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...The purpose of sections 1349.25 to 1349.36 of the Revised Code is to bring Ohio law into conformance with the "Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act of 1994," 108 Stat. 2190, 15 U.S.C.A. 1601 note, as amended, and the regulations and interpretations adopted thereunder by the federal reserve board, in order to facilitate the uniform administration and enforcement of state and federal laws on the regulation of certa...

...(A) Notwithstanding any provision of sections 1349.25 to 1349.36 of the Revised Code, or any rule adopted thereunder, if the "Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act of 1994," 108 Stat. 2190, 15 U.S.C.A. 1601 note, as amended, or any regulation adopted thereunder by the federal reserve board, as amended, is amended or otherwise modified after the effective date of this section, the superintendent of financial insti...

...As used in sections 1349.65 to 1349.76 of the Revised Code: (A) "Consumer product" has the same meaning as in section 101 of the "Magnuson-Moss Warranty-Federal Trade Commission Improvement Act," 15 U.S.C. 2301 and 16 C.F.R. 700.1. (B) "High-volume third party seller" means a participant on an online marketplace's platform that is a third party seller and that, in any continuous twelve-month period during the pre...

...(A) The treasurer of state may invest or execute transactions for any part or all of the interim funds of the state in the following classifications of obligations: (1) United States treasury bills, notes, bonds, or any other obligations or securities issued by the United States treasury or any other obligation guaranteed as to principal and interest by the United States; (2) Bonds, notes, debentures, or any ot...

...As used in sections 135.804 to 135.807 of the Revised Code: (A) "Taxes" has the same meaning as in section 323.01 of the Revised Code. (B) "Eligible borrower" means a person meeting all of the following: (1) The person is the owner of a homestead that is not charged with more than two years' worth of certified delinquent taxes. (2) The person had total income in the year prior to submitting an application ...

...(A) A lessor shall disclose all of the following in a clear and conspicuous manner: (1) A brief description of the leased property, sufficient to identify the property to the lessee and lessor and a statement as to whether the property is new, used, or previously leased. If a lease is for multiple items of property, a description of each item may be provided in a separate statement incorporated by reference in the l...

...(A) If a dealer enters into a dealer agreement with a supplier that is evidenced by a written or implied contract, sales agreement, or security agreement in which the dealer agrees to maintain an inventory, and the dealer agreement is subsequently terminated by the supplier in violation of section 1353.06 of the Revised Code or of the terms of the dealer agreement or because of the merger or consolidation of the supp...

...The authorizations granted in this chapter, as well as those granted under sections 3702.51 to 3702.62 of the Revised Code, are granted for the public purpose of better providing for the health and welfare of the people of the state by enhancing the availability, efficiency, and economy of hospital facilities and the services rendered thereby, by providing for cooperation of hospital agencies in the utilization of sh...

...(A) Two or more hospital agencies may enter into agreements for the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, remodeling, renovating, enlarging, equipping, and furnishing of hospital facilities, or the management, operation, occupancy, use, maintenance, and repair of hospital facilities, or for participation in programs, projects, activities, and services useful to, connected with, supplementing, or ...

...(A) A public hospital agency may issue revenue obligations as provided in this section to pay the costs of hospital facilities. Such revenue obligations shall be authorized by resolution or ordinance of the governing body of the public hospital agency. (B) Revenue obligations may be secured by a pledge of and lien on all or such part of the hospital receipts of the public hospital agency as provided in the bond proc...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section, all hospital facilities purchased, acquired, constructed, or owned by a public hospital agency, or financed in whole or in part by obligations issued by a public hospital agency, and used, or to be used when completed, as hospital facilities, and the income therefrom, are exempt from all taxation within this state, including ad valore...

...(A) The salaries of the adjutant general, the assistant adjutant general for army, the assistant adjutant general for air, and the assistant quartermaster general shall be paid according to divisions (B) and (H) of section 124.15 of the Revised Code. (B) The adjutant general, the assistant adjutant general for army, the assistant adjutant general for air, and the assistant quartermaster general shall receive ...

...(A) The annual salaries of the chief justice of the supreme court and of the justices and judges named in this section payable from the state treasury are as follows: (1) For the chief justice of the supreme court, the following amounts effective in the following years: (a) Beginning January 1, 2018, one hundred seventy-four thousand seven hundred dollars; (b) Beginning January 1, 2019, one hundred eighty-th...

...(A) "Public employee," as defined in division (A) of section 145.01 of the Revised Code, does not include any person: (1) Who is employed by a private, temporary-help service and performs services under the direction of a public employer or is employed on a contractual basis as an independent contractor under a personal service contract with a public employer; (2) Who is an emergency employee serving on a tempora...

...(A) No person shall knowingly fail to file a complete and accurate campaign finance statement or independent expenditure statement in accordance with section 145.053 of the Revised Code. (B) No person, during the course of a person seeking nomination for, or during any campaign for, election to the public employees retirement board, shall knowingly and with intent to affect the nomination or the outcome of the camp...

...The public employees retirement board shall elect from its membership a chairperson. The board shall appoint an executive director who shall serve as secretary to the board, an actuary, and other employees as necessary for the transaction of the business of the public employees retirement system. The compensation of all persons so appointed shall be fixed by the board. Such persons appointed by the board are not empl...

...(A) The members of the public employees retirement board shall be the trustees of the funds created by section 145.23 of the Revised Code. The board shall have full power to invest the funds. The board and other fiduciaries shall discharge their duties with respect to the funds solely in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries; for the exclusive purpose of providing benefits to participants and their benef...

...(A) Subject to the limit described in division (C) of this section, any member who is or has been an elected official of the state or any political subdivision thereof or has been appointed either by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate or directly by the speaker of the house of representatives or president of the senate to serve full-time as a member of a board, commission, or other public body may...

...(A) The public employees retirement board shall have prepared annually by or under the supervision of an actuary an actuarial valuation of the pension assets, liabilities, and funding requirements of the public employees retirement system as established pursuant to this chapter. The actuary shall complete the valuation in accordance with actuarial standards of practice promulgated by the actuarial standards boa...

...(A) The public employees retirement board may adopt rules in accordance with section 145.09 of the Revised Code to establish a program under which service credit earned under section 145.33 of the Revised Code or division (A)(2), (B)(1)(b), or (C)(2) of section 145.332 of the Revised Code is treated as service credit earned under division (A)(1), (B)(1)(a), or (C)(1) of section 145.332 of the Revised Code if the memb...

...(A) This section applies only to members of the public employees retirement system participating in the PERS combined plan, as defined in section 145.196 of the Revised Code, that was consolidated by the system with the PERS defined benefit plan under that section. (B)(1) When a member described in section 145.196 of the Revised Code retires on age and service retirement, the total annual single lifetime allowance...

...A member who has elected disability coverage under this section, has not attained the applicable age, and is determined by the public employees retirement board under section 145.35 of the Revised Code to qualify for a disability benefit shall be retired on disability under this section. The applicable age is sixty if the member is described in division (A) or (B) of section 145.32 or division (A), (B), or (E...

...A disability benefit recipient whose application for a disability benefit was received by the public employees retirement system before January 7, 2013, shall, regardless of when the disability occurred, retain membership status and shall be considered on leave of absence from employment during the first five years following the effective date of a disability benefit, notwithstanding any contrary provisions in this c...

...(A) A former member receiving an age and service retirement allowance from the public employees retirement system, and hereafter referred to as a retirant, may be employed, notwithstanding sections 145.38 and 145.46 of the Revised Code, if his later employment has been in a position described in any of the following categories: (1) A position authorized by section 101.31, 121.03, or 121.04 of the Revised Code; (2) ...

...Whenever the limits established by section 415 of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C.A. 415, as amended, are raised, the public employees retirement board shall increase the amount of the pension, benefit, or allowance of any person whose pension, benefit, or allowance payable under section 145.323, 145.33, 145.331, 145.332, 145.335, 145.36, or 145.361 or former section 145.34 of the Revise...

...(A) In addition to the curriculum requirements specified by the board of education of a school district or governing authority of a chartered nonpublic school, each student entering ninth grade for the first time on or after July 1, 2014, but prior to July 1, 2019, shall satisfy at least one of the following conditions or the conditions prescribed under division (B) of this section in order to qualify for a high scho...

...(A) The director of education and workforce, pursuant to this section and the adjudication procedures of section 3301.121 of the Revised Code, may issue an adjudication order that permanently excludes a pupil from attending any of the public schools of this state if the pupil is convicted of, or adjudicated a delinquent child for, committing, when the pupil was sixteen years of age or older, an act that would be a cr...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Electronic act" means an act committed through the use of a cellular telephone, computer, pager, personal communication device, or other electronic communication device. (2) "Harassment, intimidation, or bullying" means either of the following: (a) Any intentional written, verbal, electronic, or physical act that a student has exhibited toward another particular student more...

...(A)(1) The department of education and workforce shall establish a program under which public schools that meet the conditions prescribed in this section shall offer breakfast to all students either before or during the school day. Each of the following shall apply: (a) In the 2020-2021 school year, the program shall apply to any public school in which seventy per cent or more of the students enrolled in the schoo...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Approved industry credential or certificate" means a credential or certificate that is approved by the chancellor of higher education. (2) "Approved institution" means an eligible institution that has been approved to participate in the adult diploma pilot program under this section. (3) "Approved program of study" means a program of study offered by an approved institution ...

...(A) As used in this section, "digital learning" has the same meaning as in section 3301.079 of the Revised Code. (B) The department of education and workforce shall permit each career-technical education program approved under section 3317.161 of the Revised Code to provide remote or digital learning opportunities to students on a full-time or hybrid basis to the extent practicable.

...(A) No private school may receive scholarship payments from parents pursuant to section 3317.022 of the Revised Code until the chief administrator of the private school registers the school with the director of education and workforce. The director shall register any school that meets the following requirements: (1) The school indicates in writing its commitment to follow all requirements for a state-sponsored sch...

...Notwithstanding division (D) of section 3311.19 and division (D) of section 3311.52 of the Revised Code, the provisions of this section and sections 3313.981 to 3313.983 of the Revised Code that apply to a city school district do not apply to a joint vocational or cooperative education school district unless expressly specified. (A) As used in this section and sections 3313.981 to 3313.983 of the Revised Code: ...

...(A) As used in this chapter: (1) "Sponsor" means the board of education of a school district or the governing board of an educational service center that agrees to the conversion of all or part of a school or building under division (B) of this section, or an entity listed in division (C)(1) of this section, which has been approved by the department of education and workforce to sponsor community schools or is exe...

...(A) A management company that receives more than twenty per cent of the annual gross revenues of a community school shall provide a detailed accounting including the nature and costs of goods and services it provides to the community school. This information shall be reported using the categories and designations set forth in divisions (B) and (C) of this section, as applicable. (B) The detailed accounting shall inc...

...(A) Subject to division (B) of this section, and except as described in division (E) of this section, any community school to which either of the following conditions apply shall be prohibited from entering into a contract with a new sponsor: (1) The community school has received, on the most recent report card issued for that school under section 3302.03 of the Revised Code, either of the following: (a) A grad...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Harmful to juveniles" has the same meaning as in section 2907.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Obscene" has the same meaning as in division (F) of section 2907.01 of the Revised Code as that division has been construed by the supreme court of this state. (3) "Teacher of record" means a teacher who is responsible for the overall academic development and achievement of a student a...

...(A) The board of education of each city, exempted village, local, and joint vocational school district shall establish a capital and maintenance fund. Each board annually shall deposit into that fund an amount derived from revenues received by the district that would otherwise have been deposited in the general fund that is equal to three per cent of the statewide average base cost per pupil for the preceding fiscal ...

...(A) Within one hundred twenty days after the first meeting of a school district financial planning and supervision commission, the commission shall adopt a financial recovery plan regarding the school district for which the commission was created. During the formulation of the plan, the commission shall seek appropriate input from the school district board and from the community. This plan shall contain the following...

...(A) A school district financial planning and supervision commission has the following powers, duties, and functions: (1) To review or to assume responsibility for the development of all tax budgets, tax levy and bond and note resolutions, appropriation measures, and certificates of estimated resources of the school district in order to ensure that such are consistent with the financial recovery plan and a bal...

...This section shall apply only for fiscal years 2026 and 2027. (A) As used in this section: (1) "Average teacher cost" for a fiscal year has the same meaning as in section 3317.011 of the Revised Code. (2) "Eligible community or STEM school" means a community or STEM school that satisfies one of the following: (a) The school is a member of an organization that regulates interscholastic athletics. (b) Th...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Alternative school" has the same meaning as in section 3313.974 of the Revised Code. (B) "Autism scholarship unit" means a unit that consists of all of the students for whom autism scholarships are awarded under section 3310.41 of the Revised Code. (C) For fiscal years 2026 and 2027, a district's "base cost enrolled ADM" for a fiscal year means the greater of the following: (...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Port authority" means any port authority as defined in section 4582.01 or 4582.21 of the Revised Code. (2) "Real property" includes public utility real property and "personal property" includes public utility personal property. (3) "Uncollected taxes" means property taxes charged and payable against the property of a port authority for a tax year that a school district has n...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) For fiscal years 2026 and 2027, "assigned bus" means a school bus used to transport qualifying riders. (2) For fiscal years 2026 and 2027, "density" means the total riders per square mile of a school district. (3) For fiscal years 2026 and 2027, "nontraditional ridership" means the average number of qualifying riders who are enrolled in a community school established under Ch...

...(A) The superintendent of each city, local, and exempted village school district shall report to the department of education and workforce as of the last day of October, March, and June of each year the enrollment of students receiving services from schools under the superintendent's supervision, and the numbers of other students entitled to attend school in the district under section 3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revise...

...Moneys paid to school districts under division (E)(1) of section 3317.024 of the Revised Code shall be used for the following independent and fully severable purposes: (A) To purchase such secular textbooks or digital texts as have been approved by the department of education and workforce for use in public schools in the state and to loan such textbooks or digital texts to pupils attending nonpublic schools withi...

...(A) Moneys paid to chartered nonpublic schools under division (E)(2) of section 3317.024 of the Revised Code shall be used for one or more of the following purposes: (1) To purchase secular textbooks or digital texts, as defined in divisions (A)(1) and (2) of section 3317.06 of the Revised Code, as have been approved by the department of education and workforce for use in public schools in the state. Textbooks pur...

...(A) The transportation collaboration fund is hereby created in the state treasury for fiscal years 2022 and 2023. The fund shall consist of money appropriated for this purpose by the general assembly. The department of education and workforce shall use money in the fund for grants awarded under this section. (B)(1) For fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the department shall award transportation collaboration grants each ...

...(A) As used in this section, "JobsOhio" has the same meaning as in section 187.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The governor's office of workforce transformation, in collaboration with the department of education and workforce, the chancellor of higher education, and JobsOhio, shall create a program that establishes financial incentives for Ohio businesses to provide work-based learning experiences for students enrolle...

...(A) As used in this section, "disadvantaged pupil impact aid" means the following: (1) For a city, local, or exempted village school district, the funds received under division (A)(4)(a) of section 3317.022 of the Revised Code; (2) For a joint vocational school district, the funds received under division (A)(3) of section 3317.16 of the Revised Code; (3) For a community school established under Chapter 3314....