OH-HB798-2026

Ohio · HB 798 · 2026

Enact the Privacy Protection Act

Bill key

OH-HB798-2026

State

Ohio

Session

2026

Introduced

March 31, 2026

Last recorded status

introduced

Link

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Citation (Bluebook)

H.B. 798, 136th Gen. Assemb., Reg. Sess. (Ohio 2026), https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/136/hb798.

Short citation

Ohio H.B. 798.

Topics

• Identity documents
• Symbolic resolutions & recognition
• Bathrooms & facilities

Tags

• End Legal Recognition
• Trans Bathroom Ban: Public Properties
• Trans Bathroom Ban: K12
• Trans Bathroom Ban: Colleges
• Misgendering: Pronoun Ban
• Misgendering: Forced
• Birth Certificate or Identification Change Ban
• Gender Marker Change Ban

Summary

Enact the Privacy Protection Act

Curator notes

There's so much going on in this one; trans segregation & ID change bans & misgendering in schools

Sponsors

1 sponsor

Name	Party	Office	District	Role
Josh Williams	Republican	Representative	HD-044	Primary sponsor

Model-bill lineage

Bill family

Part of a family of 7 similar bills in one state. View the family.

Similar bills

• OH HB 155 (2025)
• OH HB 183 (2024)
• OH HB 190 (2025)
• OH HB 616 (2022)
• OH HB 8 (2024)
• OH SB 113 (2025)

Bill text

• As introduced (117,842 characters) · Open the printed bill (PDF)

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