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Budget fix becoming legislative “Christmas tree?”
Is the plan to fill an $851 million state budget hole becoming a legislative Christmas tree?
Senate Republicans say they’ll provide five votes for House Bill 318, which would fill the hole by postponing an income tax cut but only if provisions for construction reform and prison sentencing reform are tacked on.
On Friday, Dec. 4, three House Democrats released their own wish list.
Reps. Mike Foley, D-Cleveland (and a Dayton-area native), Ted Celeste, D-Grandview Heights and Denise Driehaus, D-Cincinnati, said they would push to add House Bill 3 - which provides a six-month moratorium on mortgage foreclosures - and House Bill 9 - which requires landlords to notify their tenants if the landlords face foreclosure.
The House has passed both bills but the Senate hasn’t.
“If the Senate is going to pick and choose add-ons….in order to ram them through both chambers - quickly and with little debate - I think it’s reasonable to insist that the House add on foreclosure prevention as well,” Foley said in a press release.
Keary McCarthy, spokesman for House Speaker Armond Budish, D-Beachwood, said it’s still the Speaker’s preference to keep the bill as clean - free of amendments from the House or Senate - as possible.
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By C'ville
December 7, 2009 4:22 PM | Link to this
The D’s and R’s are more interested in sticking knives in each others backs than solving the fiscal problem. Defer the tax reduction for two years but tie it to actual reductions in state expendatures effective immedietely. This is not really rocket science! And DanS, we do not need more state regulation of the work place.
By DanS
December 4, 2009 1:03 PM | Link to this
How about adopting a bill that requires employers to give employees rest breaks at work? Ohio should be ashamed not to have such a law!!