Ohio Judge Blocks State Teachers Pension Board Changes

Ohio officials can’t change the makeup of the teachers’ pension board due to a new law, after an Ohio judge issued a preliminary injunction.

The GOP-backed law, which was included in the budget bill, violates an Ohio Constitution provision that says legislation must be on one subject, Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Carl A. Aveni said Wednesday.

The portions of the budget bill regarding the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio’s board “are a mere second-subject, non-appropriations rider wrongly grafted onto the otherwise wholly separate single-subject appropriations bill,” Aveni wrote.

The matter also wasn’t considered on three separate days before ...