Advocacy groups of all types are revving up for the new term of the Ohio General Assembly, laying out policy priorities from early childhood education to housing and brownfield remediation.
As Ohio’s 136th General Assembly begins, the newly minted House Speaker has already taken a stand on education, saying spending for the state’s public school funding model is “unsustainable.”
Ohio lawmakers braved the snow to begin the 136th General Assembly and select new leaders for the House and Senate Monday. As in years past, the likely leaders were decided by the majority caucuses months ago. But unlike the last time lawmakers voted, those earlier decisions actually held.
A bill that would require Ohio school districts to make a policy to expel a student that poses an “imminent and severe endangerment” for 180 days and potentially longer has been passed by the state legislature and is going to Gov. Mike DeWine’s desk.
The Ohio General Assembly last week approved Senate Bill 158, legislation that was amended to include House Bill 283, which will add a judge to the Adams County Common Pleas Court, announced bill joint sponsor, State Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Loveland).
A bill that would require school districts to create a mandatory religious release time policy and require educators to out a students’ sexuality to their parents is on its way to Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s desk for his signature.
Legislation to make improvements to systems ranging from infant care to early childhood education throughout the state of Ohio was passed by the Ohio General Assembly on Wednesday.
Ohio Democratic lawmakers are asking the state legislature to undo laws on the books that they say conflict with the reproductive rights amendment passed by voters in 2023 that’s now part of the Ohio Constitution.
The Ohio House passed a bill that would allow school districts to create a policy to expel a student that poses an “imminent and severe endangerment” to the safety of other students or school staff for 180 school days, and possibly longer.
If all goes to plan, lawmakers will be asking Ohio voters next May to renew a multibillion-dollar fund that helps get shovels in the ground for local public works projects like roads and sewers. The State Capital Improvement Program has been around since the late 1980s and offers competitive grants and loans for local governments’ capital projects; money for the program comes from bonds backed by the general revenue fund.
More than 400 people submitted a mix of proponent and opponent testimony on a bill that would require Ohio public school districts to put a policy in place that would allow students to be released from school for religious instruction.
The Ohio House Democratic Caucus Tuesday, in a unanimous show of support, reelected Rep. C. Allison Russo (D-Upper Arlington) as House Minority Leader for the upcoming 136th General Assembly.