HB175 • 2026

Designate the Heartland Highway

Passed Legislature

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Sponsor: Roy Klopfenstein
Last action
Official status: As Introduced
Effective date: Not listed

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Designate the Heartland Highway

To enact section 5534.853 of the Revised Code to designate the portion of U.S.

What This Bill Does

To enact section 5534.853 of the Revised Code to designate the portion of U.S.
Route 24 in Ohio as the "Heartland Highway."

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Bill History

Ohio Legislature
As Introduced

Official Summary Text

To enact section 5534.853 of the Revised Code to designate the portion of U.S. Route 24 in Ohio as the "Heartland Highway."

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As Introduced

136th
General Assembly

Regular
Session
H. B. No. 175

2025-2026

Representatives Klopfenstein, Hoops

Cosponsors: Representatives Williams,
Rogers, White, E., Grim

To
enact section 5534.853 of the Revised Code
to
designate the portion of U.S. Route 24 in Ohio as the "Heartland
Highway."

BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:

Section
1.
That
section 5534.853 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:

Sec.
5534.853.
In
addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or
otherwise, the westbound and eastbound lanes of United States route
number twenty-four between the Indiana border and the Michigan
border, through the counties of Paulding, Defiance, Henry, and Lucas,
shall be known as the "Heartland Highway."

The
director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the
highway indicating its name.