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Arizona Legislature set to send initiative changes to ballot
By Bob Christie
Western states test ballot (file photo).
PHOENIX - Republican lawmakers are poised to send two more measures changing the rules for citizen initiatives to the ballot for voter approval, joining another one that was referred to the 2022 ballot on Friday.
The measures that were cleared for Senate debate Monday would ask voters to change the state Constitution to require a supermajority vote to pass their own laws and to confine them to a single subject. Both already passed the House and are now expected to get Senate votes in the coming days as the GOP-controlled Legislature races to adjourn for the year.
State budget to include Ohio K-12 school funding overhaul
The joint House-Senate conference committee also restored funding for broadband access, putting the amount at $250 million over two years.
Credit: WBNS-10TV / Chris Poturalski Author: Associated Press Updated: 5:36 PM EDT June 28, 2021
Lawmakers working out final details of Ohio s upcoming $75 billion state budget have restored a bipartisan plan to overhaul how schools are funded.
The joint House-Senate conference committee voted on the changes Monday ahead of consideration by the full House and Senate as soon as Monday night.
The Republican-controlled House had included the so-called Fair School Funding Plan in its budget plan but the Senate rejected it.
Ohio Statehouse in Columbus (Getty Images)
COLUMBUS, Ohio Ohio s budget bill, which exited committee negotiations Monday, reportedly includes a line item that may bode well for big-ticket broadband expansion in the Mahoning Valley.
The bill, which is expected to get a final floor vote in both chambers this evening, restores a $250 million line item to boost high-speed internet connections in underserved areas.
Lt. Gov. Jon Husted visited Youngstown last week to discuss the need for broadband as well as a $12 million to $15 million proposal to bring a 100-mile high-speed fiber line that could serve more than 620,000 residents between Mahoning, Trumbull, Columbiana and Ashtabula counties.
House, Senate approve revised budget, including K-12 funding overhaul
By Andrew Welsh-Huggins - Associated Press
COLUMBUS A bipartisan school-funding plan in the works for years is back in Ohio’s upcoming state budget, under a compromise approved Monday by a joint legislative committee working out final details of the $75 billion spending plan.
The Republican-controlled House had included the education proposal known as the Fair School Funding Plan in its version of the budget passed in April. The plan, supported by multiple education advocacy groups, is meant to bring more reliability to annual school funding payments to districts.
The GOP-controlled Senate stripped the plan from its budget version approved earlier this month, saying its own proposal provided more money than the House plan over the next two years.