To modify the law regarding property taxation and income tax rates.

  CURRENT STATUS

4/25/2023 - House Ways and Means, (Seventh Hearing)

To authorize a nonrefundable tax credit for
the construction or rehabilitation of certain
federally subsidized rental housing and to
authorize a uniform method for the tax valuation
of most such housing.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/13/2023 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, House Economic and Workforce Development, (Fifth Hearing)

To enact Ohio's Fair Access to Financial Services Act regarding financial institutions and other businesses that conduct economic boycotts or discriminate against certain companies or customers based on certain factors and to make an appropriation.

  CURRENT STATUS

11/14/2023 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, House Financial Institutions, (First Hearing)

To rename the Department of Education as the Department of Education and Workforce; to create the position of Director of Education and Workforce; and to reform the functions and responsibilities of the State Board of Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

  CURRENT STATUS

4/18/2023 - House Primary and Secondary Education, (Fifth Hearing)

To eliminate the additional registration fee applicable to hybrid motor vehicles and to delay the effect of that change until January 1, 2025.

  CURRENT STATUS

11/15/2023 - House Homeland Security, (Third Hearing)

To enact the Ethics and Financial Disclosure Reform Act to revise the law governing ethics and lobbying.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/28/2023 - House Government Oversight, (Second Hearing)

To enact the Ohio Computer Crimes Act.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/28/2023 - BILL AMENDED, House Criminal Justice, (Fourth Hearing)

To make appropriations for programs related to transportation for the biennium beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2025, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of those programs.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/31/2023 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 3/31/23

To make appropriations for the Bureau of Workers' Compensation for the biennium beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2025, to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of the Bureau's programs, to make changes to the Workers' Compensation Law, and to enact a three-day interim budget.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/30/2023 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. immediately

To make appropriations for the Industrial Commission for the biennium beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2025, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of Commission programs.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/30/2023 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. immediately

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

To revise the law governing medical identifying devices and to name this act Paige's Law.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/16/2023 - Referred to Committee House Health Provider Services

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

  CURRENT STATUS

4/24/2024 - House Public Utilities, (First Hearing)

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

5/21/2024 - House Commerce and Labor, (First Hearing)

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

  CURRENT STATUS

3/29/2023 - House Energy and Natural Resources, (First Hearing)

To modify the law regarding eminent domain.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/6/2024 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, House Civil Justice, (Fifth Hearing)

Regarding the deduction and recovery of bad debts for cigarette and tobacco and vapor products taxes.

  CURRENT STATUS

10/11/2023 - Senate Ways and Means, (Fourth Hearing)

To provide that if a penalty for an offense has been imposed on an offender and if the penalty for that offense is subsequently reduced by a change to the Revised Code or Constitution, the penalty previously imposed on the offender may be reduced.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/11/2024 - House Criminal Justice, (Third Hearing)

To establish the Community Connectors Workforce Program and to make an appropriation.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/8/2024 - House Finance, (First Hearing)

To authorize the prescribing of off-label drugs and if prescribed, to require their dispensing and to name this act the Dave and Angie Patient and Health Provider Protection Act.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/12/2024 - Senate Health, (Third Hearing)

To modify the law governing data storage and notifications issued by state agencies, and to amend the version of section 3951.03 of the Revised Code scheduled to take effect on December 29, 2023, to continue the changes on and after that date.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/21/2023 - Referred to Committee Senate Government Oversight

To establish requirements and prohibitions governing the operation of unmanned aerial vehicles in Ohio.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/12/2024 - Senate Transportation, (First Hearing)

To permit electric distribution utilities to establish energy efficiency and demand reduction portfolios.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/26/2024 - PASSED BY HOUSE; Vote 50-46

Regarding pharmacist care.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/28/2023 - Referred to Committee House Health Provider Services

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

To enact the Pay Stub Protection Act requiring employers to provide earnings and deductions statements to each of the employer's employees.

  CURRENT STATUS

4/9/2024 - Senate Small Business and Economic Opportunity, (Second Hearing)

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

  CURRENT STATUS

5/2/2023 - House Criminal Justice, (Third Hearing)

To modify the Campaign Finance Law and to delay the deadline for a major political party to certify its presidential and vice presidential candidates to the Secretary of State for the 2024 general election.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/8/2024 - PASSED BY SENATE; Vote 24-7

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

  CURRENT STATUS

5/7/2024 - House Commerce and Labor, (First Hearing)

To exempt certain baby products from sales and use tax.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/13/2023 - REPORTED OUT, House Ways and Means, (Fourth Hearing)

To allow businesses with remote workers to use a modified municipal income tax apportionment formula.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/21/2023 - Referred to Committee Senate Ways and Means

To authorize the operation of remote dispensing pharmacies.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/5/2023 - House Health Provider Services, (Third Hearing)

To classify certain guaranteed payments to pass-through entity investors as business income.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/9/2023 - House Ways and Means, (Third Hearing)

To establish requirements related to the use of an uncrewed aerial vehicle for surveillance.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/11/2024 - REPORTED OUT, House Aviation and Aerospace, (Fourth Hearing)

Relative to vicarious liability in tort actions and to provide that the tolling of the limitations period during the defendant's absence or concealment does not apply to statutes of repose.

  CURRENT STATUS

7/24/2024 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 90 days

To prohibit a state agency, county, or township from restricting the sale or use of a motor vehicle based on the energy source used to power the motor vehicle; to prohibit a state agency from adopting the California emissions standards for motor vehicles; and to change the requirements for natural gas company infrastructure development riders and economic development projects.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/28/2023 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 90 days

To require owners of private construction projects to timely pay contractors.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/26/2024 - Senate Workforce and Higher Education, (First Hearing)

To enact the "Protect Ohio Workers Act" regarding construction services performed under a contract at a stationary source.

  CURRENT STATUS

11/14/2023 - Senate Energy and Public Utilities, (Third Hearing)

To extend the law that prohibits certain governments, businesses, and individuals from acquiring agricultural land to certain other property and to name this act the Ohio Property Protection Act.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/4/2024 - House Civil Justice, (Fourth Hearing)

To make changes to the laws governing all-purpose vehicles, off-highway motorcycles, snowmobiles, utility vehicles, and mini-trucks.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/12/2024 - BILL AMENDED, House Homeland Security, (Fourth Hearing)

To increase fines for repeatedly selling tobacco products to minors and to apply the public nuisance law to places where such sales occur.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/7/2024 - Senate Judiciary, (First Hearing)

To create the State and Municipal Government Commission.

  CURRENT STATUS

10/24/2023 - Referred to Committee House State and Local Government

To revise the Alcohol Franchise Law and other provisions of the liquor control laws.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/5/2023 - House Commerce and Labor, (Second Hearing)

To prohibit discrimination against an individual for the refusal of certain medical interventions for reasons of conscience, including religious convictions, and to name this act the Conscientious Right to Refuse Act.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/11/2024 - House Health Provider Services, (Second Hearing)

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

  CURRENT STATUS

6/25/2024 - Senate Ways and Means, (Third Hearing)

To require government contractors, private nonresidential contractors, and certain employers to use E-verify.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/25/2024 - Referred to Committee Senate General Government

Regarding the sale of used catalytic converters.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/26/2024 - PASSED BY HOUSE; Vote 94-2

To enact the Ohio Personal Privacy Act.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/6/2023 - Referred to Committee House Government Oversight

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

  CURRENT STATUS

6/26/2024 - PASSED BY HOUSE; Vote 63-34

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)

To enact the Fight Organized Retail Crime and Empower Law Enforcement (FORCE) Act to create the Organized Retail Theft Advisory Council and an investigative task force, to create the crime of theft of mail, to modify theft offenses and penalties related to retail property.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/26/2024 - PASSED BY HOUSE; Vote 69-27

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

6/11/2024 - House Ways and Means, (Fourth Hearing)

To enact the Getting Rehabilitated Ohioans Working Act to allow for the automatic sealing of certain criminal records.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/11/2024 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, House Criminal Justice, (Third Hearing)

To create the F-13 liquor permit to allow the on-premises sale of beer or intoxicating liquor at a business that is not otherwise qualified to obtain a liquor permit.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/11/2024 - House Commerce and Labor, (First Hearing)

Regarding a school internet safety policy and instruction on the effects of social media in public schools and to amend the version of section 3314.03 of the Revised Code that is scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2025, to continue the changes on and after that date.

  CURRENT STATUS

4/23/2024 - Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education

To require alcohol server training and to provide immunity from civil liability to those who successfully complete and implement the training and to name this act Hayden's Law.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/4/2024 - House Civil Justice, (Third Hearing)

Regarding insurer and Medicaid program accreditation requirements for pharmacies, to impose drug cost reporting and payment requirements on pharmacy benefit managers, and to name this act the Community Pharmacy Protection Act.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/12/2024 - House Insurance, (Second Hearing)

Proposing to amend Sections 1b, 1e, and 1g of Article II and Sections 1 and 3 of Article XVI of the Constitution of the State of Ohio to require a vote of at least 60% of the electors to approve any constitutional amendment and to modify the procedures for an initiative petition proposing a constitutional amendment.

  CURRENT STATUS

4/19/2023 - REPORTED OUT, House Constitutional Resolutions, (Third Hearing)

To rename the Department of Education as the Department of Education and Workforce; to create the position of Director of Education and Workforce; and to reform the functions and responsibilities of the State Board of Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/9/2023 - House Economic and Workforce Development, (Fourth Hearing)

To allow a person to distill, serve, and ship homemade spirituous liquor without a liquor permit.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/28/2023 - Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources, (First Hearing)

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)

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

  CURRENT STATUS

2/22/2023 - Senate Small Business and Economic Opportunity, (First Hearing)

To exempt certain baby products from sales and use tax.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/7/2023 - Referred to Committee House Ways and Means

To reduce the tax rate on certain motor fuel.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/28/2023 - Senate Transportation, (First Hearing)

To require a plaintiff in a tort action alleging an asbestos claim to file specified disclosures.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/11/2024 - Referred to Committee House Insurance

To enact the Data Analysis Transparency Archive (DATA) Act to establish the Office of Data Analytics and Archives in the Office of the Secretary of State and to modify requirements for the Statewide Voter Registration Database and other election records.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/13/2023 - House Government Oversight, (Second Hearing)

To enact the Digital Fair Repair Act.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/28/2023 - Senate Financial Institutions and Technology, (Third Hearing)

Regarding the Treasurer of State and the electronic payment of taxes.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/7/2023 - Referred to Committee House State and Local Government

To enact the Ohio Higher Education Enhancement Act regarding the operation of state institutions of higher education, and to revise the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act.

  CURRENT STATUS

1/3/2024 - Re-Referred to Committee

To authorize the operation of remote dispensing pharmacies.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/11/2024 - Referred to Committee House Health Provider Services

To allow employers to post certain labor law notices on the internet.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/11/2024 - REPORTED OUT, House Commerce and Labor, (Fourth Hearing)

To designate a portion of State Route 36 in Delaware County as the "Representative Kris Jordan Memorial Highway."

  CURRENT STATUS

6/14/2023 - BILL AMENDED, Senate Transportation, (First Hearing)

To address fraudulent business filings, deceptive mailings, reinstatement of canceled
business entities, and addresses of statutory agents, and to make changes
regarding property taxation, fire investigator firearms, acting or assigned judge
reimbursements, common pleas clerk of court duties, recreational vehicle park
and camp operation licenses, and state ballot numbering.

  CURRENT STATUS

7/24/2024 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 90 days

Regarding public utilities and competitive retail electric and natural gas services.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/5/2023 - BILL AMENDED, Senate Energy and Public Utilities, (Fifth Hearing)

Regarding workers' compensation coverage for testing when certain medical professionals are exposed to chemical substances or bodily fluids in the course of employment and regarding medical release forms for workers' compensation claims.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/13/2024 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 90 days

To make changes to Ohio's Unemployment Compensation Law.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/7/2023 - Senate Insurance, (Third Hearing)

To revise the Alcohol Franchise Law.

  CURRENT STATUS

12/12/2023 - Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources, (Second Hearing)

Regarding immunizations administered by pharmacists, pharmacy interns, and pharmacy technicians; regarding certificates of need and change of operator procedures for nursing homes; regarding the per Medicaid day payment rate for specified ICFs/IID; regarding medication aides and certified nurse aides, including
competency evaluation programs and training and competency evaluation
programs; regarding nursing home quality improvement projects; regarding
conditional employment in homes and adult day care programs; regarding grants
provided to adult day care providers, and regarding the Ohio Medical Quality
Foundation.

  CURRENT STATUS

7/25/2024 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; appropriation provision eff. immediately, others eff. 90 days

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

  CURRENT STATUS

12/13/2023 - Senate Judiciary, (First Hearing)

To allow for competitive retail natural gas service suppliers to offer carbon offsets to customers.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/11/2024 - Senate Energy and Public Utilities, (Third Hearing)

To enact the Fight Organized Retail Crime and Empower
Law Enforcement (FORCE) Act to create the Organized Retail Theft
Advisory Council and an investigative task force, to modify theft offenses and
penalties related to retail property, and to make an appropriation.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/22/2024 - Senate Judiciary, (Second Hearing)

To modify the sales and use taxation of delivery network services.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/12/2024 - Senate Ways and Means, (Third Hearing)

To make various changes to public assistance benefits programs

  CURRENT STATUS

6/26/2024 - Senate Government Oversight, (Second Hearing)

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)

To regulate the ownership of electric vehicle charging stations.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/12/2024 - Senate Transportation, (First Hearing)

To modify the regulation and taxation of medical marijuana, adult use cannabis, and hemp.

  CURRENT STATUS

6/11/2024 - Referred to Committee Senate General Government

Proposing to amend Sections 1b, 1e, and 1g of Article II and Sections 1 and 3 of Article XVI of the Constitution of the State of Ohio to require a vote of at least 60% of the electors to approve any constitutional amendment.

  CURRENT STATUS

5/10/2023 - Consideration of House Amendments; Senate Does Concur, Vote 26-7