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Esther’s Law, which grants nursing home residents and/or resident representatives the ability to authorize and install electronic monitoring devices in resident rooms to monitor the quality of care received in the home, becomes effective in Ohio on March 23, 2022. The law addresses the resident rights to dignity and privacy where there is a roommate involved, and places requirements on the facility to make reasonable accommodations and prohibits them from retaliating against residents who wish to install these electronic monitoring devices. The legislation behind Esther’s Law was sponsored by State Senators Nickie Antonio and Andrew O. Brenner and signed by Governor Mike DeWine on December 22, 2021.