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
39 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.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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".
- 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.
- Oppose
Oppose Governor DeWine and the State Health Director’s COVID-19 orders
Archived opposition campaign against the executive COVID-19 orders.
- Watching
HB 388 Prohibit actions against the unvaccinated
Watched, not endorsed. NOTE: the live site's body copy mistakenly refers to this as "HB288".
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Oppose
HB 269 Repeal of SB 22
Opposed: "Repealing SB 22 is the wrong direction. SB 22 should be strengthened."
- 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.
- 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.
- 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".
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.
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