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...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Biological sex" means the biological indication of male and female, including sex chromosomes, naturally occurring sex hormones, gonads, and nonambiguous internal and external genitalia present at birth, without regard to an individual's psychological, chosen, or subjective experience of gender. An individual may use the individual's official birth record, as defined in section 370...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Child with a disability" means a child who is at least three years of age and less than twenty-two years of age; who has an intellectual disability, a hearing impairment (including deafness), a speech or language impairment, a visual impairment (including blindness), a serious emotional disturbance, an orthopedic impairment, autism, traumatic brain injury, an other health impairment, ...

...(A) As used in this section and section 3323.251 of the Revised Code: (1) "Dyslexia" means a specific learning disorder that is neurological in origin and that is characterized by unexpected difficulties with accurate or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities not consistent with the person's intelligence, motivation, and sensory capabilities, which difficulties typically result from a ...

...(A) The STEM committee shall grant distinctions as STEM programs of excellence to STEM programs operated by joint vocational school districts, comprehensive career-technical education providers, compact career-technical education providers, and educational service centers in accordance with this section. (B) A joint vocational school district, comprehensive career-technical education provider, compact career-techn...

...This chapter does not apply to the following categories of courses, schools, or colleges: (A) Tuition-free courses or schools conducted by employers exclusively for their own employees; (B) Nonprofit institutions with certificates of authorization issued pursuant to section 1713.02 of the Revised Code or that are nonprofit institutions exempted from the requirement to obtain a certificate by division (E) of tha...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Eligible student" means an individual who satisfies all of the following: (a) The individual is an Ohio resident. (b) The individual is enrolled in an eligible school. (c) The individual has passed a drug test. (d) The individual does not have more than three moving violations in two consecutive years. If an individual who the eligible school has determined is an eli...

...As used in sections 3333.13 to 3333.137 of the Revised Code, "employed as a service attorney" means any of the following: (A) An attorney who works a minimum of thirty-five hours per week for a minimum of forty-five weeks each service year and who is employed by any of the following: (1) The state public defender; (2) The prosecuting attorney of a county; (3) A county public defender commission; (4) A joint...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Eligible student" means a student to whom all of the following apply: (a) The student is a resident of this state under rules adopted by the chancellor of higher education under section 3333.31 of the Revised Code. (b) The student has completed a free application for federal student aid for the year for which the grant is to be awarded. (c) The student enrolls in a qualif...

...(A)(1) There are hereby created the Ohio outstanding scholarship and the Ohio priority needs fellowship programs payment funds, which shall be in the custody of the treasurer of state, but shall not be a part of the state treasury. (2) The payment funds shall consist solely of all moneys returned to the treasurer of state, as issuer of certain tax-exempt student loan revenue bonds, from all indentures of trust, bo...

...(A) As used in this section and in section 3333.394 of the Revised Code: (1) "Academic year" shall be as defined by the chancellor of higher education. (2) "Parent" means the parent, guardian, or custodian of a qualified student as described by this section. (3) "Qualified service" means teaching at a qualifying school district or another school district, school, or educational service center as prescribed i...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Constitutional time, place, and manner restrictions" means restrictions on the time, place, and manner of free speech that do not violate the First Amendment to the United States Constitution or Article I, Sections 3 and 11 of the Ohio Constitution that are reasonable, content- and viewpoint-neutral, narrowly tailored to satisfy a significant institutional interest, and leave open ...

...(A) The conviction of a student, faculty or staff member, or employee of a college or university which receives any state funds in support thereof, of any offense covered by division (D) of this section, automatically effects the student's, faculty or staff member's, or employee's dismissal from such college or university, except as provided in division (E) of this section. A student dismissed pursuant to this sectio...

...(A) As used in this section, "state institution of higher education" has the same meaning as in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code. (B) The board of trustees of each state institution of higher education shall adopt a faculty annual performance evaluation policy and submit the policy to the chancellor of higher education. Each policy must contain an appeals process for faculty to appeal the final evaluation. Each...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Private college" means a nonprofit institution that holds a certificate of authorization issued under section 1713.02 of the Revised Code; (2) "State institution of higher education" has the same meaning as in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code. (B) Each state institution of higher education or private college that is a member of the national collegiate athletics association,...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Academic civics centers" means the following institutes or centers: (a) The center at the Ohio state university established under section 3335.39 of the Revised Code; (b) The center at Miami university established under section 3339.06 of the Revised Code; (c) The center at Cleveland state university established under section 3344.07 of the Revised Code; (d) The center at W...

...(A) The chancellor of higher education, in consultation with the office of budget and management, shall adopt rules in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code that include all of the following: (1) Criteria for determining when to review and, if necessary, declare a state university or college under fiscal caution. The criteria may include, but not be limited to, consideration of the following: (a) A s...

...(A)(1) The Wright state university center for civics, culture, and workforce development is established as an independent academic division within Wright state university, physically located on the Dayton campus of Wright state university. The center shall conduct teaching and research in the historical ideas, traditions, and texts that have shaped the American constitutional order and society and the United States a...

...A technical college district may be created with the approval of the Ohio board of regents pursuant to standards established by it. Such standards shall take into consideration such factors as the population of the proposed district, the present and potential pupil enrollment, present and potential higher education facilities in the district, and such other factors as may pertain to the educational needs of the distr...

...The Ohio board of regents shall approve or disapprove proposed official plans of technical college districts, prepared and submitted pursuant to sections 3357.01 to 3357.19, inclusive, of the Revised Code, and issue or decline to issue charters for operation of technical colleges, pursuant to section 3357.07 of the Revised Code. The board shall approve an official plan, and issue a charter, only upon the following ...

...Each public and participating private college shall do all of the following with respect to the college credit plus program: (A) Apply established standards and procedures for admission to the college and for course placement for participants. When determining admission and course placement, the college shall do all of the following: (1) Consider all available student data that may be an indicator of college re...

...(A) As used in this chapter: (1) "Anticipation notes" means notes issued in anticipation of the library facilities notes authorized by this section. (2) "Authorizing proceedings" means the resolution, legislation, trust agreement, certification and other agreements, instruments, and documents, as amended and supplemented, authorizing, or providing for the security or sale or award of, notes, and includes the provis...

...(A) Subject to rules issued by the director of behavioral health after consultation with relevant constituencies as required by division (A)(10) of section 5119.21 of the Revised Code, each board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services shall: (1) Serve as the community addiction and mental health planning agency for the county or counties under its jurisdiction, and in so doing it shall: (a) Eval...

...(A) The board of county commissioners of any county or the legislative authority of any municipal corporation in which there is no workhouse may agree with the legislative authority of any municipal corporation or other authority having control of the workhouse of any other city, or with the directors of any district of a joint city and county workhouse or county workhouse, upon terms on which persons convicted of a ...

...(A) The board of county commissioners of a county or the board of directors of a joint solid waste management district established under this chapter, upon its own initiative or at the request of the legislative authority of any municipal corporation or township located in the district, may adopt a resolution proposing the formation of a regional solid waste management authority for the purpose of executing all the d...

...As used in the sections of the Revised Code relating to elections and political communications: (A) "General election" means the election held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in each November. (B) "Regular municipal election" means the election held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in each odd-numbered year. (C) "Regular state election" means the election held on the first ...