Why Can't Ohio Do This?

If you click on the link in this title's entry, you can read a story that appeared on www.AlterNet.org about a college student in Maine who got the Maine state legislature to pass a bill helping students with college debt. This quote from the article illustrates how the program works:

The idea was fairly simple: help students pay off their debts if they stay in Maine. Last week, two years later, Bossie's work, along with those of other activists and groups, including the League of Independent Voters, bore fruit when Maine legislators passed the Opportunity Maine Initiative. The measure will give tax credits to help Maine residents pay off their student debt as long as they stay in the state. "Nontraditional" students returning to get their degrees would also be eligible for the credits, as would employers who pay off their workers' student loans as a benefit.

In the past we have thought that Ohio should adopt a program whereby it paid for the college tuition of students who went to college and agreed to stay in Ohio for a period of time after graduation. This program actually seems better because it is geared to those students who graduate. This avoids the whole problem about what to do with students who get the credit but don't graduate or who transfer to a school in another state.

So here's the question: why can't Ohio do something like this?