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| To require the Ohio Development Services Agency to | 1 |
| develop the Lakefront Ohio Economic Development | 2 |
| and Tourism Plan for counties bordering Lake Erie, | 3 |
| to require regional institutions of higher | 4 |
| education to jointly develop a proposal for the | 5 |
| use of specified types of land in the region, and | 6 |
| to make an appropriation. | 7 |
| Section 1. (A) Not later than sixteen months after the | 8 |
| effective date of this section, the Ohio Development Services | 9 |
| Agency shall develop the Lakefront Ohio Economic Development and | 10 |
| Tourism Plan to increase commerce and tourism in Ohio counties | 11 |
| with land bordering Lake Erie. The plan shall include | 12 |
| recommendations for the use of the following types of land in the | 13 |
| region: | 14 |
| (1) Vacant land; | 15 |
| (2) Land currently available for commercial use; | 16 |
| (3) Land currently in use that has the potential to attract | 17 |
| increased commerce and tourism to the region. | 18 |
| The plan may incorporate the proposal jointly completed by | 19 |
| regional institutions of higher education pursuant to division (B) | 20 |
| of this section. The plan shall not include proposals for the | 21 |
| industrial use of land in the region. | 22 |
| (B) Regional institutions of higher education shall jointly | 23 |
| do both of the following: | 24 |
| (1) Review the types of land in the region listed in division | 25 |
| (A) of this section; | 26 |
| (2) Develop a proposal for the use of such land under the | 27 |
| plan. The proposal shall identify land that may be developed to | 28 |
| increase commerce and tourism and shall include a plan for the | 29 |
| economic development of such land, including recommendations for | 30 |
| funding. | 31 |
| Not later than twelve months after the effective date of this | 32 |
| section, the regional institutions of higher education shall | 33 |
| jointly submit the proposal developed pursuant to this division to | 34 |
| the Ohio Development Services Agency. | 35 |
| (C) Upon the submission of the institutions' proposal | 36 |
| pursuant to division (B) of this section, the Ohio Development | 37 |
| Services Agency shall develop the Lakefront Ohio Economic | 38 |
| Development and Tourism Plan. Upon the completion of the plan, the | 39 |
| agency shall then submit the plan to the Office of TourismOhio, | 40 |
| JobsOhio, and the mayor and county commissioner, or the | 41 |
| equivalent, of each Ohio county with land bordering Lake Erie. | 42 |
| (D) As used in this section, "regional institutions of higher | 43 |
| education" are institutions of higher education with main or | 44 |
| branch campuses located in an Ohio county that borders Lake Erie, | 45 |
| including all of the following: | 46 |
| (1) Bowling Green State University branch campus at the | 47 |
| Firelands; | 48 |
| (2) Case Western Reserve University; | 49 |
| (3) Cleveland State University; | 50 |
| (4) Cuyahoga Community College; | 51 |
| (5) Lakeland Community College; | 52 |
| (6) Lorain County Community College; | 53 |
| (7) University of Toledo; | 54 |
| (8) Youngstown State University. | 55 |
| Section 2. All items in this section are hereby appropriated | 56 |
| as designated out of any moneys in the state treasury to the | 57 |
| credit of the designated fund. For all appropriations made in this | 58 |
| act, those in the first column are for fiscal year 2014 and those | 59 |
| in the second column are for fiscal year 2015. The appropriations | 60 |
| made in this act are in addition to any other appropriations made | 61 |
| for the FY 2014-FY 2015 biennium. | 62 |
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| General Revenue Fund | 64 |
| GRF | 195XXX | Lakefront Ohio Plan | $ | 0 | $ | 3,000,000 | 65 | ||||
| TOTAL GRF General Revenue Fund | $ | 0 | $ | 3,000,000 | 66 | ||||||
| TOTAL ALL BUDGET FUND GROUPS | $ | 0 | $ | 3,000,000 | 67 | ||||||
| LAKEFRONT OHIO PLAN | 68 |
| The foregoing appropriation item 195XXX, Lakefront Ohio Plan, | 69 |
| shall be used to develop the economic development and tourism plan | 70 |
| described in Section 1 of this act. Of the foregoing | 71 |
| appropriation, $375,000 shall be distributed to each of the | 72 |
| following institutions of higher education: Bowling Green State | 73 |
| University-Firelands, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland | 74 |
| State University, Cuyahoga Community College, Lakeland Community | 75 |
| College, Lorain County Community College, University of Toledo, | 76 |
| and Youngstown State University. | 77 |
| Section 3. Within the limits set forth in this act, the | 78 |
| Director of Budget and Management shall establish accounts | 79 |
| indicating the source and amount of funds for each appropriation | 80 |
| made in this act, and shall determine the form and manner in which | 81 |
| appropriation accounts shall be maintained. Expenditures from | 82 |
| appropriations contained in this act shall be accounted for as | 83 |
| though made in Am. Sub. H.B. 59 of the 130th General Assembly. | 84 |
| The appropriations made in this act are subject to all | 85 |
| provisions of Am. Sub. H.B. 59 of the 130th General Assembly that | 86 |
| are generally applicable to such appropriations. | 87 |