Cindy Abrams News

COLUMBUS - This week, Ohio Senate Committees heard various legislation from State Representative Cindy Abrams (R-Hamilton). The Senate Judiciary Committee is hearing House Bill 109 and House Bill 254, while the Health Committee is considering House Bill 537. This trio of legislation from Abrams addresses public safety and the health of Ohioans. 

COLUMBUS - State Representative Cindy Abrams’ (R-Harrison) legislation to designate a portion of I-71 as the “Officers Dennis Bennington and Robert Seiffert Memorial Highway” was recently passed with House Bill 291. 

COLUMBUS — State Rep. Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Cleveland) today announced the passage of her bipartisan House Bill (HB) 9 as an amendment to Senate Bill 89. Sweeney’s higher education legislation got caught up in a contentious battle over K-12 voucher expansion that had nothing to do with the original intent of her bill. 

COLUMBUS - Last Wednesday, March 23, the House Insurance Committee began hearings on House Bill 512. The legislation aims to increase contributions from employers of full-time firefighters and municipal police officers to the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund. 

COLUMBUS - State Representative Cindy Abrams’ (R-Harrison) legislation to designate February 12 as Cholangiocarinoma (pronounced kuh-lan-jee-uh-kaar-suh-NOW’-muh) Awareness Day, or House Bill 537, was favorably passed by the Ohio House on Wednesday. 

COLUMBUS – State Rep. Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Cleveland) today gave sponsor testimony before the Ohio House Finance Committee on House Bill (HB) 520. The bill would help qualified Ohio workers apply for the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program by establishing the Navigator Pilot Program under the Chancellor of Higher Education.

COLUMBUS - Wednesday, Governor Mike DeWine gave his State of the State Address to the 134th General Assembly. Highlighted during his remarks was State Representative Cindy Abrams (R-Harrison) and her work on legislation regarding distracted driving and law enforcement. 

COLUMBUS - Recently, an Ohio House committee began hearings on legislation to improve support for first responders and law enforcement. 

COLUMBUS – State Rep. Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Cleveland) today gave sponsor testimony before the Ohio House Health Committee on House Bill (HB) 316, to allow Extreme Risk Protection Orders, which keep Ohioans safe and support the work of law enforcement.

COLUMBUS -State Representative Cindy Abrams (R-Harrison) and the Ohio House have voted in favor House Bill 537 to designate Feb. 12 each year as Cholangiocarcinoma Awareness Day. 

COLUMBUS— State Representatives Paula Hicks-Hudson (D - Toledo), Catherine D. Ingram (D-Cincinnati), Michele Lepore-Hagan (D-Youngstown), and Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Cleveland) issued statements on what to expect going into the last weekend of early voting in Ohio. The members also recapped their requests of Secretary LaRose over the last several months, requests that have largely been ignored. National news outlets this week covered Ohio’s long and entirely predictable early voting lines. The Guardian reported on Columbus’s “quarter-mile lines” and the Washington Post reported on Cuyahoga County’s “extraordinary, blocks-long lines.”

COLUMBUS – The Ohio State Fair is officially set to return in 2022. State Representative Cindy Abrams (R-Harrison) and the Ohio Expositions Commission announced Friday the state fair will return to full operations July 27- Aug. 7. 

COLUMBUS – State Rep. Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Cleveland) issued a statement Wednesday following the news that Ohio reported 2,366 new COVID-19 cases over the last 24 hours, a new record and the sixth day in the last week with over 2,000 new daily cases. Hospitalizations also reached a new high, with a total of 1,252 Ohioans in the hospital for COVID-19, according to the Ohio Department of Health.

COLUMBUS – The Ohio House of Representatives today passed House Bill 109, also known as the Ohio Law and Order Act, which creates new criminal offenses to combat rioting, looting and violence in Ohio.

COLUMBUS – The Ohio Senate yesterday unanimously passed House Bill 93, legislation to protect survivors of domestic violence, human trafficking and sexual abuse by improving and expanding the state’s Safe at Home Address Confidentiality Program.