---
type: "Bill"
title: "Declare certain hospital employee inventions property of hospital"
description: "Declare certain hospital employee inventions property of hospital"
jurisdiction: "us/states/oh"
legislature: "Ohio General Assembly"
session: "133"
identifier: "HB 50"
citation: "Ohio HB 50 (133)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health and Human Services", "State and Local Government", "Local Government"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dave Greenspan"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 9
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-02-12"
last_action: "2019-10-29T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4af8fef2-8efc-4641-b7c5-0832e181500d"
source_url: "http://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_133/bills/hb50/"
source_hash: "6d7d2494e797a176ceb2f88d7ffb2b296407cb61f6adafaa50833b25b0a7ec80"
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 50 (133) — Declare certain hospital employee inventions property of hospital

## 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_133/bills/hb50/IN/00?format=pdf)
2. **As Passed by the House** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_133/bills/hb50/PH/02?format=pdf)
3. **As Passed by the Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_133/bills/hb50/PS/04?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_133/bills/hb50/RH/01?format=pdf)
5. **As Reported by the Senate Government Oversight and Reform Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_133/bills/hb50/RS/03?format=pdf)
6. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_133/bills/hb50/EN/05?format=pdf)

## Votes

- Reported - Substitute — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Pass — **31–0** (pass) · upper
- Pass — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported - Substitute — **11–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dave Greenspan — primary (person)
- Adam Holmes, A. — cosponsor (person)
- Adam Miller, A. — cosponsor (person)
- Bernadine Kent — cosponsor (person)
- Bill Coley — cosponsor (person)
- Bill Reineke — cosponsor (person)
- Bill Roemer — cosponsor (person)
- Bill Seitz — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Hackett — cosponsor (person)
- Bride Rose Sweeney — cosponsor (person)
- C. Russo — cosponsor (person)
- Casey Weinstein — cosponsor (person)
- Cecil Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Darrell Kick — cosponsor (person)
- Dave Burke — cosponsor (person)
- Dick Stein — cosponsor (person)
- Don Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Don Manning, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Erica Crawley — cosponsor (person)
- Frank Hoagland — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Scherer — cosponsor (person)
- George Lang — cosponsor (person)
- Glenn Holmes, G. — cosponsor (person)
- Hearcel Craig — cosponsor (person)
- James Hoops — cosponsor (person)
- Jamie Callender — cosponsor (person)
- Janine Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey Crossman — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Uecker — cosponsor (person)
- John Eklund — cosponsor (person)
- John Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- John Rogers — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Miller, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Juanita Brent — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Yuko — cosponsor (person)
- Kent Smith, K. — cosponsor (person)
- Lisa Sobecki — cosponsor (person)
- Lou Terhar — cosponsor (person)
- Louis Blessing — cosponsor (person)
- Mary Lightbody — cosponsor (person)
- Matt Dolan — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Sheehy — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Skindell — cosponsor (person)
- Michele Lepore-Hagan — cosponsor (person)
- Nickie Antonio — cosponsor (person)
- Paula Hicks-Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Randi Clites — cosponsor (person)
- Reggie Stoltzfus — cosponsor (person)
- Richard Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Carfagna — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah LaTourette — cosponsor (person)
- Scott Wiggam — cosponsor (person)
- Sean O'Brien — cosponsor (person)
- Shane Wilkin — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Howse — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Kunze — cosponsor (person)
- Stephen Hambley — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Arndt — cosponsor (person)
- Tavia Galonski — cosponsor (person)
- Terrence Upchurch — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas West — cosponsor (person)
- Tim Ginter — cosponsor (person)
- Tina Maharath — cosponsor (person)
- Tracy Richardson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-12** Introduced `introduction`
- **2019-02-13** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-13** Reported
- **2019-03-20** Passed `passage`
- **2019-03-22** Introduced `reading-1`
- **2019-03-27** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-08** Reported
- **2019-07-17** Passed `passage`
- **2019-10-29T04:00:00+00:00** Effective 10/29/19 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4af8fef2-8efc-4641-b7c5-0832e181500d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Ohio legislature records).