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Prescription Prices, Victims’ Rights on Tap for Ohio Ballot
By: Associated Press
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Prescription drug prices and crime victims’ rights are the subjects of two statewide ballot issues positioned to reach Ohio voters this fall.
A third measure overhauling the state’s congressional map-making process will wait for 2018.
All three measures had until Wednesday to submit enough valid signatures to make Nov. 7 statewide ballots.
The Ohio Drug Price Relief Act has qualified. The citizen-initiated statute seeks to bar state agencies from buying drugs at prices higher than those paid by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, which receives deep discounts.
Signatures for a second proposed constitutional amendment are in the process of being reviewed. It would give crime victims and their families the same rights as the accused, in a proposal dubbed Marsy’s Law for Ohio.