The following meetings will be held Thursday, June 12, 2014 at the Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio:
9:00 a.m.
Bill of Rights & Voting Committee, Statehouse Room 311 – See Agenda below
Legislative Branch and Executive Branch Committee, Statehouse Room 114, Presentations by Dr. John C. Green, Distinguished Professor, Political Science and Director, Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics. Discussion on Redistricting and Term Limits.
9:30 a.m.
Constitutional Revisions & Updating Committee, Statehouse Room 115 –Review of the draft Joint Resolution on the Statutory Initiative, Other matters relating to the initiative
11:35 a.m.
Organization and Administration Committee, Statehouse Room 116 – Discussion on updates to the Commission rules,Administrative Assistant Recommendation,Counsel to the Commission Recommendation
12:20 p.m.
Judicial Branch and the Administration of Justice Committee, Statehouse Room 311
Finance, Taxation & Economic Development Committee, Statehouse Room 115 – CANCELLED
Education, Public Institutions, & Miscellaneous and Local, Statehouse Room 114, Presentation: Professor Charlie Wilson, Associate Professor Emeritus of Law, Moritz College of Law
3:00 p.m.
Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission, Statehouse Room 313, Recommendation for the Administrative Assistant (pending report from the Organization and Administration Committee), Commission Rules(pending report from the Organization and Administration Committee)
Immediately Following the Commission Meeting or 4:15 p.m.
Public Education and Information Committee AND Liaisons with Public Offices Committee, Statehouse Room 114 – CANCELLED
Coordinating Committee, Statehouse Room 115
(Note that the writer of this blog is not affiliated with the Commission. If you have questions about the meeting, please see the Commission’s web site – http://www.ocmc.ohio.gov/ocmc/home)
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Article Being Considered for a Second Time
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Article I, Section 3, pertaining to the Right to Assemble and Petition.
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Article I, Section 4, pertaining to the Right to Bear Arms.
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Article V, Section 8 of the Ohio Constitution, pertaining to Term Limits for U.S. Senators and Representatives.
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Other Provisions That May be Considered
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Article V, Section 2, pertaining to the requirement that all elections be held by ballot.
At its May meeting, the Committee discussed whether as written, the provision might be construed to prohibit or restrict the General Assembly, or other responsible state officials, from either requiring or permitting electronic voting in Ohio. The Committee agreed not to vote on the provision in May, but to conduct research into this matter and to place Article V, Section 2 on the agenda for its June meeting for further consideration.
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Article V, Section 2a, pertaining to the Names of Candidates on Ballot. This Section provides as follows:
The names of all candidates for an office at any election shall be arranged in a group under the title of that office. The General Assembly shall provide by law the means by which ballots shall give each candidate’s name reasonably equal position by rotation or other comparable methods to the extent practical and appropriate to the voting procedure used. At any election in which a candidate’s party designation appears on the ballot, the name or designation of each candidate’s party, if any, shall be printed under or after each candidate’s name in less prominent type face than that in which the candidate’s name is printed. An elector may vote for candidates (other than candidates for electors of president and vice-president of the United States, and other than candidates for governor and lieutenant governor) only and in no other way than by indicating his vote for each candidate separately from the indication of his vote for any other candidate
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Article V, Section §7, pertaining to Primary Elections. This Section provides as follows:
All nominations for elective state, district, county and municipal offices shall be made at direct primary elections or by petition as provided by law, and provision shall be made by law for a preferential vote for United States senator, but direct primaries shall not be held for the nomination of township officers or for the officers of municipalities of less than two thousand population, unless petitioned for by a majority of the electors of such township or municipality. All delegates from this state to the national conventions of political parties shall be chosen by direct vote of the electors in a manner provided by law. Each candidate for such delegate shall state his first and second choices for the presidency, but the name of no candidate for the presidency shall be so used without his written authority.
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Article V, §9, pertaining to the Eligibility of Office holders. This Section provides as follows:
In determining the eligibility of an individual to hold an office in accordance with this article, (A) time spent in an office in fulfillment of a term to which another person was first elected shall not be considered provided that a period of at least four years passed between the time, if any, in which the individual previously held that office, and the time the individual is elected or appointed to fulfill the unexpired term, and (B) a person who is elected to an office in a regularly scheduled general election and resigns prior to the completion of the term for which he or she was elected, shall be considered to have served the full term in that office.
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Article I, Section 7, pertaining to the Rights of Conscience; Education; the Necessity of Religion and Knowledge. This Section provides as follows:
All men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own conscience. No person shall be compelled to attend, erect or support any place of worship, or maintain any form of worship, against his consent; and no preference shall be given, by law, to any religious society; nor shall any interference with the rights of conscience be permitted. No religious test shall be required, as qualification for office, nor shall any person be incompetent to be a witness on account of his religious belief; but nothing herein shall be construed to dispense with oaths and affirmations. Religion, morality, and knowledge, however, being essential to good government, it shall be the duty of the General Assembly to pass suitable law, to protect every religious denomination in the peaceable enjoyment of its own mode of public worship, and to encourage schools and the means of instruction
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