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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Regards criminal background checks for certain professions"
+description: "Regards criminal background checks for certain professions"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/oh"
+legislature: "Ohio General Assembly"
+session: "134"
+identifier: "SB 217"
+citation: "Ohio SB 217 (134)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Aging", "Crimes", "Corrections", "and Law Enforcement", "Criminal Records Checks", "Health and Human Services", "Local Government", "Public Records", "State and Local Government", "State and Local Government", "Taxation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Tim Schaffer"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 9
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2021-08-10"
+last_action: "2021-12-22T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf55270f-62d6-4b80-ab5a-78637f3f9afb"
+source_url: "https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/sb217/"
+source_hash: "ec19df82db00f8e43d436e08d47d8e1d9081b82224f479952c526ec2ea38e984"
+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 SB 217 (134) — Regards criminal background checks for certain professions
+
+## 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/sb217/IN/00/sb217_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/sb217/PH/04/sb217_04_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/sb217/PS/02/sb217_02_PS?format=pdf)
+4. **As Reported by the House Criminal Justice Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/sb217/RH/03/sb217_03_RH?format=pdf)
+5. **As Reported by the Senate Health Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/sb217/RS/01/sb217_01_RS?format=pdf)
+6. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/sb217/EN/05/sb217_05_EN?format=pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported - Substitute — **12–0** (pass) · lower
+- Pass — **89–5** (pass) · lower
+- Pass — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported - Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Tim Schaffer — primary (person)
+- Andrea White — cosponsor (person)
+- Andrew Brenner — cosponsor (person)
+- Bill Seitz — cosponsor (person)
+- Bob Hackett — cosponsor (person)
+- Brian Lampton — cosponsor (person)
+- Cecil Thomas — cosponsor (person)
+- Cindy Abrams — cosponsor (person)
+- D. J. Swearingen — cosponsor (person)
+- David Leland — cosponsor (person)
+- Don Jones — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Hottinger — cosponsor (person)
+- Jerry Cirino — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Miller, J. — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenny Yuko — cosponsor (person)
+- Kirk Schuring — cosponsor (person)
+- Kristina Roegner — cosponsor (person)
+- Louis Blessing — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Fraizer — cosponsor (person)
+- Matt Dolan — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Rulli — cosponsor (person)
+- Sara Carruthers — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephen Huffman, S. — cosponsor (person)
+- Steve Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- Teresa Fedor — cosponsor (person)
+- Terry Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas West — cosponsor (person)
+- Tom Young, T. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-08-10** Introduced `introduction`
+- **2021-09-08** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
+- **2021-10-13** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
+- **2021-10-12** Introduced `reading-1`
+- **2021-11-23** Reported
+- **2021-12-08** Passed `passage`
+- **2021-10-06** Passed `passage`
+- **2021-09-29** Reported
+- **2021-12-22T05:00:00+00:00** Effective 12/22/21 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bf55270f-62d6-4b80-ab5a-78637f3f9afb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Ohio legislature records).
+