Representative Beryl Piccolantonio - District 4

COLUMBUS — State Rep. Beryl Brown Piccolantonio (D-Gahanna) today issued the following statement concerning Tuesday’s House Workforce and Higher Education Committee second hearing on Senate Bill (SB) 1:  

COLUMBUS – State Rep. Beryl Brown Piccolantonio (D-Gahanna) today released the following statement concerning Tuesday’s first hearing on Senate Bill (SB) 1, the Higher Education Destruction Act, in the House Workforce and Higher Education Committee:

COLUMBUS – State Rep. Beryl Brown Piccolantonio (D-Gahanna) today joined the Ohio House Democratic Caucus in sending a letter to Governor Mike DeWine and Attorney General Dave Yost urging them to not appeal Franklin County Common Pleas Court Judge Michael Holbrook’s ruling that the governor violated a statue in 2021 when he refused to accept $900M in federal unemployment during the pandemic. The ruling, if not appealed by the attorney general and if the funds are distributed by the governor, means 300K Ohio families will be eligible for meaningful financial support. 

COLUMBUS — The Ohio Jewish Caucus today issued the following statement honoring International Holocaust Remembrance Day in memory of the six million Jewish people murdered during the Holocaust and the millions of other victims at the hands of Nazi persecution, and the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp: