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Read. Follow. Verify.Ohio requires hospitals and urgent care facilities to establish domestic violence screening and training protocols
Last action · November 5, 2025: Referred to HealthSponsors: Dontavius Jarrells and 10 others
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What This Bill Would Do
Ohio House Bill 566 requires the Director of Health, hospitals, and urgent care facilities to create standardized domestic violence screening, interviewing, and injury documentation protocols for health care professionals. Within 90 days of the effective date, hospitals and urgent care facilities must adopt these protocols. Within one year, the Department of Health must also make specialized training available to health care workers statewide.
Health care workers across Ohio will be mandated to follow specific identification, separate family member interviewing, and photographic injury documentation procedures when treating suspected domestic violence victims.
- House Bill 566 was introduced in the 136th General Assembly of Ohio and referred to committee in November 2025. context
- Domestic violence protocols in healthcare settings are designed to help medical staff identify abuse indicators, safely interview patients away from potential abusers, and properly document injuries for legal and medical records. context
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Hospitals
Must adopt new internal protocols for domestic violence screening, interviewing, and injury documentation within 90 days.
Urgent care facilities
Must adopt new internal protocols for domestic violence screening, interviewing, and injury documentation within 90 days.
Health care professionals
Must follow standardized screening, separate interview, and injury documentation procedures and participate in training.
Domestic violence victims
Will receive standardized screenings, separate interviews, and structured referrals to support agencies during medical visits.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Currently in committee. The next step in the legislative lifecycle is Floor Vote.
Procedural history
2 actions- Nov 5, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred to Health
- Nov 4, 2025HouseIntroducedIntroduced
Version history
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Mandatory Standardization of Domestic Violence Screening
The bill shifts hospital and urgent care obligations from discretionary observation to mandatory protocol adoption, including separate family member interviews and photographic injury logs.
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www.legislature.ohio.gov
Analysis Score
0–100- Significance75How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy15Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz30Current news / social attention level
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