Ohio State Representative
Beth Lear 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 6)
Legislative Session
co_author of Legislation
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Ohio 2025-2026 Regular Session
Ohio House Bill HB649
Filed/Introduced
8/6/26
Introduced
1/20/26
To amend sections 5104.015 and 5104.04 and to enact sections 5104.044, 5104.303, 5104.304, and 5104.361 of the Revised Code to require video surveillance of child care centers, to establish an online portal for tracking child care center attendance, to require investigations of waste, fraud, and abuse allegations relating to providers of publicly funded child care, and to name this act the Child Care Fraud Prevention Act.
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Ohio 2025-2026 Regular Session
Ohio House Bill HB662
Filed/Introduced
8/6/26
Introduced
1/29/26
To amend section 2917.12 of the Revised Code to increase the penalty for disturbing a lawful meeting under certain circumstances.
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Ohio 2025-2026 Regular Session
Ohio House Bill HB65
Filed/Introduced
8/6/26
Introduced
2/10/25
Report Pass
4/2/25
Engrossed
4/2/25
Report Pass
6/11/25
Enrolled
6/18/25
Passed
7/1/25
Passed
9/30/25
To enact sections 5.2322, 5.2411, 5.2412, 5.2413, 5.2414, 5.2415, and 5.268 of the Revised Code to make specified day and week designations relating to agriculture and to name this act the Agriculture Appreciation Act.
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Ohio 2025-2026 Regular Session
Ohio House Bill HB376
Filed/Introduced
8/6/26
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 2025-2026 Regular Session
Ohio House Bill HB382
Filed/Introduced
8/6/26
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 2025-2026 Regular Session
Ohio House Bill HB386
Filed/Introduced
Introduced
7/1/25
Report Pass
10/29/25
Engrossed
11/5/25
To amend section 3101.05 of the Revised Code to require identity verification with photo identification when applying for a marriage license.
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Ohio 2025-2026 Regular Session
Ohio House Bill HB391
Filed/Introduced
8/6/26
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 2025-2026 Regular Session
Ohio House Bill HB325
Filed/Introduced
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 HB347
Filed/Introduced
Introduced
6/10/25
Report Pass
3/24/26
Engrossed
3/25/26
To amend sections 2305.11 and 2307.46 and to enact section 2317.58 of the Revised Code to enact the Share the Health and Empower With Informed Notices (SHE WINS) Act regarding abortion informed consent.
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Ohio 2025-2026 Regular Session
Ohio House Bill HB359
Filed/Introduced
8/6/26
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 2025-2026 Regular Session
Ohio House Bill HB372
Filed/Introduced
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 2025-2026 Regular Session
Ohio House Bill HB37
Filed/Introduced
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."
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Ohio 2025-2026 Regular Session
Ohio House Bill HB311
Filed/Introduced
8/6/26
Introduced
5/27/25
Report Pass
11/5/25
Engrossed
11/12/25
Report Pass
4/21/26
To enact section 5.2322 of the Revised Code to designate the third full week of May as "EMS week in Ohio."
primary_author of Legislation
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Ohio 2025-2026 Regular Session
Ohio House Bill HB320
Filed/Introduced
8/6/26
Introduced
6/3/25
To amend sections 3501.01, 3503.09, 3503.10, 3503.11, 3503.14, 3503.15, 3503.151, 3503.152, 3503.153, 3503.16, 3503.19, 3503.20, 3503.23, 3503.28, 3505.181, 3509.02, 3509.04, 3509.07, 3509.08, 3513.041, 3513.05, 3513.07, 3513.18, 3513.19, 3513.191, 3513.257, 3517.012, 3517.013, and 3599.12; to enact section 3503.071; and to repeal sections 3513.192 and 3513.20 of the Revised Code to require an elector to register as a member of a political party in order to participate in that party's primary election.
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Ohio 2025-2026 Regular Session
Ohio House Bill HB369
Filed/Introduced
8/6/26
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.