As Introduced

136th General Assembly

Regular Session S. B. No. 244

2025-2026

Senators Roegner, Timken

To enact section 5.63 of the Revised Code to designate August 26th as "Abbey Gate Remembrance Day."

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

Section 1. That section 5.63 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:

Sec. 5.63. The twenty-sixth day of August is designated as "Abbey Gate Remembrance Day" to honor hospital corpsman third class Maxton W. Soviak of Berlin Heights, Ohio; lance corporal David L. Espinoza of Rio Bravo, Texas; sergeant Nicole L. Gee of Roseville, California; staff sergeant Darin T. Hoover of Salt Lake City, Utah; staff sergeant Ryan C. Knauss of Corryton, Tennessee; corporal Hunter Lopez of Indio, California; lance corporal Rylee J. McCollum of Jackson, Wyoming; corporal Dylan R. Merola of Rancho Cucamonga, California; lance corporal Kareem M. Nikoui of Norco, California; sergeant Johanny Rosario Pichardo of Lawrence, Massachusetts; corporal Humberto A. Sanchez of Logansport, Indiana; corporal Jared M. Schmitz of Saint Charles, Missouri; and corporal Daegan W. Page of Omaha, Nebraska: members of the United States armed forces who tragically lost their lives during an attack at the Abbey Gate of Hamid Karzai international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, while supporting operation allies refuge in 2021.