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2025 Year in Review: Ohio gets another new congressional map
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Once again, Ohio starts the upcoming election year with a new congressional map. While it’s projected to tip more toward the GOP than the… Read More
A transfer of unclaimed funds for the Cleveland Browns stadium project won’t go forward for now
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The state can’t take $600 million in unclaimed funds and give it to the Cleveland Browns for a domed stadium development in Brook Park… Read More
2025 Year in Review: Ohio lawmakers made major changes to marijuana and hemp regulations
By: Sarah Donaldson
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — This year, as Ohio’s still-young recreational marijuana industry bloomed, the Ohio House and Senate negotiated and finalized its omnibus bill changing state cannabis statute…. Read More
A civil rights group is ‘disappointed’ Gov. Mike DeWine signed a law cutting Ohio’s absentee ballot grace period
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Gov. Mike DeWine’s decision to sign a bill eliminating the four-day grace period for mailed-in absentee ballots to arrive at boards of elections has angered… Read More
2025 Year in Review: Bills that state lawmakers didn’t pass, but they still could
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Around a thousand bills were introduced in the Ohio General Assembly this year, and 52 were passed and signed into law. The bills that didn’t… Read More
Ohio’s law on vicious dogs has been beefed up after testimony from a young survivor
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — In a flurry of bills signed on Friday was one that makes big changes in Ohio’s law on vicious dogs. It’s a victory to the family of… Read More
Gov. Mike DeWine “reluctantly” signed a bill cutting the grace period for mail-in ballots in Ohio
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A bill that eliminates the four-day grace period for mail-in ballots to arrive at boards of elections will become law, though Gov. Mike DeWine… Read More
2025 Year in Review: Which Ohio bills went to Gov. DeWine?
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Although Ohio legislators introduced more than 900 bills in 2025, only a few dozen made it to Gov. Mike DeWine already. The two-year state… Read More
The number of kids in foster care in Ohio is at a nine-year low, but costs are soaring
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — There are fewer kids in foster care in Ohio than there have been in almost a decade. And while that’s good news for those children… Read More
Rural areas of Ohio can now get money for affordable housing from the state’s revolving loan fund
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — It is often difficult for rural areas to come up with the money to build the infrastructure that’s needed to develop affordable housing. A… Read More
Cannabis law changes and a toxic hemp beverage ban are now with Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — After two years of fits and starts, extensive legislation changing recreational cannabis laws and banning so-called intoxicating hemp, including hemp-derived beverages, will head to… Read More
Ohio bills that limit some immigrants from owning land are stalled for now
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Before leaving for the holiday, Ohio lawmakers took votes on dozens of bills. But near-identical ones banning “foreign adversaries” from buying real property in wide… Read More
A report says Ohio needs to turn toward better road rules to stop dangerous crashes
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio got good grades for its distracted driving law and for having traffic camera laws, though many communities don’t use them, from a national group… Read More
The Ohio House’s GOP approved the Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act, allowing the teaching of religion’s positive role in U.S. history
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A Republican-backed bill that would permit teachers at public K-12 schools and educators at state universities to discuss the historical, positive impact of religion… Read More
Gov. Mike DeWine vetoes a bill to allow 14- and 15-year-olds to work longer hours on school nights
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Gov. Mike DeWine has vetoed a bill that would allow 14- and 15-year olds to work till 9 p.m. year round. Republicans said it… Read More
An Ohio bill could protect lawmakers by shielding their addresses on public websites
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Elected lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have been on the receiving end of threats, which has been ticking up in recent years…. Read More
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The Ten Commandments could be hung in Ohio classrooms under a Republican bill
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A bill moving through the Ohio General Assembly would force history and social studies teachers statewide from grades four through 12 to hang several historic… Read More
The Ohio House approves restricting how close sex offenders can live to victims
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio law has limits on where sex offenders can live in relation to schools, preschools and other child-care facilities depending on when they were convicted… Read More
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed a law legalizing sports betting. He now says he’s opposed to it
By: Julie Carr Smyth | AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — If Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine could turn back time, he would not have signed the law that legalized sports betting in his state. With two Cleveland… Read More
Ohio lawmakers sent Gov. Mike DeWine four property tax bills after a marathon session last week
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Four property tax bills passed that Republican sponsors say add up to $2 billion in tax relief, with the next round of property tax… Read More
Ohio Republicans vote to eliminate the four-day grace period for mail-in ballots
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohioans who vote absentee by mail may need to ensure they allow plenty of time for those ballots to arrive on or before Election Day…. Read More
Ohio House Republicans approve a ban on prescribing abortion drugs via telehealth
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Doctors often use telehealth with a patient and then prescribe drugs. And some abortion providers have been using telehealth to prescribe abortion drugs to patients…. 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
One GOP lawmaker suggests a sales tax for local services if Ohio property taxes are abolished
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — There’s a possibility that Ohio voters could abolish property taxes if backers of that proposed constitutional amendment make it to the ballot next year…. Read More
Ohio lawmakers advanced an overnight deal on cannabis and a hemp law overhaul
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A six-member committee of state lawmakers met late Wednesday into early Thursday to recommend a slew of changes to cannabis statute as well as… Read More
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