---
type: "Bill"
title: "Designate Blood Donor Awareness Month"
description: "Designate Blood Donor Awareness Month"
jurisdiction: "us/states/oh"
legislature: "Ohio General Assembly"
session: "132"
identifier: "HB 252"
citation: "Ohio HB 252 (132)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Special Designations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stephen Huffman"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 10
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-05-30"
last_action: "2018-05-11T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/48153c4a-6d85-49b5-a244-fed13896be1d"
source_url: "http://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_132/bills/hb252/"
source_hash: "1168a4af37cdad137b71c8914f650f4d8f6944bbd72a6c37fa06377cd10a487c"
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 252 (132) — Designate Blood Donor Awareness Month

## 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/hb252/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/hb252/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/hb252/PS/04?format=pdf)
4. **As Reported by the House Health Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_132/bills/hb252/RH/01?format=pdf)
5. **As Reported by the Senate Health, Human Services and Medicaid Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_132/bills/hb252/RS/03?format=pdf)
6. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_132/bills/hb252/EN/05?format=pdf)

## Votes

- crpt_301 — **19–0** (pass) · lower
- pass_300 — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- crpt_301 — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Stephen Huffman — primary (person)
- Al Landis — cosponsor (person)
- Alicia Reece — cosponsor (person)
- Andrew Brenner — cosponsor (person)
- Andy Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Bill Beagle — cosponsor (person)
- Bill Coley — cosponsor (person)
- Bill Reineke — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Cupp — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Hackett — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Cecil Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Charleta B. Tavares — cosponsor (person)
- Christina Hagan — cosponsor (person)
- Craig Riedel — cosponsor (person)
- Darrell Kick — cosponsor (person)
- Dave Burke — cosponsor (person)
- Dick Stein — cosponsor (person)
- Doug Green — cosponsor (person)
- Edna Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Emilia Sykes — cosponsor (person)
- Frank Hoagland — cosponsor (person)
- Fred Strahorn — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Scherer — cosponsor (person)
- Gayle Manning — cosponsor (person)
- George Lang — cosponsor (person)
- Glenn Holmes — cosponsor (person)
- Janine Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Hottinger — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Schiavoni — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Uecker — cosponsor (person)
- John Boccieri — cosponsor (person)
- John Eklund — cosponsor (person)
- John Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- John Rogers — cosponsor (person)
- Keith Faber — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Yuko — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin Bacon — cosponsor (person)
- Kris Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Obhof — cosponsor (person)
- Lou Terhar — cosponsor (person)
- Marilyn Slaby — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Romanchuk — cosponsor (person)
- Martin Sweeney — cosponsor (person)
- Matt Dolan — cosponsor (person)
- Matt Huffman — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ashford — cosponsor (person)
- Michael O'Brien — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Sheehy — cosponsor (person)
- Michele Lepore-Hagan — cosponsor (person)
- Nickie Antonio — cosponsor (person)
- Peggy Lehner — cosponsor (person)
- Randy Gardner — cosponsor (person)
- Richard Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Carfagna — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Perales — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Sprague — cosponsor (person)
- Ron Young — cosponsor (person)
- Sandra Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah LaTourette — cosponsor (person)
- Scott Oelslager — cosponsor (person)
- Scott Ryan — cosponsor (person)
- Sean O'Brien — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Kunze — cosponsor (person)
- Steve Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Tavia Galonski — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Theresa Gavarone — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas Patton — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas West — cosponsor (person)
- Tim Ginter — cosponsor (person)
- Troy Balderson — cosponsor (person)
- Vernon Sykes — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-05-30** Introduced `introduction`
- **2017-06-06** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-09-13** Reported
- **2017-09-19** Passed `passage`
- **2017-09-21** Introduced `reading-1`
- **2017-09-27** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** Reported
- **2018-01-31** Passed `passage`
- **2018-01-31** Manually Generate Message Element
- **2018-05-11T04:00:00+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/48153c4a-6d85-49b5-a244-fed13896be1d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Ohio legislature records).