---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise the Fireworks Law"
description: "Revise the Fireworks Law"
jurisdiction: "us/states/oh"
legislature: "Ohio General Assembly"
session: "134"
identifier: "HB 172"
citation: "Ohio HB 172 (134)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Building and Fire Codes", "Commerce", "Housing and Real Property", "Local Government", "State and Local Government"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Baldridge", "Michael O'Brien"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 10
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-03-03"
last_action: "2022-02-07T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c75a96ab-8251-41ff-83ad-c46e10983dcd"
source_url: "https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/hb172/"
source_hash: "99dae5267af59cc92efe061eceef148a7abe57dcab36bd5eda5d7059699234c3"
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 172 (134) — Revise the Fireworks Law

## 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/hb172/IN/00/hb172_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/hb172/PH/02/hb172_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/hb172/PS/04/hb172_04_PS?format=pdf)
4. **As Reported by the House Commerce and Labor Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/hb172/RH/01/hb172_01_RH?format=pdf)
5. **As Reported by the Senate Veterans and Public Safety Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/hb172/RS/03/hb172_03_RS?format=pdf)
6. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/hb172/EN/05/hb172_05_EN?format=pdf)

## Votes

- Concurred in Senate amendments — **72–24** (pass) · lower
- Pass — **26–5** (pass) · upper
- Reported - Substitute — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported - Substitute — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Pass — **73–24** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brian Baldridge — primary (person)
- Michael O'Brien — primary (person)
- Adam Bird — cosponsor (person)
- Adam Miller, A. — cosponsor (person)
- Alessandro Cutrona — cosponsor (person)
- Andrew Brenner — cosponsor (person)
- Bill Reineke — cosponsor (person)
- Bill Roemer — cosponsor (person)
- Bill Seitz — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Cupp — cosponsor (person)
- Brian Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- Craig Riedel — cosponsor (person)
- Darrell Kick — cosponsor (person)
- Frank Hoagland — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Click — cosponsor (person)
- George Lang — cosponsor (person)
- Jerry Cirino — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Miller, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Schuring — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Rulli — cosponsor (person)
- Michele Lepore-Hagan — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Loychik — cosponsor (person)
- P. Lipps — cosponsor (person)
- Riordan McClain — cosponsor (person)
- Robert McColley — cosponsor (person)
- Sandra O'Brien — cosponsor (person)
- Sara Carruthers — cosponsor (person)
- Stephen Huffman, S. — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Tim Schaffer — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-03** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-04** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-22** Reported
- **2021-05-06** Passed `passage`
- **2021-05-12** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-11** Introduced `reading-1`
- **2021-10-27** Concurred in Senate amendments `amendment-passage`
- **2021-10-27** Reported
- **2021-10-27** Passed `passage`
- **2022-02-07T05:00:00+00:00** Effective 2/7/22 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c75a96ab-8251-41ff-83ad-c46e10983dcd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Ohio legislature records).