[3] He also authored the Ohio law requiring that public employees disclose any intent to collect retirement early.

[5] During his sixteen years in public service, he enacted legislation on topics such as education reform, tax policy, criminal justice, nursing home reimbursement formulas, election and campaign finance law, the abolition of predatory mortgage lending and the regulation of payday lending, collective bargaining and prevailing wage law, and electric utility re-regulation.

He officially retired from politics in 2008, leaving to become a public policy consultant to clients such as the Ohio Business Roundtable.

Jacobson has worked as a strategist, consultant, and policy expert for a range of business and non-profit clients.

In 2020, he was also helping GOP lawmakers search for a new speaker, although he asserted that he was only offering insight, not overseeing the process.