Diane Mullins is a Republican state representative from Ohio House of Representatives District 47 who took office in January 2025 and is seeking re-election on the November 3, 2026 ballot. A pastor and a founder of Deborah’s Voice, she serves on the Agriculture, Community Revitalization, Medicaid and Public Safety committees.[1]
Mullins’ career experience includes working as a pastor, and she is a founder of Deborah’s Voice, according to Ballotpedia.[1]She ran unsuccessfully in the 2020 Republican primary for Ohio House District 53, losing to Thomas Hall.[1]In 2024 she defeated incumbent Sara Carruthers in the Republican primary for District 47 and then defeated Democrat Vanessa Cummings in the general election, assuming office on January 1, 2025.[1]
In the 2025–2026 session Mullins was assigned to the Agriculture, Community Revitalization (as vice chair), Medicaid and Public Safety committees.[1]She advanced from the Republican primary on May 5, 2026.[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 Republicans voted. How topics are assigned
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.
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…
Mar 19, 2025 · Passed 59–34 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
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.”.
Mar 25, 2026 · Passed 63–32 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
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.
Mar 25, 2026 · Passed 64–32 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
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.
Nov 19, 2025 · Passed 60–28 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
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.
Jun 10, 2026 · Passed 60–38 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
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…
Mar 19, 2025 · Passed 59–34 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
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.
Nov 19, 2025 · Passed 59–27 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
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.
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 · with most RepublicansOfficial 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 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
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 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 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
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.
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 · with most RepublicansOfficial 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.
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.
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).
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.
Regards DoDD authority re: community capital assistance funds
YesVOTED
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.
Issue medical marijuana processor cultivation, dispensary license
NoVOTED
Establishes the paired cultivator license, its eligibility requirements, authorized activities, and restrictions under the Division of Cannabis Control (DCC). Requires DCC to issue the paired cultivator license and a dispensary license to applicants meeting the bill’s requirements no later than 90 days after the effective date of the bill. Expands the authority of a laboratory license holder to obtain adult-use and medical marijuana by adding licensed paired cultivators to the licensees from which the marijuana may be obtained.
Requires a law enforcement agenc y to enter a warrant into the Law Enforcement Automated Database System (LEADS) and the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database if a person escapes from detention, is on community control, and has either committed a tier one offense or is a targeted violent offender. Requires a law enforcement agency to notify the public safety answering point of the above warrant. Requires the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC) to contract with a single vendor for GPS monitoring of GPS-monitored offenders.
STS inspections. Eliminates certain requirements governing the inspection of a sewage treatment system (“STS”), including mandatory initial and annual inspections for all systems. Requires the board of health to conduct an educational assessment, rather than an inspection, within 12 months after installation, at a time scheduled with the owner of the system. Maintenance program. Makes the development of a program for the administration of maintenance requirements permissive, rather than mandatory as under current law. Soil evaluations.
Ratify the Interstate Compact for School Psychologists
YesVOTED
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.
Medicaid Program Integrity and Fraud Prevention Act Electronic visit verification (EVV) for in-home care services. Requires the Department of Medicaid to require each claim for a service that is subject to EVV requirements under state or federal law, including nonexempt services provided by in-home care service providers, to be supported by a validated EVV record as a condition of payment.
Make capital appropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 2028
YesVOTED
Capital appropriations and reappropriations. Makes capital appropriations totaling $3. 7 billion for the FY 202 7-2028 biennium, and authorizes about $3.4 billion in new debt. Aging School Accelerator Pilot Program. Establishes the Aging School Accelerator Pilot Program under which the Facilities Construction Commission (FCC) must provide classroom facilities project assistance to qualifying school districts.
Proposes an amendment to the Ohio Constitution to appear on the ballot in November 2026, to require electors to provide identification (ID) to vote. Requires an elector to show photo ID when voting in person, provided that the General Assembly may allow an exception for those with a sincere religious objection to being photographed, as under the existing statute. Defines “photo identification” to include the same documents as are currently acceptable under the Revised Code.
