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type: "Bill"
title: "Regards criminal background checks for certain professions"
description: "Regards criminal background checks for certain professions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/oh"
legislature: "Ohio General Assembly"
session: "134"
identifier: "SB 217"
citation: "Ohio SB 217 (134)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Aging", "Crimes", "Corrections", "and Law Enforcement", "Criminal Records Checks", "Health and Human Services", "Local Government", "Public Records", "State and Local Government", "State and Local Government", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tim Schaffer"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 9
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-08-10"
last_action: "2021-12-22T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf55270f-62d6-4b80-ab5a-78637f3f9afb"
source_url: "https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/sb217/"
source_hash: "ec19df82db00f8e43d436e08d47d8e1d9081b82224f479952c526ec2ea38e984"
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 217 (134) — Regards criminal background checks for certain professions
## 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/sb217/IN/00/sb217_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/sb217/PH/04/sb217_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/sb217/PS/02/sb217_02_PS?format=pdf)
4. **As Reported by the House Criminal Justice Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/sb217/RH/03/sb217_03_RH?format=pdf)
5. **As Reported by the Senate Health Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/sb217/RS/01/sb217_01_RS?format=pdf)
6. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/sb217/EN/05/sb217_05_EN?format=pdf)
## Votes
- Reported - Substitute — **120** (pass) · lower
- Pass — **895** (pass) · lower
- Pass — **320** (pass) · upper
- Reported - Substitute — **70** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Tim Schaffer — primary (person)
- Andrea White — cosponsor (person)
- Andrew Brenner — cosponsor (person)
- Bill Seitz — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Hackett — cosponsor (person)
- Brian Lampton — cosponsor (person)
- Cecil Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Cindy Abrams — cosponsor (person)
- D. J. Swearingen — cosponsor (person)
- David Leland — cosponsor (person)
- Don Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Hottinger — cosponsor (person)
- Jerry Cirino — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Miller, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Yuko — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Schuring — cosponsor (person)
- Kristina Roegner — cosponsor (person)
- Louis Blessing — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Fraizer — cosponsor (person)
- Matt Dolan — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Rulli — cosponsor (person)
- Sara Carruthers — cosponsor (person)
- Stephen Huffman, S. — cosponsor (person)
- Steve Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Teresa Fedor — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas West — cosponsor (person)
- Tom Young, T. — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-08-10** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-09-08** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-10-13** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-10-12** Introduced `reading-1`
- **2021-11-23** Reported
- **2021-12-08** Passed `passage`
- **2021-10-06** Passed `passage`
- **2021-09-29** Reported
- **2021-12-22T05:00:00+00:00** Effective 12/22/21 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bf55270f-62d6-4b80-ab5a-78637f3f9afb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Ohio legislature records).