---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise the law regarding funerals and funeral services"
description: "Revise the law regarding funerals and funeral services"
jurisdiction: "us/states/oh"
legislature: "Ohio General Assembly"
session: "134"
identifier: "SB 224"
citation: "Ohio SB 224 (134)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commerce", "Elections", "Health and Human Services", "Local Government", "State and Local Government", "State and Local Government", "Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jerry Cirino"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 10
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-09-08"
last_action: "2022-09-13T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79b6b632-ff72-4852-b657-b5bc4b54e20c"
source_url: "https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/sb224/"
source_hash: "c590bc619ecd1c6f637b577149346fe287363673c8a6f074a318c0caf91c6992"
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 224 (134) — Revise the law regarding funerals and funeral services

## 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/sb224/IN/00/sb224_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/sb224/PH/04/sb224_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/sb224/PS/02/sb224_02_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/sb224/RH/03/sb224_03_RH?format=pdf)
5. **As Reported by the Senate General Government Budget Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/sb224/RS/01/sb224_01_RS?format=pdf)
6. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/sb224/EN/05/sb224_05_EN?format=pdf)

## Votes

- Concurred in Senate amendments — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported - Substitute — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Pass — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported - Substitute — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Pass — **29–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jerry Cirino — primary (person)
- Adam Miller, A. — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Liston — cosponsor (person)
- Bill Seitz — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Hackett — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Brett Hillyer — cosponsor (person)
- Brian Baldridge — cosponsor (person)
- Catherine Ingram — cosponsor (person)
- Cecil Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- David Leland — cosponsor (person)
- Diane Grendell — cosponsor (person)
- Don Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Emilia Sykes — cosponsor (person)
- Gail Pavliga — cosponsor (person)
- George Lang — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey Crossman — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Miller, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Yuko — cosponsor (person)
- Latyna Humphrey — cosponsor (person)
- Lisa Sobecki — cosponsor (person)
- Louis Blessing — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Rulli — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Sheehy — cosponsor (person)
- Michele Lepore-Hagan — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Loychik — cosponsor (person)
- Paula Hicks-Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- Sara Carruthers — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah Fowler Arthur — cosponsor (person)
- Tavia Galonski — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas West — cosponsor (person)
- Tim Ginter — cosponsor (person)
- Tim Schaffer — cosponsor (person)
- Tom Young, T. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-09-08** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-09-15** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-15** Reported
- **2022-03-16** Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-21** Introduced `reading-1`
- **2022-03-29** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-25** Reported
- **2022-06-02** Concurred in House amendments `amendment-passage`
- **2022-06-01** Passed `passage`
- **2022-09-13T04:00:00+00:00** Effective 9/13/22 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/79b6b632-ff72-4852-b657-b5bc4b54e20c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Ohio legislature records).