Budget & Taxes (Appropriations)

HCR 32 is a non-binding resolution urging the U.S. Congress to adopt zero-based budgeting for federal agencies. It proposes requiring agencies to rebuild their annual budgets from scratch each year - justifying every dollar of funding rather than starting with the previous year’s budget - instead of adding to existing appropriations. This would force agencies to evaluate all programs, rank priorities, and eliminate unnecessary spending to improve fiscal responsibility. The resolution does not change current law but calls on Congress to take action on this budgeting approach. It was introduced in the 2026 legislative session and referred to committee.

To require the Department of Natural Resources to conduct two comprehensive studies on elk reintroduction and side-by-side trail expansion, to name this act the Trails and Tails Act, and to make an appropriation.

To amend sections 5104.042, 5104.30, 5104.32, and 5104.34 and to enact section 109.44 of the Revised Code and to amend Sections 423.10, as subsequently amended, and 423.105 of H.B. 96 of the 136th General Assembly to revise the law governing the publicly funded child care program, modify an appropriation for the Child Care Cred Program, and to make an appropriation for a data analytics project.

To amend sections 107.03, 126.02, 126.13, and 126.27 and to enact section 126.025 of the Revised Code to require the use of zero-based budgeting in the development of the state budget every ten years.

To enact section 2709.01 of the Revised Code to require courts to supply electronic notification of hearings to defendants in criminal and traffic cases and to make an appropriation.

To establish the 'A HAND UP' pilot program, to designate this act as the Actionable Help And New Dignity for Upward Progression (A HAND UP) Act, and to make an appropriation.

To amend sections 2913.02, 2913.51, 4737.04, 4737.045, 4737.99, 4738.03, 4738.07, 4738.12, and 4775.09 and to enact sections 4737.046 and 4737.98 of the Revised Code regarding the sale of used catalytic converters, and to make an appropriation.

To amend sections 109.32, 109.572, 119.12, 121.95, 131.02, 173.121, 718.031, 959.05, 1309.109, 1711.09, 1716.21, 2915.01, 2915.02, 2915.06, 2915.061, 2915.08, 2915.081, 2915.082, 2915.09, 2915.091, 2915.092, 2915.093, 2915.094, 2915.095, 2915.10, 2915.101, 2915.11, 2915.12, 2915.13, 2915.14, 2915.15, 2923.121, 2927.21, 2933.51, 3123.89, 3123.90, 3517.091, 3763.01, 3769.03, 3769.031, 3769.04, 3769.041, 3769.05, 3769.06, 3769.07, 3769.071, 3769.072, 3769.08, 3769.082, 3769.083, 3769.084, 3769.085, 3769.087, 3769.089, 3769.0810, 3769.09, 3769.091, 3769.10, 3769.101, 3769.12, 3769.13, 3769.131, 3769.14, 3769.20, 3769.201, 3769.21, 3769.22, 3769.25, 3769.26, 3769.27, 3770.02, 3770.03, 3770.05, 3770.06, 3770.07, 3770.071, 3770.072, 3770.073, 3770.08, 3770.10, 3770.13, 3770.21, 3770.24, 3770.25, 3770.99, 3772.01, 3772.02, 3772.03, 3772.031, 3772.04, 3772.062, 3772.07, 3772.09, 3772.091, 3772.10, 3772.13, 3772.131, 3772.15, 3772.16, 3772.17, 3772.18, 3772.23, 3772.31, 3772.37, 3772.99, 3774.01, 3774.02, 3774.03, 3774.04, 3774.09, 3775.01, 3775.02, 3775.03, 3775.06, 3775.09, 3775.10, 3775.11, 3775.13, 3775.99, 4301.03, 4301.58, 4303.17, 5701.11, 5747.01, 5747.02, 5747.062, 5747.063, 5747.08, 5747.12, 5747.20, 5751.01, 5753.01, 5753.021, 5753.03, 5753.031, and 5907.18; to amend, for the purpose of adopting new section numbers as indicated in parentheses, sections 173.121 (3768.20), 2915.06 (3777.03), 2915.061 (3777.04), 2915.07 (3768.18), 2915.08 (3768.04), 2915.081 (3768.16), 2915.082 (3768.17), 2915.09 (3768.05), 2915.091 (3768.06), 2915.092 (3768.02), 2915.093 (3768.07), 2915.094 (3768.08), 2915.095 (3768.09), 2915.10 (3768.14), 2915.101 (3768.13), 2915.11 (3768.15), 2915.12 (3768.19), 2915.13 (3768.10), 2915.14 (3768.11), 2915.15 (3768.12), 3769.01 (3769.02), 3770.01 (3770.011), 3770.10 (3770.01), and 5907.18 (3768.21); to enact new section 3769.01 and sections 3768.01, 3768.03, 3768.22, 3768.23, 3769.081, 3769.11, 3769.99, 3770.211, 3770.212, 3770.213, 3770.214, 3770.26, 3771.01, 3771.02, 3771.03, 3771.04, 3771.05, 3771.06, 3771.07, 3771.08, 3771.09, 3771.10, 3771.11, 3771.12, 3771.13, 3771.99, 3772.113, 3772.132, 3772.221, 3772.231, 3772.28, 3772.281, 3772.311, 3772.312, 3772.313, 3772.314, 3772.315, 3772.316, 3772.317, 3772.38, 3772.39, 3772.40, 3772.41, 3772.98, 3777.01, 3777.02, 3777.05, 3777.06, 5753.022, and 5753.032; and to repeal sections 3769.02, 3769.021, 3770.23, 3772.25, 3775.16, and 5747.064 of the Revised Code to legalize internet gambling and levy a tax on businesses that provide internet gambling, to permit internet lottery gaming and online wagering on horse racing, to make other changes to the Gambling Law, and to make an appropriation.

To enact section 5101.548 of the Revised Code to establish a program to refund SNAP recipients who have been victims of electronic theft or fraud, to name this act the No Hungry Families Act, and to make an appropriation.

To amend section 917.031 and to enact section 926.181 of the Revised Code to revise the milk inspection fees, to require large agricultural commodity handlers to execute a surety bond in case of failure, and to make an appropriation.