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Ohio’s Home-Rule Amendment: Why Ohio’s General Assembly Creating Regional Governments would Combat the Regional Race to the Bottom under Current Home-Rule Principles Jonathon Angarola A Citizen’s Guide to Redisticting Reform Through Referendum Grayson Keith Sieg
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SJR 2 ,introduced on July 22, 2015, reforms congressional redistricting in Ohio to make it more nonpartisan. A similar proposal is pending in the Ohio House, H.J.R. 2. See Columbus Dispatch: Ohio senators push for congressional redistricting See our prior post Ohio Can Proceed with Congressional Redistricting Reforms – SCOTUS Approves Independent Redistricting Commissions
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While Governor Kasich vetoed 44 provisions in the FY 2016- FY2017 budget bill, House Bill 64, the language cutting the duration of the Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission remains. The commission will end on January 1, 2018 instead of July 2021. The commission, created in 2011, got off to a slow start, some say because of delay by the legislature.
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The Ohio Legislature redesigned its webpage at https://www.legislature.ohio.gov. Numerous links have changed including the link to the current copy of the Ohio Constitution and to particular pieces of legislation. For legislation from 1997 to 2014, you must visit the Ohio General Assembly Archives. As a result, some of the links in blog posts prior to
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According to a recent Dayton Daily News Article, farmers in Ohio expect bigger tax bills due to: 1) A huge increase in farmland values and 2) A higher tax rate imposed by taxing authorities. Because property values as a whole have decreased, thanks to decreasing residential property values, local taxing authorities must raise rates to
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All meetings are on Thursday, September 11, 2014 at the Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio: 9:00 a.m. Public Education and Information Committee AND Liaison with Public Offices Committee – Statehouse Room 114 Organization and Administration Committee – Statehouse Room 116 This committee recessed until 1:15 pm this afternoon when the meeting will reconvene in Statehouse Room
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Thomas Suddes asserts that the one subject rule, Article II, Section 15(D) of the Ohio Constitution, needs to be strictly enforced. Legislators seem to easily get around the one subject rule, particularly in budget bills. See Cleveland.com: A Slinky is more rigid than Ohio legislation’s one-subject rule: Thomas Suddes
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Southern District of Ohio judge, Timothy S. Black, granted a permanent injunction prohibiting the Cincinnati Department of Health from accepting a death certificate for Plaintiff John Arthur that does not record his status at the time of death as “married” and his “surviving spouse” as James Obergefell. The court held that the failure to recognize