Bride Rose Sweeney News

COLUMBUS – State Reps. Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Westlake) today applauds the unanimous Senate passage of House Bill 338, bipartisan legislation with Rep. Andrea White (R-Kettering) to allow child support orders to be issued or modified for a child with disabilities after that child has turned 18. 

COLUMBUS — State Rep. Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Westlake) today announced the Ohio Controlling Board approved $6.7M in state funds for Cuyahoga County through the State Disaster Relief Program (SDRP) to assist local governments in covering the cost of damages resulting from the tornadoes and severe storms on August 6, 2024.

COLUMBUS - State Rep. Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Westlake) Monday announced $4.95M in funding has been awarded to the Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corporation through the state’s Welcome Home Ohio program to expand affordable housing opportunities and help more Ohioans achieve the dream of homeownership.  

COLUMBUS – State Rep. Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Westlake) today announced the Controlling Board approved $11.2M in state funds to remediate previously abandoned oil and gas wells, also known as “orphan wells,” throughout the state. Properly plugging orphan wells is vital to protecting public health and safety and better conserve Ohio’s natural resources.

COLUMBUS — State Rep. Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Westlake) today announced Cuyahoga County has been awarded an additional $3.7M in funding through the Brownfield Remediation Program, for a total of $48.2M in 2024. Brownfield funding helps clean up and redevelop hazardous sites, creating new economic and employment opportunities. 

COLUMBUS — State Rep. Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Westlake) last week announced that $4.2M in state funding has been awarded to the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) by the Ohio Department of Transportation’s (ODOT) Urban Transit Program. The funds are appropriated from the FY 2024-2025 Transportation Budget, which Rep. Sweeney helped pass as Ranking Member of the House Finance Committee.

COLUMBUS — House Minority Leader Allison Russo (D-Upper Arlington) and State Rep. Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Westlake) today made the following statements concerning the Ohio Supreme Court’s 4-3 ruling that makes it harder for voters with disabilities to cast in-person absentee ballots in Ohio

COLUMBUS - State Rep. Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Westlake) today announced nearly $1M in federal funding has been awarded for initiatives in Cuyahoga County aimed at combating gun violence. The federal funding has been made available through the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Byrne State Crisis Intervention Plan (SCIP) with appropriations from the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act of 2022.

COLUMBUS – State Rep. Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Westlake) today sent a letter to Secretary of State Frank LaRose once again seeking information clarifying his office’s removal of more than one hundred thousand registered Ohioans from the voter rolls. 

COLUMBUS – State Rep. Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Westlake) today released the following statement related to the lawsuit filed Friday by two voters against Secretary of State Frank LaRose for his new directive that makes it harder for voters with disabilities to cast in-person absentee ballots in Ohio: