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To amend sections 149.311, 166.01, 166.02, 166.08, | 1 |
166.11, 184.02, 1555.03, 3333.38, 3345.32, | 2 |
3706.01, 5725.151, 5733.47, 5747.76, and | 3 |
5747.98; to enact sections 164.28, 166.25, | 4 |
166.26, 166.27, 166.30, 184.174, 184.23, 184.231, | 5 |
184.24 to 184.26, 184.37, 3333.71 to 3333.81, | 6 |
and 3706.25 to 3706.30 of the Revised Code; and | 7 |
to amend Section 229.10 of Am. Sub. H.B. 67 of | 8 |
the 127th General Assembly, to establish the Ohio | 9 |
Bioproducts Development Program and Ohio | 10 |
Biomedical Development Program to be administered | 11 |
by the Third Frontier Commission, to establish | 12 |
advisory boards to the Third Frontier Commission, | 13 |
to expand the economic development programs | 14 |
administered by the Department of Development to | 15 |
include transportation logistics and distribution | 16 |
infrastructure projects, to provide additional | 17 |
money for capital improvement projects of local | 18 |
subdivisions, to modify the authority of the Ohio | 19 |
Coal Development Office, to provide for advanced | 20 |
energy projects administered by the Ohio Air | 21 |
Quality Development Authority, to establish the | 22 |
Choose Ohio First Co-op/Internship Program, to | 23 |
extend the historical building rehabilitation | 24 |
tax credit, limit credit amounts, and require | 25 |
regional distributive balance and economic | 26 |
effects to be considered, to modify the | 27 |
definition of an air quality facility, to create | 28 |
minority outreach requirements for loan and grant | 29 |
programs established under this bill, and to make | 30 |
an appropriation. | 31 |
Section 1. That sections 149.311, 166.01, 166.02, 166.08, | 32 |
166.11, 184.02, 1555.03, 3333.38, 3345.32, 3706.01, 5725.151, | 33 |
5733.47, 5747.76, and 5747.98 be amended and that sections | 34 |
164.28, 166.25, 166.26, 166.27, 166.30, 184.174, 184.23, 184.231, | 35 |
184.24, 184.25, 184.26, 184.37, 3333.71, 3333.72, 3333.73, | 36 |
3333.74, 3333.75, 3333.76, 3333.77, 3333.78, 3333.79, 3333.80, | 37 |
3333.81, 3706.25, 3706.26, 3706.27, 3706.28, 3706.29, and 3706.30 | 38 |
of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows: | 39 |
Sec. 149.311. (A) As used in this section: | 40 |
(1) "Historic building" means a building, including its | 41 |
structural components, that is located in this state and that is | 42 |
either individually listed on the national register of historic | 43 |
places under 16 U.S.C. 470a, located in a registered historic | 44 |
district, and certified by the state historic preservation officer | 45 |
as being of historic significance to the district, or is | 46 |
individually listed as a historic landmark designated by a local | 47 |
government certified under 16 U.S.C. 470a(c). | 48 |
(2) "Qualified rehabilitation expenditures" means | 49 |
expenditures paid or incurred during the rehabilitation period, | 50 |
and before and after that period as determined under 26 U.S.C. 47, | 51 |
by an owner of a historic building to rehabilitate the building. | 52 |
"Qualified rehabilitation expenditures" includes architectural or | 53 |
engineering fees paid or incurred in connection with the | 54 |
rehabilitation, and expenses incurred in the preparation of | 55 |
nomination forms for listing on the national register of historic | 56 |
places. "Qualified rehabilitation expenditures" does not include | 57 |
any of the following: | 58 |
(a) The cost of acquiring, expanding, or enlarging a historic | 59 |
building; | 60 |
(b) Expenditures attributable to work done to facilities | 61 |
related to the building, such as parking lots, sidewalks, and | 62 |
landscaping; | 63 |
(c) New building construction costs. | 64 |
(3) "Owner" of a historic building means a person holding the | 65 |
fee simple interest in the building. "Owner" does not include the | 66 |
state or a state agency, or any political subdivision as defined | 67 |
in section 9.23 of the Revised Code. | 68 |
(4) "Certificate owner" means the owner of a historic | 69 |
building to which a rehabilitation tax credit certificate was | 70 |
issued under this section. | 71 |
(5) "Registered historic district" means a historic district | 72 |
listed in the national register of historic places under 16 U.S.C. | 73 |
470a, a historic district designated by a local government | 74 |
certified under 16 U.S.C. 470a(c), or a local historic district | 75 |
certified under 36 C.F.R. 67.8 and 67.9. | 76 |
(6) "Rehabilitation" means the process of repairing or | 77 |
altering a historic building or buildings, making possible an | 78 |
efficient use while preserving those portions and features of the | 79 |
building and its site and environment that are significant to its | 80 |
historic, architectural, and cultural values. | 81 |
(7) "Rehabilitation period" means one of the following: | 82 |
(a) If the rehabilitation initially was not planned to be | 83 |
completed in stages, a period chosen by the owner not to exceed | 84 |
twenty-four months during which rehabilitation occurs; | 85 |
(b) If the rehabilitation initially was planned to be | 86 |
completed in stages, a period chosen by the owner not to exceed | 87 |
sixty months during which rehabilitation occurs. | 88 |
(8) "State historic preservation officer" or "officer" means | 89 |
the state historic preservation officer appointed by the governor | 90 |
under 16 U.S.C. 470a. | 91 |
(9) "Application period" means | 92 |
time
periods | 93 |
tax credit certificate may be filed under this section: | 94 |
(a) July 1, 2007, through June 30, 2008; | 95 |
(b) | 96 |
June 30, 2010; | 97 |
(c) July 1, 2010, through June 30, 2011. | 98 |
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application period, the owner of a historic building may apply | 100 |
to the state historic preservation officer for a rehabilitation | 101 |
tax credit certificate for qualified rehabilitation expenditures | 102 |
paid or incurred after April 4, 2007, for rehabilitation of a | 103 |
historic building. The form and manner of filing such | 104 |
applications shall be prescribed by rule of the director of | 105 |
development, and, except as otherwise provided in division (D) of | 106 |
this section, applications expire at the end of each | 107 |
application period. | 108 |
shall state the amount of qualified rehabilitation expenditures | 109 |
the applicant estimates will be paid or incurred. The director | 110 |
may require applicants to furnish documentation of such | 111 |
estimates. | 112 |
The director, after consultation with the tax commissioner | 113 |
and in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall | 114 |
adopt rules that establish all of the following: | 115 |
(1) Forms and procedures by which applicants may apply for | 116 |
rehabilitation tax credit certificates; | 117 |
(2) Criteria for reviewing, evaluating, and approving | 118 |
applications for certificates within the | 119 |
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limitations under division (D) of this section, criteria for | 121 |
assuring that the certificates issued encompass a mixture of high | 122 |
and low qualified rehabilitation expenditures, and criteria for | 123 |
issuing certificates under division (C)(3)(b) of this section; | 124 |
(3) Eligibility requirements for obtaining a certificate | 125 |
under this section; | 126 |
(4) The form of rehabilitation tax credit certificates; | 127 |
(5) Reporting requirements and monitoring procedures; | 128 |
(6) Any other rules necessary to implement and administer | 129 |
this section. | 130 |
(C) The state historic preservation officer shall accept | 131 |
applications | 132 |
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following criteria are met: | 136 |
(1) That the building that is the subject of the application | 137 |
is a historic building and the applicant is the owner of the | 138 |
building; | 139 |
(2) That the rehabilitation will satisfy standards prescribed | 140 |
by the United States secretary of the interior under 16 U.S.C. | 141 |
470, et seq., as amended, and 36 C.F.R. 67.7 or a successor to | 142 |
that section; | 143 |
(3) That receiving a rehabilitation tax credit certificate | 144 |
under this section is a major factor in: | 145 |
(a) The applicant's decision to rehabilitate the historic | 146 |
building; or | 147 |
(b) To increase the level of investment in such | 148 |
rehabilitation. | 149 |
An applicant shall demonstrate to the satisfaction of the | 150 |
state historic preservation officer and director of development | 151 |
that the rehabilitation will satisfy the standards described in | 152 |
division (C)(2) of this section before the applicant begins the | 153 |
physical rehabilitation of the historic building. | 154 |
(D) | 155 |
application and issue a rehabilitation tax credit certificate to | 156 |
an applicant only if the director determines that the criteria in | 157 |
divisions (C)(1), (2), and (3) of this section are
met | 158 |
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potential economic impact and the regional distributive balance of | 170 |
the credits throughout the state. | 171 |
(2) A rehabilitation tax credit certificate shall not be | 172 |
issued before rehabilitation of a historic building is | 173 |
completed or for an amount greater than the estimated amount | 174 |
furnished by the applicant on the application for such | 175 |
certificate and approved by the director. The director shall not | 176 |
approve
more than | 177 |
million dollars of rehabilitation tax credits for an application | 178 |
period. | 179 |
(3) Of the sixty million dollars approved for application | 180 |
periods July 1, 2009, through June 30, 2010, and July 1, 2010, | 181 |
through June 30, 2011, forty-five million dollars shall be | 182 |
reserved in each application period for the award of | 183 |
rehabilitation tax credit certificates to applicants who filed | 184 |
completed applications before March 21, 2008, who have not | 185 |
withdrawn the application, and who have not yet been approved to | 186 |
receive a certificate, and for whose rehabilitation the director | 187 |
determines meets the criteria in divisions (C)(1), (2), and (3) | 188 |
of this section. If the total amount of credits awarded for such | 189 |
applications is less than forty-five million dollars in an | 190 |
application period, the remainder shall be made available for | 191 |
other qualifying applications for that application period. | 192 |
(4) If an applicant whose application is approved for receipt | 193 |
of a rehabilitation tax credit certificate fails to provide to | 194 |
the director of development sufficient evidence of reviewable | 195 |
progress, including a viable financial plan, copies of final | 196 |
construction drawings, and evidence that the applicant has | 197 |
obtained all historic approvals within twelve months after the | 198 |
date the applicant received notification of approval, or if the | 199 |
applicant fails to provide evidence to the director of development | 200 |
that the applicant has secured and closed on financing for the | 201 |
rehabilitation within eighteen months after receiving notification | 202 |
of approval, the director shall notify the applicant that the | 203 |
approval has been rescinded. Credits that would have been | 204 |
available to an applicant whose approval was rescinded shall be | 205 |
available for other qualified applicants. Nothing in this division | 206 |
prohibits an applicant whose approval has been rescinded from | 207 |
submitting a new application for a rehabilitation tax credit | 208 |
certificate. | 209 |
(E) Issuance of a certificate represents a finding by the | 210 |
director of development of the matters described in divisions | 211 |
(C)(1), (2), and (3) of this section only; issuance of a | 212 |
certificate does not represent a verification or certification by | 213 |
the director of the amount of qualified rehabilitation | 214 |
expenditures for which a tax credit may be claimed under section | 215 |
5725.151, 5733.47, or 5747.76 of the Revised Code. The amount of | 216 |
qualified rehabilitation expenditures for which a tax credit may | 217 |
be claimed is subject to inspection and examination by the tax | 218 |
commissioner or employees of the commissioner under section | 219 |
5703.19 of the Revised Code and any other applicable law. Upon the | 220 |
issuance of a certificate, the director shall certify to the tax | 221 |
commissioner, in the form and manner requested by the tax | 222 |
commissioner, the name of the applicant, the amount of qualified | 223 |
rehabilitation expenditures shown on the certificate, and any | 224 |
other information required by the rules adopted under this | 225 |
section. | 226 |
(F)(1) On or before the first day of December in 2007, 2008, | 227 |
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commissioner jointly shall submit to the president of the senate | 229 |
and the speaker of the house of representatives a report on the | 230 |
tax credit program established under this section and sections | 231 |
5725.151, 5733.47, and 5747.76 of the Revised Code. The report | 232 |
shall present an overview of the program and shall include | 233 |
information on the number of rehabilitation tax credit | 234 |
certificates issued under this section during an application | 235 |
period, an update on the status of each historic building for | 236 |
which an application was approved under this section, the dollar | 237 |
amount of the tax credits granted under sections 5725.151, | 238 |
5733.47, and 5747.76 of the Revised Code, and any other | 239 |
information the director and commissioner consider relevant to | 240 |
the topics addressed in the report. | 241 |
(2) On or before December 1, | 242 |
development and tax commissioner jointly shall submit to the | 243 |
president of the senate and the speaker of the house of | 244 |
representatives a comprehensive report that includes the | 245 |
information required by division (F)(1) of this section and a | 246 |
detailed analysis of the effectiveness of issuing tax credits for | 247 |
rehabilitating historic buildings. The report shall be prepared | 248 |
with the assistance of an economic research organization jointly | 249 |
chosen by the director and commissioner. | 250 |
Sec. 164.28. The local infrastructure development fund is | 251 |
hereby created in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of | 252 |
cash transferred from the jobs fund created in the state treasury | 253 |
by Section 4 of Sub. H.B. 544 of the 127th general assembly. | 254 |
Money in the fund shall be used to provide grants for local | 255 |
infrastructure development and for capital improvement projects. | 256 |
All investment earnings of the fund shall be credited to the fund. | 257 |
Sec. 166.01. As used in this chapter: | 258 |
(A) "Allowable costs" means all or part of the costs of | 259 |
project facilities, eligible projects, eligible innovation | 260 |
projects, | 261 |
advanced energy projects, or eligible logistics and distribution | 262 |
projects, including costs of acquiring, constructing, | 263 |
reconstructing, rehabilitating, renovating, enlarging, improving, | 264 |
equipping, or furnishing project facilities, eligible projects, | 265 |
eligible innovation projects, | 266 |
projects, eligible advanced energy projects, or eligible logistics | 267 |
and distribution projects, site clearance and preparation, | 268 |
supplementing and relocating public capital improvements or | 269 |
utility facilities, designs, plans, specifications, surveys, | 270 |
studies, and estimates of costs, expenses necessary or incident | 271 |
to determining the feasibility or practicability of assisting an | 272 |
eligible project, an
eligible
innovation project, | 273 |
research and development project, an eligible advanced energy | 274 |
project, or an eligible logistics and distribution project, or | 275 |
providing project facilities or facilities related to an eligible | 276 |
project, an eligible innovation project | 277 |
and development project, an eligible advanced energy project, or | 278 |
an eligible logistics and distribution project, architectural, | 279 |
engineering, and legal services fees and expenses, the costs of | 280 |
conducting any other activities as part of a voluntary action, and | 281 |
such other expenses as may be necessary or incidental to the | 282 |
establishment or development of an eligible project, an eligible | 283 |
innovation
project, | 284 |
project, an eligible advanced energy project, or an eligible | 285 |
logistics and distribution project, and reimbursement of moneys | 286 |
advanced or applied by any governmental agency or other person | 287 |
for allowable costs. | 288 |
(B) "Allowable innovation costs" includes allowable costs of | 289 |
eligible innovation projects and, in addition, includes the costs | 290 |
of research and development of eligible innovation projects; | 291 |
obtaining or creating any requisite software or computer hardware | 292 |
related to an eligible innovation project or the products or | 293 |
services associated therewith; testing (including, without | 294 |
limitation, quality control activities necessary for initial | 295 |
production), perfecting, and marketing of such products and | 296 |
services; creating and protecting intellectual property related to | 297 |
an eligible innovation project or any products or services related | 298 |
thereto, including costs of securing appropriate patent, | 299 |
trademark, trade secret, trade dress, copyright, or other form of | 300 |
intellectual property protection for an eligible innovation | 301 |
project or related products and services; all to the extent that | 302 |
such expenditures could be capitalized under then-applicable | 303 |
generally accepted accounting principles; and the reimbursement of | 304 |
moneys advanced or applied by any governmental agency or other | 305 |
person for allowable innovation costs. | 306 |
(C) "Eligible innovation project" includes an eligible | 307 |
project, including any project facilities associated with an | 308 |
eligible innovation project and, in addition, includes all | 309 |
tangible and intangible property related to a new product or | 310 |
process based on new technology or the creative application of | 311 |
existing technology, including research and development, product | 312 |
or process testing, quality control, market research, and related | 313 |
activities, that is to be acquired, established, expanded, | 314 |
remodeled, rehabilitated, or modernized for industry, commerce, | 315 |
distribution, or research, or any combination thereof, the | 316 |
operation of which, alone or in conjunction with other eligible | 317 |
projects, eligible innovation projects, or innovation property, | 318 |
will create new jobs or preserve existing jobs and employment | 319 |
opportunities and improve the economic welfare of the people of | 320 |
the state. | 321 |
(D) "Eligible project" means project facilities to be | 322 |
acquired, established, expanded, remodeled, rehabilitated, or | 323 |
modernized for industry, commerce, distribution, or research, or | 324 |
any combination thereof, the operation of which, alone or in | 325 |
conjunction with other facilities, will create new jobs or | 326 |
preserve existing jobs and employment opportunities and improve | 327 |
the economic welfare of the people of the state. "Eligible | 328 |
project" includes, without limitation, a voluntary action. For | 329 |
purposes of this division, "new jobs" does not include existing | 330 |
jobs transferred from another facility within the state, and | 331 |
"existing jobs" includes only those existing jobs with work places | 332 |
within the municipal corporation or unincorporated area of the | 333 |
county in which the eligible project is located. | 334 |
"Eligible project" does not include project facilities to be | 335 |
acquired, established, expanded, remodeled, rehabilitated, or | 336 |
modernized for industry, commerce, distribution, or research, or | 337 |
any combination of industry, commerce, distribution, or research, | 338 |
if the project facilities consist solely of | 339 |
point-of-final-purchase retail facilities. If the project | 340 |
facilities consist of both point-of-final-purchase retail | 341 |
facilities and nonretail facilities, only the portion of the | 342 |
project facilities consisting of nonretail facilities is an | 343 |
eligible project. If a warehouse facility is part of a | 344 |
point-of-final-purchase retail facility and supplies only that | 345 |
facility, the warehouse facility is not an eligible project. | 346 |
Catalog distribution facilities are not considered | 347 |
point-of-final-purchase retail facilities for purposes of this | 348 |
paragraph, and are eligible projects. | 349 |
(E) "Eligible research and development project" means an | 350 |
eligible project, including project facilities, comprising, | 351 |
within, or related to, a facility or portion of a facility at | 352 |
which research is undertaken for the purpose of discovering | 353 |
information that is technological in nature and the application of | 354 |
which is intended to be useful in the development of a new or | 355 |
improved product, process, technique, formula, or invention, a new | 356 |
product or process based on new technology, or the creative | 357 |
application of existing technology. | 358 |
(F) "Financial assistance" means inducements under division | 359 |
(B) of section 166.02 of the Revised Code, loan guarantees under | 360 |
section 166.06 of the Revised Code, and direct loans under section | 361 |
166.07 of the Revised Code. | 362 |
(G) "Governmental action" means any action by a governmental | 363 |
agency relating to the establishment, development, or operation of | 364 |
an eligible project, eligible innovation project, | 365 |
research and development project, eligible advanced energy | 366 |
project, or eligible logistics and distribution project, and | 367 |
project facilities that the governmental agency acting has | 368 |
authority to take or provide for the purpose under law, | 369 |
including, but not limited to, actions relating to contracts and | 370 |
agreements, zoning, building, permits, acquisition and disposition | 371 |
of property, public capital improvements, utility and | 372 |
transportation service, taxation, employee recruitment and | 373 |
training, and liaison and coordination with and among governmental | 374 |
agencies. | 375 |
(H) "Governmental agency" means the state and any state | 376 |
department, division, commission, institution or authority; a | 377 |
municipal corporation, county, or township, and any agency | 378 |
thereof, and any other political subdivision or public corporation | 379 |
or the United States or any agency thereof; any agency, | 380 |
commission, or authority established pursuant to an interstate | 381 |
compact or agreement; and any combination of the above. | 382 |
(I) "Innovation financial assistance" means inducements under | 383 |
division (B) of section 166.12 of the Revised Code, innovation | 384 |
Ohio loan guarantees under section 166.15 of the Revised Code, and | 385 |
innovation Ohio loans under section 166.16 of the Revised Code. | 386 |
(J) "Innovation Ohio loan guarantee reserve requirement" | 387 |
means, at any time, with respect to innovation loan guarantees | 388 |
made under section 166.15 of the Revised Code, a balance in the | 389 |
innovation Ohio loan guarantee fund equal to the greater of twenty | 390 |
per cent of the then-outstanding principal amount of all | 391 |
outstanding innovation loan guarantees made pursuant to section | 392 |
166.15 of the Revised Code or fifty per cent of the principal | 393 |
amount of the largest outstanding guarantee made pursuant to | 394 |
section 166.15 of the Revised Code. | 395 |
(K) "Innovation property" includes property and also includes | 396 |
software, inventory, licenses, contract rights, goodwill, | 397 |
intellectual property, including without limitation, patents, | 398 |
patent applications, trademarks and service marks, and trade | 399 |
secrets, and other tangible and intangible property, and any | 400 |
rights and interests in or connected to the foregoing. | 401 |
(L) "Loan guarantee reserve requirement" means, at any time, | 402 |
with respect to loan guarantees made under section 166.06 of the | 403 |
Revised Code, a balance in the loan guarantee fund equal to the | 404 |
greater of twenty per cent of the then-outstanding principal | 405 |
amount of all outstanding guarantees made pursuant to section | 406 |
166.06 of the Revised Code or fifty per cent of the principal | 407 |
amount of the largest outstanding guarantee made pursuant to | 408 |
section 166.06 of the Revised Code. | 409 |
(M) "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, | 410 |
association, corporation, or governmental agency, and any | 411 |
combination thereof. | 412 |
(N) "Project facilities" means buildings, structures, and | 413 |
other improvements, and equipment and other property, excluding | 414 |
small tools, supplies, and inventory, and any one, part of, or | 415 |
combination of the above, comprising all or part of, or serving or | 416 |
being incidental to, an eligible project, an eligible innovation | 417 |
project, | 418 |
eligible advanced energy project, or an eligible logistics and | 419 |
distribution project, including, but not limited to, public | 420 |
capital improvements. | 421 |
(O) "Property" means real and personal property and interests | 422 |
therein. | 423 |
(P) "Public capital improvements" means capital improvements | 424 |
or facilities that any governmental agency has authority to | 425 |
acquire, pay the costs of, own, maintain, or operate, or to | 426 |
contract with other persons to have the same done, including, but | 427 |
not limited to, highways, roads, streets, water and sewer | 428 |
facilities, railroad and other transportation facilities, and air | 429 |
and water pollution control and solid waste disposal facilities. | 430 |
For purposes of this division, "air pollution control facilities" | 431 |
includes, without limitation, solar, geothermal, biofuel, biomass, | 432 |
wind, hydro, wave, and other advanced energy projects as defined | 433 |
in section 3706.25 of the Revised Code. | 434 |
(Q) "Research and development financial assistance" means | 435 |
inducements under section 166.17 of the Revised Code, research and | 436 |
development loans under section 166.21 of the Revised Code, and | 437 |
research and development tax credits under sections 5733.352 and | 438 |
5747.331 of the Revised Code. | 439 |
(R) "Targeted innovation industry sectors" means industry | 440 |
sectors involving the production or use of advanced materials, | 441 |
instruments, controls and electronics, power and propulsion, | 442 |
biosciences, and information technology, or such other sectors as | 443 |
may be designated by the director of development. | 444 |
(S) "Voluntary action" means a voluntary action, as defined | 445 |
in section 3746.01 of the Revised Code, that is conducted under | 446 |
the voluntary action program established in Chapter 3746. of the | 447 |
Revised Code. | 448 |
(T) "Project financing obligations" means obligations issued | 449 |
pursuant to section 166.08 of the Revised Code other than | 450 |
obligations for which the bond proceedings provide that bond | 451 |
service charges shall be paid from receipts of the state | 452 |
representing gross profit on the sale of spirituous liquor as | 453 |
referred to in division (B)(4) of section 4310.10 of the Revised | 454 |
Code. | 455 |
(U) "Regional economic development entity" means an entity | 456 |
that is under contract with the director of development to | 457 |
administer a loan program under this chapter in a particular area | 458 |
of this state. | 459 |
(V) "Advanced energy research and development fund" means the | 460 |
advanced energy research and development fund created in section | 461 |
3706.27 of the Revised Code. | 462 |
(W) "Advanced energy research and development taxable fund" | 463 |
means the advanced energy research and development taxable fund | 464 |
created in section 3706.27 of the Revised Code. | 465 |
(X) "Eligible advanced energy project" means an eligible | 466 |
project that is an "advanced energy project" as defined in section | 467 |
3706.25 of the Revised Code. | 468 |
(Y) "Eligible logistics and distribution project" means an | 469 |
eligible project, including project facilities, to be acquired, | 470 |
established, expanded, remodeled, rehabilitated, or modernized for | 471 |
transportation logistics and distribution infrastructure purposes. | 472 |
As used in this division, "transportation logistics and | 473 |
distribution infrastructure purposes" means promoting, providing | 474 |
for, and enabling improvements to the ground, air, and water | 475 |
transportation infrastructure comprising the transportation system | 476 |
in this state, including, without limitation, highways, streets, | 477 |
roads, bridges, railroads carrying freight, and air and water | 478 |
ports and port facilities, and all related supporting facilities. | 479 |
Sec. 166.02. (A) The general assembly finds that many local | 480 |
areas throughout the state are experiencing economic stagnation or | 481 |
decline, and that the economic development | 482 |
provided for
in
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this chapter will
constitute
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by the state in those areas, materially contribute to their | 485 |
economic revitalization, and result in improving the economic | 486 |
welfare of all the people of the state. Accordingly, it is | 487 |
declared to be the public policy of the state, through the | 488 |
operations | 489 |
this chapter and other applicable laws adopted pursuant to Section | 490 |
2p or 13 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, and other authority | 491 |
vested in the general assembly, to assist in and facilitate the | 492 |
establishment or development of eligible projects or assist and | 493 |
cooperate with any governmental agency in achieving such purpose. | 494 |
(B) In furtherance of such public policy and to implement | 495 |
such purpose, the director of development may: | 496 |
(1) After consultation with appropriate governmental | 497 |
agencies, enter into agreements with persons engaged in industry, | 498 |
commerce, distribution, or research and with governmental agencies | 499 |
to induce such persons to acquire, construct, reconstruct, | 500 |
rehabilitate, renovate, enlarge, improve, equip, or furnish, or | 501 |
otherwise develop, eligible projects and make provision therein | 502 |
for project facilities and governmental actions, as authorized by | 503 |
this chapter and other applicable laws, subject to any required | 504 |
actions by the general assembly or the controlling board and | 505 |
subject to applicable local government laws and regulations; | 506 |
(2) Provide for the guarantees and loans as provided for in | 507 |
sections 166.06 and 166.07 of the Revised Code; | 508 |
(3) Subject to release of such moneys by the controlling | 509 |
board, contract for labor and materials needed for, or contract | 510 |
with others, including governmental agencies, to provide, project | 511 |
facilities the allowable costs of which are to be paid for or | 512 |
reimbursed from moneys in the facilities establishment fund, and | 513 |
contract for the operation of such project facilities; | 514 |
(4) Subject to release thereof by the controlling board, from | 515 |
moneys in the facilities establishment fund acquire or contract to | 516 |
acquire by gift, exchange, or purchase, including the obtaining | 517 |
and exercise of purchase options, property, and convey or | 518 |
otherwise dispose of, or provide for the conveyance or disposition | 519 |
of, property so acquired or contracted to be acquired by sale, | 520 |
exchange, lease, lease purchase, conditional or installment sale, | 521 |
transfer, or other disposition, including the grant of an option | 522 |
to purchase, to any governmental agency or to any other person | 523 |
without necessity for competitive bidding and upon such terms and | 524 |
conditions and manner of consideration pursuant to and as the | 525 |
director determines to be appropriate to satisfy the objectives of | 526 |
sections 166.01 to 166.11 of the Revised Code; | 527 |
(5) Retain the services of or employ financial consultants, | 528 |
appraisers, consulting engineers, superintendents, managers, | 529 |
construction and accounting experts, attorneys, and employees, | 530 |
agents, and independent contractors as are necessary in the | 531 |
director's judgment and fix the compensation for their services; | 532 |
(6) Receive and accept from any person grants, gifts, and | 533 |
contributions of money, property, labor, and other things of | 534 |
value, to be held, used and applied only for the purpose for which | 535 |
such grants, gifts, and contributions are made; | 536 |
(7) Enter into appropriate arrangements and agreements with | 537 |
any governmental agency for the taking or provision by that | 538 |
governmental agency of any governmental action; | 539 |
(8) Do all other acts and enter into contracts and execute | 540 |
all instruments necessary or appropriate to carry out the | 541 |
provisions of | 542 |
(9) Adopt rules to implement any of the provisions of
| 543 |
544 |
(C) The determinations by the director that facilities | 545 |
constitute eligible projects, that facilities are project | 546 |
facilities, that costs of such facilities are allowable costs, and | 547 |
all other determinations relevant thereto or to an action taken or | 548 |
agreement entered into shall be conclusive for purposes of the | 549 |
validity and enforceability of rights of parties arising from | 550 |
actions taken and agreements entered into under this chapter. | 551 |
(D) Except as otherwise prescribed in | 552 |
553 | |
by the director in carrying out the director's powers and in | 554 |
exercising
the director's duties
under | 555 |
556 | |
moneys in the facilities establishment fund, the loan guarantee | 557 |
fund, the innovation Ohio loan guarantee fund, the innovation Ohio | 558 |
loan fund, the research and development loan fund, the logistics | 559 |
and distribution infrastructure fund, or moneys appropriated for | 560 |
such
purpose by the general
assembly. | 561 |
562 | |
authority under section 166.08 of the Revised Code to incur bonded | 563 |
indebtedness of the state or any political subdivision thereof, or | 564 |
to obligate or pledge moneys raised by taxation for the payment of | 565 |
any bonds or notes issued or
guarantees made pursuant
to | 566 |
567 |
(E) No financial assistance for project facilities shall be | 568 |
provided under this chapter unless the provisions of the agreement | 569 |
providing for such assistance specify that all wages paid to | 570 |
laborers and mechanics employed on such project facilities for | 571 |
which the assistance is granted shall be paid at the prevailing | 572 |
rates of wages of laborers and mechanics for the class of work | 573 |
called for by such project facilities, which wages shall be | 574 |
determined in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 4115. of | 575 |
the Revised Code for determination of prevailing wage rates, | 576 |
provided that the requirements of this division do not apply where | 577 |
the federal government or any of its agencies provides financing | 578 |
assistance as to all or any part of the funds used in connection | 579 |
with such project facilities and prescribes predetermined minimum | 580 |
wages to be paid to such laborers and mechanics; and provided | 581 |
further that should a nonpublic user beneficiary of the eligible | 582 |
project undertake, as part of the eligible project, construction | 583 |
to be performed by its regular bargaining unit employees who are | 584 |
covered under a collective bargaining agreement which was in | 585 |
existence prior to the date of the document authorizing such | 586 |
assistance then, in that event, the rate of pay provided under the | 587 |
collective bargaining agreement may be paid to such employees. | 588 |
(F) Any governmental agency may enter into an agreement with | 589 |
the director, any other governmental agency, or a person to be | 590 |
assisted under this chapter, to take or provide for the purposes | 591 |
of this chapter any governmental action it is authorized to take | 592 |
or provide, and to undertake on behalf and at the request of the | 593 |
director any action which the director is authorized to undertake | 594 |
pursuant to divisions (B)(3), (4), and (5) of this section or | 595 |
divisions (B)(3), (4), and (5) of section 166.12 of the Revised | 596 |
Code. Governmental agencies of the state shall cooperate with and | 597 |
provide assistance to the director of development and the | 598 |
controlling board in the exercise of their respective functions | 599 |
under this chapter. | 600 |
Sec. 166.08. (A) As used in this chapter: | 601 |
(1) "Bond proceedings" means the resolution, order, trust | 602 |
agreement, indenture, lease, and other agreements, amendments and | 603 |
supplements to the foregoing, or any one or more or combination | 604 |
thereof, authorizing or providing for the terms and conditions | 605 |
applicable to, or providing for the security or liquidity of, | 606 |
obligations issued pursuant to this section, and the provisions | 607 |
contained in such obligations. | 608 |
(2) "Bond service charges" means principal, including | 609 |
mandatory sinking fund requirements for retirement of obligations, | 610 |
and interest, and redemption premium, if any, required to be paid | 611 |
by the state on obligations. | 612 |
(3) "Bond service fund" means the applicable fund and | 613 |
accounts therein created for and pledged to the payment of bond | 614 |
service charges, which may be, or may be part of, the economic | 615 |
development bond service fund created by division (S) of this | 616 |
section including all moneys and investments, and earnings from | 617 |
investments, credited and to be credited thereto. | 618 |
(4) "Issuing authority" means the treasurer of state, or the | 619 |
officer who by law performs the functions of such officer. | 620 |
(5) "Obligations" means bonds, notes, or other evidence of | 621 |
obligation including interest coupons pertaining thereto, issued | 622 |
pursuant to this section. | 623 |
(6) "Pledged receipts" means all receipts of the state | 624 |
representing the gross profit on the sale of spirituous liquor, as | 625 |
referred to in division (B)(4) of section 4301.10 of the Revised | 626 |
Code, after paying all costs and expenses of the division of | 627 |
liquor control and providing an adequate working capital reserve | 628 |
for the division of liquor control as provided in that division, | 629 |
but excluding the sum required by the second paragraph of section | 630 |
4301.12 of the Revised Code, as in effect on May 2, 1980, to be | 631 |
paid into the state treasury; moneys accruing to the state from | 632 |
the lease, sale, or other disposition, or use, of project | 633 |
facilities, and from the repayment, including interest, of loans | 634 |
made from proceeds received from the sale of obligations; accrued | 635 |
interest received from the sale of obligations; income from the | 636 |
investment of the special funds; and any gifts, grants, donations, | 637 |
and pledges, and receipts therefrom, available for the payment of | 638 |
bond service charges. | 639 |
(7) "Special funds" or "funds" means, except where the | 640 |
context does not permit, the bond service fund, and any other | 641 |
funds, including reserve funds, created under the bond | 642 |
proceedings, and the economic development bond service fund | 643 |
created by division (S) of this section to the extent provided in | 644 |
the bond proceedings, including all moneys and investments, and | 645 |
earnings from investment, credited and to be credited thereto. | 646 |
(B) Subject to the limitations provided in section 166.11 of | 647 |
the Revised Code, the issuing authority, upon the certification by | 648 |
the director of development or, with respect to eligible advanced | 649 |
energy projects, the Ohio air quality development authority to the | 650 |
issuing authority of the amount of moneys or additional moneys | 651 |
needed in the facilities establishment fund, the loan guarantee | 652 |
fund, the innovation Ohio loan fund, the innovation Ohio loan | 653 |
guarantee
fund, | 654 |
logistics and distribution infrastructure fund, the advanced | 655 |
energy research and development fund, or the advanced energy | 656 |
research and development taxable fund, as applicable, for the | 657 |
purpose of paying, or making loans for, allowable costs from the | 658 |
facilities establishment fund, allowable innovation costs from | 659 |
the innovation
Ohio loan fund, | 660 |
research and development loan fund, allowable costs from the | 661 |
logistics and distribution infrastructure fund, allowable costs | 662 |
from the advanced energy research and development fund, or | 663 |
allowable costs from the advanced energy research and development | 664 |
taxable fund, as applicable, or needed for capitalized interest, | 665 |
for funding reserves, and for paying costs and expenses incurred | 666 |
in connection with the issuance, carrying, securing, paying, | 667 |
redeeming, or retirement of the obligations or any obligations | 668 |
refunded thereby, including payment of costs and expenses relating | 669 |
to letters of credit, lines of credit, insurance, put agreements, | 670 |
standby purchase agreements, indexing, marketing, remarketing and | 671 |
administrative arrangements, interest swap or hedging agreements, | 672 |
and any other credit enhancement, liquidity, remarketing, renewal, | 673 |
or refunding arrangements, all of which are authorized by this | 674 |
section, or providing moneys for the loan guarantee fund or the | 675 |
innovation Ohio loan guarantee fund, as provided in this chapter | 676 |
or needed for the purposes of funds established in accordance with | 677 |
or pursuant to sections 122.35, 122.42, 122.54, 122.55, 122.56, | 678 |
122.561, 122.57, and 122.80 of the Revised Code which are within | 679 |
the authorization of Section 13 of Article VIII, Ohio | 680 |
Constitution, or, with respect to certain eligible advanced energy | 681 |
projects, Section 2p of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, shall | 682 |
issue obligations of the state under this section in the required | 683 |
amount; provided that such obligations may be issued to satisfy | 684 |
the covenants in contracts of guarantee made under section 166.06 | 685 |
or 166.15 of the Revised Code, notwithstanding limitations | 686 |
otherwise applicable to the issuance of obligations under this | 687 |
section. The proceeds of such obligations, except for the portion | 688 |
to be deposited in special funds, including reserve funds, as may | 689 |
be provided in the bond proceedings, shall as provided in the bond | 690 |
proceedings be deposited by the director of development to the | 691 |
facilities establishment fund, the loan guarantee fund, the | 692 |
innovation Ohio loan guarantee fund, the innovation Ohio loan | 693 |
fund, | 694 |
and distribution infrastructure fund, or be deposited by the Ohio | 695 |
air quality development authority to the advanced energy research | 696 |
and development fund or the advanced energy research and | 697 |
development taxable fund. Bond proceedings for project | 698 |
financing obligations may provide that the proceeds derived from | 699 |
the issuance of such obligations shall be deposited into such | 700 |
fund or funds provided for in the bond proceedings and, to the | 701 |
extent provided for in the bond proceedings, such proceeds shall | 702 |
be deemed to have been deposited into the facilities | 703 |
establishment fund and transferred to such fund or funds. The | 704 |
issuing authority may appoint trustees, paying agents, and | 705 |
transfer agents and may retain the services of financial | 706 |
advisors, accounting experts, and attorneys, and retain or | 707 |
contract for the services of marketing, remarketing, indexing, | 708 |
and administrative agents, other consultants, and independent | 709 |
contractors, including printing services, as are necessary in the | 710 |
issuing authority's judgment to carry out this section. The costs | 711 |
of such services are allowable costs payable from the facilities | 712 |
establishment fund or the
research and development loan fund
| 713 |
allowable innovation costs payable from the innovation Ohio loan | 714 |
fund, or allowable costs payable from the logistics and | 715 |
distribution infrastructure fund, the advanced energy research | 716 |
and development fund, or the advanced energy research and | 717 |
development taxable fund, as applicable. | 718 |
(C) The holders or owners of such obligations shall have no | 719 |
right to have moneys raised by taxation obligated or pledged, and | 720 |
moneys raised by taxation shall not be obligated or pledged, for | 721 |
the payment of bond service charges. Such holders or owners shall | 722 |
have no rights to payment of bond service charges from any moneys | 723 |
accruing to the state from the lease, sale, or other disposition, | 724 |
or use, of project facilities, or from payment of the principal of | 725 |
or interest on loans made, or fees charged for guarantees made, or | 726 |
from any money or property received by the director, treasurer of | 727 |
state, or the state under Chapter 122. of the Revised Code, or | 728 |
from any other use of the proceeds of the sale of the obligations, | 729 |
and no such moneys may be used for the payment of bond service | 730 |
charges, except for accrued interest, capitalized interest, and | 731 |
reserves funded from proceeds received upon the sale of the | 732 |
obligations and except as otherwise expressly provided in the | 733 |
applicable bond proceedings pursuant to written directions by the | 734 |
director. The right of such holders and owners to payment of bond | 735 |
service charges is limited to all or that portion of the pledged | 736 |
receipts and those special funds pledged thereto pursuant to the | 737 |
bond proceedings in accordance with this section, and each such | 738 |
obligation shall bear on its face a statement to that effect. | 739 |
(D) Obligations shall be authorized by resolution or order of | 740 |
the issuing authority and the bond proceedings shall provide for | 741 |
the purpose thereof and the principal amount or amounts, and shall | 742 |
provide for or authorize the manner or agency for determining the | 743 |
principal maturity or maturities, not exceeding twenty-five years | 744 |
from the date of issuance, the interest rate or rates or the | 745 |
maximum interest rate, the date of the obligations and the dates | 746 |
of payment of interest thereon, their denomination, and the | 747 |
establishment within or without the state of a place or places of | 748 |
payment of bond service charges. Sections 9.98 to 9.983 of the | 749 |
Revised Code are applicable to obligations issued under this | 750 |
section, subject to any applicable limitation under section 166.11 | 751 |
of the Revised Code. The purpose of such obligations may be stated | 752 |
in the bond proceedings in terms describing the general purpose or | 753 |
purposes to be served. The bond proceedings also shall provide, | 754 |
subject to the provisions of any other applicable bond | 755 |
proceedings, for the pledge of all, or such part as the issuing | 756 |
authority may determine, of the pledged receipts and the | 757 |
applicable special fund or funds to the payment of bond service | 758 |
charges, which pledges may be made either prior or subordinate to | 759 |
other expenses, claims, or payments, and may be made to secure the | 760 |
obligations on a parity with obligations theretofore or thereafter | 761 |
issued, if and to the extent provided in the bond proceedings. The | 762 |
pledged receipts and special funds so pledged and thereafter | 763 |
received by the state are immediately subject to the lien of such | 764 |
pledge without any physical delivery thereof or further act, and | 765 |
the lien of any such pledges is valid and binding against all | 766 |
parties having claims of any kind against the state or any | 767 |
governmental agency of the state, irrespective of whether such | 768 |
parties have notice thereof, and shall create a perfected security | 769 |
interest for all purposes of Chapter 1309. of the Revised Code, | 770 |
without the necessity for separation or delivery of funds or for | 771 |
the filing or recording of the bond proceedings by which such | 772 |
pledge is created or any certificate, statement or other document | 773 |
with respect thereto; and the pledge of such pledged receipts and | 774 |
special funds is effective and the money therefrom and thereof may | 775 |
be applied to the purposes for which pledged without necessity for | 776 |
any act of appropriation. Every pledge, and every covenant and | 777 |
agreement made with respect thereto, made in the bond proceedings | 778 |
may therein be extended to the benefit of the owners and holders | 779 |
of obligations authorized by this section, and to any trustee | 780 |
therefor, for the further security of the payment of the bond | 781 |
service charges. | 782 |
(E) The bond proceedings may contain additional provisions as | 783 |
to: | 784 |
(1) The redemption of obligations prior to maturity at the | 785 |
option of the issuing authority at such price or prices and under | 786 |
such terms and conditions as are provided in the bond proceedings; | 787 |
(2) Other terms of the obligations; | 788 |
(3) Limitations on the issuance of additional obligations; | 789 |
(4) The terms of any trust agreement or indenture securing | 790 |
the obligations or under which the same may be issued; | 791 |
(5) The deposit, investment and application of special funds, | 792 |
and the safeguarding of moneys on hand or on deposit, without | 793 |
regard to Chapter 131. or 135. of the Revised Code, but subject to | 794 |
any special provisions of this chapter, with respect to particular | 795 |
funds or moneys, provided that any bank or trust company which | 796 |
acts as depository of any moneys in the special funds may furnish | 797 |
such indemnifying bonds or may pledge such securities as required | 798 |
by the issuing authority; | 799 |
(6) Any or every provision of the bond proceedings being | 800 |
binding upon such officer, board, commission, authority, agency, | 801 |
department, or other person or body as may from time to time have | 802 |
the authority under law to take such actions as may be necessary | 803 |
to perform all or any part of the duty required by such provision; | 804 |
(7) Any provision that may be made in a trust agreement or | 805 |
indenture; | 806 |
(8) Any other or additional agreements with the holders of | 807 |
the obligations, or the trustee therefor, relating to the | 808 |
obligations or the security therefor, including the assignment of | 809 |
mortgages or other security obtained or to be obtained for loans | 810 |
under section 122.43, 166.07, or 166.16 of the Revised Code. | 811 |
(F) The obligations may have the great seal of the state or a | 812 |
facsimile thereof affixed thereto or printed thereon. The | 813 |
obligations and any coupons pertaining to obligations shall be | 814 |
signed or bear the facsimile signature of the issuing authority. | 815 |
Any obligations or coupons may be executed by the person who, on | 816 |
the date of execution, is the proper issuing authority although on | 817 |
the date of such bonds or coupons such person was not the issuing | 818 |
authority. If the issuing authority whose signature or a facsimile | 819 |
of whose signature appears on any such obligation or coupon ceases | 820 |
to be the issuing authority before delivery thereof, such | 821 |
signature or facsimile is nevertheless valid and sufficient for | 822 |
all purposes as if the former issuing authority had remained the | 823 |
issuing authority until such delivery; and if the seal to be | 824 |
affixed to obligations has been changed after a facsimile of the | 825 |
seal has been imprinted on such obligations, such facsimile seal | 826 |
shall continue to be sufficient as to such obligations and | 827 |
obligations issued in substitution or exchange therefor. | 828 |
(G) All obligations are negotiable instruments and securities | 829 |
under Chapter 1308. of the Revised Code, subject to the provisions | 830 |
of the bond proceedings as to registration. The obligations may be | 831 |
issued in coupon or in registered form, or both, as the issuing | 832 |
authority determines. Provision may be made for the registration | 833 |
of any obligations with coupons attached thereto as to principal | 834 |
alone or as to both principal and interest, their exchange for | 835 |
obligations so registered, and for the conversion or reconversion | 836 |
into obligations with coupons attached thereto of any obligations | 837 |
registered as to both principal and interest, and for reasonable | 838 |
charges for such registration, exchange, conversion, and | 839 |
reconversion. | 840 |
(H) Obligations may be sold at public sale or at private | 841 |
sale, as determined in the bond proceedings. | 842 |
Obligations issued to provide moneys for the loan guarantee | 843 |
fund or the innovation Ohio loan guarantee fund may, as determined | 844 |
by the issuing authority, be sold at private sale, and without | 845 |
publication of a notice of sale. | 846 |
(I) Pending preparation of definitive obligations, the | 847 |
issuing authority may issue interim receipts or certificates which | 848 |
shall be exchanged for such definitive obligations. | 849 |
(J) In the discretion of the issuing authority, obligations | 850 |
may be secured additionally by a trust agreement or indenture | 851 |
between the issuing authority and a corporate trustee which may be | 852 |
any trust company or bank having a place of business within the | 853 |
state. Any such agreement or indenture may contain the resolution | 854 |
or order authorizing the issuance of the obligations, any | 855 |
provisions that may be contained in any bond proceedings, and | 856 |
other provisions which are customary or appropriate in an | 857 |
agreement or indenture of such type, including, but not limited | 858 |
to: | 859 |
(1) Maintenance of each pledge, trust agreement, indenture, | 860 |
or other instrument comprising part of the bond proceedings until | 861 |
the state has fully paid the bond service charges on the | 862 |
obligations secured thereby, or provision therefor has been made; | 863 |
(2) In the event of default in any payments required to be | 864 |
made by the bond proceedings, or any other agreement of the | 865 |
issuing authority made as a part of the contract under which the | 866 |
obligations were issued, enforcement of such payments or agreement | 867 |
by mandamus, the appointment of a receiver, suit in equity, action | 868 |
at law, or any combination of the foregoing; | 869 |
(3) The rights and remedies of the holders of obligations and | 870 |
of the trustee, and provisions for protecting and enforcing them, | 871 |
including limitations on rights of individual holders of | 872 |
obligations; | 873 |
(4) The replacement of any obligations that become mutilated | 874 |
or are destroyed, lost, or stolen; | 875 |
(5) Such other provisions as the trustee and the issuing | 876 |
authority agree upon, including limitations, conditions, or | 877 |
qualifications relating to any of the foregoing. | 878 |
(K) Any holders of obligations or trustees under the bond | 879 |
proceedings, except to the extent that their rights are restricted | 880 |
by the bond proceedings, may by any suitable form of legal | 881 |
proceedings, protect and enforce any rights under the laws of this | 882 |
state or granted by such bond proceedings. Such rights include the | 883 |
right to compel the performance of all duties of the issuing | 884 |
authority, the director of development, the Ohio air quality | 885 |
development authority, or the division of liquor control required | 886 |
by this chapter or the bond proceedings; to enjoin unlawful | 887 |
activities; and in the event of default with respect to the | 888 |
payment of any bond service charges on any obligations or in the | 889 |
performance of any covenant or agreement on the part of the | 890 |
issuing authority, the director of development, the Ohio air | 891 |
quality development authority, or the division of liquor control | 892 |
in the bond proceedings, to apply to a court having jurisdiction | 893 |
of the cause to appoint a receiver to receive and administer the | 894 |
pledged receipts and special funds, other than those in the | 895 |
custody of the treasurer of state, which are pledged to the | 896 |
payment of the bond service charges on such obligations or which | 897 |
are the subject of the covenant or agreement, with full power to | 898 |
pay, and to provide for payment of bond service charges on, such | 899 |
obligations, and with such powers, subject to the direction of | 900 |
the court, as are accorded receivers in general equity cases, | 901 |
excluding any power to pledge additional revenues or receipts or | 902 |
other income or moneys of the issuing authority or the state or | 903 |
governmental agencies of the state to the payment of such | 904 |
principal and interest and excluding the power to take possession | 905 |
of, mortgage, or cause the sale or otherwise dispose of any | 906 |
project facilities. | 907 |
Each duty of the issuing authority and the issuing | 908 |
authority's officers and employees, and of each governmental | 909 |
agency and its officers, members, or employees, undertaken | 910 |
pursuant to the bond proceedings or any agreement or lease, | 911 |
lease-purchase agreement, or loan made under authority of this | 912 |
chapter, and in every agreement by or with the issuing authority, | 913 |
is hereby established as a duty of the issuing authority, and of | 914 |
each such officer, member, or employee having authority to perform | 915 |
such duty, specifically enjoined by the law resulting from an | 916 |
office, trust, or station within the meaning of section 2731.01 of | 917 |
the Revised Code. | 918 |
The person who is at the time the issuing authority, or the | 919 |
issuing authority's officers or employees, are not liable in their | 920 |
personal capacities on any obligations issued by the issuing | 921 |
authority or any agreements of or with the issuing authority. | 922 |
(L) The issuing authority may authorize and issue obligations | 923 |
for the refunding, including funding and retirement, and advance | 924 |
refunding with or without payment or redemption prior to maturity, | 925 |
of any obligations previously issued by the issuing authority. | 926 |
Such obligations may be issued in amounts sufficient for payment | 927 |
of the principal amount of the prior obligations, any redemption | 928 |
premiums thereon, principal maturities of any such obligations | 929 |
maturing prior to the redemption of the remaining obligations on a | 930 |
parity therewith, interest accrued or to accrue to the maturity | 931 |
dates or dates of redemption of such obligations, and any | 932 |
allowable costs including expenses incurred or to be incurred in | 933 |
connection with such issuance and such refunding, funding, and | 934 |
retirement. Subject to the bond proceedings therefor, the portion | 935 |
of proceeds of the sale of obligations issued under this division | 936 |
to be applied to bond service charges on the prior obligations | 937 |
shall be credited to an appropriate account held by the trustee | 938 |
for such prior or new obligations or to the appropriate account in | 939 |
the bond service fund for such obligations. Obligations authorized | 940 |
under this division shall be deemed to be issued for those | 941 |
purposes for which such prior obligations were issued and are | 942 |
subject to the provisions of this section pertaining to other | 943 |
obligations, except as otherwise provided in this section; | 944 |
provided that, unless otherwise authorized by the general | 945 |
assembly, any limitations imposed by the general assembly pursuant | 946 |
to this section with respect to bond service charges applicable to | 947 |
the prior obligations shall be applicable to the obligations | 948 |
issued under this division to refund, fund, advance refund or | 949 |
retire such prior obligations. | 950 |
(M) The authority to issue obligations under this section | 951 |
includes authority to issue obligations in the form of bond | 952 |
anticipation notes and to renew the same from time to time by the | 953 |
issuance of new notes. The holders of such notes or interest | 954 |
coupons pertaining thereto shall have a right to be paid solely | 955 |
from the pledged receipts and special funds that may be pledged to | 956 |
the payment of the bonds anticipated, or from the proceeds of such | 957 |
bonds or renewal notes, or both, as the issuing authority provides | 958 |
in the resolution or order authorizing such notes. Such notes may | 959 |
be additionally secured by covenants of the issuing authority to | 960 |
the effect that the issuing authority and the state will do such | 961 |
or all things necessary for the issuance of such bonds or renewal | 962 |
notes in appropriate amount, and apply the proceeds thereof to the | 963 |
extent necessary, to make full payment of the principal of and | 964 |
interest on such notes at the time or times contemplated, as | 965 |
provided in such resolution or order. For such purpose, the | 966 |
issuing authority may issue bonds or renewal notes in such | 967 |
principal amount and upon such terms as may be necessary to | 968 |
provide funds to pay when required the principal of and interest | 969 |
on such notes, notwithstanding any limitations prescribed by or | 970 |
for purposes of this section. Subject to this division, all | 971 |
provisions for and references to obligations in this section are | 972 |
applicable to notes authorized under this division. | 973 |
The issuing authority in the bond proceedings authorizing the | 974 |
issuance of bond anticipation notes shall set forth for such bonds | 975 |
an estimated interest rate and a schedule of principal payments | 976 |
for such bonds and the annual maturity dates thereof, and for | 977 |
purposes of any limitation on bond service charges prescribed | 978 |
under division (A) of section 166.11 of the Revised Code, the | 979 |
amount of bond service charges on such bond anticipation notes is | 980 |
deemed to be the bond service charges for the bonds anticipated | 981 |
thereby as set forth in the bond proceedings applicable to such | 982 |
notes, but this provision does not modify any authority in this | 983 |
section to pledge receipts and special funds to, and covenant to | 984 |
issue bonds to fund, the payment of principal of and interest and | 985 |
any premium on such notes. | 986 |
(N) Obligations issued under this section are lawful | 987 |
investments for banks, societies for savings, savings and loan | 988 |
associations, deposit guarantee associations, trust companies, | 989 |
trustees, fiduciaries, insurance companies, including domestic for | 990 |
life and domestic not for life, trustees or other officers having | 991 |
charge of sinking and bond retirement or other special funds of | 992 |
political subdivisions and taxing districts of this state, the | 993 |
commissioners of the sinking fund of the state, the administrator | 994 |
of workers' compensation, the state teachers retirement system, | 995 |
the public employees retirement system, the school employees | 996 |
retirement system, and the Ohio police and fire pension fund, | 997 |
notwithstanding any other provisions of the Revised Code or rules | 998 |
adopted pursuant thereto by any governmental agency of the state | 999 |
with respect to investments by them, and are also acceptable as | 1000 |
security for the deposit of public moneys. | 1001 |
(O) Unless otherwise provided in any applicable bond | 1002 |
proceedings, moneys to the credit of or in the special funds | 1003 |
established by or pursuant to this section may be invested by or | 1004 |
on behalf of the issuing authority only in notes, bonds, or other | 1005 |
obligations of the United States, or of any agency or | 1006 |
instrumentality of the United States, obligations guaranteed as to | 1007 |
principal and interest by the United States, obligations of this | 1008 |
state or any political subdivision of this state, and certificates | 1009 |
of deposit of any national bank located in this state and any | 1010 |
bank, as defined in section 1101.01 of the Revised Code, subject | 1011 |
to inspection by the superintendent of banks. If the law or the | 1012 |
instrument creating a trust pursuant to division (J) of this | 1013 |
section expressly permits investment in direct obligations of the | 1014 |
United States or an agency of the United States, unless expressly | 1015 |
prohibited by the instrument, such moneys also may be invested in | 1016 |
no-front-end-load money market mutual funds consisting exclusively | 1017 |
of obligations of the United States or an agency of the United | 1018 |
States and in repurchase agreements, including those issued by the | 1019 |
fiduciary itself, secured by obligations of the United States or | 1020 |
an agency of the United States; and in common trust funds | 1021 |
established in accordance with section 1111.20 of the Revised Code | 1022 |
and consisting exclusively of any such securities, notwithstanding | 1023 |
division (A)(4) of that section. The income from such investments | 1024 |
shall be credited to such funds as the issuing authority | 1025 |
determines, and such investments may be sold at such times as the | 1026 |
issuing authority determines or authorizes. | 1027 |
(P) Provision may be made in the applicable bond proceedings | 1028 |
for the establishment of separate accounts in the bond service | 1029 |
fund and for the application of such accounts only to the | 1030 |
specified bond service charges on obligations pertinent to such | 1031 |
accounts and bond service fund and for other accounts therein | 1032 |
within the general purposes of such fund. Unless otherwise | 1033 |
provided in any applicable bond proceedings, moneys to the credit | 1034 |
of or in the several special funds established pursuant to this | 1035 |
section shall be disbursed on the order of the treasurer of state, | 1036 |
provided that no such order is required for the payment from the | 1037 |
bond service fund when due of bond service charges on obligations. | 1038 |
(Q) The issuing authority may pledge all, or such portion as | 1039 |
the issuing authority determines, of the pledged receipts to the | 1040 |
payment of bond service charges on obligations issued under this | 1041 |
section, and for the establishment and maintenance of any | 1042 |
reserves, as provided in the bond proceedings, and make other | 1043 |
provisions therein with respect to pledged receipts as authorized | 1044 |
by this chapter, which provisions are controlling notwithstanding | 1045 |
any other provisions of law pertaining thereto. | 1046 |
(R) The issuing authority may covenant in the bond | 1047 |
proceedings, and any such covenants are controlling | 1048 |
notwithstanding any other provision of law, that the state and | 1049 |
applicable officers and governmental agencies of the state, | 1050 |
including the general assembly, so long as any obligations are | 1051 |
outstanding, shall: | 1052 |
(1) Maintain statutory authority for and cause to be charged | 1053 |
and collected wholesale and retail prices for spirituous liquor | 1054 |
sold by the state or its agents so that the pledged receipts are | 1055 |
sufficient in amount to meet bond service charges, and the | 1056 |
establishment and maintenance of any reserves and other | 1057 |
requirements provided for in the bond proceedings, and, as | 1058 |
necessary, to meet covenants contained in contracts of guarantee | 1059 |
made under section 166.06 of the Revised Code; | 1060 |
(2) Take or permit no action, by statute or otherwise, that | 1061 |
would impair the exemption from federal income taxation of the | 1062 |
interest on the obligations. | 1063 |
(S) There is hereby created the economic development bond | 1064 |
service fund, which shall be in the custody of the treasurer of | 1065 |
state but shall be separate and apart from and not a part of the | 1066 |
state treasury. All moneys received by or on account of the | 1067 |
issuing authority or state agencies and required by the applicable | 1068 |
bond proceedings, consistent with this section, to be deposited, | 1069 |
transferred, or credited to a bond service fund or the economic | 1070 |
development bond service fund, and all other moneys transferred or | 1071 |
allocated to or received for the purposes of the fund, shall be | 1072 |
deposited and credited to such fund and to any separate accounts | 1073 |
therein, subject to applicable provisions of the bond proceedings, | 1074 |
but without necessity for any act of appropriation. During the | 1075 |
period beginning with the date of the first issuance of | 1076 |
obligations and continuing during such time as any such | 1077 |
obligations are outstanding, and so long as moneys in the | 1078 |
pertinent bond service funds are insufficient to pay all bond | 1079 |
services charges on such obligations becoming due in each year, a | 1080 |
sufficient amount of the gross profit on the sale of spirituous | 1081 |
liquor included in pledged receipts are committed and shall be | 1082 |
paid to the bond service fund or economic development bond service | 1083 |
fund in each year for the purpose of paying the bond service | 1084 |
charges becoming due in that year without necessity for further | 1085 |
act of appropriation for such purpose and notwithstanding anything | 1086 |
to the contrary in Chapter 4301. of the Revised Code. The | 1087 |
economic development bond service fund is a trust fund and is | 1088 |
hereby pledged to the payment of bond service charges to the | 1089 |
extent provided in the applicable bond proceedings, and payment | 1090 |
thereof from such fund shall be made or provided for by the | 1091 |
treasurer of state in accordance with such bond proceedings | 1092 |
without necessity for any act of appropriation. | 1093 |
(T) The obligations, the transfer thereof, and the income | 1094 |
therefrom, including any profit made on the sale thereof, shall at | 1095 |
all times be free from taxation within the state. | 1096 |
Sec. 166.11. (A) The aggregate principal amount of project | 1097 |
financing obligations that may be issued under section 166.08 of | 1098 |
the Revised Code is three hundred million dollars, plus the | 1099 |
principal amount of such project financing obligations retired by | 1100 |
payments. The aggregate principal amount of obligations, exclusive | 1101 |
of project financing obligations, that may be issued under section | 1102 |
166.08 of the
Revised Code is | 1103 |
dollars, plus the principal amount of any such obligations | 1104 |
retired by payment, the amounts held or obligations pledged for | 1105 |
the payment of the principal amount of any such obligations | 1106 |
outstanding, amounts in special funds held as reserves to meet | 1107 |
bond service charges, and amounts of obligations issued to | 1108 |
provide moneys required to meet payments from the loan guarantee | 1109 |
fund created in section 166.06 of the Revised Code and the | 1110 |
innovation Ohio loan guarantee fund created in section 166.15 of | 1111 |
the Revised Code. Of that six hundred thirty million dollars, not | 1112 |
more than eighty-four million principal amount of obligations may | 1113 |
be issued for eligible advanced energy projects and not more than | 1114 |
one hundred million principal amount of obligations may be issued | 1115 |
for eligible logistics and distribution projects. The terms of the | 1116 |
obligations issued under section 166.08 of the Revised Code, other | 1117 |
than obligations issued to meet guarantees that cannot be | 1118 |
satisfied from amounts then held in the loan guarantee fund or | 1119 |
the innovation Ohio loan guarantee fund, shall be such that the | 1120 |
aggregate amount of moneys used from profit from the sale of | 1121 |
spirituous liquor, and not from other sources, in any fiscal | 1122 |
year
shall not exceed
| 1123 |
For purposes of the preceding sentence, "other sources" include | 1124 |
the annual investment income on special funds to the extent it | 1125 |
will be available for payment of any bond service charges in lieu | 1126 |
of use of profit from the sale of spirituous liquor, and shall be | 1127 |
estimated on the basis of the expected funding of those special | 1128 |
funds and assumed investment earnings thereon at a rate equal to | 1129 |
the weighted average yield on investments of those special funds | 1130 |
determined as of any date within sixty days immediately preceding | 1131 |
the date of issuance of the bonds in respect of which the | 1132 |
determination is being made. The determinations required by this | 1133 |
division shall be made by the treasurer of state at the time of | 1134 |
issuance of an issue of obligations and shall be conclusive for | 1135 |
purposes of such issue of obligations from and after their | 1136 |
issuance and delivery. | 1137 |
(B) The aggregate amount of the guaranteed portion of the | 1138 |
unpaid principal of loans guaranteed under sections 166.06 and | 1139 |
166.15 of the Revised Code and the unpaid principal of loans made | 1140 |
under sections 166.07 , 166.16, and 166.21 of the Revised Code may | 1141 |
not at any time exceed eight hundred million dollars. Of that | 1142 |
eight hundred million dollars, the aggregate amount of the | 1143 |
guaranteed portion of the unpaid principal of loans guaranteed | 1144 |
under sections 166.06 and 166.15 of the Revised Code shall not at | 1145 |
any time exceed two hundred million dollars. However, the | 1146 |
limitations established under this division do not apply to loans | 1147 |
made with proceeds from the issuance and sale of project financing | 1148 |
obligations. | 1149 |
Sec. 166.25. (A) The director of development, with the | 1150 |
approval of the controlling board and subject to the other | 1151 |
applicable provisions of this chapter, may lend money in the | 1152 |
logistics and distribution infrastructure fund to persons for the | 1153 |
purpose of paying allowable costs of eligible logistics and | 1154 |
distribution projects. | 1155 |
(B) In determining the eligible logistics and distribution | 1156 |
projects to be assisted and the nature, amount, and terms of | 1157 |
assistance to be provided for an eligible logistics and | 1158 |
distribution project, the director shall consult with appropriate | 1159 |
governmental agencies, including the department of transportation | 1160 |
and the Ohio rail development commission. | 1161 |
(C)(1) The director shall submit to the development financing | 1162 |
advisory council the terms of the proposed assistance to be | 1163 |
provided for an eligible logistics and distribution project and | 1164 |
such other relevant information as the council may request. | 1165 |
(2) The council, on the basis of such information, shall make | 1166 |
recommendations as to the appropriateness of the assistance to be | 1167 |
provided. The recommendations may be revised to reflect any | 1168 |
changes in the proposed assistance the director may submit to the | 1169 |
council. | 1170 |
(3) The director shall submit the terms of the proposed | 1171 |
assistance to be provided, along with the recommendations, as | 1172 |
amended, of the council as to the appropriateness of the proposed | 1173 |
assistance, to the controlling board. | 1174 |
(D) Any loan made pursuant to this section shall be evidenced | 1175 |
by a loan agreement, which shall contain such terms as the | 1176 |
director determines necessary or appropriate, including | 1177 |
performance measures and reporting requirements. The director may | 1178 |
take actions necessary or appropriate to collect or otherwise deal | 1179 |
with any loan made under this section, including requiring a loan | 1180 |
recipient to repay the amount of the loan plus interest at a rate | 1181 |
of three per cent above the federal short term interest rate or | 1182 |
any other rate determined by the director. | 1183 |
Sec. 166.26. (A) There is hereby created in the state | 1184 |
treasury the logistics and distribution infrastructure fund. The | 1185 |
fund shall consist of grants, gifts, and contributions of money or | 1186 |
rights to money lawfully designated for or deposited into the | 1187 |
fund, all money and rights to money lawfully appropriated and | 1188 |
transferred to the fund, including money received from the | 1189 |
issuance of obligations under section 166.08 of the Revised Code | 1190 |
and subject to section 166.11 of the Revised Code for purposes of | 1191 |
allowable costs of eligible logistics and distribution projects, | 1192 |
and money credited to the fund pursuant to division (B) of this | 1193 |
section. All investment earnings on the cash balance in the fund | 1194 |
shall be credited to the fund. The fund shall not be comprised, | 1195 |
in any part, of money raised by taxation. | 1196 |
(B) There shall be credited to the logistics and distribution | 1197 |
infrastructure fund the money received by the state from the | 1198 |
repayment of loans and recovery on loan guarantees, including | 1199 |
interest thereon, made from the fund. | 1200 |
Sec. 166.27. (A) As used in this section, "minority" has the | 1201 |
same meaning as in section 184.17 of the Revised Code, except that | 1202 |
the individual must be a resident of this state. The term also | 1203 |
includes an economically disadvantaged individual who is a | 1204 |
resident of this state. | 1205 |
(B) The director of development shall conduct outreach | 1206 |
activities in Ohio that seek to include minorities in the loan | 1207 |
program for logistics and distribution projects established under | 1208 |
section 166.25 of the Revised Code. The outreach activities shall | 1209 |
include the following, when appropriate: | 1210 |
(1) Identifying and partnering with historically black | 1211 |
colleges and universities; | 1212 |
(2) Working with all institutions of higher education in the | 1213 |
state to support minority faculty and students involved in | 1214 |
logistics and distribution fields; | 1215 |
(3) Developing a plan to contact by telephone minority-owned | 1216 |
businesses and entrepreneurs and other economically disadvantaged | 1217 |
businesses to notify them of opportunities to participate in the | 1218 |
loan program for logistics and distribution projects; | 1219 |
(4) Identifying minority professional and technical trade | 1220 |
associations and economic development assistance organizations and | 1221 |
notifying them of the loan program for logistics and distribution | 1222 |
projects; | 1223 |
(5) Partnering with regional councils to foster local efforts | 1224 |
to support minority-owned businesses or otherwise identify | 1225 |
networks of minority-owned businesses, entrepreneurs, and | 1226 |
individuals operating locally; | 1227 |
(6) Identifying minority firms and notifying them of the | 1228 |
opportunities that exist within the investment community, | 1229 |
including the Ohio venture capital authority created under section | 1230 |
150.02 of the Revised Code. | 1231 |
(C) The director shall publish an annual report that includes | 1232 |
all of the following: | 1233 |
(1) Details of loans awarded for logistics and distribution | 1234 |
projects; | 1235 |
(2) The status of loan recipients' projects funded in | 1236 |
previous years; | 1237 |
(3) The amount of loans awarded for projects in economically | 1238 |
distressed areas, and if possible to ascertain, the impact of the | 1239 |
loans to those areas. | 1240 |
(D) To the extent possible, outreach activities described in | 1241 |
this section shall be conducted in conjunction with the EDGE | 1242 |
program created in section 123.152 of the Revised Code. | 1243 |
Sec. 166.30. (A) The Ohio air quality development authority, | 1244 |
with the approval of the controlling board and subject to | 1245 |
sections 3706.25 to 3706.30 of the Revised Code, may provide | 1246 |
grants from money in the advanced energy research and | 1247 |
development fund and may lend money in the advanced energy | 1248 |
research and development taxable fund to persons for the purposes | 1249 |
of paying allowable costs of eligible advanced energy projects. | 1250 |
(B) In determining the eligible advanced energy projects to | 1251 |
be assisted and the nature, amount, and terms of assistance to be | 1252 |
provided for an eligible advanced energy project, the authority | 1253 |
shall consult with appropriate governmental agencies. | 1254 |
(C)(1) The authority shall submit to the development | 1255 |
financing advisory council the terms of the proposed assistance to | 1256 |
be provided for an eligible advanced energy project and such other | 1257 |
relevant information as the council may request. | 1258 |
(2) The council, on the basis of such information, shall make | 1259 |
recommendations as to the appropriateness of the assistance to be | 1260 |
provided. The recommendations may be revised to reflect any | 1261 |
changes in the proposed assistance the authority may submit to | 1262 |
the council. | 1263 |
(3) The authority shall submit the terms of the proposed | 1264 |
assistance to be provided, along with the recommendations, as | 1265 |
amended, of the council as to the appropriateness of the proposed | 1266 |
assistance, to the controlling board. | 1267 |
(D) Any grant or loan made pursuant to this section shall be | 1268 |
evidenced by an agreement, which shall contain such terms as the | 1269 |
authority determines necessary or appropriate, including | 1270 |
performance measures and reporting requirements. The authority may | 1271 |
take actions necessary or appropriate to collect or otherwise deal | 1272 |
with any assistance provided under this section, including | 1273 |
requiring a loan or grant recipient to repay the amount of the | 1274 |
loan or grant plus interest at a rate of three per cent above the | 1275 |
federal short term interest rate or any other rate determined by | 1276 |
the authority. | 1277 |
Sec. 184.02. (A) In addition to the powers and duties under | 1278 |
sections 184.10 to 184.20, 184.25, 184.26, and 184.37 of the | 1279 |
Revised Code, the third frontier commission may perform any act | 1280 |
to ensure the performance of any function necessary or | 1281 |
appropriate to carry out the purposes of, and exercise the powers | 1282 |
granted under, sections 184.01 and 184.02 of the Revised Code. In | 1283 |
addition, the commission may do any of the following: | 1284 |
(1) Adopt, amend, and rescind rules under section 111.15 of | 1285 |
the Revised Code for the administration of any aspect of its | 1286 |
operations; | 1287 |
(2) Adopt bylaws governing its operations, including bylaws | 1288 |
that establish procedures and set policies as may be necessary to | 1289 |
assist with the furtherance of its purposes; | 1290 |
(3) Appoint and set the compensation of employees needed to | 1291 |
carry out its duties; | 1292 |
(4) Contract with, retain the services of, or designate, and | 1293 |
fix the compensation of, such financial consultants, accountants, | 1294 |
other consultants and advisors, and other independent contractors | 1295 |
as may be necessary or desirable to carry out its duties; | 1296 |
(5) Solicit input and comments from the third frontier | 1297 |
advisory board, and specialized industry, professional, and other | 1298 |
relevant interest groups concerning its purposes; | 1299 |
(6) Facilitate alignment of the state's science and | 1300 |
technology programs and activities; | 1301 |
(7) Make grants and loans to individuals, public agencies, | 1302 |
private companies or organizations, or joint ventures for any of | 1303 |
the broad range of activities related to its purposes. | 1304 |
(B) In addition to the powers and duties under sections | 1305 |
184.10 to 184.20, 184.25, 184.26, and 184.37 of the Revised Code, | 1306 |
the commission shall do all of the following: | 1307 |
(1) Establish a competitive process for the award of grants | 1308 |
and loans that is designed to fund the most meritorious proposals | 1309 |
and, when appropriate, provide for peer review of proposals; | 1310 |
(2) Within ninety days after the end of each fiscal year, | 1311 |
submit to the governor and the general assembly a report of the | 1312 |
activities of the commission during the preceding fiscal year; | 1313 |
(3) With specific application to the biomedical research and | 1314 |
technology transfer trust fund, periodically make strategic | 1315 |
assessments of the types of state investments in biomedical | 1316 |
research and biotechnology in the state that would likely create | 1317 |
jobs and business opportunities in the state and produce the most | 1318 |
beneficial long-term improvements to the public health of Ohioans, | 1319 |
including, but not limited to, biomedical research and | 1320 |
biotechnology initiatives that address tobacco-related illnesses | 1321 |
as may be outlined in any master agreement. The commission shall | 1322 |
award grants and loans from the fund pursuant to a process | 1323 |
established under division (B)(1) of this section. | 1324 |
Sec. 184.174. The third frontier commission shall publish an | 1325 |
annual report that includes all of the following: | 1326 |
(A) Details of grants, loans, and loan guarantees awarded or | 1327 |
provided under the bioproduct development program established in | 1328 |
section 184.25 of the Revised Code and the biomedical development | 1329 |
program established in section 184.26 of the Revised Code. | 1330 |
(B) The status of the recipients' projects funded in previous | 1331 |
years. | 1332 |
(C) The amount of grants or loans awarded and loan guarantees | 1333 |
provided for projects in economically distressed areas, and if | 1334 |
possible to ascertain, the impact of the grants, loans, and loan | 1335 |
guarantees to those areas. | 1336 |
Sec. 184.23. (A) There is hereby created the third frontier | 1337 |
biomedical advisory board. The advisory board shall provide | 1338 |
general advice to the commission regarding biomedical issues. | 1339 |
(B) The board shall consist of seven members selected for | 1340 |
their biomedical knowledge and experience. The governor shall | 1341 |
appoint two members. The speaker of the house of representatives | 1342 |
shall appoint two members, one of whom may be recommended by the | 1343 |
minority leader of the house of representatives. The president of | 1344 |
the senate shall appoint two members, one of whom may be | 1345 |
recommended by the minority leader of the senate. The director of | 1346 |
development or the director's designee shall serve as a member. | 1347 |
Membership on the advisory board created under section 184.03 of | 1348 |
the Revised Code does not prohibit membership on the advisory | 1349 |
board created under this section. The designee of the director | 1350 |
of development may also serve on the advisory board created in | 1351 |
section 184.231 of the Revised Code. The remaining members of the | 1352 |
board created under this section may not serve on that other | 1353 |
board. All members of the board shall serve at the pleasure of | 1354 |
their appointing authorities. | 1355 |
(C) The board shall select from among its members a | 1356 |
chairperson. A majority of board members constitutes a quorum, and | 1357 |
no action shall be taken without the affirmative vote of a | 1358 |
majority of the members. | 1359 |
(D) A vacancy shall be filled in the same manner as the | 1360 |
original appointment. The governor may remove any member of the | 1361 |
board for malfeasance, misfeasance, or nonfeasance after a | 1362 |
hearing in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. | 1363 |
(E) Members of the board shall not act as representatives of | 1364 |
any specific disciplinary, regional, or organizational interest. | 1365 |
Members shall represent a wide variety of experience valuable in | 1366 |
technology research and development, product process innovation | 1367 |
and commercialization, and creating and managing high-growth | 1368 |
technology-based companies. | 1369 |
(F) Members of the board shall file financial disclosure | 1370 |
statements described in division (B) of section 102.02 of the | 1371 |
Revised Code. | 1372 |
(G) Members of the board shall serve without compensation, | 1373 |
but shall receive their reasonable and necessary expenses | 1374 |
incurred in the conduct of board business. | 1375 |
(H) The department of development shall provide office space | 1376 |
and facilities for the board. | 1377 |
Sec. 184.231. (A) There is hereby created the third frontier | 1378 |
bioproducts advisory board. The advisory board shall, in | 1379 |
consideration of the recommendations of the Ohio agriculture to | 1380 |
chemicals, polymers, and advanced materials taskforce, provide | 1381 |
general advice to the commission regarding bioproduct issues. | 1382 |
(B) The board shall consist of seven members selected for | 1383 |
their bioproducts knowledge and experience. The governor shall | 1384 |
appoint one member. The speaker of the house of representatives | 1385 |
shall appoint two members, one of whom may be recommended by the | 1386 |
minority leader of the house of representatives. The president of | 1387 |
the senate shall appoint two members, one of whom may be | 1388 |
recommended by the minority leader of the senate. The director of | 1389 |
development or the director's designee shall serve as a member. | 1390 |
The director of agriculture or the director's designee shall | 1391 |
serve as a member. Membership on the advisory board created | 1392 |
under section 184.03 of the Revised Code does not prohibit | 1393 |
membership on the advisory board created under this section. | 1394 |
All members of the board shall serve at the pleasure of their | 1395 |
appointing authorities. | 1396 |
(C) The board shall select from among its members a | 1397 |
chairperson. A majority of board members constitutes a quorum, and | 1398 |
no action shall be taken without the affirmative vote of a | 1399 |
majority of the members. | 1400 |
(D) A vacancy shall be filled in the same manner as the | 1401 |
original appointment. The governor may remove any member of the | 1402 |
board for malfeasance, misfeasance, or nonfeasance after a | 1403 |
hearing in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. | 1404 |
(E) Members of the board shall not act as representatives of | 1405 |
any specific disciplinary, regional, or organizational interest. | 1406 |
Members shall represent a wide variety of experience valuable in | 1407 |
technology research and development, product process innovation | 1408 |
and commercialization, and creating and managing high-growth | 1409 |
technology-based companies. | 1410 |
(F) Members of the board shall file financial disclosure | 1411 |
statements described in division (B) of section 102.02 of the | 1412 |
Revised Code. | 1413 |
(G) Members of the board shall serve without compensation, | 1414 |
but shall receive their reasonable and necessary expenses | 1415 |
incurred in the conduct of board business. | 1416 |
(H) The department of development shall provide office space | 1417 |
and facilities for the board. | 1418 |
Sec. 184.24. Money in the jobs fund created in the state | 1419 |
treasury by Section 4 of Sub. H.B. 544 of the 127th general | 1420 |
assembly shall be used in accordance with sections 184.25 and | 1421 |
184.26 of the Revised Code and may be used to provide cash | 1422 |
transfers to the local infrastructure development fund created in | 1423 |
section 164.28 of the Revised Code. | 1424 |
Sec. 184.25. There is hereby created the Ohio bioproducts | 1425 |
development program to be administered by the third frontier | 1426 |
commission. The commission shall provide loans, loan guarantees, | 1427 |
or grants to for-profit or not-for-profit entities to promote, | 1428 |
provide for and enable innovation, development and | 1429 |
commercialization of bioproducts, including biopolymers, | 1430 |
chemicals, and advanced materials that use biomaterials and | 1431 |
renewable agriculture resources, through efforts including, but | 1432 |
not limited to, agribusiness and the agricultural industry in | 1433 |
Ohio, state and local government entities and agencies, | 1434 |
educational institutions, or research organizations and | 1435 |
institutions. | 1436 |
Any assistance made pursuant to this section shall be | 1437 |
evidenced by an agreement, which shall contain such terms as the | 1438 |
commission determines necessary or appropriate, including | 1439 |
performance measures and reporting requirements. The commission | 1440 |
may take actions necessary or appropriate to collect or otherwise | 1441 |
deal with any assistance made under this section, including | 1442 |
requiring a recipient of assistance to repay the amount of the | 1443 |
assistance plus interest at a rate of three per cent above the | 1444 |
federal short term interest rate or any other rate determined by | 1445 |
the commission. | 1446 |
Sec. 184.26. There is hereby created the Ohio biomedical | 1447 |
development program to be administered by the third frontier | 1448 |
commission. The commission shall provide loans, loan guarantees, | 1449 |
or grants to for-profit or not-for-profit entities to promote, | 1450 |
provide for and enable innovation, development and | 1451 |
commercialization of biomedical and biotechnological products, | 1452 |
processes and applications, including medical devices, | 1453 |
diagnostics, informatics, therapies, and drugs, through efforts by | 1454 |
and collaboration among and including business and industry in | 1455 |
Ohio, state and local governmental entities and agencies, | 1456 |
educational institutions, or research organizations and | 1457 |
institutions. | 1458 |
Any assistance made pursuant to this section shall be | 1459 |
evidenced by an agreement, which shall contain such terms as the | 1460 |
commission determines necessary or appropriate, including | 1461 |
performance measures and reporting requirements. The commission | 1462 |
may take actions necessary or appropriate to collect or otherwise | 1463 |
deal with any assistance made under this section, including | 1464 |
requiring a recipient of assistance to repay the amount of the | 1465 |
assistance plus interest at a rate of three per cent above the | 1466 |
federal short term interest rate or any other rate determined by | 1467 |
the commission. | 1468 |
Sec. 184.37. The third frontier commission, in consultation | 1469 |
with the third frontier economic stimulus advisory board, shall | 1470 |
establish competitive processes for the purpose of awarding all of | 1471 |
the following: | 1472 |
(A) Loans, loan guarantees, and grants under the Ohio | 1473 |
bioproducts development program pursuant to section 184.25 of the | 1474 |
Revised Code; | 1475 |
(B) Loans, loan guarantees, and grants under the Ohio | 1476 |
biomedical development program pursuant to section 184.26 of the | 1477 |
Revised Code. | 1478 |
Sec. 1555.03. For the purposes of this chapter, the director | 1479 |
of the Ohio coal development office may: | 1480 |
(A) With the advice of the technical advisory committee | 1481 |
created in section 1551.35 of the Revised Code and the affirmative | 1482 |
vote of a majority of the members of the Ohio air quality | 1483 |
development authority, make loans, guarantee loans, and make | 1484 |
grants to persons doing business in this state or to educational | 1485 |
or scientific institutions located in this state for coal research | 1486 |
and development projects by any such person or educational or | 1487 |
scientific institution and adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the | 1488 |
Revised Code for making such loans, guarantees, and grants. | 1489 |
(B) In making loans, loan guarantees, and grants under | 1490 |
division (A) of this section and section 1555.04 of the Revised | 1491 |
Code, the director of the office shall ensure that an adequate | 1492 |
portion of the total amount of those loans, loan guarantees, and | 1493 |
grants, as determined by the director with the advice of the | 1494 |
technical advisory committee, is used for conducting research on | 1495 |
fundamental scientific problems related to the utilization of Ohio | 1496 |
coal and shall ensure, to the maximum feasible extent, joint | 1497 |
financial participation by the federal government or other | 1498 |
investors or interested parties in conjunction with any such loan, | 1499 |
loan guarantee, or grant. The director, in each grant agreement or | 1500 |
contract under division (A) of this section, loan contract or | 1501 |
agreement under this division or section 1555.04 of the Revised | 1502 |
Code, and contract of guarantee under section 1555.05 of the | 1503 |
Revised Code, shall require that the facility or project be | 1504 |
maintained and kept in good condition and repair by the person or | 1505 |
educational or scientific institution to whom the grant or loan | 1506 |
was made or for whom the guarantee was made. | 1507 |
(C) From time to time, with the advice of the technical | 1508 |
advisory committee and the affirmative vote of a majority of the | 1509 |
members of the Ohio air quality development authority, request the | 1510 |
issuance of coal research and development general obligations | 1511 |
under section 151.07 of the Revised Code, for any of the purposes | 1512 |
set forth in Section 15 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, and | 1513 |
subject to the limitations therein upon the aggregate total amount | 1514 |
of obligations that may be outstanding at any time. | 1515 |
(D) Include as a condition of any loan, loan guarantee, or | 1516 |
grant contract or agreement with any such person or educational or | 1517 |
scientific institution that the director of the office receive, in | 1518 |
addition to payments of principal and interest on any such loan or | 1519 |
service charges for any such guarantee, as appropriate, as | 1520 |
authorized by Section 15, Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, a | 1521 |
reasonable royalty or portion of the income or profits arising out | 1522 |
of the developments, discoveries, or inventions, including patents | 1523 |
or copyrights, that result in whole or in part from coal research | 1524 |
and development projects conducted under any such contract or | 1525 |
agreement, in such amounts and for such period of years as may be | 1526 |
negotiated and provided by the contract or agreement in advance of | 1527 |
the making of the grant,
loan, or loan guarantee. Moneys | 1528 |
received by the director of
the office | 1529 |
may be credited to the coal research and development bond service | 1530 |
fund or used to make additional loans, loan guarantees, grants, | 1531 |
or agreements under this section. | 1532 |
(E) Employ managers, superintendents, and other employees and | 1533 |
retain or contract with consulting engineers, financial | 1534 |
consultants, accounting experts, architects, and such other | 1535 |
consultants and independent contractors as are necessary in the | 1536 |
judgment of the director of the office to carry out this chapter, | 1537 |
and fix the compensation thereof. | 1538 |
(F) Receive and accept from any federal agency, subject to | 1539 |
the approval of the governor, grants for or in aid of the | 1540 |
construction or operation of any coal research and development | 1541 |
project or for coal research and development, and receive and | 1542 |
accept aid or contributions from any source of money, property, | 1543 |
labor, or other things of value, to be held, used, and applied | 1544 |
only for the purposes for which such grants and contributions are | 1545 |
made. | 1546 |
(G) Purchase fire and extended coverage and liability | 1547 |
insurance for any coal research and development project, insurance | 1548 |
protecting the office and its officers and employees against | 1549 |
liability for damage to property or injury to or death of persons | 1550 |
arising from its operations, and any other insurance the director | 1551 |
of the office determines necessary or proper under this chapter. | 1552 |
Any moneys received by the director from the proceeds of any such | 1553 |
insurance with respect to a coal research and development project | 1554 |
and any moneys received by the director from the proceeds of any | 1555 |
settlement, judgment, foreclosure, or other insurance with respect | 1556 |
to a coal research and development project or facility shall be | 1557 |
credited to the coal research and development bond service fund. | 1558 |
(H) In the exercise of the powers of the director of the | 1559 |
office under this chapter, call to the director's assistance, | 1560 |
temporarily, from time to time, any engineers, technical experts, | 1561 |
financial experts, and other employees in any state department, | 1562 |
agency, or commission, or in the Ohio state university, or other | 1563 |
educational institutions financed wholly or partially by this | 1564 |
state for purposes of assisting the director of the office with | 1565 |
reviewing and evaluating applications for financial assistance | 1566 |
under this chapter, monitoring performance of coal research and | 1567 |
development projects receiving financial assistance under this | 1568 |
chapter, and reviewing and evaluating the progress and findings of | 1569 |
those projects. Such engineers, experts, and employees shall not | 1570 |
receive any additional compensation over that which they receive | 1571 |
from the department, agency, commission, or educational | 1572 |
institution by which they are employed, but they shall be | 1573 |
reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses incurred while | 1574 |
working under the direction of the director. | 1575 |
(I) Do all acts necessary or proper to carry out the powers | 1576 |
expressly granted in this chapter. | 1577 |
Sec. 3333.38. (A) As used in this section: | 1578 |
(1) "Institution of higher education" includes all of the | 1579 |
following: | 1580 |
(a) A state institution of higher education, as defined in | 1581 |
section 3345.011 of the Revised Code; | 1582 |
(b) A nonprofit institution issued a certificate of | 1583 |
authorization under Chapter 1713. of the Revised Code; | 1584 |
(c) A private institution exempt from regulation under | 1585 |
Chapter 3332. of the Revised Code, as prescribed in section | 1586 |
3333.046 of the Revised Code; | 1587 |
(d) An institution of higher education with a certificate of | 1588 |
registration from the state board of career colleges and schools | 1589 |
under Chapter 3332. of the Revised Code. | 1590 |
(2) "Student financial assistance supported by state funds" | 1591 |
includes assistance granted under sections 3315.33, 3333.12, | 1592 |
3333.122, 3333.21, 3333.26, 3333.27, 3333.28, 3333.372, 5910.03, | 1593 |
5910.032, and 5919.34 of the Revised Code | 1594 |
award under the choose Ohio first scholarship program | 1595 |
established under section 3333.61 of the Revised Code, or | 1596 |
financed by an award under the choose Ohio first co-op/internship | 1597 |
program established under section 3333.72 of the Revised Code, | 1598 |
and any other post-secondary student financial assistance | 1599 |
supported by state funds. | 1600 |
(B) An individual who is convicted of, pleads guilty to, or | 1601 |
is adjudicated a delinquent child for one of the following | 1602 |
violations shall be ineligible to receive any student financial | 1603 |
assistance supported by state funds at an institution of higher | 1604 |
education for two calendar years from the time the individual | 1605 |
applies for assistance of that nature: | 1606 |
(1) A violation of section 2917.02 or 2917.03 of the Revised | 1607 |
Code; | 1608 |
(2) A violation of section 2917.04 of the Revised Code that | 1609 |
is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree; | 1610 |
(3) A violation of section 2917.13 of the Revised Code that | 1611 |
is a misdemeanor of the fourth or first degree and occurs within | 1612 |
the proximate area where four or more others are acting in a | 1613 |
course of conduct in violation of section 2917.11 of the Revised | 1614 |
Code. | 1615 |
(C) If an individual is convicted of, pleads guilty to, or is | 1616 |
adjudicated a delinquent child for committing a violation of | 1617 |
section 2917.02 or 2917.03 of the Revised Code, and if the | 1618 |
individual is enrolled in a state-supported institution of higher | 1619 |
education, the institution in which the individual is enrolled | 1620 |
shall immediately dismiss the individual. No state-supported | 1621 |
institution of higher education shall admit an individual of that | 1622 |
nature for one academic year after the individual applies for | 1623 |
admission to a state-supported institution of higher education. | 1624 |
This division does not limit or affect the ability of a | 1625 |
state-supported institution of higher education to suspend or | 1626 |
otherwise discipline its students. | 1627 |
Sec. 3333.71. As used in sections 3333.71 to 3333.81 of the | 1628 |
Revised Code: | 1629 |
(A) "Cooperative education program" means a partnership | 1630 |
between students, institutions of higher education, and employers | 1631 |
that formally integrates students' academic study with work | 1632 |
experience in cooperating employer organizations and that meets | 1633 |
all of the following conditions: | 1634 |
(1) Alternates or combines periods of academic study and work | 1635 |
experience in appropriate fields as an integral part of student | 1636 |
education; | 1637 |
(2) Provides students with compensation from the cooperative | 1638 |
employer in the form of wages or salaries for work performed; | 1639 |
(3) Evaluates each participating student's performance in the | 1640 |
cooperative position, both from the perspective of the student's | 1641 |
institution of higher education and the student's cooperative | 1642 |
employer; | 1643 |
(4) Provides participating students with academic credit from | 1644 |
the institution of higher education upon successful completion of | 1645 |
their cooperative education; | 1646 |
(5) Is part of an overall degree or certificate program for | 1647 |
which a percentage of the total program acceptable to the | 1648 |
chancellor of the Ohio board of regents involves cooperative | 1649 |
education. | 1650 |
(B) "Internship program" means a partnership between | 1651 |
students, institutions of higher education, and employers that | 1652 |
formally integrates students' academic study with work or | 1653 |
community service experience and that does both of the following: | 1654 |
(1) Offers internships of specified and definite duration; | 1655 |
(2) Evaluates each participating student's performance in the | 1656 |
internship position, both from the perspective of the student's | 1657 |
institution of higher education and the student's internship | 1658 |
employer. | 1659 |
An internship program may provide participating students with | 1660 |
academic credit upon successful completion of the internship, and | 1661 |
may provide students with compensation in the form of wages or | 1662 |
salaries, stipends, or scholarships. | 1663 |
(C) "Nonpublic university or college" means a nonprofit | 1664 |
institution holding a certificate of authorization issued under | 1665 |
Chapter 1713. of the Revised Code. | 1666 |
(D) "State institution of higher education" has the same | 1667 |
meaning as in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code. | 1668 |
Sec. 3333.72. The chancellor of the Ohio board of regents | 1669 |
shall establish and administer the choose Ohio first | 1670 |
co-op/internship program to promote and encourage cooperative | 1671 |
education programs or internship programs at Ohio institutions of | 1672 |
higher education for the purpose of recruiting Ohio students to | 1673 |
stay in the state, and recruiting Ohio residents who left Ohio to | 1674 |
attend out-of-state institutions of higher education back to Ohio | 1675 |
institutions of higher education, to participate in high quality | 1676 |
academic programs that use cooperative education programs or | 1677 |
significant internship programs, in order to support the growth | 1678 |
of Ohio's businesses by providing businesses with Ohio's most | 1679 |
talented students and providing Ohio graduates with job | 1680 |
opportunities with Ohio's growing companies. | 1681 |
The chancellor, subject to approval by the controlling board, | 1682 |
shall make awards to state institutions of higher education for | 1683 |
new or existing programs and initiatives meeting the goals of the | 1684 |
choose Ohio first co-op/internship program. Awards may be | 1685 |
granted for programs and initiatives to be implemented by a | 1686 |
state institution of higher education alone or in collaboration | 1687 |
with other state institutions of higher education or nonpublic | 1688 |
Ohio universities and colleges. If the chancellor makes an award | 1689 |
to a program or initiative that is intended to be implemented by | 1690 |
a state institution of higher education in collaboration with | 1691 |
other state institutions of higher education or nonpublic Ohio | 1692 |
universities or colleges, the chancellor may provide that some | 1693 |
portion of the award be received directly by the collaborating | 1694 |
universities or colleges consistent with all terms of the choose | 1695 |
Ohio first co-op/internship program. | 1696 |
The choose Ohio first co-op/internship program shall support | 1697 |
the creation and maintenance of high quality academic programs | 1698 |
that utilize an intensive cooperative education or internship | 1699 |
program for students at state institutions of higher education, | 1700 |
or assign a number of scholarships to institutions to recruit | 1701 |
Ohio residents as students in a high quality academic program, | 1702 |
or both. If scholarships are included in an award to an | 1703 |
institution of higher education, the scholarships shall be | 1704 |
awarded to each participating eligible student as a grant to the | 1705 |
state institution of higher education the student is attending | 1706 |
and shall be reflected on the student's tuition bill. | 1707 |
Notwithstanding any other provision of this section or | 1708 |
sections 3333.73 to 3333.81 of the Revised Code, an Ohio four-year | 1709 |
nonpublic university or college may submit a proposal as lead | 1710 |
applicant or co-lead applicant for an award under the choose Ohio | 1711 |
first co-op/internship program if the proposal is to be | 1712 |
implemented in collaboration with a state institution of higher | 1713 |
education. If the chancellor grants a nonpublic university or | 1714 |
college an award, the nonpublic university or college shall | 1715 |
comply with all requirements of this section, sections 3333.73 to | 1716 |
3333.81 of the Revised Code, and the rules adopted under this | 1717 |
section that apply to state institutions of higher education that | 1718 |
receive awards under the program. | 1719 |
The chancellor shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter | 1720 |
119. of the Revised Code to administer the choose Ohio first | 1721 |
co-op/internship program. | 1722 |
Sec. 3333.73. The chancellor of the Ohio board of regents | 1723 |
shall establish a competitive process for making awards under the | 1724 |
choose Ohio first co-op/internship program. The chancellor, on | 1725 |
completion of that process, shall make a recommendation to the | 1726 |
controlling board asking for approval of each award selected by | 1727 |
the chancellor. | 1728 |
The state institution of higher education shall submit a | 1729 |
proposal and other documentation required by the chancellor, in | 1730 |
the form and manner prescribed by the chancellor, for each award | 1731 |
it seeks. A proposal may propose an initiative to be implemented | 1732 |
solely by the state institution of higher education or in | 1733 |
collaboration with other state institutions of higher education or | 1734 |
nonpublic Ohio universities or colleges. | 1735 |
The chancellor shall determine which proposals will receive | 1736 |
awards each fiscal year, and the amount of each award, on the | 1737 |
basis of the merit of each proposal, which the chancellor, subject | 1738 |
to approval by the controlling board, shall determine based on one | 1739 |
or more of the following criteria: | 1740 |
(A) The extent to which the proposal will keep Ohio students | 1741 |
in Ohio institutions of higher education; | 1742 |
(B) The extent to which the proposal will attract Ohio | 1743 |
residents who left Ohio to attend out-of-state institutions of | 1744 |
higher education to return to Ohio institutions of higher | 1745 |
education; | 1746 |
(C) The extent to which the proposal will increase the number | 1747 |
of Ohio graduates who remain in Ohio and enter Ohio's workforce; | 1748 |
(D) The quality of the program that is the subject of the | 1749 |
proposal and the extent to which additional resources will enhance | 1750 |
its quality; | 1751 |
(E) The extent to which the proposal is integrated with the | 1752 |
strengths of the regional economy; | 1753 |
(F) The extent to which the proposal is aligned with the | 1754 |
report submitted by the chancellor pursuant to Section 4 of Sub. | 1755 |
H.B. 2 of the 127th general assembly, as amended; | 1756 |
(G) The extent to which the proposal facilitates the | 1757 |
development of high quality academic programs with a cooperative | 1758 |
education program or a significant internship program at state | 1759 |
institutions of higher education; | 1760 |
(H) The extent to which the proposal is integrated with | 1761 |
supporting private companies to fill potential job growth; | 1762 |
(I) The amount of other institutional, public, or private | 1763 |
resources, whether monetary or nonmonetary, the proposal pledges | 1764 |
to leverage that are in addition to the monetary cost-sharing | 1765 |
requirement prescribed in section 3333.74 of the Revised Code; | 1766 |
(J) The extent to which the proposal is collaborative with | 1767 |
other Ohio institutions of higher education; | 1768 |
(K) The extent to which the proposal is integrated with the | 1769 |
institution's mission; | 1770 |
(L) The extent to which the proposal meets a statewide | 1771 |
educational need at the undergraduate or graduate level; | 1772 |
(M) The demonstrated productivity or future capacity of the | 1773 |
students to be recruited; | 1774 |
(N) The extent to which the proposal will create additional | 1775 |
capacity in a high quality academic program with a cooperative | 1776 |
education program or significant internship program; | 1777 |
(O) The extent to which the proposal will encourage students | 1778 |
who received degrees from two-year institutions to pursue | 1779 |
baccalaureate degrees; | 1780 |
(P) The extent to which the proposal facilitates the | 1781 |
completion of a baccalaureate degree in a cost-effective manner; | 1782 |
(Q) The extent to which other institutional, public, or | 1783 |
private resources that are pledged to the proposal, in addition to | 1784 |
the monetary cost-sharing requirement prescribed in section | 1785 |
3333.74 of the Revised Code, will be deployed to assist in | 1786 |
sustaining the academic program of excellence; | 1787 |
(R) The extent to which the proposal increases the likelihood | 1788 |
that students will successfully complete their degree programs or | 1789 |
certificate programs; | 1790 |
(S) The extent to which the proposal ensures that a student | 1791 |
participating in the high quality academic program funded by the | 1792 |
choose Ohio first co-op/internship program is appropriately | 1793 |
qualified and prepared to successfully transition into | 1794 |
professions in Ohio's growing companies and industries. | 1795 |
Sec. 3333.74. (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this | 1796 |
section, each award under the choose Ohio first co-op/internship | 1797 |
program shall require a pledge of private funds equal to the | 1798 |
following: | 1799 |
(1) In the case of a program, initiative, or scholarships | 1800 |
for undergraduate students, at least one hundred per cent of the | 1801 |
money awarded; | 1802 |
(2) In the case of a program, initiative, or scholarships for | 1803 |
graduate students, at least one hundred fifty per cent of the | 1804 |
money awarded. | 1805 |
(B) The chancellor of the Ohio board of regents may waive | 1806 |
the requirement of division (A) of this section if the chancellor | 1807 |
finds that exceptional circumstances exist to do so, provided | 1808 |
that the chancellor reviews the proposal with the advisory | 1809 |
committee established under section 3333.81 of the Revised Code | 1810 |
and provides an explanation for the waiver to the controlling | 1811 |
board. | 1812 |
(C) The chancellor shall endeavor to distribute awards in | 1813 |
such a way that a wide range of disciplines is supported and that | 1814 |
all regions of the state benefit from the economic development | 1815 |
impact of the program. | 1816 |
Sec. 3333.75. The chancellor of the Ohio board of regents | 1817 |
shall require each state institution of higher education that the | 1818 |
controlling board approves to receive an award under the choose | 1819 |
Ohio first co-op/internship program to enter into an agreement | 1820 |
governing the use of the award. The agreement shall contain | 1821 |
terms the chancellor determines to be necessary, which shall | 1822 |
include performance measures, reporting requirements, and an | 1823 |
obligation to fulfill pledges of other institutional, public, or | 1824 |
nonpublic resources for the proposal. | 1825 |
The chancellor may require a state institution of higher | 1826 |
education that violates the terms of its agreement to repay the | 1827 |
award plus interest at the rate required by section 5703.47 of the | 1828 |
Revised Code to the chancellor. | 1829 |
If the chancellor makes an award to a program or initiative | 1830 |
that is intended to be implemented by a state institution of | 1831 |
higher education in collaboration with other state institutions of | 1832 |
higher education or nonpublic Ohio universities or colleges, the | 1833 |
chancellor may enter into an agreement with the collaborating | 1834 |
universities or colleges that permits awards to be received | 1835 |
directly by the collaborating universities or colleges consistent | 1836 |
with the terms of the program or initiative. In that case, the | 1837 |
chancellor shall incorporate into the agreement terms consistent | 1838 |
with the requirements of this section. | 1839 |
Sec. 3333.76. The chancellor of the Ohio board of regents | 1840 |
shall encourage state institutions of higher education, alone or | 1841 |
in collaboration with other state institutions of higher education | 1842 |
or nonpublic Ohio universities and colleges, to submit proposals | 1843 |
under the choose Ohio first co-op/internship program for | 1844 |
initiatives that recruit Ohio residents enrolled in colleges and | 1845 |
universities in other states or other countries to return to Ohio | 1846 |
and enroll in state institutions of higher education or nonpublic | 1847 |
Ohio universities and colleges as graduate students in a high | 1848 |
quality academic program that uses a cooperative education | 1849 |
program, a significant internship program in a private industry | 1850 |
or institutional laboratory, or a similar model involving a | 1851 |
variation of cooperative education or internship programs common | 1852 |
to graduate education, and is in an educational area, industry, | 1853 |
or industry sector of need. | 1854 |
The chancellor may encourage state institutions of higher | 1855 |
education, alone or in collaboration with other state institutions | 1856 |
of higher education or nonpublic Ohio universities and colleges, | 1857 |
to submit proposals for initiatives that recruit Ohio residents | 1858 |
who have received baccalaureate degrees to remain in Ohio and | 1859 |
enroll in state institutions of higher education or nonpublic Ohio | 1860 |
universities and colleges as graduate students in a high quality | 1861 |
academic program of the type described in the preceding paragraph. | 1862 |
Sec. 3333.77. When making an award under the choose Ohio | 1863 |
first co-op/internship program, the chancellor of the Ohio board | 1864 |
of regents, subject to approval by the controlling board, may | 1865 |
commit to giving a state institution of higher education's | 1866 |
proposal preference for future awards after the current fiscal | 1867 |
year or fiscal biennium. A proposal's eligibility for future | 1868 |
awards remains conditional on all of the following: | 1869 |
(A) Future appropriations of the general assembly; | 1870 |
(B) The institution's adherence to the agreement entered into | 1871 |
under section 3333.75 of the Revised Code, including its | 1872 |
fulfillment of pledges of other institutional, public, or | 1873 |
nonpublic resources; | 1874 |
(C) A demonstration that the students participating in the | 1875 |
programs and initiatives or receiving scholarships financed by the | 1876 |
awards are satisfied with the institutions selected by the | 1877 |
chancellor to offer the programs, initiatives, or scholarships | 1878 |
financed by the awards. | 1879 |
The chancellor and the controlling board shall not commit to | 1880 |
awarding any proposal after June 30, 2014. | 1881 |
Sec. 3333.78. The chancellor of the Ohio board of regents | 1882 |
shall monitor each initiative for which an award is granted under | 1883 |
the choose Ohio first co-op/internship program to ensure the | 1884 |
following: | 1885 |
(A) Fiscal accountability, so that the award is used in | 1886 |
accordance with the agreement entered into under section 3333.75 | 1887 |
of the Revised Code; | 1888 |
(B) Operating progress, so that the initiative is managed to | 1889 |
achieve the goals stated in the proposal and in the agreement, and | 1890 |
so that problems may be promptly identified and remedied; | 1891 |
(C) Desired outcomes, so that the initiative contributes to | 1892 |
the program's goal of retaining Ohio's students after graduation. | 1893 |
Sec. 3333.79. (A) As used in this section, "minority" has | 1894 |
the same meaning as in section 184.17 of the Revised Code. The | 1895 |
term also includes an individual who is economically | 1896 |
disadvantaged. | 1897 |
(B) The chancellor of the board of regents shall conduct | 1898 |
outreach activities in Ohio that seek to include minorities in the | 1899 |
co-op/internship program established under section 3333.72 of the | 1900 |
Revised Code. The outreach activities shall include the following, | 1901 |
when appropriate: | 1902 |
(1) Identifying and partnering with historically black | 1903 |
colleges and universities; | 1904 |
(2) Working with all institutions of higher education in the | 1905 |
state to support minority faculty and students involved in | 1906 |
cooperative and intern programs; | 1907 |
(3) Developing a plan to contact by telephone minorities and | 1908 |
other economically disadvantaged individuals to notify them of | 1909 |
opportunities to participate in the co-op/internship program; | 1910 |
(4) Identifying minority professional and trade associations | 1911 |
and economic development assistance organizations and notifying | 1912 |
them of the co-op/internship program; | 1913 |
(5) Partnering with regional technology councils to foster | 1914 |
local efforts to support minority participation in the | 1915 |
co-op/internship program. | 1916 |
(C) To the extent possible, outreach activities described in | 1917 |
this section shall be conducted in conjunction with the EDGE | 1918 |
program created in section 123.152 of the Revised Code. | 1919 |
Sec. 3333.80. Not later than December 31, 2010, and the | 1920 |
thirty-first day of December of each year thereafter, the | 1921 |
chancellor of the Ohio board of regents shall submit to the | 1922 |
general assembly in accordance with section 101.68 of the Revised | 1923 |
Code a report on the academic and economic impact of the choose | 1924 |
Ohio first co-op/internship program. At a minimum, the report | 1925 |
shall include the following: | 1926 |
(A) Progress and performance metrics for each initiative that | 1927 |
received an award in the previous fiscal year; | 1928 |
(B) Economic indicators of the impact of each initiative, and | 1929 |
all initiatives as a whole, on the regional economies and the | 1930 |
statewide economy; | 1931 |
(C) The chancellor's strategy in allocating awards among | 1932 |
state institutions of higher education and how the actual awards | 1933 |
fit that strategy. | 1934 |
Sec. 3333.81. (A) The co-op/internship program advisory | 1935 |
committee is hereby created. The committee shall consist of the | 1936 |
following members: | 1937 |
(1) Five members appointed by the governor, two of whom shall | 1938 |
represent academia, two of whom shall be representatives of | 1939 |
private industry, and one of whom shall be a member of the public; | 1940 |
(2) The director of development, or the director's designee; | 1941 |
(3) Five members appointed by the president of the senate, | 1942 |
three of whom shall be members of the senate, but not more than | 1943 |
two from the same political party, one of whom shall represent | 1944 |
academia, and one of whom shall be a member of the public; | 1945 |
(4) Five members appointed by the speaker of the house of | 1946 |
representatives, three of whom shall be members of the house of | 1947 |
representatives, but not more than two from the same political | 1948 |
party, one of whom shall represent private industry, and one of | 1949 |
whom shall be a member of the public. | 1950 |
(B) Members of the committee who are members of the general | 1951 |
assembly shall serve for terms of four years or until their | 1952 |
legislative terms end, whichever is sooner. The director of | 1953 |
development or the director's designee shall serve as an | 1954 |
ex-officio, voting member. Otherwise, initial members shall serve | 1955 |
the following terms: | 1956 |
(1) Of the initial members appointed by the governor, the | 1957 |
member representing the public and one member representing | 1958 |
academia shall serve for terms of one year; one member | 1959 |
representing private industry shall serve for a term of two years; | 1960 |
and one member representing private industry and one member | 1961 |
representing academia shall serve for terms of three years. | 1962 |
(2) The member representing academia and the representative | 1963 |
of the public initially appointed by the president of the senate | 1964 |
shall serve for terms of two years. | 1965 |
(3) The member representing private industry initially | 1966 |
appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives shall | 1967 |
serve for a term of one year. | 1968 |
(4) The representative of the public initially appointed by | 1969 |
the speaker of the house of representatives shall serve for a term | 1970 |
of three years. | 1971 |
Thereafter, terms shall be for three years, with each term | 1972 |
ending on the same day of the same month as did the term that it | 1973 |
succeeds. Each member shall serve from the date of appointment | 1974 |
until the end of the term for which the member was appointed. | 1975 |
Members may be reappointed. Vacancies shall be filled in the same | 1976 |
manner as provided for original appointments. Any member appointed | 1977 |
to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration date of the | 1978 |
term for which the member was appointed shall hold office for the | 1979 |
remainder of that term. A member shall continue to serve after the | 1980 |
expiration date of the member's term until the member's successor | 1981 |
is appointed or until a period of sixty days has elapsed, | 1982 |
whichever occurs first. The appointing authority may remove a | 1983 |
member from the committee for failure to attend two consecutive | 1984 |
meetings without showing good cause for the absences. | 1985 |
(C) The committee annually shall select a chairperson and a | 1986 |
vice-chairperson. Only the members who represent academia and | 1987 |
private industry may serve as chairperson and vice-chairperson. | 1988 |
For this purpose, any committee member appointed as a member of | 1989 |
the public who is a trustee, officer, employee, or student of an | 1990 |
institution of higher education shall be included among the | 1991 |
representatives of academia who may serve as chairperson or | 1992 |
vice-chairperson, and any committee member appointed as a member | 1993 |
of the public who is a director, officer, or employee of a private | 1994 |
business shall be included among the representatives of private | 1995 |
industry who may serve as chairperson or vice-chairperson. The | 1996 |
committee annually shall rotate the selection of the chairperson | 1997 |
between these two groups and shall select a member of the other | 1998 |
group to serve as vice-chairperson. | 1999 |
The committee annually shall select one of its members to | 2000 |
serve as secretary to keep a record of the committee's | 2001 |
proceedings. | 2002 |
(D) A majority vote of the members of the full committee is | 2003 |
necessary to take action on any matter. The committee may adopt | 2004 |
bylaws governing its operation, including bylaws that establish | 2005 |
the frequency of meetings. | 2006 |
(E) Members of the committee shall serve without | 2007 |
compensation. | 2008 |
(F) A member of the committee shall not participate in | 2009 |
discussions or votes concerning a proposed initiative or an actual | 2010 |
award under the choose Ohio first co-op/internship program that | 2011 |
involves an institution of higher education of which the member | 2012 |
is a trustee, officer, employee, or student; an organization of | 2013 |
which the member is a trustee, director, officer, or employee; or | 2014 |
a business of which the member is a director, officer, or | 2015 |
employee or a shareholder of more than five per cent of the | 2016 |
business' stock. | 2017 |
(G) The committee shall advise the chancellor of the Ohio | 2018 |
board of regents on growing industries well-suited for awards | 2019 |
under the choose Ohio first co-op/internship program. The | 2020 |
chancellor shall consult with the committee and request the | 2021 |
committee's advice at each of the following times: | 2022 |
(1) Prior to issuing each request for applications under the | 2023 |
program; | 2024 |
(2) While the chancellor is reviewing applications and before | 2025 |
deciding on awards to submit for the controlling board's approval; | 2026 |
(3) After deciding on awards to submit for the controlling | 2027 |
board's approval and prior to submitting them. | 2028 |
The committee shall advise the chancellor on other matters | 2029 |
the chancellor considers appropriate. | 2030 |
(H) The chancellor shall provide meeting space for the | 2031 |
committee. The committee shall be assisted in its duties by the | 2032 |
chancellor's staff. | 2033 |
(I) Sections 101.82 to 101.87 of the Revised Code do not | 2034 |
apply to the committee. | 2035 |
Sec. 3345.32. (A) As used in this section: | 2036 |
(1) "State university or college" means the institutions | 2037 |
described in section 3345.27 of the Revised Code and the | 2038 |
northeastern Ohio universities college of medicine. | 2039 |
(2) "Resident" has the meaning specified by rule of the | 2040 |
chancellor of the Ohio board of regents. | 2041 |
(3) "Statement of selective service status" means a statement | 2042 |
certifying one of the following: | 2043 |
(a) That the individual filing the statement has registered | 2044 |
with the selective service system in accordance with the "Military | 2045 |
Selective Service Act," 62 Stat. 604, 50 U.S.C. App. 453, as | 2046 |
amended; | 2047 |
(b) That the individual filing the statement is not required | 2048 |
to register with the selective service for one of the following | 2049 |
reasons: | 2050 |
(i) The individual is under eighteen or over twenty-six years | 2051 |
of age. | 2052 |
(ii) The individual is on active duty with the armed forces | 2053 |
of the United States other than for training in a reserve or | 2054 |
national guard unit. | 2055 |
(iii) The individual is a nonimmigrant alien lawfully in the | 2056 |
United States in accordance with section 101 (a)(15) of the | 2057 |
"Immigration and Nationality Act," 8 U.S.C. 1101, as amended. | 2058 |
(iv) The individual is not a citizen of the United States and | 2059 |
is a permanent resident of the Trust Territory of the Pacific | 2060 |
Islands or the Northern Mariana Islands. | 2061 |
(4) "Institution of higher education" means any eligible | 2062 |
institution approved by the United States department of education | 2063 |
pursuant to the "Higher Education Act of 1965," 79 Stat. 1219, as | 2064 |
amended, or any institution whose students are eligible for | 2065 |
financial assistance under any of the programs described by | 2066 |
division (E) of this section. | 2067 |
(B) The chancellor shall, by rule, specify the form of | 2068 |
statements of selective service status to be filed in compliance | 2069 |
with divisions (C) to (F) of this section. Each statement of | 2070 |
selective service status shall contain a section wherein a male | 2071 |
student born after December 31, 1959, certifies that the student | 2072 |
has registered with the selective service system in accordance | 2073 |
with the "Military Selective Service Act," 62 Stat. 604, 50 U.S.C. | 2074 |
App. 453, as amended. For those students not required to register | 2075 |
with the selective service, as specified in divisions | 2076 |
(A)(2)(b)(i) to (iv) of this section, a section shall be provided | 2077 |
on the statement of selective service status for the | 2078 |
certification of nonregistration and for an explanation of the | 2079 |
reason for the exemption. The chancellor may require that such | 2080 |
statements be accompanied by documentation specified by rule of | 2081 |
the chancellor. | 2082 |
(C) A state university or college that enrolls in any course, | 2083 |
class, or program a male student born after December 31, 1959, who | 2084 |
has not filed a statement of selective service status with the | 2085 |
university or college shall, regardless of the student's | 2086 |
residency, charge the student any tuition surcharge charged | 2087 |
students who are not residents of this state. | 2088 |
(D) No male born after December 31, 1959, shall be eligible | 2089 |
to receive any loan, grant, scholarship, or other financial | 2090 |
assistance for educational expenses granted under section 3315.33, | 2091 |
3333.12, 3333.122, 3333.21, 3333.22, 3333.26, 3333.27, 5910.03, | 2092 |
5910.032, or 5919.34 of the Revised Code, | 2093 |
under the choose Ohio first scholarship program established under | 2094 |
section 3333.61 of the Revised Code, or financed by an award | 2095 |
under the choose Ohio first co-op/internship program established | 2096 |
under section 3333.72 of the Revised Code, unless that person has | 2097 |
filed a statement of selective service status with that person's | 2098 |
institution of higher education. | 2099 |
(E) If an institution of higher education receives a | 2100 |
statement from an individual certifying that the individual has | 2101 |
registered with the selective service system in accordance with | 2102 |
the "Military Selective Service Act," 62 Stat. 604, 50 U.S.C. App. | 2103 |
453, as amended or that the individual is exempt from registration | 2104 |
for a reason other than that the individual is under eighteen | 2105 |
years of age, the institution shall not require the individual to | 2106 |
file any further statements. If it receives a statement certifying | 2107 |
that the individual is not required to register because the | 2108 |
individual is under eighteen years of age, the institution shall | 2109 |
require the individual to file a new statement of selective | 2110 |
service status each time the individual seeks to enroll for a new | 2111 |
academic term or makes application for a new loan or loan | 2112 |
guarantee or for any form of financial assistance for educational | 2113 |
expenses, until it receives a statement certifying that the | 2114 |
individual has registered with the selective service system or is | 2115 |
exempt from registration for a reason other than that the | 2116 |
individual is under eighteen years of age. | 2117 |
Sec. 3706.01. As used in this chapter: | 2118 |
(A) "Governmental agency" means a department, division, or | 2119 |
other unit of state government, a municipal corporation, county, | 2120 |
township, and other political subdivision, or any other public | 2121 |
corporation or agency having the power to acquire, construct, or | 2122 |
operate air quality facilities, the United States or any agency | 2123 |
thereof, and any agency, commission, or authority established | 2124 |
pursuant to an interstate compact or agreement. | 2125 |
(B) "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, | 2126 |
association, or corporation, or any combination thereof. | 2127 |
(C) "Air contaminant" means particulate matter, dust, fumes, | 2128 |
gas, mist, smoke, noise, vapor, heat, radioactivity, radiation, or | 2129 |
odorous substance, or any combination thereof. | 2130 |
(D) "Air pollution" means the presence in the ambient air of | 2131 |
one or more air contaminants in sufficient quantity and of such | 2132 |
characteristics and duration as to injure human health or welfare, | 2133 |
plant or animal life, or property, or that unreasonably interferes | 2134 |
with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property. | 2135 |
(E) "Ambient air" means that portion of the atmosphere | 2136 |
outside of buildings and other enclosures, stacks, or ducts that | 2137 |
surrounds human, plant, or animal life, or property. | 2138 |
(F) "Emission" means the release into the outdoor atmosphere | 2139 |
of an air contaminant. | 2140 |
(G) "Air quality facility" means any of the following: | 2141 |
(1) Any method, modification or replacement of property, | 2142 |
process, device, structure, or equipment that removes, reduces, | 2143 |
prevents, contains, alters, conveys, stores, disperses, or | 2144 |
disposes of air contaminants or substances containing air | 2145 |
contaminants, or that renders less noxious or reduces the | 2146 |
concentration of air contaminants in the ambient air, including, | 2147 |
without limitation, facilities and expenditures that qualify as | 2148 |
air pollution control facilities under section 103 (C)(4)(F) of | 2149 |
the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended, and regulations | 2150 |
adopted thereunder; | 2151 |
(2) Motor vehicle inspection stations operated in accordance | 2152 |
with, and any equipment used for motor vehicle inspections | 2153 |
conducted under, section 3704.14 of the Revised Code and rules | 2154 |
adopted under it; | 2155 |
(3) Ethanol or other biofuel facilities, including any | 2156 |
equipment used at the ethanol or other biofuel facility for the | 2157 |
production of ethanol or other biofuels; | 2158 |
(4) Any property or portion thereof used for the collection, | 2159 |
storage, treatment, utilization, processing, or final disposal of | 2160 |
a by-product or solid waste resulting from any method, process, | 2161 |
device, structure, or equipment that removes, reduces, prevents, | 2162 |
contains, alters, conveys, stores, disperses, or disposes of air | 2163 |
contaminants, or that renders less noxious or reduces the | 2164 |
concentration of air contaminants in the ambient air; | 2165 |
(5) Any property, device, or equipment that promotes the | 2166 |
reduction of emissions of air contaminants into the ambient air | 2167 |
through improvements in the efficiency of energy utilization or | 2168 |
energy conservation; | 2169 |
(6) Any coal research and development project conducted under | 2170 |
Chapter 1555. of the Revised Code; | 2171 |
(7) As determined by the director of the Ohio coal | 2172 |
development office, any property or portion thereof that is used | 2173 |
for the collection, storage, treatment, utilization, processing, | 2174 |
or final disposal of a by-product resulting from a coal research | 2175 |
and development project as defined in section 1555.01 of the | 2176 |
Revised Code or from the use of clean coal technology, excluding | 2177 |
any property or portion thereof that is used primarily for other | 2178 |
subsequent commercial purposes; | 2179 |
(8) Any property or portion thereof that is part of the | 2180 |
FutureGen project of the United States department of energy or | 2181 |
related to the siting of the FutureGen project. | 2182 |
(9) Any property, device, or equipment that promotes the | 2183 |
reduction of emissions of air contaminants into the ambient air | 2184 |
through the generation of clean, renewable energy with renewable | 2185 |
energy resources or advanced energy resources as defined in | 2186 |
section 184.30 of the Revised Code. | 2187 |
(10) Any property, device, structure or equipment necessary | 2188 |
for the manufacture and production of equipment described as an | 2189 |
air quality facility under this chapter. | 2190 |
"Air quality facility" further includes any property or | 2191 |
system to be used in whole or in part for any of the purposes in | 2192 |
divisions (G)(1) to | 2193 |
purpose is also served, and any property or system incidental to | 2194 |
or that has to do with, or the end purpose of which is, any of the | 2195 |
foregoing. Air quality facilities that are defined in this | 2196 |
division for industry, commerce, distribution, or research, | 2197 |
including public utility companies, are hereby determined to be | 2198 |
those that qualify as facilities for the control of air pollution | 2199 |
and thermal pollution related to air under Section 13 of Article | 2200 |
VIII, Ohio Constitution. | 2201 |
(H) "Project" or "air quality project" means any air quality | 2202 |
facility, including undivided or other interests therein, acquired | 2203 |
or to be acquired or constructed or to be constructed by the Ohio | 2204 |
air quality development authority under this chapter, or acquired | 2205 |
or to be acquired or constructed or to be constructed by a | 2206 |
governmental agency or person with all or a part of the cost | 2207 |
thereof being paid from a loan or grant from the authority under | 2208 |
this chapter or otherwise paid from the proceeds of air quality | 2209 |
revenue bonds, including all buildings and facilities that the | 2210 |
authority determines necessary for the operation of the project, | 2211 |
together with all property, rights, easements, and interests that | 2212 |
may be required for the operation of the project. | 2213 |
(I) "Cost" as applied to an air quality project means the | 2214 |
cost of acquisition and construction, the cost of acquisition of | 2215 |
all land, rights-of-way, property rights, easements, franchise | 2216 |
rights, and interests required for such acquisition and | 2217 |
construction, the cost of demolishing or removing any buildings or | 2218 |
structures on land so acquired, including the cost of acquiring | 2219 |
any lands to which such buildings or structures may be moved, the | 2220 |
cost of acquiring or constructing and equipping a principal office | 2221 |
and sub-offices of the authority, the cost of diverting highways, | 2222 |
interchange of highways, and access roads to private property, | 2223 |
including the cost of land or easements for such access roads, the | 2224 |
cost of public utility and common carrier relocation or | 2225 |
duplication, the cost of all machinery, furnishings, and | 2226 |
equipment, financing charges, interest prior to and during | 2227 |
construction and for no more than eighteen months after completion | 2228 |
of construction, engineering, expenses of research and development | 2229 |
with respect to air quality facilities, the cost of any commodity | 2230 |
contract, including fees and expenses related thereto, legal | 2231 |
expenses, plans, specifications, surveys, studies, estimates of | 2232 |
cost and revenues, working capital, other expenses necessary or | 2233 |
incident to determining the feasibility or practicability of | 2234 |
acquiring or constructing such project, administrative expense, | 2235 |
and such other expense as may be necessary or incident to the | 2236 |
acquisition or construction of the project, the financing of such | 2237 |
acquisition or construction, including the amount authorized in | 2238 |
the resolution of the authority providing for the issuance of air | 2239 |
quality revenue bonds to be paid into any special funds from the | 2240 |
proceeds of such bonds, and the financing of the placing of such | 2241 |
project in operation. Any obligation, cost, or expense incurred by | 2242 |
any governmental agency or person for surveys, borings, | 2243 |
preparation of plans and specifications, and other engineering | 2244 |
services, or any other cost described above, in connection with | 2245 |
the acquisition or construction of a project may be regarded as a | 2246 |
part of the cost of that project and may be reimbursed out of the | 2247 |
proceeds of air quality revenue bonds as authorized by this | 2248 |
chapter. | 2249 |
(J) "Owner" includes an individual, copartnership, | 2250 |
association, or corporation having any title or interest in any | 2251 |
property, rights, easements, or interests authorized to be | 2252 |
acquired by this chapter. | 2253 |
(K) "Revenues" means all rentals and other charges received | 2254 |
by the authority for the use or services of any air quality | 2255 |
project, any gift or grant received with respect to any air | 2256 |
quality project, any moneys received with respect to the lease, | 2257 |
sublease, sale, including installment sale or conditional sale, or | 2258 |
other disposition of an air quality project, moneys received in | 2259 |
repayment of and for interest on any loans made by the authority | 2260 |
to a person or governmental agency, whether from the United States | 2261 |
or any department, administration, or agency thereof, or | 2262 |
otherwise, proceeds of such bonds to the extent that use thereof | 2263 |
for payment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the | 2264 |
bonds is authorized by the authority, amounts received or | 2265 |
otherwise derived from a commodity contract or from the sale of | 2266 |
the related commodity under such a contract, proceeds from any | 2267 |
insurance, condemnation, or guaranty pertaining to a project or | 2268 |
property mortgaged to secure bonds or pertaining to the financing | 2269 |
of the project, and income and profit from the investment of the | 2270 |
proceeds of air quality revenue bonds or of any revenues. | 2271 |
(L) "Public roads" includes all public highways, roads, and | 2272 |
streets in the state, whether maintained by the state, county, | 2273 |
city, township, or other political subdivision. | 2274 |
(M) "Public utility facilities" includes tracks, pipes, | 2275 |
mains, conduits, cables, wires, towers, poles, and other equipment | 2276 |
and appliances of any public utility. | 2277 |
(N) "Construction," unless the context indicates a different | 2278 |
meaning or intent, includes reconstruction, enlargement, | 2279 |
improvement, or providing furnishings or equipment. | 2280 |
(O) "Air quality revenue bonds," unless the context indicates | 2281 |
a different meaning or intent, includes air quality revenue notes, | 2282 |
air quality revenue renewal notes, and air quality revenue | 2283 |
refunding bonds, except that notes issued in anticipation of the | 2284 |
issuance of bonds shall have a maximum maturity of five years as | 2285 |
provided in section 3706.05 of the Revised Code and notes or | 2286 |
renewal notes issued as the definitive obligation may be issued | 2287 |
maturing at such time or times with a maximum maturity of forty | 2288 |
years from the date of issuance of the original note. | 2289 |
(P) "Solid waste" means any garbage; refuse; sludge from a | 2290 |
waste water treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air | 2291 |
pollution control facility; and other discarded material, | 2292 |
including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material | 2293 |
resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural | 2294 |
operations, and from community activities, but not including solid | 2295 |
or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved | 2296 |
material in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges that | 2297 |
are point sources subject to permits under section 402 of the | 2298 |
"Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972," 86 Stat. | 2299 |
880, 33 U.S.C.A. 1342, as amended, or source, special nuclear, or | 2300 |
byproduct material as defined by the "Atomic Energy Act of 1954," | 2301 |
68 Stat. 921, 42 U.S.C.A. 2011, as amended. | 2302 |
(Q) "Sludge" means any solid, semisolid, or liquid waste, | 2303 |
other than a recyclable by-product, generated from a municipal, | 2304 |
commercial, or industrial waste water treatment plant, water | 2305 |
supply plant, or air pollution control facility or any other such | 2306 |
wastes having similar characteristics and effects. | 2307 |
(R) "Ethanol or other biofuel facility" means a plant at | 2308 |
which ethanol or other biofuel is produced. | 2309 |
(S) "Ethanol" means fermentation ethyl alcohol derived from | 2310 |
agricultural products, including potatoes, cereal, grains, cheese | 2311 |
whey, and sugar beets; forest products; or other renewable or | 2312 |
biomass resources, including residue and waste generated from the | 2313 |
production, processing, and marketing of agricultural products, | 2314 |
forest products, and other renewable or biomass resources, that | 2315 |
meets all of the specifications in the American society for | 2316 |
testing and materials (ASTM) specification D 4806-88 and is | 2317 |
denatured as specified in Parts 20 and 21 of Title 27 of the Code | 2318 |
of Federal Regulations. | 2319 |
(T) "Biofuel" means any fuel that is made from cellulosic | 2320 |
biomass resources, including renewable organic matter, crop waste | 2321 |
residue, wood, aquatic plants and other crops, animal waste, solid | 2322 |
waste, or sludge, and that is used for the production of energy | 2323 |
for transportation or other purposes. | 2324 |
(U) "FutureGen project" means the buildings, equipment, and | 2325 |
real property and functionally related buildings, equipment, and | 2326 |
real property, including related research projects that support | 2327 |
the development and operation of the buildings, equipment, and | 2328 |
real property, designated by the United States department of | 2329 |
energy and the FutureGen industrial alliance, inc., as the | 2330 |
coal-fueled, zero-emissions power plant designed to prove the | 2331 |
technical and economic feasibility of producing electricity and | 2332 |
hydrogen from coal and nearly eliminating carbon dioxide emissions | 2333 |
through capture and permanent storage. | 2334 |
(V) "Commodity contract" means a contract or series of | 2335 |
contracts entered into in connection with the acquisition or | 2336 |
construction of air quality facilities for the purchase or sale of | 2337 |
a commodity that is eligible for prepayment with the proceeds of | 2338 |
federally tax exempt bonds under sections 103, 141, and 148 of the | 2339 |
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and regulations adopted | 2340 |
under it. | 2341 |
Sec. 3706.25. As used in sections 3706.25 to 3706.30 of the | 2342 |
Revised Code: | 2343 |
(A) "Advanced energy project" means any technologies, | 2344 |
products, activities, or management practices or strategies that | 2345 |
facilitate the generation or use of electricity and that reduce or | 2346 |
support the reduction of energy consumption or support the | 2347 |
production of clean, renewable energy for industrial, | 2348 |
distribution, commercial, institutional, governmental, research, | 2349 |
not-for-profit, or residential energy users including, but not | 2350 |
limited to, advanced energy resources and renewable energy | 2351 |
resources. "Advanced energy project" includes any project | 2352 |
described in division (A), (B), or (C) of section 4928.621 of the | 2353 |
Revised Code. | 2354 |
(B) "Advanced energy resource" means any of the following: | 2355 |
(1) Any method or any modification or replacement of any | 2356 |
property, process, device, structure, or equipment that increases | 2357 |
the generation output of an electric generating facility to the | 2358 |
extent such efficiency is achieved without additional carbon | 2359 |
dioxide emissions by that facility; | 2360 |
(2) Any distributed generation system consisting of customer | 2361 |
cogeneration of electricity and thermal output simultaneously, | 2362 |
primarily to meet the energy needs of the customer's facilities; | 2363 |
(3) Advanced nuclear energy technology consisting of | 2364 |
generation III technology as defined by the nuclear regulatory | 2365 |
commission; other, later technology; or significant improvements | 2366 |
to existing facilities; | 2367 |
(4) Any fuel cell used in the generation of electricity, | 2368 |
including, but not limited to, a proton exchange membrane fuel | 2369 |
cell, phosphoric acid fuel cell, molten carbonate fuel cell, or | 2370 |
solid oxide fuel cell; | 2371 |
(5) Advanced solid waste or construction and demolition | 2372 |
debris conversion technology, including, but not limited to, | 2373 |
advanced stoker technology, and advanced fluidized bed | 2374 |
gasification technology, that results in measurable greenhouse | 2375 |
gas emissions reductions as calculated pursuant to the United | 2376 |
States environmental protection agency's waste reduction model | 2377 |
(WARM). | 2378 |
(C) "Renewable energy resource" means solar photovoltaic or | 2379 |
solar thermal energy, wind energy, power produced by a | 2380 |
hydroelectric facility, geothermal energy, fuel derived from | 2381 |
solid wastes, as defined in section 3734.01 of the Revised Code, | 2382 |
through fractionation, biological decomposition, or other | 2383 |
process that does not principally involve combustion, biomass | 2384 |
energy, biologically derived methane gas, or energy derived | 2385 |
from nontreated by-products of the pulping process or wood | 2386 |
manufacturing process, including bark, wood chips, sawdust, and | 2387 |
lignin in spent pulping liquors. "Renewable energy resource" | 2388 |
includes, but is not limited to, any fuel cell used in the | 2389 |
generation of electricity, including, but not limited to, a | 2390 |
proton exchange membrane fuel cell, phosphoric acid fuel cell, | 2391 |
molten carbonate fuel cell, or solid oxide fuel cell; wind turbine | 2392 |
located in the state's territorial waters of Lake Erie; storage | 2393 |
facility that will promote the better utilization of a renewable | 2394 |
energy resource that primarily generates off peak; or distributed | 2395 |
generation system used by a customer to generate electricity | 2396 |
from any such energy. As used in this division, "hydroelectric | 2397 |
facility" means a hydroelectric generating facility that is | 2398 |
located at a dam on a river, or on any water discharged to a | 2399 |
river, that is within or bordering this state or within or | 2400 |
bordering an adjoining state and meets all of the following | 2401 |
standards: | 2402 |
(1) The facility provides for river flows that are not | 2403 |
detrimental for fish, wildlife, and water quality, including | 2404 |
seasonal flow fluctuations as defined by the applicable licensing | 2405 |
agency for the facility. | 2406 |
(2) The facility demonstrates that it complies with the | 2407 |
water quality standards of this state, which compliance may | 2408 |
consist of certification under Section 401 of the "Clean Water | 2409 |
Act of 1977," 91 Stat. 1598, 1599, 33 U.S.C. 1341, and | 2410 |
demonstrates that it has not contributed to a finding by this | 2411 |
state that the river has impaired water quality under Section | 2412 |
303(d) of the "Clean Water Act of 1977," 114 Stat. 870, 33 | 2413 |
U.S.C. 1313. | 2414 |
(3) The facility complies with mandatory prescriptions | 2415 |
regarding fish passage as required by the federal energy | 2416 |
regulatory commission license issued for the project, regarding | 2417 |
fish protection for riverine, anadromous, and catadromus fish. | 2418 |
(4) The facility complies with the recommendations of the | 2419 |
Ohio environmental protection agency and with the terms of its | 2420 |
federal energy regulatory commission license regarding watershed | 2421 |
protection, mitigation, or enhancement, to the extent of each | 2422 |
agency's respective jurisdiction over the facility. | 2423 |
(5) The facility complies with provisions of the "Endangered | 2424 |
Species Act of 1973," 87 Stat. 884, 16 U.S.C. 1531 to 1544, as | 2425 |
amended. | 2426 |
(6) The facility does not harm cultural resources of the | 2427 |
area. This can be shown through compliance with the terms of its | 2428 |
federal energy regulatory commission license or, if the facility | 2429 |
is not regulated by that commission, through development of a plan | 2430 |
approved by the Ohio historic preservation office, to the extent | 2431 |
it has jurisdiction over the facility. | 2432 |
(7) The facility complies with the terms of its federal | 2433 |
energy regulatory commission license or exemption that are related | 2434 |
to recreational access, accommodation, and facilities or, if the | 2435 |
facility is not regulated by that commission, the facility | 2436 |
complies with similar requirements as are recommended by | 2437 |
resource agencies, to the extent they have jurisdiction over the | 2438 |
facility; and the facility provides access to water to the | 2439 |
public without fee or charge. | 2440 |
(8) The facility is not recommended for removal by any | 2441 |
federal agency or agency of any state, to the extent the | 2442 |
particular agency has jurisdiction over the facility. | 2443 |
Sec. 3706.26. (A) The Ohio air quality development authority | 2444 |
may, with the approval of its executive director and the | 2445 |
affirmative vote of a majority of its members, request the | 2446 |
issuance of bonds under section 166.08 of the Revised Code for the | 2447 |
purpose of providing loans and grants for acquiring, | 2448 |
manufacturing, constructing, reconstructing, expanding, improving, | 2449 |
or equipping facilities or facility components by business and | 2450 |
industry in this state, entities and agencies of state and local | 2451 |
government, educational institutions, research organizations and | 2452 |
institutions, or any combination thereof, for energy production, | 2453 |
delivery, storage, conservation, and efficiency through advanced | 2454 |
energy projects. The authority may, with the approval of its | 2455 |
executive director and the affirmative vote of a majority of its | 2456 |
members, make such loans and provide such grants in the manner | 2457 |
provided for in section 166.30 of the Revised Code. | 2458 |
(B) The issuance of bonds for the purpose described in this | 2459 |
section is subject to the limitation established in division (A) | 2460 |
of section 166.11 of the Revised Code. | 2461 |
Sec. 3706.27. (A) There is hereby created in the state | 2462 |
treasury the advanced energy research and development fund to | 2463 |
provide grants for advanced energy projects. There is hereby | 2464 |
created in the state treasury the advanced energy research and | 2465 |
development taxable fund to provide loans for advanced energy | 2466 |
projects. | 2467 |
(B)(1) The advanced energy research and development fund and | 2468 |
the advanced energy research and development taxable fund shall | 2469 |
consist of the proceeds of obligations issued under section 166.08 | 2470 |
of the Revised Code. Money shall be credited to the respective | 2471 |
funds in the proportion that the executive director of the Ohio | 2472 |
air quality development authority, with the affirmative vote of a | 2473 |
majority of the members of the authority, determines appropriate. | 2474 |
(2) Any investment earnings from the money in the advanced | 2475 |
energy research and development fund and in the advanced energy | 2476 |
research and development taxable fund shall be credited to those | 2477 |
funds, respectively. Any repayment of loans made from money in the | 2478 |
advanced energy research and development taxable fund shall be | 2479 |
credited to the facilities establishment fund created in section | 2480 |
166.03 of the Revised Code. | 2481 |
(C) The director of budget and management shall establish and | 2482 |
maintain records or accounts for or within these funds in such a | 2483 |
manner as to show the amount credited to the funds pursuant to | 2484 |
section 166.08 of the Revised Code and that the amounts so | 2485 |
credited have been expended for the purposes set forth in Section | 2486 |
2p or 13 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, and sections 166.08, | 2487 |
166.30, and 3706.26 of the Revised Code. | 2488 |
Sec. 3706.28. (A) Determinations made by the executive | 2489 |
director of the Ohio air quality development authority, with the | 2490 |
affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the authority, | 2491 |
that a particular project is an advanced energy project and is | 2492 |
consistent with Chapter 166. of the Revised Code and Section 2p | 2493 |
or 13 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, shall be conclusive as | 2494 |
to the validity and enforceability of the obligations issued to | 2495 |
finance such a project and of the authorizations, trust agreements | 2496 |
or indentures, loan agreements, or grant agreements, and other | 2497 |
agreements made in connection therewith, all in accordance with | 2498 |
their terms. | 2499 |
(B) Advanced energy facilities for industry, commerce, | 2500 |
distribution, or research are hereby deemed to qualify as | 2501 |
facilities for the control of air pollution and thermal pollution | 2502 |
related to air under Section 2p or 13 of Article VIII, Ohio | 2503 |
Constitution. | 2504 |
Sec. 3706.29. The Ohio air quality development authority | 2505 |
shall, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, adopt | 2506 |
any rules necessary to implement section 166.30 and sections | 2507 |
3706.25 to 3706.28 of the Revised Code. | 2508 |
Sec. 3706.30. (A) As used in this section, "minority" has | 2509 |
the same meaning as in section 184.17 of the Revised Code, except | 2510 |
that the individual must be a resident of this state. The term | 2511 |
also includes an economically disadvantaged individual who is a | 2512 |
resident of this state. | 2513 |
(B) The Ohio air quality development authority shall conduct | 2514 |
outreach activities in Ohio that seek to include minorities in | 2515 |
the grant and loan program for advanced energy projects | 2516 |
established under section 166.30 of the Revised Code. The | 2517 |
outreach activities shall include the following, when | 2518 |
appropriate: | 2519 |
(1) Identifying and partnering with historically black | 2520 |
colleges and universities; | 2521 |
(2) Working with all institutions of higher education in the | 2522 |
state to support minority faculty and students involved in science | 2523 |
and engineering fields that address advanced energy projects; | 2524 |
(3) Developing a plan to contact by telephone minority-owned | 2525 |
businesses and entrepreneurs and other economically disadvantaged | 2526 |
businesses to notify them of opportunities to participate in the | 2527 |
grant and loan program for advanced energy projects; | 2528 |
(4) Identifying minority professional and technical trade | 2529 |
associations and economic development assistance organizations and | 2530 |
notifying them of the grant and loan program for advanced energy | 2531 |
projects; | 2532 |
(5) Partnering with regional technology councils to foster | 2533 |
local efforts to support minority-owned technology businesses or | 2534 |
otherwise identify networks of minority-owned technology | 2535 |
businesses, entrepreneurs, and individuals operating locally; | 2536 |
(6) Identifying minority technology firms and notifying them | 2537 |
of the opportunities that exist within the investment community, | 2538 |
including the Ohio venture capital authority created under section | 2539 |
150.02 of the Revised Code. | 2540 |
(C) The authority shall publish an annual report that | 2541 |
includes all of the following: | 2542 |
(1) Details of grants and loans awarded for advanced energy | 2543 |
projects; | 2544 |
(2) The status of grant or loan recipients' projects funded | 2545 |
in previous years; | 2546 |
(3) The amount of grants and loans awarded for projects in | 2547 |
economically distressed areas, and if possible to ascertain, the | 2548 |
impact of the grants or loans to those areas. | 2549 |
(D) To the extent possible, outreach activities described in | 2550 |
this section shall be conducted in conjunction with the EDGE | 2551 |
program created in section 123.152 of the Revised Code. | 2552 |
Sec. 5725.151. (A) As used in this section, "certificate | 2553 |
owner" has the same meaning as in section 149.311 of the Revised | 2554 |
Code. | 2555 |
(B) There is allowed a | 2556 |
imposed by section 5707.03 and assessed under section 5725.15 of | 2557 |
the Revised Code for a dealer in intangibles subject to that tax | 2558 |
that is a certificate owner of a rehabilitation tax credit | 2559 |
certificate issued under section 149.311 of the Revised Code. The | 2560 |
credit shall equal twenty-five per cent of the dollar amount | 2561 |
indicated on the certificate, but the amount of the credit | 2562 |
allowed for any dealer for any year shall not exceed five million | 2563 |
dollars. The credit shall be claimed in the calendar year | 2564 |
specified in the certificate. If the credit exceeds the amount of | 2565 |
tax otherwise due in that year, the excess shall be refunded to | 2566 |
the dealer but, if any amount of the credit is refunded, the sum | 2567 |
of the amount refunded and the amount applied to reduce the tax | 2568 |
otherwise due in that year shall not exceed three million | 2569 |
dollars. The dealer may carry forward any balance of the credit | 2570 |
in excess of the amount claimed in that year for not more than | 2571 |
five ensuing years, and shall deduct any amount claimed in any | 2572 |
such year from the amount claimed in an ensuing year. | 2573 |
(C) A dealer in intangibles claiming a credit under this | 2574 |
section shall retain the rehabilitation tax credit certificate for | 2575 |
four years following the end of the year in which the credit was | 2576 |
claimed, and shall make the certificate available for inspection | 2577 |
by the tax commissioner upon the request of the tax commissioner | 2578 |
during that period. | 2579 |
(D) For the purpose of division (C) of section 5725.24 of the | 2580 |
Revised Code, reductions in the amount of taxes collected on | 2581 |
account of credits allowed under this section shall be applied to | 2582 |
reduce the amount credited to the general revenue fund and shall | 2583 |
not be applied to reduce the amount to be credited to the | 2584 |
undivided local government funds of the counties in which such | 2585 |
taxes originate. | 2586 |
Sec. 5733.47. (A) As used in this section, "certificate | 2587 |
owner" has the same meaning as in section 149.311 of the Revised | 2588 |
Code. | 2589 |
(B) There is allowed a refundable credit against the tax | 2590 |
imposed under section 5733.06 of the Revised Code for a taxpayer | 2591 |
that is a certificate owner of a rehabilitation tax credit | 2592 |
certificate issued under section 149.311 of the Revised Code. The | 2593 |
credit shall equal twenty-five per cent of the dollar amount | 2594 |
indicated on the certificate, but shall not exceed five million | 2595 |
dollars. The credit shall be claimed for the tax year specified | 2596 |
in the certificate and in the order required under section | 2597 |
5733.98 of the Revised Code. For purposes of making tax payments | 2598 |
under this chapter, taxes equal to the amount of the refundable | 2599 |
credit shall be considered to be paid to the state on the first | 2600 |
day of the tax year. | 2601 |
(C) A taxpayer claiming a credit under this section shall | 2602 |
retain the rehabilitation tax credit certificate for four years | 2603 |
following the end of the tax year to which the credit was applied, | 2604 |
and shall make the certificate available for inspection by the tax | 2605 |
commissioner upon the request of the tax commissioner during that | 2606 |
period. | 2607 |
(D) If, pursuant to division (G) of section 5733.01 of the | 2608 |
Revised Code, a taxpayer no longer pays a tax under this chapter, | 2609 |
the taxpayer may nonetheless file an annual report under section | 2610 |
5733.02 of the Revised Code and claim the refundable credit | 2611 |
authorized by this section. Nothing in this division allows a | 2612 |
taxpayer to claim the credit under this section more than once. | 2613 |
Sec. 5747.76. (A) As used in this section, "certificate | 2614 |
owner" has the same meaning as in section 149.311 of the Revised | 2615 |
Code. | 2616 |
(B) There is allowed a | 2617 |
imposed under section 5747.02 of the Revised Code for a taxpayer | 2618 |
that is the certificate owner of a rehabilitation tax credit | 2619 |
certificate issued under section 149.311 of the Revised Code. The | 2620 |
credit shall equal twenty-five per cent of the dollar amount | 2621 |
indicated on the certificate, but the amount of credit allowed | 2622 |
for any taxpayer shall not exceed five million dollars. The | 2623 |
credit shall be claimed for the taxable year specified in the | 2624 |
certificate and in the order required under section 5747.98 of | 2625 |
the Revised Code. | 2626 |
2627 | |
2628 | |
2629 |
(C) Nothing in this section limits or disallows pass-through | 2630 |
treatment of the credit if the certificate owner is a pass-through | 2631 |
entity. If the certificate owner is a pass-through entity, the | 2632 |
amount of the credit allowed for the pass-through entity shall not | 2633 |
exceed five million dollars. | 2634 |
(D) If the credit allowed for any taxable year exceeds the | 2635 |
tax otherwise due under section 5747.02 of the Revised Code, after | 2636 |
allowing for any other credits preceding the credit in the order | 2637 |
prescribed by section 5747.98 of the Revised Code, the excess | 2638 |
shall be refunded to the taxpayer but, if any amount of the | 2639 |
credit is refunded, the sum of the amount refunded and the amount | 2640 |
applied to reduce the tax otherwise due for that year shall not | 2641 |
exceed three million dollars or, if the certificate owner is a | 2642 |
pass-through entity, shall not exceed the taxpayer's distributive | 2643 |
or proportionate share of three million dollars. The taxpayer may | 2644 |
carry forward any balance of the credit in excess of the amount | 2645 |
claimed for that year for not more than five ensuing taxable | 2646 |
years, and shall deduct any amount claimed for any such year from | 2647 |
the amount claimed in an ensuing year. | 2648 |
(E) A taxpayer claiming a credit under this section shall | 2649 |
retain the rehabilitation tax credit certificate for four years | 2650 |
following the end of the taxable year to which the credit was | 2651 |
applied, and shall make the certificate available for inspection | 2652 |
by the tax commissioner upon the request of the tax commissioner | 2653 |
during that period. | 2654 |
Sec. 5747.98. (A) To provide a uniform procedure for | 2655 |
calculating the amount of tax due under section 5747.02 of the | 2656 |
Revised Code, a taxpayer shall claim any credits to which the | 2657 |
taxpayer is entitled in the following order: | 2658 |
(1) The retirement income credit under division (B) of | 2659 |
section 5747.055 of the Revised Code; | 2660 |
(2) The senior citizen credit under division (C) of section | 2661 |
5747.05 of the Revised Code; | 2662 |
(3) The lump sum distribution credit under division (D) of | 2663 |
section 5747.05 of the Revised Code; | 2664 |
(4) The dependent care credit under section 5747.054 of the | 2665 |
Revised Code; | 2666 |
(5) The lump sum retirement income credit under division (C) | 2667 |
of section 5747.055 of the Revised Code; | 2668 |
(6) The lump sum retirement income credit under division (D) | 2669 |
of section 5747.055 of the Revised Code; | 2670 |
(7) The lump sum retirement income credit under division (E) | 2671 |
of section 5747.055 of the Revised Code; | 2672 |
(8) The low-income credit under section 5747.056 of the | 2673 |
Revised Code; | 2674 |
(9) The credit for displaced workers who pay for job training | 2675 |
under section 5747.27 of the Revised Code; | 2676 |
(10) The campaign contribution credit under section 5747.29 | 2677 |
of the Revised Code; | 2678 |
(11) The twenty-dollar personal exemption credit under | 2679 |
section 5747.022 of the Revised Code; | 2680 |
(12) The joint filing credit under division (G) of section | 2681 |
5747.05 of the Revised Code; | 2682 |
(13) The nonresident credit under division (A) of section | 2683 |
5747.05 of the Revised Code; | 2684 |
(14) The credit for a resident's out-of-state income under | 2685 |
division (B) of section 5747.05 of the Revised Code; | 2686 |
(15) The credit for employers that enter into agreements with | 2687 |
child day-care centers under section 5747.34 of the Revised Code; | 2688 |
(16) The credit for employers that reimburse employee child | 2689 |
care expenses under section 5747.36 of the Revised Code; | 2690 |
(17) The credit for adoption of a minor child under section | 2691 |
5747.37 of the Revised Code; | 2692 |
(18) The credit for purchases of lights and reflectors under | 2693 |
section 5747.38 of the Revised Code; | 2694 |
(19) The job retention credit under division (B) of section | 2695 |
5747.058 of the Revised Code; | 2696 |
(20) The credit for selling alternative fuel under section | 2697 |
5747.77 of the Revised Code; | 2698 |
(21) The second credit for purchases of new manufacturing | 2699 |
machinery and equipment and the credit for using Ohio coal under | 2700 |
section 5747.31 of the Revised Code; | 2701 |
(22) The job training credit under section 5747.39 of the | 2702 |
Revised Code; | 2703 |
(23) The enterprise zone credit under section 5709.66 of the | 2704 |
Revised Code; | 2705 |
(24) The credit for the eligible costs associated with a | 2706 |
voluntary action under section 5747.32 of the Revised Code; | 2707 |
(25) The credit for employers that establish on-site child | 2708 |
day-care centers under section 5747.35 of the Revised Code; | 2709 |
(26) The ethanol plant investment credit under section | 2710 |
5747.75 of the Revised Code; | 2711 |
(27) The credit for purchases of qualifying grape production | 2712 |
property under section 5747.28 of the Revised Code; | 2713 |
(28) The export sales credit under section 5747.057 of the | 2714 |
Revised Code; | 2715 |
(29) The credit for research and development and technology | 2716 |
transfer investors under section 5747.33 of the Revised Code; | 2717 |
(30) The enterprise zone credits under section 5709.65 of the | 2718 |
Revised Code; | 2719 |
(31) The research and development credit under section | 2720 |
5747.331 of the Revised Code; | 2721 |
(32) The credit for rehabilitating a historic building under | 2722 |
section 5747.76 of the Revised Code; | 2723 |
(33) The refundable credit for rehabilitating a historic | 2724 |
building under section 5747.76 of the Revised Code; | 2725 |
| 2726 |
(A) of section 5747.058 of the Revised Code; | 2727 |
| 2728 |
entity granted under section 5747.059 of the Revised Code; | 2729 |
| 2730 |
qualifying pass-through entity granted under division (J) of | 2731 |
section 5747.08 of the Revised Code; | 2732 |
| 2733 |
division (B)(1) of section 5747.062 of the Revised Code; | 2734 |
| 2735 |
Revised Code for losses on loans made to the Ohio venture capital | 2736 |
program under sections 150.01 to 150.10 of the Revised Code. | 2737 |
(B) For any credit, except the credits enumerated in | 2738 |
divisions (A) | 2739 |
granted under division (I) of section 5747.08 of the Revised | 2740 |
Code, the amount of the credit for a taxable year shall not | 2741 |
exceed the tax due after allowing for any other credit that | 2742 |
precedes it in the order required under this section. Any excess | 2743 |
amount of a particular credit may be carried forward if | 2744 |
authorized under the section creating that credit. Nothing in | 2745 |
this chapter shall be construed to allow a taxpayer to claim, | 2746 |
directly or indirectly, a credit more than once for a taxable | 2747 |
year. | 2748 |
Section 2. That existing sections 149.311, 166.01, 166.02, | 2749 |
166.08, 166.11, 184.02, 1555.03, 3333.38, 3345.32, 3706.01, | 2750 |
5725.151, 5733.47, 5747.76, and 5747.98 of the Revised Code are | 2751 |
hereby repealed. | 2752 |
Section 3. (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this | 2753 |
section, the amendment by this act of sections 149.311, 5725.151, | 2754 |
5733.47, 5747.76, and 5747.98 of the Revised Code applies only to | 2755 |
the application periods beginning July 1, 2009, and July 1, 2010, | 2756 |
and to tax credits allowed under rehabilitation tax credit | 2757 |
certificates issued for applications filed for those application | 2758 |
periods. Those sections as they existed before their amendment by | 2759 |
this act apply to the application period beginning July 1, 2007, | 2760 |
and ending June 30, 2008, and to tax credits allowed under | 2761 |
rehabilitation tax credit certificates issued for applications | 2762 |
filed for that application period. | 2763 |
(B) The amendment by this act of division (A)(9) of section | 2764 |
149.311 of the Revised Code, eliminating the application period | 2765 |
beginning July 1, 2008, and ending June 30, 2009, takes effect | 2766 |
when this act becomes law. The State Historic Preservation Officer | 2767 |
shall not accept applications for that period, and the Director | 2768 |
of Development shall not issue any rehabilitation tax credit | 2769 |
certificates for that period. | 2770 |
(C) Nothing in this section precludes the approval of | 2771 |
applications for tax credit certificates as prescribed in division | 2772 |
(D)(3) of section 149.311 of the Revised Code, as amended by this | 2773 |
act, from among the $45 million reserved for that purpose from the | 2774 |
$60 million in credits allowed for each of the application periods | 2775 |
July 1, 2009, through June 30, 2010, and July 1, 2010, through | 2776 |
June 30, 2011. The Director of Development shall approve such | 2777 |
applications and issue tax credit certificates as prescribed in | 2778 |
that section as amended by this act, may accept from such | 2779 |
applicants the amount of qualified rehabilitation expenditures | 2780 |
the applicant estimates will be paid or incurred if such | 2781 |
estimates have not yet been provided to the Director, may notify | 2782 |
such applicants whether the application was approved or denied on | 2783 |
or after the effective date of this section, and may adopt any | 2784 |
rules necessary to administer such applications. | 2785 |
Section 4. The amendment by this act of sections 149.311, | 2786 |
5725.151, 5733.47, 5747.76, and 5747.98 of the Revised Code and | 2787 |
the enactment of Section 3 of this act provide for or are | 2788 |
essential to the implementation of a tax levy. Therefore, under | 2789 |
Ohio Constitution, Article II, Section 1d, the amendment and | 2790 |
enactment are not subject to the referendum and go into immediate | 2791 |
effect when this act becomes law. | 2792 |
Section 5. All items in this section are hereby appropriated | 2793 |
as designated out of any moneys in the state treasury to the | 2794 |
credit of the designated fund that are not otherwise appropriated. | 2795 |
For all appropriations made in this section, those in the first | 2796 |
column are for fiscal year 2008 and those in the second column are | 2797 |
for fiscal year 2009. The appropriations made in this section are | 2798 |
in addition to any other appropriations made for the FY 2008-FY | 2799 |
2009 biennium. | 2800 |
2801 | |
Appropriations |
Coal Research/Development Fund Group | 2802 |
7046 | 898604 | Coal Research/Development Fund | $ | 0 | $ | 66,000,000 | 2803 | ||||
TOTAL 7046 Coal Research/Development Fund Group | $ | 0 | $ | 66,000,000 | 2804 | ||||||
TOTAL ALL BUDGET FUND GROUPS | $ | 0 | $ | 66,000,000 | 2805 |
2806 | |
Appropriations |
State Special Revenue Fund Group | 2807 |
5Z30 | 195694 | JF Bioproducts | $ | 0 | $ | 20,000,000 | 2808 | ||||
5Z30 | 195695 | JF Biomedical | $ | 0 | $ | 40,000,000 | 2809 | ||||
TOTAL SSR State Special Revenue Fund Group | $ | 0 | $ | 60,000,000 | 2810 |
Logistics and Distribution Infrastructure Fund Group | 2811 |
7008 | 195698 | Logistics and Distribution Infrastructure | $ | 0 | $ | 50,000,000 | 2812 | ||||
TOTAL 7008 Logistics and Distribution Infrastructure Fund Group | $ | 0 | $ | 50,000,000 | 2813 | ||||||
TOTAL ALL BUDGET FUND GROUPS | $ | 0 | $ | 110,000,000 | 2814 |
JF BIOPRODUCTS | 2815 |
The foregoing appropriation item 195694, JF Bioproducts, | 2816 |
shall be used for the Ohio Bioproducts Development Program | 2817 |
established in section 184.25 of the Revised Code. | 2818 |
JF BIOMEDICAL | 2819 |
The foregoing appropriation item 195695, JF Biomedical, | 2820 |
shall be used for the Ohio Biomedical Development Program | 2821 |
established in section 184.26 of the Revised Code. | 2822 |
LOGISTICS AND DISTRIBUTION INFRASTRUCTURE | 2823 |
The foregoing appropriation item 195698, Logistics and | 2824 |
Distribution Infrastructure, shall be used for eligible logistics | 2825 |
and distribution projects as defined in section 166.01 of the | 2826 |
Revised Code. | 2827 |
Within the limits set forth in this section, the Director of | 2828 |
Budget and Management shall establish accounts indicating the | 2829 |
source and amount of funds for each appropriation made in this | 2830 |
section, and shall determine the form and manner in which | 2831 |
appropriation accounts shall be maintained. Expenditures from | 2832 |
appropriations contained in this section shall be accounted for as | 2833 |
though made in Am. Sub. H.B. 119 of the 127th General Assembly. | 2834 |
The appropriations made in this section are subject to all | 2835 |
provisions of Am. Sub. H.B. 119 of the 127th General Assembly that | 2836 |
are generally applicable to such appropriations. | 2837 |
Section 6. The Governor has informed the General Assembly of | 2838 |
the Governor's intent to propose appropriations, and it is the | 2839 |
intent of the General Assembly to appropriate $20,000,000 in | 2840 |
fiscal year 2010 and $10,000,000 in fiscal year 2011 for the | 2841 |
purposes of the Ohio Bioproducts Development Program established | 2842 |
in section 184.25 of the Revised Code. | 2843 |
Section 7. The Governor has informed the General Assembly of | 2844 |
the Governor's intent to propose appropriations, and it is the | 2845 |
intent of the General Assembly to appropriate $40,000,000 in | 2846 |
fiscal year 2010 and $20,000,000 in fiscal year 2011 for the | 2847 |
purposes of the Ohio Biomedical Development Program established | 2848 |
in section 184.26 of the Revised Code. | 2849 |
Section 8. On June 30, 2011, or as soon as possible | 2850 |
thereafter, the Director of Budget and Management shall transfer | 2851 |
the cash balance in the Jobs Fund (Fund 5Z30) to the General | 2852 |
Revenue Fund. Upon completion of the transfer, the Jobs Fund (Fund | 2853 |
5Z30) is abolished. | 2854 |
Section 9. The Governor has informed the General Assembly of | 2855 |
the Governor's intent to propose appropriations, and it is the | 2856 |
intent of the General Assembly to appropriate $25,000,000 for | 2857 |
fiscal year 2010 and $25,000,000 for fiscal year 2011 for | 2858 |
eligible logistics and distribution infrastructure projects as | 2859 |
defined in section 166.01 of the Revised Code. | 2860 |
Section 10. The Ohio Public Facilities Commission, upon the | 2861 |
request of the Director of the Ohio Coal Development Office of | 2862 |
the Ohio Air Quality Development Authority with the advice of the | 2863 |
Technical Advisory Committee created in section 1551.35 of the | 2864 |
Revised Code and the affirmative vote of a majority of the | 2865 |
members of the Ohio Air Quality Development Authority is hereby | 2866 |
authorized to issue and sell, in accordance with Section 15 of | 2867 |
Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, and Chapter 151. and | 2868 |
particularly sections 151.01 and 151.07 of the Revised Code, | 2869 |
bonds and other obligations of the State of Ohio in an | 2870 |
aggregate principal amount not to exceed $66,000,000 in | 2871 |
addition to the issuance of obligations heretofore authorized | 2872 |
by prior acts of the General Assembly. The obligations shall | 2873 |
be dated, issued, and sold from time to time in such amounts | 2874 |
as may be necessary to provide sufficient moneys to the credit | 2875 |
of the Coal Research and Development Fund created in section | 2876 |
1555.15 of the Revised Code to pay costs charged to the fund | 2877 |
when due. | 2878 |
Section 11. (A) All items set forth in this division are | 2879 |
hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury, for | 2880 |
the biennium ending on June 30, 2010, to the credit of the | 2881 |
Advanced Energy Research and Development Taxable Fund (Fund 7004) | 2882 |
that are not otherwise appropriated: | 2883 |
2884 | |
C89800 | Advanced Energy R&D Taxable | $ | 9,000,000 | 2885 | |||
Total Air Quality Development Authority | $ | 9,000,000 | 2886 | ||||
TOTAL Advanced Energy Research and Development | 2887 | ||||||
Taxable Fund | $ | 9,000,000 | 2888 |
(B) All items set forth in this division are hereby | 2889 |
appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury, for the | 2890 |
biennium ending on June 30, 2010, to the credit of the Advanced | 2891 |
Energy Research and Development Fund (Fund 7005) that are not | 2892 |
otherwise appropriated: | 2893 |
2894 | |
C89801 | Advanced Energy R&D | $ | 19,000,000 | 2895 | |||
Total Air Quality Development Authority | $ | 19,000,000 | 2896 | ||||
TOTAL Advanced Energy Research and Development | 2897 | ||||||
Fund | $ | 19,000,000 | 2898 |
(C) The foregoing appropriation items C89800, Advanced Energy | 2899 |
R&D Taxable, and C89801, Advanced Energy R&D, shall be used for | 2900 |
advanced energy projects in the manner provided in sections | 2901 |
3706.25 to 3706.30 of the Revised Code. The Executive Director of | 2902 |
the Air Quality Development Authority may certify to the Director | 2903 |
of Budget and Management that a need exists to appropriate | 2904 |
investment earnings of funds 7004 and 7005 to be so used. If | 2905 |
the Director of Budget and Management, pursuant to sections | 2906 |
3706.25 to 3706.30 of the Revised Code, determines that | 2907 |
investment earnings are available to support additional | 2908 |
appropriations, such amounts are hereby appropriated. | 2909 |
(D) Upon the request of the Executive Director of the Air | 2910 |
Quality Development Authority, the Director of Budget and | 2911 |
Management may transfer cash between funds 7004 and 7005. Amounts | 2912 |
transferred are hereby appropriated. | 2913 |
(E) Expenditures from appropriations contained in this | 2914 |
section may be accounted as though made in the main capital | 2915 |
appropriations act of the FY 2009-FY 2010 biennium of the 127th | 2916 |
General Assembly. The appropriations made in this section are | 2917 |
subject to all provisions of the FY 2009-FY 2010 biennial capital | 2918 |
appropriations act of the 127th General Assembly that are | 2919 |
generally applicable to such appropriations. | 2920 |
Section 12. The Governor has informed the General Assembly of | 2921 |
the Governor's intent to propose appropriations, and it is the | 2922 |
intent of the General Assembly to appropriate amounts not to | 2923 |
exceed $56 million for the biennium ending on June 30, 2012, from | 2924 |
bond proceeds deposited in the state treasury to the credit of | 2925 |
the Advanced Energy Research and Development Taxable Fund (Fund | 2926 |
7004) and the Advanced Energy Research and Development Fund (Fund | 2927 |
7005) for advanced energy projects as provided in sections | 2928 |
3706.25 to 3706.30 of the Revised Code. | 2929 |
Section 13. All items set forth in this section are hereby | 2930 |
appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury, for the | 2931 |
biennium ending on June 30, 2010, to the credit of the Local | 2932 |
Infrastructure Development Fund (Fund 7039) that are not otherwise | 2933 |
appropriated: | 2934 |
Appropriations |
2935 | |
C15061 | Local Infrastructure Development | $ | 80,000,000 | 2936 | |||
Total Public Works Commission | $ | 80,000,000 | 2937 | ||||
TOTAL Local Infrastructure Development Fund | $ | 80,000,000 | 2938 |
(A) On July 1, 2009, or as soon as possible thereafter, the | 2939 |
Director of Budget and Management shall transfer $80,000,000 in | 2940 |
cash from the Jobs Fund created in the state treasury by Section 4 | 2941 |
of Sub. H.B. 544 of the 127th General Assembly to the Local | 2942 |
Infrastructure Development Fund (Fund 7039) created in section | 2943 |
164.28 of the Revised Code. | 2944 |
(B) The foregoing appropriation item C15061, Local | 2945 |
Infrastructure Development, shall be used by the Public Works | 2946 |
Commission for capital improvement projects under Chapter 164. of | 2947 |
the Revised Code. The Director of the Public Works Commission may | 2948 |
certify to the Director of Budget and Management that a need | 2949 |
exists to appropriate investment earnings of the Local | 2950 |
Infrastructure Development Fund (Fund 7039) to be so used. If the | 2951 |
Director of Budget and Management determines pursuant to division | 2952 |
(D) of section 164.08 and section 164.12 of the Revised Code that | 2953 |
investment earnings are available to support additional | 2954 |
appropriations, such amounts are hereby appropriated. | 2955 |
Expenditures from appropriations contained in this section | 2956 |
may be accounted as though made in the main capital appropriations | 2957 |
act of the FY 2009-FY 2010 biennium of the 127th General Assembly. | 2958 |
Subject to division (C) of this section, the appropriations made | 2959 |
in this section are subject to all provisions of the FY 2009-FY | 2960 |
2010 biennial capital appropriations act of the 127th General | 2961 |
Assembly that are generally applicable to such appropriations. | 2962 |
(C) Notwithstanding any applicable limitations in the main | 2963 |
capital appropriations act of the 127th General Assembly on the | 2964 |
use of capital appropriations, the foregoing appropriation item | 2965 |
C15061, Local Infrastructure Development, may also be used for | 2966 |
broadband initiatives. | 2967 |
(D) It is the intent of the General Assembly not to compete | 2968 |
with the private sector in providing broadband access in this | 2969 |
state. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the Public | 2970 |
Works Commission, in conjunction with the public-private | 2971 |
partnership known as Connect Ohio, shall adopt rules that | 2972 |
prescribe the manner in which the moneys specified in division (C) | 2973 |
of this section shall be distributed to the district public works | 2974 |
integrating committees as those districts are defined in section | 2975 |
164.03 of the Revised Code. | 2976 |
(E) On or before June 30, 2011, or as soon as possible | 2977 |
thereafter, the Director of the Public Works Commission shall | 2978 |
notify the Director of Budget and Management that all projects | 2979 |
funded by the Local Infrastructure Development Fund (Fund 7039) | 2980 |
created in section 164.28 of the Revised Code have been completed | 2981 |
and the Director of Budget and Management shall transfer the cash | 2982 |
balance remaining in the Local Infrastructure Development Fund | 2983 |
(Fund 7039) to the General Revenue Fund. Upon completion of the | 2984 |
transfer, the Local Infrastructure Development Fund (Fund 7039) is | 2985 |
abolished. | 2986 |
Section 14. All items set forth in this section are hereby | 2987 |
appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury, for the | 2988 |
biennium ending on June 30, 2010, to the credit of the State | 2989 |
Capital Improvements Fund (Fund 7038) that are not otherwise | 2990 |
appropriated. | 2991 |
Appropriations |
2992 | |
C15000 | Local Public Infrastructure | $ | 120,000,000 | 2993 | |||
Total Public Works Commission | $ | 120,000,000 | 2994 | ||||
TOTAL State Capital Improvements Fund | $ | 120,000,000 | 2995 |
The foregoing appropriation item C15000, Local Public | 2996 |
Infrastructure, shall be used in accordance with sections 164.01 | 2997 |
to 164.12 of the Revised Code. The Director of the Public Works | 2998 |
Commission may certify to the Director of Budget and Management | 2999 |
that a need exists to appropriate investment earnings of Fund 7038 | 3000 |
to be used in accordance with sections 164.01 to 164.12 of the | 3001 |
Revised Code. If the Director of Budget and Management, pursuant | 3002 |
to division (D) of section 164.08 and section 164.12 of the | 3003 |
Revised Code, determines that investment earnings are available to | 3004 |
support additional appropriations, such amounts are hereby | 3005 |
appropriated. | 3006 |
Expenditures from appropriations contained in this section | 3007 |
may be accounted as though made in the main capital appropriations | 3008 |
act of the FY 2009-FY 2010 biennium of the 127th General Assembly. | 3009 |
The appropriations made in this section are subject to all | 3010 |
provisions of the FY 2009-FY 2010 biennial capital appropriations | 3011 |
act of the 127th General Assembly that are generally applicable to | 3012 |
such appropriations. | 3013 |
Section 15. The Ohio Public Facilities Commission is hereby | 3014 |
authorized to issue and sell, in accordance with Section 2p of | 3015 |
Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, and pursuant to sections 151.01 | 3016 |
and 151.08 of the Revised Code, original obligations of the state, | 3017 |
in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $120,000,000, in | 3018 |
addition to the original obligations heretofore authorized by | 3019 |
prior acts of the General Assembly. These authorized obligations | 3020 |
shall be issued and sold from time to time, subject to applicable | 3021 |
constitutional and statutory limitations, as needed to ensure | 3022 |
sufficient moneys to the credit of the State Capital Improvements | 3023 |
Fund (Fund 7038) to pay costs of the state in financing or | 3024 |
assisting in the financing of local subdivision capital | 3025 |
improvement projects. | 3026 |
Section 16. Notwithstanding section 126.14 of the Revised | 3027 |
Code, appropriations from the State Capital Improvement Fund | 3028 |
(Fund 7038) shall be released upon presentation of a request to | 3029 |
release the funds by the Director of the Public Works Commission | 3030 |
to the Director of Budget and Management. | 3031 |
Section 17. The Governor has informed the General Assembly of | 3032 |
the Governor's intent to propose appropriations, and it is the | 3033 |
intent of the General Assembly to appropriate, for the Choose | 3034 |
Ohio First Co-op/Internship Program established under section | 3035 |
3333.72 of the Revised Code a minimum of $50,000,000 each | 3036 |
fiscal year from fiscal year 2010 through fiscal year 2014. | 3037 |
Section 18. That Section 229.10 of Am. Sub. H.B. 67 of the | 3038 |
127th General Assembly be amended to read as follows: | 3039 |
Sec. 229.10. PWC PUBLIC WORKS COMMISSION | 3040 |
Local Transportation Improvements Fund Group | 3041 |
052 | 150-402 | Local Transportation Improvement Program - Operating | $ | 291,537 | $ | 306,178 | 3042 | ||||
052 | 150-701 | Local Transportation Improvement Program | $ | 67,500,000 | $ | 3043 | |||||
TOTAL 052 Local Transportation | 3044 | ||||||||||
Improvements Fund Group | $ | 67,791,537 | $ | 3045 |
Local Infrastructure Improvements Fund Group | 3046 |
038 | 150-321 | State Capital Improvements Program - Operating Expenses | $ | 879,237 | $ | 918,912 | 3047 | ||||
TOTAL LIF Local Infrastructure | 3048 | ||||||||||
Improvements Fund Group | $ | 879,237 | $ | 918,912 | 3049 | ||||||
TOTAL ALL BUDGET FUND GROUPS | $ | 68,670,774 | $ | 3050 |
CASH TRANSFER FROM THE BUDGET STABILIZATION FUND | 3051 |
Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, on July 1, | 3052 |
2008, or as soon as possible thereafter, the Director of Budget | 3053 |
and Management shall transfer $200,000,000 in cash from the Budget | 3054 |
Stabilization Fund to the Local Transportation Improvement Program | 3055 |
Fund created in section 164.14 of the Revised Code. | 3056 |
DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION COSTS | 3057 |
The Director of the Public Works Commission is authorized to | 3058 |
create a District Administration Costs Program from interest | 3059 |
earnings of the Capital Improvements Fund and Local Transportation | 3060 |
Improvement Program Fund proceeds. The program shall be used to | 3061 |
provide for the direct costs of district administration of the | 3062 |
nineteen public works districts. Districts choosing to participate | 3063 |
in the program shall only expend Capital Improvements Fund moneys | 3064 |
for Capital Improvements Fund costs and Local Transportation | 3065 |
Improvement Program Fund moneys for Local Transportation | 3066 |
Improvement Program Fund costs. The account shall not exceed | 3067 |
$1,235,000 per fiscal year. Each public works district may be | 3068 |
eligible for up to $65,000 per fiscal year from its district | 3069 |
allocation as provided in sections 164.08 and 164.14 of the | 3070 |
Revised Code. | 3071 |
The Director, by rule, shall define allowable and | 3072 |
nonallowable costs for the purpose of the District Administration | 3073 |
Costs Program. Nonallowable costs include indirect costs, elected | 3074 |
official salaries and benefits, and project-specific costs. No | 3075 |
district public works committee may participate in the District | 3076 |
Administration Costs Program without the approval of those costs | 3077 |
by the district public works committee under section 164.04 of the | 3078 |
Revised Code. | 3079 |
REAPPROPRIATIONS | 3080 |
All capital appropriations from the Local Transportation | 3081 |
Improvement Program Fund (Fund 052) in Am. Sub. H.B. 68 of the | 3082 |
126th General Assembly remaining unencumbered as of June 30, 2007, | 3083 |
are reappropriated for use during the period July 1, 2007, through | 3084 |
June 30, 2008, for the same purpose. | 3085 |
Notwithstanding division (B) of section 127.14 of the Revised | 3086 |
Code, all capital appropriations and reappropriations from the | 3087 |
Local Transportation Improvement Program Fund (Fund 052) in this | 3088 |
act remaining unencumbered as of June 30, 2008, are reappropriated | 3089 |
for use during the period July 1, 2008, through June 30, 2009, for | 3090 |
the same purposes, subject to the availability of revenue as | 3091 |
determined by the Director of the Public Works Commission. | 3092 |
Section 19. That existing Section 229.10 of Am. Sub. H.B. 67 | 3093 |
of the 127th General Assembly is hereby repealed. | 3094 |
Section 20. The amendments to section 184.02 that add the | 3095 |
cross references to sections 184.25 and 184.26 and enactments of | 3096 |
sections 184.23, 184.231, 184.24, 184.25, and 184.26 of the | 3097 |
Revised Code are hereby repealed, effective June 30, 2011. | 3098 |
Section 21. The enactment of section 164.28 of the Revised | 3099 |
Code is hereby repealed, effective June 30, 2013. | 3100 |
Section 22. The amendment or enactment by this act of a | 3101 |
codified or uncodified section listed below is exempt from the | 3102 |
referendum under Ohio Constitution, Article II, Section 1d and | 3103 |
section 1.471 of the Revised Code and takes effect immediately | 3104 |
when this act becomes law: | 3105 |
Sec. 164.28, 166.01, 166.02, 166.08, 166.11, 166.25, 166.26, | 3106 |
166.27, 166.30, 184.02, 184.174, 184.23, 184.231, 184.24, 184.25, | 3107 |
184.26, 184.37, 1555.03, 3706.01 | 3108 |
Sections 5, 18, and 19. | 3109 |