President's Podcast with Senator Jane Timken
The General Assembly remains on override watch.
This week the Ohio House of Representatives announced plans to hold a summer session to consider overriding the governor's vetoes of the property tax reforms passed as part of the budget.
Their session is scheduled for July 21st, and based on a summer sizzler this year, members will pack themselves into the Senate Chamber for the votes.
Maintenance has the House Chamber closed for repairs, so from what we can tell, for the first time in modern history, all 99 members of the House will pack themselves into the Senate Chamber for the override session.
Veto overrides must begin with the chamber where the bill originated, and in this case, the House will go first, because the governor's line item vetoes were for HB 96, the state's operating budget bill.
It takes a three-fifths majority, or 60 members of the House, and 20 members of the Senate to override a veto.
Senator Jane Timken joins the President's Podcast this week.
She talks about the state's economy, new tax structure, her thoughts on the governor's numerous line item vetoes, as well as her effort to ban cell phone use during the instructional day at school becoming law as part of the budget.
CNBC this week ranked Ohio one of the top five states in the country for business.
North Carolina ranked first, followed by Texas, Florida, Virginia and Ohio finished fifth.
Ohio moved up two spots from 7th place last year.
Still, that is a super finish for the Buckeye State. The General Assembly which has worked to reduce the income tax burden over the last decade to make Ohio more attractive to high tech businesses and industry. It has worked.
Senator Timken also highlights the benefits of the state's film tax credit that helped land the new Superman movie that debuted this week.
These days, even the Hollywood elites are starting to see California as a costly place to do business, and Ohio is well positioned to host big budget movies and tv shows worthy of binge watching.