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Ohio House OKs UAV warrant requirement and drone reporting rules
Summary
The House passed Sub. H.B. 251 to require warrants for certain law‑enforcement drone surveillance, mandate flight and surveillance logging, prohibit arming UAVs and modernize aviation definitions; final vote was 93–2.
Substitute House Bill 251, a package updating Ohio law for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), passed the Ohio House with bipartisan support and a 93–2 recorded vote.
Representative Bernie Willis, speaking for the bill, said the legislation "establishes a clear warrant requirement" for law‑enforcement drone surveillance and aligns aviation definitions (heliports, vertiports, spaceports) with…
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