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Senator questions Ohio Tuition Trust Authority over 'shall'‑to‑'will' edits, asks what was actually reduced
Summary
At a Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review hearing, Senator Brenner challenged the Ohio Tuition Trust Authority on whether changing language from "shall" to "will" met the statutory requirement to reduce regulations, and asked whether agencies used AI tools such as ChatGPT‑4 to rework rules.
Senator Brenner pressed the Ohio Tuition Trust Authority on Tuesday over whether edits that replace the word "shall" with "will" satisfy a state law intended to reduce administrative rules.
The question came during the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review meeting when Senator Brenner asked representatives of the Ohio Tuition Trust Authority about item 25 on the agenda. "Changing the word from 'shall' to 'will' doesn't do anything to reduce anything," Brenner said. "What did you do to try to reduce the regulations inside your agency?"
The authority's legal counsel, Jeff Thogle, responded that the agency has reduced rules in other revisions and when creating new rules, but for the rules before…
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