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House Health Committee approves amendment to House Bill 162 on minor medical records
Summary
The Ohio House Health Committee amended and reported House Bill 162, removing a statutory requirement that certain portions of a minor’s medical record be kept separately, and voted to recommend the bill’s passage with a 10‑to‑1 tally.
The Ohio House Health Committee on Nov. 1 amended and reported House Bill 162 during its sixth hearing, approving language that removes a requirement that health care providers maintain a minor’s medical records in a way that separates entries for care received with parental consent from care provided without parental or guardian consent.
Vice Chair Dieter moved to amend HB162 with amendment 0871, which "removes a requirement that a health care provider maintain a minor's health record in such a manner that separates records relating to care that the minor received without parent or guardian consent and care received with parent or guardian consent," and the amendment was explained and accepted without objection.
Following acceptance of the amendment, Vice Chair Dieter moved to report the bill with the adopted amendment and recommend its passage. The clerk called the roll; Chair Schmidt announced the result: "With 10 in the affirmative and 1 in the negative, the bill is passed." Committee members were directed to sign the roll and given until noon to add themselves as cosponsors.
The committee record shows the motion to report was offered by Vice Chair Dieter; a formal second was not recorded in the public transcript. The roll call included affirmative responses from members who answered during the clerk’s call (Chair Schmidt, Vice Chair Dieter, Representative Baker, Representative Barghorst, Representative Craig, Representative Grimm, Representative Gross, Representative King, Representative Miller, and Representative Stewart). The transcript records one negative vote but does not identify the member by name on the public record.
This action concludes the sixth hearing on HB162. No further committee amendments or referral instructions were recorded during the public session.
Notes: The transcript captures the committee’s procedural actions and the roll call as read aloud by the clerk; the one recorded negative vote was not attributed to a named member in the public portion of the transcript.
