Ohio Senate Bill for WLS

I saw a post on the main message board about states that had mandated coverage for WLS. When I reviewed the website, it said Ohio was one of the states where it was "pending" or had been introduced. This article also had the name of the Senator in Ohio who had written the bill. Here is the link to him-http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/bios/sd_33.html If you look under proposed legislation, you will get a list of them. I started going through each one and found it! Its 125 S.B.41 and here is the link where you can read what he introduced-http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=125_SB_41 So then I went in to see what the status of it was and it shows he introduced it or the first reading was on 3/4/03 and it had been assigned to a committee. Ok, that's been over a year ago. I wonder what is going on with this bill? I decided to e-mail Senator Hagan to see what the status was and if he could use any help in getting it passed. I figure I'm willing to march on the steps of the Ohio Senate and I'm sure many of you would be too. Does anyone know what the status of this bill is? Its driving me crazy knowing something like this has been introduced over a year ago! Beth

I think its dead there. He never answered my email

The problem is Mr. Hagan is a Democrat in a legislature run by Republicans. Furthermore, Mr. Hagan is not well liked by the Republicans that run the legislature. So, it's not likely that the Republican leadership is likely to allow Mr. Hagan any legislative victories. If Mr. Hagan really cared, he'd get his legislation added as an amendment to some Republican sponsored health care bill and see if it would get through committee that way. Of course, he'd need the help of a Republican and I'm not sure Mr. Hagan would ask for it.