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...As used in this chapter: (A) "Tobacco master settlement agreement" means the settlement agreement (and related documents) entered into on November 23, 1998 by the state and leading United States tobacco product manufacturers. (B) "Southern Ohio" includes any county in this state where tobacco has traditionally been grown.

...(A) No money from the tobacco master settlement agreement fund, as that fund existed prior to the repeal of section 183.02 of the Revised Code by H.B. 119 of the 127th general assembly, shall be expended to do any of the following: (1) Hire an executive agency lobbyist, as defined under section 121.60 of the Revised Code, or a legislative agent, as defined under section 101.70 of the Revised Code; (2) Support or ...

...(A) Ohio's public health priorities fund is hereby created in the state treasury. All investment earnings of the fund shall be credited to the fund. Notwithstanding any conflicting provision of the Revised Code, the director of budget and management may credit to the fund any money received by the state, director of health, or department of health as part of a settlement agreement relating to a pressing public health...

... The biomedical research and technology transfer trust fund is hereby created in the state treasury. Money credited to the fund shall be used as provided in sections 184.01 and 184.02 of the Revised Code. The third frontier commission shall administer the fund in accordance with those sections. All investment earnings of the fund shall be credited to the fund.

...The treasurer of state shall, except for any petty cash funds, keep all money received from tobacco master settlement agreement payments or from distributions under this chapter that is needed to meet current demands for the money under this chapter, in public depositories of the active deposits of public moneys of the state, as such terms are used in Chapter 135. of the Revised Code.

...Payments may be made from the biomedical research and technology transfer trust fund for third frontier commission expenses related to the administration of awards made from the fund prior to the effective date of this section. No such payments shall be made after June 30, 2013.

...No money shall be appropriated or transferred from the general revenue fund to the law enforcement improvements trust fund, biomedical research and technology transfer trust fund, or education technology trust fund.

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the tobacco settlement oversight, administration, and enforcement fund, which shall consist of amounts transferred under division (I) of section 183.02 of the Revised Code prior to the repeal of that section by H.B. 119 of the 127th general assembly. The attorney general shall use the fund to pay costs incurred in the oversight, administration, and enforcement of ...

...(A) As used in this section and in the applicable bond proceedings unless otherwise provided: (1) "Bond proceedings" means the resolutions, orders, indentures, purchase and sale and trust and other agreements including any amendments or supplements to them, and credit enhancement facilities, and amendments and supplements to them, or any one or more or combination of them, authorizing, awarding, or providing for the...

...(A) There is hereby created a body, both corporate and politic, constituting a public body, agency, and instrumentality of this state and performing essential functions of the state, to be known as the buckeye tobacco settlement financing authority, which in that name may contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, and exercise all other authority vested in that authority by this section and section 183.5...

...(A) There is hereby created the third frontier commission in the department of development. The purpose of the commission is to coordinate and administer science and technology programs to promote the welfare of the people of the state and to maximize the economic growth of the state through expansion of both of the following: (1) The state's high technology research and development capabilities; (2) The state's ...

... (A) In addition to the powers and duties under sections 184.10 to 184.20 and 184.37 of the Revised Code, the third frontier commission may perform any act to ensure the performance of any function necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of, and exercise the powers granted under, sections 184.01 and 184.02 of the Revised Code. In addition, the commission may do any of the following: (1) Adopt, amend, an...

... As used in sections 184.10 to 184.20 of the Revised Code: (A) "In-state entity" includes individuals, public and private entities, agencies, and institutions, private companies or organizations, partnerships, business trusts, or other business entities or ventures, or research organizations, whether for profit or not for profit, that have substantial presence in Ohio. (B) "Research and development projects" means ...

... The third frontier commission may award support to individuals, public and private entities, agencies, and institutions, private companies or organizations, partnerships, business trusts, or other business entities or ventures, research organizations, whether for profit or not for profit, or combinations or consortiums of any of the foregoing for the purpose of supporting research and development projects. The suppo...

... Except with respect to support subject to an agreement under section 184.114 of the Revised Code, the third frontier commission may award the support described in section 184.11 of the Revised Code only to in-state entities. If an entity awarded support is collaborating with any entity that is not an in-state entity on the research and development project for which the support was awarded, the in-state entity may pr...

... The third frontier commission shall establish a competitive process for making awards of the support described in section 184.11 of the Revised Code that is designed to fund the research and development projects that have the most merit. The commission, on completion of that process, shall make a recommendation to the controlling board asking for approval to award support for the research and development projects se...

... The third frontier commission shall require each individual, public and private entity, agency, and institution, private company or organization, partnership, business trust, or other business entity or venture, research organization, or combination or consortium of any of the foregoing that the controlling board approves to receive the support described in section 184.11 of the Revised Code to enter into an agreeme...

...If the third frontier commission intends to award support for a research and development project under section 184.11 of the Revised Code to an individual or private entity, agency, institution, company, partnership, business trust, or other business entity or venture, or organization, the agreement governing the use of the support entered into under section 184.113 of the Revised Code shall require both of the follo...

... An individual or private entity, agency, institution, company, partnership, business trust, or other business entity or venture, or organization that has received support under section 184.11 of the Revised Code for a research and development project and that violates the requirements of section 184.114 of the Revised Code forfeits the support and must repay the support amount or the equivalent in money plus interes...

... If the third frontier commission utilizes independent reviewers to review the merits of proposed research and development projects and to make recommendations to the commission concerning which projects should be awarded support under section 184.11 of the Revised Code and the commission takes one of the following actions, the commission shall provide a written explanation of the reasons for its action and present t...

... Individuals, Ohio businesses and industries, local public entities and agencies, public and private education institutions, including state-supported and state-assisted institutions of higher education, the state and state agencies, and research organizations and institutions may collaborate on research and development projects.

... The state shall have no ownership interest in any business or private entity, agency, institution, company, partnership, business trust, venture, or organization that has received support for a research and development project under section 184.11 of the Revised Code, and shall assume no shared risk or shared liability.

... The third frontier commission shall establish procedures that permit public inspection of all support awarded under section 184.11 of the Revised Code for research and development projects and the processes used to determine which projects shall receive support.

... The third frontier commission shall publish a report twice each year detailing all support awarded under section 184.11 of the Revised Code for research and development projects, including the amount or type of support and the progress and performance metrics for the projects. A copy of each report shall be delivered to the governor, speaker and minority leader of the house of representatives, and president and mino...

... The third frontier commission shall conduct public meetings twice each year at which a representative of the department of development shall testify regarding the number of applicants for support for research and development projects and the other information contained in the most recent report made by the commission under section 184.15 of the Revised Code. The representative shall also testify regarding the monito...