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House Bill 457 came in the wake of the recent assassinations of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and Democratic Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman.

In the last few years, restraining orders and injunctions have slow-rolled GOP-backed state laws. One lawmaker has indicated he wants to limit county judges authority.

Republican lawmakers say the constitutional change to keep non-citizens from voting is needed while Democrats call it a ploy to drive GOP turnout.

Republicans in the Ohio House and Senate move measures to make it harder to amend the constitution and a plan to put a vote on that onto the August ballot, before a reproductive rights amendment comes to the ballot as expected in November.

The deadline for a new two-year state budget is midnight on Friday. Ohio lawmakers confirm talks are going well, but it's unlikely the budget can be passed and signed into law in time.

Republicans say the bill will ensure more "intellectual diversity" on campus, but opponents have turned out by the hundreds over concerns about its language on controversial issues and its ban on most mandatory diversity training and faculty strikes.

The Republican Senate leadership's budget expands its previous tax cut proposal and adds controversial bills to take power away from elected state school board members and to make sweeping changes at Ohio's universities.

Senate Democrats are outnumbered more than four to one, but they are hoping their opposition to the chamber's Republican-backed proposed budget will spark changes by the House and Gov. Mike DeWine.

A supermajority of Ohio's bipartisan elections officials voted to formally oppose the plan to allow an August special election to vote on the resolution to require 60% voter approval for future constitutional amendments, including one likely in November on reproductive rights.

Flags will fly at half-staff to remember former Cleveland mayor, Ohio governor and US Senator George Voinovich, who died suddenly over the weekend at 79.…