- Advocacy Team
COVID-19 State Updates: May 21, 2020

Ohio’s COVID-19 case data is below and more data is available on the COVID-19 Dashboard here.
27,517 confirmed cases
1,919 probable cases
29,436 total cases
5,198 hospitalizations
1,603 confirmed deaths
178 probable deaths
1,781 total deaths
1,369 ICU admissions
Please find below the signed Ohio Department of Health Director’s Order that Rescinds and Modifies Portions of the Stay Safe Ohio Order and the Urgent Health Advisory.
ODH Order that Rescinds and Modifies Portions of the Stay Safe Ohio Order is here.
Urgent Health Advisory: Ohioans Protecting Ohioans is here.
The following order has also been signed by Ohio’s Health Director Amy Acton, M.D., MPH:
The Ohio House version of a capital re-appropriations bill, HB 670, was released Wednesday.
The bill "will allow funding for previously approved construction projects focused on health, safety and jobs to continue uninterrupted into the new fiscal year."
Lawmakers have until end of the fiscal year on June 30 to approve any re-appropriations.
While an Ohio Senate re-appropriations bill has not been formally introduced yet, Senate Finance Chair Matt Dolan estimated it could contain about $1.2 billion.
The Senate Local Government, Public Safety, & Veterans Affairs Committee held its second hearing on HB 242, regarding auxiliary containers; GCP has weighed-in on this issue and the legislation.
The Committee passed an amended version of HB 242 that included a 12-month sunset amendment.
Pending passage on the Ohio Senate floor, the House would either need to concur with the Senate changes or send the legislation to a conference committee to resolve the differences between the bills.