---
type: "Bill"
title: "Regards transparency by certain online sellers"
description: "Regards transparency by certain online sellers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/oh"
legislature: "Ohio General Assembly"
session: "134"
identifier: "HB 272"
citation: "Ohio HB 272 (134)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commerce"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Haraz Ghanbari", "Phil Plummer"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 10
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-04-22"
last_action: "2022-07-06T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0d902be0-fb18-4604-b0ef-5661ddd6032c"
source_url: "https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/hb272/"
source_hash: "a0a47a3fcb2878b9f4413250e0ded756b596423e68fdb6054885ba32ab57ede2"
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 272 (134) — Regards transparency by certain online sellers

## 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/hb272/IN/00/hb272_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/hb272/PH/02/hb272_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/hb272/PS/05/hb272_05_PS?format=pdf)
4. **As Re-referred to the Senate Financial Institutions and Technology Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/hb272/RCS/03/hb272_03_RCS?format=pdf)
5. **As Reported by the House Commerce and Labor Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/hb272/RH/01/hb272_01_RH?format=pdf)
6. **As Reported by the Senate Financial Institutions and Technology Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/hb272/RS/04/hb272_04_RS?format=pdf)
7. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/hb272/EN/06/hb272_06_EN?format=pdf)

## Votes

- Pass — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Pass — **75–20** (pass) · lower
- Reported - Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported - Substitute — **7–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Haraz Ghanbari — primary (person)
- Phil Plummer — primary (person)
- Andrea White — cosponsor (person)
- Bill Reineke — cosponsor (person)
- Bill Roemer — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Hackett — cosponsor (person)
- Brian Lampton — cosponsor (person)
- Cecil Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Craig Riedel — cosponsor (person)
- Dick Stein — cosponsor (person)
- Don Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Frank Hoagland — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Click — cosponsor (person)
- George Lang — cosponsor (person)
- Jeff LaRe — cosponsor (person)
- Jerry Cirino — cosponsor (person)
- Jon Cross — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Yuko — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin Miller, K. — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Schuring — cosponsor (person)
- Louis Blessing — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Matt Dolan — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Rulli — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Carfagna — cosponsor (person)
- Stephen Huffman, S. — cosponsor (person)
- Steve Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Theresa Gavarone — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas Patton — cosponsor (person)
- Tim Schaffer — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-04-22** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-05-04** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-12-08** Passed `passage`
- **2021-12-08** Reported
- **2021-12-15** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-12-09** Introduced `reading-1`
- **2022-01-26** Re-referred
- **2022-03-30** Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-30** Reported
- **2022-07-06T04:00:00+00:00** Effective 7/6/22 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0d902be0-fb18-4604-b0ef-5661ddd6032c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Ohio legislature records).