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HB616 • 2026

Require BMV translate the Digest of Motor Vehicle Laws

Require BMV translate the Digest of Motor Vehicle Laws

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Munira Abdullahi
Last action
Official status
As Introduced
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Require BMV translate the Digest of Motor Vehicle Laws

To enact section 4507.113 of the Revised Code to require the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to translate the Digest of Motor Vehicle Laws into additional languages.

What This Bill Does

  • To enact section 4507.113 of the Revised Code to require the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to translate the Digest of Motor Vehicle Laws into additional languages.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. Ohio Legislature

    As Introduced

Official Summary Text

To enact section 4507.113 of the Revised Code to require the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to translate the Digest of Motor Vehicle Laws into additional languages.

Current Bill Text

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As Introduced

136th
General Assembly

Regular
Session
H. B. No. 616

2025-2026

Representatives Abdullahi, Sigrist

Cosponsors: Representatives Brent,
Piccolantonio, Sims, Brownlee, Upchurch

A
BILL

To
enact section 4507.113 of the Revised Code
to
require the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to translate the Digest of Motor
Vehicle Laws into additional languages.

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

Section
1.
That
section 4507.113 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:

Sec.
4507.113.
The
director of public safety shall ensure that the digest of motor
vehicle laws, or any other reference document for the material
covered in the written portions of the temporary instruction permit
and drivers' license examinations required under section 4507.11 of
the Revised Code, is written and publicly available in every language
in which the bureau of motor vehicles administers the examinations.