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Budget - General Assembly

  • Main Operating - HB 110
  • Transportation - HB 74
  • Workers' Compensation - HB 75/HB 76

Budget - General Assembly

  • Main Operating - HB 166
  • Transportation - HB 62
  • Workers' Compensation - HB 80/HB 79
  • Capital Appropriations - SB 310
  • Capital Reappropriations - HB 481
  • Supplemental

Budget Reference Documents

  • Budget Product Guide
  • Budget Footnotes
  • Catalog of Budget Line Items
  • Ohio Facts
  • State Spending by County
  • Infographics
  • Legal Foundations of the Budget
  • Historical Revenues and Expenditures
  • Baseline Forecast
  • School Funding Resource
  • Medicaid Primer
  • Appropriation Biennium Reference List
  • Guidebook - The Ohio Budget Process
  • Occupational Licensing and Regulatory Board Report
  • State Agency Fees

Archived Material

  • - 124th General Assemblies

Publications by Subject

  • Legislative Information
  • Education
  • Health and Human Services
  • Government
  • Economy
  • Justice and Public Protection
  • Natural Resources and Environment

Publications by Title

  • Members Briefs
  • Catalog of Budget Line Items
  • Ohio Facts
  • A Guidebook for Ohio Legislators
  • Historical Revenues and Expenditures
  • State Spending by County
  • Local Impact Statement Report
  • Boards and Commissions
  • Digest of Enactments
  • Infographics
  • Occupational Regulation

General Assembly Documents

  • Bills, Resolutions, and Related Documents
  • Status Report of Legislation

Archived Material

  • All publications prior to 2008

Links

  • Ohio General Assembly
  • Ohio House of Representatives
  • Ohio Senate
  • Ohio House and Senate Journals
  • Legislative Information Systems
  • Correctional Institution Inspection Committee
  • The Ohio Statehouse
  • Ohio Channel
  • Ohio Revised Code
  • Ohio Session Laws
  • Ohio Administrative Code
  • Register of Ohio
  • Ohio Constitution
  • Ohio Court Rules
  • Secretary of State – Acts Filed (Laws of Ohio)
  • State of Ohio Home Page

National Associations

  • National Conference of State Legislatures
  • Council of State Governments
  • State Legislative Leaders Foundation, including National Speakers Conference
  • American Legislative Exchange Council
  • National Conference of Insurance Legislators

A Guidebook for Ohio Legislators

A Guidebook for Ohio Legislators - Seventeenth Edition 2021-2022

Sections of the Guidebook

  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: The Constitutional Framework of Ohio State Government
  • Chapter 2: The Legislative Branch
  • Chapter 3: Legislative Benefits, Privileges, and Restrictions of Office
  • Chapter 4: Organizing the General Assembly
  • Chapter 5: Enacting Legislation
  • Chapter 6: Tools for Understanding a Bill
  • Chapter 7: Legislative Oversight
  • Chapter 8: The Ohio Budget Process
  • Chapter 9: Staff Services Available to the General Assembly
  • Chapter 10: The Executive Branch
  • Chapter 11: The Judicial Branch
  • Chapter 12: Statehood to Statehouse
  • Legislative Glossary
  • Appendix A: General Assembly Session and Appropriation Biennium Reference Guide
  • Appendix B: Selected Sections of the Ohio Constitution
  • Appendix C: Recounts and Contested Elections
  • Appendix D: Statutory and Common Law
  • Appendix E: Committee and Floor Action Guides
  • Appendix F: Information Sources
  • Appendix G: Ohio General Assembly Demographics
  • Appendix H: Retirement Plans for Legislators

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