Rules Committee, Ohio State Senate (Decommissioned)

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The Rules Committee was a standing committee of the Ohio State Senate. In 2015, this committee was combined with the Reference Committee to make the Rules and Reference Committee.

Function

The committee website described the function of this committee as outlined below.

“

The Rules Committee determines the agenda for each Senate session.^[1]^[2]

”

Rules Members, 2013
Democratic members (4)	Republican members (8)
• Eric H. Kearney, Ranking Minority Member	• Keith Faber, Chair
• Edna Brown	• Chris Widener, Vice Chair
• Joe Schiavoni	• Dave Burke
• Nina Turner	• Bill Coley
	• Jim Hughes
	• Larry Obhof
	• Scott Oelslager
	• Tom Patton

Rules Members, 2011
Democratic members (4)	Republican members (6)
• Capri Cafaro, Ranking Minority Member	• Tom Niehaus, Chair
• Jason Wilson	• Keith Faber, Vice Chair
• Shirley Smith	• Jimmy Stewart
• Edna Brown	• Chris Widener
	• Mark Wagoner
	• Shannon Jones

↑ Ohio State Senate, "About the Committee," accessed May 19, 2021
↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.

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