Ohio Lawmakers

Gov. Mike DeWine drew from his own legacy for his final State of the State address but made a few last requests of the legislature, with mixed reaction.

Several measures amended into House Bill 96, Ohio's biennial budget, sought to make adult content websites verify users’ ages before letting them access anything.

Ohio lawmakers are on a tight deadline to make the multi-billion dollar capital infrastructure bill happen, after finally getting the go-ahead earlier this month.

Most of the immigration-related bills have had only one hearing, but that could change with high-profile campaigns on the Ohio ballot this fall.

Only about three dozen of around a thousand bills introduced in Ohio this year have passed, but there's another year of this two-year legislative session ahead.

Migrants from the country in east Africa, fleeing civil war, started calling the city of Columbus home in the 1990s.

The bill from a Republican senator from northeast Ohio is called the PEACE Act—Protect Elected Officials Against Coercion and Extremism.

Republican sponsors said the four property tax bills add up to $2 billion in tax relief, but opponents said they were rushed and lawmakers could do more for Ohio homeowners.

A six-member committee of Ohio lawmakers met to recommend a slew of changes to cannabis law as well as a ban on intoxicating hemp, including hemp-derived beverages.

Ohio lawmakers have overwhelmingly passed a spending bill that started as a way to make sure name image and likeness contracts end when college eligibility does.