The Ohio Legislative Process, a once a week seminar will be taught by former Speaker of the House of Representatives, William Batchelder, and by Professor David F. Forte. The case example we shall study will be the Medicaid Expansion required to be adopted by the states under the Affordable Care Act. We shall study the Supreme Court case of NFIB v. Sibellius, in which the Supreme Court struck down the compulsory aspect of the Medicaid Expansion, but left it as a voluntary option. We shall then look at the legislation passed by the Ohio General Assembly rejecting the Medicaid Option, the line item veto by Governor Kasich, the role of the state Controlling Board, which accepted the option, and the Ohio Supreme Court case upholding the action of the Controlling Board. Throughout the course, there will be guest lecturers on the Ohio Constitution, the drafting procedure, the committee structure, lobbying, the role of the press, and of independent think tanks, as well as other subjects. Students will prepare a term paper on another significant piece of legislation or constitutional reform in Ohio. The paper will qualify for Upper Level Writing Requirement.