Ohio legislature

Democratic lawmakers want the Ohio Supreme Court to extend deadlines to create new legislative maps.

The bill seeks to add sexual orientation to the protected civil rights in the state.

For the second time in a week, a new Ohio abortion law has been put on hold. This one affects the use of telemedicine in abortions.

Nearly all of Ohio’s Democratic lawmakers in the Ohio Legislature have already received COVID-19 vaccines or plan to do so in the near future. And most of Ohio’s Republican legislators have or are doing the same.

With the March 31 deadline looming, the state transportation budget is a step closer to becoming law. The House is expected to quickly approve the changes the Senate made when passing it last night.

Ohio's Republican-dominated legislature has voted to override Gov. Mike DeWine's veto of a bill that allows lawmakers to overturn public health and...

Gov. Mike DeWine has vetoed a bill that would give state lawmakers the power to overturn his health and emergency orders. DeWine’s fellow Republicans in the legislature who support it are standing firm, so it’s almost certainly headed to a veto override and a court fight.

Abortion clinics that wanted a temporary restraining order against the state over a new law didn’t get it. But they will get another court hearing soon.

Thirteen elected Republicans in one of the counties in the district of former Speaker Larry Householder (R-Glenford) have asked Householder's successor and majority Republicans to remove him from his seat.

Abortion providers are suing the state to stop a new law that requires burial or cremation of aborted fetal remains.