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Bills of interest to the Association pending in the 136th Ohio Senate
Through April 27, 2026

Ohio Senate
House of Representatives


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SB4

ESTABLISH ELECTION INTEGRITY UNIT (GAVARONE T) To establish the Election Integrity Unit in the Office of the Secretary of State and to modify the law governing the prosecution of Election Law violations.

 

Position:   

Oppose

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-SB-4

 

SB5

EXPEDITE REMOVAL-UNAUTHORIZED RESIDENTIAL OCCUPANTS (BRENNER A, HUFFMAN S) To provide for the expedited removal of unauthorized occupants from residential property and to prohibit the use and sale of fraudulent deeds.

 

Position:   

Oppose

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-SB-5

 

SB53

REGARDING CIVIL ACTIONS-VANDALISM, RIOTS (SCHAFFER T) Regarding civil actions by persons who suffer injury or loss due to vandalism or riot activity.

 

Position:   

Oppose

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-SB-53

 

SB55

CHANGE OVI LAWS-MARIHUANA (MANNING N) To change the laws pertaining to operating a vehicle or watercraft while under the influence of marihuana and the admissibility of evidence for purposes of OVI statutes.

 

Position:   

Monitor

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-SB-55

 

SB61

RELATIVE TO COURTS, COURT PROCEDURES (GAVARONE T, MANNING N) Relative to courts and court procedures.

 

Position:   

Amend

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-SB-61

 

SB62

SCHOOL BUS SAFETY-PENALTIES, MONTH DESIGNATION (GAVARONE T) To authorize a civil penalty system related to drivers who illegally pass a school bus but cannot be identified, to designate the month of August as "School Bus Safety Awareness Month," and to designate this act as the School Bus Safety Act.

 

Position:   

Amend

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-SB-62

 

SB64

INCREASE PENALTIES-ANIMAL CRUELTY (CUTRONA A) To increase the penalties for violating companion animal cruelty offenses and to prohibit a felony animal abuse offender from owning a companion animal in certain circumstances.

 

Position:   

Oppose

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-SB-64

 

SB87

DEFINE ANTI-SEMITISM, EXPAND ETHNIC INTIMIDATION (JOHNSON T) To define antisemitism for specific purposes and to expand the offense of ethnic intimidation to include the offenses of riot and aggravated riot committed by reason of the race, color, religion, or national origin of another person or group of persons.a

 

Position:   

Amend

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-SB-87

 

SB88

OHIO PROPERTY PROTECTION ACT (JOHNSON T) To modify the law that prohibits certain governments, businesses, and individuals from acquiring certain real property and to name this act the Ohio Property Protection Act.

 

Position:   

Amend

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-SB-88

 

SB97

INCREASE PENALTY-FAILURE TO YIELD, FUNERAL PROCESSION (CRAIG H, WILSON S) To double fines for failing to yield to a funeral procession.

 

Position:   

Monitor

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-SB-97

 

SB102

GUS FRANGOS ACT (PATTON T) To make changes to the law relating to tax foreclosures and county land reutilization corporations, and to name this act the Gus Frangos Act.

 

Position:   

Monitor

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-SB-102

 

SB124

PENALTIES-TRANSIT SYSTEMS (CRAIG H, PATTON T) To increase the penalty for assault when the victim is an operator of an Ohio transit system bus or rail car; to authorize Ohio transit systems to post a sign regarding abuse or assault of staff; and to increase the penalty for evading payment of the known fares of a public transportation system.

 

Position:   

Oppose

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-SB-124

 

SB133

ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY, COURT CHANGES (ANTONIO N, HUFFMAN S) To abolish the death penalty and to modify the number of jurors that may be challenged in cases where a defendant may be sentenced to life imprisonment.

 

Position:   

Oppose

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-SB-133

 

SB134

ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY, PROHIBIT LETHAL INJECTION DRUGS (ANTONIO N, HUFFMAN S) To abolish the death penalty, to modify the number of jurors that may be challenged in cases where a defendant may be sentenced to life imprisonment, and to prohibit public funding for the use of lethal injection drugs in nontherapeutic abortions, assisting suicide, and executing a death sentence.

 

Position:   

Oppose

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-SB-134

 

SB163

VARIOUS REGULATIONS-ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (BLESSING III L, JOHNSON T) To require AI-generated products have a watermark, to prohibit simulated child pornography, and to prohibit identity fraud using a replica of a person.

 

Position:   

Support

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-SB-163

 

SB175

AGE VERIFICATION-SOFTWARE APPS (PATTON T) To establish age verification requirements for software applications.

 

Position:   

Monitor

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-SB-175

 

SB188

EXPANDED OFFENSE-FAILURE TO COMPLY (PATTON T) To expand the offense of failure to comply with an order or signal of a law enforcement officer.

 

Position:   

Amend

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-SB-188

 

SB204

EVICTION RECORDS SUPPRESSION-CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES (REYNOLDS M) To provide for the suppression of eviction records in certain circumstances.

 

Position:   

Monitor

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-SB-204

 

SB214

REMOVE DANGEROUS CLASSIFICATION-FIREARM MUFFLERS, SUPPRESSORS (KOEHLER K) To remove firearm mufflers and suppressors from the classification of dangerous ordnance.

 

Position:   

Monitor

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-SB-214

 

SB225

EXPAND ADDRESS CONFIDENTIALITY PROGRAM (MANCHESTER S) To expand the Address Confidentiality Program.

 

Position:   

Monitor

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-SB-225

 

SB270

MODIFY COMMITMENT OF DELINQUENT CHILDREN (MANNING N, HICKS-HUDSON P) To modify provisions relating to commitment of delinquent children to the department of youth services.

 

Position:   

Oppose

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-SB-270

 

SB291

CHANGE SANCTIONS-COMMUNITY CONTROL (MANNING N, REYNOLDS M) To change the maximum periods of community control sanctions authorized for felonies and misdemeanors and to modify the confinement sanctions authorized for a technical violation of community control sanction conditions.

 

Position:   

Oppose

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-SB-291

 

SB295

RESTORATION OF COMPETENCY-CRIMINAL CASES (MANNING N, PATTON T) Relative to the timeline for restoration of competency in criminal cases and to declare an emergency.

 

Position:   

Support

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-SB-295

 

SB303

ALLOW HANDGUN PURCHASE-18-21 YEAR OLDS (JOHNSON T) To allow a person who is between eighteen and twenty-one years old to receive or purchase a handgun from a federally licensed firearms dealer.

 

Position:   

Monitor

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-SB-303

 

SB355

EXPAND AGGRAVATED MENACING-UTILITY WORKERS (SMITH K, CIRINO J) To expand the offense of aggravated menacing to prohibit threatening a utility worker, cable operator worker, or broadband worker with intent to obstruct the operation of a utility.

 

Position:   

Oppose

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-SB-355

 

SB357

EXPAND VIOLENT OFFENDER DATABASE-LEADS SYSTEM (GAVARONE T) To expand the violent offender database, to make public records in that database available on the internet, and to make the database information available through LEADS.

 

Position:   

Support

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-SB-357

 

SB370

ENHANCE CRIMINAL PENALTIES-VICTIM WITH DISABILITY (ROMANCHUK M) To enhance criminal penalties for offenses committed against a person with a disability.

 

Position:   

Amend

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-SB-370

 

SB392

CONCEALED WEAPONS-POSSESSION, TRANSPORTATION (CUTRONA A, JOHNSON T) To enact the Freedom to Carry Act to rename a concealed handgun license a concealed weapons license, to allow a concealed weapons licensee to carry a concealed deadly weapon other than an exclusive deadly weapon, and to allow the possession or transportation of a loaded firearm while in a motor vehicle or vessel.

 

Position:   

Oppose

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-SB-392

 

SB393

SEXUAL OFFENSES-JUVENILES, ANIMALS (TIMKEN J, MANNING N) To make changes to various sexually oriented offenses involving juvenile victims and to create the offenses of creating or possessing material depicting sexual conduct with an animal.

 

Position:   

Support

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-SB-393

 

SB394

REQUIRE ELECTRONIC NOTIFICATION-CRIMINAL, TRAFFIC HEARINGS (BLESSING III L) To require courts to supply electronic notification of hearings to defendants in criminal and traffic cases and to make an appropriation.

 

Position:   

Oppose

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-SB-394

 

SB413

TRANSPORT FIREARM-MOTOR VEHICLE (SCHAFFER T) To modify the circumstances in which a person may transport a firearm in a motor vehicle.

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-SB-413

 

SB418

EXPEDITED SEALING-CERTAIN CRIMINAL RECORDS (REYNOLDS M) To allow for the expedited sealing of certain criminal records.

 

Position:   

Oppose

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-SB-418

 

SB422

PROHIBIT SEX OFFENDERS-SCHOOL, CHILD CARE PREMISES (SCHAFFER T, BRENNER A) To prohibit tier II and tier III sex offender/child-victim offenders from knowingly being present on school premises or preschool or child care center premises.

 

Position:   

Amend

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-SB-422

 

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