---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise Probate Law, Guardianship Law, and Ohio Trust Code"
description: "Revise Probate Law, Guardianship Law, and Ohio Trust Code"
jurisdiction: "us/states/oh"
legislature: "Ohio General Assembly"
session: "134"
identifier: "HB 7"
citation: "Ohio HB 7 (134)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Civil Law", "Courts and Civil Law", "Courts and Civil Law", "Courts and Civil Law", "Health and Human Services", "Mental Health and Disabilities", "Wills", "Trusts", "and Estates"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Stewart", "Diane Grendell"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 9
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-02-03"
last_action: "2021-08-17T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5f0c4fa3-3b92-4b5d-882f-a8e896303e4a"
source_url: "https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/hb7/"
source_hash: "ca8fe9625d55448d776d891da298f7431f7dc641242999006a95d7b0be12d104"
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 7 (134) — Revise Probate Law, Guardianship Law, and Ohio Trust Code

## 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/hb7/IN/00/hb7_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/hb7/PH/02/hb7_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/hb7/PS/04/hb7_04_PS?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_134/bills/hb7/RH/01/hb7_01_RH?format=pdf)
5. **As Reported by the Senate Judiciary Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/hb7/RS/03/hb7_03_RS?format=pdf)
6. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/hb7/EN/05/hb7_05_EN?format=pdf)

## Votes

- Pass — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported - Substitute — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Pass — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported - Substitute — **14–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brian Stewart — primary (person)
- Diane Grendell — primary (person)
- Adam Miller, A. — cosponsor (person)
- Andrea White — cosponsor (person)
- Bill Dean — cosponsor (person)
- Bill Reineke — cosponsor (person)
- Bill Roemer — cosponsor (person)
- Bill Seitz — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Cupp — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Hackett — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Young, B. — cosponsor (person)
- Brett Hillyer — cosponsor (person)
- Brian Lampton — cosponsor (person)
- Cecil Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- D. J. Swearingen — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel Troy — cosponsor (person)
- Darrell Kick — cosponsor (person)
- Gail Pavliga — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Click — cosponsor (person)
- George Lang — cosponsor (person)
- Hearcel Craig — cosponsor (person)
- Jamie Callender — cosponsor (person)
- Jean Schmidt — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey Crossman — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer Gross — cosponsor (person)
- Jerry Cirino — cosponsor (person)
- Jessica Miranda — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Miller, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Yuko — cosponsor (person)
- Lisa Sobecki — cosponsor (person)
- Louis Blessing — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Fraizer — cosponsor (person)
- Mary Lightbody — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Rulli — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Sheehy — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Skindell — cosponsor (person)
- Nathan Manning — cosponsor (person)
- Nickie Antonio — cosponsor (person)
- Paula Hicks-Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- Phil Plummer — cosponsor (person)
- Richard Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Sara Carruthers — cosponsor (person)
- Stephen Huffman, S. — cosponsor (person)
- Tavia Galonski — cosponsor (person)
- Teresa Fedor — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Theresa Gavarone — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas Patton — 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.

- **2021-02-03** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-02-04** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-24** Reported
- **2021-03-03** Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-10** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-05** Reported
- **2021-05-05** Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-09** Introduced `reading-1`
- **2021-08-17T04:00:00+00:00** Effective 8/17/21 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5f0c4fa3-3b92-4b5d-882f-a8e896303e4a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Ohio legislature records).