|
|
| 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 |
| 152 | |
| 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 |