Legal limits on ownership of wild animals are needed now
Published: Wed, February 15, 2012 @ 12:00 a.m.
It is difficult to find words that describe all that is wrong about the Ohio Legislature’s inability to draft and pass a law that would bring some long-overdue regulation to the private ownership of wild or exotic animals in the state.
Responding to the tragic outcome last October in Muskingum County when the unstable owner of a menagerie released more than 50 wild animals on an unsuspecting community before killing himself, West Virginia is close to passing a law to protect its residents from such madness.
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Final Changes Delay Gambling Bill Vote for One Day
Hannah Report 2/14/12
After halting session for lengthy caucus meetings Tuesday, the House decided to send gambling omnibus HB386 (Blessing) back to committee for amendments. The House Rules and Reference Committee quickly voted to adopt six changes and then queued up the bill for another try at a floor vote Wednesday.
Most notably, the amendments stripped out a requirement that counties use at least half their casino tax revenue payments for safety-forces spending, and committed 1 percent of video lottery terminal revenues to addiction services.
House Speaker William Batchelder (R-Medina) said Tuesday that local governments had voiced significant concern about the safety-forces spending requirement, and he said referring the bill back to committee would be simpler than trying to deal with several last-minute amendments in the middle of a floor debate.http://www.hannah.com/DesktopDefaultPublic.aspx?type=hns&id=188560
After halting session for lengthy caucus meetings Tuesday, the House decided to send gambling omnibus HB386 (Blessing) back to committee for amendments. The House Rules and Reference Committee quickly voted to adopt six changes and then queued up the bill for another try at a floor vote Wednesday.
Most notably, the amendments stripped out a requirement that counties use at least half their casino tax revenue payments for safety-forces spending, and committed 1 percent of video lottery terminal revenues to addiction services.
House Speaker William Batchelder (R-Medina) said Tuesday that local governments had voiced significant concern about the safety-forces spending requirement, and he said referring the bill back to committee would be simpler than trying to deal with several last-minute amendments in the middle of a floor debate.http://www.hannah.com/DesktopDefaultPublic.aspx?type=hns&id=188560
Niehaus: After session, Sen. President Tom Niehaus (R-New Richmond) said his chamber is likely to take up a casino measure quickly after it clears the House.
"We want to make sure we keep the casinos on track for opening on time," he said, noting that the bill will also create a structure for the installation of video lottery terminals at race tracks.
Sen. Niehaus also underscored the importance of the industry on the state. "Those are all important job producing projects and revenue for the state of Ohio," he said.
He said he hasn't talked further with House Speaker Bill Batchelder (R-Medina) about the Senate's plans to repeal an election law (HB 194
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