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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Enact Ballot Uniformity and Transparency Act"
+description: "Enact Ballot Uniformity and Transparency Act"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/oh"
+legislature: "Ohio General Assembly"
+session: "134"
+identifier: "HB 140"
+citation: "Ohio HB 140 (134)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Elections", "Housing and Real Property", "Taxation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Derek Merrin"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 9
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2021-02-18"
+last_action: "2022-09-13T04:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5006e2ed-27b8-463c-97fc-2cab60ffcf84"
+source_url: "https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/hb140/"
+source_hash: "55efa03949e87d967c90fdd1ba0787a637c247c70ecf899c024b277c686b610e"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-oh"]
+---
+
+# Ohio HB 140 (134) — Enact Ballot Uniformity and Transparency Act
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **As Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/hb140/IN/00/hb140_00_IN?format=pdf)
+2. **As Passed by the House** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/hb140/PH/02/hb140_02_PH?format=pdf)
+3. **As Passed by the Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/hb140/PS/04/hb140_04_PS?format=pdf)
+4. **As Reported by the House Ways and Means Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/hb140/RH/01/hb140_01_RH?format=pdf)
+5. **As Reported by the Senate Ways and Means Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/hb140/RS/03/hb140_03_RS?format=pdf)
+6. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/hb140/EN/05/hb140_05_EN?format=pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Pass — **22–10** (pass) · upper
+- Reported - Substitute — **10–5** (pass) · lower
+- Reported - Substitute — **5–2** (pass) · upper
+- Pass — **60–33** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Derek Merrin — primary (person)
+- Adam Holmes — cosponsor (person)
+- Alessandro Cutrona — cosponsor (person)
+- Bill Roemer — cosponsor (person)
+- Bill Seitz — cosponsor (person)
+- Bob Peterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Bob Young, B. — cosponsor (person)
+- Brian Stewart — cosponsor (person)
+- Craig Riedel — cosponsor (person)
+- D. J. Swearingen — cosponsor (person)
+- Dick Stein — cosponsor (person)
+- Don Jones — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary Click — cosponsor (person)
+- George Lang — cosponsor (person)
+- Jamie Callender — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason Stephens — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Edwards — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeff LaRe — cosponsor (person)
+- Jerry Cirino — cosponsor (person)
+- Jon Cross — cosponsor (person)
+- Kris Jordan — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Householder — cosponsor (person)
+- Marilyn John — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Loychik — cosponsor (person)
+- P. Lipps — cosponsor (person)
+- Phil Plummer — cosponsor (person)
+- Reggie Stoltzfus — cosponsor (person)
+- Riordan McClain — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert McColley — cosponsor (person)
+- Sara Carruthers — cosponsor (person)
+- Sarah Fowler Arthur — cosponsor (person)
+- Scott Wiggam — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephen Huffman, S. — cosponsor (person)
+- Theresa Gavarone — cosponsor (person)
+- Tim Schaffer — cosponsor (person)
+- Tom Brinkman — cosponsor (person)
+- Tom Young, T. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-18** Introduced `introduction`
+- **2021-02-24** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-22** Passed `passage`
+- **2021-04-14** Reported
+- **2021-04-28** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-27** Introduced `reading-1`
+- **2022-06-01** Passed `passage`
+- **2022-06-01** Reported
+- **2022-09-13T04:00:00+00:00** Effective 9/13/22 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5006e2ed-27b8-463c-97fc-2cab60ffcf84`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Ohio legislature records).
+