---
type: "Bill"
title: "Regards cigarette minimum pricing"
description: "Regards cigarette minimum pricing"
jurisdiction: "us/states/oh"
legislature: "Ohio General Assembly"
session: "134"
identifier: "SB 40"
citation: "Ohio SB 40 (134)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commerce", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tim Schaffer"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 9
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-02-02"
last_action: "2021-09-30T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/95e75d82-fc49-44d4-8ed4-bafe041853e9"
source_url: "https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/sb40/"
source_hash: "8b5db2c8ac92f5bcf3ae0a238561259fea7326fa4376c8b24fd13c3dff37d80d"
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 40 (134) — Regards cigarette minimum pricing

## 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/sb40/IN/00/sb40_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/sb40/PH/04/sb40_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/sb40/PS/02/sb40_02_PS?format=pdf)
4. **As Reported by the House Ways and Means Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/sb40/RH/03/sb40_03_RH?format=pdf)
5. **As Reported by the Senate Ways and Means Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/sb40/RS/01/sb40_01_RS?format=pdf)
6. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/sb40/EN/05/sb40_05_EN?format=pdf)

## Votes

- Pass — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported - Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported - Substitute — **16–1** (pass) · lower
- Pass — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tim Schaffer — primary (person)
- Adam Miller, A. — cosponsor (person)
- Alessandro Cutrona — cosponsor (person)
- Andrea White — cosponsor (person)
- Bill Reineke — cosponsor (person)
- Bill Roemer — cosponsor (person)
- Bill Seitz — cosponsor (person)
- C. Russo — cosponsor (person)
- Craig Riedel — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel Troy — cosponsor (person)
- Dick Stein — cosponsor (person)
- Don Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Frank Hoagland — cosponsor (person)
- Gail Pavliga — cosponsor (person)
- James Hoops — cosponsor (person)
- Jerry Cirino — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Miller, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Lisa Sobecki — cosponsor (person)
- Louis Blessing — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Fraizer — cosponsor (person)
- Michael O'Brien — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Rulli — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Loychik — cosponsor (person)
- Niraj Antani — cosponsor (person)
- Richard Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Scott Oelslager — cosponsor (person)
- Tavia Galonski — cosponsor (person)
- Teresa Fedor — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-04-28** Reported
- **2021-05-05** Passed `passage`
- **2021-05-11** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-03** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-23** Reported
- **2021-06-24** Passed `passage`
- **2021-05-06** Introduced `reading-1`
- **2021-09-30T04:00:00+00:00** Effective 9/30/21 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/95e75d82-fc49-44d4-8ed4-bafe041853e9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Ohio legislature records).