The Ohio House voted overwhelmingly to approve two property tax related bills similar to provisions Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed in the state budget in June. Schools have raised concerns about the bills that lawmakers from both parties approved, which sponsors say would bring property tax relief to struggling homeowners.

Republicans and Democrats approved House Bill 129 , to allow emergency and substitute levies to be used to calculate a school district’s effective tax rate. Those levies haven't been part of that calculation under House Bill 920, which was approved in 1976 to prevent rising home values from creating unvoted tax increases on homeowners by reducing the property tax rate in proportion to increases in property value. But there’s an exception that guarantees a school district’s e

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