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Status Report: State Legislation: January 2016 1/22/2016 1:38 PM Keyword(s) Chamber / # Introduced Sponsor Description Key Co-Sponsors Status Referred: House Health and Aging (1 hearing) Re-referred: House Rules Referred: House State Government (4 Wes Retherford and Terry To enact sections of the Revised Code to enter into Jim Buchy, Cliff Health Care Compact House Bill 34 2/3/2015 hearings) Boose the Health Care Compact Rosenberger Reported from Committee: 5.6.15 House Floor: 9.30.15 (59-28) Referred: Senate Government Oversight and Reform (1 hearing) Referred: House State Government (3 Ohio State hearings) Governement Mike Dovilla and Jonathan To require the Treasurer of State to establish the Reported from Committee: 3.18.15 House Bill 46 2/10/2015 Expenditure Dever Ohio State Government Expenditure Database House Floor: 4.15.15 (95-0) Database Referred: Senate Finance Committee (1 hearing) To prohibit public employers from including on an Referred: House Commerce and Labor employment application any question concerning the (5 hearings) criminal background of the applicant, to prohibit a Reported from Committee: 6.24.15 felony conviction from being used against an officer "Ban the Box" on House Floor: 9.30.15 (91-1) Kirk Schuring and Stephen or employee when a public employer is undertaking Employment House Bill 56 2/10/2015 Nickie Antonio Referred: Senate State and Local Slesnick certain employment practices, unless the conviction Applications Government (3 hearings) occurs while the officer or employee is employed in Reported from Committee: 12.9.15 the civil service, and to remove the bar against Senate Floor: 12.9.15 (32-1) sealing a conviction record when the victim is 16 or House Concurrence: 12.9.15 (91-1) 17 years old. Privatization of To permit a county and muncipalities to contract for Referred: House State Government (3 County/Municipal House Bill 82 2/25/2015 Steven Hambley private operation and management of a correctional Ron Amstutz hearings) Correctional facility that houses felon inmates Facilities Referred: House Health & Aging (4 hearings) Prohibits a health insurer from establishing a fee Reported from Committee: 5.13.15 Dental Insurers House Bill 95 3/3/2015 Anthony DeVitis schedule for dental providers for services not Kirk Schuring, Jim Buchy House Floor: 6.10.15 (61-33) covered Referred: Senate Insurance Committee (2 hearings) 1 Status Report: State Legislation: January 2016 1/22/2016 1:38 PM Health Benefit Michael Stinziano and Dan Ramos, Nick House Bill 109 3/10/2015 To create the Ohio Health Benefit Exchange Referred: House Insurance (1 hearing) Exchange Nickie Antonio Celebrezze Referred: House Health & Aging (3 hearings) To provide for partial drug prescription refills for the Reported from Committee: Amended Prescription Refills House Bill 116 3/11/2015 Tim Brown and Tim Ginter purpose of synchronizing multiple prescripton for 6.24.15 one patient House Floor: 6.30.15 (92-0) Referred: Senate Medicaid (3 hearings) Referred: House State Government (3 To establish the DataOhio board, uniform accounting hearings) Christina Hagan and Mike system for public offices, online catalog of public Ron Amstutz, Ron Maag, Reported from Committee: Amended DataOhio House Bill 130 3/24/2015 Duffey data, and Local Government Information Exchange Tim Brown, Bob Hackett 6.17.15 Grant Re-referred: House Finance 10.6.15 (1 hearing) To revise the law governing health insurance coverage, medical malpractice claims, the Medicaid Health Care Law- Jim Butler and Terry Referred: House Insurance Committee House Bill 157 4/15/2015 program, health care provider discipline, and revise Johnson (2 hearings) required and permitted health care provider disclosures Ron Amstutz, Nickie Referred: House Health & Aging (1 To change the variations of the term "mentally Jonathan Dever and Antonio, Dan Ramos, Kirk hearing) Term change House Bill 158 4/15/2015 retarded person" to "person with an intellectual Stephanie Howse Schuring, Barbara Sears, Reported from Committee: 12.09.15 disability" Mike Dovilla House Floor: Pending Referred: House Health & Aging (4 hearings) Reported from Committee: Amended 6.24.15 To revise the laws governing pharmacy consult House Floor: 6.30.15 (92-0) Pharmacy Consult Nathan Manning and Steve agreements and the laws governing the House Bill 188 5/5/2015 Referred: Senate Health and Human Agreements Huffman circumstances under which a pharmacist may Services (3 hearings) dispense or sell a drug without a prescription Reported from Committee: 11.18.15 Senate Floor: 12.9.15 (33-0) House Concurrence: 12.9.15 (32-0) Signed by the Governor: 12.22.15 To prohibit certain health care plans and the Robert Sprague and Nickie Medicaid program from denying coverage for opioid Referred: House Health and Aging (4 ADFs House Bill 248 6/8/2015 Antonio analgesic drugs with abuse-deterrent technology hearings) based solely on cost 2 Status Report: State Legislation: January 2016 1/22/2016 1:38 PM Alternative State To modify the law governing re-employed House Bill 257 6/10/2015 John Becker Referred: House Finance Budget retirants…and other changes To amend sections of the Revised Code regarding Kirk Schuring and Stephen Vision Care Services House Bill 275 6/24/2015 limitations imposed by health insurers on vision care Referred: House Insurance (2 hearings) Slesnick services To add extortion and perjury and certain federal Mike Dovilla and Marlene Jim Buchy, Dorothy Pension Forfeiture House Bill 284 7/7/2015 offenses to the offenses that may result in forfeiture Referred: House Judiciary (2 hearings) Anielski Pelanda, Barbara Sears or termination of public retirement systme benefits Dispense Multi-refills To authorize pharmacists to dispense multiple refills Referred: House Health and Aging (1 under certain House Bill 285 7/13/2015 Robert Sprague of a prescritpion simultaneously under certain Bob Hackett hearing) circumstance circumstances To permit a physician to treat a terminally ill patient Terminally ill patient- Robert Sprague and with a drug that is not approved by the U.S. FDA and Referred: House Health and Aging (3 prescribe non FDA House Bill 290 7/16/2015 Marlene Anielski permit a drug manufacturer to provide such a drug to heairngs) approved drug the patient or physician To provide that a firefighter who is disabled as a Firefighters with result of specified typers of cancer is presumed for cancer presumption purposes of the laws governing workers' House Bill 292 7/22/2015 Christina Hagan Referred: House Insurance (1 hearing) for disability from compensaiton and the Ohio Police and Fire Pension BWC and OP&F Fund to have incurred the cancer while performing official duties as a firefighter Referred: House Health & Aging (1 University of Akron To include new nonteaching employees of The hearing) House Bill 305 8/25/2015 Kirk Schuring Membership University of Akron as members of PERS Reported from Committee: 12.09.15 House Floor: Pending To base the percentage of an employee's salary that must be contributed to STRS to mitigate the effect of ARP Mitigating rate- the employee's participation in an ARP on the House Bill 311 8/31/2015 Kirk Schuring Referred: House Health & Aging STRS average percentage used to amortize the Retirement System's unfudned actuarial accrued pension liabilities. Nickie Antonio, Kevin Referred: House Government Autism Coverage Cheryl Grossman and Lou Boyce, Bob Hackett, House Bill 350 10/1/2015 To mandate coverage of autism treatment Accountability and Oversight (2 Mandate Terhar Dorothy Pelanda, Robert hearings) Sprague 3 Status Report: State Legislation: January 2016 1/22/2016 1:38 PM To create an address confidentiality program for Referred: House Government Address Mike Duffey and Anne victims of domestic violence, menacing by stalking, Dave Hall, Barbara Sears, House Bill 359 10/6/2015 Accountability and Oversight (4 Confidentiality Gonzales human trafficking, trafficking in persons, rape, sexual Robert Sprague hearings) battery, and other crimes To make changes to the health coverage benefits Health Coverage House Bill 368 10/19/2015 Barbara Sears limits and coverage exclusions for life and health Bob Hackett Referred: House Insurance (1 hearing) Limits insurance guaranty associations Referred: Senate Transportation, To make peace officers, firefighters, and emergency Commerce and Labor (2 hearings) medical workers diagnosed with PTSD arising from Reported from Committee: 2.25.15 Workers' Tom Patton and Edna Senate Bill 5 2/2/2015 employement without an accompnaying physical Joe Schiavoni, Frank LaRose Re-Referred: Senate Finance 3.4.15 (6 Compensation-PTSD Brown injury eligible for compensation and benefits under hearings) Ohio's Workers' Compensation Law Reported from Committee: 10.13.15 Senate Floor: Pending Hearing Aid Health To require health insurers to offer coverage for Charleta Tavares, Kenny Referred: Senate Insurance Committee Senate Bill 98 3/4/2015 Edna Brown Insurance Coverage hearing aids Yuko (1 hearing) Insurance Edna Brown, Scott Referred: Senate Insurance Committee Randy Gardner and Capri To amend the law related to prior authorization Authorization Senate Bill 129 3/16/2015 Oelslager, Bill Seitz, Kenny (3 hearings) Cafaro requirements of insurers Requirements Yuko Reported from Committee: 12.09.15 Health Benefit Michael Skindell and Referred: Senate Medicaid Committee Senate Bill 132 3/17/2015 To establish the Health Benefit Exchange Program Edna Brown Exchange Charleta Tavares (1 hearing) To limit the out-of-pocket cost to an individual Referred: Senate Insurance