lame duck 2016

State lawmakers have come back to Columbus to start their new year and new session, with the same House Speaker and House Minority Leader. The two…

Still no definite word on whether the Ohio Legislature will come back this week in the lame duck session to deal with vetoes of legislation. The House had…

Gov. John Kasich spoke to Ohio’s electoral college, and then signed his name to a stack of bills passed by state lawmakers in the last two weeks. Among…

Dozens of the more than a thousand bills proposed in the House and Senate this year passed in the lame duck session in the last two weeks. The rest all…

State lawmakers are back home after a long week of passing dozens of bills out of the House and Senate. The chambers are now waiting for the governor’s…

The Ohio House and Senate finished their work as the 131st General Assembly with back-to-back-to-back marathon sessions -- passing a flurry of bills. Some…

The Ohio Legislature has passed the second abortion bill this week. It bans abortion at 20 weeks of gestation. The ban, which is thought to prevent…

There’s been a flurry of activity at the Statehouse, as the Senate and House move through many pieces of legislation before the year ends and there are…

The Senate has passed a bill that makes it possible for people to carry concealed weapons onto college campuses and into daycares. The bill allows college…

The House is calling for a stopgap for the state’s unemployment compensation fund with the hopes of coming back to pass a larger reform bill next year.…