Ismail Mohamed is a Democratic state representative from Ohio who has represented District 3 since January 1, 2023, and is seeking re-election in the November 3, 2026 general election.[1][2]An attorney born in Somalia, he is the ranking member of the Technology and Innovation Committee.[1]
Ismail Mohamed was born in Somalia and lives in Ohio, according to Ballotpedia.[1]He graduated from Northland High School, earned a B.A. in political science and government from The Ohio State University in 2013, and earned a J.D. from the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law in 2017.[1]His career experience includes working as an attorney and as a telephonic Somali interpreter, and he was appointed to serve on the North-Linden Area Commission and on the Columbus Civilian Review Board.[1]
Mohamed succeeded Haraz Ghanbari (R) in the Ohio House of Representatives and assumed office on January 1, 2023.[1]In the 2025-2026 session he serves on the House Judiciary and Transportation committees and is the ranking member of the Technology and Innovation Committee.[1]Bernadine Kennedy Kent (R) and Elegant Afriyie (Independent) are also on the November 3, 2026 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
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.
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.”.
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.
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.”.
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.
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.
Mar 4, 2026 · Passed 82–10 · against most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
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.
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.
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.
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.
Voted against most of their party on 4 of 45 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
What it does: 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 individual…
Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 7–26, Republicans 63–0
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 472 · OH HOUSE
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.
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
YesVOTED
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
NoVOTED
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.
