Haraz N. Ghanbari News

COLUMBUS – State Reps. Tristan Rader (D-Lakewood) and Sean Patrick Brennan (D–Parma) today applauded Governor Mike DeWine’s veto of House Bill (HB) 173, legislation that would have weakened consumer protections for Ohioans living in sub-metered apartments and condominiums and small businesses.

COLUMBUS – State Rep. Tristan Rader (D-Lakewood) today celebrated the unanimous passage of House Bill (HB) 163 from the House Agriculture Committee. HB 163 would fund chip-enabled EBT cards for SNAP program participants.

COLUMBUS — Ohio House Minority Leader Dani Isaacsohn (D-Cincinnati), Member of the Select Committee on Data Centers Representative Glassburn (D–North Olmstead) House Energy Committee Ranking Member Representative Rader (D–Cleveland), and the members of the Ohio House Democratic Caucus leadership team today sent a letter to Governor Mike DeWine urging immediate action to establish a statewide utility rate class for large data centers in order to protect Ohio families and businesses from looming electricity rate increases.

COLUMBUS – State Rep. Tristan Rader (D-Lakewood) today celebrated the unanimous passage of House Bill (HB) 163 from the House Agriculture Committee. HB 163 would fund chip-enabled EBT cards for SNAP program participants.

COLUMBUS – Reps. Tristan Rader (D – Cleveland) and Sean Brennan (D – Parma) sent a letter urging Governor DeWine to veto Substitute House Bill 173. This letter cites concerns regarding the conflicting regulatory frameworks between HB 173 and the one laid out in the recent Ohio Supreme Court Ruling In re Complaint of Ohio Power Co. v. Nationwide Energy Partners, L.L.C.

COLUMBUS – State Reps. Abdullahi (D-Columbus) and Tristan Rader (D-Lakewood) last week introduced legislation that would create a state-funded, tuition-free public higher education for all Ohio students.

COLUMBUS — State Rep. Tristan Rader (D-Lakewood) today celebrates direct investments to community partners through the passage of the State Capital Budget.

COLUMBUS – Last week, State Reps. Cockley (D-Columbus) and Rader (D-Lakewood) introduced House Bill (HB) 853. This legislation would require decommission plans to be submitted to the Ohio Power Siting Board and submit safety plans to local fire departments prior to construction of a natural gas fuel cell facility.

COLUMBUS – State Rep. Tristan W. Rader (D–Lakewood) and State Rep. Kellie Deeter (R–Norwalk) today celebrated the unanimous passage of HB 163 through the Ohio House of Representatives.

COLUMBUS – Ohio House Energy Committee Democrats today applauded the decision of the Ohio Supreme Court that declares submetering companies’ public utilities. Now, companies like Nationwide Energy Partners (NEP) will be under the purview of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO).

COLUMBUS – State Rep. Tristan W. Rader (D–Lakewood) and State Rep. Justin Pizzulli (R–Scioto County) today presented sponsor testimony on HB 779, the JobsOhio Transparency Act, to the House General Government Committee.

COLUMBUS — State Reps. Tristan Rader (D-Lakewood) and Jean Schmidt (R-Loveland) this week introduced bipartisan legislation, House Bill (HB) 821, to designate the Loveland Frog as Ohio’s official state cryptid, celebrating a legend that has captured imaginations and drawn visitors for generations.

COLUMBUS – State Reps. Tristan Rader (D-Lakewood) and Mike Odioso (R – Green Township) recently introduced House Concurrent Resolution (HCR) 44 to encourage County Boards of Developmental Disabilities to adopt councils of self-advocates.

COLUMBUS — State Reps. Allison Russo (D-Upper Arlington) and Tristan Rader (D-Lakewood) yesterday introduced a bill to protect Ohio’s drinking water by providing state-level standards for drinking water that limit contaminant levels for common toxic chemicals such as PFAS, chromium-6, 1,4 dioxane, and others as the need arises.