Ashley Bryant Bailey is a Democratic state representative from Ohio who represents District 26 and is seeking re-election in the November 3, 2026 general election.[1][2]The Ohio House Democratic Caucus appointed her to the seat on September 12, 2025, and she assumed office on October 1, 2025.[1]
Ashley Bryant Bailey earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Cincinnati, and her career experience includes working as a senior advisor, according to Ballotpedia.[1]She was appointed to the Ohio House to replace Sedrick Denson (D), and she advanced from the Democratic primary on May 5, 2026, with Tom Brinkman Jr. (R) also on the general election ballot.[1]
Their recorded votes on bills that divided the chamber (unanimous votes left out), grouped by topic. A bill can sit under more than one topic. "With" and "against" compare each vote with how most Democrats voted. How topics are assigned
Overview. Repeals the Cannabis Control Law and combines regulations concerning the cultivation, processing, dispensing, use, and home grow of adult-use and medical marijuana into one chapter, referred to in this analysis as the Marijuana Control Law. Condenses the operations of the Division of Cannabis Control ( DCC) and the Division of Marijuana Control (DMC) into DCC. Product regulations. Prohibits possession or use of marijuana that is not acquired from a licensed Ohio dispensary or cultivated at the adult-use consumer ’s primary residence in accordance with the Marijuana Control Law.
Regulates companies that resell electricity to tenants through submetering: requires registration with the Public Utilities Commission, disconnection protections, and a tenant bill at least 3% below the utility's standard service offer bill, and limits building conversions to submetering.
Urges Congress to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to let people under 16 work between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. during the school year with parent or guardian approval.
Absent voting by mail. Would have required an elector to provide photo identification ( ID) to vote by mail beginning with the November 2027, general election. Would have exempted certain electors from that requirement and provided alternative ID procedures for them. Would have allowed an elector to fulfill the photo ID requirement by providing it either when applying for ballots or when returning voted ballots to the board. Would have permitted an elector to show photo ID at the board’s office instead of making a copy.
Creates the offense of “unlawful adult cabaret performance” that prohibits a person, with knowledge of its character and content, from recklessly engaging in an adult cabaret performance in a location other than an adult cabaret. Provides that the penalty for “unlawful adult cabaret performance ” is a first degree misdemeanor or a fourth or fifth degree felony depending on the circumstances of the offense. Names the act the “Indecent Exposure Modernization Act.”.
Overview. Repeals the Cannabis Control Law and combines regulations concerning the cultivation, processing, dispensing, use, and home grow of adult-use and medical marijuana into one chapter, referred to in this analysis as the Marijuana Control Law. Condenses the operations of the Division of Cannabis Control ( DCC) and the Division of Marijuana Control (DMC) into DCC. Product regulations. Prohibits possession or use of marijuana that is not acquired from a licensed Ohio dispensary or cultivated at the adult-use consumer ’s primary residence in accordance with the Marijuana Control Law.
Interstate Compact for School Psychologists. Enters Ohio into the Interstate Compact for School Psychologists to improve public access to school psychological services by facilitating the interstate practice of school psychology in educational or school settings. As a member of the Compact, requires Ohio to offer equivalent licenses to school psychologists from another member state of the Compact, subject to Ohio ’s laws and rules governing school psychologists.
Requires each public school to provide human growth and development instruction in its curriculum for grades 5-12, which must include a high-definition ultrasound video and the “Meet Baby Olivia ” video produced by Live Action, or its successor entity, or a substantially similar video. Prohibits the Department of Education and Workforce from adopting a model curriculum in human growth and development that conflicts with the bill’s requirements. Requires the Department to establish and publicize a list of instructional materials in human growth and development compliant with the bill.
Declares the General Assembly’s findings that the “teaching of the historical, positive impact of religion on American history is consistent with the First Amendment ” and “imperative to reducing ignorance of American history, hate, and violence within our society.”. Permits teachers in public schools and instructors at state institutions of higher education, when providing instruction on American history, to also provide instruction on the positive impacts of religion on American history. Entitles the bill the “Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act.”.
Permits an elective abortion to be performed or induced only if a physician meets with the woman at least 24 hours before the abortion to provide specified information and document the woman’s informed consent, except in the case of a medical emergency. Prohibits payment from being required for any elective abortion-related service until the bill’s informed consent requirements are met. Authorizes civil liability, including damages and attorney’s fees, and professional discipline against a physician who fails to satisfy the bill ’s abortion informed consent requirements.
Overview. Repeals the Cannabis Control Law and combines regulations concerning the cultivation, processing, dispensing, use, and home grow of adult-use and medical marijuana into one chapter, referred to in this analysis as the Marijuana Control Law. Condenses the operations of the Division of Cannabis Control ( DCC) and the Division of Marijuana Control (DMC) into DCC. Product regulations. Prohibits possession or use of marijuana that is not acquired from a licensed Ohio dispensary or cultivated at the adult-use consumer ’s primary residence in accordance with the Marijuana Control Law.
Charges the Director of Health with determining if a prescription drug causes severe adverse effects in greater than 5% of the drug’s users and requires the Director to do so in consultation with the Superintendent of Insurance and Executive Directors of the State Board of Pharmacy and State Medical Board. Defines a severe adverse effect to mean any of the following: death, infection or hemorrhaging requiring hospitalization, organ failure, or sepsis.
Regulates companies that resell electricity to tenants through submetering: requires registration with the Public Utilities Commission, disconnection protections, and a tenant bill at least 3% below the utility's standard service offer bill, and limits building conversions to submetering.
Oil and Gas Well Fund. Provides protections against executive branch raids of the Oil and Gas Well Fund. Specifies that the Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management, on behalf of the state, owns the right to carbon credits for any orphaned well plugged using state or federal money. Allows the Chief of the Division to enter into agreements to obtain or to sell carbon credits and directs any proceeds from the sale of carbon credits to the Oil and Gas Well Fund. ODNR authority to regulate interstate wells.
Establishes the Ohio Defense and Space Advisory Commission. Establishes the Defense and Aerospace Industry Expansion Program under which the Department of Development may make grants to support economic development related to the defense industry. Requires any entity that receives a grant under the program undergo an audit of the project administration. Makes an appropriation.
Creates the Small Defense Business Linked Deposit Program for the purpose of lending money to eligible small defense businesses, including their subcontractors, at a rate below the present borrowing rate. Adds the Small Defense Business Linked Deposit Program to the administrative requirements in the statutes also governing the continuing Adoption Linked Deposit Program, Agricultural Linked Deposit Program, Small Business Linked Deposit Program, and Home Improvement Linked Deposit Program.
Gas and diesel fuel tax. Reduces the tax on gasoline and diesel fuel for a period of three months, from 38.5 ¢ per gallon for gasoline and 47¢ per gallon for diesel to 0.01¢ per gallon for either. Prohibits a licensed retail dealer or licensed motor fuel dealer from selling motor fuel during the temporary reduction period without passing the full benefit of the reduced tax onto the consumer or other purchaser. Provides that violation of the prohibition may be considered in any licensing determination made by the Tax Commissioner and referred to the Attorney General (AG).
Budget corrections Limited term license: education requirements. Exempts certain military-related limited term license applicants from the driver ’s education requirements. TMUD tax credit transfers. Modifies the procedure for transferring a transformational mixed-use development (TMUD) tax credit. Water pipe grants. Removes from the Workforce Housing Project Grant Program the grant metric that favored polyvinyl chloride water pipe over ductile iron. OBM authority to award funds for cultural facilities.
Extends the time frame within which the Registrar of Motor Vehicles must send a notice to a person whose driver ’s license has expired from within 45 days after expiration to within 60 days after expiration. Applies the regular mail notice requirement to the expiration of a state identification card (ID card). Authorizes the Registrar of Motor Vehicles to send a n electronic notice to the holder of an Ohio driver ’s license or ID card at least 15 days prior to a driver ’s license or ID card expiring.
Prohibits the appropriate municipal authority from certifying a lien to the county auditor for unpaid village water, city water, or municipal sewerage service amounts, and prohibits the county auditor from placing such a lien against a property, if either of the following apply: The unpaid amounts have arisen pursuant to a service contract made with a tenant; The property served by the connection is not occupied by the property owner.
Requires the Director of Developmental Disabilities to adopt rules establishing a process for the Department of Developmental Disabilities to make available community capital assistance funds for county boards of developmental disabilities to acquire housing for individuals receiving supported living services.
Names specific provisions of the bill the “Innocence Act.”. Requires an organization that sells, delivers, furnishes, disseminates, provides, exhibits, or presents any material or performance that is obscene or harmful to juveniles ensure that a geolocation check is performed. Requires an organization to submit an affidavit to the Attorney General stating that the organization complied with the age verification requirements. Requires the Attorney General to adopt rules specifying the information that organizations must include in the affidavit.
Voted against most of their party on 1 of 36 party-divided votes on file.
Regards school policies on administering overdose reversal drugs
What it does: School policy on overdose reversal drugs. Requires any public or nonpublic school that elects to keep a supply of an overdose reversal drug for an emergency situation to adopt and implement a policy regarding the supp…
Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 15–18, Republicans 61–0
Substantive votes concern legislation or nominations; procedural votes concern how the chamber considers them. A Yes vote applies to the motion shown, which may not be final passage.
HB 519 · OH HOUSE
Prohibit specified actions with intent to steal a motor vehicle
NoVOTED
Gas and diesel fuel tax. Reduces the tax on gasoline and diesel fuel for a period of three months, from 38.5 ¢ per gallon for gasoline and 47¢ per gallon for diesel to 0.01¢ per gallon for either. Prohibits a licensed retail dealer or licensed motor fuel dealer from selling motor fuel during the temporary reduction period without passing the full benefit of the reduced tax onto the consumer or other purchaser. Provides that violation of the prohibition may be considered in any licensing determination made by the Tax Commissioner and referred to the Attorney General (AG).
Overview. Repeals the law governing nonrecourse civil litigation advance contract s and replaces it with two subsets of regulations: one for commercial litigation financing agreements (“commercial agreements ”) and another for consumer legal funding agreements (“consumer agreements”). Contract requirements. Retains the majority of the contract-related requirements under former law, but limits application of those requirements to consumer agreements, i.e., contracts with an individual that resides in Ohio for less than $400,000.
Regulates companies that resell electricity to tenants through submetering: requires registration with the Public Utilities Commission, disconnection protections, and a tenant bill at least 3% below the utility's standard service offer bill, and limits building conversions to submetering.
Requires scrap metal dealers and other persons who purchase used catalytic converters to comply with certain additional recordkeeping, reporting, and process requirements. Imposes a penalty not to exceed $7,500 on a business entity that violates the above requirements. Expands the investigatory authority and noninvestigatory responsibilities of the Director of Public Safety relating to scrap metal dealers and other persons purchasing used catalytic converters. Prohibits a motor vehicle salvage dealer from purchasing or accepting catalytic converters.
Regards drone use by law enforcement; aviation facilities
YesVOTED
Criminal evidence derived from a UAV. Generally, requires a peace officer to obtain a court-issued search warrant to collect surveillance data using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) if the peace officer otherwise would need a warrant to physically enter the house or place in person to conduct the search. Prohibits surveillance data and any information obtained from that data from being admitted as evidence in a criminal proceeding if it was gathered under circumstances that required a warrant and the warrant was not obtained.
Establishes the Ohio Defense and Space Advisory Commission. Establishes the Defense and Aerospace Industry Expansion Program under which the Department of Development may make grants to support economic development related to the defense industry. Requires any entity that receives a grant under the program undergo an audit of the project administration. Makes an appropriation.
Alter amusement ride classification for inspection fee purposes
YesVOTED
Amusement rides. Reclassifies the types of amusement rides for purposes of re-determining each ride ’s annual inspection and reinspection fee. Decreases the annual permit fee for an inflatable ride. Creates a formula to calculate the inspection and reinspection fee for an inflatable ride based on the number of rides that are inspected at the same time at the same location and owned by the same owner instead of a flat $104 fee per inflatable ride. Food regulation laws. Exempts a registered bakery from the requirement to obtain a frozen food facility license.
Regards the operation of public schools and the DEW
NoVOTED
State Board of Education. Increases the number of appointed State Board of Education members from five to seven. Requires the State Board, in some circumstances, to add additional grade levels to alternative resident educator license holders ’ licenses as requested by the educator ’s employing school district. Requires the State Board to automatically revoke or deny the renewal of any license issued to an individual who pleads guilty to, is found guilty of, or is convicted of domestic violence, strangulation, or grooming.
Waive ID, birth certificate fees for homeless individuals
NoVOTED
Absent voting by mail. Would have required an elector to provide photo identification ( ID) to vote by mail beginning with the November 2027, general election. Would have exempted certain electors from that requirement and provided alternative ID procedures for them. Would have allowed an elector to fulfill the photo ID requirement by providing it either when applying for ballots or when returning voted ballots to the board. Would have permitted an elector to show photo ID at the board’s office instead of making a copy.
Regards physician supervision of imaging contrast administration
YesVOTED
Administration of contrast – physician supervision. Revises the law authorizing a radiologist assistant to administer contrast media under the on-site supervision of a physician who is a radiologist, by also permitting the radiologist assistant to do so under the radiologist’s remote supervision. Authorizes a registered nurse, radiographer, radiation therapy technologist, and nuclear medicine technologist to administer contrast under the direct or general supervision of a physician.