No new large-load data center may receive electric service, public incentives, local approvals, or state siting clearance unless it pays the full incremental cost of the grid upgrades needed to serve it, and unless those upgrades are planned to provide net reliability/capacity benefits to the public grid.

A covered large-load customer shall be responsible for all incremental costs reasonably caused by its request for service, including study costs, distribution upgrades, substation upgrades, local transmission-related facilities, interconnection facilities, network upgrade contributions to the extent permitted by federal law, capacity-reservation costs, congestion-related charges assignable to the customer class, and stranded costs caused by cancellation, delay, or material underuse.

The law will require utilities to study whether a project can be served by upgrades that also:

• increase capacity for surrounding communities;
• improve reliability for nearby residential and farm customers;
• reduce outage risk;
• support future economic development;
• harden substations or feeders;
• enable new generation or storage that serves the public grid.

Ohio will use its retail, siting, tax, land-use, environmental, and consumer-protection powers to make sure data centers do not shift costs onto Ohio ratepayers, while requiring utilities to pursue PJM/FERC approval where the upgrade touches the interstate transmission system.

• prohibit ODOT from using eminent domain for a new US 23-71 bypass alignment unless approved by affected county commissioners or voters;
• require a full alternatives analysis focused on upgrades within existing rights-of-way;
• require agricultural-impact, school-district-impact, and emergency-services-impact studies;
• require direct notice to affected landowners before route selection;
• require legislative approval before any new limited-access highway corridor can be funded through Morrow County.

• establish an advocate inside the Ohio Department of Aging or Attorney General’s office;
• cover seniors, disabled tenants, medically vulnerable tenants, and low-income tenants in unsafe housing;
• provide a hotline and emergency case-management process;
• authorize referrals to local code enforcement, legal aid, adult protective services, and the AG;
• create a small emergency relocation fund;
• strengthen anti-retaliation penalties against landlords;
• simplify rent escrow for tenants with serious habitability violations;
• require annual public reporting on complaints, landlord repeat offenders, and case outcomes.

HB 448 – would apply prescription-drug rebates to cost-sharing requirements.

HB 890 – would create a Prescription Drug Affordability Board with authority to establish upper payment limits on certain drugs.