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Agent: Matthew MacLaren
Employer: Ohio Chamber of Commerce
Reporting Period: Jan-Apr25
Date Filed: 5/20/2025
Confirmation: 20250520LUPA1401722
I. Legislative Agent Activity

Please disclose specific bills and resolutions on which active advocacy occurred during this reporting period:

  • HB 7 Make certain caregivers eligible for publicly funded child care
  • HB 9 Replace interstate construction requirement with a traffic study
  • HB 11 Regards legislative rule approval and fiscal analyses of rules
  • HB 18 Enact the Ohio Strategic Cryptocurrency Reserve Act
  • HB 19 Regards underage possession or consumption of alcohol
  • HB 28 Eliminate the authority to levy replacement property tax levies
  • HB 54 Make appropriations for transportation for FY 2026-27 biennium
  • HB 70 Regards registration, titling, and use of replica motor vehicles
  • HB 83 Regards state highways located in villages and cities
  • HB 94 Allow employers to post certain labor law notices on the internet
  • HB 96 Make state operating appropriations for FY 2026-27
  • HB 109 Regards local regulation, taxing of short-term rental properties
  • HB 115 Enact the E-Check Ease Act
  • HB 126 Prohibit certain public nuisance actions
  • HB 138 Authorize the creation of tourism promotion districts
  • HB 151 Allocate state revenue surplus to fund road and bridge projects
  • HB 156 Authorize a property tax freeze for certain owner-occupied homes
  • HB 161 Extend sales, use and local lodging taxes to short-term rentals
  • HB 199 Revise law governing all-purpose vehicles, other utility vehicles
  • HB 251 Regards drone use by law enforcement; aviation facilities
  • HB 255 Create the Ohio Sports Commission
  • HCR 6 Support work of the Ohio Commission for U.S. Semiquincentennial
  • HCR 13 Urge Congress to designate Buckeye Trail a National Scenic Trail
  • HR 60 Support moving NASA headquarters to Cleveland
  • HR 101 Support Cleveland's offer to host the 2030 Special Olympics
  • SB 10 Revise non-recourse litigation funding agreement regulations
  • SB 21 Designate Rutherford B. Hayes Day
  • SB 24 Adopt the 1905 Wright Flyer III as the state airplane
  • SB 30 Require retail merchants to give customers the option to pay cash
  • SB 31 Replace interstate construction requirement with a traffic study
  • SB 33 Allow employers to post certain labor law notices on the internet
  • SB 43 Repeal the authorization of a special county lodging tax
  • SB 51 Establish legislative oversight of executive unemployment action
  • SB 56 Revise medical and adult-use marijuana laws; levy marijuana taxes
  • SB 57 Enact the Ohio Bitcoin Reserve Act
  • SB 104 Regards local regulation, taxing of short-term rental properties
  • SB 106 Regulate the ownership of electric vehicle charging stations
  • SB 150 Increase sports gaming tax; allocate for athletics, sports venues
  • SB 180 Prohibit purchase of drones made by a covered foreign entity
  • SB 189 Create the COSI specialty license plate
  • SB 197 Legalize, tax internet gambling; make other Gambling Law changes
  • SB 199 Levy a fee on gross sports gaming wagers; specify revenue use
  • SR 68 Support moving NASA headquarters to Ohio

ANY LEGISLATIVE TITLES APPEARING IN THE DISCLOSURE ABOVE ARE FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AND NOT INTENDED TO BE AN OFFICIAL OR EXCLUSIVE DESIGNATION OF ANY LEGISLATION CURRENTLY BEFORE OR ENACTED BY THE OHIO GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

II. Legislative Agent Expenditure Statement

No expenditures