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A last minute addition to the Ohio Senate’s two-year state budget included a provision to allow the OneOhio Recovery Foundation — which is in charge of giving out $1.1 billion of the state’s opioid settlement money — to bypass public meetings rules.
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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine struck lines prohibiting cities from banning flavored tobacco and on mandatory vaccine bans at universities. But the income tax cut and the exemption to the state's main business tax stay in, though he did veto provisions related to those items.
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Republican Senate leadership included changes in their version of the state budget that upset supporters of early childhood education programs and providers of child care for lower-income Ohioans.
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Republican lawmakers are pushing for tax cuts during the budget process.