Ohio Common Ground Legislative Tracker Issue Index #1: Affordability
Ohio Common Ground's first Legislative Tracker covers affordability legislation in the 136th Ohio General Assembly: through July 3, 2026, eight bills have been enacted — a five-bill property-tax package that mostly slows future tax growth rather than cutting current bills, a utility ratemaking overhaul, a pharmacy-benefit-manager reform, and the state budget — while twenty more, including a property-tax circuit breaker, a housing package, and a drug-pricing board, remain stuck in committee; the tracker stays neutral throughout, checking the legislature's $3 billion savings claim against independent fiscal estimates (closer to $1 billion) and pairing the record with polling on affordability as voters' top concern, laying out facts rather than a verdict.