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Ohio’s budget includes $5M to help fund pediatric cancer research
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Five institutions conducting pediatric cancer research will get $5 million in state funds to help with their work. The grants come from the budget… Read More
Ohio lawmakers ok a catch-all budget correction bill, though not without complaints
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Lawmakers overwhelmingly passed a spending bill that started as a way to make sure name, image and likeness contracts for college athletes end when their… Read More
Ohio’s Senate overrides a veto and eliminates some kinds of tax levies
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio will restrict the use of some kinds of tax levies, a majority of the Ohio Senate voted Wednesday afternoon, overriding a veto by… Read More
The Ohio House approves one veto override, but skips voting on the other two on the schedule
By: Jo Ingles | Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The Ohio House was set attempt a veto override on some of Gov. Mike DeWine’s 67 budget line-item vetoes—specifically, three related to property tax… Read More
The Ohio House has a veto override session next week, but no date has been set yet for the Senate to return
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The Ohio House plans to come back to the Statehouse next week for a veto override session involving three of Gov. Mike DeWine’s 67… Read More
Lawmakers plan a session to override three of DeWine’s Ohio budget vetoes later this month
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Republican lawmakers frustrated at Gov. Mike DeWine’s 67 line-item vetoes in the new Ohio budget have planned to come back later this month to… Read More
Ohio public school leaders blast the state budget, saying it moves districts backward even with vetoes
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio’s new two-year budget has been signed by Gov. Mike DeWine, who also issued 67 vetoes. Among them was a measure that leaders of… Read More
The new two-year budget requires Ohioans under 21 to take driver’s education courses before getting a license
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The newly signed state budget requires Ohioans under 21 to take driver’s education training before getting a driver’s license. Right now, driver’s ed is… Read More
The group pushing end to property taxes in Ohio says it’s disappointed in the state budget, including an income tax cut
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio’s new budget contains a provision to flatten the income tax to 2.75%. But it doesn’t contain substantial changes to property taxes after Gov. Mike… Read More
Will Ohio lawmakers override Gov. Mike DeWine’s budget vetoes? Some say they want to
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed 67 line items when he signed the biennial state budget last week, far more than his last three budgets and outnumbering… Read More
Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed language in budget bill that would have forced homeless shelters to turn away trans youths
By: Megan Acker
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ATHENS, Ohio – Late Monday night, Gov. Mike DeWine used his veto power to strike language from the budget bill that prohibited funding from homeless youth shelters that affirm trans… Read More
Gov. Mike DeWine approves a flat income tax and $600m for a Cleveland Browns’ stadium in the two-year Ohio budget
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Gov. Mike DeWine has signed the two-year Ohio budget, which creates a 2.75% flat income tax and gives a $600 million grant to the… Read More
DeWine says there will ‘certainly be something’ he’ll veto in Ohio budget, but he offers few hints
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Gov. Mike DeWine took a break from reviewing the two-year Ohio budget that he’s set to sign next week. He said there will “certainly… Read More
Ohio’s largest school districts are frustrated with the property tax carryover cap in the budget
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The state’s eight largest school districts are asking Gov. Mike DeWine to veto parts of the budget. The districts say if he doesn’t address… Read More
The two-year, $60B Ohio budget with a flat income tax and Browns stadium money is off to Gov. Mike DeWine
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Both chambers of the Ohio General Assembly greenlit the final version of the GOP-majority biennial state budget Wednesday, mostly along partisan lines. That means… Read More
Advocates want the $1k child tax credit back in the budget as Ohio lawmakers continue hashing out the details
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Six lawmakers on the conference committee are trying to work out the differences between the House and Senate versions of the budget, anticipating a… Read More
Harm reduction workers say they’re concerned about potential funding cuts for Narcan
By: Megan Acker
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) – Since the start of 2025, Narcan — also known by generic name naloxone — has reversed a known 5,635 overdoses in Ohio, according to state figures…. Read More
Unclaimed funds claims skyrocketed after the GOP Senate announced funding plan for a Cleveland Browns’ stadium
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Claims for unclaimed funds have skyrocketed in the past week after Ohio Senate Republicans announced they’d use $600 million of those dollars to pay… Read More
Ohio teachers say the state budget makes them feel that ‘public education is just a punching bag’
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Public school teachers once again voiced their opposition to the latest version of the state budget as senators voted on the spending plan Wednesday…. Read More
The Ohio Senate sends its budget back to the House, kicking off conference committee
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The Ohio Senate sent its version of the GOP-majority biennial state budget back to the House on Wednesday afternoon by a vote of 23-10,… Read More
An Ohio budget proposal links fracking royalties to state parks’ bottom lines
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) —The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) was poised to benefit from more than $30 million in bonus fracking royalties from drilling under state parks,… Read More
Ohio Senate budget has flat income tax rate, still funds Brook Park construction
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio Senate lawmakers unveiled hundreds of amendments Tuesday afternoon to House Bill 96, the biennial state budget, which is due June 30. Among them, the… Read More
Rural Ohio school districts say the proposed state budget will hurt them
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Advocates for rural school districts argue the money allocated to them in the current proposed state budget falls short of what they need —… Read More
State Senate Democrats push for public schools and health in the new Ohio budget
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Democrats in the Ohio Senate are urging their Republican colleagues, who outnumber them by more than a two-to-one margin, to make substantial changes to… Read More
A tumultuous Trimble board meeting ends with a surprise vote and a daunting projection
By: Theo Peck-Suzuki | Report for America
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GLOUSTER, Ohio (WOUB/Report for America) — In an unexpected twist, the Trimble Board of Education voted 3-1 not to cut additional teaching positions at its meeting Thursday evening. The reduction… Read More