To amend sections 126.14, 131.35, 131.44, 133.06, 325.19, 703.21, 718.01, 3301.0711, 3302.03, 3313.646, 3313.841, 3313.842, 3313.975, 3313.98, 3314.03, 3314.07, 3314.08, 3317.01, 3317.013, 3317.02, 3317.021, 3317.022, 3317.023, 3317.024, 3317.029, 3317.0212, 3317.0213, 3317.0214, 3317.0215, 3317.0216, 3317.03, 3317.05, 3317.051, 3317.06, 3317.082, 3317.10, 3317.11, 3317.161, 3317.19, 3318.06, 3318.08, 3318.10, 3319.22, 3323.091, 3323.12, 3323.142, 3734.28, 3734.57, 3734.82, 4123.40, 4701.10, 4701.20, 4743.05, 4745.01, 5101.93, 5104.32, 5104.34, 5104.35, 5104.38, 5126.04, 5126.05, 5711.22, 5733.04, 5733.05, 5733.057, 5733.0611, 5733.12, 5733.40, 5733.98, 5739.02, 5747.01, 5747.02, 5747.08, 5747.43, and 5747.98; to enact sections 107.031, 715.013, 3314.12, 3314.13, 3315.171, 3315.181, 3317.15, 3317.20, 3323.021, 3345.122, 3702.5212, 4981.091, 5733.058, 5733.401, 5733.402, 5747.37, 5747.401, 5747.511, 5907.022, and 5907.15; and to repeal section 5747.452 of the Revised Code; to amend section 3109.401 of the Revised Code as enacted by Am. Sub. S.B. 112 of the 122nd General Assembly; to repeal section 5747.511 of the Revised Code effective December 31, 2000; to amend Section 50.11 of Am. Sub. H.B. 215 of the 122nd General Assembly, as subsequently amended; to amend Section 50.11 of Am. Sub. H.B. 215 of the 122nd General Assembly, as subsequently amended, for the purpose of changing its number to section 3317.162 of the Revised Code; to amend Sections 20.05, 47.13, 50.52, 50.52.2, 50.52.4, 50.52.7, 50.52.9, 58, 62.01, 67.08, 101, 119, 190, and 210 of Am. Sub. H.B. 215 of the 122nd General Assembly; to amend Section 67.05 of Am. Sub. H.B. 215 of the 122nd General Assembly, as amended by Sub. H.B. 446 of the 122nd General Assembly; to amend Sections 50, 50.07, 50.09, 50.10, 50.12, 50.13, 50.14, 50.24, 50.43, 50.44, 50.52.5, 50.52.10, and 69.03 of Am. Sub. H.B. 215 of the 122nd General Assembly, as amended by Am. Sub. H.B. 650 of the 122nd General Assembly; to amend Section 18 of Am. Sub. H.B. 650 of the 122nd General Assembly; to amend Section 50.06 of Am. Sub. H.B. 215 of the 122nd General Assembly, as amended by Am. Sub. H.B. 182 and Am. Sub. H.B. 650 of the 122nd General Assembly; and to repeal Section 50.52.12 of Am. Sub. H.B. 215 of the 122nd General Assembly to correct, supplement, and modify certain authorizations and conditions established for the operation and administration of state programs, to create the Committee to Establish the Veterans' Home Network to study the establishment of a network of facilities to expand the delivery of certain services to veterans, to authorize the Board of Trustees of the Ohio Veterans' Home to enter into certain agreements to provide those services, and to make appropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 1999.

SECTION 1 .  That sections 126.14, 131.35, 131.44, 133.06, 325.19, 703.21, 718.01, 3301.0711, 3302.03, 3313.646, 3313.841, 3313.842, 3313.975, 3313.98, 3314.03, 3314.07, 3314.08, 3317.01, 3317.013, 3317.02, 3317.021, 3317.022, 3317.023, 3317.024, 3317.029, 3317.0212, 3317.0213, 3317.0214, 3317.0215, 3317.0216, 3317.03, 3317.05, 3317.051, 3317.06, 3317.082, 3317.10, 3317.11, 3317.161, 3317.19, 3318.06, 3318.08, 3318.10, 3319.22, 3323.091, 3323.12, 3323.142, 3734.28, 3734.57, 3734.82, 4123.40, 4701.10, 4701.20, 4743.05, 4745.01, 5101.93, 5104.32, 5104.34, 5104.35, 5104.38, 5126.04, 5126.05, 5711.22, 5733.04, 5733.05, 5733.057, 5733.0611, 5733.12, 5733.40, 5733.98, 5739.02, 5747.01, 5747.02, 5747.08, 5747.43, and 5747.98 be amended and sections 107.031, 715.013, 3314.12, 3314.13, 3315.171, 3315.181, 3317.15, 3317.20, 3323.021, 3345.122, 3702.5212, 4981.091, 5733.058, 5733.401, 5733.402, 5747.37, 5747.401, 5747.511, 5907.022, and 5907.15 of the Revised Code be enacted, that section 3109.401 of the Revised Code as enacted by Am. Sub. S.B. 112 of the 122nd General Assembly be amended, and that Section 50.11 of Am. Sub. H.B. 215 of the 122nd General Assembly, as most recently amended by Am. Sub. H.B. 650 of the 122nd General Assembly, be amended and renumbered as section 3317.162 of the Revised Code to read as follows:

Sec. 107.031. Until the first committee appointed under division (C) of section 3317.012 Of the Revised Code to reexamine the cost of an adequate education makes its report to the office of budget and management and the general assembly, the governor shall ensure that among the various budget recommendations made by the governor and the director of budget and management to the general assembly each biennium there are recommendations for appropriations to the Ohio school facilities commission, aggregating not less than three hundred million dollars per fiscal year, for constructing, acquiring, replacing, reconstructing, or adding to classroom facilities, as such term is defined in section 3318.01 Of the Revised Code.

Sec. 126.14.  The release of any money appropriated for the purchase of real estate shall be approved by the controlling board. The release of money appropriated for all other capital projects is also subject to the approval of the controlling board, except that the director of budget and management may approve the release of money appropriated for specific projects in accordance with the requirements of this section.

Within sixty days after the effective date of any act appropriating money for capital projects, the director shall determine which appropriations are for general projects and which are for specific projects. Specific projects may include specific higher education projects that are to be funded from general purpose appropriations from the higher education improvements improvement fund created in section 154.21 of the Revised Code. Upon determining which projects are general and which are specific, the director shall submit to the controlling board a list that includes a brief description of and the estimated expenditures for each specific project. The release of money for any specific higher education projects that are to be funded from general purpose appropriations from the higher education improvements improvement fund but that are not included on the list, and the release of money for any specific higher education projects included on the list that will exceed the estimated expenditures by more than ten per cent, are subject to the approval of the controlling board. The director may create new appropriation line items and make transfers of appropriations to them for specific higher education projects included on the list that are to be funded from general purpose appropriations for basic renovations that are made from the higher education improvement fund.

Sec. 131.35.  (A) With respect to the federal funds received into any fund of the state from which transfers may be made under division (D) of section 127.14 of the Revised Code:

(1) No state agency may make expenditures of any federal funds, whether such funds are advanced prior to expenditure or as reimbursement, unless such expenditures are made pursuant to specific appropriations of the general assembly identifying the federal program that is the source of funds, are authorized pursuant to section 131.38 of the Revised Code, are authorized by the controlling board pursuant to division (A)(5) of this section, or are authorized by an executive order issued in accordance with section 107.17 of the Revised Code, and until an allotment has been approved by the director of budget and management. All federal funds received by a state agency shall be reported to the director within fifteen days of the receipt of such funds or the notification of award, whichever occurs first. The director shall prescribe the forms and procedures to be used when reporting the receipt of federal funds.

(2) If the federal funds received are greater than the amount of such funds appropriated by the general assembly for a specific purpose, the total appropriation of federal and state funds for such purpose shall remain at the amount designated by the general assembly, except that the expenditure of federal funds received in excess of such specific appropriation may be authorized by the controlling board.

(3) To the extent that the expenditure of excess federal funds is authorized, the controlling board may transfer a like amount of general revenue fund appropriation authority from the affected agency to the emergency purposes appropriation of the controlling board, if such action is permitted under federal regulations.

(4) Additional funds may be created by the controlling board to receive revenues not anticipated in an appropriations act for the biennium in which such new revenues are received. Expenditures from such additional funds may be authorized by the controlling board, but such authorization shall not extend beyond the end of the biennium in which such funds are created.

(5) Controlling board authorization for a state agency to make an expenditure of federal funds under division (A)(1) of this section constitutes authority for the agency to participate in the federal program providing the funds, and the agency is not required to obtain an executive order under section 107.17 of the Revised Code to participate in the federal program.

(B) With respect to nonfederal funds received into the waterways safety fund, the wildlife fund, and any fund of the state from which transfers may be made under division (D) of section 127.14 of the Revised Code:

(1) No state agency may make expenditures of any such funds unless the expenditures are made pursuant to specific appropriations of the general assembly.

(2) If the receipts received into any fund are greater than the amount appropriated, the appropriation for that fund shall remain at the amount designated by the general assembly or as increased and approved by the controlling board.

(3) Additional funds may be created by the controlling board to receive revenues not anticipated in an appropriations act for the biennium in which such new revenues are received. Expenditures from such additional funds may be authorized by the controlling board, but such authorization shall not extend beyond the end of the biennium in which such funds are created.

(C) The controlling board shall not authorize more than ten per cent of additional spending from the occupational licensing and regulatory fund, created in section 4743.05 of the Revised Code, in excess of any appropriation made by the general assembly to a licensing agency except an appropriation for costs related to the examination or reexamination of applicants for a license. As used in this division, "licensing agency" and "license" have the same meanings as in section 4745.01 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 131.44.  (A) As used in this section:

(1) "Surplus revenue" means the excess, if any, of the total fund balance over the required year-end balance.

(2) "Total fund balance" means the sum of the unencumbered balance in the general revenue fund on the last day of the preceding fiscal year plus the balance in the budget stabilization fund.

(3) "Required year-end balance" means the sum of the following:

(a) Five per cent of the general revenue fund revenues for the preceding fiscal year;

(b) "Ending fund balance," which means one-half of one per cent of general revenue fund revenues for the preceding fiscal year;

(c) "Carryover balance," which means, with respect to a fiscal biennium, the excess, if any, of the estimated general revenue fund appropriation and transfer requirement for the second fiscal year of the biennium over the estimated general revenue fund revenue for that fiscal year;

(d) "Capital appropriation reserve," which means the amount, if any, of general revenue fund capital appropriations made for the current biennium that the director of budget and management has determined will be encumbered or disbursed;

(e) "Income tax reduction impact reserve," which means an amount equal to the reduction projected by the director of budget and management in income tax revenue in the current fiscal year attributable to the any credit for a previous reduction in the income tax rate made by the tax commissioner pursuant to division (B) of taxable year under section 5747.02 5747.37 of the Revised Code.

(4) "Estimated general revenue fund appropriation and transfer requirement" means the most recent adjusted appropriations made by the general assembly from the general revenue fund and includes both of the following:

(a) Appropriations made and transfers of appropriations from the first fiscal year to the second fiscal year of the biennium in provisions of acts of the general assembly signed by the governor but not yet effective;

(b) Transfers of appropriation from the first fiscal year to the second fiscal year of the biennium approved by the controlling board.

(5) "Estimated general revenue fund revenue" means the most recent such estimate available to the director of budget and management.

(B)(1) Not later than the thirty-first day of July each year, the director of budget and management shall determine the surplus revenue that existed on the preceding thirtieth day of June and transfer from the general revenue fund, to the extent of the unobligated, unencumbered balance on the preceding thirtieth day of June in excess of one-half of one per cent of the general revenue fund revenues in the preceding fiscal year, the following:

(a) First, to the budget stabilization fund, any amount necessary for the balance of the budget stabilization fund to equal five per cent of the general revenue fund revenues of the preceding fiscal year;

(b) Then, to the income tax reduction fund, which is hereby created in the state treasury, an amount equal to the surplus revenue.

(2) Not later than the thirty-first day of July each year, the director shall determine the percentage that the balance in the income tax reduction fund is of the amount of revenue that the director estimates will be received from the tax levied under section 5747.02 of the Revised Code in the current fiscal year without regard to any reduction under division (B) of that section 5747.37 Of the Revised Code. If that percentage exceeds thirty-five one hundredths of one per cent, the director shall certify the percentage to the tax commissioner not later than the thirty-first day of July.

(C) The director of budget and management shall transfer money in the income tax reduction fund to the general revenue fund, the local government fund, the library and local government support fund, and the local government revenue assistance fund as necessary to offset revenue reductions resulting from the reductions in taxes required credit claimed under division (B) of section 5747.02 5747.37 of the Revised Code in the respective amounts and percentages prescribed by divisions (A)(1), (2), and (4) of section 5747.03 of the Revised Code as if the amount transferred had been collected as taxes under Chapter 5747. of the Revised Code. If no reductions in taxes are made credits are authorized under that division section that affect revenue received in the current fiscal year, the director shall not transfer money from the income tax reduction fund to the general revenue fund, the local government fund, the library and local government support fund, and the local government revenue assistance fund.

Sec. 133.06.  (A) A school district shall not incur, without a vote of the electors, net indebtedness that exceeds an amount equal to one-tenth of one per cent of its tax valuation except as provided in divisions (G) and (H) of this section and in division (C) of section 3313.372 of the Revised Code.

(B) Except as provided in divisions (E) and (F) of this section, a school district shall not incur net indebtedness that exceeds an amount equal to nine per cent of its tax valuation.

(C) A school district shall not submit to a vote of the electors the question of the issuance of securities in an amount that will make the district's net indebtedness after the issuance of the securities exceed an amount equal to four per cent of its tax valuation, unless the superintendent of public instruction, acting under policies adopted by the state board of education, and the tax commissioner, acting under written policies of the commissioner, consent to the submission. A request for the consents shall be made at least thirty days prior to the election at which the question is to be submitted except that the superintendent of public instruction and the tax commissioner may waive this thirty-day deadline or grant their consents after the election if the school district shows good cause for such waiver or consent after the election.

(D) In calculating the net indebtedness of a school district none of the following shall be considered:

(1) Securities issued to acquire school buses and other equipment used in transporting pupils or issued pursuant to division (D) of section 133.10 of the Revised Code;

(2) Securities issued under division (F) of this section, under section 133.301 of the Revised Code, and, to the extent in excess of the limitation stated in division (B) of this section, under division (E) of this section;

(3) Indebtedness resulting from the dissolution of a joint vocational school district under section 3311.217 of the Revised Code, evidenced by outstanding securities of that joint vocational school district;

(4) Loans, evidenced by any securities, received under sections 3313.483, 3317.0210, 3317.0211, and 3317.64 of the Revised Code;

(5) Debt incurred under section 3313.374 of the Revised Code;

(6) Debt incurred pursuant to division (B)(5) of section 3313.37 of the Revised Code to acquire computers and related hardware.

(E) A school district may become a special needs district as to certain securities as provided in division (E) of this section.

(1) A board of education, by resolution, may declare its school district to be a special needs district by determining both of the following:

(a) The student population is not being adequately serviced by the existing permanent improvements of the district.

(b) The district cannot obtain sufficient funds by the issuance of securities within the limitation of division (B) of this section to provide additional or improved needed permanent improvements in time to meet the needs.

(2) The board of education shall certify a copy of that resolution to the superintendent of public instruction with a statistical report showing all of the following:

(a) A history of and a projection of the growth of the student population;

(b) The history of and a projection of the growth of the tax valuation;

(c) The projected needs;

(d) The estimated cost of permanent improvements proposed to meet such projected needs.

(3) The superintendent of public instruction shall certify the district as an approved special needs district if the superintendent finds both of the following:

(a) The district does not have available sufficient additional funds from state or federal sources to meet the projected needs.

(b) The projection of the potential average growth of tax valuation during the next five years, according to the information certified to the superintendent and any other information the superintendent obtains, indicates a likelihood of potential average growth of tax valuation of the district during the next five years of an average of not less than three per cent per year. The findings and certification of the superintendent shall be conclusive.

(4) An approved special needs district may incur net indebtedness by the issuance of securities in accordance with the provisions of this chapter in an amount that does not exceed an amount equal to the greater of the following:

(a) Nine per cent of the sum of its tax valuation plus an amount that is the product of multiplying that tax valuation by the percentage by which the tax valuation has increased over the tax valuation on the first day of the sixtieth month preceding the month in which its board determines to submit to the electors the question of issuing the proposed securities;

(b) Nine per cent of the sum of its tax valuation plus an amount that is the product of multiplying that tax valuation by the percentage, determined by the superintendent of public instruction, by which that tax valuation is projected to increase during the next ten years.

(F) A school district may issue securities for emergency purposes, in a principal amount that does not exceed an amount equal to three per cent of its tax valuation, as provided in this division.

(1) A board of education, by resolution, may declare an emergency if it determines both of the following:

(a) School buildings or other necessary school facilities in the district have been wholly or partially destroyed, or condemned by a constituted public authority, or that such buildings or facilities are partially constructed, or so constructed or planned as to require additions and improvements to them before the buildings or facilities are usable for their intended purpose, or that corrections to permanent improvements are necessary to remove or prevent health or safety hazards.

(b) Existing fiscal and net indebtedness limitations make adequate replacement, additions, or improvements impossible.

(2) Upon the declaration of an emergency, the board of education may, by resolution, submit to the electors of the district pursuant to section 133.18 of the Revised Code the question of issuing securities for the purpose of paying the cost, in excess of any insurance or condemnation proceeds received by the district, of permanent improvements to respond to the emergency need.

(3) The procedures for the election shall be as provided in section 133.18 of the Revised Code, except that:

(a) The form of the ballot shall describe the emergency existing, refer to this division as the authority under which the emergency is declared, and state that the amount of the proposed securities exceeds the limitations prescribed by division (B) of this section;

(b) The resolution required by division (B) of section 133.18 of the Revised Code shall be certified to the county auditor and the board of elections at least seventy-five days prior to the election;

(c) The county auditor shall advise and, not later than sixty-five days before the election, confirm that advice by certification to, the board of education of the information required by division (C) of section 133.18 of the Revised Code;

(d) The board of education shall then certify its resolution and the information required by division (D) of section 133.18 of the Revised Code to the board of elections not less than sixty days prior to the election.

(4) Notwithstanding division (B) of section 133.21 of the Revised Code, the first principal payment of securities issued under this division may be set at any date not later than sixty months after the earliest possible principal payment otherwise provided for in that division.

(G) The board of education may contract with an architect, professional engineer, or other person experienced in the design and implementation of energy conservation measures for an analysis and recommendations pertaining to installations, modifications of installations, or remodeling that would significantly reduce energy consumption in buildings owned by the district. The report shall include estimates of all costs of such installations, modifications, or remodeling including costs of design, engineering, installation, maintenance, repairs, and debt service, and estimates of the amounts by which energy consumption and resultant operational and maintenance costs, as defined by the Ohio school facilities commission, would be reduced.

If the board finds after receiving the report that the amount of money the district would spend on such installations, modifications, or remodeling is not likely to exceed the amount of money it would save in energy and resultant operational and maintenance costs over the ensuing ten fifteen years, the board may submit to the commission a copy of its findings and a request for approval to incur indebtedness to finance the making or modification of installations or the remodeling of buildings for the purpose of significantly reducing energy consumption.

If the commission determines that the board's findings are reasonable, it shall approve the board's request. Upon receipt of the commission's approval, the district may issue securities without a vote of the electors in a principal amount not to exceed nine-tenths of one per cent of its tax valuation for the purpose of making such installations, or modifications, or remodeling, but the total net indebtedness of the district without a vote of the electors incurred under this and all other sections of the Revised Code shall not exceed one per cent of the district's tax valuation.

So long as any securities issued under division (G) of this section remain outstanding, the board of education shall monitor the energy consumption and resultant operational and maintenance costs of buildings in which installations or modifications have been made or remodeling has been done pursuant to division (G) of this section and shall maintain and annually update a report documenting the reductions in energy consumption and resultant operational and maintenance cost savings attributable to such installations, modifications, or remodeling. The report shall be certified by an architect or engineer independent of any person that provided goods or services to the board in connection with the energy conservation measures that are the subject of the report. The resultant operational and maintenance cost savings shall be certified by the school district treasurer. The report shall be made available to the commission upon request.

(H) With the consent of the superintendent of public instruction, a school district may incur without a vote of the electors net indebtedness that exceeds the amounts stated in divisions (A) and (G) of this section for the purpose of paying costs of permanent improvements, if and to the extent that both of the following conditions are satisfied:

(1) The fiscal officer of the school district estimates that receipts of the school district from compensation derived from or under agreements entered into pursuant to section 5709.82 of the Revised Code, or distributions under division (C) of section 5709.43 of the Revised Code, or any combination thereof, are, after accounting for any appropriate coverage requirements, sufficient in time and amount, and are committed by the proceedings, to pay the debt charges on the securities issued to evidence that indebtedness and payable from those receipts, and the taxing authority of the district confirms the fiscal officer's estimate, which confirmation is approved by the superintendent of public instruction;

(2) The fiscal officer of the school district certifies, and the taxing authority of the district confirms, that the district, at the time of the certification and confirmation, reasonably expects to have sufficient revenue available for the purpose of operating such permanent improvements for their intended purpose upon acquisition or completion thereof, and the superintendent of public instruction approves the taxing authority's confirmation.

The maximum maturity of securities issued under division (H) of this section shall be the lesser of twenty years or the maximum maturity calculated under section 133.20 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 325.19.  (A)(1) The granting of vacation leave under division (A)(1) of this section is subject to divisions (A)(2) and (3) of this section. Each full-time employee in the several offices and departments of the county service, including full-time hourly rate employees, after service of one year with the county or any political subdivision of the state, shall have earned and will be due upon the attainment of the first year of employment, and annually thereafter, eighty hours of vacation leave with full pay. One year of service shall be computed on the basis of twenty-six biweekly pay periods. A full-time county employee with eight or more years of service with the county or any political subdivision of the state shall have earned and is entitled to one hundred twenty hours of vacation leave with full pay. A full-time county employee with fifteen or more years of service with the county or any political subdivision of the state shall have earned and is entitled to one hundred sixty hours of vacation leave with full pay. A full-time county employee with twenty-five years of service with the county or any political subdivision of the state shall have earned and is entitled to two hundred hours of vacation leave with full pay. Such vacation leave shall accrue to the employee at the rate of three and one-tenth hours each biweekly period for those entitled to eighty hours per year; four and six-tenths hours each biweekly period for those entitled to one hundred twenty hours per year; six and two-tenths hours each biweekly period for those entitled to one hundred sixty hours per year; and seven and seven-tenths hours each biweekly period for those entitled to two hundred hours per year.

(2) Full-time employees granted vacation leave under division (A)(1) of this section who render any standard of service other than forty hours per week as described in division (I)(J) of this section and who are in active pay status in a biweekly pay period, shall accrue a number of hours of vacation leave during each such pay period that bears the same ratio to the number of hours specified in division (A)(1) of this section as their number of hours which are accepted as full-time in active pay status, excluding overtime hours, bears to eighty hours.

(3) Full-time employees granted vacation leave under division (A)(1) of this section who are in active pay status in a biweekly pay period for less than eighty hours or the number of hours of service otherwise accepted as full-time by their employing office or department shall accrue a number of hours of vacation leave during that pay period that bears the same ratio to the number of hours specified in division (A)(1) of this section as their number of hours in active pay status, excluding overtime hours, bears to eighty or the number of hours of service accepted as full time, whichever is applicable.

(B) A board of county commissioners, by resolution, may grant vacation leave with full pay to part-time county employees. A part-time county employee shall be eligible for vacation leave with full pay upon the attainment of the first year of employment, and annually thereafter. The ratio between the hours worked and the vacation hours awarded to a part-time employee shall be the same as the ratio between the hours worked and the vacation hours earned by a full-time employee as provided for in this section.

(C) Days specified as holidays in section 124.19 of the Revised Code shall not be charged to an employee's vacation leave. Vacation leave shall be taken by the employee during the year in which it accrued and prior to the next recurrence of the anniversary date of the employee's employment, provided the appointing authority may, in special and meritorious cases, permit such employee to accumulate and carry over his vacation leave to the following year. No vacation leave shall be carried over for more than three years. An employee is entitled to compensation, at the employee's current rate of pay, for the prorated portion of any earned but unused vacation leave for the current year to the employee's credit at time of separation, and in addition shall be compensated for any unused vacation leave accrued to the employee's credit, with the permission of the appointing authority, for the three years immediately preceding the last anniversary date of employment.

(D)(1) In addition to vacation leave, a full-time county employee is entitled to eight hours of holiday pay for New Year's day, Martin Luther King day, Washington-Lincoln day, Memorial day, Independence day, Labor day, Columbus day, Veterans' day, Thanksgiving day, and Christmas day, of each year. Except as provided in division (D)(2) of this section, holidays shall occur on the days specified in section 1.14 of the Revised Code. In the event that any of the aforesaid holidays fall on Saturday, the Friday immediately preceding shall be observed as the holiday. In the event that any of the aforesaid holidays fall on Sunday, the Monday immediately succeeding shall be observed as the holiday. If an employee's work schedule is other than Monday through Friday, the employee is entitled to holiday pay for holidays observed on the employee's day off regardless of the day of the week on which they are observed.

(2) When a classified employee of a county board of mental retardation and developmental disabilities works at a site maintained by a government entity other than the board, such as a public school, the board may adjust the employee's holiday schedule to conform to the schedule adopted by the government entity. Under an adjusted holiday schedule, an employee shall receive the number of hours of holiday pay granted under division (D)(1) of this section.

(E) In the case of the death of a county employee, the unused vacation leave and unpaid overtime to the credit of any such employee, shall be paid in accordance with section 2113.04 of the Revised Code, or to the employee's estate.

(F) Notwithstanding this section or any other section of the Revised Code, any appointing authority of a county office, department, commission, board, or body may, upon notification to the board of county commissioners, establish alternative schedules of vacation leave and holidays for employees of the appointing authority for whom the state employment relations board has not established an appropriate bargaining unit pursuant to section 4117.06 of the Revised Code, provided that the alternative schedules are not inconsistent with the provisions of a collective bargaining agreement covering other employees of that appointing authority.

(G) The employees of a county children services board that establishes vacation benefits under section 5153.12 of the Revised Code are exempt from division (A) of this section.

(H) The provisions of this section do not apply to superintendents and management employees of county boards of mental retardation and developmental disabilities.

(I) Division (A) of this section does not apply to an employee of a county board of mental retardation and developmental disabilities who works at, or provides transportation services to pupils of, a special education program provided by the county board pursuant to division (A)(4) of section 5126.05 Of the Revised Code, if the employee's employment is based on a school year and the employee is not subject to a contract with the county board that provides for division (A) of this section to apply to the employee.

(J) As used in this section:

(1) "Full-time employee" means an employee whose regular hours of service for a county total forty hours per week, or who renders any other standard of service accepted as full-time by an office, department, or agency of county service.

(2) "Part-time employee" means an employee whose regular hours of service for a county total less than forty hours per week, or who renders any other standard of service accepted as part-time by an office, department, or agency of county service, and whose hours of county service total at least five hundred twenty hours annually.

(3) "Management employee" has the same meaning as in section 5126.20 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 703.21.  The surrender of corporate powers by a village under section 703.20 of the Revised Code does not affect vested rights or accrued liabilities of such the village, or the power to settle claims, dispose of property, or levy and collect taxes to pay existing obligations, but, after the presentation of the petition mentioned in such that section, the legislative authority of the village shall not create any new liability until the result of the election is declared, or thereafter, if the result is in favor of the surrender of corporate powers. Due and unpaid taxes may be collected after such the surrender, and all moneys or property remaining after the surrender belongs to the school district embracing township or townships located wholly or partly within the village. If more than one township is to receive the remaining money or property, the money and property shall be divided among the townships in proportion to the amount of territory that each township has within the village boundaries as compared to the total township territory within the village.

Sec. 715.013. Except as otherwise expressly authorized by the Revised Code, no municipal corporation shall levy a tax that is the same as or similar to a tax levied under Chapter 322., 3734., 3769., 4123., 4141., 4301., 4303., 4305., 4307., 4309., 5707., 5725., 5727., 5728., 5729., 5731., 5735., 5737., 5739., 5741., 5743., or 5749. of the Revised Code.

This section does not prohibit a municipal corporation from levying a tax on amounts received for admission to any place.

Sec. 718.01.  (A) As used in this chapter:

(1) "Internal Revenue Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C. 1, as amended.

(2) "Schedule C" means internal revenue service schedule C filed by a taxpayer pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code.

(3) "Form 2106" means internal revenue service form 2106 filed by a taxpayer pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code.

(4) "Intangible income" means income of any of the following types: income yield, interest, dividends, or other income arising from the ownership, sale, exchange, or other disposition of intangible property including, but not limited to, investments, deposits, money, or credits as those terms are defined in Chapter 5701. of the Revised Code.

(B) No municipal corporation with respect to that income which it may tax shall tax such income at other than a uniform rate.

(C) No municipal corporation shall levy a tax on income at a rate in excess of one per cent without having obtained the approval of the excess by a majority of the electors of the municipality voting on the question at a general, primary, or special election. The legislative authority of the municipal corporation shall file with the board of elections at least seventy-five days before the day of the election a copy of the ordinance together with a resolution specifying the date the election is to be held and directing the board of elections to conduct the election. The ballot shall be in the following form: "Shall the Ordinance providing for a ... per cent levy on income for (Brief description of the purpose of the proposed levy) be passed?

FOR THE INCOME TAX

AGAINST THE INCOME TAX"

In the event of an affirmative vote, the proceeds of the levy may be used only for the specified purpose.

(D)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (D)(2) of this section, no municipal corporation shall exempt from a tax on income, compensation for personal services of individuals over eighteen years of age or the net profit from a business or profession.

(2) The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may, by ordinance or resolution, exempt from a tax on income any compensation arising from the grant, sale, exchange, or other disposition of a stock option; the exercise of a stock option; or the sale, exchange, or other disposition of stock purchased under a stock option.

(E) Nothing in this section shall prevent a municipal corporation from permitting lawful deductions as prescribed by ordinance. If a taxpayer's taxable income includes income against which the taxpayer has taken a deduction for federal income tax purposes as reportable on the taxpayer's form 2106, and against which a like deduction has not been allowed by the municipal corporation, the municipal corporation shall deduct from the taxpayer's taxable income an amount equal to the deduction shown on such form allowable against such income, to the extent not otherwise so allowed as a deduction by the municipal corporation. In the case of a taxpayer who has a net profit from a business or profession that is operated as a sole proprietorship, no municipal corporation may tax or use as the base for determining the amount of the net profit that shall be considered as having a taxable situs in the municipal corporation, a greater amount than the net profit reported by the taxpayer on schedule C filed in reference to the year in question as taxable income from such sole proprietorship, except as otherwise specifically provided by ordinance or regulation.

(F) No municipal corporation shall tax any of the following:

(1) The military pay or allowances of members of the armed forces of the United States and of members of their reserve components, including the Ohio national guard;

(2) The income of religious, fraternal, charitable, scientific, literary, or educational institutions to the extent that such income is derived from tax-exempt real estate, tax-exempt tangible or intangible property, or tax-exempt activities;

(3) Except as otherwise provided in division (G) of this section, intangible income;

(4) Compensation paid under section 3501.28 or 3501.36 of the Revised Code to a person serving as a precinct election official, to the extent that such compensation does not exceed one thousand dollars annually. Such compensation in excess of one thousand dollars may be subjected to taxation by a municipal corporation. A municipal corporation shall not require the payer of such compensation to withhold any tax from that compensation.

(5) Compensation paid to an employee of a transit authority, regional transit authority, or regional transit commission created under Chapter 306. of the Revised Code for operating a transit bus or other motor vehicle for the authority or commission in or through the municipal corporation, unless the bus or vehicle is operated on a regularly scheduled route, the operator is subject to such a tax by reason of residence or domicile in the municipal corporation, or the headquarters of the authority or commission is located within the municipal corporation.

(6) The income of a public utility when that public utility is subject to the tax levied under section 5727.30 of the Revised Code.

(G) Any municipal corporation that taxes any type of intangible income on March 29, 1988, pursuant to Section 3 of Amended Substitute Senate Bill No. 238 of the 116th general assembly, may continue to tax that type of income after 1988 if a majority of the electors of the municipal corporation voting on the question of whether to permit the taxation of that type of intangible income after 1988 vote in favor thereof at an election held on November 8, 1988.

(H) Nothing in this section or section 718.02 of the Revised Code, shall authorize the levy of any tax on income which a municipal corporation is not authorized to levy under existing laws or shall require a municipal corporation to allow a deduction from taxable income for losses incurred from a sole proprietorship or partnership.

Sec. 3109.401. (A) The general assembly finds the following:

(1) That the parent and child relationship is of fundamental importance to the welfare of a child, and that the relationship between a child and each parent should be fostered unless inconsistent with the child's best interests;

(2) That parents have the responsibility to make decisions and perform other parenting functions necessary for the care and growth of their children;

(3) That the courts, when allocating parenting functions and responsibilities with respect to the child in a divorce, dissolution, legal separation, annulment, or any other proceeding addressing the allocation of parental rights and responsibilities, must determine the child's best interests;

(4) That the courts and parents must take into consideration the following general principles when allocating parental rights and responsibilities and developing appropriate terms for parenting plans:

(a) Children are served by a parenting arrangement that best provides for a child's safety, emotional growth, health, stability, and physical care.

(b) Exposure of the child to harmful parental conflict should be minimized as much as possible.

(c) Whenever appropriate, parents should be encouraged to meet their responsibilities to their children through agreements rather than by relying on judicial intervention.

(d) When a parenting plan provides for mutual decision-making responsibility by the parents but they are unable to make decisions mutually, they should make a good faith effort to utilize the mediation process as required by the parenting plan.

(e) In apportioning between the parents the daily physical living arrangements of the child and the child's location during legal and school holidays, vacations, and days of special importance, a court should not impose any type of standard schedule unless a standard schedule meets the needs of the child better than any proposed alternative parenting plan.

(B) It is, therefore, the purpose of Chapter 3109. of the Revised Code, when it is in the child's best interest, to foster the relationship between the child and each parent when a court allocates parental rights and responsibilities with respect to the child in a divorce, dissolution, legal separation, annulment, or any other proceeding addressing the allocation of parental rights and responsibilities.

(C) There is hereby created the task force on family law and children consisting of twenty-four members. The Ohio state bar association shall appoint three members who shall be attorneys with extensive experience in the practice of family law. The Ohio association of domestic relations judges shall appoint three members who shall be domestic relations judges. The Ohio association of juvenile and family court judges shall appoint three members who shall be juvenile or family court judges. The chief justice of the supreme court shall appoint eight members, three of whom shall be persons who practice in the field of family law mediation, two of whom shall be persons who practice in the field of child psychology, one of whom shall be a person who represents parent and child advocacy organizations, one of whom shall be a person who provides parenting education services, and one of whom shall be a magistrate employed by a domestic relations or juvenile court. The speaker of the house of representatives shall appoint two members who shall be members of the house of representatives and who shall be from different political parties. The president of the senate shall appoint two members who shall be members of the senate and who shall be from different political parties. The governor shall appoint two members who shall represent child caring agencies. One member shall be the director of human services or the director's designee. The chief justice shall designate one member of the task force to chair the task force.

The appointing authorities and persons shall make initial appointments to the task force on family law and children within thirty days after the effective date of this section. Initial appointments to the task force shall be for terms ending July 1, 1999. Thereafter, terms of office shall be for two years, with each term ending on the first day of July of the following odd-numbered year. Members who are members of the general assembly shall hold office until the end of the term for which the member was appointed or until the person ceases to be a member of the general assembly, whichever occurs first. The director of human services shall hold office until the director ceases to be director of human services. Each member shall hold office from the date of the person's appointment until the end of the term for which the member was appointed. Members may be reappointed. Vacancies shall be filled in the manner provided for original appointments. Any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration date of the term for which the member's predecessor was appointed shall hold office as a member for the remainder of that term. A member shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration date of the member's term until the member's successor takes office or until a period of sixty days has elapsed, whichever occurs first. Section 101.84 of the Revised Code does not apply to the task force.

(D) The task force on family law and children shall do all of the following:

(1) Appoint and fix the compensation of any technical, professional, and clerical employees and perform any services that are necessary to carry out the powers and duties of the task force on family law and children. All employees of the task force shall serve at the pleasure of the task force.

(2) By December 31, 1999, submit to the speaker and minority leader of the house of representatives and to the president and the minority leader of the senate a report of its findings and recommendations on how to create a more civilized and constructive process for the parenting of children whose parents do not reside together. The recommendations shall propose a system to do all of the following:

(a) Put children first;

(b) Provide families with choices before they make a decision to obtain or finalize a divorce, dissolution, legal separation, or annulment;

(c) Redirect human services to intervention and prevention, rather than supporting the casualties of the current process;

(d) Avoid needless conflict between the participants;

(e) Encourage problem solving among the participants;

(f) Force the participants to act responsibly;

(g) Shield both the participants and their children from lasting emotional damage.

(3) Gather information on and study the current state of family law in this state;

(4) Collaborate and consult with entities engaged in family and children's issues including, but not limited to, the Ohio association of child caring agencies, the Ohio family court feasibility study, and the Ohio courts futures commission;

(5) Utilize findings and outcomes from pilot projects conducted by the Ohio family court feasibility study to explore alternatives in creating a more civilized and constructive process for the parenting of children whose parents do not reside together with an emphasis on the areas of mediation and obtaining visitation compliance.

(E) Courts of common pleas shall cooperate with the task force on family law and children in the performance of the task force's duties described in division (D) of this section.

Sec. 3301.0711.  (A) The department of education shall:

(1) Annually furnish, grade, and score all tests required by section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code to city, local, and exempted village school districts;

(2) Adopt rules for the ethical use of tests and prescribing the manner in which the tests prescribed by section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code shall be administered to students.

(B) Except as provided in divisions (C) and (J)(2) of this section, the board of education of each city, local, and exempted village school district shall, in accordance with rules adopted under division (A) of this section:

(1) Administer the test prescribed under division (A)(1) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code to measure skill in reading as follows:

(a) For students entering fourth grade in school years that start prior to July 1, 2001, at least once annually to all students in the fourth grade;

(b) For students entering fourth grade beginning with the school year that starts July 1, 2001, twice annually to all students in the fourth grade who have not attained the score designated for that test under division (A)(1) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code and once each summer to students receiving summer remediation services under division (B)(3) of section 3313.608 of the Revised Code.

(2) Administer the tests prescribed under division (A)(1) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code to measure skill in writing, mathematics, science, and citizenship at least once annually to all students in the fourth grade.

(3) Administer the tests prescribed under division (A)(2) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code at least once annually to all students in the sixth grade.

(4) Administer any tests prescribed under division (A)(3) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code at least once annually to any student in the twelfth grade who, on all the tests prescribed under division (B) of that section, has attained the applicable scores designated under such division prior to the first day of January of that year.

(5) Administer any test prescribed under division (B) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code as follows:

(a) At least once annually, subsequent to the fifteenth day of March, to all tenth grade students and at least twice annually to all students in eleventh or twelfth grade who have not yet attained the score on that test designated under that division;

(b) To any person who has successfully completed the curriculum in any high school or the individualized education program developed for the person by any high school pursuant to section 3323.08 of the Revised Code but has not received a high school diploma and who requests to take such test, at any time such test is administered in the district.

(C)(1) Any student receiving special education services under Chapter 3323. of the Revised Code shall be excused from taking any particular test required to be administered under this section if the individualized education program developed for the student pursuant to section 3323.08 of the Revised Code excuses the student from taking that test. In the case of any student so excused from taking a test, the school district board of education shall not prohibit the student from taking the test. Any student enrolled in a chartered nonpublic school who has been identified, based on an evaluation conducted in accordance with section 3323.03 of the Revised Code or section 504 of the "Rehabilitation Act of 1973," 87 Stat. 355, 29 U.S.C.A. 794, as amended, as a child with a disability shall be excused from taking any particular test required to be administered under this section if a plan developed for the student pursuant to rules adopted by the state board excuses the student from taking that test. In the case of any student so excused from taking a test, the chartered nonpublic school shall not prohibit the student from taking the test.

(2) A district board may, for medical reasons or other good cause, excuse a student from taking a test administered under this section on the date scheduled, but any such test shall be administered to such excused student not later than fifteen days following the scheduled date. The board shall annually report the number of students who have not taken one or more of the tests required by this section to the state board of education not later than the thirtieth day of June.

(D) In the school year next succeeding the school year in which the tests prescribed by division (A)(1) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code are administered to any student, the board of education of any school district in which the student is enrolled in that year shall provide intervention services to the student in any skill in which the student failed on those tests to demonstrate at least fourth-grade levels of literacy and basic competency. This division does not apply to any student receiving services pursuant to an individualized education program developed for the student pursuant to section 3323.08 of the Revised Code.

(E) Except as provided in section 3313.608 of the Revised Code and division (M) of this section, no school district board of education shall permit any student to be denied promotion to a higher grade level solely because of the student's failure to attain a specified score on any test administered under this section.

(F) No person shall be charged a fee for taking any test administered under this section.

(G) Not later than sixty days after any administration of any test prescribed by section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code, the department shall send to each school district board a list of the individual test scores of all persons taking the test.

(H) Individual test scores on any tests administered under this section shall be released by a district board only in accordance with section 3319.321 of the Revised Code and the rules adopted under division (A) of this section. No district board or its employees shall utilize individual or aggregate test results in any manner that conflicts with rules for the ethical use of tests adopted pursuant to division (A) of this section.

(I) Except as provided in division (G) of this section, the department shall not release any individual test scores on any test administered under this section and shall adopt rules to ensure the protection of student confidentiality at all times.

(J) Notwithstanding division (D) of section 3311.19 and division (D) of section 3311.52 of the Revised Code, this section does not apply to the board of education of any joint vocational or cooperative education school district except as provided under rules adopted pursuant to this division.

(1) In accordance with rules that the state board of education shall adopt, the board of education of any city, exempted village, or local school district with territory in a joint vocational school district or a cooperative education school district established pursuant to divisions (A) to (C) of section 3311.52 of the Revised Code may enter into an agreement with the board of education of the joint vocational or cooperative education school district for administering any test prescribed under this section to students of the city, exempted village, or local school district who are attending school in the joint vocational or cooperative education school district.

(2) In accordance with rules that the state board of education shall adopt, the board of education of any city, exempted village, or local school district with territory in a cooperative education school district established pursuant to section 3311.521 of the Revised Code shall enter into an agreement with the cooperative district that provides for the administration of any test prescribed under this section to both of the following:

(a) Students who are attending school in the cooperative district and who, if the cooperative district were not established, would be entitled to attend school in the city, local, or exempted village school district pursuant to section 3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code;

(b) Persons described in division (B)(5)(b) of this section.

Any testing of students pursuant to such an agreement shall be in lieu of any testing of such students or persons pursuant to this section.

(K)(1) Any chartered nonpublic school may participate in the testing program by administering any of the tests prescribed by section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code if the chief administrator of the school specifies which tests the school wishes to administer. Such specification shall be made in writing to the superintendent of public instruction prior to the first day of August of any school year in which tests are administered and shall include a pledge that the nonpublic school will administer the specified tests in the same manner as public schools are required to do under this section and rules adopted by the department.

(2) The department of education shall furnish the tests prescribed by section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code to any chartered nonpublic school electing to participate under this division.

(L)(1) Except as provided in division (L)(3) of this section, the superintendent of the state school for the blind and the superintendent of the state school for the deaf shall administer the tests described by section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code. Each superintendent shall administer the tests in the same manner as district boards are required to do under this section and rules adopted by the department of education.

(2) The department of education shall furnish the tests described by section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code to each superintendent.

(3) Any student enrolled in the state school for the blind or the state school for the deaf shall be excused from taking any particular test required to be administered under division (L)(1) of this section if the individualized education program developed for the student pursuant to section 3323.08 of the Revised Code excuses the student from taking that test. In the case of any student so excused from taking a test, the superintendent of the school shall not prohibit the student from taking the test.

(M) Notwithstanding division (E) of this section, beginning July 1, 1999, a school district may retain any student for an additional year in such student's current grade level if such student has failed to attain the designated scores on three or more of the five tests described by division (A)(1) or (2) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code.

This division does not supersede the requirements of section 3313.608 of the Revised Code.

(N) Effective July 1, 1999, the department of education shall make available to the public the state's proficiency tests offered the previous year. The department shall continue to make these documents available to the public each year following the administration of the test. Only the tests administered the previous year shall be available to the public (1) All proficiency tests required by section 3301.0710 Of the Revised Code shall become public records pursuant to section 149.43 Of the Revised Code on the first day of July following the school year that the test was administered.

(2) The department may field test proposed proficiency test questions with samples of students to determine the validity, reliability, or appropriateness of test questions for possible inclusion in a future year's proficiency test.

Field test questions shall not be considered in computing test scores for individual students. Field test questions may be included as part of the administration of any proficiency test required by section 3301.0710 Of the Revised Code.

(3) Any field test question administered under division (N)(2) of this section shall not be a public record. Such field test questions shall be redacted from any proficiency tests which are released as a public record pursuant to division (N)(1) of this section.

Sec. 3302.03.  (A) Beginning with the fiscal year that starts on July 1, 1999, every three years the department of education shall calculate and report for each school district its percentages on each of the performance indicators listed in section 3302.02 of the Revised Code and shall specify for each such district the extent to which the acceptable performance indicator has been achieved and whether the district is an effective school district, needs continuous improvement, is under an academic watch, or is in a state of academic emergency.

(B)(1) A school district shall be declared an effective school district if it meets at least ninety-four per cent of the state performance standards.

(2) A school district shall be declared to be in need of continuous improvement if it meets more than fifty per cent but less than ninety-four per cent of the state performance standards.

(3) A school district shall be declared to be under an academic watch if it meets more than thirty-three per cent but not more than fifty per cent of the state performance standards.

(4) A school district shall be declared to be in a state of academic emergency if it does not meet more than thirty-three per cent of the state performance standards.

(C) Whenever feasible, the department shall utilize three-year averaging of the district's percentages on the performance standards specified in section 3302.02 of the Revised Code.

(C)(D)(1) The department shall issue annual report cards for each shool district and for the state as a whole based on education and fiscal performance data.

(2) The department shall not include in the report card required by this division proficiency test passage data according to any ethnic, racial, or gender classification.

Sec. 3313.646.  (A) The board of education of a school district, except a cooperative education district established pursuant to section 3311.521 of the Revised Code, may establish and operate a preschool program except that no such program shall be established after March 17, 1989, unless both of the following apply at the time the program is established:

(1) The board has demonstrated a need for the program.

(2) Unless it is a cooperative education district established pursuant to divisions (A) to (C) of section 3311.52 of the Revised Code, the school district is eligible for moneys distributed by the department of education pursuant to section 3317.029 of the Revised Code. A board may use school funds in support of preschool programs. The board shall maintain, operate, and admit children to any such program pursuant to rules adopted by such board and the rules of the state board of education adopted under sections 3301.52 to 3301.57 of the Revised Code.

A board of education may establish fees or tuition, which may be graduated in proportion to family income, for participation in a preschool program. In cases where payment of fees or tuition would create a hardship for the child's parent or guardian, the board may waive any such fees or tuition.

(B) No board of education that is not receiving funds under the "Head Start Act," 95 Stat. 489 (1981), 42 U.S.C.A. 9831, on March 17, 1989, shall compete for funds under the "Head Start Act" with any grantee receiving funds under that act.

(C) A board of education may contract with any of the following preschool providers to provide preschool programs, other than programs for units described by division (E) divisions (B) and (C) of section 3317.05 of the Revised Code, for children of the school district:

(1) Any organization receiving funds under the "Head Start Act";

(2) Any nonsectarian eligible nonpublic school as defined in division (H) of section 3301.52 of the Revised Code;

(3) Any child day-care provider licensed under Chapter 5104. of the Revised Code.

Boards may contract to provide preschool programs only with such organizations whose staff meet the requirements of rules adopted under section 3301.53 of the Revised Code or those of the child development associate credential established by the national association for the education of young children.

(D) A contract entered into under division (C) of this section may provide for the board of education to lease school facilities to the preschool provider or to furnish transportation, utilities, or staff for the preschool program.

(E) The treasurer of any board of education operating a preschool program pursuant to this section shall keep an account of all funds used to operate the program in the same manner as he would any other funds of the district pursuant to this chapter.

Sec. 3313.841.  The boards of education and governing boards of two or more city, local, joint vocational, or exempted village school districts or educational service centers may contract in accordance with the terms of this section for the sharing on a cooperative basis of the services of supervisory teachers, special instruction teachers, special education teachers, and other licensed personnel necessary to conduct approved cooperative classes of the type described in division (B) of section 3317.05 of the Revised Code for handicapped pupils for special education and related services and gifted education.

The boards of two or more districts or service centers desiring to enroll students in such classes shall each adopt resolutions indicating such desire and designating one of the participating districts or service centers as the funding agent for purposes of this section. The district or service center designated as the funding agent shall enter into an employment contract with each licensed teacher whose services are to be shared among the participating districts and service centers. In turn, the funding agent shall enter into contracts with each of the districts and service centers which have adopted resolutions agreeing to participate in the cooperative program upon terms agreed to by all parties to such contract. Such contracts between districts and service centers shall set forth the services to be provided by the licensed teacher employed by the funding agent whose services are to be shared by the participating districts and service centers and the basis for computing the amounts to be paid for such services to the funding agent by the participating districts and service centers.

For purposes of division (B) of section 3317.05 of the Revised Code, the funding agent shall count all pupils enrolled in cooperative programs for handicapped pupils as pupils enrolled in such programs in the funding agent district. Upon receipt of payment for such programs, the funding agent district shall credit the account of districts participating in the cooperative program for the amounts due under contracts entered into under the terms of this section in proportion to the number of resident students enrolled in the cooperative program from each participating district and service center.

In determining the terms of the contract entered into by the funding agent district or service center and the participating districts and service centers, the superintendent of schools of each participating board of education and governing board shall serve as a committee which shall recommend such terms to such boards.

Sec. 3313.842.  The boards of education of any two or more school districts may enter into an agreement for joint or cooperative establishment and operation of any educational program including any class, course, or program that may be included in a school district's graded course of study and staff development programs for teaching and nonteaching school employees. Each school district that is party to such an agreement may contribute funds of the district in support of the agreement and for the establishment and operation of any educational program established under the agreement. The agreement shall designate one of the districts as the district responsible for receiving and disbursing the funds contributed by the districts that are parties to the agreement.

A student participating in an educational program established pursuant to this section shall be included in the formula ADM certified under section 3317.03 of the Revised Code of the district in which the student is enrolled.

Sec. 3313.975.  As used in this section and in sections 3313.975 to 3313.979 of the Revised Code, "the pilot project school district" or "the district" means any school district included in the pilot project scholarship program pursuant to this section.

(A) The superintendent of public instruction shall establish a pilot project scholarship program and shall include in such program any school districts that are or have ever been under federal court order requiring supervision and operational management of the district by the state superintendent. The program shall provide for a number of students residing in any such district to receive scholarships to attend alternative schools, and for an equal number of students to receive tutorial assistance grants while attending public school in any such district.

(B) The state superintendent shall establish an application process and deadline for accepting applications from students residing in the district to participate in the scholarship program. In the initial year of the program students may only use a scholarship to attend school in grades kindergarten through third.

The state superintendent shall award as many scholarships and tutorial assistance grants as can be funded given the amount appropriated for the program. In no case, however, shall more than fifty per cent of all scholarships awarded be used by students who were enrolled in a nonpublic school during the school year of application for a scholarship.

(C)(1) The pilot project program shall continue in effect each year that the general assembly has appropriated sufficient money to fund scholarships and tutorial assistance grants. In each year the program continues, no new students may receive scholarships unless they are enrolled in grade kindergarten, one, two, or three. However, any student who has received a scholarship the preceding year may continue to receive one until the student has completed grade eight.

(2) If the general assembly discontinues the scholarship program, all students who are attending an alternative school under the pilot project shall be entitled to continued admittance to that specific school through all grades up to the eighth grade that are provided in such school, under the same conditions as when they were participating in the pilot project. The state superintendent shall continue to make scholarship payments in accordance with division (A) or (B) of section 3313.979 of the Revised Code for students who remain enrolled in an alternative school under this provision in any year that funds have been appropriated for this purpose.

If funds are not appropriated, the tuition charged to the parents of a student who remains enrolled in an alternative school under this provision shall not be increased beyond the amount equal to the amount of the scholarship plus any additional amount charged that student's parent in the most recent year of attendance as a participant in the pilot project, except that tuition for all the students enrolled in such school may be increased by the same percentage.

(D) Notwithstanding sections 124.39, 3307.35, and 3319.17 of the Revised Code, if the pilot project school district experiences a decrease in enrollment due to participation in a state-sponsored scholarship program pursuant to sections 3313.974 to 3313.979 of the Revised Code, the district board of education may enter into an agreement with any teacher it employs to provide to that teacher severance pay or early retirement incentives, or both, if the teacher agrees to terminate the employment contract with the district board, provided any collective bargaining agreement in force pursuant to Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code does not prohibit such an agreement for termination of a teacher's employment contract.

(E) The state superintendent shall make a grant to the pilot project school district sufficient to defray one hundred per cent of the additional costs to the district of providing transportation to and from the alternative school for all students utilizing a scholarship to attend an alternative school.

Sec. 3313.98.  Notwithstanding division (D) of section 3311.19 and division (D) of section 3311.52 of the Revised Code, the provisions of this section and sections 3313.981 to 3313.983 of the Revised Code that apply to a city school district do not apply to a joint vocational or cooperative education school district unless expressly specified.

(A) As used in this section and sections 3313.981 to 3313.983 of the Revised Code:

(1) "Parent" means either of the natural or adoptive parents of a student, except under the following conditions:

(a) When the marriage of the natural or adoptive parents of the student has been terminated by a divorce, dissolution of marriage, or annulment or the natural or adoptive parents of the student are living separate and apart under a legal separation decree and the court has issued an order allocating the parental rights and responsibilities with respect to the student, "parent" means the residential parent as designated by the court except that "parent" means either parent when the court issues a shared parenting decree.

(b) When a court has granted temporary or permanent custody of the student to an individual or agency other than either of the natural or adoptive parents of the student, "parent" means the legal custodian of the child.

(c) When a court has appointed a guardian for the student, "parent" means the guardian of the student.

(2) "Native student" means a student entitled under section 3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code to attend school in a district adopting a resolution under this section.

(3) "Adjacent district" means a city, exempted village, or local school district having territory that abuts the territory of a district adopting a resolution under this section.

(4) "Adjacent district student" means a student entitled under section 3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code to attend school in an adjacent district.

(5) "Adjacent district joint vocational student" means an adjacent district student who enrolls in a city, exempted village, or local school district pursuant to this section and who also enrolls in a joint vocational school district that does not contain the territory of the district for which that student is a native student and does contain the territory of the city, exempted village, or local district in which the student enrolls.

(6) "Adjusted formula amount" means the formula amount defined in division (B) of section 3317.02 of the Revised Code multiplied by the cost-of-doing-business factor for a district defined in division (N) of section 3317.02 of the Revised Code.

(7) "Poverty line" means the poverty line established by the director of the United States office of management and budget as revised by the director of the office of community services in accordance with section 673(2) of the "Community Services Block Grant Act," 95 Stat. 1609, 42 U.S.C.A. 9902, as amended.

(8) "IEP" means an individualized education program defined by division (E) of section 3323.01 of the Revised Code.

(9) "Other district" means a city, exempted village, or local school district having territory outside of the territory of a district adopting a resolution under this section.

(10) "Other district student" means a student entitled under section 3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code to attend school in an other district.

(11) "Other district joint vocational student" means a student who is enrolled in any city, exempted village, or local school district and who also enrolls in a joint vocational school district that does not contain the territory of the district for which that student is a native student in accordance with a policy adopted under section 3313.983 of the Revised Code.

(B)(1) The board of education of each city, local, and exempted village school district may shall adopt a resolution establishing for the school district one of the following policies:

(a) A policy that entirely prohibits the enrollment of students from adjacent districts or other districts, other than students for whom tuition is paid in accordance with section 3317.08 of the Revised Code,;

(b) A policy that permits enrollment of students from all adjacent districts in accordance with a policy statements contained in the resolution, or;

(c) A policy that permits enrollment of students from all other districts in accordance with a policy statements contained in the resolution.

(2) A policy permitting enrollment of students from adjacent or from other districts, as applicable, shall provide for all of the following:

(1)(a) Application procedures, including deadlines for application and for notification of students and the superintendent of the applicable district whenever an adjacent or other district student's application is approved.

(2)(b) Procedures for admitting adjacent or other district applicants free of any tuition obligation to the district's schools, including, but not limited to:

(a)(i) The establishment of district capacity limits by grade level, school building, and education program;

(b)(ii) A requirement that all native students wishing to be enrolled in the district will be enrolled and that any adjacent or other district students previously enrolled in the district shall receive preference over first-time applicants;

(c)(iii) Procedures to ensure that an appropriate racial balance is maintained in the district schools.

(C) Except as provided in section 3313.982 of the Revised Code, the procedures for admitting adjacent or other district students, as applicable, shall not include:

(1) Any requirement of academic ability, or any level of athletic, artistic, or other extracurricular skills;

(2) Limitations on admitting applicants because of handicapping conditions, except that a board may refuse to admit a student receiving services under Chapter 3323. of the Revised Code, if the services described in the student's IEP are not available in the district's schools;

(3) A requirement that the student be proficient in the English language;

(4) Rejection of any applicant because the student has been subject to disciplinary proceedings, except that if an applicant has been suspended or expelled by the student's district for ten consecutive days or more in the term for which admission is sought or in the term immediately preceding the term for which admission is sought, the procedures may include a provision denying admission of such applicant.

(D)(1) Each school board permitting only enrollment of adjacent district students shall provide information about the policy adopted under this section, including the application procedures and deadlines, to the superintendent and the board of education of each adjacent district and, upon request, to the parent of any adjacent district student.

(2) Each school board permitting enrollment of other district students shall provide information about the policy adopted under this section, including the application procedures and deadlines, upon request, to the board of education of any other school district or to the parent of any student anywhere in the state.

(E) Any school board shall accept all credits toward graduation earned in adjacent or other district schools by an adjacent or other district student or a native student.

(F)(1) No board of education may adopt a policy discouraging or prohibiting its native students from applying to enroll in the schools of an adjacent or any other district that has adopted a policy permitting such enrollment, except that:

(a) A district may object to the enrollment of a native student in an adjacent or other district in order to maintain an appropriate racial balance.

(b) The board of education of a district receiving funds under 64 Stat. 1100 (1950), 20 U.S.C.A. 236 et seq., as amended, may adopt a resolution objecting to the enrollment of its native students in adjacent or other districts if at least ten per cent of its students are included in the determination of the United States secretary of education made under section 20 U.S.C.A. 238(a).

(2) If a board objects to enrollment of native students under this division, any adjacent or other district shall refuse to enroll such native students unless tuition is paid for the students in accordance with section 3317.08 of the Revised Code. An adjacent or other district enrolling such students may not receive funding for those students in accordance with section 3313.981 of the Revised Code.

(G) The state board of education shall monitor school districts to ensure compliance with this section and the districts' policies. The board may adopt rules requiring uniform application procedures, deadlines for application, notification procedures, and record-keeping requirements for all school boards that adopt policies permitting the enrollment of adjacent or other district students, as applicable. If the state board adopts such rules, no school board shall adopt a policy that conflicts with those rules.

(H) A resolution adopted by a board of education under this section that entirely prohibits the enrollment of students from adjacent and from other school districts does not abrogate any agreement entered into under section 3313.841 or 3313.92 of the Revised Code or any contract entered into under section 3313.90 of the Revised Code between the board of education adopting the resolution and the board of education of any adjacent or other district or prohibit these boards of education from entering into any such agreement or contract.

(I) Nothing in this section shall be construed to permit or require the board of education of a city, exempted village, or local school district to exclude any native student of the district from enrolling in the district.

Sec. 3314.03.  (A) Each contract entered into under section 3314.02 of the Revised Code between a sponsor and the governing authority of a community school shall specify the following:

(1) That the school shall be established as a nonprofit corporation established under Chapter 1702. of the Revised Code;

(2) The education program of the school, including the school's mission, the characteristics of the students the school is expected to attract, the ages and grades of students, and the focus of the curriculum;

(3) The academic goals to be achieved and the method of measurement that will be used to determine progress toward those goals, which shall include the statewide proficiency tests;

(4) Performance standards 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;

(6) Dismissal procedures;

(7) The ways by which the school will achieve racial and ethnic balance reflective of the community it serves;

(8) Requirements and procedures for program and financial audits, including audits by the auditor of state and the department of education. The contract shall require financial records of the school to be maintained in the same manner as are financial records of school districts, pursuant to rules of the auditor of state and the audits shall be conducted in accordance with section 117.10 Of the Revised Code.

(9) The facility to be used and its location;

(10) Qualifications of teachers, including a requirement that the school's classroom teachers be licensed in accordance with sections 3319.22 to 3319.31 of the Revised Code, except that a community school may engage noncertificated persons to teach up to twelve hours per week pursuant to section 3319.301 of the Revised Code;

(11) That the school will comply with the following requirements:

(a) The school will provide learning opportunities to a minimum of twenty-five students for a minimum of nine hundred twenty hours per school year;

(b) The governing authority will purchase liability insurance, or otherwise provide for the potential liability of the school;

(c) The school will be nonsectarian in its programs, admission policies, employment practices, and all other operations, and will not be operated by a sectarian school or religious institution;

(d) The school will comply with sections 9.90, 9.91, 109.65, 121.22, 149.43, 2151.358, 2151.421, 2313.18, 3301.0710, 3301.0711, 3301.0714, 3313.50, 3313.643, 3313.66, 3313.661, 3313.662, 3313.67, 3313.672, 3313.673, 3313.69, 3313.71, 3313.80, 3313.96, 3319.321, 3319.39, 3321.01, 3327.10, 4111.17, and 4113.52 and Chapters 117., 1347., 2744., 4112., 4123., 4141., and 4167. of the Revised Code as if it were a school district;

(e) The school shall comply with Chapter 102. of the Revised Code except that nothing in that chapter shall prohibit a member of the school's governing board from also being an employee of the school and nothing in that chapter or section 2921.42 of the Revised Code shall prohibit a member of the school's governing board from having an interest in a contract into which the governing board enters;

(f) The school will comply with sections 3313.61 and 3313.611 of the Revised Code, except that the requirement in those sections that a person must successfully complete the curriculum in any high school prior to receiving a high school diploma may be met by completing the curriculum adopted by the governing authority of the community school rather than the curriculum specified in Title XXXIII of the Revised Code or any rules of the state board of education;

(g) The school governing authority will submit an annual report of its activities and progress in meeting the goals and standards of divisions (A)(3) and (4) of this section and its financial status to the sponsor and to, the parents of all students enrolled in the school, and the legislative office of education oversight.

(12) Arrangements for providing health and other benefits to employees;

(13) The length of the contract, which shall begin at the beginning of an academic year and shall not exceed three five years;

(14) The governing authority of the school, which shall be responsible for carrying out the provisions of the contract;

(15) A financial plan detailing an estimated school budget for each year of the period of the contract and specifying the total estimated per pupil expenditure amount for each such year. The plan shall specify for each year the base formula amount that will be used for purposes of funding calculations under section 3314.08 of the Revised Code. This base formula amount for any year shall not exceed the formula amount defined under section 3317.02 of the Revised Code. The plan may also specify for any year a percentage figure to be used for reducing the per pupil amount of disadvantaged pupil impact aid calculated pursuant to section 3317.029 of the Revised Code the school is to receive that year under section 3314.08 of the Revised Code.

(16) Requirements and procedures regarding the disposition of employees of the school in the event the contract is terminated or not renewed pursuant to section 3314.07 of the Revised Code;

(17) Whether the school is to be created by converting all or part of an existing public school or is to be a new start-up school, and if it is a converted public school, specification of any duties or responsibilities of an employer that the board of education that operated the school before conversion is delegating to the governing board of the community school with respect to all or any specified group of employees provided the delegation is not prohibited by a collective bargaining agreement applicable to such employees;

(18) Provisions establishing procedures for resolving disputes or differences of opinion between the sponsor and the governing authority of the community school.

(B) The community school shall also submit to the sponsor a comprehensive plan for the school. The plan shall specify the following:

(1) The process by which the governing authority of the school will be selected in the future;

(2) The management and administration of the school;

(3) If the community school is a currently existing public school, alternative arrangements for current public school students who choose not to attend the school and teachers who choose not to teach in the school after conversion;

(4) The instructional program and educational philosophy of the school;

(5) Internal financial controls.

(C) A contract entered into under section 3314.02 of the Revised Code between a sponsor and the governing authority of a community school may provide for the community school governing authority to make payments to the sponsor, which is hereby authorized to receive such payments as set forth in the contract between the governing authority and the sponsor.

Sec. 3314.07.  (A) The expiration of the contract for a community school between a sponsor and a school shall be the date provided in the contract. A successor contract may be entered into unless the contract is terminated or not renewed pursuant to this section.

(B)(1) A sponsor may choose not to renew a contract at its expiration or may choose to terminate a contract prior to its expiration for any of the following reasons:

(a) Failure to meet student performance requirements stated in the contract;

(b) Failure to meet generally accepted standards of fiscal management;

(c) Violation of any provision of the contract or applicable state or federal law;

(d) Other good cause.

A termination shall be effective only at the conclusion of a school year.

(2) At least sixty one hundred eighty days prior to the termination or nonrenewal of a contract, the sponsor shall notify the school of the proposed action in writing. The notice shall include the reasons for the proposed action in detail and that the school may, within fourteen days of receiving the notice, request an informal hearing before the sponsor. Such request must be in writing.

(3) A decision by the sponsor to terminate a contract may be appealed to the state board of education. The decision by the state board pertaining to an appeal under this division is final.

(C) A child attending a community school whose contract has been terminated or nonrenewed or that closes for any reason shall be admitted to the schools of the district in which the child is entitled to attend under section 3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code. Any deadlines established for the purpose of admitting students under section 3313.97 or 3313.98 shall be waived for students to whom this division pertains.

(D) A sponsor of a community school and the officers, directors, or employees of such a sponsor are not liable in damages in a tort or other civil action for harm allegedly arising from either of the following:

(1) A failure of the community school or any of its officers, directors, or employees to perform any statutory or common law duty or responsibility or any other legal obligation;

(2) An action or omission of the community school or any of its officers, directors, or employees that results in harm.

(E) As used in this section:

(1) "Harm" means injury, death, or loss to person or property.

(2) "Tort action" means a civil action for damages for injury, death, or loss to person or property other than a civil action for damages for a breach of contract or another agreement between persons.

Sec. 3314.08.  (A) As used in this section:

(1) "Base formula amount" means the amount specified as such in a community school's financial plan for a school year pursuant to division (A)(15) of section 3314.03 of the Revised Code.

(2) "Cost-of-doing-business factor" has the same meaning as in section 3317.02 of the Revised Code.

(3) "IEP" means an individualized education program defined by division (E) of section 3323.01 of the Revised Code.

(4) "Actual Average county cost" means the actual cost, averaged among school districts within a county, of providing special education and related services to a special education student pursuant to an IEP in the school district where that student is entitled to attend school pursuant to section 3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code similarly handicapped children, as calculated in a manner acceptable to the superintendent of public instruction.

(5) "DPIA reduction factor" means the percentage figure, if any, specified for reducing the per pupil amount of disadvantaged pupil impact aid a community school is entitled to receive pursuant to division (D)(3) of this section in any year, as specified in the school's financial plan for the year pursuant to division (A)(15) of section 3314.03 of the Revised Code.

(B) The state board of education shall adopt rules requiring both of the following:

(1) The board of education of each city, exempted village, and local school district to annually report the number of students entitled to attend school in the district pursuant to section 3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code who are enrolled in grades one through twelve and one-half of the kindergarten students enrolled in a community school established under this chapter and for each child the community school in which the child is enrolled. In addition, for each such child receiving special education and related services enrolled in grades kindergarten through twelve or in a preschool handicapped unit in a community school pursuant to an IEP, the board shall report the actual average county cost for such child and, if. If the district receives disadvantaged pupil impact aid pursuant to division (B) or divisions (C) and (e) of section 3317.029 of the Revised Code, it also shall report the amount received for each such child.

(2) The governing authority of each community school established under this chapter to annually report the number of students enrolled in grades one through twelve and one-half the number of kindergarten students in the school who are not receiving special education and related services pursuant to an IEP; the number of enrolled students in grades one through twelve and one-half the number of kindergarten students who are receiving special education and related services pursuant to an IEP; the number of enrolled preschool handicapped students receiving special education services in a state-funded unit; the community school's base formula amount; and the city, exempted village, or local school district in which the school is located. Each governing authority shall also report any DPIA reduction factor that applies to a school year.

(C) From the payments made to a city, exempted village, or local school district under Chapter 3317. of the Revised Code and, if necessary, sections 321.14 and 323.156 of the Revised Code, the department of education shall annually subtract all of the following:

(1) An amount equal to the sum of the amounts obtained when, for each community school where the district's students are enrolled, the number of the district's students reported under division (B)(2) of this section who are enrolled in grades one through twelve and one-half the number of kindergarten students in that community school and are not receiving special education and related services pursuant to an IEP is multiplied by the base formula amount of that community school as adjusted by the school district's cost-of-doing-business factor.

(2) The sum of the actual average county costs for all district students reported under division (B)(2) of this section who are to be receiving special education and related services pursuant to an IEP in their respective community schools, less the sum of the prorated share for each such student of any amounts received from state preschool handicapped unit funding or from federal funds to provide special education and related services to students in the respective community schools. This prorated share of state or federal funds received for each such student shall be determined on the basis of all such funds received by a community school for students receiving similar services, as calculated in a manner acceptable to the superintendent of public instruction.

(3) An amount equal to the sum of the amounts obtained when, for each community school where the district's students are enrolled, the number of the district's students enrolled in that community school and residing in the district in a family participating in Ohio works first under Chapter 5107. of the Revised Code is multiplied by the per pupil amount of disadvantaged pupil impact aid the school district receives that year pursuant to division (B) or divisions (C) and (E) of section 3317.029 of the Revised Code, as adjusted by any DPIA reduction factor of that community school.

(D) The department shall annually pay to a community school established under this chapter all of the following:

(1) An amount equal to the sum of the amounts obtained when the number of students enrolled in grades one through twelve plus one-half of the kindergarten students in the school as reported under division (B)(2) of this section who are not receiving special education and related services pursuant to an IEP is multiplied by the community school's base formula amount, as adjusted by the cost-of-doing-business factor of the school district in which the school is located;

(2) For each student enrolled in the school receiving special education and related services pursuant to an IEP, an amount equal to the actual average county cost for such student, less a prorated share for the student of any amount received from state preschool handicapped unit funding or federal funds to provide special education and related services to students in the community school. This prorated share shall be determined as described under division (C)(2) of this section.

(3) An amount equal to the number of students enrolled in the community school and residing in the school district in a family participating in Ohio works first is multiplied by the per pupil amount of disadvantaged pupil impact aid that school district receives that year pursuant to division (B) or divisions (C) and (E) of section 3317.029 of the Revised Code, as adjusted by any DPIA reduction factor of the community school.

(E) A community school may apply to the department of education for preschool handicapped or gifted unit funding the school would receive if it were a school district. Upon request of its governing authority, a community school that received unit funding as a school district-operated school before it became a community school shall retain any units awarded to it as a school district-operated school provided the school continues to meet eligibility standards for the unit.

A community school shall be considered a school district and its governing authority shall be considered a board of education for the purpose of applying to any state or federal agency for grants that a school district may receive under federal or state law or any appropriations act of the general assembly. The governing authority of a community school may apply to any private entity for additional funds.

(F) A board of education sponsoring a community school may utilize local funds to make enhancement grants to the school or may agree, either as part of the contract or separately, to provide any specific services to the community school at no cost to the school.

(G) A community school may not levy taxes or issue bonds secured by tax revenues.

(H) No community school shall charge tuition for the enrollment of any student.

(I) A community school may borrow money to pay any necessary and actual expenses of the school in anticipation of the receipt of any portion of the payments to be received by the school pursuant to division (D) of this section. The school may issue notes to evidence such borrowing to mature no later than the end of the fiscal year in which such money was borrowed. The proceeds of the notes shall be used only for the purposes for which the anticipated receipts may be lawfully expended by the school.

(J) For purposes of determining the number of students for which division (D)(3) of this section applies in any school year, a community school may submit to the state department of human services, no later than the first day of March, a list of the students enrolled in the school. For each student on the list, the community school shall indicate the student's name, address, and date of birth and the school district where the student is entitled to attend school under section 3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code. Upon receipt of a list under this division, the department of human services shall determine, for each school district where one or more students on the list is entitled to attend school under section 3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code, the number of students residing in that school district who were included in the department's report under section 3317.10 of the Revised Code. The department shall make this determination on the basis of information readily available to it. Upon making this determination and no later than ninety days after submission of the list by the community school, the department shall report to the state department of education the number of students on the list who reside in each school district who were included in the department's report under section 3317.10 of the Revised Code. In complying with this division, the department of human services shall not report to the state department of education any personally identifiable information on any student.

(K) The department of education shall adjust the amounts subtracted and paid under divisions (C) and (D) of this section to reflect any enrollment of students in community schools for less than the equivalent of a full school year.

Sec. 3314.12. The legislative office of education oversight shall produce and issue an annual composite informational report on community schools established under this chapter or under Section 50.52 of Amended Substitute House Bill No. 215 of the 122nd general assembly to the speaker of the house of representatives, the president of the senate, and the governor. The report shall include the number of schools in operation, the size and characteristics of enrollment for the schools, the academic performance of the schools, the financial status of the schools, and any other pertinent information.

Sec. 3314.13. (A) As used in this section:

(1) "All-day kindergarten" and "DPIA index" have the same meanings as in section 3317.029 of the Revised Code.

(2) "Formula amount" has the same meaning as in section 3317.02 of the Revised Code.

(B) The department of education annually shall pay each community school established under this chapter or under Section 50.52 of Amended Substitute House Bill No. 215 of the122nd general assembly one-half of the formula amount for each student who is entitled to attend school under section 3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code in a school district with a DPIA index of one or greater and who is reported by the community school as enrolled in all-day kindergarten at the community school. If a student for whom payment is made under this section is entitled to attend school in a district that receives any payment for all-day kindergarten under division (D) of section 3317.029 of the Revised Code, the department shall deduct the payment to the community school under this section from the amount paid that school district under that division. If that school district does not receive payment for all-day kindergarten under that division, the department shall pay the community school from state funds appropriated generally for disadvantaged pupil impact aid.

(C) The department shall adjust the amounts deducted from school districts and paid to community schools under this section to reflect any enrollments of students in all-day kindergarten in community schools for less than the equivalent of a full school year.

Sec. 3315.171. As used in this section, "securities" has the same meaning as in section 133.01 Of the Revised Code.

The board of education of a city, exempted village, local, or joint vocational school district may replace revenues received for operating expenses with money received from any of the following sources in meeting the amount required by division (A) of section 3315.17 of the Revised Code to be deposited in the district's textbook and instructional materials fund:

(A) A permanent improvement levy authorized by section 5705.21 of the Revised Code to the extent the proceeds are restricted by the district board to expenditures for textbooks, instructional software, and instructional materials, supplies, and equipment;

(B) The proceeds of securities whose use is restricted to expenditures for textbooks, instructional software, and instructional materials, supplies, and equipment;

(C) The proceeds of any school district income tax levied under Chapter 5748. Of the Revised Code for permanent improvements, to the extent the proceeds are restricted to expenditures for textbooks, instructional software, and instructional materials, supplies, and equipment;

(D) Any other revenue source identified by the auditor of state, in consultation with the department of education, in rules adopted by the auditor of state.

Sec. 3315.181. As used in this section, "securities" has the same meaning as in section 133.01 of the Revised Code.

Notwithstanding division (A) of section 3315.18 of the Revised Code, the board of education of a city, exempted village, local, or joint vocational school district, in meeting the amount required by that division to be deposited in the district's capital and maintenance fund, may replace general fund revenues with proceeds received from a permanent improvement levy authorized by section 5705.21 of the Revised Code only to the extent the proceeds are available to be used for the acquisition, replacement, enhancement, maintenance, or repair of permanent improvements as defined in section 5705.01 of the Revised Code. In addition, the board may replace general fund revenues with proceeds received from any of the following sources in meeting the amount required by that division to be deposited in the fund:

(A) proceeds received from any securities whose use is limited to the acquisition, replacement, enhancement, maintenance, or repair of permanent improvements;

(B) insurance proceeds received as a result of the damage to or theft or destruction of a permanent improvement to the extent a board of education places the proceeds in a separate fund for the acquisition, replacement, enhancement, maintenance, or repair of permanent improvements;

(C) proceeds received from the sale of a permanent improvement to the extent the proceeds are paid into a separate fund for the construction or acquisition of permanent improvements;

(D) proceeds received from a tax levy authorized by section 3318.06 of the Revised Code to the extent the proceeds are available to be used for the maintenance of capital facilities;

(E) Proceeds of certificates of participation issued as part of a lease-purchase agreement entered into under section 3313.375 of the Revised Code;

(F) Proceeds of any school district income tax levied under Chapter 5748. Of the Revised Code for permanent improvements, to the extent the proceeds are available for the acquisition, replacement, enhancement, maintenance, or repair of permanent improvements;

(G) Any other revenue source identified by the auditor of state, in consultation with the department of education, in rules adopted by the auditor of state.

Sec. 3317.01.  As used in this section and section 3317.011 of the Revised Code, "school district," unless otherwise specified, means any city, local, exempted village, joint vocational, or cooperative education school district and any educational service center.

This chapter shall be administered by the state board of education. The superintendent of public instruction shall calculate the amounts payable to each school district and shall certify the amounts payable to each eligible district to the treasurer of the district as provided by this chapter. No moneys shall be distributed pursuant to this chapter without the approval of the controlling board.

The state board of education shall, in accordance with appropriations made by the general assembly, meet the financial obligations of this chapter, except that moneys to meet the financial obligations of section 3301.17 of the Revised Code shall be supplemented from funds available to the state from the United States or any agency or department thereof for a driver education course of instruction.

Annually, the department of education shall calculate and report to each school district the district's total state and local funds for providing an adequate basic education to the district's nonhandicapped students, utilizing the determination in section 3317.012 Of the Revised Code. In addition, the department shall calculate and report separately for each school district the district's total state and local funds for providng an adequate education for its handicapped students, utilizing the determinations in both sections 3317.012 and 3317.013 Of the Revised Code.

Moneys distributed pursuant to this chapter shall be calculated and paid on a fiscal year basis, beginning with the first day of July and extending through the thirtieth day of June. The moneys appropriated for each fiscal year shall be distributed at least monthly to each school district unless otherwise provided for. With each payment, the state board shall submit to each school district a detailed statement of state special education support indicating the amount of the payment calculated under division (A) of section 3317.022 of the Revised Code as basic aid that is attributable to the district's category one, two, and three special education ADMs plus the amount of the distribution computed under division (C) of section 3317.022 of the Revised Code. The state board shall submit a yearly districution distribution plan to the controlling board at its first meeting in July. The state board shall submit any proposed midyear revision of the plan to the controlling board in January. Any year-end revision of the plan shall be submitted to the controlling board in June. If moneys appropriated for each fiscal year are distributed other than monthly, such distribution shall be on the same basis for each school district.

The total amounts paid each month shall constitute, as nearly as possible, one-twelfth of the total amount payable for the entire year. Payments made during the first six months of the fiscal year may be based on an estimate of the amounts payable for the entire year. Payments made in the last six months shall be based on the final calculation of the amounts payable to each school district for that fiscal year. Payments made in the last six months may be adjusted, if necessary, to correct the amounts distributed in the first six months, and to reflect enrollment increases when such are at least three per cent. Except as otherwise provided, payments under this chapter shall be made only to those school districts in which:

(A) The school district, except for any educational service center and any joint vocational or cooperative education school district, levies for current operating expenses at least twenty mills. Levies for joint vocational or cooperative education school districts or county school financing districts, limited to or to the extent apportioned to current expenses, shall be included in this qualification requirement. School district income tax levies under Chapter 5748. of the Revised Code, limited to or to the extent apportioned to current operating expenses, shall be included in this qualification requirement to the extent determined by the tax commissioner under division (C) of section 3317.021 of the Revised Code.

(B) The school year next preceding the fiscal year for which such payments are authorized meets the requirement of section 3313.48 or 3313.481 of the Revised Code, with regard to the minimum number of days or hours school must be open for instruction with pupils in attendance, for individualized parent-teacher conference and reporting periods, and for professional meetings of teachers. This requirement shall be waived by the superintendent of public instruction if it had been necessary for a school to be closed because of disease epidemic, hazardous weather conditions, inoperability of school buses or other equipment necessary to the school's operation, damage to a school building, or other temporary circumstances due to utility failure rendering the school building unfit for school use, provided that for those school districts operating pursuant to section 3313.48 of the Revised Code the number of days the school was actually open for instruction with pupils in attendance and for individualized parent-teacher conference and reporting periods is not less than one hundred seventy-five, or for those school districts operating on a trimester plan the number of days the school was actually open for instruction with pupils in attendance not less than seventy-nine days in any trimester, for those school districts operating on a quarterly plan the number of days the school was actually open for instruction with pupils in attendance not less than fifty-nine days in any quarter, or for those school districts operating on a pentamester plan the number of days the school was actually open for instruction with pupils in attendance not less than forty-four days in any pentamester.

A school district shall not be considered to have failed to comply with this division or section 3313.481 of the Revised Code because schools were open for instruction but either twelfth grade students were excused from attendance for up to three days or only a portion of the kindergarten students were in attendance for up to three days in order to allow for the gradual orientation to school of such students.

The superintendent of public instruction shall waive the requirements of this section with reference to the minimum number of days or hours school must be in session with pupils in attendance for the school year succeeding the school year in which a board of education initiates a plan of operation pursuant to section 3313.481 of the Revised Code. The minimum requirements of this section shall again be applicable to such a district beginning with the school year commencing the second July succeeding the initiation of one such plan, and for each school year thereafter.

A school district shall not be considered to have failed to comply with this division or section 3313.48 or 3313.481 of the Revised Code because schools were open for instruction but the length of the regularly scheduled school day, for any number of days during the school year, was reduced by not more than two hours due to hazardous weather conditions.

(C) The school district has on file, and is paying in accordance with, a teacher's teachers' salary schedule which complies with section 3317.13 of the Revised Code.

A board of education or governing board of an educational service center which has not conformed with other law and the rules pursuant thereto, shall not participate in the distribution of funds authorized by sections 3317.022 to 3317.0211, 3317.11, 3317.16, 3317.17, and 3317.19 of the Revised Code, except for good and sufficient reason established to the satisfaction of the state board of education and the state controlling board.

All funds allocated to school districts under this chapter, except those specifically allocated for other purposes, shall be used to pay current operating expenses only.

Sec. 3317.013.  This section does not apply to preschool handicapped preschool students.

Analysis of special education cost data has resulted in a finding that the average special education excess additional cost per pupil, including the costs of related services, can be expressed as a multiple of the base cost per pupil calculated under section 3317.012 of the Revised Code. The multiples for the following categories of special education programs, as these programs are defined for purposes of Chapter 3323. of the Revised Code, are as follows:

(A) A multiple of 0.22 for students identified as specific learning disabled, other health handicapped, or developmentally handicapped, as these terms are defined pursuant to Chapter 3323. of the Revised Code;

(B) A multiple of 3.01 for students identified as hearing handicapped, orthopedically handicapped, vision impaired, multihandicapped, and severe behavior handicapped, as these terms are defined pursuant to Chapter 3323. of the Revised Code.

Further analysis indicates that approximately one-eighth of the total costs of serving special education costs consist students consists of the furnishing of the related services specified in division (A)(B)(3) of section 3317.024 3317.022 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 3317.02.  As used in this chapter:

(A) Unless otherwise specified, "school district" means city, local, and exempted village school districts.

(B) "Formula amount" means the base cost for the fiscal year specified in section 3317.012 of the Revised Code, except that to allow for the orderly phase-in of the increased funding specified in that section, the formula amount for fiscal year 1999 shall be $3,851; the formula amount for fiscal year 2000 shall be $4,038; and the formula amount for fiscal year 2001 shall be $4,226. Thereafter, the formula amount shall be as specified in that section.

(C) "FTE basis" means a count of students based on full-time equivalency, in accordance with rules adopted by the department of education pursuant to section 3317.03 of the Revised Code. In adopting its rules under this division, the department shall provide for counting any student in a district's category one, two, or three special education ADM in the same proportion the student is counted in formula ADM.

(D)(1) "Formula ADM" means the greater of the number reported pursuant to division (A) of section 3317.03 of the Revised Code or the three-year.

(2) "Three-year average formula ADM" means the average of that number and the number reported under that division a school district's formula ADMs for the current and preceding two fiscal years. However, as applicable in fiscal years 1999 and 2000, the three-year average specified in this division shall be determined utilizing the FY 1997 ADM or FY 1998 ADM in lieu of a number reported under division (A) of section 3317.03 of the Revised Code formula ADM for fiscal year 1997 or 1998.

(E) "Preschool special education ADM" means the sum of the average daily membership of handicapped preschool children receiving services in preschool special education units approved pursuant to division (B) of section 3317.05 of the Revised Code FY 1997 ADM" or "FY 1998 ADM" means the district's average daily membership reported for the applicable fiscal year under the version of division (A) of section 3317.03 of the Revised Code in effect during that fiscal year, adjusted as follows:

(1) Minus the average daily membership of handicapped preschool children;

(2) Minus one-half of the average daily membership attending kindergarten;

(3) Minus three-fourths of the average daily membership attending a joint vocational school district;

(4) Plus the average daily membership entitled under section 3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code to attend school in the district but receiving educational services in approved units from an educational service center or another school district under a compact or a cooperative education agreement, as determined by the department;

(5) Minus the average daily membership receiving educational services from the district in approved units but entitled under section 3313.64 or 3313.65 Of the Revised Code to attend school in another school district, as determined by the department.

(F)(1) "Category one special education ADM" means the average daily membership of handicapped children receiving special education services for those handicaps specified in division (A) of section 3317.013 of the Revised Code and reported under division (B) of section 3317.03 of the Revised Code.

(2) "Category two special education ADM" means the average daily membership of handicapped children receiving special education services for those handicaps specified in division (B) of section 3317.013 of the Revised Code and reported under division (B) of section 3317.03 of the Revised Code.

(3) "Category three special education ADM" means the average daily membership of students receiving special education services for students identified as autistic, having traumatic brain injuries, or as both visually and hearing disabled as these terms are defined pursuant to Chapter 3323. of the Revised Code, and reported under division (B) of section 3317.03 of the Revised Code.

(G) "Family assistance" means assistance received under the Ohio works first program or, for the purpose of determining the five-year average of recipients of family assistance for fiscal years 1999 through 2002, assistance received under an antecedent family assistance program known as TANF or ADC Handicapped preschool child" means a handicapped child, as defined in section 3323.01 of the Revised Code, who is at least age three but is not of compulsory school age, as defined in section 3321.01 of the Revised Code, and who has not entered kindergarten.

(H) "DPIA ADM" means the five-year average of the number of children ages five to seventeen years residing in the school district and living in a family receiving family assistance, as certified or adjusted under section 3317.10 of the Revised Code County MR/DD board" means a county board of mental retardation and developmental disabilities.

(I)(1) "DPIA percentage" means a school district's DPIA ADM for the fiscal year divided by the district's three-year average formulaADM for that fiscal year.

(2) "Three-year average formulaADM" means the average of the district's formula ADM for the current and preceding two fiscal years, provided that in fiscal years 1999 and 2000, the department shall calculate this average utilizing the district's ADMreported for fiscal years 1997 and 1998 pursuant to division (A) of section 3317.03 of the Revised Code, minus one-half the kindergarten students "Recognized valuation" means the amount calculated for a school district pursuant to section 3317.015 of the Revised Code.

(J) "Transportation ADM" means the number of children reported under division (B)(9) of section 3317.03 of the Revised Code.

(K) "Most efficient transportation use cost per transported student" for a district means the most efficient cost per transported student for that district as developed a statistical representation of transportation costs as calculated under division (D)(4) of section 3317.022 of the Revised Code.

(L) "Taxes charged and payable" means the taxes charged and payable against real and public utility property after making the reduction required by section 319.301 of the Revised Code, plus the taxes levied against tangible personal property.

(M) "Total taxable value" means the sum of the amounts certified for a city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district under divisions (A)(1) and (2) of section 3317.021 of the Revised Code.

(N)(1) "Cost-of-doing-business factor" means the amount indicated in this division for the county in which the district is located, adjusted in accordance with division (N)(2) of this section. If the district is located in more than one county, the factor is the amount indicated for the county to which the district is assigned by the state department of education.

(2) As used in this division, "multiplier" means the number for the corresponding fiscal year as follows:

Beginning in fiscal year 1998, the department shall annually adjust the cost-of-doing-business factor for each county in accordance with the following formula:

The result of such formula shall be the adjusted cost-of-doing-business factor for that fiscal year.

(O) "Tax exempt value" of a school district means the amount certified for a school district under division (A)(4) of section 3317.021 of the Revised Code.

(P) "Potential value" of a school district means the adjusted total taxable value of a school district plus the tax exempt value of the district.

(Q) "District median income" means the median Ohio adjusted gross income certified for a school district. On or before the first day of July of each year, the tax commissioner shall certify to the department of education for each city, exempted village, and local school district the median Ohio adjusted gross income of the residents of the school district determined on the basis of tax returns filed for the second preceding tax year by the residents of the district.

(R) "Statewide median income" means the median district median income of all city, exempted village, and local school districts in the state.

(S) "Income factor" for a city, exempted village, or local school district means the quotient obtained by dividing that district's median income by the statewide median income.

(T) "Valuation Except as provided in division (B)(3) of section 3317.012 Of the Revised Code, "valuation per pupil" for a city, exempted village, or local school district means the district's recognized valuation divided by the greater of the district's formula ADM or three-year average formula ADM.

(U) Except as provided in section 3317.0213 of the Revised Code, "adjusted valuation per pupil" means the amount calculated in accordance with the following formula:

If the result of such formula is negative, the adjusted valuation per pupil shall be zero.

(V) "Income adjusted valuation" means the product obtained by multiplying the district's adjusted valuation per pupil by the greater of the district's formula ADM or three-year average formula ADM.

(W) "Adjusted Except as provided in division (A)(2) of section 3317.022 Of the Revised Code, "adjusted total taxable value" means one of the following:

(1) In any fiscal year that a district's income factor is less than or equal to one, the amount calculated under the following formula:

(2) In fiscal year 1999, if a district's income factor is greater than one, the amount calculated under the following formula:

Thereafter, the adjusted total taxable value of a district with an income factor greater than one shall be its recognized valuation.

(X) "Recognized valuation" means the amount calculated for a school district pursuant to section 3317.015 of the Revised Code.

(Y) "CountyMR/DD board" means a county board of mental retardation and developmental disabilities.

(Z) "Handicapped preschool child" means a handicapped child, as defined in section 3323.01 of the Revised Code, who is at least age three but is not of compulsory school age, as defined in section 3321.01 of the Revised Code, and who has not entered kindergarten.

(AA) "FY 1997 or FY 1998ADM" means for either fiscal year, as applicable, the district's average daily membership as described by division (A) of former section 3317.02 of the Revised Code, plus the district's average daily membership based upon full-time equivalency in approved vocational units as certified by the district under division (A)(2) of former section 3317.03 of the Revised Code and the district's average daily membership of all handicapped children, except for preschool handicapped children, in classes in the district as certified under division (a)(3) of former section 3317.03 of the Revised Code, as those divisions and sections existed in the applicable fiscal year.

Sec. 3317.021.  (A) On or before the first day of June of each year, the tax commissioner shall certify to the department of education the following information for each city, exempted village, and local school district and the information required by divisions (A)(1) and (2) of this section for each joint vocational school district, and it shall be used, along with the information certified under division (B) of this section, in making the computations for the district under section 3317.022 or 3317.16 of the Revised Code:

(1) The taxable value of real and public utility real property in the school district subject to taxation in the preceding tax year, by class and by county of location;

(2) The taxable value of tangible personal property, including public utility personal property, subject to taxation by the district for the preceding tax year;

(3) The total property tax rate and total taxes charged and payable for the current expenses for the preceding tax year and the total property tax rate and the total taxes charged and payable to a joint vocational district for the preceding tax year that are limited to or to the extent apportioned to current expenses;

(4) The value of all real and public utility real property in the school district exempted from taxation minus both of the following:

(a) The value of real and public utility real property in the district owned by the United States government and used exclusively for a public purpose;

(b) The value of real and public utility real property in the district exempted from taxation under Chapter 725. or 1728. or section 3735.67, 5709.40, 5709.41, 5709.62, 5709.63, 5709.632, 5709.73, or 5709.78 of the Revised Code.

(5) The total effective operating tax rate for the district in the tax year for which the most recent data are available.

(B) On or before the first day of May each year, the tax commissioner shall certify to the department of education the total taxable real property value of railroads and, separately, the total taxable tangible personal property value of all public utilities for the preceding tax year, by school district and by county of location.

(C) If on the basis of the information certified under division (A) of this section, the department determines that any district fails in any year to meet the qualification requirement specified in division (A) of section 3317.01 of the Revised Code, the department shall immediately request the tax commissioner to determine the extent to which any school district income tax levied by the district under Chapter 5748. of the Revised Code shall be included in meeting that requirement. Within five days of receiving such a request from the department, the tax commissioner shall make the determination required by this division and report the quotient obtained under division (C)(3) of this section to the department. This quotient represents the number of mills that the department shall include in determining whether the district meets the qualification requirement of division (A) of section 3317.01 of the Revised Code.

The tax commissioner shall make the determination required by this division as follows:

(1) Multiply one mill times the total taxable value of the district as determined in divisions (A)(1) and (2) of this section;

(2) Estimate the total amount of tax liability for the current tax year under taxes levied by Chapter 5748. of the Revised Code that are apportioned to current operating expenses of the district;

(3) Divide the amount estimated under division (C)(2) of this section by the product obtained under division (C)(1) of this section.

(D) As used in this section:

(1) "Class I taxes charged and payable for current expenses" means taxes charged and payable for current expenses on land and improvements classified as residential/agricultural real property under section 5713.041 of the Revised Code.

(2) "Class I taxable value" means the taxable value of land and improvements classified as residential/agricultural real property under section 5713.041 of the Revised Code.

(3) "Class I effective operating tax rate" of a school district means the quotient obtained by dividing the school district's Class I taxes charged and payable for current expenses by the district's Class I taxable value.

(4) "Income tax equivalent tax rate" of a school district means the quotient obtained by dividing the income tax liability for the most recently concluded revenue disbursed during the current fiscal year under any tax levied pursuant to Chapter 5748. of the Revised Code by total taxable value of the district to the extent the revenue from the tax is allocated or apportioned to current expenses.

(5) "Total effective operating tax rate" means the sum of the Class I effective operating tax rate and the income tax equivalent tax rate.

(6) "State taxable value per pupil" means the quotient obtained by dividing the total taxable value of all city, local, and exempted village school districts in this state by the sum of the formula ADMs of all city, local, and exempted village school districts in this state.

Sec. 3317.022.  (A)(1) The department of education shall compute and distribute state basic aid to each school district for the fiscal year in accordance with the following formula, using adjusted total taxable value as defined under division (W) of section 3317.02 of the Revised Code or division (A)(2) of this section and the information obtained under section 3317.021 of the Revised Code in the calendar year in which the fiscal year begins.

Compute the following for each eligible district:

If the difference obtained is a negative number, the district's computation shall be zero.

(2)(a) For each school district for which the tax exempt value of the district equals or exceeds twenty-five per cent of the potential value of the district, the department of education shall calculate the difference between the district's tax exempt value and twenty-five per cent of the district's potential value.

(b) For each school district to which division (A)(2)(a) of this section applies, the adjusted total taxable value used in the calculation under division (A)(1) of this section shall be the adjusted total taxable value modified by subtracting the amount calculated under division (A)(2)(a) of this section.

(B) As used in division (C) of this section and in section 3317.024 of the Revised Code:

(1) The "total special education weight" for a district means the sum of the following amounts:

(a) The district's category one special education ADM multiplied by the multiple specified under division (A) of section 3317.013 of the Revised Code;

(b) The sum of the district's category two and category three special education ADMs multiplied by the multiple specified under division (B) of section 3317.013 of the Revised Code.

(2) "State share percentage" means the percentage calculated for a district as follows:

(a) Calculate the basic aid amount for the district for the fiscal year under division (A) of this section. If the district would not receive any state basic aid for that year under that division, the district's state share percentage is zero.

(b) If the district would receive basic aid under that division, divide that basic aid amount by an amount equal to the following:

The resultant number is the district's state share percentage.

(3) "Related services" includes:

(a) Child study, special education supervisors and coordinators, speech and hearing services, adaptive physical development services, occupational or physical therapy, teacher assistants for handicapped children whose handicaps are described in division (B) of section 3317.013 or division (F)(3) of section 3317.02 of the Revised Code, behavioral intervention, interpreter services, work study, nursing services, and specialized integrative services as those terms are defined by the department;

(b) Speech and language services provided to any student with a handicap, including any student whose primary or only handicap is a speech and language handicap;

(c) Any related service not specifically covered by other state funds but specified in federal law, including but not limited to, audiology and school psychological services;

(d) Any service included in units funded under former division (O)(1) of section 3317.023 of the Revised Code;

(e) Any other related service needed by handicapped children in accordance with their individualized education plans.

(C)(1) The department shall compute and distribute state basic special education and related services additional weighted costs funds to each school district in accordance with the following formula:

(2) In any fiscal year, a school district receiving funds under division (C)(1) of this section shall spend on related services the lesser of the following:

(a) The amount the district spent on related services in the preceding fiscal year;

(b) 1/8 X [cost-of-doing-business factor X the formula amount X (the category one special education ADM + category two special education ADM + category three special education ADM)] + the amount calculated for the fiscal year under division (C)(1) of this section + the local share of special education and related services additional weighted costs

(3) The local share of special education and related services additional weighted costs equals:

(4) The department shall compute and pay in accordance with this division additional state aid to school districts for students in category three special education ADM. If a district's costs for the fiscal year for a student in its category three special education ADM are twenty-five thousand dollars or more, the district may submit to the superintendent of public instruction documentation, as prescribed by the superintendent, of all its costs for that student. Upon submission of documentation for a student of the type and in the manner prescribed, the department shall pay to the district an amount equal to the district's costs for the student in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars multiplied by the district's state share percentage.

(D)(1) As used in this division, "log density" means a statistical representation of the most efficient transportation use cost per transported student for each district based on a statewide analysis the logarithmic calculation (base 10) of each district's transportation ADM per linear mile.

(2) In addition to funds paid under divisions (A) and (C) of this section, each district shall receive a payment equal to sixty per cent of the district's transportation ADM times the district's most efficient transportation use cost per transported student.

(3) In fiscal years 1999 through 2002, notwithstanding the amount calculated for each district under division (D)(2) of this section, each district shall receive in the corresponding fiscal year the following percentage of the district's transportation ADM times the district's most efficient transportation use cost per transported student:

(4) For purposes of funding the student transportation portion, the department of education shall determine the most efficient transportation use cost per transported student for each school district. This cost per student shall be an amount equal to the number ten to a power calculated in accordance with the following formula:

(5) The department of education shall biennially annually update the most efficient transportation use cost per transported student for each district in accordance with the formula in division (D)(4) of this section, including the figures and log density component of that formula, based on a an annual statewide analysis of each district's transportation ADM per linear mile, and shall notify the office of budget and management of such update by September of each even-numbered every year.

The department of education shall use the most recent available data as of the first day of July of each year to complete the annual update. The department shall apply a 2.8 per cent inflation cost adjustment factor for each fiscal year since the fiscal year for which the data applies to adjust the amount calculated for each district under division (D)(2) or (3) of this section to the current fiscal year level.

(6) In addition to funds paid under division (D)(2) or (3) of this section, each district shall receive in accordance with rules adopted by the state board of education a payment for students transported by means other than board-owned or contractor-operated buses and whose transportation is not funded under division (J) of section 3317.024 of the Revised Code. The rules shall include provisions for school district reporting of such students.

Sec. 3317.023.  (A) Notwithstanding section 3317.022 of the Revised Code, the amounts required to be paid to a district under that section this chapter shall be adjusted by the amount of the computations made under divisions (B) to (J)(K) of this section.

As used in this section:

(1) "Classroom teacher" means a licensed employee who provides direct instruction to pupils, excluding teachers funded from money paid to the district from federal sources; educational service personnel; and vocational and special education teachers.

(2) "Educational service personnel" shall not include such specialists funded from money paid to the district from federal sources or assigned full-time to vocational or special education students and classes and may only include those persons employed in the eight specialist areas in a pattern approved by the department of education under guidelines established by the state board of education.

(3) "Annual salary" means the annual base salary stated in the state minimum salary schedule for the performance of the teacher's regular teaching duties that the teacher earns for services rendered for the first full week of October of the fiscal year for which the adjustment is made under division (C) of this section. It shall not include any salary payments for supplemental teachers contracts.

(4) "Regular student population" means the formula ADM plus the number of students reported as enrolled in the district pursuant to division (A)(1) of section 3313.981 Of the Revised Code; minus the number of students reported under division (A)(2) of section 3317.03 of the Revised Code and; minus the FTE of students reported under division (B)(5), (6), (7), or (8) of that section who are enrolled in a vocational education class or receiving special education,; and minus one-fourth of the students enrolled concurrently in a joint vocational school district.

(B) If the district employs less than one full-time equivalent classroom teacher for each twenty-five pupils in the regular student population in any school district, deduct the sum of the amounts obtained from the following computations:

(1) Divide the number of the district's full-time equivalent classroom teachers employed by one twenty-fifth;

(2) Subtract the quotient in (1) from the district's regular student population;

(3) Multiply the difference in (2) by seven hundred fifty-two dollars.

(C) If a positive amount, add one-half of the amount obtained by multiplying the number of full-time equivalent classroom teachers by:

(1) The mean annual salary of all full-time equivalent classroom teachers employed by the district at their respective training and experience levels minus;

(2) The mean annual salary of all such teachers at their respective levels in all school districts receiving payments under this section.

The number of full-time equivalent classroom teachers used in this computation shall not exceed one twenty-fifth of the district's regular student population. In calculating the district's mean salary under this division, those full-time equivalent classroom teachers with the highest training level shall be counted first, those with the next highest training level second, and so on, in descending order. Within the respective training levels, teachers with the highest years of service shall be counted first, the next highest years of service second, and so on, in descending order.

(D) This division does not apply to a school district that has entered into an agreement under division (A) of section 3313.42 of the Revised Code. Deduct the amount obtained from the following computations if the district employs fewer than five full-time equivalent educational service personnel, including elementary school art, music, and physical education teachers, counselors, librarians, visiting teachers, school social workers, and school nurses for each one thousand pupils in the regular student population:

(1) Divide the number of full-time equivalent educational service personnel employed by the district by five one-thousandths;

(2) Subtract the quotient in (1) from the district's regular student population;

(3) Multiply the difference in (2) by ninety-four dollars.

(E) If a local school district, or a city or exempted village school district to which a governing board of an educational service center provides services pursuant to section 3313.843 of the Revised Code, deduct the amount of the payment required for the reimbursement of the governing board under section 3317.11 of the Revised Code.

(F)(1) If the district is required to pay to or entitled to receive tuition from another school district under division (C)(2) or (3) of section 3313.64 or section 3313.65 of the Revised Code, or if the superintendent of public instruction is required to determine the correct amount of tuition and make a deduction or credit under section 3317.08 of the Revised Code, deduct and credit such amounts as provided in division (I) of section 3313.64 or section 3317.08 of the Revised Code.

(2) For each child for whom the district is responsible for tuition or payment under division (A)(1) of section 3317.082 or section 3323.091 of the Revised Code, deduct the amount of tuition or payment for which the district is responsible.

(G) If the district has been certified by the superintendent of public instruction under section 3313.90 of the Revised Code as not in compliance with the requirements of that section, deduct an amount equal to ten per cent of the amount computed for the district under section 3317.022 of the Revised Code.

(H) If the district has received a loan from a commercial lending institution for which payments are made by the superintendent of public instruction pursuant to division (E)(3) of section 3313.483 of the Revised Code, deduct an amount equal to such payments.

(I)(1) If the district is a party to an agreement entered into under division (D), (E), or (F) of section 3311.06 or division (B) of section 3311.24 of the Revised Code and is obligated to make payments to another district under such an agreement, deduct an amount equal to such payments if the district school board notifies the department in writing that it wishes to have such payments deducted.

(2) If the district is entitled to receive payments from another district that has notified the department to deduct such payments under division (I)(1) of this section, add the amount of such payments.

(J) If the district is required to pay an amount of funds to a cooperative education district pursuant to a provision described by division (B)(4) of section 3311.52 or division (B)(8) of section 3311.521 of the Revised Code, deduct such amounts as provided under that provision and credit those amounts to the cooperative education district for payment to the district under division (B)(1) of section 3317.19 of the Revised Code.

(K)(1) If a district is educating a student entitled to attend school in another district pursuant to a shared education contract, compact, or cooperative education agreement other than an agreement entered into pursuant to section 3313.842 of the Revised Code, credit to that educating district on an FTE basis both of the following:

(a) An amount equal to the formula amount times the cost of doing business factor of the school district where the student is entitled to attend school pursuant to section 3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code;

(b) An amount equal to the formula amount times the state share percentage times any multiple applicable to the student pursuant to section 3317.013 of the Revised Code.

(2) Deduct any amount credited pursuant to division (K)(1) of this section from amounts paid to the school district in which the student is entitled to attend school pursuant to section 3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code.

(3) If the district is required by a shared education contract, compact, or cooperative education agreement to make payments to an educational service center, deduct the amounts from payments to the district and add them to the amounts paid to the service center pursuant to section 3317.11 Of the Revised Code.

Sec. 3317.024.  In addition to the moneys paid to eligible school districts pursuant to section 3317.022 of the Revised Code, moneys appropriated for the education programs in divisions (A) to (L), and (O) to (Q), and (P) of this section shall be distributed to school districts meeting the requirements of section 3317.01 of the Revised Code; in the case of divisions (I) and (J) and, in fiscal year 1999 only, division (P)(1) of this section, to educational service centers as provided in section 3317.11 of the Revised Code; in the case of division divisions (E), (M), and (N) of this section, to county MR/DD boards; in the case of division (I) of this section, to joint vocational and cooperative education school districts; in the case of division (K) of this section, to cooperative education school districts; in the case of divisions (M) and (N) of this section, to county MR/DD boards; and in the case of division (R)(Q) of this section, to the institutions defined under section 3317.082 of the Revised Code providing elementary or secondary education programs to children other than children receiving special education under section 3323.091 of the Revised Code. The following shall be distributed monthly, quarterly, or annually as may be determined by the state board of education:

(A)(1) An amount for related services equal to one-eighth of the district's total special education weight times the formula amount times the district's state share percentage.

(2) In any fiscal year, a school district receiving funds under this division shall spend on related services at least the lesser of:

(a) The amount the district spent on related services in the preceding fiscal year;

(b) The sum of the amount it receives under this division in state funds plus an amount equal to the local share of related services costs.

(3) As used in this division:

(a) "Local share of related services costs" equals the amount calculated under the following formula:

(b) "Related services" means programs and services related to the provision of special education to handicapped students, and includes child study; special education supervisors and coordinators; speech and hearing services; adaptive physical development services; and occupational or physical therapy, as those terms are defined by the department of education A per pupil amount to each school district that establishes a summer school remediation program that complies with rules of the state board of education.

(B) An amount for each island school district and each joint state school district for the operation of each high school and each elementary school maintained within such district and for capital improvements for such schools. Such amounts shall be determined on the basis of standards adopted by the state board of education.

(C) An amount for each school district operating classes for children of migrant workers who are unable to be in attendance in an Ohio school during the entire regular school year. The amounts shall be determined on the basis of standards adopted by the state board of education, except that payment shall be made only for subjects regularly offered by the school district providing the classes.

(D) An amount for each school district with guidance, testing, and counseling programs approved by the state board of education. The amount shall be determined on the basis of standards adopted by the state board of education.

(E) An amount for the emergency purchase of school buses as provided for in section 3317.07 of the Revised Code;

(F) An amount for each school district required to pay tuition for a child in an institution maintained by the department of youth services pursuant to section 3317.082 of the Revised Code, provided the child was not included in the calculation of the district's average daily membership for the preceding school year.

(G) An amount to each school district for supplemental salary allowances for each licensed employee except those licensees serving as superintendents, assistant superintendents, principals, or assistant principals, whose term of service in any year is extended beyond the term of service of regular classroom teachers, as described in section 3301.0725 of the Revised Code;

(H) An amount for adult basic literacy education for each district participating in programs approved by the state board of education. The amount shall be determined on the basis of standards adopted by the state board of education.

(I) Notwithstanding section 3317.01 of the Revised Code, to each city, local, and exempted village school district, an amount pursuant to section 3301.17 of the Revised Code for conducting driver education courses at high schools for which the state board of education prescribes minimum standards and to joint vocational and cooperative education school districts and educational service centers, an amount pursuant to such section for conducting driver education courses to pupils enrolled in a high school for which the state board prescribes minimum standards;

(J) An amount for the approved cost of transporting developmentally handicapped pupils whom it is impossible or impractical to transport by regular school bus in the course of regular route transportation provided by the district or service center. No district or service center is eligible to receive a payment under this division for the cost of transporting any pupil whom it transports by regular school bus and who is included in the district's transportation ADM. The state board of education shall establish standards and guidelines for use by the department of education in determining the approved cost of such transportation for each district or service center.

(K) An amount to each school district, including each cooperative education school district, pursuant to section 3313.81 of the Revised Code to assist in providing free lunches to needy children and an amount to assist needy school districts in purchasing necessary equipment for food preparation. The amounts shall be determined on the basis of rules adopted by the state board of education.

(L) An amount to each school district, for each pupil attending a chartered nonpublic elementary or high school within the district. The amount shall equal the amount appropriated for the implementation of section 3317.06 of the Revised Code divided by the average daily membership in grades kindergarten through twelve in nonpublic elementary and high schools within the state as determined during the first full week in October of each school year.

(M) An amount for each county MR/DD board, distributed on the basis of standards adopted by the state board of education, for the approved cost of transportation required for children attending special education programs operated by the county MR/DD board under section 3323.09 of the Revised Code;

(N) An amount for each county MR/DD board, distributed on the basis of standards adopted by the state board of education, for supportive home services for preschool children;

(O) An amount for each school district that establishes a mentor teacher program that complies with rules of the state board of education. No school district shall be required to establish or maintain such a program in any year unless sufficient funds are appropriated to cover the district's total costs for the program.

(P) A per pupil amount to each school district that establishes a summer school remediation program that complies with rules of the state board of education;

(Q)(1) For fiscal year 1999 only, an amount to each school district or educational service center for the total number of gifted units approved pursuant to section 3317.05 of the Revised Code. The amount for each such unit shall be the sum of the minimum salary for the teacher of the unit, calculated on the basis of the teacher's training level and years of experience pursuant to section 3317.13 of the Revised Code, plus fifteen per cent of that minimum salary amount, plus two thousand six hundred seventy-eight dollars.

(2) Beginning with fiscal year 2000, an amount for each school district for programs for gifted students calculated under the following formula:

No money shall be distributed to a school district under division (Q)(2) of this section in any fiscal year unless the superintendent has on file by the first day of that year a district plan specifying the manner in which funds will be utilized to serve gifted students and the method for selecting students to participate in gifted programs and activities.

(3) Prior to October 1, 1998, the The general assembly shall intends to begin a review and revision of the funding formula for gifted education services in 1999. The analysis and any resulting calculations shall be based upon a rational methodology for calculating the cost of adequate gifted education services. The analysis shall use data generated by a study funded through the department of education.

(R)(Q) An amount to each institution defined under section 3317.082 of the Revised Code providing elementary or secondary education to children other than children receiving special education under section 3323.091 of the Revised Code. This amount for any institution in any fiscal year shall equal the total of all tuition amounts required to be paid to the institution under division (A)(1) of section 3317.082 of the Revised Code.

The state board of education or any other board of education or governing board may provide for any resident of a district or educational service center territory any educational service for which funds are made available to the board by the United States under the authority of public law, whether such funds come directly or indirectly from the United States or any agency or department thereof or through the state or any agency, department, or political subdivision thereof.

Sec. 3317.029.  (A) As used in this section:

(1) "DPIA percentage" means the quotient obtained by dividing the five-year average number of children ages five to seventeen residing in the school district and living in a family receiving family assistance, as certified or adjusted under section 3317.10 of the Revised Code, by the district's three-year average formula ADM.

(2) "Family assistance" means assistance received under the Ohio works first program or, for the purpose of determining the five-year average number of recipients of family assistance in fiscal years 1999 through 2002, assistance received under an antecedent program known as TANF or ADC.

(3) "Statewide DPIA percentage" means the five-year average of the total number of children ages five to seventeen years residing in the state and receiving family assistance, divided by the average of the sum of the three-year average formula ADMs reported for all school districts in the state for the current and preceding two fiscal years, provided that in fiscal years 1999 and 2000, the department shall calculate this three-year average utilizing district ADMs reported pursuant to the version of division (A) of section 3317.03 of the Revised Code in effect in fiscal years 1997 and 1998;.

(2)(4) "DPIA index" means the quotient obtained by dividing the school district's DPIA percentage by the statewide DPIA percentage;.

(3)(5) "Kindergarten ADM" means the number of students reported under section 3317.03 of the Revised Code as enrolled in kindergarten;.

(4)(6) "Kindergarten through third grade ADM" means the sum obtained by multiplying amount calculated as follows:

(a) Multiply the kindergarten ADM by two, adding the sum of one plus the all-day kindergarten percentage;

(b) Add the kindergarten ADM to the product calculated under division (A)(6)(a) of this section;

(c) Add to the sum calculated under division (A)(6)(b) of this section the number of students in grades one through three, and subtracting;

(d) Subtract from the sum calculated under division (A)(6)(c) of this section the number of special education students in grades one kindergarten through three;.

(5)(7) "Statewide average teacher salary" means thirty-nine thousand ninety-two dollars, which includes an amount for the value of fringe benefits;.

(6) "Statewide formulaADM" means the sum total of the formula ADM for all school districts in the state;

(7)(8) "All-day kindergarten" means a kindergarten class that is in session five days per week for not less than the same number of clock hours each day as for pupils in grades one through six.

(9) "All-day kindergarten percentage" means the percentage of a district's actual total number of students enrolled in kindergarten who are enrolled in classes that are in session five days per week for not less than the same number of clock hours each day as for pupils in grades one through six; all-day kindergarten.

(8)(10) "Buildings with the highest concentration of need" means the school buildings in a district with percentages of students receiving family assistance in grades kindergarten through three at least as high as the district-wide percentage of students receiving family assistance. If, however, the information provided by the department of human services under section 3317.10 of the Revised Code is insufficient to determine the family assistance percentage in each building, "buildings with the highest concentration of need" has the meaning given in rules that the department of education shall adopt. The rules shall base the definition of "buildings with the highest concentration of need" on family income of students in grades kindergarten through three in a manner that, to the extent possible with available data, approximates the intent of this division and division (G) of this section to designate buildings where the family assistance percentage in those grades equals or exceeds the district-wide family assistance percentage.

(B) In addition to the amounts required to be paid to a school district under section 3317.022 of the Revised Code, a school district shall receive the greater of the amount the district received in fiscal year 1998 pursuant to division (B) of section 3317.023 of the Revised Code as it existed at that time or the amount of the sum of the following computations made under divisions (C) to (E) of this section.

(C) A supplemental payment that may be utilized for measures related to safety and security and for remediation or similar programs, calculated as follows:

(1) If the DPIA index of the school district is greater than or equal to thirty-five-hundredths, but less than one, an amount obtained by multiplying the five-year average number of pupils in a district receiving family assistance by two hundred thirty dollars;

(2) If the DPIA index of the school district is greater than or equal to one, an amount obtained by multiplying the DPIA index by two hundred thirty dollars and multiplying that product by the five-year average number of pupils in a district receiving family assistance.

(D) A payment for all-day kindergarten if the DPIA index of the school district is greater than or equal to one or if the district's three-year average formula ADM exceeded seventeen thousand five hundred, calculated by multiplying the all-day kindergarten percentage by the kindergarten ADM and multiplying that product by the formula amount.

(E) A class-size reduction payment based on calculating the number of new teachers necessary to achieve a lower student-teacher ratio, as follows:

(1) Determine or calculate a formula number of teachers per one thousand students based on the DPIA index of the school district as follows:

(a) If the DPIA index of the school district is less than six-tenths, the formula number of teachers is 43.478, which is the number of teachers per one thousand students at a student-teacher ratio of twenty-three to one;

(b) If the DPIA index of the school district is greater than or equal to six-tenths, but less than two and one-half, the formula number of teachers is calculated as follows:

Where 43.478 is the number of teachers per one thousand students at a student-teacher ratio of twenty-three to one; 1.9 is the interval from a DPIA index of six-tenths to a DPIA index of two and one-half; and 23.188 is the difference in the number of teachers per one thousand students at a student-teacher ratio of fifteen to one and the number of teachers per one thousand students at a student-teacher ratio of twenty-three to one.

(c) If the DPIA index of the school district is greater than or equal to two and one-half, the formula number of teachers is 66.667, which is the number of teachers per one thousand students at a student-teacher ratio of fifteen to one.

(2) Multiply the formula number of teachers determined or calculated in division (E)(1) of this section by the kindergarten through third grade ADM for the district and divide that product by one thousand;

(3) Calculate the number of new teachers as follows:

(a) Multiply the kindergarten through third grade ADM by 43.478, which is the number of teachers per one thousand students at a student-teacher ratio of twenty-three to one, and divide that product by one thousand;

(b) Subtract the quotient obtained in division (E)(3)(a) of this section from the product in division (E)(2) of this section.

(4) Multiply the greater of the difference obtained under division (E)(3) of this section or zero by the statewide average teachers salary.

(F) This division applies only to school districts whose DPIA index is one or greater.

(1) Each school district subject to this division shall first utilize funds received under this section so that, when combined with other funds of the district, sufficient funds exist to provide all-day kindergarten to at least the number of children in the district's all-day kindergarten percentage.

(2) Up to an amount equal to the district's DPIA index multiplied by the five-year average number of pupils in a district receiving family assistance multiplied by two hundred thirty dollars of the money distributed under this section may be utilized for one or both of the following:

(a) Programs designed to ensure that schools are free of drugs and violence and have a disciplined environment conducive to learning;

(b) Remediation for students who have failed or are in danger of failing any of the proficiency tests administered pursuant to section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code.

(3) Except as otherwise required by division (G) of this section, all other funds distributed under this section to districts subject to this division under this section shall be utilized for the purpose of the third grade guarantee. The third grade guarantee consists of increasing the amount of instructional attention received per pupil in kindergarten through third grade, either by reducing the ratio of students to instructional personnel or by increasing the amount of instruction and curriculum-related activities by extending the length of the school day or the school year.

School districts may implement a reduction of the ratio of students to instructional personnel through any or all of the following methods:

(a) Reducing the number of students in a classroom taught by a single teacher;

(b) Employing full-time educational aides or educational paraprofessionals issued a permit or license under section 3319.088 of the Revised Code;

(c) Instituting a team-teaching method that will result in a lower student-teacher ratio in a classroom.

Districts may extend the school day either by increasing the amount of time allocated for each class, increasing the number of classes provided per day, offering optional academic-related after-school programs, providing curriculum-related extra curricular activities, or establishing tutoring or remedial services for students who have demonstrated an educational need. In accordance with section 3319.089 of the Revised Code, a district extending the school day pursuant to this division may utilize a participant of the work experience program who has a child enrolled in a public school in that district and who is fulfilling the work requirements of that program by volunteering or working in that public school. If the work experience program participant is compensated, the school district may use the funds distributed under this section for all or part of the compensation.

Districts may extend the school year either through adding regular days of instruction to the school calendar or by providing summer programs.

(G) Each district subject to division (F) of this section shall not expend any funds received under division (E) of this section in any school buildings that are not buildings with the highest concentration of need, unless there is a ratio of instructional personnel to students of no more than fifteen to one in each kindergarten and first grade class in all buildings with the highest concentration of need. This division does not require that the funds used in buildings with the highest concentration of need be spent solely to reduce the ratio of instructional personnel to students in kindergarten and first grade. A school district may spend the funds in those buildings in any manner permitted by division (F)(3) of this section, but may not spend the money in other buildings unless the fifteen-to-one ratio required by this division is attained.

(H)(1) By the first day of August of each fiscal year, each school district wishing to receive any funds under division (D) of this section shall certify submit to the department of education an estimate of its all-day kindergarten percentage. Each district shall update its estimate throughout the fiscal year in the form and manner required by the department, and the department shall adjust payments under this section to reflect the updates.

(2) Annually by the end of December, the department of education, utilizing data from the information system established under section 3301.0714 of the Revised Code and after consultation with the legislative office of education oversight, shall determine for each school district subject to division (F) of this section whether in the preceding fiscal year the district's ratio of instructional personnel to students; and its number of kindergarten students receiving all-day kindergarten appear reasonable, given the amounts of money the district received for that fiscal year pursuant to divisions (D) and (E) of this section. If the department is unable to verify from the data available that students are receiving reasonable amounts of instructional attention and all-day kindergarten, given the funds the district has received under this section and that class-size reduction funds are being used in school buildings with the highest concentration of need as required by division (G) of this section, the department shall conduct a more intensive investigation to ensure that funds have been expended as required by this section. The department shall file an annual report of its findings under this division with the chairpersons of the committees in each house of the general assembly dealing with finance and education.

(I) Any school district with a DPIA index less than one and a three-year average formula ADM exceeding seventeen thousand five hundred shall first utilize funds received under this section so that, when combined with other funds of the district, sufficient funds exist to provide all-day kindergarten to at least the number of children in the district's all-day kindergarten percentage. Such a district shall expend at least seventy per cent of the remaining funds received under this section, and any other district with a DPIA index less than one shall expend at least seventy per cent of the all funds received under this section, for any of the following purposes:

(1) The purchase of technology for instructional purposes;

(2) All-day kindergarten;

(3) Reduction of class sizes;

(4) Summer school remediation;

(5) Dropout prevention programs;

(6) Guaranteeing that all third graders are ready to progress to more advanced work;

(7) Summer education and work programs;

(8) Adolescent pregnancy programs;

(9) Head start or preschool programs;

(10) Reading improvement programs described by the department of education;

(11) Programs designed to ensure that schools are free of drugs and violence and have a disciplined environment conducive to learning;

(12) Furnishing, free of charge, materials used in courses of instruction, except for the necessary textbooks required to be furnished without charge pursuant to section 3329.06 of the Revised Code, to pupils living in families participating in Ohio works first in accordance with section 3313.642 of the Revised Code;

(13) School breakfasts provided pursuant to section 3313.813 of the Revised Code.

Each district shall submit to the department, in such format and at such time as the department shall specify, a report on the programs for which it expended funds under this division.

(J) If at any time the superintendent of public instruction determines that a school district has used the receiving funds received under division (D) of this section for any purpose other than to provide all-day kindergarten as required under this section, or if the superintendent determines that a school district has enrolled less than the all-day kindergarten percentage reported for that fiscal year, the superintendent shall withhold from the funds otherwise due a the district under this section the amount of the funds spent in violation of this section or a proportional amount of the funds as determined by the difference in the certified all-day kindergarten percentage and the percentage actually enrolled in all-day kindergarten.

The superintendent shall also withhold an appropriate amount of funds otherwise due a district for any other misuse of funds not in accordance with this section.

Sec. 3317.0212.  Divisions (B) and (C) of this section do not apply to a school district with a formula ADM of one humdred hundred fifty or less.

(A) As used in this section:

(1) "Fundamental FY 1997 state aid" or "fundamental FY 1998 state aid" for a district means the total amount of state money received by the district under sections 3317.022 and 3317.023 of the Revised Code before any deductions required by division (G), (J), (K), or (L) of section 3317.023 of the Revised Code, plus any amounts for which the district was eligible pursuant to divisions (M), (N), and (O) of section 3317.024 and sections 3317.0212 and 3317.0213 of the Revised Code, as those divisions and sections existed in fiscal year 1998, plus the district's share of state funds for service center units in the applicable fiscal year as reported on the department of education's form "SF-12," adjusted as follows:

(a) Minus the amount for transportation;

(b) Minus any amounts for approved preschool handicapped units;

(c) Minus any additional amount attributable to the reappraisal guarantee of division (C) of section 3317.04 of the Revised Code;

(d) Plus the amount deducted for payments to an educational service center;

(e) Plus an estimated portion of the state money distributed in the applicable fiscal year to other school districts or educational service centers for approved units, other than preschool handicapped or gifted education units, attributable to the costs of providing services in those units to students entitled to attend school in the district;

(f) Minus an estimated portion of the state money distributed to the school district in the applicable fiscal year for approved units, other than preschool handicapped units or gifted education units, attributable to the costs of providing services in those units to students entitled to attend school in another school district;

(g) Plus any additional amount paid in the applicable fiscal year pursuant to the vocational education recomputation required by Section 45.12 of Amended Substitute House Bill No. 117 of the121st general assembly or former Section 50.22 of Amended Substitute House Bill No. 215 of the 122nd general assembly;

(h) Plus any additional amount paid in the applicable fiscal year pursuant to the special education recomputation required by former division (I) of section 3317.023 of the Revised Code;

(i) Plus any amount paid for equity aid in the applicable fiscal year under section 3317.0213 of the Revised Code.

(2) "Enhanced FY 1998 state aid" for a district means its fundamental FY 1998 state aid plus any amounts for which the district was eligible pursuant to division (K) of section 3317.024 of the Revised Code, as that division existed in fiscal year 1998.

(3) "State basic aid" for a district in any fiscal year after fiscal year 1998 means the sum of the following:

(a) The amount computed for the district for basic formula aid and special education aid funding under divisions (A) and (C)(1) of section 3317.022 and sections 3317.025 to 3317.028 of the Revised Code and DPIA aid under section 3317.029 of the Revised Code in the current fiscal year but after before any deduction or credit required by division (B), (D), (E), (F), (G), (H), (I), (J), or (K) of section 3317.023 or division (J) of section 3317.029 of the Revised Code, plus any;

(b) Any amounts for which the district is eligible pursuant to division (C) of section 3317.023, divisions (G) and (Q)(P) of section 3317.024, and division (B) of section 3317.162 of the Revised Code, plus any amounts;

(c) Any equity aid for which the district is eligible under section 3317.0213 of the Revised Code.

(4) "FY 1998ADM" for a district means the district's average daily membership as described by division (A) of section 3317.02 of the Revised Code, for fiscal year 1998, plus the district's average daily membership based upon full-time equivalency in approved vocational units as certified by the district in fiscal year 1998 under division (A)(2) of section 3317.03 of the Revised Code and the district's average daily membership of all handicapped children, except for preschool handicapped children, in classes in the district as certified in fiscal year 1998 under division (A)(3) of section 3317.03 of the Revised Code, as those divisions and sections existed in fiscal year 1998.

(5) "District's share of state funds for service center units" means an estimated portion of the state money distributed to educational service centers for approved units in fiscal year 1998 attributable to the costs of providing services in such units to students, other than preschool handicapped students, residing in the district.

(6) "Fundamental FY 1997 state aid" for a district means the total amount of state money received by the district under sections 3317.022 and 3317.023 of the Revised Code before any deductions required by division (G), (J), (K), or (L) of section 3317.023 of the Revised Code, plus any amounts for which the district was eligible pursuant to divisions (M), (N), and (O) of section 3317.024 and sections 3317.0212 and 3317.0213 of the Revised Code, as those divisions and sections existed in fiscal year 1997, plus the district's share of state funds for service center units.

(B) Upon request of the department of education, the treasurer of any school district or educational service center shall furnish data needed to calculate the amounts specified in divisions (A)(1)(e) and (f) of this section. The department of education shall compute the state basic aid guarantee for each school district for the fiscal year as follows:

(1) Subtract the amount of state basic aid from the amount of fundamental FY 1998 state aid. If a negative number, this computation shall be deemed to be zero;.

(2) Compute the following amounts:

(a) Formula ADM X (state basic aid/formula ADM);

(b) Formula The greater of formula ADM or three-year average formula ADM X (fundamental FY 1998 state aid/FY 1998 ADM).

(3) If the amount computed under division (B)(2)(b) of this section is greater than the amount computed under division (B)(2)(a) of this section, determine the amount by which it is greater. If the amount computed under division (B)(2)(b) of this section is not greater than the amount computed under division (B)(2)(a) of this section, this computation shall be deemed to be zero.

(4) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, the department shall determine for each district the lesser of the amounts computed in divisions (B)(1) and (2)(3) of this section and, if greater than zero, pay the district that amount.

(C)(1) In fiscal year 1999, if a district's amount under division (B)(4) of this section is zero, the department shall determine calculate for each such district the following:

(2) Add to sum of the district's state basic aid for fiscal year 1999 the sum of plus the transportation portion of state aid computed under division (D) of section 3317.022 of the Revised Code for the district for fiscal year 1999;

(3). If a district's enhanced FY 1998 state aid is greater than the district's amount calculated in division (C)(2) of this section that sum, then the department shall pay the district in fiscal year 1999 one hundred per cent of the difference or the amount required by division (B)(4) of this section, whichever is greater.

(D)(1) The state basic aid guarantee in any fiscal year for a school district with a formula ADM of one hundred fifty or less shall be the greatest of the following amounts:

(a) The district's state basic aid for the fiscal year;

(b) The district's fundamental FY 1998 state aid;

(c) The district's fundamental FY 1997 state aid;

(2) If in any fiscal year the state basic aid for a school district with a formula ADM of one hundred fifty or less is less than the guarantee amount determined for the district under division (D)(1) of this section, the department of education shall pay the district the amount of the difference.

Sec. 3317.0213.  No money shall be distributed under this section after fiscal year 2001.

(A) As used in this section:

(1) "ADM" for any school district means:

(a) In fiscal year 1999, the average daily membership reported in fiscal year 1998 under division (A) of section 3317.03 of the Revised Code as that section existed in fiscal year 1998, less one-half of the kindergarten students, less three-quarters of the students enrolled in a joint vocational school district, and less any students enrolled in preschool handicapped units approved under division (E) of section 3317.05 of the Revised Code, as that section existed in fiscal year FY 1998 ADM;

(b) In fiscal years 2000 and 2001, the formula ADM reported for the previous fiscal year.

(2) "Average taxable value" means the average of the amounts certified for a district in the second, third, and fourth preceding fiscal years under divisions (A)(1) and (2) of section 3317.021 of the Revised Code.

(3)(a) "Valuation per pupil" for a district in means:

(a) In fiscal year 1999 means, the district's average taxable value, divided by the district's average daily membership for fiscal year 1998, as described in division (A)(1)(a) of this section. FY 1998 ADM;

(b) "Valuation per pupil" for a district in In a fiscal year that occurs after fiscal year 1999 means, the district's average taxable value, divided by the district's formula ADM for the preceding fiscal year.

(4) "Threshold valuation" means:

(a) In fiscal year 1999, the adjusted valuation per pupil of the school district with the two hundred twenty-ninth lowest adjusted valuation per pupil in the state, according to data available at the time of the computation under division (B) of this section;

(b) In fiscal year 2000, the adjusted valuation per pupil of the district with the one hundred sixty-third lowest such valuation in the state;

(c) In fiscal year 2001, the adjusted valuation per pupil of the district with the one hundred eighteenth lowest such valuation in the state.

(5) "Adjusted valuation per pupil" for a district means an amount calculated in accordance with the following formula:

(6) "Millage rate" means .012 in fiscal year 1999, .011 in fiscal year 2000, and .010 in fiscal year 2001.

(B) Beginning in fiscal year 1993, during August of each fiscal year, the department of education shall distribute to each school district meeting the requirements of section 3317.01 of the Revised Code whose adjusted valuation per pupil is less than the threshold valuation, an amount calculated in accordance with the following formula:

Sec. 3317.0214.  As used in this section, "average taxable value" has the same meaning as in division (A)(2) of section 3317.0213 of the Revised Code.

Beginning in fiscal year 1993, during each August, the department of education annually shall distribute to each school district with a formula ADM less than one thousand and an average taxable value equal to or less than eighty-five thousand dollars per pupil in formula ADM, an amount equal to fifty dollars multiplied by any amount by which one thousand exceeds the district's formula ADM.

Sec. 3317.0215.  (A) As used in this section, "total:

(1) "Total effective operating tax rate" has means the same meaning as in amount certified under division (A)(5) of section 3317.021 of the Revised Code, and "equalized.

(2) "Equalized tax rate" of a school district means the amount by which a district's total effective operating tax rate exceeds two and three-tenths per cent.

(3) "State taxable value per pupil" means the quotient obtained by dividing the total taxable value of all city, local, and exempted village school districts in the state by the sum of the formula ADMs of all city, local, and exempted village school districts in the state.

(4) "District's taxable value per pupil" means the quotient obtained by dividing the total taxable value of the school district by its formula ADM.

(B) Upon receiving the certifications under division (A) of section 3317.021 of the Revised Code, the department of education shall determine the equalized tax rate for each city, local, and exempted village school district. If the total effective operating tax rate of a district is greater than two and three-tenths per cent, the district shall receive a payment computed by multiplying the lesser of two-tenths of one per cent or the equalized tax rate by the amount by which the state taxable value per pupil exceeds the district's total taxable value per pupil times the district's formula ADM.

Sec. 3317.0216.  (A) As used in this section:

(1) "Total taxes charged and payable for current expenses" means the sum of the taxes charged and payable as certified under division (A)(3) of section 3317.021 of the Revised Code, and the tax liability for the preceding year under any school district income tax levied by the district pursuant to Chapter 5748. of the Revised Code to the extent the revenue from the income tax is allocated or apportioned to current expenses.

(2) "State equalization enhancement payments" means any payment made to a school district pursuant to section 3317.0215 of the Revised Code for the preceding fiscal year.

(3) "Charge-off amount" means the product obtained by multiplying two and three-tenths per cent by adjusted total taxable value.

(4) "Local share percentage" means a percentage equal to one minus the state share percentage.

(5) "Total receipts available for current expenses" of a school district means the sum of total taxes charged and payable for current expenses and the district's state equalization enhancement payments.

(6)(5) "Local share of special education expenses" means the district's local share percentage X the formula amount for the year for which the aid is calculated X the district's total special education weight.

(7) "State share percentage" and "total special education weight" have the same meanings and related services additional weighted costs" has the same meaning as in division (C)(3) of section 3317.022 of the Revised Code.

(B) Upon receiving the certifications under section 3317.021 of the Revised Code, the department of education shall determine for each city, local, and exempted village school district whether the district's charge-off amount is greater than the district's total receipts available for current expenses, and if it is, shall pay the district the amount of the difference. A payment shall not be made to any school district for which the computation under division (A) of section 3317.022 of the Revised Code equals zero.

(C)(1) If a district's charge-off amount is equal to or greater than its total receipts available for current expenses, the department shall, in addition to the payment required under division (B) of this section, pay the district the amount of the local share of special education expenses.

(2) If a district's charge-off amount is less than its total receipts available for current expenses, the department shall pay the district the difference between the any amount by which its local share of special education expenses and the amount by which the district's and related services additional weighted costs exceeds its total receipts available for current expenses exceeds minus its charge-off amount.

Sec. 3317.03.  Notwithstanding divisions (A)(1), (B)(1), and (C) of this section, any student enrolled in kindergarten more than half time shall be reported as one-half student under this section.

(A) The superintendent of each city and exempted village school district and of each educational service center shall, for the schools under the superintendent's supervision, certify to the state board of education on or before the fifteenth day of October in each year for the first full school week in October the formula ADM, which shall consist of the average daily membership during such week of the sum of the following:

(1) On an FTE basis, the number of students in grades kindergarten through twelve receiving any educational services from the district, except that the following categories of students shall not be included in the determination:

(a) Students enrolled in adult education classes;

(b) Adjacent or other district students enrolled in the district under an open enrollment policy pursuant to section 3313.98 of the Revised Code;

(c) Students receiving services in the district pursuant to a compact, cooperative education agreement, or a contract, but who are entitled to attend school in another district pursuant to section 3313.64 or 3313.65 Of the Revised Code;

(d) Students for whom tuition is payable pursuant to sections 3317.081 and 3323.141 of the Revised Code.

(2) On an FTE basis, the number of students entitled to attend school in the district pursuant to section 3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code, but receiving educational services in grades kindergarten through twelve from one or more of the following entities:

(a) A community school pursuant to Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code or Section 50.52 of Amended Substitute House Bill No. 215 of the 122nd general assembly;

(b) An alternative school pursuant to sections 3313.974 to 3313.979 of the Revised Code as described in division (I)(2)(a) or (b) of this section;

(c) A college pursuant to Chapter 3365. of the Revised Code;

(d) An adjacent or other school district under an open enrollment policy adopted pursuant to section 3313.98 of the Revised Code;

(e) An educational service center or cooperative education district;

(f) Another school district under a cooperative education agreement, compact, or contract.

(3) One-fourth of the number of students enrolled both in a joint vocational school district and in the district, but who are not receiving regular education services in the school district;

(4) The number of handicapped children, other than handicapped preschool children, entitled to attend school in the district pursuant to section 3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code who are placed with a county MR/DD board, minus the number of such children placed with a county MR/DD board in fiscal year 1998. If this calculation produces a negative number, the number reported under division (A)(4) of this section shall be zero.

(B) To enable the department of education to obtain the data needed to complete the calculation of payments pursuant to this chapter, in addition to the formula ADM, each superintendent shall report separately the following student counts:

(1) The total average daily membership in regular day classes included in the report under division (A)(1) or (2) of this section for kindergarten, and each of grades one through twelve in schools under the superintendent's supervision;

(2) The average daily membership of all handicapped preschool children included in a unit approved for the district under section 3317.05 of the Revised Code, in accordance with rules adopted under that section;

(3) The number of children entitled to attend school in the district pursuant to section 3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code who are participating in a pilot project scholarship program established under sections 3313.974 to 3313.979 of the Revised Code as described in division (I)(2)(a) or (b) of this section, are enrolled in a college under Chapter 3365. of the Revised Code, are enrolled in an adjacent or other school district under section 3313.98 of the Revised Code, are enrolled in a community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code or Section 50.52 of Amended Substitute House Bill No. 215 of the 122nd general assembly, or are participating in a program operated by a county MR/DD board or a state institution;

(4) The number of pupils enrolled both in schools under the superintendent's supervision and in joint vocational schools, but who are not in regular day classes in the school district;

(5) The average daily membership of handicapped children reported under division (A)(1) or (2) of this section receiving category one special education services, described in division (A) of section 3317.013 of the Revised Code;

(6) The average daily membership of handicapped children reported under division (A)(1) or (2) of this section receiving category two special education services, described in division (B) of section 3317.013 of the Revised Code;

(7) The average daily membership of handicapped children reported under division (A)(1) or (2) of this section identified as having any of the handicaps specified in division (F)(3) of section 3317.02 of the Revised Code;

(8) The average daily membership of pupils reported under division (A)(1) or (2) of this section enrolled in vocational education programs or classes operated by the school district or by another district other than a joint vocational school district or by an educational service center;

(9) The average number of children transported by the school district on board-owned or contractor-owned and operated buses, reported in accordance with rules adopted by the department of education;

(10)(a) The number of children, other than handicapped preschool children, the district placed with a county MR/DD board in fiscal year 1998;

(b) The number of handicapped children, other than handicapped preschool children, placed with a county MR/DD board in the current fiscal year to receive category one special education services, described in division (A) of section 3317.013 of the Revised Code;

(c) The number of handicapped children, other than handicapped preschool children, placed with a county MR/DD board in the current fiscal year to receive category two special education services, described in division (B) of section 3317.013 of the Revised Code;

(d) The number of handicapped children, other than handicapped preschool children, placed with a county MR/DD board in the current fiscal year to receive category three special education services, described in division (F)(3) of section 3317.02 of the Revised Code.

(C) Except as otherwise provided in this section for kindergarten students, the average daily membership in divisions (B)(1) to (8) of this section shall be based upon the number of full-time equivalent students. The state board of education shall adopt rules defining full-time equivalent students and for determining the average daily membership therefrom for the purposes of divisions (A) and (B) of this section. No child shall be counted as more than a total of one child in the sum of the average daily memberships of a school district under division (A) or under divisions (B)(1) to (8) of this section. Based on the information reported under this section, the department of education shall determine the total student count, as defined in section 3301.011 of the Revised Code, for each school district.

(D) The superintendent of each joint vocational and cooperative education school district shall certify to the superintendent of public instruction, in a manner prescribed by the state board of education, the applicable average daily memberships for all students in the joint vocational or cooperative education school district, also indicating the city, local, or exempted village school district of residence for each pupil.

(E) In each school of each city, local, exempted village, joint vocational, and cooperative education school district there shall be maintained a record of school membership, which record shall accurately show, for each day the school is in session, the actual membership enrolled in regular day classes. For the purpose of determining average daily membership, the membership figure of any school shall not include any pupils except those pupils described by division (A) of this section. The record of membership for each school shall be maintained in such manner that no pupil shall be counted as in membership prior to the actual date of entry in the school and also in such manner that where for any cause a pupil permanently withdraws from the school that pupil shall not be counted as in membership from and after the date of such withdrawal. There shall not be included in the membership of any school any of the following:

(1) Any pupil who has graduated from the twelfth grade of a public high school;

(2) Any pupil who is not a resident of the state;

(3) Any pupil who was enrolled in the schools of the district during the previous school year when tests were administered under section 3301.0711 of the Revised Code but did not take one or more of the tests required by that section and was not excused pursuant to division (C)(1) of that section;

(4) Any pupil who has attained the age of twenty-two years, except for the following:

(a) Persons suffering from tuberculosis and receiving treatment in any approved state, county, district, or municipal tuberculosis hospital who have not graduated from the twelfth grade of a public high school;

(b) Veterans of the armed services whose attendance was interrupted before completing the recognized twelve-year course of the public schools by reason of induction or enlistment in the armed forces and who apply for reenrollment in the public school system of their residence not later than four years after termination of war or their honorable discharge.

If, however, any veteran described by division (E)(4)(b) of this section elects to enroll in special courses organized for veterans for whom tuition is paid under the provisions of federal laws, or otherwise, that veteran shall not be included in average daily membership.

Notwithstanding division (E)(3) of this section, the membership of any school may include a pupil who did not take a test required by section 3301.0711 of the Revised Code if the superintendent of public instruction grants a waiver from the requirement to take the test to the specific pupil. The superintendent may grant such a waiver only for good cause in accordance with rules adopted by the state board of education.

The average daily membership figure of any local, city, or exempted village school district shall be determined by dividing the figure representing the sum of the number of pupils enrolled during each day the school of attendance is actually open for instruction during the first full school week in October by the total number of days the school was actually open for instruction during that week. For purposes of state funding, "enrolled" persons are only those pupils who are attending school, those who have attended school during the current school year and are absent for authorized reasons, and those handicapped children currently receiving home instruction.

The average daily membership figure of any joint vocational or cooperative education school district shall be determined in accordance with rules adopted by the state board of education.

(F)(1) If the formula ADM for the first full school week in February is at least three per cent greater than that certified for the first full school week in the preceding October, the superintendent of schools of any city or exempted village school district or educational service center shall certify such increase to the superintendent of public instruction. Such certification shall be submitted no later than the fifteenth day of February. For the balance of the fiscal year, beginning with the February payments, the superintendent of public instruction shall use the increased formula ADM in calculating or recalculating the amounts to be allocated in accordance with section 3317.022 of the Revised Code. In no event shall the superintendent use an increased membership certified to the superintendent after the fifteenth day of February.

(2) If during the first full school week in February the total number of units for preschool handicapped preschool children that are eligible for approval under division (B) of section 3317.05 of the Revised Code exceeds the number of such units that have been approved for the year under such division, the superintendent of schools of any city, exempted village, or cooperative education school district or educational service center shall make the certifications required by this section for such week. If the state board of education determines additional units can be approved for the fiscal year within any limitations set forth in the acts appropriating moneys for the funding of such units, the board shall approve additional units for the fiscal year on the basis of such average daily membership. For each unit so approved, the department of education shall pay an amount computed in the manner prescribed in section 3317.161 or 3317.19 and section 3317.162 of the Revised Code.

(3) If during the first full school week in February the total number of special education units that are eligible for approval under division (D)(1) of section 3317.05 of the Revised Code for a joint vocational school district exceeds the number of those units that have been approved for the year under that division, the superintendent of the district shall make the certifications required by this section for that week. If the state board of education determines additional units can be approved for the fiscal year within any limitations set forth in the acts appropriating moneys for the funding of such units, the state board shall approve additional units for the fiscal year on the basis of the average daily membership certified. For each unit approved, the department of education shall pay an amount computed in the manner prescribed by section 3317.16 of the Revised Code.

(G)(1)(a) The superintendent of an institution operating a special education program pursuant to section 3323.091 of the Revised Code shall, for the programs under such superintendent's supervision, certify to the state board of education the average daily membership of all handicapped children in classes or programs approved annually by the state board of education, in the manner prescribed by the superintendent of public instruction.

(b) The superintendent of an institution with vocational education units approved under division (A) of section 3317.05 of the Revised Code shall, for the units under the superintendent's supervision, certify to the state board of education the average daily membership in those units, in the manner prescribed by the superintendent of public instruction.

(2) The superintendent of each county MR/DD board that maintains special education classes or units approved by the state board of education pursuant to section 3317.05 of the Revised Code shall do both of the following:

(a) Certify to the state board, in the manner prescribed by the board, the average daily membership in classes and units approved under division (D)(1) of section 3317.05 of the Revised Code for each school district that has placed children in the classes or units;

(b) Certify to the state board, in the manner prescribed by the board, the average daily membership in preschool handicapped units approved under division (B) of section 3317.05 of the Revised Code.

(3) If during the first full school week in February the average daily membership of the classes or units maintained by the county MR/DD board that are eligible for approval under division (D)(1) of section 3317.05 of the Revised Code is greater than the average daily membership for the preceding October, the superintendent of the board shall make the certifications required by this section for such week and, if during the first full school week in February the average daily membership of the units maintained by the county MR/DD board that are eligible for approval under division (B) of section 3317.05 of the Revised Code is greater than the average daily membership for the preceding October, the superintendent shall certify the average daily membership for the first full school week in February for such units to the state board of education. If the state board determines that additional classes or units can be approved for the fiscal year within any limitations set forth in the acts appropriating moneys for the funding of such classes and units, the board shall approve and fund additional units for the fiscal year on the basis of such average daily membership. For each unit so approved, the department of education shall pay an amount computed in the manner prescribed in section sections 3317.161 and 3317.162 of the Revised Code.

(H) Except as provided in division (I) of this section, when any city, local, or exempted village school district provides instruction for a nonresident pupil whose attendance is unauthorized attendance as defined in section 3327.06 of the Revised Code, that pupil's membership shall not be included in that district's membership figure used in the calculation of that district's formula ADM or included in the determination of any unit approved for the district under section 3317.05 of the Revised Code. The reporting official shall report separately the average daily membership of all pupils whose attendance in the district is unauthorized attendance, and the membership of each such pupil shall be credited to the school district in which the pupil is entitled to attend school under division (B) of section 3313.64 or section 3313.65 of the Revised Code as determined by the department of education.

(I)(1) A school district admitting a scholarship student of a pilot project district pursuant to division (C) of section 3313.976 of the Revised Code may count such student in its average daily membership.

(2) In any year for which funds are appropriated for pilot project scholarship programs, a school district implementing a state-sponsored pilot project scholarship program that year pursuant to sections 3313.974 through 3313.979 of the Revised Code may count in average daily membership:

(a) All children residing in the district and utilizing a scholarship to attend kindergarten in any alternative school, as defined in division (A)(9) of section 3313.974 of the Revised Code;

(b) All children who were enrolled in the district in the preceding year who are utilizing a scholarship to attend any such alternative school.

Sec. 3317.05.  (A) For the purpose of calculating payments under sections 3317.16 and, 3317.161, and 3317.162 of the Revised Code, the state board of education shall determine for each joint vocational school district and institution, by the last day of January of each year and based on information certified under section 3317.03 of the Revised Code, the number of vocational education units or fractions of units approved by the state board on the basis of standards and rules adopted by the state board. As used in this division, "institution" means an institution operated by a department specified in section 3323.091 of the Revised Code and that provides vocational education programs under the supervision of the division of vocational education of the department of education that meet the standards and rules for these programs, including licensure of professional staff involved in the programs, as established by the state board of education.

(B) For the purpose of calculating payments under sections 3317.024, 3317.11, 3317.161, 3317.162, and 3317.19 of the Revised Code, the state board shall determine, based on information certified under section 3317.03 of the Revised Code, the following by the last day of January of each year for each educational service center, for each school district, including each cooperative education school district, for each institution eligible for payment under section 3323.091 of the Revised Code, and for each county MR/DD board: the number of classes operated by the school district, service center, institution, or county MR/DD board for handicapped preschool children, or fraction thereof, including in the case of a district or service center that is a funding agent, classes taught by a licensed teacher employed by that district or service center under section 3313.841 of the Revised Code, approved annually by the state board on the basis of standards and rules adopted by the state board.

(C) For the purpose of calculating payments under sections 3317.024, 3317.11, 3317.161, 3317.162, and 3317.19 of the Revised Code, the state board shall determine, based on information certified under section 3317.03 of the Revised Code, the following by the last day of January of each year for each school district, including each cooperative education school district, for each institution eligible for payment under section 3323.091 of the Revised Code, and for each county MR/DD board: the number of preschool handicapped related services units for child study, occupational, physical, or speech and hearing therapy, special education supervisors, and special education coordinators approved annually by the state board on the basis of standards and rules adopted by the state board.

(D) For the purpose of calculating payments under sections 3317.16 and, 3317.161, and 3317.162 of the Revised Code, the state board shall determine, based on information certified under section 3317.03 of the Revised Code, the following by the last day of January of each year for each joint vocational school district, for each institution eligible for payment under section 3323.091 of the Revised Code, and for each county MR/DD board:

(1) The number of classes operated by a joint vocational school district, institution, or county MR/DD board for handicapped children other than handicapped preschool children, or fraction thereof, approved annually by the state board on the basis of standards and rules adopted by the state board;

(2) The number of related services units for children other than handicapped preschool children for child study, occupational, physical, or speech and hearing therapy, special education supervisors, and special education coordinators approved annually by the state board on the basis of standards and rules adopted by the state board.

(E) All of the arithmetical calculations made under this section shall be carried to the second decimal place. The total number of units for school districts, service centers, and institutions approved annually by the state board under this section shall not exceed the number of units included in the state board's estimate of cost for these units and appropriations made for them by the general assembly.

In the case of units described in division (D)(1) of this section operated by county MR/DD boards and institutions eligible for payment under section 3323.091 of the Revised Code, the state board shall approve only units for persons who are under age twenty-two on the first day of the academic year, but not less than six years of age on the thirtieth day of September of that year, except that such a unit may include one or more children who are under six years of age on the thirtieth day of September if such children have been admitted to the unit pursuant to rules of the state board. In the case of handicapped preschool units described in division (B) of this section operated by county MR/DD boards and institutions eligible for payment under section 3323.091 of the Revised Code, the state board shall approve only preschool units for children who are under age six but not less than age three on the thirtieth day of September of the academic year, except that such a unit may include one or more children who are under age three or are age six or over on the thirtieth day of September if such children have been admitted to the unit pursuant to rules of the state board of education. The number of units for county MR/DD boards and institutions eligible for payment under section 3323.091 of the Revised Code approved by the state board under this section shall not exceed the number that can be funded with appropriations made for such purposes by the general assembly.

No unit shall be approved under divisions (B) to (D) of this section unless a plan has been submitted and approved under Chapter 3323. of the Revised Code.

(F) For fiscal year 1999 only, the department shall approve units or fractions thereof for gifted children on the basis of standards and rules adopted by the board.

Sec. 3317.051.  (A)(1) Notwithstanding sections 3317.05 and 3317.11 of the Revised Code, a unit funded pursuant to division (Q)(P)(1) of section 3317.024 or division (A)(2) of section 3317.161 of the Revised Code shall not be approved for state funding in one school district, including any joint vocational or cooperative education school district or any educational service center, to the extent that such unit provides programs in or services to another district which receives payment pursuant to section 3317.04 of the Revised Code.

(2) Any city, local, exempted village, or cooperative education school district or any educational service center may combine partial unit eligibility for handicapped preschool programs pursuant to section 3317.05 of the Revised Code, and such combined partial units may be approved for state funding in one school district or service center.

(B) After units have been initially approved for any fiscal year under section 3317.05 of the Revised Code, no unit shall be subsequently transferred from a school district or educational service center to another city, exempted village, local, joint vocational, or cooperative education school district or educational service center or to an institution or county MR/DD board solely for the purpose of reducing the financial obligations of the school district in a fiscal year it receives payment pursuant to section 3317.04 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 3317.06.  Moneys paid to school districts under division (L) of section 3317.024 of the Revised Code shall be used for the following independent and fully severable purposes:

(A) To purchase such secular textbooks as have been approved by the superintendent of public instruction for use in public schools in the state and to loan such textbooks to pupils attending nonpublic schools within the district or to their parents and to hire clerical personnel to administer such lending program. Such loans shall be based upon individual requests submitted by such nonpublic school pupils or parents. Such requests shall be submitted to the school district in which the nonpublic school is located. Such individual requests for the loan of textbooks shall, for administrative convenience, be submitted by the nonpublic school pupil or the pupil's parent to the nonpublic school which shall prepare and submit collective summaries of the individual requests to the school district. As used in this section, "textbook" means any book or book substitute which a pupil uses as a text or text substitute in a particular class or program in the school the pupil regularly attends.

(B) To provide speech and hearing diagnostic services to pupils attending nonpublic schools within the district. Such service shall be provided in the nonpublic school attended by the pupil receiving the service.

(C) To provide physician, nursing, dental, and optometric services to pupils attending nonpublic schools within the district. Such services shall be provided in the school attended by the nonpublic school pupil receiving the service.

(D) To provide diagnostic psychological services to pupils attending nonpublic schools within the district. Such services shall be provided in the school attended by the pupil receiving the service.

(E) To provide therapeutic psychological and speech and hearing services to pupils attending nonpublic schools within the district. Such services shall be provided in the public school, in nonpublic schools, in public centers, or in mobile units located on or off of the nonpublic premises. If such services are provided in the public school or in public centers, transportation to and from such facilities shall be provided by the school district in which the nonpublic school is located.

(F) To provide guidance and counseling services to pupils attending nonpublic schools within the district. Such services shall be provided in the public school, in nonpublic schools, in pubic public centers, or in mobile units located on or off of the nonpublic premises. If such services are provided in the public school or in public centers, transportation to and from such facilities shall be provided by the school district in which the nonpublic school is located.

(G) To provide remedial services to pupils attending nonpublic schools within the district. Such services shall be provided in the public school, in nonpublic schools, in public centers, or in mobile units located on or off of the nonpublic premises. If such services are provided in the public school or in public centers, transportation to and from such facilities shall be provided by the school district in which the nonpublic school is located.

(H) To supply for use by pupils attending nonpublic schools within the district such standardized tests and scoring services as are in use in the public schools of the state;

(I) To provide programs for children who attend nonpublic schools within the district and are handicapped children as defined in division (A) of section 3323.01 of the Revised Code or gifted children. Such programs shall be provided in the public school, in nonpublic schools, in public centers, or in mobile units located on or off of the nonpublic premises. If such programs are provided in the public school or in public centers, transportation to and from such facilities shall be provided by the school district in which the nonpublic school is located.

(J) To hire clerical personnel to assist in the administration of programs pursuant to divisions (B), (C), (D), (E), (F), (G), and (I) of this section and to hire supervisory personnel to supervise the providing of services and textbooks pursuant to this section.

(K) To purchase any secular, neutral, and nonideological computer software, prerecorded video laserdiscs, compact discs, and video cassette cartridges and mathematics or science equipment and materials that are in general use in the public schools of the state and loan such computer software, prerecorded video laserdiscs, compact discs, and video cassette cartridges, equipment, and materials to pupils attending nonpublic schools within the district or to their parents, and to hire clerical personnel to administer the lending program. Only computer software, prerecorded video laserdiscs, compact discs, and video cassette cartridges, equipment, and materials that are incapable of diversion to religious use and that are susceptible of loan to individual pupils and are furnished for the use of individual pupils shall be purchased and loaned under this division.

(L) To purchase instructional equipment, including computer hardware, for use by pupils attending nonpublic schools within the district, if such usage only occurs when these pupils are being provided the secular remedial, diagnostic, or therapeutic services pursuant to division (B), (D), (E), (F), (G), or (I) of this section.

(M) To purchase mobile units to be used for the provision of services pursuant to divisions (E), (F), (G), and (I) of this section and to pay for necessary repairs and operating costs associated with these units.

Clerical and supervisory personnel hired pursuant to division (J) of this section shall perform their services in the public schools, in nonpublic schools, public centers, or mobile units where the services are provided to the nonpublic school pupil, except that such personnel may accompany pupils to and from the service sites when necessary to ensure the safety of the children receiving the services.

Health services provided pursuant to divisions (B), (C), (D), and (E) of this section may be provided under contract with the department of health, city or general health districts, or private agencies whose personnel are properly licensed by an appropriate state board or agency.

Transportation of pupils provided pursuant to divisions (E), (F), (G), and (I) of this section shall be provided by the school district from its general funds and not from moneys paid to it under division (J)(L) of section 3317.024 of the Revised Code unless a special transportation request is submitted by the parent of the child receiving service pursuant to such divisions. If such an application is presented to the school district, it may pay for the transportation from moneys paid to it under division (J)(L) of section 3317.024 of the Revised Code.

No school district shall provide health or remedial services to nonpublic school pupils as authorized by this section unless such services are available to pupils attending the public schools within the district.

Materials, equipment, computer software, textbooks, and health and remedial services provided for the benefit of nonpublic school pupils pursuant to this section and the admission of pupils to such nonpublic schools shall be provided without distinction as to race, creed, color, or national origin of such pupils or of their teachers.

No school district shall provide services for use in religious courses, devotional exercises, religious training, or any other religious activity.

As used in this section, "parent" includes a person standing in loco parentis to a child.

Notwithstanding section 3317.01 of the Revised Code, payments shall be made under this section to any city, local, or exempted village school district within which is located one or more nonpublic elementary or high schools.

The allocation of payments for materials, equipment, textbooks, health services, and remedial services to city, local, and exempted village school districts shall be on the basis of the state board of education's estimated annual average daily membership in nonpublic elementary and high schools located in the district.

Payments made to city, local, and exempted village school districts under this section shall be equal to specific appropriations made for the purpose. All interest earned by a school district on such payments shall be used by the district for the same purposes and in the same manner as the payments may be used.

The department of education shall adopt guidelines and procedures under which such programs and services shall be provided, under which districts shall be reimbursed for administrative costs incurred in providing such programs and services, and under which any unexpended balance of the amounts appropriated by the general assembly to implement this section may be transferred to the auxiliary services personnel unemployment compensation fund established pursuant to section 4141.47 of the Revised Code. The department shall also adopt guidelines and procedures limiting the purchase and loan of computer software, equipment, and materials under division (K) of this section to items that are in general use in the public schools of the state, that are incapable of diversion to religious use, and that are susceptible to individual use rather than classroom use. Within thirty days after the end of each biennium, each board of education shall remit to the department all moneys paid to it under division (J)(L) of section 3317.024 of the Revised Code and any interest earned on those moneys that are not required to pay expenses incurred under this section during the biennium for which the money was appropriated and during which the interest was earned. If a board of education subsequently determines that the remittal of moneys leaves the board with insufficient money to pay all valid expenses incurred under this section during the biennium for which the remitted money was appropriated, the board may apply to the department of education for a refund of money, not to exceed the amount of the insufficiency. If the department determines the expenses were lawfully incurred and would have been lawful expenditures of the refunded money, it shall certify its determination and the amount of the refund to be made to the administrator of the bureau of employment services who shall make a refund as provided in section 4141.47 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 3317.082.  As used in this section, "institution" means a residential facility that receives and cares for children maintained by the department of youth services and that operates a school chartered by the state board of education under section 3301.16 of the Revised Code.

(A) On or before the thirty-first day of each January and July, the superintendent of each institution that during the six-month period immediately preceding each January or July provided an elementary or secondary education for any child, other than a child receiving special education under section 3323.091 of the Revised Code, shall prepare and submit to the department of education, a statement for each such child indicating the child's name, any school district responsible to pay tuition for the child as determined by the superintendent in accordance with division (C)(2) or (3) of section 3313.64 of the Revised Code, and the period of time during that six-month period that the child received an elementary or secondary education. If any school district is responsible to pay tuition for any such child, the department of education, no later than the immediately succeeding last day of February or August, as applicable, shall calculate the amount of the tuition of the district under section 3317.08 of the Revised Code for the period of time indicated on the statement and do one of the following:

(1) If the tuition amount is equal to or less than the amount of state basic aid funds payable to the district under sections 3317.022 and 3317.023 of the Revised Code, pay to the institution submitting the statement an amount equal to the tuition amount, as provided under division (R)(Q) of section 3317.024 of the Revised Code, and deduct the tuition amount from the state basic aid funds payable to the district, as provided under division (F)(2) of section 3317.023 of the Revised Code;

(2) If the tuition amount is greater than the amount of state basic aid funds payable to the district under sections 3317.022 and 3317.023 of the Revised Code, require the district to pay to the institution submitting the statement an amount equal to the tuition amount.

(B) In the case of any disagreement about the school district responsible to pay tuition for a child pursuant to this section, the superintendent of public instruction shall make the determination in any such case in accordance with division (C)(2) or (3) of section 3313.64 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 3317.10.  (A) On or before the first day of March of each year, the department of human services shall certify to the state board of education the number of children ages five through seventeen residing in each school district and living in a family that participated in Ohio works first under Chapter 5107. of the Revised Code during the preceding October according to the school district of residence for each child. Except as provided under division (B) of this section, the number of children so certified in any year shall be used by the department of education in determining the DPIA ADMfor purposes of calculating the distribution of moneys for the ensuing fiscal year provided in section 3317.029 of the Revised Code.

(B) Upon the transfer of part of the territory of one school district to the territory of one or more other school districts, the department of education may adjust the number certified under division (A) of this section for any district gaining or losing territory in such a transfer in order to take into account the effect of the transfer on the number of children ages five through seventeen who reside in the district and live in a family that participates in Ohio works first. Within sixty days of receipt of a request for information from the department of education, the department of human services shall provide any information the department of education determines is necessary to make such adjustments. The department of education may use the adjusted number for any district for the applicable fiscal year, in lieu of the number certified for the district for that fiscal year under division (A) of this section, in the calculation of the distribution of moneys provided in section 3317.029 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 3317.11.  (A) Annually, on or before a date designated by the state board of education, each educational service center governing board shall prepare a budget of operating expenses for the ensuing year for the service center on forms prepared and furnished by the state board of education and shall certify the budget to the state board of education, together with such other information as the board may require. Such budget shall consist of two parts. Part (A) shall include the cost of the salaries, employers retirement contributions, and travel expenses of supervisory teachers approved by the state board of education. The amount derived from the calculation for such units in part (A) of the governing board budget shall be the sum of:

(1) The sum of the minimum salaries calculated, pursuant to section 3317.13 of the Revised Code, for each approved licensed employee of the governing board;

(2) An additional salary allowance proportional to the length of the extended term of service not to exceed three months for each supervisory and child study teacher whose term of service in any year is extended beyond the terms of service of regular classroom teachers;

(3) An allowance equal to fifteen per cent of the amount computed under division (A)(1) of this section;

(4) An allowance for necessary travel expenses, for each of the personnel approved in part (A) of the budget, limited to two hundred twenty-three dollars and sixteen cents per month, or two thousand six hundred seventy-eight dollars per year per person employed, whichever is the lesser. Part

Part (B) shall include the cost of all other lawful expenditures of the governing board. The state board of education shall review such budget and may approve, increase, or decrease such budget.

The governing board shall be reimbursed by the state board of education from state funds for the cost of part (A) of the budget. The governing board shall be reimbursed by the state board of education, from state funds for the cost of part (B) of the approved budget that is in excess of six dollars and fifty cents times the service center ADM. If the governing board provides services to city or exempted village school districts pursuant to section 3313.843 of the Revised Code, the governing board shall be reimbursed from state funds for the cost of part (B) of the budget that is in excess of six dollars and fifty cents times the sum of the service center ADM and the formula client ADMs of the city or exempted village districts to which such services are provided. The cost of part (B) not in excess of six dollars and fifty cents times the number of such ADM shall be apportioned by the state board of education among the local school districts in the territory of the service center, or among all districts to which the governing board provides services, on the basis of the total number of pupils in each school district.

If part (B) of the budget is in excess of that approved by the state board of education, the excess cost shall be apportioned by the state board of education among the local school districts in the territory of the service center on the basis of the total number of such pupils in each such school district, provided that a majority of the boards of education of such local school districts approve such apportionment. The state board of education shall initiate and supervise the procedure by which the local boards shall approve or disapprove such apportionment.

The amounts so apportioned shall be certified to the treasurers of the various school districts. In the case of each district such amount shall be deducted by the state board of education from funds allocated to the district pursuant to division (E) of section 3317.023 of the Revised Code.

The state board of education shall certify to the director of budget and management for payment the total of the deductions, whereupon the amount shall be paid to the governing board of each service center, to be deposited to the credit of a separate fund, hereby created, to be known as the educational service center governing board fund.

An educational service center may provide special education to students in its local districts or in client districts. A service center is eligible for funding under division (J) of section 3317.024 of the Revised Code and eligible for state subsidies for the purchase of school buses under section 3317.07 of the Revised Code. Special education units for gifted children may be operated by a governing board. Vocational education may be provided by a governing board. A governing board may conduct driver education for pupils enrolled in a high school for which the state board of education prescribes minimum standards and which is eligible for funding under division (I) of section 3317.024 of the Revised Code.

Every local school district shall be provided supervisory services by its governing board as approved by the state board of education. A city or exempted village school district shall be considered to be provided supervisory services by a governing board if it has entered into an agreement for the governing board to provide any services under section 3313.843 of the Revised Code. Supervisory services shall not exceed one supervisory teacher for the first fifty classroom teachers employed in all districts that are provided supervisory services calculated under section 3317.023 of the Revised Code and one supervisory teacher for every additional one hundred such classroom teachers so calculated. Reimbursement for such supervisory services shall be a deduction by the state board of education from the payment to the school district pursuant to division (E) of section 3317.023 of the Revised Code. Deductions for all supervisory services and extended services for supervisory and child study shall be apportioned among local school districts within the territory of the service center and any city or exempted village districts that have entered into agreements with a service center pursuant to section 3313.843 of the Revised Code by the state board of education on the basis of the total number of pupils in each school district, except that where such services are provided to districts other than local school districts within the service center territory and city or exempted village districts having agreements with the service center, such charges shall be apportioned among all participating districts on the basis of the total number of pupils in each school district. All deductions from state funding to school districts required for reimbursement of governing boards by division (E) of section 3317.023 of the Revised Code shall be made from the total of the payment computed for the district under sections 3317.022 and 3317.023 of the Revised Code this chapter, after making any other adjustments in that payment required by law.

(B)(1) In addition to the payments made under division (A) of this section, except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section, the department of education shall pay each governing board, each fiscal year, an amount equal to thirty-four dollars times the sum of the service center ADM and thirty-four dollars times the sum of the client ADMs of all its client districts.

(2) In addition to other payments under this section, the department shall pay each educational service center the amounts due to it from school districts pursuant to contracts, compacts, or agreements under which the service center furnishes services to the districts or their students. In order to receive payment under this division, an educational service center shall furnish either a copy of the applicable contract, compact, or agreement clearly indicating the amounts of the payments, or a written statement of the payments owed signed by the superintendent or treasurer of the responsible school district.

The amounts paid to service centers under division (B)(2) of this section shall be deducted from payments to school districts pursuant to division (K)(2) of section 3317.023 Of the Revised Code.

(C) Beginning with the fiscal year that starts July 1, 1997, in lieu of the payment specified under division (B) of this section, each multicounty service center shall receive a payment each fiscal year equal to one per cent times the formula amount times the sum of the service center ADM and the client ADMs of all its client districts.

(D) Each city, exempted village, local, joint vocational, or cooperative education school district shall pay to the governing board of an educational service center any amounts agreed to for each child enrolled in the district who receives special education and related services or vocational education from the educational service center.

(E) As used in this section:

(1) "Service center ADM" means the total of each of the following for all local school districts within the limits of an educational service center's territory:

(a) The formula ADM;

(b) One-half of the The kindergarten average daily membership included in the formula ADM;

(c) Three-quarters of the number of students reported under division (B)(4) of section 3317.03 of the Revised Code;

(d) The average daily membership of handicapped preschool children reported under division (B)(2) of section 3317.03 of the Revised Code;

(e) The number of preschool students certified under division (B) of section 3317.032 of the Revised Code.

(2) "Client ADM" means the total of each number described under divisions (E)(1)(a) to (e) of this section for a client district.

(3) "Client district" means a city or exempted village school district that has entered into an agreement to receive services from a service center pursuant to section 3313.843 of the Revised Code.

(4) "Multicounty service center" means a service center that includes territory that formerly was included in the territory of at least three former service centers or county school districts, which former centers or districts engaged in one or more mergers pursuant to section 3311.053 of the Revised Code to form the present center.

Sec. 3317.15. (A) As used in this section, "handicapped child" has the same meaning as in section 3323.01 of the Revised Code.

(B) Each city, exempted village, local, and joint vocational school district shall continue to comply with all requirements of federal statutes and regulations, the Revised Code, and rules adopted by the state board of education governing education of handicapped children, including, but not limited to, requirements that handicapped children be served by appropriately licensed or certificated education personnel.

(C) Each city, exempted village, local, and joint vocational school district shall consult with the educational service center serving the county in which the school district is located and, if it elects to participate pursuant to section 5126.04 of the Revised Code, the county MR/DD board of that county, in providing services that serve the best interests of handicapped children.

(D) Each school district shall annually provide documentation to the department of education that it employs the appropriate number of licensed or certificated personnel to serve the district's handicapped students.

(E) The department annually shall audit a sample of school districts to ensure that handicapped children are being appropriately reported.

(F) Each school district shall provide speech-language pathology services at a ratio of one speech-language pathologist per two thousand students receiving any educational services from the district other than adult education. Each district shall provide school psychological services at a ratio of one school psychologist per two thousand five hundred students receiving any educational services from the district other than adult education. A district may obtain the services of speech-language pathologists and school psychologists by any means permitted by law, including contracting with an educational service center. If, however, a district is unable to obtain the services of the required number of speech-language pathologists or school psychologists, the district may request from the superintendent of public instruction, and the superintendent may grant, a waiver of this provision for a period of time established by the superintendent.

Sec. 3317.161.  As used in this section, "institution" means an institution operated by a department specified in section 3323.091 of the Revised Code.

(A)(1) The department of education shall pay each school district, educational service center, institution eligible for payment under section 3323.091 of the Revised Code, or county mr/dd MR/DD board an amount for the total of all classroom units for handicapped preschool children approved under division (B) of section 3317.05 of the Revised Code. For each unit, the amount shall be the sum of the minimum salary for the teacher of the unit, calculated on the basis of the teacher's training level and years of experience pursuant to section 3317.13 of the Revised Code, plus fifteen per cent of that minimum salary amount, and eight thousand twenty-three dollars.

(2) The department shall pay each school district, educational service center, institution eligible for payment under section 3323.091 of the Revised Code, or county MR/DD board an amount for the total of all related services units for handicapped preschool children approved under division (C) of section 3317.05 of the Revised Code. For each such unit, the amount shall be the sum of the minimum salary for the teacher of the unit calculated on the basis of the teacher's training level and years of experience pursuant to section 3317.13 of the Revised Code, fifteen per cent of that minimum salary amount, and two thousand one hundred thirty-two dollars.

(B) If a school district or educational service center has had additional handicapped preschool units approved for the year under division (F)(2) of section 3317.03 of the Revised Code, or if a county MR/DD board has had additional handicapped preschool units approved under division (G)(3) of section 3317.03 of the Revised Code, the district, educational service center, or board shall receive an additional amount during the last half of the fiscal year. For each district, center, or board, the additional amount for each unit shall equal fifty per cent of the amount amounts computed for the unit in the manner prescribed by division (A) of this section and division (C) of section 3317.162 Of the Revised Code.

(C)(1) The department shall pay each institution eligible for payment under section 3323.091 of the Revised Code or county MR/DD board an amount for the total of all special education units approved under division (D)(1) of section 3317.05 of the Revised Code. The amount for each unit shall be the sum of the minimum salary for the teacher of the unit, calculated on the basis of the teacher's training level and years of experience pursuant to section 3317.13 of the Revised Code, plus fifteen per cent of that minimum salary amount, and eight thousand twenty-three dollars.

(2) The department shall pay each institution eligible for payment under section 3323.091 of the Revised Code or county MR/DD board an amount for the total of all related services units approved under division (D)(2) of section 3317.05 of the Revised Code. The amount for each unit shall be the sum of the minimum salary for the teacher of the unit, calculated on the basis of the teacher's training level and years of experience pursuant to section 3317.13 of the Revised Code, plus fifteen per cent of that minimum salary amount, and two thousand one hundred thirty-two dollars.

(3) If a county MR/DD board has had additional handicapped preschool units for handicapped children other than handicapped preschool children approved under division (G)(3) of section 3317.03 of the Revised Code, the board shall receive an additional amount during the last half of the fiscal year. For each board, the additional amount for each unit shall equal fifty per cent of the amount computed for the unit in the manner prescribed by division (C)(1) of this section and division (C) of section 3317.162 Of the Revised Code.

(D) The department shall pay each institution approved for vocational education units under division (A) of section 3317.05 of the Revised Code an amount for the total of all the units approved under that division. The amount for each unit shall be the sum of the minimum salary for the teacher of the unit, calculated on the basis of the teacher's training level and years of experience pursuant to section 3317.13 of the Revised Code, plus fifteen per cent of that minimum salary amount, and nine thousand five hundred ten dollars.

Sec. 50.11 3317.162. Supplemental Unit Allowance

(A) As used under in this heading section:

(1) "State share percentage" has the same meaning as in division (B) of section 3317.022 of the Revised Code.

(2) "Dollar amount" means the amount shown in the following table for the corresponding type of unit and the appropriate fiscal year:

(3) "Average unit amount" means the amount shown in the following table for the corresponding type of unit and the appropriate fiscal year:

(B) In the case of each unit described in division (B), (C), or (F) of section 3317.05 of the Revised Code and allocated to a city, local, or exempted village school district, the Department department of Education education, in addition to the amounts specified in such divisions division (P)(1) of section 3317.024 and sections 3317.16, 3317.161, and 3317.19 Of the Revised Code, shall pay a supplemental unit allowance equal to the sum of the following amounts:

(1) An amount equal to 50% of the average unit amount for the unit;

(2) An amount equal to the percentage of the dollar amount for the unit that equals the district's state share percentage.

If, prior to the fifteenth day of May of a fiscal year, a school district's aid computed under section 3317.022 of the Revised Code is recomputed pursuant to section 3317.027 or 3317.028 of the Revised Code, the department shall also recompute the district's entitlement to payment under this section utilizing a new state share percentage. Such new state share percentage shall be determined using the district's recomputed basic aid amount pursuant to section 3317.027 or 3317.028 of the Revised Code. During the last six months of the fiscal year, the department shall pay the district a sum equal to one-half of the recomputed payment in lieu of one-half the payment otherwise calculated under this section.

(C)(1) In the case of each unit allocated to a joint vocational school district or institution pursuant to division (A) of section 3317.05 of the Revised Code, the Department department, in addition to the amount specified in section 3317.16 or 3317.161 of the Revised Code, shall pay a supplemental unit allowance of $7,227 in fiscal year 1999.

(2) In the case of each unit described in division (B) or (D)(1) of section 3317.05 of the Revised Code that is allocated to any entity other than a city, exempted village, or local school district, the Department department, in addition to the amount specified in section 3317.161 of the Revised Code, shall pay a supplemental unit allowance of $7,799 in fiscal year 1999.

(3) In the case of each unit described in division (C) or (D)(2) of section 3317.05 of the Revised Code and allocated to any entity other than a city, exempted village, or local school district, the Department department, in addition to the amounts specified in section 3317.161 of the Revised Code, shall pay a supplemental unit allowance of $2,966 in fiscal year 1999.

(4) In the case of each unit described in division (F) of section 3317.05 of the Revised Code and allocated to any entity other than a city, exempted village, or local school district, the Department department, in addition to the amounts specified in section 3317.161 of the Revised Code, shall pay a supplemental unit allowance of $3,251 in fiscal year 1999.

Sec. 3317.19.  (A) As used in this section, "total unit allowance" means an amount equal to the sum of the following:

(1) The total of the salary allowances for the teachers employed in the cooperative education school district for all units approved under division (B) or (C) of section 3317.05 of the Revised Code. The salary allowance for each unit shall equal the minimum salary for the teacher of the unit calculated on the basis of the teacher's training level and years of experience pursuant to section 3317.13 of the Revised Code.

(2) Fifteen per cent of the total computed under division (A)(1) of this section;

(3) The total of the unit operating allowances for all approved units. The amount of each allowance shall equal one of the following:

(a) Eight thousand twenty-three dollars times the number of preschool handicapped units or fraction thereof approved for the year under division (B) of section 3317.05 of the Revised Code;

(b) Two thousand one hundred thirty-two dollars times the number of units or fraction thereof approved for the year under division (C) of section 3317.05 of the Revised Code.

(B) The state board of education shall compute and distribute to each cooperative education school district for each fiscal year an amount equal to the sum of the following:

(1) An amount equal to the total of the amounts credited to the cooperative education school district pursuant to division (K) of section 3317.023 of the Revised Code;

(2) The total unit allowance;

(3) An amount for driver education pursuant to division (H)(I) of section 3317.024 of the Revised Code;

(4) An amount for assisting in providing free lunches to needy children and an amount for assisting needy school districts in purchasing necessary equipment for food preparation pursuant to division (K) of section 3317.024 of the Revised Code.

(C) If a cooperative education school district has had additional special education units approved for the year under division (F)(2) of section 3317.03 of the Revised Code, the district shall receive an additional amount during the last half of the fiscal year. For each unit, the additional amount shall equal fifty per cent of the amount computed under division (A) of this section for a unit approved under division (B) of section 3317.05 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 3317.20. This section does not apply to handicapped preschool children.

(A) As used in this section:

(1) "Applicable weight" means:

(a) For a handicapped child receiving special education services for a handicap specified in division (A) of section 3317.013 of the Revised Code, the multiple specified in that division;

(b) For a handicapped child receiving special education services for a handicap specified in division (B) of section 3317.013 or division (F)(3) of section 3317.02 of the Revised Code, the multiple specified in division (B) of section 3317.013 of the Revised Code.

(2) "Child's school district" means the school district in which a child is entitled to attend school pursuant to section 3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code.

(3) "State share percentage" means the state share percentage of the child's school district as defined in section 3317.022 of the Revised Code.

(B) Notwithstanding sections 3317.03, 3317.05, 3317.161, and 3317.162 of the Revised Code, the department of education shall not approve special education and related services units, other than for handicapped preschool children, in county MR/DD boards in fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 2001. During those fiscal years, state funding for special education and related services provided to school-age children by county MR/DD boards shall be provided under divisions (C) to (E) of this section.

(C) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, the department shall annually pay each county MR/DD board an amount calculated under the following formula for each handicapped child, other than a handicapped preschool child, for whom the county MR/DD board provides special education and related services:

(formula amount X the cost-of-doing-business factor for the child's school district) + (state share percentage X formula amount X the applicable weight)

(D) If any school district places with a county MR/DD board more handicapped children than it had placed with a county MR/DD board in fiscal year 1998, the department shall not make a payment under division (C) of this section for the number of children exceeding the number placed in fiscal year 1998. The department instead shall deduct from the district's payments under this chapter, and pay to the county MR/DD board, an amount calculated in accordance with the formula prescribed in division (C) of this section for each child over the number of children placed in fiscal year 1998.

(E) The department shall calculate for each county MR/DD board receiving payments under divisions (C) and (D) of this section the following amounts:

(1) The amount received by the county MR/DD board for approved special education and related services units, other than preschool handicapped units, in fiscal year 1998, divided by the total number of children served in the units that year;

(2) The product of the quotient calculated under division (E)(1) of this section times the number of children for whom payments are made under divisions (C) and (D) of this section.

If the amount calculated under division (E)(2) of this section is greater than the total amount calculated under divisions (C) and (D) of this section, the department shall pay the county MR/DD board one hundred per cent of the difference in addition to the payments under divisions (C) and (D) of this section.

Sec. 3318.06.  After receipt of the conditional approval of the Ohio school facilities commission, the school district board by a majority of all of its members shall, if it desires to proceed with the project, declare all of the following by resolution:

(A) That with a net bonded indebtedness of within five thousand dollars of the required level of indebtedness or by issuing bonds in an amount equal to the required percentage of the project costs, the district is unable to provide adequate classroom facilities without assistance from the state;

(B) That to qualify for such state assistance it is necessary to levy a tax outside the ten-mill limitation the proceeds of which shall be used to pay the cost of maintaining the classroom facilities included in the project, except that in any year the district's adjusted valuation per pupil is greater than the state-wide median adjusted valuation per pupil one-half of the proceeds of the tax shall be used for such maintenance and one-half of such proceeds shall be used to pay the cost of the purchase of the classroom facilities from the state;

(C) That the question of such tax levy shall be submitted to the electors of the school district at the next general or primary election, if there be a general or primary election not less than seventy-five and not more than ninety-five days after the day of the adoption of such resolution or, if not, at a special election to be held at a time specified in the resolution which shall be not less than seventy-five days after the day of the adoption of the resolution and which shall be in accordance with the requirements of section 3501.01 of the Revised Code.

Such resolution shall also state, if such be the case, that the question of issuing bonds of the board shall be combined in a single proposal with the question of such tax levy. More than one election under this section may be held in any one calendar year. Such resolution shall specify both of the following:

(1) That the rate which it is necessary to levy shall be at the rate of one-half mill for each one dollar of valuation, and that such tax shall be levied until the purchase price is paid but in no case longer than twenty-three years;

(2) That the proceeds of the tax shall be used to pay the cost of maintaining the classroom facilities included in the project, except in any year the district's adjusted valuation per pupil is greater than the statewide median adjusted valuation per pupil one-half of the proceeds of the tax shall be used for such maintenance and one-half of the proceeds of the tax shall be used to pay the cost of the purchase of the classroom facilities from the state under sections 3318.01 to 3318.20 of the Revised Code.

A copy of such resolution shall after its passage and not less than seventy-five days prior to the date set therein for the election be certified to the county board of elections.

If the question of issuing bonds of the board is to be combined with the question of levying the tax, the The resolution of the school district board, in addition to meeting other applicable requirements of section 133.18 of the Revised Code, shall state that the amount of bonds to be issued will be either whatever amount may be necessary to raise the net bonded indebtedness of the school district to within five thousand dollars of the required level of indebtedness calculated for the year preceding the year in which such resolution is adopted or an amount equal to the required percentage of the basic project costs, whichever is greater and state that the maximum maturity of the bonds which, notwithstanding section 133.20 of the Revised Code, may be any number of years not exceeding twenty-three as determined by the board. In estimating the amount of bonds to be issued, the board shall take into consideration the amount of moneys then in the bond retirement fund and the amount of moneys to be collected for and disbursed from the bond retirement fund during the remainder of the year in which the resolution of necessity is adopted.

Notice of the election shall include the fact that the tax levy shall be at the rate of one-half mill for each one dollar of valuation, that the levy shall be made until the purchase price is paid but in no case longer than twenty-three years, and that the proceeds of the tax shall be used to pay the cost of maintaining the classroom facilities included in the project, except in any year the district's adjusted valuation per pupil is greater than the statewide median adjusted valuation per pupil one-half of the proceeds of the tax shall be used for such maintenance and one-half of the proceeds of the tax shall be used to pay the cost of the purchase of the classroom facilities from the state under sections 3318.01 to 3318.20 of the Revised Code.

The form of the ballot to be used at such election shall be:

"A majority affirmative vote is necessary for passage.

Shall bonds be issued by the Board of Education of the ............ (here insert name of school district) for the purpose of ............ (here insert purpose of bond issue) in either an amount sufficient to raise the net indebtedness of the school district to within five thousand dollars of ............ (here insert five, six, or seven per cent depending on the district's required level of indebtedness) of the total value of all property in the school district as listed and assessed for taxation on the tax duplicate for the year ............ (here insert the year preceding the year in which the resolution declaring the necessity of the election was adopted) or an amount equal to ............ (here insert the required percentage of the basic project costs), whichever is greater, and a levy of taxes be made outside of the ten-mill limitation for a maximum period of ............ (here insert longest maturity) years to pay the principal and interest of such bonds, the amount of such bonds being estimated to be ............ (here insert estimated amount of bond issue) for which the levy of taxes is estimated by the county auditor to average ............ (here insert number of mills) mills for each one dollar of valuation, which amounts to ............ (here insert rate expressed in dollars and cents) for each one hundred dollars of valuation?"

"Shall an additional levy of taxes be made for the benefit of the ............ (name of school district), the proceeds of which shall be used to pay the cost of maintaining the classroom facilities included in the project, except that in any year the district's adjusted valuation per pupil is greater than the state-wide median adjusted valuation per pupil one-half of the proceeds of the tax shall be used for such maintenance and one-half of such proceeds shall be used to pay the cost of the purchase of classroom facilities from the state, at the rate of one-half mill for each one dollar of valuation until the purchase price is paid but in no case longer than twenty-three years?

Where it is not necessary to include the question of issuing bonds of the school district board with the question of levying the tax, the first paragraph of the foregoing ballot form shall be omitted and the question to be voted on shall be "For the Tax Levy" and "Against the Tax Levy."

(D) If it is necessary for the school district to acquire a site for the classroom facilities to be acquired pursuant to sections 3318.01 to 3318.20 of the Revised Code, the district board may propose either to issue bonds of the board or to levy a tax to pay for the acquisition of such site, and may combine the question of doing so with the questions specified in division (C) of this section. Bonds issued under this division for the purpose of acquiring a site are a general obligation of the school district and are Chapter 133. securities.

The form of that portion of the ballot to include the question of either issuing bonds or levying a tax for site acquisition purposes shall be one of the following:

(1) "Shall bonds be issued by the board of education of the ......... (name of the school district) for the purpose of .......... (purpose of the bond issue, which shall be for the purpose of acquiring a site for classroom facilities) in the principal amount of ........ (principal amount of the bond issue), to be repaid annually over a maximum period of ......... (maximum number of years over which the principal of the bonds may be paid) years, and an annual levy of property taxes be made outside the ten-mill limitation, estimated by the county auditor to average over the repayment period of the bond issue ....... (number of mills) mills for each one dollar of tax valuation, which amount to ....... (rate expressed in dollars and cents) for each one hundred dollars of valuation?"

(2) "Shall an additional levy of taxes be made for the benefit of the ......... (name of the school district) ......... for the purpose ......... (purpose of the levy, which shall be for the purpose of acquiring a site for classroom facilities) in the sum of ......... (annual amount the levy is to produce) and a levy of taxes to be made outside of the ten-mill limitation estimated by the county auditor to average ........ (number of mills) mills for each one hundred dollars of valuation, for a period of ......... (number of years the millage is to be imposed) years?"

Where it is necessary to combine the question of issuing bonds of the school district and levying a tax as described in division (C) of this section with the question of issuing bonds of the school district for acquisition of a site, the question specified in division (C) of this section to be voted on shall be "For the Bond Issues and the Tax Levy" and "Against the Bond Issues and the Tax Levy." In the event it is not necessary to include the question of issuing bonds as described in division (C) of this section, the question specified in that division to be voted on shall be "For the Bond Issue and the Tax Levy" and "Against the Bond Issue and the Tax Levy."

Where it is necessary to combine the question of issuing bonds of the school district and levying a tax as described in division (C) of this section with the question of levying a tax for the acquisition of a site, the question specified in division (C) of this section to be voted on shall be "For the Bond Issue and the Tax Levies" and "Against the Bond Issue and the Tax Levies." In the event it is not necessary to include the question of issuing bonds as described in division (C) of this section, the question specified in that division to be voted on shall be "For the Tax Levies" and "Against the Tax Levies."

If a majority of those voting upon a proposition hereunder which includes the question of issuing bonds vote in favor thereof, and if the agreement provided for by section 3318.08 of the Revised Code has been entered into, the school district board may proceed under Chapter 133. of the Revised Code, with the issuance of bonds or bond anticipation notes in accordance with the terms of the agreement.

Sec. 3318.08.  If the requisite favorable vote on the election is obtained, the Ohio school facilities commission, upon certification of the results of the election to it, shall enter into a written agreement with the school district board for the construction and sale of the project, which agreement shall include, but need not be limited to, the following provisions:

(A) The sale and issuance of bonds or notes in anticipation thereof, as soon as practicable after the execution of the agreement, in either an amount which will raise the net bonded indebtedness of the school district, as of the date of the resolution authorizing the issuance of such bonds or notes, to within five thousand dollars of the required level of indebtedness calculated for the year preceding the year in which the resolution declaring the necessity of the election was adopted or an amount equal to the required percentage of the basic project costs, whichever is greater; provided, that if at that time the county treasurer of each county in which the school district is located has not commenced the collection of taxes on the general duplicate of real and public utility property for such year, the school district board shall authorize the issuance of a first installment of bond anticipation notes in an amount specified by the agreement, which amount shall not exceed an amount necessary to raise the net bonded indebtedness of the school district as to the date of such authorizing resolution to within five thousand dollars of the required level of indebtedness for the preceding year. In the event that a first installment of bond anticipation notes is issued, the school district board shall, as soon as practicable after the county treasurer of each county in which the school district is located has commenced the collection of taxes on the general duplicate of real and public utility property for the year in which the resolution declaring the necessity of the election was adopted, authorize the issuance of a second and final installment of bond anticipation notes or a first and final issue of bonds. The combined value of the first and second installment of bond anticipation notes or the value of the first and final issue of bonds shall be equal to either an amount which will raise the net indebtedness of the school district as of the date of such authorizing resolution to within five thousand dollars of the required level of indebtedness, or an amount equal to the required percentage of the project costs, whichever is greater. The proceeds of any such bonds shall be used first to retire any bond anticipation notes. Otherwise, the proceeds of such bonds and of any bond anticipation notes, except the premium and accrued interest thereon, shall be deposited in the school district's project construction fund. In determining the amount of net indebtedness for the purpose of fixing the amount of an issue of either bonds or bond anticipation notes, gross indebtedness shall be reduced by moneys in the bond retirement fund only to the extent of the moneys therein on the first day of the year preceding the year in which the resolution authorizing such bonds or notes is adopted. Should there be a decrease in the tax valuation of the school district so that the amount of indebtedness which can be incurred on the tax duplicates for the year in which the resolution declaring the necessity of the election was adopted is less than the amount of the first installment of bond anticipation notes, there shall be paid from the school district's project construction fund to the school district's bond retirement fund to be applied against such notes an amount sufficient to cause the net indebtedness of the school district, as of the first day of the year following the year in which the resolution declaring the necessity of the election was adopted, to be within five thousand dollars of the required level of indebtedness for the year in which that resolution was adopted. The maximum amount of indebtedness to be incurred by any school district board as its share of the cost of the project is either an amount which will cause its net indebtedness, as of the first day of the year following the year in which the resolution declaring the necessity of the bond issue was adopted, to be within five thousand dollars of the required level of indebtedness calculated for the year preceding the year in which that resolution was adopted or an amount equal to the required percentage of the basic project costs, whichever is greater. All bonds and bond anticipation notes shall be issued in accordance with Chapter 133. of the Revised Code, and notes may be renewed as provided in section 133.22 of the Revised Code.

(B) The transfer of such funds of the school district board available for the project, together with the proceeds of the sale of the bonds or notes, except premium, accrued interest, and interest included in the amount of the issue, to the school district's project construction fund;

(C) The levy of the tax authorized at the election for the payment of maintenance costs or the cost of purchasing the classroom facilities;

(D) Ownership of the project during the period of construction, which shall be divided between the commission and the school district board in proportion to their respective contributions to the school district's project construction fund;

(E) The transfer of the state's interest in the project to the school district upon completion of the project;

(F) The insurance of the project by the school district from the time there is an insurable interest therein and so long as any part of the purchase price remains unpaid, in such amounts and against such risks as the commission shall require; provided, that the cost of any required insurance until the project is completed shall be a part of the basic project cost;

(G) The certification by the director of budget and management that funds are available and have been set aside to meet the state's share of the basic project cost as approved by the controlling board pursuant to section 3318.04 of the Revised Code;

(H) Authorization of the school district board to advertise for and receive construction bids for the project, for and on behalf of the commission, and to award contracts in the name of the state subject to approval by the commission;

(I) Provisions for the disbursement of moneys from the school district's project account upon issuance by the commission or the commission's designated representative of vouchers for work done to be certified to the commission by the treasurer of the school district board;

(J) Disposal of any balance left in the school district's project construction fund upon completion of the project;

(K) Prohibition against alienation of any interest in the project by the school district board or its successor in interest without the consent of the commission so long as any part of the purchase price of the project remains unpaid, but in no case longer than twenty-three years;

(L) Limitations upon use of the project or any part of it so long as any part of the purchase price of the project remains unpaid, but in no case longer than twenty-three years;

(M) Suspension of the power to issue bonds or notes by the school district board for permanent improvements without the prior consent of the commission for so long as any part of the purchase price of the project remains unpaid, but in no case longer than twenty-three years;

(N) Provision for vesting absolute interest in the project in the school district board when the purchase price has been paid or at the expiration of the period of twenty-three years;

(O)(N) Provision for deposit of an executed copy of the agreement in the office of the commission and the office of the county recorder of the county or counties in which the project is situated;

(P)(O) Provision for termination of the contract and release of the funds encumbered at the time of the conditional approval, if the proceeds of the sale of the bonds of the school district board are not paid into the school district's project construction fund and if bids for the construction of the project have not been taken within such period after the execution of the agreement as may be fixed by the commission;

(Q)(P) Provision for the school district to maintain the project in accordance with a plan approved by the commission;

(R)(Q) Provision that all state funds reserved and encumbered to pay the state share of the cost of the project pursuant to section 3318.03 of the Revised Code be spent on the construction or acquisition of the project prior to the expenditure of any funds provided by the school district to pay for its share of the project cost, unless the school district certifies to the commission that expenditure by the school district is necessary to maintain the tax-exempt status of notes or bonds issued by the school district to pay for its share of the project cost in which case, the school district may commit to spend, or spend, a portion of the funds it provides.

Sec. 3318.10.  When such working drawings, specifications, and estimates of cost have been approved by the school district board and the Ohio school facilities commission, the treasurer of the school district board shall advertise for construction bids for the project once a week for four three consecutive weeks in a newspaper published in and of general circulation in the county in which the project is located. Such notices shall state that plans and specifications for the project are on file in the office of the commission and such other place as may be designated in such notice, and the time and place when and where bids therefor will be received.

The form of proposal to be submitted by bidders shall be supplied by the commission. Bidders may be permitted to bid upon all the branches of work and materials to be furnished and supplied, upon any branch thereof, or upon all or any thereof.

A proposal shall be invalid and not considered unless it meets the requirements of section 153.54 of the Revised Code.

When the construction bids for all branches of work and materials have been tabulated, the commission shall cause to be prepared a revised estimate of the basic project cost based upon the lowest responsible bids received. If such revised estimate exceeds the estimated basic project cost as approved by the controlling board pursuant to section 3318.04 of the Revised Code, no contracts may be entered into pursuant to this section unless such revised estimate is approved by the commission and by the controlling board referred to in section 3318.04 of the Revised Code. When such revised estimate has been prepared, and after such approvals are given, if necessary, and if the school district board has caused to be transferred to the project construction fund the proceeds from the sale of the first or first and final installment of its bonds or bond anticipation notes pursuant to the provision of written agreement required by division (B) of section 3318.08 of the Revised Code, and when the director of budget and management has certified that there is a balance in the appropriation, not otherwise obligated to pay precedent obligations, pursuant to which the state's share of such revised estimate is required to be paid, the contract for all branches of work and materials to be furnished and supplied, or for any branch thereof as determined by the school district board, shall be awarded by the school district board to the lowest responsible bidder subject to the approval of the commission. Such award shall be made within thirty sixty days after the date on which the bids are opened, and the successful bidder shall enter into a contract within ten days after the successful bidder is notified of the award of the contract.

Subject to the approval of the commission, the school district board may reject all bids and readvertise. Any contract made under this section shall be made in the name of the state and executed on its behalf by the president and treasurer of the school district board.

The provisions of sections 153.50 to 153.99 of the Revised Code, which are applicable to construction contracts of boards of education and which permit bids to be made for two or more trades or kinds of work, shall apply to construction contracts for the project to the exclusion of sections 153.01 to 153.20 of the Revised Code applicable to state construction contracts.

The remedies afforded to any subcontractor, materials supplier, laborer, mechanic, or persons furnishing material or machinery for the project under sections 1311.26 to 1311.32 of the Revised Code, shall apply to contracts entered into under this section and the itemized statement required by section 1311.26 of the Revised Code shall be filed with the school district board.

Sec. 3319.22.  (A) The state board of education shall adopt rules establishing the standards and requirements for obtaining temporary, associate, provisional, and professional educator licenses of any categories, types, and levels the board elects to provide. However, no educator license shall be required for teaching children two years old or younger.

(B) Any rules the state board of education adopts, amends, or rescinds for educator licenses under this section, division (D) of section 3301.07 of the Revised Code, or any other law shall be adopted, amended, or rescinded under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code except as follows:

(1) Notwithstanding division (D) of section 119.03 and division (A)(1) of section 119.04 of the Revised Code, the effective date of any rules, or amendment or rescission of any rules, shall not be as prescribed in division (D) of section 119.03 and division (A)(1) of section 119.04 of the Revised Code. Instead, the rules or amendment or rescission of the rules shall take effect only after the rules or amendment or rescission of the rules are filed with the chairpersons of the committees of the house of representatives and of the senate that are primarily responsible for consideration of education legislation and only after approval by the general assembly through adoption of a concurrent resolution by a majority of the members of both the house of representatives and the senate. The effective date of the rules shall be the later of the date on which the concurrent resolution is adopted by the second house or the date prescribed by section 3319.23 of the Revised Code.

(2) Notwithstanding the authority to adopt, amend, or rescind emergency rules in division (F) of section 119.03 of the Revised Code, this authority shall not apply to the state board of education with regard to rules for educator licenses.

(C)(1) The rules adopted under this section establishing standards requiring additional coursework for the renewal of any educator license shall require a school district and a chartered nonpublic school to establish local professional development committees. In a nonpublic school, the chief administrative officer shall establish the committees in any manner acceptable to such officer. The committees established under this division shall determine whether coursework that a district or chartered nonpublic school teacher proposes to complete meets the requirement of the rules. The rules shall establish a procedure by which a teacher may appeal the decision of a local professional development committee.

(2) In any school district in which there is no exclusive representative established under Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code, the professional development committees shall be established as described in division (C)(2) of this section.

Not later than the effective date of the rules adopted under this section, the board of education of each school district shall establish the structure for one or more local professional development committees to be operated by such school district. The committee structure so established by a district board shall remain in effect unless within thirty days prior to an anniversary of the date upon which the current committee structure was established, the board provides notice to all affected district employees that the committee structure is to be modified. Professional development committees may have a district level or building level scope of operations, and may be established with regard to particular grade or age levels for which an educator license is designated.

Each professional development committee shall consist of at least three classroom teachers employed by the district, one principal employed by the district, and one other employee of the district appointed by the district superintendent. For committees with a building level scope, the teacher and principal members shall be assigned to that building, and the teacher members shall be elected by majority vote of the classroom teachers assigned to that building. For committees with a district level scope, the teacher members shall be elected by majority vote of the classroom teachers of the district, and the principal member shall be elected by a majority vote of the principals of the district, unless there are two or fewer principals employed by the district, in which case the one or two principals employed shall serve on the committee. If a committee has a particular grade or age level scope, the teacher members shall be licensed to teach such grade or age levels, and shall be elected by majority vote of the classroom teachers holding such a license and the principal shall be elected by all principals serving in buildings where any such teachers serve. The district superintendent shall appoint a replacement to fill any vacancy that occurs on a professional development committee, except in the case of vacancies among the elected classroom teacher members, which shall be filled by vote of the remaining members of the committee so selected.

Terms of office on professional development committees shall be prescribed by the district board establishing the committees. The conduct of elections for members of professional development committees shall be prescribed by the district board establishing the committees. A professional development committee may include additional members, except that the majority of members on each such committee shall be classroom teachers employed by the district. Any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration date of the term for which a predecessor was appointed shall hold office as a member for the remainder of that term.

The initial meeting of any professional development committee, upon election and appointment of all committee members, shall be called by a member designated by the district superintendent. At this initial meeting, the committee shall select a chairperson and such other officers the committee deems necessary, and shall adopt rules for the conduct of its meetings. Thereafter, the committee shall meet at the call of the chairperson or upon the filing of a petition with the district superintendent signed by a majority of the committee members calling for the committee to meet.

(3) In the case of a school district in which an exclusive representative has been established pursuant to Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code, professional development committees shall be established in accordance with any collective bargaining agreement in effect in the district that includes provisions for such committees.

If the collective bargaining agreement does not specify a different method for the selection of teacher members of the committees, the exclusive representative of the district's teachers shall select the teacher members.

If the collective bargaining agreement does not specify a different structure for the committees, the board of education of the school district shall establish the structure, including the number of committees and the number of teacher and administrative members on each committee; the specific administrative members to be part of each committee; whether the scope of the committees will be district levels, building level, or by type of grade or age levels for which educator licenses are designated; the lengths of terms for members; the manner of filling vacancies on the committees; and the frequency and time and place of meetings. However, in all cases, except as provided in division (C)(4) of this section, there shall be a majority of teacher members of any professional development committee, there shall be at least five total members of any professional development committee, and the exclusive representative shall designate replacement members in the case of vacancies among teacher members, unless the collective bargaining agreement specifies a different method of selecting such replacements.

(4) Whenever an administrator's coursework plan is being discussed or voted upon, the local professional development committee shall, at the request of one of its administrative members, cause a majority of the committee to consist of administrative members by reducing the number of teacher members voting on the plan.

Sec. 3323.021. As used in this section, "participating county MR/DD board" means a county board of mental retardation and developmental disabilities electing to participate in the provision of or contracting for educational services for children under division (D) of section 5126.05 of the Revised Code.

(A) When a school district, educational service center, or participating county MR/DD board enters into an agreement or contract with another school district, educational service center, or participating county MR/DD board to provide educational services to a disabled child during a school year, both of the following shall apply:

(1) Beginning with fiscal year 1999, if the provider of the services intends to increase the amount it charges for some or all of those services during the next school year or if the provider intends to cease offering all or part of those services during the next school year, the provider shall notify the entity for which the services are provided of these intended changes no later that the first day of March of the current fiscal year.

(2) Beginning with fiscal year 1999, if the entity for which services are provided intends to cease obtaining those services from the provider for the next school year or intends to change the type or amount of services it obtains from the provider for the next school year, the entity shall notify the service provider of these intended changes no later than the first day of March of the current fiscal year.

(B) School districts, educational service centers, participating county MR/DD boards, and other applicable governmental entities shall collaborate where possible to maximize federal sources of revenue, including the community alternative funding system of the medical assistance program established under Chapter 5111. of the Revised Code, to provide additional funds for special education related services for disabled children. Annually, each school district shall report to the department of education any amounts of money the district received through such medical assistance program.

(C) The state board of education, the department of mental retardation and developmental disabilities, and the Department of Human Services shall develop working agreements for pursuing additional funds for services for disabled children.

Sec. 3323.091.  (A) The department of mental health, the department of mental retardation and developmental disabilities, the department of youth services, and the department of rehabilitation and correction shall establish and maintain special education programs for handicapped children in institutions under their jurisdiction according to standards adopted by the state board of education. The superintendent of each institution providing special education under this chapter may apply to the state department of education for unit funding, which shall be paid in accordance with section sections 3317.161 and 3317.162 of the Revised Code.

(B) On or before the thirtieth day of June of each year, the superintendent of each institution that during the school year provided special education pursuant to this section shall prepare a statement for each handicapped child under twenty-two years of age who has received special education. The statement shall contain the child's name and the name of the child's school district of residence. Within sixty days after receipt of such statement, the department of education shall perform one of the following:

(1) For any child except a handicapped preschool child described in division (B)(2) of this section, pay to the institution submitting the statement an amount equal to the tuition calculated under division (A) of section 3317.08 of the Revised Code for the period covered by the statement, and deduct the same from the amount of state funds, if any, payable under sections 3317.022 and 3317.023 of the Revised Code, to the child's school district of residence or, if the amount of such state funds is insufficient, require the child's school district of residence to pay the institution submitting the statement an amount equal to the amount determined under this division.

(2) For any handicapped preschool child not included in a unit approved under division (B) of section 3317.05 of the Revised Code, perform the following:

(a) Pay to the institution submitting the statement an amount equal to the tuition calculated under division (B) of section 3317.08 of the Revised Code for the period covered by the statement, except that in calculating the tuition under that section the operating expenses of the institution submitting the statement under this section shall be used instead of the operating expenses of the school district of residence;

(b) Deduct from the amount of state funds, if any, payable under sections 3317.022 and 3317.023 of the Revised Code to the child's school district of residence an amount equal to the amount paid under division (B)(2)(a) of this section.

Sec. 3323.12.  The board of education of a school district shall provide home instruction for handicapped children three to twenty-one years of age who are unable to attend school, even with the help of special transportation. The board may arrange for the provision of home instruction for a child by a cooperative agreement or contract with a county board of mental retardation and developmental disabilities or other educational agency. For the purposes of determining average formula ADM under section 3317.03 of the Revised Code, five hours of home instruction shall be equivalent to attendance for five school days.

Sec. 3323.142.  This section does not apply to any handicapped preschool child except if included in a unit approved under division (B) of section 3317.05 of the Revised Code.

As used in this section, "per pupil amount" for a handicapped preschool child included in such an approved unit means the amount determined by dividing the amount received for the classroom unit in which a the child has been placed by the number of children in the unit. For any other child, "per pupil amount" means the amount paid for the child under section 3317.20 of the Revised Code.

When a school district places or has placed a child with a county MR/DD board for special education, but another district is responsible for tuition under section 3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code and the child is not a resident of the territory served by the county MR/DD board, the board may charge the district responsible for tuition with the educational costs in excess of the per pupil amount received by the board under Chapter 3317. of the Revised Code. The amount of the excess cost shall be determined by the formula established by rule of the department of education under section 3323.14 of the Revised Code, and the payment for such excess cost shall be made by the school district directly to the county MR/DD board.

A school district board of education and the county MR/DD board that serves the school district may negotiate and contract, at or after the time of placement, for payments by the board of education to the county MR/DD board for additional services provided to a child placed with the county MR/DD board and whose individualized education program established pursuant to section 3323.08 of the Revised Code requires additional services that are not routinely provided children in the county MR/DD board's program but are necessary to maintain the child's enrollment and participation in the program. Additional services may include, but are not limited to, specialized supplies and equipment for the benefit of the child and instruction, training, or assistance provided by staff members other than staff members for which funding is received under Chapter 3317. of the Revised Code.

Sec. 3345.122. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a member of a board of trustees of an institution of higher education, as defined in section 3345.12 Of the Revised Code, is not liable in damages in a civil action for injury, death, or loss to person or property that allegedly is caused by an expenditure made or a contract entered into by the institution of higher education unless the trustee acted with malicious purpose, in bad faith, or in a wanton or reckless manner with respect to the expenditure or contract.

Sec. 3702.5212. (A) This section applies to each long-term care facility that meets the following requirements:

(1) The facility has been in continuous operation for not less than one hundred twenty years prior to the effective date of this section;

(2) The facility is located in an inner city area;

(3) The facility is operating as a nonprofit entity organized under Chapter 1702. of the Revised Code or the nonprofit law of another state.

(B) Notwithstanding sections 3702.51 to 3702.68 of the Revised Code, the owner or operator of a long-term care facility described in division (A) of this section is not required to obtain a certificate of need for the addition of up to thirty long-term care beds to be licensed under Chapter 3721. of the Revised Code. The exemption shall apply only as long as the beds are owned and operated by the facility to which the exemption is granted.

Sec. 3734.28.  All moneys collected under sections 3734.122, 3734.13, 3734.20, 3734.22, 3734.24, and 3734.26 of the Revised Code and natural resource damages collected by the state under the "Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980," 94 Stat. 2767, 42 U.S.C.A. 9601, as amended, shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the hazardous waste clean-up fund, which is hereby created. The environmental protection agency shall use the moneys in the fund only for the purposes set forth in division (D) of section 3734.122 and in, sections 3734.19, 3734.20, 3734.21, 3734.23, 3734.25, 3734.26, and 3734.27, and, through June 30, 1999, Chapter 3746. of the Revised Code and for any related enforcement expenses.

Sec. 3734.57.  (A) For the purposes of paying the state's long-term operation costs or matching share for actions taken under the "Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980," 94 Stat. 2767, 42 U.S.C.A. 9601, as amended; paying the costs of measures for proper clean-up of sites where polychlorinated biphenyls and substances, equipment, and devices containing or contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls have been stored or disposed of; paying the costs of conducting surveys or investigations of solid waste facilities or other locations where it is believed that significant quantities of hazardous waste were disposed of and for conducting enforcement actions arising from the findings of such surveys or investigations; and paying the costs of acquiring and cleaning up, or providing financial assistance for cleaning up, any hazardous waste facility or solid waste facility containing significant quantities of hazardous waste, that constitutes an imminent and substantial threat to public health or safety or the environment; and, from July 1, 1995 1997, through June 30, 1997 1999, for the purposes of paying the costs of administering and enforcing the laws pertaining to solid wastes, infectious wastes, and construction and demolition debris, including, without limitation, ground water evaluations related to solid wastes, infectious wastes, and construction and demolition debris, under this chapter and Chapter 3714. of the Revised Code and any rules adopted under them, and paying a share of the administrative costs of the environmental protection agency pursuant to section 3745.014 of the Revised Code, the following fees are hereby levied on the disposal of solid wastes in this state:

(1) One dollar per ton on and after July 1, 1993;

(2) An additional seventy-five cents per ton on and after July 1, 1997, through June 30, 1999.

The owner or operator of a solid waste disposal facility shall collect the fees levied under this division as a trustee for the state and shall prepare and file with the director of environmental protection monthly returns indicating the total tonnage of solid wastes received for disposal at the gate of the facility and the total amount of the fees collected under this division. Not later than thirty days after the last day of the month to which such a return applies, the owner or operator shall mail to the director the return for that month together with the fees collected during that month as indicated on the return. The owner or operator may request an extension of not more than thirty days for filing the return and remitting the fees, provided that the owner or operator has submitted such a request in writing to the director together with a detailed description of why the extension is requested, the director has received the request not later than the day on which the return is required to be filed, and the director has approved the request. If the fees are not remitted within sixty days after the last day of the month during which they were collected, the owner or operator shall pay an additional fifty per cent of the amount of the fees for each month that they are late.

One-half of the moneys remitted to the director under division (A)(1) of this section shall be credited to the hazardous waste facility management fund created in section 3734.18 of the Revised Code, and one-half shall be credited to the hazardous waste clean-up fund created in section 3734.28 of the Revised Code. The moneys remitted to the director under division (A)(2) of this section shall be credited to the solid waste fund, which is hereby created in the state treasury. The environmental protection agency shall use moneys in the solid waste fund only to pay the costs of administering and enforcing the laws pertaining to solid wastes, infectious wastes, and construction and demolition debris, including, without limitation, ground water evaluations related to solid wastes, infectious wastes, and construction and demolition debris, under this chapter and Chapter 3714. of the Revised Code and rules adopted under them and to pay a share of the administrative costs of the environmental protection agency pursuant to section 3745.014 of the Revised Code.

The fees levied under this division and divisions (B) and (C) of this section are in addition to all other applicable fees and taxes and shall be added to any other fee or amount specified in a contract that is charged by the owner or operator of a solid waste disposal facility or to any other fee or amount that is specified in a contract entered into on or after March 4, 1992, and that is charged by a transporter of solid wastes.

(B) For the purpose of preparing, revising, and implementing the solid waste management plan of the county or joint solid waste management district, including, without limitation, the development and implementation of solid waste recycling or reduction programs; providing financial assistance to boards of health within the district, if solid waste facilities are located within the district, for the enforcement of this chapter and rules adopted and orders and terms and conditions of permits, licenses, and variances issued under it, other than the hazardous waste provisions of this chapter and rules adopted and orders and terms and conditions of permits issued under those provisions; providing financial assistance to the county to defray the added costs of maintaining roads and other public facilities and of providing emergency and other public services resulting from the location and operation of a solid waste facility within the county under the district's approved solid waste management plan; paying the costs incurred by boards of health for collecting and analyzing water samples from public or private wells on lands adjacent to solid waste facilities that are contained in the approved or amended plan of the district; paying the costs of developing and implementing a program for the inspection of solid wastes generated outside the boundaries of this state that are disposed of at solid waste facilities included in the district's approved solid waste management plan or amended plan; providing financial assistance to boards of health within the district for enforcing laws prohibiting open dumping; providing financial assistance to local law enforcement agencies within the district for enforcing laws and ordinances prohibiting littering; providing financial assistance to boards of health of health districts within the district that are on the approved list under section 3734.08 of the Revised Code for the training and certification required for their employees responsible for solid waste enforcement by rules adopted under division (L) of section 3734.02 of the Revised Code; providing financial assistance to individual municipal corporations and townships within the district to defray their added costs of maintaining roads and other public facilities and of providing emergency and other public services resulting from the location and operation within their boundaries of a composting, energy or resource recovery, incineration, or recycling facility that either is owned by the district or is furnishing solid waste management facility or recycling services to the district pursuant to a contract or agreement with the board of county commissioners or directors of the district; and payment of any expenses that are agreed to, awarded, or ordered to be paid under section 3734.35 of the Revised Code and of any administrative costs incurred pursuant to that section, the solid waste management policy committee of a county or joint solid waste management district may levy fees upon the following activities:

(1) The disposal at a solid waste disposal facility located in the district of solid wastes generated within the district;

(2) The disposal at a solid waste disposal facility within the district of solid wastes generated outside the boundaries of the district, but inside this state;

(3) The disposal at a solid waste disposal facility within the district of solid wastes generated outside the boundaries of this state.

If any such fees are levied prior to January 1, 1994, fees levied under division (B)(1) of this section always shall be equal to one-half of the fees levied under division (B)(2) of this section, and fees levied under division (B)(3) of this section, which shall be in addition to fees levied under division (B)(2) of this section, always shall be equal to fees levied under division (B)(1) of this section, except as otherwise provided in this division. The solid waste management plan of the county or joint district approved under section 3734.521 or 3734.55 of the Revised Code and any amendments to it, or the resolution adopted under this division, as appropriate, shall establish the rates of the fees levied under divisions (B)(1), (2), and (3) of this section, if any, and shall specify whether the fees are levied on the basis of tons or cubic yards as the unit of measurement. Although the fees under divisions (A)(1) and (2) of this section are levied on the basis of tons as the unit of measurement, the solid waste management plan of the district and any amendments to it or the solid waste management policy committee in its resolution levying fees under this division may direct that the fees levied under those divisions be levied on the basis of cubic yards as the unit of measurement based upon a conversion factor of three cubic yards per ton generally or one cubic yard per ton for baled wastes if the fees under divisions (B)(1) to (3) of this section are being levied on the basis of cubic yards as the unit of measurement under the plan, amended plan, or resolution.

On and after January 1, 1994, the fee levied under division (B)(1) of this section shall be not less than one dollar per ton nor more than two dollars per ton, the fee levied under division (B)(2) of this section shall be not less than two dollars per ton nor more than four dollars per ton, and the fee levied under division (B)(3) of this section shall be not more than the fee levied under division (B)(1) of this section, except as otherwise provided in this division and notwithstanding any schedule of those fees established in the solid waste management plan of a county or joint district approved under section 3734.55 of the Revised Code or a resolution adopted and ratified under this division that is in effect on that date. If the fee that a district is levying under division (B)(1) of this section on that date under its approved plan or such a resolution is less than one dollar per ton, the fee shall be one dollar per ton on and after January 1, 1994, and if the fee that a district is so levying under that division exceeds two dollars per ton, the fee shall be two dollars per ton on and after that date. If the fee that a district is so levying under division (B)(2) of this section is less than two dollars per ton, the fee shall be two dollars per ton on and after that date, and if the fee that the district is so levying under that division exceeds four dollars per ton, the fee shall be four dollars per ton on and after that date. On that date, the fee levied by a district under division (B)(3) of this section shall be equal to the fee levied under division (B)(1) of this section. Except as otherwise provided in this division, the fees established by the operation of this amendment shall remain in effect until the district's resolution levying fees under this division is amended or repealed in accordance with this division to amend or abolish the schedule of fees, the schedule of fees is amended or abolished in an amended plan of the district approved under section 3734.521 or division (A) or (D) of section 3734.56 of the Revised Code, or the schedule of fees is amended or abolished through an amendment to the district's plan under division (E) of section 3734.56 of the Revised Code; the notification of the amendment or abolishment of the fees has been given in accordance with this division; and collection of the amended fees so established commences, or collection of the fees ceases, in accordance with this division.

The solid waste management policy committee of a district levying fees under divisions (B)(1) to (3) of this section on October 29, 1993, under its solid waste management plan approved under section 3734.55 of the Revised Code or a resolution adopted and ratified under this division that are within the ranges of rates prescribed by this amendment, by adoption of a resolution not later than December 1, 1993, and without the necessity for ratification of the resolution under this division, may amend those fees within the prescribed ranges, provided that the estimated revenues from the amended fees will not substantially exceed the estimated revenues set forth in the district's budget for calendar year 1994. Not later than seven days after the adoption of such a resolution, the committee shall notify by certified mail the owner or operator of each solid waste disposal facility that is required to collect the fees of the adoption of the resolution and of the amount of the amended fees. Collection of the amended fees shall take effect on the first day of the first month following the month in which the notification is sent to the owner or operator. The fees established in such a resolution shall remain in effect until the district's resolution levying fees that was adopted and ratified under this division is amended or repealed, and the amendment or repeal of the resolution is ratified, in accordance with this division, to amend or abolish the fees, the schedule of fees is amended or abolished in an amended plan of the district approved under section 3734.521 or division (A) or (D) of section 3734.56 of the Revised Code, or the schedule of fees is amended or abolished through an amendment to the district's plan under division (E) of section 3734.56 of the Revised Code; the notification of the amendment or abolishment of the fees has been given in accordance with this division; and collection of the amended fees so established commences, or collection of the fees ceases, in accordance with this division.

Prior to the approval of the solid waste management plan of the district under section 3734.55 of the Revised Code, the solid waste management policy committee of a district may levy fees under this division by adopting a resolution establishing the proposed amount of the fees. Upon adopting the resolution, the committee shall deliver a copy of the resolution to the board of county commissioners of each county forming the district and to the legislative authority of each municipal corporation and township under the jurisdiction of the district and shall prepare and publish the resolution and a notice of the time and location where a public hearing on the fees will be held. Upon adopting the resolution, the committee shall deliver written notice of the adoption of the resolution; of the amount of the proposed fees; and of the date, time, and location of the public hearing to the director and to the fifty industrial, commercial, or institutional generators of solid wastes within the district that generate the largest quantities of solid wastes, as determined by the committee, and to their local trade associations. The committee shall make good faith efforts to identify those generators within the district and their local trade associations, but the nonprovision of notice under this division to a particular generator or local trade association does not invalidate the proceedings under this division. The publication shall occur at least thirty days before the hearing. After the hearing, the committee may make such revisions to the proposed fees as it considers appropriate and thereafter, by resolution, shall adopt the revised fee schedule. Upon adopting the revised fee schedule, the committee shall deliver a copy of the resolution doing so to the board of county commissioners of each county forming the district and to the legislative authority of each municipal corporation and township under the jurisdiction of the district. Within sixty days after the delivery of a copy of the resolution adopting the proposed revised fees by the policy committee, each such board and legislative authority, by ordinance or resolution, shall approve or disapprove the revised fees and deliver a copy of the ordinance or resolution to the committee. If any such board or legislative authority fails to adopt and deliver to the policy committee an ordinance or resolution approving or disapproving the revised fees within sixty days after the policy committee delivered its resolution adopting the proposed revised fees, it shall be conclusively presumed that the board or legislative authority has approved the proposed revised fees.

In the case of a county district or a joint district formed by two or three counties, the committee shall declare the proposed revised fees to be ratified as the fee schedule of the district upon determining that the board of county commissioners of each county forming the district has approved the proposed revised fees and that the legislative authorities of a combination of municipal corporations and townships with a combined population within the district comprising at least sixty per cent of the total population of the district have approved the proposed revised fees, provided that in the case of a county district, that combination shall include the municipal corporation having the largest population within the boundaries of the district, and provided further that in the case of a joint district formed by two or three counties, that combination shall include for each county forming the joint district the municipal corporation having the largest population within the boundaries of both the county in which the municipal corporation is located and the joint district. In the case of a joint district formed by four or more counties, the committee shall declare the proposed revised fees to be ratified as the fee schedule of the joint district upon determining that the boards of county commissioners of a majority of the counties forming the district have approved the proposed revised fees; that, in each of a majority of the counties forming the joint district, the proposed revised fees have been approved by the municipal corporation having the largest population within the county and the joint district; and that the legislative authorities of a combination of municipal corporations and townships with a combined population within the joint district comprising at least sixty per cent of the total population of the joint district have approved the proposed revised fees.

For the purposes of this division, only the population of the unincorporated area of a township shall be considered. For the purpose of determining the largest municipal corporation within each county under this division, a municipal corporation that is located in more than one solid waste management district, but that is under the jurisdiction of one county or joint solid waste management district in accordance with division (A) of section 3734.52 of the Revised Code shall be considered to be within the boundaries of the county in which a majority of the population of the municipal corporation resides.

The committee may amend the schedule of fees levied pursuant to a resolution or amended resolution adopted and ratified under this division by adopting a resolution establishing the proposed amount of the amended fees. The committee may abolish the fees levied pursuant to such a resolution or amended resolution by adopting a resolution proposing to repeal them. Upon adopting such a resolution, the committee shall proceed to obtain ratification of the resolution in accordance with this division.

Not later than fourteen days after declaring the fees or amended fees to be ratified under this division, the committee shall notify by certified mail the owner or operator of each solid waste disposal facility that is required to collect the fees of the ratification and the amount of the fees. Collection of any fees or amended fees ratified on or after March 24, 1992, shall commence on the first day of the second month following the month in which notification is sent to the owner or operator.

Not later than fourteen days after declaring the repeal of the district's schedule of fees to be ratified under this division, the committee shall notify by certified mail the owner or operator of each facility that is collecting the fees of the repeal. Collection of the fees shall cease on the first day of the second month following the month in which notification is sent to the owner or operator.

Not later than fourteen days after the director issues an order approving a district's solid waste management plan under section 3734.55 of the Revised Code or amended plan under division (A) or (D) of section 3734.56 of the Revised Code that establishes or amends a schedule of fees levied by the district, or the ratification of an amendment to the district's approved plan or amended plan under division (E) of section 3734.56 of the Revised Code that establishes or amends a schedule of fees, as appropriate, the committee shall notify by certified mail the owner or operator of each solid waste disposal facility that is required to collect the fees of the approval of the plan or amended plan, or the amendment to the plan, as appropriate, and the amount of the fees or amended fees. In the case of an initial or amended plan approved under section 3734.521 of the Revised Code in connection with a change in district composition, other than one involving the withdrawal of a county from a joint district, that establishes or amends a schedule of fees levied under divisions (B)(1) to (3) of this section by a district resulting from the change, the committee, within fourteen days after the change takes effect pursuant to division (G) of that section, shall notify by certified mail the owner or operator of each solid waste disposal facility that is required to collect the fees that the change has taken effect and of the amount of the fees or amended fees. Collection of any fees set forth in a plan or amended plan approved by the director on or after April 16, 1993, or an amendment of a plan or amended plan under division (E) of section 3734.56 of the Revised Code that is ratified on or after April 16, 1993, shall commence on the first day of the second month following the month in which notification is sent to the owner or operator.

Not later than fourteen days after the director issues an order approving a district's plan under section 3734.55 of the Revised Code or amended plan under division (A) or (D) of section 3734.56 of the Revised Code that abolishes the schedule of fees levied under divisions (B)(1) to (3) of this section, or an amendment to the district's approved plan or amended plan abolishing the schedule of fees is ratified pursuant to division (E) of section 3734.56 of the Revised Code, as appropriate, the committee shall notify by certified mail the owner or operator of each facility that is collecting the fees of the approval of the plan or amended plan, or the amendment of the plan or amended plan, as appropriate, and the abolishment of the fees. In the case of an initial or amended plan approved under section 3734.521 of the Revised Code in connection with a change in district composition, other than one involving the withdrawal of a county from a joint district, that abolishes the schedule of fees levied under divisions (B)(1) to (3) of this section by a district resulting from the change, the committee, within fourteen days after the change takes effect pursuant to division (G) of that section, shall notify by certified mail the owner or operator of each solid waste disposal facility that is required to collect the fees that the change has taken effect and of the abolishment of the fees. Collection of the fees shall cease on the first day of the second month following the month in which notification is sent to the owner or operator.

Except as otherwise provided in this division, if the schedule of fees that a district is levying under divisions (B)(1) to (3) of this section pursuant to a resolution or amended resolution adopted and ratified under this division, the solid waste management plan of the district approved under section 3734.55 of the Revised Code, an amended plan approved under division (A) or (D) of section 3734.56 of the Revised Code, or an amendment to the district's approved plan or amended plan under division (E) of section 3734.56 of the Revised Code, is amended by the adoption and ratification of an amendment to the resolution or amended resolution or an amendment of the district's approved plan or amended plan, the fees in effect immediately prior to the approval of the plan or the amendment of the resolution, amended resolution, plan, or amended plan, as appropriate, shall continue to be collected until collection of the amended fees commences pursuant to this division.

If, in the case of a change in district composition involving the withdrawal of a county from a joint district, the director completes the actions required under division (G)(1) or (3) of section 3734.521 of the Revised Code, as appropriate, forty-five days or more before the beginning of a calendar year, the policy committee of each of the districts resulting from the change that obtained the director's approval of an initial or amended plan in connection with the change, within fourteen days after the director's completion of the required actions, shall notify by certified mail the owner or operator of each solid waste disposal facility that is required to collect the district's fees that the change is to take effect on the first day of January immediately following the issuance of the notice and of the amount of the fees or amended fees levied under divisions (B)(1) to (3) of this section pursuant to the district's initial or amended pan as so approved or, if appropriate, the abolishment of the district's fees by that initial or amended plan. Collection of any fees set forth in such a plan or amended plan shall commence on the first day of January immediately following the issuance of the notice. If such an initial or amended plan abolishes a schedule of fees, collection of the fees shall cease on that first day of January.

If, in the case of a change in district composition involving the withdrawal of a county from a joint district, the director completes the actions required under division (G)(1) or (3) of section 3734.521 of the Revised Code, as appropriate, less than forty-five days before the beginning of a calendar year, the director, on behalf of each of the districts resulting from the change that obtained the director's approval of an initial or amended plan in connection with the change proceedings, shall notify by certified mail the owner or operator of each solid waste disposal facility that is required to collect the district's fees that the change is to take effect on the first day of January immediately following the mailing of the notice and of the amount of the fees or amended fees levied under divisions (B)(1) to (3) of this section pursuant to the district's initial or amended plan as so approved or, if appropriate, the abolishment of the district's fees by that initial or amended plan. Collection of any fees set forth in such a plan or amended plan shall commence on the first day of the second month following the month in which notification is sent to the owner or operator. If such an initial or amended plan abolishes a schedule of fees, collection of the fees shall cease on the first day of the second month following the month in which notification is sent to the owner or operator.

In the case of a change in district composition, the schedule of fees that the former districts that existed prior to the change were levying under divisions (B)(1) to (3) of this section pursuant to a resolution or amended resolution adopted and ratified under this division, the solid waste management plan of a former district approved under section 3734.521 or 3734.55 of the Revised Code, an amended plan approved under section 3734.521 or division (A) or (D) of section 3734.56 of the Revised Code, or an amendment to a former district's approved plan or amended plan under division (E) of section 3734.56 of the Revised Code, and that were in effect on the date that the director completed the actions required under division (G)(1) or (3) of section 3734.521 of the Revised Code shall continue to be collected until the collection of the fees or amended fees of the districts resulting from the change is required to commence, or if an initial or amended plan of a resulting district abolishes a schedule of fees, collection of the fees is required to cease, under this division. Moneys so received from the collection of the fees of the former districts shall be divided among the resulting districts in accordance with division (B) of section 343.012 of the Revised Code and the agreements entered into under division (B) of section 343.01 of the Revised Code to establish the former and resulting districts and any amendments to those agreements.

For the purposes of the provisions of division (B) of this section establishing the times when newly established or amended fees levied by a district are required to commence and the collection of fees that have been amended or abolished is required to cease, "fees" or "schedule of fees" includes, in addition to fees levied under divisions (B)(1) to (3) of this section, those levied under section 3734.573 or 3734.574 of the Revised Code.

(C) For the purposes of defraying the added costs to a municipal corporation or township of maintaining roads and other public facilities and of providing emergency and other public services, and compensating a municipal corporation or township for reductions in real property tax revenues due to reductions in real property valuations resulting from the location and operation of a solid waste disposal facility within the municipal corporation or township, a municipal corporation or township in which such a solid waste disposal facility is located may levy a fee of not more than twenty-five cents per ton on the disposal of solid wastes at a solid waste disposal facility located within the boundaries of the municipal corporation or township regardless of where the wastes were generated.

The legislative authority of a municipal corporation or township may levy fees under this division by enacting an ordinance or adopting a resolution establishing the amount of the fees. Upon so doing the legislative authority shall mail a certified copy of the ordinance or resolution to the board of county commissioners or directors of the county or joint solid waste management district in which the municipal corporation or township is located or, if a regional solid waste management authority has been formed under section 343.011 of the Revised Code, to the board of trustees of that regional authority, the owner or operator of each solid waste disposal facility in the municipal corporation or township that is required to collect the fee by the ordinance or resolution, and the director of environmental protection. Although the fees levied under this division are levied on the basis of tons as the unit of measurement, the legislative authority, in its ordinance or resolution levying the fees under this division, may direct that the fees be levied on the basis of cubic yards as the unit of measurement based upon a conversion factor of three cubic yards per ton generally or one cubic yard per ton for baled wastes.

Not later than five days after enacting an ordinance or adopting a resolution under this division, the legislative authority shall so notify by certified mail the owner or operator of each solid waste disposal facility that is required to collect the fee. Collection of any fee levied on or after March 24, 1992, shall commence on the first day of the second month following the month in which notification is sent to the owner or operator.

(D)(1) The fees levied under divisions (A), (B), and (C) of this section do not apply to the disposal of solid wastes that:

(a) Are disposed of at a facility owned by the generator of the wastes when the solid waste facility exclusively disposes of solid wastes generated at one or more premises owned by the generator regardless of whether the facility is located on a premises where the wastes are generated;

(b) Are disposed of at facilities that exclusively dispose of wastes that are generated from the combustion of coal, or from the combustion of primarily coal in combination with scrap tires, that is not combined in any way with garbage at one or more premises owned by the generator.

(2) Except as provided in section 3734.571 of the Revised Code, any fees levied under division (B)(1) of this section apply to solid wastes originating outside the boundaries of a county or joint district that are covered by an agreement for the joint use of solid waste facilities entered into under section 343.02 of the Revised Code by the board of county commissioners or board of directors of the county or joint district where the wastes are generated and disposed of.

(3) When solid wastes, other than solid wastes that consist of scrap tires, are burned in a disposal facility that is an incinerator or energy recovery facility, the fees levied under divisions (A), (B), and (C) of this section shall be levied upon the disposal of the fly ash and bottom ash remaining after burning of the solid wastes and shall be collected by the owner or operator of the sanitary landfill where the ash is disposed of.

(4) When solid wastes are delivered to a solid waste transfer facility, the fees levied under divisions (A), (B), and (C) of this section shall be levied upon the disposal of solid wastes transported off the premises of the transfer facility for disposal and shall be collected by the owner or operator of the solid waste disposal facility where the wastes are disposed of.

(5) The fees levied under divisions (A), (B), and (C) of this section do not apply to sewage sludge that is generated by a waste water treatment facility holding a national pollutant discharge elimination system permit and that is disposed of through incineration, land application, or composting or at another resource recovery or disposal facility that is not a landfill.

(6) The fees levied under division divisions (A), (B), and (C) of this section do not apply to solid wastes delivered to a solid waste composting facility for processing. When any unprocessed solid waste or compost product is transported off the premises of a composting facility and disposed of at a landfill, the fees levied under divisions (A), (B), and (C) of this section shall be collected by the owner or operator of the landfill where the unprocessed waste or compost product is disposed of.

(7) When solid wastes that consist of scrap tires are processed at a scrap tire recovery facility, the fees levied under divisions (A), (B), and (C) of this section shall be levied upon the disposal of the fly ash and bottom ash or other solid wastes remaining after the processing of the scrap tires and shall be collected by the owner or operator of the solid waste disposal facility where the ash or other solid wastes are disposed of.

(E) The fees levied under divisions (B) and (C) of this section shall be collected by the owner or operator of the solid waste disposal facility where the wastes are disposed of as a trustee for the county or joint district and municipal corporation or township where the wastes are disposed of. Moneys from the fees levied under division (B) of this section shall be forwarded to the board of county commissioners or board of directors of the district in accordance with rules adopted under division (H) of this section. Moneys from the fees levied under division (C) of this section shall be forwarded to the treasurer or such other officer of the municipal corporation as, by virtue of the charter, has the duties of the treasurer or to the clerk of the township, as appropriate, in accordance with those rules.

(F) Moneys received by the treasurer or such other officer of the municipal corporation under division (E) of this section shall be paid into the general fund of the municipal corporation. Moneys received by the clerk of the township under that division shall be paid into the general fund of the township. The treasurer or such other officer of the municipal corporation or the clerk, as appropriate, shall maintain separate records of the moneys received from the fees levied under division (C) of this section.

(G) Moneys received by the board of county commissioners or board of directors under division (E) of this section or section 3734.571, 3734.572, 3734.573, or 3734.574 of the Revised Code shall be paid to the county treasurer, or other official acting in a similar capacity under a county charter, in a county district or to the county treasurer or other official designated by the board of directors in a joint district and kept in a separate and distinct fund to the credit of the district. If a regional solid waste management authority has been formed under section 343.011 of the Revised Code, moneys received by the board of trustees of that regional authority under division (E) of this section shall be kept by the board in a separate and distinct fund to the credit of the district. Moneys in the special fund of the county or joint district arising from the fees levied under division (B) of this section and the fee levied under division (A) of section 3734.573 of the Revised Code shall be expended by the board of county commissioners or directors of the district in accordance with the district's solid waste management plan or amended plan approved under section 3734.521, 3734.55, or 3734.56 of the Revised Code exclusively for the following purposes:

(1) Preparation of the solid waste management plan of the district under section 3734.54 of the Revised Code, monitoring implementation of the plan, and conducting the periodic review and amendment of the plan required by section 3734.56 of the Revised Code by the solid waste management policy committee;

(2) Implementation of the approved solid waste management plan or amended plan of the district, including, without limitation, the development and implementation of solid waste recycling or reduction programs;

(3) Providing financial assistance to boards of health within the district, if solid waste facilities are located within the district, for enforcement of this chapter and rules, orders, and terms and conditions of permits, licenses, and variances adopted or issued under it, other than the hazardous waste provisions of this chapter and rules adopted and orders and terms and conditions of permits issued under those provisions;

(4) Providing financial assistance to each county within the district to defray the added costs of maintaining roads and other public facilities and of providing emergency and other public services resulting from the location and operation of a solid waste facility within the county under the district's approved solid waste management plan or amended plan;

(5) Pursuant to contracts entered into with boards of health within the district, if solid waste facilities contained in the district's approved plan or amended plan are located within the district, for paying the costs incurred by those boards of health for collecting and analyzing samples from public or private water wells on lands adjacent to those facilities;

(6) Developing and implementing a program for the inspection of solid wastes generated outside the boundaries of this state that are disposed of at solid waste facilities included in the district's approved solid waste management plan or amended plan;

(7) Providing financial assistance to boards of health within the district for the enforcement of section 3734.03 of the Revised Code or to local law enforcement agencies having jurisdiction within the district for enforcing anti-littering laws and ordinances;

(8) Providing financial assistance to boards of health of health districts within the district that are on the approved list under section 3734.08 of the Revised Code to defray the costs to the health districts for the participation of their employees responsible for enforcement of the solid waste provisions of this chapter and rules adopted and orders and terms and conditions of permits, licenses, and variances issued under those provisions in the training and certification program as required by rules adopted under division (L) of section 3734.02 of the Revised Code;

(9) Providing financial assistance to individual municipal corporations and townships within the district to defray their added costs of maintaining roads and other public facilities and of providing emergency and other public services resulting from the location and operation within their boundaries of a composting, energy or resource recovery, incineration, or recycling facility that either is owned by the district or is furnishing solid waste management facility or recycling services to the district pursuant to a contract or agreement with the board of county commissioners or directors of the district;

(10) Payment of any expenses that are agreed to, awarded, or ordered to be paid under section 3734.35 of the Revised Code and of any administrative costs incurred pursuant to that section. In the case of a joint solid waste management district, if the board of county commissioners of one of the counties in the district is negotiating on behalf of affected communities, as defined in that section, in that county, the board shall obtain the approval of the board of directors of the district in order to expend moneys for administrative costs incurred.

Prior to the approval of the district's solid waste management plan under section 3734.55 of the Revised Code, moneys in the special fund of the district arising from such the fees shall be expended for such those purposes in the manner prescribed by the solid waste management policy committee by resolution.

Notwithstanding division (G)(6) of this section as it existed prior to October 29, 1993, or any provision in a district's solid waste management plan prepared in accordance with division (B)(2)(e) of section 3734.53 of the Revised Code as it existed prior to that date, any moneys arising from the fees levied under division (B)(3) of this section prior to January 1, 1994, may be expended for any of the purposes authorized in divisions (G)(1) to (10) of this section.

(H) The director of environmental protection shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code prescribing procedures for collecting and forwarding the fees levied under divisions (B) and (C) of this section to the boards of county commissioners or directors of county or joint solid waste management districts and to the treasurers or other officers of municipal corporations or to the clerks of townships. The rules also shall prescribe the dates for forwarding the fees to the boards and officials and may prescribe any other requirements the director considers necessary or appropriate to implement and administer divisions (A), (B), and (C) of this section. Collection of the fees levied under division (A)(1) of this section shall commence on July 1, 1993. Collection of the fees levied under division (A)(2) of this section shall commence on January 1, 1994.

Sec. 3734.82.  (A) The annual fee for a scrap tire recovery facility license issued under section 3734.81 of the Revised Code shall be in accordance with the following schedule:

For the purpose of determining the applicable license fee under this division, the daily design input capacity shall be the quantity of scrap tires the facility is designed to process daily as set forth in the registration certificate or permit for the facility, and any modifications to the permit, if applicable, issued under section 3734.78 of the Revised Code.

(B) The annual fee for a scrap tire monocell or monofill facility license shall be in accordance with the following schedule:

For the purpose of determining the applicable license fee under this division, the authorized maximum daily waste receipt shall be the maximum amount of scrap tires the facility is authorized to receive daily that is established in the permit for the facility, and any modification to that permit, issued under section 3734.77 of the Revised Code.

(C)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (C)(2) of this section, the annual fee for a scrap tire storage facility license shall equal one thousand dollars times the number of acres on which scrap tires are to be stored at the facility during the license year, as set forth on the application for the annual license, except that the total annual license fee for any such facility shall not exceed three thousand dollars.

(2) The annual fee for a scrap tire storage facility license for a storage facility that is owned or operated by a motor vehicle salvage dealer licensed under Chapter 4738. of the Revised Code is one hundred dollars.

(D)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (D)(2) of this section, the annual fee for a scrap tire collection facility license is two hundred dollars.

(2) The annual fee for a scrap tire collection facility license for a collection facility that is owned or operated by a motor vehicle salvage dealer licensed under Chapter 4738. of the Revised Code is fifty dollars.

(E) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (C)(2) and (D)(2) of this section, the same fees apply to private operators and to the state and its political subdivisions and shall be paid within thirty days after the issuance of a license. The fees include the cost of licensing, all inspections, and other costs associated with the administration of the scrap tire provisions of this chapter and rules adopted under them. Each license shall specify that it is conditioned upon payment of the applicable fee to the board of health or the director of environmental protection, as appropriate, within thirty days after the issuance of the license.

(F) The board of health shall retain fifteen thousand dollars of each license fee collected by the board under division (B) of this section, or the entire amount of any such fee that is less than fifteen thousand dollars, and the entire amount of each license fee collected by the board under divisions (A), (C), and (D) of this section. The moneys retained shall be paid into a special fund, which is hereby created in each health district, and used solely to administer and enforce the scrap tire provisions of this chapter and rules adopted under them. The remainder, if any, of each license fee collected by the board under division (B) of this section shall be transmitted to the director within forty-five days after receipt of the fee.

(G) The director shall transmit the moneys received by the director from license fees collected under division (B) of this section to the treasurer of state to be credited to the scrap tire management fund, which is hereby created in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of all federal moneys received by the environmental protection agency for the scrap tire management program; all grants, gifts, and contributions made to the director for that program; and all other moneys that may be provided by law for that program. The director shall use moneys in the fund as follows:

(1) Expend not more than seven hundred fifty thousand dollars during each fiscal year to implement, administer, and enforce the scrap tire provisions of this chapter and rules adopted under them;

(2) For fiscal years 1998 and 1999, grant not more than one hundred fifty thousand dollars during each fiscal year to the polymer institute at the university of Akron for the purpose of expediting research concerning and evaluation of alternative methods of recycling scrap tires. The institute shall report to the director annually concerning research programs under review, and the results of scrap tire recycling experiments conducted, by or in conjunction with the institute. The university shall report to the director biennially concerning the expenditures of moneys received by the institute under division (G)(2) of this section.

(3) During each of fiscal years 1998, 1999, and 2000, request the director of budget and management to, and the director of budget and management shall, transfer one million dollars to the facilities establishment fund created in section 166.03 of the Revised Code for the purposes specified in that section;

(4) Except as otherwise provided in division (H)(2) of this section, expend not more than three million dollars during each of fiscal years 1998, 1999, and 2000 to conduct removal actions under section 3734.85 of the Revised Code. Prior to using any moneys in the fund for that purpose in a fiscal year, the director shall request the approval of the controlling board for that use of the moneys. The request shall be accompanied by a plan describing the removal actions to be conducted during the fiscal year and an estimate of the costs of conducting them. The controlling board shall approve the plan only if the board finds that the proposed removal actions are in accordance with the priorities set forth in division (B) of section 3734.85 of the Revised Code and that the costs of conducting them are reasonable.

(5) Annually transfer to the central support indirect fund created in section 3745.014 of the Revised Code an amount equal to not more than twelve per cent of each fiscal year's appropriation to the scrap tire management fund.

(H)(1) If, during fiscal year 1997, 1998, 1999, or 2000, more than three million five hundred thousand dollars are credited to the scrap tire management fund, the director, at the conclusion of the fiscal year, shall request the director of budget and management to, and the director of budget and management shall, transfer to the facilities establishment fund one-half of the moneys credited to the scrap tire management fund in excess of that amount.

(2) In each of fiscal years 1998, 1999, and 2000, if more than three million five hundred thousand dollars are credited to the scrap tire management fund during the preceding fiscal year, the director, in addition to the amount authorized under division (G)(4) of this section, shall expend during the current fiscal year one-half of that excess amount to conduct removal operations under section 3734.85 of the Revised Code.

(I) After the actions in divisions (G)(1) to (4) and (H) of this section are completed during each of fiscal years 1998, 1999, and 2000, the director may expend up to the balance remaining from prior fiscal years in the scrap tire management fund to conduct removal actions under section 3734.85 Of the Revised Code. Prior to using any moneys in the fund for that purpose in a fiscal year, the director shall request the approval of the controlling board for that use of the moneys. The request shall be accompanied by a plan describing the removal actions to be conducted during the fiscal year and an estimate of the costs of conducting them. The controlling board shall approve the plan only if the board finds that the proposed removal actions are in accordance with the priorities set forth in division (B) of section 3734.85 Of the Revised Code and that the costs of conducting them are reasonable.

Sec. 4123.40.  During the six months immediately preceding the first day of each regular session of the general assembly, the office of budget and management shall communicate to the bureau on or before the first day of July of every year, the administrator of workers' compensation an shall estimate of the gross payroll of all state employers for the succeeding biennium or fiscal year.

Upon receipt thereof the The administrator of workers' compensation shall determine and certify for the office of budget and management that rate or rates which when applied to the gross payroll estimate will produce an amount equal to the estimated cost of awards or payments to be made during the like fiscal period, as determined by the administrator.

The rate certified shall be applied and made a part of the gross payroll calculation for the period for which the foregoing estimates have been made, in conformity with section 125.21 of the Revised Code. The amounts collected shall be remitted to the bureau as provided in section 125.21 of the Revised Code.

If the amounts remitted to the bureau for a fiscal period are greater or less than actual awards or payments for the like period by reason of an error in the prior estimates of gross payroll or awards or payments, the overage or shortage shall be included by the administrator in determining the rate for the next succeeding fiscal period.

In fixing the amount of contribution to be made by the state and each of its departments, agencies, and instrumentalities, the administrator shall classify departments, agencies, and instrumentalities into such groups as will equitably determine the contributions in accordance with their individual accident experience so that the state and its departments, agencies, and instrumentalities contribute an amount sufficient to meet individual obligations and maintain a solvent public insurance fund.

Moneys collected from state employers shall not be used to pay compensation or other benefits attributable to service of persons as employees of counties or taxing districts therein, nor shall moneys collected from counties and taxing districts therein be used to pay compensation or other benefits attributable to service of persons as employees of the state.

Sec. 4701.10.  (A) Permits to practice public accounting shall be issued by the accountancy board to holders of the certificate of certified public accountant issued under section 4701.06 or 4701.061 of the Revised Code and to persons registered under sections 4701.07 and 4701.09 of the Revised Code. Subject to division (D)(1) of this section, there shall be a triennial permit fee in an amount to be determined by the board not to exceed one hundred fifty dollars. All permits shall expire on the last day of December of the year assigned by the board and, subject to division (D)(1) of this section, shall be renewed triennially for a period of three years by certificate holders and registrants in good standing upon payment of a triennial renewal fee not to exceed one hundred fifty dollars. For the purpose of implementing this section and enforcing section 4701.11 of the Revised Code, the board may issue a permit for less than three years' duration. A prorated fee shall be determined by the board for such permit. Renewal of permits shall be according to the standard renewal procedure of sections 4745.01 to 4745.03 of the Revised Code. Failure of any certificate holder or registrant to apply for a triennial permit to practice within three years from the expiration date of the permit to practice last obtained or renewed, or three years from the date upon which the certificate holder or registrant was granted his A certificate or registration, shall result in suspension of such certificate or registration unless the board determines such failure to have been due to excusable neglect. In such case the renewal fee or the fee for the issuance of the original permit, as the case may be, shall be such amount as the board shall determine, but not in excess of fifty dollars plus the fee for each triennial period or part of a period the certificate holder or registrant did not have a permit.

(B) All certificate holders and registrants who are not in the practice of public accounting in this state shall register with the board every three years at a fee, not to exceed fifty-five dollars, established by the board. Such persons shall not convey to the general public that they are actively engaged in the practice of public accounting in this state.

(C) The board shall suspend the certificate or registration of any person failing to obtain a permit in accordance with this section except that the board may by rule exempt persons from the requirement of holding a permit for such reasons as retirement, health reasons, military service, foreign residency, or other just cause.

(D)(1) On and after January 1, 1995, the board shall, by rule adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, increase the triennial permit and renewal fee imposed pursuant to this section by at least fifteen dollars but no more than thirty dollars.

(2) Beginning with the first quarter of 1995 and each quarter thereafter, the board, for the purpose provided in section 4743.05 of the Revised Code, shall certify to the director of budget and management the number of triennial permits renewed under this chapter during the preceding quarter and the amount equal to that number times the amount by which the triennial permit and renewal fee is increased by the board under division (D)(1) of this section.

Sec. 4701.20.  All receipts of the accountancy board shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the occupational licensing and regulatory fund, except that any payment made to the board in connection with an application for examination or for a permit, registration, or certificate shall be deposited only after the board approves the application. In the event the application is not approved, the board shall return the payment to the applicant. All

All vouchers of the board shall be approved by the board president or executive secretary, or both, as authorized by the board.

Sec. 4743.05.  Except as otherwise provided in sections 4701.20, 4723.061, and 4729.65 of the Revised Code, all money collected under Chapters 3773., 4701., 4703., 4709., 4713., 4715., 4717., 4723., 4725., 4729., 4732., 4733., 4734., 4736., 4741., 4753., 4755., 4757., 4759., and 4761. of the Revised Code shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the occupational licensing and regulatory fund, which is hereby created for use in administering such chapters. Money deposited to the credit of the fund under section 4731.24 of the Revised Code shall be used until July 1, 1998, for administering Chapters 4730. and 4731. of the Revised Code.

At the end of each quarter, the director of budget and management shall transfer from the occupational licensing and regulatory fund to the nurse education assistance fund created in section 3333.28 of the Revised Code the amount certified to the director under division (B) of section 4723.08 of the Revised Code.

At the end of the first quarter of 1995 and at the end of each quarter thereafter, the director shall transfer from the occupational licensing and regulatory fund to the certified public accountant education assistance fund created in section 4701.26 of the Revised Code the amount certified to the director under division (D)(2) of section 4701.10 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 4745.01.  (A) "Standard renewal procedure," as used in Chapters 905., 907., 909., 911., 913., 915., 918., 921., 923., 927., 942., 943., 953., 1321., 3710., 3713., 3715., 3719., 3731., 3742., 3748., 3769., 3783., 3921., 3951., 4104., 4105., 4143., 4169., 4561., 4701., 4703., 4707., 4709., 4713., 4715., 4717., 4723., 4725., 4727., 4728., 4729., 4731., 4733., 4734., 4735., 4739., 4741., 4747., 4749., 4753., 4755., 4757., 4759., 4761., 4766., 4773., and 4775. of the Revised Code, means the license renewal procedures specified in this chapter.

(B) "Licensing agency," as used in this chapter, means any department, division, board, section of a board, or other state governmental unit subject to the standard renewal procedure, as defined in this section, and authorized by the Revised Code to issue a license to engage in a specific profession, occupation, or occupational activity, or to have charge of and operate certain specified equipment, machinery, or premises.

(C) "License," as used in this chapter, means a license, certificate, permit, card, or other authority issued or conferred by a licensing agency by authority of which the licensee has or claims the privilege to engage in the profession, occupation, or occupational activity, or to have control of and operate certain specific equipment, machinery, or premises, over which the licensing agency has jurisdiction.

(D) "Licensee," as used in this chapter, means either the person to whom the license is issued or renewed by a licensing agency, or the person, partnership, or corporation at whose request the license is issued or renewed.

(E) "Renewal" and "renewed," as used in this chapter and in the chapters of the Revised Code specified in division (A) of this section, includes the continuing licensing procedure provided in Chapter 3748. of the Revised Code and rules adopted under it and in sections 1321.05 and 3921.33 of the Revised Code, and as applied to those continuing licenses any reference in this chapter to the date of expiration of any license shall be construed to mean the due date of the annual or other fee for the continuing license.

Sec. 4981.091. There is hereby created in the state treasury the federal rail fund. The fund shall consist of money received pursuant to section 4981.08 Of the Revised Code and such other money as may be provided by law. The fund shall be used to acquire, rehabilitate, or develop rail property or service; to participate in the acquisition of rail property with the federal government, municipal corporations, townships, counties, or other governmental agencies; and to promote, plan, design, construct, operate, and maintain passenger and freight rail transportation systems. The fund also may be used to pay the administrative costs of the Ohio rail development commission associated with conducting any authorized rail program, and for any purpose authorized by sections 4981.03 and 5501.56 Of the Revised Code. The fund shall not be used to provide loan guarantees. Investment earnings on moneys credited to the fund shall be retained by the fund.

In acquiring rail property, the Ohio rail development commission may obtain acquisition loans from the federal government or from any other source.

Sec. 5101.93.  (A) There is hereby established a welfare oversight council consisting of eight voting members, four of whom shall be members of the house of representatives, two appointed by the speaker and two appointed by the minority leader of the house of representatives, not more than two of whom shall be members of the same political party, and four of whom shall be members of the senate, two appointed by the president and two appointed by the minority leader of the senate, not more than two of whom shall be members of the same political party. The director of administrative services, the administrator of the bureau of employment services, and the director of human services shall be ex officio nonvoting members and two representatives of the general public appointed by the governor shall be nonvoting members of the council. The council may, by a majority vote, add other nonvoting members to the council. A vacancy on the council shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment.

(B) The speaker of the house of representatives shall designate the initial chairperson of the welfare oversight council and the president of the senate shall designate the initial vice-chairperson of the council. Thereafter, the authority to designate the chairperson and the vice-chairperson shall alternate between the speaker of the house and the president of the senate. The chairperson and vice-chairperson and other members of the council shall serve one-year terms.

The council shall meet at least twice four times a year in Columbus or other locations selected by the chairperson to monitor and review the Ohio works first program established under Chapter 5107. of the Revised Code, including sanctions imposed under section 5107.16 Of the Revised Code; the prevention, retention, and contingency program established under Chapter 5108. of the Revised Code; and the department of human services, county departments of human services, child support enforcement agencies, and public children services agencies. The council may visit the department, county departments, and agencies.

The chairperson of the council shall determine the agenda for each meeting of the council, except that if at least four legislative members of the council submit a written request to the chairperson to consider an item, the chairperson shall place the item on the agenda of the council's next regularly scheduled meeting occurring more than ten days after the written request is submitted to the chairperson.

(C) The members of the welfare oversight council shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of their official duties. In the discharge of its duties the council may issue subpoenas compelling the attendance of witnesses and the production of any records of the department of human services or local agencies. The council shall adopt rules to implement this section.

(D) The welfare oversight council shall advise the general assembly on the performance of the department of human services, county departments of human services, child support enforcement agencies, and public children services agencies. The council shall submit recommendations to the general assembly for any changes in law that the council considers necessary or appropriate. Between lines 9,970a and 9,979, insert:

Sec. 5104.32.  (A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, all purchases of publicly funded child day-care shall be made under a contract entered into by a licensed child day-care center, licensed type A family day-care home, certified type B family day-care home, certified in-home aide, approved child day camp, licensed preschool program, or licensed school child program and the county department of human services. A county department of human services may enter into a contract with a provider for publicly funded child day-care for a specified period of time or upon a continuous basis for an unspecified period of time. All contracts for publicly funded child day-care shall be contingent upon the availability of state and federal funds. The department of human services shall prescribe a standard form to be used for all contracts for the purchase of publicly funded child day-care, regardless of the source of public funds used to purchase the child day-care. To the extent permitted by federal law and notwithstanding any other provision of the Revised Code that regulates state or county contracts or contracts involving the expenditure of state, county, or federal funds, all contracts for publicly funded child day-care shall be entered into in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and are exempt from any other provision of the Revised Code that regulates state or county contracts or contracts involving the expenditure of state, county, or federal funds.

(B) Each contract for publicly funded child day-care shall specify at least the following:

(1) That Except as provided in division (B)(2) of this section, that the provider of publicly funded child day-care agrees to be paid for rendering services at the lower of the rate customarily charged by the provider for children enrolled for child day-care or the rate of reimbursement established pursuant to section 5104.30 of the Revised Code;

(2) If the provider provides publicly funded child day-care to caretaker parents who work nontraditional hours, that the provider is to be paid for rendering services to those caretaker parents at the rate of reimbursement established pursuant to section 5104.30 of the Revised Code regardless of whether that rate is higher than the rate the provider customarily charges for children enrolled for child day-care;

(3) That, if a provider provides child day-care to an individual potentially eligible for publicly funded child day-care who is subsequently determined to be eligible, the county department agrees to pay for all child day-care provided between the date the county department receives the individual's completed application and the date the individual's eligibility is determined;

(3)(4) Whether the county department of human services, the provider, or a child day-care resource and referral service organization will make eligibility determinations, whether the provider or a child day-care resource and referral service organization will be required to collect information to be used by the county department to make eligibility determinations, and the time period within which the provider or child day-care resource and referral service organization is required to complete required eligibility determinations or to transmit to the county department any information collected for the purpose of making eligibility determinations;

(4)(5) That the provider shall continue to be licensed, approved, or certified pursuant to this chapter or sections 3301.52 to 3301.59 of the Revised Code and shall comply with all standards and other requirements in this chapter and those sections and in rules adopted pursuant to this chapter or those sections for maintaining the provider's license, approval, or certification;

(5)(6) Whether the provider will be paid by the county department of human services or the state department of human services;

(6)(7) That the contract is subject to the availability of state and federal funds.

(C) Unless specifically prohibited by federal law, the county department of human services shall give individuals eligible for publicly funded child day-care the option of obtaining certificates for payment that the individual may use to purchase services from any provider qualified to provide publicly funded child day-care under section 5104.31 of the Revised Code. Providers of publicly funded child day-care may present these certificates for payment for reimbursement in accordance with rules that the department of human services shall adopt. Only providers may receive reimbursement for certificates for payment. The value of the certificate for payment shall be based on the lower of the rate customarily charged by the provider or the rate of reimbursement established pursuant to section 5104.30 of the Revised Code, unless the provider provides publicly funded child day-care to caretaker parents who work nontraditional hours, in which case the value of the certificate for payment for the services to those caretaker parents shall be based on the rate of reimbursement established pursuant to that section regardless of whether that rate is higher than the rate customarily charged by the provider. The county department may provide the certificates for payment to the individuals or may contract with child day-care providers or child day-care resource and referral service organizations that make determinations of eligibility for publicly funded child day-care pursuant to contracts entered into under section 5104.34 of the Revised Code for the providers or resource and referral service organizations to provide the certificates for payment to individuals whom they determine are eligible for publicly funded child day-care.

Sec. 5104.34.  (A)(1) Each county department of human services shall implement procedures for making determinations of eligibility for publicly funded child day-care. Under those procedures, the eligibility determination for each applicant shall be made no later than thirty calendar days from the date the county department receives a completed application for publicly funded child day-care. Each applicant shall be notified promptly of the results of the eligibility determination. An applicant aggrieved by a decision or delay in making an eligibility determination may appeal the decision or delay to the department of human services in accordance with section 5101.35 of the Revised Code. The due process rights of applicants shall be protected.

To the extent permitted by federal law, the county department may make all determinations of eligibility for publicly funded child day-care, may contract with child day-care providers or child day-care resource and referral service organizations for the providers or resource and referral service organizations to make all or any part of the determinations, and may contract with child day-care providers or child day-care resource and referral service organizations for the providers or resource and referral service organizations to collect specified information for use by the county department in making determinations. If a county department contracts with a child day-care provider or a child day-care resource and referral service organization for eligibility determinations or for the collection of information, the contract shall require the provider or resource and referral service organization to make each eligibility determination no later than thirty calendar days from the date the provider or resource and referral organization receives a completed application that is the basis of the determination and to collect and transmit all necessary information to the county department within a period of time that enables the county department to make each eligibility determination no later than thirty days after the filing of the application that is the basis of the determination.

The county department may station employees of the department in various locations throughout the county and may assign employees of the department to hours of employment outside the normal working hours of the department to collect information relevant to applications for publicly funded child day-care and to make eligibility determinations. The county department, child day-care provider, and child day-care resource and referral service organization shall make each determination of eligibility for publicly funded child day-care no later than thirty days after the filing of the application that is the basis of the determination, shall make each determination in accordance with any relevant rules adopted pursuant to section 5104.38 of the Revised Code, and shall notify promptly each applicant for publicly funded child day-care of the results of the determination of the applicant's eligibility.

On or before October 1, 1991, the department of human services shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code for monitoring the eligibility determination process. In accordance with those rules, the state department shall monitor eligibility determinations made by county departments of human services and shall direct any entity that is not in compliance with this division or any rule adopted under this division to implement corrective action specified by the department.

(2) All eligibility determinations for publicly funded child day-care shall be made in accordance with rules adopted by the department of human services pursuant to division (A) of section 5104.38 of the Revised Code and, if a county department of human services specifies, pursuant to rules adopted under division (B) of that section, a maximum amount of income a family may have to be eligible for publicly funded child day-care, the income maximum specified by the county department. Publicly funded child day-care may be provided only to eligible infants, toddlers, preschool children, and school children under age thirteen. For an applicant to be eligible for publicly funded child day-care, the caretaker parent must be employed or participating in a program of education or training for an amount of time reasonably related to the time that the parent's children are receiving publicly funded child day-care. This restriction does not apply to families whose children are eligible for protective or special needs day-care.

Subject to available funds, the a county department of human services shall allow a family to continue to receive publicly funded child day-care until unless the family's income exceeds one hundred fifty per cent of the federal poverty line the maximum income eligibility limit. Initial and continued eligibility for publicly funded child day-care is subject to available funds unless the family is receiving transitional child day-care as provided under this section, participating in the Ohio works first program established under Chapter 5107. of the Revised Code, or was receiving publicly funded child day-care on October 1, 1997, and has a family income below one hundred fifty per cent of the federal poverty line. If the department must limit eligibility due to lack of available funds, it shall give first priority for publicly funded child day-care to an assistance group whose income is not more than one hundred fifty per cent of the federal poverty line the maximum income eligibility limit that received transitional child day-care in the previous month but is no longer eligible because the twelve-month period has expired. Such an assistance group shall continue to receive priority for publicly funded child day-care until its income exceeds one hundred fifty per cent of the federal poverty line the maximum income eligibility limit.

(3) An assistance group that ceases to participate in the Ohio works first program established under Chapter 5107. of the Revised Code is eligible for transitional child day-care at any time during the immediately following twelve-month period that both of the following apply:

(a) The assistance group requires child day-care due to employment;

(b) The assistance group's income is not more than one hundred fifty per cent of the federal poverty line.

An assistance group ineligible to participate in the Ohio works first program pursuant to section 5101.83 or section 5107.16 of the Revised Code is not eligible for transitional child day-care.

(B) To the extent permitted by federal law, a county department of human services may require a caretaker parent determined to be eligible for publicly funded child day-care to pay a fee according to the schedule of fees established in rules adopted under section 5104.38 of the Revised Code. Each county department shall make protective day-care services available to children without regard to the income or assets of the caretaker parent of the child.

(C) A caretaker parent receiving publicly funded child day-care shall report to the entity that determined eligibility any changes in status with respect to employment or participation in a program of education or training.

(D) If a county department of human services determines that available resources are not sufficient to provide publicly funded child day-care to all eligible families who request it, the county department may establish a waiting list. A county department may establish separate waiting lists within the waiting list based on income. When resources become available to provide publicly funded child day-care to families on the waiting list, a county department that establishes a waiting list shall assess the needs of the next family scheduled to receive publicly funded child day-care. If the assessment demonstrates that the family continues to need and is eligible for publicly funded child day-care, the county department shall offer it to the family. If the county department determines that the family is no longer eligible or no longer needs publicly funded child day-care, the county department shall remove the family from the waiting list.

(E) As used in this section, "maximum income eligibility limit" means the amount of income specified in rules adopted under division (A) of section 5104.38 of the Revised Code or, if a county department of human services specifies a higher amount pursuant to rules adopted under division (B) of that section, the amount the county department specifies.

Sec. 5104.35.  (A) The county department of human services shall do all of the following:

(1) Accept any gift, grant, or other funds from either public or private sources offered unconditionally or under conditions which are, in the judgment of the department, proper and consistent with this chapter and deposit the funds in the county public assistance fund established by section 5101.161 of the Revised Code;

(2) Recruit individuals and groups interested in certification as in-home aides or in developing and operating suitable licensed child day-care centers, type A family day-care homes, or certified type B family day-care homes, especially in areas with high concentrations of recipients of public assistance, and for that purpose provide consultation to interested individuals and groups on request;

(3) Inform clients of the availability of child day-care services;

(4) Pay to a child day-care center, type A family day-care home, certified type B family day-care home, in-home aide, approved child day camp, licensed preschool program, or licensed school child program for child day-care services, an the amount equal to the amount customarily charged by the center, type A home, type B home, in-home aide, approved child day camp, or program when the full fee is paid, except that the amount of assistance shall not exceed the maximum rate established by the state department of human services provided for in division (B) of section 5104.32 Of the Revised Code. If part of the cost of care of a child is paid by the child's parent or any other person, the amount paid shall be subtracted from the customary charge or the maximum rate, whichever is lower, prior to payment by amount the county department pays.

(5) In accordance with rules adopted pursuant to section 5104.39 of the Revised Code, provide monthly reports to the director of human services and the director of budget and management regarding expenditures for the purchase of publicly funded child day-care.

(B) The county department of human services may do any of the following:

(1) To the extent permitted by federal law, use public child day-care funds to extend the hours of operation of the county department to accommodate the needs of working caretaker parents and enable those parents to apply for publicly funded child day-care;

(2) In accordance with rules adopted by the state department of human services, request a waiver of the maximum rate of assistance that is established by the state department of human services pursuant to section 5104.30 of the Revised Code for the purpose of paying a higher rate for publicly funded child day-care based upon the special needs of a child, the special circumstances of a family, or unique child day-care market conditions;

(3) To the extent permitted by federal law, use state and federal funds to pay deposits and other advance payments that a provider of child day-care customarily charges all children who receive child day-care from that provider;

(4) To the extent permitted by federal law, pay for up to thirty days of child day-care for a child whose caretaker parent is seeking employment, taking part in employment orientation activities, or taking part in activities in anticipation of enrollment or attendance in an education or training program or activity, if the employment or education or training program or activity is expected to begin within the thirty-day period.

Sec. 5104.38.  In addition to any other rules adopted under this chapter, the department of human services shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code governing financial and administrative requirements for publicly funded child day-care and establishing all of the following:

(A) Procedures and criteria to be used in making determinations of eligibility for publicly funded child day-care that give priority to children of families with lower incomes and procedures and criteria for eligibility for publicly funded protective day-care. The rules shall specify the maximum amount of income a family may have for initial and continued eligibility. The maximum amount shall not exceed one hundred eighty-five per cent of the federal poverty line.

(B) Procedures under which a county department of human services may, if the department, under division (A) of this section, specifies a maximum amount of income a family may have for eligibility for publicly funded child day-care that is less than one hundred eighty-five per cent of the federal poverty line, specify a maximum amount of income a family residing in the county the county department serves may have for initial and continued eligibility for publicly funded child day-care that is higher than the amount specified by the department but does not exceed one hundred eighty-five per cent of the federal poverty line;

(C) A schedule of fees requiring all eligible caretaker parents to pay a fee for publicly funded child day-care according to income and family size, which shall be uniform for all types of publicly funded child day-care, except as authorized by rule, and, to the extent permitted by federal law, shall permit the use of state and federal funds to pay the customary deposits and other advance payments that a provider charges all children who receive child day-care from that provider;

(C)(D) A formula based upon a percentage of the county's total expenditures for publicly funded child day-care for determining the maximum amount of state and federal funds appropriated for publicly funded child day-care that a county department may use for administrative purposes;

(D)(E) Procedures to be followed by the department and county departments in recruiting individuals and groups to become providers of child day-care;

(E)(F) Procedures to be followed in establishing state or local programs designed to assist individuals who are eligible for publicly funded child day-care in identifying the resources available to them and to refer the individuals to appropriate sources to obtain child day-care;

(F)(G) Procedures to deal with fraud and abuse committed by either recipients or providers of publicly funded child day-care;

(G)(H) Procedures for establishing a child day-care grant or loan program in accordance with the child care block grant act;

(H)(I) Standards and procedures for applicants to apply for grants and loans, and for the department to make grants and loans;

(I)(J) A definition of "person who stands in loco parentis" for the purposes of division (HH)(1) of section 5104.01 of the Revised Code;

(J)(K) Any other rules necessary to carry out sections 5104.30 to 5104.39 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 5126.04.  (A) Each county board of mental retardation and developmental disabilities shall plan and set priorities based on available resources for the provision of facilities, programs, and other services to meet the needs of county residents who are individuals with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities, former residents of the county residing in state institutions or placed under purchase of service agreements under section 5123.18 of the Revised Code, and children subject to a determination made pursuant to section 121.38 of the Revised Code.

Each county board shall assess the facility and service needs of the individuals with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities who are residents of the county or former residents of the county residing in state institutions or placed under purchase of service agreements under section 5123.18 of the Revised Code.

Each county board shall require individual habilitation or service plans for individuals with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities who are being served or who have been determined eligible for services and are awaiting the provision of services. Each board shall ensure that methods of having their service needs evaluated are available.

(B) The department of mental retardation and developmental disabilities may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as necessary to implement this section. To the extent that rules adopted under this section apply to the identification and placement of handicapped children under Chapter 3323. of the Revised Code, the rules shall be consistent with the standards and procedures established under sections 3323.03 to 3323.05 of the Revised Code.

(C) The responsibility or authority of a county board to provide services under this chapter does not affect the responsibility of any other entity of state or local government to provide services to individuals with mental retardation and developmental disabilities.

(D) On or before the first day of February prior to a school year, a county board of mental retardation and developmental disabilities may elect not to participate during that school year in the provision of or contracting for educational services for children ages six through twenty-one years of age, provided that on or before that date the board gives notice of this election to the superintendent of public instruction, each school district in the county, and the educational service center serving the county. If a board makes this election, it shall not have any responsibility for or authority to provide educational services that school year for children ages six through twenty-one years of age. If a board does not make an election for a school year in accordance with this division, the board shall be deemed to have elected to participate during that school year in the provision of or contracting for educational services for children ages six through twenty-one years of age.

(E) If a county board of mental retardation and developmental disabilities elects to provide educational services during a school year to individuals six through twenty-one years of age who are multiply handicapped, the board may provide these services to individuals who are appropriately identified and determined eligible pursuant to Chapter 3323. of the Revised Code, and in accordance with applicable rules of the state board of education. The county board may also provide related services to individuals six through twenty-one years of age who have one or more disabling conditions, in accordance with section 3317.20 and Chapter 3323. of the Revised Code and applicable rules of the state board of education.

Sec. 5126.05.  (A) Subject to the rules established by the director of mental retardation and developmental disabilities pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code for programs and services offered pursuant to this chapter, and subject to the rules established by the state board of education pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code for programs and services offered pursuant to Chapter 3323. of the Revised Code, the county board of mental retardation and developmental disabilities shall:

(1) Administer and operate facilities, programs, and services as provided by this chapter and Chapter 3323. of the Revised Code and establish policies for their administration and operation;

(2) Coordinate, monitor, and evaluate existing services and facilities available to individuals with mental retardation and developmental disabilities;

(3) Provide early childhood services, supportive home services, and adult services, according to the plan and priorities developed under section 5126.04 of the Revised Code;

(4) Provide or contract for special education programs services pursuant to Chapter Chapters 3317. and 3323. of the Revised Code and ensure that related services, as defined in section 3323.01 of the Revised Code, are available according to the plan and priorities developed under section 5126.04 of the Revised Code;

(5) Adopt a budget, authorize expenditures for the purposes specified in this chapter and do so in accordance with section 319.16 of the Revised Code, approve attendance of board members and employees at professional meetings and approve expenditures for attendance, and exercise such powers and duties as are prescribed by the director;

(6) Submit annual reports of its work and expenditures, pursuant to sections 3323.09 and 5126.12 of the Revised Code, to the director, the superintendent of public instruction, and the board of county commissioners at the close of the fiscal year and at such other times as may reasonably be requested;

(7) Authorize all positions of employment, establish compensation, including but not limited to salary schedules and fringe benefits for all board employees, approve contracts of employment for management employees that are for a term of more than one year, employ legal counsel under section 309.10 of the Revised Code, and contract for employee benefits;

(8) Provide case management services, as defined in rules adopted by the director of mental retardation and developmental disabilities, in accordance with section 5126.15 of the Revised Code;

(9) Certify respite care homes pursuant to rules adopted under section 5123.171 of the Revised Code by the director of mental retardation and developmental disabilities.

(B) To the extent that rules adopted under this section apply to the identification and placement of handicapped children under Chapter 3323. of the Revised Code, they shall be consistent with the standards and procedures established under sections 3323.03 to 3323.05 of the Revised Code.

(C) Any county board may enter into contracts with other such boards and with public or private, nonprofit, or profit-making agencies or organizations of the same or another county, to provide the facilities, programs, and services authorized or required, upon such terms as may be agreeable, and in accordance with this chapter and Chapter 3323. of the Revised Code and rules adopted thereunder and in accordance with sections 307.86 and 5126.071 of the Revised Code.

(D) A county board may combine transportation for children and adults enrolled in programs and services offered under section 5126.12 with transportation for children enrolled in units approved under section 3317.05 of the Revised Code.

(E) A county board may purchase all necessary insurance policies, may purchase equipment and supplies through the department of administrative services or from other sources, and may enter into agreements with public agencies or nonprofit organizations for cooperative purchasing arrangements.

(F) A county board may receive by gift, grant, devise, or bequest any moneys, lands, or property for the benefit of the purposes for which the board is established and hold, apply, and dispose of the moneys, lands, and property according to the terms of the gift, grant, devise, or bequest. All money received by gift, grant, bequest, or disposition of lands or property received by gift, grant, devise, or bequest shall be deposited in the county treasury to the credit of such board and shall be available for use by the board for purposes determined or stated by the donor or grantor, but may not be used for personal expenses of the board members. Any interest or earnings accruing from such gift, grant, devise, or bequest shall be treated in the same manner and subject to the same provisions as such gift, grant, devise, or bequest.

(G) The board of county commissioners shall levy taxes and make appropriations sufficient to enable the county board of mental retardation and developmental disabilities to perform its functions and duties, and may utilize any available local, state, and federal funds for such purpose.

Sec. 5711.22.  (A) Deposits not taxed at the source shall be listed and assessed at their amount in dollars on the day they are required to be listed. Moneys shall be listed and assessed at the amount thereof in dollars on hand on the day that they are required to be listed. In listing investments, the amount of the income yield of each for the calendar year next preceding the date of listing shall, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, be stated in dollars and cents and the assessment thereof shall be at the amount of such income yield; but any property defined as investments in either division (A) or (B) of section 5701.06 of the Revised Code that has not been outstanding for the full calendar year next preceding the date of listing, except shares of stock of like kind as other shares of the same corporation outstanding for the full calendar year next preceding the date of listing, or which has yielded no income during such calendar year shall be listed and assessed as unproductive investments, at their true value in money on the day that such investments are required to be listed.

Credits and other taxable intangibles shall be listed and assessed at their true value in money on the day as of which the same are required to be listed.

Shares of stock of a bank holding company, as defined in Title 12 U.S.C.A., section 1841, which are required to be listed for taxation under this division and upon which dividends were paid during the year of their issuance, which dividends are subject to taxation under the provisions of Chapter 5747. of the Revised Code, shall be exempt from the intangibles tax for the year immediately succeeding their issuance. If such shares bear dividends the first calendar year after their issuance, which dividends are subject to taxation under the provisions of Chapter 5747. of the Revised Code, it shall be deemed that the nondelinquent intangible property tax pursuant to division (A) of section 5707.04 of the Revised Code was paid on those dividends paid that first calendar year after the issuance of the shares.

(B)(1) Boilers, machinery, equipment, and personal property the true value of which is determined under division (B) of section 5711.21 of the Revised Code shall be listed and assessed at an amount equal to the sum of the products determined under divisions (B)(1)(a), (b), and (c) of this section.

(a) Multiply the portion of the true value determined under division (B)(1) of section 5711.21 of the Revised Code by the assessment rate for the appropriate year in division (D)(E) of this section;

(b) Multiply the portion of the true value determined under division (B)(2) of section 5711.21 of the Revised Code by the assessment rate in section 5727.111 of the Revised Code that is applicable to the production equipment of an electric company;

(c) Multiply the portion of the true value determined under division (B)(3) of section 5711.21 of the Revised Code by the assessment rate in section 5727.111 of the Revised Code that is applicable to the property of an electric company that is not production equipment.

(2) Personal property leased to a public utility or interexchange telecommunications company as defined in section 5727.01 of the Revised Code and used directly in the rendition of a public utility service as defined in division (P) of section 5739.01 of the Revised Code shall be listed and assessed at the same percentage of true value in money that such property is required to be assessed by section 5727.111 of the Revised Code if owned by the public utility or interexchange telecommunications company.

(C)(1) Merchandise or an agricultural product shipped from outside this state and held in this state in a warehouse or a place of storage without further manufacturing or processing and for storage only and for shipment outside this state, but that is taxable because it does not qualify as "not used in business in this state" under division (B)(1) or (2) of section 5701.08 of the Revised Code, shall be listed and assessed at a rate of twenty-five one-hundredths of its true value in money until reduced in accordance with the following schedule:

(a) For any year, subtract five one-hundredths from the rate at which such property was required to be listed and assessed in the preceding year, if the total statewide collection of all real and tangible personal property taxes for the second preceding year exceeded the total statewide collection of all real and tangible personal property taxes for the third preceding year by more than the greater of four per cent or the rate of increase from the third to the second preceding years in the average consumer price index (all urban consumers, all items) prepared by the bureau of labor statistics of the United States department of labor;

(b) If no reduction in the assessment rate is made for a year, the rate is the same as for the preceding year.

(2) Each year until the year the assessment rate equals zero, the tax commissioner shall determine the assessment rate required under this division and shall notify all county auditors of that rate.

(3) Notwithstanding provisions to the contrary in division (B) of section 5701.08 of the Revised Code, during and after the year for which the assessment rate as calculated under this division equals zero, any merchandise or agricultural product shipped from outside this state and held in this state in any warehouse or place of storage, whether public or private, without further manufacturing or processing and for storage only and for shipment outside this state to any person for any purpose is not used in business in this state for property tax purposes.

(D)(1) Merchandise or an agricultural product owned by a qualified out-of-state person shipped from outside this state and held in this state in a public warehouse without further manufacturing or processing and for temporary storage only and for shipment inside this state, but that is taxable because it does not qualify as "not used in business in this state" under division (B)(1) or (2) of section 5701.08 of the Revised Code, shall be listed and assessed at a rate of twenty-five one-hundredths of its true value in money until reduced in accordance with the following schedule:

(a) For any year, subtract five one-hundredths from the rate at which such property was required to be listed and assessed in the preceding year, if the total statewide collection of all real and tangible personal property taxes for the second preceding year exceeded the total statewide collection of all real and tangible personal property taxes for the third preceding year by more than the greater of four per cent or the rate of increase from the third to the second preceding years in the average consumer price index (all urban consumers, all items) prepared by the bureau of labor statistics of the United States department of labor;

(b) If no reduction in the assessment rate is made for a year, the rate is the same as for the preceding year.

(2) Each year until the year the assessment rate equals zero, the tax commissioner shall determine the assessment rate required under this division and shall notify all county auditors of that rate.

(3) Notwithstanding provisions to the contrary in division (B) of section 5701.08 of the Revised Code, during and after the year for which the assessment rate as calculated under this division equals zero, any merchandise or agricultural product described in division (D)(1) of this section is not used in business in this state for property tax purposes.

(4) As used in division (D) of this section:

(a) "Qualified out-of-state person" means a person that does not own, lease, or use property, other than merchandise or an agricultural product described in this division, in this state, and does not have employees, agents, or representatives in this state;

(b) "Public warehouse" means a warehouse in this state that is not subject to the control of or under the supervision of the owner of the merchandise or agricultural product stored in it, or staffed by the owner's employees, and from which the property is to be shipped inside this state.

(E) Unless otherwise provided by law, all other personal property used in business that has not been legally regarded as an improvement on land and considered in arriving at the value of the real property assessed for taxation shall be listed and assessed at the rate of twenty-five per cent of its true value in money.

Sec. 5733.04.  As used in this chapter:

(A) "Issued and outstanding shares of stock" applies to nonprofit corporations, as provided in section 5733.01 of the Revised Code, and includes but is not limited to, membership certificates and other instruments evidencing ownership of an interest in such nonprofit corporations, and with respect to a financial institution which does not have capital stock, "issued and outstanding shares of stock" includes, but is not limited to, ownership interests of depositors in the capital employed in such an institution.

(B) "Taxpayer" means a corporation subject to the tax imposed by section 5733.06 of the Revised Code.

(C) "Resident" means a corporation organized under the laws of this state.

(D) "Commercial domicile" means the principal place from which the trade or business of the taxpayer is directed or managed.

(E) "Taxable year" means the period prescribed by division (A) of section 5733.031 of the Revised Code upon the net income of which the value of the taxpayer's issued and outstanding shares of stock is determined under division (B) of section 5733.05 of the Revised Code or the period prescribed by division (A) of section 5733.031 of the Revised Code that immediately precedes the date as of which the total value of the corporation is determined under division (A) or (C) of section 5733.05 of the Revised Code.

(F) "Tax year" means the calendar year in and for which the tax imposed by section 5733.06 of the Revised Code is required to be paid.

(G) "Internal Revenue Code" means the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C.A. 1, as amended.

(H) "Federal income tax" means the income tax imposed by the Internal Revenue Code.

(I) "Net Except as provided in section 5733.058 Of the Revised Code, "net income" means the taxpayer's taxable income before operating loss deduction and special deductions, as required to be reported for the taxpayer's taxable year under the Internal Revenue Code, subject to the following adjustments:

(1)(a) Deduct any net operating loss incurred in any taxable years ending in 1971 or thereafter but exclusive of any net operating loss incurred in taxable years ending prior to January 1, 1971. This deduction shall not be allowed in any tax year commencing before December 31, 1973, but shall be carried over and allowed in tax years commencing after December 31, 1973, until fully utilized in the next succeeding taxable year or years in which the taxpayer has net income, but in no case for more than the designated carryover period as described in division (I)(1)(b) of this section. The amount of such net operating loss, as determined under the allocation and apportionment provisions of section 5733.051 and division (B) of section 5733.05 of the Revised Code for the year in which the net operating loss occurs, shall be deducted from net income, as determined under the allocation and apportionment provisions of section 5733.051 and division (B) of section 5733.05 of the Revised Code, to the extent necessary to reduce net income to zero with the remaining unused portion of the deduction, if any, carried forward to the remaining years of the designated carryover period as described in division (I)(1)(b) of this section, or until fully utilized, whichever occurs first.

(b) For losses incurred in taxable years ending on or before December 31, 1981, the designated carryover period shall be the five consecutive taxable years after the taxable year in which the net operating loss occurred. For losses incurred in taxable years ending on or after January 1, 1982, the designated carryover period shall be the fifteen consecutive taxable years after the taxable year in which the net operating loss occurs.

(c) The tax commissioner may require a taxpayer to furnish any information necessary to support a claim for deduction under division (I)(1)(a) of this section and no deduction shall be allowed unless the information is furnished.

(2) Deduct any amount included in net income by application of section 78 or 951 of the Internal Revenue Code, amounts received for royalties, technical or other services derived from sources outside the United States, and dividends received from a subsidiary, associate, or affiliated corporation that neither transacts any substantial portion of its business nor regularly maintains any substantial portion of its assets within the United States. For purposes of determining net foreign source income deductible under division (I)(2) of this section, the amount of gross income from all such sources other than income derived by application of section 78 or 951 of the Internal Revenue Code shall be reduced by:

(a) The amount of any reimbursed expenses for personal services performed by employees of the taxpayer for the subsidiary, associate, or affiliated corporation;

(b) Ten per cent of the amount of royalty income and technical assistance fees;

(c) Fifteen per cent of the amount of dividends and all other income.

The amounts described in divisions (I)(2)(a) to (c) of this section are deemed to be the expenses attributable to the production of deductible foreign source income unless the taxpayer shows, by clear and convincing evidence, less actual expenses or the tax commissioner shows, by clear and convincing evidence, more actual expenses.

(3) Add any loss or deduct any gain resulting from the sale, exchange, or other disposition of a capital asset, or an asset described in section 1231 of the Internal Revenue Code, to the extent that such loss or gain occurred prior to the first taxable year on which the tax provided for in section 5733.06 of the Revised Code is computed on the corporation's net income. For purposes of division (I)(3) of this section, the amount of the prior loss or gain shall be measured by the difference between the original cost or other basis of the asset and the fair market value as of the beginning of the first taxable year on which the tax provided for in section 5733.06 of the Revised Code is computed on the corporation's net income. At the option of the taxpayer, the amount of the prior loss or gain may be a percentage of the gain or loss, which percentage shall be determined by multiplying the gain or loss by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of months from the acquisition of the asset to the beginning of the first taxable year on which the fee provided in section 5733.06 of the Revised Code is computed on the corporation's net income, and the denominator of which is the number of months from the acquisition of the asset to the sale, exchange, or other disposition of the asset.

(4) Deduct the dividend received deduction provided by section 243 of the Internal Revenue Code.

(5) Deduct any interest or interest equivalent on public obligations and purchase obligations to the extent included in federal taxable income. As used in divisions (I)(5) and (6) of this section, "public obligations," "purchase obligations," and "interest or interest equivalent" have the same meanings as in section 5709.76 of the Revised Code.

(6) Add any loss or deduct any gain resulting from the sale, exchange, or other disposition of public obligations to the extent included in federal taxable income.

(7) To the extent not otherwise allowed, deduct any dividends or distributions received by a taxpayer from a public utility, if the taxpayer owns at least eighty per cent of the issued and outstanding common stock of the utility. As used in division (I)(7) of this section, "public utility" or "utility" means a public utility as defined in Chapter 5727. of the Revised Code, whether or not the utility is doing business in the state.

(8) To the extent not otherwise allowed, deduct any dividends received by a taxpayer from an insurance company, if the taxpayer owns at least eighty per cent of the issued and outstanding common stock of the insurance company. As used in division (I)(8) of this section, "insurance company" means an insurance company which is taxable under Chapter 5725. or 5729. of the Revised Code.

(9) Deduct expenditures for modifying existing buildings or structures to meet American national standards institute standard A-117.1-1961 (R-1971), as amended; provided, that no deduction shall be allowed to the extent that such deduction is not permitted under federal law or under rules of the tax commissioner. Those deductions as are allowed may be taken over a period of five years. The tax commissioner shall adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing reasonable limitations on the extent that expenditures for modifying existing buildings or structures are attributable to the purpose of making the buildings or structures accessible to and usable by physically handicapped persons.

(10) Deduct the amount of wages and salaries, if any, not otherwise allowable as a deduction but that would have been allowable as a deduction in computing federal taxable income before operating loss deduction and special deductions for the taxable year, had the targeted jobs credit allowed and determined under sections 38, 51, and 52 of the Internal Revenue Code not been in effect.

(11) Deduct net interest income on obligations of the United States and its territories and possessions or of any authority, commission, or instrumentality of the United States to the extent the laws of the United States prohibit inclusion of the net interest for purposes of determining the value of the taxpayer's issued and outstanding shares of stock under division (B) of section 5733.05 of the Revised Code. As used in division (I)(11) of this section, "net interest" means interest net of any expenses taken on the federal income tax return that would not have been allowed under section 265 of the Internal Revenue Code if the interest were exempt from federal income tax.

(12)(a) Except as set forth in division (I)(12)(d) of this section, to the extent not included in computing the taxpayer's federal taxable income before operating loss deduction and special deductions, add gains and deduct losses from direct or indirect sales, exchanges, or other dispositions, made by a related entity who is not a taxpayer, of the taxpayer's indirect, beneficial, or constructive investment in the stock or debt of another entity, unless the gain or loss has been included in computing the federal taxable income before operating loss deduction and special deductions of another taxpayer with a more closely related investment in the stock or debt of the other entity. The amount of gain added or loss deducted shall not exceed the product obtained by multiplying such gain or loss by the taxpayer's proportionate share, directly, indirectly, beneficially, or constructively, of the outstanding stock of the related entity immediately prior to the direct or indirect sale, exchange, or other disposition.

(b) Except as set forth in division (I)(12)(e) of this section, to the extent not included in computing the taxpayer's federal taxable income before operating loss deduction and special deductions, add gains and deduct losses from direct or indirect sales, exchanges, or other dispositions made by a related entity who is not a taxpayer, of intangible property other than stock, securities, and debt, if such property was owned, or used in whole or in part, at any time prior to or at the time of the sale, exchange, or disposition by either the taxpayer or by a related entity that was a taxpayer at any time during the related entity's ownership or use of such property, unless the gain or loss has been included in computing the federal taxable income before operating loss deduction and special deductions of another taxpayer with a more closely related ownership or use of such intangible property. The amount of gain added or loss deducted shall not exceed the product obtained by multiplying such gain or loss by the taxpayer's proportionate share, directly, indirectly, beneficially, or constructively, of the outstanding stock of the related entity immediately prior to the direct or indirect sale, exchange, or other disposition.

(c) As used in division (I)(12) of this section, "related entity" means those entities described in divisions (I)(12)(c)(i) to (iii) of this section:

(i) An individual stockholder, or a member of the stockholder's family enumerated in section 318 of the Internal Revenue Code, if the stockholder and the members of the stockholder's family own, directly, indirectly, beneficially, or constructively, in the aggregate, at least fifty per cent of the value of the taxpayer's outstanding stock;

(ii) A stockholder, or a stockholder's partnership, estate, trust, or corporation, if the stockholder and the stockholder's partnerships, estates, trusts, and corporations own directly, indirectly, beneficially, or constructively, in the aggregate, at least fifty per cent of the value of the taxpayer's outstanding stock;

(iii) A corporation, or a party related to the corporation in a manner that would require an attribution of stock from the corporation to the party or from the party to the corporation under division (I)(12)(c)(iv) of this section, if the taxpayer owns, directly, indirectly, beneficially, or constructively, at least fifty per cent of the value of the corporation's outstanding stock.

(iv) The attribution rules of section 318 of the Internal Revenue Code apply for purposes of determining whether the ownership requirements in divisions (I)(12)(c)(i) to (iii) of this section have been met.

(d) For purposes of the adjustments required by division (I)(12)(a) of this section, the term "investment in the stock or debt of another entity" means only those investments where the taxpayer and the taxpayer's related entities directly, indirectly, beneficially, or constructively own, in the aggregate, at any time during the twenty-four month period commencing one year prior to the direct or indirect sale, exchange, or other disposition of such investment at least fifty per cent or more of the value of either the outstanding stock or such debt of such other entity.

(e) For purposes of the adjustments required by division (I)(12)(b) of this section, the term "related entity" excludes all of the following:

(i) Foreign corporations as defined in section 7701 of the Internal Revenue Code;

(ii) Foreign partnerships as defined in section 7701 of the Internal Revenue Code;

(iii) Corporations, partnerships, estates, and trusts created or organized in or under the laws of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or any possession of the United States;

(iv) Foreign estates and foreign trusts as defined in section 7701 of the Internal Revenue Code.

The exclusions described in divisions (I)(12)(e)(i) to (iv) of this section do not apply if the corporation, partnership, estate, or trust is described in any one of divisions (C)(1) to (5) of section 5733.042 of the Revised Code.

(f) Nothing in division (I)(12) of this section shall require or permit a taxpayer to add any gains or deduct any losses described in divisions (I)(12)(f)(i) and (ii) of this section:

(i) Gains or losses recognized for federal income tax purposes by an individual, estate, or trust without regard to the attribution rules described in division (I)(12)(c) of this section, and

(ii) A related entity's gains or losses described in division (I)(12)(b) if the taxpayer's ownership of or use of such intangible property was limited to a period not exceeding nine months and was attributable to a transaction or a series of transactions executed in accordance with the election or elections made by the taxpayer or a related entity pursuant to section 338 of the Internal Revenue Code.

(13) Any adjustment required by section 5733.042 of the Revised Code.

(14) Add any amount claimed as a credit under section 5733.0611 of the Revised Code to the extent that such amount satisfies either of the following:

(a) It was deducted or excluded from the computation of the corporation's taxable income before operating loss deduction and special deductions as required to be reported for the corporation's taxable year under the Internal Revenue Code;

(b) It resulted in a reduction of the corporation's taxable income before operating loss deduction and special deductions as required to be reported for any of the corporation's taxable years under the Internal Revenue Code.

(14)(15) Deduct the amount contributed by the taxpayer to an individual development account program established by a county department of human services pursuant to sections 329.11 to 329.14 of the Revised Code for the purpose of matching funds deposited by program participants. On request of the tax commissioner, the taxpayer shall provide any information that, in the tax commissioner's opinion, is necessary to establish the amount deducted under division (I)(14)(15) of this section.

(J) Any term used in this chapter has the same meaning as when used in comparable context in the laws of the United States relating to federal income taxes unless a different meaning is clearly required. Any reference in this chapter to the Internal Revenue Code includes other laws of the United States relating to federal income taxes.

(K) "Financial institution" has the meaning given by section 5725.01 of the Revised Code but does not include a production credit association as described in 85 Stat. 597, 12 U.S.C.A. 2091.

(L)(1) A "qualifying holding company" is any corporation satisfying all of the following requirements:

(a) Subject to divisions (L)(2) and (3) of this section, the net book value of the corporation's intangible assets is greater than or equal to ninety per cent of the net book value of all of its assets and at least fifty per cent of the net book value of all of its assets represents direct or indirect investments in the equity of, loans and advances to, and accounts receivable due from related members;

(b) At least ninety per cent of the corporation's gross income for the taxable year is attributable to the following:

(i) The maintenance, management, ownership, acquisition, use, and disposition of its intangible property, its aircraft the use of which is not subject to regulation under 14 C.F.R. part 121 or part 135, and any real property described in division (L)(2)(c) of this section;

(ii) The collection and distribution of income from such property.

(c) The corporation is not a financial institution on the last day of the taxable year ending prior to the first day of the tax year;

(d) The corporation's related members make a good faith and reasonable effort to make timely and fully the adjustments required by division (C)(2) of section 5733.05 of the Revised Code and to pay timely and fully all uncontested taxes, interest, penalties, and other fees and charges imposed under this chapter;

(e) Subject to division (L)(4) of this section, the corporation elects to be treated as a qualifying holding company for the tax year.

A corporation otherwise satisfying divisions (L)(1)(a) to (e) of this section that does not elect to be a qualifying holding company is not a qualifying holding company for the purposes of this chapter.

(2)(a)(i) For purposes of making the ninety per cent computation under division (L)(1)(a) of this section, the net book value of the corporation's assets shall not include the net book value of aircraft or real property described in division (L)(1)(b)(i) of this section.