DeWine announced the formation of the Property Tax Reform Working Group, appointing two former state lawmakers to lead the effort: Bill Seitz and Pat Tiberi, who is also a former U.S. congressman and current president and CEO of the Ohio Business Roundtable. The group will explore ways to provide relief to property owners while ensuring stable funding for public services.
DeWine issued 67 line-item vetoes, including the removal of proposed property tax changes that lawmakers had included, which he said would have impacted schools and local governments.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WLIO) – Ohio’s $60 billion budget has passed both chambers of the General Assembly without a single Democratic vote and is now…
The Ohio Senate passed its version of the budget on Wednesday, mostly along party lines. Senators are pushing to flatten Ohio’s income tax rate with the new budget bill.
State Representative Angie King recently voted in support of House Bill 96 – the House’s version of the State Operating Budget.
The battle over Ohio’s next two-year budget has begun, with key proposals from Gov. Mike DeWine omitted by Republican members of the Ohio House.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine highlighted the state’s economic growth, workforce challenges, and future education policies during his 2025 State of the State address.
Gov. Mike DeWine has introduced his final two-year state budget, a $218 billion plan that funds state programs and agencies while proposing tax increases on certain items to support new initiatives.
The state's new budget bill has now been signed by the Ohio House Speaker and the Senate president. House Speaker Bob Cupp and Senate President Matt Huffman both appeared at the Lima Veterans Memorial Civic and Convention Center in order to place their signatures into House Bill 110, the new state budget.
The two-year budget is $75 billion and covers a variety of topics, including tax cuts. The Senate and House didn’t initially agree on the number of cuts that they wanted to make, but eventually settled on 3 percent for the budget. Lawmakers say that that means Ohioans will be seeing several billion dollars’ worth of tax cuts.
