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| To enact section 122.043 of the Revised Code to | 1 |
| require the Director of Development to establish a | 2 |
| youth summer jobs pledging initiative to increase | 3 |
| access to summer employment opportunities for high | 4 |
| school and college youth. | 5 |
| Section 1. That section 122.043 of the Revised Code be | 6 |
| enacted to read as follows: | 7 |
| Sec. 122.043. (A) The director of development shall | 8 |
| establish a youth summer jobs pledging initiative to increase | 9 |
| access to summer employment opportunities for high school and | 10 |
| college youth in this state. The director shall adopt, and | 11 |
| thereafter may amend or rescind, rules under Chapter 119. of the | 12 |
| Revised Code to establish, and to operate, maintain, and improve, | 13 |
| the initiative. The rules shall provide for all of the following: | 14 |
| (1) The department of development to identify and compile | 15 |
| pledges, not later than the last day of February in each year, of | 16 |
| employment opportunities that will be available to high school and | 17 |
| college youth during the following summer; | 18 |
| (2) The establishment of a searchable summer employment | 19 |
| opportunity database on the department's public internet web site | 20 |
| in which the department shall post all of the summer employment | 21 |
| opportunity information that it compiles, including contact | 22 |
| information for the potential employers, and which high school and | 23 |
| college youth may access to identify summer employment | 24 |
| opportunities; | 25 |
| (3) The department of development to publicize the | 26 |
| availability of the summer employment opportunity database in a | 27 |
| manner that targets high school and college youth in this state; | 28 |
| and | 29 |
| (4) An anonymous form to appear on the web site, when youth | 30 |
| access the summer employment opportunity database, encouraging | 31 |
| them to answer the question, "What do you dream about doing with | 32 |
| your first paycheck?" | 33 |
| (B) The department of development shall compile the answers | 34 |
| submitted through its web site under division (A)(4) of this | 35 |
| section into an annual report. Not later than the thirty-first day | 36 |
| of December of each year, the department shall submit a copy of | 37 |
| the compiled report to the president and minority leader of the | 38 |
| senate and the speaker and minority leader of the house of | 39 |
| representatives. | 40 |
| (C) The director of development shall account for the costs | 41 |
| of operating the program established under division (A) of this | 42 |
| section separately from the other costs incurred by the | 43 |
| department. Not later than the thirty-first day of December in | 44 |
| each year, the director of development shall submit a copy of the | 45 |
| itemized accounting to the director of job and family services and | 46 |
| request reimbursement for those costs under section 6301.03 of the | 47 |
| Revised Code. The director of job and family services shall | 48 |
| reimburse the director of development for costs incurred under | 49 |
| division (A) of this section using funds made available through | 50 |
| the "Workforce Investment Act of 1998," 112 Stat. 936, 29 U.S.C. | 51 |
| 2801, as amended, which are reserved for youth for statewide | 52 |
| activities, to the extent that those funds are available. | 53 |