SB192 • 2026

Declare intent to provide funding re: housing in rural counties

Housing

Passed Legislature

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Sponsor: Michele Reynolds
Last action
Official status: As Introduced
Effective date: Not listed

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Declare intent to provide funding re: housing in rural counties

To declare the General Assembly's intent to provide funding for the purpose of developing, repairing, or upgrading infrastructure that services housing in rural counties.

What This Bill Does

To declare the General Assembly's intent to provide funding for the purpose of developing, repairing, or upgrading infrastructure that services housing in rural counties.

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Bill History

Ohio Legislature
As Introduced

Official Summary Text

To declare the General Assembly's intent to provide funding for the purpose of developing, repairing, or upgrading infrastructure that services housing in rural counties.

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As Introduced

136th
General Assembly

Regular
Session
S. B. No. 192

2025-2026

Senator Reynolds

To
declare the General Assembly's intent to provide funding for the
purpose of developing, repairing, or upgrading infrastructure that
services housing in rural counties.

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

Section
1.
(A)
The General Assembly finds that access to affordable housing in rural
areas is an important part of fostering a robust and lasting
population. Accordingly, it is the intent of the General Assembly to
provide funding for the purpose of increasing the availability of
single-family homes in the rural areas of this state.

(B)
The General Assembly declares its intent to provide funding to
counties, or to a township or municipal corporation that is fully or
partially located in a county, that meets both of the following:

(1)
Has a population of not more than seventy-five thousand;

(2)
The number of privately owned housing units authorized by building
permit, according to the most recent data provided by the United
States census bureau, is less than the average number of private
housing units authorized by building permit for counties in this
state.

(C)
The funds are intended to be used to develop, repair, or upgrade
infrastructure needed for the construction of single-family,
residential dwellings that are all of the following:

(1)
Located in a county that meets the criteria prescribed by divisions
(B)(1) and (2) of this section;

(2)
Situated on parcels of land that are no larger than a quarter of an
acre, as indicated by records kept by the county auditor;

(3)
Located in areas that are zoned exclusively for single-family,
residential dwellings.