republic-os/legislation/us/states/oh/134/hb-140.md

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Bill	Enact Ballot Uniformity and Transparency Act	Enact Ballot Uniformity and Transparency Act	us/states/oh	Ohio General Assembly	134	HB 140	Ohio HB 140 (134)	bill	Elections Housing and Real Property Taxation	enacted	Derek Merrin	6	9	4	2021-02-18	2022-09-13T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/5006e2ed-27b8-463c-97fc-2cab60ffcf84	https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/hb140/	55efa03949e87d967c90fdd1ba0787a637c247c70ecf899c024b277c686b610e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-oh

Ohio HB 140 (134) — Enact Ballot Uniformity and Transparency Act

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. As Introduced (filed) — source
2. As Passed by the House (committee substitute) — source
3. As Passed by the Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. As Reported by the House Ways and Means Committee (committee substitute) — source
5. As Reported by the Senate Ways and Means Committee (committee substitute) — source
6. As Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Pass — 22–10 (pass) · upper
• Reported - Substitute — 10–5 (pass) · lower
• Reported - Substitute — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Pass — 60–33 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Derek Merrin — primary (person)
• Adam Holmes — cosponsor (person)
• Alessandro Cutrona — cosponsor (person)
• Bill Roemer — cosponsor (person)
• Bill Seitz — cosponsor (person)
• Bob Peterson — cosponsor (person)
• Bob Young, B. — cosponsor (person)
• Brian Stewart — cosponsor (person)
• Craig Riedel — cosponsor (person)
• D. J. Swearingen — cosponsor (person)
• Dick Stein — cosponsor (person)
• Don Jones — cosponsor (person)
• Gary Click — cosponsor (person)
• George Lang — cosponsor (person)
• Jamie Callender — cosponsor (person)
• Jason Stephens — cosponsor (person)
• Jay Edwards — cosponsor (person)
• Jeff LaRe — cosponsor (person)
• Jerry Cirino — cosponsor (person)
• Jon Cross — cosponsor (person)
• Kris Jordan — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Householder — cosponsor (person)
• Marilyn John — cosponsor (person)
• Mark Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Loychik — cosponsor (person)
• P. Lipps — cosponsor (person)
• Phil Plummer — cosponsor (person)
• Reggie Stoltzfus — cosponsor (person)
• Riordan McClain — cosponsor (person)
• Robert McColley — cosponsor (person)
• Sara Carruthers — cosponsor (person)
• Sarah Fowler Arthur — cosponsor (person)
• Scott Wiggam — cosponsor (person)
• Stephen Huffman, S. — cosponsor (person)
• Theresa Gavarone — cosponsor (person)
• Tim Schaffer — cosponsor (person)
• Tom Brinkman — cosponsor (person)
• Tom Young, T. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-18 Introduced introduction
• 2021-02-24 Refer to Committee referral-committee
• 2021-04-22 Passed passage
• 2021-04-14 Reported
• 2021-04-28 Refer to Committee referral-committee
• 2021-04-27 Introduced reading-1
• 2022-06-01 Passed passage
• 2022-06-01 Reported
• 2022-09-13T04:00:00+00:00 Effective 9/13/22 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5006e2ed-27b8-463c-97fc-2cab60ffcf84. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Ohio legislature records).