SB22

Donna Skoda says SB22 restricts her department's ability to keep residents safe from communicable diseases.

Public health experts are speaking out against the bill that would allow state lawmakers to overturn a governor’s health and emergency orders , and would restrict those orders at the local level too. Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed that bill yesterday, but legislators are set to override it today.

Gov. Mike DeWine has vetoed a bill that would give state lawmakers the power to overturn his health and emergency orders. DeWine’s fellow Republicans in the legislature who support it are standing firm, so it’s almost certainly headed to a veto override and a court fight.

The governor says he'll veto it, and Republicans say they'll vote to override a veto.

The next step could be a possible committee vote to advance the bill.