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Pending Legislation

133rd General Assembly

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.

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 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 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.

HCR 31 Racism

Declare racism a public health crisis and ask the Governor to establish a working group to promote racial equity in Ohio.

Last Session

132nd General Assembly

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 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 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 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 227 Health Plan Claims

(Huffman, M.) To require health plan issuers to release certain claim information to group plan policyholders.

SB 249 Terminal Conditions

(Tavares, C.) To authorize an individual with a terminal condition and the capacity to make medical decisions to request a prescription for an aid-in-dying medication.

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.