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As Reported by the House Finance and Appropriations Committee*
122nd General Assembly
Regular Session
1997-1998 | Sub. H. B. No. 650 |
REPRESENTATIVES JOHNSON-SYKES-STAPLETON-DAMSCHRODER-PERZ-MOTTLEY-
MEAD-WOMER BENJAMIN-O'BRIEN-CORE-BOYD-ROBERTS-PRENTISS-
MALLORY-VERICH-TAVARES-WILSON-METELSKY-OPFER-SAWYER
A BILL
To amend sections 3317.022, 3317.023, 3317.0213, 3318.05, 3318.35, and
5705.29 of
the Revised Code; to amend Sections 50, 50.04,
50.07, 50.09, 50.15, 50.20,
50.23, 50.24, 50.43, 50.44, 69.03, 76, and 130.01 of Am. Sub. H.B. 215 of the
122nd
General Assembly; to amend Sections 50.06 and 50.11 of Am. Sub. H.B. 215 of
the 122nd
General Assembly, as amended by Am. Sub. H.B. 182
of the 122nd General
Assembly; to amend Section 50.16 of Am. Sub. H.B. 215 of the 122nd General
Assembly, as amended by Am. Sub. S.B.
55 of the 122nd General Assembly; to
amend Section 5 of Am. Sub. S.B. 102 of the 122nd
General Assembly, as
subsequently amended; and to repeal Section 50.05 of Am. Sub. H.B.
215 of the 122nd General Assembly to make specific
appropriations and certain
increases and
decreases in existing appropriations for fiscal year
1999; to change
the use of the fiscal year 1998 year-end balance in the General
Revenue Fund for purposes of funding elementary and secondary
education beginning July 1, 1998; to
modify the Ohio
School Facilities
Commission Law; to require the School Facilities
Commission instead of the
Department of Education to administer the Disability
Access Projects Program
and the Asbestos Abatement Program; to
require that the
General Assembly pass
a separate education budget act for the fiscal year
2000-2001 biennium; and
to create a special committee on Property
Tax Revision and
Restructuring.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That sections 3317.022, 3317.023, 3317.0213, 3318.05, 3318.35, and
5705.29 of the Revised Code be amended to read as follows:
Sec. 3317.022. (A) As used in the computation under this
section, the "formula amount" for fiscal year 1998"
1999 equals $3,663 $3,790. The department of
education shall compute and distribute state aid to
each school district for the fiscal year in accordance with the
following formula, using adjusted total taxable value as defined under
division (M) of section 3317.02 of the Revised Code and the
information obtained under section 3317.021 of the Revised Code in
1997
calendar year 1998:
Compute the following for each eligible district:
(cost-of-doing-business factor X
the formula amount X ADM)-
(.023 X adjusted total taxable value)
If the difference obtained is a negative number, the
district's computation shall be zero.
(B)(1) For each school district for which the tax exempt
value of the district equals or exceeds twenty-five per cent of
the potential value of the district, the department of education
shall calculate the difference between the district's tax exempt
value and twenty-five per cent of the district's potential value.
(2) For each school district to which division (B)(1) of
this section applies, the adjusted total taxable value used in
the calculation under division (A) of this section shall be the
adjusted total taxable value modified by subtracting the amount
calculated under division (B)(1) of this section.
(C) If in any fiscal year insufficient funds are
appropriated to provide each school district the amount of money
calculated under the formula in division (A) of this section and
pursuant to other sections of this chapter, such calculated
amounts shall be reduced in accordance with any formula provided
for that purpose by the general assembly in its main biennial
appropriations act.
Sec. 3317.023. (A) Notwithstanding section 3317.022 of
the Revised Code, the amounts required to be paid to a district
under that section shall be adjusted by the amount of the
computations made under divisions (B) to (L) of this section.
As used in this section:
(1) "Classroom teacher" means a licensed employee who
provides direct instruction to pupils, excluding teachers funded
from money paid to the district from federal sources; educational
service personnel; and vocational and special education teachers.
(2) "Educational service personnel" shall not include such
specialists funded from money paid to the district from federal
sources or assigned full-time to vocational or special education
students and classes and may only include those persons employed
in the eight specialist areas in a pattern approved by the
department of education under guidelines established by the state
board of education.
(3) "Annual salary" means the annual base salary stated in
the state minimum salary schedule for the performance of the
teacher's regular teaching duties that the teacher earns for
services rendered for the first full week of October of the
fiscal year for which the adjustment is made under division (D)
of this section. It shall not include any salary payments for
supplemental teachers contracts.
(4) As used in division (B) of this section, "average daily
membership" means the three-year average number of pupils in grades one
through twelve plus one-half the kindergarten average daily membership
certified under section 3317.03 of the Revised Code for the current and
preceding two fiscal years, except that:
(a) In the case of a big eight district "average
daily membership" means the three-year average number of pupils in
grades one through twelve, plus the three-year average number of pupils in
all-day kindergarten,
plus three-fourths of the three-year average number of pupils in extended
kindergarten, plus one-half of the three-year average number of pupils in
traditional kindergarten, all certified under division (A) of that
section for the current and preceding two fiscal years;
(b) In the case of an urban district, "average daily
membership" means the three-year average number of pupils in grades one
through twelve, plus three-fourths of the
three-year average number of pupils in all-day or extended
kindergarten, plus one-half of the three-year average number of pupils in
traditional kindergarten, all as
certified under division (A) of that section for
the current and preceding two fiscal years.
(5) As used in division (B) of this
section, "per cent figure" means a
school district's three-year average number of children
participating in Ohio works first (OWF) under Chapter 5107. of the
Revised Code divided by the average daily membership, multiplied by one
hundred.
(6) As used in divisions (A)(5) and (B) of this
section, "aid to dependent children" and "ADC"
mean:
(a) Aid provided under Chapter 5107. of the
Revised Code prior to October 1, 1996;
(b) Cash assistance provided on or after
October 1, 1996, under a state program operated pursuant to
Title IV-A of the "Social Security Act," 110 Stat. 2113 (1996), 42
U.S.C.A. 601, as amended, regardless of
the name used to designate that assistance.
(B)(1)(a) If the three-year average of the number of children
ages five to seventeen residing in the district and living in a
family participating in Ohio works first, as certified or
adjusted under section 3317.10 of the Revised Code for the
current and preceding two fiscal years, is
equal to five per cent or more of the number of pupils in the average daily
membership, add the amount computed for the district in accordance with the
following schedule, as adjusted by division (B)(1)(b) of this section:
THREE-YEAR AVERAGE NUMBER OF | |
OWF CHILDREN DIVIDED BY | PAYMENT PER OWF CHILD IN |
THE AVERAGE DAILY MEMBERSHIP | THE THREE-YEAR
AVERAGE |
At least 5%, but
less than 10% | $198.00 OWF |
At least 10%, but
less than 20% | ($101.50 x per cent figure) minus
$817.00 OWF |
At least 20%, but less than 30 40% | ($7.50 x per cent figure) plus
$1,063.00 OWF |
At least 30 40% | $1,288.00OWF 1,488.40 |
(b) In fiscal year 1998, for school districts with
a per cent figure of at least five,
increase the amount determined under division (B)(1)(a) of this section by
four per cent. In fiscal year 1999, FOR ANY DISTRICT WITH A PER CENT
FIGURE LESS THAN FORTY, determine the
per-ADC-child PER-OWF-CHILD
amount the district would have received in fiscal year 1998 under divisions
(B)(1)(a) and (b) of this section, based on its per cent figure for fiscal
year 1999, and increase that amount by five per cent.
(2) If in any year the sum of the additions made under
this division is less than ninety-seven per cent of the amount
appropriated for this division for that year, the department of
education shall increase the amount added for each district under
this division. The amount so added for each district shall equal
(1) the difference between ninety-seven per cent of the amount
appropriated and the total amount of the additions prior to such
increase, times (2) the percentage that the amount added for the
district prior to the increase was of the total of such amount
added for all districts.
(3) Except as provided in division (B)(4) of this section,
a district shall expend at least seventy per cent of any
addition
received under this division for any of the following:
(a) The purchase of technology
for instructional purposes;
(b) All-day kindergarten;
(c) Reduction of class sizes;
(d) Summer school remediation or other remedial programs;
(e) Dropout prevention programs;
(f) Guaranteeing that all third graders are ready to
progress to more advanced work;
(g) Summer education and work programs;
(h) Adolescent pregnancy programs;
(i) Head start or preschool programs;
(j) Reading improvement programs described by the
department of education;
(k) Programs designed to ensure that schools are free of
drugs and violence and have a disciplined environment conducive
to learning;
(l) Furnishing free of charge materials used in courses of
instruction, except for the necessary textbooks required to be
furnished without charge pursuant to section 3329.06 of the
Revised Code, to pupils living in families participating in Ohio works first
in accordance with section 3313.642 of the Revised Code;
(m) School breakfasts provided pursuant to section
3313.813 of the Revised Code.
(4) Except as provided in division (B) of section
3301.0719 of the Revised Code, each at-risk school district, as
defined in division (A)(3) of section 3301.0719 of the
Revised Code, that receives at least three hundred thousand dollars under
divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section shall expend at least
one-tenth of the amount described in division (B)(3) of this
section for either all-day kindergarten classes with a student
teacher ratio of fifteen to one or for reduction of class sizes
in grades kindergarten to four to a fifteen to one student
teacher ratio, or both. Such districts shall also expend such
funds to provide training for teachers participating in such
programs on an ongoing basis, including at least six days of
training each school year. Amounts expended for all-day
kindergarten under this section shall only be expended to provide
additional all-day kindergarten classes not in existence on July
26, 1991. Upon the request of a board of education, the state
board of education may grant an exemption from the requirement of
division (B)(4) of this section if the district board satisfies
the state board that the district has insufficient physical
facilities to implement this requirement.
(5) Each district shall maintain the portion required to
be spent under division (B)(3) of this section in a separate
district account. Each district shall submit to the department,
in such format and at such time as the department shall specify,
a report on the programs for which it expended funds under this
division.
(C) If the district employs less than one full-time
equivalent classroom teacher for each twenty-five pupils in ADM
in any school district, deduct the sum of the amounts obtained
from the following computations:
(1) Divide the number of the district's full-time
equivalent classroom teachers employed by one twenty-fifth;
(2) Subtract the quotient in (1) from the district's ADM;
(3) Multiply the difference in (2) by seven hundred
fifty-two dollars.
(D) If a positive amount, add one-half of the amount
obtained by multiplying the number of full-time equivalent
classroom teachers by:
(1) The mean annual salary of all full-time equivalent
classroom teachers employed by the district at their respective
training and experience levels minus;
(2) The mean annual salary of all such teachers at their
respective levels in all school districts receiving payments
under this section.
The number of full-time equivalent classroom teachers used
in this computation shall not exceed one twenty-fifth of the
district's ADM. In calculating the district's mean salary under
this division, those full-time equivalent classroom teachers with
the highest training level shall be counted first, those with the
next highest training level second, and so on, in descending
order. Within the respective training levels, teachers with the
highest years of service shall be counted first, the next highest
years of service second, and so on, in descending order.
(E) This division does not apply to a school district that
has entered into an agreement under division (A) of section
3313.42 of the Revised Code. Deduct the amount obtained from the
following computations if the district employs fewer than five
full-time equivalent educational service personnel, including
elementary school art, music, and physical education teachers,
counselors, librarians, visiting teachers, school social workers,
and school nurses for each one thousand pupils in ADM:
(1) Divide the number of full-time equivalent educational
service personnel employed by the district by five
one-thousandths;
(2) Subtract the quotient in (1) from the district's ADM;
(3) Multiply the difference in (2) by ninety-four dollars.
(F) If a local school district, or a city or exempted
village school district to which a governing board of
an educational service center provides services
pursuant to section 3313.843 of the Revised
Code, deduct the amount of the payment required for the
reimbursement of the governing board
under section
3317.11 of the Revised Code.
(G)(1) If the district is required to pay to or entitled
to receive tuition from another school district under division
(C)(2) or (3) of section 3313.64 or section 3313.65 of the
Revised Code, or if the superintendent of public instruction is
required to determine the correct amount of tuition and make a
deduction or credit under section 3317.08 of the Revised Code,
deduct and credit such amounts as provided in division (I) of
section 3313.64 or section 3317.08 of the Revised Code.
(2) For each child for whom the district is responsible
for tuition under division (A)(1) of section 3317.082 or under
division (B)(1) of section 3323.091 of the Revised Code, deduct
the amount of tuition for which the district is responsible.
(H) If the district has been certified by the
superintendent of public instruction under section 3313.90 of the
Revised Code as not in compliance with the requirements of that
section, deduct an amount equal to ten per cent of the amount
computed for the district under section 3317.022 of the Revised
Code.
(I) If the amount computed by the department of education
under division (I)(1) of this section is less than the amount
computed under division (I)(2) of this section, add an amount
equal to the result obtained by subtracting the amount computed
under division (I)(1) from the amount computed under division
(I)(2) of this section.
The department of education shall compute both of the
following for each district:
(1) The sum of the amounts computed for the district under
section 3317.022 and division (N) of section 3317.024 of the
Revised Code for units approved under division (B) of section
3317.05 of the Revised Code.
(2) The amount the district would be entitled to receive
under section 3317.022 of the Revised Code if the ADM used in the
computation required by that section included the number of
full-time equivalent pupils enrolled in the units for handicapped
children approved under division (B) of section 3317.05 of the
Revised Code that are used to make the computation required by
division (N)(1)(a) of section 3317.024 of the Revised Code.
(J) If the district has received a loan from a commercial
lending institution for which payments are made by the
superintendent of public instruction pursuant to division (E)(3)
of section 3313.483 of the Revised Code, deduct an amount equal
to such payments.
(K)(1) If the district is a party to an agreement entered
into under division (D), (E), or (F) of section 3311.06 or
division (B) of section 3311.24 of the Revised Code and is
obligated to make payments to another district under such an
agreement, deduct an amount equal to such payments if the
district school board notifies the department in writing that it
wishes to have such payments deducted.
(2) If the district is entitled to receive payments from
another district that has notified the department to deduct such
payments under division (K)(1) of this section, add the amount of
such payments.
(L) If the district is required to pay an amount of funds
to a cooperative education district pursuant to a provision
described by division (B)(4) of section 3311.52 or division
(B)(8) of section 3311.521 of the Revised Code, deduct such
amounts as provided under that provision and credit those amounts
to the cooperative education district for payment to the district
under division (B)(1) of section 3317.19 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 3317.0213. (A) As used in this section:
(1) "ADM" for any school district means the average daily
membership described by division (A) of section 3317.02 of the
Revised Code, as finally determined by the department of
education in calculating the district's payments under section
3317.022 of the Revised Code for the preceding fiscal year.
(2) "Total taxable value" means the sum of the average of
the amounts certified for a district in the second, third, and
fourth preceding fiscal years under divisions (A)(1) and (2) of
section 3317.021 of the Revised Code.
(3) "District median income" means the median Ohio
adjusted gross income certified for a district under division (B)
of this section.
(4) "Statewide median income" means the median district
median income of all school districts in the state.
(5) "Income factor" for a district means the quotient
obtained by dividing that district's median income by the
statewide median income.
(6) "Valuation per pupil" for a district means the
district's total taxable value, divided by the district's ADM.
(7) "Threshold valuation" means the
adjusted valuation per pupil of the school
district with the two FOUR hundred ninety-third
FIFTY-EIGHTH lowest adjusted valuation per pupil
in the state, according to data available at the time of the computation
under division (C) of this section.
(8) "Adjusted valuation per pupil" for a district means an
amount calculated in accordance with the following formula:
The district's valuation per pupil -
($30,000 X (one minus the district's income factor))
(9) "COST-OF-DOING-BUSINESS FACTOR" HAS THE SAME MEANING AS IN
SECTION 3317.02 of the Revised Code.
(B) On or before the first day of July of each year,
the tax commissioner shall certify to the department of education
for each city, exempted village, and local school district the
median Ohio adjusted gross income of the residents of the school
district determined on the basis of tax returns filed for the
second preceding tax year by the residents of the district. The
amount certified shall be used in calculating the district's
income factor.
(C) Beginning in fiscal year 1993, during DURING August of each
fiscal year, the department of education shall distribute to
CALCULATE FOR each
school district meeting the requirements of section 3317.01 of
the Revised Code whose adjusted valuation per pupil is less than
the threshold valuation, an amount ADEQUACY AID PHASE-IN PAYMENT.
EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN DIVISION (D) OF THIS SECTION, THE ADEQUACY AID
PHASE-IN PAYMENT SHALL BE calculated in accordance with
the following formula:
(The threshold valuation - the district's
adjusted valuation per pupil)
X .013 XADM
ADEQUACY AID PER PUPIL AMOUNT X
COST-OF-DOING-BUSINESS FACTOR X ADM
THE ADEQUACY AID PER PUPIL AMOUNT SHALL BE DETERMINED FOR
EACH SCHOOL DISTRICT AS FOLLOWS:
(1) IF THE DISTRICT'S ADJUSTED VALUATION PER PUPIL IS
LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO THAT OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT WITH THE TWO
HUNDRED TWENTY-NINTH LOWEST ADJUSTED VALUATION PER PUPIL IN THE
STATE, THE ADEQUACY AID PER PUPIL AMOUNT IS $210.
(2) IF THE DISTRICT'S ADJUSTED VALUATION PER PUPIL IS
GREATER THAN THE TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-NINTH LOWEST ADJUSTED
VALUATION PER PUPIL IN THE STATE, BUT LESS THAN THE THRESHOLD
VALUATION, THE ADEQUACY AID PER PUPIL AMOUNT IS DETERMINED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING FORMULA:
$210 - $210 X [(DISTRICT'S ADJUSTED VALUATION PER PUPIL -
THE 229th LOWEST ADJUSTED VALUATION PER PUPIL IN THE STATE)/
(THE THRESHOLD VALUATION - THE 229th LOWEST ADJUSTED
VALUATION PER PUPIL IN THE STATE)]
(3) NOTWITHSTANDING DIVISIONS
(C)(1) AND (2) OF THIS SECTION,
IF ANY SCHOOL DISTRICT RECEIVED EQUITY AID IN FISCAL YEAR 1998
UNDER THE VERSION OF THIS SECTION IN EFFECT THAT YEAR AND IF THE TOTAL OF
THAT
DISTRICT'S ADEQUACY AID PER
PUPIL AMOUNT CALCULATED UNDER DIVISION
(C)(1) OR (2) OF THIS SECTION
AND $3,790 IS LESS THAN THE TOTAL OF $3,663 AND THE QUOTIENT OBTAINED BY
DIVIDING THE DISTRICT'S
FISCAL YEAR 1998 EQUITY AID PAYMENT BY ITS
ADM AS FINALLY DETERMINED IN CALCULATING PAYMENT UNDER SECTION
3317.022 of the Revised Code FOR FISCAL YEAR 1998, THEN THE DISTRICT'S FISCAL
YEAR 1999 ADEQUACY AID PER PUPIL AMOUNT SHALL BE CALCULATED AS
FOLLOWS:
[$3,663 + (THE DISTRICT'S FISCAL YEAR 1998
EQUITY AID PAYMENT/ADM AS FINALLY
DETERMINED IN CALCULATING THE PAYMENT
UNDER SECTION 3317.022 of the Revised Code
FOR FISCAL YEAR 1998)] - $3,790
(D) IF THE DEPARTMENT
ESTIMATES IN AUGUST THAT A
SCHOOL DISTRICT ELIGIBLE FOR FUNDS UNDER THIS SECTION IS ALSO
ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE GUARANTEE FUNDS UNDER SECTION 3317.0212 OF
THE REVISED CODE IN THE SAME FISCAL YEAR,
THE DISTRICT'S ADEQUACY AID PHASE-IN PAYMENT SHALL BE THE
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE AMOUNT CALCULATED FOR THE DISTRICT UNDER
DIVISION (C) OF THIS SECTION
MINUS THE GUARANTEE AMOUNT THE DEPARTMENT ESTIMATES IT WILL PAY
UNDER SECTION 3317.0212 OF THE
REVISED CODE. IF THIS CALCULATION
PRODUCES A NEGATIVE NUMBER, THE DISTRICT'S ADEQUACY AID PHASE-IN
PAYMENT SHALL BE ZERO.
(E) THE DEPARTMENT SHALL
PAY EACH ELIGIBLE SCHOOL DISTRICT ITS ADEQUACY AID PHASE-IN
PAYMENT UNDER THIS SECTION IN QUARTERLY INSTALLMENTS, PAYING THE
FIRST INSTALLMENT IN AUGUST.
Sec. 3318.05. The conditional approval of the Ohio school
facilities commission
for a project shall lapse and the amount reserved
and encumbered for such project shall be released unless
the school district board accepts such conditional approval within one
hundred twenty days following the date of certification of
the conditional approval to the school district board and the electors of the
school district vote favorably
on both of the propositions described in divisions
(A) and (B) of this section
within one year of the date of such certification. The propositions
described in divisions (A) and (B) of this section
shall be combined in a single proposal. If the
district board or the district's electors fail to meet such requirements
and the amount reserved and encumbered for the district's project is
released, the district shall be given first priority for project funding as
such funds become available.
(A) On the question of issuing bonds of the school
district board, for the school district's portion of the basic project
cost, in either whatever amount may be necessary to raise
the net bonded indebtedness of the school district to within five
thousand dollars of the required level of indebtedness calculated for
the year preceding the year in which the resolution declaring the necessity of
the election is adopted, or an amount equal to the required percentage
of the basic project costs, whichever is greater; provided, that such
question need not be submitted if at the time of the passage of
such resolution the net bonded indebtedness of the school
district (1) aggregates ninety-five per cent or more of the
required level of indebtedness, or (2) is within twenty thousand
dollars of such level and the required percentage of the basic project
costs is not greater than either the amount necessary to raise
the net bonded indebtedness of the school district to within five
thousand dollars of the required level of indebtedness or twenty
thousand dollars; and
(B) On the question of levying a tax the proceeds of
which shall be used to pay the cost of maintaining the
classroom facilities included in the project, except that in any year the
district's adjusted valuation per pupil is greater than the state-wide median
adjusted valuation per pupil one-half of the proceeds of the tax shall be used
for such maintenance and one-half of such proceeds shall be used to pay
the cost of the purchase of the classroom facilities from the
state under the provisions of sections 3318.01 to 3318.20 of the
Revised Code. Such tax shall be at the rate of one-half mill for
each dollar of valuation except that in those years in which the
Ohio school
facilities commission, pursuant to section 3318.051 of
the
Revised Code, requires the district to increase the tax rate to
an amount greater than one-half mill, but not in excess of four
mills, until the purchase price is paid but in no case longer
than twenty-three years. Proceeds of the tax to be used for maintenance of
the classroom facilities shall be deposited into a separate fund established
by the school district for such purpose.
Sec. 3318.35. (A) As used in this section,:
(1) "ADJUSTED VALUATION PER PUPIL" HAS THE SAME MEANING AS IN SECTION
3317.0213 of the Revised Code.
(2) "Ohio
school facilities commission" has the same meaning as in section
3318.01 of the Revised Code.
(B) The Ohio school facilities
commission shall establish and administer the emergency school
building repair program. Under the program, the commission
shall distribute moneys appropriated by the general assembly for
such purpose to school districts, beginning with those districts
with an adjusted per pupil valuation PER PUPIL less than the
threshold ADJUSTED valuation defined in section
3317.0213
PER PUPIL of the Revised Code SCHOOL DISTRICT WITH THE TWO
HUNDRED NINETY-THIRD LOWEST ADJUSTED VALUATION PER PUPIL IN THE STATE.
The commission shall determine and certify SUBMIT to the
controlling board for its approval any determination the commission makes
as to the necessity of emergency repairs based on an on-site inspection of
the school buildings in a school district OR
DISAPPROVAL REQUESTS FOR
ALLOCATIONS OF LUMP SUMS OF MONEY FROM WHICH THE COMMISSION MAY
DISBURSE FUNDS TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS UPON DETERMINING THAT THE
DISTRICTS QUALIFY FOR EMERGENCY BUILDING REPAIR
ASSISTANCE. Any
school district that receives moneys under this section shall
expend them only to repair the following:
(1) Heating systems;
(2) Floors, roofs, and exterior doors;
(3) Air ducts and other air ventilation
devices;
(4) Emergency exit or egress passageway lighting;
(5) Fire alarm systems;
(6) Handicapped access needs;
(7) Sewage systems;
(8) Water supplies;
(9) Asbestos removal; and
(10) Any other repairs to a school building
that meet the requirements of the life safety code, as
interpreted by the commission.
(C) No moneys for
emergency school building repair under this section shall be
distributed to a school district to repair a school building
that the commission reasonably believes will not be needed by the district
or will be substantially
replaced within the next seven fiscal years pursuant to sections
3318.01 to 3318.33 of the
Revised Code.
(D) After receipt of
moneys from the emergency school building repair program, no
school district shall be eligible to receive additional moneys
from the program for the following five fiscal years unless a
school building in that district is damaged due to an act of
God that could not have been
prevented by reasonable maintenance of that building THE OHIO
SCHOOL FACILITIES
COMMISSION SHALL ADOPT RULES IN ACCORDANCE WITH
CHAPTER 119. OF THE REVISED CODE NECESSARY TO
CARRY OUT ITS DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES UNDER THIS SECTION.
Sec. 5705.29. The tax budget shall present the following
information in such detail as is prescribed by the auditor of
state, unless an alternative form of the budget is permitted under section
5705.281 of the Revised Code:
(A)(1) A statement of the necessary current operating
expenses for the ensuing fiscal year for each department and
division of the subdivision, classified as to personal services
and other expenses, and the fund from which such expenditures are
to be made. Except in the case of a school district, this
estimate may include a contingent expense not designated for any
particular purpose, and not to exceed three per cent of the total
amount of appropriations for current expenses. In the case of a
school district, this estimate may include a contingent expense
not designated for any particular purpose and not to exceed
thirteen per cent of the total amount of appropriations for
current expenses.
(2) A statement of the expenditures for the ensuing fiscal
year necessary for permanent improvements, exclusive of any
expense to be paid from bond issues, classified as to the
improvements contemplated by the subdivision and the fund from
which such expenditures are to be made;
(3) The amounts required for the payment of final
judgments;
(4) A statement of expenditures for the ensuing fiscal
year necessary for any purpose for which a special levy is
authorized, and the fund from which such expenditures are to be
made;
(5) Comparative statements, so far as possible, in
parallel columns of corresponding items of expenditures for the
current fiscal year and the two preceding fiscal years.
(B)(1) An estimate of receipts from other sources than the
general property tax during the ensuing fiscal year, which shall
include an estimate of unencumbered balances at the end of the
current fiscal year, and the funds to which such estimated
receipts are credited;
(2) The amount each fund requires from the general
property tax, which shall be the difference between the
contemplated expenditure from the fund and the estimated
receipts, as provided in this section. The section of the
Revised Code under which the tax is authorized shall be set
forth.
(3) Comparative statements, so far as possible, in
parallel columns of taxes and other revenues for the current
fiscal year and the two preceding fiscal years.
(C)(1) The amount required for debt charges;
(2) The estimated receipts from sources other than the tax
levy for payment of such debt charges, including the proceeds of
refunding bonds to be issued to refund bonds maturing in the next
succeeding fiscal year;
(3) The net amount for which a tax levy shall be made,
classified as to bonds authorized and issued prior to January 1,
1922, and those authorized and issued subsequent to such date,
and as to what portion of the levy will be within and what in
excess of the ten-mill limitation.
(D) An estimate of amounts from taxes authorized to be
levied in excess of the ten-mill limitation on the tax rate, and
the fund to which such amounts will be credited, together with
the sections of the Revised Code under which each such tax is
exempted from all limitations on the tax rate.
(E)(1) A board of education may include in its budget for
the fiscal year in which a levy proposed under section 5705.194,
5705.21, or 5705.213, or the original levy under section 5705.212
of the Revised Code is first extended on the tax list and
duplicate an estimate of expenditures to be known as a voluntary
contingency reserve balance, which shall not be greater than
twenty-five per cent of the total amount of the levy estimated to
be available for appropriation in such year.
(2) A board of education may include in its budget for the
fiscal year following the year in which a levy proposed under
section 5705.194, 5705.21, or 5705.213, or the original levy
under section 5705.212 of the Revised Code is first extended on
the tax list and duplicate an estimate of expenditures to be
known as a voluntary contingency reserve balance, which shall not
be greater than twenty per cent of the amount of the levy
estimated to be available for appropriation in such year.
(3) Except as provided in division (E)(4) of this section,
the full amount of any reserve balance the board includes in its
budget shall be retained by the county auditor and county
treasurer out of the first semiannual settlement of taxes until
the beginning of the next succeeding fiscal year, and thereupon,
with the depository interest apportioned thereto, it shall be
turned over to the board of education, to be used for the
purposes of such fiscal year.
(4) A board of education may, by a two-thirds vote of all
members of the board, appropriate any amount withheld as a
voluntary contingency reserve balance during the fiscal year for
any lawful purpose, provided that prior to such appropriation the
board of education has authorized the expenditure of all amounts
appropriated for contingencies under section 5705.40 of the
Revised Code. Upon request by the board of education, the county
auditor shall draw a warrant on the district's account in the
county treasury payable to the district in the amount requested.
(F)(1) As used in this division, "police or fire department
equipment expenditures" includes expenditures for equipment used to provide
ambulance or emergency medical services operated by a police or fire
department.
A board of township trustees may include in its
budget an estimate of expenditures to be known as a reserve
balance for police or fire department equipment or
road maintenance equipment expenditures. This reserve balance
shall not exceed ten per cent of the total estimated
appropriations included in the township budget estimate. If, in
accordance with division (A) of section 505.83 of the Revised
Code, the board of township trustees has unanimously adopted a
resolution establishing the reserve balance account and
specifying the reason for its creation and has certified the
resolution to the county auditor, the full amount of the reserve
balance, as allowed by the budget commission, shall be turned
over to the township each year by the county auditor and county
treasurer out of the second semiannual settlement of taxes until
the date specified in the resolution, which shall not be later
than five years from the date of the first such deposit in the
account, or until the reserve amount has been reached, whichever
occurs first.
(2) Upon receipt of a certified copy of a resolution to
rescind the creation of a township reserve balance account
pursuant to division (B) of section 505.83 of the Revised Code,
the county auditor shall close the account and transfer the
account moneys and depository interest apportioned to it to the
township's general fund.
(G)(1) A board of education may include a spending reserve
in its budget for fiscal years ending on or before
June 30, 2002. The spending reserve shall consist of an estimate
of
expenditures not to exceed the district's spending reserve
balance. A district's spending reserve balance is the amount by
which the designated percentage of the district's
estimated personal
property taxes to be settled during the calendar year in which
the fiscal year ends exceeds the estimated amount of personal
property taxes to be so settled and received by the district
during that fiscal year. Moneys from a spending reserve shall be
appropriated in accordance with section 133.301 of the Revised
Code.
(2) For the purposes of computing a school district's spending
reserve balance for a fiscal year, the designated percentage shall be as
follows:
Fiscal year ending in:
|
Designated percentage
|
1998 | 50% |
1999 | 40% |
2000 | 30% |
2001 | 20% |
2002 | 10% |
(H) As used in this division:
(1) "Police or fire department equipment expenditures" includes
expenditures for equipment used to provide ambulance or emergency
medical services operated by a police or fire department.
(2) "Detention facility" means any place used for the
confinement of a person charged with or convicted of any crime
or alleged or found to be a delinquent or unruly child.
The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may
include in its budget an estimate of expenditures to be known as
a reserve balance for police or fire department equipment
expenditures, for constructing, acquiring, equipping, or repairing a detention
facility, or for road maintenance equipment expenditures by creating, by
ordinance or resolution, a reserve
balance account. Money credited to the account may be derived from any
general fund sources or from the proceeds of a special levy that may be used
for the purpose for which the account is established. The ordinance or
resolution shall state that money in the
account may be expended only for the purpose for which the account is
established, that the
account will be maintained until a specified date not to exceed
five years from the date of the first deposit in the account, and
that the total amount of money in all reserve balance accounts derived from
general fund sources shall not exceed ten per cent of the current total
estimated expenditures from the municipal
corporation's general fund, and the total amount of money in all reserve
balance accounts derived from a special levy shall not exceed ten per cent of
the current total estimated expenditures from the special levy.
The legislative authority shall certify a copy
of the ordinance or resolution to the county auditor. Upon receiving the
certified copy, the county
auditor and county treasurer shall turn over to the municipal corporation, out
of the second
semiannual settlement of taxes, any amount of the reserve balance to be
derived from property tax sources,
but only until the date specified in the ordinance or resolution
or until the reserve amount as indicated in the ordinance or
resolution has been reached, whichever occurs first.
A legislative authority may create a separate reserve balance
account under this division for police department equipment
expenditures, fire department equipment expenditures, or
ambulance or emergency medical services equipment expenditures,
or any combination thereof. Each such account is subject to the
provisions of this section regarding a single account for all such purposes.
Upon receiving a certified copy of an ordinance or
resolution to rescind the creation of a municipal reserve balance
account, the county auditor shall close the account and transfer
all money in the account to the municipal general fund, if the account is
derived from the general fund, or to the fund to which proceeds of the special
levy are credited, if the account is derived from the proceeds of a special
levy.
(I) A board of county
commissioners that has adopted a resolution establishing a
reserve balance account under section 305.23 of the Revised
Code
may include in its budget an estimate of expenditures to be
known as a reserve balance for the purpose for which the account
was established under that section. The reserve shall not
exceed ten per cent of the total estimated appropriations
included in the budget estimate of the general fund in the case
of a reserve balance account established under division
(A) of that section, or ten per
cent of the total estimated appropriations included in the
budget estimate of the special fund in which the account is
established in the case of a reserve balance account established
under division (B) of that
section. If the board of county commissioners has certified a copy of
a resolution to the county auditor pursuant to that section, the
county auditor and county treasurer shall deposit the amount of
the annual reserve balance into the reserve balance account out
of the second semiannual settlement of taxes until the date
specified in that resolution, or until the reserve amount specified in the
resolution has been reached, whichever occurs first.
Upon receiving a certified copy of a resolution rescinding
a reserve balance account, the county auditor shall close the
account and transfer all money in the account to a special fund
created for the purpose of receiving that money. Money
deposited into the fund from the reserve balance account shall
be expended only for the purpose for which the account was
established.
(J) The county budget
commission shall not reduce the taxing authority of a board of
township trustees, a board of county commissioners, or the
legislative authority of a municipal corporation as a result of
the creation of a reserve balance account, and shall not
consider the amount in a reserve balance account as an
unencumbered balance or as revenue for the purposes of division
(E)(3) or (4) of section 5747.51 or division (E)(3) or (4)
of section 5747.62 of the Revised Code.
(K)(1) Each board of education shall include in its tax budget a
budget reserve fund. The budget reserve fund shall consist of money reserved
for the fund from general fund revenues or from other sources that may
lawfully be credited to the general fund. The balance in the budget reserve
fund shall not at any time be less than five per cent of general fund revenues
for the most recently concluded fiscal year, except as provided in division
(K)(2) or (3) of this section, and except for deficiencies arising
from the appropriation of money from the fund for unanticipated deficiencies
in revenue or other emergencies pursuant to a resolution adopted by
two-thirds of the membership of the board of education specifying the reason
for the appropriation. The auditor of state and the superintendent of public
instruction jointly shall adopt rules governing conditions that constitute
unanticipated deficiencies in revenue or emergencies for which appropriations
may be made from a budget reserve fund. The rules also shall provide that a
board of education that includes a spending reserve in its tax budget for a
fiscal year under division (G) of this section is not subject to
division (K)(2) of this section for that fiscal year. A board of
education shall not appropriate money from a budget reserve fund without
filing a schedule for replenishing the fund with the superintendent of public
instruction and receiving approval of the schedule from the superintendent of
public instruction.
(2) Beginning with the fiscal year ending in 1999 and
continuing each
fiscal year until the balance in the budget reserve fund equals five per cent
of the district's revenues received for current expenses for the preceding
fiscal year, if the growth in a district's total revenues received for current
expenses from one fiscal year to the next is three per cent or more, the board
of education shall credit to its budget reserve fund, from the general fund or
from other sources that may lawfully be credited to the general fund, an
amount not less than one per cent of the revenue received for current expenses
for the fiscal year, at which time the balance in the budget reserve fund
shall be maintained as otherwise required under division (K)(1) of
this section.
(3) The balance in the budget reserve fund of a school district may be
less than five per cent of the general fund revenue for the most recently
concluded fiscal year in any fiscal year in which the school district is in a
state of fiscal watch or fiscal emergency pursuant to section 3316.03 of the Revised Code.
(4) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in Chapter
4117. of the Revised Code, the requirements of division (K) of this section
prevail over any conflicting provisions of agreements between employee
organizations and public employers entered into after the effective date
of
this section NOVEMBER 21, 1997.
(5) NOTWITHSTANDING DIVISION (K)(2) OF THIS SECTION, A
SCHOOL DISTRICT MAY, PURSUANT TO RULES ADOPTED BY THE AUDITOR OF STATE,
CREDIT
LESS THAN ONE PER CENT OF ITS PRIOR YEAR'S REVENUE RECEIVED FOR CURRENT
EXPENSES INTO ITS BUDGET RESERVE FUND.
Section 2. That existing sections 3317.022, 3317.023,
3317.0213, 3318.05, 3318.35, and 5705.29 of the Revised Code are hereby
repealed.
Section 3. That Sections 50, 50.04, 50.07, 50.09, 50.15, 50.20, 50.23, 50.24,
50.43, 50.44, 69.03, 76, and 130.01 of Am.
Sub. H.B. 215 of the 122nd General Assembly be amended to read
as follows:
"Sec. 50. EDU DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
General Revenue Fund
GRF | 200-100 | Personal Services | $ | 10,744,925 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 10,756,210 |
GRF | 200-200 | Maintenance | $ | 8,691,111 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 4,597,207 |
GRF | 200-300 | Equipment | $ | 117,449 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 116,773 |
GRF | 200-405 | Primary and Secondary Education Funding | $ | 0 | $ | 4,470,135,592 |
| | | | | | 0 |
GRF | 200-406 | Head Start | $ | 83,739,058 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 95,562,977 |
GRF | 200-408 | Public Preschool | $ | 17,468,094 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 17,904,796 |
GRF | 200-411 | Family and Children First | $ | 8,500,500 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 10,642,188 |
GRF | 200-412 | Driver Education Administration | $ | 143,429 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 142,605 |
GRF | 200-415 | Consumer Education | $ | 500,000 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 500,000 |
GRF | 200-416 | Vocational Education Match | $ | 2,245,026 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 2,248,664 |
GRF | 200-417 | Professional Development | $ | 14,370,077 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 9,922,829 |
GRF | 200-422 | School Management Assistance | $ | 550,596 | $ | 0 |
| | | | 800,596 | | 841,563 |
GRF | 200-423 | Teacher Recruitment | $ | 1,289,067 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 1,321,292 |
GRF | 200-424 | Simulation System | $ | 449,796 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 447,210 |
GRF | 200-426 | Ohio Educational Computer Network | $ | 21,698,858 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 22,228,079 |
GRF | 200-429 | Local Professional Development Block Grants | $ | 9,259,713 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 15,359,713 |
GRF | 200-431 | School Improvement Models | $ | 16,450,000 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 11,525,000 |
GRF | 200-432 | School Conflict Management | $ | 392,575 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 402,390 |
GRF | 200-437 | Student Proficiency | $ | 10,555,476 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 11,798,788 |
GRF | 200-441 | American Sign Language | $ | 226,245 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 226,245 |
GRF | 200-442 | Child Care Licensing | $ | 1,359,171 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 1,438,172 |
GRF | 200-446 | Education Management Information System | $ | 12,060,657 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 10,299,674 |
GRF | 200-447 | GED Testing/Adult High School | $ | 1,939,001 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 1,987,475 |
GRF | 200-455 | Charter Schools | $ | 1,200,000 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 2,300,000 |
GRF | 200-500 | School Finance Equity | $ | 109,405,982 | $ | 0 |
GRF | 200-501 | School Foundation Basic Allowance | $ | 2,202,851,688 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 2,333,474,870 |
GRF | 200-502 | Pupil Transportation | $ | 179,702,987 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 195,152,119 |
GRF | 200-503 | Bus Purchase Allowance | $ | 36,365,821 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 37,274,967 |
GRF | 200-504 | Special Education | $ | 556,029,126 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 588,042,739 |
GRF | 200-505 | School Lunch Match | $ | 9,450,000 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 9,450,000 |
GRF | 200-507 | Vocational Education | $ | 317,612,847 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 337,786,050 |
GRF | 200-509 | Adult Literacy Education | $ | 8,928,273 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 9,151,480 |
GRF200-510
ADEQUACY PHASE-IN
| | | $ | 0
| $ | 176,000,030 |
GRF | 200-511 | Auxiliary Services | $ | 95,956,267 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 101,617,687 |
GRF | 200-512 | Driver Education | $ | 6,026,070 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 6,206,852 |
GRF | 200-514 | Post-Secondary/Adult Vocational Education | $ | 20,695,861 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 20,695,861 |
GRF | 200-520 | Disadvantaged Pupil Impact Aid | $ | 277,205,650 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 290,000,000 |
GRF | 200-521 | Gifted Pupil Program | $ | 34,383,349 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 36,326,043 |
GRF | 200-524 | Educational Excellence and Competency | $ | 9,528,000 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 9,168,000 |
GRF | 200-526 | Vocational Education Equipment Replacement | $ | 4,941,622 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 4,941,622 |
GRF | 200-532 | Nonpublic Administrative Cost Reimbursement | $ | 41,829,125 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 44,297,043 |
GRF | 200-533 | School-Age Child Care | $ | 1,046,647 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 1,046,647 |
GRF | 200-534 | Desegregation Costs | $ | 50,400,000 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 50,400,000 |
GRF | 200-541 | Peer Review | $ | 1,840,000 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 3,640,000 |
GRF | 200-542 | National Board Certification | $ | 1,600,000 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 1,950,000 |
GRF | 200-543 | Entry Year Program | $ | 2,396,205 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 2,456,110 |
GRF | 200-544 | Individual Career Plan & Passport | $ | 5,708,968 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 5,851,692 |
GRF | 200-551 | Reading Improvement | $ | 1,666,133 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 1,666,133 |
GRF | 200-552 | County MR/DD Boards Vehicle Purchases | $ | 1,551,774 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 1,590,569 |
GRF | 200-553 | County MR/DD Boards Transportation Operating | $ | 6,611,623 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 6,876,088 |
GRF | 200-577 | Preschool Special Education | $ | 62,268,535 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 67,352,278 |
GRF | 200-589 | Special Education Aides | $ | 1,635,157 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 1,684,212 |
GRF | 200-901 | Property Tax Allocation - Education | $ | 566,800,000 | $ | 600,800,000 |
GRF | 200-906 | Tangible Tax Exemption - Education | $ | 61,320,000 | $ | 63,210,000 |
TOTAL GRF General Revenue Fund | $ | 4,899,708,534 | $ | 5,134,145,592 |
| | | | 4,899,958,534 | | 5,240,678,942 |
General Services Fund Group
4D1 | 200-602 | Ohio Prevention/Education Resource Center | $ | 277,560 | $ | 285,332 |
138 | 200-606 | Computer Services | $ | 4,036,728 | $ | 4,143,201 |
452 | 200-638 | Fees and Gifts | $ | 1,788,862 | $ | 1,838,335 |
596 | 200-656 | Ohio Career Information System | $ | 647,156 | $ | 660,812 |
4P1 | 200-629 | Adult Literacy Education | $ | 2,364,400 | $ | 2,430,603 |
4L2 | 200-681 | Teacher Certification and Licensure | $ | 3,580,741 | $ | 3,675,311 |
TOTAL GSF General Services | | | | |
Fund Group | $ | 12,695,447 | $ | 13,033,594 |
Federal Special Revenue Fund Group
309 | 200-601 | Educationally Disadvantaged | $ | 12,486,104 | $ | 12,904,245 |
366 | 200-604 | Adult Basic Education | $ | 16,300,000 | $ | 18,000,000 |
3H9 | 200-605 | Head Start Collaboration Project | $ | 200,000 | $ | 200,000 |
367 | 200-607 | School Food Services | $ | 9,290,000 | $ | 10,160,000 |
368 | 200-614 | Veterans' Training | $ | 565,232 | $ | 593,493 |
369 | 200-616 | Vocational Education | $ | 10,556,971 | $ | 10,787,320 |
3L6 | 200-617 | Federal School Lunch | $ | 159,570,000 | $ | 167,550,000 |
3L7 | 200-618 | Federal School Breakfast | $ | 29,818,000 | $ | 31,607,000 |
3L8 | 200-619 | Child and Adult Care Programs | $ | 58,600,000 | $ | 59,800,000 |
3L9 | 200-621 | Vocational Education Basic Grant | $ | 54,122,121 | $ | 54,122,121 |
3M0 | 200-623 | ESEA Chapter One | $ | 356,669,568 | $ | 374,503,047 |
370 | 200-624 | Education of All Handicapped Children | $ | 12,902,838 | $ | 12,902,838 |
3N7 | 200-627 | School-to-Work | $ | 18,000,000 | $ | 13,500,000 |
371 | 200-631 | EEO Title IV | $ | 364,655 | $ | 377,850 |
372 | 200-635 | Federal Driver Education Projects | $ | 84,500 | $ | 84,500 |
373 | 200-642 | Pupil Transportation Safety Project | $ | 81,000 | $ | 81,000 |
374 | 200-647 | E.S.E.A. Consolidated Grants | $ | 260,301 | $ | 265,624 |
375 | 200-652 | Technical Assistance for Educational Mobility | $ | 216,720 | $ | 227,556 |
376 | 200-653 | J.T.P.A. | $ | 5,000,000 | $ | 5,034,523 |
3R3 | 200-654 | Goals 2000 | $ | 19,789,214 | $ | 22,000,000 |
377 | 200-657 | Sex Equity | $ | 125,685 | $ | 131,969 |
378 | 200-660 | Math/Science Technology Investments | $ | 10,802,634 | $ | 12,000,000 |
3D1 | 200-664 | Drug Free Schools | $ | 17,410,259 | $ | 19,500,000 |
3D2 | 200-667 | Honors Scholarship Program | $ | 1,231,979 | $ | 1,231,979 |
3E2 | 200-668 | AIDS Education Project | $ | 718,734 | $ | 620,775 |
3M1 | 200-678 | ESEA Chapter Two | $ | 13,478,447 | $ | 14,152,369 |
3M2 | 200-680 | Ind W/Disab Education Act | $ | 91,825,830 | $ | 91,825,830 |
TOTAL FED Federal Special | | | | |
Revenue Fund Group | $ | 900,470,792 | $ | 934,164,039 |
State Special Revenue Fund Group
454 | 200-610 | Guidance and Testing | $ | 490,662 | $ | 503,912 |
455 | 200-608 | Commodity Foods | $ | 8,000,000 | $ | 8,000,000 |
4V7 | 200-633 | Interagency Vocational Support | $ | 514,000 | $ | 528,392 |
5F8 | 200-645 | Textbooks/Instructional Materials | $ | 25,000,000 | $ | 25,000,000 |
598 | 200-659 | Auxiliary Services Mobile Units | $ | 1,224,444 | $ | 1,258,728 |
5H3200-687
SCHOOL DISTRICT SOLVENCY
ASSISTANCE
| | | $ | 0 | $ | 30,000,000 |
4R7 | 200-695 | Indirect Cost Recovery | $ | 1,357,434 | $ | 1,393,146 |
TOTAL SSR State Special Revenue | | | | |
Fund Group | $ | 36,586,540 | $ | 36,684,178 |
| | | | | | 66,684,178 |
Lottery Profits Education Fund Group
017 | 200-682 | Lease Rental Payment Reimbursement | $ | 21,105,000 | $ | 32,780,000 |
017 | 200-670 | School Foundation - Basic Allowance | $ | 584,137,200 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 592,093,028 |
017 | 200-671 | Special Education | $ | 44,000,000 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 44,000,000 |
017 | 200-672 | Vocational Education | $ | 30,000,000 | $ | 0 |
| | | | | | 30,000,000 |
017 | 200-673 | Primary and Secondary Lottery Funding | $ | 0 | $ | 666,093,028 |
| | | | | | 0 |
017 | 200-694 | Bus Purchase One Time Supplement | $ | 10,000,000 | $ | 0 |
018200-649
Disability Access Project
| | | $ | 5,000,000
| $ | 0 |
Judgement JUDGMENT Loan
018 | 200-669 | | $ | 5,650,000 | $ | 0 |
Total 017 and 018 | | | | |
LPE Lottery Profits Education | | | | |
Fund Group | $ | 699,892,200 | $ | 698,873,028 |
| | 694,892,200 | | |
Education Improvement Fund
006 | 200-689 | Hazardous Waste Removal | $ | 1,500,000 | $ | 1,443,401 |
TOTAL Education Improvement Fund | $ | 1,500,000 | $ | 1,443,401 |
TOTAL ALL BUDGET FUND GROUPS | $ | 6,550,853,513 | $ | 6,818,343,832 |
| | | | 6,546,103,513 | | 6,953,433,781 |
Primary and Secondary Education Funding
By January 15, 1998, the General Assembly shall develop a plan to provide
itemized appropriations for the Department of Education for fiscal year
1999.
In anticipation of a new, improved school finance formula and education
reform
plan, to be enacted before fiscal year 1999, the foregoing appropriation item,
200-405, Primary and Secondary Education Funding is hereby appropriated.
Payment of fiscal year 1999 earmarks in the Department of
Education's budget are subject to the passage of a new school finance formula
and education reform plan.
Sec. 50.04. Family and Children First
(A) Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-411, Family and Children
First, the Department of Education shall transfer up to
$3,587,500 in fiscal year 1998 and $3,677,188 in fiscal year 1999 by
intrastate transfer voucher to the
Department of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities.
These funds shall be spent on direct grants to
county family and
children first councils and local intersystem services for children clusters
created under section 121.37 of the Revised Code. The funds shall be used
as partial support payment
and reimbursement for the maintenance and treatment costs of
multi-need children that come to the attention of the Family and
Children First Cabinet Council pursuant to section 121.37 of the
Revised Code. The Department of Mental Retardation and
Developmental Disabilities shall administer the distribution of
the direct grants to the county
councils and local clusters. The
Department of
Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities may use up to
five per cent of this amount for administrative expenses
associated with the distribution of funds to the county councils and local
clusters.
(B) Of the funds appropriated in this item, up to $1,643,000 in fiscal year
1998 and $1,775,000 in fiscal year 1999 shall be used as administrative grants
to county family and children
first councils to provide a portion of the salary and fringe benefits
necessary to fund county council
coordinators, administrative
support, training, or parental involvement.
The total initial
grant under this provision to any county family and children
first council shall not exceed $18,500 in fiscal year 1998 and
$20,000 in fiscal year 1999. In the event that not all
counties in the state have established a county council, at the beginning of
the fourth quarter of a fiscal year, any remaining funds to be used as
administrative grants may be distributed among those counties that have
established a county council. Of the funds appropriated in this
item, up to $15,000 shall be used by the Family and Children
First Cabinet Council for administrative costs including
stipends to family representatives participating in approved
activities of the initiative, educational and informational
forums, and technical assistance to local family and children
first councils.
(C) Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-411, Family and
Children First, up to $3,120,000 in fiscal year 1998 and
$5,040,000 in fiscal year 1999 shall be used to fund
school-based or school-linked school readiness resource centers
in school districts where there is a concentration of risk
factors to school readiness and success, including indicators of
poverty, health, and family stability. The purpose of these
centers is to assist in providing services to families of
school-age children who want and need support.
School readiness resource centers shall be located in each of
the state's 21 urban school districts as defined in division (H) of section
3317.02 of the Revised Code. The Ohio Family and
Children First Cabinet Council, in consultation with the
Department of Education and school districts, shall identify
individual schools based on quantitative and qualitative factors
that reflect both the need for school readiness resource centers
and the local capacity for redesigning, as necessary, a delivery
system of family support services. The council and the
Department of Education shall organize and provide technical assistance to
the school districts and communities in planning, developing,
and implementing the centers. The council shall also negotiate a
performance agreement that details required program
characteristics, service options, and expected results.
Each urban school district and community may receive up to
$240,000 for three school readiness resource centers that may be
located in or linked to elementary, middle, and high school
sites that are connected by student assignment patterns within
the school districts. Each school district shall work with a
representative of the local family and children first council
and a representative cross-section of families and community
leaders in the district to design a unified and comprehensive
service delivery plan that supports the development and
implementation of the school readiness resource centers and the
results and conditions agreed to in the performance agreement
negotiated with the state council.
Up to $50,000 in each fiscal year may be used by the Ohio Family
and Children First Cabinet Council for an evaluation of the
effectiveness of the school readiness resource centers. Up to
$100,000 in each fiscal year may be used by the cabinet council
to approve technical assistance and oversee the implementation
of the centers. The administration and management of the school
readiness resource centers may be contracted out through a
competitive bidding process established by the cabinet council
in consultation with the Department of Education.
Driver Education Administration
The foregoing appropriation item 200-412, Driver Education
Administration, shall be used by the Department of Education for
the administration of driver education programs.
Consumer Education
The foregoing appropriation item 200-415, Consumer and Economic
Education, shall be used by the Department of Education to
promote the teaching of consumer and economic education as an
integral part of the entire elementary and secondary school
curriculum, which shall include the development, dissemination,
and implementation of comprehensive education curriculum
materials designed to improve understanding of economic
principles, family and public needs, and the methods by which our
economic systems function.
Vocational Education Match
The foregoing appropriation item 200-416, Vocational
Education Match, shall be used by the Department of Education to
provide vocational administration matching funds pursuant to 20
U.S.C. 2311.
Professional Development
The foregoing appropriation item 200-417, Professional
Development, shall be used by the Department of Education to
develop
a statewide comprehensive system of twelve professional development centers
that support
local educators' ability to foster academic achievement in the students they
serve.
The centers shall
include training teachers on site-based management
concepts to encourage teachers to become involved in the management of their
schools. Each fiscal year, up to $450,000 of the appropriation item shall be
used to continue Ohio leadership academies to develop and train
superintendents, principals, other administrators, and board members in new
leadership and management practices to support high performance schools. This
training shall be coordinated with other locally administered leadership
programs.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-417, Professional Development, up to
$6,000,000 in fiscal year 1998 shall be used for the creation or expansion of
urban professional development academies in Akron, Cincinnati, Cleveland,
Columbus, Dayton, and Toledo. Challenge grants in the amount of $1,000,000
per
academy shall be provided to support academies that have established an
improvement plan that includes an overall professional development plan that
align with and advances the district improvement plan, and that defines the
contribution the academy is expected to make toward the achievement of the
professional development plan.
(A) These challenge grants are to support start-up academies that include all
of
the following:
(1) A contractual relationship for the operation of the academy between the
school district, one or more public or private universities, and the teachers'
union;
(2) A self-supporting foundation for the operation of the academy;
(3) A governing committee comprised of the superintendent of the public
school; the president of the teachers' union; the dean of the college of
education of each participating university; and at least two representatives
of
the business community to be determined by the governing committee;
(4) Mandatory teacher participation in job-embedded, team-building activities
that may include principals and other administrative staff;
(5) Annual evaluation of the academy to be filed with the Ohio Department of
Education, which shall determine the parameters of the annual evaluations,
that include the school district's progress toward the achievement of its
improvement plan.
(B) Challenge grants of up to $1,000,000 per academy will be provided to
support existing academies that agree to implement one or more of the
following:
(1) Adoption of a policy of mandatory teacher participation in academy
activities;
(2) Creation of a leadership component in the academy;
(3) The participation of personnel from other urban districts in the academy.
Existing academies shall conduct annual evaluations of the academy to be
filed with the Ohio Department of Education, which shall determine the
parameters of the annual evaluations.
School districts receiving a $1,000,000 challenge grant for the creation of an
urban professional development academy may select, but are not required to
select, the New American Schools Program as the focus of their academy. The
challenge grant for the Cincinnati City School District may be used for the
expansion of either the Mayerson Academy or the New American Schools project,
or both, at the discretion of the district.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-417, Professional
Development, $50,000 each year shall be distributed to the Ohio
Geographical Alliance at such time as matching funds are provided by the
National Geographical Society. These moneys shall be used by
the Ohio Geographical Alliance to provide inservice geography
training to Ohio public school teachers.
Of the foregoing appropriation 200-417 Professional Development, $75,000 in
each fiscal year shall be distributed by the Department of Education to the
Ohio University Leadership Project.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-417, Professional Development, up to
$500,000 each year shall be used by the
Department of Education to work with school districts in coordinating and
improving the training and performance of classroom teachers.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-417, Professional Development, $25,000
in each fiscal year shall be used by the Lake County Educational Service
Center and $25,000 in each fiscal year shall be used by the Geauga County
Educational Service Center. Both projects shall be used for professional
teacher development of innovative teaching practices in science and math.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-417, Professional Development,
$500,000 in each fiscal year shall be used by the Rural Appalachian
Initiative to create professional development academies for teachers,
principals, and superintendents in the Appalachian region.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-417, Professional
Development, up to $900,000 in fiscal year 1998 and up to
$1,800,000 in fiscal year 1999 shall be used by the Department
of Education in cooperation with the Regional Professional
Development Centers to train mentor teachers and provide
stipends of $1,500 per year to each mentor teacher to assist in
the professional development of beginning teachers.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-417, Professional
Development, up to $500,000 in fiscal year 1998 and up to
$1,000,000 in fiscal year 1999 shall be used by the Department
of Education in cooperation with the Regional Professional
Development Centers to train teacher assessors and provide
stipends of $2,500 per year to each teacher assessor to assist
in the evaluation of the classroom performance of beginning
teachers.
School Management Assistance
The foregoing appropriation item 200-422, School Management
Assistance, shall be used by the Department of Education to
provide fiscal technical assistance and inservice education for
school district management personnel, to coordinate school
district borrowing under the provisions of section 3313.483 of
the Revised Code, and to implement year-end borrowing authority
by districts pursuant to section 133.303 of the Revised Code.
OF THE FOREGOING APPROPRIATION ITEM 200-422, SCHOOL
MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE, UP TO $250,000 IN FISCAL YEAR 1998
AND
UP TO $275,000 IN FISCAL YEAR 1999 SHALL BE USED BY THE DEPARTMENT
OF
EDUCATION TO SUPPORT ITS EFFORTS WITH RESPECT TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS ON
FISCAL EMERGENCY AND FISCAL WATCH.
Teacher Recruitment
The foregoing appropriation item 200-423, Teacher Recruitment, shall be used
by
the Department of Education to establish programs targeted at recruiting
under-represented populations into the teaching profession. In each year,
the
appropriation item shall be used by the department to include, but not be
limited to, alternative teacher licensure or certification programs
emphasizing the recruitment of
highly qualified minority candidates into teaching, including emphasizing the
recruitment of highly qualified minority candidates into teaching positions in
schools which have a high percentage of minority students. The recruitment
programs
shall also target recruiting qualified candidates available as a result of
downsizing of the military and business sectors. Funding shall also be
targeted to statewide, regional, and local programs that are competitively
selected as promising programs demonstrating the potential of significantly
increasing Ohio's minority teaching force.
Simulation System
The foregoing appropriation item 200-424, Simulation
System, shall be used by the Department of Education to develop
software and other computer assistance to maintain and enhance a
system of administrative, statistical, and legislative education
information to be used for policy analysis. The data base shall
be kept current at all times. Such a system will be used to
supply information and analysis of data to the General Assembly
and other state policy makers, including the Office of Budget and
Management and the Legislative Budget Office of the Legislative Service
Commission.
The Department of Education may use funding from this line
item to purchase or contract for the development of software
systems or contract for policy studies that will assist in
the provision and analysis of policy-related information.
Ohio Education Computer Network
The foregoing appropriation item 200-426, Ohio Education
Computer Network, shall be used by the Department of Education to
maintain a system of information technology throughout Ohio and
to provide technical assistance for such a system in support of
the State Education Technology Plan pursuant to section 3301.07
of the Revised Code.
This system shall support the development, maintenance, and
operation of a network of uniform and compatible computer-based
information and instructional systems. The technical assistance
shall include, but not be restricted to, the development and
maintenance of adequate computer software systems to support
network activities. Program funds may be used, through a formula
and guidelines devised by the department, to subsidize the
activities of not more than twenty-four designated data
acquisition sites, as defined by State Board of Education rules,
to provide to school districts and chartered nonpublic schools
computer-based student and teacher
instructional and administrative information services, including
approved computerized financial accounting, and to provide
adequate services to member districts to assure the effective
operation of local automated administrative systems used for the
management information system.
In order to broaden the scope of the use of technology for
education, the department may use up to $250,000 each fiscal year
of these funds to
coordinate the activities of the computer network with other
agencies funded by the department or the state of Ohio. In order
to improve the efficiency of network activities, the department
and data acquisition sites may jointly purchase equipment,
materials, and services from funds provided under this
appropriation for use by the network and, when considered
practical by the department, may utilize the services of
appropriate state purchasing agencies.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-426, Ohio Educational Computer
Network, up to $5,637,000 in fiscal year 1998 and $5,637,000 in fiscal year
1999 shall be used by the Department of Education to support connections of
all public school buildings to the Ohio Educational Computer Network. In each
fiscal year the Department of Education shall use these funds to help
reimburse data acquisition sites or school districts for the operational costs
associated with using the Ohio Educational Computer Network. The Department
of Education shall develop a formula and guidelines for the distribution of
these funds to the data acquisition sites or individual school districts.
For each year of the biennium the Department of Education shall use up to
$250,000 to continue to manage and develop the statewide union catalog and
InfOhio Network of library resources that will be accessible to all school
districts through the Ohio Educational Computer Network, and up to $180,000
each year to develop and implement software to interface with the InfOhio
union catalog and other electronic library systems to provide access for
public school library media centers to the union catalog.
In each fiscal year the Department of Education shall use up to $180,000 to
defray the costs associated with leasing additional telecommunications
capacity
needed to connect non-public schools to the Ohio Educational Computer Network.
In each fiscal year the THE Department of Education shall use up
to $1,809,665 in
fiscal year 1998 and up to $1,854,906 in fiscal year 1999 to assist designated
data acquisition sites for operational costs associated with the increased use
of the system by chartered non-public schools. The Department of Education
shall develop a formula and guidelines for
distribution of these funds to designated data acquisition sites.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-426, Ohio
Educational Computer Network, up
to $130,000 in fiscal year 1998 and up to $120,000 in fiscal
year 1999 shall be used by the
Department of Education to contract through a competitive
selection process with an independent for-profit or nonprofit entity to
provide current
and historical information on Ohio
government to school libraries for the purposes of enhancing
social studies course instruction and supporting student research projects.
Local Professional Development Block Grants
Of the foregoing appropriation line item 200-429, Local Professional
Development Block Grants, $500,000 in each fiscal year shall be used to
establish or enhance alternative disciplinary schools by providing grants of
$100,000 annually to
each of the following programs: Wood County Alternative
School Program, Interval Opportunity School in Summit County,
Portage County Opportunity School in Ravenna, Auglaize County
Alternative School Program, Licking County Alternative School
Program. Such
pilot programs shall encourage collaborative relationships with juvenile
courts and other agencies to develop effective teaching and learning programs.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-429, Local Professional Development
Block Grants, $200,000 in each fiscal year shall be provided to the Stark
County Schools Teacher Technical Training Center.
The remainder of the appropriation shall be distributed on a per teacher
basis
to all school districts and, joint vocational school districts
AND CHARTERED NONPUBLIC SCHOOLS for locally developed teacher training
and
professional development and for the establishment of local professional
development committees. School districts and joint vocational school
districts shall not be precluded from using these funds for cooperative
activities on a county or regional basis.
School Improvement Models
The foregoing appropriation item 200-431, School
Improvement Models, shall be used by the Department of Education to continue
to support the creation of a statewide network of school improvement sites by
providing competitive venture capital grants to schools that demonstrate the
capacity to invent or adapt school improvement models. The department shall
showcase projects of exceptional merit and shall promote the networking of
venture schools with both venture and nonventure schools so that
administrators and teachers outside the district can
benefit from the knowledge gained at these sites.
Up to $250,000 in each fiscal year shall be used by the Department of
Education for personal services and maintenance costs necessary to administer
the grants.
Of the foregoing appropriation item, 200-431, School Improvement Models,
$500,000 in fiscal year 1998 and $500,000 in fiscal year 1999 shall be used to
conduct performance
audits of each of the 21 urban school districts, as defined by section 3317.02
of the Revised Code. The Auditor of State will conduct the performance audits
to review any programs or areas of operation where the Auditor believes
greater operational efficiencies or enhanced program results can be achieved.
Of the appropriation for fiscal year 1998, funds may be carried over to
fiscal year 1999 as needed to coincide with audit billings.
The State Superintendent of Public Instruction shall, at least annually,
assess individual school district responses to such performance audits. These
assessments shall be compiled into a report to the Speaker of the Ohio House
of Representatives, the President of the Ohio Senate, and the chairs and
ranking minority members of the House and Senate committees on Education and
Finance.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-431, School Improvement Models,
$200,000 in each fiscal year shall be distributed to the Toledo International
Language Center.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-431, School Improvement Models,
$250,000 in each fiscal year shall be used by the Rural Appalachian
Initiative to provide one-time grants to establish benchmark data on current
performance, to develop plans for achieving the benchmarks, and to improve the
Appalachian school districts' performances against the benchmarks.
School Conflict Management
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-432, School Conflict Management, the
amounts shall be used by the Department of Education for the purpose of
providing dispute resolution and conflict management training, consultation
and materials for school districts, and for the purpose of providing
competitive
school conflict management grants to school districts.
The Department of Education shall assist the Commission on Dispute Resolution
in the development and dissemination of the school conflict management
program.
Student Proficiency
The foregoing appropriation item 200-437, Student
Proficiency, shall be used to develop, field test, print,
distribute, score, and report results from the tests required
under sections 3301.0710 and 3301.0711 of
the Revised Code and for similar purposes as required by section
3301.27 of the Revised Code.
American Sign Language
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-441, American Sign
Language, up to $150,000 in each fiscal year of the biennium
shall be used to implement pilot projects in Manual English and
to develop ways of including American Sign Language in the ninth-
through twelfth-grade curriculum.
The remainder of the appropriation shall be used by the
Department of Education to provide supervision and consultation
to school districts in dealing with parents of handicapped
children who are deaf or hard of hearing, in integrating American
Sign Language as a foreign language, and in obtaining
interpreters and improving their skills.
Child Care Licensing
The foregoing appropriation item 200-442, Child Care Licensing, shall be used
by the Department of Education to license and to inspect preschool and
school-age child care programs in accordance with sections 3301.52 to 3301.59
of the Revised Code.
Education Management Information System
The foregoing appropriation item 200-446, Education Management
Information System, shall be used to provide school districts
with the means to implement local automated information systems,
and to implement, develop, and improve the Education Management
Information System (EMIS).
Up to $822,706 in fiscal year 1998 and $843,274 in fiscal
year 1999 shall be used by the Department of Education for
hardware, personnel, equipment, staff development, software, and
forms modification, as well as to support EMIS special report
activities in the department that are designed to use the data
collected by the system.
Up to $2,714,234 in fiscal year 1998 and $2,782,090 in
fiscal year 1999 shall be distributed to designated data
acquisition sites for costs relating to the processing, storing,
and transfer of data for the effective operation of the
EMIS. These costs may include, but are not limited to,
personnel, hardware, software development, communications
connectivity, professional development and support services, and
to provide services to participate in the State Education
Technology Plan pursuant to section 3301.07 of the Revised Code.
Up to $6,023,718 in fiscal year 1998 and $6,174,310 in
fiscal year 1999 shall be distributed to school districts and
joint vocational school districts on a per-pupil basis. From
this money, each school district with enrollment greater than 100
students and each vocational school district shall receive a
minimum of $5,000 for each year of the biennium. Each school
district with enrollment between one and one hundred and each
county office of education shall receive $3,000 for each year of
the biennium. This money shall be used for costs associated with
the development and operation of local automated record based
information systems that provide data as required by the
management information system, and facilitate local district,
school, and classroom management activities.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-446, Education Management Information
System, up to $2,500,000 in fiscal year 1998 and up to $500,000 in fiscal year
1999 shall be used by the Department of Education to procure or develop a
common EMIS software. School districts and data acquisition sites
shall use
the common EMIS software unless the department determines that in a
particular
case local legacy software is completely compatible, performs tasks required
for EMIS, and does not contain year 2000 problems.
GED Testing/Adult High School
The foregoing appropriation item 200-447, GED Testing/Adult
High School, shall be used to provide General Educational
Development (GED) testing at no cost to first time applicants,
pursuant to rules adopted by the State Board of Education. Of the foregoing
appropriation item 200-477, GED/Adult High School, up to $250,000 in
each fiscal year shall be used by the department to reimburse local shool
districts
for a portion of the costs incurred in providing summer instructional or
intervention services to students who have not graduated due to their
inability to pass one or more parts of the state's ninth grade proficiency
test. School districts may provide these services to students directly or
contract with post-secondary or nonprofit community-based institutions in
providing instruction. The remainder of the appropriation shall be used for
state reimbursement to school districts for adult high school
continuing education programs pursuant to section 3313.531 of the
Revised Code or for costs associated with awarding adult high
school diplomas under section 3313.611 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 50.07. Potential Value Recomputation
The recalculation described in division (B) of this section shall be made
prior
to any expenditure by the superintendent for the purpose of making payments
for
the vocational education pupil recomputation pursuant to the section headed
"Vocational Education Pupil Recomputation" in Am. Sub. H.B. 117
215 of the 121st 122nd
General Assembly and for the special education pupil recomputation pursuant to
division (I) of section 3317.023 of the Revised Code.
(A) Notwithstanding division (B) of section 3317.022 of
the Revised Code as amended by this act
AM. SUB. H.B. 215 OF THE
122nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY, in each year of the
biennium the Department of Education shall first calculate all
state basic aid payments to school districts required under
Chapter 3317. of the Revised Code and other sections of this act
H.B. 215 under which payments are made from
appropriation items 200-501, School Foundation Basic Allowance, and 200-670,
School Foundation
Basic Allowance, as if such division had not been enacted. Such
calculated amounts shall be paid to school districts in
accordance with section 3317.01 of the Revised Code.
(B) After the calculation required by division (A) of this heading,
the department shall recalculate all state basic aid payments to
school districts required under Chapter 3317. of the Revised Code
and other sections of this act
AM. SUB. H.B. 215 OF THE
122nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY, utilizing in such
recalculation
the provisions of division (B) of section 3317.022 of the Revised
Code. From the additional available
money, the department shall pay each district an amount equal to
the difference between its calculated amount of basic aid under
division (A) of this heading and its recalculated amount under
this division. If there is not enough additional money to pay
such amounts to all school districts, the department shall pay
each district a percentage of such amount equal to the percentage
the total amount of additional available money represents of the
total amount of money that would be necessary to make the
payments prescribed under this division to all districts.
Sec. 50.09. Vocational Education
The foregoing appropriation item 200-507, Vocational
Education, shall be used for vocational education units not to
exceed 7,141 in each fiscal year. Up to $6,695,000 in fiscal year 1998 and
$7,500,000 in fiscal
year 1999 may be used for nonvocational units necessary for
graduation pursuant to section 3317.16 of the Revised Code, up to
$6,210,000 in fiscal year 1998 and $6,500,000 in fiscal year 1999
shall be used for joint vocational
school equalization pursuant to section 3317.16 of the Revised
Code, up to $300,000 shall be distributed to the Toledo Technology Academy
each fiscal year, up to $9,000,000 in fiscal year 1998 and up to $10,000,000
in fiscal
year 1999 shall be used to fund the Jobs for
Ohio
Graduates (JOG) program, up to $2,100,000
in fiscal year 1998 and $2,205,000 in fiscal year 1999 may be
used to support tech prep consortia, and up to $7,031,208 in
fiscal year 1998 and $7,193,118 in fiscal year 1999 shall be
used to fund the Graduation, Reality, and Dual Role Skills
(GRADS) program.
Funds for nonvocational units necessary for graduation
shall be distributed according to rules adopted by the State
Board of Education. If federal funds for vocational education
cannot be used for local school district leadership in either
year under division (M) of section 3317.024 of the Revised Code
or division (B) of section 3317.16 of the Revised Code, without
being matched by state funds, then an amount as determined by the
Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be made available from
state funds appropriated for vocational education. If any state
funds are used for this purpose, federal funds in an equal amount
shall be distributed for vocational education units funded
pursuant to division (M) of section 3317.024 or division (B) of
section 3317.16 of the Revised Code in accordance with
authorization of the state plan for vocational education for Ohio
as approved by the Secretary of the United States Department of
Education.
Notwithstanding the prohibition in section 3317.05 of the
Revised Code that the State Board of Education annually approve
for school districts, educational service centers, and institutions no more
than the number of
vocational education units for which it determines appropriations
have been made and notwithstanding the amounts required to be
annually paid to school districts, educational service centers, and
institutions for approved
vocational education units under division (M) of section 3317.024
and division (B) of section 3317.16 of the Revised Code, if the
foregoing appropriation item is not sufficient to fund 7,141
vocational education units in fiscal year 1998 and 7,141
vocational units in fiscal year 1999 in
accordance with division (M) of section 3317.024 and division (B)
of section 3317.16 of the Revised Code, the State Board of
Education may approve up to 7,141 vocational education units in
fiscal year 1998 and 7,141 vocational education units in fiscal
year 1999 and, in lieu of the amounts
required to be paid for approved units under division (M) of
section 3317.024 and division (B) of section 3317.16 of the
Revised Code, shall proportionately reduce those amounts so that
the total amount the State Board pays to school districts, educational service
centers, and
institutions for all approved units does not exceed the amount of
funds available in the foregoing appropriation item for such
units. During the course of each fiscal year, the State Board
may alter its determination of any reduction under this section
for that fiscal year.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-507, Vocational Education, up to
$500,000 in each fiscal year shall be used by the Department of Education to
establish an employer student apprenticeship training program for high school
students in grades 11 and 12. Rules, procedures, and regulations for the
employer student apprenticeship program will be developed by the
School-to-Work office in the Ohio Bureau of Employment Services.
The Legislative Office of Education Oversight shall study
the various programs designed to serve at-risk high school
students. Differences and possible overlaps of purposes, goals,
objectives and strategies among such programs as Jobs for Ohio
Graduates (JOGS), Graduation, Reality, and Dual Role Skills
(GRADS), Occupational Work Experience (OWE), Occupational
Work Adjustment (OWA) will be identified.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-507, Vocational Education, $100,000 in
fiscal year 1998 shall be used for the Cuyahoga County Vocational
Apprenticeship Program, which provides funding for training in the building
trades of eligible residents of the City of Cleveland. The program utilizes
new housing development and rehabilitation programs of four nonprofit
neighborhood development corporations as the focus of the skills training
apprenticeship program. The four neighborhood development corporations
participating in the program are the Glenville Development Corporation,
Northeastern Neighborhood Development Corporation, Bell, Burton, and Carr
Development Corporation, and the Buckeye Area Development Corporation.
Adult Literacy Education
The foregoing appropriation item 200-509, Adult Literacy
Education, shall be used to support Adult Basic and Literacy
Education instructional programs, the State Literacy Resource
Center program, and the State Advisory Council on Adult Education
and Literacy.
Of the foregoing appropriation item, up to $410,000 in fiscal
year 1998 and $512,500 in fiscal year 1999 shall be used
to satisfy state match requirements for the support and operation
of the State Literacy Resource Center and the State Advisory
Council on Adult Education and Literacy.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-509, Adult
Literacy Education, up to $50,000 in each fiscal year shall be
used to provide funds to literacy councils that have not
previously received funding. Each of these councils, in order
to receive funds, shall have its plan of service approved by the
local Family and Children First council.
The remainder shall be used to continue to satisfy the
state match requirement for the support and operation of the Ohio
Department of Education administered instructional grant program
for Adult Basic and Literacy Education in accordance with the
department's state plan for Adult Basic and Literacy Education as
approved by the State Board of Education and the Secretary of the
United States Department of Education.
_ADEQUACY _PHASE-IN
THE FOREGOING APPROPRIATION ITEM 200-510, ADEQUACY
PHASE-IN, SHALL BE USED TO MAKE ADEQUACY AID PAYMENTS TO SCHOOL
DISTRICTS BASED ON THE FORMULA SPECIFIED IN SECTION 3317.0213 of the Revised Code.
Auxiliary Services
The foregoing appropriation item 200-511, Auxiliary
Services, shall be used by the State Board of Education for the
purpose of implementing section 3317.06 of the Revised Code. Of
the appropriation, up to $1,000,000 in each fiscal year of the
biennium may be used for payment of the Post-Secondary Enrollment
Options Program for nonpublic students pursuant to section
3365.10 of the Revised Code.
Driver Education
The foregoing appropriation item 200-512, Driver Education,
shall be used by the State Board of Education for subsidizing
driver education courses for which the State Board of Education
prescribes minimum standards pursuant to section 3301.07 of the
Revised Code and courses for students released by high school
principals to attend commercial driver training schools licensed
under Chapter 4508. of the Revised Code.
Post-Secondary/Adult Vocational Education
The foregoing appropriation item 200-514,
Post-Secondary/Adult Vocational Education, shall be used by the
State Board of Education to provide post-secondary/adult
vocational education pursuant to sections 3313.52 and 3313.53 of
the Revised Code.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-514, up to $500,000
in each fiscal year shall be allocated for the Ohio Career
Information System (OCIS) and used for the dissemination of
career information
data to public schools, libraries, rehabilitation centers, two-
and four-year colleges and universities, and other governmental
units.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-514, Post-Secondary/Adult Vocational
Education, up to $30,000 in each fiscal year shall be used for the statewide
coordination of the activities of the Ohio Young Farmers.
Disadvantaged Pupil Impact Aid
The foregoing appropriation item 200-520, Disadvantaged
Pupil Impact Aid, shall be distributed to school districts in
each fiscal year pursuant to the formula established by division
(B) of section 3317.023 of the Revised Code.
Annually, $1,450,000 shall be used by the Department of Education to provide
state matching funds to implement the federal building based Effective School
Program.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-520, Disadvantaged Pupil Impact Aid,
up to $3,000,000 in each year of the biennium
shall be used for school breakfast programs. Of the $3,000,000, $500,000
shall be used each year by the Department of Education to provide start-up
grants to rural school districts that start school breakfast programs. The
remainder of the $3,000,000 shall be used to: (1) partially
reimburse school buildings within school districts that are required to have a
school breakfast program pursuant to section 3313.813 of the Revised Code, at
a rate decided upon by the department, for each breakfast served to any pupil
enrolled in the district; (2) partially reimburse districts participating in
the National School Lunch Program that have at least 20 per cent of students
who are eligible for free and reduced meals according to federal standards, at
a rate decided upon by the department; and (3) to partially reimburse
districts participating in the National School Lunch Program for breakfast
served to children eligible for free and reduced meals enrolled in the
district, at a rate decided upon by the department.
Of the funds distributed to the Cleveland City School District under division
(B) of section 3317.023 of the Revised Code, up to $7,100,000 in fiscal year
1998 and $8,700,000 in fiscal year 1999 shall be used to operate a pilot
school
choice program in the Cleveland City School District pursuant to sections
3313.974 to 3313.979 of the Revised Code.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-520, Disadvantaged Pupil Impact Aid,
$3,850,000 in fiscal year 1998 and $8,750,000 in fiscal year 1999 shall be
used for competitive discipline intervention grants for the 21 urban school
districts as defined in division (H) of
section 3317.02 of the Revised Code. The grants shall be
administered by the Ohio Department of Education and designed to reduce
problems with student attendance, truancy, dropouts, and discipline.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-520, Disadvantaged Pupil Impact Aid,
$150,000 in fiscal year 1998 and $250,000 in fiscal year 1999 shall be
distributed to the Franklin County Educational Council to provide a cross
district alternative learning environment for students with alternative
learning requirements, in collaboration with member districts and community
services.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-520, Disadvantaged Pupil Impact Aid,
$900,000 each year shall be used to support dropout recovery programs
administered by the Ohio Department of Education, Jobs for Ohio's Graduates
program.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-520, Disadvantaged Pupil Impact Aid,
up to $1,000,000 in each year of the biennium shall be used to fund grants to
improve reading performance, using programs such as Failure Free Reading,
Slavin's Success for All, and other programs that have a demonstrated record
of improving reading comprehension. The grants shall be made by the
Department of Education to 20 schools in which at least 50 per cent of fourth
grade students failed to pass at least four parts of the fourth grade
proficiency test. The grants shall be made in the amount of $50,000 for each
school.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-520, Disadvantaged Pupil
Impact Aid, the Department shall distribute $75,000 in each
fiscal year to the Collinwood Community Center to continue
outreach work on the Parents' Pledge of Responsibility in the
Cleveland City School District. This distribution shall come
from the Cleveland City School District's Disadvantaged Pupil
Impact Aid.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-520,
Disadvantaged Pupil Impact Aid, up to $500,000 in each fiscal
year shall be used by the Department of Education to encourage
school districts to set high academic standards and provide a
helping hand for students striving to meet them. Any school
district that offers a summer school program for students who
have been enrolled in the fourth and sixth grades, whether
district-wide, in several school buildings or within a cluster
of school buildings, may retain those students who fail to
attend summer school programs if those students attend schools
that offer such programs. A Summer Proficiency Academy shall be
any school district's summer school program that is
conducted for students who have been enrolled in the fourth and
sixth grades, whether district-wide, in several school buildings
or within a cluster of school buildings, that addresses the
needs of students who did not pass at least three of the five
parts of either the fourth-grade or sixth-grade proficiency
test, that is of at least six weeks' duration, and that
provides an innovative, enriching educational experience. The
department shall use the funds indicated in this paragraph to
make grants to those school districts that conduct such Summer
Proficiency Academies and that have valuation per pupil less
than 150 per cent of the statewide average valuation per pupil,
to defray 75 per cent of the costs of conducting such academies.
The amount of each grant shall not exceed $150,000 and each
school district shall be eligible for up to four grants in each
fiscal year. Grants shall be made to school districts based on
the percentage of students failing three or more tests, with
first priority given to districts with the highest failure
rates. As used in this paragraph, "valuation per
pupil"; has the same meaning as in division (A)(4) of
section 3317.0212 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 50.15. Lottery Profits Education Fund
Appropriation item 200-670, School Foundation - Basic
Allowance, shall be used in conjunction with GRF item 200-501 to
provide payments to school districts pursuant to Chapter 3317. of
the Revised Code.
Of the foregoing appropriation item, 200-670, School Foundation Basic
Allowance, $25,000,000
in fiscal year 1999 shall be used from the funds transferred from the
Unclaimed Prizes Trust Fund pursuant to the section entitled "Transfers from
the Unclaimed Prizes Fund" of this act AM. SUB.
H.B. 215 OF THE 122nd GENERAL
ASSEMBLY.
Appropriation item 200-671, Special Education, shall be used
in conjunction with GRF item 200-504 to provide payments to
school districts pursuant to Chapter 3317. of the Revised Code.
Appropriation item 200-672, Vocational Education, shall be used
in conjunction with GRF item 200-507 to provide payments to
school districts pursuant to Chapter 3317. of the Revised Code.
The Department of Education, with the approval of the
Director of Budget and Management, shall determine the monthly
distribution schedules of the GRF line item 200-501 and fund 017
line item 200-670, GRF line item 200-504 and fund 017 line item
200-671, and GRF line item 200-507 and fund 017 line item
200-672. If adjustments to the monthly distribution schedule are
necessary, the Department of Education shall make such
adjustments with the approval of the Director of Budget and
Management.
The Director of Budget and Management shall transfer the
amount appropriated under the Lottery Profits Education Fund for
item 200-682, Lease Rental Payment Reimbursement, to the General
Revenue
Fund on a schedule determined by the director. These funds shall
support the General Revenue Fund appropriation 200-413
230-428, Lease
Rental Payments, OF THE SCHOOL FACILITIES
COMMISSION.
Disability Access Projects
(A) As used in this section:
(1) "Percentile" means the percentile in which a school district is ranked
according to the most recent ranking of school districts with regard to income
and property wealth under division (B) of section 3318.011 of the Revised
Code.
(2) "School district" means a city, local, or exempted village school
district, except for a school district that is one of the state's 21 urban
school districts as defined in division (H) of section 3317.02 of the Revised
Code.
(3) As used in this section, "valuation per pupil" means a district's
total
taxable value as defined in section 3317.02 of the Revised Code divided by the
district's ADM as defined in division (A) of section 3317.021 of the
Revised
Code.
(B) The Department of Education shall adopt rules for awarding grants to
school districts with a valuation per pupil less than $200,000, to be used for
construction, reconstruction, or renovation projects in classroom facilities,
the purpose of which is to improve access to such facilities by physically
handicapped persons. The rules shall include application procedures.
No school district shall be awarded a grant under this section in excess of
$100,000. In addition, any school district
shall be required to pay a percentage of the cost of the project
for which the grant is being awarded equal to the percentile in which the
district is so ranked.
The foregoing appropriation item 200-649, Disability Access Projects, shall
be
used to fund capital projects that make buildings more accessible to students
with disabilities pursuant to this section. Of the foregoing appropriation
item 200-649, Disability Access Projects, $60,000 shall be used for the
Danville High School wheelchair lift.
Judgment Loan
The foregoing appropriation item 200-669, Judgment Loan, shall be used to make
loans to eligible districts under this section HEADING.
(A) A school district is an "eligible district"
for purposes of division (B) of this subsection HEADING if, in
the two-year
period immediately preceding the effective date of this subsection
JUNE 30, 1997, the
district was the subject of either:
(1) A single final nonappealable judgment, consent judgment, or settlement
agreement in a civil action for damages for injury, death, or loss of person
or property, the amount of which was equal to at least 90 per cent of the
district's annual expenditures for operating expenses for the fiscal year in
which the judgment, consent judgment, or settlement agreement was issued;
(2) Multiple final nonappealable judgments, consent judgments, or
settlement agreements for such damages
arising out of a single transaction or occurrence, or a series of transactions
or occurrences arising out of the same wrongful act, the total of which
judgments, consent judgments, or settlement agreements was an amount equal to
at least 90 per cent of the district's total expenditures for operating
expenses in any one of the fiscal years in which any such judgment, consent
judgment, or settlement agreement was issued.
(B) Upon application by the board of education of an eligible
district and to the extent funds are appropriated for the purpose, the
Superintendent of Public Instruction, with the approval of the Director of
Budget and Management, may enter into a loan agreement with the board under
which
the Department of Education shall loan to the district the amount of money
necessary to pay all or part of any judgment, consent judgment, or settlement
agreement described in
division (A) of this section HEADING, plus any accrued interest.
For
repayment of the loan, the loan agreement shall require the department to
deduct
annually from state aid payments due to the district under Chapter
3317. of the Revised Code, and if necessary under sections 321.24 and 323.156
of the Revised Code, an amount
equal to two-thousandths of the district's total taxable value reported
pursuant to divisions (A)(1) and (2) of section 3317.021 of the Revised Code,
for
the lesser of the following periods:
(1) A period of twenty-five years, commencing with the later of the year
of receipt of the loan or fiscal year 1999;
(2) A period equal to the number of years required to deduct an amount
equal to the total amount of the loan from the district's state aid payments,
commencing with the later of the year of receipt of the loan or fiscal year
1999.
Bus Purchase One Time Supplement
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-694, Bus Purchase One Time Supplement,
$2,100,000 shall be distributed by the Department of Education pursuant to the
provisions of law governing appropriation line item 200-552, County
MR/DD
Boards - Vehicle Purchases.
The remaining funds allocated under this section HEADING shall
be distributed by the
Department of Education pursuant to the provisions of law governing
appropriation line item 200-503, Bus Purchase Allowance.
Lottery Profits Transfers*
On May 15 of each fiscal year, the Director of Budget and
Management shall determine if lottery profits transfers will meet
the appropriation amounts from the Lottery Profits Education
Fund.
On or after the date specified in each fiscal year, if the
director determines that lottery profits will not meet
appropriations and if other funds are not available to meet the
shortfall, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall take
the actions specified under the "Reallocation of Funds"
section of this act AM. SUB.
H.B. 215 OF THE 122nd GENERAL
ASSEMBLY.
Transfers from the Unclaimed Prizes Fund
By July 15 of fiscal year 1999, the Director of
Budget and Management shall transfer $25,000,000 from the State Lottery
Commission's Unclaimed Prizes Fund to the Lottery Profits Education Fund, to
be used solely for purposes specified in the Department of Education's budget.
Transfers of unclaimed prizes under this provision shall not count as
Lottery
Profits LOTTERY PROFITS in the determination made concerning excess
profits titled "Lottery
Profits" under the Department of Education in this act AM.
SUB. H.B. 215 OF THE 122nd
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Teacher Certification and Licensure
The foregoing appropriation item 200-681, Teacher
Certification and Licensure, shall be used by the Department of Education in
each year of the biennium to administer teacher certification and licensure
functions pursuant to sections 3301.071, 3301.074, 3301.50,
3301.51, 3319.088, 3319.22, 3319.24 to 3319.28, 3319.281,
3319.282, 3319.29, 3319.301, 3319.31, and 3319.51 of the Revised
Code.
Sec. 50.20. Supplemental Payment
In addition to any other payments made under Chapter 3317.
of the Revised Code, or under this act
AM. SUB. H.B. 215 OF THE
122nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY, a payment for fiscal
year 1998 not greater than the sum of the computation under division
(A) of this section and for fiscal year 1999 not greater than the
sum of the computation under division (B) of this section may be
made to each school district, subject to the recommendation of
the Superintendent of Public Instruction and approval of the
Controlling Board, for mandated costs not met from increases in
funds for the appropriate year from this act H.B.
215. The increases for
fiscal year 1998 shall be calculated by determining additional
state funds received for the year under other sections of this
act H.B. 215 and sections 3317.022 and 3317.023
of the Revised Code, plus
additional state funds for approved units in operation for fiscal
year 1998 funded under divisions (M), (N), and (O) of section
3317.024 of the Revised Code and the heading "Supplemental Unit
Allowance" above
amounts received by the
district from such sections and divisions and under the heading
"Supplemental Payment" in Section 45.11
of Am. Sub. H.B. 117 of the 121st General Assembly and Supplemental Unit
Allowance in Section 45.06 of Am. Sub. H.B. 117 of the 121st General Assembly,
for fiscal
year 1997. The increases for fiscal year 1999 shall be
calculated by determining additional state funds received for
such year under other sections of this act H.B.
215 AND THIS ACT and sections 3317.022
and 3317.023 of the Revised Code plus additional state funds for
approved units in operation for fiscal year 1999 funded under
divisions (M), (N), and (O) of section 3317.024 of the Revised
Code above the amounts received by the district from such
sections and divisions and under this section of this act
H.B. 215 for fiscal year 1998.
(A) For fiscal year 1998, the amount calculated under this
division shall be the cost of employing additional full-time
equivalent classroom teachers and educational service personnel
whose employment was necessary to avoid a reduction in state aid
under divisions (C) and (D) or (E) of section 3317.023 of the
Revised Code and who exceed in number the number of full-time
equivalent classroom teachers and full-time equivalent
educational service personnel who were employed by the district
during the first full week of October, 1996. The amount shall
equal the minimum salaries for such additional full-time
equivalent employees required by section 3317.13 of the Revised
Code multiplied by 114 per cent.
(B) For fiscal year 1999, the amount calculated under this
division shall be the cost of employing the additional full-time
equivalent classroom teachers and educational service personnel
whose employment was necessary to avoid a reduction in state aid
under divisions (C) and (D) or (E) of section 3317.023 of the
Revised Code and who exceed in number the number of full-time
equivalent classroom teachers and educational service personnel
who were employed by the district during either the first full
week of October 1996, or during the first full week of October
1997, whichever week the number was smaller. The amount shall
equal the minimum salaries for such additional full-time
equivalent employees required by section 3317.13 of the Revised
Code multiplied by 114 per cent.
The Department of Education shall determine application
procedures and the schedule for applications and payments,
subject to approval by the Controlling Board. The Department of
Education may pay during the first half of each fiscal year, an
amount equal to one-half of the estimated payment to which a
district is entitled under this section. Subsequent to the
approval of the Controlling Board, the amount of any
over-payments shall be deducted from payments made under this act
H.B. 215 during the remainder of the fiscal year.
Only those school districts eligible to receive payments
under section 3317.022 of the Revised Code may receive any
payment under this section.
The Superintendent of Public Instruction and the
Controlling Board, before finalizing recommendations or approving
payments pursuant to this section, may consider:
(1) Increases in revenues to a school district from
sources other than Chapter 3317. of the Revised Code;
(2) Information relating to assumptions concerning
potential state revenues made at the time of adoption of a new
salary schedule for the district.
Sec. 50.23 Reallocation of Funds
(A) As used in this section:
(1) "Basic aid" means the amount calculated for
the school district received for the fiscal year under sections
3317.022, 3317.023, and 3317.025 to 3317.028 of the Revised Code,
as modified by language under the headings "Basic Aid
Formula Amount," "Basic Aid Guarantees," and
"Vocational Education Pupil Recomputations" of this act
AM. SUB. H.B. 215 OF THE
122nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY
and section 3317.0212 of the Revised Code.
(2) "Nonbasic aid" means:
(a) In the case of a school district, the amount computed
for the district for fiscal year 1998 or fiscal year 1999 under
Chapter 3317. of the Revised Code and this act H.B.
215, excluding the district's basic aid;
(b) In the case of a county board of mental retardation
and developmental disabilities or for an institution providing
special education programs under section 3323.091 of the Revised
Code, the amount computed for the board or institution under
divisions (N) and (O) of section 3317.024 of the Revised Code.
(3) "Total taxable value" has the meaning given
in section 3317.02 of the Revised Code.
(4) "Total basic revenue" means the district's
basic aid plus one of the following:
(a) For fiscal year 1998, two and three-tenths per cent of the district's
total
taxable value
for the most recently completed tax year for which data are
available for all school districts at the time the computations
required by divisions (C) to (E) of this section are made;
(b) For fiscal year 1999, two and three-tenths per cent of the district's
total taxable value for the most recently completed tax year for which data
are
available for all school districts at the time the computations required by
divisions (C) to (E) of this section are made.
(B) If in either fiscal year of the biennium the
Superintendent of Public Instruction determines prior to January
16, 1998, or January 16, 1999, respectively, that the amount
appropriated to the Department of Education for distribution
under this act
AM. SUB. H.B. 215 OF THE
122nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY, THIS ACT,
and Chapter 3317. of the Revised Code is
insufficient to make all of the payments required under such
provisions, or if the Governor issues an order under section
126.05 of the Revised Code to reduce expenditures and incurred
obligations and the order requires the Superintendent to reduce
such state aid payments, or if lottery profits transfers are
insufficient to meet the amounts appropriated from the Lottery
Profits Education Fund for basic aid, vocational education, and
special education, and if other funds are not sufficient to
offset the shortfall, the Superintendent shall reduce basic and
nonbasic aid payments so that the total amount expended in the
fiscal year will not exceed either the amount appropriated or the
amount available for expenditure pursuant to the Governor's
order. Subject to Controlling Board approval, the Superintendent
shall reallocate appropriations not yet expended from one
program to another.
(C)(1) If further reductions in basic and nonbasic aid are
necessary following the reallocations implemented pursuant to
division (B) of this section, the Superintendent shall request
the Controlling Board to approve the use of the money
appropriated by this division. The Superintendent shall include
with the Superintendent's request a report listing the amount of reductions
that
each school district will receive pursuant to divisions (D) to
(H) of this section if the request is not approved, and also the
amount of the reduction, if any, that will still be required if
the use of the money appropriated by this section is approved.
(2) In accordance with division (C)(1) of this section,
there is hereby appropriated to the Department of Education from
the unobligated balance remaining in the Lottery Profits
Education Fund at the end of fiscal year 1997 and at the end of
fiscal year 1998 the lesser of: the unobligated balance in the
fund, or the amount needed to preclude a reallocation pursuant to
divisions (D) to (H) of this section. The money appropriated by
this division may be spent or distributed by the department only
with the approval of the Controlling Board.
(D) If reductions in basic and nonbasic aid are still
necessary following the actions taken pursuant to divisions (B)
and (C) of this section, the Superintendent shall determine by
what percentage expenditures for basic and nonbasic aid must be
reduced for the remainder of the fiscal year to make the total
amount distributed for the year equal the amount appropriated or
available for distribution. The Superintendent shall reduce by that
percentage
the amount to be paid in nonbasic aid to each city, exempted
village, local, and joint vocational school district, to each educational
service center, to each county board of mental retardation and developmental
disabilities, and to each institution providing special education
programs under section 3323.091 of the Revised Code for the
remainder of the fiscal year.
(E) As used in divisions (F) to (H) of this section,
"school district" means city, local, and exempted
village school districts.
(F) After computing the reduction required by division (D)
of this section, the Superintendent shall:
(1) Determine the difference between the amount by which
total basic and nonbasic aid payments must be reduced and the
amount of the reductions made under division (D) of this section;
(2) Determine each school district's total basic revenue;
(3) Determine the total basic revenue of all such
districts;
(4) Except as otherwise provided in division (G) of this
section, reduce each such school district's basic aid by an
amount computed as follows:
(a) Multiply the amount obtained under division (F)(1) of
this section by the district's total basic revenue;
(b) Divide the product thus obtained by the total basic
revenue of all districts. The quotient thus obtained shall be
the amount by which the district's basic aid shall be reduced for
the fiscal year.
(5) If the amount computed for a district under division
(F)(4)(b) of this section equals or exceeds the basic aid
remaining to be paid to the district for the fiscal year, the
district shall receive no further basic aid in the fiscal year.
(G) If the amount by which any district's basic aid is
required to be reduced under division (F)(4) of this section
exceeds the amount of basic aid remaining to be paid to the
district for the fiscal year, the department shall further reduce
the basic aid to be paid to all other districts as follows:
(1) Determine the difference between:
(a) The amount determined under division (F)(1) of this
section; and
(b) The amounts by which basic aid payments were reduced
under divisions (F)(4) and (5) of this section.
(2) Determine the difference between:
(a) The total basic revenue of all districts; and
(b) The sum of the total basic revenue of each district to
which division (F)(5) of this section applies.
(3) Reduce each remaining school district's basic aid by
an amount computed as follows:
(a) Multiply the amount computed under division (G)(1) of
this section by the district's total basic revenue;
(b) Divide the product obtained by the amount computed
under division (G)(2) of this section. The quotient thus
obtained shall be the additional amount by which the district's
basic aid shall be reduced for the fiscal year.
(H) If the sum of the reductions under divisions (F) and
(G) of this section equals or exceeds the amount of basic aid
remaining to be paid to the district for the fiscal year, the
district shall receive no further basic aid payments in the
fiscal year and the department shall further reduce the amount of
basic aid to be paid to the remaining school districts in
accordance with the procedure set forth in division (G) of this
section, but substituting the remaining amount of the deficit
after the first operation of division (G) for the amount
specified in division (G)(1) of this section, and subtracting the
total basic revenue of those districts no longer participating in
the allocation from the amount specified in division (G)(2) of
this section.
Sec. 50.24. Lottery Profits
(A) There is hereby created the Lottery Profits Education
Reserve Fund (Fund 018) in the State Treasury. At no time shall
the amount to the credit of the fund exceed
$50,000,000. Investment earnings of the Lottery Profits
Education Reserve Fund shall be credited to the
fund. Notwithstanding any provisions of law to the
contrary, for
fiscal years 1998 and 1999, there is hereby appropriated to the
Department of Education, from the Lottery Profits Education
Reserve Fund, an amount necessary to make loans authorized by
sections 3317.0210, 3317.0211, and 3317.62 of the Revised
Code. All loan repayments from loans made in fiscal years
1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, or 1998 shall be deposited into the
credit of
the Lottery Profits Education Reserve Fund.
(B)(1) On or before July 15, 1997, the Director of Budget
and Management shall determine the amount by which lottery profit
transfers received by the Lottery Profits Education Fund for
fiscal year 1997 exceed $661,200,000.
After certifying fiscal year 1997 excess lottery profits pursuant to this
division, and notwithstanding divisions (C) and (D) of this section, the
Director of Budget and Management shall allocate up to $30,000,000 of the
certified fiscal year 1997 excess lottery profits to support appropriations in
fiscal year 1998 and fiscal year 1999 from the Lottery Profits Education Fund
(Fund 017) for appropriation item 228-690, SchoolNet Electrical
Infrastructure, to be used for the purposes specified in this act
AM. SUB. H.B. 215 OF THE
122nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
The remaining balance of certified fiscal year 1997 excess lottery profits
shall be distributed in fiscal year 1998 pursuant to divisions (C) and (D) of
this section.
(2) On or before July 15, 1998, the Director of Budget and
Management shall determine the amount by which lottery profit
transfers received by the Lottery Profits Education Fund for
fiscal year 1998 exceed $679,417,200. The amount so determined
shall be distributed in fiscal year 1999 pursuant to divisions
(E) and (F) of this section.
The Director of Budget and Management shall annually
certify the amounts determined pursuant to this section to the
Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the
Senate.
(C) Not later than January 16, 1998, the Department of
Education, in consultation with the Director of Budget and
Management, shall determine, based upon estimates, if a
reallocation of funds as described in the section titled
"Reallocation of Funds" of this act
H.B. 215 is required.
If a reallocation of funds is required, then the
Superintendent of Public Instruction shall request Controlling
Board approval for a release of any balances in the Lottery
Profits Education Fund available for the purpose of this division
and pursuant to divisions (C)(1) and (2) of the section titled
"Reallocation of Funds" of this act H.B.
215. Any moneys so
released are hereby appropriated.
(D) In fiscal year 1998, if the Department of Education
does not determine that a reallocation of funds is necessary by
January 16, as provided in division (C) of this section, or if
there is a balance in the Lottery Profits Education Fund after
the release of any amount needed to preclude a reallocation of
funds as provided in division (C) of this section, the moneys in
the Lottery Profits Education Fund shall be allocated as provided
in this division. Any amounts so allocated are hereby
appropriated.
(1) An amount equal to five per cent of the estimated
lottery profits of $661,200,000 in fiscal year 1997 or the amount
remaining in the fund, whichever is the lesser amount, shall be
transferred to the Lottery Profits Education Reserve Fund within
the limitations specified in division (A) of this section and be
reserved and shall not be available for allocation or
distribution during fiscal year 1998. Any amounts exceeding
$50,000,000 shall be distributed pursuant to divisions (D)(2),
(3), and (4) of this section.
(2) After reserving the required amount under division
(D)(1) of this section, an amount equal to $25,000,000 or the
unreserved amount remaining in the fund, whichever is the lesser
amount, shall be transferred to the Public School Building Fund
(Fund 021) to be allocated and distributed in accordance with
Chapter 3318. of the Revised Code. The Department of Education
shall submit annually a report to the Governor and General
Assembly on the use of these funds. The report shall include for
each project, a description of the need for the project, the
total cost, the state and local share of the cost, and the
project repayment schedule.
(3) After the allocation under division (D)(2) of this
section, an amount equal to $20,000,000 or the unreserved amount
remaining in the fund, whichever is the lesser amount, shall be
allocated to the Department of Education SCHOOL
FACILITIES COMMISSION to assist school
districts in complying with federal regulations on asbestos
abatement and removal and to assist school districts in making
school buildings accessible to the handicapped.
(4) After the allocation under division (D)(3) of this
section, the unreserved amount remaining in the fund shall be
distributed pursuant to division (G) of this section.
(E) Not later than January 16, 1999, the Department of
Education, in consultation with the Director of Budget and
Management, shall determine, based upon estimates, if a
reallocation of funds as described in the section titled
"Reallocation of Funds" of this act H.B. 215
is required.
If a reallocation of funds is required, then the
Superintendent of Public Instruction shall request Controlling
Board approval for a release of any balances in the Lottery
Profits Education Fund available for the purpose of this division
and pursuant to divisions (C)(1) and (2) of the section titled
"Reallocation of Funds" of this act H.B.
215. Any moneys so
released are hereby appropriated.
(F) In fiscal year 1999, if the Department of Education
does not determine that a reallocation of funds is necessary by
January 16, as provided in division (E) of this section, or if
there is a balance in the Lottery Profits Education Fund after
the release of any amount needed to preclude a reallocation of
funds as provided in division (E) of this section, the moneys in
the Lottery Profits Education Fund shall be allocated as provided
in this division. Any amounts so allocated are hereby
appropriated.
(1) An amount equal to five per cent of the estimated
lottery profits transfers of $679,417,200 in fiscal year 1998 or
the amount remaining in the fund, whichever is the lesser amount,
shall be transferred to the Lottery Profits Education Reserve
Fund within the limitations specified in division (A) of this
section and be reserved and shall not be available for allocation
or distribution during fiscal year 1999. Any amounts exceeding
$50,000,000 shall be distributed pursuant to divisions (F)(2),
(3), and (4) of this section.
(2) After reserving the required amount under division
(F)(1) of this section, an amount equal to $25,000,000 or the
unreserved amount remaining in the fund, whichever is the lesser
amount, shall be transferred to the School Building Fund (Fund
021) to be allocated and distributed in accordance with Chapter
3318. of the Revised Code. The Department of Education shall
submit annually a report to the Governor and General Assembly on
the use of these funds. The report shall include for each
project, a description of the need for the project, the total
cost, the state and local share of the cost, and the project
repayment schedule.
(3) After the allocation under division (F)(2) of this
section, an amount equal to $20,000,000 or the unreserved amount
remaining in the fund, whichever is the lesser amount, shall be
allocated to the Department of Education SCHOOL
FACILITIES COMMISSION to assist school
districts in complying with federal regulations on asbestos
abatement and removal and to assist school districts in making
school buildings accessible to the handicapped.
(4) After the allocation under division (F)(3) of this
section, the amount remaining in the fund shall be distributed
pursuant to division (G) of this section.
(G) In the appropriate fiscal year, any remaining amounts
after the operations required by division (D) or (F) of this
section, respectively, shall be available for distribution in
accordance with this division.
(1) As used in this division:
(a) "State basic aid" means:
(i) In the case of a school district, the amount computed
for a district under sections 3317.022, 3317.023, and 3317.025 to
3317.028 of the Revised Code exclusive of amounts computed under
division (B) of section 3317.023 of the Revised Code, plus any
amount computed for the district under section 3317.0212 of the
Revised Code or under the heading "Basic Aid
Guarantee" of this act H.B. 215
or any amount computed under
section 3317.11 or 3317.16 of the Revised Code.
(ii) In the case of a 169 board, the amount computed under
divisions (N) and (O) of section 3317.024 of the Revised Code.
(b) "ADM" means:
(i) In the case of a city, local, or exempted village
school district, the district's average daily membership
determined pursuant to section 3317.03 of the Revised Code,
exclusive of those pupils who are enrolled in units for which an educational
service center governing board receives funding under division (N) of
section 3317.024 of the Revised Code or who are enrolled in a
joint vocational school district;
(ii) In the case of a joint vocational school district,
the sum of the number of pupils excluded from city, local, or
exempted village school district ADMs under division
(G)(1)(b)(i) of this section by virtue of their enrollment in
that joint vocational school district;
(iii) In the case of an educational service center, the sum of
the number of pupils excluded from city, local, and exempted
village school district ADMs under division (G)(1)(b)(i) of this
section by virtue of their enrollment in a unit for which that
educational service center governing board receives funding under division (N)
of
section 3317.024 of the Revised Code;
(iv) In the case of a 169 board, the sum of the pupils
included in classes and units approved for funding under section
3317.05 of the Revised Code.
(c) "169 board" means a county board of mental
retardation and developmental disabilities.
(2) Ninety-seven and forty-three one-hundredths per cent
of the amount made available for distribution under this division
in each fiscal year shall be distributed to city, local, joint vocational, and
exempted village school districts and educational service centers eligible
to receive funds pursuant to Chapter 3317. of the Revised Code
and to 169 boards in proportion to the percentage that the ADM of
each such district, educational service center, or board is of the
ADM of all such districts, educational service centers, and boards
and shall be for the use of the public schools of the
district or educational service center and 169 board programs. Two and
fifty-seven
one-hundredths per cent of such amount made available for
distribution under this division in each fiscal year shall be
distributed to nonpublic schools for the purposes of section
3317.063 of the Revised Code. Not later than the first day of
March of each fiscal year, the Department of Education shall
compute each school district's, each educational service center's, and each
169 board's share for
that year of the amount to be distributed under this division and
shall, subject to Controlling Board approval, distribute the
shares so determined.
Amounts distributed to school districts, educational service centers, and 169
boards
pursuant to this division shall be used solely to purchase
textbooks and equipment. If funds have been appropriated by a
board for any purposes permitted under this section, the amounts
distributed to the district or educational service center under this division
shall be used for
additional expenditures for such purposes and shall not be
substituted for funds previously appropriated by the board.
(3) Districts, educational service centers, 169 boards, and nonpublic schools
shall
report to the Department of Education no later than the last day
of May of each fiscal year on the usage of funds received under
this division. The Department of Education shall compile
district and educational service center data and report on the usage of all
funds distributed
under this division to the Controlling Board by the last day of
June of each fiscal year. If the department determines that a
district or educational service center or a 169 board used funds distributed
pursuant to this
division for purposes not permitted, it shall reduce the
district's, educational service center's, or board's state basic aid payments
for the ensuing
fiscal year by the amount improperly used.
It is the intent of the General Assembly that moneys
distributed pursuant to this section shall not be included in any
spending base calculations when appropriations for the 1999-2000
biennium are being considered.
Sec. 50.43. There is hereby created the Ohio Schools
Technology Implementation Task Force composed of six voting
members, three of whom shall be members of the Senate appointed
by the President of the Senate and three of whom shall be
members of the House of Representatives appointed by the Speaker
of the House of Representatives. Not more than two members from
each house shall be members of the same political party. From among these
six voting members, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House
of Representatives jointly shall appoint a chair of the
Task Force. The Task Force shall include as ex officio nonvoting members the
Superintendent of Public Instruction or the Superintendent's
designee; the Directors of Budget and Management, Administrative
Services, and the Office of Information, Learning, and
Technology Services or their designees; a representative
designated by the head of the Ohio Education Computer Network; a
representative designated by the Chairperson of the Public
Utilities Commission of Ohio; and a representative appointed by
the Chairperson of the Ohio Education Broadcasting Network
Commission. The voting members may, by majority vote, elect to
include any number of additional nonvoting members on the Task
Force.
The Legislative Service Commission and the Legislative Budget
Office of the Legislative Service Commission shall provide any
staffing assistance requested by the Task Force.
The Task Force shall develop recommendations for a comprehensive
framework for coordinating the planning and implementation of
technology in Ohio schools and issue a report not later than
January 31 AUGUST 1, 1998. Upon issuing its
report, the Task Force shall
cease to operate.
Sec. 50.44. (A) There is hereby created the
Teacher Professional Development Task Force. The purpose of the
task force shall be to develop a comprehensive structure for the
delivery of continuing professional development for teachers
employed in the state's primary, secondary, vocational, and
special educational system. On or before January 31
AUGUST 1, 1998, the
task force shall issue to the President of the Senate, the
Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the State
Superintendent of Public Instruction a report outlining a
comprehensive structure for the delivery of continuing
professional development to such school teachers. On the date
of the issuance of its report, the task force is abolished.
(B) The task force shall be composed of six
legislators, three appointed by the President of the Senate and
three by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. No more
than two of the appointed members from each house shall be
members of the same political party. From among these six
appointed members, the President of the Senate
and the Speaker of the House of Representatives jointly shall
appoint a chair of the Task Force. Ex-officio nonvoting
members of the task force shall include the State Superintendent
of Public Instruction, or the Superintendent's designee; the
Director of Budget and Management, or the Director's designee; a
member appointed by the head official of the Ohio State School
Boards Association; a member appointed by the head official of
the Ohio Association of Educational Service Center
Superintendents; a member appointed by the head official of the
Ohio Education Association; a member appointed by the head
official of the Ohio Federation of Teachers; a member appointed
by the head official of the Buckeye Association of School
Administrators; and two members of the institutions of higher
education that have teacher education colleges, one member of
which shall be from such a public institution appointed by the
Chancellor of the Board of Regents and the other shall be from
such a private institution appointed by the head official of the
Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Ohio.
The voting members of the task force may appoint, by a majority
vote, additional ex-officio nonvoting members to serve on the
task force. The Legislative Service Commission and the
Legislative Budget Office shall provide staff and services to
the task force.
Sec. 69.03. SchoolNet Plus
In fiscal year 1998, by July 10, the Director of Budget and
Management shall transfer $28,000,000 cash from the General
Revenue Fund to the Office of Information, Learning and
Technology Services' SchoolNet
Plus Fund (4Y4). In fiscal year 1998, by July 10, the Director
of Budget of Management shall transfer $3,664,253 from the
Lottery Commission's Unclaimed Prizes Fund (Fund 872) to
the Office of Information, Learning and Technology
Services' SchoolNet Plus Fund (4Y4). In addition, on or before
July 31, 1997, pursuant to the section titled "Transfer of Fiscal Year 1997
Ending Balances" $94,400,000 in surplus revenue shall be transferred to the
SchoolNet Plus Fund (4Y4). A total of $31,664,253 shall be
distributed from Fund (4Y4) line item 228-698, SchoolNet Plus, to
non-qualifying districts to bring their total
SchoolNet Plus payment up to $350 per pupil for students in
kindergarten through the fourth grade.
To complete the SchoolNet Plus program, the Director of Budget
and Management shall transfer in fiscal year 1999 $30,600,000
cash from the General Revenue Fund to the office's SchoolNet Plus Fund (4Y4).
Before any city, local, or exempted village school district
applies for and receives additional funds through the SchoolNet
Plus program, it must certify to the Office of Information,
Learning, and Technology Services that it has used any previous
moneys received through the SchoolNet Plus program to purchase
and install computers for children enrolled in grades
kindergarten through four, and that the equipment and software
are being utilized daily as of the certification date. School
districts may use their SchoolNet Plus moneys for assistant
technology for disabled students.
Interactive Video Distance Learning
The foregoing appropriation item 200-650, Interactive Video Distance Learning,
shall be used in fiscal year 1998 to help fund interactive video distance
learning projects in local, exempted village, city, and joint vocational
schools. The Office of Information, Learning, and Technology shall determine
grant amounts in accordance with the guidelines of this section. Priority
shall be given to consortiums of schools where a significant number of all the
schools in a geographic area have demonstrated a desire to participate in the
program and where no interactive video distance learning project involving
multiple school districts now exists. Efforts shall be made to ensure that
consortiums funded are geographically dispersed around the state.
The Office of Information, Learning, and Technology Services shall calculate a
maximum grant amount for each approved school district or consortium. Such
maximum grant shall be the amount sufficient to equip one classroom in each
high school building of the participating school districts capable of both
originating and receiving programming and may include one additional classroom
in each high school building for receiving only. The maximum grant amount may
also include funds for interconnecting the various sites involved in the
consortium, for planning and for professional development. The percentage of
the maximum grant amount awarded to school districts or consortia shall be
greater for lower property valuation districts, and consortia of lower
property valuation districts, and less for higher property valuation
districts, and consortia. The amount awarded shall take into account the
subsidy and discount available through the Federal Communication Commission's
telephone universal service plan for schools, and may include a subsidy, up to
the maximum permissible under the Snow-Rockefeller amendment, of the monthly
telephone, cable, or other connection charges
INCURRED BY SCHOOL DISTRICTS OR BY NEW OR EXISTING CONSORTIA INVOLVING
SCHOOL DISTRICTS WITH EDUCATIONAL-RELATED ORGANIZATIONS WHOSE INCLUSION WILL
ENHANCE EDUCATION FOR OHIO'S STUDENTS, for operation of
the interactive
distance learning programming. School districts or consortia of school
districts whose per pupil valuation for the average of the preceding two years
exceed 60 per cent of the statewide median valuation
per pupil shall be eligible for funds only if they commit, as part of the
application process, to provide programming without charge or at minimal cost
to school districts whose valuation is below the statewide median valuation
per pupil.
Sec. 76. LSC LEGISLATIVE SERVICE COMMISSION
General Revenue Fund
GRF | 035-321 | Operating Expenses | $ | 7,231,000 | $ | 7,445,000 |
GRF | 035-402 | Legislative Interns | $ | 705,000 | $ | 740,000 |
GRF | 035-403 | Legislative Budget Office | $ | 2,405,000 | $ | 2,521,000 |
GRF | 035-404 | Legislative Office of Education Oversight | $ | 658,933 | $ | 683,891 |
GRF | 035-405 | Correctional Institution Inspection Committee | $ | 475,000 | $ | 490,000 |
GRF | 035-406 | ATMS Replacement Project | $ | 80,000 | $ | 80,000 |
GRF | 035-407 | Legislative Task Force on Redistricting, Reapportionment,
and Demographic Research | $ | 830,000 | $ | 320,000 |
GRF | 035-409 | National Associations | $ | 510,957 | $ | 376,729 |
GRF | 035-410 | Legislative Information Systems | $ | 3,200,000 | $ | 3,200,000 |
GRF035-412
SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PROPERTY
TAX
| | | $ | 200,000
| $ | 0 |
TOTAL GRF General Revenue Fund | $ | 16,095,890 | $ | 15,856,620 |
General Services Fund Group
410 | 035-601 | Sale of Publications | $ | 25,000 | $ | 25,000 |
4F6 | 035-603 | Legislative Budget Services | $ | 120,000 | $ | 128,000 |
4F7 | 035-605 | Head Start Study | $ | 60,000 | $ | 0 |
TOTAL GSF General Services | | | | |
Fund Group | $ | 205,000 | $ | 153,000 |
TOTAL ALL BUDGET FUND GROUPS | $ | 16,300,890 | $ | 16,009,620 |
| | | | 16,500,890 | | |
ATMS Replacement Project
Of the foregoing appropriation item 035-406, ATMS
Replacement Project, any amounts not used for the ATMS project
may be used to pay the operating expenses of the Legislative
Service Commission.
National Associations
Of the foregoing appropriation item 035-409, National
Associations, $8,000 in each fiscal year
shall be used for the State and Local Legal Center.
Legislative Office of Education Oversight
The foregoing appropriation item 035-404, Legislative
Office of Education Oversight, shall be used to support the
legislative oversight activities of the Legislative Committee on
Education Oversight established in section 3301.68 of the Revised
Code.
The Legislative Office of Education Oversight shall study ways for school
districts to create a collaborative high school with neighboring districts.
The study will determine the types of incentives, including state assistance,
necessary to encourage schools toward this type of collaboration. The
Legislative Office of Eduction EDUCATION Oversight
shall report their recommendations to the Speaker of the House and the
President of the Senate no later than June 30, 1999.
No later than January 31, 1999, the Legislative Office of Education Oversight
shall issue a report on the status of the educational service center
consolidations
mandated by Section 45.32 of Am. Sub. H.B. 117 of
the 121st General Assembly, as amended. The Office shall
submit its report to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the
President of the Senate.
Head Start Study
The foregoing appropriation item 035-605, Head Start
Study, shall be used by the Legislative Office of Education
Oversight to conduct research on Head Start. The purpose of the
study is to evaluate the implementation of Head Start, including
the nature and quality of the educational programming, its cost,
staff, and facilities, and the program's impact on
participating children and families.
The Director of the Legislative Office of Education Oversight
shall notify the Director of Budget and Management upon
completion of the Head Start Study. The Director of Budget and
Management shall transfer any unexpended and unobligated cash
balances in Fund 4F7 to the General Revenue Fund.
_SPECIAL _COMMITTEE ON
_PROPERTY _TAX _REVISION
AND _RESTRUCTURING
THE FOREGOING APPROPRIATION ITEM 035-412, SPECIAL
COMMITTEE ON PROPERTY TAX, SHALL BE USED TO FUND
THE EXPENSES OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PROPERTY
TAX REVISION AND RESTRUCTURING.
OF THE FOREGOING APPROPRIATION ITEM 035-412, SPECIAL
COMMITTEE ON PROPERTY TAX, ANY UNENCUMBERED AND
UNALLOTTED FISCAL YEAR 1998 AMOUNTS SHALL BE TRANSFERRED BY THE
DIRECTOR OF BUDGET AND MANAGEMENT TO APPROPRIATION
ITEM 035-412, SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PROPERTY TAX, IN
FISCAL YEAR 1999. THOSE AMOUNTS SO TRANSFERRED FROM FISCAL YEAR 1998 TO
FISCAL
YEAR 1999 ARE HEREBY APPROPRIATED.
Section 103.41 103.141 Report
Notwithstanding section 103.41 103.141 of the Revised Code,
the Legislative Budget Office of the Legislative Service Commission may submit
the estimates required
by that section for calendar years 1996 and 1997 in October,
2000.
Workforce Study Committee Additional Duties
The Legislative Service Commission Study Committee on Job
Training and Workforce Development Programs appointed on
February 5, 1997, by motion of the Commission pursuant to its
authority in section 103.12 of the Revised Code, shall review
the functions and duties of state, county, and other programs,
including those performed by local offices of the Bureau of
Employment Services and by state and county human services
offices, that are directed toward job training, job placement,
and workforce development. The Study Committee, after
consulting with interested parties including the Director of
Human Services and the Administrator of the Bureau of Employment
Services, shall make recommendations to the Governor and to the
Speaker and the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives
and the President and the Minority Leader of the Senate, on
behalf of the General Assembly, to improve the integration,
efficiency, effectiveness, and collaboration of federal, state,
and locally funded job training, job placement, and workforce
development efforts.
Section 4. That existing Sections 50, 50.04, 50.07, 50.09, 50.15, 50.20,
50.23, 50.24, 50.43, 50.44, 69.03, 76, and 130.01 of Am. Sub. H.B. 215 of the
122nd General Assembly are
hereby repealed.
Section 5. That Sections 50.06 and 50.11 of Am. Sub. H.B. 215 of the
122nd General Assembly, as amended by Am. Sub. H.B. 182 of the
122nd General Assembly, be amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 50.06. School Foundation Basic Allowance
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-501, School
Foundation Basic Allowance, up to $6,000,000 in each year of the
biennium shall be expended by the State Board of Education for
the extended service allowance which shall be the teachers'
salaries pursuant to the schedule contained in section 3317.13 of
the Revised Code, plus fifteen per cent for retirement and sick
leave;
up to $425,000 shall be expended in each year of the biennium for
court payments pursuant to section 2151.357 of the Revised Code;
up to $150,000 in each year of the biennium shall be expended
pursuant to section 3313.64 of the Revised Code; the Superintendent of Public
Instruction shall expend in each year of the biennium the amount necessary for
the purpose of making payments for the vocational education
pupil recomputation pursuant to division (M) of section 3317.024 of the
Revised Code and the provisions under the section headed "Vocational Education
Pupil Recomputation" in this act AM. SUB.
H.B. 215 OF THE 122nd GENERAL
ASSEMBLY and the special education pupil recomputation
pursuant to division (I) of section 3317.023 of the Revised Code; up to
$100,000 shall be expended in each year of the biennium for
supplemental payments pursuant to the section headed
"Supplemental Payment" of this act
AM. SUB.
H.B. 215 OF THE 122nd GENERAL
ASSEMBLY; an amount shall be
available each year of the biennium for the cost of the
reappraisal guarantee pursuant to section 3317.04 of the Revised
Code; up to $9,000,000 in each year of the biennium shall be
reserved for payments pursuant to sections 3317.026, 3317.027, and 3317.028
of the Revised Code; up to $2,000,000 in each year of the
biennium shall be reserved for Youth Services tuition payments
pursuant to division (F) of section 3317.024 of the Revised Code, up to
$1,300,000 in fiscal year 1998 and $1,300,000 in fiscal year 1999 for small
district aid; for districts with
an ADM of less than 100, in addition to other funds, an amount
shall be paid equal to the amount above the actual fiscal year
1996 and 1997 amounts for basic aid, including any guarantee aid
the district would have received in fiscal years 1996 and 1997
had the amendments to divisions (D) and (E) of section 3317.0212
of the Revised Code, as amended in this act
AM. SUB.
H.B. 215 OF THE 122nd GENERAL
ASSEMBLY, been in effect; up
to $500,000 in each fiscal year shall be used to make payments
to school districts that lose enrollment due to the
implementation of the community schools program pursuant to this
act
AM. SUB.
H.B. 215 OF THE 122nd GENERAL
ASSEMBLY; $500,000 shall be transferred each year by the Director
of Budget and
Management to appropriation item 200-422, School Management Assistance, to
help the Department of Education administer, monitor, and implement the fiscal
emergency and fiscal watch provisions under Chapter 3316. of the Revised
Code. Up to $45,330,000 in fiscal year 1998 and up
to $47,795,600 in fiscal year 1999 shall be
reserved to fund the state reimbursement of educational service centers
pursuant to
section 3317.11 of the Revised Code; and up to $1,200,000 in fiscal year 1998
shall be used by the Superintendent of Public Instruction to make incentive
payments in any amounts
the superintendent deems necessary to joint educational service centers
established pursuant to section 3311.053 of the Revised Code. These
supplemental payments may be made in fiscal year 1998 to defray the direct or
indirect expenses of dissolving participating educational service centers.
Each joint educational service center seeking a supplemental payment in fiscal
year 1998 shall submit to the Superintendent of Public Instruction any
documents and information that the Superintendent may require no later than
December 31, 1997.
Of the foregoing appropriation item, 200-501, School Foundation
Basic Allowance, up to $1,000,000 in each fiscal year shall be
used by the Department of Education for a pilot program to pay
for educational services for youth who have been assigned by a
juvenile court or other authorized agency to any of the facilities described
in division (A) of the section titled "Private Treatment Facility Pilot
Project."
The remaining portion of this appropriation item shall be
expended for basic state aid for the public schools of city,
local, and exempted village school districts. ANY AMOUNTS WHICH WERE
ENCUMBERED IN FISCAL YEAR 1997 BY THE DEPARTMENT OF
EDUCATION FROM APPROPRIATION ITEM 200-501, SCHOOL
FOUNDATION BASIC ALLOWANCE, FOR ANY OF THE USES
DESCRIBED IN SECTION 45.05 OF AM. SUB.
H.B. 117 OF THE 121st GENERAL
ASSEMBLY, BUT WHICH, ON THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS AMENDMENT OF THIS
SECTION, REMAIN UNEXPENDED, MAY BE USED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF
EDUCATION TO MAKE PAYMENTS FOR THE PURPOSES OF SECTIONS 3317.027 AND
3317.028 of the Revised Code IN EXCESS OF THE AMOUNTS SPECIFIED IN SECTION 45.05 OF
AM. SUB. H.B. 117 OF THE
121st GENERAL ASSEMBLY, FOR FISCAL YEAR 1997
OBLIGATIONS PURSUANT TO SECTIONS 3317.027 AND 3317.028 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 50.11. Supplemental Unit Allowance
(A) As used under this heading:
(1) "Basic aid" has the same meaning as in division (A)(1) of
section 3317.0212 of the Revised Code.
(2) "Adjusted formula amount" has the same meaning as in
division (A)(6) of section 3313.98 of the Revised Code.
(3) "ADM" has the same meaning as in section 3317.02 of the
Revised Code.
(4) "Per pupil basic aid" means a district's basic aid divided
by its ADM.
(5) "Dollar amount" means the amount shown in the following
table for the corresponding type of unit and the appropriate
fiscal year:
TYPE OF UNIT | DOLLAR AMOUNT |
| FY 1998 | FY 1999 |
Division (M) of R.C. 3317.024 | $5,345 | $7,898 |
Division (N) of R.C. 3317.024 | $5,702 | $8,334 |
Division (O)(1) of R.C. 3317.024 | $2,293 | $3,234 |
Division (O)(2) of R.C. 3317.024 | $2,523 | $3,550 |
(6) "FY" means fiscal year.
(7) "Average unit amount" means the amount shown in the following table for
the corresponding type of unit and the appropriate fiscal year:
TYPE OF UNIT | AVERAGE UNIT AMOUNT |
| FY 1998 | FY 1999 |
Division (M) of R.C. 3317.024 | $4,937 | $7,227 |
Division (N) of R.C. 3317.024 | $5,360 | $7,799 |
Division (O)(1) of R.C. 3317.024 | $2,129 | $2,966 |
Division (O)(2) of R.C. 3317.024 | $2,343 | $3,251 |
(B) In the case of each unit described in division (M), (N), or
(O) of section 3317.024 of the Revised Code and allocated to a
city, local, or exempted village school district, the Department
of Education, in addition to the amounts specified in such
divisions, shall pay a supplemental unit allowance equal to the
sum of the following amounts:
(1) An amount equal to 50% of the average unit amount for the unit;
(2) An amount equal to the percentage of the dollar amount for the unit that
is obtained by
dividing the district's basic aid per pupil by its adjusted
formula amount.
If, prior to the fifteenth day of May of a fiscal year, a school district's
basic aid is recomputed pursuant to section 3317.027 or 3317.028 of the Revised
Code, the department shall also recompute the district's entitlement to payment
under this section utilizing a new basic aid per pupil amount under division
(B)(1) of this section. Such new basic aid per pupil amount shall be
determined using the district's recomputed basic aid amount pursuant to section
3317.027 or 3317.028 of the Revised Code. During the last six months of the
fiscal year, the department shall pay the district a sum equal to one-half of
the recomputed payment in lieu of one-half the payment otherwise calculated
under this section.
(C)(1) In the case of each unit described in division (M) of
section 3317.024 of the Revised Code that is allocated to any
entity other than a city, exempted village, or local school
district, the Department, in addition to the amount specified in
such division and in section 3317.16 of the Revised Code, shall
pay a supplemental unit allowance of $4,937 in fiscal year 1998 AND $7,227
IN FISCAL YEAR 1999.
(2) In the case of each unit described in division (N) of
section 3317.024 of the Revised Code that is allocated to any
entity other than a city, exempted village, or local school
district, the Department, in addition to the amount specified in
such division and in section 3317.16 of the Revised Code, shall
pay a supplemental unit allowance of $5,360 in fiscal year 1998 AND $7,799
IN FISCAL YEAR 1999.
(3) In the case of each unit described in division (O)(1) of
section 3317.024 of the Revised Code and allocated to any entity
other than a city, exempted village, or local school district,
the Department, in addition to the amounts specified in such
qivision and in section 3317.16 of the Revised Code, shall pay a
supplemental unit allowance of $2,129 in fiscal year 1998 AND $2,966 IN
FISCAL YEAR 1999.
(4) In the case of each unit described in division (O)(2) of section 3317.024
of the Revised Code and allocated to any entity other than a city, exempted
village, or local school district, the Department, in addition to the amounts
specified in such division and in section 3317.16 of the Revised Code, shall
pay a supplemental unit allowance of $2,343 in fiscal year 1998 AND $3,251
IN FISCAL YEAR 1999."
Section 6. That existing Sections 50.06 and 50.11 of Am. Sub. H.B. 215
of the 122nd General Assembly, as amended by Am. Sub. H.B. 182
of the 122nd General Assembly, is hereby repealed.
Section 7. That Section 50.16 of Am. Sub. H.B. 215 of the
122nd General Assembly, as amended by Am. Sub. S.B. 55 of the
122nd General Assembly, be amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 50.16. Property Tax Allocation
The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall not request
and the Controlling Board shall not approve the transfer of funds
from appropriation item 200-901, Property Tax
Allocation--Education, to any other appropriation line item.
Textbooks/Instructional Materials
As used in this section, "valuation per pupil" means a district's total
taxable value of the preceding fiscal year as defined in section
3317.02 of the Revised Code divided by the district's ADM of the
preceding fiscal year as defined in division (A) of section
3317.02 of the Revised Code.
Money in the foregoing appropriation item 200-645, Textbooks/Instructional
Materials, shall be distributed on a per pupil basis to all city, exempted
village, and local school districts with a valuation per pupil less than
$200,000. City, exempted village, and local school districts shall use moneys
received from the appropriation item for textbooks, instructional software,
instructional materials, and any other materials the district deems to be
helpful in providing appropriate instruction to students in the following
subject areas: reading, writing, mathematics, science, and citizenship.
_SCHOOL _DISTRICT
_SOLVENCY _ASSISTANCE
THE FOREGOING APPROPRIATION ITEM 200-687, SCHOOL DISTRICT
SOLVENCY ASSISTANCE, SHALL BE USED TO MAKE ADVANCEMENTS TO
SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO ENABLE THEM TO REMAIN SOLVENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 3316.20
OF THE REVISED CODE. REIMBURSEMENTS FROM SCHOOL DISTRICTS
FOR ANY AMOUNTS ADVANCED SHALL BE MADE TO THE SCHOOL
DISTRICT SOLVENCY ASSISTANCE FUND."
Section 8. That existing Section 50.16 of Am. Sub. H.B. 215 of
the 122nd General Assembly, as amended by Am. Sub. S.B. 55 of
the 122nd General Assembly, is hereby repealed.
Section 9. That Section 50.05 of Am. Sub. H.B. 215 of the 122nd
General Assembly is hereby repealed.
Section 10. That Section 5 of Am. Sub. S.B. 102 of the 122nd General
Assembly, as amended by Am. Sub. H.B. 215 of the 122nd General Assembly, be
amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 5. SFC SCHOOL FACILITIES COMMISSION
General Revenue Fund
GRF | 230-428 | Lease Rental Payments | $ | 27,020,000 | $ | 57,176,000 |
TOTAL GRF General Revenue Fund | $ | 27,020,000 | $ | 57,176,000 |
State Special Revenue Fund
5E3 | 230-644 | Operating Expenses | $ | 2,000,000 | $ | 2,400,000 |
Total SSR State Special Revenue | | | | |
Fund Group | $ | 2,000,000 | $ | 2,400,000 |
LOTTERY PROFIT EDUCATION FUND
GROUP | | | | |
DISABILITY ACCESS
PROJECT
018 | 230-649 | | $ | 5,000,000
| $ | 0 |
TOTAL LPE LOTTERY PROFITS | | | | |
EDUCATION FUND GROUP
| $ | 5,000,000
| $ | 0 |
TOTAL ALL BUDGET FUND GROUPS | $ | 29,020,000 | $ | 59,576,000 |
| | | | |
| | | | 34,020,000 | | |
Operating Expenses
The foregoing appropriation item 230-644, Operating Expenses,
shall be used by the Ohio School Facilities Commission to carry
out its responsibilities pursuant to this section and Chapter
3318. of the Revised Code.
There is hereby created in the state treasury the Ohio School
Facilities Commission Fund (Fund 5E3). The fund shall consist
of transfers of moneys authorized by the General Assembly,
grants and other revenues described in division (D) of section 3318.31 of the
Revised Code, and investment earnings of the fund. Moneys
credited to the fund may be used by the commission for staffing
and other administrative expenses, to conduct evaluations of
school facilities, to prepare building design specifications, to
provide project management services, and for any other purposes
deemed necessary by the commission consistent with Chapter 3318.
of the Revised Code.
Within 10 days of the effective date of this section, the Director of Budget
and Management shall transfer up to $2,000,000 by intrastate transfer
voucher from the School Facilities Commission's appropriation item 230-428,
Lease Rental Payments, to the Ohio School Facilities Commission
Fund (Fund 5E3). In fiscal year 1999, by July 10, 1998, the Director of
Budget and Management shall transfer up to $2,400,000 by intrastate transfer
voucher
from the School Facilities Commission's line item 230-428 Lease Rental
Payments to the Ohio School Facilities Commission Fund (Fund 5E3). Investment
earnings to the School Building Assistance Fund (Fund 032) in excess of the
amounts required to meet estimated federal arbitrage rebate requirements may
be transferred at the request of the Ohio School Facilities Commission by the
Director of Budget and Management to the Ohio School Facilities Commission
Fund (Fund 5E3). Investment earnings to the Public School Building Fund (Fund
021) and repayments to the Public School Building Fund (Fund 021) made
pursuant to Chapter 3318. of the Revised Code may be transferred at the
request
of the Ohio School Facilities Commission by the Director of Budget and
Management to the Ohio School Facilities Commission Fund (Fund 5E3).
Lease Rental Payments
After the transfers described in this section under the heading, "Operating
Expenses" are made, the remaining appropriation shall be used by the School
Facilities Commission to
meet all payments at the times required to be made during the period from July
1, 1997, to June 30, 1999, to pay bond service charges on obligations issued
pursuant to Chapter 3318. of the Revised Code.
_DISABILITY _ACCESS
_PROJECTS
(A) AS USED IN THIS SECTION:
(1) "PERCENTILE" MEANS THE PERCENTILE IN WHICH A SCHOOL DISTRICT IS RANKED
ACCORDING TO THE MOST RECENT RANKING OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS WITH REGARD TO INCOME
AND PROPERTY WEALTH UNDER DIVISION (B) OF SECTION 3318.011 OF THE
REVISED
CODE.
(2) "SCHOOL DISTRICT" MEANS A CITY, LOCAL, OR EXEMPTED VILLAGE SCHOOL
DISTRICT, EXCEPT FOR A SCHOOL DISTRICT THAT IS ONE OF THE STATE'S 21 URBAN
SCHOOL DISTRICTS AS DEFINED IN DIVISION (H) OF SECTION 3317.02 OF THE
REVISED
CODE.
(3) AS USED IN THIS SECTION, "VALUATION PER PUPIL" MEANS A DISTRICT'S
TOTAL
TAXABLE VALUE AS DEFINED IN SECTION 3317.02 OF THE REVISED
CODE DIVIDED BY THE
DISTRICT'S ADM AS DEFINED IN DIVISION (A) OF SECTION
3317.02 OF THE REVISED
CODE.
(B) THE SCHOOL FACILITIES COMMISSION
SHALL ADOPT RULES FOR AWARDING GRANTS
TO
SCHOOL DISTRICTS WITH A VALUATION PER PUPIL LESS THAN $200,000, TO BE USED FOR
CONSTRUCTION, RECONSTRUCTION, OR RENOVATION PROJECTS IN CLASSROOM FACILITIES,
THE PURPOSE OF WHICH IS TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO SUCH FACILITIES BY PHYSICALLY
HANDICAPPED PERSONS. THE RULES SHALL INCLUDE APPLICATION PROCEDURES.
NO SCHOOL DISTRICT SHALL BE AWARDED A GRANT UNDER THIS SECTION IN EXCESS OF
$100,000. IN ADDITION, ANY SCHOOL DISTRICT
SHALL BE REQUIRED TO PAY A PERCENTAGE OF THE COST OF THE PROJECT
FOR WHICH THE GRANT IS BEING AWARDED EQUAL TO THE PERCENTILE IN WHICH THE
DISTRICT IS SO RANKED.
THE FOREGOING APPROPRIATION ITEM 200-649, DISABILITY
ACCESS PROJECT, SHALL BE
USED TO FUND CAPITAL PROJECTS THAT MAKE BUILDINGS MORE ACCESSIBLE TO STUDENTS
WITH DISABILITIES PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION. OF THE FOREGOING APPROPRIATION
ITEM 200-649, DISABILITY ACCESS PROJECT, $60,000
SHALL BE USED FOR THE
DANVILLE HIGH SCHOOL WHEELCHAIR LIFT."
Section 11. That existing Section 5 of Am. Sub. S.B. 102 of the 122nd
General Assembly, as amended by Am. Sub. H.B. 215 of the 122nd General
Assembly, is hereby repealed.
Section 12. Transfer of Fiscal Year 1998 Ending GRF Balances
(A) Notwithstanding division (B)(1)(b) of section 131.44 of the Revised Code,
Fiscal Year 1998 surplus revenue that would otherwise have been transferred
to the Income Tax Reduction Fund shall instead be distributed as provided in
division (B) of this section.
(B)(1) The first $30,000,000 of such surplus revenue shall be transferred
from
the General Revenue Fund to the School District Solvency Assistance Fund
created in section 3316.20 of the Revised Code.
(2) The next $170,000,000 of surplus revenue
shall be transferred from the General Revenue Fund to
Fund 021, School Building Assistance. Any moneys deposited in Fund 021 under
division (B)(2) of this section are hereby appropriated to pay for school
building construction or renovation for low-wealth school districts as
provided by Am. Sub. S.B. 102 of the 122nd General Assembly and other
generally applicable provisions of law.
(3) Any surplus revenue in excess of the amounts distributed under division
(B)(1) or (2) of this section shall be transferred to the Income Tax Reduction
Fund and distributed in accordance with section 131.44 of the Revised Code.
Section 13. Appropriation Reductions(A) The General Revenue Fund appropriations for Fiscal Year 1999 are hereby
reduced by an amount equal to three per cent of the Fiscal Year 1999
appropriations authorized in any act of the 122nd General Assembly prior to
the effective date of this act with the following exceptions:
(1) Appropriations to the following agencies are exempt from any reductions
made in this section: the Department of Education; the Ohio School for the
Blind; the Ohio School for the Deaf; the Office of Information, Learning and
Technology Services; and the School Facilities Commission.
(2) Appropriations for the following purposes are exempt from any reductions
made in this section: property tax allocation appropriations; tangible tax
exemption appropriations; all appropriations for debt service, including lease
rental payments; all state office building rent and office building
appropriations made to the Department of Administrative Services; and pension
systems' payments made by the Treasurer of State.
(3) The following appropriation line items are exempt from any reductions:
005-321, Operating Expenses - Judiciary; 110-506, Utility Bill Credits;
235-503, Ohio Instructional Grants; 235-504, War Orphans' Scholarships;
235-514, Central State Supplement; 235-530, Academic Scholarships; 235-531,
Student Choice Grants; 235-549, Part-Time Student Instructional Grants;
400-411, TANF Federal Block Grant; 400-413, Day Care Match/Maintenance of
Effort; 400-511, Disability Assistance; 400-528, Adoption Services; and
911-401, Emergency Purposes/Contingencies.
(4) Except for items included under divisions (A)(2) and (3) of this section,
appropriations to the Board of Regents shall be reduced by one-half of one per
cent, except for appropriation line items 235-100, Personal Services; 235-200,
Maintenance; and 235-300, Equipment, which shall be reduced by three per cent.
(5) Except for items included under divisions (A)(2) and (3) of this
section, appropriations to the Department of Mental Retardation and
Developmental Disabilities, the Department of Youth Services, and the
Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shall be reduced by two per cent.
(6) Except for items included under divisions (A)(2) and (3) of this section,
appropriations to the Ohio Veterans' Home; the Department of Taxation; the
Department of Mental
Health; the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review; the Department of Commerce;
the
Commission on Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management; the Ohio Elections
Commission; the Environmental Review Appeals Commission; the Ohio Ethics
Commission; the Ohio Expositions Commission; the Commission on Hispanic/Latino
Affairs; the Office of the Inspector General; the Legal Rights Service; the
Joint Legislative Ethics Committee; the Commission on Minority Health; the
Ohioana Library Association; the State Personnel Board of Review; the State
Board of Proprietary School Registration; the Rehabilitation Services
Commission; the State and Local Government Commission of Ohio; the Veterans'
Organizations; and the Women's Policy and Research Commission
shall be reduced by one per cent.
(7) The Director of Budget and Management may reduce the appropriation for
appropriation line item 400-525, Health Care/Medicaid, by an amount not to
exceed one per cent.
Notwithstanding the section of this act entitled "Appropriation Reductions,"
at the close of fiscal year 1998, the Director of Budget and Management shall
review the balance in appropriation item 400-410, TANF State. If a sufficient
balance remains, the Director may transfer amounts deemed necessary by the
Director of Budget and Management to the Department of Alcohol and Drug
Addiction Services, or any department for which funding was reduced under this
act. Any transferred moneys shall be used for the purpose of providing
federally allowable services to TANF eligible clients.
(8) The sum of all reductions made by this section shall not be less than
$100,000,000.
(B) For all agencies that are subject to a reduction in appropriations, the
agency director may allocate the reductions in division (A) of this section
among the agency's appropriation line items with the approval of the Director
of Budget and Management. When appropriations are reduced in an appropriation
line item with amounts specified for a special purpose, the specified amount
may be reduced by a percentage up to the percentage by which the line item
itself is reduced.
(C) For the purpose of complying with this section, the reductions made to
Fiscal Year 1999 line item appropriations that have state and federal shares
identified in any act of the 122nd General Assembly prior to this act shall be
made against the state share of such line items. Once that reduction in the
state share is determined, the Director of Budget and Management shall, in
determining the total reduction to such line items, add the corresponding
amounts of federal matching funds at the percentages indicated by the state
and federal division of the appropriation for such line items.
Section 14. The
General Assembly shall enact a budget for the fiscal year 2000-2001 biennium
for the Department of Education, the Ohio Board of Regents, and any other
state
agency established solely to carry out functions related to primary and
secondary education or higher education, in legislation separate from the main
operating appropriations act for that biennium.
Section 15. The Special Committee on
Property Tax Revision and Restructuring is hereby created. The
Committee shall consider options for comprehensive property tax
reform and shall make a recommendation regarding the feasibility
of a constitutional amendment imposing a statewide property tax
on all classes of property for primary and secondary educational
purposes. In considering reform options and developing its
recommendation, the Committee shall consider various tax,
expenditure, and restructuring issues, including tax rates on
residential/agricultural real property,
nonresidential/agricultural real property, tangible personal
property, and public utility property; a concurrent decrease in
local property taxes for primary and secondary educational
purposes; funding impacts on school districts and other local
governments; adjustments for inflationary growth; school
district relative tax effort, including property and income
taxes; tax exempt property; and changes to assessment rates and methods. Any
person
or organization may submit ideas or recommendations to the
Committee concerning property tax revision and restructuring,
and the Committee shall consider those submissions in its
deliberations. The Committee shall issue a report on its
considerations and recommendation to the Governor and General
Assembly on or before December 31, 1998, and shall cease to
exist when the report is issued.
The Committee shall consist of seventeen members. The Governor
shall appoint eleven members as follows: one member representing
agricultural interests, one member representing counties, one
member representing townships, one member representing municipal
corporations, two members representing business interests, two
members representing labor unions, and three members
representing educational interests. The Speaker of the House of
Representatives shall appoint three members of the House of
Representatives as members, no more than two of whom shall be of
the same political party. The President of the Senate shall
appoint three members of the Senate as members, no more than two
of whom shall be of the same political party. All appointments
to the Committee shall be made within thirty days after the
effective date of this section, and the Committee shall hold its
first meeting within two weeks after the last appointment is
made. The Governor shall select the chairperson of the
Committee.
The Committee may hire an executive director, or may contract
with a person or public or private organization to assist it
with its duties. At the request of the Committee, the
Legislative Budget Office and any other state agency, including
other legislative agencies, shall provide research assistance to
the Committee. Members of the Committee shall receive no
compensation or reimbursement of expenses for their service on
the Committee.
Section 16. If at the general election of November 1997, the
electors of any school district approved a district bond issue
for a classroom facilities assistance project to be constructed
under Chapter 3318. of the Revised Code, the original estimated
basic project costs of which relied on specifications for plans
and materials for classroom facilities used prior to the
specifications adopted by the School Facilities Commission
pursuant to Section 12 of Am. Sub. S.B. 102 of the 122nd General
Assembly, and such original estimated basic project costs were
reduced in the aggregate as a result of the use of the
specifications adopted by the Commission, such school district
for purposes of completion of its classroom facilities project
may choose to have its project built in accordance with the
original estimated basic project costs and specifications for
plans and materials.
Section 17. (A) As used in this section:
(1) "Per cent figure" has the same meaning as in section
3317.023 of the Revised Code.
(2) "Fifteen to one money" means an amount of money equal to
the difference between the per OWF child amount the district
received under division (B) of section 3317.023 of the Revised
Code in Fiscal Year 1998 and the amount it will receive per OWF
child under such division as amended by this act, multiplied by
the number of OWF children used in the calculation of such
Fiscal Year 1999 amount.
(B) This division applies only to school districts with a
per cent figure greater than thirty. In Fiscal Year 1999, each
such school district shall spend its amount of fifteen to one
money to reduce the pupil-to-teacher ratio to no more than
fifteen to one in as many kindergarten through first grade
classrooms as such amount of money supports.
Section 18. Section 3317.023 of the Revised Code is presented in this act
as a composite of the section as amended by both
Am. Sub. H.B. 215 and Sub. H.B. 408 of the 122nd General Assembly, with the
new language of
neither of the acts shown in capital letters. This is in
recognition of the principle stated in division (B) of section
1.52 of the Revised Code that such amendments are to be
harmonized where not substantively irreconcilable and constitutes
a legislative finding that such is the resulting version in
effect prior to the effective date of this act.
Section 19. The codified sections of law contained within the purview of
Sections 1 and 2 of this act
are not subject to the referendum. Therefore, under Ohio Constitution,
Article II, Section 1d and section 1.471 of the Revised Code, the codified
sections of law contained within the purview of Sections 1 and 2 of this act
are entitled to go into
immediate effect when this act becomes law. However, the codified
sections of law contained within the purview of Sections 1 and 2 of this act
take effect on July 1, 1998,
or the day this act becomes law, whichever is later.
Section 20. (A) This section and Sections 3 to 17 and 19 of this act are not
subject to the referendum. Therefore, under Ohio Constitution, Article II,
Section 1d and section 1.471 of the Revised Code, this section and Sections 3
to 17 and 19 of this act go into immediate effect when this act becomes law.
(B) Section 18 of this act is not subject to the referendum. Therefore,
under Ohio Constitution, Article II, Section 1d and section 1.471 of the
Revised Code, Section 18 of this act is entitled to go into immediate effect
when this act becomes law. However, Section 18 of this act takes effect on
July 1, 1998, or the day the act becomes law, whichever is later.
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