Representative Gail K. Pavliga - District 72
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Schools will be required to publicly post their policy on oral recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, if a bill introduced in the Ohio House of Representatives becomes law.
Ohio schools are already required by law to have a policy on whether or not students recite the pledge.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Gail Pavliga, R-Atwater, and Rep. Tracy Richardson, R-Marysville, would require school districts to make their pledge policies publicly available and post the policy on the district website if there is one.
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Rebecca Wert said her first inkling she was a widow came less than two months after her wedding, from a police scanner.
Early Jan. 31, 1981, she heard her husband, Ravenna patrolman James Wert, had been struck by what was reported as a drunken driver while outside his cruiser on state Route 88.
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Governor DeWine signs ‘Patrolman James R. Wert Memorial Highway’ Bill Signed into LCOLUMBUS – State Rep. Gail Pavliga (R-Portage County) announces that Governor DeWine has signed House Bill 251 and will now become law. Last month, the General Assembly approved the bill designating a portion of State Route 88 in Portage County as the "Patrolman James R. Wert Memorial Highway."
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Two years after implementation, more Ohioans are seeking mental health support from the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, reaching an all-time high of 20,000 contacts in June.
And yet the federally required service does not yet have a dedicated funding source and is still subject to "political whims," said Rep. Gail Pavliga, who has been the go-to lawmaker for 988 issues.
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