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House Bill 434 sponsors ask Senate Finance for emergency fix to driver-education and expand drone grants to counties and townships
Summary
Representatives testified that House Bill 434 fixes an unintended driver-education requirement affecting foreign liaison officers and expands a drone-for-first-responders grant program beyond municipalities; sponsors urged an emergency clause to speed implementation.
Representatives testified before the Ohio Senate Finance Committee on Oct. 29 in support of Amended House Bill 434, saying the measure corrects two unintended consequences from recent budget legislation and requested an emergency clause to implement fixes immediately.
Representative Willis, a joint sponsor, told the committee the bill "is not only a unanimously bipartisan effort, but a narrowly tailored critically needed fix to some unintended consequences of our budget bills from this General Assembly." He said the first correction removes an erroneous driver-education requirement that has been applied to certain applicants for…
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