Ohio lawmakers are prioritizing property tax relief this fall as Gov. Mike DeWine’s task force prepares to unveil reform recommendations.
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Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, Lt. Governor Jim Tressel, and Ohio Department of Development Director Lydia Mihalik today announced nearly $60 million in state support to help clean up and redevelop 51 hazardous brownfield sites in 27 counties.
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced today that nearly three dozen local drug task forces in Ohio are receiving state support to aid in their work to disrupt the drug trade and promote substance use awareness, prevention, and recovery.
Largely along party lines, the Ohio House voted to eliminate the replacement property tax levy as an option for local governments when seeking voter approval for funding requests.
The Ohio General Assembly has confirmed Jim Tressel as the state’s new lieutenant governor. Both the Ohio House and Senate approved Governor Mike DeWine’s nomination Wednesday afternoon.
A Lima lawmaker was honored with a portrait to remember his service as Ohio's Senate president. They unveiled the official portrait of Matt Huffman to hang with the other Senate president portraits in the statehouse. Huffman served four years as Senate president and will be moving to the House of Representatives in the new session that starts in January. He will be the first person to move from the Senate president's seat to the speaker of the House seat in back-to-back terms. Family, friends, and past and present elected officials were on hand for the dedication, and some spoke about his service as a state lawmaker.
June 28, 2024, Press Release from the Office of Ohio Governor Mike DeWine: (COLUMBUS, Ohio)—Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, Lt. Governor Jon Husted, and members of the Ohio General Assembly today announced significant investments contained in House Bill 2, the capital budget bill. The capital budget includes $133.5 million to continue the DeWine-Husted Administration’s efforts to build a statewide system of mental healthcare and will provide lifelines of support for Ohioans living with mental illness. This funding includes $10 million for the design and planning of a new, state-of-the-art behavioral healthcare hospital in the Miami Valley. The new hospital will add more than 200 patient beds, increasing access to care for those in need of inpatient services, while reducing the burden on hospitals in other regions of the state.
The New Bremen Village Council President announced his plans to run for State Representative. Jacob Larger (R-New Bremen) announced that he will run in the Republican Primary to represent the 84th House District in the Ohio General Assembly.
HB 1 would have part of the evaluation for school funding based on property value and family income. Overall, Ohio schools would see two billion more dollars a year once the bill is fully phased in. This is essentially the same bill as HB 305, which passed in the Ohio House last year, but not in the Senate.
Ohio lawmakers ended their 2020 legislative session late Tuesday without repealing or replacing House Bill 6.
The scandal-tainted bill will provide a $1 billion dollar bailout for two Ohio nuclear power plants. Customers across Ohio were to begin paying a monthly fee starting in January to subsidize the plants. A judge in Columbus gave the legislature a temporary reprieve Monday by issuing a preliminary injunction to stop fees from being collected. In July, the former speaker of the Ohio House Larry Householder and four others are facing federal charges in a bribery scheme to get the bill pass. Governor Mike DeWine says it up to the Ohio House and Senate to get something done.