Senate confirms Marion Technical College trustees, passes memorial highway bill and introduces two funding bills
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The Ohio Senate advised and consented to appointments to the Marion Technical College board, passed a highway memorial bill, and placed two bills on first consideration concerning school aid and rural housing infrastructure funding.
The Ohio Senate advised and consented to appointments to the Marion Technical College Board of Trustees and passed a bill to name a portion of State Route 2 in Lake County for Specialist Lloyd Andrew Sellers III, among other floor actions.
Senator McCauley reported the rules committee’s recommendation that the Senate advise and consent to appointments of Timothy Anderson, Mary Fox and Michael McCleese to the Marion Technical College Board of Trustees. The Senate approved the appointments by roll call, recorded as 33 yays and 0 nays.
Senator Serino spoke in support of Senate Bill 148, which would designate a portion of State Route 2 in Lake County as the Specialist Lloyd Andrew Sellers Memorial Highway. Serino recounted Sellers’ biography, including his service and death in Vietnam on June 19, 1967, and urged passage; the Senate passed the bill 33-0.
On first consideration the Senate introduced Senate Bill 191 (Senator Huffman), addressing disadvantaged pupil impact aid for scholarship students attending chartered nonpublic schools and making an appropriation, and Senate Bill 192 (Senator Reynolds), declaring the General Assembly’s intent to provide funding for infrastructure that services housing in rural counties. Both bills were placed on first consideration; no floor votes on those measures were recorded during the session.
The Senate also made several presidential appointments to advisory bodies (for example, Senator Manning to the State Victims Assistance Advisory Council and Senator Huffman as co-chair of the Commission on Infant Mortality were announced) and scheduled committee meetings. The Senate adjourned to its next session on May 13.
