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HB243 • 2026

Designate Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez Ohio Community Service Day

Designate Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez Ohio Community Service Day

Passed Legislature

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Sponsor
Cecil Thomas
Last action
Official status
As Introduced
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Designate Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez Ohio Community Service Day

To enact section 5.212 of the Revised Code to designate April 5th as "Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez Ohio Community Service Day."

What This Bill Does

  • To enact section 5.212 of the Revised Code to designate April 5th as "Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez Ohio Community Service Day."

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. Ohio Legislature

    As Introduced

Official Summary Text

To enact section 5.212 of the Revised Code to designate April 5th as "Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez Ohio Community Service Day."

Current Bill Text

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As Introduced

136th
General Assembly

Regular
Session
H. B. No. 243

2025-2026

Representatives Thomas, C., Brewer

Cosponsors: Representatives Brennan,
Brownlee, Grim, Lawson-Rowe, Rader, Rogers, Russo, Upchurch, White,
E.

A
BILL

To
enact section 5.212 of the Revised Code
to
designate April 5th as "Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez Ohio
Community Service Day."

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

Section
1.
That
section 5.212 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:

Sec.
5.212.
The
fifth day of April is designated as "Dolores Huerta and Cesar
Chavez Ohio Community Service Day" to honor American labor
leader and activist Dolores Huerta, whose work on behalf of migrant
farm workers led to the establishment of the united farm workers of
America, and Cesar Chavez, who organized migrant American farm
workers and, with Huerta, co-founded the national farm workers
association in 1962.