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Committee hears bill to create Manufacturing Technologies Assistance Grant Program for Ohio manufacturers
Summary
Representatives presented House Bill 159 to create a $24 million Manufacturing Technologies Assistance Grant Program offering up to $150,000 per award to help small and mid-size Ohio manufacturers adopt automation, robotics and other production technologies; lawmakers questioned targeting, job impacts and matching requirements.
Chairman Claggett and the Ohio House Technology and Innovation Committee heard sponsor testimony on House Bill 159 on a proposal to create the Manufacturing Technologies Assistance Grant Program (MTAP) to help small and medium manufacturers in Ohio adopt new technologies.
The bill would allow eligible manufacturers to apply to the director of the Ohio Department of Development for grants of up to $150,000 for projects that “would increase the productivity, efficiency, and competitiveness of a manufacturing operation through the adoption and integration of manufacturing technologies,” Representative Santucci said in sponsor testimony.
The program would divide applicants into two size profiles — companies with 50 or fewer full‑time employees and those with 51 to 500 — and would require applicants to be a…
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