According to the Montgomery County Common Pleas Court, the Ohio law requiring a police officer to be present during operation of traffic cameras, SB 342 , violates the Home Rule provision of the Ohio Constitution. The Court granted a permanent injunction in favor of the City of Dayton to stop the state law from going […]
Recently enacted Ohio legislation, H.B. 5, imposes numerous changes on municipal taxes, including: Employers do not have to withhold municipal tax for an employee until the employee has worked 20 days in the municipality (it used to be 12). For municipal tax purposes, companies can carry forward net operating losses for five years to offset
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The Ohio House approved the Ohio Senate’s amended version of HJR 12, which would amend the Ohio Constitution in order to make the process for Ohio legislative redistricting more nonpartisan. In November 2015, Ohio voters will decide whether to approve the constitutional amendment. See (Joint resolutions do not need approval by the governor as
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The Ohio Senate passed a version of HJR 12, the Ohio House of Representative’s plan to amend the Ohio Constitution to making drawing a districting map for Ohio legislative elections more nonpartisan. See our prior post Ohio House passes Redistricting Reform Measure. “In the Senate-approved version, the second time the panel doesn’t get minority approval,
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What started off as an admirable effort to curb Lake Erie pollution and to enforce Ohio oil and gas laws ended up including language to weaken recently passed legislation against puppy mills, as well as provisions possibly endangering basic land-line telephone services. H.B. 490, as passed by the Ohio House this November, includes all those
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SJR 9, recently passed by the Ohio Senate, would amend the Ohio Constitution to create the Public Office Compensation Commission. The Commission would review and set pay for lawmakers, constitutional officers, judges and others. Commission members would be appointed by the governor, members of the legislature and the chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court,
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The Ohio House passed HJR 12 , which would change the way state legislative districts are created, if voters approve this amendment to the Ohio Constitution. The hope is to make the redistricting process more bipartisan. Modifications were made to the previous language of HJR 12. See our prior post New Ohio Redistricting Idea Proposed
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Rep. Huffman recently introduced new plans for redistricting reform, set out in HJR 11 and HJR 12. See New Ohio Redistricting Idea Proposed with Only Weeks Left in the Legislative Session. Democrats have their own proposal, based on SJR 1, an earlier redistricting proposal. Under the Democratic proposal, there would be no consideration given to
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HJR 11 (federal legislative districts) and HJR 12 (state legislative redistricts) were recently introduced in the Ohio General Assembly. Under HJR 12, a seven member panel, including the governor, secretary of state, auditor of state, and four legislative appointments (two from each party) creates the districts. A member of the minority party must vote in favor
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In light of the recent Ohio Supreme Court case, ProgressOhio.org, Inc. v. JobsOhio, 2014 Ohio 2382, which held that liberal group ProgressOhio lacked standing to challenge JobsOhio legislation, the Ohio House proposed legislation to grant standing to challenge the constitutionality of an Ohio statute. House Bill 590 “wouldn’t allow the JobsOhio ruling to be reversed.
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