To amend Sections 269.10 and 269.30.80 of Am. Sub. H.B. 119 of the 127th General Assembly to pay an additional transitional aid amount in fiscal year 2009 to a city, exempted village, or local school district that experiences growth of more than one hundred students from fiscal year 2008 and to make an appropriation.

Section 1. That Sections 269.10 and 269.30.80 of Am. Sub. H.B. 119 of the 127th General Assembly be amended to read as follows:

Sec. 269.10. EDU DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

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Sec. 269.30.80. TRANSITIONAL AID FOR CITY, LOCAL, AND EXEMPTED VILLAGE SCHOOL DISTRICTS

(A) The Department of Education shall distribute funds within appropriation item 200-550, Foundation Funding, for transitional aid in each fiscal year to each qualifying city, local, and exempted village school district.

For fiscal years 2008 and 2009, the Department shall pay transitional aid to each city, local, or exempted village school district that experiences any decrease in its SF-3 funding for the current fiscal year from its transitional aid guarantee base for the current fiscal year. The amount of the transitional aid payment shall equal the difference between the district's SF-3 funding for the current fiscal year and its transitional aid guarantee base for the current fiscal year.

(B)(1) Subject to divisions (B)(3) and (C)(D) of this section, the transitional aid guarantee base for each city, local, and exempted village school district for fiscal year 2008 equals the sum of the following as computed for fiscal year 2007, as reconciled by the Department:

(a) Base-cost funding under division (A) of section 3317.022 of the Revised Code;

(b) Special education and related services additional weighted funding under division (C)(1) of section 3317.022 of the Revised Code;

(c) Speech services funding under division (C)(4) of section 3317.022 of the Revised Code;

(d) Vocational education additional weighted funding under division (E) of section 3317.022 of the Revised Code;

(e) GRADS funding under division (N) of section 3317.024 of the Revised Code;

(f) Adjustments for classroom teachers and educational service personnel under divisions (B), (C), and (D) of section 3317.023 of the Revised Code;

(g) Poverty-Based Assistance under section 3317.029 of the Revised Code;

(h) Gifted education units under division (L) of section 3317.024 and section 3317.05 of the Revised Code;

(i) Transportation under Section 206.09.21 of Am. Sub. H.B. 66 of the 126th General Assembly, as subsequently amended;

(j) The excess cost supplement under division (F) of section 3317.022 of the Revised Code;

(k) Parity aid under section 3317.0217 of the Revised Code;

(l) The reappraisal guarantee under division (C) of section 3317.04 of the Revised Code;

(m) The charge-off supplement under section 3317.0216 of the Revised Code;

(n) Transitional aid under Section 206.09.39 of Am. Sub. H.B. 66 of the 126th General Assembly, as subsequently amended.

(2) Subject to divisions (B)(3) and (C)(D) of this section, the transitional aid guarantee base for each city, local, and exempted village school district for fiscal year 2009 equals the sum of the following as computed for fiscal year 2008, as reconciled by the Department:

(a) Base-cost funding under division (A) of section 3317.022 of the Revised Code;

(b) Special education and related services additional weighted funding under division (C)(1) of section 3317.022 of the Revised Code;

(c) Speech services funding under division (C)(4) of section 3317.022 of the Revised Code;

(d) Vocational education additional weighted funding under division (E) of section 3317.022 of the Revised Code;

(e) GRADS funding under division (N) of section 3317.024 of the Revised Code;

(f) Adjustments for classroom teachers and educational service personnel under divisions (B), (C), and (D) of section 3317.023 of the Revised Code;

(g) Gifted education units under division (L) of section 3317.024 and section 3317.05 of the Revised Code;

(h) Transportation under the section Section 269.20.80 of this act Am. Sub. H.B. 119 of the 127th General Assembly entitled "PUPIL TRANSPORTATION";

(i) The excess cost supplement under division (F) of section 3317.022 of the Revised Code;

(j) The charge-off supplement under section 3317.0216 of the Revised Code;

(k) Transitional aid under this section.

(3) The SF-3 funding for each fiscal year for each district is the sum of the amounts specified in divisions (B)(2)(a) to (k) of this section less any general revenue fund spending reductions ordered by the Governor under section 126.05 of the Revised Code.

(C)(1) For fiscal year 2009, the Department of Education shall calculate an additional amount for each city, local, and exempted village school district that experiences an increase of more than one hundred students in its ADM value from fiscal year 2008. For fiscal year 2009, if the amount prescribed in division (C)(2) of this section for such a district exceeds the district's SF-3 funding plus transitional aid, as defined in division (C)(3) of this section, the Department shall pay the district the difference between the two amounts.

(2) The alternative transitional aid base shall be calculated as follows:

Where "fiscal year 2008 transitional aid guarantee base" means that amount as prescribed in division (B)(2) of this section.

(3) The SF-3 funding plus transitional aid for fiscal year 2009 is the sum of the following amounts calculated for the district for that fiscal year:

(a) Base-cost funding under division (A) of section 3317.022 of the Revised Code;

(b) Special education and related services additional weighted funding under division (C)(1) of section 3317.022 of the Revised Code;

(c) Speech services funding under division (C)(4) of section 3317.022 of the Revised Code;

(d) Vocational education additional weighted funding under division (E) of section 3317.022 of the Revised Code;

(e) GRADS funding under division (N) of section 3317.024 of the Revised Code;

(f) Adjustments for classroom teachers and educational service personnel under divisions (B), (C), and (D) of section 3317.023 of the Revised Code;

(g) Gifted education units under division (L) of section 3317.024 and section 3317.05 of the Revised Code;

(h) Transportation under Section 269.20.80 of Am. Sub. H.B. 119 of the 127th General Assembly;

(i) The excess cost supplement under division (F) of section 3317.022 of the Revised Code;

(j) The charge-off supplement under section 3317.0216 of the Revised Code;

(k) Transitional aid under divisions (A) and (B) of this section.

(D)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, only for purposes of this section, for any computation or computed value for previous fiscal years, the Department of Education shall substitute "ADM value" for "formula ADM," as the latter term was defined in law in effect for the fiscal year for which the previous computations were made.

(2) As used in division (C) of this section, "ADM value" means the number of students reported by the entity providing educational services to those students, as follows:

(a) In the case of students receiving educational services from a city, exempted village, or local school district, the number reported under division (B) of section 3317.03 of the Revised Code;

(b) In the case of students receiving educational services from a joint vocational school district, the number reported under division (D)(2) of section 3317.03 of the Revised Code;

(c) In the case of students receiving services from a community school, the number reported by the community school's governing authority under division (B)(2) of section 3314.08 of the Revised Code;

(d) In the case of scholarship students receiving services from a chartered nonpublic school under a scholarship program pursuant to Chapter 3310. of the Revised Code, the number of such students reported by the nonpublic school in accordance with reporting requirements adopted by the Department for purposes of that program.

Section 2. That existing Sections 269.10 and 269.30.80 of Am. Sub. H.B. 119 of the 127th General Assembly are hereby repealed.

Section 3. The sections of law amended by this act, and the items of law of which the uncodified sections of law amended in this act are composed, are not subject to the referendum. Therefore, under Ohio Constitution, Article II, Section 1d and section 1.471 of the Revised Code, the sections of law amended in this act, and the items of law of which the uncodified sections of law amended in this act are composed, go into immediate effect when this act becomes law.