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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
A Republican bill would require 60% voter approval for property tax levies in Ohio
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A Republican-backed bill would raise the voter approval threshold for property tax levies for schools and local services from a simple majority to 60%. It’s… Read More
A Republican-backed bill would require photo ID for Ohio voters casting ballots by mail
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Just a week after the Ohio Senate approved a bill to eliminate the four-day grace period for accepting mail-in ballots, a Republican in the… Read More
Ohio is closer to adding an emergency alert for missing autistic kids
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio is now closer to establishing an emergency alert system for children with autism who are missing. By a unanimous vote, lawmakers in the Ohio… Read More
As the government shutdown ends, Ohioans still worry over soaring health care costs
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Health care costs were at the epicenter of the federal government shutdown that ended Wednesday. More than half a million Ohioans rely on subsidies to… Read More
An Ohio bill would regulate carbon sequestration projects of major polluters
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — An Ohio bill making its way through the legislature regulates carbon sequestration, or taking and storing CO2 emissions underground to mitigate the effects of climate… Read More
Taxing land values? One Ohio Republican introduces a constitutional amendment
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio voters greenlit almost two-thirds of the local property tax levies on ballots across the state Tuesday, according to the Ohio School Boards Association…. Read More
The Ohio House has sent Gov. Mike DeWine two measures to change child labor laws
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The Ohio House has sent Gov. Mike DeWine two measures that encourage extending the hours 14-year-olds and 15-year-olds in the state can work. Senate Bill… Read More
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