---
type: "Bill"
title: "Create Paulding County Municipal Court"
description: "Create Paulding County Municipal Court"
jurisdiction: "us/states/oh"
legislature: "Ohio General Assembly"
session: "132"
identifier: "HB 215"
citation: "Ohio HB 215 (132)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts and Civil Law", "Courts"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Craig Riedel"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 10
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2017-05-08"
last_action: "2018-03-23T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/97ad75e4-9a9f-45e4-8c4d-4fe7482238da"
source_url: "http://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_132/bills/hb215/"
source_hash: "9b7f79d28dffa39cb1243b7201a9dc5428d12f350d3d0eaf2b33496c3830f34c"
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 215 (132) — Create Paulding County Municipal Court

## 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_132/bills/hb215/IN/00?format=pdf)
2. **As Passed by the House** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_132/bills/hb215/PH/02?format=pdf)
3. **As Passed by the Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_132/bills/hb215/PS/04?format=pdf)
4. **As Reported by the House Criminal Justice Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_132/bills/hb215/RH/01?format=pdf)
5. **As Reported by the Senate Judiciary Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_132/bills/hb215/RS/03?format=pdf)
6. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_132/bills/hb215/EN/05?format=pdf)

## Votes

- crpt_301 — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- crpt_301 — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- pass_300 — **88–6** (pass) · lower
- pass_300 — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Craig Riedel — primary (person)
- Bill Coley — cosponsor (person)
- Bill Seitz — cosponsor (person)
- Gayle Manning — cosponsor (person)
- Glenn Holmes — cosponsor (person)
- Hearcel Craig — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Schiavoni — cosponsor (person)
- John Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- John Eklund — cosponsor (person)
- John Rogers — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Yuko — cosponsor (person)
- Kent Smith, K — cosponsor (person)
- Martin Sweeney — cosponsor (person)
- Matt Huffman — cosponsor (person)
- Nathan Manning — cosponsor (person)
- Nicholas Celebrezze — cosponsor (person)
- Randy Gardner — cosponsor (person)
- Richard Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Robert McColley — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Sprague — cosponsor (person)
- Scott Oelslager — cosponsor (person)
- Tavia Galonski — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-05-08** Introduced `introduction`
- **2017-05-16** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-20** Reported
- **2017-09-20** Passed `passage`
- **2017-09-21** Introduced `reading-1`
- **2017-09-27** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-12-12** Reported
- **2017-12-13** Passed `passage`
- **2017-12-13** Manually Generate Message Element
- **2018-03-23T04:00:00+00:00** Effective `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/97ad75e4-9a9f-45e4-8c4d-4fe7482238da`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Ohio legislature records).