SB380 • 2026

Prohibit laws incompatible with U.S. and Ohio Constitutions

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Terry Johnson
Last action
Official status: As Introduced
Effective date: Not listed

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Prohibit laws incompatible with U.S. and Ohio Constitutions

To enact section 1.66 of the Revised Code to prohibit laws that are incompatible with the United States Constitution and Ohio Constitution and to name this act An Act to Affirm and Ensure the Supremacy of the Constitutions of the United States of America and Ohio and the Foundational Principle of the American System of Government: Individual Liberty.

What This Bill Does

To enact section 1.66 of the Revised Code to prohibit laws that are incompatible with the United States Constitution and Ohio Constitution and to name this act An Act to Affirm and Ensure the Supremacy of the Constitutions of the United States of America and Ohio and the Foundational Principle of the American System of Government: Individual Liberty.

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Bill History

Ohio Legislature
As Introduced

Official Summary Text

To enact section 1.66 of the Revised Code to prohibit laws that are incompatible with the United States Constitution and Ohio Constitution and to name this act An Act to Affirm and Ensure the Supremacy of the Constitutions of the United States of America and Ohio and the Foundational Principle of the American System of Government: Individual Liberty.

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As Introduced

136th
General Assembly

Regular
Session
S. B. No. 380

2025-2026

Senator Johnson

To
enact section 1.66 of the Revised Code
to
prohibit laws that are incompatible with the United States
Constitution and Ohio Constitution and to name this act An Act to
Affirm and Ensure the Supremacy of the Constitutions of the United
States of America and Ohio and the Foundational Principle of the
American System of Government: Individual Liberty.

BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:

Section
1.
That
section 1.66 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:

Sec.
1.66.
(A)
As used in this section:

(1)
"Incompatible law" means any law, rule, or regulation of a
jurisdiction outside any state or territory of the United States that
does not provide the same or equivalent rights and liberties
guaranteed under the United State Constitution, the Ohio
Constitution, or the common law as recognized in this state.

(2)
"Religious law, custom, or practice" means any law, rule,
or regulation of a religious system, belief, code, or ethnic or
tribal custom or practice that is incompatible with the United State
Constitution, Ohio Constitution, or the common law as recognized in
this state.

(3)
"Government entity" means a state agency, public
institution, political subdivision, or any other organized body,
office, agency, institution, or entity established by the laws of
this state for the exercise of any function of government.

(B)
Notwithstanding any other provision of the Revised Code, no
government entity shall recognize or enforce any incompatible law or
any religious law, custom, or practice that permits, enforces, or
implements any of the following:

(1)
Prejudicial treatment of women or persons of a particular race,
religion, ethnicity, social class, or caste;

(2)
Prohibition of the right to leave, change, or renounce one's religion
or belief;

(3)
Prohibition of otherwise protected speech or assembly;

(4)
Plural marriages;

(5)
Marriages of convenience or contracts for sexual services;

(6)
Forced marriages or marriages that are otherwise unlawful under the
laws of this state;

(7)
Violence against women and children, excluding reasonable parental
discipline of children;

(8)
Politically or religiously motivated physical violence or homicide;

(9)
Cruel and unusual punishments as prohibited by the Eighth Amendment
to the United States Constitution, including amputation, lashing,
flogging, stoning, branding, or piercing;

(10)
Female genital mutilation;

(11)
Human sacrifice.

Section
2.
This
act shall be known as An Act to Affirm and Ensure the Supremacy of
the Constitutions of the United States of America and Ohio and the
Foundational Principle of the American System of Government:
Individual Liberty.