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Bill Number
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Sponsor
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Title
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Summary
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Status
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House
Bills
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| HCR 11 |
Garrison |
SCHOOL FUNDING |
To express the intent
of the General Assembly to establish a new
school-funding method that results in a thorough
and efficient system of primary and secondary
schools in the state. |
Pending in the House. |
| HJR 11 |
Gilb |
FUEL TAX USE |
To specify that
revenue arising from any tax on or related
to motor fuel or receipts from the sale or
other disposition of such fuel shall be devoted
to highway and highway-related purposes regardless
of the form of the tax. |
Pending in House
Finance & Appropriations Committee. |
| HJR 12 |
Wolpert |
TAX/SPENDING LIMITS |
To establish limitations
on the state regarding taxes and expenditures
and to require full state funding of local
government mandates. |
Introduced in the
House 2/22/06. |
| HB 1 |
Kilbane |
TAX LAWS |
To formally state
the General Assembly's intentions in its upcoming
deliberations on reforming Ohio's tax laws. |
Pending in House
Ways & Means. |
| HB 6 |
Stewart, J. |
CONTINUED LEARNING
PARTNERSHIP |
To establish the
Partnership for Continued Learning to make
recommendations for facilitating collaboration
among providers of preschool through post-secondary
education and maintaining a high-quality workforce
in Ohio. |
Pending House Education.
|
| HB 9 |
Oelslager |
PUBLIC RECORDS LAW |
To revise the Public
Records Law. |
ENACTED: Signed
by the Govenor 12/27/06. Effective March 29,
2007.
|
| HB 11 |
Schlichter |
VETERANS' HIGH SCHOOL
DIPLOMAS |
To grant high school
diplomas to certain veterans of the Vietnam
Conflict. |
ENACTED: Signed
by the Govenor 12/23/05. Effective March 22,
2006. |
| HB 14 |
Stewart, J. |
ELECTRIC RATE STABILIZATION |
To further state
policy under the Electric Restructuring law
by providing implementation of rate stabilizations
in an electric utility's service area. |
Pending in House
Public Utilities & Energy. |
| HB 16 |
Calvert |
CAPITAL APPROPRIATIONS |
To make capital
and other appropriations, and to provide authorization
and conditions for the operation of state
programs. |
Passed House and Senate. Pending Governor's
Signature.
|
| HB 35 |
Hartnett |
ACHIEVEMENT TESTS |
To change the dates
by which achievement tests are administered
and the results are released to school districts. |
Pending in House Education Committee. (1st
Hearing) |
| HB 40 |
Schaffer |
TEACHING TAX CREDIT |
To allow a credit
against the personal income tax for amounts
spent by teachers for instructional materials. |
Pending in House
Ways & Means Committee. |
| HB 47 |
Beatty |
PERSONAL ECONOMICS
INSTRUCTION |
To require that
every high school include instruction in personal
economics in the requirements for graduation. |
Pending in House Education Committee.
|
| HB 51 |
Koziura |
EDUCATION BUDGET |
To require an appropriations
bill for education agencies be enacted separate
from and prior to any other operating appropriations
bills. |
Pending in House
Finance & Appropriations Committee. |
| HB 66 |
Calvert |
BIENNIAL BUDGET |
Make operating appropriations
for the biennium beginning July 1, 2005 and
ending June 30, 2007. |
ENACTED: Effective immediately. |
| HB 79 |
Raga |
TEACHER MISCONDUCT |
Require information
about professional misconduct or child abuse
committed by a person licensed by the State
Board of Education be submitted to the Superintendent
of Public Instruction and require State Board
to request criminal records checks prior to
renewing educator license. |
Passed in the House 6/15/05. Passed in
the Senate 10/27/05. Conference report adopted 12/19/06.
|
| HB 105 |
Setzer |
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
STANDARDS |
Requires State Board
of Education to adopt standards developed
by the National Association for Sport and
Physical Education for physical education
in grades K-12. |
Passed in the House 6/15/05. Pending in
Senate Education. |
| HB 107 |
Setzer |
TEACHER EDUCATION
STANDARDS |
Requires State Board
of Education to adopt standards that require
the curricula of teacher preparation program
to be aligned with the state academic content
standards and with the value-added progress
dimension developed by the Dept. of Ed. |
ENACTED: Effective April 27, 2006. |
| HB 110 |
Wagner |
TEACHING STAFF REDUCTIONS |
Permits all school
districts and ESCs to reduce the number of
teaching employees for financial reasons and
to expand the reasons for which non civil
service school districts and ESCs may reduce
the number of non teaching employees. |
Pending in House
Commerce & Labor |
| HB 113 |
Blasdel |
REAL ESTATE LICENSING/HIGH
SCHOOL ECONOMICS |
Requires that every
high school include in the requirements for
graduation instruction in personal economics. |
Pending in House
financial Institutions, Real Estate &
Securities Committee. |
| HB 114 |
Sayre |
SCHOOL CALAMITY
DAYS |
Permit certain districts
and nonpublic schools located in flooded areas
during 2004-2005 school year to count time
that schools are in session beyond the required
minimum number of hours in order to make up
"calamity days." |
Pending in House Education Committee. |
| HB 115 |
Setzer |
EDUCATIONAL REGIONAL
SERVICE SYSTEM |
Establish Educational
Regional Service System and the EMIS Advisory
Board. |
ENACTED: Effective September 21, 2006 |
| HB 116 |
Patton. T. |
SCHOOL FACILITIES
CONTRACTS |
Require board of
education of each school district undertaking
school building construction project valued
over $25,000 to award the contract for that
project only to the lowest responsible Ohio-based
bidder. |
Pending in House Education Committee.
|
| HB 121 |
Reinhard |
CALAMITY DAYS |
Permit districts
and nonpublic schools to count time that schools
are in session beyond the required minimum
number of hours to make up "calamity
days" missed during 2004-2005 school
year in excess of the number of days permitted
by law. |
Passed the House
on 4/26/05. Pending Senate Education Committee. |
| HB 128 |
Allen |
EDUCATION CHOICE |
To establish the
Educational Choice Scholarship program for
students in academic watch and academic emergency
school districts. |
Pending in House
Education Committee. |
| HB 133 |
Strahorn |
EDUCATION COLLECTIVE
BARGAINING |
Eliminate an exemption
from the Public Employees' Collective Bargaining
Law for specified educational employees. |
Pending in House Commerce & Labor Committee. |
| HB 155 |
Seaver |
SCHOOL DISTRICT
CONSOLIDATION |
To establish a legislative
committee to study the feasibility and economic
impact of school district consolidation. |
Pending in House Local & Municipal
Government & Urban Revitalization Committee.
|
| HB 167 |
Boccieri |
DYSLEXIA TESTING |
Requires public
and chartered nonpublic schools to test students
for dyslexia and related disorders and to
provide intervention services. |
Pending in House Education Committee.
|
| HB 173 |
White |
PHYSICAL FITNESS
COUNCIL |
To establish the
School Physical Fitness and Wellness Advisory
Council. |
Pending in House
Education Committee. |
| HB 177 |
Harwood |
SCHOOL HEALTH CARE
PLANS |
Permit school districts
and ESC's to offer health care benefits to
employees through paticipation ithe state
employee health care plans. |
Introduced in the House 4/6/05.
|
| HB 184 |
Faber |
SCHOOL MOTTO DISPLAY |
Require school districts
and community schools that receive donated
copies of the mottoes of the United States
or the State of Ohio to display the mottoes
in school buildings. |
Enacted: Effective October 9, 2006.
|
| HB 203 |
Raga |
SCHOOL HEALTH INSPECTIONS |
Require the Director
of Health to establish the School Health and
Safety Network to coordinate and collect data
from school inspections and include Network
inspection rules. |
Enacted: Effective
March 20, 2006. |
| HB 213 |
Oelsalger |
COMMUNITY SCHOOL
LIMIT |
Extend the statewide
cap on the number of community schools sponsored
by entities other than the school districts
in which they would be located, create the
Joint Study Committee on Ohio's Community
Schools and make changes to the Community
Schools Law. |
Pending in House Education Committee.
|
| HB 229 |
Faber |
SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS |
Authorize 2 or more
school districts and ESC's to jointly employ
the same administrator. |
Pending in the House
Education Committee. |
| HB 242 |
Evans, C. |
SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION
FUNDS |
To specify a new
method of calculating school district's portion
of the cost of a state-assisted classroom
facilities acquisition project for districts
that have a combination of high valuations
per pupil and low median incomes. |
Pending in House
Finance & Appropriations Committee. |
| HB 250 |
Trakas |
SCHOOL TAXING AUTHORITY |
Authorize 2 or more
school boards to create a taxing district
for the joint funding of behavioral health,
autism, and related services to students. |
Pending in House
Finance & Appropriations Committee. |
| HB 254 |
Collier |
INSTRUCTIONAL HOURS |
To require school
districts and chartered nonpublic schools
be open for 1060 hours of instruction a year
for grades 1-6 and 1200 hours for grades 7-12. |
Passed in the House
1/31/06. Pending in Senate Education Committee. |
| HB 276 |
Stewart |
SCHOOL BULLYING |
With respect to
school policies prohibiting harrassment, intimidation,
or bullying. |
Passed in the House 1/24/06. Passed in the Senate 12/13/06. Houes concurs in Senate amendments 12/19/06.
|
| HB 280 |
Law |
SCHOOL BUILDING
SALES |
To require school
board to offer any building for sale to any
county, municipal corporation, and township
in which the building is located. |
Pending in Local & Municipal Government
& Urban Revitalization Committee. |
| HB 295 |
Williams |
COMMUNITY SCHOOL
REPORTING |
To revise the academic
and data reporting accountability requirements
pertaining to community schools. |
Pending in the House Education Committee. |
| HB 299 |
Peterson |
DEVELOPMENT IMPACT
FEES |
To authorize counties,
townships, and school districts to levy impact
fees on new development to finance capital
improvements necessitated by that development. |
Pending in the House Local & Municipal
Government & Urban Revitalization Committee.
|
| HB 302 |
Law |
SCHOOL FACILITIES
TAX |
Requires school
districts to lower the rate of a school facilities
tax upon determining that projects costs will
be lower than expected. |
Pending in House Finance & Ap-propriations
Committee.
|
| HB 309 |
Setzer |
SCHOOL EMPLOYEE
ASSAULT |
Make assault on
any school employee a felony of the fifth
degree. |
Pending in the House Criminal Justice Committee.
|
| HB 315 |
Key |
SCHOOL WEAPONS |
To prohibit a person
from using a stun gun or taser on school premises. |
Pending in the House
Criminal Justice Committee. |
| HB 320 |
Schneider |
SCHOOL EMPLOYEES
RETIREMENT FUND |
With regard to the
law governing the School Employees Retirement
System. |
Pending in House
Financial Institutions, Real Estate &
Securities Committee. |
| HB 321 |
Healy |
COMMUNITY SCHOOL
MORATORIUM |
To place a moratorium
on the establishment of new community schools
between May 1, 2005 and six months after this
act's effective date and to declare an emergency. |
Pending in House
Education Committee. |
| HB 322 |
Raussen |
SCHOOL INCOME TAXES |
Authorizes school
districts to enter into agreements with the
Dept. of Taxation or other entities for the
collection and administration of school district
income taxes. |
Passed in the House
3/14/06. Pending in Senate Ways & Means
& Economic Development Committee. |
| HB 328 |
Key |
VOTER EDUCATION |
To require every
high school to include one-half hour of voter
education instruction as party of the required
American government course instruction. |
Pending in House
Education Committee. |
| HB 335 |
Williams |
COMMUNITY SCHOOLS |
To amend the definition
of a "challenged school district"
where new start-up community schools may be
located. |
Pending in House
Education Committee. |
| HB 353 |
Redfern |
SCHOOL CALENDAR |
To prohibit public
schools from opening for instruction prior
to Labor Day except in specified circumstances. |
Pending in the House Education Committee. |
| HB 366 |
Trakas |
SCHOOL DISTRICT
STIPENDS |
To establish the
School District Achievement Success Rewards
Program to pay a per pupil stipend to certain
districts based on their academic performance. |
Pending in House Finance & Appropriations
Committee.
|
| HB 374 |
Hughes |
CHILDREN'S SAFETY
PROGRAM |
Abolishes the children's
safety program known as the Block Parent Program
in the State Board of Education and establishest
the McGruff House Program in the Division
of Criminal Justice Services of the Department
of Public Safety. |
Passed in the House 1/31/06.
|
| HB 404 |
Wolpert |
URBAN HOMESTEAD
ZONES |
To permit the creation
of urban homestead zones in cities to encourage
the repopulation of certain city areas, to
create a state urban homestead scholarship
program administered jointly by the Dept.
of Development and the Dept. of Education,
and to require tax increment financing in
urban homestead zones that participat in the
scholarship program to help fund the program. |
Introduced in the
House 11/2/05. |
| HB 411 |
Wolpert |
SCHOOL PERFORMANCE |
Eliminate the requirement
that a school district or building that fails
to make "adequate yearly progress"
for more than 2 consecutive years b rated
no higher than "in need of continuous
improvement" on the annual state academic
performance ratings. |
Pending in House Education committee. |
| HB 415 |
Harwood |
MOTOR FUEL TAX |
To exempt from the
motor fuel tax any sales of motor fuel sold
to school districts or esc's for school district
or service center operations. |
Pending in House
Ways & Means committee. |
| HB 422 |
Hughes |
SCHOOL SAFETY PLANS |
Requires community
schools and chartered nonpublic schools to
adopt school safety plans in the same manner
as school districts, to exempt school safety
plans and school building blueprints from
the Public Records Law, requires all public
and nonpublic schools to conduct at least
one safety drill annually and increase the
fine for failure to $1000.00 for noncompliance. |
ENACTED: Effective September 26, 2006. |
| HB 431 |
Peterson |
SPECIAL EDUCATION
VOUCHERS |
To establish the
Special Education Scholarship program to provide
scholarships for handicapped children to attend
alternative public and nonpublic special education
programs. |
Pending in House
Education Committee. |
| HB 432 |
Stewart, J. |
SCHOOL FUNDING COMMITTEE |
Establishes a bipartisan
committee to recommend to the General Assembly
a system that provide state funds to pay 100%
of the actual cost of providing a thorough
and efficient education. |
Pending in House Finance & Appropriations
Committee .
|
| HB 435 |
DeWine |
ATHLETIC TRAINERS |
To require school
districts to employ licensed athletic trainers
under the same type of contract applicable
to licensed occupational or physical therapists
employed by the districts. |
Pending in House Education Committee.
|
| HB 438 |
Wolpert |
SCHOOL FUNDING COUNCIL |
Establishes a study
council to examine the current cost-of-doing
business factor used in calculating funding
for school districts and community schools
and make recommendations whether and in what
form the factor should be modified. |
Pending in House Finance & Appropriations
Committee.
|
| HB 441 |
Evans, C. |
PUBLIC MEETINGS |
Permit a member
of any public body to be present at a meeting
by teleconference or interactive video teleconference. |
Introduced in the
House 12/6/05. |
| HB 455 |
Kilbane |
EDUCATION BOARDS |
Allows employees
of a city director of law to serve on a board
of education for which the city director of
law is not the legal advisor. |
ENACTED: Effective 2/2/06 |
| HB 473 |
Trakas |
EDUCATION COLLECTIVE
BARGAINING |
Requires school
district boards of educaiton to establish
through collective bargaining merit pay systems
for classroom teachers and certain educational
assistants to eliminate continuing contracts
for teachers and certain educational assistants
and prohibit State Board of Ed. from requiring
a degree higher than a bachelor's degree or
continuing education to obtain or renew an
educator license for being a classroom teacher. |
Pending in House
Finance & Appropriations Committee. |
| HB 474 |
Wagoner |
SCHOOL FACILITIES
PAYMENTS |
To permit the Ohio
School Facilities Commission to enter into
agreements with school districts that have
not received state assistance for classroom
facilities under which the districts will
receive payments in lieu of participating
in other state programs for classroom facilities
assistance. |
Pending in House
Finance & Appropriation Committee. |
| HB 486 |
Faber |
SCHOOL CIVIL IMMUNITY |
To confere immunity
from civil liability upon school districts,
community schools, nonpublic schools, and
school employees for an alleged injury to
a student caused by school discipline. |
Pending in Civil
& Commercial law Committee. |
| HB 497 |
Hagen |
RETAINAGE |
Modifies provisions
governing the practice of withholding a persentage
of payment from contractors, subcontractors,
and material suppliers in the form of retainage. |
Pending in House
Commerce and Labor Committee. |
| HB 506 |
Blessing |
HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNTS |
To make health savings
accounts available to public employees and
provide tax benefits to public employees who
use health savings accounts and to increase
the deductible permitted under the state income
tax for unreimbursed medical care. |
Pending in House
Ways & Means Committee. |
| HB 520 |
Schaffer |
SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION |
Prohibits ranking
a school district participating in the School
Building Assistance Expedited Local Partnership
Program in a higher percentile on the eligibility
list for state classroom facilities assistance
after the district's electors have approved
a bond issue for the district's portion of
the basic project cost and to grant priority
for such assistance to certain school districts
participating in the Expedited Program that
have a higher percentile ranking than 3 years
ago. |
Pending in the House
Finance & Appropriations Committee. |
| HB 530 |
Calvert |
BUDGET CORRECTIONS/CAPITAL
REAPPROPRIATIONS |
To make capital
reappropriations for the biennium ending 6/30/08,
and make certain supplemental and capital
appropriations and to provide authorization
and conditions for the operation of state
programs. |
ENACTED: Signed
March 30, 2006. Effective Immediately. |
| HB 539 |
Latta |
TEACHER SEX OFFENSE |
To generally impose
a mandatory minimum prison term upon an offender
who commits a specified sex offense when the
offender is the victim's teacher. |
Pending in House
Criminal Justice Committee. |
| HB 552 |
Driehaus |
VETERANS DIPLOMAS |
To grant high school
diplomas to women who left high school to
support their families or the war effort during
World War II, the Korean Conflict, or the
Vietnam Conflict. |
Pending in House
State Government committee. |
| HB 562 |
Hughes |
SCHOOL DISTRICT
TAXES |
To extend indefinitely
the full reimbursement to school districts
for the phase-out of taxes on business tangible
personal property. |
Pending in House
Finance & Appropriations Committee. |
| HB 565 |
Setzer |
CURRICULUM REQUIREMENTS |
To establish the
Ohio Core curriculum, to restruction admission
requirements and remedial courses in state
universities, and to implement other initiatives
to enhance secondary and post-secondary education
in Ohio. |
Pending in House
Education Committee. |
| HB 568 |
Healy |
PUBLIC RECORDS |
To make certain
meetings and records of private entities doing
business with the public sector open to the
public. |
Pending in House
Judiciary Committee. |
| HB 572 |
Healy |
COMMUNITY SCHOOL
REPORTS |
Requires annual
report cards for all community schools, to
prohibit the payment of state funds to any
community schools that have been in a state
of "academic watch" for two consecutive
years and fails to improve to "continuous
improvement" or above by the next annual
report card and to repeal certain additional
community school academic performance requirements. |
Pending in House
Education Committee. |
| HB 573 |
Healy |
SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS |
Prohibits a member
of a school district board of education from
being an employee or governing board member
of an operator or nonpublic public sponsor
of a community school or an employee or governing
authority member of a community school that
has a nonpublic sponsor. |
Pending in House
Education Committee. |
| HB 583 |
Peterson |
MERCURY-CONTAINING
PRODUCTS |
Prohibits purchase
of mercury-containing measuring devices by
schools to prohibit the sale and distribution
of mercury-containing thermometers, establishes
certain exceptions. |
Pending in House Economic Development &
Environment Committee.
|
| HB 590 |
Hartnett |
EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIPS |
To specify that
Educational Choice scholarships may be used
only at chartered nonpublic schools that perform
comparably to or better than public schools
in continuous improvement. |
Pending in House
Education. |
| HB 605 |
Setzer |
MISSING SCHOOL CHILDREN |
To require public
and nonpublic schools to makr the records
of students identified as missing children
and to notify law enforcement of requrests
for those records. |
Pending in House
Education Committee. |
| HB 630 |
Core |
EDUCATION COSTS |
Requires the Department
of Education to determine the school district
responsible for paying the cost of educating
a child placed by the court in the custody
of a government agency or a person other than
the child's parent. |
Pending in House Juvenile & Family Law Committee. |
| HB 631 |
Wolpert |
SCHOOL FACILITIES |
To create the Rapid
Enrollment Growth School Facilities Assistance
Program. |
Pending in House Finance & Appropriations Committee. |
| HB 639 |
Raussen |
CLASSROOM FACILITIES
PROJECTS |
Permits high-wealth
school district to receive payments for district-directed
classroom facilities projects in lieu of participating
in other state programs. |
Pending in House Finance & Appropriations Committee. |
| HB 640 |
Garrison |
ALL-DAY KINDERGARTEN |
To phase in formula
funding for all-day kindergarten. |
Pending in House Finance & Appropriations Committee. |
| HB 671 |
Webster |
SCHOOL TREASURERS |
To revise the laws on the employment of school district and educational service center treasurers. |
Passed the House 12/12/06.Passed the Senate 12/19/06 |
| HB 695 |
Calvert |
STEM SCHOOL SYSTEM |
Establishes the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics School system. |
Pending in House Finance & Appropriations Committee. |
| HB 699 |
Calvert |
CAPITAL APPROPRIATIONS |
To make capital and other appropriations and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs. |
Passed the House 12/12/06. Passed the Senate 12/19/06. |
| HB 700 |
Blasdel |
SCHOOL ALTERNATIVE RETIREMENT |
Requires school boards to establish an alternative retirement plans for teachers and school employees |
Pending in House Finance Financial Institutions, Real Estate & Securities. |
| HB 701 |
Strahorn |
PUPIL FORMULA ADJUSTMENTS |
Modifies the method of adjsutin the per-pupil formula amount for school districts from year to year. |
Pending in the House fijnance & Appropriations Committee. |
| HB 703 |
Brown |
HPV VACCINATIONS |
Requires that girls entering the sixth grade be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV) and create the HPV Immunization Advisory Commitee. |
Pending in House Health Committee. |
| HB 704 |
Wolpert |
SCHOOL RATINGS |
Revises the law regarding determining and reporting school district and school building performance ratings. |
Pending in House Finance & Appropriations Committee. |
|
Senate
Bills
|
| SJR 7 |
Cates |
TAX LIMITATIONS |
To establish limitations
on the state regarding taxes and expenditures
and to require full state funding of local
government mandates. |
Pending in Senate
Finance & Financial Institutions Committee. |
| SB 1 |
Amstutz |
TAX LAWS |
To formally state
the General Assembly's intentions in its upcoming
deliberations on reforming Ohio's tax laws. |
Pending in Senate
Ways & Means & Economic Development. |
| SB 6 |
Padgett |
CONTINUED LEARNING
PARTNERSHIP |
To establish the
Partnership for Continued Learning to make
recommendation for facilitating collaboration
among providers of pre-school through post-secondary
education and for maintaining a high-quality
workforce in Ohio. |
ENACTED: Signed by theGovernor 5/13/05.
Effective in 90 days.
|
| SB 28 |
Coughlin |
KIDS HEALTH PROGRAM |
To require the Department
of Education to establish the Healthy Kids
Pilot Project and to make an appropriation. |
Pending in Senate
Finance & Financial Institutions. |
| SB 44 |
Fedor |
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
STANDARDS |
To require the State
Board of Education to adopt the National Association
for Sport & Physical Education standards
for phys ed in grades K-12 and remove requirement
standards and model curriculum subject to
approval by concurrent resolution of the General
Assembly. |
Pending in Senate Education Committee. |
| SB 46 |
Mallory |
SCHOOL DISTRICT
CONTROL |
Requires management
and control of any school district that has
an average daily membership exceeding 40,000
students, has a relatively high poverty index
and has been in academic emergency at least
one of the four previous school years be assumed
by a nine-member board of ed appointed by
the mayor of the municipal corp. containing
the greatest portion of the district's territory. |
Pending in Senate Education Committee.
|
| SB 51 |
Fingerhut |
TANGIBLE PERSONAL
PROPERTY TAXATION |
Eliminate the tangible
personal property tax beginning in tax year
2006; create Tangible Personal Property Tax
Replacement Fund beginning 7/1/05. |
Introduced in the
Senate 2/8/05. |
| SB 56 |
Mumper |
SCHOOL FACILITIES
COMMISSION |
To enact as a separate
act the provision of law exempting employees
of the Ohio School Facilities Commission from
the collective bargaining law. |
ENACTED:
Signed by the Governor 3/30/05. |
| SB 65 |
Coughlin |
SPECIAL EDUCATION
VOUCHERS |
To establish the
Special Education Scholarship Program to provide
scholarships for handicapped children to attend
alternative public and nonpublic special education
programs. |
Pending in Senate Education Committee. |
| SB 67 |
Hagan, R. |
SCHOOL DYSLEXIA
TESTS |
Require public and
chartered nonpublic schools to test students
for dyslexia and related disorders and to
provide intervention services to students
identified as having dyslexia or a related
disorder. |
Pending in Senate Education Committee. |
| SB 71 |
Wilson |
CALAMITY DAYS |
To permit certain
school districts and nonpublic schools located
in areas flooded during the 04-05 school year
to count time that schools are in session
beyond the required minimum number of hours
in order to make up calamity days missed. |
ENACTED: Signed by the Governor
5/18/05.Effective Immediately. |
| SB 76 |
Cates |
SCHOOL EMPLOYEE
ASSAULT |
To make assault
on any school employee a felony of the fifth
degree. |
Pending in Senate Judiciary-Criminal Justice
Committee. |
| SB 95 |
Miller, R. |
SCHOOL FOOD SALES |
Establishes nutritional
standards for food sold to students in public
elementary schools and to prohibit the sale
of certain beverages to students in all public
schools, except under specified conditions. |
Pending in Senate Education Committee. |
| SB 108 |
Gardner |
PARITY AID PAYMENTS |
Eliminates the payment
of state parity aid to community schools. |
Pending in Senate Education Commitee. |
| SB 110 |
Fedor |
COMMUNITY SCHOOLS |
Revise the Community
School Law to place a 2 year moratorium on
the establishment of new community schools
sponsored by entities other than the school
districts in which they would be located and
to creat the Joint Study Committee on Ohio's
Community Schools. |
Pending in Senate Education Committee. |
| SB 112 |
Schuring |
BUSINESS INSTRUCTION |
To require one unit
of business instruction in high school as
a graduation requirement. |
Pending in Senate Education Committee. |
| SB 129 |
Shuring |
COMMUNITY SCHOOLS |
Extend statewide
cap on the number of community schools sponsored
by entities other than the school districts
in which they would be located, creat the
Joint Study Committee on Ohio's Commuity Schools
and make change to the Community Schools Law. |
Pending in Senate Education Committee.
|
| SB 139 |
Stivers |
ELECTIONS |
Permit a board of
elections, in conjunction with a board of
education, the governing authority of a community
school, or a chief administrator of a nonpublic
school, to establish a program permitting
certain high school seniors to serve as precinct
officrs on the day of an election and to permit
a board of elections to establish a program
for home-instructed students who are in the
equivalent of the 12th grade of a one-twelve
year instructional program. |
Pending in Senate
Education Committee. |
| SB 164 |
Schuring |
STUDENT MEDICINES |
Permits students
of school districts, community schools, and
chartered nonpublic schools to carry epinephrine
medication approved by the students' physicians
and parents, and grant immunity to those mentioned
above and their employees for good faith actions
in connection with this permission. |
ENACTED: Signed
by the Govenor 12/22/06. Effective March 22,
2007. |
| SB 176 |
Fedor |
COMMUNITY SCHOOLS |
To amend the definition
of a "challenged school district"
where new start-up community schools may be
located. |
Pending in Senate
Education Committee. |
| SB 197 |
Roberts |
COMMUNITY SCHOOL
PAYMENTS |
Eliminate the deduction
of community school payments from the state
funding accounts of a school district except
for payment to community schools that are
sponsored by that district. |
Pending in Senate
Education Committee |
| SB 200 |
Hagan, R. |
SCHOOL FUEL TAX |
To exempt from the
motor fuel tax any sales of motor fuel sold
to school districts or educaitonal service
centers for school district or service center
operations. |
Pending in Senate Ways & Means &
Economic Development Committee. |
| SB 208 |
Amstutz |
MILITARY TAX EXEMPTION |
To exempt from state
and school districts income taxation military
pay and allowances received by individuals
who are stationed outside Ohio and who do
not have any immediate family members residing
in Ohio. |
Pending in Senate
Ways & Means & Economic Development
Committee. |
| SB 232 |
Schuring, K. |
OPEN MEETING LAWS |
To provide that
a public body cannot engage in actions that
have the effect of circumventing the requirements
of Ohio's open meeting laws, such as conducting
prearrange discussions of public business
via electronic mail, and that electronic mail
created or received by or coming under the
jurisdiction of any public office may qualify
as a public record. |
Pending in Senate Judiciary-Criminal Justice
Committee.
|
| SB 239 |
Dann |
HARASSMENT POLICY |
Requires school
districts and community schools to implement
anti-harassment polices; requires State Board
of Ed. to develop model policies; requires
Auditor of State to determine whether anti-harassment
policies are in place when conducting audits
of schools and requires State Board of Ed
to collect and maintain data on harassment
in schools through the Education management
Information System. |
Pending in Senate
Education. |
| SB 270 |
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