---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise law governing wind farms and solar facilities"
description: "Revise law governing wind farms and solar facilities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/oh"
legislature: "Ohio General Assembly"
session: "134"
identifier: "SB 52"
citation: "Ohio SB 52 (134)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Electric Utilities", "Local Government", "State Government", "State and Local Government", "State and Local Government", "Utilities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bill Reineke", "Robert McColley"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 10
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-02-09"
last_action: "2021-10-11T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ee8b667d-6a97-47a2-97d3-7a75f6b47a1b"
source_url: "https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/sb52/"
source_hash: "5f741471cb3ea7fb26ce3fedfdf8a90a4d387565c31dff7bd9f8b23d869e9bb7"
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 52 (134) — Revise law governing wind farms and solar facilities

## 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/sb52/IN/00/sb52_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/sb52/PH/04/sb52_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/sb52/PS/02/sb52_02_PS?format=pdf)
4. **As Reported by the House Public Utilities Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/sb52/RH/03/sb52_03_RH?format=pdf)
5. **As Reported by the Senate Energy and Public Utilities Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/sb52/RS/01/sb52_01_RS?format=pdf)
6. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/sb52/EN/05/sb52_05_EN?format=pdf)

## Votes

- Reported - Substitute — **7–5** (pass) · upper
- Pass — **52–44** (pass) · lower
- Pass — **20–13** (pass) · upper
- Reported - Substitute — **10–7** (pass) · lower
- Concurred in Senate amendments — **21–12** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bill Reineke — primary (person)
- Robert McColley — primary (person)
- Andrew Brenner — cosponsor (person)
- Bill Seitz — cosponsor (person)
- Craig Riedel — cosponsor (person)
- D. J. Swearingen — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Click — cosponsor (person)
- George Lang — cosponsor (person)
- James Hoops — cosponsor (person)
- Jerry Cirino — cosponsor (person)
- Jon Cross — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Schuring — cosponsor (person)
- Matt Huffman, M. — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Rulli — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Creech — cosponsor (person)
- Sandra O'Brien — cosponsor (person)
- Sara Carruthers — cosponsor (person)
- Steve Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Tim Schaffer — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-09** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-06-02** Passed `passage`
- **2021-06-02** Reported
- **2021-02-10** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-10** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-29** Concurred in House amendments `amendment-passage`
- **2021-06-29** Passed `passage`
- **2021-06-28** Reported
- **2021-06-07** Introduced `reading-1`
- **2021-10-11T04:00:00+00:00** Effective 10/11/21 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ee8b667d-6a97-47a2-97d3-7a75f6b47a1b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Ohio legislature records).