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By Chuck Smith 

OBF’s Senate Bill 174 in Ohio Senate

We will soon testify before the Ohio Senate Highways and Transportation Committee to support our Senate Bill 174, which would require motorists to leave at least three feet of clearance in passing bicyclists.  We would appreciate your appreciate your help in contacting your state senator and representative to support our bill. 

Senator Teresa Fedor of Toledo introduced Senate Bill 174 into the Ohio Senate on September 28.   Senate Bill 174 represents one of six OBF recommendations I gave to Senator Fedor during a May bicycle tour from Toledo to Columbus.  The accompanying photo shows Senator Fedor at the Statehouse at the end of the tour.   Senator Mark Wagoner (R, 2nd), also of the Toledo Area, joined Senator Fedor and myself on the May bicycle tour, which started at a school in Toledo and ended at the Statehouse grounds in Columbus (photo with Fedor at conclusion of tour).  Senator Wagoner will co-sponsor the bill.  Our bill already has 17 other Senate co-sponsors, including Senators Capri Cafaro (D, 32nd), Bob Gibbs (R, 22nd), Karen Gillmor (R, 26th), David Goodman (R, 3rd), Jim Hughes (R, 16th), Eric Kearney (D, 9th), Dale Miller (D, 23rd), Ray Miller (D, 15th), Sue Morano, (D, 13th), Thomas Patton (R, 24th), Tom Sawyer (D, 28th), Joseph Schiavoni (D, 33rd), Kirk Schuring (R, 29th), Shirley Smith (D, 21st), Fred Strahorn (D, 5th), Nina Turner (D, 25th), and Jason Wilson (D, 30th).  

          Please check our OBF web site at www.ohiobike.org for the latest developments regarding Senate Bill 174, including the text of the bill. 

          With this information, please contact your state senator and representative to ask their support of the bill.  Contact information for state senators may be found at http://www.senate.state.oh.us/.  House information is available at http://www.house.state.oh.us/.

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