Ohio Vote Reports

2025 OH Legislative Scorecard

The following scorecard lists several key votes in the Ohio General Assembly in 2025 and ranks state representatives and senators based on their fidelity to (U.S.) constitutional and limited-government principles.

Senate Votes

  • DEI Ban

    Bans DEI programs and offices, prohibits faculty strikes, bars institutions from taking positions on controversial issues, and requires a civics course for students.

  • Child-labor Laws

    Alters age and schooling certificate requirements and extends allowable work hours for minors under 16-particularly allowing 14- and 15-year-olds to work until 9 p.m. during the school year.

  • Ranked-choice-voting Ban

    Prohibits any general or primary from using ranked-choice voting.

  • NAACP License Plate

    Would have authorized a new license-plate design supporting the Ohio chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

  • Illegal Immigration Enforcement

    Would amend state law to specify that people who are unlawfully present in the United States "are not privileged from arrest."

  • Local Tax Limitation

    Limits how much revenue local governments and school districts can raise from "inside millage" property taxes without voter approval.

House Votes

  • DEI Ban

    Bans DEI programs and offices, prohibits faculty strikes, bars institutions from taking positions on controversial issues, and requires a civics course for students.

  • Business Rights

    Allows employers in Ohio to post certain mandatory labor-law notices online instead of displaying physical posters in the workplace.

  • Child-labor Laws

    Alters age and schooling certificate requirements and extends allowable work hours for minors under 16-particularly allowing 14- and 15-year-olds to work until 9 p.m. during the school year.

  • Healthcare Sharing Protection

    Would have defined and protected healthcare sharing ministries in Ohio law.

  • Sale of Home Goods

    Would have created a "microenterprise home kitchen operation" registration program, allowing Ohio residents to legally prepare and sell certain homemade foods from their home kitchens without a full commercial food-processing license.

  • Community Energy Program

    Would have established a statewide "Community Energy Program."

2024 OH Legislative Scorecard

The following scorecard lists several key votes in the Ohio General Assembly in 2024 and ranks state representatives and senators based on their fidelity to (U.S.) constitutional and limited-government principles.

Senate Votes

  • "Marital Rape" as a Criminal Offense

    Eliminates the spousal exception for rape as a criminal sex offense, allowing a person to be convicted of rape involving their spouse, regardless of whether their spouse lives with them.

  • Halting the EPA's "Final Rule" on Carbon Emissions

    Urges Congress to prevent the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from implementing its April 2024 "Final Rule" limiting carbon emissions for coal and natural gas-fired power plants.

  • Ban on Non-Citizen Campaign Contributions

    Bans all foreign nationals, including permanent U.S. resident "green card" holders, from making contributions or expenditures regarding ballot issues or candidates.

  • Sports Event Grant Fund

    Makes various appropriations, reappropriations, transfers, and redirects of funds for FY 2025-26, while expanding eligibility for sport site selection grants.

  • Parents' Bill of Rights

    Enacts the "Parents' Bill of Rights," requiring public schools to ensure parental involvement and notification about sexuality content and health care services and adopt a policy authorizing students to attend a released time course in religious instruction.

  • Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act

    Forbids financial institutions from using a merchant category code to identify firearms retailers and prevents government entities from keeping any list of privately owned firearms or firearms owners.

House Votes

2023 OH Legislative Scorecard

The following scorecard lists several key votes in the Ohio General Assembly in 2023 and ranks state representatives and senators based on their fidelity to (U.S.) constitutional and limited-government principles.

This is our second state-level Scorecard; the selected votes may not be reflective of legislators' overall records. Their cumulative scores will change as we add more votes. Please check regularly for updates.

Senate Votes

House Votes

2022 OH Legislative Scorecard 2021-

The following scorecard lists several key votes in the Ohio Legislature in 2021 and 2022 and ranks state representatives and senators based on their fidelity to (U.S.) constitutional and limited-government principles.

This is our first state-level Scorecard; the selected votes may not be reflective of legislators' overall records. Their cumulative scores will change as we add more votes. Please check regularly for updates.

Senate Votes

  • Abortion Survival

    Ensures that babies who are born-alive after a failed abortion receive the same medical care as other babies, regardless of the circumstances of their birth.

  • Gun Rights

    Prohibits state and local governments from infringing our right to bear arms and the 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution during declared emergencies.

  • Vaccine Mandate

    Prohibits public schools and universities from requiring vaccines that were authorized for emergency use by the FDA.

  • Health Order Oversight

    Gives power to the legislature to rescind health orders issued by the governor or the Ohio Department of Health.

  • Regulation Reduction

    Reduces regulation restrictions by 30% and eliminates bureaucratic red tape. Prohibits adding a new rule or regulation without also removing two.

  • Concealed Carry

    Removes the requirement that you must possess a permit when carrying a concealable weapon or firearm.

House Votes

  • Regulation Reduction

    Reduces regulation restrictions by 30% and eliminates bureaucratic red tape. Prohibits adding a new rule or regulation without also removing two.

  • Gun Rights

    Prohibits state and local governments from infringing the right to bear arms and the 2ndAmendment of the U.S. Constitution during declared emergencies.

  • Abortion Survival

    Ensures that babies who are born-alive after a failed abortion receive the same medical care as other babies, regardless of the circumstances of their birth.

  • Vaccine Mandates

    Covers vaccine injuries under workers compensation and bans public entities and private businesses from imposing vaccine mandates.

  • Health Order Oversight

    Gives power to the legislature to rescind health orders issued by the governor or the Ohio Department of Health.

  • Constitutional Carry

    Removes the requirement that you must possess a permit when carrying a concealable weapon or firearm.

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