Eligibility for Publicly Funded Child Care wasn’t increased in the Ohio Senate proposal as advocates had urged, maintaining the state eligibility of 145% of the federal poverty level.

Senate's proposed changes would drop taxes "by tens of thousands of dollars" for wealthy while creating new barriers to healthcare access for hundreds of thousands on Medicaid expansion

“For us, bottom line is that public schools in Ohio are still shortchanged by the funding formula as being proposed by the Senate,” Scott DiMauro, president of the Ohio Education Association, said.

Food banks across Ohio are dealing with a major increase in need, but each Republican budget passed in the state cuts their funding from 2025 to 2026 by millions.

A two-year budget approved by the Ohio State Senate restores the state’s Housing Trust Fund, a key source of support for affordable housing and emergency housing programs, and funds two new housing programs.

Though the Ohio Senate axed a state budget proposal to prohibit high school students from transferring bus lines in major cities’ downtown bus hubs, the local lawmaker behind the idea says he expects to get a Dayton-centric plan back into the bill.

For now, the Ohio Senate is going along on an Ohio House plan to make county coroners appointed by county commissioners instead of being elected by county voters.