---
type: "Bill"
title: "Add judges to Franklin County Domestic Relations Division"
description: "Add judges to Franklin County Domestic Relations Division"
jurisdiction: "us/states/oh"
legislature: "Ohio General Assembly"
session: "132"
identifier: "HB 174"
citation: "Ohio HB 174 (132)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts and Civil Law", "Courts", "Juvenile and Family Law", "Domestic Relations", "Juvenile and Family Law", "Juvenile Justice"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jim Hughes", "Laura Lanese"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 9
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2017-04-03"
last_action: "2017-12-22T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2ca5f13f-d9ac-4444-9c8c-985b01c319d6"
source_url: "http://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_132/bills/hb174/"
source_hash: "b8b99e00611e8bba1c5e13beb79e6b59ca3e32753b9213ae023e04d6c85cca78"
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 174 (132) — Add judges to Franklin County Domestic Relations Division

## 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_132/bills/hb174/IN/00?format=pdf)
2. **As Passed by the House** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_132/bills/hb174/PH/02?format=pdf)
3. **As Passed by the Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_132/bills/hb174/PS/04?format=pdf)
4. **As Reported by the House Civil Justice Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_132/bills/hb174/RH/01?format=pdf)
5. **As Reported by the Senate Judiciary Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_132/bills/hb174/RS/03?format=pdf)
6. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_132/bills/hb174/EN/05?format=pdf)

## Votes

- pass_300 — **31–0** (pass) · upper
- crpt_301 — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- pass_300 — **92–1** (pass) · lower
- crpt_301 — **10–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jim Hughes — primary (person)
- Laura Lanese — primary (person)
- Bill Coley — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Hackett — cosponsor (person)
- Charleta B. Tavares — cosponsor (person)
- David Leland — cosponsor (person)
- Glenn Holmes — cosponsor (person)
- Hearcel Craig — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Schiavoni — cosponsor (person)
- John Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- John Rogers — cosponsor (person)
- Kathleen Clyde — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Yuko — cosponsor (person)
- Kent Smith, K — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin Bacon — cosponsor (person)
- Kristin Boggs — cosponsor (person)
- Louis Blessing — cosponsor (person)
- Martin Sweeney — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Sheehy — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Duffey — cosponsor (person)
- Nicholas Celebrezze — cosponsor (person)
- Richard Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Sprague — cosponsor (person)
- Ron Young — cosponsor (person)
- Scott Oelslager — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Kunze — cosponsor (person)
- Tavia Galonski — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas Patton — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-04-03** Introduced `introduction`
- **2017-05-01** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-10-24** Reported
- **2017-11-01** Passed `passage`
- **2017-11-02** Introduced `reading-1`
- **2017-11-15** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-12-05** Reported
- **2017-12-05** Passed `passage`
- **2017-12-22T05:00:00+00:00** Effective `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2ca5f13f-d9ac-4444-9c8c-985b01c319d6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Ohio legislature records).