws as a licensee.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/28/2020 - House Criminal Justice, (Second Hearing)

To allow income tax credits for beginning farmers who participate in a financial management program and for businesses that sell or rent agricultural land, livestock, facilities, or equipment to beginning farmers.

  CURRENT STATUS

11/19/2019 - REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, House Agriculture and Rural Development, (Fifth Hearing)

To prohibit local tax-related proposals from appearing on an August special election ballot.

  CURRENT STATUS

4/10/2019 - Referred to Committee House State and Local Government

To create the Ohio Broadband Development Grant Program, to encourage the Department of Transportation to work with telecommunications providers to lay fiber optic cable, and to make an appropriation.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/1/2020 - House Finance, (First Hearing)

To expand the income tax deduction allowed for contributions to Ohio's 529 education savings plans to include contributions to 529 plans established by other states.

  CURRENT STATUS

1/21/2020 - House Ways and Means, (Third Hearing)

To create a Sports Gaming Advisory Board, to legalize and regulate sports gaming in this state, and to levy a tax on businesses that provide sports gaming.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/28/2020 - PASSED BY HOUSE; Vote 83-10

To exempt from sales tax memberships to gyms or other recreational facilities operated by nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/10/2019 - REPORTED OUT, House Ways and Means, (Sixth Hearing)

To continue essential operations of state government and maintain the continuity of the state tax code in response to the declared pandemic and global health emergency related to COVID-19, to make appropriations, and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/27/2020 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Emergency: effective 3/27/20

To enhance the tax credit awarded for family adoptions.

  CURRENT STATUS

10/29/2019 - House Ways and Means, (Second Hearing)

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

  CURRENT STATUS

11/17/2020 - REPORTED OUT, House State and Local Government, (Fifth Hearing)

To allow a governmental entity to utilize distributed ledger technology, including blockchain technology.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/9/2020 - Referred to Committee Senate Transportation, Commerce and Workforce

To require the Tax Commissioner's biennial tax expenditure report to include information on property tax exemptions and to require the Tax Expenditure Review Committee to periodically review each property tax exemption.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/2/2020 - Referred to Committee Senate Ways and Means

To expand the basis of a court's exercise of personal jurisdiction to include any basis consistent with the Ohio Constitution and the United States Constitution.

  CURRENT STATUS

9/16/2020 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR

To designate February 18 as "Toni Morrison Day."

  CURRENT STATUS

12/21/2020 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 90 days

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

11/19/2020 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, House Civil Justice, (Third Hearing)

To allow a nonprofit organization to give away alcohol for fundraising purposes under specified circumstances and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

11/19/2020 - REPORTED OUT, House Commerce and Labor, (First Hearing)

To increase the state minimum wage to ten dollars and fifty-five cents per hour beginning January 1, 2021.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/1/2020 - House Commerce and Labor, (First Hearing)

To require the Secretary of State to prepay postage for the return of completed absent voter's ballots.

  CURRENT STATUS

11/12/2019 - Referred to Committee House State and Local Government

To establish the day of each general election as a legal holiday for which government employees receive paid leave.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/8/2020 - House State and Local Government, (First Hearing)

To continue essential operations of state and local government in response to the declared pandemic and global health emergency related to COVID-19 and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

11/22/2020 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. Immediately

To require fiscal officers of certain political subdivisions to provide certificates of transition to their successors when leaving office, to modify language regarding the duty of a treasurer of a board of education to deliver to the treasurer's successor all papers related to the affairs of the district, and to remove the eligibility requirements for political subdivisions to receive agreed-upon procedure audits from the Auditor of State, while continuing the agreed-upon procedure audits under rules adopted by the Auditor of State.

  CURRENT STATUS

1/7/2021 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 90 days

To authorize the conveyance of state-owned real property.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/19/2020 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Emergency: effective 6/19/20

To create an automated voter registration and verification system.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/11/2020 - House State and Local Government, (First Hearing)

To authorize public bodies to meet via teleconference and video conference during a public health state of emergency as declared by the Governor, and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/5/2020 - Referred to Committee House State and Local Government

To modify the law governing voter registration and the method of conducting elections.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/5/2020 - Referred to Committee House State and Local Government

To extend the filing and payment dates for state, municipal, and school district income taxes by the same period as any federal income tax extension granted in response to the COVID-19 disease outbreak and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/5/2020 - Referred to Committee House Ways and Means

To increase the percentage of revenue to the General Revenue Fund distributed to the Local Government Fund and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/5/2020 - Referred to Committee House Finance

To allow a county to purchase public health-related items and communication equipment without competitive bidding, solicit bids electronically, and open bids during a meeting held electronically during the period of the emergency declared by Executive Order 2020-01D, issued on March 9, 2020, and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/5/2020 - Referred to Committee House State and Local Government

To allow the Ohio Public Works Commission, the Ohio Water Development Authority, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, county auditors, and county recorders, during the state of emergency due to COVID-19, to waive certain penalties and late fees, suspend certain reporting requirements, and waive electronic recording fees, and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/16/2020 - House State and Local Government, (First Hearing)

To address immediate concerns related to COVID-19.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/5/2020 - Referred to Committee House Health

To make appropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 2021, and capital reappropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 2022.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/5/2020 - Referred to Committee House Finance

To require paid leave for an employee who is unable to work due to quarantine or mandatory isolation, to create a grant program to compensate contract workers who cannot perform services during public health emergencies, to make an appropriation, and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/1/2020 - House Commerce and Labor, (First Hearing)

To enact Matthew's Law, requiring public buildings to have at least one rest room facility with an adult changing station and authorizing an income tax credit for installation.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/9/2020 - House State and Local Government, (First Hearing)

To grant civil immunity to a person who provides services for essential businesses and operations for injury, death, or loss that was caused by the transmission of COVID-19 during the period of emergency declared by Executive Order 2020-01D, issued on March 9, 2020.

  CURRENT STATUS

9/14/2020 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR

To create the Unemployment Compensation Modernization and Improvement Council, to revise the claims process and duties related to that process, to require the Auditor of State to examine and make recommendations on the efficiency of the process, to require the Director of Job and Family Services to create a strategic staffing plan for employees who handle inquiries and claims for unemployment benefits, to require the Chancellor of Higher Education to create a template for workforce-education partnership programs, to provide for the distribution of some federal coronavirus relief funding to local subdivisions, to extend the renewal deadline for concealed handgun licenses for ninety days or until June 30, 2021, whichever is later, to allow licensees to apply for or renew licenses with any county sheriff until that date, to authorize the conveyance of certain state-owned land, to provide funding for community projects, to make approprations, and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

10/1/2020 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 10/1/20.

To make capital reappropriations for certain agencies for the biennium ending June 30, 2022, and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/3/2020 - House Finance, (Third Hearing)

To create a procedure to conduct an election entirely by mail in the case of a public health emergency, to modify certain deadlines for absent voting, and to direct the Secretary of State's use of federal CARES Act funds.

  CURRENT STATUS

9/23/2020 - Senate Government Oversight and Reform, (Third Hearing)

To modify the law regarding property tax valuation complaints.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/3/2020 - House Ways and Means, (Second Hearing)

To prohibit a person from taking certain actions to prevent the circulation of an election petition.

  CURRENT STATUS

8/31/2020 - Referred to Committee House State and Local Government

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

  CURRENT STATUS

11/17/2020 - Referred to Committee House Ways and Means

To terminate the COVID-19 state of emergency in Ohio and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

11/17/2020 - Referred to Committee House State and Local Government

To increase the Public Library Fund, to allocate the increase to libraries equally, and to make an appropriation.

  CURRENT STATUS

11/17/2020 - Referred to Committee House Finance

To expand the locations at which a person has no duty to retreat before using force under both civil and criminal law.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/16/2020 - House Civil Justice, (Third Hearing)

To declare racism a public health crisis and to ask the Governor to establish a working group to promote racial equity in Ohio.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/3/2020 - Referred to Committee House State and Local Government

Honoring the Mentor Public Library on its Two Hundredth Anniversary.

  CURRENT STATUS

4/30/2019 - Introduced

Honoring the Madison Public Library on its Centennial.

  CURRENT STATUS

4/30/2019 - Introduced

Honoring Jeff Winkle as the 2019 Ohio Librarian of the Year.

  CURRENT STATUS

8/19/2019 - Introduced

Adopts rule-face coverings within legislative walls

  CURRENT STATUS

5/19/2020 - BILL FAILED; Indefinitely postponed.

To require certain agencies to reduce the number of regulatory restrictions in their administrative rules, to require the approval of the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review for Department of Health orders to be effective for more than fourteen days, and to modify the Department's rulemaking authority.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/22/2020 - Consideration of Conference Committee Report

To make a capital appropriation for school facilities assistance.

  CURRENT STATUS

7/14/2020 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 10/13/2020

Regarding temporary state occupational licenses for members of the military and their spouses.

  CURRENT STATUS

1/27/2020 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 4/28/2020

To authorize tax credits for investments in an Ohio Opportunity Zone.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/8/2019 - House Economic and Workforce Development, (Second Hearing)

To expand the penalties for theft in office based on the amount stolen, to include as restitution audit costs of the entity that suffered the loss, to modify various aspects of the laws regarding criminal and delinquency record sealing and expungement, to expand the list of debts toward satisfaction of which the Tax Commissioner may apply a tax refund due to a taxpayer, to expand the basis of a court's exercise of personal jurisdiction, to specify a separate standard for the issuing of warrants upon presentation of a court order, and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

1/7/2021 - 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

5/22/2019 - Senate Judiciary, (Third Hearing)

Regarding work and education requirements for the Medicaid program.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/20/2019 - Senate Health, Human Services and Medicaid, (Second Hearing)

To authorize a state income tax deduction for teachers' out-of-pocket expenses for professional development and classroom supplies, to modify the business income deduction and delay some tax credit repeals, to exempt feminine hygiene products and some incontinence products from sales and use tax, to abolish the Public Office Compensation Advisory Commission, and to modify a "Food Farmacy" pilot project earmark.

  CURRENT STATUS

11/6/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 2/5/2020

Regarding Medicaid copayment requirements.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/19/2019 - Senate Health, Human Services and Medicaid, (Second Hearing)

To create the Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission.

  CURRENT STATUS

4/24/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 7/24/19

To include emergency service telecommunicators as individuals whose residential and familial information is exempt from disclosure under the Public Records Law.

  CURRENT STATUS

9/16/2020 - Senate Appoints Managers; J. Eklund, K. Roegner & C. Thomas Named as Senate Conferees

To allow an enhanced homestead exemption for surviving spouses of public safety personnel killed in the line of duty.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/9/2020 - Senate Ways and Means, (Second Hearing)

To prescribe how federally subsidized residential rental property must be valued for property tax purposes.

  CURRENT STATUS

4/2/2019 - Senate Ways and Means, (Third Hearing)

To extend eligibility for and make other changes to the motion picture tax credit.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/30/2019 - Referred to Committee House Finance

To authorize an insurance premiums tax credit for capital contributions to transformational mixed use development projects and to modify the law governing commercial real estate broker liens.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/29/2020 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. immediately

To create the civilian cyber security reserve forces, to make the Secretary of State a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, to require the Secretary of State to appoint a chief information security officer, to require the boards of elections to audit election results, and to make an appropriation.

  CURRENT STATUS

10/25/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 1/24/2020; appropriations eff. 10/25/2019

To clarify that certain firearms are not "dangerous ordnance" and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/26/2019 - PASSED BY SENATE; Vote 24-8, Emergency Clause 24-8

To establish conditions and requirements governing the regulation of hemp and hemp products, and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

7/30/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; most provisions eff. 7/30/2019; certain provisions eff. 9/20/2019 and 3/22/2020

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

  CURRENT STATUS

9/25/2019 - Senate Government Oversight and Reform, (First Hearing)

To establish family and medical leave insurance benefits.

  CURRENT STATUS

9/25/2019 - Senate Insurance and Financial Institutions, (First Hearing)

To enact the "Fair and Acceptable Income Required (FAIR) Act" and to revise the enforcement of the prohibitions against discrimination in the payment of wages.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/20/2019 - Senate General Government and Agency Review , (First Hearing)

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

  CURRENT STATUS

3/20/2019 - Senate General Government and Agency Review , (First Hearing)

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

9/10/2019 - Senate Government Oversight and Reform, (First Hearing)

To modify the laws governing economic development and state and local tax incentives, exemptions, and procedures.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/22/2020 - Bills for Third Consideration

To expand the income tax deduction allowed for contributions to Ohio's 529 education savings plans to include contributions to 529 plans established by other states.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/16/2020 - REPORTED OUT, House Ways and Means, (Fifth Hearing)

To enact the Firsttime Home Buyer Savings Act, authorizing income tax deductions for contributions to and earnings on savings accounts designated for the purchase of a home.

  CURRENT STATUS

11/19/2019 - Senate Ways and Means, (Third Hearing)

To create a voter verification and registration system, to modify the requirements for the administration of the statewide voter registration database, and to allow electors to register as affiliated with a political party.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/25/2020 - Senate Government Oversight and Reform, (Second Hearing)

To authorize the Secretary of State to establish a secure online process for applying to vote by absent voter's ballots.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/9/2020 - Senate Government Oversight and Reform, (Fourth Hearing)

To authorize townships and municipal corporations to designate areas within which new homes and improvements to existing homes are wholly or partially exempted from property taxation.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/16/2020 - REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, House Ways and Means, (Sixth Hearing)

To except traveling to and from a worksite and performing certain routine tasks from the overtime pay requirement.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/9/2020 - PASSED BY SENATE; Amended on Floor, Bill Vote 22-8

To require fiscal officers of certain political subdivisions to provide certificates of transition to their successors when leaving office.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/10/2019 - Senate Local Government, Public Safety and Veterans Affairs, (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.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/17/2020 - Senate General Government and Agency Review , (Tenth Hearing)

To enact Matthew's Law, requiring public buildings to have at least one rest room facility with an adult changing station and authorizing an income tax credit for installation.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/12/2020 - Senate Transportation, Commerce and Workforce, (First Hearing)

To create a procedure within the Court of Claims to hear complaints alleging a violation of the Open Meetings Law.

  CURRENT STATUS

11/10/2020 - House Civil Justice, (First Hearing)

To require paid leave for an employee who is unable to work due to quarantine or mandatory isolation, to create a grant program to compensate contract workers who cannot perform services during public health emergencies, to make an appropriation, and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/6/2020 - Referred to Committee Senate Finance

To provide for the distribution of some federal coronavirus relief funding to local subdivisions and businesses, to revise the formula used to determine Medicaid rates for nursing facility services, to exclude loan amounts forgiven under the federal CARES Act from the commercial activity tax, to apply the Prevailing Wage Law to transportation improvement district projects under certain circumstances, to allow certain state employees' salaries and pay supplements to be frozen during the pay period that includes July 1, 2020, through the pay period that includes June 30, 2021, to temporarily expand the use of certain tax increment financing payments, to exempt certain political subdivision purchases from competitive bidding requirements during the COVID-19 emergency, to suspend certain county hospital bidding requirements during the COVID-19 emergency, to allow a county, township, or municipal corporation appointing authority to establish a mandatory cost savings program in response to COVID-19, to make capital reappropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 2022, to make other appropriations, and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/29/2020 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. immediately

To modify the law governing public health orders, quarantine, and isolation.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/3/2020 - VETOED BY GOVERNOR

To make changes regarding the circumstances in which county treasurers, township fiscal officers and deputy fiscal officers, and municipal treasurers may be held liable for a loss of public funds.

  CURRENT STATUS

11/17/2020 - Senate Local Government, Public Safety and Veterans Affairs, (First Hearing)

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

  CURRENT STATUS

9/22/2020 - Senate Local Government, Public Safety and Veterans Affairs, (First Hearing)

To provide for the distribution of some federal coronavirus relief funding to local subdivisions and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

11/17/2020 - Referred to Committee House Finance

To terminate certain provisions of the "Director's Order for Retail and Business Compliance for Facial Coverings throughout the State of Ohio," issued on November 13, 2020, and to declare an emergency.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/9/2020 - Senate Transportation, Commerce and Workforce, (Second Hearing)

To declare racism a public health crisis and to ask the Governor to establish a working group to promote racial equity in Ohio.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/24/2020 - Senate Health, Human Services and Medicaid, (Second Hearing)

Proposing to enact Section 7 of Article XII of the Constitution of the State of Ohio to require that any increase in income tax rates be approved by a supermajority of the membership of each house of the General Assembly.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/9/2020 - REPORTED OUT, Senate Ways and Means, (Sixth Hearing)

Honoring the Madison Public Library on its Centennial.

  CURRENT STATUS

4/15/2019 - Introduced

Honoring the Cleveland Public Library on its One Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary.

  CURRENT STATUS

9/9/2019 - Introduced

To recognize the importance of the 2020 decennial census and to support all efforts by state and local governments to ensure a complete and accurate count of all Ohioans.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/6/2020 - Referred to Committee Senate General Government and Agency Review

To recognize the importance of the 2020 decennial census and to support all efforts by state and local governments to ensure a complete and accurate count of all Ohioans.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/17/2020 - Introduced