Bill Watch List

Updated: 5/21/2025 5:37 PM

SUPPORT:

• HB84 – 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 – 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 – Referred to committee: Judiciary – Strangthens laws restricting marijuana for minors
• SB155 – Referred to committee: Judiciary – Strengthens laws to restrict the wholesale purchasing of real estate

• SR241 – Passed Senate – Condemns the Chinese Communist Party for conducting unrestricted warfare against the world.

• HB5 – Referred to 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 – Referred to committee: Judiciary – Increases the penalties for repeated voyeurism crimes
• HB111 – Referred to committee: Public Safety – Imposes an additional fine on drivers who exceed the speed limit by 30 miles per hour.
• SB53 – 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 – Referred to committee: Judiciary – Increases penalties for drug trafficking, especially involving fentanyl, bans organized human trafficking, and requires schools to teach about fentanyl awareness.
• SB55 – 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 – Passed Senate – Referred to House Judiciary Committee – Consolidates the administration of Ohio’s marijuana control program, revise existing medical and adult-use marijuana laws, and implement taxes on marijuana.

• SB93 – 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 – Referred to committee: Education – Adopt curriculum which enforces 3 steps: finish high school, obtain full time employment and marry before having children

• HB153 – Referred to committee: General Government – Requires party affiliation on ballot when electing school board members
• SB4 – Referred to committee: General Government – Establishes the Election Integrity Unit within the Office of the Secretary of State to increase election integrity.
• SB63 – Passed Senate – Introduced in House – Prohibits the use of ranked choice voting and withholds Local Government Fund distributions from municipalities or chartered counties that implement ranked choice voting.
• SB107 – Referred to committee: General Government – Requires state and school district board members to appear on the ballot with a party designation.
• SB153 – Referred to committee: General Government – Requires every voter to prove citizenship in order to be eligible to vote

• HB114 – Referred to committee: Education – Requires a minimum age of five years old for children to be enrolled in kindergarten.
• HB117 – Referred to committee: Education – Mandates the Pledge of Allegience to be recited daily in schools.
• HB145 – Referred to committee: Education – Requires chartered private schools to a mandatoory 180 day sschool year
• HB155 – Referred to committee: Education – Prohibit diversity, equity, and inclusion in public schools. (Companion to SB113)
• HB189 – Referred to committee: Education – Outlines mandatory policy to deal with potential threats and people at risk of harming fellow citizens
• SB7 – 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 – Referred to committee: Education – Improves the mathematics intervention programs for grades kindergarten through twelve.
• SB34 – 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 – Referred to committee: Education – To prohibit diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in public schools. (Companion to HB155)
• SB127 – Referred to committee: Education – Provides a mandatory process for underperforming schools and school districts.
• SB158 – Passed Senate – Introduced in House – Prevents students from using phones while at school

• SB58 – Introduced – Expands eligibility for executing a grandparent power of attorney or a caretaker authorization affidavit.
• SB167 – 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 – 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 – Referred to committee: Judiciary – To establish a pretrial procedure for individuals asserting self-defense, defense of another, or defense of their property.

• HB12 – 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 – Referred to committee: Insurance – 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 – Referred to committee: Insurance – Prohibits health insurance and Medicaid to cancel treatment which has already been previously approved
• SB160 – Referred to committee: Financial Institutions, Insurance and Technology – Prohibits health insurance from rejecting previously approved medication when updating policies

• HB6 – 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 – 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 – Referred to committee: Local Government – Seeks to mandate that school districts approve residential property tax exemptions within community reinvestment areas.
• SB5 – Referred to committee: Judiciary – Speeds up the removal of unauthorized occupants from residential property (anti-squatter legislation).
• SB88 – 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 – Referred to committee: Judiciary – Increases penalties for offenses involving human trafficking of minors or individuals with developmental disabilities, as well as for kidnapping and abduction.

• HB26 – 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 – 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 – Referred to committee: Insurance – Drastically eliminates the abuse of 3rd-party funding litigation

• HB131 – Referred to committee: Public Safety – Prohibits law enforcement from using quotas to prompt arrests or speeding violations across Ohio.
• HB217 – Referred to committee: Public Safety – Establishes a uniform procedure for reporting and identifying missing children
• SB114 – Passed Senate – Referred to committee: Public Safety – To prohibit law enforcement agencies from implementing quotas for arrests and citations.

• HB162 – Referred to committee: Health – Strengthens rights of parents for total access to medical charts for their children
• HB172 – Referred to committee: Health – Prohibits the provision of mental health services to minors without parental consent.

• HB39 – 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 – Referred to committee: Judiciary – Eliminate breast feeding from indecent exposure and adding any cabaret or drag show for minors as obscenity
• SB163 – 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 – Referred to committee: Ways and Means – Provide tax relief to allow deductions for pregnancies.

• HB112 – Referred to committee: Judiciary – Prohibit discrimination against individuals who decline certain medical interventions due to reasons of conscience, including religious convictions.
• HCR9 – 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 – Referred to committee: Agriculture – To authorize the sale of certain homemade foods under a microenterprise home kitchen operation registration.
• SB30 – 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 – 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 – Referred to committee: Local Government – Permits a local tax authority to decline to submit a tax levy to voters.
• HB140 – Referred to committee: Ways and Means – Tax credit to eligible families with dependent minor children.
• SB3 – 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 – Referred to committee: Ways and Means – Authorizes a nonrefundable tax credit for donations to certain pregnancy resource centers and maternity homes.
• SB59 – 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 – 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 – Referred to committee: Ways and Means – To freeze property taxes for disabled or over 65 making less than $70k annually.

• SB87 – Referred to committee: Judiciary – This legislation seeks to enhance protections against hate-driven crimes and ensure more comprehensive legal responses.

OPPOSE:

• HB128 – 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 – Introduced – Eliminates the death penalty in Ohio

• SB9 – Introduced – Revises the Code to amend the law related to medical marijuana.

• SB48 – Referred to committee: Education – Requires public audits of chartered nonpublic schools.

• SB47 – Referred to committee: Education – Mandates that for-profit community school operators and post-secondary educational institutions disclose their for-profit status.

• SB74 – Referred to committee: Judiciary – Establishes a certificate and requires many businesses to qualify for a “Fair Paycheck Workplace” certificate.

• HB45 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Referred to committee: Education – Eliminates the right of first refusal for certain schools in acquiring school district real property.

• SB133 – Referred to committee: Judiciary – To abolish the death penalty in Ohio.
• SB134 – Referred to committee: Judiciary – To prohibit funding for lethal injection drugs in order to abolish the death penalty.

• HB136 – Referred to committee: Judiciary – A dangerously broad bill which basically adds gender identity as a civilly protected class.
• SB71 – Referred to committee: Health – Seeks to prohibit certain licensed health care professionals from engaging in conversion therapy for minor patients.

• HB34 – Referred to committee: Commerce and Labor – Mandatory increase the minimum wage to $11 per hour.
• SB77 – 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 – Referred to committee: Armed Services, Veterans Affairs and Public Safety – Requring all peace officers to undergo emotional intelligence training

• HB97 – Referred to committee: Education – Prohibits school employees from speaking to a student about their meal debts

• HB24 – 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 – Referred to committee: Government Oversight and Reform – Prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.

WATCH:

• HB132 – Referred to 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 – 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.