General Government Bills
Bills on this page generally fall under the purview of the CCAO General Government Standing Committee, chaired in 2024 by Franklin County Commissioner John O'Grady.
You can view the General Government section of the Association's Legislative Platform here.
A bill's inclusion on this page does not mean that the committee has discussed the bill or that the Association has taken a position.
House Bill 647To require a county auditor to transfer certain funds from the county's dog and kennel fund to municipal corporations within the county that employ dog wardens. Read More | Senate Bill 236To prioritize designating a clerk of a court of common pleas as a deputy registrar in certain counties. Read More | |
House Bill 491To require a political subdivision or state retirement system to provide information on expenditures to the Treasurer of State for inclusion in the Ohio State and Local Government Expenditure Database. Read More | House Bill 559Concerning workers' compensation coverage for peace officers, firefighters, and emergency medical workers diagnosed with psychiatric conditions arising from employment without an accompanying physical injury. Read More | |
House Bill 507To extend legal safe harbor to political subdivisions that implement a specified cybersecurity program. Read More | ||
House Concurrent Resolution 6FULLY ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLYTo urge Congress to repeal the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset. Read More | ||
House Bill 86To revise specified provisions of the liquor control, hemp, and adult-use marijuana laws and to levy taxes on marijuana. Read More | ||
Senate Bill 94ENACTED: Effective July 24, 2024Regards the Treasurer of State, recorded instruments, powers of attorney, judgment liens, mortgage subrogation, law enforcement towing laws, and state stock banks, and to make an appropriation. Read More | Senate Bill 18To modify the law governing data storage and notifications issued by state agencies. Read More | |
Senate Bill 158Regarding the disbursement of municipal funds by residents and to declare an emergency. Read More | Senate Bill 132To enact the Ohio Fairness Act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity or expression, to add mediation as an informal method that the Ohio Civil Rights Commission may use, and to uphold existing religious exemptions under Ohio's Civil Rights Law. Read More | Senate Bill 113To prohibit a person who fails to comply with the Military Selective Service System from holding a public office or employment with the state. Read More |
House Bill 87To prohibit the state or a political subdivision from purchasing a United States or Ohio flag that was not made in the United States. Read More | House Bill 76To modify the law governing data storage and notifications issued by state agencies, and to amend the version of section 3951.03 of the Revised Code scheduled to take effect on December 29, 2023, to continue the changes on and after that date. Read More | |
House Bill 69To require county veterans service commissions to include two members who served in the military after September 11, 2001, and to require one member of the commission to be appointed by the board of county commissioners. Read More | House Bill 65To amend section 3737.83 and to enact section 3781.062 of the Revised Code relating to the State Fire Code and Building Code and to amend the version of section 3737.83 of the Revised Code that is scheduled to take effect December 29, 2023, to continue the provisions of this act on and after that effective date. Read More | |
House Bill 4To enact Ohio's Fair Access to Financial Services Act regarding financial institutions and other businesses that conduct economic boycotts or discriminate against certain companies or customers based on certain factors and to make an appropriation. Read More | House Bill 354To modify the law governing the cultivation, processing, dispensing, testing, and taxation of adult use cannabis and to levy a gross receipts tax on marijuana cultivators. Read More | |
House Bill 327To require government contractors, private nonresidential contractors, and certain employers to use E-verify. Read More | House Bill 305To provide for the electronic filing of pleadings or documents in courts of common pleas except a probate or juvenile court, in municipal courts, and in county courts, to permit the clerk to disburse funds for the computerization of the clerk's office without the court's authorization, and to permit municipal and county courts to increase the maximum amount of their additional fees from ten dollars to twenty dollars to cover the computerization of the clerk's office. Read More | |
House Bill 296To increase contribution amounts that employers of full-time municipal police officers must make to the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund. Read More | House Bill 261To make emergency medical services workers 'public safety officers' under the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System. Read More | |
House Bill 238To revise and streamline the state's occupational regulations and to make an appropriation. Read More | ||
House Bill 211To name this act the Free to Speak Act and to require a public body to permit members of the public to comment or testify about matters of public concern before the public body at its public meeting. Read More | House Bill 203To require owners of private construction projects to timely pay contractors. Read More | House Bill 201ENACTED: Effective March 28, 2024To prohibit a state agency, county, or township from restricting the sale or use of a motor vehicle based on the energy source used to power the motor vehicle; to prohibit a state agency from adopting the California emissions standards for motor vehicles; and to change the requirements for natural gas company infrastructure development riders and economic development projects. Read More |
House Bill 2ENACTED: Effective June 28, 2024To provide authorization and conditions for the operation of certain state programs, to make capital appropriations and reappropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 2026, to make other appropriations, and to declare an emergency. Read More | House Bill 180To prohibit a municipal corporation or charter county from imposing a curfew except in certain cases. Read More | House Bill 16To enact the Ethics and Financial Disclosure Reform Act to revise the law governing ethics and lobbying. Read More |
House Bill 101ENACTED: Generally effective April 30, 2024, some provisions effective January 30, 2024, and some January 1, 2025To make appropriations and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs, and to amend the versions of certain sections of the Revised Code that are scheduled to take effect January 1, 2025, to continue the provisions of this act on and after that effective date. Read More |