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To enact section 122.177 of the Revised Code to | 1 |
authorize the Development Services Agency to award | 2 |
grants to businesses that employ high school | 3 |
students in career exploration internships and to | 4 |
make an appropriation. | 5 |
Section 1. That section 122.177 of the Revised Code be | 6 |
enacted to read as follows: | 7 |
Sec. 122.177. (A) As used in this section: | 8 |
(1) "Business" means a sole proprietorship, a corporation for | 9 |
profit, or a pass-through entity as defined in section 5733.04 of | 10 |
the Revised Code. | 11 |
(2) "Career exploration internship" means a paid employment | 12 |
relationship between a student intern and a business in which the | 13 |
student intern acquires education, instruction, and experience | 14 |
relevant to the student intern's career aspirations. | 15 |
(3) "Student intern" means an individual who, at the time the | 16 |
business applies for a grant under division (B) of this section, | 17 |
meets both of the following criteria: | 18 |
(a) The individual is entitled to attend school in this | 19 |
state. | 20 |
(b) The individual is either between sixteen and eighteen | 21 |
years of age or is enrolled in grade eleven or twelve. | 22 |
(B) There is hereby created in the development services | 23 |
agency the career exploration internship program to award grants | 24 |
to businesses that employ a student intern in a career exploration | 25 |
internship. To qualify for a grant under the program, the career | 26 |
exploration internship shall be at least twenty weeks in duration | 27 |
and include at least two hundred hours of paid work and | 28 |
instruction in this state. To obtain a grant, the business shall | 29 |
apply to the development services agency before the starting date | 30 |
of the career exploration internship. The application shall | 31 |
include all of the following: | 32 |
(1) A brief description of the career exploration internship; | 33 |
(2) A signed statement by the student intern briefly | 34 |
describing the student intern's career aspirations and how the | 35 |
student intern believes this career exploration internship may | 36 |
help achieve those aspirations; | 37 |
(3) A signed statement by a principal or guidance counselor | 38 |
at the student intern's school or, in the case of a home schooled | 39 |
student, an individual responsible for administering instruction | 40 |
to the student intern, acknowledging that the employment | 41 |
opportunity qualifies as a career exploration internship and | 42 |
expressing intent to advise the student intern as provided in | 43 |
division (E) of this section; | 44 |
(4) The name, address, and telephone number of the business; | 45 |
(5) Any other information required by the development | 46 |
services agency. | 47 |
(C)(1) The development services agency shall review and make | 48 |
a determination with respect to each application submitted under | 49 |
division (B) of this section in the order in which the application | 50 |
is received. The agency shall not approve any application under | 51 |
this section that is received by the agency more than three years | 52 |
after the effective date of H.B. 107 of the 130th general assembly | 53 |
or that was submitted by a business that does not have substantial | 54 |
operations in this state. The agency may not otherwise deny an | 55 |
application unless the application is incomplete, the proposed | 56 |
employment relationship does not qualify as a career exploration | 57 |
internship for which a grant may be awarded under this section, | 58 |
the business is ineligible to receive a grant under division | 59 |
(D)(1) of this section, or the agency determines that approving | 60 |
the application would cause the amount that could be awarded to | 61 |
exceed the amount of money in the career exploration internship | 62 |
fund. | 63 |
(2) The agency shall send written notice of its determination | 64 |
to the applicant within thirty days after receiving the | 65 |
application. If the agency determines that the application shall | 66 |
not be approved, the notice shall include the reasons for such | 67 |
determination. | 68 |
(3) The agency's determination is final and may not be | 69 |
appealed for any reason. A business may submit a new or amended | 70 |
application under division (B) of this section at any time before | 71 |
or after receiving notice under division (C)(2) of this section. | 72 |
(D)(1) In any calendar year, the development services agency | 73 |
shall not award grants under this section to any business that has | 74 |
received grants for three career exploration internships in that | 75 |
calendar year. The agency shall not award a grant to a business | 76 |
unless the agency receives a report from the business within | 77 |
thirty days after the end of the career exploration internship or | 78 |
thirteen months after the approval of the application, whichever | 79 |
comes first, that includes all of the following: | 80 |
(a) The date the student intern began the internship; | 81 |
(b) The date the internship ended or a statement that the | 82 |
student will continue to be employed by the business; | 83 |
(c) The total number of hours during the internship that the | 84 |
student intern was employed by the business; | 85 |
(d) The total wages paid by the business to the student | 86 |
intern during the internship; | 87 |
(e) A signed statement by the student intern briefly | 88 |
describing the duties performed during the internship and the | 89 |
skills and experiences gained throughout the internship; | 90 |
(f) Any other information required by the agency. | 91 |
(2) If the agency receives the report and determines that it | 92 |
contains all of the information and the statement required by | 93 |
division (D)(1) of this section and that the career exploration | 94 |
internship described in the report complies with all the | 95 |
provisions of this section, the agency shall award a grant to the | 96 |
business. The amount of the grant shall equal the lesser of the | 97 |
following: | 98 |
(a) Fifty per cent of the wages paid by the business to the | 99 |
student intern for the first twelve months following the date the | 100 |
application was approved; | 101 |
(b) Five thousand dollars. | 102 |
(E) The student intern and the principal, guidance counselor, | 103 |
or other qualified individual who signed the statement described | 104 |
in division (B)(3) of this section shall meet at least once in the | 105 |
thirty days following the end of the career exploration internship | 106 |
or in the thirteenth month following the start of the career | 107 |
exploration internship, whichever comes first. The purpose of the | 108 |
meeting is to discuss the student intern's experiences during the | 109 |
career exploration internship, consider the practical applications | 110 |
of these experiences to the student intern's career aspirations, | 111 |
and to establish or confirm goals for the student intern. If | 112 |
practicable, the meeting shall be in person. Otherwise, the | 113 |
meeting may be conducted over the telephone. | 114 |
(F) A business that receives a grant under this section may | 115 |
submit a new application under division (B) of this section for | 116 |
another career exploration internship with the same student | 117 |
intern. Such an application does not have to include the | 118 |
statements otherwise required by divisions (B)(2) and (3) of this | 119 |
section. | 120 |
(G) Annually, before the seventh day of January until the | 121 |
January of the third year that follows the year that includes the | 122 |
effective date of H.B. 107 of the 130th general assembly, the | 123 |
development services agency shall compile a report indicating the | 124 |
number of career exploration internships approved by the agency | 125 |
under this section, the statements issued by the student interns | 126 |
under divisions (B)(2) and (D)(1)(e) of this section, the number | 127 |
of student interns that continued employment with the business | 128 |
after the termination of the career exploration internship, and | 129 |
the total amount of grants awarded under this section. The report | 130 |
shall not disclose any student interns' personally identifiable | 131 |
information. The agency shall provide copies of the report to the | 132 |
governor, the speaker and minority leader of the house of | 133 |
representatives, and the president and minority leader of the | 134 |
senate. | 135 |
(H) The development services agency may adopt rules necessary | 136 |
to administer this section in accordance with Chapter 119. of the | 137 |
Revised Code. | 138 |
(I) The career exploration internship fund is hereby created | 139 |
in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of a portion of the | 140 |
proceeds from the upfront license fees paid for the casino | 141 |
facilities authorized under Section 6(C) of Article XV, Ohio | 142 |
Constitution. Money in the fund shall be used by the development | 143 |
services agency to provide grants under this section. | 144 |
Section 2. All items in this section are hereby appropriated | 145 |
as designated out of any moneys in the state treasury to the | 146 |
credit of the designated fund. For all appropriations made in this | 147 |
act, those in the first column are for fiscal year 2014 and those | 148 |
in the second column are for fiscal year 2015. The appropriations | 149 |
made in this act are in addition to any other appropriations made | 150 |
for the FY 2014-FY 2015 biennium. | 151 |
Appropriations |
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State Special Revenue Fund Group | 153 |
5NS0 | 195616 | Career Exploration Internship | $ | 0 | $ | 1,000,000 | 154 | ||||
TOTAL SSR State Special Revenue Fund Group | $ | 0 | $ | 1,000,000 | 155 | ||||||
TOTAL ALL BUDGET FUND GROUPS | $ | 0 | $ | 1,000,000 | 156 |
CAREER EXPLORATION INTERNSHIP | 157 |
The foregoing appropriation item 195616, Career Exploration | 158 |
Internship, shall be used for the Career Exploration Internship | 159 |
Program as described in section 122.177 of the Revised Code. | 160 |
Section 3. TRANSFER TO CAREER EXPLORATION INTERNSHIP FUND | 161 |
On July 1, 2014, or as soon as possible thereafter, the | 162 |
Director of Budget and Management shall transfer $1,000,000 cash | 163 |
from the Economic Development Programs Fund (Fund 5JC0) used by | 164 |
the Board of Regents to the Career Exploration Internship Fund | 165 |
(Fund 5NS0) used by the Development Services Agency. | 166 |
Section 4. Within the limits set forth in this act, the | 167 |
Director of Budget and Management shall establish accounts | 168 |
indicating the source and amount of funds for each appropriation | 169 |
made in this act, and shall determine the form and manner in which | 170 |
appropriation accounts shall be maintained. | 171 |
The appropriation contained in this act shall be accounted | 172 |
for as though made in Am. Sub. H.B. 59 of the 130th General | 173 |
Assembly. The appropriation made in this act is subject to all | 174 |
provisions of Am. Sub. H.B. 59 of the 130th General Assembly that | 175 |
are generally applicable to such appropriations. | 176 |