DeWine signs the 135 billion Ohio transportation budget with no vetoes

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — No vetoes by Gov. Mike DeWine for Ohio’s $13.5 billion transportation budget, right on the March 31 deadline for it to be in place. The transportation budget includes the first changes in 20 years to force accounts, which specify how local construction project dollars can be allocated. It increases the monetary threshold for force accounts by 133%, and those limits can go up each year based on ODOT’s construction cost index, though those annual increases are capped at 5%. It also includes $3.6 billion for the Brent Spence Bridge in Cincinnati: $1.6 billion from…