Bill Number/
Sponsor |
Summary |
Status |
Staff
Contact |
OHA
Position |
Supporting
Documents |
|
House Bills |
|
HB 6
Rep. Jimmy Stewart
(R-Albany) |
State Children’s Health Insurance Program
Increases coverage under the State Children's
Health Insurance Program to 300 percent of the poverty rate. |
House Finance & Appropriations Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Support |
State, Federal Proposals Expand Health Insurance Coverage for
Children
(2.21.07)
LSC Analysis |
|
HB 25
Rep. Jeff Wagner
(R-Sycamore) |
Income Tax Deduction – Organ Donation
To create an income tax deduction for expenses
incurred by a taxpayer in making an organ donation and to create
an income tax credit for deceased organ donors. |
House Ways & Means Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
HB 41
Rep. Joe Uecker
(R-Loveland) |
Security Systems
To require the licensure of persons
operating security systems companies, to provide for the
registration of individuals performing specified types of
security systems work, to provide for the regulation of security
systems companies and employees, and to establish the Security
Systems Advisory Board in the Department of Commerce. |
Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor Committee |
Bridget Gargan
Rick Sites |
Amendment
secured |
LSC Analysis
Security Systems
Bill Wide Reaching (4.23.07) |
HB 64
Rep. Peter Ujvagi
(D-Toledo) |
Nurses
To create a refundable tax credit for nurses who teach nursing
at post-secondary educational institutions and to declare an
emergency. |
House Finance & Appropriations Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Support |
LSC Analysis |
HB 73
Rep. John Adams
(R-Sidney) |
Pharmacists
To modify the authority of pharmacists to
administer immunizations and to make changes in certain voting
procedures of the State Board of Pharmacy. |
House Health Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
|
Back to Top |
HB 75
Rep. Robert Hagan
(D-Youngstown) |
Employee Health Care
To require certain employers in this state
who do not provide a specified amount of health care coverage to
their employees to make contributions to a fund to be used to
supplement this state's share of Medicaid costs. |
House Insurance Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
HB 98
Rep. Michelle Schneider
(R-Madeira) |
Diabetes Health Care
Coverage
To require certain health
care policies, contracts, agreements, and plans to provide
benefits for equipment, supplies, and medication for the
diagnosis, treatment, and management of diabetes and for
diabetes self-management education. |
House Health Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis
See
Companion SB 99 |
HB 100
Rep. Tom Brinkman
(R-Cincinnati) |
Workers Compensation
Budget
To abolish the Workers'
Compensation Oversight Commission, the Workers' Compensation
Oversight Commission Nominating Committee, and the Services
Committee; to create the Bureau of Workers' Compensation Board
of Directors and specified working committees, to transfer the
powers and duties of the Oversight Commission to the Board and
the working committees, and to make other changes in the
Workers' Compensation Law, and to make appropriations. |
Passed. Signed by
Governor 6/11/07. Effective 9/10/07; appropriations effective
7/1/07. |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis
Letter to House Insurance Committee (4.20.07)
BWC
Budget Clears Committee, Includes Hospital Safe Lifting Proposal
(4.25.07) |
HB 105
Rep. Ted Celeste
(D-Grandview Hts) |
Nutrition/Physical Fitness Month
To
designate May as "Nutrition and Physical Fitness Month." |
House State Government & Elections Committee
(provisions included in HB119, biennial
budget) |
Bridget Gargan |
Support |
LSC Analysis
See
Companion SB93
Foundation
Supports Nutrition & Physical Fitness Legislation (4.23.07) |
HB 106
Rep. Jon Peterson
(R-Delaware) |
Medicaid
Buy-In
To
establish the Medicaid Buy-In for Workers with Disabilities
Program and a Medicaid program for individuals who exhaust
benefits under a qualified long-term care insurance policy. |
House Finance & Appropriations Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
See Companion SB4
LSC Analysis |
|
Back to Top |
HB 116
Rep. Louis Blessing
(R-Cincinnati) |
Health Savings Accounts
To require public employers to make health
savings accounts available to public employees. |
House State Government & Elections Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
HB 119
Rep. Matthew Dolan
(R-Novelty) |
Biennial Budget
To make operating appropriations for the
biennium beginning July 1, 2007 and ending June 30, 2009, and to
provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state
programs. |
Passed. Signed by
Governor 6/30/07. Appropriations effective 6/30/07; some
sections different dates. |
Bridget Gargan |
|
LSC Analysis
Budget Wrap-Up (6.29.07) |
HB 122
Rep. Peter Ujvagi
(D-Toledo) |
Medical Records
To allow an authorized person
to obtain one copy of a patient's medical record without charge. |
House Health Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Not opposed
Seek amendments |
LSC Analysis
Bill
Would Provide Free Medical Records to Support Disability Claims
(4.26.07) |
HB 125
Rep. Matt Huffman
(R-Lima) |
Health
Care Providers
To establish certain uniform contract
provisions between health care providers and third-party payers,
to establish standardized credentialing and to require
third-party payers to provide to health care providers specified
information concerning enrollees. |
Passed. Signed by
Governor 3/25/08, effective 6/25/08. |
Bridget Gargan
Mary Gallagher |
Support |
OHA Summary of HB 125 as
enacted
Senate Committee Passes Health Care Simplification Act
(2.19.08)
Hospitals Weigh In on Physician Credentialing, Managed Care
Contracting Bill (1.24.08)
Letter to Rep. Matt Huffman (8.13.07)
LSC Analysis
See
companion SB 127 |
HB 137
Rep. Michelle Schneider
(R-Madeira) |
Diabetes Health Care
Coverage
To require certain health care policies to
provide benefits for diagnosis and treatment of diabetes. |
House Health Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
|
Back to Top |
HB 144
Rep. Jennifer Brady
(D-Westlake) |
Nurses Month
To designate the month of May
as "Nurses Month." |
Reported by
Senate Health, Human Services & Aging Committee;
|
Bridget Gargan
Jean Scholz |
Support |
LSC Analysis |
HB 148
Rep. Lynn Wachtmann
(R-Napoleon) |
Health Care Services
Regarding the provision of complementary or
alternative health care services. |
House
Commerce & Labor Committee |
Bridget Gargan
Jean Scholz |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
HB 160
Rep. Danny Bubp
(R-West Union) |
Ohio Trust Code
To clarify and modify the law
relating to disclaimers under the Ohio Trust Code. |
Passed. Signed by
Governor 3/21/08, effective 6/20/08. |
Bridget Gargan
Mary Gallagher |
Support |
Senate Committee Accepts OHA-Supported Amendment for Nonprofit
Law Changes (1.24.08)
OHA Letter of Support (12.11.07)
LSC Analysis |
HB 164
Rep. Ross McGregor
(R-Springfield) |
Federal Health Centers
To require the Ohio
Department of Health to promote the establishment of federal
health centers, to include federally qualified health center
look-alikes in the medical malpractice premium assistance
program, to create a pilot program to place federally qualified
health centers in two hospital emergency departments, and to
make an appropriation. |
Passed by
House Health Committee; Awaiting a full House vote
(permissive provisions included in HB119,
biennial budget) |
Bridget Gargan |
Support |
Testimony
from the Nat'l Assn of Community Health Centers:
R.
Schwartz
M.
Zakheim
LSC Analysis |
HB 170
Rep. Ted Celeste
(D-Grandview Hts) |
Insurance Coverage for
Autism
To prohibit health insurers from excluding
coverage for autism. |
House Insurance Committee |
Bridget Gargan
Mary Gallagher |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
HB 183
Rep. Arlene Setzer
(R-Vandalia) |
Assault of Health Care
Worker
To increase the penalty for assault to a
felony of the fourth degree when the victim is a listed
healthcare worker and to make assault against any school
employee a felony of the fifth degree. |
House Criminal Justice
Committee |
Bridget Gargan
Rick Sites |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
|
Back to Top |
HB 185
Rep. Joyce Beatty
(D-Columbus) |
Nurses
Regarding tuition reimbursement, tax
credits, and mandatory overtime for nurses and nurses aides. |
House Ways & Means Committee |
Bridget Gargan
Jean Scholz |
Oppose |
LSC Analysis
Nursing Legislation Contains Prohibition on Overtime
(6.29.07) |
HB 186
Rep. Michael Skindell
(D-Lakewood) |
Ohio Health Care Plan
To establish and operate the Ohio Health
Care Plan to provide universal health care coverage to all Ohio
residents. |
House Healthcare Access & Affordability Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
HB 194
Rep. Jim Zehringer
(R-Ft. Recovery) |
Joint Township Hospitals
To allow joint township hospitals to hold an
executive session for purposes of discussing trade secrets. |
Passed.
Signed by Governor 11/13/07. Effective 2/12/08. |
Bridget Gargan |
Support |
LSC Analysis
Letter to House State Government & Elections Committee
(5.29.07) |
HB 200
Rep. Barbara Boyd
(D-Cleveland Hts) |
Home Health Care Workers
To provide for licensing of home health care
workers. |
House Health Committee |
Bridget Gargan
Jean Scholz |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
HB 212
Rep. Jim Carmichael
(R-Wooster) |
Ambulance Drivers
To modify the staffing
requirements for ambulances during emergency runs and while
transporting patients, and to require certain minimum standards
for ambulance drivers. |
Amended HB
212 reported by
House Infrastructure, Homeland Security & Veterans Affairs
Committee |
Bridget Gargan
Jean Scholz |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
|
Back to Top |
HB 229
Rep. Shannon Jones
(R-Springboro) |
Generic Drugs
To analyze the fiscal impact
of changes to the formula used to establish federal upper limits
for generic drugs enacted by the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005,
and to increase, subject to a maximum amount, the dispensing
fees paid to pharmacists for dispensing generic drugs to
Medicaid recipients for fiscal years 2008 and 2009. |
House Finance & Appropriations Committee |
Bridget Gargan
Jean Scholz |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
HB 231
Rep. Courtney Combs
(R-Hamilton) |
Alcoholic
Beverage/Cigarette Tax
To authorize electors of a
county to levy a tax on alcoholic beverages and cigarettes to
provide funding for expenses relating to alcohol and drug abuse
and addiction services. |
House State Government & Elections Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
HB 236
Rep. Sandra Williams
(D-Cleveland) |
Family Health Plus
Component - Medicaid
To require the Director of Job and Family
Services to seek federal permission to establish the Family
Health Plus Component of the Medicaid program, to impose a new
assessment on hospitals, and to earmark the proceeds from the
new assessment for the Family Health Plus component. |
House Healthcare Access & Affordability Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
HB 249
Rep. Ross McGregor
(R-Springfield) |
Medical Transportation
Reimbursement
To modify the Medicaid program's
reimbursement rate for medical transportation services. |
House Finance & Appropriations Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
HB 253
Rep. Scott Oelslager
(R-N Canton) |
Advance Practice Nurses
To modify the authority of certain advanced
practice nurses to prescribe schedule II controlled substances. |
Substitute
reported by
House Health Committee; Awaiting a full House vote |
Bridget Gargan
Jean Scholz |
Not Opposed
Seek Amendments |
LSC Analysis |
|
Back to Top |
HB 254
Rep. Jon Peterson
(R-Delaware) |
Student Nutrition
To establish the Ohio Child Wellness
Advisory Council, to establish nutritional standards for certain
foods and beverages sold in public and chartered nonpublic
schools, to require public and chartered nonpublic schools to
implement local wellness policies, and to make other changes
regarding student nutrition and physical activity. |
House Education Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
HB 262
Rep. Matt Huffman
(R-Lima) |
Health Services Contracts
Regarding the authority of
the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction and Youth
Services, county sheriffs, and municipal corporations to
contract for health services. |
House State Government & Elections Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
HB 268
Rep. Joyce Beatty
(D-Columbus) |
Cancer Clinical Trial
To prohibit insurers, public employee
benefit plans, and multiple employer welfare arrangements form
excluding coverage for routine patient care administered as part
of a cancer clinical trial. |
House Insurance Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
HB 280
Rep. Michelle Schneider
(R-Madeira) |
Display Abortion Sign
Requiring facilities that
perform abortions to display a sign and enhancing the criminal
penalty for causing or attempting to cause physical harm to a
family or household member who was pregnant at the time of the
offense. |
Passed.
Signed by Governor 1/6/09. Effective 4/7/09. |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
HB 284
Rep. Tom Brinkman
(R-Cincinnati) |
Abortions
To prohibit abortions in this state, to
increase the penalties for the offenses of unlawful abortion,
unlawful distribution of an abortion-inducing drug, and abortion
trafficking, and to make conforming changes in related
provisions. |
House Health Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
|
Back to Top |
HB 291
Rep. Tom Patton
(R-Strongsville) |
Prescription Drug Coverage
Relative to coverage for
prescription drug services provided by "any willing pharmacies"
under policies of sickness and accident insurers and health
insuring corporations. |
House Insurance Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
HB 294
Rep. Ted Celeste
(D-Grandview Hts) |
Health Coverage
Posttraumatic Stress
To prohibit health insurers from excluding
coverage for posttraumatic stress disorder. |
House Insurance Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
HB
320
Rep. Shannon Jones
(R-Springboro) |
Booster Seats
To require certain children who are between
four and eight years of age to be secured in a booster seat and
to require children less than age eighteen to be restrained in
an occupant restraining device if not otherwise required to be
in a child restraint system or booster seat. |
Passed.
Signed by Governor 1/6/09. Effective 4/7/09. |
Bridget Gargan |
Support |
Letter to
House Infrastructure, Homeland Security & Veterans Affairs
Committee Chairman (4.23.08)
LSC Analysis |
HB
331
Rep. Mark Wagoner
(R-Toledo) |
Newborn Care Facilities
Regarding the licensure of maternity homes
and obstetric and newborn care facilities. |
Passed.
Signed by Governor 6/2/08. Effective 9/1/08. |
Bridget Gargan
Rick Sites |
Support |
Testimony
from the Ohio State University Medical Center (4.16.08)
Testimony
from the Toledo Hospital (4.16.08)
LSC Analysis
House Passes Maternity Licensure Bill (2.19.08)
HB 331
Floor Memo &
Speech
(2.19.08)
Testimony from The Toledo Hospital (10.24.07)
Testimony from The Ohio State University Medical Center
(10.31.07)
|
HB
334
Rep. Michael DeBose
(D-Cleveland) |
Ovarian Cancer Awareness
To designate September as
"Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month." |
House State Government & Elections Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Support |
LSC Analysis |
|
Back to Top |
HB
335
Rep. Michael DeBose
(D-Cleveland) |
Health Care Plan Benefits
To require certain health
care insurers and plans, including the state's Medicaid program,
to provide benefits for prostate, colorectal, cervical and
ovarian screening examinations. |
House Insurance Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
HB
346
Rep. Jim Hughes
(R-Clintonville) |
Hospital Staffing
Guidelines
Regarding hospital staffing
guidelines for registered nurses. |
Passed.
Signed by Governor 6/12/08. Effective 9/12/08. |
Bridget Gargan
Jean Scholz |
Support |
OHA Nurse Staffing Web site
LSC Analysis
Hospitals, Nurses, Legislators Unite to Support Evolving Health
Care Workforce (1.28.08)
CNA Speaks Out Against OHA-Supported Nurse Staffing Bill
(1.10.08)
|
HB
355
Rep. Jim Hughes
(R-Clintonville) |
Medicaid Fraud
To provide for the recovery of damages and
civil penalties for defrauding the state of money property, or
services in relation to the Medicaid Program and to authorize
private persons to bring qui tam civil actions to remedy the
frauds. |
House Civil & Commercial Law Committee |
Bridget Gargan
Mary Gallagher |
Seek Amendments |
LSC Comparison
Document
LSC Analysis
OHA
Testimony (1.23.08)
OHA to Testify on Medicaid Fraud Legislation
(1.18.08)
OHA letter to House Civil & Commercial Law Committee
(11.7.07) |
HB
387
Rep. Michael Skindell
(D-Lakewood) |
Protective Bicycle Helmets
To require bicycle operators
and passengers under 18 years of age to wear protective helmets
when the bicycle is operated on a roadway and to establish the
Bicycle Safety Fund to be used by the Department of Public
Safety to assist low-income families in the purchase of bicycle
helmets. |
House Infrastructure, Homeland Security & Veterans Affairs
Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis
See companion
SB152 |
HB
398
Rep. Kevin Bacon
(R-Minerva Park) |
Radiologist Assistants
Regarding licensure of radiologist assistants. |
House Health Committee
Companion bill
passed.(See SB229) |
Bridget Gargan
Jean Scholz |
Not Opposed |
Letter
to House Health Committee Chairman (4.23.08)
LSC Analysis
See OHA's Licensure Web Page |
|
Back to Top |
HB
410
Rep. Eugene Miller
(D-Cleveland) |
Sickle Cell Anemia
To create the Sickle Cell Anemia Advisory Committee. |
House Health Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
HB
413
Rep. Peter Ujvagi
(D-Toledo) |
Nurses
To authorize registered nurses to determine and pronounce
death. |
House Health Committee |
Bridget Gargan
Jean Scholz |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
HB
456
Rep. Jim Raussen
(R-Springdale) |
Ohio CARE
To establish Ohio CARE, to limit or deny
funds under the Hospital Care Assurance Program to a hospital
that fails to contract with Medicaid managed care organizations
and to provide that these provisions of this act terminate on
October 16, 2009, when section 5112.08 of the Revised Code is
repealed on that date. |
House Healthcare Access & Affordability Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Seek
Amendments Support
Some Provisions/Oppose Some Provisions |
OHA Healthcare Access & Affordability Web site
OHA Analysis
LSC Analysis |
HB
485
Rep. Tim DeGeeter
(D-Parma) |
Safe Havens Law
To increase the number of
hours after birth that a parent may voluntarily deliver the
child to a safe haven without the parent expressing an intent to
return for the child and to include awareness of the Safe Haven
Law in the health curriculum prescribed for high school
students. |
House
Juvenile & Family Law Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
HB
493
Rep. David Daniels
(R-Greenfield) |
Anatomic Pathology
Regarding billing for anatomic pathology
services. |
Passed.
Signed by Governor 1/6/09. Effective 4/7/09. |
Bridget Gargan
Jean Scholz |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
|
Back to Top |
HB 503
Rep. Jon Peterson
(R-Delaware) |
Psychologist License
Regarding the experience and training
requirements necessary for admission to examination for a
psychologist license. |
Passed.
Signed by Governor 1/6/09. Effective 4/7/09. |
Jean Scholz |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
|
HB 529
Rep. Lynn Wachtmann
(R-Napoleon) |
Anatomical Gifts
To adopt the Revised Uniform
Anatomical Gift Act |
Passed.
Signed by Governor 1/6/09. Effective 4/7/09. |
Bridget Gargan |
Not Opposed |
LSC Analysis |
|
HB 536
By Initiative |
Healthy Families Act
To enact the Healthy Families
Act |
House Commerce & Labor Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Analysis Pending |
LSC Analysis OHA
White Paper on |
|
HB 544
Rep. Jay Hottinger (R-Newark) |
Tobacco Use
Prevention/Control Foundation
To abolish the Tobacco Use
Prevention and Control Foundation and transfer certain powers of
the Foundation to the Department of Health, to make an
appropriation, and to declare an emergency. |
Passed. Signed by
Governor 5/6/08. Effective immediately. |
Bridget Gargan
Mary Yost |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
|
HB
553
Rep. Jim McGregor
(R-Gahanna) |
Surgical Technology
To regulate the practice of
surgical technology. |
House Health
Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Analysis Pending |
LSC Analysis |
|
Back to Top |
|
HB
554
Rep. Jay Hottinger
(R-Newark) |
Economic Stimulus
To establish the Ohio
Bioproducts Development Program and Ohio Biomedical Development
Program to be administered by the Third Frontier Commission, to
establish the Third Frontier Economic Stimulus Advisory Board,
to expand the economic development programs administered by the
Department of Development to include transportation logistics
and distribution infrastructure projects, to provide additional
money for capital improvement projects of local subdivisions and
for highway capital improvement projects, to modify the
authority of the Ohio Coal Development Office to provide for
coal research and development projects administered by the Third
Frontier Commission, to provide for advanced energy projects
administered by the Third Frontier Commission, to establish the
Choose Ohio First Co-op/Internship Program, to extend the
historical building rehabilitation tax credit, limit credit
amounts, require regional distributive balance and economic
effects to be considered, and to make an appropriation. |
Passed. Signed by Governor 6/12/08, with Line Item
Vetoes. Effective immediately. |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
|
HB 555
Rep. Jim Zehringer
(R-Ft. Recovery) |
Workers' Compensation
Benefits
To prohibit an employee from
receiving workers' compensation benefits in this state if the
employee has received a decision on the merits of a claim filed
in another state for the same injury or occupational disease, to
allow an Ohio employer to obtain, through the Administrator of
Workers' Compensation or an insurance company, workers'
compensation insurance for claims arising in other states, and
to make other changes to the Workers' Compensation Law regarding
interstate workers' compensation claims. |
House Commerce & Labor
Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Analysis Pending |
LSC Analysis |
|
HB
556
Rep. Jon Peterson
(R-Delaware) |
Cancer Lab Tests
To require certain health
care policies, contracts, agreements, and plans, as well as the
state's Medicaid program, to provide benefits for colorectal
examinations and laboratory tests for cancer. |
House Insurance
Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
|
HB
561
Rep. Dan Stewart
(D-Columbus) |
Contraceptive Drugs Insurance
To prohibit certain sickness
and accident insurance policies, public employee benefit plans,
and health insuring corporation policies, contracts, and
agreements from limiting or excluding coverage for prescription
contraceptive drugs and devices and outpatient services related
to the provision of such drugs and devices. |
House Insurance
Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
|
HB 562
Rep. Jay Hottinger
(R-Newark) |
Capital Appropriations/Budget
Corrections
To make capital and other
appropriations and to provide authorization and conditions for
the operation of state programs. |
Passed. Signed by Governor 6/24/08, with Line Item
Vetoes. Effective 9/23/08. |
Bridget Gargan |
Support certain provisions |
LSC Analysis |
|
Back to Top |
|
HB 571
Rep. Tyrone Yates
(D-Cincinnati) |
Certificate of Need
To restore the Certificate of
Need Program for the construction of new hospitals and the
conduct of other health-related activities. |
House Finance & Appropriations Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Analysis Pending |
LSC Analysis |
|
HB 572
Rep. Tyrone Yates
(D-Cincinnati) |
Tobacco Use Prevention Center
To create the Center for
Tobacco Use Prevention in the Department of Health to exercise
duties of the former Tobacco Use Prevention and Control
Foundation that were transferred to the Department, and to fund
the Center's operations with an increased rate of tax on
noncigarette tobacco products. |
House Finance & Appropriations Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
Summary
LSC Analysis |
|
HB 573
Rep. Ronald Gerberry
(D-Canfield) |
Epilepsy Awareness Month
To designate November as
"Epilepsy Awareness Month." |
House State Government & Elections Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
|
HB 580
Rep. John Adams
(R-Sidney) |
Ohio Consumer Health Freedom
Act
To allow the unregulated
practice of complementary and alternative medicine. |
House
Health Committee |
Rick Frank |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
|
HB 601
Rep. Lynn Wachtmann
(R-Napoleon) |
Universal MOLST Form
Requires the Department of
Health to develop a form for documenting Medical Orders for Life
Sustaining Treatment |
House
Health Committee |
Rick Frank
Rick Sites |
Support |
LSC Analysis |
|
HB 622
Rep. Tom Patton
(R-Strongsville)
|
Regulate Physician
Designation Systems
To regulate the use of
physician designation systems by health care insurers.
|
House Insurance
Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
|
Back to Top |
Bill Number/
Sponsor |
Summary |
Status |
Staff
Contact |
OHA
Position |
Supporting
Documents |
|
Senate Bills |
|
SB 4
Sen. Steve Stivers
(R-Columbus) |
Medicaid Buy-In
To establish the Medicaid Buy-In for Workers with
Disabilities Program, and a Medicaid program for individuals who
exhaust benefits under a qualified long-term care insurance
policy. |
House Finance & Appropriations Committee` |
Bridget Gargan |
Support |
LSC Analysis
See
Companion HB106 |
|
SB 13
Sen. Shirley Smith(D-Cleveland) |
Health Care Services
To formally state the intention of the General Assembly to
deliberate on how to improve the provisions of, and payment for,
health care services in Ohio in a manner that promotes Ohio's
economic development. |
Senate Health, Human Services & Aging Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Placeholder
Bill |
LSC Analysis |
SB 27
Sen. Eric Kearney
(D-Cincinnati) |
Booster Seats
To require certain children between four and
eight years of age to be secured in a booster seat. |
Senate Highways & Transportation Committee
Companion bill passed. (See
HB320) |
Bridget Gargan |
Support |
LSC Analysis |
|
SB 47
Sen. Tim Schaffer
(R-Lancaster) |
Unreimbursed Medical Expenses
Increase the amount of unreimbursed medical expenses that an
individual may deduct in computing Ohio income tax. |
Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
|
SB 53
Sen. Patricia Clancy
(R-Cincinnati) |
Clinical Counselors
Permit licensed professional counselors to take persons into
custody and transport them to a hospital. |
House Health Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
|
SB 54
Sen. Patricia Clancy
(R-Cincinnati) |
Substance Use Injuries
Prohibit certain insurers from limiting coverage
for injuries occurring as a consequence of an insured's use of
alcohol. |
Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor Committee |
Bridget Gargan
Mary Gallagher |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
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SB 58
Sen. Kevin Coughlin
(R-Cuyahoga Falls) |
Pharmacy Immunizations
Modify the authority of Pharmacists to administer
immunizations and make changes in certain voting procedures of
the State Board of Pharmacy. |
Passed. Signed by
Governor 5/31/07. Effective 8/30/07. |
Bridget Gargan
Jean Scholz |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
|
SB 59
Sen. Kevin Coughlin(R-Cuyahoga Falls) |
Medical Negligence Arbitration
Establish pilot program mandating arbitration for
claims of medical negligence. |
Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor Committee |
Bridget Gargan
Rick Sites |
Support |
LSC Analysis |
|
SB 61
Sen. Ray Miller
(D-Columbus) |
Home Health Checks
Establish pilot programs to provide door-to-door
health checks by nurses in certain neighborhoods. |
Senate Finance & Financial Institutions Committee |
Bridget Gargan
Jean Scholz |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
|
SB 65
Sen. Ray Miller
(D-Columbus) |
Nurses
Regarding tuition reimbursement, tax credits and
mandatory overtime for nurses/nurses aides. |
Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development Committee |
Bridget Gargan
Jean Scholz |
Oppose |
LSC Analysis |
|
SB 68
Sen. Ray Miller
(D-Columbus) |
Surgery
To require instruction in cultural competency to
qualify to obtain certificate of registration to practice
medicine. |
Senate Health, Human Services & Aging Committee |
Bridget Gargan
Jean Scholz |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
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SB 93
Sen. Dale Miller
(D-Cleveland) |
Nutrition/Physical
Fitness Month
To designate May as "Nutrition and Physical
Fitness Month." |
House State Government & Elections
(provisions included in HB119,
biennial budget) |
Mary Yost |
Support |
LSC Analysis
See
Companion HB105
Foundation
Supports Nutrition & Physical Fitness Legislation (4.23.07) |
|
SB 99
Sen. Randy Gardner
(R-Bowling Green) |
Diabetes Health Care Coverage
To require certain health care policies,
contracts, agreements, and plans to provide benefits for
equipment, supplies, and medication for the diagnosis, treatment
and management of diabetes and for diabetes self-management. |
Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis
See
Companion HB 98 |
SB 104
Sen. Larry Mumper
(R-Marion) |
Health Insurers
To require insurers and other third-party
payers to accept and honor assignment-of-benefit agreements
entered into between plan beneficiaries and treating health care
providers. |
Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Support |
LSC Analysis |
SB 114
Sen. Kevin Coughlin
(R-Cuyahoga Falls) |
Epilepsy Drugs
Regarding substitution of drugs intended to
treat epilepsy. |
Senate
Health, Human Services & Aging Committee |
Bridget Gargan
Jean Scholz |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
SB 115
Sen. Steve Stivers
(R-Columbus) |
Dependent Children
Insurance Coverage
To require health insurers to provide
coverage for dependent children until the age of thirty if the
child meets specified conditions. |
Substitute
passed by
Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor Committee. |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
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SB 120
Sen. David Goodman
(R-Columbus) |
Hospitals
To require hospitals to operate emergency
departments and maintain Medicaid and Medicare provider
agreements, to provide exemptions to these requirements, and to
permit the Director of Health to seek an injunction for
violation of these requirements. |
Senate Health, Human Services & Aging Committee |
Bridget Gargan
Reed Fraley |
Support |
LSC Analysis
OHA Continues to Pursue Passage of 24/7 ED Legislation
(1.18.08)
Vote
on 24/7 ED Bill Postponed Until Fall (6.29.07) |
SB 127
Sen. Kevin Coughlin
(R-Cuyahoga Falls) |
Health
Care Providers
To establish certain uniform contract
provisions between health care providers and third-party payers,
to establish standardized credentialing and to require
third-party payers to provide to health care providers specified
information concerning enrollees. |
Senate Judiciary - Civil Justice Committee |
Bridget Gargan
Mary Gallagher |
Support |
LSC Analysis
See
companion HB 125 |
SB 138
Sen. Tim Schaffer
(R-Lancaster) |
Occupational Therapy
Regarding coverage of
occupational therapy services under the Medicaid program. |
Senate Finance & Financial Institutions Committee |
Bridget Gargan
Mary Gallagher |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
SB 144
Sen. Steve Stivers
(R-Columbus) |
Shaken Baby Syndrome
To require the Director of
Health to establish the Shaken Baby Syndrome Education Program
and to require the Department of Job and Family Services to
record in the statewide automated child welfare information
system whether a reported case of child abuse involved shaken
baby syndrome. |
Passed. Signed by
Governor 11/30/07. Effective 2/29/08. |
Bridget Gargan |
Support |
LSC Analysis
Shaken Baby Syndrome Education Program Clears House (11.7.07)
Shaken Baby Legislation a Common Sense Approach
(4.25.07)
Letter to Sen. Stivers (4.23.07) |
SB 147
Sen. Keith Faber
(R-Celina) |
Nurse Recruitment
To permit the Department of
Rehabilitation and Correction to establish a loan repayment
program for recruitment of nurses. |
Passed. Signed by
Governor 1/6/09. Effective 4/7/09. |
Bridget Gargan
Mary Gallagher |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
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SB 152
Sen. Tom Roberts
(D-Trotwood) |
Bicycle Operators
To require bicycle operators
and passengers under 18 years of age to wear protective helmets
when the bicycle is operated on a roadway and to establish the
Bicycle Safety Fund to be used by the Department of Public
Safety to assist low-income families in the purchase of bicycle
helmets. |
Senate Highways & Transportation Committee |
Mary Yost |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis
See companion
HB387 |
SB 156
Sen. Steve Stivers
(R-Columbus) |
Hospital Lift Equipment
To permit the Administrator
of Workers' Compensation to make loans from the Long-Term Care
Loan Fund to hospitals for lift equipment. |
Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor Committee
(provisions included in HB119, biennial
budget) |
Bridget Gargan
Jean Scholz |
Support |
LSC Analysis
Letter to House Insurance Committee (4.20.07)
BWC
Budget Clears Committee, Includes Hospital Safe Lifting Proposal
(4.25.07) |
SB 167
Sen. Eric Kearney
(D-Cincinnati) |
ODJFS Oversight
To
create the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services Oversight
Commission. |
Senate Health, Human Services & Aging Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
SB 168
Sen. Dale Miller
(D-Cleveland) |
Ohio Health Care Plan
To establish and operate the
Ohio Health Care Plan to provide universal health care coverage
to all Ohio residents. |
Senate Health, Human Services & Aging Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
SB 169
Sen. David Goodman
(R-Columbus) |
False Medicaid Claims
To prohibit and provide civil penalties for
the filing of false or fraudulent claims with the state and for
defrauding the state of money or property in relation to the
Medicaid program, to create a procedure for the investigation by
the Attorney General of suspected violations, and to authorize
the Attorney General of suspected violations and to authorize
the Attorney General and private persons to bring civil
enforcement actions on behalf of the state. |
Senate Judiciary - Civil Justice Committee |
Bridget Gargan
Mary Gallagher |
Opposed |
LSC Analysis |
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SB 175
Sen. Kevin Coughlin
(R-Cuyahoga Falls) |
Grieving Parents Act
To enact the Grieving Parents
Act, regarding fetal death certificates for, and burials of, the
product of human conception that suffers a fetal death. |
Passed. Signed by
Governor 6/11/08. Effective 9/12/08. |
Bridget Gargan
Rick Sites |
Support |
Ohio Academy of
Family Physicians Testimony (4.2.08)
American
College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists Testimony (4.2.08)
OHA
Analysis
LSC Analysis
House Health Committee Considers Grieving Parents Act
(1.18.08) |
SB 194
Sen. Ray Miller
(D-Columbus) |
Health Care Administration
To create the Department of
Health Care Administration; to transfer the Medicaid Program,
Children's Health Insurance Program Parts I and II, Hospital
Care Assurance Program, Disability Medical Assistance Program,
Ohio's Best Rx Program, and Residential State Supplement Program
to the new department to create a central pharmaceutical
purchasing office; and to make an appropriation. |
Senate Finance & Financial Institutions Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
SB 203
Sen. Tim Grendell
(R-Chesterland) |
Pharmacy Technicians
To
require the State Board of Pharmacy to certify and regulate
individuals who work as pharmacy technicians. |
Passed. Signed by
Governor 1.7.09, effective 4.8.09. |
Bridget Gargan
Jean Scholz |
Support |
LSC Analysis |
SB 221
Sen. Robert Schuler
(R-Sycamore Township)
|
State Energy Policy
To revise state energy policy to address
electric service price regulation, new bonding authority for
advanced energy projects, advanced (including renewable) energy
portfolio standards, energy efficiency standards, and greenhouse
gas emission reporting and carbon control planning requirements. |
Passed. Signed by
Governor 5.1.08, effective 7.31.08. |
Bridget Gargan
Rick Sites |
Support |
OHA Supports Renewed Call to End Secret Side Deals with
Utilities (1.18.08)
LSC Analysis
See OHA's
Energy Web Page |
SB 229
Rep. Randy Gardner
(R-Bowling Green)
|
Radiologist Assistants
Regarding licensure of
radiologist assistants. |
Passed. Signed by Governor 6/11/08, effective 9/11/08. |
Bridget Gargan
Jean Scholz |
Not Opposed |
Letter
to House Health Committee Chairman (4.23.08)
LSC Analysis
See OHA's Licensure Web Page |
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SB 245
Sen. Kirk Schuring
(R-Canton)
|
Acupuncturists
To modify the laws regarding the practice of
acupuncturists. |
Passed. Signed by
Governor 5/23/08, effective 8/22/08. |
Bridget Gargan
Jean Scholz |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
SB 251
Sen. Kevin Coughlin
(R-Cuyahoga Falls)
|
Path Grant Program
To create the Pilot Accessing
to Health grant program and to make an appropriation. |
Senate Finance & Financial Institutions Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Analysis
Pending |
LSC Analysis
PATH Grant Program Receives Sponsor Testimony
(1.18.08) |
|
SB
268
Sen. Bill Seitz
(R-Cincinnati) |
County Contracting
To allow a county contracting
authority to use competitive sealed proposals instead of
competitive sealed bidding when doing so would be advantageous
to the county, to extend the current county and township joint
purchasing authority to other political subdivisions, and to
authorize boards of education to forgo the second newspaper
publication of bid advertisement in lieu of an internet web site
posting. |
Passed. Signed by
Governor 6/12/08, effective 9/12/08. |
Bridget Gargan |
Support |
LSC Analysis |
SB 278
Sen. Kevin Coughlin
(R-Cuyahoga Falls)
|
Colorectal Examinations
To require certain health care policies,
contracts, agreements, and plans, as well as the state's
Medicaid program, to provide benefits for colorectal
examinations and laboratory tests for cancer. |
House Insurance Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
SB 279
Sen. Kirk Schuring
(R-Canton)
|
State Medical Board
Regarding certain State
Medical Board procedures, restrictions on physician assistants,
and admission to the massage or cosmetic therapist examination. |
Passed. Signed by
Governor 1.6.09, effective 1.6.09 |
Bridget Gargan
Jean Scholz |
Support |
LSC Analysis |
SB 297
Sen. Dale Miller
(D-Cleveland) |
Posttraumatic Stress
Disorder
To prohibit health insurers from excluding coverage for
posttraumatic stress disorder. |
Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
|
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SB 298
Sen. Dale Miller
(D-Cleveland) |
Mental Health Insurance
Coverage
To prohibit discrimination in health
care policies, contracts, and agreements in the coverage
provided for the diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses and
substance abuse or addiction conditions. |
Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
SB 301
Sen. Bill Seitz
(R-Cincinnati) |
Anatomic Pathology
Services
Regarding billing for anatomic pathology services. |
Senate Health, Human Services & Aging Committee |
Bridget Gargan
Jean Scholz |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
SB 304
Sen.
Gary Cates
(R-West Chester) |
Safe Haven Law
To increase the time after birth that a
parent may voluntarily deliver the child to a safe haven without
the parent expressing an intent to return for the child. |
Passed. Signed by
Governor 12.23.08, effective 3.24.09. |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
|
SB 326
Sen. Bill Seitz
(R-Cincinnati) |
Tobacco Use
Prevention/Control Foundation
To abolish the Tobacco Use
Prevention and Control Foundation and transfer certain powers of
the Foundation to the Department of Health, to make an
appropriation, and to declare an emergency. |
Senate Finance & Financial Institutions
Committee |
Bridget Gargan
Mary Yost |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
|
SB
334
Sen. Keith Faber
(R-Celina) |
Workers' Compensation
To prohibit an employee from
receiving workers' compensation benefits in this state if the
employee has received a decision on the merits of a claim filed
in another state for the same injury or occupational disease, to
allow an Ohio employer to obtain, through the Administrator of
Workers' Compensation or an insurance company, workers'
compensation insurance for claims arising in other states, and
to make other changes to the Workers' Compensation Law regarding
interstate workers' compensation claims. |
Passed. Signed by
Governor 6/11/08, effective 9/11/08. |
Bridget Gargan
Charles Cataline |
Analysis Pending |
LSC Analysis |
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SB
335
Sen. John Carey
(R-Wellston) |
Economic Stimulus
to establish the Ohio
Bioproducts Development Program and Ohio Biomedical Development
Program to be administered by the Third Frontier Commission, to
establish the Third Frontier Economic Stimulus Advisory Board,
to expand the economic development programs administered by the
Department of Development to include transportation logistics
and distribution infrastructure projects, to provide additional
money for capital improvement projects of local subdivisions and
for highway capital improvement projects, to modify the
authority of the Ohio Coal Development Office, to administer
coal research and development projects, to provide for advanced
energy projects administered by the Ohio Air Quality Development
Authority, to establish the Ohio Innovation Partnership
Co-op/Internship Program, to extend the historical building
rehabilitation tax credit, limit credit amounts, require
regional distributive balance and economic effects to be
considered, and to make an appropriation. |
Senate Finance & Financial Institutions
Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
|
SB
337
Sen. Steve Austria
(R-Beavercreek) |
Medical Transport
Reimbursement
To modify the Medicaid
program's reimbursement rate for medical transportation
services. |
Senate Finance & Financial Institutions
Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
|
SB
339
Sen. Mark Wagoner
(R-Toledo) |
Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
To adopt the Revised Uniform
Anatomical Gift Act. |
Senate Health, Human Services & Aging
Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Not opposed |
LSC Analysis |
|
SB 343
Sen. Tom Roberts
(D-Trotwood) |
Medical Cannabis
Regarding the medical use of
cannabis |
Senate Judiciary - Criminal Justice Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
|
SB 346
Sen.
Robert Schuler
(R-Sycamore Township) |
Expanded Exemptions to the
Smoke Free Workplace Law
To allow smoking in family
owned businesses, private clubs and outdoor patios. |
Senate Health, Human Services & Aging
Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
|
SB 355
Sen.
Robert Spada
(R-North Royalton) |
Regulate Physician
Designation Systems
To regulate the use of
physician designation systems by health care insurers. |
Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor Committee |
Bridget Gargan |
Monitor |
LSC Analysis |
