D. J. Swearingen News

State Rep. D.J. Swearingen (R-Huron) announces the Ohio State Controlling Board has approved a local $1 million project through the Development Services Agency (DSA) for a Roadwork Development Grant in the City of Huron. Swearingen applauded the measure coming to the 89th Ohio House District.

State Rep. D.J. Swearingen (R-Huron) announces the critical legislation, under House Bill 169, that provides significant grants to bars, restaurants and the lodging industry due to financial burdens placed on them by the pandemic passed within the Ohio House earlier today. Swearingen, a joint sponsor of the bill, spoke to it on the House floor.

State Reps. Thomas Hall (R-Madison Twp.) and D.J. Swearingen (R-Huron) have drafted a letter to send to U.S. Department of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen urging funding for townships across Ohio pertaining to the “American Rescue Plan Act.”

Today, State Rep. D.J. Swearingen (R-Huron) voted to support and the House passed House Bill 2, known as the Broadband Expansion bill. The legislation expands broadband access across the state with the creation of Ohio’s first Residential Broadband Expansion Program. 

State Rep. D.J. Swearingen (R-Huron) announces he has cosponsored the newly-introduced “Fair School Funding Plan” filed under House Bill 1 for the 134th General Assembly. The key, bipartisan legislation to modernize K-12 school funding across Ohio is nearly identical to last General Assembly’s House Bill 305, which was a school funding formula reform bill that passed in the House late last year.

Ohio House Speaker Bob Cupp (R-Lima) appointed State Rep. D.J. Swearingen (R-Huron) as Vice-Chair of the House Criminal Justice Committee for the 134th General Assembly.