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| To enact section 149.60 of the Revised Code to | 1 |
| establish the Local Government Information | 2 |
| Exchange Grant Program and to make an | 3 |
| appropriation. | 4 |
| Section 1. That section 149.60 of the Revised Code be enacted | 5 |
| to read as follows: | 6 |
| Sec. 149.60. (A) As used in this section "local government" | 7 |
| means a county, township, or municipal corporation. | 8 |
| (B) There is the local government information exchange grant | 9 |
| program in the department of administrative services. The program | 10 |
| shall be administered by the director of administrative services. | 11 |
| The director shall adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised | 12 |
| Code as are necessary to administer the program. The rules shall | 13 |
| include all of the following: | 14 |
| (1) Grant eligibility criteria, that shall include a | 15 |
| requirement that a grantee be a local government; | 16 |
| (2) Specifications for what data points must be included by | 17 |
| local governments in order for the local governments to be | 18 |
| eligible for the grant funding; | 19 |
| (3) A requirement that electronic data satisfying the grant | 20 |
| criteria be posted on the internet, by the local government or by | 21 |
| the state, in an open format that is capable of being searched, | 22 |
| viewed, and downloaded by the public; | 23 |
| (4) Specifications for consistent formatting and technology | 24 |
| standards for electronic data satisfying the grant eligibility | 25 |
| criteria; and | 26 |
| (5) Specifications for accounting standards for data provided | 27 |
| by local governments. | 28 |
| The director may require different data points between | 29 |
| counties, townships, and municipal corporations. Required data | 30 |
| points may be different among local governments of the same type. | 31 |
| (C) The director shall disburse a grant of ten thousand | 32 |
| dollars to each local government that meets the grant eligibility | 33 |
| criteria established by the director. Grants shall be awarded in | 34 |
| the order in which the local governments have met the eligibility | 35 |
| criteria. The total amount of grants awarded shall not exceed the | 36 |
| amount that can be funded with appropriations made by the general | 37 |
| assembly for this purpose. | 38 |
| Section 2. All items in this section are hereby appropriated | 39 |
| as designated out of any moneys in the state treasury to the | 40 |
| credit of the General Revenue Fund. For all appropriations made in | 41 |
| this act, those in the first column are for fiscal year 2015 and | 42 |
| the appropriations in the second column are for fiscal year 2016. | 43 |
| The appropriations made in this act are in addition to any other | 44 |
| appropriations made for the FY 2014-FY 2015 biennium and the FY | 45 |
| 2016-FY 2017 biennium. | 46 |
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| General Revenue Fund | 48 |
| GRF | 100501 | Local Government Information Exchange Grants | $ | 12,500,000 | $ | 12,500,000 | 49 | ||||
| TOTAL GRF General Revenue Fund | $ | 12,500,000 | $ | 12,500,000 | 50 | ||||||
| TOTAL ALL BUDGET FUND GROUPS | $ | 12,500,000 | $ | 12,500,000 | 51 | ||||||
| LOCAL GOVERNMENT INFORMATION EXCHANGE GRANTS | 52 |
| Of the foregoing appropriation item 100501, Local Government | 53 |
| Information Exchange Grants, up to $250,000 in fiscal year 2015 | 54 |
| shall be used by the Director of Administrative Services for | 55 |
| administration and maintenance of the Local Government Information | 56 |
| Exchange Grant Program and for administration of Local Government | 57 |
| Information Exchange Grants. The remainder of the foregoing | 58 |
| appropriation item 100501, Local Government Information Exchange | 59 |
| Grants, shall be used by the Director of Administrative Services | 60 |
| to disburse grant awards to eligible counties, townships, and | 61 |
| municipal corporations under section 149.60 of the Revised Code. | 62 |
| Section 3. Within the limits set forth in this act, the | 63 |
| Director of Budget and Management shall establish accounts | 64 |
| indicating the source and amount of funds for each appropriation | 65 |
| made in this act, and shall determine the form and manner in which | 66 |
| appropriation accounts shall be maintained. Expenditures from the | 67 |
| FY 2015 appropriations contained in this act shall be accounted | 68 |
| for as though made in H.B. 59 of the 130th General Assembly. | 69 |
| The FY 2015 appropriations made in this act are subject to | 70 |
| all provisions of H.B. 59 of the 130th General Assembly that are | 71 |
| generally applicable to such appropriations. | 72 |
| Expenditures from the FY 2016 appropriation contained in this | 73 |
| act shall be accounted for as though made in the main operating | 74 |
| appropriations act of the 131st General Assembly. The FY 2016 | 75 |
| appropriation made in this act is subject to all provisions of the | 76 |
| main operating appropriations act of the 131st General Assembly | 77 |
| that are generally applicable to such appropriations. | 78 |