Ohio Advocates for Medical Freedom
Legislation
Every bill we support, oppose, or are watching this session in the Ohio statehouse.
New Priority Legislation
HB 983
The Data Center Accountability & Citizen Protection Act
Gives Ohio communities a citizen ballot vote on large data centers and holds them to real air, water, and transparency standards.
Our bill
Bills we support
Legislation OAMF is fighting to pass.
21 bills
In Committee
- Support
HB 112 Conscientious Right to Refuse Act
OAMF's flagship medical-freedom bill and the successor to HB 319 and HB 248.
- Support
HB 12 / SB 209 The Jeff, Dave, & Angie Patient Right to Try Act
Protects a patient's right to fill an FDA-approved prescription, protects off-label prescribing, and shields provider free speech from licensing boards.
- Support
HB 561 The Parental C.H.O.I.C.E. Act
Strengthens enforcement of existing school vaccine exemptions, bars schools from demanding extra paperwork, and creates a complaint and enforcement process.
- Support
HB 182 The Safe Water Act
"No public water system shall add fluoride to the water supplied by the system."
Active Campaign
- Support
HB 983 The Data Center Accountability & Citizen Protection Act
Gives Ohio communities a citizen ballot vote on large data centers and holds them to real air, water, and transparency standards.
- Support
Medical Right to Refuse — Ohio Constitutional Amendment
Ballot initiative to place medical right to refuse in the Ohio Constitution.
Passed One Chamber
- Support
HB 134 Microenterprise Home Kitchens and Cottage Food Reform
Allows home-kitchen food microenterprises under annual inspection, rather than requiring a commercial kitchen. Passed the House 88-2 on 2025-11-19; now in the Senate.
Enacted
- Support
HB 10 Franken-Food Labeling Act
Regulates imitation meat and egg products, including labeling and school purchasing. SIGNED INTO LAW 2025-12-19; effective 2026-03-20.
- Support
SB 22 Legislative oversight of executive orders
Created the Ohio Health Oversight and Advisory Committee. Passed into law, though OAMF considered HB 90's language stronger.
- Support
HB 236 The Never Alone Act
Guarantees patient-advocate access in hospitals, nursing homes and VA facilities, with injunctive relief and legal-fee recovery. Signed into law 2024-12-19.
Partially Passed
- Support
HB 73 The Dave and Angie Patient and Health Provider Protection Act
Two provisions signed into law, one vetoed, the remainder died 2024-12-31 after the HB 315 maneuver and DeWine's line-item veto of the medical free-speech provision.
Expired
- Support
HB 319 Conscientious Right to Refuse
Passed out of the Health Provider Services committee; session ended before a floor vote. Died 2024-12-31.
- Support
HB 90 Legislative oversight of executive orders
Would have created the Ohio Health Oversight and Advisory Committee. OAMF considered its language stronger than SB 22's.
- Support
HB 103 Limit emergency-rule extension power
Would have limited the governor's emergency-rule extension power and added oversight and duration limits.
- Support
HB 329 Prohibit public schools from requiring masks
Would have prohibited public schools from requiring students to wear a mask. NOTE: duplicate heading with the vaccine-lottery entry — ONE OF THESE IS MIS-NUMBERED, verify before publishing.
- Support
HB 127 Reverse adverse actions against businesses
Would have expunged adverse actions against businesses, restored rights and refunded penalties.
- Support
HB 329 Taxpayer Protection Against the Frivolous Vaccine Lottery Act
Would have prohibited the state from conducting a lottery dependent on COVID-19 vaccination status. NOTE: shares a heading with another HB 329 entry on the live site — verify the number.
- Support
HB 617 Un-Mask Ohio
Would have banned mask mandates in schools, colleges, government buildings, transit and public accommodation.
- Support
HB 248 Vaccine Choice and Anti-Discrimination Act
OAMF's landmark bill: protect vaccine choice and privacy, prohibit vaccine passports and registries, require schools to honor exemptions, prohibit discrimination and provide legal recourse.
- Support
SB 195 Vax-A-Million database not a public record
Would have excluded the vaccine-lottery database from public records.
Confirmed
- Support
Support Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead US Health and Human Services
OAMF supported the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead HHS. Confirmed.
Bills we oppose
Legislation OAMF is fighting to stop.
14 bills
Active Campaign
- Oppose
Oppose Cincinnati Children’s Hospital transplant vaccine requirement
Adaline Deal, 12, was denied a heart transplant over vaccination status. Active call to action.
- Oppose
Oppose Cincinnati Christ Hospital transplant vaccine requirement
Ken Long was denied a heart transplant over vaccination status. Active call to action.
Enacted
- Oppose
HB 244 Military children, higher education and vaccination prohibitions
Opposed: extends vaccine-choice rights to some Ohioans but not all, and only against non-FDA-approved vaccines.
Expired
- Oppose
HB 342 County recorders recording COVID vaccination cards
Opposed: "OAMF opposes any effort of government agencies to track vaccine status in a non-anonymized fashion."
- Oppose
HB 435 COVID vaccine requirements, immunity and workers’ comp
Opposed as a partial measure that undermines HB 248.
- Oppose
Oppose Governor DeWine and the State Health Director’s COVID-19 orders
Archived opposition campaign against the executive COVID-19 orders.
- Oppose
HB 424 Prohibit certain COVID-vaccine actions by political subdivisions
Opposed as a partial measure that undermines HB 248.
- Oppose
SB 111 Prohibit certain mandatory vaccinations
Opposed as a partial measure that undermines HB 248.
- Oppose
SB 169 Prohibit COVID vaccine mandates by state and local government
Opposed as a partial measure that undermines HB 248.
- Oppose
HB 350 Prohibit mandatory COVID vaccination or proof of vaccination
Opposed as a partial measure that undermines HB 248.
- Oppose
HB 253 Prohibit proof-of-vaccination for state buildings
Opposed as a partial measure that undermines HB 248.
- Oppose
HB 269 Repeal of SB 22
Opposed: "Repealing SB 22 is the wrong direction. SB 22 should be strengthened."
- Oppose
Vote No on Issue 1 — Redistricting (November 2024)
Campaign against the November 2024 redistricting amendment. NOT the 2023 reproductive-rights Issue 1, which has its own archived page.
Other
- Oppose
HB 126 Big Tech Immunity
The Big Tech immunity bill. OAMF opposes it — attorney Dustin Herman breaks down what it would do below.
Bills we’re watching
Not our fight yet — but we’re tracking it.
5 bills
Expired
- Watching
HB 425 COVID-19 and genetic technologies
Watched, not endorsed: applies only to "mRNA, DNA, or any other genetic vaccine technology" rather than all vaccines.
- Watching
HB 411 Individual Privacy and Anti-Discrimination Act
Watched, not endorsed: OAMF called it "a much weaker version of Ohio House Bill 248".
- Watching
HB 388 Prohibit actions against the unvaccinated
Watched, not endorsed. NOTE: the live site's body copy mistakenly refers to this as "HB288".
- Watching
HB 202 Prohibit state mask mandates during the current emergency
Watched, not endorsed: does not cover local jurisdictions or the private sector, and applies only to the then-current emergency.
- Watching
HB 401 Workers’ comp exemption for employer-mandated COVID vaccination
Watched, not endorsed: OAMF's position is that "employers shouldn't be permitted to mandate vaccines to begin with".
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