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...ning board. (A) A member of the school employees retirement system who does both of the following may purchase credit for service as a school board or governing board member if the member is eligible to retire under this chapter or will become eligible to retire as a result of purchasing the credit: (1) Agrees to retire within ninety days after receiving notice of the additional liability under division (C) of this...

...cer may elect to transfer to the public employees retirement system in accordance with this section. An election shall be made by giving notice to the school employees retirement system on a form provided by the school employees retirement board and shall be irrevocable. (B) When a member makes the election described in this section, the school employees retirement system shall notify the public employees ret...

...Any employee who becomes a member and establishes one year of contributing service credit shall be granted prior service credit unless the employee is otherwise required to establish additional contributing service credit under the provisions of this chapter. Provided, however, that any employee who became a contributing member prior to September 1, 1938, shall be granted prior service credit as of the date of esta...

...sh a retirement incentive plan for its employees who are members of the school employees retirement system. The plan shall provide for purchase by the employer of service credit for eligible employees who choose to participate in the plan and for payment by the employer of the entire cost of such service credit. A plan established under this section shall remain in effect until terminated by the employer, exce...

...(A)(1)(a) A member of the school employees retirement system is eligible for service retirement before August 1, 2017, if the member: (i) Has at least five years of total service credit and has attained sixty years of age; (ii) Has at least thirty years of total service credit at any age; (iii) Has at least twenty-five years of total service credit and has attained fifty-five years of age. (b) A member who ...

...a retirement allowance from the school employees retirement system under section 3309.36 or 3309.381 or former section 3309.38 of the Revised Code or any benefit paid under a plan established under section 3309.81 of the Revised Code. (2) "Other system retirant" means a member or former member of the public employees retirement system, Ohio police and fire pension fund, state teachers retirement system, state ...

...ition for which a member of the school employees retirement system is making contributions to the system. (4) "Other state retirement system" means the public employees retirement system or the state teachers retirement system. (5) "State retirement system" means the public employees retirement system, state teachers retirement system, or the school employees retirement system. (B)(1) A member of the school ...

...may file an application with the school employees retirement system for a benefit consisting of a single life annuity. The annuity shall have a reserve equal to the amount of the retirant's accumulated contributions for the period of employment, other than the contributions excluded pursuant to division (C) of section 3309.341 of the Revised Code, and an amount of the employer's contributions determined by the board...

... retirant is to begin. (E) The school employees retirement board shall adopt rules as necessary to implement this section.

...ate retirement system" means the public employees retirement system, state teachers retirement system, or school employees retirement system. (2) "Total service credit" means all service credit earned in all state retirement systems, except credit for service subject to section 3309.341 of the Revised Code. Total service credit shall not exceed one year of credit for any twelve-month period. (3) In addition to the ...

...As used in this section, "benefit" means any allowance, pension, or other benefit to which an individual is entitled and that the individual receives pursuant to section 3309.36, 3309.40, 3309.45, or 3309.46 or former section 3309.38 of the Revised Code. The annual amount of each benefit for which eligibility was established prior to February 1, 1983, shall, after the adjustment required by section 3309.374 o...

...As used in this section, "benefit" means any allowance, pension, or other benefit to which an individual is entitled and that he receives pursuant to section 3309.35, 3309.36, 3309.40, 3309.45, or 3309.46 or former section 3309.38 of the Revised Code. Effective the first day of the month following September 9, 1988, the annual amount of benefits shall be increased as follows: (A) The annual amount of each ben...

...(A) A member of the school employees retirement system who retires on service retirement shall be granted a retirement allowance consisting of the lesser of the sum of the following amounts or the limit established by section 415 of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C. 415, as amended: (1) An annuity having a reserve equal to the amount of the employee's accumulated contributions at that t...

...efits based on an award from the school employees retirement system made on or after June 30, 1955, and before 1971, shall have the benefit recalculated by the school employees retirement system so that each such person shall receive an annual single lifetime benefit or its actuarial equivalent of not less than eighty-six dollars for each year of the member's total service credit, multiplied by the total number of ye...

...As used in this section, "benefit" means any allowance, pension, or other benefit to which an individual is entitled and that the individual receives under section 3309.35, 3309.36, 3309.40, 3309.45, or 3309.46 or former section 3309.38 of the Revised Code. Effective July 1, 1981: (A) The annual amount of each benefit for which eligibility was established prior to January 1, 1977, shall, after the adjustment...

...ch is a limit established by the school employees retirement board on the retirement allowance a member may receive. (B) Based on the advice of an actuary appointed by the board, the board shall designate a number as the CBBC factor. The board may, from time to time, revise the factor pursuant to advice from an actuary appointed by the board. (C) Beginning on and after August 1, 2024, before paying a retirement...

...(A) Until December 31, 2017, the school employees retirement board shall annually increase each allowance, pension, or benefit payable under this chapter by three per cent. (B) Effective January 1, 2018, the retirement board may annually increase each allowance, pension, or benefit payable under this chapter by the percentage increase, if any, in the consumer price index, not to exceed two and one -half per cent, as...

...f this section, the board of the school employees retirement system shall make available to each retirant or disability benefit recipient receiving a monthly allowance or benefit on or after January 1, 1968, who has attained the age of sixty-five years, and who is not eligible to receive hospital insurance benefits under the federal old age, survivors, and disability insurance program, hospital insurance coverage sub...

...On and after December 31, 1971, all persons who retired and were eligible to receive a pension that was payable prior to July 1, 1968, pursuant to section 3309.36 or 3309.40 or former section 3309.38 of the Revised Code, or in the event of the death of such persons, the person designated by the deceased to receive payments under section 3309.46 of the Revised Code, shall receive an additional monthly payment of...

...Each person receiving benefits under section 3309.45 of the Revised Code who became eligible to receive such benefits under section 3309.44 of the Revised Code by virtue of the death of a member prior to July 1, 1968, shall receive an additional monthly payment of two dollars for each year between the date of such member's death and December 31, 1972, or an additional fifty dollars, whichever is less.

...On and after the effective date of this section, any person who retired or his beneficiary , who was eligible to receive an allowance that was first payable on or after July 1, 1968 and prior to July 1, 1971, and the beneficiary of a member who died before service retirement on or after July 1, 1968 and prior to July 1, 1971, receiving an allowance or benefit pursuant to sections 3309.35, 3309.36, 3309.38, 3309.40, 3...

...er 30, 1974, recalculated by the school employees retirement board so that each such person shall receive an annual single lifetime allowance, pension, or benefit or its actuarial equivalent of not less than one hundred forty dollars for each year of the member's total service credit, except that service credit exceeding thirty-two years shall not be used in the recalculation, and a final average salary limitation sh...

...(A) Effective July 1, 1981, each person eligible to receive an allowance, pension, or benefit pursuant to sections 3309.35, 3309.36, 3309.40, division (A) of section 3309.45, and section 3309.46 and former section 3309.38 of the Revised Code that was based upon an award made effective before July 1, 1974, shall have the person's monthly allowance, pension, or benefit increased by five per cent, except that the ...

...415, as amended, are raised, the school employees retirement board shall increase the amount of the pension, benefit, or allowance of any person whose pension, benefit, or allowance payable under section 3309.36, 3309.374, 3309.381, 3309.40, or 3309.401 or former section 3309.38 of the Revised Code was limited by the application of section 415. The amount of the increased pension, benefit, or allowance shall no...

...The school employees retirement board may establish and maintain a qualified governmental excess benefit arrangement that meets the requirements of division (m) of section 415 of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C.A. 415, as amended, and any regulations adopted thereunder. If established, the arrangement shall be a separate portion of the school employees retirement system and be maintained...

...Teachers may be employed as substitute teachers for terms not to exceed one year for assignment as services are needed to take the place of regular teachers absent on account of illness or on leaves of absence or to fill temporarily positions created by emergencies; such assignment to be subject to termination when such services no longer are needed. A teacher employed as a substitute with an assignment to one...

...(A) Except as provided under division (B) of this section, if any person applies to the board of education of a school district to be employed as a substitute teacher and the person does not hold a valid teacher's certificate issued under sections 3319.22 to 3319.31 of the Revised Code, and if the superintendent of the district believes the person's application materials indicate that the person is qualified to obtai...

...(A) As used in this section, "school governing body" means any of the following: (1) The board of education of a city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district; (2) The governing authority of a community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code; (3) The governing body of a STEM school established under Chapter 3326. of the Revised Code; (4) The governing authority of ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Evaluation procedures" means the procedures required by the policy adopted pursuant to division (A) of section 3319.111 of the Revised Code. (2) "Limited contract" means a limited contract, as described in section 3319.08 of the Revised Code, that a school district board of education or governing board of an educational service center enters into with a teacher who is not eligi...

...r 2, 2018, and shall be included in any renewal or extension of such an agreement. (B) When using measures of student performance as evidence in a teacher's evaluation, those measures shall be high-quality student data. The board of education of each 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. ...

...r 2, 2018, and shall be included in any renewal or extension of such an agreement. However, this division does not apply to any person who is employed as a substitute teacher or as an instructor of adult education.

... 29, 2015, and shall be included in any renewal or extension of such an agreement. (2) A district board shall include both of the following in its evaluation policy: (a) The implementation of the framework for the evaluation of school counselors developed under this section beginning in the 2016-2017 school year; (b) Procedures for using the evaluation results, beginning in the 2017-2018 school year, for bot...

...Each board of education shall cause notice to be given annually not later than the first day of July to each teacher who holds a contract valid for the succeeding school year, as to the salary to be paid such teacher during such year. Such salary shall not be lower than the salary paid during the preceding school year unless such reduction is a part of a uniform plan affecting the entire district. This section ...

... may grant similar leave of absence and renewals thereof to any teacher or regular nonteaching school employee because of physical or mental disability, but such teacher may have a hearing on such unrequested leave of absence or its renewals in accordance with section 3311.82 or 3319.16 of the Revised Code, and such nonteaching school employee may have a hearing on such unrequested leave of absence or its renew...

...A public school teacher who has completed five years of service may, with the permission of the board of education and the superintendent of schools, be entitled to take a leave of absence with part pay, for one or two semesters subject to the following restrictions: The teacher shall present to the superintendent for approval, a plan for professional growth prior to such a grant of permission, and at the conclusion ...

...Any teacher who has left, or leaves, a teaching position, by resignation or otherwise, and within forty school days thereafter entered, or enters, the uniformed services and whose service is terminated in a manner other than as described in section 4304 of Title 38 of the United States Code, "Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994," 108 Stat. 3149, 38 U.S.C.A. 4304, shall be reemploye...

...Teachers and regular nonteaching school employees, upon approval of the responsible administrative officer of the school district, may use sick leave for absence due to personal illness, pregnancy, injury, exposure to contagious disease which could be communicated to others, and for absence due to illness, injury, or death in the employee's immediate family. Unused sick leave shall be cumulative up to one hundred twe...

...opt rules entitling regular nonteaching employees, during each school year, to a minimum of three days of personal leave at the employee's regular compensation. The rules shall govern the use and administration of personal leave, but they need not specify each occasion or purpose for which personal leave may be taken. Personal leave shall be administered by the superintendent or an administrative employee designated ...

...t a policy of assault leave by which an employee who is absent due to physical disability resulting from an assault which occurs in the course of board employment will be maintained on full pay status during the period of such absence. A board of education electing to effect such a policy of assault leave shall establish rules for the entitlement, crediting, and use of assault leave and file a copy of same with the d...

...No teacher shall terminate the teacher's contract after the tenth day of July of any school year or during the school year, prior to the termination of the annual session, without the consent of the board of education; and such teacher may terminate the teacher's contract at any other time by giving five days' written notice to the employing board. Upon complaint by the employing board to the state board of education...

...ion, after investigation, that a school employee who holds a license , as defined in section 3319.31 of the Revised Code, has violated division (B) of this section, the state board shall take any action against the employee under section 3319.31 of the Revised Code that it considers appropriate, based on the nature and extent of the violation. The state board shall give the employee notice of the allegation upon comm...

...The contract of any teacher employed by the board of education of any city, exempted village, local, county, or joint vocational school district may not be terminated except for good and just cause. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code, the provisions of this section relating to the grounds for termination of the contract of a teacher prevail over any conflicting provisio...

...ct. No referee shall be a member of, an employee of, or teacher employed by the board of education nor related to any such person by consanguinity or marriage.

...d to work a percentage of the time the employee otherwise is required to work under the contract and receives a commensurate percentage of the full compensation the employee otherwise would receive under the contract. The teachers whose continuing contracts are suspended by any board pursuant to this section shall have the right of restoration to continuing service status by that board if and when teaching pos...

...ns requiring a right of restoration for employees whose contracts of employment are suspended under the policy if and when any positions become vacant or are created for which any of them are or become qualified. (C) The policy procedures and provisions adopted under divisions (B)(2) and (3) of this section shall be developed by the board of a district or service center with input from the superintendent and all ass...

...reductions in the number of nonteaching employees for any of the reasons for which the board of education or governing board may make reductions in teaching employees, as set forth in division (B) of section 3319.17 of the Revised Code. In making any reduction under this section, the board of education or governing board shall proceed to suspend contracts in accordance with the recommendation of the superintendent o...

...icting provisions of agreements between employee organizations and public employers entered into on or after the effective date of this section.

...If an entire school district or that part of a school district which comprises the territory in which a school is situated is transferred to any other district, or if a new school district is created, the teachers in such districts or schools employed on continuing contracts immediately prior to such transfer, or creation shall, subject to section 3311.83, 3319.17, or 3319.171 of the Revised Code, have continui...

...rict is created, the nonteaching school employees in such district or school immediately prior to such transfer or creation shall have civil service status in the newly created district, or in the district to which the territory is transferred, if the new district is a city school board, or shall be employed pursuant to section 3319.081 of the Revised Code in the newly created district, or in the district to which th...

...(A) Whenever an employee of a board of education, other than an employee who is a license holder to whom section 3319.52 of the Revised Code applies, is convicted of or pleads guilty to a felony, a violation of section 2907.04 or 2907.06 or of division (A) or (B) of section 2907.07 of the Revised Code, an offense of violence, theft offense, or drug abuse offense that is not a minor misdemeanor, or a violation of an o...