Columbus, Ohio — The Ohio House has approved a resolution repudiating Connecticut's claim that another aviator beat the Wright brothers as first in flight.

The chamber voted unanimously in favor of the measure Tuesday. It moves next to the Ohio Senate.

Ohio lawmakers are responding to a 2013 Connecticut law that honored aviator Gustave Whitehead as beating Dayton-born Orville and Wilbur Wright's 1903 flight off Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, by two years.

Sponsoring Rep. Rick Perales said Ohio can't stand by while another state "sees fit to change history" without evidence. He said aviation historians have examined and dismissed accounts that Whitehead flew a powered, heavier-than-air machine of his own design on Aug. 14, 1901, "or on any other date."

Connecticut state Sen. Kevin Kelly of Stratford has stood by the Connecticut law.