---
type: "Bill"
title: "Create regulatory sandbox for financial products, services"
description: "Create regulatory sandbox for financial products, services"
jurisdiction: "us/states/oh"
legislature: "Ohio General Assembly"
session: "134"
identifier: "SB 249"
citation: "Ohio SB 249 (134)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commerce", "Commerce", "Commerce", "Consumer Finance", "Financial Institutions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Steve Wilson"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 9
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-10-05"
last_action: "2023-03-14T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e447f5cb-9b55-494c-a88d-7af3d78310e0"
source_url: "https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/sb249/"
source_hash: "26ae9f50b26a2b9029524e6f1fe29360f6dbc6c72b320b82e744881801ec1cf5"
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 249 (134) — Create regulatory sandbox for financial products, services

## 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/sb249/IN/00/sb249_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/sb249/PH/04/sb249_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/sb249/PS/02/sb249_02_PS?format=pdf)
4. **As Reported by the House Financial Institutions Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/sb249/RH/03/sb249_03_RH?format=pdf)
5. **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/sb249/RS/01/sb249_01_RS?format=pdf)
6. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/sb249/EN/05/sb249_05_EN?format=pdf)

## Votes

- Pass — **82–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported - Substitute — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported - Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Pass — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Steve Wilson — primary (person)
- Bill Reineke — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Hackett — cosponsor (person)
- Brett Hillyer — cosponsor (person)
- Cecil Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Derek Merrin — cosponsor (person)
- Elgin Rogers — cosponsor (person)
- George Lang — cosponsor (person)
- Hearcel Craig — cosponsor (person)
- Jamie Callender — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Hottinger — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer Gross — cosponsor (person)
- Jerry Cirino — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Yuko — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Schuring — cosponsor (person)
- Louis Blessing — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Fraizer — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Romanchuk — cosponsor (person)
- Matt Dolan — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Rulli — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Sheehy — cosponsor (person)
- Robert McColley — cosponsor (person)
- Ron Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Sara Carruthers — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Tina Maharath — cosponsor (person)
- Vernon Sykes — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-10-05** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-10-06** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-12-15** Reported
- **2022-03-02** Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-08** Introduced `reading-1`
- **2022-03-22** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-11-16** Reported
- **2022-11-30** Passed `passage`
- **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/e447f5cb-9b55-494c-a88d-7af3d78310e0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Ohio legislature records).