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Bill Number
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Topic |
Sponsor(s) |
Position |
Description |
Status |
| HB 3 |
Affordable Housing |
Pavliga, G., McNally, L. |
Actively monitoring |
To formally state the General Assembly’s intention to authorize an affordable housing tax credit. |
Committee Hearing in House Economic & Workforce Development (6/13/2023; CONTINUED-SUBSTITUTE) |
| HB 5 |
Adoption Process |
Ray, S., Baker, R. |
Actively monitoring |
To express the General Assembly’s intent to modernize the adoption process. |
Passed in House (6/27/2023; 93-0) |
| HB 6 |
School Athletics |
Powell, J. |
Actively monitoring |
To enact the Save Women’s Sports Act to require schools, state institutions of higher education, and private colleges to designate separate single-sex teams and sports for each sex. |
Committee Hearing in House Higher Education (5/10/2023; REPORTED (See separate story)) |
| HB 7 |
Maternal & Infant Health |
White, A., Humphrey, L. |
Actively monitoring |
To express the General Assembly’s intent to support strong foundations for mothers and babies to address maternal and infant mortality and improve health and developmental outcomes, and to name this act the Strong Foundations Act. |
Re-referred in House (6/13/2023; To Finance Committee; Rules & Reference) |
| HB 8 |
School Curriculum |
Swearingen, D., Carruthers, S. |
Actively monitoring |
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 sexually explicit content. |
Passed in House (6/21/2023; 65-29) |
| HB 15 |
Abortion |
Gross, J., Lear, B. |
Actively monitoring |
To revise the informed consent law regarding abortions. |
Introduced and Referred in House (2/15/2023; Public Health Policy) |
| HB 22 |
Stroke Care |
Schmidt, J., Hall, T. |
Actively monitoring |
Regarding the collection of stroke care data and the recognition of thrombectomy-capable stroke centers. |
Referred in Senate (4/19/2023; Health) |
| HB 24 |
Biomarker Testing |
White, A. |
Supportive |
To require health benefit plan and Medicaid program coverage of biomarker testing. |
Committee Hearing in House Insurance (6/7/2023; CONTINUED) |
| HB 33 |
Operating Budget |
Edwards, J. |
Actively monitoring |
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. |
Committee Hearing in Conference Committee on HB 33 (6/30/2023) |
| HB 35 |
Sexual Abuse |
Seitz, B., Miranda, J. |
Actively monitoring |
To eliminate the limitations period for a civil action based on a claim of childhood sexual abuse only for purposes of filing claims against a bankruptcy estate of an organization chartered under federal law, and to subsequently amend section 2305.111 of the Revised Code five years after the effective date of that section to remove that elimination of the limitations period. |
Committee Hearing in Senate Judiciary (6/21/2023; CONTINUED) |
| HB 36 |
Medical Identifying Devices |
Miranda, J. |
Actively monitoring |
To revise the law governing medical identifying devices and to name this act Paige’s Law. |
Introduced and Referred in House (2/15/2023; Health Provider Services) |
| HB 46 |
School Employment |
Dobos, D., Bird, A. |
Actively monitoring |
Regarding notation of an educator's district or school of employment on license applications and notice of educator disciplinary actions and consent agreements. |
Introduced in House (2/15/2023) |
| HB 47 |
AED |
Brown, R., Bird, A. |
Actively monitoring |
To require the placement of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in each public and chartered nonpublic school and each public recreational facility and to require the Ohio Department of Health to develop a model emergency action plan for the use of AEDs. |
Referred in Senate (6/21/2023; Health) |
| HB 49 |
Hospital Pricing |
Ferguson, R., Barhorst, T. |
Actively monitoring |
Hospital Pricing (Ferguson, R., Barhorst, T.)
Regarding the availability of hospital price information; and to amend the version of section 3701.83 of the Revised Code that is scheduled to take effect on September 30, 2024, to continue the change on and after that date. |
Passed in House (6/27/2023; 88-4 (Manning, Patton, Pavliga, Robb Blasdel)) |
| HB 52 (Enacted) |
Emergency Medical Services |
Fowler Arthur, S., John, M. |
Actively monitoring |
To restore law related to emergency medical services training and continuing education programs, to amend the versions of sections 4765.10, 4765.11, and 4765.30 of the Revised Code that are scheduled to take effect on December 29, 2023, to continue the changes on and after that date, and to declare an emergency. |
Signed by the Governor (4/5/2023; Signed: April 5, 2023, Effective: April 5, 2023) |
| HB 68 |
Gender Transition |
Click, G. |
Opposed |
Regards gender transition services for minors and to name this act the Ohio Saving Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act. |
Passed in House (6/21/2023; 64-28) |
| HB 73 |
Prescriptions |
Gross, J., Loychik, M. |
Neutral with technical assistance |
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. |
Passed in House (6/21/2023; 73-17) |
| HB 89 |
Health Examinations |
Hillyer, B., Abdullahi, M. |
Actively monitoring |
Regards intimate examinations and anesthetized or unconscious patients. |
Committee Hearing in House Public Health Policy (5/3/2023; CONTINUED-AMENDED (See separate story)) |
| HB 99 |
Emergency Services |
Manchester, S. |
Supportive |
To regulate the practice of reducing benefits related to emergency services if a condition is determined, after the fact, to not be an emergency. |
Committee Hearing in House Insurance (6/14/2023; CONTINUED-AMENDED) |
| HB 130 |
Prior Authorization |
Miller, K. |
Supportive |
To establish an exemption to prior authorization requirements. |
Committee Hearing in House Insurance (6/7/2023; CONTINUED) |
| HB 169 |
Sun Lamp Tanning |
Hillyer, B. |
Supportive |
To prohibit the provision of sun lamp tanning services to individuals under age 18 and to make changes regarding the titles that may be used by physicians. |
Committee Hearing in House Health Provider Services (6/27/2023; CONTINUED) |
| HB 229 |
Epilepsy |
Sweeney, B. Patton, T. |
Opposed |
To require health care practitioners to provide information on Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy to at risk patients and to name the act the Brenna Brossard SUDEP Awareness Act. |
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| HB 236 |
Patient Advocates |
Miller, M. |
Opposed |
To prohibit a congregate care setting from denying a patient or resident access to an advocate and to name this act the Never Alone Act. |
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| HB 256 |
Organ Donations |
Miller, K. Creech, R. |
Supportive |
To require the Department of Natural Resources to inquire about organ donation under specified circumstances. |
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| HB 258 |
Sale of Tobacco Products to Minors |
Carruthers, S. |
Supportive |
To increase fines for repeatedly selling tobacco products to minors and to apply the public nuisance law to places where such sales occur |
Introduced in Ohio House 8/28/23 |
| SB 9 |
Medical Marijuana |
Huffman, S., Schuring, K. |
Actively monitoring |
To amend the law related to medical marijuana. |
Committee Hearing in Senate General Government (5/16/2023; CONTINUED) |
| SB 28 |
Physician Assistant |
Roegner, K. |
Actively monitoring |
To enter into the Physician Assistant Licensure Compact. |
Referred in House (6/26/2023; Health Provider Services) |
| SB 33 |
Medicaid |
Schaffer, T. |
Actively monitoring |
To require Medicaid applicants to certify that they have been notified about the Medicaid estate recovery program. |
Committee Hearing in Senate Medicaid (3/7/2023; CONTINUED) |
| SB 59 |
Sun Lamp Tanning |
Johnson, T. |
Supportive |
To prohibit the provision of sun lamp tanning services to individuals under age 18. |
Committee Hearing in Senate Health (6/14/2023; CONTINUED) |
| SB 81 |
Nursing |
Romanchuk, M. |
Opposed |
Authorize certain nurses to sign hospital patient documents |
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| SB 103 |
Kratom Products |
Blessing, L. |
Neutral with technical assistance |
Regards sales of kratom products. |
Committee Hearing in Senate Health (5/24/2023; CONTINUED) |
| SB 126 |
Non-Compete Agreements |
Johnson, T. |
Supportive |
Regards the use of noncompete provisions in certain health care professional employment contracts with nonprofit hospitals. |
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| SB 129 |
Optometry |
Cirino, J. |
Opposed |
To revise the law governing the practice of optometry |
Referred to Senate Health Committee on 6/28/2023 |
| SB 144 |
Immunizations |
Romanchuk, M. |
Opposed |
Regards immunizations administered by pharmacists, pharmacy interns, and pharmacy technicians. |
Referred to Senate Health Committee 9/13/2023 |
