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... Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code, the provisions of sections 3326.24 and 3326.241 of the Revised Code prevail over any conflicting provisions of a collective bargaining agreement or contract for employment entered into after March 30, 2007.

... (A) As used in this section, "license" has the same meaning as in section 3319.31 of the Revised Code. (B) No employee of a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics school shall do either of the following: (1) Knowingly make a false report to the chief administrative officer of the school, or the chief administrative officer's designee, alleging misconduct by another employee of the school; (2) Know...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Designated official" means the chief administrative officer of a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics school, or the chief administrative officer's designee. (2) "Essential school services" means services provided by a private company under contract with a STEM school that the chief administrative officer of the school has determined are necessary for the operati...

...The governing body of a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics school may screen students in ninth grade for body mass index and weight status category. If a governing body elects to require the screenings, it shall comply with section 3313.674 of the Revised Code in the same manner required of a school district board of education.

...(A) A STEM school, member of a STEM school governing body, or STEM school employee or volunteer, including a coach or referee, is not liable in damages in a civil action for injury, death, or loss to person or property allegedly arising from providing services or performing duties under section 3313.539 of the Revised Code, unless the act or omission constitutes willful or wanton misconduct. (B) This section ...

... A STEM school, member of a STEM school governing body, or STEM school employee is not liable in damages in a civil action for injury, death, or loss to person or property allegedly arising from a school employee's decision not to provide or procure mental health services for a suspended or expelled student under division (B)(2) of section 3313.668 of the Revised Code, unless the decision is made with malicious purp...

... (A) With the approval of its governing body, a STEM school established under this chapter may procure epinephrine autoinjectors in the manner prescribed by section 3313.7110 of the Revised Code. A STEM school that elects to do so shall comply with all provisions of that section as if it were a school district. (B)(1) The following are not liable in damages in a civil action for injury, death, or loss to person or...

... (A) A STEM school, member of a STEM school governing body, or STEM school employee or volunteer, including a coach, is not liable in damages in a civil action for injury, death, or loss to person or property allegedly arising from providing services or performing duties under section 3313.5310 of the Revised Code, unless the act or omission constitutes willful or wanton misconduct. (B) This section does not elimi...

... (A) As used in this section, "inhaler" has the same meaning as in section 3313.7113 of the Revised Code. (B) With the approval of its governing body, a STEM school may procure inhalers in the manner prescribed by section 3313.7113 of the Revised Code. A STEM school that elects to do so shall comply with all provisions of that section as if it were a school district. (C) A STEM school, a member of a STEM school...

...As used in sections 3326.31 to 3326.50 of the Revised Code: (A) "Formula amount" has the same meaning as in section 3317.02 of the Revised Code. (B) "IEP" means an individualized education program as defined in section 3323.01 of the Revised Code. (C) "Resident district" means the school district in which a student is entitled to attend school under section 3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code.

... Each science, technology, engineering, and mathematics school shall report to the department of education and workforce, in the form and manner required by the department, all of the following information: (A) The total number of students enrolled in the school who are residents of this state; (B) The number of students reported under division (A) of this section who are receiving special education and related...

... If a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics school established under this chapter incurs costs for a fiscal year for a student receiving special education and related services pursuant to an IEP for a disability described in divisions (B) to (F) of section 3317.013 of the Revised Code that exceed the threshold cost for serving the student as specified in division (B) of section 3317.0214 of the Revised Co...

... The department of education and workforce shall adjust the amounts paid under section 3317.022 of the Revised Code to reflect any enrollment of students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics schools for less than the equivalent of a full school year.

... The department of education and workforce shall reduce the amounts paid to a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics school or to the governing body of a group of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics schools under section 3317.022 of the Revised Code to reflect payments made to colleges under section 3365.07 of the Revised Code. A student shall be considered enrolled in the school for any port...

... The department of education and workforce shall not pay to a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics school or to the governing body of a group of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics schools any amount for any of the following: (A) Any student who has graduated from the twelfth grade of a public or nonpublic school; (B) Any student who is not a resident of the state; (C) Any student w...

...A science, technology, engineering, and mathematics school may do both of the following: (A) Apply to any state or federal agency for grants that a school district or public school may receive under federal or state law or any appropriations act of the general assembly; (B) Apply to any private entity or foundation for additional funds.

... (A) In any fiscal year, a STEM school receiving funds calculated under division (A)(7) 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-tec...

...A STEM school shall spend the funds it receives under division (A)(4) of section 3317.022 of the Revised Code in accordance with section 3317.25 of the Revised Code.

... For fiscal years 2026 and 2027, a STEM school shall spend the funding it receives under division (A)(5) of section 3317.022 of the Revised Code only for services for English learners.

... (A) The governing body of a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics school may contract with the governing board of an educational service center or the board of education of a joint vocational school district for the provision of services to the STEM school or to any student enrolled in the school. Services provided under the contract and the amount to be paid for those services shall be mutually agreed t...

...A science, technology, engineering, and mathematics school may not levy taxes or issue bonds secured by tax revenues.

...Except as provided in division (A)(2) of section 3326.10 of the Revised Code, a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics school shall not charge tuition for any student enrolled in the school.

... (A) As used in this section: (1) "Resident district" has the same meaning as in section 3326.31 of the Revised Code. (2) "STEM school sponsoring district" means a municipal, city, local, or exempted village school district that governs and controls a STEM school pursuant to this section. (B) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter to the contrary: (1) If a proposal for a STEM school submitted...

...(A) Not later than three months after the effective date of this section, the governing body of a STEM school that holds a credit card account on the effective date of this section shall adopt a written policy for the use of credit card accounts. Otherwise, a governing body shall adopt a written policy before first holding a credit card account. The policy shall include provisions addressing all of the following: ...

... (A) With the approval of its governing body, a STEM school established under this chapter may procure injectable or nasally administered glucagon in the manner prescribed by section 3313.7115 of the Revised Code. A STEM school that elects to do so shall comply with all provisions of that section as if it were a school district. (B)(1) The following are not liable in damages in a civil action for injury, death, or...

...A birth parent who signs the component of the form prescribed pursuant to division (A)(1)(d), or (B)(1)(c), of section 3107.083 of the Revised Code shall provide the materials the birth parent requests be given to the birth parent's child or adoptive parent to the agency or attorney arranging the adoption. At the request of the birth parent's child or adoptive parent, the agency or attorney shall provide the material...

... To create a power of attorney under section 3109.52 of the Revised Code, a parent, guardian, or custodian shall use a form that is identical in form and content to the following: POWER OF ATTORNEY I, the undersigned, residing at ___________, in the county of __________, state of __________, hereby appoint the child's grandparent, __________, residing at __________, in the county of ___________, in the state of O...

...The department of job and family services shall adopt a standard form for the notice of medical support enforcement activity required by section 3119.35 of the Revised Code. All child support enforcement agencies shall use the form in issuing the notice under that section.

...(A) The director of job and family services shall adopt rules that provide for all of the following: (1) The payment to the appropriate person of any funds that a court or child support enforcement agency has impounded under section 3119.90 or 3119.92 of the Revised Code; (2) The return to the appropriate person of any other payments made pursuant to a child support order if the payments were made at any time after...

...The department of job and family services shall adopt standard forms for support withholding and deduction notices described in section 3121.03 of the Revised Code, which shall be used regardless of the type or source of income. All courts and child support enforcement agencies shall use the forms in issuing withholding and deduction notices. The withholding and deduction requirements contained in the notices are fin...

...(A) The board of county commissioners may by resolution allow the county recorder or county veterans service office to issue Ohio veterans identification cards to individuals who have met the following requirements: (1) Presented the individual's armed forces discharge record for recording in the record of discharges in the office of the county recorder; (2) Provided, while appearing in person at a county recorder'...

...A county recorder, upon request, may distribute to any person free of charge a copy of the printed form of the declaration described in section 2133.07 of the Revised Code and a copy of the printed form of the durable power of attorney for health care described in section 1337.17 of the Revised Code.

...(A) Each tax bill prepared and mailed or delivered under section 323.13 of the Revised Code shall be in the form and contain the information required by the tax commissioner. The commissioner may prescribe different forms for each county and may authorize the county auditor to make up tax bills and tax receipts to be used by the county treasurer. For any county in which the board of county commissioners has granted a...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Qualifying child care center" means real property on which a licensed child care program operates. For purposes of this division, "licensed child care program" means a licensed child care program, as defined in section 5104.01 of the Revised Code, that meets all of the following requirements: (a) The program only serves children under six years of age; (b) At least twenty-five ...

... (A)(1) The boards of county commissioners of any two or more counties, by entering into a written agreement, may form a joint county department of job and family services to perform the duties, provide the services, and operate the programs required under this chapter. The agreement shall be ratified by resolution of the board of county commissioners of each county that entered into the agreement. Each board o...

... The county auditor of the county with the largest population that formed a joint county department of job and family services under section 329.40 of the Revised Code shall serve as the fiscal officer of the joint county department, and the county treasurer of that county shall serve as the treasurer of the joint county department, unless the counties that formed the joint county department agree to appoint th...

... (A) The department of children and youth is responsible for the licensing of preschool programs and school child programs and for the enforcement of sections 3301.52 to 3301.59 of the Revised Code and of any rules adopted under those sections. No school district board of education, county board of developmental disabilities, community school, or eligible nonpublic school shall operate, establish, manage, conduct, or...

... (A) An individual who becomes a member of the state teachers retirement system on or after the date on which the state teachers retirement board establishes an STRS defined contribution plan shall make an election under this section. Not later than one hundred eighty days after the date on which employment begins, the individual shall elect to participate either in the STRS defined benefit plan or one of the STRS de...

...(A) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, an individual who becomes a member of the school employees retirement system on or after the date on which the school employees retirement board establishes a plan under section 3309.81 of the Revised Code shall make an election under this section. Not later than one hundred eighty days after the date on which employment begins, the individual shall elect to par...

... (A) As a condition of receiving payments for a scholarship, each eligible applicant shall attest to receipt of the profile prescribed by division (B) of this section. Such attestation shall be made and submitted to the department of education and workforce in the form and manner as required by the department. (B) The alternative public provider or registered private provider that enrolls a qualified special educa...

... (A) The board of education of a city, exempted village, or local school district may adopt a resolution to establish and maintain an alternative school in accordance with this section. The resolution shall specify, but not necessarily be limited to, all of the following: (1) The purpose of the school, which purpose shall be to serve students who are on suspension, who are having truancy problems, who are experien...

... (A) Annually by the first day of November, the director of education and workforce shall notify the pilot project school district of the number of initial scholarships that the director will be awarding in each of grades kindergarten through twelve. The director shall provide information about the scholarship program to all students residing in the district and shall accept applications from any such students dur...

... (A) Unless division (B) of section 3318.44 of the Revised Code applies, if a joint vocational school district board of education proposes to issue securities to generate all or part of the school district's portion of the basic project cost of the school district's project under sections 3318.40 to 3318.45 of the Revised Code, the school district board shall adopt a resolution in accordance with Chapter 133. and sec...

... (A) As used in this chapter: (1) "Superintendent" or "superintendent of schools" of a school district means the person employed as the superintendent or that person's designee. (2) "Chief administrative officer" means the chief administrative officer of a nonpublic or community school or that person's designee. (B)(1) Except as provided in division (B)(2) of this section, an age and schooling certificate ma...

...The chancellor of higher education may grant money to a nonprofit entity that provides a statewide resource for aerospace research, education, and technology, so long as the nonprofit entity makes its resources accessible to state colleges and universities and to agencies of this and other states and the United States. The chancellor, by rule adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall establis...

...All bonds, notes, or other written instruments provided for in section 3347.04 of the Revised Code shall have all of the qualities and incidents of negotiable instruments and the bonds, notes, or other written instruments are exempt from all taxation, state and municipal. The bonds, notes, or other written instruments are lawful investments of banks, savings banks, trust companies, trustees, trustees of sinking funds...

... The form of the ballot cast at a general election, as provided by sections 345.01 to 345.03 of the Revised Code, shall be: "An additional tax for the benefit of (name of subdivision) for the purpose of (state purpose stated in the resolution), that the county auditor estimates will collect $_____ annually, at a rate not exceeding _____ mills for each $1 of taxable value, which amounts to $_____ for each $100,000 of ...

... Each board of elections shall exercise by a majority vote all powers granted to the board by Title XXXV of the Revised Code, shall perform all the duties imposed by law, and shall do all of the following: (A) Establish, define, provide, rearrange, and combine election precincts; (B) Fix and provide the places for registration and for holding primaries and elections; (C) Provide for the purchase, preservation,...

...The board of elections of any county shall register or change the registration of any person determined not to be a resident in that county under section 3503.02 of the Revised Code, who is a resident and a qualified elector of another county in this state, on behalf of the county of residence. The director of any board of elections registering a person under this section shall send the completed registration form o...

... (A) All registration forms and lists, when not in official use by the registrars or precinct election officials, shall be in the possession of the board of elections. Names and addresses of electors may be copied from the registration lists only in the office of the board when it is open for business; but no such copying shall be permitted during the period of time commencing twenty-one days before an election and e...