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HB814 • 2026

Eliminate E-Check if Ohio meets certain air quality standards

Eliminate E-Check if Ohio meets certain air quality standards

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Bill Roemer
Last action
Official status
As Introduced
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Eliminate E-Check if Ohio meets certain air quality standards

To enact section 3704.142 of the Revised Code to eliminate E-Check if the U.S.

What This Bill Does

  • To enact section 3704.142 of the Revised Code to eliminate E-Check if the U.S.
  • Environmental Protection Agency determines that Ohio is in attainment with specified ambient air quality standards.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. Ohio Legislature

    As Introduced

Official Summary Text

To enact section 3704.142 of the Revised Code to eliminate E-Check if the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency determines that Ohio is in attainment with specified ambient air quality standards.

Current Bill Text

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As Introduced

136th
General Assembly

Regular
Session
H. B. No. 814

2025-2026

Representative Roemer

To
enact section 3704.142 of the Revised Code
to
eliminate E-Check if the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
determines that Ohio is in attainment with specified ambient air
quality standards.

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

Section
1.
That
section 3704.142 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:

Sec.
3704.142.
(A)
As used in this section, "motor vehicle inspection and
maintenance program" means the program implemented and managed
by the Ohio environmental protection agency in accordance with
Chapters 3704. and 4503. of the Revised Code, including section
3704.14 of the Revised Code.

(B)
If the United States environmental protection agency determines that
areas of the state that are subject to the motor vehicle inspection
and maintenance program are reclassified as in attainment with
national ambient air quality standards for specified criteria
pollutants, including ozone, under the federal Clean Air Act, for
purposes of division (H) of section 3704.14 of the Revised Code, the
director of environmental protection shall submit a request to the
United States environmental protection agency requesting that the
motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program be removed as part
of the Ohio's state implementation plan. If approved, the director
shall immediately discontinue the program and take any actions
necessary to effectuate the termination of the program.