Ohio State Representative

Beth Lear 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 7)

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Ohio 2025-2026 Regular Session

Ohio House Bill HB355

Introduced

6/11/25

To amend sections 128.35, 128.37, 128.38, 306.70, 307.697, 322.02, 345.02, 353.06, 511.07, 715.691, 715.70, 715.71, 715.72, 718.04, 718.09, 718.10, 757.02, 3318.06, 4301.421, 4504.02, 4504.15, 4504.21, 5739.021, 5739.026, 5739.09, 5743.021, 5743.024, 5743.026, 5748.021, 5748.03, 5748.08, and 5748.09 and to enact section 5705.17 of the Revised Code to increase the approval threshold required for passage of local taxes subject to voter approval.

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Ohio House Bill HB376

Introduced

6/23/25

To amend sections 4141.30, 4141.33, and 4141.53 of the Revised Code to reduce the maximum weeks an individual may receive unemployment benefits from 26 to 20 weeks.

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Ohio House Bill HB372

Introduced

6/23/25

Report Pass

3/24/26

Engrossed

3/25/26

To amend sections 2903.01, 2929.03, 2929.04, and 2941.14 of the Revised Code to enact the Larry Henderson Act to specify that the penalty for aggravated murder for an adult offender is death or life without the possibility of parole if the victim is a peace officer, corrections officer, prosecutor, first responder, or military member.

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Ohio House Bill HB359

Introduced

6/12/25

Report Pass

10/29/25

Engrossed

11/12/25

Report Pass

4/21/26

To amend section 5502.522 of the Revised Code to clarify the statewide emergency alert system in cases of missing autistic or developmentally disabled children and to name the alert the Joshua Alert.

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Ohio House Bill HB382

Introduced

6/25/25

To amend sections 2923.11, 2923.111, 2923.122, and 2923.17 and to enact section 2923.50 of the Revised Code to enact the Second Amendment Protection Act to safeguard the right to keep and bear arms.

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Ohio House Bill HB391

Introduced

7/1/25

To amend sections 323.131 and 4503.06 and to enact section 5705.171 of the Revised Code to require tax rates to be expressed as a percentage of true value on tax bills and ballot language.

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Ohio House Bill HB326

Introduced

6/3/25

Report Pass

11/18/25

Engrossed

2/18/26

To amend section 3301.0712 and to enact section 3345.065 of the Revised Code regarding the use of nationally standardized assessments in public and chartered nonpublic schools and state institutions of higher education.

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Ohio House Bill HB500

Introduced

10/7/25

Report Pass

2/18/26

Engrossed

2/25/26

To enact sections 3313.907 and 3317.166 of the Revised Code to designate a JROTC or NDCC program offered by a school district as a career-technical education program.

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Ohio House Bill HB464

Introduced

9/23/25

Report Pass

3/17/26

Engrossed

3/18/26

To amend section 5104.02 of the Revised Code to exempt from licensure family child care providers certified by a branch of the United States armed forces.

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Ohio House Bill HB28

Introduced

1/28/25

Engrossed

3/19/25

Report Pass

3/19/25

To amend sections 319.301, 319.302, 523.06, 1545.21, 3316.041, 3316.06, 3358.11, 3505.06, 5705.03, 5705.218, 5705.2111, 5705.221, 5705.233, 5705.261, and 5705.412 and to repeal section 5705.192 of the Revised Code to eliminate the authority to levy replacement property tax levies.

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Ohio House Bill HB37

Introduced

2/3/25

Report Pass

10/22/25

Engrossed

3/4/26

To enact section 5534.443 of the Revised Code to designate a portion of State Route 56 in Pickaway County as the "Detective Rex Emrick Memorial Highway."

Ohio 2025-2026 Regular Session

Ohio House Bill HB259

Introduced

5/13/25

Report Pass

6/11/25

Engrossed

10/1/25

To enact section 5534.609 of the Revised Code to designate a portion of State Route 241 in Summit County as the "Captain Joshua Michael McClimans Memorial Highway."

Ohio 2025-2026 Regular Session

Ohio House Bill HB275

Introduced

5/14/25

Report Pass

6/11/25

Engrossed

10/15/25

To enact section 5534.444 of the Revised Code to designate a portion of State Route 53 in Wyandot County as the "Deputy Sheriff Daniel Kin Memorial Highway."

Ohio 2025-2026 Regular Session

Ohio House Bill HB325

Introduced

6/3/25

Report Pass

6/18/25

Engrossed

10/15/25

To enact section 5534.429 of the Revised Code to designate a portion of State Route 13 in Athens County as the "Marshal Teddy Ray Holcomb Memorial Highway."

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Ohio 2025-2026 Regular Session

Ohio House Bill HB369

Introduced

6/18/25

To amend sections 3301.079 and 3301.0715 of the Revised Code to change diagnostic assessments for grades kindergarten through two to end-of-year nationally norm-referenced diagnostic assessments and for the third grade to beginning-of-year nationally norm-referenced diagnostic assessments.

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