Bill Watch List

Updated: 3/13/2026 12:51 PM

SUPPORT:

• HB84 – Enact the Innocence Act
  3/4/2026 Referred to committee: Technology and Innovation – Protect online safety for minors: require websites to verify age, allow actions by victims & prohibit another’s likeness to be used without consent.
• SB41 – Designate Day of Tears
  1/29/2025 Referred to committee: Government Oversight and Reform – Declares January 22 as the “Day of Tears” to remember and mourn the innocent, unborn children who have lost their lives due to abortion.

• HB160 – Revise liquor control, hemp, and adult-use marijuana laws
  3/19/2025 Referred to committee: Judiciary – Strangthens laws restricting marijuana for minors
• SB155 – Revise the real estate wholesaler law – 2025
  3/2/2026 SIGNED into law – Strengthens laws to restrict the wholesale purchasing of real estate

• SR241 – Condemn People’s Republic of China – 2024
  4/24/2024 Passed Senate – Condemns the Chinese Communist Party for conducting unrestricted warfare against the world.

• HB5 – Enact the Repeat Offender Act – 2025
  5/28/2025 Passed House – Referred to Senate committee: Judiciary – Limits the sealing of criminal offenses and requires all felony records to be accessed during employment checks for schools & child care facilities.
• HB110 – Increase the penalty for repeat voyeurism
  2/26/2025 Referred to committee: Judiciary – Increases the penalties for repeated voyeurism crimes
• HB111 – Impose additional fine for high-speed drivers
  2/26/2025 Referred to committee: Public Safety – Imposes an additional fine on drivers who exceed the speed limit by 30 miles per hour.
• SB53 – Regards civil actions for vandalism or riot activity injuries
  1/29/2025 Referred to committee: Judiciary – Aims to establish provisions for civil actions by individuals who suffer injury or loss due to vandalism or riot activity.

• HB88 – Regards drug trafficking, human trafficking, and fentanyl – 2025
  2/11/2026 Passed House – Introduced in Senate – Increases penalties for drug trafficking, especially involving fentanyl, bans organized human trafficking, and requires schools to teach about fentanyl awareness.
• SB55 – Regards operating under the influence of marijuana, OVI evidence – 2025
  10/15/2025 Referred to committee: Judiciary – Modifies laws related to operating a vehicle or watercraft under the influence of marijuana and addresses the admissibility of evidence in OVI cases.
• SB56 – Revise medical and adult-use marijuana laws; levy marijuana taxes – 2025
  3/20/2026 Passed House and Senate – Waiting for Governor’s signature or veto – Consolidates the administration of Ohio’s marijuana control program, revise existing medical and adult-use marijuana laws, and implement taxes on marijuana.

• SB93 – Create new school financing system with state property, sales tax
  2/12/2025 Referred to committee: Finance – Establish a per-pupil funding payment for public and chartered nonpublic schools based on a single statewide property tax and an increase in the state sales tax.
• SB156 – Regards the success sequence curriculum
  10/29/2025 Passed Senate – Referred to House committee: Education – Adopt curriculum which enforces 3 steps: finish high school, obtain full time employment and marry before having children

• HB153 – Include state, district school board members on partisan ballot
  3/19/2025 Referred to committee: General Government – Requires party affiliation on ballot when electing school board members
• SB4 – Create Election Integrity Unit; revise election law prosecution – 2025
  9/15/2025 Passed Senate – Establishes the Election Integrity Unit within the Office of the Secretary of State to increase election integrity.
• SB63 – Prohibit use of ranked choice voting; withhold funding for use – 2025
  3/12/2026 Passed Senate – Referred to House committee: General Government – Prohibits the use of ranked choice voting and withholds Local Government Fund distributions from municipalities or chartered counties that implement ranked choice voting.
• SB107 – Include state, district school board members on partisan ballot
  2/19/2025 Referred to committee: General Government – Requires state and school district board members to appear on the ballot with a party designation.
• SB153 – Require citizenship verification before an elector may vote
  3/26/2025 Referred to committee: General Government – Requires every voter to prove citizenship in order to be eligible to vote

• HB114 – Regards age requirements for kindergarten admission – 2025
  3/20/2026 Passed House – Referred to Senate committee: Education – Requires a minimum age of five years old for children to be enrolled in kindergarten.
• HB117 – Enact The Pledge of Allegiance Act
  2/26/2025 Referred to committee: Education – Mandates the Pledge of Allegience to be recited daily in schools.
• HB145 – Regards the minimum number of hours in a school year
  3/5/2025 Referred to committee: Education – Requires chartered private schools to a mandatoory 180 day sschool year
• HB155 – Prohibit diversity, equity, and inclusion in public schools (Companion to SB113)
  3/19/2025 Referred to committee: Education – Prohibit diversity, equity, and inclusion in public schools. (Companion to SB113)
• HB189 – Regards statewide school behavioral threat management process
  3/26/2025 Referred to committee: Education – Outlines mandatory policy to deal with potential threats and people at risk of harming fellow citizens
• SB7 – Regards student instruction on harmful effects of substance use – 2025
  4/30/2025 Passed Senate – Referred to House committee: Education – Allows for age-appropriate learning on the harmful effects of substance use in public schools and chartered non-public schools.
• SB19 – Regards academic intervention, math improvement and intervention
  2/4/2026 Referred to committee: Education – Improves the mathematics intervention programs for grades kindergarten through twelve.
• SB34 – Enact the Historical Educational Displays Act
  2/4/2026 Introduced – Requires the display of the U.S. and Ohio state constitutions, as well as the Bill of Rights, are visible in classrooms across the state.
• SB113 – Prohibit diversity, equity, and inclusion in public schools (Companion to HB155)
  2/26/2025 Referred to committee: Education – To prohibit diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in public schools. (Companion to HB155)
• SB127 – Regards closure requirements for poor-performing public schools
  3/5/2025 Referred to committee: Education – Provides a mandatory process for underperforming schools and school districts.
• SB158 – Prohibit student cellular telephone use in public schools – 2025
  5/21/2025 Passed Senate – Referred to House committee: Education – Prevents students from using phones while at school

• SB58 – Expand eligibility: grandparent POA, caretaker affidavits
  1/29/2025 Introduced – Expands eligibility for executing a grandparent power of attorney or a caretaker authorization affidavit.
• SB167 – Require certain application store-based parental controls
  4/2/2025 Referred to committee: Financial Institutions, Insurance and Technology – Prohibit adult content in video games to 13 years & younger, graphic content to 16 years and younger also requires all platforms to provide a means for allowing parental controls within the system

• HB68 – Regards conceal carry locations, nonresident firearms disability
  2/12/2025 Referred to committee: Public Safety – Permit concealed carry in certain buildings and seek statutory relief for non-Ohio residents for Ohio convictions or adjucations.
• HB108 – Enact the Self-Defense Protection Act
  2/26/2025 Referred to committee: Judiciary – To establish a pretrial procedure for individuals asserting self-defense, defense of another, or defense of their property.

• HB12 – Enact the Jeff, Dave, and Angie Patient Right to Try Act
  1/28/2025 Referred to committee: Health – Allows prescriber to issue a prescription for any drug as long as they have obtained consent of the patient or the patient’s personal representative, and when there is a disagreement with the prescriber, the patient and their personal representative can choose to discontinue the prescription.
• HB21 – Enact the Health Care Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act – 2025
  11/19/2025 Passed House – Allows for greater flexibility in the use of health care sharing ministries and introduces provisions that would make it easier to join and use.
• HB220 – Regards health insurance, Medicaid prior authorization
  4/9/2025 Referred to committee: Insurance – Prohibits health insurance and Medicaid to cancel treatment which has already been previously approved
• SB160 – Regards prescription drugs and medication switching
  4/2/2025 Referred to committee: Financial Institutions, Insurance and Technology – Prohibits health insurance from rejecting previously approved medication when updating policies

• HB6 – Enact Advance Ohio Higher Education Act – 2025
  1/28/2025 Referred to committee: Workforce and Higher Education – Restructuring responsibilities of trustees of Ohio colleges & universities and requiring more oversight for trustees to be liable for curriculum and classroom instruction.
• SB1 – Enact Advance Ohio Higher Education Act – 2025
  6/27/2025 SIGNED into law – Restructuring responsibilities of trustees of Ohio colleges & universities and requiring more oversight for trustees to be liable for curriculum and classroom instruction.

• HB113 – Regards annexation and financial disclosure forms, tax exemptions
  2/26/2025 Referred to committee: Local Government – Seeks to mandate that school districts approve residential property tax exemptions within community reinvestment areas.
• SB5 – Expedite unauthorized occupant removal; prohibit fraudulent deeds
  1/29/2025 Referred to committee: Judiciary – Speeds up the removal of unauthorized occupants from residential property (anti-squatter legislation).
• SB88 – Enact the Ohio Property Protection Act
  2/12/2025 Referred to committee: General Government – To restrict governments, businesses, and individuals from acquiring specific real property under certain conditions. The aim is to safeguard Ohio residents and properties from unwanted acquisitions.

• HB47 – Enact the Human Trafficking Prevention Act – 2025
  6/11/2025 Passed House – Referred to Senate committee: Judiciary – Increases penalties for offenses involving human trafficking of minors or individuals with developmental disabilities, as well as for kidnapping and abduction.

• HB26 – Enact Protecting Ohio Communities Act
  2/5/2025 Referred to committee: Public Safety – Seeks to enforce cooperation between state and local authorities and the federal government on immigration laws. It mandates that authorities work with federal agencies in enforcing immigration regulations.
• HB42 – Require certain agencies to collect and report citizenship data
  2/5/2025 Referred to committee: Government Oversight – Requires law enforcement to collect the citizenship or immigration status of any person in detention and report it to the appropriate federal agency

• HB105 – Revise non-recourse litigation funding agreement regulations – 2025
  11/25/2025 Passed House – Introduced in Senate – Drastically eliminates the abuse of 3rd-party funding litigation

• HB131 – Prohibit law enforcement from using quotas for arrests, citations – 2025
  6/4/2025 Passed House – Referred to Senate committee: Judiciary – Prohibits law enforcement from using quotas to prompt arrests or speeding violations across Ohio.
• HB217 – Enact the Finding and Identifying with NamUs Data (FIND) Act
  4/9/2025 Referred to committee: Public Safety – Establishes a uniform procedure for reporting and identifying missing children
• SB114 – Prohibit law enforcement from using quotas for arrests, citations – 2025
  9/30/2025 SIGNED into law – To prohibit law enforcement agencies from implementing quotas for arrests and citations.

• HB162 – Enact the My Child-My Chart Act – 2025
  10/22/2025 Passed House – Referred to Senate committee: Health – Strengthens rights of parents for total access to medical charts for their children
• HB172 – Prohibit mental health service to minors without parental consent
  3/19/2025 Referred to committee: Health – Prohibits the provision of mental health services to minors without parental consent.

• HB39 – Allow state income tax deduction for overtime wages
  2/5/2025 Referred to committee: Ways and Means – To provide tax relief for individuals who earn overtime pay by making their overtime wages deductible for state income tax purposes.

• HB249 – Enact the Indecent Exposure Modernization Act
  5/7/2025 Referred to House committee: Judiciary – Eliminate breast feeding from indecent exposure and adding any cabaret or drag show for minors as obscenity
• SB163 – Regards AI images, simulated child porn, replica identity fraud
  4/2/2025 Referred to committee: Judiciary – Requires AI images to bear a watermark & make it illegal to remove it – also prohibits AI-generated pornography from depicting minors in any content

• HB87 – Enact the Strategic Tax Opportunities for Raising Kids (STORK) Act
  2/12/2025 Referred to committee: Ways and Means – Provide tax relief to allow deductions for pregnancies.

• HB112 – Enact the Conscientious Right to Refuse Act
  2/26/2025 Referred to committee: Judiciary – Prohibit discrimination against individuals who decline certain medical interventions due to reasons of conscience, including religious convictions.
• HCR9 – Adopt the Leland Muhlenberg Resolution
  4/2/2025 Referred to Committee: General Government – RESOLUTION. Urges U.S. leaders to repeal the Johnson Amendment to align with the First Amendment, and is named the “Leland Muhlenberg Resolution” to honor historic pastors.

• HB134 – Authorize home kitchen registration for sale of certain foods – 2025
  2/11/2026 Passed House – Introduced in Senate – To authorize the sale of certain homemade foods under a microenterprise home kitchen operation registration.
• SB30 – Require retail merchants to give customers the option to pay cash
  1/29/2025 Referred to committee: Small Business and Economic Opportunity – Ensures that consumers have a choice to use physical currency in transactions, addressing concerns about cashless businesses.

• SB105 – Enact Alyssa’s Law
  2/19/2025 Referred to committee: Finance – Requires schools to use wearable panic alert systems that link to local police and train staff on how to use them.

• HB137 – Permit tax authority to decline submitting certain levy to voters
  10/29/2025 Referred to committee: Local Government – Permits a local tax authority to decline to submit a tax levy to voters.
• HB140 – Authorize the refundable thriving families tax credit
  3/5/2025 Referred to committee: Ways and Means – Tax credit to eligible families with dependent minor children.
• SB3 – Phase-down the state income tax to a flat rate of 2.75% (Companion to HB30, HB30)
  1/29/2025 Referred to committee: Ways and Means – Lowers the state income tax to a flat rate of 2.75% over the next two years. (Companion to HB30, HB30)
• SB40 – Authorize tax credit for pregnancy resource center donations
  1/29/2025 Referred to committee: Ways and Means – Authorizes a nonrefundable tax credit for donations to certain pregnancy resource centers and maternity homes.
• SB59 – Exempt firearms and ammunition from sales and use tax
  1/29/2025 Referred to committee: Ways and Means – Exempts certain firearms and ammunition from sales tax and offers refundable tax credits for small arms and ammunition manufacturing projects.
• SB66 – Include certain levies, taxes in school millage floor calculation
  2/12/2025 Referred to committee: Ways and Means – The bill aims to include emergency levies, substitute levies, all inside millage, and school district income taxes in the calculation of a school district’s effective millage floor.
• SB81 – Authorize a property tax freeze for certain owner-occupied homes
  2/12/2025 Referred to committee: Ways and Means – To freeze property taxes for disabled or over 65 making less than $70k annually.

• SB87 – Define antisemitism; expand the offense of ethnic intimidation
  3/10/2026 Referred to committee: Judiciary – This legislation seeks to enhance protections against hate-driven crimes and ensure more comprehensive legal responses.

OPPOSE:

• HB128 – Enact the Reproductive Care Act
  2/26/2025 Referred to committee: Health – Amends multiple sections of the Ohio Revised Code, regarding abortion and seeks to repeal certain sections related to abortion regulations.

• HB72 – Prohibit public funding for lethal injection drugs; death penalty
  2/12/2025 Introduced – Eliminates the death penalty in Ohio

• SB9 – Revise medical marijuana law
  1/17/2023 Introduced – Revises the Code to amend the law related to medical marijuana.

• SB48 – Regards auditing of chartered nonpublic schools
  1/29/2025 Referred to committee: Education – Requires public audits of chartered nonpublic schools.

• SB47 – Require certain disclosures of for-profit school, college status
  1/29/2025 Referred to committee: Education – Mandates that for-profit community school operators and post-secondary educational institutions disclose their for-profit status.

• SB74 – Create the fair paycheck workplace certificate
  2/12/2025 Referred to committee: Judiciary – Establishes a certificate and requires many businesses to qualify for a “Fair Paycheck Workplace” certificate.

• HB45 – Prohibit certain firearm transfers without a background check
  2/5/2025 Referred to committee: Public Safety – Requires federally licensed firearms dealers to ensure that the transferee passes a background check before a firearm can be transferred.
• HB46 – Enact the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act
  2/5/2025 Referred to committee: Public Safety – Allows certain individuals to request a court order to temporarily restrict another person’s access to firearms under specific circumstances.
• SB75 – Increase penalty for failure to report a lost or stolen firearm
  2/12/2025 Referred to committee: Judiciary – Changes from 4th degree misdemeanor to 1st degree misdemeanor a failure to report lost or stolen firearm, ammunition or other ordinance.
• SB98 – Prohibit firearm possession – certain domestic violence offenses
  2/12/2025 Referred to committee: Judiciary – Aims to prohibit individuals who are charged with or have been convicted of first-degree misdemeanor domestic violence from possessing firearms or dangerous ordnance.

• SB78 – Establish and operate the Ohio Health Care Plan
  2/12/2025 Referred to committee: Financial Institutions, Insurance and Technology – Proposes the establishment of the Ohio Health Care Plan to provide universal health care coverage to all Ohio residents.

• SB49 – Regards right of first refusal-acquiring school district property
  1/29/2025 Referred to committee: Education – Eliminates the right of first refusal for certain schools in acquiring school district real property.

• SB133 – Abolish the death penalty; revise number of juror challenges
  3/19/2025 Referred to committee: Judiciary – To abolish the death penalty in Ohio.
• SB134 – Abolish death penalty; regards funding of lethal injection drugs
  3/19/2025 Referred to committee: Judiciary – To prohibit funding for lethal injection drugs in order to abolish the death penalty.

• HB136 – Prohibit sexual orientation or gender identity discrimination
  3/5/2025 Referred to committee: Judiciary – A dangerously broad bill which basically adds gender identity as a civilly protected class.
• SB71 – Prohibit conversion therapy for minors by certain professionals
  2/12/2025 Referred to committee: Health – Seeks to prohibit certain licensed health care professionals from engaging in conversion therapy for minor patients.

• HB34 – Increase the state minimum wage
  2/5/2025 Referred to committee: Commerce and Labor – Mandatory increase the minimum wage to $11 per hour.
• SB77 – Require a system to anonymously report wage discrimination
  2/12/2025 Referred to committee: Judiciary – Mandates the Ohio Civil Rights Commission to establish a system that allows individuals to anonymously report instances of wage discrimination.

• SB169 – Require training on emotional intelligence for peace officers
  4/9/2025 Referred to committee: Armed Services, Veterans Affairs and Public Safety – Requring all peace officers to undergo emotional intelligence training

• HB97 – Require public schools to provide meals and related services
  2/26/2025 Referred to committee: Education – Prohibits school employees from speaking to a student about their meal debts

• HB24 – Provide Medigap policies for certain Medicare-eligible persons
  1/28/2025 Referred to committee: Insurance – Amend several sections of Ohio’s Revised Code to provide Medigap policies to individuals under 65 who are eligible for Medicare (often used as a backdoor opening to broaden its use).

• SB70 – Enact the Ohio Fairness Act
  2/12/2025 Referred to committee: Government Oversight and Reform – Prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.

WATCH:

• HB132 – Enact Philip Wigal’s Law – 2025
  11/5/2025 Passed House – Referred to Senate committee: Judiciary – To increase penalties for failing to slow down or change lanes when approaching specified stationary vehicles, and to enhance penalties for vehicular homicide and vehicular assault resulting from such offenses.

• SB112 – Establish appointment procedures for constitutional convention
  2/26/2025 Referred to committee: General Government – To establish procedures for appointing delegates to a convention of the states under Article V of the U.S. Constitution.