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![The State Board of Education passes a resolution opposing a proposal to transfer much of the board's authority to the governor.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/download-16-e1706029449371-900x422.webp)
Ohio’s state school board head warns of a looming $2 million deficit after GOP overhaul
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The state school board’s new leader said it could be in a multi-million dollar deficit by the summer, which would be just a year after… Read More
![Chris Vodris poses behind the count of the Vapor House, which sells delta-8 THC products and vaping products](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/npr.brightspotcdn-5-e1705949752991-900x422.webp)
An Ohio retailer says a delta-8 THC crackdown would ‘tear’ at business
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Gov. Mike DeWine wants state lawmakers to quickly crack down on sales of delta-8 THC and other “intoxicating“ hemp derivative products, and DeWine said… Read More
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Ohio University will join a decade-long mental health and addiction study
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio University along with nine other universities in the state will embark on a 10-year mental health study, assisted by an initial $20 million… Read More
![Gov. Mike DeWine holds up a Delta 8 product that looks like a small box of frosted flakes.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/npr.brightspotcdn-4-e1705615563869-900x422.webp)
DeWine asks Ohio lawmakers, again, for regulations to get delta-8 off the shelves
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A bill that cleared the Ohio Senate in early December but has since stalled would significantly modify the state’s soon-to-be recreational marijuana program, and… Read More
![Sens. Stephanie Kunze and Bill DeMora (center) stand near a podium to talk about their proposal to require online sites with adult content, including porn, to verify Ohio users' ages and identities with Lt. Gov. Jon Husted and another man looking on.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/npr.brightspotcdn-3-e1705520024274-900x422.webp)
A bipartisan Ohio Senate proposal would require age verification to access online porn
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Two state senators introduced a bill Tuesday that would require online websites that feature adult content, including pornography, to verify Ohio users’ ages and… Read More
![Sen. Sherrod Brown gives his victory speech at the Ohio Democrats 2018 Midterm Election Night Watch Party at the Hyatt Regency in Columbus, Ohio on November 6, 2018.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/JK_ODP_WatchParty-05-1-e1545084935666-900x422.jpg)
Ohio’s Brown is among U.S Senate Democrats sending letter to automakers over labor organizing
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A six-week strike last fall gave way to historic contracts for workers at Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis, considered the Big Three of American… Read More
![Newly elected House Speaker Jason Stephens (R) addressees the Ohio House from a podium.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/download-1-e1672865449642-900x422.webp)
For the Ohio House, marijuana is on the backburner as a HB 68 veto override vote takes center stage
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Members of the Ohio House will officially vote Wednesday on whether to override Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of House Bill 68—the bill blocking trans… Read More
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A lawsuit has been filed over Ohio’s social media parental permission law
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — An internet trade association filed a lawsuit against the state of Ohio on Friday, looking to block a social media parental permission regulations from… Read More
![Gov. Mike DeWine at a December press conference holding an advertisement for a business selling unregulated hemp products.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/dw-e1704650606638-900x422.jpg)
Ohio lawmaker drafting standalone bill to regulate hemp products
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) – Gov. Mike DeWine is again urging the Ohio House to act on modifying the state’s recreational marijuana laws, and his request includes regulating unscheduled… Read More
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Veto override votes likely on the horizon for Ohio legislature in 2024
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The Ohio House will convene for session Wednesday, two weeks earlier than it originally intended to—and it could be for a vote to override Gov…. Read More
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Natural gas bills in Ohio could increase under a Republican-backed law signed by DeWine
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Gov. Mike DeWine signed a bill into law that blocks Ohio agencies from enacting clean air standards in regard to cars, but a late… Read More
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2023 year in review: Higher ed plan, marijuana changes among Ohio bills that did not pass
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — When the mid-term General Assembly went home for the holidays, lawmakers left behind hundreds of bills to deal with in the new year: in… Read More
![A sign at a polling place reminds people to see a poll worker with their ballot to make sure they cast their vote.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/download-5-e1699910123485-900x422.webp)
Voting org sues over election law they say discriminates against Ohioans with disabilities
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The League of Women Voters of Ohio and American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday over a provision in a recently effective… Read More
![Gov. Mike DeWine addresses a crowd of people, including some Ohioans he has pardoned, at the Moritz College of Law on Dec. 20, 2023.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/download-2-e1703135613838-900x422.webp)
Ohio’s program to fast-track clemency for people convicted of felonies clears 100 pardons
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — An attempted robbery conviction hung like a black cloud over Carla Thomas for more than 20 years. The Akron woman told an audience at Ohio… Read More
![Opponents of HB 68 hold a press conference prior to an Ohio Senate vote on the bill, which bars transgender youth from participating in school athletics and accessing certain medical care.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/download-1-e1702562720948-900x422.webp)
A bill that bans Ohio trans youth from gender-affirming care headed to the governor’s desk
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio lawmakers voted Wednesday to both ban transgender youth from school athletics and limit their access to gender-affirming care. The 24-8 vote in the… Read More
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The marijuana industry is watching for changes to Ohio’s recreational law
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — With the possession, use and home growth of marijuana legal as of Thursday morning for Ohioans who are 21 and older, those in the cannabis industry… Read More
![Players react after an NCAA Final Four semifinal college basketball tournament game between Kansas and Ohio State Saturday, March 31, 2012, in New Orleans.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/AP_120331074688-scaled-e1583965169146-900x422.jpg)
Ohio and six other states sue the NCAA over transfer rules
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and six other states’ attorneys general sued the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) over one of its transfer eligibility directives…. Read More
![Marijuana plants sit under LED lights inside the Veg Room, in Eastlake, Ohio.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/AP_18275415718749-e1547060267555-900x422.jpg)
Republican senators propose extensive changes to the recreational marijuana program
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — With just days until recreational marijuana would be legal in Ohio, Republican state senators have unveiled what they want to see modified within the state’s… Read More
![President Joe Biden addresses the crowd at the Intel groundbreaking ceremony in Licking County on Sept. 9, 2022.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/download-1-e1662834802356-900x422.jpg)
With Ohio state grants in hand, Intel says it’s waiting to hear about federal money
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The state of Ohio has already disbursed $600 million in onshoring grants to Intel, which is in the process of constructing sizeable computer chip… Read More
![Rep. Juanita Brent speaks at a podium with a group of people behind her.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/download-25-e1701058962790-900x422.webp)
One lawmaker is wary of some proposed Issue 2 tweaks: ‘We need people who are involved’
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio Senate leaders have said they should be able to find common ground on modifications to Issue 2, which legalizes adult-use recreational marijuana, but… Read More
![A leaf from a cannabis plant is held in someone's hand](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/marijuana-1-900x422.jpg)
Ohio’s Senate may make the first move on package of recreational marijuana modifications
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio Senate President Matt Huffman (R-Lima) said Tuesday the chamber is on board with Gov. Mike DeWine’s pitch to modify the recreational marijuana initiated statute… Read More
![Rep. Cindy Abrams proposes diverting some marijuana tax revenue toward police training during a press conference in November 2023.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/download-2-1-e1700076421198-900x422.webp)
Lawmaker wants some of Ohio’s Issue 2 marijuana revenue put toward police training
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The two-year state budget included $80 million to fund local police training, but when that runs out, Rep. Cindy Abrams (R-Harrison) wants to permanently finance… Read More
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DeWine establishes a task force to look at Ohio’s youth corrections system
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Gov. Mike DeWine announced that the state has formed a task force to examine, and propose solutions to, problems within the state’s juvenile justice… Read More
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DeWine weighs in on abortion and marijuana with Ohio’s election in the rearview
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Gov. Mike DeWine weighed in Thursday on Issues 1 and 2 during his first public appearance after the passage of the statewide ballot measures,… Read More
![Marijuana plants sit under LED lights inside the Veg Room, in Eastlake, Ohio.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/AP_18275415718749-e1547060267555-900x422.jpg)
What tweaks could Ohio lawmakers make to the recreational marijuana law?
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio voters decided Tuesday to legalize adult-use recreational marijuana by a 14-point margin. But the General Assembly will have the last word on what becomes law regarding… Read More