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...The board of library trustees of any county, municipal corporation, school district, or township public library by a vote of two-thirds of all its members may at any time declare by resolution that the amount of taxes which may be raised within the ten-mill limitation by levies on the current tax duplicate will be insufficient to provide an adequate amount for the necessary requirements of the public library, t...

...(A) As used in this section, "criminal justice facility" means any facility located within the county in which a tax is levied under this section and for which the board of commissioners of such county may make an appropriation under section 307.45 of the Revised Code. (B) The board of county commissioners of any county, at any time, may declare by resolution that it may be necessary for the county to issue general...

...The board of county commissioners of any county, at any time and in any year, after providing the normal and customary percentage of the total general fund appropriations for the support of children services and the care and placement of children, by vote of two-thirds of all the members of said board may declare by resolution that the amount of taxes which may be raised within the ten-mill limitation will be i...

...(A)(1) A copy of any resolution adopted as provided in section 5705.19 or 5705.2111 of the Revised Code shall be certified by the taxing authority to the board of elections of the proper county not less than ninety days before the general election in any year, and the board shall submit the proposal to the electors of the subdivision at the succeeding November election. In the case of a qualifying library levy, the b...

...Code shall be certified by the board of education to the board of elections of the proper county not less than ninety days before the date of the election specified in the resolution, and the board of elections shall submit the proposal to the electors of the school district at a special election to be held on that date. The board of elections shall make the necessary arrangements for the submission of the question o...

...(A) If the legislative authority of a municipal corporation adopts a resolution for the purposes provided in section 306.55 of the Revised Code and division (XX) of section 5705.19 of the Revised Code and certifies the resolution to the board of elections as a combined question, the question appearing on the ballot shall read: "Shall the territory within the ______ (name of municipal corporation) be withdrawn from ...

...Except as otherwise provided in section 5705.191 of the Revised Code, if the majority of the electors voting on a levy authorized by sections 5705.19 to 5705.25 of the Revised Code vote in favor of such levy at such election, the taxing authority of the subdivision may levy a tax within the subdivision or, in the case of a qualifying library levy, within the library district or association library district, at ...

...(A) The question of decrease of an increased rate of levy approved for a continuing period of time by the voters of a subdivision or, in the case of a qualifying library levy, the voters of the library district or association library district, may be initiated by the filing of a petition with the board of elections of the proper county not less than ninety days before the general election in any year requesting that ...

...There is hereby created in each county a county budget commission consisting of the county auditor, the county treasurer, and the prosecuting attorney. The prosecuting attorney may recuse the prosecuting attorney, in which case a member of the board of county commissioners selected by the board of county commissioners shall serve in lieu of the prosecuting attorney. Upon petition filed with the board of elections, si...

... to have a tax proposed by the board of education of a school district shall file with the board of education of the school district a tax budget for the ensuing fiscal year. On or before the fifteenth day of July in each year, the board of education of a school district to which a school library district tax budget was submitted under this division shall adopt such tax budget on behalf of the library district, but s...

...to have a tax proposed by the board of education of a school district file with the board of education of the school district a tax budget, and the requirement that the board of education adopt the tax budget on behalf of the library district, as provided in division (B)(1) of section 5705.28 of the Revised Code; (b) The requirement that the board of trustees of a public library desiring to participate in the ...

...additional revenue. (F)(1) A board of education may include in its budget for the fiscal year in which a levy proposed under section 5705.194, 5705.199, 5705.21, 5705.213, or 5705.219, a property tax levy proposed under section 5748.09, or the original levy under section 5705.212 of the Revised Code is first extended on the tax list and duplicate an estimate of expenditures to be known as a voluntary contingency re...

...This section does not apply to a subdivision for which the county budget commission has waived the requirement to adopt a tax budget under section 5705.281 of the Revised Code. At least two copies of the budget shall be filed in the office of the fiscal officer of the subdivision for public inspection not less than ten days before its adoption by the taxing authority, and such taxing authority shall hold at least ...

..., if the taxing authority is a board of education that has elected to include projections pursuant to division (E) of section 5705.391 of the Revised Code, shall examine such projections. Using the budget and, if applicable, included projections, the budget commission shall ascertain the total amount proposed to be raised in the county for the purposes of each subdivision and other taxing units in the county and the ...

...During any tax year or years within which any territory annexed to a city or a village is not a part of the city school district or a school district of which such village is a part, the minimum levy for such city or village under section 5705.31 of the Revised Code shall not be diminished except that in such annexed territory and only during said tax year or years, and in order to preserve the minimum levies of over...

...The county budget commission shall not increase the minimum levy of a municipal corporation pursuant to division (D) of section 5705.31 of the Revised Code to pay debt service unless moneys available to pay such debt service are insufficient after applying divisions (A) to (C) of this section: (A) The amount of debt service on unvoted general obligations of the municipal corporation, not otherwise provided for, shal...

...(A)(1) Whenever a board of county commissioners adopts a resolution pursuant to section 5739.021 or 5739.026 of the Revised Code to levy or increase the rate of a sales tax, the board may adopt an accompanying resolution reducing the rate of any property tax the county currently is levying for current expenses within the ten-mill limitation or amending a previously adopted accompanying resolution increasing the...

...(A) If the board of education of a city, local, or exempted village school district proposes to change its levy within the ten-mill limitation in a manner that will result in an increase in the amount of real property taxes levied by the board in the tax year the change takes effect, the board shall hold a public hearing solely on the proposal and obtain approval from the county budget commission of each county in wh...

...With respect to annexations granted on or after March 27, 2002, and during any tax year or years within which any territory annexed to a municipal corporation is part of a township, the minimum levy for the municipal corporation and township under section 5705.31 of the Revised Code shall not be diminished, except that in the annexed territory and only during those tax year or years, and in order to preserve the mini...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Taxes charged and payable" means real property taxes, or manufactured home taxes assessed pursuant to section 4503.06 of the Revised Code, that are charged and payable after reductions required by sections 319.301, 319.302, 323.152, 323.158, 319.304, 4503.065, and 4503.0610 of the Revised Code. (2) "Current taxes charged and payable" means, for a levy, the taxes charged and payab...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Unnecessary collections" mean collections from a tax beyond the reasonably anticipated financial needs of the taxing authority for the specific purposes of the tax after accounting for current fund balances, projected expenditures, and other available funding sources. (2) "Excessive collections" mean collections from a tax in an amount or at a rate that exceeds what is required t...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "City, located wholly or partially in the county, with the greatest population" means the city, located wholly or partially in the county, with the greatest population residing in the county; however, if the county budget commission on or before January 1, 1998, adopted an alternative method of apportionment that was approved by the city, located partially in the county, with the g...

...In determining whether to reduce the taxing authority of a county under section 5705.32 of the Revised Code in connection with the balance of a county developmental disabilities general fund, the county budget commission shall take into consideration the five-year projection of revenues and expenditures prepared by the county board of developmental disabilities pursuant to section 5126.053 of the Revised Code. Befo...

...In the case of any subdivision which issued refunding bonds as provided in volume 116, Part 2, Ohio Laws, page 57, sections 1 to 14, inclusive, whereby such subdivision has reduced the amount of the levy required to service its debt charges, the budget commission shall not, when acting under section 5705.32 of the Revised Code, reduce the operating levy of such subdivision below the amount which such subdivision has ...

...the city of Cincinnati or by a board of education shall be made by the first day of April or at such later date as is approved by the commissioner, and except that a township board of park commissioners that is appointed by the board of township trustees and oversees a township park district that contains only unincorporated territory shall authorize only those taxes approved by, and only at the rate approved by, the...

...(A) The department of education and workforce shall establish a consolidated school mandate report for school districts. The report shall be distributed and monitored by the department. Each district or school shall complete and file the report not later than the thirtieth day of November each year. The report shall require each district or school to denote "yes" to indicate compliance or "no" to indicate noncomplian...

...Revised Code, a building operated by an educational service center, a special education program operated by the county board of developmental disabilities under section 3323.09 of the Revised Code, or a facility offering juvenile day treatment services. (B) The department of education and workforce shall reimburse each public and chartered nonpublic school that participates in the national school breakfast program...

...han thirty days after the department of education and workforce issues report cards under section 3302.03 of the Revised Code, each school district and school building shall do the following: (1) Notify parents that the report card has been released and how parents can access the report card. Notification may include mailed letters, emails, newsletters, or any other proactive notification method used by districts ...

...an December 31, 2024, the department of education and workforce shall issue a report regarding the effectiveness of the state report cards issued under section 3302.03 of the Revised Code. In preparing the report, the department shall study the data included in the state report cards issued for the 2021-2022, 2022-2023, and 2023-2024 school years. Based on that study, the department shall include in the report any re...

...t shall commence once the department of education and workforce establishes implementation guidelines for the pilot project in consultation with the Columbus city school district. (B) Except as provided in division (D), (E), or (F) of this section, if the parents or guardians of at least fifty per cent of the students enrolled in a school to which this section applies, or if the parents or guardians of at least fi...

...ngs, as determined by the department of education and workforce, under section 3302.03 of the Revised Code. (2) The district is not subject to an academic distress commission under section 3302.10 of the Revised Code. (B) The department shall establish the career promise academy summer demonstration pilot program. Under the pilot program, which shall operate in the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 school years, the depa...

...The department of education and workforce shall adopt rules freeing school districts from specified state mandates if one of the following applies: (A) For the 2011-2012 school year, the school district was declared to be excellent under section 3302.03 of the Revised Code, as that section existed prior to March 22, 2013, and had above expected growth in the overall value-added measure. (B) For the 2012-2013 sc...

...rict may apply to the district board of education to be designated as an innovation school. Each application shall include an innovation plan that contains the following: (1) A statement of the school's mission and an explanation of how the designation would enhance the school's ability to fulfill its mission; (2) A description of the innovations the school would implement; (3) An explanation of how implemen...

...(A) If a school district board of education approves an application under division (B)(1) of section 3302.061 of the Revised Code or designates an innovation school or innovation school zone under division (D) of that section, the district board shall apply to the department of education and workforce for designation as a school district of innovation by submitting to the department the innovation plan included in th...

...A school district board of education may revise an innovation plan approved or created under section 3302.061 of the Revised Code, in collaboration with the school or schools participating in the plan, to further improve student academic performance. The revisions may include identifying additional laws in Title XXXIII of the Revised Code, rules adopted by the department of education and workforce, requirements enact...

...he results of the audit to the board of education of the school district and the academic distress commission established for the district. The performance audit shall be conducted in the same manner as prescribed by section 3316.042 of the Revised Code. (C) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Revised Code, the district board of a school district to which this section applies, in consultation with the ...

... section applies, the district board of education in control of that building shall do one of the following at the conclusion of the school year in which the building first becomes subject to this section: (a) Close the school and direct the district superintendent to reassign the students enrolled in the school to other school buildings that demonstrate higher academic achievement; (b) Contract with another scho...

...the Revised Code, the district board of education or community school governing authority shall create a school action team for the school building. The team shall consist of twelve members, as follows: (a) Seven individuals, consisting of parents or guardians of students enrolled in the school and members of the community who are not teachers or nonteaching employees, as elected by their peers; (b) Five teachers...

...(A) The department of education and workforce shall develop standards for determining, from the existing data reported in accordance with sections 3301.0714 and 3314.17 of the Revised Code, the amount of annual operating expenditures for classroom instructional purposes and for nonclassroom purposes for each city, exempted village, local, and joint vocational school district, each community school established under C...

...l federal funds received for vocational education. All money so received or appropriated by the state for the purposes contemplated in the act of congress referred to in sections 3303.02 to 3303.06 of the Revised Code, or in acts supplementary thereto, shall be disbursed upon the order of the department of education and workforce.

...ubmit to the United States secretary of education an annual report on the progress made in improving the program's effectiveness as part of the unified or combined state plan; (5) Advise the opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency regarding vocational rehabilitation program activities; (6) Assist the opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency in the preparation of the vocational rehabilitation ...

...loyee of a public institution of higher education who makes an election under division (B)(2) or (3) of section 3305.05 or division (B) of section 3305.051 of the Revised Code to participate in the public institution's alternative retirement plan shall, not later than thirty days after the date on which the certified copy of the employee's election is filed with the state retirement system under that section, do one ...

...llowing members: (1) The director of education and workforce or a designee of the director who has the following qualifications: (a) The designee is a resident of this state. (b) Within the three years immediately preceding the appointment, the designee has not been employed by the public employees retirement system, police and fire pension fund, state teachers retirement system, school employees retirement ...

... employed by a school district board of education in positions requiring a license issued under section 3319.22 of the Revised Code in accordance with uniform criteria applicable to all such members or if paid to members employed by an employer other than a school district board of education in accordance with uniform criteria applicable to all such members. (C) The state teachers retirement board shall determine th...

... Payments by school district boards of education to the employers' trust fund of the school employees retirement system may be made from the amounts allocated under Chapter 3317. of the Revised Code prior to their distribution to the individual school districts. The amount due from each school district may be certified by the secretary of the system to the department of education and workforce monthly, or at such ti...

...(A) The department of education and workforce shall adopt rules under section 3310.17 of the Revised Code establishing procedures for granting educational choice scholarships to eligible students attending a nonpublic school at the time the director of education and workforce grants the school a charter under section 3301.16 of the Revised Code. The procedures shall include at least the following: (1) Provisions f...

...t" for purposes of the expansion of the educational choice scholarship pilot program under this section if the student's resident district is not a school district in which the pilot project scholarship program is operating under sections 3313.974 to 3313.979 of the Revised Code and the student is entering any of grades kindergarten through twelve in the school year for which a scholarship is sought. A student's pare...

...ll annually report to the department of education and workforce in the manner prescribed by the department the following: (1) The number of students charged; (2) The average of the amounts charged to such students. (D) On and after July 1, 2024, the department shall not require the parent of a student to submit a complete copy of the parent's federal income tax return, or a return filed under section 5747.08...

...(A) The department of education and workforce shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code prescribing procedures for the administration of the educational choice scholarship pilot program. (B) The department shall not require chartered nonpublic schools to comply with any education laws or rules or other requirements that are not specified in sections 3310.01 to 3310.17 of the Revised Cod...

...ited States Code. A qualified special education child, as defined in section 3310.41 of the Revised Code, receiving home education under section 3321.042 of the Revised Code who participates in a junior reserve officer training corps program maintained by the child's resident school district in accordance with 10 U.S.C. 2031f(1) shall not be considered enrolled in that district for purposes of determining eligibili...