Derrick Hall is a Democratic state representative from Ohio who has represented District 34 since January 1, 2025, and is seeking re-election in the November 3, 2026 general election.[1][2]A pharmacist, attorney and U.S. Army Reserve veteran, he is the ranking member of the Veterans and Military Development Committee.[1]
Derrick Hall earned a Pharm.D., J.D. and M.B.A. from The Ohio State University and a master's degree from Harvard Medical School, according to Ballotpedia.[1]He served in the U.S. Army Reserve as a JAG officer, and Ballotpedia lists the Akron Public Schools board of education, at-large, among his prior offices.[1]
Hall assumed office in the Ohio House of Representatives on January 1, 2025, and advanced from the Democratic primary on May 5, 2026.[1]In the 2025-2026 session he serves on the Energy, Medicaid and House Ways and Means committees and is the ranking member of the Veterans and Military Development Committee.[1]Craig Shubert (R) is the other candidate in the November 3, 2026 general election.[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
›Jobs & cost of living37 with · 11 against48 votes
This analysis is arranged by state agency in alphabetical order. Items that do not directly involve an agency are located under the agency that has regulatory authority over the item or otherwise deals with the subject matter of the item. After the last agency (the Department of Youth Services), separate chapters address the following: 1. Election Law, addressing the replacement of the Ohio Elections Commission and other elections matters; 2. Sports facilities and unclaimed funds; 3. Boards and commissions; 4. Local government; 5. Low-income utility assistance and block grants; 6.
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.
DEI and intellectual diversity Policy. Requires state institutions of higher education to adopt and enforce a policy requiring the institution to: Prohibit: ❖ Any orientation or training course regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), unless the institution submits a written request for an exception; ❖ The continuation of existing or establishment of new DEI offices or departments; ❖ Using DEI in job descriptions; ❖ Contracting with consultants or third parties whose role is to promote admissions, hiring, or promotion on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual…
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.”.
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.
DEI and intellectual diversity Policy. Requires state institutions of higher education to adopt and enforce a policy requiring the institution to: Prohibit: ❖ Any orientation or training course regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), unless the institution submits a written request for an exception; ❖ The continuation of existing or establishment of new DEI offices or departments; ❖ Using DEI in job descriptions; ❖ Contracting with consultants or third parties whose role is to promote admissions, hiring, or promotion on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual…
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.”.
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.
Jun 3, 2026 · Passed 63–30 · against most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
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.
Mar 18, 2026 · Passed 67–30 · against most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
On the version voted Jun 10, 2026: 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.
Mar 18, 2026 · Passed 74–23 · against most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
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).
Sep 30, 2026 · Passed 78–16 · against most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Appropriates money for transportation programs for July 2025 through June 2027, and amends and repeals state laws on vehicles, traffic, driver licensing and highway administration.
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.
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.
Prohibits the state and local governments from impairing the acceptance of digital assets as payment or taking custody of such assets through hardware or self-hosted wallets. Permits digital asset mining by individuals in residential areas, subject to applicable local ordinances. Permits digital asset mining businesses to operate in any area zoned for industrial use, provided the businesses meet the requirements for industrial use.
Jun 18, 2025 · Passed 70–26 · against most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
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.
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.
Mar 18, 2026 · Passed 67–30 · against most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Voted against most of their party on 20 of 41 party-divided votes on file.
Most often on: Jobs & cost of living (11), Rights & public safety (6), Education & families (4)
Prohibit specified actions with intent to steal a motor vehicle
What it does: 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…
Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 15–16, Republicans 62–0
What it does: 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 carbo…
Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 3–29, Republicans 60–1
Modify offenses of burglary, breaking and entering, and trespass
What it does: Creates new “aggravated burglary,” “burglary,” and “trespass in a habitation where a person is present or likely to be present” offenses that are the same as the current offenses except that the new offenses do not re…
Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 7–25, Republicans 63–0
What it does: On the version voted Jun 10, 2026: Regulates companies that resell electricity to tenants through submetering: requires registration with the Public Utilities Commission, disconnection protections, and a tenant bill a…
Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 9–23, Republicans 65–0
Make capital reappropriations for biennium ending June 30, 2028
What it does: Makes capital reappropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 2028 (FYs 2027 and 2028) and other appropriations. Makes various supplemental appropriations and earmarks.
Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 4–28, Republicans 62–1
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
YesVOTED
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).
Create defense to nuisance claims re: racing facilities
YesVOTED
Creates a complete defense to a civil action for nuisances involving a racing facility and racetrack arising on or after the bill’s effective date if certain conditions are met. Prohibits a county or township from adopting or enforcing a resolution that conflicts with the bill. Provides that the bill is not to be construed to exempt a racing facility and racetrack from compliance with state or federal environmental laws or health and safety regulations, or from a claim based on physical damage or personal injury.
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.
Regards Ohio State, Local Government Expenditure Databases
YesVOTED
Establishes the Ohio Local Government Expenditure Database and requires certain political subdivisions to participate. Requires state retirement systems to participate in the Ohio State Government Expenditure Database. Requires both systems to include revenue data.
Creates the Ohio, The Heart of It All pass program in the Department of Development (DEV), to be administered by TourismOhio, the purpose of which is to promote Ohio ’s artistic, cultural, historical, educational, recreational, film, and museum attractions. Provides a free pass, for 2026, to all Ohio residents who apply for it, and for 2027 and beyond permits any person to purchase a pass (with a discount for Ohio residents). Permits TourismOhio to adopt rules to implement the program.
Regulate the ownership of electric vehicle charging stations
YesVOTED
Adds definitions for “electric vehicle ” and “electric vehicle charging station ” to Ohio ’s Competitive Retail Electric Services (CRES) laws. Declares electric vehicle charging station s are a CRES that consumers may obtain from any supplier, subject to Ohio’s CRES laws. Amends provisions of recently enacted S.B. 103 of the 136th General Assembly to ensure that water service line replacement costs and water service line replacement reimbursement amounts are included in the property valuation calculation of a utility that chooses to file for a forecasted test period.
Create Higher Ed Evidence-Based Innovation Fund, Grant Program
YesVOTED
Creates the Higher Education Evidence-based Innovation Fund and Grant Program. Requires the Chancellor of Higher Education to award competitive grants from the fund to state institutions of higher education to support student success programs that use evidence-based reforms or practices.
Regards health insurance, Medicaid prior authorization
NoVOTED
Requires health insuring corporations, sickness and accident insurers, public employee benefit plans, (collectively, “health insurers”) and the Department of Medicaid (ODM) to honor a prior authorization approval if a provider prescribes a change in dosage of the approved drug. Requires that the specialty and relevant qualifications of the clinical peer, who is required by continuing law to review prior authorization appeals, to be identified. Prohibits health insurers and ODM from charging a fee for appealing an adverse prior authorization determination.
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.”.
Modify offenses of burglary, breaking and entering, and trespass
YesVOTED
Creates new “aggravated burglary,” “burglary,” and “trespass in a habitation where a person is present or likely to be present” offenses that are the same as the current offenses except that the new offenses do not require that the offender commit the offense by “force, stealth, or deception” and require the offender to commit the offense with a mental state of “knowingly.”. Specifies that the new offenses and the current offenses are allied offenses of similar import. Establishes penalties for the new offenses and generally increases penalties for the current offenses.
