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HB 610: Education Tax Credits
Sponsored by: Jordan
Filed under: Finance
Monitoring
Introduced: 12/15/2010
Authorizes nonrefundable tax credits for donations to nonprofit entities providing scholarships to low-income students enrolling in chartered nonpublic schools.

HB 612: School Funding
Sponsored by: Dyer
Filed under: Finance
Monitoring
Introduced: 12/15/2010
Reflects the recommendations of the Ohio School Funding Advisory Council.

SB 321: Textbook Funds
Sponsored by: Schuring
Filed under: Finance
Monitoring
Introduced: 12/02/2010
Regarding annual deposits into a school district’s textbook and instructional materials fund.

HB 603: Hybrid Community Schools
Sponsored by: Morgan, S.
Filed under: School Governance
Monitoring
Introduced: 11/23/2010
Permits the establishment of hybrid community schools that provide both online and classroom-based instruction.

HB 605: Property for School Use
Sponsored by: Morgan
Filed under: School Governance
Monitoring
Introduced: 11/23/2010
Exempts from property taxation real property procured for use by a school through a for-profit lease.

SB 308: Dyslexia Instruction
Sponsored by: Schuring
Filed under: School Governance, Students and Learning
Monitoring
Introduced: 10/12/2010
Authorizes ESC’s to provide teacher professional development on dyslexia.

HB 574: OSFC Director
Sponsored by: Jordan
Filed under:
Monitoring
Introduced: 09/01/2010
Transfer appointment of the executive director of the Ohio School Facilities Commission from the Commission to the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate.

HB 573: Proprietary Schools
Sponsored by: Luckie
Filed under: School Governance
Monitoring
Introduced: 08/26/2010
Makes changes to laws regarding proprietary schools.

SB 293: Odot School Survey
Sponsored by: Kearney
Filed under: School Governance
Monitoring
Introduced: 08/16/2010
Requires the Dept. of Transportation to survey each school district, community schools, and STEM school regarding transportation safety and alternative transportation options for students living within two miles of school.

SB 290: Teacher Tax Deduction
Sponsored by: Kearney
Filed under: Finance
Monitoring
Introduced: 08/11/2010
Allows an income tax deduction for amounts spent by teachers for instructional materials.

HB 562: Community Schools
Sponsored by: Dyer
Filed under: Finance
Monitoring
Introduced: 07/28/2010
Specifies the conditions for establishing a new start-up community school after June 30, 2011, and repeals the prohibition on persons serving on the governing authorities of more than two start-up community schools simultaneously.

HB 546: Budget Commission
Sponsored by: Gardner, Amstutz
Filed under: Finance
Monitoring
Introduced: 06/09/2010
Requires the Budget Planning and Management Commission to meet at least six times during the period of July 1, 2010 through November 30, 2010, and to declare an emergency.

HB 542: Education Scholarships
Sponsored by: Stebelton
Filed under: Students and Learning
Monitoring
Introduced: 06/02/2010
Gradually increase to 20,000 the number of Educational Choice Scholarships awarded annually.

SB 273: Municipal Agreements
Sponsored by: Turner
Filed under: Finance
Monitoring
Introduced: 06/01/2010
Generally authorizes municipal corporations and other political subdivisions to enter into agreement s to perform services for one another.

HB 537: First Aid Training
Sponsored by: Grossman
Filed under: Students and Learning
Monitoring
Introduced: 05/26/2010
Requires each person under 18 years of age applying for a driver’s license to complete a first-aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation training course.

SB 271: Nude Photos-Minors
Sponsored by: Cates
Filed under: School Governance, Students and Learning
Monitoring
Introduced: 05/25/2010
To prohibit a minor, by use of a telecommunications device or other means, from knowingly creating, receiving, exchanging, sending,or possessing a photograph or other material showing a minor in a state of nudity.

HB 520: SCHOOL BULLYING POLICIES
Sponsored by: Garland
Filed under: School Governance, Students and Learning
Monitoring
Introduced: 05/18/2010
To require that public school bullying policies prohibit bullying by electronic means and address certain acts that occur off school property and to require staff training on the bullying policy.

SB 264: Education Standards
Sponsored by: Cates
Filed under: Students and Learning
Monitoring
Introduced: 05/18/2010
Allows more time for the adoption of standards and model curricula for science, social studies, and financial literacy and entrepreneurship.

HB 516: School Revenues
Sponsored by: Pillich
Filed under: Finance
Monitoring
Introduced: 05/17/2010
Modifies the school district reimbursement schedule for the loss of revenue from the tangible personal property tax phase-out.

SB 258: Income Tax Rate
Sponsored by: Grendell
Filed under: Finance
Monitoring
Introduced: 05/13/2010
To reduce the maximum effective income tax rate applicable to unearned income of persons age 70 1/2 years to older to 1%.

SB 261: Boarding Schools
Sponsored by: Cates
Filed under: School Governance
Monitoring
Introduced: 05/13/2010
To permit the establishment of public college-preparatory boarding schools for at-risk students to be operated by private nonprofit entities.

SB 255: Educational Choice Scholarships
Sponsored by: Cates
Filed under: Finance
Monitoring
Introduced: 05/11/2010
Gradually increases 20,000 the number of Educational Choice Scholarships awarded annually.

HB 502: School Annexation
Sponsored by: Grossman
Filed under: School Governance, Finance
Monitoring
Introduced: 05/05/2010
To prohibit an urban school districts that is a party to an annexation agreement from declining to extend the agreement.

HB 500: Substance Abuse Curriculum
Sponsored by: Yuko
Filed under: Students and Learning
Monitoring
Introduced: 04/29/2010
Requires public schools to provide concentrated instruction in substance abuse prevention during May, to require the State Board of Education to adopt guidelines for the development of a substance abuse prevention curriculum and to designate May as “Substance Abuse Awareness and Education Month.”

HB 494: Academic Standards
Sponsored by: Stebelton
Filed under: Students and Learning, School Governance
Monitoring
Introduced: 04/15/2010
To allow more time for the adoption of standards and model curricula for science, social studies, and financial literacy and entrepreneurship.

SB 248: Property Tax Exemption
Sponsored by: Gibbs
Filed under: Finance
Monitoring
Introduced: 04/15/2010
Lengthens the period for which certain structures in a Community Reinvestment Area may be exempted from property taxation.

HB 487: Property Transfer Taxes
Sponsored by: Foley
Filed under: Finance
Monitoring
Introduced: 04/13/2010
Authorizes an increase in the real property transfer tax up to $4 per $1000 of value, and to require that any revenue from the tax in excess of $3 per $1000 of value be used by the county for providing housing.

HB 479: Incarcerated School Age Adults
Sponsored by: Weddington, C.
Filed under: School Governance, Students and Learning
Monitoring
Introduced: 04/07/2010
Permits the establishment of a community school to serve adults of school age who are incarcerated or who have been released from the custody of the Department of Youth Services and declares and emergency.

SB 246: Incarcerated School Age Adults
Sponsored by: Sawyer, T.
Filed under: School Governance, Students and Learning
Monitoring
Introduced: 04/06/2010
To permit the establishment of a community school to serve adults of school age who are incarcerated or who have been released from the Department of Youth Services and to declare an emergency.

HB 474: Renewable Energy Facilities
Sponsored by: Hite
Filed under: Finance
Monitoring
Introduced: 03/30/2010
Exempts from property taxation renewable energy facilities that are not financed through the Ohio Air Quality Development Authority and to require a payment in lieu of taxes on the basis of each megawatt of production capacity.

HB 473: Minor- state of nudity
Sponsored by: Pillich
Filed under: School Governance, Students and Learning
Monitoring
Introduced: 03/24/2010
Prohibits a minor, by use of a telecommunications device, from knowingly receiving, exchanging, sending, posting, or possessing a photograph, video. or other material that shows a minor in a state of nudity and to define a state of nudity for purposes of this prohibition, to limit the offense of "illegal use of a minor in a nudity-oriented material or performance" to acts committed by persons 18 years of age or older, and to prohibit a minor from committing by means other than a telecommunications device delinquent acts that would be the offense of "illegal use of s minor in a nudity-oriented material or performance" if committed by an adult.

HB 464: Alternative Energy Exemption
Sponsored by: Winburn
Filed under: Finance
Priority
Introduced: 03/15/2010
To exempt qualifying wind and solar energy facilities from property taxation for up to 20 years and to require payments in lieu of taxes on the basis of each megawatt if production capacity of such facilities.

HB 462: Capital Reappropriations
Sponsored by: Sykes
Filed under: Finance
Monitoring
Introduced: 03/08/2010
Makes capital reappropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 2012, and certain capital appropriations.

SB 232: Renewable Energy
Sponsored by: Widener
Filed under: Finance
Enacted
Introduced: 02/24/2010
Exempts from property taxation renewable energy facilities that are not financed through the Ohio Air quality Development Authority and requires a payment in lieu of taxes on the basis of each megawatt of production capacity of such facilities.

HB 448: School Bus Seat Belts
Sponsored by: Chandler
Filed under: School Governance, Students and Learning
Monitoring
Introduced: 02/09/2010
Requires all school buses purchased, leased, or rented after January 1, 2014, to transport students to and from school to be equipped with a seat belt assembly for all passengers.

SB 227: Unpaid Property Taxes
Sponsored by: Turner
Filed under: Finance
Monitoring
Introduced: 02/03/2010
Permits, for a limited time, the abatement of unpaid property taxes, penalties, and interest owed by a municipal corporation that would have been tax exempt for a failure to comply with certain tax-exemption procedures.

HB 407: Calamity Days
Sponsored by: Zahringer, Okey
Filed under: Finance, Students and Learning
Monitoring
Introduced: 01/12/2010
Allows school districts and STEM schools to make up excess calamity days by requiring students to complete lessons posted online.

HB 400: Income Taxes
Sponsored by: Adams
Filed under: Finance
Monitoring
Introduced: 12/23/2009
To phase out the personal income tax over ten years.

HB 396: Budget Appropriations
Sponsored by: Blair
Filed under: Finance
Monitoring
Introduced: 12/14/2009
Prohibits the Governor from proposing and the General Assembly from enacting a state budget with aggregate general revue fund appropriations that exceed 97% of the total money received in aggregate revenue for the 2 most recent fiscal years, prohibits the proposal and enactment of a state budget containing transfers from the Budget Stabilization Fund in excess of 25% of the amount of the Fund and to eliminate the state appropriation limitation.

HB 387: School District Ratings
Sponsored by: Lehner
Filed under: Finance
Monitoring
Introduced: 12/04/2009
Revises the performance ratings for school districts and buildings.

HB 270: Text Messaging
Sponsored by: Pillich
Filed under: Students and Learning
Monitoring
Introduced: 11/19/2009
Prohibits driving a vehicle while text messaging or typing on a mobile communication device.

SB 209: Reduce Salaries for General Assembly
Sponsored by: Schaffer
Filed under: Finance, Personnel
Monitoring
Introduced: 11/18/2009
To reduce salaries of General Assembly members, the Governor and Lieutenant Governor, and administrative department heads by five percent.

HB 370: E-School Moratorium
Sponsored by: Garrison
Filed under: School Governance, Students and Learning
Monitoring
Introduced: 11/17/2009
Lists moratorium on Internet or computer-based community schools, requires State Board of Education to adopt by rule its recommended standards for those schools and other electronic educational courses, permits ODE and Chancellor of the Board of Regents to establish a longitudinal student data system and declares an emergency.

HB 373: School Nutrition
Sponsored by: Carney, Wachtmann
Filed under: School Governance, Students and Learning
Priority
Introduced: 11/17/2009
To establish nutritional standards for certain foods and beverages sold in public and chartered nonpublic schools; requires public school students to have periodic body mass index measurements, requires daily physical activity for public school students and make other changes regarding physical education, establishes the Healthy Choices for Healthy Children Council.

SB 210: Healthy Behaviors
Sponsored by: Coughlin
Filed under: School Governance, Students and Learning
Enacted
Introduced: 11/17/2009
Establishes nutritional standards for certain foods and beverages sold in public and chartered nonpublic schools; requires public school students to have periodic body mass index measurements; requires daily physical activity for public school students and makes other changes regarding physical education; establishes the Healthy Choices for Healthy Children Council.

SB 206: Casino Contributions
Sponsored by: Grendell
Filed under: Finance
Monitoring
Introduced: 11/16/2009
Limits to $500 the amount of political contributions that may be made by or accepted from the principals and key employees of an entity that is applying for a license or other authorization, or that is licensed or otherwise authorized, to operate video lottery terminal games or a casino in this state.

SB 207: Internet Education
Sponsored by: Sawyer
Filed under: School Governance, Students and Learning
Monitoring
Introduced: 11/16/2009
Lifts the moratorium on Internet-or computer-based community schools, requires the State Board of Education to adopt by rule its recommended standards for those schools and other electronic educational courses, permits ODE and Chancellor of the Board of Regents to establish longitudinal student data system and declare an emergency.

HB 366: All-day Kindergarten
Sponsored by: Gardner
Filed under: Finance
Monitoring
Introduced: 11/12/2009
Allow school district boards to exempt their districts from certain spending rules and the requirement to provide all-day kindergarten and to direct the duties of the Ohio School Funding Advisory Council.

HB 365: Collective Bargaining
Sponsored by: Chandler
Filed under: Finance, Personnel
Monitoring
Introduced: 11/12/2009
Eliminates an exemption from the Public Employees’ Collective Bargaining Law for specified educational employees.

HB 359: School Security Guards
Sponsored by: Luckie
Filed under: Personnel
Monitoring
Introduced: 11/10/2009
Imposes the same criminal penalties for assaulting a school security guard as are imposed for assaulting a school teacher.