CA: Eliminate prohibition against taxing food and beverages

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CA: Eliminate prohibition against taxing food and beverages

Proposing to repeal Section 13 of Article XII of the Constitution of the State of Ohio to no longer prohibit wholesale excise taxation of food and nonalcoholic beverages.

What This Bill Does

• Proposing to repeal Section 13 of Article XII of the Constitution of the State of Ohio to no longer prohibit wholesale excise taxation of food and nonalcoholic beverages.

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Official Summary Text

Proposing to repeal Section 13 of Article XII of the Constitution of the State of Ohio to no longer prohibit wholesale excise taxation of food and nonalcoholic beverages.

Current Bill Text

As Introduced

136th
General Assembly

Regular
Session
S. J. R. No. 9

2025-2026

Senator
Blessing

A
J O I N T R E S O L U T I O N

Proposing
to repeal Section 13 of Article XII of the Constitution of the State
of Ohio
to
no longer prohibit wholesale excise taxation of food and nonalcoholic
beverages.

Be
it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio,
three-fifths of the members elected to each house concurring herein,
that there shall be submitted to the electors of the state, in the
manner prescribed by law at the general election to be held on
November 2, 2027, a proposal to repeal Section 13 of Article XII of
the Constitution of the State of Ohio.

EFFECTIVE
DATE

If
adopted by a majority of the electors voting on this proposal,
Section 13 of Article XII of the Constitution of the State of Ohio
shall be repealed effective January 1, 2028.