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This week on "The State of Ohio": The budget is on its way to a committee that will hammer out the differences before the end of the month deadline. But there are serious issues on both sides that could slow down the talks. A billion dollars is headed back to Ohio employers who paid into the states Bureau of Workers' Comp program. But a critic says the BWC has an outstanding bill that remains unpaid. And more on how Ohio's poorest people are surviving the rising costs of a basic existence.
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| Giving more teeth to a law that protects service animals. |
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By Jo Ingles - August 26, 2004 |
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Ohio Governor Bob Taft has signed a new law that will strengthen the penalties against people who verbally or physically abuse police animals or dogs that help people with disabilities. From now on, anyone who steals, hurts or kills a police animal could face felony charges. And Taft says this new law protects seeing eye dogs and other service animals which, until now, had little legal protection. The new law to protect police and service animals goes into effect in 90 days. |
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Governor Bob Taft (:27) 
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