Advocates were baffled that the bill didn’t pass, given that it had no public opposition
Senate Bill 341 would have ended a loophole letting 17-year-olds marry legal adults up to four years older than them with court approval and seemed bound for passage. No one testified against it during its five public readings, and it had the support of youth advocates and the Catholic church.
The legislation had a pair of bipartisan sponsors, and it passed the state Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously on Wednesday, the last full day before the summer recess began. Despite the initial momentum in the Senate, the bill never passed there in a full floor vote, and it had yet to be introduced in the House.
Still, campaigners and lawmakers said it was “mind-boggling” that the bill has not progressed. “It’s just unbelievable that a bipartisan common sense bill that has no opposition from the public, that costs nothing, it has a $0 price tag…it harms no one except creepy men who prey on teenage girls,” Fraidy Reiss, founder of the non-profit Unchained At Last, which campaigns against child marriage, told the Ohio Capital Journal.
Release the voting information. Name and shame the people who voted against it.
The article says it wasn’t brought up for a vote.
I read the article, and it says it didn’t pass a floor vote in the Senate and didn’t go to a vote in the House.
Because there was no floor vote in the Senate. The Ohio Senate page isn’t loading for me but here’s another article: https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/06/15/a-bill-banning-child-marriage-passed-out-of-committee-but-the-ohio-senate-did-not-vote-on-it/
There can be reasons it didn’t pass besides the name.
Okay, I did some quick research. This looks like a clean bill. Republicans don’t want to pass it because it might increase abortion rates.
It does only move the legal age from 17 to 18, and at 17 it does require judicial review. However getting married under 18 is a problem because you have limited rights before you’re 18. It’s difficult to get out of an abusive marriage, for instance, before you’re 18.
In CA, you can get married at any age, as long as a judge agrees to the marriage… but it is illegal to get divorced before 18. How fucked is that?!
Yeah, that’s some feed for a good depression.
Harming children because they want to continue harming women.
Brick your local GOP.
Let’s be Chaotic Good barbarians.
A Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster?
You got it in one. :)