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Lead-prevention advocates ask Senate to restore lead-abatement funding cut in House version of HB 96
Summary
The Ohio Healthy Homes Network and coalition partners told the Senate Health Committee that House cuts to lead-abatement and Lead Safe Home Fund line items would halt testing, investigations and remediation; they urged restoration to executive-budget levels to continue statewide services.
Fred Strayhorn, executive director of the Ohio Healthy Homes Network and member of the Lead Free Kids Coalition, told the Senate Health Committee the House-passed budget eliminated funding in the lead abatement line item (identified in his testimony as line item 440,527) and significantly reduced the Lead Safe Home Fund (line…
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