To require the Ohio Development Services Agency to develop the Lakefront Ohio Economic Development and Tourism Plan for counties bordering Lake Erie, to require regional institutions of higher education to jointly develop a proposal for the use of specified types of land in the region, and to make an appropriation.

Section 1.  (A) Not later than sixteen months after the effective date of this section, the Ohio Development Services Agency shall develop the Lakefront Ohio Economic Development and Tourism Plan to increase commerce and tourism in Ohio counties with land bordering Lake Erie. The plan shall include recommendations for the use of the following types of land in the region:

(1) Vacant land;

(2) Land currently available for commercial use;

(3) Land currently in use that has the potential to attract increased commerce and tourism to the region.

The plan may incorporate the proposal jointly completed by regional institutions of higher education pursuant to division (B) of this section. The plan shall not include proposals for the industrial use of land in the region.

(B) Regional institutions of higher education shall jointly do both of the following:

(1) Review the types of land in the region listed in division (A) of this section;

(2) Develop a proposal for the use of such land under the plan. The proposal shall identify land that may be developed to increase commerce and tourism and shall include a plan for the economic development of such land, including recommendations for funding.

Not later than twelve months after the effective date of this section, the regional institutions of higher education shall jointly submit the proposal developed pursuant to this division to the Ohio Development Services Agency.

(C) Upon the submission of the institutions' proposal pursuant to division (B) of this section, the Ohio Development Services Agency shall develop the Lakefront Ohio Economic Development and Tourism Plan. Upon the completion of the plan, the agency shall then submit the plan to the Office of TourismOhio, JobsOhio, and the mayor and county commissioner, or the equivalent, of each Ohio county with land bordering Lake Erie.

(D) As used in this section, "regional institutions of higher education" are institutions of higher education with main or branch campuses located in an Ohio county that borders Lake Erie, including all of the following:

(1) Bowling Green State University branch campus at the Firelands;

(2) Case Western Reserve University;

(3) Cleveland State University;

(4) Cuyahoga Community College;

(5) Lakeland Community College;

(6) Lorain County Community College;

(7) University of Toledo;

(8) Youngstown State University.

Section 2.  All items in this section are hereby appropriated as designated out of any moneys in the state treasury to the credit of the designated fund. For all appropriations made in this act, those in the first column are for fiscal year 2014 and those in the second column are for fiscal year 2015. The appropriations made in this act are in addition to any other appropriations made for the FY 2014-FY 2015 biennium.

General Revenue Fund

LAKEFRONT OHIO PLAN

The foregoing appropriation item 195XXX, Lakefront Ohio Plan, shall be used to develop the economic development and tourism plan described in Section 1 of this act. Of the foregoing appropriation, $375,000 shall be distributed to each of the following institutions of higher education: Bowling Green State University-Firelands, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland State University, Cuyahoga Community College, Lakeland Community College, Lorain County Community College, University of Toledo, and Youngstown State University.

Section 3.  Within the limits set forth in this act, the Director of Budget and Management shall establish accounts indicating the source and amount of funds for each appropriation made in this act, and shall determine the form and manner in which appropriation accounts shall be maintained. Expenditures from appropriations contained in this act shall be accounted for as though made in Am. Sub. H.B. 59 of the 130th General Assembly.

The appropriations made in this act are subject to all provisions of Am. Sub. H.B. 59 of the 130th General Assembly that are generally applicable to such appropriations.