Senate Passes Six Bills That Serve Each and Every Ohioan

Like candy passed out to Trick or Treaters on Halloween night, six pieces of legislation were passed out of the Ohio Senate this week. These bills address a range of topics from honoring a fallen veteran to making roads safer for drivers to corrections made to the state operating budget. Each one of these pieces of legislation is done to make Ohio a better, stronger, and safer state.

The six bills passed by the Ohio Senate are the following:

• House Bill 23 – Sponsored by Representatives Bill Roemer and Josh Williams, this legislation creates an Amber alert-style program so that communities are made aware whenever inmates have escaped from a nearby prison.
•  House Bill 56 – Sponsored by Representative Sharon Ray, the bill designates a portion of State Route 421 in Medina County as the Corporal David James Amheiser Memorial Highway. CPL Amheiser served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War and was killed by communist forces on August 29, 1970.
• House Bill 434 – Sponsored by Representatives Bernard Willis and Brian Lampton, the legislation exempts people with valid foreign drivers licenses and U.S. visas who are living in Ohio temporarily for work associated with the military from Ohio’s new driver’s ed requirements. The bill also contains amendments to provide corrections to Ohio’s operating and transportation budgets. 
• Senate Bill 16 – Sponsored by Senator Steve Wilson, the bill requires motorists to slow down and move over when encountering a vehicle on the side of the road in distress.

• Senate Bill 144 – Sponsored by Senator Catherine Ingram, the bill restores three grade bands for educator licensure in Ohio. This comes following concerns raised by educators after a reduction to only two grade bands. The licensure bands restored are for teaching grades pre-k to 5th, 4th to 8th, and 7th to 12th.
• Senate Bill 146 – Sponsored by Senators Theresa Gavarone and Jane Timken, the bill clarifies the steps a governmental entity must take to hold an individual directly liable for the actions of a corporation. This comes in response to overzealous regulators suing individuals rather than the corporations they were doing work on behalf of.

  

Once again, the Ohio Senate continues to work on behalf of each and every Ohioan so that our state will continue to be the best in the Union.