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A consumer agency and manufacturers want an audit of $237M in subsidies to Ohio coal plants
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Subsidies for two coal fired power plants put into the 2019 law bailing out the state’s two nuclear plants will end for Ohio ratepayers… Read More

Prosecutors want Ohio’s burglary law changed after a court ruling but a public defender has concerns
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — An Ohio man who walked into a garage and took away a leaf blower and put it in his car as the homeowner watched… Read More

Democratic state lawmakers want drilling banned under Ohio state lands and Lake Erie
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Two Democratic state lawmakers want to ban any drilling for oil and gas under public state lands or the bed of Lake Erie, although… Read More

Attorney General Dave Yost rules county fairs in Ohio can’t ban firearms
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio’s attorney general has a warning for county fairs as the season is in full swing: fairgoers can’t be banned from bringing in guns. And… Read More

Ohio’s sales tax holiday expands to two weeks and starts on Friday
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio’s sales tax holiday has expanded from ten days to two weeks this year. It starts at midnight on Friday and ending at 11:59 p.m…. Read More

Gov. Mike DeWine has high hopes for his working group on changes to Ohio property tax laws
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A working group of eleven members from around the state meet Thursday to come up with ways to help Ohioans who are frustrated with high… Read More

Ohio’s new budget includes $20M to promote the role of fathers in families
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The new state budget includes $20 million to promote the role of fathers in children’s lives. That’s on top of the $2.5 million funding… Read More

Gov. Mike DeWine pushes back on internet gambling bills, saying ‘we probably have enough gambling’ in Ohio
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Internet gambling in Ohio – not just on sports – is not a sure bet to become law. Proposed measures to permit casino gambling and… Read More

Ohio will appeal the ruling that the state’s EdChoice voucher program is unconstitutional on Wednesday
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio is preparing its appeal of last month’s trial court ruling saying the program that offers taxpayer-paid vouchers for families to use at private… 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

Gov. Mike DeWine wants another working group on property taxes, but some Ohio lawmakers doubt it’s needed
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — When Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed four items related to property taxes in the new two-year state budget, he also announced he wants a working… Read More

Unclaimed funds in Ohio can go unrecovered, but not for lack of trying
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio’s unclaimed funds division is holding $4.8 billion from old bank accounts, utility bills, and other sometimes forgotten sources. Claims on that money are… 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

A case asking who can dispense abortion-inducing drugs is likely headed for the Ohio Supreme Court
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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CINCINNATI, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A Hamilton County Court judge has blocked state restrictions on nurse practitioners and other advanced practice clinicians from prescribing or providing drugs that cause abortion…. 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

The new anti-DEI law for Ohio’s public universities won’t block state aid at private and independent colleges
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio’s private and independent colleges won’t be held to some provisions of Senate Bill 1, the anti-diversity law that took effect at state universities… Read More

Ex-lawmakers filed a promised lawsuit over unclaimed funds for the Cleveland Browns stadium in Ohio’s budget
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — As they promised late last month, two Democratic former lawmakers have filed a lawsuit on behalf of Ohioans who could have unclaimed funds with… Read More

Senate Bill 1 took effect last week. Here’s how Ohio universities have responded
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — A controversial higher education bill went into effect last Friday. Senate Bill 1, or the Advance Higher Education Act, prohibits diversity and equity programming, bans… Read More

Federal cuts to SNAP mean Ohio will have to bear some benefit costs for the first time
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Passed and signed into law last Thursday and Friday, the Republican-majority Congress’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” makes major changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program… 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

An overhaul of Ohio’s cannabis laws stalled again to hemp retailers’ relief
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Another busy season for the Ohio General Assembly came and went without any success modifying cannabis laws. Early on in June, Republican lawmakers said… Read More
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