Ohio Official Scraps Controversial Nonprofit Proposal

Last week Ohio’s attorney general, Jim Petro, scrapped a controversial proposal to make charities more accountable. Instead, he will establish an advisory panel to recommend new nonprofit rules, reports The Plain Dealer, in Cleveland.

The abandoned proposal would have set up tough policies, including a conflict-of-interest rule that would differ from the one established by the Internal Revenue Service, a move that state nonprofit groups had criticized.