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Wade was overturned in 2022, 14 states have passed near-total bans on abortion, but two laws taking effect Monday protect abortion rights. In Washington state, a new law aims to increase abortion ...
It passed the House 97-4 earlier this week after passing the Senate in May. Currently, there are nearly 70 offenses that could cause t Changes likely to Ohio driver’s license suspension laws
Ohio’s traffic laws made a pivotal change this year, and some new legislation could call for more change in the new year. In January, Gov. Mike DeWine signed a new distracted driving law, which ...
In 2020 a bill was signed into law in Ohio requiring all aborted fetal tissue to be cremated or buried. [60] In 2021 the city of Lebanon, Ohio, passed an ordinance whereby abortion at all stages of pregnancy was outlawed. [61] Mason, Ohio, [62] also banned abortion at all stages in 2021, but its ordinance was repealed later that year. [63]
Ohio passed medical cannabis (along with decriminalized cannabis) in 2016 under Ohio House Bill 523. [15] In early 2022, pro-cannabis advocates gathered signatures to send recreational legalization measure to the state legislature. In April, the Senate president publicly announced that he would not bring the measure up for a vote.
In September 2023, the Ohio Redistricting Commission passed a new statehouse map by a 7-0 vote. Although this map was gerrymandered to approximately the same degree as the previous maps, because it had been passed with bipartisan support, in November 2023, the Ohio Supreme Court dismissed the three lawsuits filed against it. [9]
Ohio’s new constitutional projections for abortion access and other reproductive rights are supposed to take effect Dec. 7, a month after voters resoundingly passed them. Existing abortion ...
The 2023 Ohio reproductive rights initiative, [2] officially titled "The Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety" and listed on the ballot as Issue 1, [3] was a citizen-initiated constitutional amendment adopted on November 7, 2023, by a majority (56.8%) of voters.