State Budget Resources
The state budget timeline: we did it!
Monday, June 12, 2023
Ohio Senate Cuts Work Supports and Leaves Ohio Kids & Families Hungry
Featuring:
Kelsey Bergfeld, Director, Advocates for Ohio’s Future
Lisa Hamler-Fugitt, Executive Director, Ohio Association of Foodbanks
Tara Britton, Director of Public Policy and Advocacy, The Center for Community Solutions
Melissa Cropper, President, Ohio Federation of Teachers
Lynanne Gutierrez, Chief Operating and Policy Officer, Groundwork Ohio
Michael Corey, Executive Director, Human Service Chamber of Franklin County
Guillermo Bervejillo, PhD, State Policy Fellow, Policy Matters Ohio
Nick Bates, Executive Director, Hunger Network in Ohio
Legislative Outreach Toolkit
AOF Budget Testimony
AOF Veto Request Letter to Governor DeWine (07.01.2023): READ HERE.
AOF Letter to Budget Conferees (06.27.2023): READ HERE.
AOF Director Kelsey Bergfeld Testimony on Sub. HB33 before the Senate Finance Committee (05.25.2023): READ HERE.
AOF Director Kelsey Bergfeld Written Testimony on Sub. HB33 to the Senate Medicaid Commitee (05.11.2023): READ HERE.
AOF Director Kelsey Bergfeld Testimony on Sub. HB33 before the Senate Health Committee (05.10.2023): READ HERE.
AOF Executive Committee Panel Testimony on HB33 before the House Finance Subcommittee on Health & Human Services (03.21.2023): READ HERE.
AOF BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES
understanding the budget
Ohio Office of Budget and Management Operating Budget Guidance FY 2024-2025
The Center for Community Solutions: A 5 Item Health and Human Service Budget Advocacy to Do List
The Center for Community Solutions: Governor DeWine’s Health and Human Services State Budget Highlights
Policy Matters Ohio: Ohio Budget 101
Our Partners’ Budget Priorities
Ohio Association of Foodbanks: Ensuring a Food Secure Tomorrow for All Ohioans
Ohio Children’s Budget Coalition: Budget Issue Book: Creating A Vision of Child Well-Being For Ohio
Ohio Multi-System Youth Coalition: State Budget Policy Priorities
Ohio Association of Area Agencies on Aging: State Budget Policy Priorities
Policy Matters Ohio: Ohio’s Family Budget
Past Budgets
STATE BUDGET ADVOCACY 2021
Check out AOF’s review of the final version of HB110 here!
Ohio Children’s Budget Coalition: 2022-2023 Budget Biennium Policy Issue Briefs
AOF Testimony to the Senate Finance Committee on Sub-HB110, Main Operating Budget FY2022-FY2023 (06.03.2021): READ HERE.
AOF Panel Testimony to the Senate Health Committee on Am. Sub-HB 110, Main Operating Budget FY2022-FY2023 (05.04.2021): READ HERE.
AOF Testimony to the House Finance Committee on Sub-HB 110, Main Operating Budget FY2022-FY2023 (04.15.2021): READ HERE.
AOF Testimony to the House Finance Subcommittee on Health and Human Services on HB 110, Main Operating Budget FY2022-FY2023 (03.04.2021): READ HERE.
June 11, 2021 Press conference: Advocates Speak to Anti-Work, Anti-SNAP Provisions in Budget
Speakers Include: Jack Frech, Former County JFS Director; Jami Turley, Sterling, Ohio; Hope Lane, Public Policy & External Affairs Associate, The Center for Community Solutions; Nick Bates, Director, Hunger Network in Ohio.
June 7, 2021 Press Conference: "Who is This Budget For?"
On June 7 2021, the Advocates for Ohio's Future and Ohio Children's Budget Coalition (OCBC) hosted a media conference at the Ohio Statehouse to discuss the Senate Substitute Budget Bill.
Speakers include: Kelsey Bergfeld, Advocates for Ohio’s Future; Steve Wagner, UHCAN-Ohio; Tara Britton, the Center for Community Solutions; Tracy Najera, Children’s Defense Fund-Ohio; Loren Anthes, the Center for Community Solutions; Mark Butler, Multi-System Youth Advocate; Julia Jackels, Groundwork Ohio; Susan Jagers, Ohio Poverty Law Center; Wendy Patton, Policy Matters Ohio; Nick Bates, One Ohio Now.