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Pending Legislation
135th General Assembly
January 3, 2023 – December 31, 2024
State Legislation - Senate Bills
SB 9
Revise medical marijuana law.
SB 34
To amend section 5.27 and to enact section 5.271 of the Revised Code to designate April as Parkinson's Disease Awareness Month and July as Sarcoma Awareness Month and to name certain provisions of the act as Hank's Law.
SB 57
Designate May as Ohio Stroke Awareness Month.
SB 59
Prohibit sun lamp tanning services for individuals under age 18.
SB 60
To amend sections of the Revised Code to license certified mental health assistants.
SB 61
Cap cost sharing for prescription insulin drugs.
SB 81
To authorize certain clinical nurse specialists, certified nurse-midwives, and certified nurse practitioners to sign documents related to hospital patient admission, treatment, and discharge; and to amend the version of section 4723.431 of the Revised Code that is scheduled to take effect on September 30, 2024, to continue the changes to that section on and after that date.
SB 83
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.
SB 86
Regarding surgical smoke.
SB 109
Regarding sex offenses and individuals regulated by the State Medical Board.
SB 126
Regards noncompete provisions in certain health care contracts.
SB 129
Revise the law governing the practice of optometry and allow them to perform certain non-invasive laser procedures.
SB 144
To allow pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and pharmacy interns to administer vaccines to children.
SB 177
Establish and operate the Ohio Health Care Plan.
SB 196
Regards authority of advanced practice registered nurses.
SB 205
With regard to instruction in the harmful effects of and legal restrictions against drug abuse, alcoholic beverages, marijuana, and tobacco in schools.
SR 189
A resolution to honor George F. Dunigan II.
State Legislation - House Bills
HB 7
To support strong foundations for Ohio mothers and babies in their first one thousand days to address maternal and infant mortality, to improve health, developmental, and learning outcomes for babies and mothers through expanded prenatal, postnatal, infant, and toddler health care and early intervention and wraparound services and supports; to name this act the Strong Foundations Act; and to make appropriations.
HB 15
Revise informed consent law regarding abortions.
HB 22
To amend and enact sections of the Revised Code regarding the collection of stroke care data and the recognition of thrombectomy-capable stroke centers.
HB 24
Require health plan and Medicaid coverage of biomarker testing.
HB 33
State Budget Bill. Operating appropriations effective July 4, 2023. Other provisions generally effective October 3, 2023. Some provisions subject to special effective dates.
HB 36
To revise the law governing medical identifying devices and to name this act Paige's Law.
HB 47
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.
HB 49
Regarding the availability of hospital price information.
HB 68
To enact sections of the Revised Code to enact the Saving Ohio Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act regarding gender transition services for minors, and 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.
HB 70
Require schools adopt a policy regarding over-the-counter drugs.
HB 73
To authorize the prescribing of off-label medications and if prescribed, to generally require their dispensing and to name this act the Dave and Angie Patient and Health Provider Protection Act.
HB 80
Expands the scope of practice for pharmacists to test and treat certain health conditions such as influenza, COVID-19, and pharyngitis.
HB 89
Regards intimate examination of anesthetized, unconscious patient.
HB 92
Establish the Canadian Prescription Drug Importation Program, to name this act the Save Ohio Safe Rx Act, and to make an appropriation.
HB 97
To license certified mental health assistants.
HB 99
Regulate the practice of reducing benefits related to emergency services if a condition is determined, after the fact, to not be an emergency.
HB 102
To amend sections of the Revised Code to license advanced practice respiratory therapists.
HB 130
Establish an exemption to prior authorization requirements.
HB 152
To require health plan issuers to cover hearing aids and related services for persons twenty-one years of age and younger and to name this act Madeline's Law.
HB 168
Enact Ohio Adult Use Act to allow Ohioans age 21 and over to use recreational marijuana and levy a tax.
HB 169
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.
HB 174
Establish and operate the Ohio Health Care Plan to provide universal health care coverage to all Ohio residents.
HB 177
Regarding co-pay accumulators. Prohibit certain health insurance cost-sharing practices.
HB 179
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.
HB 188
Recognize National Nursing Assistants Week.
HB 190
Designate the week of April 11-17 as Black Maternal Health Week.
HB 220
To prohibit certain licensed health care professionals from engaging in conversion therapy for minor patients.
HB 224
To allow a dedicated organ recovery vehicle to use a flashing light and siren, to prohibit failing to stop for, yield to, or proceed with caution around such vehicles, and to exempt the driver of a dedicated organ recovery vehicle from certain traffic laws.
HB 229
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.
HB 236
Prohibit a congregate care setting from denying a patient or resident access to an advocate and to name this act the Never Alone Act.
HB 246
Regarding self-direction in certain Medicaid home and community-based services waiver programs.
HB 249
Make changes to the law regarding involuntary treatment for persons with a mental illness subject to court order.
HB 275
Revise the law governing the review of patient information in the Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System; establish requirements on the prescribing and dispensing of opioid analgesics; and establish the Medical Marijuana Control Program Fund.
HB 285
Require hospitals to establish registered nurse staffing plans.
HB 291
Regarding prescription drugs and medication switching.
HB 300
Establish a pilot program for remote treatment of opioid use disorder and to make an appropriation.
HB 319
Enact section 3792.07 of the Revised Code to prohibit discrimination against an individual for the refusal of certain medical interventions for reasons of conscience, including religious convictions, and to name this act the Conscientious Right to Refuse Act.
HB 356
Regarding cardiac monitoring for youth and to name the act the Healthy Cardiac Monitoring Act.
HB 359
Require health plan issuers and the Medicaid program to cover treatments and services related to Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections and Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome.
HB 362
Revise laws governing certified registered nurse anesthetists.
HB 384
Cap cost sharing for prescription insulin drugs, diabetes devices.
HB 400
Provide Medigap policies for Medicare-eligible individuals under the age of 65.
HB 434
Create the Traumatic Brain Injury Treatment Accelerator pilot program.
HB 452
Regarding hospital violence prevention and related training, security plans, and incident reporting.
HB 463
Related to medical records of minors and to name the act the My Child-My Chart Act.
Previous Session
134th General Assembly
January 4, 2021 – December 31, 2022
State Legislation - Senate Bills
SB 6
Enter into Interstate Medical Licensure Compact.
SB 11
Designate February 7 to 14 as "Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week."
SB 13
Regards certain statutes of limitation and repose.
SB 17
Regards eligibility for SNAP, Medicaid, and unemployment.
SB 21
Regards emergency medical services and stroke patient protocols.
SB 22
Establish legislative oversight of the Governor's executive orders and certain public health orders, including by establishing the Ohio Health Oversight and Advisory Committee.
SB 30
Designate August 31 as "Ohio Overdose Awareness Day."
SB 48
Require cultural competency for certain health care professionals.
SB 50
Protect minors by prohibiting certain licensed health care professionals from engaging in conversion therapy when treating minor patients.
SB 60
Require Medicaid applicant certify notice of estate recovery.
SB 58
Enact Esther's Law to permit a resident of a long-term care facility to conduct electronic monitoring of the resident's room.
SB 82
Prohibit smoking in a motor vehicle if a child under six years of age is a passenger.
SB 111
To prohibit certain mandatory vaccinations and other activities related to an individual's vaccination status and to make an appropriation related to coronavirus local fiscal recovery.
SB 113
Revise the Fireworks Law.
The OOA issued an Action Alert against the bill prior to the Senate vote.
SB 129
To amend section 3727.53 and to enact section 3727.58 of the Revised Code to prohibit a hospital from requiring a nurse to work overtime as a condition of continued employment.
SB 150
To enact section 4113.66 of the Revised Code to prohibit the use of noncompete provisions in physician employment contracts.
SB 169
To enact sections 3792.02 and 3792.03 of the Revised Code to prohibit mandatory vaccinations against the coronavirus, to prohibit requiring proof of vaccinations generally, and to declare an emergency.
SB 191
Designate Stroke Awareness Week.
SB 209
Regarding mask mandates and facial covering requirements for public schools, state institutions of higher education, and businesses.
SB 216
To enact Dylan's Law regarding parental custody of infants born substance exposed.
SB 220
Cap cost sharing for prescription insulin drugs.
SB 253
To establish and operate the Ohio Health Care Plan to provide universal health care coverage to all Ohio residents.
SB 261
To revise the medical marijuana law.
SCR 4
To declare racism a public health crisis and to ask the Governor to establish a working group to promote racial equity in Ohio.
SCR 5
To denounce all forms of stigmatization, racism, and discrimination occurring as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
State Legislation - House Bills
HB 6
Modify the laws governing certain health professionals and educator preparation programs due to COVID-19 and other circumstances.
HB 37
Regards emergency prescription refills.
HB 41
Exempt certain mental health care providers' residential and familial information from disclosure under the Public Records Law.
HB 42
Enact the "Save Our Mothers Act" for the purpose of establishing continuing education requirements for birthing facility personnel and an initiative to improve birth equity, reduce peripartum racial and ethnic disparities, and address implicit bias in the healthcare system.
HB 50
Revise the law governing medical identifying devices and to name this act Paige's Law.
HB 56
To require persons to wear face coverings during general sessions and committee meetings of the House of Representatives and to declare an emergency.
HB 60
Authorize the use of medical marijuana for autism spectrum disorder.
HB 78
Permit a resident of a long-term care facility to conduct electronic monitoring of the resident's room, to designate this act as Esther's Law, and to make an appropriation.
HB 90
Establish legislative oversight of the Governor's executive orders, certain public health orders, and emergency rules, including by establishing the Ohio Health Oversight and Advisory Committee.
HB 110
State biennial budget bill, creates appropriations for FY 2022-2023.
HB 120
To permit compassionate care visits in long-term care facilities during the COVID-19 state of emergency, to establish criteria for those visits, and to declare an emergency.
HB 122
Establish and modify requirements regarding the provision of telehealth services..
HB 125
Regards health insurance premiums and benefits.
HB 135
Prohibit certain health insurance cost-sharing practices.
HB 136
Regards Medicaid coverage of chiropractic services.
HB 138
Regards the scope of emergency medical services.
HB 159
Prohibit the provision of sun lamp tanning services to individuals under age 18. The OOA submitted proponent testimony to the House Health Committee.
HB 160
Regards the provision of health care cost estimates.
HB 162
Remove derogatory disability terminology.
HB 163
Prohibit mandatory nurse overtime.
HB 168
To remit funds from the State Fiscal Recovery Fund to repay unemployment advances, to provide funds to support improvements at pediatric behavioral health care facilities, to require the Development Services Agency to establish the Water and Sewer Quality Program, and to make appropriations.
HB 172
Revise the Fireworks Law.
HB 176
Revise the Athletic Training Law.
HB 189
To require health plan issuers and the Medicaid program to cover treatments and services related to Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections and Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome.
HB 193
Regarding electronic prescriptions and schedule II controlled substances.
HB 196
Regulate the practice of surgical assistants.
HB 218
To address medical requirements for employees and students; to address qualified civil immunity regarding certain coronaviruses; to authorize emergency medical technicians to administer COVID-19 tests; and to expressly cover COVID-19 vaccine injuries under the workers' compensation system.
HB 221
Modify the laws governing the practice of advanced practice registered nurses and to designate these provisions as the Better Access, Better Care Act.
HB 244
Regarding technology-based educational opportunities for, and the enrollment of, military children; regarding public schools, state institutions of higher education, and prohibitions on mandatory vaccinations and discrimination; and regarding the authority of the Ohio Department of Health over matters of quarantine and isolation.
HB 248
Enact the Vaccine Choice and Anti-Discrimination Act to authorize an individual to decline a vaccination.
See the OOA Action Alert in OSTEOFACTS (June 4, 2021) and the written testimony submitted to the House Health Committee.
HB 251
Require the Director of Health to establish an indoor mold program.
HB 253
Regards proof of COVID-19 vaccinations.
HB 267
To amend section 3701.13 and to enact sections 101.361 and 107.44 of the Revised Code to limit the duration of public health orders and to allow the General Assembly to act via concurrent resolution in response to a public health emergency if the Governor or Department of Health does not.
HB 269
Repeal SB 22 regarding health orders.
HB 270
To amend sections 1753.28, 3727.09, 3923.65, and 4765.01 of the Revised Code to regulate the practice of reducing benefits related to emergency services if a condition is determined, after the fact, to not be an emergency.
HB 275
To amend the law governing the review of patient information in the Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System, to establish requirements on the prescribing and dispensing of opioid analgesics, to establish the Medical Marijuana Control Program Fund and provide for a cash transfer, and to amend the version of section 4723.481 of the Revised Code that is scheduled to take effect on September 30, 2024, to continue the changes to that section on and after that date.
HB 284
To enact section 3701.035 of the Revised Code regarding hand-hygiene education and guidelines for patients and residents of health care facilities.
HB 294
Enact Ohio Election Security and Modernization Act.
HB 305
To amend sections 3902.50, 3902.60, and 3902.70 and to enact section 3902.62 of the Revised Code to cap cost sharing for prescription insulin drugs.
HB 318
Revise law governing anesthesiologist assistant.
HB 328
Establish the Governor's Office of Drug Policy.
HB 336
Regards health plan issuers, Medicaid, pharmacies, cancer drugs.
HB 339
Regards wills, declarations, living wills, powers of attorney.
HB 350
Prohibit mandatory COVID-19 vaccination, vaccine proof.
HB 355
To authorize a pregnant minor to consent to receive health care to maintain or improve her life or the life of the unborn child she is carrying.
HB 371
To revise the laws governing coverage of screening mammography and patient notice of dense breast tissue.
HB 409
To require hospitals and long-term care facilities to establish patient or resident protection advisory boards.
HB 411
To prohibit mandatory disclosures related to an individual's COVID-19 vaccination status, to name the act the Individual Privacy and Anti-Discrimination Act, and to declare an emergency.
HB 420
To prohibit certain licensed health care professionals from engaging in conversion therapy when treating minor patients.
HB 426
To require the placement of automatic external defibrillators 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 automated external defibrillators.
HB 431
To to require the Department of Health to establish and maintain a stroke registry database.
HB 435
To address COVID-19 vaccine requirements for employees and students; to extend certain timelines for qualified civil immunity and expand immunity to include hearing aid dealers and hearing aid fitters; to authorize emergency medical technicians to administer COVID-19 tests; and to expressly cover COVID-19 vaccine injuries under the workers' compensation system.
HB 446
To establish and operate the Ohio Health Care Plan to provide universal health care coverage to all Ohio residents.
HB 451
To amend the law related to physician-administered drugs.
HB 463
To eliminate district advisory councils for general health districts, and transfer their duties and responsibilities to boards of county commissioners.
HB 469
To designate a portion of State Route 87 in Geauga County as the "Dr. Steven Takacs Memorial Highway." Steven Takacs, DO, was an OOA member and OU-HCOM graduate.
HB 495
To require specified health care professionals to offer their patients medical chaperones and establish certain mandatory reporting requirements for health care professionals.
HB 558
Modify the laws governing the drug repository program for donated prescription drugs.
133rd General Assembly
January 7, 2019 – December 31, 2020
State Legislation - Senate Bills
SB 1 Regulations
Require certain agencies to reduce the number of regulatory restrictions in their administrative rules, require the approval of the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review for Department of Health orders to be effective for more than fourteen days, and modify the Department's rulemaking authority.
SB 20 Drug Disposal
Requires a pharmacist who dispenses a drug containing a controlled substance in schedule II-V to distribute to the patient or patient's representative a chemical composition for use in disposing any unused portion of the drug.
SB 23 Detectable Heartbeat
Prohibits a person from knowingly and purposefully performing inducing an abortion with the specific intent of causing or abetting the termination of the life of an unborn human individual whose fetal heartbeat has been detected, including in cases of incest or rape resulting in conception.
SB 24 Alzheimer’s and Related Disease Task Force
Establishes the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Task Force.
SB 25 Medicaid Requirements
Regards Medicaid work and education requirement; establishes a minimum number of work or community engagement hours that able-bodied adults must complete in order to receive Medicaid benefits. There are exemptions such as for people with severe disabilities, pregnant women, parents, and caretakers among others.
SB 29 Medicaid Copay
Prohibits charging a co-payment to a Medicaid recipient if both of the following are true: 1. The recipient has a developmental disability or serious mental illness; and 2. The recipient's sole source of income is Social Security disability benefits, Supplemental Security Income benefits, or both.
SB 56 Long-Term Care Inspection
Creates a bipartisan long-term care facility inspection committee, to evaluate every long-term acute care facility in the state every two years, with or without advanced notice. The inspection will include observation of both a general meal time and a social activity at the residence.
SB 59 Pharmacist Education re Naloxone
The State Board of Pharmacy shall develop a program to educate providers about the authority of a pharmacist or pharmacy intern under direct supervision to dispense naloxone without a prescription.
SB 61 Drug Authority of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists
Amend sections of the Revised Code regarding the authority of certified registered nurse anesthetists to select, order, and administer certain drugs.
Require permission for contact tracing via oral, written, electronic or telephonic consent.
SB 72 Use of Consumer Grade Fireworks on Private Property
Revise fireworks law to allow use of consumer grade fireworks on private property while allowing counties or townships to ban the use.
SB 97 Estimates for Health Care Preauthorization
Require hospitals provide patient with verbal/written estimate for each scheduled service, 7 days in advance.
SB 178 Flu Shots
Regarding the authority of podiatrists to administer influenza vaccinations.
SB 252 “Fail First”
Prohibit “fail first” coverage of drugs to treat stage four advanced metastatic cancer.
SB 305 Telemedicine
Require health plan issuers to cover telemedicine services during a state of emergency and to declare an emergency.
SB 308 Civil Liability During Disaster or Emergency
Revise the law governing immunity from civil liability and professional discipline for health care providers during disasters or emergencies, to provide qualified civil immunity to service providers providing services during and after a government-declared disaster, and to declare an emergency.
SB 311 Limit ODH Authority
Rescind certain orders of the Director of Health regarding COVID-19, require the approval of the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review for Department of Health orders to be effective for more than fourteen days, require statewide Department of Health orders to include the Governor's signature, modify the Department's rulemaking authority, allow in-person high school graduation ceremonies, and declare an emergency.
SB 326 Pregnancy Mortality Review Board
Modify the laws governing the Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review Board and to designate May as Maternal Mortality Awareness Month.
SB 327 Equitable Birthing
Enact the Save Our Mothers Act for the purpose of establishing continuing education requirements for birthing facility personnel and an initiative to improve birth equity, reduce peripartum racial and ethnic disparities, and address implicit bias in the health care system.
SB 328 Coverage for Doula Services
Enact sections of the Revised Code related to Medicaid coverage of doula services.
SB 329 Tanning Services
Prohibit providing sun lamp tanning to persons under 18.
SB 348 Health Orders
To prohibit local boards of health from using certain threatening words in notifications to the public, to allow local boards of health to reject Department of Health orders during an emergency, to allow health care professionals who serve on a board of health to receive continuing education credit, and to change the makeup of local boards of health.
SCR 314 Racism
Declare racism a public health crisis and ask the Governor to establish a working group to promote racial equity in Ohio.
State Legislation - House Bills
HB 11 Prenatal Care
Address tobacco cessation and prenatal initiatives and to make an appropriation.
HB 61 Provider Public Record Exemption
Include forensic mental health providers, mental health evaluation providers, and regional psychiatric hospital employees as individuals whose residential and familial information is exempt from disclosure under the Public Records Law.
HB 63 Pharmacy Benefit Managers
Regarding pharmacy benefit managers, pharmacists, and the disclosure to patients of drug price information.
HB 90 Unborn Child’s Humanity
Require the development of an instructional program and educational and informational materials and the dissemination of those materials to protect the humanity of the unborn child and to make an appropriation.
HB 97 Bike Helmets
To require bicycle operators and passengers under 18 years of age to wear protective helmets and to establish the Bicycle Safety Fund.
HB 102 Medicaid for Chiropractic
To amend section 5162.06 and to enact sections 5164.061 and 5167.15 of the Revised Code regarding Medicaid coverage of chiropractic services.
HB 132 School Immunizations
Regarding notice of school child immunization requirements and exemptions.
HB 165 Health Education
To enact new section 3301.0718 and to repeal section 3301.0718 of the Revised Code regarding the adoption of health education standards.
HB 166 State Budget
Make operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2019, and ending June 30, 2021, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.
HB 177 APRN Scope of Practice
Eliminates standard care arrangements entered into by advanced practice registered nurses and collaborating physicians or podiatrists; prohibits physician prescribing of schedule II controlled substances from convenience care clinics; and changes clearances by licensed health professionals of concussed student athletes. See more in OSTEOFACTS and on the Take Action page.
HB 224 CRNA
Changes law regarding certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNA). Maintains requirement to practice under supervision and consultation; grants authority to select anesthesia; select, order, and administer other drugs for treatment of conditions related to anesthesia; order fluids, treatments, drug(s, and diagnostic tests-evaluate these results (related to clinical functions); direct nurses and respiratory therapists to perform tasks, including drug administration.
HB 253 Fireworks
Revise the Fireworks Law. Legalizes the discharge of consumer grade fireworks, including bottle rockets, firecrackers, roman candles, and missiles.
HB 263 Occupational Licensing
Revise the initial occupational licensing restrictions applicable to individuals convicted of criminal offenses.
HB 323 Authorize Psychologist to Prescribe
Authorizes certain psychologists to prescribe drugs and therapeutic devices as part of the practice of psychology.
HB 329 Tanning Beds
Prohibits sun lamp tanning services for those under 18.
HB 341 Addiction Treatment
Regarding the administration of addiction treatment drugs, federal agency access to the Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System, the Board of Pharmacy's exemption from open meetings requirements, the occasional sale of certain drugs at wholesale, and naloxone access and education.
HB 347 Vaping Products
To place restrictions on retailers of vapor products.
HB 388 Surprise Billing
To enact sections 3902.50, 3902.51, and 3902.52 of the Revised Code regarding out-of-network care.
HB 412 Rare Diseases
Establishes Rare Disease Advisory Council.
HB 418 Medication Switching
Regards prescription drugs and medication switching.
HB 443 Insurance Coverage
Regarding mental health and substance use disorder benefit parity.
HB 469 Accumulator Adjustor Programs
Prohibits certain health insurance cost-sharing practices. Directs insurers to count all payments towards a patient’s deductible—whether made by the patient or through a co-pay assistance program.
HB 484 Athletic Training
Regarding the practice of athletic training.
HB 606 Immunity for Essential Workers
Makes temporary changes related to qualified civil immunity for health care and emergency services provided during a government-declared disaster or emergency and for exposure to or transmission or contraction of certain coronaviruses, expands the definition of "governmental function" regarding political subdivision tort liability in relation to emergency declarations, expands state immunity to include actions undertaken under a duty during the COVID-19 pandemic, makes COVID-19 contracted by certain employees an occupational disease under the Workers' Compensation Law under specific circumstances, and declares an emergency.
HB 624 COVID-19 Test Information
Requires the reporting and release of certain COVID-19 testing and related information.
HB 671 Health Orders
Establish limits on certain public health orders issued by boards of health and the Department of Health, prohibit a licensing authority from taking disciplinary action against a licensee for engaging in permitted activities during a pandemic, and declare an emergency.
HB 673 Business, Professions, Education during COVID-19
Regarding the operation of businesses, practice of certain professions, and completion of education as it relates to COVID-19. Permits pharmacists to conduct COVID-19 and antibody tests and to supervise pharmacy interns and certified pharmacy technicians to do the same.
HB 679 Telehealth
Establishes and modifies requirements regarding the provision of telehealth services.
HB 711 EMS Practice
Regarding the scope of emergency medical services provided by emergency medical service personnel.
HB 747 Off-Label Drugs
Regards prescribing and dispensing drugs for off-label use.
HB 763 Terminate State of Emergency
To terminate the COVID-19 state of emergency in Ohio and to declare an emergency.
HCR 31 Racism
Declare racism a public health crisis and ask the Governor to establish a working group to promote racial equity in Ohio.
132nd General Assembly
January 3, 2017 – December 31, 2018
State Legislation - Senate Bills
SB 16 Cultural Competency
(Tavares, C.) To require certain health care professionals to complete instruction in cultural competency.
SB 55 Nurse Staffing
(Skindell, M.) To establish minimum ratios of direct-care registered nurses to patients in hospitals, to specify rights of registered nurses working in hospitals and to prohibit retaliatory actions by hospitals against registered nurses
SB 56 Step Therapy
(Lehner, P.) To adopt requirements related to step therapy protocols implemented by health plan issuers and the Department of Medicaid.
SB 87 Dental Non-covered Services
(Hacket, B., Huffman, M.) Prohibits a health insurer from establishing a fee schedule for dental providers for services that are not covered by any contract or participating provider agreement between the health insurer and the dental provider.
SB 91 Universal Health Care
(Skindell, M., Tavares, C.) To provide universal health care coverage to all Ohioans.
SB 93 Hearing Aids
(Brown, E.) Will require health insurers to provide coverage for hearing aids.
SB 98 Dental Therapists
(Leaner, P., Thomas, C.) To establish the license requirements for dental therapists.
SB 99 Medicaid Enrollment
(Coley, W.) To prohibit the Medicaid program from newly enrolling individuals as part of the expansion eligibility group.
SB 106 Smoking
(Tavares, C.) To prohibit smoking in a motor vehicle in which a child under six years of age is a passenger.
SB 109 Medical Information
(Tavares, C.) To establish the "Yellow Dot" motor vehicle medical information program within the Department of Public Safety.
SB 110 Health Care ID
(Tavares, C.) To require a health care professional to wear identification when providing care or treatment in the presence of a patient.
SB 119 Opioid Prescribing
(Hackett, R.) Addiction treatment and opioid prescribing by physicians and dentists.
SB 121 Mammogram Coverage
(Edlund, J.) To include tomosynthesis as part of required screening mammography benefits under health insurance policies.
SB 126 Conversion Therapy
(Tavares, C.) To prohibit certain health care professionals from engaging in conversion therapy when treating minor patients.
SB 178 Life Sustaining Treatment
(Lehner, P.) To establish procedures for the use of medical orders for life-sustaining treatment and to make changes to the laws governing DNR identification and orders.
SB 177 Qualified Immunity
(Lehner, P.) To expand the circumstances in which qualified immunity from civil liability applies with respect to volunteer health care services provided to indigent and uninsured persons.
SB 154 Opioid Addiction
(Schiavone, J., Yuko, K.) To provide for the prevention and treatment of opioid addiction, to make an appropriation, and to declare an emergency.
SB 227 Health Plan Claims
(Huffman, M.) To require health plan issuers to release certain claim information to group plan policyholders.
SB 249 Terminal Conditions
SB 253 Prescription Prices
(Tavares, C.) To establish requirements regarding prescription drug and medical equipment pricing.
SB 259 Physician Assistants
(Hackett, B.) To revise the law regulating physician assistant practice.
SB 262 Eating Disorders
(Tavares, C.) To require public schools annually to provide parents of students in any of grades five through twelve with educational information regarding eating disorders.
SB 264 Medical Marijuana
(Coley, B.) To require the Auditor of State to conduct and release a performance audit of the Medical Marijuana Control Program, to prohibit the Department of Commerce from issuing final cultivator, processor, or laboratory testing licenses until performance audit recommendations are implemented, and to declare an emergency.
SB 265 Pharmacy Services
(Dolan, M.) To permit certain health insurers to provide payment or reimbursement for services lawfully provided by a pharmacist and to recognize pharmacist services in certain other laws.
SB 287 Health Education
(Sykes, V.) To require the State Board of Education to develop and adopt health education standards for grades kindergarten through twelve and to require only venereal disease education standards and curriculum adopted by the State Board to be approved by concurrent resolution of the General Assembly.
SB 310 Non-Opioid Therapy
Tavares, C.) To establish procedures for using non-opioid directives, to require prescribers to inform patients about non-opioid therapies, and to require health insurers to cover non-opioid therapies for treating pain
State Legislation - House Bills
HB 7 Provider Immunity
(Cupp, R.) To grant qualified civil immunity to certain medical providers who provide emergency medical services as a result of a disaster; to provide that certain communications made regarding an unanticipated outcome of medical care, the development or implementation of standards under federal laws, and an insurer's reimbursement policies on health care are inadmissible as evidence in a medical claim; to provide that medical bills itemizing charges are inadmissible as evidence and an amount accepted as full payment for medical services is admissible as evidence of the reasonableness of the charges; to specify the manner of sending a notice of intent to file a medical claim and provide a procedure for the discovery of other potential claims within a specified period after the filing of a medical claim; to provide that any loss of a chance of recovery or survival by itself is not an injury, death, or loss for which damages may be recovered; to provide civil immunity to certain medical providers regarding the discharge of a patient with a mental condition that threatens the safety of the patient or others; to require that governmental agencies that receive peer review committee records maintain their confidentiality; and to clarify the definition of "medical claim."
HB 72 Step Therapy
(Johnson, T.) To adopt requirements related to step therapy protocols implemented by health plan issuers and the Department of Medicaid.
HB 73 Pharmacy Sales
(Rezabek, J., Koehler, K.) To prohibit sales of dextromethorphan without a prescription to persons under age 18.
HB 77 Child Care Centers
(Rutherford, W.) To provide for the licensure of sick-child care centers.
HB 99 Pneumoconiosis claims
(Cera, J.) To modify worker's compensation benefit amounts for occupational pneumoconiosis claims and to create the Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board to determine medical findings for such claims.
HB 101 Epinephrine Dispensing
(Merrin, D.) To authorize an epinephrine autoinjector substitution when a prescription is filled or refilled, to authorize epinephrine to be dispensed without a prescription under a physician-established protocol, and to declare the act the "Epinephrine Accessibility Act."
HB111 Mental Health Commitments
(Carfagma, R., Ryan S.) To authorize certain advanced practice registered nurses to have a person involuntarily transported to a hospital for a mental health examination.
HB117 Opioid Therapy
(Huffman, S., Brenner, A.) To establish a statewide pilot program for the provision of long-acting opioid antagonist therapy for offenders convicted of an opioid-reated offense who will be released from confinement on supervised release, and to specify that the therapy is to be provided during both their confinement and their supervised release.
HB 131 Physical Therapy
(Gavarone, T., Reineke, B.) To modify the laws governing the practice of physical therapy.
HB 145 Confidential Treatment
(Huffman, S., Sprague, R.) To provide for the establishment of a confidential program for the treatment of certain impaired practitioners and to declare an emergency.
HB 167 Opioid Prescribing
(Edwards, J.) Addiction treatment and opioid prescribing by physicians and dentists.
HB 172 Medical Records
(Schuring, K.) To modify the laws governing access to a patient's medical records.
HB 191 Nurse Anesthetists
(Gonzales, A.) Regarding the practice of certified registered nurse anesthetists.
HB 193 Flu Vaccines
(Hagan, C.) To prohibit an employer from taking an adverse employment action against a person who has not been or will not be vaccinated against influenza.
HB 214 Abortion
(LaTourette, S.) To prohibit a person from performing, inducing, or attempting to perform or induce an abortion on a pregnant woman who is seeking the abortion because an unborn child has or may have Down Syndrome.
HB 231 Containers for Controlled Substances
(Ginter, T., Sprague, R.) To enact section 3719.051 of the Revised Code to require pharmacists to offer to dispense controlled substances in lockable or tamper-evident containers.
HB 241 Diabetes Registry
(Barnes, J.) To establish the Ohio Diabetes Registry.
HB 273 Maintenance of Certification
(Gavarone, T.) To prohibit a physician from being required to secure a maintenance of certification as a condition of obtaining licensure, reimbursement, or employment or obtaining admitting privileges or surgical privileges at a hospital or health care facility.
HB 286 Palliative Care
(LaTourette, S.) To create the Palliative Care and Quality of Life Interdisciplinary Council, to establish the Palliative Care Consumer and Professional Information and Education Program, and to require health care facilities to identify patients and residents who could benefit from palliative care.
HB 289 Occupational Licensing
(Hood, R.) Establishes a statewide policy on occupational regulation, to require standing committees of the General Assembly to periodically review occupational licensing boards regarding their sunset, to require the Common Sense Initiative Office to review certain actions taken by occupational licensing boards, and to require the Legislative Service Commission to perform assessments of occupational licensing bills and state regulation of occupations.
HB 317 Tax Deduction for Volunteer Care
(Young, R.) Tax deduction for providing uncompensated and unreimbursed medical care.
HB 326 Prescribing Authority for Psychologists
(Seitz, B., Gavarone, T.) Allows psychologists to prescribe psychotrops.
HB 332 Anatomical Gifts
(Antonio, N.) Regarding anatomical gifts, transplantation, and discrimination on the basis of disability.
HB 367 Dental Non-covered Services
(DeVitis, A.) Prohibits a health insurer from establishing a fee schedule for dental providers for services that are not covered by any contract or participating provider agreement between the health insurer and the dental provider.
HB 397 Newborn Screening
(Boggs, K, Butler, J.) To include spinal muscular atrophy as an additional disorder to be screened for under the Newborn Screening Program.
HB 399 Health Insurance
(Henne, M., Butler, J.) To enact the Ohio Right to Shop Act to require health insurers to establish shared savings incentive programs for enrollees.
HB 416 Health Service Prices
(Huffman, S.) Regarding the provision of cost estimates for scheduled health care services and healthcare services requiring insurer preauthorization.
HB 427 Substance Abuse
(Young, R.) To require the Department of Health to publish monthly drug overdose death information for each county, to create grant programs to support faith-based substance abuse services, to authorize an income tax deduction for physicians providing such services for free, and to allocate funds and make an appropriation for the grant programs.
HB 456 Prohibit requiring nurses to work overtime
(Sprague, R.) To prohibits a hospital from requiring a registered nurse or licensed practical nurse to work overtime as a condition of continued employment.
HB 462 Procedures before closing a hospital
(Schuring, K. West, T.) This bill will require that a hospital and its affiliated health care facilities in certain counties follow specified procedures before permanently ceasing operations or closing, to terminate the provisions of this act on June 19, 2018, and to declare an emergency.
HB 464 Recognize stroke centers and establish stroke protocols
(Lipps, P. Antonio, N.) To provide for recognition of stroke centers and establishment of protocols for assessment, treatment, and transport to hospitals of stroke patients.
HB 479 Disclose drug price information to patients
(Lipps, P. West, T.) Regarding pharmacy benefit managers, pharmacists, and the disclosure to patients of drug price information.
HB 535 Drug Overdoses
(Gavarone, T.) To require certain reports regarding overdoses and naloxone, to include naltrexone within the Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System, and to name this act the "Opioid Data and Communication Expansion Act."
HB 536 Emergency Care
(Reece, A.) To prohibit health plan issuers, including those participating in the Medicaid care management system, from implementing any form of selective emergency services coverage.
HB 541 Volunteer Health Services
(Patterson, J., LaTourette, S.) To authorize health professionals licensed in other states to provide volunteer health services during charitable events.
HB 546 Telemedicine
(Patton, T.) To prohibit health benefit plans from treating telemedicine services differently from in-person health care services solely because they are provided as telemedicine services.
HB 557 Art Therapy
(Anielski, M.) To require the licensure of art therapists and to require the State Medical Board to regulate the licensure and practice of art therapists.
HB 559 Child Immunizations
(Gonzales, A., Landis, A.) To make changes to the law governing immunization of children enrolled in school, preschool programs, and day-care programs.
HB 601 Drug Treatment
(Ginter,T.) Regarding administration of drugs for drug addiction treatment.
HB 613 Pregnancy Testing
(West,T., Galonski, T.) Regarding testing pregnant women for HIV, syphilis, and gonorrhea.
HB 614 Drug Paraphernalia
(West, T.) To provide immunity from arrest, prosecution, or conviction for use or possession of drug paraphernalia for a person who seeks or obtains medical assistance for a drug overdose.
HB 617 Telehealth Commission
(West, T.) To establish the Ohio Telehealth Commission.
HB 618 Directive Forms
(West, T.) To require the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services to develop a non-opioid directive form.
