In The News 1 December 2025

Governor DeWine signs bills into law

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed the following bills into law: 

• House Bill 23, sponsored by State Representative Bill Roemer (R-Richfield) and State Representative Josh Williams (R-Sylvania Twp.), to create the escaped convict alert program and to allow a prior parent company of a bank to apply to the Secretary of State for the appointment and commission of banking police officers.

• House Bill 27, sponsored by State Representative Jamie Callender (R-Concord) and State Representative Daniel P. Troy (D-Willowick), to designate the bridge spanning the Grand River in Lake County as the "Specialist Jacob A. Ashton Memorial Bridge" and to make changes to the "Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation" license plate.

• House Bill 38, sponsored by State Representative Sarah Fowler Arthur (R-Ashtabula), to designate a portion of State Route 87 in Geauga County as the "Dr. Steven Takacs Veteran Memorial Highway."

• House Bill 56, sponsored by State Representative Sharon A. Ray (R-Wadsworth), to designate a portion of State Route 421 in Medina County as the "CPL David James Amheiser Memorial Highway."

• Senate Bill 155, sponsored by State Senator Andrew O. Brenner (R-Delaware) and State Senator Catherine D. Ingram (D-Cincinnati), to amend sections 4735.18 and 4735.24 and to enact section 5301.95 of the Revised Code to amend the law related to real estate wholesalers.

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