Bill InformationPROPERTY, INCOME TAX CHANGES
(MATHEWS A)To modify the law regarding property taxation and income tax rates.
CURRENT STATUS4/25/2023 - House Ways and Means, (Seventh Hearing)
STATE FUNDING-CAPITAL APPROPRIATIONS
(CUTRONA A, UPCHURCH T)To provide authorization and conditions for the operation of certain state programs, to make capital appropriations and reappropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 2026, to make other appropriations, and to declare an emergency.
CURRENT STATUS 6/28/2024 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. immediately
PARENTAL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
(SWEARINGEN D, CARRUTHERS S)To enact the Parents' Bill of Rights to require public schools to adopt a policy on parental notification on student health and well-being and instructional materials with sexuality content and to amend the version of section 3314.03 of the Revised Code that is scheduled to take effect January 1, 2025, to continue the changes on and after that effective date.
CURRENT STATUS 6/26/2024 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, Senate Education, (Fourth Hearing)
FY24-25 OPERATING BUDGET
(EDWARDS J)To make operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2025, to levy taxes, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.
CURRENT STATUS 1/24/2024 - Consideration of Governor's Veto; Senate Overrides Veto, Vote 24-8
MARIJUANA, LIQUOR CONTROL LAWS
(LARE J)To revise specified provisions of the liquor control, hemp, and adult-use marijuana laws and to levy taxes on marijuana.
CURRENT STATUS 12/6/2023 - PASSED BY SENATE; Amended on Floor, Vote 29-2
REQUIRE U.S.-MADE U.S. FLAGS
(SANTUCCI N, DEMETRIOU S)To prohibit the state or a political subdivision from purchasing a United States or Ohio flag that was not made in the United States.
CURRENT STATUS 11/12/2024 - Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary
POLITICAL SUBDIVISION PURCHASE OF CONSTRUCTION SERVICES
(HALL T, LAMPTON B)To expand political subdivision joint purchasing authority to expressly include purchases for construction services.
CURRENT STATUS 4/9/2024 - BILL AMENDED, House State and Local Government, (Fourth Hearing)
PROCEDURES FOR PROPERTY TAX VALUES
(HALL T, BIRD A)To make changes to the law governing real property valuation and tax complaints, to temporarily modify the computation of the homestead exemption, to abate property taxes on certain municipal and community improvement corporation property, to make an appropriation, and to declare an emergency.
CURRENT STATUS 12/6/2023 - PASSED BY SENATE; Vote 31-0, Emergency Clause 29-2
POLITICAL PARTY REGISTRATION FOR PRIMARIES
(HALL T)To require an elector to register as a member of a political party in order to participate in that party's primary election.
CURRENT STATUS 6/11/2024 - House Government Oversight, (Third Hearing)
RESTORE LOCAL AUTHORITY - FIREARMS
(BREWER D, UPCHURCH T)To restore local authority to generally regulate firearms-related conduct.
CURRENT STATUS 10/31/2023 - House Government Oversight, (First Hearing)
ADULT CABARET PERFORMANCES
(KING A, WILLIAMS J)To prohibit adult cabaret performances in locations other than adult cabarets.
CURRENT STATUS 6/5/2024 - House Criminal Justice, (Second Hearing)
VIRTUAL MEETINGS FOR PUBLIC BODIES
(HOOPS J, CLAGGETT T)To authorize certain public bodies to meet virtually.
CURRENT STATUS 12/4/2024 - Senate Government Oversight, (Fourth Hearing)
PROPERTY TAX FREEZE
(ISAACSOHN D, HALL T)To authorize a property tax freeze for certain owner-occupied homes.
CURRENT STATUS 2/6/2024 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, House Ways and Means, (Fourth Hearing)
EXEMPTIONS FOR PUBLIC RECORDS LAW
(WIGGAM S, HALL T)To exempt redaction request forms, affidavits, and the records of the work schedules of designated public service workers from disclosure under public records law.
CURRENT STATUS 6/26/2024 - Senate Judiciary, (First Hearing)
LABOR LAW NOTICES - INTERNET
(MATHEWS A)To allow employers to post certain labor law notices on the internet.
CURRENT STATUS 12/5/2023 - REPORTED OUT, House Commerce and Labor, (Fourth Hearing)
INNOCENCE ACT
(DEMETRIOU S)To enact the Innocence Act to prohibit an organization from failing to verify the age of a person attempting to access material that is obscene or harmful to juveniles, to prohibit a person from using another person's likeness to create sexual images of the other person, and to create a private right of action for each prohibited activity.
CURRENT STATUS 5/21/2024 - House Criminal Justice, (Fourth Hearing)
TOWNSHIP LAW CHANGES
(HALL T, SEITZ B)To make various township law changes and to make an appropriation.
CURRENT STATUS 12/3/2024 - Senate Local Government, (Third Hearing)
CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE LAWS
(SEITZ B, ABRAMS C)To impose a civil penalty, rather than a criminal penalty, on a person who fails to register with the childhood sexual abuse civil registry, to eliminate the residence restriction on such person, to create the offense of grooming, and to extend the limitation period for prosecuting a violation of the law requiring certain persons to report child abuse or neglect under certain circumstances.
CURRENT STATUS 12/4/2024 - Senate Judiciary, (Second Hearing)
ADULT USE MARIJUANA
(CLICK G)To revise the law regarding adult use marijuana.
CURRENT STATUS 12/6/2023 - Referred to Committee House Finance
PROPERTY TAX LEVIES, COMPLAINTS
(MATHEWS A, HALL T)To eliminate the authority to levy replacement property tax levies and to modify the law governing certain property tax complaints.
CURRENT STATUS 4/30/2024 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED & REPORTED OUT, House Ways and Means, (Sixth Hearing)
MODIFY MARIJUANA LAW
(CALLENDER J)To modify the law governing the cultivation, processing, dispensing, testing, and taxation of adult use cannabis and to levy a gross receipts tax on marijuana cultivators.
CURRENT STATUS 12/13/2023 - House Finance, (Fourth Hearing)
NONCOMMERCIAL SEED SHARING
(DOBOS D, KLOPFENSTEIN R)To exempt certain non-commercial seed sharing activities from the laws governing seed labeling, inspection, and advertising and to alter the requirements specifying which noxious weeds must be destroyed on a toll road, railroad, or electric railway.
CURRENT STATUS 12/3/2024 - Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources, (Third Hearing)
PHASE OUT STATE INCOME TAX
(MATHEWS A, LAMPTON B)To phase-out the state income tax on nonbusiness income over six years and to repeal the commercial activity tax after 2029.
CURRENT STATUS 5/14/2024 - House Ways and Means, (Second Hearing)
WIRED ACT
(WIGGAM S, KING A)To levy a remittance transfer fee on money transmissions to a person outside of the United States, to authorize an income tax credit based on the amount of remittance transfer fees paid, and to name this act Ohio's Withholding Illegal Revenue Entering Drug Markets (WIRED) Act.
CURRENT STATUS 11/19/2024 - BILL AMENDED, House Ways and Means, (Fifth Hearing)
PROHIBIT STATE FUNDING-ABORTION
(WILLIAMS J)To prohibit state funds from being given to any entity that supports, promotes, or provides elective abortions, to require counties and municipal corporations to report spending related to elective abortion, and to withhold and reallocate to pregnancy resource centers state local government funds from a county or municipal corporation that engages in such spending.
CURRENT STATUS 11/12/2024 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, House Government Oversight, (Second Hearing)
STATE, LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE DATABASE REQUIREMENTS
(YOUNG T, PETERSON B)To require a political subdivision or state retirement system to provide information on expenditures to the Treasurer of State for inclusion in the Ohio State and Local Government Expenditure Database.
CURRENT STATUS 6/11/2024 - House State and Local Government, (Second Hearing)
VARIOUS CHANGES TO COUNTY LAW
(STEWART B, KLOPFENSTEIN R)To make various changes regarding county law and to amend the version of section 153.39 of the Revised Code that is scheduled to take effect January 1, 2025, to continue the change on and after that date.
CURRENT STATUS 12/3/2024 - Senate Local Government, (Third Hearing)
LEGAL SAFE HARBOR FOR POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS
(HILLYER B)To extend legal safe harbor to political subdivisions that implement a specified cybersecurity program.
CURRENT STATUS 12/4/2024 - House Technology and Innovation, (Fourth Hearing)
OBSCENITY LIABILITY-TEACHERS, LIBRARIANS
(MATHEWS A)To create criminal liability for certain teachers and librarians for the offense of pandering obscenity.
CURRENT STATUS 12/3/2024 - House Criminal Justice, (First Hearing)
PROHIBIT LIBRARIES FROM DISPLAYING MATTER HARMFUL TO JUVENILES
(CUTRONA A)To require each board of public library trustees to adopt a policy that prohibits its libraries from displaying matter harmful to juveniles and to redistribute the public library funds of libraries that fail to do so.
CURRENT STATUS 6/11/2024 - Referred to Committee House Government Oversight
CAPITAL BUDGET
(EDWARDS J)To amend Sections 307.80 and 423.120 of H.B. 33 of the 135th General Assembly to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of certain state programs, to make capital appropriations and reappropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 2026, to make other appropriations, and to declare an emergency.
CURRENT STATUS 6/20/2024 - BILL AMENDED, House Finance, (Second Hearing)
LIMIT PROPERTY TAX INCREASES
(LEAR B, WIGGAM S)Proposing to enact Section 23 of Article I of the Constitution of the State of Ohio to limit property tax increases for a property owner to not more than four per cent per year.
CURRENT STATUS 11/19/2024 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
LOCAL PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTIONS
(SCHURING K)To authorize certain subdivisions to designate areas within which certain residential property is wholly or partially exempted from property taxation.
CURRENT STATUS 1/17/2023 - Referred to Committee Senate Finance
PURCHASING AUTHORITY-CONSTRUCTION SERVICES
(LANG G)To expand political subdivision joint purchasing authority to expressly include purchases for construction services.
CURRENT STATUS 4/19/2023 - REPORTED OUT, Senate Government Oversight, (Fourth Hearing)
YOUTH WORKING HOURS
(SCHAFFER T)To allow a person under sixteen years of age to be employed after 7 p.m. during the school year.
CURRENT STATUS 5/9/2023 - REPORTED OUT, House Commerce and Labor, (Fourth Hearing)
LEAVE USE PROHIBITION-UNION ACTIVITIES
(HUFFMAN S)To prohibit a public employer from providing paid leave or compensation for a public employee to engage in certain union activities.
CURRENT STATUS 11/13/2024 - Senate Judiciary, (First Hearing)
SOS-ELECTION INTEGRITY DIVISION
(GAVARONE T)To establish the Election Integrity Division in the Office of the Secretary of State.
CURRENT STATUS 5/16/2023 - Senate General Government, (Second Hearing)
RESTORE LOCAL AUTHORITY-FIREARMS
(CRAIG H, INGRAM C)To restore local authority to generally regulate firearms-related conduct.
CURRENT STATUS 5/30/2023 - Senate Veterans and Public Safety , (First Hearing)
PUBLIC FUNDS ABUSE, WASTE
(SCHAFFER T)Regarding fraud, waste, and abuse of public funds and to prohibit the expenditure of local tax revenues upon a vote of residents or without an appropriation.
CURRENT STATUS 12/28/2023 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 3/28/24
MSSS REQUIREMENT-PUBLIC OFFICE
(HOAGLAND F)To prohibit a person who fails to comply with the Military Selective Service System from holding a public office or employment with the state.
CURRENT STATUS 6/11/2024 - House Armed Services and Veterans Affairs, (Second Hearing)
LAW CHANGES-NOTARIES PUBLIC
(WILSON S)To amend the law regarding notaries public, to make changes to the Ohio Revised Limited Liability Company Act, and to make changes to fees charged by the Ohio Secretary of State.
CURRENT STATUS 12/3/2024 - House Civil Justice, (Third Hearing)
INCREASE STATE MINIMUM WAGE
(SMITH K, CRAIG H)To increase the state minimum wage.
CURRENT STATUS 9/27/2023 - Senate Workforce and Higher Education, (First Hearing)
VOTER REGISTRATION MODERNIZATION ACT
(REYNOLDS M)To permit an elector to change party affiliation through the voter registration process and to name this act the Voter Registration Modernization Act.
CURRENT STATUS 10/10/2023 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, Senate General Government, (Second Hearing)
TEMPORARY TAX VALUATION CHANGES
(LANG G, JOHNSON T)To temporarily modify the method for valuing farmland and other real property for tax purposes.
CURRENT STATUS 10/11/2023 - Senate Ways and Means, (Fourth Hearing)
PUBLIC SERVICE WORKERS-RECORDS EXEMPTION
(LANDIS A)To exempt redaction request forms, affidavits, and the records of the work schedules of designated public service workers from disclosure under public records law.
CURRENT STATUS 1/24/2024 - Senate Government Oversight, (First Hearing)
AGE VERIFICATION-PORNOGRAPHIC CONTENT
(KUNZE S, DEMORA B)To prohibit businesses from distributing pornographic material over the internet without verifying that the persons accessing that material are not juveniles.
CURRENT STATUS 6/11/2024 - Senate Financial Institutions and Technology, (Third Hearing)
STATE INCOME TAX-PHASE OUT
(LANG G, HUFFMAN S)To phase-out the state income tax on nonbusiness income over six years and to repeal the commercial activity tax after 2029.
CURRENT STATUS 11/20/2024 - Senate Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
MINIMUM WAGE-EITC
(BLESSING III L)To modify the state's earned income tax credit, to increase the basic state minimum hourly wage, and to declare an emergency.
CURRENT STATUS 5/22/2024 - Senate Ways and Means, (Second Hearing)
AUTHORIZE TAX CREDIT-HOUSING BASED ON INCOME
(BLESSING III L, CRAIG H)To authorize a refundable income tax credit or rebate for homeowners and renters whose property taxes or a portion of their rent exceed five per cent of their income.
CURRENT STATUS 6/25/2024 - Senate Ways and Means, (Second Hearing)
PLATE CREATION-DOLLY PARTON LIBRARY
(ANTONIO N)To create the "Dolly Parton's Imagination Library" license plate and to declare an emergency.
CURRENT STATUS 11/20/2024 - Re-Referred to Committee
CAPITAL BUDGET
(DOLAN M)To amend Sections 307.80 and 423.120 of H.B. 33 of the 135th General Assembly to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of certain state programs, to make capital appropriations and reappropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 2026, to make other appropriations, and to declare an emergency.
CURRENT STATUS 6/25/2024 - Referred to Committee Senate Finance