130th Ohio General Assembly
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Sub. H. B. No. 407As Reported by the Senate Education Committee
As Reported by the Senate Education Committee

124th General Assembly
Regular Session
2001-2002
Sub. H. B. No. 407


REPRESENTATIVES Buehrer, Seitz, White, Otterman, Sullivan, Redfern, Callender, Setzer, Seaver, Barrett, Carano, Woodard, Webster, Calvert, Hartnett, Fedor, Perry, Hagan, Olman, Latta, Schuring, Flowers, Hoops, Schneider, Ogg, Sferra, Niehaus, Distel, Strahorn, Lendrum, G. Smith, Key, Damschroder, Latell, Clancy, Salerno, Carmichael, Wolpert, Driehaus, Jolivette, Schmidt, Cirelli, Coates, Beatty, Sykes, Brown



A BILL
To amend sections 2108.17, 3301.07, 3301.0714, 3301.17, 3313.201, 3313.641, 3315.091, 3317.11, 4507.05, 4507.21, 4508.01, 4508.02, 4508.07, and 5502.01 and to enact sections 5.2223 and 4508.021 of the Revised Code to transfer jurisdiction over driver education courses in high schools from the Department of Education to the Department of Public Safety; to require school districts and educational service centers that offer driver education courses to meet the same standards as private driving training schools after December 31, 2003; to prohibit awarding course credit for driver education courses conducted by high schools after December 31, 2003; to require driver education courses to include instruction or dissemination of information relating to anatomical gifts and anatomical gift procedures; to specifically prohibit the reporting of a student's name, address, and social security number to the Department of Education under the Education Management Information System; to transfer $50,000 from the Department of Education to the Department of Public Safety in fiscal year 2003; and to designate March as "Eye Donor Month in Ohio."

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That sections 2108.17, 3301.07, 3301.0714, 3301.17, 3313.201, 3313.641, 3315.091, 3317.11, 4507.05, 4507.21, 4508.01, 4508.02, 4508.07, and 5502.01 be amended and sections 5.2223 and 4508.021 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:
Sec. 5.2223. The month of March is designated as "Eye Donor Month in Ohio."
Sec. 2108.17.  (A) There is hereby created within the department of health the second chance trust fund advisory committee, consisting of eleven members. The members shall include the following:
(1) The chairs of the standing committees of the house of representatives and senate with primary responsibilities for health legislation;
(2) One representative of each of the following appointed by the director of health:
(a) An Ohio organ procurement organization that is a member of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network;
(b) An Ohio tissue bank that is an accredited member of the American association of tissue banks and is not affiliated with an organ procurement organization;
(c) An Ohio eye bank that is certified by the eye bank association of America and is not affiliated with an organ procurement organization;
(d) The Ohio solid organ transplantation consortium;
(e) The Ohio hospital association;
(f) The department of health.
(3) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, three members of the public appointed by the director who are not affiliated with recovery agencies.
(B) No two members appointed under divisions (A)(2)(a), (b), and (c) of this section shall be from the same organ procurement and distribution service area designated by the United States secretary of health and human services.
(C) Of the members first appointed under division (A)(2) of this section, the representatives of the organ procurement organization, tissue procurement organization, and eye bank shall serve terms of three years; the representatives of the department of health and Ohio solid organ transplantation consortium shall serve terms of two years; and the member representing the Ohio hospital association shall serve a term of one year. Thereafter, all members shall serve terms of three years.
(D) The members initially appointed under division (A)(3) of this section shall be representatives of the following:
(1) An organ procurement organization in Ohio designated by the United States secretary of health and human services that is not represented by the appointment under division (A)(2)(a) of this section;
(2) An Ohio tissue bank that is an accredited member of the American association of tissue banks, not affiliated with an organ procurement organization, and not represented by the appointment under division (A)(2)(b) of this section;
(3) An Ohio eye bank that is certified by the eye bank association of America, not affiliated with an organ procurement organization, and not represented by the appointment under division (A)(2)(c) of this section.
The three members shall serve until the proposed rules under section 2108.18 of the Revised Code are formulated. After the initial appointments, the director shall appoint three members of the public who are not affiliated with recovery agencies to serve terms of three years.
(E) No individual appointed under division (A)(2) or (3) of this section shall serve more than two consecutive terms, regardless of whether the terms were full or partial terms. Each member shall serve from the date of appointment until the member's successor is appointed. All vacancies on the committee shall be filled for the balance of the unexpired term in the same manner as the original appointment.
(F) The committee shall annually elect a chairperson from among its members and shall establish procedures for the governance of its operations. The committee shall meet at least semiannually. It shall submit an annual report of its activities and recommendations to the director of health.
(G) Committee members shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed from the second chance trust fund for all actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of official duties.
(H) The committee shall do all of the following:
(1) Make recommendations to the director of health for projects for funding from the second chance trust fund;
(2) Consult with the registrar of motor vehicles in formulating proposed rules under division (C)(1) of section 2108.18 of the Revised Code;
(3) As requested, consult with the registrar or director on other matters related to organ donation;
(4) Approve brochures, written materials, and electronic media regarding anatomical gifts and anatomical gift procedures for ues in driver training schools pursuant to section 4508.021 of the Revised Code.
(I) The committee is not subject to section 101.84 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 3301.07.  The state board of education shall exercise under the acts of the general assembly general supervision of the system of public education in the state. In addition to the powers otherwise imposed on the state board under the provisions of law, the board shall have the following powers:
(A) Exercise policy forming, planning, and evaluative functions for the public schools of the state, and for adult education, except as otherwise provided by law;
(B) Exercise leadership in the improvement of public education in this state, and administer the educational policies of this state relating to public schools, and relating to instruction and instructional material, building and equipment, transportation of pupils, administrative responsibilities of school officials and personnel, and finance and organization of school districts, educational service centers, and territory. Consultative and advisory services in such matters shall be provided by the board to school districts and educational service centers of this state. The board also shall develop a standard of financial reporting which shall be used by all school districts and educational service centers to make their financial information available to the public in a format understandable by the average citizen and provide year-to-year comparisons for at least five years. The format shall show, among other things, district and educational service center revenue by source; expenditures for salaries, wages, and benefits of employees, showing such amounts separately for classroom teachers, other employees required to hold licenses issued pursuant to sections 3319.22 to 3319.31 of the Revised Code, and all other employees; expenditures other than for personnel, by category, including utilities, textbooks and other educational materials, equipment, permanent improvements, pupil transportation, extracurricular athletics, and other extracurricular activities; and per pupil expenditures.
(C) Administer and supervise the allocation and distribution of all state and federal funds for public school education under the provisions of law, and may prescribe such systems of accounting as are necessary and proper to this function. It may require county auditors and treasurers, boards of education, educational service center governing boards, treasurers of such boards, teachers, and other school officers and employees, or other public officers or employees, to file with it such reports as it may prescribe relating to such funds, or to the management and condition of such funds.
(D) Formulate and prescribe minimum standards to be applied to all elementary and secondary schools in this state for the purpose of requiring a general education of high quality. Such standards shall provide adequately for: the licensing of teachers, administrators, and other professional personnel and their assignment according to training and qualifications; efficient and effective instructional materials and equipment, including library facilities; the proper organization, administration, and supervision of each school, including regulations for preparing all necessary records and reports and the preparation of a statement of policies and objectives for each school; buildings, grounds, health and sanitary facilities and services; admission of pupils, and such requirements for their promotion from grade to grade as will assure that they are capable and prepared for the level of study to which they are certified; requirements for graduation; and such other factors as the board finds necessary.
In the formulation and administration of such standards for nonpublic schools the board shall also consider the particular needs, methods and objectives of those schools, provided they do not conflict with the provision of a general education of a high quality and provided that regular procedures shall be followed for promotion from grade to grade of pupils who have met the educational requirements prescribed.
(E) Formulate and prescribe minimum standards for driver education courses conducted at high schools in the state or by educational service centers or joint vocational school district boards of education. In the formulation of standards for driver education courses, the board shall call upon the director of public safety for advice and assistance. The standards 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, but shall not require any additional hours of observation within a vehicle. The board shall require energy conservation information as part of the driver education curriculum. Such information shall include, but need not be limited to, the identification of inefficient driving techniques and improper maintenance as they relate to decreased gas mileage, information regarding the costs and benefits of different modes of travel, and information concerning relative fuel economy and life-cycle costs of new automobile purchases. The board also shall require financial responsibility information as part of the driver education curriculum. The board also may May require as part of the health and driver education curricula curriculum information developed under section 2108.15 of the Revised Code promoting the donation of anatomical gifts pursuant to Chapter 2108. of the Revised Code and may provide the information to high schools, educational service centers, and joint vocational school district boards of education.;
(F) Prepare and submit annually to the governor and the general assembly a report on the status, needs, and major problems of the public schools of the state, with recommendations for necessary legislative action and a ten-year projection of the state's public and nonpublic school enrollment, by year and by grade level;
(G) Prepare and submit to the director of budget and management the biennial budgetary requests of the state board of education, for its agencies and for the public schools of the state;
(H) Cooperate with federal, state, and local agencies concerned with the health and welfare of children and youth of the state;
(I) Require such reports from school districts and educational service centers, school officers, and employees as are necessary and desirable. The superintendents and treasurers of school districts and educational service centers shall certify as to the accuracy of all reports required by law or state board or state department of education rules to be submitted by the district or educational service center and which contain information necessary for calculation of state funding. Any superintendent who knowingly falsifies such report shall be subject to license revocation pursuant to section 3319.31 of the Revised Code.
(J) In accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, adopt procedures, standards, and guidelines for the education of handicapped children pursuant to Chapter 3323. of the Revised Code, including procedures, standards, and guidelines governing programs and services operated by county boards of mental retardation and developmental disabilities pursuant to section 3323.09 of the Revised Code;
(K) For the purpose of encouraging the development of special programs of education for academically gifted children, employ competent persons to analyze and publish data, promote research, advise and counsel with boards of education, and encourage the training of teachers in the special instruction of gifted children. The board may provide financial assistance out of any funds appropriated for this purpose to boards of education and educational service center governing boards for developing and conducting programs of education for academically gifted children.
(L) Require that all public schools emphasize and encourage, within existing units of study, the teaching of energy and resource conservation as recommended to each district board of education by leading business persons involved in energy production and conservation, beginning in the primary grades;
(M) Formulate and prescribe minimum standards requiring the use of phonics as a technique in the teaching of reading in grades kindergarten through three. In addition, the state board shall provide in-service training programs for teachers on the use of phonics as a technique in the teaching of reading in grades kindergarten through three.
(N) Develop and modify as necessary a state plan for technology to encourage and promote the use of technological advancements in educational settings.
The board may adopt rules necessary for carrying out any function imposed on it by law, and may provide rules as are necessary for its government and the government of its employees, and may delegate to the superintendent of public instruction the management and administration of any function imposed on it by law. It may provide for the appointment of board members to serve on temporary committees established by the board for such purposes as are necessary. Permanent or standing committees shall not be created.
Sec. 3301.0714.  (A) The state board of education shall adopt rules for a statewide education management information system. The rules shall require the state board to establish guidelines for the establishment and maintenance of the system in accordance with this section and the rules adopted under this section. The guidelines shall include:
(1) Standards identifying and defining the types of data in the system in accordance with divisions (B) and (C) of this section;
(2) Procedures for annually collecting and reporting the data to the state board in accordance with division (D) of this section;
(3) Procedures for annually compiling the data in accordance with division (G) of this section;
(4) Procedures for annually reporting the data to the public in accordance with division (H) of this section.
(B) The guidelines adopted under this section shall require the data maintained in the education management information system to include at least the following:
(1) Student participation and performance data, for each grade in each school district as a whole and for each grade in each school building in each school district, that includes:
(a) The numbers of students receiving each category of instructional service offered by the school district, such as regular education instruction, vocational education instruction, specialized instruction programs or enrichment instruction that is part of the educational curriculum, instruction for gifted students, instruction for handicapped students, and remedial instruction. The guidelines shall require instructional services under this division to be divided into discrete categories if an instructional service is limited to a specific subject, a specific type of student, or both, such as regular instructional services in mathematics, remedial reading instructional services, instructional services specifically for students gifted in mathematics or some other subject area, or instructional services for students with a specific type of handicap. The categories of instructional services required by the guidelines under this division shall be the same as the categories of instructional services used in determining cost units pursuant to division (C)(3) of this section.
(b) The numbers of students receiving support or extracurricular services for each of the support services or extracurricular programs offered by the school district, such as counseling services, health services, and extracurricular sports and fine arts programs. The categories of services required by the guidelines under this division shall be the same as the categories of services used in determining cost units pursuant to division (C)(4)(a) of this section.
(c) Average student grades in each subject in grades nine through twelve;
(d) Academic achievement levels as assessed by the testing of student achievement under sections 3301.0710 and 3301.0711 of the Revised Code;
(e) The number of students designated as having a handicapping condition pursuant to division (C)(1) of section 3301.0711 of the Revised Code;
(f) The numbers of students reported to the state board pursuant to division (C)(2) of section 3301.0711 of the Revised Code;
(g) Attendance rates and the average daily attendance for the year. For purposes of this division, a student shall be counted as present for any field trip that is approved by the school administration.
(h) Expulsion rates;
(i) Suspension rates;
(j) The percentage of students receiving corporal punishment;
(k) Dropout rates;
(l) Rates of retention in grade;
(m) For pupils in grades nine through twelve, the average number of carnegie units, as calculated in accordance with state board of education rules;
(n) Graduation rates, to be calculated in a manner specified by the department of education that reflects the rate at which students who were in the ninth grade three years prior to the current year complete school and that is consistent with nationally accepted reporting requirements;
(o) Results of diagnostic assessments administered to kindergarten students as required under section 3301.0715 of the Revised Code to permit a comparison of the academic readiness of kindergarten students. However, no district shall be required to report to the department the results of any diagnostic assessment administered to a kindergarten student if the parent of that student requests the district not to report those results.
(2) Personnel and classroom enrollment data for each school district, including:
(a) The total numbers of licensed employees and nonlicensed employees and the numbers of full-time equivalent licensed employees and nonlicensed employees providing each category of instructional service, instructional support service, and administrative support service used pursuant to division (C)(3) of this section. The guidelines adopted under this section shall require these categories of data to be maintained for the school district as a whole and, wherever applicable, for each grade in the school district as a whole, for each school building as a whole, and for each grade in each school building.
(b) The total number of employees and the number of full-time equivalent employees providing each category of service used pursuant to divisions (C)(4)(a) and (b) of this section, and the total numbers of licensed employees and nonlicensed employees and the numbers of full-time equivalent licensed employees and nonlicensed employees providing each category used pursuant to division (C)(4)(c) of this section. The guidelines adopted under this section shall require these categories of data to be maintained for the school district as a whole and, wherever applicable, for each grade in the school district as a whole, for each school building as a whole, and for each grade in each school building.
(c) The total number of regular classroom teachers teaching classes of regular education and the average number of pupils enrolled in each such class, in each of grades kindergarten through five in the district as a whole and in each school building in the school district.
(3)(a) Student demographic data for each school district, including information regarding the gender ratio of the school district's pupils, the racial make-up of the school district's pupils, and an appropriate measure of the number of the school district's pupils who reside in economically disadvantaged households. The demographic data shall be collected in a manner to allow correlation with data collected under division (B)(1) of this section. Categories for data collected pursuant to division (B)(3) of this section shall conform, where appropriate, to standard practices of agencies of the federal government.
(b) With respect to each student entering kindergarten, whether the student previously participated in a public preschool program, a private preschool program, or a head start program, and the number of years the student participated in each of these programs.
(C) The education management information system shall include cost accounting data for each district as a whole and for each school building in each school district. The guidelines adopted under this section shall require the cost data for each school district to be maintained in a system of mutually exclusive cost units and shall require all of the costs of each school district to be divided among the cost units. The guidelines shall require the system of mutually exclusive cost units to include at least the following:
(1) Administrative costs for the school district as a whole. The guidelines shall require the cost units under this division (C)(1) to be designed so that each of them may be compiled and reported in terms of average expenditure per pupil in formula ADM in the school district, as determined pursuant to section 3317.03 of the Revised Code.
(2) Administrative costs for each school building in the school district. The guidelines shall require the cost units under this division (C)(2) to be designed so that each of them may be compiled and reported in terms of average expenditure per full-time equivalent pupil receiving instructional or support services in each building.
(3) Instructional services costs for each category of instructional service provided directly to students and required by guidelines adopted pursuant to division (B)(1)(a) of this section. The guidelines shall require the cost units under division (C)(3) of this section to be designed so that each of them may be compiled and reported in terms of average expenditure per pupil receiving the service in the school district as a whole and average expenditure per pupil receiving the service in each building in the school district and in terms of a total cost for each category of service and, as a breakdown of the total cost, a cost for each of the following components:
(a) The cost of each instructional services category required by guidelines adopted under division (B)(1)(a) of this section that is provided directly to students by a classroom teacher;
(b) The cost of the instructional support services, such as services provided by a speech-language pathologist, classroom aide, multimedia aide, or librarian, provided directly to students in conjunction with each instructional services category;
(c) The cost of the administrative support services related to each instructional services category, such as the cost of personnel that develop the curriculum for the instructional services category and the cost of personnel supervising or coordinating the delivery of the instructional services category.
(4) Support or extracurricular services costs for each category of service directly provided to students and required by guidelines adopted pursuant to division (B)(1)(b) of this section. The guidelines shall require the cost units under division (C)(4) of this section to be designed so that each of them may be compiled and reported in terms of average expenditure per pupil receiving the service in the school district as a whole and average expenditure per pupil receiving the service in each building in the school district and in terms of a total cost for each category of service and, as a breakdown of the total cost, a cost for each of the following components:
(a) The cost of each support or extracurricular services category required by guidelines adopted under division (B)(1)(b) of this section that is provided directly to students by a licensed employee, such as services provided by a guidance counselor or any services provided by a licensed employee under a supplemental contract;
(b) The cost of each such services category provided directly to students by a nonlicensed employee, such as janitorial services, cafeteria services, or services of a sports trainer;
(c) The cost of the administrative services related to each services category in division (C)(4)(a) or (b) of this section, such as the cost of any licensed or nonlicensed employees that develop, supervise, coordinate, or otherwise are involved in administering or aiding the delivery of each services category.
(D)(1) The guidelines adopted under this section shall require school districts to collect information about individual students, staff members, or both in connection with any data required by division (B) or (C) of this section or other reporting requirements established in the Revised Code. The guidelines may also require school districts to report information about individual staff members in connection with any data required by division (B) or (C) of this section or other reporting requirements established in the Revised Code. The guidelines shall not authorize school districts to request social security numbers of individual students. The guidelines shall prohibit the reporting under this section of any personally identifiable information about any student, including a student's name or, address, and social security number to the state board of education or the department of education. The guidelines shall also prohibit the reporting under this section of any personally identifiable information about any student, except for the purpose of assigning the data verification code required by division (D)(2) of this section, to any other person unless such person is employed by the school district or the data acquisition site operated under section 3301.075 of the Revised Code and is authorized by the district or acquisition site to have access to such information. The guidelines may require school districts to provide the social security numbers of individual staff members.
(2) The guidelines shall provide for each school district or community school to assign a data verification code that is unique on a statewide basis over time to each student whose initial Ohio enrollment is in that district or school and to report all required individual student data for that student utilizing such code. The guidelines shall also provide for assigning data verification codes to all students enrolled in districts or community schools on the effective date of the guidelines established under this section.
Individual student data shall be reported to the department through the data acquisition sites utilizing the code but at no time shall the state board or the department have access to information that would enable any data verification code to be matched to personally identifiable student data.
Each school district shall ensure that the data verification code is included in the student's records reported to any subsequent school district or community school in which the student enrolls and shall remove all references to the code in any records retained in the district or school that pertain to any student no longer enrolled. Any such subsequent district or school shall utilize the same identifier in its reporting of data under this section.
(E) The guidelines adopted under this section may require school districts to collect and report data, information, or reports other than that described in divisions (A), (B), and (C) of this section for the purpose of complying with other reporting requirements established in the Revised Code. The other data, information, or reports may be maintained in the education management information system but are not required to be compiled as part of the profile formats required under division (G) of this section or the annual statewide report required under division (H) of this section.
(F) Beginning with the school year that begins July 1, 1991, the board of education of each school district shall annually collect and report to the state board, in accordance with the guidelines established by the board, the data required pursuant to this section. A school district may collect and report these data notwithstanding section 2151.358 or 3319.321 of the Revised Code.
(G) The state board shall, in accordance with the procedures it adopts, annually compile the data reported by each school district pursuant to division (D) of this section. The state board shall design formats for profiling each school district as a whole and each school building within each district and shall compile the data in accordance with these formats. These profile formats shall:
(1) Include all of the data gathered under this section in a manner that facilitates comparison among school districts and among school buildings within each school district;
(2) Present the data on academic achievement levels as assessed by the testing of student achievement maintained pursuant to division (B)(1)(e) of this section so that the academic achievement levels of students who are excused from taking any such test pursuant to division (C)(1) of section 3301.0711 of the Revised Code are distinguished from the academic achievement levels of students who are not so excused.
(H)(1) The state board shall, in accordance with the procedures it adopts, annually prepare a statewide report for all school districts and the general public that includes the profile of each of the school districts developed pursuant to division (G) of this section. Copies of the report shall be sent to each school district.
(2) The state board shall, in accordance with the procedures it adopts, annually prepare an individual report for each school district and the general public that includes the profiles of each of the school buildings in that school district developed pursuant to division (G) of this section. Copies of the report shall be sent to the superintendent of the district and to each member of the district board of education.
(3) Copies of the reports received from the state board under divisions (H)(1) and (2) of this section shall be made available to the general public at each school district's offices. Each district board of education shall make copies of each report available to any person upon request and payment of a reasonable fee for the cost of reproducing the report. The board shall annually publish in a newspaper of general circulation in the school district, at least twice during the two weeks prior to the week in which the reports will first be available, a notice containing the address where the reports are available and the date on which the reports will be available.
(I) Any data that is collected or maintained pursuant to this section and that identifies an individual pupil is not a public record for the purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code.
(J) As used in this section:
(1) "School district" means any city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district.
(2) "Cost" means any expenditure for operating expenses made by a school district excluding any expenditures for debt retirement except for payments made to any commercial lending institution for any loan approved pursuant to section 3313.483 of the Revised Code.
(K) Any person who removes data from the information system established under this section for the purpose of releasing it to any person not entitled under law to have access to such information is subject to section 2913.42 of the Revised Code prohibiting tampering with data.
(L) Any time the department of education determines that a school district has taken any of the actions described under division (L)(1), (2), or (3) of this section, it shall make a report of the actions of the district, send a copy of the report to the superintendent of such school district, and maintain a copy of the report in its files:
(1) The school district fails to meet any deadline established pursuant to this section for the reporting of any data to the education management information system;
(2) The school district fails to meet any deadline established pursuant to this section for the correction of any data reported to the education management information system;
(3) The school district reports data to the education management information system in a condition, as determined by the department, that indicates that the district did not make a good faith effort in reporting the data to the system.
Any report made under this division shall include recommendations for corrective action by the school district.
Upon making a report for the first time in a fiscal year, the department shall withhold ten per cent of the total amount due during that fiscal year under Chapter 3317. of the Revised Code to the school district to which the report applies. Upon making a second report in a fiscal year, the department shall withhold an additional twenty per cent of such total amount due during that fiscal year to the school district to which the report applies. The department shall not release such funds unless it determines that the district has taken corrective action. However, no such release of funds shall occur if the district fails to take corrective action within ninety days of the date upon which the report was made by the department.
(M) The department of education, after consultation with the Ohio education computer network, may provide at no cost to school districts uniform computer software for use in reporting data to the education management information system, provided that no school district shall be required to utilize such software to report data to the education management information system if such district is so reporting data in an accurate, complete, and timely manner in a format compatible with that required by the education management information system.
(N) The state board of education, in accordance with sections 3319.31 and 3319.311 of the Revised Code, may suspend or revoke a license as defined under division (A) of section 3319.31 of the Revised Code that has been issued to any school district employee found to have willfully reported erroneous, inaccurate, or incomplete data to the education management information system.
(O) No person shall release or maintain any information about any student in violation of this section. Whoever violates this division is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(P) The department shall disaggregate the data collected under division (B)(1)(o) of this section according to the race and socioeconomic status of the students assessed. No data collected under that division shall be included on the report cards required by section 3302.03 of the Revised Code.
(Q) If the department cannot compile any of the information required by division (D)(5) of section 3302.03 of the Revised Code based upon the data collected under this section, the department shall develop a plan and a reasonable timeline for the collection of any data necessary to comply with that division.
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 Chapter 4508. of the Revised Code. 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 private driver training school licensed under Chapter 4508. of the Revised Code that chapter. 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 private driver training school or, if available, enroll in a driver education course made available by the pupil's school district of attendance. No pupil shall receive course credit toward graduation for completing a driver education course conducted by a school district under this section.
Sec. 3313.201.  (A) The board of education of each school district shall procure a policy or policies of insurance insuring officers, employees, and pupils of the school district against liability on account of damage or injury to persons and property, including insurance on vehicles operated under a course in drivers education certified approved by the state department of education public safety and including liability on account of death or accident by wrongful act, occasioned by the operation of a motor vehicle, motor vehicles with auxiliary equipment, or all self-propelling equipment or trailers owned or operated by the school district. Each board of education may supplement the policy or policies of insurance with collision, medical payments, comprehensive, and uninsured motorists insurance. Before procuring such insurance each board of education shall adopt a resolution setting forth the amount of insurance to be purchased, the necessity of the insurance, together with a statement of its estimated premium cost. Insurance procured pursuant to this section shall be from one or more recognized insurance companies authorized to do business in this state.
(B) This section shall not be construed to affect the ability of any school district to establish and maintain self-insurance programs under the authority conferred by any other section of the Revised Code. Such programs may be established and maintained in combination with, or as an alternative to, any policy or policies of insurance procured under division (A) of this section.
Sec. 3313.641.  (A) Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 3313.48 and 3313.64 of the Revised Code, the board of education of a city, exempted village, or local school district may organize and operate a summer school, an evening or day school for adults and out-of-school youth, or technical school or institute for instruction beyond the high school, offer driver education courses as a part of the regular curriculum of the school district in conformity with section 4508.07 Chapter 4508. of the Revised Code, or offer postgraduate work in any course of instruction to pupils who have completed the twelfth grade, which may be open to any pupil irrespective of his age upon such terms and upon payment of such tuition as the board prescribes. Courses of instruction in basic literacy may be offered with or without tuition, as the board determines.
(B) A board of education that operates an education program pursuant to this section, other than a summer school, that includes courses for which credit may be granted toward the issuance of a high school diploma under section 3313.61 of the Revised Code may, by resolution, authorize the superintendent of the district to assign to the program in accordance with this section, any student who has not successfully completed the curriculum of any high school or the individualized education program developed for the student by any high school pursuant to section 3323.08 of the Revised Code, who is at least eighteen years old, and who is being readmitted to school following expulsion or commitment to the department of youth services. Before making any such assignment, the superintendent or his the superintendent's designee shall meet with the pupil to determine whether he the pupil should be so assigned, and shall prepare a report on his the superintendent's or designee's findings and determination. If based on his the meeting or his the designee's report the superintendent finds that the pupil should be placed in a program under this section, the superintendent shall make the assignment. Once assigned to a program, the student shall remain in it until he the student is reassigned by the superintendent or leaves school. At least once in each academic term, the superintendent or his the superintendent's designee shall review the program of each student assigned under this section and the superintendent shall, based on the review, make a determination of whether the student should remain in the program or be reassigned. Tuition shall not be charged for the attendance of any student assigned to a program pursuant to this division who is entitled under section 3313.64 of the Revised Code to attend the schools of the district without payment of tuition.
Sec. 3315.091.  The boards of education of any city, exempted village, local, or joint vocational school districts or the governing boards of educational service centers may enter into contracts for a term not exceeding one year, upon such terms as each board deems expedient, with each other, or with a private driver training school licensed under section 4508.03 of the Revised Code, for the purpose of providing instruction in driver education under section 3301.17 of the Revised Code. Driver training schools contracting with any high school in the state for the purpose of providing driver education shall meet course content standards of the state board of education adopted pursuant to section 3301.07 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 3317.11.  (A) Annually, on or before a date designated by the state board of education, each educational service center governing board shall prepare a budget of operating expenses for the ensuing year for the service center on forms prepared and furnished by the state board of education and shall certify the budget to the state board of education, together with such other information as the board may require. Such budget shall consist of two parts. Part (A) shall include the cost of the salaries, employers retirement contributions, and travel expenses of supervisory teachers approved by the state board of education. The amount derived from the calculation for such units in part (A) of the governing board budget shall be the sum of:
(1) The sum of the minimum salaries calculated, pursuant to section 3317.13 of the Revised Code, for each approved licensed employee of the governing board;
(2) An additional salary allowance proportional to the length of the extended term of service not to exceed three months for each supervisory and child study teacher whose term of service in any year is extended beyond the terms of service of regular classroom teachers;
(3) An allowance equal to fifteen per cent of the amount computed under division (A)(1) of this section;
(4) An allowance for necessary travel expenses, for each of the personnel approved in part (A) of the budget, limited to two hundred twenty-three dollars and sixteen cents per month, or two thousand six hundred seventy-eight dollars per year per person employed, whichever is the lesser.
Part (B) shall include the cost of all other lawful expenditures of the governing board. The state board of education shall review such budget and may approve, increase, or decrease such budget.
The governing board shall be reimbursed by the state board of education from state funds for the cost of part (A) of the budget. The governing board shall be reimbursed by the state board of education, from state funds for the cost of part (B) of the approved budget that is in excess of six dollars and fifty cents times the service center ADM. If the governing board provides services to city or exempted village school districts pursuant to section 3313.843 of the Revised Code, the governing board shall be reimbursed from state funds for the cost of part (B) of the budget that is in excess of six dollars and fifty cents times the sum of the service center ADM and the client ADMs of the city or exempted village districts to which such services are provided. The cost of part (B) not in excess of six dollars and fifty cents times the number of such ADM shall be apportioned by the state board of education among the local school districts in the territory of the service center, or among all districts to which the governing board provides services, on the basis of the total number of pupils in each school district.
If part (B) of the budget is in excess of that approved by the state board of education, the excess cost shall be apportioned by the state board of education among the local school districts in the territory of the service center on the basis of the total number of such pupils in each such school district, provided that a majority of the boards of education of such local school districts approve such apportionment. The state board of education shall initiate and supervise the procedure by which the local boards shall approve or disapprove such apportionment.
The amounts so apportioned shall be certified to the treasurers of the various school districts. In the case of each district such amount shall be deducted by the state board of education from funds allocated to the district pursuant to division (E) of section 3317.023 of the Revised Code.
The state board of education shall certify to the director of budget and management for payment the total of the deductions, whereupon the amount shall be paid to the governing board of each service center, to be deposited to the credit of a separate fund, hereby created, to be known as the educational service center governing board fund.
An educational service center may provide special education to students in its local districts or in client districts. A service center is eligible for funding under division (J) of section 3317.024 of the Revised Code and eligible for state subsidies for the purchase of school buses under section 3317.07 of the Revised Code. Special education units for gifted children may be operated by a governing board. Vocational education may be provided by a governing board. A governing board may conduct driver education for pupils enrolled in a high school for which the state board of education prescribes minimum standards in accordance with Chapter 4508. of the Revised Code.
Every local school district shall be provided supervisory services by its governing board as approved by the state board of education. A city or exempted village school district shall be considered to be provided supervisory services by a governing board if it has entered into an agreement for the governing board to provide any services under section 3313.843 of the Revised Code. Supervisory services shall not exceed one supervisory teacher for the first fifty classroom teachers employed in all districts that are provided supervisory services calculated under section 3317.023 of the Revised Code and one supervisory teacher for every additional one hundred such classroom teachers so calculated. Reimbursement for such supervisory services shall be a deduction by the state board of education from the payment to the school district pursuant to division (E) of section 3317.023 of the Revised Code. Deductions for all supervisory services and extended services for supervisory and child study shall be apportioned among local school districts within the territory of the service center and any city or exempted village districts that have entered into agreements with a service center pursuant to section 3313.843 of the Revised Code by the state board of education on the basis of the total number of pupils in each school district, except that where such services are provided to districts other than local school districts within the service center territory and city or exempted village districts having agreements with the service center, such charges shall be apportioned among all participating districts on the basis of the total number of pupils in each school district. All deductions from state funding to school districts required for reimbursement of governing boards by division (E) of section 3317.023 of the Revised Code shall be made from the total of the payment computed for the district under this chapter, after making any other adjustments in that payment required by law.
(B)(1) In addition to the payments made under division (A) of this section, except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section, the department of education shall pay each governing board thirty-seven dollars times the sum of the service center ADM and the sum of the client ADMs of all its client districts in fiscal years 2002 and 2003.
(2) In addition to other payments under this section, the department shall pay each educational service center the amounts due to it from school districts pursuant to contracts, compacts, or agreements under which the service center furnishes services to the districts or their students. In order to receive payment under this division, an educational service center shall furnish either a copy of the applicable contract, compact, or agreement clearly indicating the amounts of the payments, or a written statement of the payments owed signed by the superintendent or treasurer of the responsible school district.
The amounts paid to service centers under division (B)(2) of this section shall be deducted from payments to school districts pursuant to division (K)(2) of section 3317.023 of the Revised Code.
(C) Each multicounty service center shall receive a payment each fiscal year equal to forty dollars and fifty-two cents times the sum of the service center ADM and the client ADMs of all its client districts.
(D) Each city, exempted village, local, joint vocational, or cooperative education school district shall pay to the governing board of an educational service center any amounts agreed to for each child enrolled in the district who receives special education and related services or vocational education from the educational service center.
(E) As used in this section:
(1) "Service center ADM" means the total of each of the following for all local school districts within the limits of an educational service center's territory:
(a) The formula ADM;
(b) The kindergarten average daily membership included in the formula ADM;
(c) Three-quarters of the number of students reported under division (B)(4) of section 3317.03 of the Revised Code;
(d) The average daily membership of handicapped preschool children reported under division (B)(2) of section 3317.03 of the Revised Code;
(e) The number of preschool students certified under division (B) of section 3317.032 of the Revised Code.
(2) "Client ADM" means the total of each number described under divisions (E)(1)(a) to (e) of this section for a client district.
(3) "Client district" means a city or exempted village school district that has entered into an agreement to receive services from a service center pursuant to section 3313.843 of the Revised Code.
(4) "Multicounty service center" means a service center that includes territory that formerly was included in the territory of at least three former service centers or county school districts, which former centers or districts engaged in one or more mergers pursuant to section 3311.053 of the Revised Code to form the present center.
Sec. 4507.05.  (A) The registrar of motor vehicles, or a deputy registrar, upon receiving an application for a temporary instruction permit and a temporary instruction permit identification card for a driver's license from any person who is at least fifteen years and six months of age, may issue such a permit and identification card entitling the applicant to drive a motor vehicle, other than a commercial motor vehicle, upon the highways under the following conditions:
(1) If the permit is issued to a person who is at least fifteen years and six months of age, but less than sixteen years of age:
(a) The permit and identification card are in the holder's immediate possession;
(b) The holder is accompanied by an eligible adult who actually occupies the seat beside the permit holder;
(c) The total number of occupants of the vehicle does not exceed the total number of occupant restraining devices originally installed in the motor vehicle by its manufacturer, and each occupant of the vehicle is wearing all of the available elements of a properly adjusted occupant restraining device.
(2) If the permit is issued to a person who is at least sixteen years of age:
(a) The permit and identification card are in the holder's immediate possession;
(b) The holder is accompanied by a licensed operator who is at least twenty-one years of age and is actually occupying a seat beside the driver;
(c) The total number of occupants of the vehicle does not exceed the total number of occupant restraining devices originally installed in the motor vehicle by its manufacturer, and each occupant of the vehicle is wearing all of the available elements of a properly adjusted occupant restraining device.
(B) The registrar or a deputy registrar, upon receiving from any person an application for a temporary instruction permit and temporary instruction permit identification card to operate a motorcycle or motorized bicycle, may issue such a permit and identification card entitling the applicant, while having the permit and identification card in the applicant's immediate possession, to drive a motorcycle or motorized bicycle under restrictions determined by the registrar. A temporary instruction permit and temporary instruction permit identification card to operate a motorized bicycle may be issued to a person fourteen or fifteen years old.
(C) Any permit and identification card issued under this section shall be issued in the same manner as a driver's license, upon a form to be furnished by the registrar. A temporary instruction permit to drive a motor vehicle other than a commercial motor vehicle shall be valid for a period of one year.
(D) Any person having in the person's possession a valid and current driver's license or motorcycle operator's license or endorsement issued to the person by another jurisdiction recognized by this state is exempt from obtaining a temporary instruction permit for a driver's license, but shall submit to the regular examination in obtaining a driver's license or motorcycle operator's endorsement in this state.
(E) The registrar may adopt rules governing the use of temporary instruction permits and temporary instruction permit identification cards.
(F)(1) No holder of a permit issued under division (A) of this section shall operate a motor vehicle upon a highway or any public or private property used by the public for purposes of vehicular travel or parking in violation of the conditions established under division (A) of this section.
(2) Except as provided in division (F)(2) of this section, no holder of a permit that is issued under division (A) of this section and that is issued on or after the effective date of this amendment, and who has not attained the age of seventeen years, shall operate a motor vehicle upon a highway or any public or private property used by the public for purposes of vehicular travel or parking between the hours of one a.m. and five a.m.
The holder of a permit issued under division (A) of this section on or after the effective date of this amendment, who has not attained the age of seventeen years, may operate a motor vehicle upon a highway or any public or private property used by the public for purposes of vehicular travel or parking between the hours of one a.m. and five a.m. if, at the time of such operation, the holder is accompanied by the holder's parent, guardian, or custodian, and the parent, guardian, or custodian holds a current valid driver's or commercial driver's license issued by this state and is actually occupying a seat beside the permit holder.
(G)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no law enforcement officer shall cause the operator of a motor vehicle being operated on any street or highway to stop the motor vehicle for the sole purpose of determining whether each occupant of the motor vehicle is wearing all of the available elements of a properly adjusted occupant restraining device as required by division (A) of this section, or for the sole purpose of issuing a ticket, citation, or summons if the requirement in that division has been or is being violated, or for causing the arrest of or commencing a prosecution of a person for a violation of that requirement.
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no law enforcement officer shall cause the operator of a motor vehicle being operated on any street or highway to stop the motor vehicle for the sole purpose of determining whether a violation of division (F)(2) of this section has been or is being committed or for the sole purpose of issuing a ticket, citation, or summons for such a violation or for causing the arrest of or commencing a prosecution of a person for such violation.
(H) As used in this section:
(1) "Eligible adult" means any of the following:
(a) An instructor of a driver education course approved by the department of education or a driver training course approved by the department of public safety;
(b) Any of the following persons who holds a current valid driver's or commercial driver's license issued by this state:
(i) A parent, guardian, or custodian of the permit holder;
(ii) A person twenty-one years of age or older who acts in loco parentis of the permit holder.
(2) "Occupant restraining device" has the same meaning as in section 4513.263 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 4507.21.  (A) Each applicant for a driver's license shall file an application in the office of the registrar of motor vehicles or of a deputy registrar.
(B)(1) Each person under eighteen years of age applying for a driver's license issued in this state shall present satisfactory evidence of having successfully completed any one of the following:
(a) A driver education course approved by the state department of education prior to December 31, 2003.
(b) A driver training course approved by the director of public safety.
(c) A driver training course comparable to a driver education or driver training course described in division (B)(1)(a) or (b) of this section and administered by a branch of the armed forces of the United States and completed by the applicant while residing outside this state for the purpose of being with or near any person serving in the armed forces of the United States.
(2) Each person under eighteen years of age applying for a driver's license also shall present, on a form prescribed by the registrar, an affidavit signed by an eligible adult attesting that the person has acquired at least fifty hours of actual driving experience, with at least ten of those hours being at night.
(C) If the registrar or deputy registrar determines that the applicant is entitled to the driver's license, it shall be issued. If the application shows that the applicant's license has been previously revoked or suspended, the deputy registrar shall forward the application to the registrar, who shall determine whether the license shall be granted.
(D) All applications shall be filed in duplicate, and the deputy registrar issuing the license shall immediately forward to the office of the registrar the original copy of the application, together with the duplicate copy of the certificate, if issued. The registrar shall prescribe rules as to the manner in which the deputy registrar files and maintains the applications and other records. The registrar shall file every application for a driver's or commercial driver's license and index them by name and number, and shall maintain a suitable record of all licenses issued, all convictions and bond forfeitures, all applications for licenses denied, and all licenses which have been suspended or revoked.
(E) For purposes of section 2313.06 of the Revised Code, the registrar shall maintain accurate and current lists of the residents of each county who are eighteen years of age or older, have been issued, on and after January 1, 1984, driver's or commercial driver's licenses that are valid and current, and would be electors if they were registered to vote, regardless of whether they actually are registered to vote. The lists shall contain the names, addresses, dates of birth, duration of residence in this state, citizenship status, and social security numbers, if the numbers are available, of the licensees, and may contain any other information that the registrar considers suitable.
(F) Each person under eighteen years of age applying for a motorcycle operator's endorsement or a restricted license enabling the applicant to operate a motorcycle shall present satisfactory evidence of having completed the courses of instruction in the motorcycle safety and education program described in section 4508.08 of the Revised Code or a comparable course of instruction administered by a branch of the armed forces of the United States and completed by the applicant while residing outside this state for the purpose of being with or near any person serving in the armed forces of the United States. If the registrar or deputy registrar then determines that the applicant is entitled to the endorsement or restricted license, it shall be issued.
(G) No person shall knowingly make a false statement in an affidavit presented in accordance with division (B)(2) of this section.
(H) As used in this section, "eligible adult" means any of the following persons:
(1) A parent, guardian, or custodian of the applicant;
(2) A person over the age of twenty-one who acts in loco parentis of the applicant and who maintains proof of financial responsibility with respect to the operation of a motor vehicle owned by the applicant or with respect to the applicant's operation of any motor vehicle.
Sec. 4508.01.  As used in this chapter:
(A) "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 both any of the following:
(1) A private business enterprise conducted by an individual, association, partnership, or corporation for the education and training of persons to operate or drive motor vehicles, that uses public streets or highways to provide training, and that charges a consideration or tuition for such services;
(2) A lead school district as provided in section 4508.09 of the Revised Code;
(3) A board of education of a city, exempted village, local, or joint vocational school district or the governing board of an educational service center that offers a driver education course for high school students enrolled in the district or in a district served by the educational service center.
(D) "Instructor" means any person, whether acting for self as operator of a 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 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 this chapter, and may call upon the state superintendent of public instruction for assistance in developing and formulating the rules for training beginning drivers.
(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. 4508.021. (A) As used in this section:
(1) "State agency" has the same meaning as in section 1.60 of the Revised Code.
(2) "Electronic medium" means a video cassette tape, CD-ROM, interactive videodisc, or other format used to convey information to students through electronic means.
(B) The classroom instruction required by division (C) of section 4508.02 of the Revised Code shall include the dissemination of information regarding anatomical gifts and anatomical gift procedures or a presentation and discussion of such gifts and procedures in accordance with this section. The second chance trust fund advisory committee created under section 2108.17 of the Revised Code shall approve any brochure, written material, or electronic medium used by a driver training school to provide information to students regarding anatomical gifts and anatomical gift procedures. However, the committee shall not approve any such brochure, written material, or electronic medium that contains religious content for use in a driver education course conducted by a school district or educational service center.
(C)(1) If any brochure or other written material approved by the committee under division (B) of this section is made available to a driver training school at no cost, the instructor shall provide such brochure or material to students.
(2) If any electronic medium that is less than twenty minutes in length and that is approved by the committee under division (B) of this section is made available to a driver training school at no cost, the instructor shall show the electronic medium to students, provided that the school maintains operable viewing equipment. If more than one such electronic medium is made available to a school in accordance with this division, the instructor shall select one electronic medium from among those received by the school to show to students.
(3) If no electronic medium is shown to students as specified in division (C)(2) of this section, the instructor shall organize a classroom presentation and discussion regarding anatomical gifts and anatomical gift procedures. The instructor may arrange for the presentation to be conducted by an employee of the department of health or any other state agency, an employee or volunteer of the second chance trust fund, an employee or volunteer of any organization involved in the procurement of organ donations, an organ donor, or an organ recipient, provided that no such person charges a fee to the school for the presentation. However, no such presentation that contains religious content shall be made to students of a driver education course conducted by a school district or educational service center. Students shall be granted the opportunity to ask questions on anatomical gifts and anatomical gift procedures during the presentation and discussion.
Nothing in this section shall prohibit an instructor from also organizing a classroom presentation and discussion regarding anatomical gifts and anatomical gift procedures in accordance with this division if the instructor shows an electronic medium to students pursuant to division (C)(2) of this section.
(D) No student shall be required to participate in any instruction in anatomical gifts or anatomical gift procedures conducted under this section upon written notification from the student's parent or guardian, or the student if the student is over eighteen years of age, that such instruction conflicts with the religious convictions of the student or the student's parent or guardian. If a student is excused from such instruction, the instructor shall give the student an alternative assignment.
Sec. 4508.07.  Sections 4508.01 to 4508.06, inclusive, of the Revised Code, do not apply to any person giving driver training lessons without charge, to employers maintaining driver training schools without charge for their employees only, nor to schools or classes conducted by colleges, and universities and high schools for regularly enrolled full time students as a part of a normal program for such institutions.
Sec. 5502.01.  (A) The department of public safety shall administer and enforce the laws relating to the registration, licensing, sale, and operation of motor vehicles and the laws pertaining to the licensing of drivers of motor vehicles.
The department shall compile, analyze, and publish statistics relative to motor vehicle accidents and the causes of them, prepare and conduct educational programs for the purpose of promoting safety in the operation of motor vehicles on the highways, assist the state board of education in the formulation of minimum standards for driver education courses of instruction, encourage driver instruction in the high schools of the state, and conduct research and studies for the purpose of promoting safety on the highways of this state.
(B) The department shall administer the laws and rules relative to trauma and emergency medical services specified in Chapter 4765. of the Revised Code.
(C) The department shall administer and enforce the laws contained in Chapters 4301. and 4303. of the Revised Code and enforce the rules and orders of the liquor control commission pertaining to retail liquor permit holders.
(D) The department shall administer the laws governing the state emergency management agency and shall enforce all additional duties and responsibilities as prescribed in the Revised Code related to emergency management services.
(E) The department shall conduct investigations pursuant to Chapter 5101. of the Revised Code in support of the duty of the department of human job and family services to administer food stamp programs throughout this state. The department of public safety shall conduct investigations necessary to protect the state's property rights and interests in the food stamp program.
(F) The department of public safety shall enforce compliance with orders and rules of the public utilities commission and applicable laws in accordance with Chapters 4919., 4921., and 4923. of the Revised Code regarding commercial motor vehicle transportation safety, economic, and hazardous materials requirements.
(G) Notwithstanding Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code, the department of public safety may establish requirements for its enforcement personnel, including its enforcement agents described in section 5502.14 of the Revised Code, that include standards of conduct, work rules and procedures, and criteria for eligibility as law enforcement personnel.
(H) The department shall administer, maintain, and operate the Ohio criminal justice network. The Ohio criminal justice network shall be a computer network that supports state and local criminal justice activities. The network shall be an electronic repository for various data, which may include arrest warrants, notices of persons wanted by law enforcement agencies, criminal records, prison inmate records, stolen vehicle records, vehicle operator's licenses, and vehicle registrations and titles.
Section 2. That existing sections 2108.17, 3301.07, 3301.0714, 3301.17, 3313.201, 3313.641, 3315.091, 3317.11, 4507.05, 4507.21, 4508.01, 4508.02, 4508.07, and 5502.01 of the Revised Code are hereby repealed.
Section 3. (A) Except as required by division (B) of this section, notwithstanding any provision of Chapter 4508. of the Revised Code to the contrary, the board of education of any city, exempted village, local, or joint vocational school district or the governing board of any educational service center may continue to offer a driver education course for credit for high school students in accordance with the minimum standards established by the State Board of Education under former division (E) of section 3301.07 of the Revised Code, as it existed prior to the effective date of this section, until December 31, 2003. After December 31, 2003, no school district or educational service center shall offer a driver education course unless the district board or governing board of the educational service center obtains a license to conduct such a course as required by section 4508.03 of the Revised Code and complies with all other applicable rules adopted by the Director of Public Safety under section 4508.02 of the Revised Code, and no such course shall be offered for credit.
(B) Any school district or educational service center that offers a driver education course pursuant to section 3301.17 of the Revised Code shall include the dissemination of information regarding anatomical gifts and anatomical gift procedures or a presentation and discussion of such gifts and procedures as part of the classroom instruction as required by section 4508.021 of the Revised Code, as enacted by this act.
Section 4. Notwithstanding section 4507.05 of the Revised Code, as amended by this act, until December 31, 2003, an instructor of a driver education course approved by the Department of Education shall be considered an eligible adult for the purpose of accompanying a person holding a temporary instruction permit while such person is driving a motor vehicle.
Section 5. Within 30 days after the effective date of this act, in preparation for the transfer of the driver education program from the Department of Education to the Department of Public Safety, in fiscal year 2003 the Director of Budget and Management shall transfer $50,000 in appropriation and cash from appropriation item 200-100, Personal Services, General Revenue Fund, Department of Education, to appropriation item 764-321, Operating Expense - Highway Patrol, Highway Safety Fund (Fund 036), Department of Public Safety.
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