Ohio Senate

Ohio’s districts for both the state's House of Representatives and Senate have been set for the next decade.

The two-year state budget is supposed to be passed by both the House and Senate and signed into law by the governor by midnight Friday night, but there are significant differences between the two chamber's spending plans.

They want to prevent public pension funds from considering environmental factors like how a company addresses climate change.

Republican Senators pulled back on a proposal to expand work and training requirements for Ohioans in the SNAP program, but added on a new requirement that critics say is costly, unneeded and could cause problems.

There are some key differences between the budgets created by Republicans in the House and Senate, both of which passed with very little support from minority Democrats.

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.

The Senate allocated $15 million to cover the cost of the August special election. If it's not enough, more can be added, Sen. President Matt Huffman (R-Lima) said.

Lisa Hamler-Fugitt with the Ohio Association of Foodbanks is not happy with changes the Senate Finance Committee made to the proposal the House passed.

The Ohio Senate Finance Committee has released its working budget, and it includes many changes from the budget passed by the House.

The Republican-controlled Ohio Senate last week moved ahead with a measure that the bill's sponsor said is intended to "rescue" diversity in higher education. We'll discuss this and more on our Weekly Reporter Roundtable.