A major emphasis in the Ohio Budget Advisory Task Force report was that enterprises, public or private, should be accountable to those who provide the means to keep it operating. Along those lines, OSCPA has testified in support of a variety of bills aimed at such accountability.
The DataOhio bills – House Bills 321-324 – aim to deliver readily available, consistent, data-driven information to government entities and taxpayers. Read OSCPA's submitted testimony.
House Bill 175 would establish a database that would make state government entities more accountable to the taxpayers who support them. This online checkbook would let taxpayers see a clearer depiction of Ohio's financial ledger. Read OSCPA's submitted testimony.