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Legislative Links

Legislative News...Gongwer News Service provides schedules of committee meetings, access to bills, analyses and fiscal notes, as well as a subscription option.  Browsers can reach many other sites from their home page at www.gongwer-oh.com.

Ohio General Assembly facts and procedures...These sites provide information on both the Ohio House of Representatives and Ohio Senate, including history, members, committees, legislation and procedures.           
www.house.state.oh.us          www.senate.state.oh.us
           
Pending Ohio legislation...copies of legislation, bill analyses if written, as well as bill status can be obtained by clicking on www.legislature.state.oh.us.  You can locate by bill number or by key word search.

State agency web sites….go to www.gongwer-oh.com

Identify your own legislators...go to www.legislature.state.oh.us.  and follow the instructions.

Ohio Revised Code...Can be accessed at www.gongwer-oh.us

Ohio Administrative Code...a companion to the Ohio Revised Code for state agency regulations...go to www.gongwer-oh.us

Money spending...If you are a fan of watching money be spent, check out the agenda of the Ohio Controlling Board.  There’s also information about the State of Ohio government budget as a whole.  Go to www.state.oh.us/obm/CB/

Rule making...Policy wonks can find information about proposed government rules for Ohio.  The Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review (JCARR) posts schedules and rules on www.jcarr.oh.us

Election information...is available on a statewide basis from the Secretary of State.   Click on www.state.oh.us/sos.

Lobbyists & lobbying ethics...The Joint Legislative Ethics Committee and the Office of the Legislative Inspector General provide a searchable database of registered legislative agents (lobbyists) and
links to Ohio ethics and lobbying laws...Go to www.jlec-olig.state.oh.us/

AFL-CIO is at www.aflcio.org and other union links can be found by clicking www.aflcio.org/front/unionand      

Find or write a newpaper…go to www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/media/

Find positions of organizations…go to  www.congress.org/congressorg/issuesaction/alert/

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Updated: March 8, 2007