---
type: "Bill"
title: "Create Fulton County Municipal Court; abolish Fulton County Court"
description: "Create Fulton County Municipal Court; abolish Fulton County Court"
jurisdiction: "us/states/oh"
legislature: "Ohio General Assembly"
session: "134"
identifier: "HB 518"
citation: "Ohio HB 518 (134)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts", "Courts and Civil Law", "Courts and Civil Law"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Hoops"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 10
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-12-16"
last_action: "2022-09-23T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/238245c9-dedb-48e1-a9df-f383c2e9bf95"
source_url: "https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/hb518/"
source_hash: "139a87a407d1b6a9b80ee2cb87ac0e0ccc032f8a51404874c592fadbe10b0558"
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 518 (134) — Create Fulton County Municipal Court; abolish Fulton County 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_134/bills/hb518/IN/00/hb518_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/hb518/PH/02/hb518_02_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/hb518/PS/04/hb518_04_PS?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_134/bills/hb518/RH/01/hb518_01_RH?format=pdf)
5. **As Reported by the Senate Judiciary Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/hb518/RS/03/hb518_03_RS?format=pdf)
6. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/hb518/EN/05/hb518_05_EN?format=pdf)

## Votes

- Concurred in Senate amendments — **82–7** (pass) · lower
- Pass — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported - Substitute — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Pass — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported - Substitute — **6–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- James Hoops — primary (person)
- Andrea White — cosponsor (person)
- Bill Seitz — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Hackett — cosponsor (person)
- Brian Baldridge — cosponsor (person)
- C. Russo — cosponsor (person)
- Catherine Ingram — cosponsor (person)
- Cindy Abrams — cosponsor (person)
- Craig Riedel — cosponsor (person)
- Janine Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Stephens — cosponsor (person)
- Jerry Cirino — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Miller, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Yuko — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin Miller, K. — cosponsor (person)
- Laura Lanese — cosponsor (person)
- Lisa Sobecki — cosponsor (person)
- Louis Blessing — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Fraizer — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Rulli — cosponsor (person)
- Nathan Manning — cosponsor (person)
- Paula Hicks-Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- Robert McColley — cosponsor (person)
- Sara Carruthers — cosponsor (person)
- Sedrick Denson — cosponsor (person)
- Tavia Galonski — cosponsor (person)
- Theresa Gavarone — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-12-16** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-25** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Reported
- **2022-03-09** Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-16** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-01** Passed `passage`
- **2022-06-01** Reported
- **2022-06-02** Concurred in Senate amendments `amendment-passage`
- **2022-03-10** Introduced `reading-1`
- **2022-09-23T04:00:00+00:00** Effective 9/23/22 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/238245c9-dedb-48e1-a9df-f383c2e9bf95`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Ohio legislature records).