Cindy Abrams

Voted to pass H.B. 252, which created new aggravated burglary, burglary, and trespass offenses that dropped the requirement that the offender act by force, stealth, or deception, and generally increased the penalties for the existing offenses. It passed the Ohio House 70-25.

March 25, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted yes on the final compromise version of Senate Bill 56, Ohio's marijuana rewrite. The House agreed to the conference report 52-34 and it became law. The law moved the voter-approved adult-use marijuana rules into the state's medical marijuana chapter. Adults may grow up to six plants each, and twelve per home, only at their main residence in a secured space. Using marijuana in a public place is barred. No more than 400 licensed dispensaries may operate in the state at once. Adult-use retail sales carry a 10 percent tax. The governor signed it on December 19, 2025, struck out some parts, and it took effect March 20, 2026.

November 19, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to pass Substitute House Bill 492 in the Ohio House. It widened the crime of interfering with an officer making an arrest, covering every state motor-vehicle law instead of a short list. It raised that penalty from a minor misdemeanor to a second-degree misdemeanor. It also made it a fourth-degree misdemeanor for a driver or passenger to refuse to give an officer their name, address, or birth date. That applies when the officer reasonably suspects a motor-vehicle violation. Nobody has to answer any other question. The House passed it 59-21, the Senate later passed it 24-9, and Governor Mike DeWine signed it on July 7, 2026.

November 19, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to pass H.B. 88, which increased the penalties for trafficking cocaine, fentanyl-related compounds, heroin, and methamphetamine, removed the knowledge requirement for certain fentanyl possession offenses, and required public schools to teach students in kindergarten through grade 12 about the dangers of fentanyl. It passed the Ohio House 71-18.

November 19, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Sponsored HB 322, which became Ohio law on January 8, 2025; it created a grooming offense and penalties for failing to report child abuse.

January 8, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Sponsored HB 230, which the Ohio House passed on April 24, 2024; it increased penalties for drug trafficking and expanded human-trafficking offenses.

April 24, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to pass H.B. 92, which barred municipalities from putting a lien on rental property over water or sewer bills left unpaid under a tenant's own service contract, and barred them from refusing or cutting off utility service to a landlord or a new tenant because a former tenant did not pay. It passed the Ohio House 67-30.

March 18, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted to pass H.B. 319, the Clinical Teaching Subsidy Reform Act, which directed the Chancellor of Higher Education to distribute an annual clinical teaching subsidy to Ohio's public medical schools and to publish each school's enrollment, the performance metrics used to allocate the money, and its final allocation. It passed the Ohio House 70-26.

June 9, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to pass H.B. 347, the SHE WINS Act, which permitted an elective abortion only where a physician met with the woman at least 24 hours beforehand to provide specified information and document her informed consent, and authorized civil damages and professional discipline against physicians who did not comply. It passed the Ohio House 64-32.

March 25, 2026Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted to pass H.B. 485, the Baby Olivia Act, which required every public school to teach human growth and development in grades 5 through 12 using a high-definition ultrasound video and the "Meet Baby Olivia" video produced by the anti-abortion group Live Action, or a substantially similar video. It passed the Ohio House 59-27.

November 19, 2025Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted to pass S.B. 293, which required absentee ballots returned by mail to reach the board of elections by the 7:30 p.m. close of polls on Election Day to be counted, ending the four-day grace period, and directed monthly checks of state and federal databases to cancel the registrations of people identified as noncitizens. It passed the Ohio House 61-30 and was signed into law.

November 19, 2025Supports Election Integrity

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Announced Ohio House passage of a bill on May 30, 2024 barring people who are not U.S. citizens from giving or spending money on state ballot-issue campaigns, and letting the attorney general enforce the ban; it then went to the Ohio Senate (House Bill 1).

May 30, 2024Supports Election Integrity

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Voted to pass H.B. 503, which required voter approval for a municipality to decrease or repeal an existing municipal income tax reciprocity credit, and let voters authorize or increase such a credit by initiative. It passed the Ohio House 65-27.

February 25, 2026Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction

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Voted to pass H.B. 249, the Indecent Exposure Modernization Act, which created the criminal offense of unlawful adult cabaret performance for performances outside an adult cabaret that are harmful to juveniles or obscene, a category the bill defined to include entertainers who exhibit a gender identity different from their biological sex. It passed the Ohio House 63-32.

March 25, 2026Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted yes on accepting the Senate's changes to House Bill 173. The Ohio House agreed 56-35, and the bill went to the governor. The bill covered companies that resell electric service to tenants and condominium owners through a building's own meters, called submetering. It took those companies out of the state's legal definition of a public utility. They would no longer be regulated by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. The Senate version still made them register with the commission, file compliance plans, and bill tenants at least 3 percent below the electric utility's own rate. The House had passed its own version 74-23 in March 2026. The governor vetoed the bill on June 24, 2026, so none of it took effect.

June 10, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass S.B. 50, which would have let employers schedule 14- and 15-year-olds to work until 9 p.m. year-round with a parent's or guardian's written approval, loosening the work-hour limits for young teens during the school year. It passed the Ohio House 62-30 and was vetoed by the Governor.

November 5, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability

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Voted against passing H.B. 126, which prohibited public nuisance lawsuits arising from the sale of a product. It passed the Ohio House 59-36.

May 7, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass H.B. 116, the Ohio Blockchain Basics Act, which barred state and local governments from impairing a person's ability to accept digital assets as payment or to hold their own digital assets in a hardware or self-hosted wallet. It also barred taxes and fees aimed specifically at paying with digital assets, and created a state income tax deduction for capital gains on digital assets spent on goods or services in transactions up to $200. It let individuals mine digital assets in residential areas subject to local ordinances, let mining businesses operate in industrial zones, and exempted mining and staking from money transmitter licensing. It passed the Ohio House 70-26.

June 18, 2025

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Voted against passing S.B. 1, the Advance Ohio Higher Education Act, which banned diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and training at Ohio's public universities, barred full-time faculty strikes, and added post-tenure reviews for professors. It passed the Ohio House 59-34 and was signed into law.

March 19, 2025

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