AER Agent Legislative

Agent: Agent: Charles H Gerhardt, III
Employer: Employer: City of Cincinnati
Reporting Period: Jan-Apr25
File Date: 5/30/2025
Confirmation: 20250530LUPA1416438
  • I. Legislative Agent Activity

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

    • HB 5 Enact the Repeat Offender Act
    • HB 15 Amend competitive retail electric service law
    • HB 20 Prohibit harassing or impeding an emergency service responder
    • HB 26 Enact Protecting Ohio Communities Act
    • HB 41 Establish certain child care grant programs
    • HB 42 Require certain agencies to collect and report citizenship data
    • HB 44 Regards law enforcement training and competitive examinations
    • HB 88 Regards drug trafficking, human trafficking, and fentanyl
    • HB 96 Make state operating appropriations for FY 2026-27
    • HB 104 Designate Cardiovascular Health Awareness Day
    • HB 109 Regards local regulation, taxing of short-term rental properties
    • HB 116 Enact the Ohio Blockchain Basics Act
    • HB 123 Modify procedures for filling vacancies in local elected offices
    • HB 126 Prohibit certain public nuisance actions
    • HB 137 Permit tax authority to decline submitting certain levy to voters
    • HB 141 Regards prescribed pediatric extended care centers
    • HB 145 Regards the minimum number of hours in a school year
    • HB 147 Exempt from sales and use tax certain port authority materials
    • HB 154 Require school district approval-certain property tax exemptions
    • 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 182 Prohibit public water system from adding fluoride to its water
    • HB 200 Enact the America First Act
    • HB 209 Exempt tips from state, municipal, school district income taxes
    • HB 217 Enact the Finding and Identifying with NamUs Data (FIND) Act
    • HB 257 Enact the Ohio Medical Debt Fairness Act
    • SB 2 Increase power generation; improve Ohio's electric grid
    • SB 6 Revise building inspection law
    • SB 8 Prohibit paid public employee leave for certain union activities
    • SB 28 Levy a tax on certain high-volume landlords
    • SB 63 Prohibit use of ranked choice voting; withhold funding for use
    • SB 92 Authorize total property tax exemption-totally disabled veterans
    • SB 96 Authorize tax credit for handgun training and firearms storage
    • SB 114 Prohibit law enforcement from using quotas for arrests, citations
    • SB 118 Regards lien limits for unpaid water, sewer, disposal services
    • SB 177 Create Workforce Investment Now (WIN) for Child Care pilot

    *** 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