BALLOT LANGUAGE

ISSUE 1

A Self -Executing Amendment Relating to Abortion and Other Reproductive Decisions

Proposed Constitutional Amendment Proposed by Initiative Petition

To enact Section 22 of Article I of the Constitution of the State of Ohio

A majority yes vote is necessary f or the amendment to pass.

The proposed amendment would:

Establish in the Constitution of the State of Ohio an individual right to one’s own reproductive medical treatment, including but not limited to abortion;

Create legal protections f or any person or entity that assists a person with receiving reproductive medical treatment, including but not limited to abortion;

Prohibit the citizens of the State of

Ohio f rom directly or indirectly burdening, penalizing, or prohibiting abortion bef ore an unborn child is determined to be viable, unless the State demonstrates that it is using the least restrictive means;

Grant a pregnant woman’s treating physician the authority to determine, on a case-by-case basis, whether an unborn child is viable;

Only allow the citizens of the State of Ohio to prohibit an abortion af ter an unborn child is determined by a pregnant woman’s treating physician to be viable and only if the physician does not consider the abortion necessary to protect the pregnant woman’s lif e or health; and

Always allow an unborn child to be aborted at any stage of pregnancy, regardless of viability if , in the treating physician’s determination, the abortion is necessary to protect the pregnant woman’s lif e or health.

If passed, the amendment will become effective 30 days af ter the election.

ISSUE 2

To Commercialize, Regulate, Legalize, and Tax the Adult Use of Cannabis Proposed Law

Proposed by Initiative Petition

To enact Chapter 3780 of the Ohio Revised Code

A majority yes vote is necessary f or the law to pass.

To enact Chapter 3780 of the Ohio Revised Code, which would:

Define adult use cannabis to mean marijuana as defined in Section 3719.01 of the Revised Code and establish the Division of Cannabis Control (the “Division”) within the Department of Commerce;

Authorize the Division to regulate, investigate, and penalize adult use cannabis operators, adult use testing laboratories, and individuals required to be licensed; Legalize and regulate the cultivation, processing, sale, purchase, possession, home grow, and use of cannabis by adults at least twenty-one years of age;

Create additional protections f or individuals who engage in permitted adult use cannabis conduct; Establish the cannabis social equity and jobs program and require the Department of Development to certif y program applicants based on social and economic disadvantage;

Define “social disadvantage” to include membership in a racial or ethnic minority group, disability status, gender, or long-term residence in an area of high unemployment;

Shield certain confidential inf ormation f rom disclosure to the public, including but not limited to any inf ormation reported to or collected by the Division that identifies or would tend to identif y any adult use cannabis consumer and prohibit the Department of Development f rom releasing certain application inf ormation as public records;

Require the Division to provide pref erential treatment to applicants who have qualified f or the cannabis social equity and jobs program based on social disadvantage when issuing level III adult use cannabis cultivator licenses and dispensary licenses;

Prohibit certain local government entities f rom limiting specific research, levying a tax, or charge on adult use operations, their owner, or their property not generally charged on other business, and prohibit certain local government entities f rom prohibiting or limiting adult use cannabis home grow or prohibiting or restricting an activity authorized by the proposed law;

Authorize a landlord or an employer to prohibit the adult use of cannabis in certain circumstances, and prohibit the operation of a motor vehicle while using or under the influence of adult use cannabis and f rom using any other combustible adult use cannabis while a passenger in a motor vehicle;

Limit criminal liability f or certain financial institutions that provide financial services to any lawf ul adult use cannabis operator or testing laboratory licensed under the proposed law;

Require the Division to enter into an agreement with the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services to create a program f or cannabis addiction services;

Provide f or the creation of five f unds in the state treasury: the adult use tax f und; the cannabis social equity and jobs f und; the host community cannabis f und; the substance abuse and addiction f und; and the division of cannabis control and tax commissioner f und; and

Provide f or taxation of 10 percent on the sale of adult use cannabis by dispensaries in addition to usual sales taxes and require that all monies collected f rom the 10 percent tax levied to be deposited into the adult use tax f und and quarterly distributed as f ollows: 36 percent to the cannabis social equity and jobs f und; 36 percent to the host community cannabis f acilities f und; 25 percent to the substance abuse and addiction f und; and three percent to the division of cannabis control and tax commission f und.

If passed, the law will become effective 30 days af ter the election.