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Advocates urge Senate to restore lead-abatement and Lead Safe Home Fund funding cut in House budget

3310882 · May 1, 2025
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Summary

Lead‑safety advocates told the Senate Health Committee that cuts in the House‑passed HB 96 would cripple Ohio’s lead testing, investigations and hazard‑control work and urged restoration of the governor’s funding level.

Fred Strayhorn, executive director of the Ohio Healthy Homes Network and a leader in the Lead Free Kids Coalition, told the Senate Health Committee the House-passed version of HB 96 cut funding for lead abatement and the Lead Safe Home Fund, and he urged senators to restore the governor’s proposed levels.

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