Rotunda Rumblings
A congressional panel on Monday voted along party lines to review a rule forbidding gender-affirming clinics for minors. Governor proposed the law. Mike DeWine as a reasonable response to the legislature’s law that forbids all forms of transgender youth health attention. The rule, which is expected to take effect next month, comes as a judge is considering banning House Bill 68, which typically outlaws all other small transgender care, according to Laura Hancock.
In the pipeline: Two Ohio House Republicans want to create a $20 million fund for circling, interest-free loans for specific places to buy rights to develop pipes, Jake Zuckerman information. Additionally, the policy would lower the estate tax burdens for network providers.
A collection of unique William T. for sale. Next quarter, Sherman objects will be auctioned in Columbus. Andrew Tobias writes the products include Sherman’s martial weapon and tree, his military rank emblem and Sherman’s individual version, complete with comments, of former President Ulysses S. Grant’s two-volume autobiography. The auction, which was conducted at the demand of the popular Civil War general’s heirs, has sparked some controversy, with a museum in Lancaster, where Sherman was born, reporting problems that it may result in the items being sold to a private buyer.
Pension protection: The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is giving $7. According to Sabrina Eaton, the Valley View-based Teamsters Local 73 pension program received $5 million as part of a system to help underfunded incomes that were created by the American Rescue Plan. According to a declaration from PBGC, the pension plan is available to 529 people working in the travel sector. Without the support, the Regional 73 strategy was projected to run out of money in 2038. If the income evacuation plan had not been enacted, the Local 73 strategy would have had to significantly reduce individuals’ advantages.
Canton resident Aaron Culbertson, who was unfairly imprisoned for more than four decades, received an initial payment of about $131,000 from the Ohio Controlling Board on Monday. According to Jeremy Pelzer, Culbertson was freed in late 2022 after the Ohio Innocence Project discovered new evidence that indicated he wasn’t a part of a 2018 robbery. Culbertson can ask for additional funds for attorneys’ fees and lost wages, but the amount is roughly half what the state will pay him in damages.
Law attention: U.S. Sen. The “Carried Interest Fairness Act,” a bill introduced by a Cleveland Democrat and a member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on Monday, along with several other Democratic politicians, would close a tax loophole that gives investment managers a lower tax rate. Investment professionals are able to pay the lower 23 because of the carried interest loop. Instead of the up to 40% tax rate, the income received as compensation is subject to an 8% capital gains tax. 8% that they’d spend on salary. According to Brown, hedge funds and private equity firms in Ohio if n’t pay lower fees than Ohio’s working population. This bill is a wise move to promote justice and give Wall Street its fair share.”
According to Christopher Dacany of the Steubenville Herald-Star, the tag team included Bernie Moreno and Democratic congressional candidate Michael Rulli in their weekend campaigns, including a halt at a church in Steubenville. In their proposals to replace former GOP Congressman Bill Johnson’s chair, Rulli, a state lawmaker from the Youngstown place, will face off against Democrat Michael Kripchak in a special election on June 11.
Correction: Monday’s Capitol Letter wrongly identified which party had rescinded the endorsement of John Rutan in the Franklin County prosecutor’s race. The county Republican Party rescinded the endorsement.
What we’re watching this week
The Ohio General Assembly holds no floor sessions, but this week’s Statehouse committee agendas are busy.
1. On Tuesday, the Ohio Chamber of Commerce holds a summit on access to and affordability for children.
2. The Select Committee on Housing will release a report and recommendations to the public on Wednesday morning following a series of hearings throughout the state. Ohio, like many states, lacks enough affordable housing to support the workforce.
3. A press conference will be held on Tuesday morning to promote the five-year anniversary of the Ohio payday lending law, which was approved by the governors of Ohio.
4. House-passed legislation that would end a spousal exemption from some of Ohio’s sex crime laws is moving forward with the Senate.
5. Some committees appear to be clearing the deck as the legislative session is about to end to ensure bills get at least one hearing. Some interesting subjects include: guns, natural gas pipelines, minimum wage, SNAP, pet stores, Air Tags, and Tracy Chapman (yes, you read that right).
On the Move
Ohio’s 10 Republican U.S. Bernie Moreno has received House support for U.S. S. Senate.
Ohio’s Young Democrats have elected Kimberly Agyekum as their new leader.
Hunter Wright has joined The Batchelder Company, a Columbus-based lobbying firm, as vice
president of government relations. Prior to joining Thomas P. Wright’s lobbying firm in Columbus, Wright was employed there. Pappas & Associates.
Birthdays
Carla Carvalho, Ohio Senate Democrats’ policy adviser
State Rep. Brett Hillyer
Straight From The Source
With people who are comfortable saying things like”I hate you,” especially those who want to protest, is” just genuinely frightening.” ”
Aimee Flores, a student at Kent State University, speaking to Ideastream about a speech Kyle Rittenhouse, a young man who shot three protesters and killed two, at a symbiotic protest event after the police killed George Floyd in 2020, is planning to give.
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