Driver licensing: an eight-year renewal option
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.