COLUMBUS, Ohio — Republican Ohio state lawmakers voted Wednesday to set an Aug. 8 deadline to ask voters whether it should be harder to amend the state constitution.
Senate Joint Resolution 2 requires a 60% supermajority of voters to approve future state constitutional changes, compared to the 50% majority in place for over a century. GOP lawmakers fast-tracked the measure to try to spoil a potential November ballot issue that would enshrine legal protections for abortion in the state constitution, although it would affect other proposed future amendments, too.