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The Ohio legislature worked into the wee hours this morning, pushing through legislation on the last day of the lame-duck session.
Any bills unpassed by the end of the year are moot and a new two-year legislative session begins in January. State senators and representatives could get called back to Columbus for some unfinished business during the holiday break.
In the past weeks, legislators have declared natural gas “green energy,” added a strict voter ID requirement and dropped the idea of making constitutional amendments more difficult.
Our statehouse team stayed up way past midnight to deliver you the news.
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Voter ID: The Ohio General Assembly approved a sweeping elections bill early this morning that includes a tougher ID requirement for voters, sending the package to Gov. Mike DeWine’s desk. In a final, 55-32 vote, the Ohio House approved House Bill 458, which would require a voter to show a photo ID when voting in person, either early or on Election Day, Andrew Tobias reports. The bill includes a slew of other measures, including largely ending special elections in August, specifying that county boards of election can offer only a single drop box for…
