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Derek Merrin

Former Ohio state representative for the 42nd House district; holds no current public office. Campaign affiliation: Republican.

Voter guide

Background, stated goals, record, and money

Goals come from the campaign's own platform. Record lines are official actions.

How this guide is built

Background comes from official records, and from the campaign's own biography where the bullet says so; goals are summarized from the campaign's own platform and stay attributed; the record lines are official actions with the government source attached; money is shown as filed, with the filings it covers in the note under the table, and is not evidence of why any position was taken.

Derek Merrin

Background

  • A former Ohio state representative for the 42nd House district, who served eight years across four General Assemblies and holds no current public office.
  • The Ohio General Assembly records forty House Bills with him as sponsor across those four assemblies, of which nine became law.
  • His campaign says he chaired the House Ways and Means Committee in the 134th General Assembly and the House Health Committee before it, and that he was elected leader of the Ohio House Republican Caucus.

What they say they want to do

  • Lower taxes, a simpler tax code and greater transparency in taxation.
  • Fiscal responsibility in Washington and a stronger Northwest Ohio economy.
  • Support for what his campaign calls the America First Agenda, and for constitutional rights.

What the official record shows

  • H.B. 118, barring dismissal of a property tax complaint that fails to identify the owner, signed into law.
  • H.B. 214, which the General Assembly titles "Prohibit abortion if unborn has or may have Down Syndrome" and his campaign calls the Down Syndrome Non-Discrimination Act, signed into law.
  • H.B. 66, the Theft Victims' Restitution Act, signed into law and effective the same day.
  • H.B. 126, revising how local governments contest property values, signed into law after he had carried the subject twice before.
  • H.B. 140, the Ballot Uniformity and Transparency Act, signed into law.

Campaign money from other committees, by type

Transfers and contributions from joint fundraising committees 8 committees$392,082
Leadership PACs 21 committees$70,000
PAC - Qualified 7 committees$21,500
House 7 committees$14,000
Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account) - Qualified 1 committee$5,000
Corporation PACs 1 committee$5,000
Membership Organization PACs 1 committee$1,000
Committees the FEC records no type for 1 committee$250

Source: Federal Election Commission

Money from political committees in the 2025-26 cycle, through June 30, 2026 (FEC lines 11B, 11C and 12). The rows sum to 508,831.85 dollars. His own summary reports $150 more on line 11C than the rows show. Counts only his 2026 committee; his earlier one closed in July 2025. Donations from individuals, including through ActBlue or WinRed, are not counted here, except as passed through joint fundraising committees.

Words and record

What they say, and what the record shows

Each card gets one label from a fixed list and states its own limit.

Matches stated record claim

What they say

His campaign says his Theft Victims' Restitution Act made it easier for theft victims to recover the accounting costs of working out what they lost.

What the record shows ·

He sponsored the bill, House Bill 66, and it became law on October 1, 2020.

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What they say

His campaign says his Theft Victims' Restitution Act made it easier for theft victims to recover the accounting costs of working out what they lost.

“his Theft Victims’ Restitution Act (HB 66) made it easier for victims of theft to recover restitution for accounting costs incurred when determining their financial losses”

What the record shows ·

The Ohio General Assembly records him as the sponsor of H.B. 66 of the 133rd General Assembly, "Enact Theft Victims' Restitution Act". It was signed on October 1, 2020 and took effect the same day.

Limit: The record shows sponsorship and enactment. It does not measure how often the law has been used or what it has recovered for anyone.

Matches stated record claim

What they say

His campaign says his Ballot Uniformity and Transparency Act became law in 2022 and made it easier for voters to understand the fiscal impact of tax and bond levies.

What the record shows ·

He sponsored House Bill 140, which was signed in June 2022 and took effect that September, after an earlier version of his passed only the House.

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What they say

His campaign says his Ballot Uniformity and Transparency Act became law in 2022 and made it easier for voters to understand the fiscal impact of tax and bond levies.

“In 2022, Merrin’s Ballot Uniformity and Transparency Act (HB 140) became law making it easier for voters to understand the fiscal impact of tax and bond levies.”

What the record shows ·

He is recorded as the sponsor of H.B. 140 of the 134th General Assembly, "Enact Ballot Uniformity and Transparency Act", signed June 14, 2022 and effective September 13, 2022. He had carried the same subject once before, as H.B. 76 of the 133rd, which passed the House and went no further.

Limit: Whether the wording it requires actually helps a voter understand a levy is not something the legislative record can settle.

Matches stated record claim

What they say

His campaign says he reformed Ohio's Board of Revision law in 2022, limiting the power of local governments to challenge property values in order to raise property taxes.

What the record shows ·

He sponsored House Bill 126 on how local governments contest property values, signed in April 2022, after two earlier tries of his did not become law.

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What they say

His campaign says he reformed Ohio's Board of Revision law in 2022, limiting the power of local governments to challenge property values in order to raise property taxes.

“He also reformed Ohio’s Board of Revision law (HB 126), which limits the power of local governments to challenge property values to increase property taxes on property owners.”

What the record shows ·

He is recorded as the sponsor of H.B. 126 of the 134th General Assembly, "Regards process for local governments to contest property value", signed April 20, 2022 and effective July 21, 2022. He had carried the subject twice before without success: H.B. 343 of the 132nd and H.B. 75 of the 133rd, the latter passing the Senate but not completing.

Limit: The card tests sponsorship and enactment, not the law's effect on anyone's tax bill, and takes no position on whether the change was worth making.

Matches stated record claim

What they say

His campaign says he reduced mortgage lenders' tax burden in 2021, calling it the highest in the nation at the time.

What the record shows ·

He sponsored House Bill 150 to reduce taxes on new banks and mortgage lenders, signed in January 2021; the highest-in-the-nation claim isn't checked here.

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What they say

His campaign says he reduced mortgage lenders' tax burden in 2021, calling it the highest in the nation at the time.

“He also successfully reduced mortgage lenders’ tax burden (HB 150), believed to be the highest in the nation at the time.”

What the record shows ·

He is recorded as the sponsor of H.B. 150 of the 133rd General Assembly, "Reduce taxes on new banks and mortgage lenders", signed January 9, 2021 and effective April 12, 2021.

Limit: The bill's enactment is on the record. The description of Ohio's burden as the highest in the nation is the campaign's and is not evaluated here.

Matches stated record claim

What they say

His campaign says he prevailed in his pursuit of the Epinephrine Accessibility Act.

What the record shows ·

He sponsored House Bill 101 to improve access to epinephrine, and it took effect April 8, 2019.

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What they say

His campaign says he prevailed in his pursuit of the Epinephrine Accessibility Act.

“He prevailed in his pursuit of the Epinephrine Accessibility Act (HB 101)”

What the record shows ·

He is recorded as the sponsor of H.B. 101 of the 132nd General Assembly, "Improve access to epinephrine", which took effect April 8, 2019.

Limit: Sponsorship and enactment are recorded. Whether access improved in practice is not something the bill history shows.

Matches stated record claim

What they say

His campaign says he prevailed in his pursuit of the Down Syndrome Non-Discrimination Act.

What the record shows ·

He sponsored House Bill 214, signed in December 2017, which the legislature titles "Prohibit abortion if unborn has or may have Down Syndrome."

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What they say

His campaign says he prevailed in his pursuit of the Down Syndrome Non-Discrimination Act.

“He prevailed in his pursuit of the Epinephrine Accessibility Act (HB 101) and the Down Syndrome Non-Discrimination Act (HB 214).”

What the record shows ·

He is recorded as the sponsor of H.B. 214 of the 132nd General Assembly, signed December 22, 2017 and effective March 23, 2018. The General Assembly's own short title for it is "Prohibit abortion if unborn has or may have Down Syndrome". Both names describe the same law.

Limit: He sponsored it and it became law, which is what the claim says. The card prints the legislature's own title beside the campaign's name for it because the two describe the same law in different words, and a reader is entitled to both. It takes no position on the law.

Matches stated direction

What they say

His campaign says he simplified the process for homeowners to challenge their property value.

What the record shows ·

His House Bill 118 became law in 2017 and bars dismissing a property value complaint for failing to name the owner, a narrower change than the whole process.

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What they say

His campaign says he simplified the process for homeowners to challenge their property value.

“He also simplified the process for homeowners to challenge their property value (HB 118).”

What the record shows ·

He is recorded as the sponsor of H.B. 118 of the 132nd General Assembly, signed November 6, 2017 and effective February 5, 2018. The General Assembly's short title is "Prohibit dismissing tax complaint if fails to identify owner": it bars dismissal of a complaint on one specific ground rather than revising the process as a whole.

Limit: The law is narrower than "simplified the process" suggests, and it is his. The card compares the wording to the bill's own title and does not judge how much difference the change made.

Matches stated direction

What they say

His campaign says he repealed the sales tax on prescription eyewear, saving taxpayers forty-five million dollars a year.

What the record shows ·

His own bill passed the House and stalled in the Senate, but the exemption became law in the 2019 state budget; the record doesn't link it to his bill. The $45 million isn't checked here.

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What they say

His campaign says he repealed the sales tax on prescription eyewear, saving taxpayers forty-five million dollars a year.

“Merrin successfully repealed the sales tax on prescription eyewear saving taxpayers $45 million annually (HB116)”

What the record shows ·

His own bill did not do it. H.B. 116 of the 132nd General Assembly, "Exempt optical aids from sales tax", passed the House, was referred to a Senate committee and stopped there, with no signature and no effective date. The exemption exists all the same: Revised Code section 5739.02 was amended by House Bill 166 of the 133rd General Assembly, the state budget, effective July 18, 2019.

Limit: He introduced and passed through one chamber a bill for this exemption, and the exemption became law. Whether the budget's provision came from his bill is not something the record settles, and the forty-five million dollar figure is the campaign's, not the state's.

Matches stated record claim

What they say

His campaign says his Fuel Tax Transparency Act, requiring stickers on fuel pumps that display state and federal fuel taxes, became law in 2019 through the Transportation Budget.

What the record shows ·

Pump notices showing state and federal fuel taxes became law in the 2019 transportation budget, as he says, though his own two bills on it did not pass.

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What they say

His campaign says his Fuel Tax Transparency Act, requiring stickers on fuel pumps that display state and federal fuel taxes, became law in 2019 through the Transportation Budget.

“in 2019, Merrin’s Fuel Tax Transparency Act requiring stickers on fuel pumps displaying the state and federal fuel taxes became law through the Transportation Budget (HB 62)”

What the record shows ·

Revised Code section 5735.50 requires notices on retail service station pumps showing state and federal fuel tax rates. It took effect July 3, 2019, and the Code names House Bill 62 of the 133rd General Assembly, the transportation budget, as its legislation. He had carried the subject as his own bill twice without passage: H.B. 70 of the 132nd and H.B. 110 of the 133rd.

Limit: The claim names the vehicle and the Code agrees. What the Code cannot show is who wrote the budget's provision, so the record confirms the outcome and the route rather than the authorship.

Matches stated record claim

What they say

His campaign says he established a permanent vehicle registration option for noncommercial trailers in 2023, saving time and cost for the owners of six hundred thousand trailers.

What the record shows ·

Permanent registration for noncommercial trailers became law through House Bill 23 in 2023, after his own earlier bill passed only the House. The 600,000-trailer count isn't checked here.

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What they say

His campaign says he established a permanent vehicle registration option for noncommercial trailers in 2023, saving time and cost for the owners of six hundred thousand trailers.

“In 2023, Merrin succeeded in establishing a permanent vehicle registration option for non-commercial trailers, which saves time and costs for the state owners of 600,000 trailers (HB23).”

What the record shows ·

Revised Code section 4503.107 lets the owner or lessee of a noncommercial trailer apply for permanent registration. It took effect June 30, 2023, and the Code names House Bill 23 of the 135th General Assembly as its legislation. His own bill on the subject, H.B. 96 of the 134th, passed the House and went no further.

Limit: The claim names the vehicle and the Code agrees. The count of six hundred thousand trailers is the campaign's figure and is not verified here, and the record does not show who drafted the budget's provision.

Matches stated direction

What they say

His campaign says that in 2021 he changed the law to let Ohioans choose an eight-year driver's licence instead of a four-year one.

What the record shows ·

The option became law in 2021 through a Senate bill sponsored by Senator Williams, after Merrin's own House bill for it stopped after committee.

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What they say

His campaign says that in 2021 he changed the law to let Ohioans choose an eight-year driver's licence instead of a four-year one.

“In 2021, Merrin successfully changed the law providing Ohioans an option to choose an eight-year driver’s license rather than a four-year license, significantly reducing needed visits to the BMVs throughout Ohio.”

What the record shows ·

The option exists. Revised Code section 4507.09 was amended by Senate Bill 68 of the 133rd General Assembly, effective April 12, 2021; that bill was sponsored by Senator Williams and amends all eight Code sections his own bill named. His bill, H.B. 372 of the 133rd, was reported by committee and went no further.

Limit: The change he describes did happen, in the year he gives, and he had filed a bill for it. It was carried by another member's bill, and the record does not show whose drafting the enacted language was.

No assessment

What they say

His campaign says that after a five-year push he passed the Affordable Homebuilding and Housing Act, blocking property tax increases on subdivided lots until the home is built or the lot sold.

What the record shows

Neither of his two bills passed; the law section instead covers other tax rules. These records do not settle whether his subdivided-land provision entered a larger bill by amendment.

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What they say

His campaign says that after a five-year push he passed the Affordable Homebuilding and Housing Act, blocking property tax increases on subdivided lots until the home is built or the lot sold.

“After a five-year push, Merrin pushed through the Affordable Homebuilding & Housing Act, which blocks property tax increases on subdivided lots until the home is built or lot is sold.”

What the record shows

He filed for it twice and neither bill passed. H.B. 371 of the 132nd General Assembly, "Exempt increased value of subdivided land until building starts", was reported by the Ways and Means Committee and went no further; H.B. 149 of the 133rd, "Enact Affordable Homebuilding and Housing Act", never left introduction. Revised Code section 5709.51, the section his bill would have created, instead carries rules on extending tax-increment exemptions and does not mention subdivided land.

Why there is no assessment here

The outcome cannot be located in the record at all, which is not the same as showing the claim to be wrong. Searching the complete bill lists of the 133rd, 134th, 135th and 136th General Assemblies for a short title naming homebuilding, subdivided land, platting, residential development or a housing act returns his own unpassed bill and nothing else. What no sponsorship or title search can rule out is a provision folded into a budget without a name of its own, which is how several of his other claims did reach law. So the record neither shows this happening nor shows that it did not.

Limit: Ohio's bill lists and the Revised Code settle who sponsored what and which act amended a section. Neither shows language added by amendment inside a larger bill, which is the one route this claim could have taken.

Matches stated direction

What they say

His campaign says he captured about twenty legislative victories from sponsored bills and amendments.

What the record shows

Nine of the 40 House bills he sponsored became law, and Ohio doesn't publish the amendments he carried, so the rest of the count can't be checked.

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What they say

His campaign says he captured about twenty legislative victories from sponsored bills and amendments.

“Derek captured about 20 legislative victories from sponsored bills and amendments that are making Ohioans lives better.”

What the record shows

Across the four General Assemblies he served, the legislature records him as the sponsor of forty House Bills, of which nine became law: three in the 132nd, four in the 133rd, two in the 134th and none in the 135th. Two of the nine, the technical tax corrections bill and the Insurance Code Correction Act, his campaign does not claim.

Limit: Nine enacted bills is what the sponsorship record can show, and the claim counts amendments as well as bills. Ohio publishes no list of the amendments a member carried, so the remainder of the figure can be neither confirmed nor contradicted here, and the nine is a floor rather than a total.

Issues in this record

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Costs and the economyTaxes and propertyImmigration and the borderEnergy, infrastructure and housingReproductive rights

Evidence timeline

Dated records, with sources attached.

  1. race event

    Official candidate filings reviewed

    The Erie County Board of Elections filing list for the November 3 general election showed both printed candidates when The Stated Record checked it on September 2, 2026. A write-in candidate is listed separately by the election authority.

  2. finance

    FEC filing snapshot

    July Quarterly 2026, principal campaign committee DEREK MERRIN FOR CONGRESS.

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Sources29 source records

How we use sources

  1. Campaign home page, including the About sectionhttps://derekmerrin.com/

    Derek Merrin for Congress · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    Campaign-controlled source and the whole of the campaign's site: it is one page whose only internal link is a privacy policy. Positions and record claims are attributed, not independently verified facts. The domain merrinforcongress.com is a registrar parking page and is not the campaign's site.

    candidate statement

    For: Current role; Background, goals, record and campaign money; Crime: restitution for theft victims; Elections: wording of tax and bond levies on the ballot; Property tax: local governments contesting property values; Taxes: banks and mortgage lenders; Health: access to epinephrine; Abortion: the 2017 Down Syndrome law; Property tax: challenging a property valuation; Taxes: sales tax on prescription eyewear; Taxes: posting fuel tax rates at the pump; Vehicles: permanent registration for noncommercial trailers; Driver licensing: an eight-year renewal option; Housing: property tax on subdivided lots; Record: how many legislative wins

  2. H.B. 66, 133rd General Assemblyhttps://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/133/hb66

    Ohio General Assembly · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    Sponsor, versions, signature and effective dates as published by the legislature.

    official legislative record

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Crime: restitution for theft victims; Record: how many legislative wins

  3. H.B. 140, 134th General Assemblyhttps://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/134/hb140

    Ohio General Assembly · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    Sponsor, versions, signature and effective dates as published by the legislature.

    official legislative record

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Elections: wording of tax and bond levies on the ballot; Record: how many legislative wins

  4. H.B. 126, 134th General Assemblyhttps://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/134/hb126

    Ohio General Assembly · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    Sponsor, versions, signature and effective dates as published by the legislature.

    official legislative record

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Property tax: local governments contesting property values; Record: how many legislative wins

  5. H.B. 118, 132nd General Assemblyhttps://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/132/hb118

    Ohio General Assembly · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    Sponsor, the legislature's own short title, signature and effective dates.

    official legislative record

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Property tax: challenging a property valuation; Record: how many legislative wins

  6. H.B. 214, 132nd General Assemblyhttps://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/132/hb214

    Ohio General Assembly · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    Sponsor, the legislature's own short title, signature and effective dates.

    official legislative record

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Abortion: the 2017 Down Syndrome law; Record: how many legislative wins

  7. H.B. 343, 132nd General Assemblyhttps://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/132/hb343

    Ohio General Assembly · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    An earlier bill of his on local governments contesting property values; did not pass.

    official legislative record

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Property tax: local governments contesting property values

  8. H.B. 75, 133rd General Assemblyhttps://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/133/hb75

    Ohio General Assembly · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    An earlier bill of his on the same subject; passed the Senate and did not complete.

    official legislative record

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Property tax: local governments contesting property values

  9. DEREK MERRIN FOR CONGRESS, itemized receipts from political committeeshttps://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?committee_id=C00909630&two_year_transaction_period=2026&is_individual=false

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    Read from OpenFEC on 2026-09-21: all 140 itemized non-individual rows the FEC reports for the cycle, of which 124 carry a contributing-committee identifier and are grouped in the table. No individual contributor row was read.

    fec filing

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money

  10. H.B. 76, 133rd General Assemblyhttps://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/133/hb76

    Ohio General Assembly · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    The earlier version of the ballot-uniformity bill; passed the House and went no further.

    official legislative record

    For: Elections: wording of tax and bond levies on the ballot

  11. H.B. 150, 133rd General Assemblyhttps://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/133/hb150

    Ohio General Assembly · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    Sponsor, versions, signature and effective dates as published by the legislature.

    official legislative record

    For: Taxes: banks and mortgage lenders; Record: how many legislative wins

  12. H.B. 101, 132nd General Assemblyhttps://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/132/hb101

    Ohio General Assembly · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    Sponsor, versions and effective date as published by the legislature.

    official legislative record

    For: Health: access to epinephrine; Record: how many legislative wins

  13. H.B. 116, 132nd General Assemblyhttps://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/132/hb116

    Ohio General Assembly · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    His optical-aids bill. Its last published version is As Passed by the House, with no signature and no effective date. Ohio renumbers bills each General Assembly, so the same number belongs to three other members' bills in the assemblies he served.

    official legislative record

    For: Taxes: sales tax on prescription eyewear

  14. Revised Code section 5739.02https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-5739.02

    Ohio Laws and Administrative Rules · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    The sales-tax exemption section. Its published history names House Bill 166 of the 133rd General Assembly, the state budget, effective July 18, 2019.

    official legislative record

    For: Taxes: sales tax on prescription eyewear

  15. Revised Code section 5735.50https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-5735.50

    Ohio Laws and Administrative Rules · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    Requires fuel tax rate notices on retail pumps. Effective July 3, 2019; the Code names House Bill 62 of the 133rd General Assembly as its legislation.

    official legislative record

    For: Taxes: posting fuel tax rates at the pump

  16. H.B. 110, 133rd General Assemblyhttps://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/133/hb110

    Ohio General Assembly · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    His second fuel-tax transparency bill; did not pass. Its long title names Revised Code section 5735.50, which is how the enacted provision was traced.

    official legislative record

    For: Taxes: posting fuel tax rates at the pump

  17. H.B. 70, 132nd General Assemblyhttps://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/132/hb70

    Ohio General Assembly · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    His first fuel-tax transparency bill; did not pass.

    official legislative record

    For: Taxes: posting fuel tax rates at the pump

  18. Revised Code section 4503.107https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-4503.107

    Ohio Laws and Administrative Rules · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    Permanent registration for noncommercial trailers. Effective June 30, 2023; the Code names House Bill 23 of the 135th General Assembly as its legislation.

    official legislative record

    For: Vehicles: permanent registration for noncommercial trailers

  19. H.B. 96, 134th General Assemblyhttps://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/134/hb96

    Ohio General Assembly · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    His trailer-registration bill; passed the House and went no further.

    official legislative record

    For: Vehicles: permanent registration for noncommercial trailers

  20. Revised Code section 4507.09https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-4507.09

    Ohio Laws and Administrative Rules · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    Driver's licence renewal periods. Its published history records an amendment by Senate Bill 68 of the 133rd General Assembly, effective April 12, 2021.

    official legislative record

    For: Driver licensing: an eight-year renewal option

  21. S.B. 68, 133rd General Assemblyhttps://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/133/sb68

    Ohio General Assembly · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    Sponsored by Senator Williams; signed January 7, 2021, effective April 12, 2021. Its long title amends all eight sections named by his own bill.

    official legislative record

    For: Driver licensing: an eight-year renewal option

  22. H.B. 372, 133rd General Assemblyhttps://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/133/hb372

    Ohio General Assembly · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    His eight-year licence bill; reported by committee and went no further. Its long title names the eight Revised Code sections used to trace the enacted provision.

    official legislative record

    For: Driver licensing: an eight-year renewal option

  23. H.B. 371, 132nd General Assemblyhttps://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/132/hb371

    Ohio General Assembly · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    His first subdivided-land exemption bill; reported by the Ways and Means Committee and went no further.

    official legislative record

    For: Housing: property tax on subdivided lots

  24. H.B. 149, 133rd General Assemblyhttps://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/133/hb149

    Ohio General Assembly · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    His Affordable Homebuilding and Housing Act; never left introduction. Its long title names Revised Code section 5709.51.

    official legislative record

    For: Housing: property tax on subdivided lots

  25. Revised Code section 5709.51https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-5709.51

    Ohio Laws and Administrative Rules · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    The section his Affordable Homebuilding and Housing Act would have created. It instead carries rules on extending tax-increment exemptions and does not mention subdivided land, platting or residential development.

    official legislative record

    For: Housing: property tax on subdivided lots

  26. H.B. 197, 133rd General Assemblyhttps://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/133/hb197

    Ohio General Assembly · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    A bill of his that became law and that the campaign does not claim.

    official legislative record

    For: Record: how many legislative wins

  27. H.B. 339, 133rd General Assemblyhttps://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/133/hb339

    Ohio General Assembly · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    A bill of his that became law and that the campaign does not claim.

    official legislative record

    For: Record: how many legislative wins

  28. Election candidate filings (document)

    Erie County, Ohio Board of Elections · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    Official printed-candidate filing list for the November 3, 2026 general election, reviewed September 2, 2026. Ohio's Secretary of State site refuses automated readers, so a county board's published filing list is used for the field.

    official election record

    For: Official candidate filings reviewed

  29. DEREK MERRIN FOR CONGRESS, July Quarterly 2026 (document)

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    Principal campaign committee only, covering April 16 to June 30, 2026, read from OpenFEC on September 20, 2026. He has two committees the FEC designates principal; the earlier one, MERRIN FOR CONGRESS, filed a termination report covering July 2025 and is not used here.

    fec filing

    For: FEC filing snapshot