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An amendment to abolish Ohio property taxes won’t be on the fall ballot
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — An amendment to abolish property taxes in Ohio won’t be on the fall ballot. The leader of the group of volunteers circulating petitions said… Read More
Ohio’s Senate advanced its fast-tracked voter ID amendment
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — In haste, the Ohio Senate has advanced Senate Joint Resolution 10, asking Ohioans statewide about what voter ID they should need for elections. The constitutional… Read More
An effort to abolish Ohio property taxes faces a looming deadline for the fall ballot
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The clock is ticking on the volunteers working to gather 413,487 valid signatures to put an amendment to abolish property taxes in Ohio before… Read More
An amendment on photo ID is likely to make the ballot with Ohio GOP leaders behind it
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Photo ID is required on Election Day in Ohio, and it has been since 2023, but state GOP leaders say the law they fought… Read More
Ohio police, teachers and local officials join forces to push back on property tax abolishment
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — More than 65 groups of local elected officials, libraries, businesses and trade groups, and unions representing first responders and teachers have united against a… Read More
2025 year in review: Property tax changes pass as the abolishment effort continues
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Of the nearly a thousand bills that were introduced in the state legislature this year, around 50 deal with property taxes. Several passed with… Read More
Backers of an anti-discrimination amendment in Ohio decide to go ahead and split it in two
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Supporters of an anti-discrimination amendment for LGBTQ Ohioans, women, veterans and others have decided to start circulating two proposed amendments for signatures to put them… Read More
The Republican-run Ohio Ballot Board splits the anti-discrimination amendment into two issues
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Supporters of an anti-discrimination amendment were handed a setback from the Ohio Ballot Board, as the Republican-dominated panel ruled their proposal would need to… Read More
Backers of an anti-discrimination amendment are starting the effort to put it before Ohio voters next year
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A group that wants to put an anti-discrimination amendment on the ballot next year has filed petition signatures to put the process in motion. Ohio… Read More
An amendment to abolish property taxes in Ohio won’t be on the fall ballot this year
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A constitutional effort to abolish property taxes in Ohio won’t be on this year’s ballot. Backers of that proposal say they won’t turn in… Read More
Backers of ending qualified immunity for Ohio police and other workers kick off their ballot effort
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — After years of court battles to get their proposal before voters, supporters of a constitutional amendment to end qualified immunity for police officers and… Read More
A group hoping to abolish property taxes in Ohio passes a hurdle to getting it before voters
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio’s Republican attorney general has given backers of a proposed constitutional amendment to get rid of property taxes the green light to take the… Read More
Ohio’s attorney general again rejects a proposed amendment to end qualified immunity
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — For the eighth time, Ohio’s Republican attorney general has rejected language to ask voters to approve a constitutional amendment to eliminate qualified immunity for… Read More
A group resubmits its proposal to change some Ohio voting laws, including required voter photo ID
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A group that wants to get rid of new voting laws requiring photo ID and limiting ballot drop boxes to one per county has… Read More
Ohio voters just passed abortion protections. When and how they take effect is before the courts
By: Julie Carr Smyth | AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s new constitutional protections for abortion access and other reproductive rights take effect Dec. 7, a month after voters resoundingly passed them. How and when their… Read More
Signature-gathering starts anew for the mapmaking proposal in Ohio that was stalled by a typo
By: Julie Carr Smyth | AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Backers of a proposal to change Ohio’s troubled political mapmaking system will finally be able to start gathering signatures, after clearing a second round of state… Read More
The cost for Ohio’s August special election to decide the 60% voter approval amendment goes up
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The cost of the August special election in which voters defeated an amendment to make it harder to change Ohio’s constitution has increased to $18… Read More
Ohio legislators introduce a ballot proposal that guarantees the right to hunt, fish
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — GOP lawmakers want to ask voters whether to cement the right to hunt and fish in the Ohio Constitution, and a joint resolution to get… Read More
The effort to replace Ohio’s political-mapmaking system with a citizen-led panel can gather signatures
By: Julie Carr Smyth | AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Backers of a proposal to reform Ohio’s troubled political-mapmaking system got the go-ahead Thursday to begin signature-gathering. The Ohio Ballot Board cleared the way when it agreed… Read More
Third time is the charm for backers of a proposed Ohio amendment to change legislative redistricting
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Backers of a proposed constitutional amendment to remove politicians from Ohio‘s legislative redistricting process are one step closer to putting the issue on the… Read More
Ohio’s attorney general rejects language for the political mapmaking reform amendment a second time
By: Julie Carr Smyth | AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Attorney General’s Office again rejected petition language Thursday for a constitutional amendment aimed at remaking the state’s troubled system for political mapmaking, frustrating the… Read More
Ohio’s Ballot Board adopts controversial language for the proposed abortion amendment
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The Ohio Ballot Board has adopted summary language that voters would see on their ballots when they go to the polls in November to vote… Read More
An amendment to create a citizens panel to draw Ohio’s Statehouse and Congressional maps has been filed
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — An amendment to create a 15-member citizen-appointed panel to draw state legislative and Congressional maps and remove that power from the Republican-dominated Ohio Redistricting… Read More
The Ohio Supreme Court rejects a lawsuit to keep the abortion rights amendment off November’s ballot
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The Ohio Supreme Court has tossed a lawsuit that sought to keep the proposed abortion amendment from making it onto the statewide ballot this… Read More
What happens to the proposed abortion amendment now that Issue 1 has failed? There are several possibilities
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Opponents of Issue 1 barely had time to celebrate their victory at the ballot box before they turned their attention to the next fight –… Read More