Ohio Legislation Important to the Women of Ohio

The following list is of Ohio legislation that Ohio Women, Inc. has selected as important to women. For a copy of the bill, the fiscal note, and analysis besides information on the bill’s status visit www.legislature.state.oh.us

Another source of information on a bill is the bill’s sponsor. They are the main person responsible for the bill and can provide information on the committee assignment as well as the testimony schedule.

For positions on a piece of legislation, link with the organizations listed on the Ohio Women, Inc. web site www.ohiowomeninc.org/search

Ohio House - Find the House Sponsor

H.B. 3 sponsor Rep. DeWine To require the Secretary of State to establish a computerized statewide voter registration database in compliance with the Help America Vote Act of 2002; to require electors who register to vote by mail and have not previously voted in an election to provide identification before being permitted to cast a ballot; to permit certain electors to vote by provisional ballot in federal, state, and local elections; to specify counting standards for optical scan ballots; and to require that the applicant for a non-automatic recount pay the entire cost of the recount if its results do not change the result of the election.

H.B. 22 sponsor Rep. Beatty To designate the month of May as "Nurses Month."

H.B. 26 sponsor Rep. Reidelback To allow a person who is a victim of a specified sexual offense to obtain either a criminal or civil protection order against the alleged offender.

H.B. 28 sponsor Rep. Miller To prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

H.B. 29 sponsor Rep. Raussen To require a court to consider certain factors before setting bail for a person if the person is charged with an offense of violence involving a victim who is a family or household member and to require the person to appear before the court before the court sets bail for that person.

H.B. 30 sponsor Rep. Reidelbach To require any place of public accommodation to allow a mother to breast-feed within the place of public accommodation.

H.B. 31 sponsor Rep. Brown To allow any qualified elector to vote by absent voter's ballots.

H.B. 32 sponsor Rep. Trakas To prohibit the administration of medication to a child in a child-care setting without authorization from the child's parents.

H.B. 43 sponsor Rep. McGregor To require the Department of Job and Family Services to seek a federal waiver to establish an assisted living Medicaid waiver component and to make an appropriation.

H.B. 44 sponsor Rep. Smith S. To create the Minority HIV and AIDS Task Force, to require the Department of Health to develop and administer a statewide HIV and AIDS prevention campaign directed toward at-risk members of minority groups, and to make an appropriation.

H.B. 47 sponsor Rep. Beatty To require that every high school include instruction in personal economics in the requirements for graduation.

H.B. 49 sponsor Rep. DeGeeter To clarify what constitutes visual representations of a minor for prosecutions of pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor.

Ohio Senate- Find the Senate Sponsor

S.B. 3 sponsor Sen. Coughlin. To require the Secretary of State to establish a computerized statewide voter registration database in compliance with the Help America Vote Act of 2002; to require electors who register to vote by mail and have not previously voted in an election to provide identification before being permitted to cast a ballot; to permit certain electors to vote by provisional ballot in federal, state, and local elections; to specify counting standards for optical scan ballots; and to require that the applicant for a non-automatic recount pay the entire cost of the recount if its results do not change the result of the election.

S.B. 11 sponsor Sen. Prentiss. To raise the standard minimum wage to $6.15 an hour beginning January 1, 2006, then to $7.15 an hour beginning January 1, 2007, and to require an annual adjustment of the standard minimum wage each year based on the consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers.

S.B. 24 sponsor Sen. Mumper. To establish the academic bill of rights for higher education.

S.B. 36 sponsor Sen. Spada. To generally require all electors who appear in a polling place to vote to provide identification before being permitted to cast a ballot.

S.B. 41 sponsor Sen. Clancy To require any place of public accommodation to allow a mother to breast-feed within the place of public accommodation.

S.B. 44 sponsor Sen. Fedor To require the State Board of Education to adopt the National Association for Sport and Physical Education standards for physical education in grades kindergarten through twelve and to remove the requirement that standards and model curricula for physical education are subject to approval by concurrent resolution of the General Assembly.

S.B. 54 sponsor Sen. Cates To require a court to consider certain factors before setting bail for a person if the person is charged with an offense of violence involving a victim who is a family or household member and to require the person to appear before the court before the court sets bail for that person.

This list will be updated weekly throughout the Legislative Session 2005-2006. For immediate information on a bill visit www.legislature.state.oh.us