Tristan Rader News

COLUMBUS – State Rep. Tristan Rader (D – Lakewood) today introduced legislation to repeal the data center sales tax exemption following a recent article indicating that Ohio has forgone $1.6 billion dollars in 2025 due to the incentive. This is a loss 11 times larger than the Ohio Department of Taxation originally estimated.

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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 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. 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. 

COLUMBUS — Ohio House Minority Leader, Dani Isaacsohn (D-Cincinnati), Assistant Minority Leader Phil Robinson (D-Solon), Minority Whip Beryl Brown Piccolantonio (D- Gahanna), Representative Anita Somani (D- Dublin), Representative Karen Brownlee (D- Symmes Township), Representative Crystal Lett (D- Hilliard), Representative Munira Abdullahi (D- Columbus) and Representative Tristan Rader (D- Lakewood) today unveiled innovative and timely legislation that will reduce Ohioans’ rising healthcare, childcare, energy, housing, and consumer goods costs. 

COLUMBUS – State Reps. Juanita O. Brent (D-Cleveland) and Tristan Rader (D- Lakewood) today issued a statement following the passage of House Bill (HB) 372, a bill that makes the penalty for aggravated murder either death or life without the possibility of parole if the victim is a peace officer, prosecutor, first responder, or military member.