Veto overrides possible in Ohio on abortion, guns, Medicaid

COLUMBUS (AP) — Some of this legislative session’s testiest issues in Ohio could see reversals before year’s end, including guns, abortion and Republican Gov. John Kasich’s Medicaid expansion.

Lawmakers will reconvene Thursday for rare post-Christmas floor sessions where several Kasich vetoes are poised for potential override. An Ohio House spokesman says “everything is on the table.”

Kasich’s decision to reject a bill raising elected officials’ pay is considered likeliest to see an override. The increases were attached to death-benefit increases for slain public safety officers.

Also last week, the outgoing governor rejected a Republican-backed bill that broadened gun-owner rights and one that outlawed abortion at the first fetal heartbeat.

Lawmakers could override those decisions or even Kasich’s veto of a budget provision freezing new enrollment under the federal health-care law’s Medicaid expansion.