Task: Text Simplification
Input (English): on august 7 , 1953 , congress passed a law retroactively setting the date of ohio 's statehood at march 1 , 1803 , the date when ohio 's first legislature convened.
Output (English): on august 7 , 1953 , congress passed a law that made ohio a state on march 1 , 1803 because that was the day the ohio legislature first met.