Ohio Bonds for Unemployment Compensation Amendment (2020)
| Ohio Bonds for Unemployment Compensation Amendment | |
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| Election date November 3, 2020 | |
| Topic Bond issues | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin State legislature |
The Ohio Bonds for Unemployment Compensation Amendment was not on the ballot in Ohio as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on November 3, 2020.[1]
The amendment would have added a new section to the Ohio Constitution to allow the Ohio General Assembly to issue bonds to repay unemployment compensation paid by the federal government.[2]
Text of the measure
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The full text of the amendment can be found here.
Path to the ballot
- See also: Amending the Ohio Constitution
To put a legislatively referred constitutional amendment before voters, a 60 percent supermajority vote is required in both the Ohio State Senate and the Ohio House of Representatives.
This amendment was introduced as Senate Joint Resolution 4 on May 12, 2020 by Senator Bob Peterson (R). On June 10, 2020, the state Senate passed SJR 4 in a vote of 32-0. It was then sent to the state House for consideration.[1]
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