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type: "Bill"
title: "Enact The Business Fairness Act"
description: "Enact The Business Fairness Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/oh"
legislature: "Ohio General Assembly"
session: "134"
identifier: "HB 215"
citation: "Ohio HB 215 (134)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commerce", "Health and Human Services", "Health and Human Services", "Public Health", "State and Local Government"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jon Cross", "Shane Wilkin"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 11
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-03-16"
last_action: "2022-03-02T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a705f95c-d236-4f6a-b7fe-5f560066ff66"
source_url: "https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/hb215/"
source_hash: "cd47e1be0ee04e8c8c1e890f4b9db17228eaf922c6e626af3a0950a984b47376"
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 215 (134) — Enact The Business Fairness Act
## 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/hb215/IN/00/hb215_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/hb215/PH/02/hb215_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/hb215/PS/04/hb215_04_PS?format=pdf)
4. **As Reported by the House Economic and Workforce Development Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/hb215/RH/01/hb215_01_RH?format=pdf)
5. **As Reported by the Senate Small Business and Economic Opportunity Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/hb215/RS/03/hb215_03_RS?format=pdf)
6. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_134/bills/hb215/EN/05/hb215_05_EN?format=pdf)
## Votes
- Reported - Substitute — **60** (pass) · upper
- Pass — **7717** (pass) · lower
- Pass — **310** (pass) · upper
- Reported - Substitute — **130** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Jon Cross — primary (person)
- Shane Wilkin — primary (person)
- Adam Bird — cosponsor (person)
- Adam Holmes — cosponsor (person)
- Alessandro Cutrona — cosponsor (person)
- Andrea White — cosponsor (person)
- Andrew Brenner — cosponsor (person)
- Bill Dean — cosponsor (person)
- Bill Reineke — cosponsor (person)
- Bill Roemer — cosponsor (person)
- Bill Seitz — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Hackett — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Young, B. — cosponsor (person)
- Brett Hillyer — cosponsor (person)
- Brian Baldridge — cosponsor (person)
- Brian Lampton — cosponsor (person)
- Brian Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- Cecil Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Cindy Abrams — cosponsor (person)
- Craig Riedel — cosponsor (person)
- D. J. Swearingen — cosponsor (person)
- Darrell Kick — cosponsor (person)
- Derek Merrin — cosponsor (person)
- Diane Grendell — cosponsor (person)
- Dick Stein — cosponsor (person)
- Don Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Frank Hoagland — cosponsor (person)
- Gail Pavliga — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Click — cosponsor (person)
- George Lang — cosponsor (person)
- Haraz Ghanbari — cosponsor (person)
- Hearcel Craig — cosponsor (person)
- J. Koehler — cosponsor (person)
- James Hoops — cosponsor (person)
- Jamie Callender — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Stephens — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Hottinger — cosponsor (person)
- Jean Schmidt — cosponsor (person)
- Jeff LaRe — cosponsor (person)
- Jena Powell — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer Gross — cosponsor (person)
- Jerry Cirino — cosponsor (person)
- Jessica Miranda — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Miller, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Yuko — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Schuring — cosponsor (person)
- Kris Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Kristina Roegner — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Householder — cosponsor (person)
- Laura Lanese — cosponsor (person)
- Louis Blessing — cosponsor (person)
- Marilyn John — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Fraizer — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Matt Dolan — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Rulli — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Loychik — cosponsor (person)
- Nathan Manning — cosponsor (person)
- Nickie Antonio — cosponsor (person)
- P. Lipps — cosponsor (person)
- Paul Zeltwanger — cosponsor (person)
- Phil Plummer — cosponsor (person)
- Reggie Stoltzfus — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Carfagna — cosponsor (person)
- Riordan McClain — cosponsor (person)
- Robert McColley — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Creech — cosponsor (person)
- Sandra O'Brien — cosponsor (person)
- Sandra Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Sara Carruthers — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah Fowler Arthur — cosponsor (person)
- Scott Wiggam — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Kunze — cosponsor (person)
- Steve Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Susan Manchester — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Theresa Gavarone — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Tim Ginter — cosponsor (person)
- Tim Schaffer — cosponsor (person)
- Tina Maharath — cosponsor (person)
- Tom Young, T. — cosponsor (person)
- Tracy Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Vernon Sykes — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-03-16** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-17** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21** Reported
- **2021-05-06** Informally passed `passage`
- **2021-05-12** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-11** Introduced `reading-1`
- **2021-05-05** Informally passed `passage`
- **2021-05-06** Passed `passage`
- **2021-11-10** Reported
- **2021-11-16** Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-02T05:00:00+00:00** Effective 3/2/22 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a705f95c-d236-4f6a-b7fe-5f560066ff66`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Ohio legislature records).