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Bill would create statewide 'checkbook' website showing local and state spending
Summary
Sponsors presented House Bill 413 to require a single public database that consolidates expenditures and revenues from political subdivisions and state retirement systems, aiming to make it easier for Ohioans to see how tax dollars are spent; sponsors acknowledged implementation challenges for small local governments.
Representatives Young and Peterson presented House Bill 413 at a first hearing of the Ohio House Technology and Innovation Committee, proposing a statewide public database that would consolidate expenditures and revenues from counties, cities, townships, school districts, libraries, park districts and other political subdivisions that receive state dollars.
"It creates a public database showing expenditures and revenues of all political subdivisions... that receives a state dollar," Representative Young said in…
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