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Evening, I saw this on the OHIO board. I know everyone is not from OHIO BUT any supoort is better than none. OHIO has a bill that will prevent insurance companies from excluding WLS in Ohio. Please take a minute and email the Senate. The more emails they get the better: Ohio Senate Bill for WLS please take time and care. Original Post by Daniel Otte at 11:17 AM PST on 05/30/2004 Latonia, KY I'm posting this for everyone who cares to see. I firmly believe as a nation we all should fight for this SB 41 and it should be for the whole United States. I found this on an Ohio post sight for obesityhelp.com If there is any other bills like this out there let me know I want to fight for our rights to be cover for this disability and illness. I encourage everyone to summit to this and forward it to every state so it becomes a law to be cover for obesity. Please help I Care Daniel Ohio Senate Bill for WLS Original Post 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.