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Contested 'STORK Act' amendment passes 7–4 as opponents warn of reproductive‑rights and administrative risks
Summary
Committee adopted an amendment to House Bill 87 that pares back sales‑tax exemptions while keeping a conception‑dependent tax benefit; reproductive‑rights and family‑policy groups testified that the bill creates surveillance and legal risks and urged alternatives such as a newborn credit.
The Ohio House Ways and Means Committee adopted an amendment to House Bill 87, the STORK Act, after hours of testimony that split the panel along policy and constitutional lines.
Representative Klick, sponsor of the amendment, said the revision preserves a tax provision that would allow a taxpayer to claim a conceived child as a dependent in the year of conception while removing a package of sales‑tax exemptions for infant items to reduce the bill’s price tag. Klick told the committee the change reduced the bill’s estimated fiscal cost from about $26 million to roughly $6 million and argued the measure aims to help families with the expenses that…
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