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...All contractors and subcontractors required by sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code, and the action of any public authority to pay not less than the prevailing rate of wages shall make full payment of such wages in legal tender, without any deduction for food, sleeping accommodations, transportation, use of small tools, or any other thing of any kind or description. This section does not apply where the em...

...(A) Each contracting public authority that enters into a contract other than a contract for printing, binding, and related services, whose contractor and subcontractors are subject to sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code shall, no later than ten days before the first payment of wages is payable to any employee of any contractor or subcontractor, designate and appoint one of its own employees to serve as th...

...No public official, authorized to contract for or construct with the official's own forces a public improvement, shall fail, before advertising for bids or undertaking such construction with those forces, to have the director of commerce determine the prevailing rates of wages of mechanics and laborers for the class of work called for by the public improvement in the locality where the work is to be performed, as pro...

...No member of a public board, commission, or other public authority authorized to contract for or construct with its own forces a public improvement, shall vote for the award of any contract for the construction of such improvement, or vote for the disbursement of any funds on account of the construction of such public improvement, unless such public authority has first had the director of commerce determine the preva...

...on acting in the collection of dues or assessments of such organization. (E) The director shall enforce sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code. (F) For the purpose of supplementing existing resources and to assist in enforcing division (E) of this section, the director may contract with a person registered as a public accountant under Chapter 4701. of the Revised Code to conduct an audit of a person, ...

...There is hereby created the prevailing wage custodial fund, which shall be in the custody of the treasurer of state but shall not be part of the state treasury. The director of commerce shall deposit to the fund all money paid by employers to the director that are held in trust for employees to whom prevailing wages are due and owing. The director shall make disbursements from the fund in accordance with this c...

...Employers who have not established a plan, by a labor agreement or otherwise, for the provision of wages as defined in division (E)(2) of section 4115.03 of the Revised Code shall pay the prevailing rates of wages in full in cash.

...In order to facilitate the administration of sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code, and to achieve the purposes of those sections, the director of commerce may adopt reasonable rules, not inconsistent with those sections, for contractors and subcontractors engaged in the construction, prosecution, completion, or repair of a public improvement financed in whole or in part by any public authority.

...(A) Upon the director's own motion or within five days of the filing of a properly completed complaint under section 4115.10 or 4115.16 of the Revised Code, the director of commerce, or a representative designated by the director, shall investigate any alleged violation of sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code. (B) At the conclusion of the investigation, the director or a designated representative s...

...In the event of a specific contract dispute concerning a prevailing wage determination, a proper wage classification, or a novel or unusual situation pertaining to sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code, the director of commerce may, upon request by a public authority or by a person having a contract with a public authority, cause to be made such investigation and hearing as the director deems necessary and ...

...In any investigation undertaken by the director of commerce pursuant to sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code, the director, a designated representative, or hearing examiner may administer oaths, take and cause to be taken depositions of witnesses, issue subpoenas, and compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers, books, accounts, payrolls, documents, records, and testimony relating to an...

...(A) The director of commerce shall file with the secretary of state a list of contractors, subcontractors, and officers of contractors and subcontractors who have been prosecuted and convicted for violations of or have been found to have intentionally violated sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code. The director shall not include on the list a contractor, subcontractor, or officer of a contractor or subcontr...

...If it is found that a person, public authority, or prevailing wage coordinator has not complied with sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code, the director of commerce shall give notice thereof in writing to such person or public authority pursuant to section 4115.15 of the Revised Code. Sufficient time shall be allowed for compliance therewith as the director deems necessary not to exceed thirty days from the...

...Where an investigation by the director of commerce reveals that a contractor or subcontractor has failed to pay the prevailing rate of wages, the contracting public authority or the director may, upon written notice to the contractor or subcontractor and the sureties of the contractor or subcontractor, and after hearing held pursuant to section 4115.13 of the Revised Code, order work halted on the part of the contrac...

...(A) An interested party may file a complaint with the director of commerce alleging a specific violation of sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code by a specific contractor or subcontractor. The complaint shall be in writing on a form furnished by the director and shall include sufficient evidence to justify the complaint. The director, upon receipt of a properly completed complaint, shall investigate p...

...A person who files a complaint with the director of commerce alleging a violation of sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code shall file the complaint within two years after the completion of the public improvement upon which the violation is alleged to have occurred or be barred from further administrative action under this chapter.

...(A) Whoever violates section 4115.08 or 4115.09 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than five hundred dollars. (B) Whoever violates division (C) of section 4115.071, section 4115.10, or 4115.11 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree for a first offense; for each subsequent offense such person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

...As used in sections 4116.01 to 4116.04 of the Revised Code: (A) "Public authority" means any officer, board, or commission of the state, or any political subdivision of the state, or any institution supported in whole or in part by public funds, authorized to enter into a contract for the construction of a public improvement or to construct a public improvement by the direct employment of labor. "Public autho...

...A public authority, when engaged in procuring products or services, awarding contracts, or overseeing procurement or construction for public improvements, shall ensure that bid specifications issued by the public authority for the proposed public improvement, and any subsequent contract or other agreement for the public improvement to which the public authority and a contractor or subcontractor are direct parties, do...

...No public authority shall do any of the following: (A) Award a contract for a public improvement in violation of section 4116.02 of the Revised Code; (B) Discriminate against any bidder, contractor, or subcontractor for refusing to become a party to any agreement with any labor organization on the public improvement that currently is under bid or on projects related to that improvement; (C) Otherwise violate secti...

...(A) An interested party may file a complaint against a contracting public authority alleging a violation of section 4116.02 or 4116.03 of the Revised Code within two years after the date on which the contract is signed for the public improvement in the court of common pleas of the county in which the public improvement is performed. The performance of the contract forms the basis of the allegation of a violation. Th...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Person," in addition to those included in division (C) of section 1.59 of the Revised Code, includes employee organizations, public employees, and public employers. (B) "Public employer" means the state or any political subdivision of the state located entirely within the state, including, without limitation, any municipal corporation with a population of at least five thousand accordi...

...(A) There is hereby created the state employment relations board, consisting of three members to be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. Members shall be knowledgeable about labor relations or personnel practices. No more than two of the three members shall belong to the same political party. A member of the state employment relations board during the member's period of service ...

...(A) Public employees have the right to: (1) Form, join, assist, or participate in, or refrain from forming, joining, assisting, or participating in, except as otherwise provided in Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code, any employee organization of their own choosing; (2) Engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid and protection; (3) Representation by an empl...

...(A) Public employers shall extend to an exclusive representative designated under section 4117.05 of the Revised Code, the right to represent exclusively the employees in the appropriate bargaining unit and the right to unchallenged and exclusive representation for a period of not less than twelve months following the date of certification and thereafter, if the public employer and the employee organization enter int...

...diploma was granted participated in the assessments prescribed by division (A)(1) or (B)(1) or (2) of section 3301.0710 and section 3301.0712 of the Revised Code. (E) A diploma granted under division (A) of this section may include a state seal of biliteracy, an OhioMeansJobs-readiness seal, or a state diploma seal that may be assigned to the student's diploma, by the parent, guardian, or other person having charg...

...g a state seal of biliteracy, including assessments of foreign language and English proficiency. (2) Prepare and deliver to participating school districts, community schools, STEM schools, college-preparatory boarding schools, and chartered nonpublic schools an appropriate mechanism for assigning a state seal of biliteracy on a student's transcript indicating that the student has been assigned the seal; (3) Prov...

...(A) Beginning with the first full school year that begins after the effective date of this section, each local, city, exempted village, and joint vocational school district shall register with the SaferOH tip line operated by the department of public safety or enter into an agreement with an anonymous reporting program of the district's choosing. The reporting program shall meet the following requirements: (1) Oper...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, prior to the first day of November of the school year in which a pupil is enrolled for the first time in either kindergarten or first grade, the pupil shall be screened for hearing, vision, speech and communications, and health or medical problems and for any developmental disorders. If the results of any screening reveal the possibility of special learning need...

...shall include the statewide achievement assessments; (vii) The facilities to be used by the school and their locations; (viii) A description of the learning opportunities that will be offered to students including both classroom-based and nonclassroom-based learning opportunities that are in compliance with criteria for student participation established by the department under division (H)(2) of section 3314.08...

...shall include the statewide achievement assessments; (4) Performance standards, including but not limited to all applicable report card measures set forth in section 3302.03 or 3314.017 of the Revised Code, by which the success of the school will be evaluated by the sponsor; (5) The admission standards of section 3314.06 of the Revised Code and, if applicable, section 3314.061 of the Revised Code; (6)(a) Dis...

...(A) In any fiscal year, a community school receiving funds calculated under division (A)(8) of section 3317.022 of the Revised Code shall spend those funds only for the purposes that the department designates as approved for career-technical education expenses. Career-technical education expenses approved by the department shall include only expenses connected to the delivery of career-technical programming to career...

...istering the achievement and diagnostic assessments prescribed by sections 3301.0710, 3301.0712, and 3301.0715 of the Revised Code; (D) That school personnel have the necessary training, knowledge, and resources to properly use and submit information to all databases maintained by the department for the collection of education data, including the education management information system established under section 33...

...e statewide achievement and diagnostic assessments prescribed under sections 3301.079, 3301.0710, and 3301.0712 of the Revised Code.

...(A) The multiples for the following categories of career-technical education programs approved by the department of education and workforce under section 3317.161 of the Revised Code shall be as follows: (1) A multiple of 0.6230 for students enrolled in career-technical education workforce development programs in agricultural and environmental systems, construction technologies, engineering and science technologie...

...(A) Before conducting an on-site evaluation of a school district under section 3318.02 of the Revised Code, at the request of the district board of education, the Ohio facilities construction commission shall examine any classroom facilities needs assessment that has been conducted by the district and any master plan developed for meeting the facility needs of the district. (B) Upon conducting the on-site evaluation...

...(A) This section applies beginning in fiscal year 2003 and only to a school district participating in the school building assistance expedited local partnership program under section 3318.36 of the Revised Code. (B) If there is a decrease in the tax valuation of a school district to which this section applies by ten per cent or greater from one tax year to the next due to a decrease in the assessment rate of the t...

...(A)(1) As used in this section: (a) "Full maintenance amount" has the same meaning as in section 3318.034 of the Revised Code. (b) A "school district with an exceptional need for immediate classroom facilities assistance" means a school district with an exceptional need for new facilities in order to protect the health and safety of all or a portion of its students. (2) No school district that participates in the ...

...(A) As used in this section, "big-eight school district" has the same meaning as in section 3314.02 of the Revised Code. (B) There is hereby established the accelerated urban school building assistance program. Under the program, notwithstanding section 3318.02 of the Revised Code, any big-eight school district that has not been approved to receive assistance under sections 3318.01 to 3318.20 of the Revised Code by ...

...(A) The 1:1 school facilities option program is hereby established. Under the program, the Ohio facilities construction commission shall provide state funds to assist eligible school districts in constructing, acquiring, reconstructing, or making additions or repairs to any feature of a classroom facility that meets the design standards of the commission in lieu of that district participating in the classroom facilit...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Core subject area" means reading and English language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, foreign language, and fine arts. (2) "Properly certified or licensed teacher" means a classroom teacher who has successfully completed all requirements for certification or licensure under this chapter applicable to the subject areas and grade levels in which the teacher provides i...

...h school district may use data from the assessments on the list developed under division (B)(2) of section 3319.112 of the Revised Code as high-quality student data. (C)(1) The board shall conduct an evaluation of each teacher employed by the board at least once each school year, except as provided in division (C)(2) of this section. The evaluation shall be completed by the first day of May and the teacher shall r...

...(A) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Revised Code or any rule adopted by the state board of education to the contrary and except as provided in division (C) of this section, the state board shall adopt rules establishing standards and requirements for obtaining a nonrenewable four-year initial early college high school educator license for teaching grades seven through twelve at an early college high school...

...those standards; (b) The achievement assessments prescribed by section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code; (c) The school district and building accountability system established under Chapter 3302. of the Revised Code; (d) Instructional methods and strategies; (e) Student development; (f) Assessing student progress and providing remediation and intervention, as necessary, to meet students' special needs; ...

...(A) As used in this section, "school records" includes any academic records, student assessment data, or other information for which there is a legitimate educational interest. (B) Except as provided for in division (C) of this section, when any school district or chartered nonpublic school receives a request from another district or school to which a student has transferred for that student's school records, the ...

...As used in sections 3319.325, 3319.326, and 3319.327 of the Revised Code: (A) "Education records" has the same meaning as in the "Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974," 20 U.S.C. 1232g, and does not include any of the following: (1) Records of instructional, supervisory, and administrative personnel and educational personnel that are in the sole possession of the maker and are not accessible or reve...

...(A) The educator standards board, in consultation with the chancellor of higher education, shall do all of the following: (1) Develop state standards for teachers and principals that reflect what teachers and principals are expected to know and be able to do at all stages of their careers. These standards shall be aligned with the statewide academic content standards for students adopted pursuant to section 3301.07...

...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) The individualized education program required for any student with a visual impairment under this chapter shall include the following, in addition to the statements required pursuant to section 3323.011 of the Revised Code: (1) A statement that instruction in braille reading and writing was carefully considered for the student and that pertinent literature describing the educational benefits of instructio...

...The department of education and workforce shall, in consultation with the department of health, the department of mental health and addiction services, and the department of developmental disabilities, establish standards and procedures for the identification, location, and evaluation of all children with disabilities residing in the state, including children with disabilities who are homeless children or are wards o...