Senate President Matt Huffman (R- Lima) said he’s opposed but won't stand in the way of supporters to abolish the death penalty.

The House and Senate nearly unanimously voted to approve the two-year transportation budget, after a conference committee worked out differences that could have slowed down its progress.

The move to try to force a vote on a resolution to ask Ohio voters to make it harder to amend the constitution comes as Speaker Jason Stephens appears to be softening in his opposition to an August statewide vote on that.

A Senate bill seeks to stop scammers from using the names of old businesses, sketchy addresses and misleading mailings to claim money from small businesses in Ohio.

Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose said he's generally opposed to August special elections, but if lawmakers want to revive them for a vote to make amending the constitution harder before a reproductive rights amendment this fall, he's ok with that.

They've been trying to do it for years, but with bipartisan backing, Ohio lawmakers who supporting repealing the death penalty think it may happen this time.

Attorney General Dave Yost said in a lawsuit that PBMs have illegally worked together to fuel rising drug costs, hurting patients as well as independent pharmacies.

Some think a lawsuit filed last week, asking the Ohio Supreme Court to take action, could stop the current petitions from being accepted.

Now it's up to a conference committee to smooth out the differences between the Ohio House and Senate, with the deadline a week away.

Ohio lawmakers likely won't be able to do what they did when a marijuana legalization amendment was on the ballot in 2015