Ohio bills that limit some immigrants from owning land stalled for now

Before leaving for the holiday, Ohio lawmakers took votes on dozens of bills.

But near-identical ones banning “foreign adversaries” from buying real property in wide swaths of protected areas, which have drawn ire from Asian-American communities throughout the state, won’t get a vote until the new year, at the earliest.

Under House Bill 1 and Senate Bill 88 , both businesses and certain non-citizens, such as lawful permanent residents, hailing from countries defined as adversarial would be subject to the proposed ban. China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia and Venezuela under the regime of Nicolás Maduro are considered foreign adversaries, according to the Ohio Secretary of State’s office.

The lengthy list of protected properties includes anything within a certain radius of either