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)
COMMENTSCategory: Taxation
Status: GREEN
Staff assigned: Lora Miller
AFFORDABLE HOUSING TAX CREDIT
(PAVLIGA G, MCNALLY L)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 STATUS6/13/2023 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, House Economic and Workforce Development, (Fifth Hearing)
COMMENTSCategory: Taxation
Status: GREEN
Staff assigned: Lora Miller
LEGISLATIVE INTENT-ECONOMIC BOYCOTTS
(YOUNG T, KING A)To declare the General Assembly's intention to enact legislation regarding financial institutions and other businesses that conduct economic boycotts or discriminate against certain companies or customers based on certain factors.
CURRENT STATUS2/16/2023 - Referred to Committee House Financial Institutions
COMMENTSCategory: Miscellaneous
Status: YELLOW
Staff assigned: Alex Boehnke
REFORM OHIO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
(JONES D, DOBOS D)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 STATUS4/18/2023 - House Primary and Secondary Education, (Fifth Hearing)
COMMENTSCategory: Education
Status: GREEN
Staff assigned: Alex Boehnke
REDEFINE HYBRID MOTOR VEHICLE
(MILLER J, WEINSTEIN C)To redefine "hybrid motor vehicle" under the motor vehicle law for purposes of the additional registration fee applicable to those vehicles and to delay the effect of those changes until January 1, 2024.
CURRENT STATUS9/27/2023 - House Homeland Security, (First Hearing)
COMMENTSCategory: Transportation
Status: YELLOW
Staff assigned: Alex Boehnke
ETHICS, FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE REFORM
(MERRIN D)To enact the Ethics and Financial Disclosure Reform Act to revise the law governing ethics and lobbying.
CURRENT STATUS3/28/2023 - House Government Oversight, (Second Hearing)
COMMENTSCategory: Miscellaneous
Status: YELLOW
Staff assigned: Lora Miller
OHIO COMPUTER CRIMES ACT
(SWEARINGEN D)To enact the Ohio Computer Crimes Act.
CURRENT STATUS3/28/2023 - BILL AMENDED, House Criminal Justice, (Fourth Hearing)
COMMENTSCategory: Merchant Security
Status: YELLOW
Staff assigned: Alex Boehnke
TRANSPORTATION BUDGET
(EDWARDS J)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 STATUS3/31/2023 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 3/31/23
COMMENTSCategory: Transportation
Status: GREEN
Staff assigned: Alex Boehnke
WORKERS' COMPENSATION BUDGET
(EDWARDS J)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 STATUS6/30/2023 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. immediately
COMMENTSCategory: Workers Comp
Status: GREEN
Staff assigned: Alex Boehnke
INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION BUDGET
(EDWARDS J)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 STATUS6/30/2023 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. immediately
COMMENTSCategory: Workers Comp
Status: GREEN
Staff assigned: Alex Boehnke
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 STATUS7/3/2023 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. immediately
COMMENTSCategory: Taxation
Status: GREEN
Staff assigned: Lora Miller & Alex Boehnke
MEDICAL IDENTIFYING DEVICES
(MIRANDA J)To revise the law governing medical identifying devices and to name this act Paige's Law.
CURRENT STATUS2/16/2023 - Referred to Committee House Health Provider Services
COMMENTSCategory: Health & Wellness
Status: RED
Staff assigned: Lora Miller
UTILITY BILLING TRANSPARENCY
(SKINDELL M)To enact "The Consumer Utility Billing Transparency Act" requiring the itemization of all riders, taxes, and other costs on certain utility bills.
CURRENT STATUS2/16/2023 - Referred to Committee House Public Utilities
COMMENTSCategory: Public Utilities
Status: RED
Staff assigned: Alex Boehnke
FORMULA RETAIL, FOOD SERVICES
(SKINDELL M)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 STATUS2/16/2023 - Referred to Committee House Commerce and Labor
COMMENTSCategory: Food Safety
Status: RED
Staff assigned: Lora Miller
LAKE ERIE NATURAL GAS
(SKINDELL M)To ban the taking or removal of oil or natural gas from and under the bed of Lake Erie.
CURRENT STATUS3/29/2023 - House Energy and Natural Resources, (First Hearing)
COMMENTSCategory: Environment & Energy
Status: RED
Staff assigned: Alex Boehnke
EMINENT DOMAIN LAW CHANGES
(KICK D, CREECH R)To modify the law regarding eminent domain.
CURRENT STATUS5/23/2023 - House Civil Justice, (Fourth Hearing)
COMMENTSCategory: Miscellaneous
Status: YELLOW
Staff assigned: Alex Boehnke
TOBACCO PRODUCT BAD DEBTS
(HALL T, STOLTZFUS R)Regarding the deduction and recovery of bad debts for cigarette and tobacco and vapor products taxes.
CURRENT STATUS9/27/2023 - Senate Ways and Means, (Second Hearing)
COMMENTSCategory: Tobacco/Vapor
Status: YELLOW
Staff assigned: Alex Boehnke
PENALTY REDUCTIONS DUE TO CHANGES IN LAW
(SEITZ B, WILLIAMS J)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 STATUS2/28/2023 - Referred to Committee House Criminal Justice
COMMENTSCategory: Criminal/Civil Justice
Status: YELLOW
Staff assigned: Lora Miller
COMMUNITY CONNECTORS WORKFORCE PROGRAM
(SANTUCCI N)To establish the Community Connectors Workforce Program and to make an appropriation.
CURRENT STATUS9/12/2023 - Re-Referred to Committee
COMMENTSCategory: Labor Relations
Status: YELLOW
Staff assigned: Alex Boehnke
AUTHORIZE PRESCRIBING OFF-LABEL DRUGS
(GROSS J, LOYCHIK M)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 STATUS9/13/2023 - Referred to Committee Senate Health
COMMENTSCategory: Health & Wellness
Status: YELLOW
Staff assigned: Lora Miller
DATA STORAGE
(HALL T, WHITE A)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 STATUS6/21/2023 - Referred to Committee Senate Government Oversight
COMMENTSCategory: Merchant Security
Status: YELLOW
Staff assigned: Alex Boehnke
To establish requirements and prohibitions governing the operation of unmanned aerial vehicles in Ohio.
CURRENT STATUS5/9/2023 - House Aviation and Aerospace, (First Hearing)
COMMENTSCategory: Miscellaneous
Status: YELLOW
Staff assigned: Alex Boehnke
ELECTRIC DISTRIBUTION UTILITIES
(SEITZ B, SWEENEY B)To permit electric distribution utilities to establish energy efficiency and demand reduction portfolios.
CURRENT STATUS6/21/2023 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED & REPORTED OUT, House Public Utilities, (Fourth Hearing)
COMMENTSCategory: Public Utilities
Status: YELLOW
Staff assigned: Alex Boehnke
PHARMACIST CARE
(LIPPS S)Regarding pharmacist care.
CURRENT STATUS2/28/2023 - Referred to Committee House Health Provider Services
COMMENTSCategory: Health & Wellness
Status: YELLOW
Staff assigned: Lora Miller
LIQUOR CONTROL LAWS
(LARE J)To revise specified provisions of the liquor control laws.
CURRENT STATUS9/13/2023 - Referred to Committee Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources
COMMENTSCategory: Alcohol
Status: YELLOW
Staff Assigned: Alex Boehnke
PAY STUB PROTECTION ACT
(JARRELLS D, LIPPS S)To enact the Pay Stub Protection Act requiring employers to provide earnings and deductions statements to each of the employer's employees.
CURRENT STATUS9/26/2023 - Senate Small Business and Economic Opportunity, (First Hearing)
COMMENTSCategory: Labor Relations
Status: YELLOW
Staff Assigned: Alex Boehnke
CATALYTIC CONVERTERS
(YOUNG B, ROEMER B)Regarding the sale of used catalytic converters, and to make an appropriation.
CURRENT STATUS5/2/2023 - House Criminal Justice, (Third Hearing)
COMMENTSCategory: Automotive
Status: YELLOW
Staff Assigned: Alex Boehnke
EQUAL PAY ACT
(MIRANDA J, BRENT J)To address wage disparities in public and private employment and to name this act the Ohio Equal Pay Act.
CURRENT STATUS3/22/2023 - Referred to Committee House Commerce and Labor
COMMENTSCategory: Labor Relations
Status: YELLOW
Staff Assigned: Alex Boehnke
EXEMPT BABY PRODUCTS FROM SALES TAX
(SANTUCCI N, MILLER M)To exempt certain baby products from sales and use tax.
CURRENT STATUS6/13/2023 - REPORTED OUT, House Ways and Means, (Fourth Hearing)
COMMENTSCategory: Taxation
Status: YELLOW
Staff assigned: Lora Miller
REMOTE WORKERS - MODIFIED MUNICIPAL INCOME TAX
(ROBB BLASDEL M, MATHEWS A)To allow businesses with remote workers to use a modified municipal income tax apportionment formula.
CURRENT STATUS6/21/2023 - Referred to Committee Senate Ways and Means
COMMENTSCategory: Taxation
Status: YELLOW
Staff assigned: Lora Miller
REMOTE DISPENSING PHARMACIES
(HOLMES A, STEWART B)To authorize the operation of remote dispensing pharmacies.
CURRENT STATUS6/6/2023 - House Health Provider Services, (First Hearing)
COMMENTSCategory: Health & Wellness
Status: YELLOW
Staff assigned: Lora Miller
CLASSIFY CERTAIN PAYMENTS - INVESTORS
(KING A, YOUNG T)To classify certain guaranteed payments to pass-through entity investors as business income.
CURRENT STATUS5/9/2023 - House Ways and Means, (Third Hearing)
COMMENTSCategory: Miscellaneous
Status: YELLOW
Staff assigned: Lora Miller
DRONE REQUIREMENTS
(WILLIS B)To establish requirements related to the use of an uncrewed aerial vehicle for surveillance.
CURRENT STATUS4/18/2023 - Referred to Committee House Aviation and Aerospace
COMMENTSCategory: Miscellaneous
Status: YELLOW
Staff assigned: Lora Miller
VICARIOUS LIABILITY IN TORT ACTIONS
(MATHEWS A, STEWART B)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 STATUS6/20/2023 - REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, House Civil Justice, (Fourth Hearing)
COMMENTSCategory: Criminal/Civil Justice
Status: YELLOW
Staff assigned: Lora Miller
PROHIBIT CALIFORNIA EMISSIONS STANDARDS FOR MOTOR VEHICLES
(HILLYER B, DEMETRIOU S)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 and to prohibit a state agency from adopting the California emissions standards for motor vehicles.
CURRENT STATUS9/26/2023 - House Transportation, (Third Hearing)
COMMENTSCategory: Transportation
Status: YELLOW
Staff Assigned: Alex Boehnke
TIMELY PAY OF CONTRACTORS
(ROEMER B, SWEENEY B)To require owners of private construction projects to timely pay contractors.
CURRENT STATUS6/27/2023 - House Commerce and Labor, (Fourth Hearing)
PROTECT OHIO WORKERS ACT
(SWEARINGEN D, PLUMMER P)To enact the "Protect Ohio Workers Act" regarding construction services performed under a contract at a stationary source.
CURRENT STATUS9/20/2023 - Senate Energy and Public Utilities, (First Hearing)
COMMENTSCategory: Energy
Status: YELLOW
Staff Assigned: Alex Boehnke
TOBACCO SALES TO MINORS
(CARRUTHERS S)To increase fines for repeatedly selling tobacco products to minors and to apply the public nuisance law to places where such sales occur.
CURRENT STATUS9/12/2023 - Referred to Committee House Criminal Justice
REQUIRE 60 PERCENT VOTE-CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
(STEWART B)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 STATUS4/19/2023 - REPORTED OUT, House Constitutional Resolutions, (Third Hearing)
COMMENTSCategory: Miscellaneous
Status: YELLOW
Staff assigned: Lora Miller
REFORM OHIO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
(REINEKE W)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 STATUS5/9/2023 - House Economic and Workforce Development, (Fourth Hearing)
COMMENTSCategory: Education
Status: YELLOW
Staff Assigned: Alex Boehnke
HOMEMADE SPIRITUOUS LIQUOR
(HOAGLAND F)To allow a person to distill, serve, and ship homemade spirituous liquor without a liquor permit.
CURRENT STATUS3/28/2023 - Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources, (First Hearing)
COMMENTSCategory: Alcohol
Status: YELLOW
Staff Assigned: Alex Boehnke
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 STATUS5/9/2023 - REPORTED OUT, House Commerce and Labor, (Fourth Hearing)
COMMENTSCategory: Labor Relations
Status: YELLOW
Staff assigned: Alex Boehnke
MERCHANT TRANSACTIONS-CASH PAYMENTS
(BLESSING III L)To require retail merchants to give customers the option to pay by cash.
CURRENT STATUS2/22/2023 - Senate Small Business and Economic Opportunity, (First Hearing)
COMMENTSCategory: Consumer Protection
Status: YELLOW
Staff Assigned: Lora Miller
TAX EXEMPTION-BABY PRODUCTS
(SCHAFFER T)To exempt certain baby products from sales and use tax.
CURRENT STATUS6/7/2023 - Referred to Committee House Ways and Means
COMMENTSCategory: Taxation
Status: YELLOW
Staff Assigned: Lora Miller
TAX REDUCTION-MOTOR FUEL
(HUFFMAN S)To reduce the tax rate on certain motor fuel.
CURRENT STATUS2/28/2023 - Senate Transportation, (First Hearing)
COMMENTSCategory: Transportation
Status: YELLOW
Staff Assigned: Alex Boehnke
ASBESTOS CLAIMS-DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS
(LANG G)To require a plaintiff in a tort action alleging an asbestos claim to file specified disclosures.
CURRENT STATUS5/10/2023 - Senate Insurance, (Fifth Hearing)
DATA ANALYSIS TRANSPARENCY-ELECTIONS
(GAVARONE T)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 STATUS6/13/2023 - House Government Oversight, (Second Hearing)
COMMENTSCategory: Miscellaneous
Status: YELLOW
Staff Assigned: Alex Boehnke
DIGITAL FAIR REPAIR ACT
(BLESSING III L)To enact the Digital Fair Repair Act.
CURRENT STATUS3/28/2023 - Senate Financial Institutions and Technology, (Third Hearing)
COMMENTSCategory: Consumer Protection
Status: YELLOW
Staff Assigned: Lora Miller
ELECTRONIC TAX PAYMENTS, STATE TREASURER
(GAVARONE T)Regarding the Treasurer of State and the electronic payment of taxes.
CURRENT STATUS6/7/2023 - Referred to Committee House State and Local Government
COMMENTSCategory: Taxation
Status: YELLOW
Staff Assigned: Lora Miller
HIGHER EDUCATION OPERATIONS ENHANCEMENT
(CIRINO J)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 STATUS5/24/2023 - House Higher Education, (First Hearing)
COMMENTSCategory: Education
Status: YELLOW
Staff assigned: Alex Boehnke
REMOTE DISPENSING PHARMACY OPERATIONS
(REYNOLDS M)To authorize the operation of remote dispensing pharmacies.
CURRENT STATUS6/14/2023 - Senate Health, (Fourth Hearing)
COMMENTSCategory: Health & Wellness
Status: YELLOW
Staff assigned: Lora Miller
LABOR LAW NOTICES-POSTING
(LANG G, WILSON S)To allow employers to post certain labor law notices on the internet.
CURRENT STATUS9/27/2023 - Senate Workforce and Higher Education, (Second Hearing)
COMMENTSCategory: Labor Relations
Status: YELLOW
Staff assigned: Alex Boehnke
HIGHWAY DESIGNATION-REP. KRIS JORDAN
(BRENNER A)To designate a portion of State Route 36 in Delaware County as the "Representative Kris Jordan Memorial Highway."
CURRENT STATUS6/14/2023 - BILL AMENDED, Senate Transportation, (First Hearing)
COMMENTSCategory: Miscellaneous
Status: YELLOW
Staff assigned: Lora Miller
FRAUDULENT, DECEPTIVE BUSINESS PRACTICES
(RULLI M)To address fraudulent business filings, deceptive mailings, reinstatement of canceled business entities, and addresses of statutory agents.
CURRENT STATUS6/21/2023 - Senate Judiciary, (Fourth Hearing)
COMMENTSCategory: Miscellaneous
Status: YELLOW
Staff assigned: Lora Miller
ELECTRIC, NATURAL GAS SERVICES
(WILKIN S)Regarding public utilities and competitive retail electric and natural gas services.
CURRENT STATUS6/20/2023 - Senate Energy and Public Utilities, (Third Hearing)
COMMENTSCategory: Energy
Status: YELLOW
Staff assigned: Lora Miller & Alex Boehnke
WORKERS' COMPENSATION-CHEMICALS, FLUID EXPOSURE
(SCHAFFER T)Regarding workers' compensation coverage for testing when certain medical professionals are exposed to chemical substances or bodily fluids in the course of employment.
CURRENT STATUS9/13/2023 - PASSED BY SENATE; Vote 33-0
COMMENTSCategory: Workers Comp
Status: YELLOW
Staff assigned: Alex Boehnke
UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION LAW CHANGES
(LANG G, ROMANCHUK M)To make changes to Ohio's Unemployment Compensation Law.
CURRENT STATUS6/7/2023 - Senate Insurance, (Third Hearing)
COMMENTSCategory: Unemployment Comp
Status: YELLOW
Staff assigned: Alex Boehnke
REVISE ALCOHOL FRANCHISE LAW
(BRENNER A)To revise the Alcohol Franchise Law.
CURRENT STATUS9/26/2023 - Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources, (First Hearing)
REGARDING IMMUNIZATIONS BY PHARMACISTS
(ROMANCHUK M)Regarding immunizations administered by pharmacists, pharmacy interns, and pharmacy technicians.
CURRENT STATUS9/20/2023 - Senate Health, (First Hearing)
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CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE-60 PERCENT REQUIREMENT
(MCCOLLEY R, GAVARONE T)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 STATUS5/10/2023 - Consideration of House Amendments; Senate Does Concur, Vote 26-7
COMMENTSCategory: Miscellaneous
Status: YELLOW
Staff assigned: Lora Miller