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Earlier this week, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed a bill that required a photo ID for mail-in ballots and another affecting submetering for some utility customers.

Submetering is when middlemen buy electric and other utilities at wholesale cost to resell it. It’s common in multi-tenant housing.

Ohio lawmakers passed a bevy of bills last week before leaving for summer break.

Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed a provision in the two-year budget that limited SNAP funds for sugary drinks.

The Ohio House was set to try to override three of Gov. Mike DeWine’s vetoes in the new two-year, $60 billion budget, but only took up one of them.

Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed allowing Ohio county budget commissions to reduce voter-approved levies, requiring certain levies to be used when calculating the effective tax rate, and limiting districts’ power to ask for emergency levies.

The Ohio House plans to come back July 21 to override three of Gov. Mike DeWine’s 67 budget vetoes. But so far the Senate has not set a date for an override session.

Republican lawmakers frustrated at Gov. Mike DeWine’s 67 line-item vetoes in the new state budget have planned to come back later this month to override some of those.

Grove City Mayor Ike Stage told WOSU he would veto the legislation, though he declined to elaborate about the reason behind his decision.

Later this month, the Ohio Senate could override Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto and ban some healthcare for transgender children and bar transgender girls from some sports. That would leave families with transgender kids one fewer state where gender-affirming care is legal.