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As Passed by the Senate
123rd General Assembly
Regular Session
1999-2000 | Sub. S. B. No. 237 |
SENATORS CUPP-FURNEY-SCHAFRATH-KEARNS-PRENTISS-
GARDNER-DRAKE-MUMPER-CARNES-DiDONATO
A BILL
To amend sections 3301.0710, 3301.0711, 3301.17, and 4508.01 to
4508.06 and to enact section 4508.09 of the Revised Code and to amend Section
4.18 of Am. Sub. H.B. 282 of the 123rd General Assembly to permit
certain school districts to be licensed as driver training schools
to instruct and train students other than regularly enrolled,
full-time students in the operation of trucks, commercial cars,
and commercial tractors, trailers, and semi-trailers; to make
other changes in the laws governing driver training schools;
to revise the guidelines for scheduling the state proficiency
tests; and to qualify teachers with elementary school certificates for the
math and science teacher incentive grants.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That sections 3301.0710, 3301.0711, 3301.17, 4508.01,
4508.02, 4508.03, 4508.04, 4508.05, and 4508.06 be amended and
section 4508.09 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:
Sec. 3301.0710. The state board of education shall adopt
rules establishing a statewide program to test student
proficiency for the purpose of ensuring that students who receive
a high school diploma demonstrate at least high
school levels of proficiency in reading, writing, mathematics,
science, and citizenship. In order to determine this proficiency,
the minimum standards shall be appropriate for tenth grade proficiency level
in each of the specified areas.
(A)(1) The state board shall prescribe five statewide
proficiency tests, one each designed to measure skill in reading,
writing, mathematics, science, and citizenship, and shall
determine and designate the score on each such test that shall be
deemed to demonstrate that any student attaining such score has
achieved at least a fourth grade level of proficiency in the measured
skill.
(2) The state board shall prescribe five
statewide proficiency tests, one each designed to measure skill
in reading, writing, mathematics, science, and citizenship, and
determine and designate the score on each such test that is
deemed to demonstrate that any student attaining such score has
achieved at least a sixth grade level of
proficiency in the measured skill.
(3) The state board shall prescribe five statewide
proficiency tests, one each designed to measure skill in reading,
writing, mathematics, science, and citizenship, and shall
determine and designate the score on each such test that shall be
deemed to demonstrate that any student attaining such score has
achieved at least a twelfth grade level of proficiency in the measured
skill.
(B) The state board shall prescribe five statewide high school
proficiency tests, one each designed to measure skill in reading,
writing, mathematics, science, and citizenship, and shall
determine and designate the score on each such test that shall be
deemed to demonstrate that any student attaining such score has
achieved at least the level of proficiency in the measured skill
appropriate for
tenth grade.
The state board may enter into a reciprocal agreement with
the appropriate body or agency of any other state that has
similar statewide proficiency testing requirements for receiving
high school diplomas, under which any student who has met a
proficiency testing requirement of one state is recognized as
having met the similar proficiency testing requirement of the
other state for purposes of receiving a high school diploma. For
purposes of this section and sections 3301.0711 and 3313.61 of
the Revised Code, any student enrolled in any public high school
in this state and who has met a proficiency testing requirement
specified in a reciprocal agreement entered into under this
division shall be deemed to have attained at least the applicable
score designated under this division on each test required by
this division that is specified in the agreement.
(C) The state board shall annually designate as follows
the dates on which the tests prescribed under this section shall
be administered:
(1) For the test prescribed under division
(A)(1) of this section to
measure skill in reading, as follows:
(a) For students entering fourth grade in school
years that start prior to July
1, 2001, the same dates prescribed under division
(C)(2) of this section for the tests prescribed under division
(A)(1) of this section to measure skill in writing, mathematics,
science, and citizenship;
(b) For students entering fourth grade beginning
with the school year that starts
July 1, 2001:
(i) One date prior to the thirty-first day of
December each school
year;
(ii) Any dates prescribed under division
(C)(2) of this section for the tests prescribed under division
(A)(1) of this section to measure skill in writing, mathematics,
science, and citizenship;
(iii) One date during the summer for students
receiving summer remediation services under division
(B)(3) of section 3313.608 of
the Revised
Code.
(2) For the tests prescribed under division
(A)(1)
of this section to measure skill in writing, mathematics, science, and
citizenship and the tests prescribed under division
(A)(2) of this section, at least one date subsequent to OF EACH
SCHOOL YEAR THAT IS NOT EARLIER THAN MONDAY OF THE WEEK
CONTAINING the fifteenth day of March of each school year;
(3) For the tests prescribed under division (A)(3) of this
section, at least one date subsequent to the thirty-first day of
December but prior to the thirty-first day of March of each
school year;
(4) For the tests prescribed under division (B) of this
section, at least one date subsequent to the fifteenth day of
March of each school year for all tenth grade students and at
least one date prior to the thirty-first day of
December and at least one date subsequent to that date but prior
to the thirty-first day of March of each school year for eleventh and
twelfth grade students.
(D) In prescribing test dates pursuant to division
(C)(4) of this section, the board shall, to the greatest
extent
practicable, provide options to school districts in the case of tests
administered under that division to eleventh and twelfth
grade
students and in the case of tests administered to students
pursuant to division
(C)(2) of section
3301.0711 of the Revised Code. Such options shall include at least an
opportunity
for school districts
to give such tests outside of regular school hours.
(E) In prescribing test dates pursuant to this section, the state
board of education shall designate the dates in such a way as to allow a
reasonable length of time between the administration of tests prescribed under
this section and any administration of the National
Assessment of Education
Progress Test given to students in the same grade level
pursuant to section
3301.27 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 3301.0711. (A) The department of education shall:
(1) Annually furnish, grade, and score all tests required
by section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code to city, local, and
exempted village school districts;
(2) Adopt rules for the ethical use of tests and
prescribing the manner in which the tests prescribed by section
3301.0710 of the Revised Code shall be administered to students.
(B) Except as provided in divisions (C) and (J)(2) of this
section, the board of education of each city, local, and exempted
village school district shall, in accordance with rules adopted
under division (A) of this section:
(1) Administer the test prescribed under division (A)(1) of
section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code to measure skill in reading as follows:
(a) For students entering fourth grade in school
years that start prior to July
1, 2001, at least once annually to all students in the fourth
grade;
(b) For students entering fourth grade beginning
with the school year that starts
July 1, 2001, twice annually to
all students in the fourth grade who have not attained the score
designated for that test under division (A)(1) of section
3301.0710 of the Revised
Code and once each summer to students receiving summer remediation
services under division (B)(3) of section 3313.608 of the Revised Code.
(2) Administer the tests prescribed under division (A)(1)
of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code to measure skill in writing,
mathematics, science, and citizenship at least once annually
to all students in the fourth grade.
(3) Administer the tests prescribed
under division (A)(2)
of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code at least once annually
to all students in the sixth grade.
(4) Administer any tests prescribed under division (A)(3)
of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code at least once annually
to any student in the twelfth grade who, on all the tests
prescribed under division (B) of that section, has attained the
applicable scores designated under such division prior to the
first day of January of that year.
(5) Administer any test prescribed under division (B) of
section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code as follows:
(a) At least once annually,
subsequent to the fifteenth day of March, to all tenth grade students and at
least twice annually
to all students in eleventh or twelfth
grade who have not yet attained the score on that test designated
under that division;
(b) To any person who has successfully completed the
curriculum in any high school or the individualized education
program developed for the person by any high school pursuant to
section 3323.08 of the Revised Code but has not received a high
school diploma and who requests to take such test, at any time
such test is administered in the district.
(C)(1) Any student receiving special education services under
Chapter 3323. of the Revised Code shall be excused from taking
any particular test required to be administered under this
section if the individualized education program developed for the
student pursuant to section 3323.08 of the Revised Code excuses
the student from taking that test. In the case of any student so
excused from taking a test, the school district board of
education shall not prohibit the student from taking the
test. Any student enrolled in a chartered
nonpublic school who has been identified, based on an evaluation conducted in
accordance with section 3323.03 of the Revised Code or section 504 of the
"Rehabilitation Act of 1973," 87 Stat. 355, 29 U.S.C.A. 794, as amended, as a
child with a disability shall be excused from taking any particular test
required to be administered under this section if a plan developed for the
student pursuant to rules adopted by the state board excuses the student from
taking that test. In the case of any student so excused from taking a test,
the chartered nonpublic school shall not prohibit the student from taking the
test.
(2) A district board may, for medical reasons or other
good cause, excuse a student from taking a test administered
under this section on the date scheduled, but any such test shall
be administered to such excused student not later than fifteen
NINE days following the scheduled date. The board shall annually
report the number of students who have not taken one or more of
the tests required by this section to the state board of
education not later than the thirtieth day of
June.
(3) As used in this division, "English-limited student"
means a student whose
primary language is not English and who has been enrolled in
United States schools for less than two full school years.
No English-limited student shall be required to take any test
administered
under this section. However, no district board or governing authority of a
chartered nonpublic school shall prohibit an English-limited student
from taking a test.
(D) In the school year next succeeding
the school year in
which the tests prescribed by division (A)(1) of section
3301.0710 of the Revised Code are administered to any student,
the board of education of any school district in which the
student is enrolled in that year shall provide intervention
services to the student in any skill in which the student failed
on those tests to demonstrate at least fourth-grade levels of
literacy and basic competency. This division does not apply to
any student receiving services pursuant to an individualized
education program developed for the student pursuant to section
3323.08 of the Revised Code.
(E) Except as provided in section 3313.608 of the Revised Code and division
(M) of this section,
no school district board of education shall permit any
student to be denied promotion to a higher grade level solely
because of the student's failure to attain a specified score on
any test administered under this section. However, a district board may
choose not to promote to the next grade level any student who does not take
any proficiency test administered under this section or make up such test as
provided by division (C)(2) of this section and who is not exempted
from the requirement to take the test under division (C)(1) or (3) of
this section.
(F) No person shall be charged a fee for taking any test
administered under this section.
(G) Not later than sixty days after any administration of
any test prescribed by section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code, the
department shall send to each school district board a list of the
individual test scores of all persons taking the test.
(H) Individual test scores on any tests administered under
this section shall be released by a district board only in
accordance with section 3319.321 of the Revised Code and the
rules adopted under division (A) of this section. No district
board or its employees shall utilize individual or aggregate test
results in any manner that conflicts with rules for the ethical
use of tests adopted pursuant to division (A) of this section.
(I) Except as provided in division (G) of this section,
the department shall not release any individual test scores on
any test administered under this section and shall adopt rules to
ensure the protection of student confidentiality at all times.
(J) Notwithstanding division (D) of section 3311.19 and
division (D) of section 3311.52 of the Revised Code, this section
does not apply to the board of education of any joint vocational
or cooperative education school district except as provided under
rules adopted pursuant to this division.
(1) In accordance with rules that the state board of
education shall adopt, the board of education of any city,
exempted village, or local school district with territory in a
joint vocational school district or a cooperative education
school district established pursuant to divisions (A) to (C) of
section 3311.52 of the Revised Code may enter into an agreement
with the board of education of the joint vocational or
cooperative education school district for administering any test
prescribed under this section to students of the city, exempted
village, or local school district who are attending school in the
joint vocational or cooperative education school district.
(2) In accordance with rules that the state board of
education shall adopt, the board of education of any city,
exempted village, or local school district with territory in a
cooperative education school district established pursuant to
section 3311.521 of the Revised Code shall enter into an
agreement with the cooperative district that provides for the
administration of any test prescribed under this section to both
of the following:
(a) Students who are attending school in the cooperative
district and who, if the cooperative district were not
established, would be entitled to attend school in the city,
local, or exempted village school district pursuant to section
3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code;
(b) Persons described in division (B)(5)(b) of this
section.
Any testing of students pursuant to such an agreement shall
be in lieu of any testing of such students or persons pursuant to
this section.
(K)(1) Any chartered nonpublic school may participate in
the testing program by administering any of the tests prescribed
by section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code if the chief
administrator of the school specifies which tests the school
wishes to administer. Such specification shall be made in
writing to the superintendent of public instruction prior to the
first day of August of any school year in which tests are
administered and shall include a pledge that the nonpublic school
will administer the specified tests in the same manner as public
schools are required to do under this section and rules adopted
by the department.
(2) The department of education shall furnish the tests
prescribed by section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code to any
chartered nonpublic school electing to participate under this
division.
(L)(1) Except as provided in division (L)(3) of this
section, the superintendent of the state school for the blind and
the superintendent of the state school for the deaf shall
administer the tests described by section 3301.0710 of the
Revised Code. Each superintendent shall administer the tests in
the same manner as district boards are required to do under this
section and rules adopted by the department of education.
(2) The department of education shall furnish the tests
described by section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code to each
superintendent.
(3) Any student enrolled in the state school for the blind
or the state school for the deaf shall be excused from taking any
particular test required to be administered under division (L)(1)
of this section if the individualized education program developed
for the student pursuant to section 3323.08 of the Revised Code
excuses the student from taking that test. In the case of any
student so excused from taking a test, the superintendent of the
school shall not prohibit the student from taking the test.
(M) Notwithstanding division (E) of this section,
beginning July 1, 1999,
a school district may retain any
student for an additional year in such student's current grade level if
such student
has failed to attain the designated scores on three or more of the five tests
described by division (A)(1) or (2) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised
Code.
This division does not supersede the requirements of section 3313.608
of the Revised Code.
(N)(1) All proficiency tests required by section
3301.0710 of the Revised Code shall become public records pursuant to section
149.43 of the Revised Code on
the first day of July following the school year that the test was
administered.
(2) The department may field test proposed proficiency test questions with
samples of students to determine the validity, reliability, or appropriateness
of test questions for possible inclusion in a future year's proficiency test.
Field test questions shall not be considered in computing test scores for
individual students. Field test questions may be included
as part of the administration of any proficiency test required by section
3301.0710 of the Revised Code.
(3) Any field test question administered under division (N)(2) of
this section shall not be a public record. Such field test questions shall be
redacted from any proficiency tests which are
released as a public record pursuant to division (N)(1) of this
section.
Sec. 3301.17. The board of education of each city, exempted village,
local, and joint vocational school district may make a driver
education course available to high school students enrolled in
the district in accordance with rules adopted by the state board
of education. No school district making such a course available
shall require any pupil to enroll in the course in lieu of taking
a training course from a commercial driver training school
licensed under Chapter 4508. of the Revised Code. The department
of education may contract for the use of public school and
educational service center governing
board facilities to provide technical assistance for
driver education courses where practicable or may provide such
assistance at facilities established and operated by the
department under the supervision of transportation coordinators.
The principal of each high school shall
annually give written notice to the pupils enrolled in the high
school that they may elect, under a procedure that shall be
described in the notice, to take a training course from a
licensed commercial driver training school or, if available,
enroll in a driver education course made available by the pupil's
school district of attendance.
Sec. 4508.01. As used in sections 4508.01 to 4508.07, inclusive,
of the Revised Code THIS CHAPTER:
(A) "Commercial BEGINNING driver"
MEANS ANY PERSON BEING TRAINED TO DRIVE A PARTICULAR MOTOR
VEHICLE WHO HAS NOT BEEN PREVIOUSLY LICENSED TO DRIVE THAT MOTOR VEHICLE
BY ANY STATE OR COUNTRY.
(B) "DISABLED PERSON" MEANS A PERSON WHO, IN THE OPINION OF THE
REGISTRAR OF MOTOR VEHICLES, IS AFFLICTED WITH OR SUFFERING FROM A PHYSICAL OR
MENTAL DISABILITY OR DISEASE THAT PREVENTS THE
PERSON, IN THE ABSENCE OF SPECIAL TRAINING OR EQUIPMENT, FROM
EXERCISING REASONABLE AND ORDINARY CONTROL OVER A MOTOR VEHICLE
WHILE OPERATING THE VEHICLE UPON THE HIGHWAYS. "DISABLED PERSON"
DOES NOT MEAN ANY PERSON WHO IS OR HAS BEEN SUBJECT TO ANY
CONDITION RESULTING IN EPISODIC IMPAIRMENT OF CONSCIOUSNESS OR
LOSS OF MUSCULAR CONTROL AND WHOSE CONDITION, IN THE OPINION OF
THE REGISTRAR, IS DORMANT OR IS SUFFICIENTLY UNDER MEDICAL CONTROL
THAT THE PERSON IS CAPABLE OF EXERCISING REASONABLE AND ORDINARY
CONTROL OVER A MOTOR VEHICLE.
(C) "DRIVER
training school" or "school" means a BOTH OF
THE FOLLOWING:
(1) A business
enterprise conducted by an individual, association, partnership, or
corporation, for the education and training of persons, either
practically or
theoretically, or both, to operate or drive motor vehicles, THAT USES
PUBLIC STREETS OR HIGHWAYS TO PROVIDE TRAINING, and charging
THAT CHARGES a
consideration or tuition for such services;
(2) A LEAD SCHOOL DISTRICT AS PROVIDED IN SECTION 4508.09 OF
THE REVISED CODE.
(B)(D) "Instructor" means any person, whether acting
for himself
SELF as operator of a commercial driver training school or for
such a
school for compensation, who teaches, conducts classes of, gives
demonstrations to, or supervises practice of, persons learning to operate or
drive motor vehicles.
(E) "LEAD
SCHOOL DISTRICT" MEANS A SCHOOL DISTRICT, INCLUDING A JOINT VOCATIONAL SCHOOL
DISTRICT, DESIGNATED BY
THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AS EITHER A VOCATIONAL EDUCATION PLANNING DISTRICT
ITSELF OR AS
RESPONSIBLE FOR PROVIDING PRIMARY VOCATIONAL EDUCATION LEADERSHIP
WITHIN A VOCATIONAL EDUCATION PLANNING DISTRICT THAT IS COMPOSED
OF A GROUP OF DISTRICTS. A "VOCATIONAL EDUCATION PLANNING
DISTRICT" IS A SCHOOL DISTRICT OR GROUP OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS
DESIGNATED BY THE DEPARTMENT AS RESPONSIBLE FOR PLANNING AND
PROVIDING VOCATIONAL EDUCATION SERVICES TO STUDENTS WITHIN THE
DISTRICT OR GROUP OF DISTRICTS.
Sec. 4508.02. (A) The director of public safety, subject to Chapter 119. of
the Revised Code, shall adopt and prescribe such rules concerning the
administration and enforcement of sections 4508.01 to 4508.08 of the
Revised
Code THIS CHAPTER as are necessary to protect the public. The
director shall inspect the
school facilities and equipment of applicants and licensees and examine
applicants for instructor's licenses.
(B) The director shall administer and enforce sections 4508.01 to 4508.08
of
the Revised Code THIS CHAPTER, and may call upon the state
superintendent of public
instruction for assistance in developing and formulating the rules FOR
TRAINING BEGINNING DRIVERS. The
(C) THE rules shall require twenty-four hours of classroom
instruction, and eight hours of actual behind-the-wheel instruction conducted
on public streets and highways of this state
FOR ALL BEGINNING DRIVERS OF NONCOMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLES WHO ARE
UNDER AGE EIGHTEEN.
(D) THE RULES SHALL STATE THE MINIMUM HOURS FOR CLASSROOM AND
BEHIND-THE-WHEEL INSTRUCTION REQUIRED FOR BEGINNING DRIVERS OF COMMERCIAL
TRUCKS, COMMERCIAL CARS, BUSES, AND COMMERCIAL
TRACTORS, TRAILERS, AND SEMI-TRAILERS.
Sec. 4508.03. (A) No commercial driver training school
shall be established nor any such existing school continued
unless the school applies for and obtains from the director of
public safety a license in the manner and form prescribed by the
director.
The rules shall state the requirements for a school
license, including requirements concerning location, equipment,
courses of instruction, instructors, previous records of the
school and instructors, financial statements, schedule of fees
and charges, character and reputation of the operators, insurance
in such sum and with such provisions as the director considers
necessary to protect adequately the interests of the public, and
such other matters as the director may prescribe for the
protection of the public. The rules also shall require financial
responsibility information as part of the driver education curriculum.
(B) Any school that offers a driver training program for
handicapped DISABLED persons shall provide specially trained
instructors
for the driver training of such persons. No school shall operate
a driver training program for handicapped DISABLED persons after
June 30,
1978, unless it has been licensed for such operation by the
director. No person shall act as a specially trained instructor
in a driver training program for handicapped DISABLED persons
operated by
a school after June 30, 1978, unless that person has been
licensed by the director.
(C) The director may arrange with state universities to
provide driver training of handicapped persons and training of
driving instructors for handicapped persons.
(D) As used in this section, "handicapped" means having
lost the use of one or both legs, one or both arms, or any
combination thereof, or being deaf or so severely disabled as to
be unable to move about without the aid of crutches or a
wheelchair SHALL CERTIFY INSTRUCTORS TO TEACH DRIVER TRAINING TO
DISABLED PERSONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH TRAINING PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS ESTABLISHED
BY THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY.
Sec. 4508.04. No person shall act as a driver training instructor and on and
after June 30, 1978, no person shall act as a driver training instructor for
handicapped DISABLED persons unless such person applies for and
obtains from the
director of public safety a license in the manner and form prescribed by the
director. The director shall provide by rule for instructors' license
requirements including moral character, physical condition, knowledge of the
courses of instruction, motor vehicle laws and safety principles, previous
personal and employment records, and such other matters as the director may
prescribe for the protection of the public. Driver training instructors for
the handicapped DISABLED PERSONS shall meet such additional
requirements and receive such
additional classroom and practical instruction as the director shall prescribe
by rule.
Sec. 4508.05. All licenses shall expire on the last day of the calendar year
and may be renewed upon application to the director of public safety as
prescribed by his regulations IN RULES ADOPTED BY THE DIRECTOR.
Each application for an original or SCHOOL LICENSE SHALL BE
ACCOMPANIED BY A FEE OF TWO HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS, AND EACH APPLICATION FOR
A renewal
school license shall be accompanied by a fee of fifty dollars, and
each. EACH
application for an original or INSTRUCTOR'S LICENSE SHALL BE
ACCOMPANIED BY A FEE OF TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS, AND EACH APPLICATION FOR A
renewal instructor's license shall be
accompanied by a fee of ten dollars. Such fees shall be payable to the
treasurer of state and credited to the state highway safety fund established
in section 4501.06 of the Revised Code. No license fees shall be refunded in
the event any license is rejected, suspended, or revoked.
Sec. 4508.06. The director of public safety may refuse to issue, or may
suspend or revoke a license in any case where he THE DIRECTOR
finds the applicant or licensee has violated any of the provisions of
sections 4508.01 to 4508.07 of the Revised Code THIS CHAPTER, or
the regulations adopted by the director. A suspended or revoked license shall
be returned to the director by the licensee.
Sec. 4508.09. (A) A LEAD SCHOOL DISTRICT MAY APPLY
FOR A DRIVER TRAINING SCHOOL LICENSE FOR THE PURPOSE OF
PROVIDING INSTRUCTION AND TRAINING TO
INDIVIDUALS OTHER THAN REGULARLY ENROLLED, FULL-TIME HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN
THE OPERATION OF TRUCKS, COMMERCIAL CARS, AND COMMERCIAL
TRACTORS, TRAILERS, AND SEMI-TRAILERS. EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN
DIVISION (B) OF THIS SECTION, UPON THE DISTRICT'S COMPLIANCE WITH ALL
PROVISIONS
THAT GOVERN THE ISSUANCE OF A LICENSE TO A DRIVER
TRAINING SCHOOL TO OFFER INSTRUCTION AND TRAINING IN THE OPERATION
OF TRUCKS, COMMERCIAL CARS, AND COMMERCIAL TRACTORS, TRAILERS, AND
SEMI-TRAILERS, THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SAFETY SHALL ISSUE A LICENSE
TO THE DISTRICT IN THE FORM AND MANNER THE
DIRECTOR PRESCRIBES. UPON THE ISSUANCE OF THE LICENSE, THE DISTRICT MAY OFFER
INSTRUCTION AND TRAINING IN
THE OPERATION OF TRUCKS, COMMERCIAL CARS, AND COMMERCIAL TRACTORS,
TRAILERS, AND SEMI-TRAILERS
AND MAY CHARGE AND RETAIN A FEE FOR THAT INSTRUCTION AND TRAINING.
(B) THE DIRECTOR SHALL ISSUE A NEW LICENSE TO A LEAD
SCHOOL DISTRICT UNDER DIVISION (A) OF THIS SECTION IF THE DISTRICT
COMPLIES WITH ALL PROVISIONS THAT GOVERN THE ISSUANCE OF A LICENSE TO A
DRIVER TRAINING
SCHOOL TO OFFER INSTRUCTION AND TRAINING IN THE OPERATION OF TRUCKS,
COMMERCIAL CARS, AND
COMMERCIAL TRACTORS, TRAILERS, AND SEMI-TRAILERS
OTHER THAN ANY PROVISION OF A RULE REQUIRING INSURANCE COVERAGE.
IF A DISTRICT COMPLIES WITH ALL PROVISIONS GOVERNING THE ISSUANCE OF A
LICENSE
OTHER THAN THE INSURANCE COVERAGE PROVISIONS, THE DIRECTOR SHALL ISSUE THE NEW
LICENSE ON THE CONDITION THAT THE DISTRICT OBTAIN THE
REQUIRED INSURANCE COVERAGE AND SUBMIT PROOF OF THE INSURANCE COVERAGE TO
THE DIRECTOR NOT LATER THAN SIXTY DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF ISSUANCE
OF THE LICENSE.
Section 2. That existing sections 3301.0710, 3301.0711, 3301.17,
4508.01, 4508.02, 4508.03, 4508.04, 4508.05, and 4508.06 of the
Revised Code are hereby repealed.
Section 3. An educational institution that, on the effective date of this act,
is acting as a driver training school licensed under Chapter
4508. of the Revised Code shall retain its license and be eligible to renew
its license so long as the educational institution meets all the
requirements for retaining and renewing its license.
Section 4. That Section 4.18 of Am. Sub. H.B. 282 of the 123rd General
Assembly be amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 4.18. OhioReads Grants
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-566, OhioReads Grants, $20,000,000
each
year shall be disbursed by the OhioReads Office in the Department of Education
at the direction of the OhioReads Council, to provide classroom grants to
public schools in city, local, and exempted village school districts;
community
schools; and educational service centers serving kindergarten through fourth
grade students.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-566, OhioReads Grants, $5,000,000 each
year shall be disbursed by the OhioReads Office in the Department of Education
at the direction of the OhioReads Council, to provide community matching
grants
to community organizations and associations, libraries, and others for
tutoring, tutor recruitment and training, and parental involvement.
Grants awarded by the OhioReads Council are intended to improve reading
outcomes, especially on the fourth grade reading proficiency test.
School Improvement Incentive Grants
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-570, School Improvement Incentive
Grants, $2,000,000 in each fiscal year shall be used to provide grants of
$25,000
per building for improvements in reading performance based on selection
criteria developed by the OhioReads Council.
Of the foregoing appropriation items ITEM 200-570, School
Improvement Incentive Grants, $6,500,000 in each fiscal year shall be used to
provide grants of $25,000 each to elementary schools and $50,000 each to
middle schools, junior high
schools, and high schools that demonstrate significant improvement on
proficiency tests, attendance rates, and graduation rates based on standards
developed by the Department of Education.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-570, School Improvement Incentive
Grants, $500,000 in each fiscal year shall be used to provide grants of
$50,000
each to educational service centers and joint vocational school districts for
exemplary programs or that demonstrate significant improvement on proficiency
tests, attendance rates, and graduation rates based on
standards developed by the Department of Education.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-570, School Improvement Incentive
Grants, $1,000,000 in each fiscal year shall be used to provide grants of
$25,000
each to schools selected for superior performance by BEST, Building
Excellent
Schools for Today and the 21st Century.
Teacher Incentive Grants
The foregoing appropriation item 200-572, Teacher Incentive Grants, shall be
used by the Department of Education to pay one-time stipends to qualified
teachers of reading, mathematics, and science. To be eligible, teacher
applicants must hold a valid teaching certificate; be employed by a city,
local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district; and be certified
by the district as necessary to meet an existing need for teachers with a
reading, mathematics, or science credential.
Individuals with an elementary school teaching certificate that successfully
complete a program for a reading endorsement, and who successfully complete
the examination prescribed by the State Board of Education, shall be paid a
stipend of $1,000. Individuals with a AN ELEMENTARY OR high
school teaching certificate that
successfully complete a program required to add mathematics or science to that
certificate, and who successfully complete the mathematics or science
examination prescribed by the State Board of Education, shall be paid a
stipend of $1,500. The variance in stipend amounts reflects the variance in
requirements to secure the different credentials.
Character Education
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-573, Character Education,
up to $50,000 in each fiscal year shall be used to develop, produce, or
otherwise obtain a distance learning program, a video presentation, or
other method of offering instruction in character education to
multiple school districts. The program, presentation, or other
method of instruction shall be made available to all school
districts.
The remainder of appropriation item 200-573, Character Education, shall be
used
by the Department of Education to provide matching grants of up to $50,000
each to school districts to develop pilot character education programs.
Substance Abuse Prevention
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-574, Substance Abuse Prevention, up to
$2,000,000 in fiscal year 2000 and up to $2,120,000 in fiscal year 2001 shall
be used for the Safe and Drug Free Schools Coordinators Program. Of the
foregoing
appropriation item 200-574, Substance Abuse Prevention, up to $300,000 in each
fiscal year of the biennium shall be used for the Substance Abuse Prevention
Student Assistance Program. The Department of Education and the Department of
Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services shall jointly develop and approve a plan
for the expenditure of these funds including, but not limited to, the
development of position descriptions and training specifications for safe and
drug free
schools coordinators. Safe and drug free schools coordinators shall possess
or be in the process of obtaining credentials
issued by the Ohio Credentialing Board for Chemical Dependency Professionals
or other credentials recognized by that board.
12th Grade Proficiency Stipend
The foregoing appropriation item 200-575, 12th Grade Proficiency Stipend,
shall be used to fund a $500 scholarship to each student who meets the
requirements of section 3365.15 of the Revised Code.
Within thirty days of the effective date of this section, the Director of
Budget and Management shall transfer the appropriation for this program to the
Ohio Board of Regents for its administration.
River Valley School Environmental Issues
The foregoing appropriation item 200-580, River Valley School Environmental
Issues, shall be used to assist with costs arising from environmental
assessment and clean-up of potential environmental contamination of school
facilities of the River Valley Local School District.
Auxiliary Services Mobile Repair
Notwithstanding section 3317.064 of the Revised Code, if the
unobligated cash balance is sufficient, the Treasurer of
State shall transfer $1,500,000 in fiscal year 2000 within thirty
days of the effective date of this section and $1,500,000 in fiscal
year 2001 by August 1, 2000, from the Auxiliary Services
Personnel Unemployment Compensation Fund to the Department of
Education's Auxiliary Services Mobile Repair Fund (Fund 598).
Within 30 days after the effective date of this section, the Superintendent of
Public Instruction shall certify to the Director of Budget and Management the
amount of cash to be transferred from the Miscellaneous Revenue Fund, Fund
452, to the Educational Grants Fund, Fund 620.
Coordinated School Health and AIDS Education
The Department of Education shall not commit or spend any moneys from
appropriation item 200-625, Coordinated School Health, or appropriation item
200-668, AIDS Education, for activities in preparation for or during
the
1999-2000 school year or for the 2000-2001 school year until the General
Assembly has approved program plans for these purposes through the adoption of
a concurrent resolution. Before the House of Representatives or the Senate
votes on a concurrent resolution approving program plans, its standing
committee having principal jurisdiction over primary and secondary education
legislation shall conduct at least one public hearing on the program plans.
Tobacco use prevention programs and dental health programs are exempt from
these requirements."
Section 5. That existing Section 4.18 of Am. Sub. H.B. 282 of the 123rd
General Assembly is hereby repealed.
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