Ohio Votes

HB335 limits how much revenue local governments and school districts can raise from "inside millage" property taxes without voter approval. It caps the growth in property-tax revenue to the rate of inflation during county reappraisals or updates, directs county budget commissions to adjust inside millage so increases don't exceed an inflation-based factor, and makes related changes to county budget and tax rules.

The Ohio Senate passed HB335 on November 19, 2025 by a vote of 23 to 10. We have assigned pluses to the ayes because this bill restrains the automatic growth of property-tax collections. By limiting revenue increases, the bill curbs unchecked expansion of local government and school-district budgets. Elected officials should focus on reducing spending and easing the tax burden, not relying on reappraisals and technical adjustments to generate more revenue. Taxpayers deserve transparency, accountability, and meaningful limits on government growth.

SB85 would have authorized a new license-plate design supporting the Ohio chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and establishes a related contribution fund to collect and distribute fees from motorists who choose the plate.

The Ohio State Senate passed SB85 on June 18, 2025 by a vote of 32 to 0. We have assigned pluses to the nays because government should not use official state instruments, such as license plates, to advance organizations or Marxist woke ideologies that emphasize identity-based politics. While participation would be voluntary, state endorsement through specialty plates places government in the position of promoting leftist movements that often frame public policy through the lens of race and "equity" rather than equal protection under the law. The Declaration of Independence affirms that "all men are created equal" and endowed with unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, which is further codified by the 14th Amendment. Equality before the law—not equity of outcomes—is the American founding principle. Lawmakers should avoid policies that risk deepening division and instead uphold the constitutional ideal of equal rights for all.

SB172 would amend state law to specify that people who are unlawfully present in the United States "are not privileged from arrest." In practice, SB172 would require state and local officials to allow the arrest or detention of individuals suspected of being undocumented, including in places such as courthouses, schools, and other public settings, even without a judicial warrant—overriding local policies that had limited such arrests.

The Ohio State Senate passed SB172 on June 18, 2025 by a vote of 23 to 8. We have assigned pluses to the ayes because this bill reinforces the rule of law by clarifying that unlawful presence does not grant immunity from arrest. By preventing local governments from shielding individuals from enforcement actions, SB172 strengthens cooperation between state and federal authorities and affirms that immigration laws must be applied consistently. Illegal entry into the United States is a crime, and a sovereign nation has both the authority and the obligation to enforce its borders. Ensuring that state and local officials do not obstruct lawful enforcement actions helps protect public safety, preserve the integrity of citizenship, and uphold constitutional order.

SB63 prohibits any general or primary election from using ranked-choice voting (RCV), and adds provisions to withhold Local Government Fund distributions from a municipality or chartered county that implements ranked-choice voting through local ordinance or resolution.

The Ohio State Senate passed SB63 on May 14, 2025 by a vote of 27 to 5. We have assigned pluses to the ayes because RCV undermines election integrity and the electorate's ability to choose the best candidate. By design, RCV favors moderate-to-leftist candidates who often fail to uphold the Constitution. This complex, multi-round system can result in winners who lack true plurality support, and imposes ballot-marking requirements that may pressure voters to act against their conscience. States should firmly reject all attempts to implement this unconstitutional voting method.

SB50 changes Ohio's child-labor rules by altering age and schooling certificate requirements and extending allowable work hours for minors under 16—particularly allowing 14- and 15-year-olds to work until 9 p.m. during the school year with parental consent rather than being limited to earlier hours.

The Ohio State Senate passed SB50 on April 9, 2025 by a vote of 24 to 9. We have assigned pluses to the ayes because this bill restores reasonable flexibility for families by allowing parents—not government regulators—to determine whether their 14- or 15-year-old children may work extended evening hours. When employment is voluntary, the state should not impose unnecessary restrictions that interfere with a young person's opportunity to gain experience, develop responsibility, and earn income. Parents have the primary authority over the upbringing and supervision of their children, and that authority is protected by longstanding constitutional principles of due process and freedom of association, which are retained under the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

SB1 bans diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and related offices or trainings, prohibits faculty strikes, requires institutions to avoid taking institutional positions on controversial issues, and mandates a civics education requirement for students. The law also restructures faculty evaluation and workload policies, requires syllabi and course transparency, and calls for program review based on enrollment numbers. Schools that fail to comply with SB1 risk losing state funding.

The Ohio State Senate passed SB1 on March 26, 2025 by a vote of 20 to 11. We have assigned pluses to the ayes because DEI promotes divisive myths and false historical narratives propagated by critical race theorists, feminists, and LGBTQIA+ activists. It is nothing but a modern and subtle outgrowth of efforts by earlier Marxist radicals to alter or destroy the American way of life through a "long march through the institutions." The goal is a complete disruption of our moral, social, and political order so as to impose conformity on citizens and end all opposition to the welfare state—the modus operandi of totalitarian regimes for centuries. Justice in the hands of "social justice" warriors seeking parity in every aspect of life will only lead to tyranny. DEI must die, along with any other vain attempts to compel "equal outcomes." Our Constitution's Bill of Rights and 14th Amendment were written to promote the "general Welfare" of all Americans by means of securing each person's "unalienable Rights" to life, liberty, and property.

SB54 makes various appropriations, reappropriations, transfers, and redirects of funds for FY 2025-26, while expanding eligibility for sport site selection grants.

The Senate passed SB54 on December 18, 2024, by a vote of 29 to 1. We have assigned minuses to the yeas because funding education, health care, or social welfare services, let alone sporting events, is not the role of government. The State of Ohio has absolutely no business coercing taxpayers into furnishing proliferate amounts of money to spend on “pork-barrel” projects that exist entirely outside the limited purpose and scope of government. Significantly, this bill relies on the use of immoral and anti-constitutional forms of taxation (e.g., income taxes) that take from citizens the wages they have rightfully earned, thereby violating the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment. The General Assembly should instead act to end all reckless “tax-and-spend” bills.

HB8 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.

The Senate passed HB8 on December 18, 2024, by a vote of 24 to 7. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because the upbringing, education, care, and control of children belongs to—and is a fundamental right of—parents, not the government. The State of Ohio has a duty to uphold the right of parents to protect their children from obscene, indecent, or profane activity. Parental rights are retained under the 9th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

SB58 forbids financial institutions from using a merchant category code to identify firearms retailers, prevents government entities from keeping any list of privately owned firearms or firearms owners, and bars firearm liability insurance requirements or fees.

The Senate passed SB58 on December 18, 2024, by a vote of 25 to 6. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because this bill prohibits the unlawful use of credit card payment information to track firearms purchases as well as “no-fault” firearms liability insurance mandates. Recent adoption of a new merchant category code for “gun and ammunition shops” by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)—a globalist collaborative linked to the United Nations—aids unconstitutional efforts by the federal government to conduct mass surveillance, which, in part, is intended to create a national gun-owner database and confiscate firearms from law-abiding citizens. Moreover, no person should have to pay a government-imposed fee for the possession of a firearm. States should interpose between and nullify the actions of private or public entities that frustrate, if not blatantly violate, the Second and Fourth Amendment-protected rights of the American people.

HB1 bans all foreign nationals, including permanent U.S. resident “green card” holders, from making contributions or expenditures regarding ballot issues or candidates.

The Senate passed HB1 on May 31, 2024, by a vote of 24 to 7. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because U.S. citizens should determine U.S. elections—not foreign money or influence. The “right of Representation in the Legislature” belongs to the American people alone, who owe true faith and allegiance to the Constitution and are not subject to any foreign power. Lawmakers in Ohio should exercise their authority under Article I, Section 4, of the Constitution, as well as the 14th and 26th Amendments, to protect American elections from foreign interference and ensure equal protection of “the right of citizens of the United States to vote.”

SR296 urges Congress to pass legislation 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.

The Senate adopted SR296 on May 8, 2024, by a vote of 27 to 4. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because the federal government has no authority under Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution to engage in energy or environmental policy. Not only should the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency be abolished, but Americans should reject the hoax of “climate change,” which seeks to codify extreme provisions of the United Nations’ Agenda 2030 into law. Its “green” agenda for a “decarbonized economy” is nothing other than a fanatical attempt by globalist elites to expand their taxing power and authority, encroaching on the property rights of Americans enshrined in the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment. Ohio must protect its access to natural resources and energy reliability by saving new and existing power plants from the unconstitutional war on fossil fuels.

HB161 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.

The Senate passed HB161 on April 24, 2024, by a vote of 32 to 0. We have assigned minuses to the yeas because rape and other criminal acts of sexual immorality (e.g., incest and sodomy), by definition, can only occur apart from the martial covenant. Rather than attempt to criminalize sexual relations between spouses and undermine the family, Ohio should perform its constitutional duty to affirm and support the institution of marriage, whereby a husband and wife may enjoy their conjugal rights as part of a life-long commitment and one-flesh union. God—not the State—ordained marriage as the foundation of family government. Under the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment, heads of households retain their natural and lawful authority to regulate self-governing behavior in the home.

HB68 would protect minor children from “gender reassignment” surgeries and “cross-sex hormone or puberty-blocking” drugs.

The Senate passed HB68 on December 13, 2023, by a vote of 24 to 8, prior to it being vetoed by the Governor. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because no person has a right to abuse a child using the pretext of LGBTQ+ ideology. Sex mutilation against minor children violates their unalienable right to life and limb, as it absurdly attempts to erase their biological characteristics with fictional “gender” constructs. According to the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the States have a duty to protect the humanity of all people—male and female—who, as the Declaration of Independence affirms, are created by God and form the basis of individual and family self-government.

SR215 urged citizens to vote against a statewide ballot initiative that proposed amending the Ohio Constitution by establishing an individual ‘right to abortion.’

The Senate adopted SR 215 on October 11, 2023, by a vote of 23 to 7. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because the care of human life—not its destruction—is the greatest responsibility of government. Ohio ought to forbid the practice of abortion entirely and secure the right to life for every preborn child. The right to life is the most fundamental, God-given, and unalienable right asserted in the Declaration of Independence and protected by the Fifth and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

SB75 would create Joint Economic Development Districts (JEDD) comprised of multiple local governments with the power to extend and levy an income tax to promote “economic development or redevelopment,” “create or preserve jobs,” and “improve the economic welfare.” 

The Senate passed SB75 on October 11, 2023, by a vote of 29 to 1. We have assigned minuses to the yeas because “economic development” is simply a cliché or code word used to coerce taxpayers into subsidizing various types of crony, corporate-sponsored projects conceived outside the limited purpose and scope of government. Unsurprisingly, this bill is wholly dependent upon the income tax, which itself is an immoral, anti-constitutional act of government-imposed theft that takes from citizens the wages they have rightfully earned. Ohio ought not to disparage its citizens of their property rights or income. The U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights and 14th Amendment condemn undue deprivations of a person’s “property.”

SJR2 proposed an amendment to the Ohio Constitution that would have required any future constitutional amendment to be approved by at least 60% of the voters.

The Senate adopted SJR2 on May 10, 2023, by a vote of 26 to 7. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because a supermajority of the electorate—not the current threshold of only more than 50 percent of voters—should be required to approve of any legitimate changes to the Ohio Constitution. While the American Founders believed that government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed, they understood that a simple majority is insufficient to protecting the individual rights and liberty of the people from the “dangers of democracy,” which threaten to result in a “tyranny of the majority” or an “elective despotism.” This explains why the U.S. Constitution, in Article IV, Section 4, explicitly guarantees to “every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.” It provides that government be limited to the ‘rule of law,’ as opposed to mere ‘majority rule’ in a democracy.

SB58 would prohibit firearm liability insurance requirements or fees in the State of Ohio.

The Senate passed SB58 on April 26, 2023, by a vote of 24 to 7. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because not only are ‘no-fault’ government-imposed insurance mandates inherently unconstitutional, but requiring the purchase of “firearm liability insurance,” or the payment of a fee for the possession of a firearm, amounts to a direct violation of the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment, which guarantees that “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” The Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment prevent “any State” from depriving or denying “any person” of their “life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”

SB54 would form the New African Immigrants Grant and Gift Fund in the state treasury.

The Senate passed SB54 on March 29, 2023, by a vote of 31 to 0. We have assigned minuses to the yeas because neither the mission nor the duties of the New African Immigrants Commission are the legitimate objects of government. Ohio has no business authorizing a statutory mandate to “advocate for the self-sufficiency of sub-Saharan African people,” which only divides its residents on account of national origin or ethnicity. Instead of unconstitutionally and unethically engaging in identity politics by discriminatorily seeking to “apply for and accept grants and gifts" on behalf of sub-Saharan African migrants or refugees, the State should focus first and foremost on securing the basic constitutional rights of its citizens. The Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment were intended to promote the “general Welfare” of all Americans and demand that each state provide to every person within its jurisdiction the “equal protection of the laws.”

SB9 reduces regulation restrictions by 30% and eliminates bureaucratic red tape, which makes it easier for Ohio to conduct business and to live. Prohibits adding a new rule or regulation without removing two.

The Ohio State Senate passed SB9 on March 10, 2021 by a vote of 25 to 8. We have assigned pluses to the ayes because this legislation shrinks the size of government and eliminates government interference in business. Businesses and individual consumers have the freedom to conduct business and to buy products without the government meddling in their affairs. The Declaration of Independence states, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” and government interference in entrepreneurship and private business is in violation of that belief.

SB215 removes the requirement that you must possess a permit when carrying a concealable weapon or firearm. This law ensures the right of a qualifying adult to carry a concealed handgun in the same manner as if the person was a licensee.

The Ohio State Senate passed SB215 on December 15, 2021 by a vote of 23 to 8.  We have assigned pluses to the ayes because the fundamental right of the American people to keep and bear arms is protected by the U.S. Constitution, particularly in the 2nd, 9th, and 10th Amendments, and should not be infringed. The Constitution does not limit where a gun or firearm can or cannot be used.

SB157 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.

The Ohio State Senate passed SB157 on October 27, 2021 by a vote of 25 to 6.  We have assigned pluses to the ayes because the right to life is the most fundamental, God-given, and unalienable right asserted in the Declaration of Independence and protected by the U.S. Constitution. Further, there is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that would prevent states from passing well-constructed statutes or adopting amendments to their state constitutions that provide even greater and more specific protections for the right to life than those provided by the 4th, 5th, and 14th Amendments.

SB185 prohibits state and local governments from infringing our right to bear arms and the 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution during declared emergencies.

The Ohio State Senate passed SB185 on October 20, 2021 by a vote of 23 to 7. We have assigned pluses to the ayes because We have assigned the pluses to the ayes because the fundamental right of the American people to keep and bear arms is protected by the U.S. Constitution, particularly in the 2nd, 9th, and 10th Amendments, and should not be infringed in any situation.

HB244 prohibits public schools and universities from requiring vaccines that were authorized for emergency use by the FDA.  This legislation also prohibits schools from discriminating against individuals who have not received the COVID-19 vaccine.

The Ohio State Senate passed HB244 on June 28, 2021 by a vote of 25 to 8.  We have assigned pluses to the ayes because an individual’s personal health care decisions should not be the object of government, nor be under its federal, state, or local jurisdictions in the United States. Forcing an individual to receive a vaccination or partake in any medical procedure would be a violation of their fundamental rights, freedoms, privileges, or immunities protected by the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

SB22 gives power to the legislature to rescind health orders issued by the governor or the Ohio Department of Health.

The Ohio State Senate voted to override the Governor’s veto of SB22 on February 17, 2021 and passed by a vote of 53 to 8. We have assigned pluses to the ayes because our founding fathers believed that checks and balances in government are essential to keeping our elected officials in check with the Constitution and to prevent any unconstitutional government overreach. Article IV, Section 4, of the U.S. Constitution, requires a limitation and separation of powers. Also, a non-elected bureaucratic local health board should not have the authority to shut down or regulate businesses.