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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Regulate indemnity clause - certain professional design contracts"
+description: "Regulate indemnity clause - certain professional design contracts"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/oh"
+legislature: "Ohio General Assembly"
+session: "134"
+identifier: "SB 56"
+citation: "Ohio SB 56 (134)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Commerce", "Courts", "Courts and Civil Law"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Louis Blessing"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2021-02-09"
+last_action: "2023-03-14T04:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4885c087-48a7-4fe7-8117-5f7b94a463b0"
+source_url: "https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/sb56/"
+source_hash: "25f9a7c036c39fc164f890f0177230043bd5fc6d11ca975aff9b05eab8e4b64e"
+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 56 (134) — Regulate indemnity clause - certain professional design contracts
+
+## 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/sb56/IN/00/sb56_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/sb56/PH/04/sb56_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/sb56/PS/02/sb56_02_PS?format=pdf)
+4. **As Reported by the Committee of Conference** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/sb56/CR/05/sb56_05_CR?format=pdf)
+5. **As Reported by the House Civil Justice Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/sb56/RH/03/sb56_03_RH?format=pdf)
+6. **As Reported by the Senate Judiciary Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/sb56/RS/01/sb56_01_RS?format=pdf)
+7. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/sb56/EN/06/sb56_06_EN?format=pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Pass — **91–2** (pass) · lower
+- Pass — **31–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported - Substitute — **11–2** (pass) · lower
+- Conference report agreed to — **30–0** (pass) · upper
+- Refused to concur in Senate amendments — **0–32** (fail) · upper
+- Conference report agreed to — **78–4** (pass) · lower
+- Reported - Substitute — **6–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Louis Blessing — primary (person)
+- Adam Holmes — cosponsor (person)
+- Adam Miller, A. — cosponsor (person)
+- Bill Seitz — cosponsor (person)
+- Bob Cupp — cosponsor (person)
+- Bob Hackett — cosponsor (person)
+- Brett Hillyer — cosponsor (person)
+- Brian Lampton — cosponsor (person)
+- Catherine Ingram — cosponsor (person)
+- Cecil Thomas — cosponsor (person)
+- Daniel Troy — cosponsor (person)
+- David Leland — cosponsor (person)
+- Diane Grendell — cosponsor (person)
+- Dick Stein — cosponsor (person)
+- Don Jones — cosponsor (person)
+- Haraz Ghanbari — cosponsor (person)
+- Hearcel Craig — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Edwards — cosponsor (person)
+- Jerry Cirino — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenny Yuko — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Fraizer — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Rulli — cosponsor (person)
+- Nathan Manning — cosponsor (person)
+- Nickie Antonio — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Creech — cosponsor (person)
+- Sandra Williams — cosponsor (person)
+- Sara Carruthers — cosponsor (person)
+- Teresa Fedor — cosponsor (person)
+- Tim Ginter — cosponsor (person)
+- Tom Young, T. — cosponsor (person)
+- Vernon Sykes — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-09** Introduced `introduction`
+- **2021-05-12** Reported
+- **2021-05-19** Passed `passage`
+- **2021-02-10** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-10** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-25** Introduced `reading-1`
+- **2021-11-17** Reported
+- **2022-01-26** Passed `passage`
+- **2022-03-08** Refused to concur in House amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2022-03-30** Insist on amendments; asks for committee of conference
+- **2022-04-05** Conference managers: Sens. - Blessing, McColley, Thomas
+- **2022-11-14** Conference managers: Reps. - Seitz, Cutrona, Galonski
+- **2022-11-14** Conference managers: Reps. - Seitz, Cutrona, Galonski
+- **2022-11-30** Conference report agreed to
+- **2022-12-01** Conference report agreed to
+- **2023-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** Effective 3/14/23 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4885c087-48a7-4fe7-8117-5f7b94a463b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Ohio legislature records).
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