Michael Sheehy News

State Rep. Michael Sheehy (D-Oregon) today urged Lucas County residents who have not voted in four years to check their registration status ahead of a county-wide purge of the voter-rolls. 

Rep. Michael Sheehy (D-Oregon) today issued the following statement on changes that affect water quality in House Bill 64, the state’s two-year operating budget bill:

“I’m concerned that language in the budget that was approved will circumvent recently-passed Senate Bill 1 and the progress we made for healthier, safer and more reliable water sources in our state. Unfortunately, this budget contains provisions that water down our progress on water quality. We must remain vigilant that the progress made is not eroded and that our drinking water is safe for millions of Ohioans.”

State Rep. Michael Sheehy (D-Oregon) today promoted the inaugural Prescription Drug Abuse and Awareness Education Day. In 2014, state legislators passed a law designating the awareness day as the first Friday in May. 

On Wednesday, State Rep. Michael Sheehy (D-Oregon) and Ohio House Democratic Caucus members stood in opposition to the state’s two-year budget proposal, House Bill 64. Democratic legislators said the bill failed to lay out a real plan for the future of the state and instead advanced partisan attacks on working Ohioans and policies that rig the tax system to help the richest one-percent and special interests.

Today, Governor John Kasich signed into law a bipartisan bill to reduce toxic algae in Lake Erie. The signing of Senate Bill 1 comes a little less than a year after 500,000 Toledo residents were left without clean drinking water for three days after toxic algae blooms contaminated the water supply in the Western Lake Erie basin. Kasich signed the legislation at Maumee Bay State Park, not far from the location of last year’s bloom.

Wednesday, the Ohio House passed Senate Bill 1, bipartisan legislation to reduce toxic algae in Lake Erie. S.B. 1 comes a little less than a year after 500,000 Toledo residents were left without clean drinking water for three days after toxic algae blooms contaminated the water supply in the western Lake Erie basin.

Tuesday the Ohio House passed a bill designed to help protect drinking water and combat toxic algae growth in Lake Erie. House Bill 61 comes a little less than a year after 500,000 Toledo residents were left without clean drinking water for three days after toxic algae blooms contaminated the water supply in the western Lake Erie basin.

State Rep. Michael Sheehy (D-Oregon) was honored Saturday as a Legislator of the Year by the Ohio Farmers Union. 

State Rep. Michael Sheehy (D-Oregon) Monday was named Transportation & Infrastructure Committee’s Ranking Member, the House Minority’s highest ranking official on the legislative panel.

State Reps. Michael Sheehy (D-Oregon) and John Patterson (D-Jefferson) today urged the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to continue working to establish state standards for safe levels of microcystin in Ohio’s public water systems, a step that would be required with the passage of the Lake Erie lawmakers’ legislation—House Bill 625.