The Legislative and Executive Branch Committee of the Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission discussed the one subject rule contained in the Ohio Constitution, as well as amending the Ohio Constitutional to reform Congressional Redistricting. See OCMC Press Release. View meeting materials, including expert reports, here.
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Judge Myron C. Duhart of the Lucas County Common Pleas Court found that Ohio’s budget bill passed in 2013, H.B. 59, violates the one subject rule of the Ohio Constitution. H.B. 59’s provisions banning public hospitals from making transfer agreements with abortion clinics had no common purpose with the rest of the budget bill.
The Ohio Supreme Court heard oral arguments today to determine whether inclusion of a prison privatization measure in state budget legislation violates the Ohio Constitution’s one subject rule. The case is State ex rel. Ohio Civil Service Employees Association v. State , Ohio Supreme Court case no. 2014-0319. (Docket, Oral Argument Preview). Also at issue
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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The Ohio Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal and cross-appeal of a Tenth District Court of Appeals ruling ordering that the trial court must conduct a hearing as to whether an Ohio Budget Bill, Am. Sub. H. B. No. 153 , 129th General Assembly violated the One Subject Rule of the Ohio Constitution, because it
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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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Ohio Civil Service Employees Association and ProgressOhio sued the State of Ohio, asserting that the Budget Bill, Am. Sub. H. B. No. 153 , 129th General Assembly, violated the One Subject Rule of the Ohio Constitution because it included a prison privatization measure. The Franklin County Common Pleas Court granted the State’s motion to dismiss the complaint.
The ACLU filed a lawsuit on behalf of Preterm-Cleveland, Inc., asserting that the abortion amendments added to Ohio’s budget bill, H.B. 59, violate the one subject rule. see Canton Repository article . [youtube q0QjfEv55MA] One of the amendments in question bans public hospitals from making transfer agreements with abortion clinics. Another requires clinics to follow a government
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