H.B. No. 70 Summary

• Enacts the "Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote" as Ohio law, establishing an interstate compact to elect the president based on the national popular vote total rather than state-by-state results.

• Requires states in the compact to conduct statewide popular elections for president and vice president, with each state's chief election official determining the national popular vote winner by tallying votes across all member states.

• Makes the agreement effective only when states cumulatively possessing a majority of electoral votes have enacted it in substantially the same form, and allows member states to withdraw except within 6 months before a presidential term ends.

• Specifies that Ohio's presidential electors will be appointed based on the national popular vote winner if the compact is in effect on July 20 of an election year; otherwise, electors are appointed under existing state law.

• Terminates the agreement if the Electoral College is abolished and includes provisions for resolving ties and handling vacancies in the elector slate.