Ohio Rev. Code § 3345.38 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3345 / § 3345.38
§ 3345.38. Undergraduate course credit for completion of international baccalaureate diploma program
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) The board of trustees of each state institution of higher education shall adopt and implement a policy to grant undergraduate course credit to a student who has successfully completed an international baccalaureate diploma program. The policy shall align with the standards adopted by the chancellor of higher education under division (C) of section 3333.163 of the Revised Code. (B) The policy adopted by each institution under this section shall do all of the following: (1) Establish conditions for granting course credit, including the minimum scores required on examinations constituting the international baccalaureate diploma program in order to receive credit; (2) Identify specific course credit or other academic requirements of the institution, including the number of credit hours or other course credit that the institution will grant to a student who completes the diploma program. (C) As used in this section: (1) "State institution of higher education" has the same meaning as in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code. (2) "International baccalaureate diploma program" means the curriculum and examinations leading to an international baccalaureate diploma awarded by the international baccalaureate organization. Last updated October 4, 2023 at 4:11 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 3335.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3335 / § 3335.02
§ 3335.02. Appointment of trustees - term
Status: in_force

June 27, 2025 Senate Bill 1 - 136th General Assembly (A) The government of the Ohio state university shall be vested in a board of fourteen trustees in 2005, and seventeen trustees beginning in 2006, who shall be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate. Two of the seventeen trustees shall be students at the Ohio state university, and their selection and terms shall be in accordance with division (B) of this section. (1) For trustees appointed prior to July 1, 2025, except as provided in division (C) of this section and except for the terms of student members, terms of office shall be for nine years, commencing on the fourteenth day of May and ending on the thirteenth day of May. (2) For trustees appointed on or after July 1, 2025, except for the terms of student members, terms of office shall be for six years, commencing on the fourteenth day of May and ending on the thirteenth day of May. Each trustee shall hold office from the date of appointment until the end of the term for which the trustee was appointed. Any trustee appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which the trustee's predecessor was appointed shall hold office for the remainder of such term. Any trustee shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration date of the trustee's term until the trustee's successor takes office, or until a period of sixty days has elapsed, whichever occurs first. The trustees shall not receive compensation for their services, but shall be paid their reasonable necessary expenses while engaged in the discharge of their official duties. (B) The student members of the board of trustees of the Ohio state university shall be students at the Ohio state university. Student members shall have no voting power on the board, shall not be considered as members of the board in determining whether a quorum is present, and shall not be entitled to attend executive sessions of the board. The student members of the board shall be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, from a group of five candidates selected pursuant to a procedure adopted by the university's student governments and approved by the university's board of trustees. The initial term of office of one of the student members shall commence on May 14, 1988, and shall expire on May 13, 1989, and the initial term of office of the other student member shall commence on May 14, 1988, and expire on May 13, 1990. Thereafter, terms of office of student members shall be for two years, each term ending on the same day of the same month of the year as the term it succeeds. In the event a student member cannot fulfill a two-year term, a replacement shall be selected to fill the unexpired term in the same manner used to make the original selection. (C)(1) The initial terms of office for the three additional trustees appointed in 2005 shall commence on a date in 2005 that is selected by the governor with one term of office expiring on May 13, 2009, one term of office expiring on May 13, 2010, and one term of office expiring on May 13, 2011, as designated by the governor upon appointment. Thereafter terms of office for trustees appointed prior to July 1, 2025, shall be for nine years, as provided in division (A)(1) of this section. Terms of office for trustees appointed on or after July 1, 2025, shall be for six years, as provided in division (A)(2) of this section. (2) The initial terms of office for the three additional trustees appointed in 2006 shall commence on May 14, 2006, with one term of office expiring on May 13, 2012, one term of office expiring on May 13, 2013, and one term of office expiring on May 13, 2014, as designated by the governor upon appointment. Thereafter terms of office for trustees appointed prior to July 1, 2025, shall be for nine years, as provided in division (A)(1) of this section. Terms of office for trustees appointed on or after July 1, 2025, shall be for six years, as provided in division (A)(2) of this section. Last updated April 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 3307.152 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3307 / § 3307.152
§ 3307.152. Designation of Ohio-qualified agents - selection policy - increased utilization - annual report
Status: in_force

March 31, 2021 House Bill 312 - 133rd General Assembly (A) As used in this section and in section 3307.154 of the Revised Code: (1) "Agent" means a dealer, as defined in section 1707.01 of the Revised Code, who is licensed under sections 1707.01 to 1707.50 of the Revised Code or under comparable laws of another state or of the United States. (2) "Minority business enterprise" has the same meaning as in section 122.71 of the Revised Code. (3) "Ohio-qualified agent" means an agent designated as such by the state teachers retirement board. (4) "Ohio-qualified investment manager" means an investment manager designated as such by the state teachers retirement board. (5) "Principal place of business" means an office in which the agent regularly provides securities or investment advisory services and solicits, meets with, or otherwise communicates with clients. (B) The state teachers retirement board shall, for the purposes of this section, designate an agent as an Ohio-qualified agent if the agent meets all of the following requirements: (1) The agent is subject to taxation under Chapter 5725., 5726., 5733., 5747., or 5751. of the Revised Code. (2) The agent is authorized to conduct business in this state. (3) The agent maintains a principal place of business in this state and employs at least five residents of this state. (C) The state teachers retirement board shall adopt and implement a written policy to establish criteria and procedures used to select agents to execute securities transactions on behalf of the retirement system. The policy shall address each of the following: (1) Commissions charged by the agent, both in the aggregate and on a per share basis; (2) The execution speed and trade settlement capabilities of the agent; (3) The responsiveness, reliability, and integrity of the agent; (4) The nature and value of research provided by the agent; (5) Any special capabilities of the agent. (D)(1) The board shall, at least annually, establish a policy with the goal to increase utilization by the board of Ohio-qualified agents for the execution of domestic equity and fixed income trades on behalf of the retirement system, when an Ohio-qualified agent offers quality, services, and safety comparable to other agents otherwise available to the board and meets the criteria established under division (C) of this section. (2) The board shall review, at least annually, the performance of the agents that execute securities transactions on behalf of the board. (3) The board shall determine whether an agent is an Ohio-qualified agent, meets the criteria established by the board pursuant to division (C) of this section, and offers quality, services, and safety comparable to other agents otherwise available to the board. The board's determination shall be final.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3349.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3349 / § 3349.08
§ 3349.08. Liberal construction of statutes
Status: in_force

October 30, 1989 House Bill 230 - 118th General Assembly The powers granted by sections 3349.02 to 3349.22 of the Revised Code shall be liberally construed so that municipal universities, colleges, or other educational institutions may finance the construction, improvement, or enlargement of buildings and other structures, and additions thereto, and acquisition of sites therefor, together with all appurtenances necessary or convenient to the uses thereof, including the equipment thereof, and may qualify for any grants in aid of such purposes which are acceptable to its board of directors. Such powers shall be in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law, general, special, or local, and such powers may be exercised notwithstanding the requirements, restrictions, limitations, or procedural provisions of such other law. Bonds may be issued under section 3349.05 of the Revised Code without regard to the debt limitations imposed or provided by any such other law, and such bonds shall not be considered in ascertaining the net indebtedness of the municipal corporation in which such institution is located, notwithstanding Chapter 133. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3317.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3317 / § 3317.22
§ 3317.22. Additional funding for dropout prevention and recovery e-schools
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Eligible internet- or computer-based community school" means an internet- or computer-based community school that is a dropout prevention and recovery community school, as defined in section 3314.02 of the Revised Code. (2) "Statewide average base cost per-pupil" has the same meaning as in section 3317.02 of the Revised Code. (B) The department of education and workforce shall establish a program to provide additional funding for students enrolled in grades eight through twelve in eligible internet- or computer-based community schools. An eligible internet- or computer-based community school may choose to participate in the program by notifying the department not later than the first day of February of the school year in which the school will participate in the program in a form and manner determined by the department. (C) The department shall require each eligible internet- or computer-based community school that chooses to participate in the program to report all information that is necessary to make payments under division (D) of this section. (D) The department shall calculate an additional payment for each eligible internet- or computer-based community school that chooses to participate in the program, as follows: (1) Compute the lesser of the following for each student enrolled in grades eight through twelve: (a) The statewide average base cost per-pupil X the maximum full-time equivalency for the portion of the school year for which the student is enrolled in the school; (b) The sum of the following: (i) A one-time payment of $1,750. In the case of a student enrolled in the school for the first time for the school year for which the payment is being made, payment shall be made under division (D)(1)(b)(i) of this section at least thirty days after the student is considered to be enrolled in the school in accordance with division (H)(2) of section 3314.08 of the Revised Code, provided the student has been continuously enrolled in the school during that time, as determined by the department. In the case of a student that was enrolled in the school for the prior school year, payment shall be made under division (D)(1)(b)(i) of this section at least thirty days after the student has started to participate in learning opportunities for the school year for which the payment is being made, provided the student has been continuously enrolled in the school during that time, as determined by the department. (ii) The statewide average base cost per-pupil X (1/920) X the lesser of the number of hours the student participates in learning opportunities in that fiscal year or 920; (iii) The lesser of ($500 X either the number of courses completed by the student in that fiscal year, in the case of a student enrolled in grade eight, or the number of credits earned by the student in that fiscal year, in the case of a student enrolled in grades nine through twelve) or $2,500. (2) Compute the sum of the amounts calculated under division (D)(1) of this section for all students enrolled in grades eight through twelve. (3) Compute the school's payment in accordance with the following formula: (The amount determined under division (D)(2) of this section) - (the number of full-time equivalent students enrolled in grades eight through twelve in the school X the statewide average base cost per-pupil) If the amount computed under division (D)(3) is a negative number, the school shall not receive a payment under this section. (E)(1) The department may complete a review of the enrollment of each eligible internet- or computer-based community school that chooses to participate in the program in accordance with division (K) of section 3314.08 of the Revised Code. If the department determines a school has been overpaid based on a review completed under division (E)(1) of this section, the department shall require a repayment of the overpaid funds and may require the school to establish a plan to improve the reporting of enrollment. (2) To the extent that an eligible internet- or computer-based community school that chooses to participate in the program had, for the prior school year, a percentage of student engagement in learning opportunities that was less than sixty-five per cent, the school shall provide to the department a meaningful plan for increasing student engagement. (3) All eligible internet- or computer-based community schools that choose to participate in the program shall implement programming or protocol which documents enrollment and participation in learning opportunities in order to participate in the program. Last updated August 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 3314.013 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3314 / § 3314.013
§ 3314.013. Limits on internet- or computer-based community schools
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) Until May 22, 2013, no internet- or computer-based community school shall operate unless the school was open for instruction as of May 1, 2005. No entity described in division (C)(1) of section 3314.02 of the Revised Code shall enter into a contract to sponsor an internet- or computer-based community school, including a conversion school, between May 1, 2005, and May 22, 2013, except as follows: (1) The entity may renew a contract that the entity entered into with an internet- or computer-based community school prior to May 1, 2005, if the school was open for operation as of that date. (2) The entity may assume sponsorship of an existing internet- or computer-based community school that was formerly sponsored by another entity and may enter into a contract with that community school in accordance with section 3314.03 of the Revised Code. If a sponsor entered into a contract with an internet- or computer-based community school, including a conversion school, but the school was not open for operation as of May 1, 2005, the contract shall be void and the entity shall not enter into another contract with the school until May 22, 2013. (B)(1) Beginning on July 1, 2013, up to five new internet- or computer-based community schools may open each year, subject to approval of the director of education and workforce under division (B)(2) of this section. (2) The director shall approve applications for new internet- or computer-based community schools from only those applicants demonstrating experience and quality. The department of education and workforce shall adopt rules prescribing measures to determine experience and quality of applicants in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. The measures shall include, but not be limited to, the following considerations: (a) The sponsor's experience with online schools; (b) The operator's experience with online schools; (c) The sponsor's and operator's previous record for student performance; (d) A preference for operators with previous experience in Ohio. (3) The department shall notify any new internet- or computer-based community school governed by division (B) of this section of whether the director has approved or disapproved the school's application to open for the 2013-2014 school year not later than July 1, 2013. Notwithstanding the dates prescribed for adoption and signing on sponsor contracts in division (D) of section 3314.02 of the Revised Code, or the date for opening a school for instruction required by division (A)(25) of section 3314.03 of the Revised Code, a new internet- or computer-based community school approved for opening for the 2013-2014 school year under division (B) of this section may open and operate in that school year regardless of whether it has complied with those contract and opening dates. For each school year thereafter, the school shall comply with all applicable provisions of this chapter. (4) Notwithstanding divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section, a sponsor rated "exemplary" on its most recent evaluation conducted under section 3314.016 of the Revised Code is permitted to open up to two new internet- or computer-based community schools that are dropout prevention and recovery community schools each year, not to exceed six new schools in a five-year period. (C) Nothing in division (A) or (B) of this section prohibits an internet- or computer-based community school from increasing the number of grade levels it offers. Last updated July 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 3302.25 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3302 / § 3302.25
§ 3302.25. Annual school district reports
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) In accordance with standards prescribed by the department of education and workforce for categorization of school district expenditures adopted under division (A) of section 3302.20 of the Revised Code, the department annually shall determine all of the following for the previous fiscal year: (1) For each school district, the ratio of the district's operating expenditures for classroom instructional purposes compared to its operating expenditures for nonclassroom purposes; (2) For each school district, the per pupil amount of the district's expenditures for classroom instructional purposes; (3) For each school district, the per pupil amount of the district's operating expenditures for nonclassroom purposes; (4) For each school district, the percentage of the district's operating expenditures attributable to school district funds; (5) The statewide average among all school districts for each of the items described in divisions (A)(1) to (4) of this section. (B) The department annually shall submit a report to each school district indicating the district's information for each of the items described in divisions (A)(1) to (4) of this section and the statewide averages described in division (A)(5) of this section. (C) Each school district, upon receipt of the report prescribed by division (B) of this section, shall publish the information contained in that report in a prominent location on the district's web site and publish the report in another fashion so that it is available to all parents of students enrolled in the district and to taxpayers of the district. Last updated August 7, 2023 at 1:39 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 3333.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3333 / § 3333.22
§ 3333.22. Award and renewal of scholarship - leave of absence
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly Each Ohio academic scholarship shall be awarded for an academic year and may be renewed for each of three additional academic years. The scholarship amount awarded to a scholar for an academic year shall be not less than two thousand dollars. A scholarship shall be renewed if the scholar maintains an academic record satisfactory to the chancellor of higher education and meets any of the following conditions: (A) The scholar is enrolled as a full-time undergraduate; (B) The scholar was awarded an undergraduate degree in less than four academic years and is enrolled as a full-time graduate or professional student in an Ohio institution of higher education that meets the requirements of Title VI of the "Civil Rights Act of 1964" and is state-assisted or is nonprofit and holds a certificate of authorization issued under section 1713.02 of the Revised Code; (C) The scholar is a full-time student concurrently enrolled as an undergraduate student and as a graduate or professional student in an Ohio institution of higher education that meets the requirements of division (B) of this section. Each amount awarded shall be paid in equal installments to the scholar at the time of enrollment for each term of the academic year for which the scholarship is awarded or renewed. No scholar is eligible to receive an Ohio academic scholarship for more than the equivalent of four academic years. If an Ohio academic scholar is temporarily unable to attend school because of illness or other cause satisfactory to the chancellor, the chancellor may grant a leave of absence for a designated period of time. If a scholar discontinues full-time attendance at the scholar's school during a term because of illness or other cause satisfactory to the chancellor, the scholar may either claim a prorated payment for the period of actual attendance or waive payment for that term. A term for which prorated payment is made shall be considered a full term for which a scholarship was received. A term for which payment is waived shall not be considered a term for which a scholarship was received. Receipt of an Ohio academic scholarship shall not affect a scholar's eligibility for the Ohio instructional grant program.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3309.474 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3309 / § 3309.474
§ 3309.474. Purchase of service credits for leaves of absence
Status: in_force

April 6, 2017 House Bill 520 - 131st General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "state retirement system" means the public employees retirement system, Ohio police and fire pension fund, state teachers retirement system, school employees retirement system, or state highway patrol retirement system. (B) A state retirement system member who while a member of the school employees retirement system was out of service due to a leave of absence approved by the member's employer may purchase from the school employees retirement system service credit for any period during the leave for which contributions were not made under section 3309.47 of the Revised Code. For purposes of this section, a period of leave commences on the first day for which employee and employer contributions were not made to the system and ends on the earlier of the termination of the leave or the member's return to contributing service. (C)(1) For each year of service purchased, the member shall pay to the school employees retirement system for credit to the member's accumulated account with that system an amount equal to the sum of the following: (a) An amount determined by multiplying the compensation the member would have received during the leave by the employee contribution rate in effect at that time; (b) An amount determined by multiplying the compensation the member would have received during the leave by the employer contribution rate in effect at that time; (c) Compound interest at a rate determined by the school employees retirement board from the first day of the year following the date the leave commenced to the date of payment. (2) If the employee or employer contribution rate changed during the leave, contributions for each month of the leave shall be made at the rate in effect for that month. (D) Service credit purchased under this section for any period of leave shall not exceed two years. Credit may be purchased for more than one period of leave, but the total number of years purchased shall not exceed the lesser of five years or the member's total accumulated number of years of service as a contributor to the school employees retirement system. The member may choose to purchase only part of such credit in any one payment, subject to board rules. (E) Service credit purchased under this section shall be considered the equivalent of Ohio service credit. (F) The board may adopt rules under section 3309.04 of the Revised Code to implement this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3318.032 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3318 / § 3318.032
§ 3318.032. Portion of basic project cost supplied by school district
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (B), (D), and (E) of this section, the portion of the basic project cost supplied by the school district shall be the required percentage of the basic project costs. (B) For a district that opts to divide its entire classroom facilities needs into segments to be completed separately as authorized by section 3318.034 of the Revised Code, the portion of the basic project cost supplied by the school district for the first segment shall be calculated using the required percentage of the basic project costs as of the date the controlling board approved the project. Any future segment's portion of the basic project cost shall use the same respective share as the first segment. (C) The amount of the district's share determined under this section shall be calculated only as of the date the controlling board approved the project, and that amount applies throughout the sixteen-month period permitted under section 3318.05 of the Revised Code for the district's electors to approve the propositions described in that section. If the amount reserved and encumbered for a project is released because the electors do not approve those propositions within that period, and the school district later receives the controlling board's approval for the project, subject to a new project scope and estimated costs under section 3318.054 of the Revised Code, the district's portion shall be recalculated in accordance with this section as of the date of the controlling board's subsequent approval. (D) At no time shall a school district's portion of the basic project cost be greater than ninety-five per cent of the total basic project cost. (E) If the controlling board approves a project under sections 3318.01 to 3318.20 of the Revised Code for a school district that previously received assistance under those sections or section 3318.37 of the Revised Code within the twenty-year period prior to the date on which the controlling board approves the new project, the district's portion of the basic project cost for the new project shall be the lesser of the following: (1) The portion calculated under division (A) of this section; (2) The greater of the following: (a) The required percentage of the basic project costs for the new project; (b) The percentage of the basic project cost paid by the district for the previous project. Last updated August 1, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 3318.056 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3318 / § 3318.056
§ 3318.056. Combining questions on tax levy ballot
Status: in_force

June 28, 2002 House Bill 524 - 124th General Assembly A school district may adopt a resolution proposing that any of the following questions be combined with the questions specified in divisions (A) and (B) of section 3318.05 of the Revised Code: (A) A bond issue question under section 133.18 of the Revised Code; (B) A tax levy question under section 5705.21 of the Revised Code; (C) A combined bond issue and tax levy question under section 5705.218 of the Revised Code; (D) A school district income tax question under section 5748.08 of the Revised Code. Any question described in divisions (A) to (D) of this section that is combined with a question proposed under divisions (A) and (B) of section 3318.05 of the Revised Code shall be for the purpose of either paying for any permanent improvement as defined in section 133.01 of the Revised Code or generating operating revenue specifically for the facilities acquired under the school district's project under Chapter 3318. of the Revised Code or for both to the extent such purposes are permitted by the sections of law under which each is proposed.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3325.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3325 / § 3325.06
§ 3325.06. Preschool training of deaf or hard of hearing children and children who are visually impaired
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 101 - 135th General Assembly (A) Ohio deaf and blind education services, in consultation with the department of children and youth, shall institute and establish a program of education to train parents of deaf or hard of hearing children of preschool age. The object and purpose of the educational program shall be to aid and assist the parents of deaf or hard of hearing children of preschool age in affording to the children the means of optimum communicational facilities. (B) Ohio deaf and blind education services, in consultation with the department of children and youth, shall institute and establish a program of education to train and assist parents of blind or visually impaired children of preschool age. The object and purpose of the educational program shall be to enable the parents of blind or visually impaired children of preschool age to provide their children with learning experiences that develop early literacy, communication, mobility, and daily living skills so the children can function independently in their living environments. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 3345.421 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3345 / § 3345.421
§ 3345.421. Assistance and support to veterans and service members by institutions of higher education
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly Not later than December 31, 2014, the board of trustees of each state institution of higher education, as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code, shall do all of the following: (A) Designate at least one person employed by the institution to serve as the contact person for veterans and service member affairs. Such a person shall assist and advise veterans and service members on issues related to earning college credit for military training, experience, and coursework. (B) Adopt a policy regarding the support and assistance the institution will provide to veterans and service members. (C) Allow for the establishment of a student-led group on campus for student service members and veterans and encourage other service member- and veteran-friendly organizations. (D) Integrate existing career services to create and encourage meaningful collaborative relationships between student service members and veterans and alumni of the institution, that links student service members and veterans with prospective employers, and that provides student service members and veterans with social opportunities; and, if the institution has career services programs, encourage the responsible office to seek and promote partnership opportunities for internships and employment of student service members and veterans with state, local, national, and international employers. (E) Survey student service members and veterans to identify their needs and challenges and make the survey available to faculty and staff at the state institution of higher education. And periodically conduct follow-up surveys, at a frequency determined by the board, to gauge the institution's progress toward meeting identified needs and challenges. The chancellor of higher education shall provide guidance to state institutions of higher education in their compliance with this section, including the recommendation of standardized policies on support and assistance to veterans and service members. The person or persons designated under division (A) of this section shall not be a person currently designated by the institution as a veterans administration certifying official.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3313.84 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3313 / § 3313.84
§ 3313.84. Exchange of teaching services authorized - regulations
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly In order that school districts may secure the benefits of knowledge of educational methods and practices in other school districts either inside or outside the United States and for the purpose of securing the educational benefits of international understanding and good will, boards of education may enter into contracts with boards of education or other educational authorities for the exchange of teaching services and in the performance of such contracts may send teachers in their employ to serve in other districts in exchange for similar services to be furnished to them by such other districts. Each board of education exchanging teachers under this section may continue such teacher employees on its own payroll in the same manner as though such teachers were rendering the services in the district in which they are regularly employed. This section does not authorize any expenditure in excess of the payment of salaries.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3319.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3319 / § 3319.08
§ 3319.08. Contracts for employment or reemployment of teachers
Status: in_force

September 29, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly (A) The board of education of each city, exempted village, local, and joint vocational school district and the governing board of each educational service center shall enter into written contracts for the employment and reemployment of all teachers. Contracts for the employment of teachers shall be of two types, limited contracts and continuing contracts. The board of each school district or service center that authorizes compensation in addition to the salary paid under section 3317.14 or 3317.141 of the Revised Code for the performance of duties by a teacher that are in addition to the teacher's regular teaching duties, shall enter into a supplemental written contract with each teacher who is to perform additional duties. Such supplemental written contracts shall be limited contracts. Such written contracts and supplemental written contracts shall set forth the teacher's duties and shall specify the salaries and compensation to be paid for regular teaching duties and additional teaching duties, respectively, either or both of which may be increased but not diminished during the term for which the contract is made, except as provided in section 3319.12 of the Revised Code. If a board adopts a motion or resolution to employ a teacher under a limited or continuing contract and the teacher accepts such employment, the failure of such parties to execute a written contract shall not void such employment contract. (B) Teachers must be paid for all time lost when the schools in which they are employed are closed due to an epidemic or other public calamity, and for time lost due to illness or otherwise for not less than five days annually as authorized by regulations which each board shall adopt. (C) A limited contract is: (1) For a superintendent, a contract for such term as authorized by section 3319.01 of the Revised Code; (2) For an assistant superintendent, principal, assistant principal, or other administrator, a contract for such term as authorized by section 3319.02 of the Revised Code; (3) For all other teachers, a contract for a term not to exceed five years. (D) A continuing contract is a contract that remains in effect until the teacher resigns, elects to retire, or is retired pursuant to former section 3307.37 of the Revised Code, or until it is terminated or suspended and shall be granted only to the following: (1) Any teacher holding a professional, permanent, or life teacher's certificate; (2) Any teacher who meets the following conditions: (a) The teacher was initially issued a teacher's certificate or educator license prior to January 1, 2011. (b) The teacher holds a professional educator license issued under section 3319.22 or 3319.222 or former section 3319.22 of the Revised Code or a senior professional educator license or lead professional educator license issued under section 3319.22 of the Revised Code. (c) The teacher has completed the applicable one of the following: (i) If the teacher did not hold a master's degree at the time of initially receiving a teacher's certificate under former law or an educator license, thirty semester hours of coursework in the area of licensure or in an area related to the teaching field since the initial issuance of such certificate or license, as specified in rules which the state board of education shall adopt; (ii) If the teacher held a master's degree at the time of initially receiving a teacher's certificate under former law or an educator license, six semester hours of graduate coursework in the area of licensure or in an area related to the teaching field since the initial issuance of such certificate or license, as specified in rules which the state board shall adopt. (3) Any teacher who meets the following conditions: (a) The teacher never held a teacher's certificate and was initially issued an educator license on or after January 1, 2011. (b) The teacher holds a professional educator license, senior professional educator license, or lead professional educator license issued under section 3319.22 of the Revised Code. (c) The teacher has held an educator license for at least seven years. (d) The teacher has completed the applicable one of the following: (i) If the teacher did not hold a master's degree at the time of initially receiving an educator license, thirty semester hours of coursework in the area of licensure or in an area related to the teaching field since the initial issuance of that license, as specified in rules which the state board shall adopt; (ii) If the teacher held a master's degree at the time of initially receiving an educator license, six semester hours of graduate coursework in the area of licensure or in an area related to the teaching field since the initial issuance of that license, as specified in rules which the state board shall adopt. (E) Division (D) of this section applies only to continuing contracts entered into on or after October 16, 2009. Nothing in that division shall be construed to void or otherwise affect a continuing contract entered into prior to that date. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code, the requirements of division (D)(3) of this section prevail over any conflicting provisions of a collective bargaining agreement entered into on or after October 16, 2009. (F) Wherever the term "educator license" is used in this section without reference to a specific type of educator license, the term does not include an educator license for substitute teaching issued under section 3319.226 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3358.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3358 / § 3358.11
§ 3358.11. Authority for board to propose tax levy
Status: in_force

January 1, 2026 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) In the same manner as a tax may be proposed by a board of trustees of a community college district under section 3354.12 of the Revised Code, the board of trustees of a state community college district may adopt and certify a resolution to the board of elections of one or more of the counties comprising the state community college district directing the board of elections to place on the ballot at any general or special election the question of levying a tax in excess of the ten-mill limitation on all the taxable property in that county or those counties. The tax may be for any of the following purposes, as stated in the resolution: (1) The acquisition of sites in that county or those counties; (2) The erection, furnishing, and equipment of buildings in that county or those counties; (3) The acquisition, construction, or improvement of any property in that county or those counties which the board of trustees of a state community college is authorized to acquire, construct, or improve and which has an estimated life or usefulness of five years or more as certified by the treasurer of the board of trustees; (4) The payment of current expenses of the state community college district. This tax may only be levied in the county in which the main campus of the state community college is located. The resolution shall declare that, if the levy is for one or more of the purposes described in divisions (A)(1) to (3) of this section, the proceeds of the levy or issue may be used solely within the county or counties in which the tax is levied. If the levy is for the purpose described in division (A)(4) of this section, the resolution shall declare that the proceeds of the levy shall be used for costs associated with operations in the county in which the tax is levied. The resolution shall also state, regardless of the purposes for which the tax is levied, the term of the tax, which may be for any term authorized for a tax levied under section 3354.12 of the Revised Code. The question of such a tax may not be submitted at more than two special elections held in any one calendar year. Levies for a continuing period of time adopted under this section may be reduced in accordance with section 5705.261 of the Revised Code. The election shall be held, canvassed, and certified in the manner provided for the submission of a tax levy under section 3354.12 of the Revised Code. A tax levied under this section may be renewed in the same manner as a tax levied under section 3354.12 of the Revised Code. If electors approve the levy, the board of trustees may anticipate a fraction of the proceeds of the levy and may, from time to time, issue anticipation notes in the same manner and subject to the same limitations provided under section 3354.12 of the Revised Code. (B) In accordance with Chapter 133. of the Revised Code, the board of trustees of a state community college district may adopt and certify a resolution to the board of elections of one or more of the counties comprising the district directing the board of elections to place on the ballot at any election authorized under section 133.18 of the Revised Code both of the following questions: (1) The question of issuing bonds for paying all or part of the cost of the following: (a) The purchase of sites in that county or those counties; (b) The erection, furnishings, and equipment of buildings in that county or those counties; (c) The acquisition or construction of any property in that county or those counties which the board of trustees is authorized to acquire or construct and which has an estimated life or usefulness of five years or more as certified by the treasurer of the board of trustees. (2) The question of levying a tax in excess of the ten-mill limitation on all the taxable property in that county or those counties to pay the interest on and retire any bonds approved by the electors under division (B)(1) of this section. The election shall be held, canvassed, and certified in the manner provided for the submission of a bond issuance and tax levy under section 3354.11 of the Revised Code. Bonds approved by electors under division (B)(1) of this section may be issued for one or more improvements which the district is authorized to acquire or construct, notwithstanding the fact that such improvements may not be for more than one purpose under Chapter 133. of the Revised Code. Notes may be issued in anticipation of any bonds that may be approved by the electors under division (B)(1) of this section in the manner provided under section 133.22 of the Revised Code. For the purpose of applying Chapter 133. of the Revised Code to division (B) of this section, the treasurer of the state community college district shall be considered to be the district's fiscal officer, and the board of trustees of the state community college district shall be considered to be the taxing authority. (C) The board of trustees of a state community college district that levies a tax or proposes to levy a tax under division (A) or (B) of this section shall be considered to be a taxing authority, the county or counties in which the tax is levied shall be considered to be a subdivision, and the treasurer of the board of trustees shall be considered to be a fiscal officer for the purposes of Chapter 5705. of the Revised Code, except for section 5705.19 of the Revised Code. Last updated January 1, 2026 at 4:08 AM Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 3345.311 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3345 / § 3345.311
§ 3345.311. Excess benefits prohibited
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "excess benefits" has the same meaning as in section 4980I of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. 4980I. (B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, no state institution of higher education shall provide excess benefits to an employee that would trigger the excise tax imposed under section 4980I of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. 4980I. (C) A state institution of higher education may provide excess benefits to an employee that would trigger the excise tax imposed under section 4980I of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. 4980I, if the excess benefits are provided pursuant to a policy or contract that was issued or entered into prior to the effective date of this section. (D) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit a state institution of higher education from offering health benefits to an employee, the value of which would not trigger the excise tax imposed under section 4980I of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. 4980I.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3319.083 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3319 / § 3319.083
§ 3319.083. Notice of intention not to re-employ
Status: in_force

August 5, 1981 House Bill 1 - 114th General Assembly In all school districts wherein the provisions of Chapter 124. of the Revised Code do not apply, each board of education shall cause notice to be given of its intention not to re-employ said non-teaching employee, at the expiration of his contract. If such notice is not given the non-teaching school employee on or before the first day of June, said employee shall be deemed re-employed.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3364.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3364 / § 3364.04
§ 3364.04. Authority of the board
Status: in_force

July 1, 2006 House Bill 478 - 126th General Assembly The board of trustees of the university of Toledo may receive and hold in trust, for the use and benefit of the university, any grant or devise of land, and any donation or bequest of money or other personal property, to be applied to the general or special use of the university, unless otherwise directed in the donation or bequest. The board of trustees of the university of Toledo may make and enter into all contracts and agreements necessary or incidental to the acquisition of property for and the operation of the university. Title to any property taken in the name of the state of Ohio for the benefit of the university of Toledo, the board of trustees of the university of Toledo, the university of Toledo, the medical college of Ohio, or the Toledo state college of medicine shall be deemed to have been taken in the name of the board of trustees of the university of Toledo.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3345.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3345 / § 3345.03
§ 3345.03. Audit of accounts
Status: in_force

July 1, 1985 House Bill 201 - 116th General Assembly The expenditure of all moneys under sections 3345.01 to 3345.07 of the Revised Code, or for the purpose of carrying out such sections raised or secured from any source, shall be subject to the audit of the auditor of state, the cost thereof to be paid by the university or college audited.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3313.96 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3313 / § 3313.96
§ 3313.96. Informational programs relative to missing children - fingerprinting program
Status: in_force

September 29, 1995 House Bill 117 - 121st General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "minor," "missing child," and "missing children" have the same meanings as in section 2901.30 of the Revised Code. (B) Each board of education shall develop within its district informational programs for students, parents, and community members relative to missing children issues and matters. Each of these boards may request copies of the informational materials acquired or prepared by the missing children clearinghouse pursuant to section 109.65 of the Revised Code and may request assistance from the clearinghouse in developing its programs. The principal or chief administrative officer of a nonpublic school in this state may develop within his school informational programs relative to missing children issues and matters for students, parents, and community members. The principal or officer may request copies of the informational materials acquired or prepared by the missing children clearinghouse and may request assistance from the clearinghouse in developing its programs. (C) Each board of education may develop a fingerprinting program for students and minors within the district. The principal or chief administrative officer of a nonpublic school in this state may develop a fingerprinting program for students of the school. If developed, the program shall be developed in conjunction with law enforcement agencies having jurisdiction within the school district or where the nonpublic school is located and, in the case of a local school district, in conjunction with the governing board of the educational service center. Such law enforcement agencies shall cooperate fully with the board or nonpublic school in the development of its fingerprinting program. If developed, the fingerprinting program shall be developed for the sole purpose of providing a means by which a missing child might be located or identified and shall be operated on the following basis: (1) No student or minor shall be required to participate in the program. (2) In order for a student or minor to participate in the program, the parents, parent who is the residential parent and legal custodian, guardian, legal custodian, or other person responsible for the student or minor shall authorize the student's or minor's participation by signing a form that shall be developed by the board of education or by the principal or chief administrative officer of the nonpublic school, for the program. (3) The fingerprinting of students or minors shall be performed by members of the associated law enforcement agencies on fingerprint sheets provided to the school districts or nonpublic schools by the bureau of criminal identification and investigation pursuant to section 109.58 of the Revised Code or on fingerprint sheets or cards otherwise acquired. (4) All fingerprint cards shall be given to the parents, parent who is the residential parent and legal custodian, guardian, legal custodian, or other person responsible for a student or minor after the fingerprinting of the student or minor. No copy of a fingerprinting shall be retained by a law enforcement agency, school, school district, or any other person except the student or minor's parent, guardian, or legal custodian. (5) The name, sex, hair and eye color, height, weight, and date and place of birth of the student or minor shall be indicated on the fingerprint sheet or card. (6) The fingerprinting program developed pursuant to this section shall be offered on a periodic basis. Parents, guardians, legal custodians, and residents of the districts or in the communities served by the schools shall be notified periodically of the program and its purpose. These notifications may be given by means of memoranda or letters sent to these persons, by newspaper articles, or by other reasonable means. (D) This section does not affect any fingerprinting programs for minors that are provided by private organizations or governmental entities other than school districts.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3333.374 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3333 / § 3333.374
§ 3333.374. Rules establishing scholarship policy guidelines
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) The chancellor of higher education, with the approval of the treasurer of state, shall adopt rules, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, establishing policy guidelines for the implementation of the scholarship and fellowship programs. (B) Nothing in this section shall prevent the chancellor, with the approval of the treasurer of state, from amending or rescinding rules adopted pursuant to division (A) of this section, or from adopting new rules, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, from time to time as are necessary to further the purposes of sections 3333.37 to 3333.375 of the Revised Code. Last updated August 6, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 3333.042 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3333 / § 3333.042
§ 3333.042. Grants for nonprofit entity that provides aerospace research, education and technology
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly The chancellor of higher education may grant money to a nonprofit entity that provides a statewide resource for aerospace research, education, and technology, so long as the nonprofit entity makes its resources accessible to state colleges and universities and to agencies of this and other states and the United States. The chancellor, by rule adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall establish procedures and forms whereby nonprofit entities may apply for grants; standards and procedures for reviewing applications for and awarding grants; procedures for distributing grants to recipients; procedures for monitoring the use of grants by recipients; requirements, procedures, and forms whereby grant recipients shall report upon their use of grants; and standards and procedures for terminating and requiring repayment of grants in the event of their improper use. A state college or university or a private institution exempt from regulation under Chapter 3332. of the Revised Code as prescribed in section 3333.046 of the Revised Code and any agency of state government may provide assistance, in any form, to any nonprofit entity that receives a grant under this section. Such assistance shall be solely for the purpose of assisting the nonprofit entity in making proper use of the grant. A nonprofit entity that expends a grant under this section for a capital project is not thereby subject to Chapter 123. or 153. of the Revised Code. An officer or employee of, or a person who serves on a governing or advisory board or committee of, a nonprofit entity that receives a grant under this section is not thereby an officer or employee of a state college or university or of the state. An officer or employee of a state college or university or of the state who is assigned to assist a nonprofit entity in making proper use of a grant does not, to the extent the officer or employee provides such assistance, thereby hold an incompatible office or employment, or have a direct or indirect interest in a contract or expenditure of the entity.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3319.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3319 / § 3319.02
§ 3319.02. Assistant superintendents and other administrators
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A)(1) As used in this section, "other administrator" means any of the following: (a) Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, any employee in a position for which a board of education requires a license designated by rule of the state board of education for being an administrator issued under section 3319.22 of the Revised Code, including a professional pupil services employee or administrative specialist or an equivalent of either one who is not employed as a school counselor and spends less than fifty per cent of the time employed teaching or working with students; (b) Any nonlicensed employee whose job duties enable such employee to be considered as either a "supervisor" or a "management level employee," as defined in section 4117.01 of the Revised Code; (c) A business manager appointed under section 3319.03 of the Revised Code. (2) As used in this section, "other administrator" does not include a superintendent, assistant superintendent, principal, or assistant principal. (B) The board of education of each school district and the governing board of an educational service center may appoint one or more assistant superintendents and such other administrators as are necessary. An assistant educational service center superintendent or service center supervisor employed on a part-time basis may also be employed by a local board as a teacher. The board of each city, exempted village, and local school district shall employ principals for all high schools and for such other schools as the board designates, and those boards may appoint assistant principals for any school that they designate. (C) In educational service centers and in city, exempted village, and local school districts, assistant superintendents, principals, assistant principals, and other administrators shall only be employed or reemployed in accordance with nominations of the superintendent, except that a board of education of a school district or the governing board of a service center, by a three-fourths vote of its full membership, may reemploy any assistant superintendent, principal, assistant principal, or other administrator whom the superintendent refuses to nominate. The board of education or governing board shall execute a written contract of employment with each assistant superintendent, principal, assistant principal, and other administrator it employs or reemploys. The term of such contract shall not exceed three years except that in the case of a person who has been employed as an assistant superintendent, principal, assistant principal, or other administrator in the district or center for three years or more, the term of the contract shall be for not more than five years and, unless the superintendent of the district recommends otherwise, not less than two years. If the superintendent so recommends, the term of the contract of a person who has been employed by the district or service center as an assistant superintendent, principal, assistant principal, or other administrator for three years or more may be one year, but all subsequent contracts granted such person shall be for a term of not less than two years and not more than five years. When a teacher with continuing service status becomes an assistant superintendent, principal, assistant principal, or other administrator with the district or service center with which the teacher holds continuing service status, the teacher retains such status in the teacher's nonadministrative position as provided in sections 3311.77 , 3319.08 , and 3319.09 of the Revised Code. A board of education or governing board may reemploy an assistant superintendent, principal, assistant principal, or other administrator at any regular or special meeting held during the period beginning on the first day of January of the calendar year immediately preceding the year of expiration of the employment contract and ending on the first day of June of the year the employment contract expires. Except by mutual agreement of the parties thereto, no assistant superintendent, principal, assistant principal, or other administrator shall be transferred during the life of a contract to a position of lesser responsibility. No contract may be terminated by a board except pursuant to section 3319.16 of the Revised Code. No contract may be suspended except pursuant to section 3319.17 or 3319.171 of the Revised Code. The salaries and compensation prescribed by such contracts shall not be reduced by a board unless such reduction is a part of a uniform plan affecting the entire district or center. The contract shall specify the employee's administrative position and duties as included in the job description adopted under division (D) of this section, the salary and other compensation to be paid for performance of duties, the number of days to be worked, the number of days of vacation leave, if any, and any paid holidays in the contractual year. An assistant superintendent, principal, assistant principal, or other administrator is, at the expiration of the current term of employment, deemed reemployed at the same salary plus any increments that may be authorized by the board, unless such employee notifies the board in writing to the contrary on or before the fifteenth day of June, or unless such board, on or before the first day of June of the year in which the contract of employment expires, either reemploys such employee for a succeeding term or gives written notice of its intention not to reemploy the employee. The term of reemployment of a person reemployed under this paragraph shall be one year, except that if such person has been employed by the school district or service center as an assistant superintendent, principal, assistant principal, or other administrator for three years or more, the term of reemployment shall be two years. (D)(1) Each board shall adopt procedures for the evaluation of all assistant superintendents, principals, assistant principals, and other administrators and shall evaluate such employees in accordance with those procedures. The procedures for the evaluation of principals and assistant principals shall be based on principles comparable to the teacher evaluation policy adopted by the board under section 3319.111 of the Revised Code, but shall be tailored to the duties and responsibilities of principals and assistant principals and the environment in which they work. An evaluation based upon procedures adopted under this division shall be considered by the board in deciding whether to renew the contract of employment of an assistant superintendent, principal, assistant principal, or other administrator. (2) The evaluation shall measure each assistant superintendent's, principal's, assistant principal's, and other administrator's effectiveness in performing the duties included in the job description and the evaluation procedures shall provide for, but not be limited to, the following: (a) Each assistant superintendent, principal, assistant principal, and other administrator shall be evaluated annually through a written evaluation process. (b) The evaluation shall be conducted by the superintendent or designee. (c) In order to provide time to show progress in correcting the deficiencies identified in the evaluation process, the evaluation process shall be completed as follows: (i) In any school year that the employee's contract of employment is not due to expire, at least one evaluation shall be completed in that year. A written copy of the evaluation shall be provided to the employee no later than the end of the employee's contract year as defined by the employee's annual salary notice. (ii) In any school year that the employee's contract of employment is due to expire, at least a preliminary evaluation and at least a final evaluation shall be completed in that year. A written copy of the preliminary evaluation shall be provided to the employee at least sixty days prior to any action by the board on the employee's contract of employment. The final evaluation shall indicate the superintendent's intended recommendation to the board regarding a contract of employment for the employee. A written copy of the evaluation shall be provided to the employee at least five days prior to the board's acting to renew or not renew the contract. (3) Termination of an assistant superintendent, principal, assistant principal, or other administrator's contract shall be pursuant to section 3319.16 of the Revised Code. Suspension of any such employee shall be pursuant to section 3319.17 or 3319.171 of the Revised Code. (4) Before taking action to renew or nonrenew the contract of an assistant superintendent, principal, assistant principal, or other administrator under this section and prior to the first day of June of the year in which such employee's contract expires, the board shall notify each such employee of the date that the contract expires and that the employee may request a meeting with the board. Upon request by such an employee, the board shall grant the employee a meeting in executive session. In that meeting, the board shall discuss its reasons for considering renewal or nonrenewal of the contract. The employee shall be permitted to have a representative, chosen by the employee, present at the meeting. (5) The establishment of an evaluation procedure shall not create an expectancy of continued employment. Nothing in division (D) of this section shall prevent a board from making the final determination regarding the renewal or nonrenewal of the contract of any assistant superintendent, principal, assistant principal, or other administrator. However, if a board fails to provide evaluations pursuant to division (D)(2)(c)(i) or (ii) of this section, or if the board fails to provide at the request of the employee a meeting as prescribed in division (D)(4) of this section, the employee automatically shall be reemployed at the same salary plus any increments that may be authorized by the board for a period of one year, except that if the employee has been employed by the district or service center as an assistant superintendent, principal, assistant principal, or other administrator for three years or more, the period of reemployment shall be for two years. (E) On nomination of the superintendent of a service center a governing board may employ supervisors who shall be employed under written contracts of employment for terms not to exceed five years each. Such contracts may be terminated by a governing board pursuant to section 3319.16 of the Revised Code. Any supervisor employed pursuant to this division may terminate the contract of employment at the end of any school year after giving the board at least thirty days' written notice prior to such termination. On the recommendation of the superintendent the contract or contracts of any supervisor employed pursuant to this division may be suspended for the remainder of the term of any such contract pursuant to section 3319.17 or 3319.171 of the Revised Code. (F) A board may establish vacation leave for any individuals employed under this section. Upon such an individual's separation from employment, a board that has such leave may compensate such an individual at the individual's current rate of pay for all lawfully accrued and unused vacation leave credited at the time of separation, not to exceed the amount accrued within three years before the date of separation. In case of the death of an individual employed under this section, such unused vacation leave as the board would have paid to the individual upon separation under this section shall be paid in accordance with section 2113.04 of the Revised Code, or to the estate. (G) The board of education of any school district may contract with the governing board of the educational service center from which it otherwise receives services to conduct searches and recruitment of candidates for assistant superintendent, principal, assistant principal, and other administrator positions authorized under this section. Last updated September 1, 2023 at 3:17 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 3301.923 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3301 / § 3301.923
§ 3301.923. Clearinghouse of best practices to promote student health
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly The department of education and workforce shall establish a clearinghouse of best practices that schools may use to promote student health. The department shall update the clearinghouse as necessary. Last updated September 6, 2023 at 3:31 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 3307.71 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3307 / § 3307.71
§ 3307.71. Restoring service credit
Status: in_force

March 22, 2019 House Bill 572 - 132nd General Assembly (A)(1) Except as provided in this section, section 3305.05 , or section 3305.051 of the Revised Code, a member or former member of the state teachers retirement system participating in the STRS defined benefit plan who has at least one and one-half years of contributing service credit in this system, the public employees retirement system, the school employees retirement system, the Ohio police and fire pension fund, or the state highway patrol retirement system after the withdrawal and cancellation of service credit in this system may restore all or part of such service credit by repayment of the amount withdrawn. To this amount shall be added interest at a rate per annum, compounded annually, to be determined by the state teachers retirement board. Interest shall be payable from the first of the month of withdrawal through the month of repayment. (2) If the accumulated contributions were withdrawn under section 3307.561 of the Revised Code, service credit may be restored only if the member or former member accrued one and one-half years of service credit after the withdrawal and cancellation of service credit in this system. (B) A member may choose to purchase only part of such credit in any one payment. The cost for restoring partial service shall be calculated as the proportion that it bears to the total cost at the time of purchase and is subject to the rules established by the board. If a former member is eligible to buy the service credit as a member of the Ohio police and fire pension fund, the state highway patrol retirement system, or the city of Cincinnati Retirement System, the former member is ineligible to restore that service credit under this section. (C) The total payment to restore canceled service credit shall be credited as follows: (1) To the member's account in the teachers' savings fund, all of the following: (a) The portion of the payment that consists of contributions made under section 3307.26 of the Revised Code ; (b) Any interest on the contributions received by the member under division (A) (1), (2), or (3)(a) of section 3307.563 of the Revised Code ; (c) Any interest paid on the amounts described in divisions (C)(1)(a) and (b) of this section added to the payment under division (A)(1) of this section. (2) To the employers trust fund, all of the following: (a) The portion of the payment that consists of any amounts received by the member under division (A)(3)(b) of section 3307.563 of the Revised Code ; (b) Any interest paid on the amount described in division (C)(2)(a) of this section added to the payment under division (A)(1) of this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3307.697 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3307 / § 3307.697
§ 3307.697. Additional monthly payment as of 12/19/1973
Status: in_force

July 13, 2000 Senate Bill 190 - 123rd General Assembly On and after December 19, 1973, any person who retired or the retiree's beneficiary, who was eligible to receive an allowance that was first payable on or after July 1, 1968, and prior to July 1, 1971, and the beneficiary of a member who died before service retirement on or after July 1, 1968, and prior to July 1, 1971, receiving an allowance or benefit pursuant to former sections 3307.38 , 3307.41 , 3307.43 , 3307.49 , or 3307.50 of the Revised Code, shall receive an additional monthly payment of two dollars for each year between the member's effective date of retirement, disability or death and July 1, 1973. Last updated September 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 3319.222 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3319 / § 3319.222
§ 3319.222. Effect on licenses and certificates issued before change in law
Status: in_force

April 6, 2023 House Bill 554 - 134th General Assembly (A) Notwithstanding the amendments to and repeal of statutes by H.B. 1 of the 128th general assembly, the state board of education shall accept applications for new, and renewal and upgrade of, temporary, associate, provisional, and professional educator licenses, alternative educator licenses, one-year conditional teaching permits, and school nurse licenses through December 31, 2010, and issue them on the basis of the applications received by that date in accordance with the former statutes in effect immediately prior to amendment or repeal by H.B. 1 of the 128th general assembly. (B) A permanent teacher's certificate issued under former sections 3319.22 to 3319.31 of the Revised Code prior to October 29, 1996, or under former section 3319.222 of the Revised Code as it existed prior to October 16, 2009, shall be valid for teaching in the subject areas and grades for which the certificate was issued, except as the certificate is limited, suspended, or revoked under section 3319.31 of the Revised Code. (C) The following certificates, permits, or licenses shall be valid until the certificate, permit, or license expires for teaching in the subject areas and grades for which the certificate, permit, or license was issued, except as the certificate, permit, or license is limited, suspended, or revoked under section 3319.31 of the Revised Code: (1) Any professional teacher's certificate issued under former section 3319.222 of the Revised Code, as it existed prior to October 16, 2009; (2) Any temporary, associate, provisional, or professional educator license issued under former section 3319.22 of the Revised Code, as it existed prior to October 16, 2009, or under division (A) of this section; (3) Any alternative educator license issued under former section 3319.26 of the Revised Code, as it existed prior to October 16, 2009, or under division (A) of this section; (4) Any one-year conditional teaching permit issued under former section 3319.302 or 3319.304 of the Revised Code, as it existed prior to October 16, 2009, or under division (A) of this section. (D) Any school nurse license issued under former section 3319.22 of the Revised Code, as it existed prior to October 16, 2009, or under division (A) of this section shall be valid until the license expires for employment as a school nurse, except as the license is limited, suspended, or revoked under section 3319.31 of the Revised Code. (E) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit a person from applying to the state board for an educator license issued under section 3319.22 of the Revised Code, a school nurse license or a school nurse wellness coordinator license issued under former section 3319.221 of the Revised Code, or an alternative resident educator license issued under section 3319.26 of the Revised Code, as the section exists on and after October 16, 2009. (F) On and after October 16, 2009, any reference in the Revised Code to educator licensing is hereby deemed to refer also to certification or licensure under divisions (A) to (D) or (G) of this section. (G)(1) On and after the effective date of this amendment, the state board shall accept an application from and issue a nonrenewable, two-year temporary educator license to an individual who has an expired professional teacher's certificate or professional educator license issued under any version of section 3319.22 or 3319.222 of the Revised Code and who, at the time of expiration of the license or certificate, had no disciplinary sanctions on the certificate or license. The temporary educator license shall be valid for teaching in the same subject areas and grades for which the expired certificate or license was issued including any endorsements attached to the expired certificate or license, except as the temporary license is subsequently limited, suspended, or revoked under section 3319.31 of the Revised Code. (2) Prior to providing instruction at an employing school district or school under a temporary educator license issued under division (G)(1) of this section, an individual shall complete any training required by the employing school district or school. (3) The state board shall issue a professional educator license with any applicable license endorsements to an individual who receives a temporary educator license issued under division (G)(1) of this section and who, during the duration of that license, completes either eighteen continuing education units or six semester hours of coursework in the area of licensure or in an area related to the teaching field. The license and endorsements shall be valid for teaching in the same subject areas and grades for which the individual's expired certificate or license and endorsements were issued, except as the professional educator license is subsequently limited, suspended, or revoked under section 3319.31 of the Revised Code. Last updated March 2, 2023 at 12:59 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 3301.45 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3301 / § 3301.45
§ 3301.45. Distribution of information from online education and career planning tool to high schools
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) Not later than the thirtieth day of September of each year, the department of education and workforce shall distribute to all public high schools the information provided by the director of job and family services on the online education and career planning tool developed under section 6301.15 of the Revised Code. (B) Annually, the department shall survey high school administrators and guidance counselors regarding their use of the online planning tool and provide the results of the survey to the director of job and family services to support future refinements and improvements to the online planning tool. As used in this section, "public high school" means a school that serves students in any of grades nine through twelve and is operated by a school district or a community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code, a STEM school established under Chapter 3326. of the Revised Code, or a college-preparatory boarding school established under Chapter 3328. of the Revised Code. Last updated September 15, 2023 at 3:06 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 3319.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3319 / § 3319.03
§ 3319.03. Business manager
Status: in_force

September 26, 2003 House Bill 95 - 125th General Assembly The board of education of each city, exempted village, and local school district may create the position of business manager. The board shall appoint such business manager who shall serve pursuant to a contract in accordance with section 3319.02 of the Revised Code. In the discharge of all official duties, the business manager may be directly responsible to the board, or to the superintendent of schools, as the board directs at the time of appointment to the position. Where such business manager is responsible to the superintendent the business manager shall be appointed by the superintendent and confirmed by the board. No board of education shall appoint or confirm as business manager any person who does not hold a valid business manager's license issued under section 3301.074 of the Revised Code. If the business manager fails to maintain a valid license, the business manager shall be removed by the board.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3364.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3364 / § 3364.06
§ 3364.06. Effect of combination of constituent institutions
Status: in_force

July 1, 2006 House Bill 478 - 126th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "constituent institutions" means the university of Toledo, as authorized under former Chapter 3360. of the Revised Code, and the medical university of Ohio at Toledo, as authorized under former sections 3350.01 to 3350.05 of the Revised Code, which are combined as the university of Toledo pursuant to section 3364.01 of the Revised Code. (B) When the combination of the constituent institutions becomes effective, all of the following apply: (1) The separate existence of each of the constituent institutions shall cease, and the existence of each of the constituent institutions shall be continued for all purposes as the combined university of Toledo. The combination shall not cause either of the constituent institutions to be extinguished, terminated, dissolved, or liquidated and shall not constitute a sale, assignment, conveyance, disposition, or transfer of any of the rights or property of either of the constituent institutions. Whenever an instrument of conveyance, assignment, or transfer or deed or other act is necessary to vest property or rights in the combined university, the officers, trustees, or other authorized representatives of the respective constituent institutions shall execute, acknowledge, and deliver such instruments and do such acts. For these purposes, the existence of the respective constituent institutions and the authority of their respective officers, trustees, or other authorized representatives is continued notwithstanding the combination. (2) The combined university possesses all assets and property of every description, and every interest in the assets and property, wherever located, and the rights, privileges, immunities, powers, franchises, and authority of each of the constituent institutions, all of which are vested in the combined university without further act or deed. Title to any real estate or any interest in the real estate vested in either of the constituent institutions shall not revert or in any way be impaired by reason of the combination. (3) The combined university is liable for all the obligations of each of the constituent institutions to the combination. Any claim existing or any action or proceeding pending by or against either of the constituent institutions may be prosecuted to judgment, with right of appeal, as if the combination had not taken place, or the combined university may be substituted in its place. (4) All the rights of creditors of each of the constituent institutions are preserved unimpaired, and all liens upon the property of either of the constituent institutions are preserved unimpaired, on only the property affected by such liens immediately prior to the effective date of the combination.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3323.014 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3323 / § 3323.014
§ 3323.014. Procedure where transition services not provided
Status: in_force

September 29, 2007 House Bill 119 - 127th General Assembly If an agency other than the school district responsible for a child's IEP fails to provide the transition services described in the IEP, the school district that is responsible for the IEP shall reconvene the IEP team to identify alternative strategies to meet the transition objectives for the child set out in the child's IEP.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3354.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3354 / § 3354.10
§ 3354.10. Deposit of funds - investment of funds - audit
Status: in_force

September 29, 2007 House Bill 119 - 127th General Assembly (A) All funds under the control of a board of trustees of a community college district, regardless of the source thereof, may be deposited by such board to its credit in banks or trust companies designated by it. Such banks or trust companies shall furnish security for every such deposit to the extent and in the manner provided in section 135.18 of the Revised Code, but no such deposit shall otherwise be subject to sections 135.01 to 135.21 of the Revised Code. Thereupon, such funds may be disbursed by the board of trustees for the uses and purposes of such district. No contract of the board involving the expenditure of money shall become effective until there is placed thereon by the treasurer as fiscal officer of the district the certificate provided for by section 5705.41 of the Revised Code. (B) The board of trustees of a community college district may provide for the investment of district funds. Investments may be made in securities of the United States government or of its agencies or instrumentalities, the treasurer of state's pooled investment program, obligations of this state or any political subdivision of this state, certificates of deposit of any national bank located in this state, written repurchase agreements with any eligible Ohio financial institution that is a member of the federal reserve system or federal home loan bank, money market funds, or bankers acceptances maturing in two hundred seventy days or less which are eligible for purchase by the federal reserve system, as a reserve. Notwithstanding the foregoing or any provision of the Revised Code to the contrary, the board of trustees of a community college district may provide for the investment of district funds in any manner authorized under section 3345.05 of the Revised Code. (C) Any community college district is subject to audit by the auditor of state, who shall furnish to the county or counties which created the district a copy of the audit report.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3379.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3379 / § 3379.01
§ 3379.01. Ohio arts council definitions
Status: in_force

July 20, 1988 Senate Bill 335 - 117th General Assembly As used in this chapter: (A) "Arts" includes but is not necessarily limited to literature, theater, music, the dance, painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, and motion pictures. (B) "Council" means the Ohio arts council created by section 3379.02 of the Revised Code. (C) "Professional artist" means a person who devotes a major portion of his time to practicing, performing, or teaching any of the arts.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3326.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3326 / § 3326.06
§ 3326.06. Nonprofit enterprise to support coordination of efforts
Status: in_force

October 16, 2009 House Bill 1 - 128th General Assembly The STEM committee shall work with an Ohio-based nonprofit enterprise selected by the committee to support the strategic and operational coordination of public and private STEM education initiatives and resources focused on curriculum development, instruction, assessment, teacher quality enhancement, leadership recruitment and training, and community engagement. The nonprofit enterprise selected by the STEM committee shall have the proven ability to accumulate resources to enhance education quality across the educational continuum, from preschool to college, shall have experience in large-scale management of science and technology resources, and shall have a documented institutional mission to advance STEM education.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3318.035 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3318 / § 3318.035
§ 3318.035. Change of assessment rates on gas pipelines
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly (A) This section applies only if there is a change in the assessment rates on gas pipelines imposed under state law. (B) If at any time division (A) of this section applies and if the change in assessment rates described in that division affects a school district's valuation as determined under division (P) of section 3318.01 of the Revised Code by greater than ten per cent and if the Ohio facilities construction commission had determined the state and school district portion of the basic project cost of such a district's project under section 3318.36 or 3318.37 of the Revised Code prior to that change in valuation, the commission shall adjust the state and school district portions of the basic project cost of the school district's project using the valuation altered by the change in assessment rates described in division (A) of this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3339.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3339 / § 3339.06
§ 3339.06. Miami university center for civics, culture, and society
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A)(1) The Miami university center for civics, culture, and society is established as an independent academic unit within Miami university. The center shall conduct teaching and research in the historical ideas, traditions, and texts that have shaped the American constitutional order and society. (2) The center shall establish bylaws requiring the center to do all of the following: (a) Educate students by means of free, open, and rigorous intellectual inquiry to seek the truth; (b) Affirm its duty to equip students with the skills, habits, and dispositions of mind they need to reach their own informed conclusions on matters of social and political importance; (c) Affirm the value of intellectual diversity in higher education and aspire to enhance the intellectual diversity of the university; (d) Affirm a commitment to create a community dedicated to an ethic of civil and free inquiry, which respects the intellectual freedom of each member, supports individual capacities for growth, and welcomes the differences of opinion that shall naturally exist in a public university community. The requirements prescribed under divisions (A)(2)(a) to (d) of this section shall take priority over any other bylaws adopted by the center. (3) The board of trustees of the university may name the center in accordance with the philanthropic naming policies and practices of the university. (B)(1) The center shall be an independent academic unit physically located at the college of arts and sciences with the authority to house tenure-track faculty who hold their appointments within the center. Faculty appointed to the center shall not be required, but may, hold joint appointments within any other division of the university. Not fewer than ten tenure-track faculty positions shall be allotted to teach under the center. No faculty outside of the center shall have the authority to block faculty hires into the center. (2) The university shall provide adequate and appropriate space for the center as jointly determined by the director and either the president or provost of the university. The university shall not charge or assess overhead or indirect fees, costs, expenses, or charges to the center. (C)(1) The center shall offer instruction in all of the following: (a) The books and major debates which form the intellectual foundation of free societies, especially that of the United States; (b) The principles, ideals, and institutions of the American constitutional order; (c) The foundations of responsible leadership and informed citizenship. (2) The center also shall focus on both of the following: (a) Offering university-wide programming related to the values of free speech and civil discourse; (b) Expanding the intellectual diversity of the university's academic community. (D)(1) The board of trustees of the university shall appoint, with the advice and consent of the senate, a seven-member center academic council. An initial member shall not begin service until confirmed by the senate. Four members shall form a quorum. (2) The academic council shall be comprised of scholars with relevant expertise and experience. Not more than one member of the council may be an employee of the university. Best efforts shall be made to have not fewer than three members of the advisory board be from Ohio. (3) Three members of the academic council shall serve initial terms of two years and four members shall serve initial terms of four years, which the members shall determine at their first meeting, and select replacements for vacant seats. (E)(1) The academic council established under division (D) of this section shall conduct a nationwide search for candidates for the director of the center and shall strictly adhere to all relevant state and federal laws. The academic council shall submit to the president of the university a list of finalists from which the president shall select and appoint a director, subject to approval by the board of trustees. Future directors shall be chosen in the same manner. (2) The director shall have the protection of tenure or tenure eligibility. The director shall report directly to the provost or the president of the university. (3) The director shall have the sole and exclusive authority to manage the recruitment and hiring process and to extend offers for employment for all faculty and staff of the center, and to terminate employment of all staff. The director shall oversee, develop, and approve the center's curriculum, including approval of the center's courses that meet the university's general education requirements. The center shall be granted the authority to offer courses and develop certificate, minor, and major programs as well as graduate programs, and offer degrees. (F) The director of the center shall submit an annual report to the board of trustees of the university and the general assembly in accordance with section 101.68 of the Revised Code. The report shall provide a full account of the center's achievements, opportunities, challenges, and obstacles in the development of this academic unit. 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Ohio Rev. Code § 3349.30 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3349 / § 3349.30
§ 3349.30. Illegality or invalidity of agreement provisions
Status: in_force

November 11, 1965 Senate Bill 212 - 106th General Assembly In case any covenant, stipulation, obligation, agreement, or action, or part thereof, made, assumed, or taken under sections 3349.27 to 3349.30 , inclusive, of the Revised Code is for any reason held to be illegal or invalid, such illegality or invalidity shall not affect the remainder thereof or any other covenant, stipulation, obligation, agreement, action, or part thereof, made, assumed, or taken under said sections, which shall be construed and enforced as if such provision, to the extent invalid or illegal, were not contained therein, and each such covenant, stipulation, obligation, agreement, or other provision, or part thereof, shall be deemed to be made and entered into in the manner and to the full extent permitted by law to accomplish most nearly the intention thereof.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3335.25 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3335 / § 3335.25
§ 3335.25. Engineering experiment station of the Ohio state university
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The board of trustees of the Ohio state university shall establish an organization to be known as the "engineering experiment station of the Ohio state university," to be affiliated and operated in connection with the college of engineering.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3313.76 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3313 / § 3313.76
§ 3313.76. School premises available for educational and recreational purposes
Status: in_force

March 23, 2015 House Bill 290 - 130th General Assembly Upon application of any responsible organization, or of a group of at least seven citizens, school premises, as that term is defined in section 3313.77 of the Revised Code, as well as all other buildings under the supervision and control of the state, or buildings maintained by taxation under the laws of this state, shall be available for use as social centers for the entertainment and education of the people, including the adult and youthful population, and for the discussion of all topics tending to the development of personal character and of civil welfare, and for religious exercises. Such occupation should not seriously infringe upon the original and necessary uses of such properties. The public officials in charge of such buildings shall prescribe such rules and regulations for their occupancy and use as will secure a fair, reasonable, and impartial use of the same.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3333.0417 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3333 / § 3333.0417
§ 3333.0417. Statewide educational plan for preventing hazing
Status: in_force

October 7, 2021 Senate Bill 126 - 134th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Hazing" and "organization" have the same meanings as in section 2903.31 of the Revised Code. (2) "Institution of higher education" has the same meaning as in section 3345.19 of the Revised Code. (B) The chancellor of higher education shall develop a statewide educational plan for preventing hazing at institutions of higher education. The plan shall include at least both of the following: (1) A model anti-hazing policy that prohibits students enrolled in an institution of higher education, or other individuals associated with an organization recognized by or operating under the sanction of an institution, from engaging in hazing or a violation of section 2903.31 of the Revised Code. The model policy shall meet the requirements prescribed under division (B) of section 3345.19 of the Revised Code. The chancellor shall provide the model policy to each institution. (2) Guidelines regarding anti-hazing education and training for all of the following: (a) Students enrolled in an institution; (b) Administrators, faculty members, and individuals employed by an institution; (c) Organizations recognized by, or operating under the sanction of, an institution. Last updated August 20, 2021 at 4:55 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 3328.191 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3328 / § 3328.191
§ 3328.191. Reports kept in employee personnel file
Status: in_force

September 29, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly The board of trustees of each college-preparatory boarding school established under this chapter shall require that the reports of any investigation by the board or by the school's operator of an employee who works in the school, regarding whether the employee has committed an act or offense for which the chief administrator of the school or the president or chairperson of the board is required to make a report to the superintendent of public instruction under section 3328.19 of the Revised Code, be kept in the employee's personnel file. If, after an investigation under division (A) of section 3319.311 of the Revised Code, the superintendent of public instruction determines that the results of that investigation do not warrant initiating action under section 3319.31 of the Revised Code, the board shall require the reports of the investigation to be moved from the employee's personnel file to a separate public file.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3318.29 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3318 / § 3318.29
§ 3318.29. Maximum maturity and terms of obligations
Status: in_force

September 28, 1999 House Bill 282 - 123rd General Assembly The maximum maturity of any obligations issued pursuant to section 3318.26 of the Revised Code to provide moneys for the school building program assistance fund shall be ten years. The terms of the obligations shall be such that in any fiscal year the aggregate amount of moneys from the lottery profits education fund, and not from other sources, that are pledged to pay bond service charges on obligations issued to provide moneys for the school building program assistance fund shall not exceed ten million dollars. As used in this section, "other sources" includes the annual investment income on special funds to the extent the income will be available for payment of any bond service charges in lieu of use of moneys from the lottery profits education fund. The annual investment income shall be estimated on the basis of the expected funding of those special funds and assumed investment earnings thereon at a rate equal to the weighted average yield on investments of those special funds determined as of any date within sixty days immediately preceding the date of issuance of the bonds in respect of which the determination is being made. The determinations required by this section shall be made by the treasurer of state at the time of issuance of an issue of obligations and shall be conclusive for purposes of such issuance of obligations from and after their issuance and delivery.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3377.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3377 / § 3377.05
§ 3377.05. Issuance and sale of bonds
Status: in_force

March 7, 1968 Senate Bill 453 - 107th General Assembly The Ohio higher educational facility commission may issue bonds of the state for the purpose of providing moneys to pay project costs. The commission shall provide by resolution for the issuance of such bonds. The principal of and interest on the bonds and all other payments required to be made by the bond proceedings shall be payable solely from the rentals, revenues, and other income, charges, and moneys derived from the lease, rental, sale, or other disposition of the pledged facilities as provided in the bond proceedings. Such principal, interest, and other payments may also be paid from any gifts or grants received with respect to the project being financed, which gifts or grants may be pledged thereto. Bonds may be issued at one time or from time to time, shall be dated, shall bear interest at such rate or rates, shall mature at such time or times not exceeding fifty years from date of issue, may be redeemable before maturity at such price or prices and under such terms and conditions, be in such forms and denominations, be executed in such manner, and be payable at such place or places within or without the state, all as provided in or pursuant to the bond proceedings. The commission may provide for sales of bonds at public or private sale as it deems most advantageous and for such prices, whether above or below the par value thereof, as it determines or within such limit or limits as it determines. If an officer who has signed any bonds or coupons pertaining thereto, or caused his facsimile signature to be affixed thereto, ceases to be such officer before such bonds or coupons have been delivered, such bonds or coupons may, nevertheless, be issued and delivered as though the person who had signed the bonds or coupons or caused his facsimile signature to be affixed thereto had not ceased to be such officer. Any bonds or coupons may be executed on behalf of the commission by an officer who, on the date of execution, is the proper officer although on the date of such bonds or coupons such person was not the proper officer. All bonds issued under authority of Chapter 3377. of the Revised Code shall have all qualities and incidents of negotiable instruments, subject to provisions for registration, and may be issued in coupon or in fully registered form, or both, as the commission determines. Provision may be made for the registration of any coupon bonds as to principal alone or as to both principal and interest, and for the conversion into coupon bonds of any fully registered bonds or bonds registered as to both principal and interest. Pending preparation of definitive bonds, the commission may issue interim receipts or certificates which shall be exchanged for such definitive bonds.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3310.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3310 / § 3310.03
§ 3310.03. Eligibility of students to participate in program
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly For the 2021-2022 school year and each school year thereafter, subject to division (G) of this section, a student is an "eligible student" for purposes of the educational choice scholarship pilot program if the student's resident district is not a school district in which the pilot project scholarship program is operating under sections 3313.974 to 3313.979 of the Revised Code, the student satisfies one of the conditions in division (A), (B), or (C) of this section, and the student maintains eligibility to receive a scholarship under division (D) of this section. However, any student who received a scholarship for the 2020-2021 school year under this section, as it existed prior to March 2, 2021, shall continue to receive that scholarship until the student completes grade twelve, as long as the student maintains eligibility to receive a scholarship under division (D) of this section. (A)(1) A student is eligible for a scholarship if the student is enrolled in a school building operated by the student's resident district and to which both of the following apply: (a) The building was ranked in the lowest twenty per cent of all buildings operated by city, local, and exempted village school districts according to performance index score as determined by the department of education and workforce, as follows: (i) For a scholarship sought for the 2021-2022 or 2022-2023 school year, the building was ranked in the lowest twenty per cent of buildings for each of the 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 school years. (ii) For a scholarship sought for the 2023-2024 school year, the building was ranked in the lowest twenty per cent of buildings for each of the 2018-2019 and 2021-2022 school years. (iii) For a scholarship sought for the 2024-2025 school year, the building was ranked in the lowest twenty per cent of buildings for each of the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 school years. (iv) For a scholarship sought for the 2025-2026 school year or any school year thereafter, the building was ranked in the lowest twenty per cent of buildings for at least two of the three most recent consecutive rankings issued prior to the first day of July of the school year for which a scholarship is sought. (b) The building is operated by a school district in which, for the three consecutive school years prior to the school year for which a scholarship is sought, an average of twenty per cent or more of the students entitled to attend school in the district, under section 3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code, were qualified to be included in the formula to distribute funds under Title I of the "Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965," 20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq. When ranking school buildings under division (A)(1) of this section, the department shall not include buildings operated by a school district in which the pilot project scholarship program is operating in accordance with sections 3313.974 to 3313.979 of the Revised Code. (2) A student is eligible for a scholarship if the student will be enrolling in any of grades kindergarten through twelve in this state for the first time in the school year for which a scholarship is sought, will be at least five years of age, as defined in section 3321.01 of the Revised Code, by the first day of January of the school year for which a scholarship is sought, and otherwise would be assigned under section 3319.01 of the Revised Code in the school year for which a scholarship is sought, to a school building described in division (A)(1) of this section. (3) A student is eligible for a scholarship if the student is enrolled in a community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code but otherwise would be assigned under section 3319.01 of the Revised Code to a building described in division (A)(1) of this section. (4) A student is eligible for a scholarship if the student is enrolled in a school building operated by the student's resident district or in a community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code and otherwise would be assigned under section 3319.01 of the Revised Code to a school building described in division (A)(1) of this section in the school year for which the scholarship is sought. (5) A student is eligible for a scholarship if the student was enrolled in a public or nonpublic school or was homeschooled in the prior school year and completed any of grades eight through eleven in that school year and otherwise would be assigned under section 3319.01 of the Revised Code to a school building described in division (A)(1) of this section in the school year for which the scholarship is sought. (B) A student is eligible for a scholarship if the student is enrolled in a nonpublic school at the time the school is granted a charter by the director of education and workforce under section 3301.16 of the Revised Code and the student meets the standards of division (B) of section 3310.031 of the Revised Code. (C) A student is eligible for a scholarship if the student's resident district is subject to section 3302.10 of the Revised Code and the student either: (1) Is enrolled in a school building operated by the resident district or in a community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code; (2) Will be both enrolling in any of grades kindergarten through twelve in this state for the first time and at least five years of age by the first day of January of the school year for which a scholarship is sought. (D) A student who receives a scholarship under the educational choice scholarship pilot program remains an eligible student and may continue to receive scholarships in subsequent school years until the student completes grade twelve, so long as all of the following apply: (1) The student's resident district remains the same, or the student transfers to a new resident district and otherwise would be assigned in the new resident district to a school building described in division (A)(1) or (C) of this section. (2) The student takes each assessment prescribed for the student's grade level under section 3301.0710 , 3301.0712 , or 3313.619 of the Revised Code while enrolled in a chartered nonpublic school, unless one of the following applies to the student: (a) The student is excused from taking that assessment under federal law, the student's individualized education program, or division (C)(1)(c)(i) of section 3301.0711 of the Revised Code. (b) The student is enrolled in a chartered nonpublic school that meets the conditions specified in division (K)(2) or (L)(4) of section 3301.0711 of the Revised Code. (c) The student is enrolled in any of grades three to eight and takes an alternative standardized assessment under division (K)(1) of section 3301.0711 of the Revised Code. (d) The student is excused from taking the assessment prescribed under division (B)(1) of section 3301.0712 of the Revised Code pursuant to division (C)(1)(c)(ii) of section 3301.0711 of the Revised Code. (3) In each school year that the student is enrolled in a chartered nonpublic school, the student is absent from school for not more than twenty days that the school is open for instruction, not including excused absences. (E)(1) The department shall cease awarding first-time scholarships pursuant to divisions (A)(1) to (5) of this section with respect to a school building that, in the most recent ratings of school buildings under section 3302.03 of the Revised Code prior to the first day of July of the school year, ceases to meet the criteria in division (A)(1) of this section. (2) The department shall cease awarding first-time scholarships pursuant to division (C) of this section with respect to a school district subject to section 3302.10 of the Revised Code when the academic distress commission established for the district ceases to exist. (3) However, students who have received scholarships in the prior school year remain eligible students pursuant to division (D) of this section. (F) The department shall adopt rules defining excused absences for purposes of division (D)(3) of this section. (G) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this section or section 3310.031 of the Revised Code, a student shall not be required to be enrolled or enrolling in a school building operated by the student's resident district or a community school in order to be eligible for a scholarship, as follows: (1) For a scholarship sought for the 2021-2022 school year, a student entering any of grades kindergarten through two; (2) For a scholarship sought for the 2022-2023 school year, a student entering any of grades kindergarten through four; (3) For a scholarship sought for the 2023-2024 school year, a student entering any of grades kindergarten through six; (4) For a scholarship sought for the 2024-2025 school year, a student entering any of grades kindergarten through eight; (5) For a scholarship sought for the 2025-2026 school year, and each school year thereafter, a student entering any of grades kindergarten through twelve. (H) Except as provided for in section 3310.13 of the Revised Code and in division (C)(2) of section 3365.07 of the Revised Code, the department shall not require the parent of a student who applies for or receives a scholarship under this section or section 3310.033 , 3310.034 , or 3310.035 of the Revised Code to complete any kind of income verification regarding the student's family income. Last updated August 22, 2023 at 3:21 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 3345.027 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3345 / § 3345.027
§ 3345.027. Prohibition on withholding student transcripts
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "state institution of higher education" has the same meaning as in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code. (B) A state institution of higher education shall not withhold a student's official transcripts from a potential employer because the student owes money to the institution, provided the student has authorized the transcripts to be sent to the employer and the employer affirms to the institution that the transcripts are a prerequisite of employment. (C)(1) Not later than December 1, 2023, the board of trustees of each state institution of higher education shall formally consider and adopt a resolution determining whether to end the practice of transcript withholding. Once adopted, each state institution shall submit a copy of the resolution to the chancellor of higher education. (2) In adopting the resolution required under this division, each board of trustees shall consider and evaluate all of the following factors: (a) The extent to which ending the practice of transcript withholding will promote the state's post-secondary education attainment and workforce goals; (b) The rate of collection on overdue balances resulting from the historical practice of transcript withholding; (c) The extent to which ending the practice of transcript withholding will help students who have disenrolled from the state institution complete an education, whether at the same institution or another state institution. If a board of trustees resolves to maintain the practice of transcript withholding, the board shall include in the resolution a summary of its evaluation of the factors contained in division (C)(2) of this section. (3) Not later than January 1, 2024, the chancellor shall provide a copy of each resolution submitted under this division to the governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the president of the senate. Last updated October 4, 2023 at 4:09 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 3347.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3347 / § 3347.02
§ 3347.02. Reimbursement for expenses of members - organization of commission
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The members of each of the commissions created by section 3347.01 of the Revised Code shall receive no compensation for their services, but shall be reimbursed for their actual expenses incurred in the performance of their duties. Each commission shall organize by electing a chairman and a vice-chairman from its membership and may employ such professional, technical, and clerical assistants as are necessary, and define their duties and fix their compensation, to carry out the objects and purposes of section 3347.01 to 3347.08 , inclusive, of the Revised Code. The majority of each commission must concur in any action taken by the commission, which shall establish rules and keep a journal of its proceedings.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3325.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3325 / § 3325.10
§ 3325.10. State school for the blind - federal funds and gifts
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly Ohio deaf and blind education services may receive and administer any federal funds relating to the education of students at the state school for the blind whose disabilities are visual impairments, including secondary and post-secondary students. Ohio deaf and blind education services also may accept and administer any gifts, donations, or bequests made to it for programs or services relating to the education of students at the state school for the blind whose disabilities are visual impairments, including secondary and post-secondary students. Last updated September 25, 2023 at 2:53 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 3317.0210 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3317 / § 3317.0210
§ 3317.0210. Adjusting for taxes uncollectable due to bankruptcy
Status: in_force

June 30, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Bankruptcy Reform Act" means the "Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978," 92 Stat. 2558, 11 U.S.C. 301, as amended. (2) "Chapter 11 corporation" means a corporation, company, or other business organization that has filed a petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the "Bankruptcy Reform Act," 92 Stat. 2626, 11 U.S.C. 1101, as amended. (3) "Uncollectable taxes" means property taxes payable in a calendar year by a Chapter 11 corporation on its property that a school district is precluded from collecting by virtue of proceedings under the Bankruptcy Reform Act. (4) "Basic state aid" means a school district's state education aid. (5) "Effective value" means the amount obtained by multiplying the total taxable value certified in a calendar year under section 3317.021 of the Revised Code by a fraction, the numerator of which is the total taxes charged and payable in that calendar year exclusive of the uncollectable taxes payable in that year, and the denominator of which is the total taxes charged and payable in that year. (6) "Total taxes charged and payable" has the same meaning given "taxes charged and payable" in section 3317.02 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) Between the first day of January and the first day of February of any year, a school district shall notify the department of education if it has uncollectable taxes payable in the preceding calendar year from one Chapter 11 corporation. (2) The department shall verify whether the district has such uncollectable taxes from such a corporation, and if the district does, shall immediately request the tax commissioner to certify the district's total taxes charged and payable in the preceding calendar year, and the tax commissioner shall certify that information to the department within thirty days after receiving the request. For the purposes of this section, taxes are payable in the calendar year that includes the day prescribed by law for their payment, including any lawful extension thereof. (C) Upon receiving the certification from the tax commissioner, the department shall determine whether the amount of uncollectable taxes from the corporation equals at least one per cent of the total taxes charged and payable as certified by the tax commissioner. If it does, the department shall compute the district's effective value and shall recompute the basic state aid payable to the district for the current fiscal year using the effective value in lieu of the total taxable value used to compute the basic state aid for the current fiscal year. The difference between the basic state aid amount originally computed for the district for the current fiscal year and the recomputed amount shall be paid to the district from the lottery profits education fund before the end of the current fiscal year. (D) Except as provided in division (E) of this section, amounts received by a school district under division (C) of this section shall be repaid to the department of education in any future year to the extent the district receives payments of uncollectable taxes in such future year. The district shall notify the department of any amount owed under this division. (E) If a school district received a grant from the catastrophic expenditures account pursuant to division (C) of section 3316.20 of the Revised Code on the basis of the same circumstances for which a recomputation is made under this section, the amount of the recomputation shall be reduced and transferred in accordance with division (C) of section 3316.20 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3313.44 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3313 / § 3313.44
§ 3313.44. School property exempt from taxation
Status: in_force

September 13, 2010 Senate Bill 181 - 128th General Assembly Real or personal property owned by or leased to any board of education for a lease term of at least fifty years shall be exempt from taxation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3332.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3332 / § 3332.06
§ 3332.06. Certificate of registration and appropriate program authorization required for programs
Status: in_force

April 3, 2003 Senate Bill 266 - 124th General Assembly (A)(1) No program shall be established, offered, or given for a charge, fee, or other contribution; no certificate, diploma, degree, or other written evidence of proficiency or achievement shall be offered whether in a specified place, by correspondence, or any other means of communication, or awarded; and no student enrollment in such program shall be solicited through advertising, agents, mail circulars, or other means, until the person planning to offer or offering such program, certificate, diploma, or degree has obtained a certificate of registration and appropriate program authorization in accordance with section 3332.05 of the Revised Code. No school shall offer a baccalaureate, master's, or doctoral degree program unless it has received a certificate of authorization from the Ohio board of regents and program authorization from the state board of career colleges and schools. (2) No institution receiving a certificate of registration after July 28, 1989, shall call itself a "university" unless it meets all of the following conditions: (a) It also holds an equivalent certificate issued by another state; (b) It calls itself a "university" in that other state, as permitted under the terms of the other state's certificate; (c) It has been issued degree program authorization under division (C) of section 3332.05 of the Revised Code. (B) The board shall petition the court of common pleas of the county in which a person or agent, as defined in section 3332.01 of the Revised Code, offers one or more programs subject to this chapter or advertises for the offering of such programs without a certificate of registration and program authorization, for an order enjoining such offering or advertising. The court may grant such injunctive relief upon a showing that the respondent named in the petition is offering or advertising one or more programs without a certificate of registration and program authorization. Last updated October 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 3309.354 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3309 / § 3309.354
§ 3309.354. Increase in benefits where eligibility established prior to 9-9-88
Status: in_force

January 7, 2013 Senate Bill 341 - 129th General Assembly As used in this section, "benefit" means any allowance, pension, or other benefit to which an individual is entitled and that he receives pursuant to section 3309.35 , 3309.36 , 3309.40 , 3309.45 , or 3309.46 or former section 3309.38 of the Revised Code. Effective the first day of the month following September 9, 1988, the annual amount of benefits shall be increased as follows: (A) The annual amount of each benefit for which eligibility was established prior to February 1, 1983, shall, after all adjustments required by this chapter, be increased by two per cent; (B) The annual amount of each benefit for which eligibility was established on or after February 1, 1983, but prior to September 9, 1988, shall, after all adjustments required by this chapter, be increased by five per cent.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3317.014 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3317 / § 3317.014
§ 3317.014. Career-tech education program funding
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) The multiples for the following categories of career-technical education programs approved by the department of education and workforce under section 3317.161 of the Revised Code shall be as follows: (1) A multiple of 0.6230 for students enrolled in career-technical education workforce development programs in agricultural and environmental systems, construction technologies, engineering and science technologies, finance, health science, information technology, and manufacturing technologies, each of which shall be defined by the department in consultation with the governor's office of workforce transformation; (2) A multiple of 0.5905 for students enrolled in workforce development programs in business and administration, hospitality and tourism, human services, law and public safety, transportation systems, and arts and communications, each of which shall be defined by the department in consultation with the governor's office of workforce transformation; (3) A multiple of 0.2154 for students enrolled in career-based intervention programs, which shall be defined by the department in consultation with the governor's office of workforce transformation; (4) A multiple of 0.1830 for students enrolled in workforce development programs in education and training, marketing, workforce development academics, public administration, and career development, each of which shall be defined by the department in consultation with the governor's office of workforce transformation; (5) A multiple of 0.1570 for students enrolled in family and consumer science programs, which shall be defined by the department in consultation with the governor's office of workforce transformation. (B) The multiple for career-technical education associated services, as defined by the department, shall be 0.0294. (C) The department shall calculate career-technical education funds for each funding unit that is a city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district or the community and STEM school unit as follows: (1) For fiscal years 2026 and 2027, the sum of the following: (a) The funding unit's category one career-technical education ADM X the multiple specified in division (A)(1) of this section X the statewide average career-technical base cost per pupil for that fiscal year X if the funding unit is a city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district, the district's state share percentage; (b) The funding unit's category two career-technical education ADM X the multiple specified in division (A)(2) of this section X the statewide average career-technical base cost per pupil for that fiscal year X if the funding unit is a city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district, the district's state share percentage; (c) The funding unit's category three career-technical education ADM X the multiple specified in division (A)(3) of this section X the statewide average career-technical base cost per pupil for that fiscal year X if the funding unit is a city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district, the district's state share percentage; (d) The funding unit's category four career-technical education ADM X the multiple specified in division (A)(4) of this section X the statewide average career-technical base cost per pupil for that fiscal year X if the funding unit is a city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district, the district's state share percentage; (e) The funding unit's category five career-technical education ADM X the multiple specified in division (A)(5) of this section X the statewide average career-technical base cost per pupil for that fiscal year X if the funding unit is a city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district, the district's state share percentage. (2) For fiscal year 2028 and each fiscal year thereafter, the sum of the following: (a) An amount calculated in a manner determined by the general assembly times the funding unit's category one career-technical education ADM; (b) An amount calculated in a manner determined by the general assembly times the funding unit's category two career-technical education ADM; (c) An amount calculated in a manner determined by the general assembly times the funding unit's category three career-technical education ADM; (d) An amount calculated in a manner determined by the general assembly times the funding unit's category four career-technical education ADM; (e) An amount calculated in a manner determined by the general assembly times the funding unit's category five career-technical education ADM. (3) Payment of funds calculated under division (C) of this section is subject to approval under section 3317.161 of the Revised Code. (D) Subject to division (I) of section 3317.023 of the Revised Code, the department shall calculate career-technical associated services funds for each funding unit that is a city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district or the community and STEM school unit as follows: (1) For fiscal years 2026 and 2027, the following product: (If the funding unit is a city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district, the funding unit's state share percentage) X the multiple for career-technical education associated services specified under division (B) of this section X the statewide average career-technical base cost per pupil for that fiscal year X the sum of the funding unit's categories one through five career-technical education ADM (2) For fiscal year 2028 and each fiscal year thereafter, an amount calculated in a manner determined by the general assembly times the funding unit's categories one through five career-technical education ADM. (E)(1) In accordance with division (I) of section 3317.023 of the Revised Code, the department shall compute career awareness and exploration funds for each city, local, exempted village, and joint vocational school district, community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code, and STEM school established under Chapter 3326. of the Revised Code that is part of a career technical planning district. The department shall pay the lead district in each career technical planning district as follows: (a) For fiscal years 2026 and 2027, an amount equal to the following product: The sum of enrolled ADM for all districts and schools within the career technical planning district X $3 (b) For fiscal year 2028 and each fiscal year thereafter, an amount calculated in a manner determined by the general assembly, if the general assembly authorizes such a payment to city, local, exempted village, and joint vocational school districts, community schools, and STEM schools. (2) The lead district of a career technical planning district shall use career awareness and exploration funds in accordance with division (H) of this section. (F)(1) In any fiscal year, a school district receiving funds calculated under division (C) of this section shall spend those funds only for the purposes that the department designates as approved for career-technical education expenses. Career-technical education expenses approved by the department shall include only expenses connected to the delivery of career-technical programming to career-technical students. The department shall require the school district to report data annually so that the department may monitor the district's compliance with the requirements regarding the manner in which funding calculated under division (C) of this section may be spent. (2) All funds received under division (C) of this section shall be spent in the following manner: (a) At least seventy-five per cent of the funds shall be spent on curriculum development, purchase, and implementation; instructional resources and supplies; industry-based program certification; student assessment, credentialing, and placement; curriculum specific equipment purchases and leases; career-technical student organization fees and expenses; home and agency linkages; work-based learning experiences; professional development; and other costs directly associated with career-technical education programs including development of new programs. (b) Not more than twenty-five per cent of the funds shall be used for personnel expenditures. (G) In any fiscal year, a school district receiving funds calculated under division (D) of this section, or through a transfer of funds pursuant to division (I) of section 3317.023 of the Revised Code, shall spend those funds only for the purposes that the department designates as approved for career-technical education associated services expenses, which may include all of the following purposes: (1) Engaging and collaborating with education and workforce stakeholders in the service area; (2) Developing and maintaining a comprehensive plan to increase career-focused education activities; (3) Ensuring that plans are informed by quality data and using data to expand access to career-focused activities for all students; (4) Planning and allocating resources for the growth, sustainability, and enhancement of career-focused activities in the long term; (5) Establishing continuous improvement and program approval processes. The department may deny payment of funds calculated under division (D) of this section to any district that the department determines is not operating those services or is using funds calculated under division (D) of this section, or through a transfer of funds pursuant to division (I) of section 3317.023 of the Revised Code, for other purposes. (H) In any fiscal year, a lead district of a career-technical planning district receiving funds under division (E) of this section, shall utilize those funds to deliver relevant career awareness and exploration programs to all students within its career technical planning district in a manner that is consistent with the career-technical planning district's plan that is on file with the department. The lead district that receives funds under this division shall spend those funds only for the following purposes: (1) Delivery of career awareness programs to students enrolled in grades kindergarten through twelve; (2) Provision of a common, consistent curriculum to students throughout their primary and secondary education; (3) Assistance to teachers in providing a career development curriculum to students; (4) Development of a career development plan for each student that stays with that student for the duration of the student's primary and secondary education; (5) Provision of opportunities for students to engage in activities, such as career fairs, hands-on experiences, and job shadowing, across all career pathways at each grade level; (6) Provision of mentorship opportunities through which students may learn about careers and workforce skills. The lead district that receives funds under division (E) of this section shall report on the use of those funds to the department in a manner prescribed by the department. The department may deny payment under this division to any district or school that the department determines is using funds paid under this division for other purposes. Last updated July 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 3326.27 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3326 / § 3326.27
§ 3326.27. Liability for damages due to concussions
Status: in_force

April 26, 2013 House Bill 143 - 129th General Assembly (A) A STEM school, member of a STEM school governing body, or STEM school employee or volunteer, including a coach or referee, is not liable in damages in a civil action for injury, death, or loss to person or property allegedly arising from providing services or performing duties under section 3313.539 of the Revised Code, unless the act or omission constitutes willful or wanton misconduct. (B) This section does not eliminate, limit, or reduce any other immunity or defense that a STEM school, member of a STEM school governing body, or STEM school employee or volunteer, including a coach or referee, may be entitled to under Chapter 2744. or any other provision of the Revised Code or under the common law of this state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3313.69 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3313 / § 3313.69
§ 3313.69. Hearing and visual tests of school children - exemptions
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The board of education or board of health providing a system of medical and dental inspection of school children, as authorized by section 3313.68 of the Revised Code, shall include in such inspection tests to determine the existence of hearing and visual defects in school children. The methods of making such tests and the testing devices to be used shall be such as are approved by the department of health. Any child shall be exempted from a dental inspection if he has been examined for dental defects by a regularly licensed dentist, from a hearing test if he has been examined by a regularly licensed physician, and from a visual test if he has been examined by a regularly licensed physician or optometrist upon presentation to the school authorities of a certificate to the effect that he has been so examined during the twelve months immediately preceding the date of such inspections.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3307.62 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3307 / § 3307.62
§ 3307.62. Eligibility for disability benefits
Status: in_force

March 22, 2019 House Bill 572 - 132nd General Assembly As used in this section, "qualifying service credit" has the same meaning as in section 3307.58 of the Revised Code. (A) The state teachers retirement system shall provide disability coverage to each member participating in the STRS defined benefit plan who meets either of the following: (1) If the member had service credit on account on June 30, 2013, has at least five years of qualifying service credit; (2) If the member did not have any service credit on account on June 30, 2013, has at least ten years of qualifying service credit. Not later than October 16, 1992, the state teachers retirement board shall give each person who is a member on July 29, 1992, the opportunity to elect disability coverage either under former section 3307.43 of the Revised Code or under former section 3307.431 of the Revised Code. The board shall mail notice of the election, accompanied by an explanation of the coverage under each of the Revised Code sections and a form on which the election is to be made, to each member at the member's last known address. The board shall also provide the explanation and form to any member on the member's request. Regardless of whether the member actually receives notice of the right to make an election, a member who fails to submit a valid election under this section shall be considered to have elected disability coverage under section 3307.63 of the Revised Code. To be valid, an election must be made on the form provided by the board, signed by the member, and submitted to the board not later than one hundred eighty days after the date the notice was mailed, or, in the case of a form provided at the request of a member, a date specified by rule of the board. Once made, an election is irrevocable, but if the member ceases to be a member of the system, the election is void. If a person who makes an election under this section also makes an election under section 145.35 or 3309.39 of the Revised Code, the election made for the system that pays a disability benefit to that person shall govern the benefit. Disability coverage shall be provided under section 3307.631 of the Revised Code for persons who become members after July 29, 1992, and for members who elect under this division to be covered under section 3307.631 of the Revised Code. The board may adopt rules governing elections made under this division. (B) Application for a disability benefit may be made by a member, by a person acting in the member's behalf, or by the member's employer and if the member has disability coverage under division (A) of this section. The application for a disability benefit shall be made on a form approved by the board. The benefit payable to any member whose application is approved shall become effective on the first day of the month next following the later of the following: (1) The last day for which compensation was paid; (2) The date on which the member's most recent application for a disability benefit was received by the board. (C) Medical examination of the member shall be conducted by a competent, disinterested physician or physicians selected by the board to determine whether the member is mentally or physically incapacitated for the performance of duty by a disabling condition, either permanent or presumed to be permanent for twelve continuous months following the board's receipt of an application. The disability must have occurred since last becoming a member, or it must have increased since last becoming a member to such an extent as to make the disability permanent or presumably permanent for twelve continuous months following the board's receipt of an application. (D) Application for a disability benefit must be made within a two-year period from the date the member's contributing service terminated, unless the board determines that the member's medical records demonstrate conclusively that at the time the period expired the member was physically or mentally incapacitated and unable to make application, except that if the member did not have any service credit on account on June 30, 2013, application must be made within a one-year period from the date contributing service terminated. Application may not be made by any person receiving service retirement benefits under section 3307.58 or 3307.59 of the Revised Code or any person whose accumulated contributions standing to the credit of the person's individual account in the teachers' savings fund have been paid under section 3307.56 of the Revised Code. (E) If the physician or physicians determine that the member qualifies for a disability benefit, the board concurs with the determination, and the member agrees to medical treatment as specified in division (G) of this section, the member shall receive a disability benefit under section 3307.63 or 3307.631 of the Revised Code. If such physician or physicians determine that the member does not qualify for a disability benefit, the report of the examiner or examiners shall be evaluated by a board of medical review composed of at least three physicians appointed by the retirement board. (F) The state teachers retirement board shall render an order determining whether or not the applicant shall be granted a disability benefit. Notification to the applicant shall be issued, and upon the request of an applicant who is denied a disability benefit, a hearing or appeal relative to such order shall be conducted in accordance with procedures established by the retirement board. (G) The state teachers retirement board shall adopt rules requiring each disability benefit recipient, as a condition of continuing to receive a disability benefit, to agree in writing to obtain any medical treatment recommended by the board's physician and submit medical reports regarding the treatment. If the board determines that a disability benefit recipient is not obtaining the medical treatment or the board does not receive a required medical report, the disability benefit shall be suspended until the treatment is obtained, the report is received by the board, or the board's physician certifies that the treatment is no longer helpful or advisable. Should the recipient's failure to obtain treatment or submit a medical report continue for one year, the recipient's right to the disability benefit shall be terminated as of the effective date of the original suspension. (H) If an employer submits an application for a disability benefit as a result of a member having been separated from service because the member is considered to be incapacitated for the performance of duty, and the board denies the disability benefit, the board shall so certify to the employer and the employer shall restore the member to the member's previous position and salary or to a similar position and salary. (I) The recipient of a disability allowance under section 3307.631 of the Revised Code whose allowance terminates under division (C)(3) of that section due to age is not eligible to do either of the following: (1) Retire on disability under section 3307.63 of the Revised Code; (2) Receive a disability allowance under section 3307.631 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3318.40 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3318 / § 3318.40
§ 3318.40. Vocational school facilities assistance program
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A)(1) Sections 3318.40 to 3318.45 of the Revised Code apply only to joint vocational school districts. (2) As used in sections 3318.40 to 3318.45 of the Revised Code: (a) "Ohio facilities construction commission," "classroom facilities," "project," and "basic project cost" have the same meanings as in section 3318.01 of the Revised Code. (b) "Acquisition of classroom facilities" means constructing, reconstructing, repairing, or making additions to classroom facilities. (B) There is hereby established the vocational school facilities assistance program. Under the program, the Ohio facilities construction commission shall provide assistance to joint vocational school districts for the acquisition of classroom facilities suitable to the vocational education programs of the districts in accordance with sections 3318.40 to 3318.45 of the Revised Code. The commission may set aside a portion of the aggregate amount appropriated to it for classroom facilities assistance projects in the public school building fund, established under section 3318.15 of the Revised Code, and the school building program assistance fund, established under section 3318.25 of the Revised Code, to provide assistance to at least two joint vocational school districts per biennium. The amount set aside for this purpose shall be determined by the commission. (C) The commission shall not provide assistance for any distinct part of a project under sections 3318.40 to 3318.45 of the Revised Code that when completed will be used exclusively for an adult education program or exclusively for operation of a driver training school for instruction leading to the issuance of a commercial driver's license under Chapter 4506. of the Revised Code, except for life safety items and basic building components necessary for complete and continuous construction or renovation of a classroom facility as determined by the commission. (D) The commission shall not provide assistance under sections 3318.40 to 3318.45 of the Revised Code to acquire classroom facilities for vocational educational instruction at a location under the control of a school district that is a member of a joint vocational school district. Any assistance to acquire classroom facilities for vocational educational instruction at such location shall be provided to the school district that is a member of the joint vocational school district through other provisions of this chapter when that member school district is eligible for assistance under those provisions. (E) By September 1, 2003, the commission shall assess the classroom facilities needs of at least five joint vocational school districts, according to the order of priority prescribed in division (B) of section 3318.42 of the Revised Code, and based on the results of those assessments shall determine the extent to which amendments to the specifications adopted under section 3318.311 of the Revised Code are warranted. The commission, thereafter, may amend the specifications as provided in that section. (F) After the commission has conducted the assessments prescribed in division (E) of this section, the commission shall establish, by rule adopted in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code, guidelines for the commission to use in deciding whether to waive compliance with the design specifications adopted under section 3318.311 of the Revised Code when determining the number of facilities and the basic project cost of projects as prescribed in division (A)(1)(a) of section 3318.41 of the Revised Code. The guidelines shall address the following situations: (1) Under what circumstances, if any, particular classroom facilities are adequate to meet the needs of the school district even though the facilities do not comply with the specifications adopted under section 3318.311 of the Revised Code; (2) Under what circumstances, if any, particular classroom facilities will be renovated or repaired rather than replaced by construction of new facilities. Last updated August 8, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 3354.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3354 / § 3354.05
§ 3354.05. Appointment of officers of board
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) Within ninety days after a community college district has been declared to be established, pursuant to sections 3354.02 to 3354.04 of the Revised Code, nine persons, all of whom shall be residents of the district, shall be appointed as a board of trustees of the community college district. Six trustees shall be appointed by the board of county commissioners or boards of county commissioners of such district and three trustees shall be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate. At the time of the initial meeting of the trustees a drawing shall be held to determine the initial term of each appointee, one trustee to serve for a term ending two years after the date upon which the community college district had been declared established, three for terms ending three years after that date, three for terms ending four years after that date, and two for terms ending five years after that date. (B) At the expiration of each of the three terms appointed by the governor, and thereafter, the governor shall make appointments, with the advice and consent of the senate. At the expiration of each of the remaining six terms, and thereafter, the board of county commissioners or boards of county commissioners shall make appointments. Except as provided in division (C) of this section, the successive terms of trustees shall be for five years, each term ending on the same day of the same month of the year as did the term which it succeeds. Each trustee shall hold office from the date of appointment until the end of the term for which appointed. Any trustee appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which the trustee's predecessor was appointed shall hold office for the remainder of such term. Any trustee shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration date of the trustee's term until the trustee's successor takes office. A majority of the sitting members of the board at the time of a meeting shall constitute a quorum. (C) Upon expiration of the Cuyahoga county community college district trustee term which ends on January 19, 1974 and for which the governor is required to appoint a successor, the new term which succeeds it shall commence on January 20, 1974 and end on October 12, 1978. Upon expiration of the Mahoning county community college district trustee terms which end on February 22, 1975 and for which the governor is required to appoint successors, the new terms which succeed them shall commence on February 23, 1975 and end on February 10, 1980. Upon expiration of the Lorain county community college district trustee terms which end on October 12, 1977 and for which the governor is required to appoint successors, the new terms which succeed them shall commence on October 13, 1977 and end on August 30, 1982. Upon expiration of the Montgomery county community college district trustee term which ends on July 1, 1973 and for which the governor is required to appoint a successor, the new term which succeeds it shall commence on July 2, 1973 and end on October 12, 1977. Upon expiration of the Lakeland community college district trustee term which ends on March 6, 1978, and for which the governor is required to appoint a successor, the new term which succeeds it shall commence on March 7, 1978 and end on October 12, 1982. Last updated October 4, 2023 at 4:13 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 3301.80 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3301 / § 3301.80
§ 3301.80. Certificate of high school equivalence
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) The department of education and workforce shall award a certificate of high school equivalence to each person who achieves the equivalent of a high school education, as measured by scores obtained on a high school equivalency test approved by the department pursuant to division (B) of this section. Each certificate awarded under this section shall be signed by the director of education and workforce. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Revised Code, a person who seeks to obtain a certificate of high school equivalence shall be subject to the requirements of section 3301.81 of the Revised Code. (B) The department shall approve at least two nationally recognized high school equivalency tests for the purpose of awarding certificates of high school equivalence under this section. For each test approved pursuant to division (B) of this section, the department shall ensure that the scores required for passage are equivalent to the scores required for passage on the other approved equivalency tests. (C) All of the following shall be considered the equivalent of a certificate of high school equivalence awarded by the department under this section: (1) A high school equivalence diploma or a certificate of high school equivalence awarded by the state board of education prior to September 14, 2016; (2) A certificate of high school equivalence issued prior to January 1, 1994, attesting to the achievement of the equivalent of a high school education as measured by scores obtained on tests of general educational development; (3) A statement issued by a primary-secondary education or higher education agency of another state that indicates that its holder has achieved the equivalent of a high school education as measured by scores obtained on a similar nationally recognized high school equivalency test. (D) The department, in consultation with the chancellor of higher education, shall adopt rules to administer this section and section 3301.81 of the Revised Code. Last updated September 6, 2023 at 3:28 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 3307.151 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3307 / § 3307.151
§ 3307.151. Prohibited business transactions
Status: in_force

July 13, 2000 Senate Bill 190 - 123rd General Assembly The state teachers retirement system shall make no investments through, purchases from, or otherwise do any business with any individual who is, or any partnership, association, or corporation that is owned or controlled by, a person, who within the preceding three years was employed by, an officer, or a board member of the system or in which a person, who within the preceding three years was employed by, a board member of, or an officer of the system holds a fiduciary, administrative, supervisory or trust position, or any other position in which such person would be involved, on behalf of the person's employer, in decisions or recommendations affecting the investment policy of the system, and in which such person would benefit by any monetary gain.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3333.50 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3333 / § 3333.50
§ 3333.50. Critical needs rapid response system
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly The chancellor of higher education, in consultation with the governor and the department of development, shall develop a critical needs rapid response system to respond quickly to critical workforce shortages in the state. Not later than ninety days after a critical workforce shortage is identified, the chancellor shall submit to the governor a proposal for addressing the shortage through initiatives of the department of higher education or institutions of higher education.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3319.26 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3319 / § 3319.26
§ 3319.26. Alternative educator licenses
Status: in_force

December 29, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (H) of this section, the state board of education shall adopt rules establishing the standards and requirements for obtaining an alternative resident educator license or an alternative educator license for teaching in grades kindergarten to twelve, or the equivalent, in a designated subject area or in the area of intervention specialist, as defined by rule of the state board. (B) The superintendent of public instruction and the chancellor of higher education jointly shall develop an intensive pedagogical training institute to provide instruction in the principles and practices of teaching for individuals seeking an alternative resident educator license. The instruction shall cover such topics as student development and learning, pupil assessment procedures, curriculum development, classroom management, and teaching methodology. (C) Except as provided in division (H) of this section, the rules adopted under this section shall require applicants for the alternative resident educator license to satisfy the following conditions prior to issuance of the license, but they shall not require applicants to have completed a major or coursework in the subject area for which application is being made: (1) Hold a minimum of a baccalaureate degree; (2) Successfully complete the pedagogical training institute described in division (B) of this section or the preservice training provided to participants of a teacher preparation program that has been approved by the chancellor. The chancellor may approve any such program that requires participants to hold a bachelor's degree; have either a cumulative undergraduate grade point average of at least 2.5 out of 4.0, or its equivalent or a cumulative graduate school grade point average of at least 3.0 out of 4.0; and successfully complete the program's preservice training. (3) Pass an examination in the subject area for which application is being made. (D) An alternative resident educator license shall be valid for two years and shall be renewable. (E) The rules shall require the holder of an alternative resident educator license, as a condition of continuing to hold the license, to do all of the following: (1) Show satisfactory progress in taking and successfully completing professional development provided by a teacher preparation program that has been approved by the chancellor under division (C)(2) of this section; (2) Take an assessment of professional knowledge in the second year of teaching under the license. The holder of an alternative resident educator license may obtain a professional educator license upon completion of the requirements contained in division (F) of this section or may renew the alternative resident educator license issued under this section, at which point the renewed license shall become an alternative educator license. (F) The rules shall provide for the granting of an optional professional educator license to a holder of an alternative resident educator license upon successfully completing all of the following: (1) Two years of teaching under the alternative license; (2) The additional professional development described in division (E)(1) of this section or at least twelve additional semester hours, or the equivalent, of college coursework in the principles and practices of teaching in such topics as student development and learning, pupil assessment procedures, curriculum development, classroom management, and teaching methodology; (3) The assessment of professional knowledge described in division (E)(2) of this section. The standards for successfully completing this assessment and the manner of conducting the assessment shall be the same as for any other individual who is required to take the assessment pursuant to rules adopted by the state board under section 3319.22 of the Revised Code. (4) The Ohio teacher residency program; (5) All other requirements for a professional educator license adopted by the state board under section 3319.22 of the Revised Code. (G) A person who is assigned to teach in this state as a participant in the teach for America program or who has completed two years of teaching in another state as a participant in that program shall be eligible for a license only under section 3319.227 of the Revised Code and shall not be eligible for a license under this section. (H) The board shall issue an alternative resident educator license in accordance with Chapter 4796. of the Revised Code to an applicant if either of the following applies: (1) The applicant holds a license in another state. (2) The applicant has satisfactory work experience, a government certification, or a private certification as described in that chapter as an educator for grades kindergarten through twelve in a state that does not issue that license. (I) The holder of an alternative resident educator license may teach preschool students under that license. Last updated December 29, 2023 at 5:08 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 3307.752 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3307 / § 3307.752
§ 3307.752. Purchasing uniformed services credit
Status: in_force

January 7, 2013 Senate Bill 342 - 129th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Service in the uniformed services" means the performance of duty on a voluntary or involuntary basis in a uniformed service under competent authority and includes active duty, active duty for training, initial active duty for training, inactive duty training, full-time national guard duty, and a period for which a person is absent from a position of employment for the purpose of an examination to determine the fitness of the person to perform any such duty. (2) "Uniformed services" means the army, navy, air force, marine corps, coast guard, or any reserve components of such services; national guard; the commissioned corps of the United States public health service; service as a red cross nurse with the army, navy, air force, or hospital service of the United States, army nurse corps, navy nurse corps, or serving full-time with the American red cross in a combat zone; and any other category of persons designated by the president in time of war or emergency. (B) On the re-employment of a member participating in the STRS defined benefit plan as a teacher by the same public employer that employed the member prior to the member's service in the uniformed services, the member may apply to the state teachers retirement system on a form provided by the system to purchase service credit for service in the uniformed services that shall be considered the equivalent of Ohio service credit. On receipt of the application, the system shall request from the employer that employed the member as a teacher prior to the military service a certification that the member was employed by the employer prior to, and returned to employment with the employer within three months of honorable discharge or release from, service in the uniformed services. If the employer can so certify, it shall do so and shall pay to the system the employer's contribution required by this section. The service credit shall be granted the member if all of the following requirements are met: (1) The member was a member of and maintained membership in the state teachers retirement system throughout service in the uniformed services; (2) The member was out of active service as a teacher by reason of service in the uniformed services; (3) The member was honorably discharged or released from service in the uniformed services; (4) The member pays contributions to the system in accordance with this section. (C) Credit may be purchased pursuant to this section at any time prior to receipt of a benefit. The member may choose to purchase only part of the credit in any one payment, subject to board rules. The system shall grant service credit under this section, not to exceed five years, for service in the uniformed services for which contributions have been received. (D) For service purchased under this section, the member and the member's employer, subject to board rules, shall pay to the system for credit to the member's accumulated account an amount equal to the contributions that would have been paid pursuant to sections 3307.26 and 3307.28 of the Revised Code if the member had not been out of active service as a teacher by reason of service in the uniformed services. If a member pays all or any portion of the contributions required by section 3307.26 of the Revised Code later than the lesser of five years or a period that is three times the member's period of service in the uniformed services beginning from the later of the member's date of re-employment as a teacher or October 29, 1996, an amount equal to compound interest at a rate established by the board from the later of the member's date of re-employment as a teacher or October 29, 1996, to the date of payment shall be added to the remaining amount to be paid by the member to purchase service credit under this section. (E) This section does not cancel any military service credit or service in the uniformed services earned or granted under this chapter prior to October 29, 1996. (F) If a member purchased service credit under section 3307.751 of the Revised Code prior to October 29, 1996, is not receiving a benefit, and would have been eligible to obtain service credit pursuant to this section had it been in effect at the time of purchase, the system shall refund the amounts paid by the member for the purchase if both of the following requirements are met: (1) The member makes a written request for a refund on a form provided by the system; (2) The member pays to the system the contributions required by this section. (G) If the member meets the requirements of division (F) of this section, the employer shall pay to the system the employer's contributions required by this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3313.647 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3313 / § 3313.647
§ 3313.647. Policy guaranteeing specific level of competency of certain graduates of district
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly As used in this division, "graduate" means a person who has received a diploma from a district pursuant to section 3313.61 of the Revised Code. Pursuant to rules adopted by the department of education and workforce, a city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district may establish a policy guaranteeing a specific level of competency of certain graduates of the district. The guarantee policy shall specify that any graduate meeting specified criteria established by the board is capable of performing specified functions at a level established in the policy. Any employer or potential employer of a graduate who is guaranteed under such a policy may submit a written statement to the board of education stating the guaranteed graduate of its district does not meet the level of competency specified in the district's guarantee policy. Upon receipt of such statement the board of education shall provide an opportunity for additional education to the graduate, regardless of the graduate's age or place of residence, until such individual attains the competency level specified in the policy. No fee shall be charged to any person or government entity for such additional education. A school board may expend school funds for a guarantee program; however, no student participating in the program shall be included in the formula ADM of the district as determined under section 3317.03 of the Revised Code or included as a participant in any other program, if such inclusion would result in additional state funds to the school district. The department shall adopt rules for the adoption of a policy under this section and for the additional education program described under this section. Last updated August 29, 2023 at 12:39 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 3349.31 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3349 / § 3349.31
§ 3349.31. Agreements providing for establishment and operation of affiliated units
Status: in_force

October 9, 1974 House Bill 474 - 110th General Assembly The board of directors of a municipal university and the Ohio board of regents may, through their authorized representatives, enter into agreements providing for the establishment and operation or for the continued operation by said board of directors, with the sponsorship and support of the state and the municipal corporation, of one or more colleges, departments, or other instructional units, or portions thereof, referred to as "affiliated units" in sections 3349.31 to 3349.33 of the Revised Code, conditioned upon the continued provision of state financial aid to such municipal university in addition to that provided pursuant to sections 3354.01 to 3354.18 of the Revised Code, and equivalent to that from time to time afforded to state universities on the basis of instructional programs at their main campuses comparable to the affiliated units; provided that the board of regents first determines that such affiliated units are needed for the higher education of the people of the state and that the establishment or continuation of such affiliated units is consistent with the master plan of higher education for the state formulated under section 3333.04 of the Revised Code. No agreements shall be entered into under this section with respect to any school or college of medicine which is not in compliance with section 3333.11 of the Revised Code. Last updated October 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 3307.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3307 / § 3307.08
§ 3307.08. Oath of office
Status: in_force

July 13, 2000 Senate Bill 190 - 123rd General Assembly Each member of the state teachers retirement board upon appointment or election shall take an oath of office that the member will support the constitution of the United States, the constitution of the state, and that the member will diligently and honestly administer the affairs of the board, and that the member will not knowingly violate or willfully permit to be violated any law applicable to this chapter. Such oath shall be subscribed to by the member making it, and certified by the officer before whom it is taken, and shall be immediately filed in the office of the secretary of state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3332.18 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3332 / § 3332.18
§ 3332.18. Effect of child support default on permit
Status: in_force

April 3, 2003 Senate Bill 266 - 124th General Assembly On receipt of a notice pursuant to section 3123.43 of the Revised Code, the state board of career colleges and schools shall comply with sections 3123.41 to 3123.50 of the Revised Code and any applicable rules adopted under section 3123.63 of the Revised Code with respect to a permit issued pursuant to this chapter.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3311.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3311 / § 3311.10
§ 3311.10. Change of classification upon reduction of population in village school district - exception
Status: in_force

September 29, 1995 House Bill 117 - 121st General Assembly If an exempted village school district fails to contain within its territorial boundaries territory lying within the corporate limits of a village having a population, according to the latest federal census of two thousand or more, such exempted village school district shall become a local school district, subject to the supervision of the educational service center governing board for the school year commencing the first day of July following the publication by the secretary of state of such census, and thereafter. This section does not apply to any exempted village school district organized as such exempted village school district prior to June 1, 1943. The board of education of an exempted village school district that contains within its boundaries all or part of two or more municipal corporations, the aggregate population of which totals five thousand or more as determined by the preceding federal census, may, by a majority vote of the full membership of the board, propose that such district become a city school district. The proposal shall be filed with the state board of education. The state board of education shall either approve or disapprove the proposal and shall notify, in writing, the board of education of the district of its decision within ninety days of the day on which the proposal was received. A school district created by the state board of education under section 3311.37 of the Revised Code which includes any combination of two or more exempted village or local school districts may be designated as a city school district by the state board of education, provided the aggregate population of the newly created district totals five thousand or more as determined by the last federal or special census and provided there is contained within its boundaries all or part of a municipal corporation. When a governing board of an educational service center is dissolved pursuant to section 3311.37 of the Revised Code the employees shall be assured the opportunity of continued employment in the newly created school district in similar positions at no reduction in salary until the expiration of the existing contracts. Nonteaching school employees of city school districts, created pursuant to this section, shall not be employed pursuant to Chapter 124. of the Revised Code, except that sick leave shall be granted pursuant to section 124.38 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3314.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3314 / § 3314.19
§ 3314.19. Annual assurances by community school sponsor
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly The sponsor of each community school shall provide the assurances required under this section in writing to the department of education and workforce not later than five business days prior to the opening of the school's first year of operation or, if the school is not an internet- or computer-based community school and it relocates to a different building or opens a satellite location, not later than five business days prior to the opening of the first year it operates from the new facility. In cases where a school adds a facility to the existing school location or the school is an internet or computer-based community school and changes its location or adds a satellite location, the sponsor shall provide the assurances not later than one day prior to the operation in the new facility. The assurances shall include the following statements: (A) That a current copy of the contract between the sponsor and the governing authority of the school entered into under section 3314.03 of the Revised Code has been filed with the department and that any subsequent modifications to that contract will be filed with the department; (B) That the school has submitted to the sponsor a plan for providing special education and related services to students with disabilities and has demonstrated the capacity to provide those services in accordance with Chapter 3323. of the Revised Code and federal law; (C) That the school has a plan and procedures for administering the achievement and diagnostic assessments prescribed by sections 3301.0710 , 3301.0712 , and 3301.0715 of the Revised Code; (D) That school personnel have the necessary training, knowledge, and resources to properly use and submit information to all databases maintained by the department for the collection of education data, including the education management information system established under section 3301.0714 of the Revised Code in accordance with methods and timelines established under section 3314.17 of the Revised Code; (E) That all required information about the school has been submitted to the Ohio education directory system or any successor system; (F) That the school will enroll at least the minimum number of students required by division (A)(11)(a) of section 3314.03 of the Revised Code in the school year for which the assurances are provided; (G) That all classroom teachers are licensed in accordance with sections 3319.22 to 3319.31 of the Revised Code, except for noncertificated persons engaged to teach up to twelve hours or forty hours per week pursuant to section 3319.301 of the Revised Code; (H) That the school's fiscal officer is in compliance with section 3314.011 of the Revised Code; (I) That the school has complied with sections 3319.39 and 3319.391 of the Revised Code with respect to all employees and that the school has conducted a criminal records check of each of its governing authority members; (J) That the school holds all of the following: (1) Proof of property ownership or a lease for the facilities used by the school; (2) A certificate of occupancy; (3) Liability insurance for the school, as required by division (A)(11)(b) of section 3314.03 of the Revised Code, that the sponsor considers sufficient to indemnify the school's facilities, staff, and governing authority against risk; (4) A satisfactory health and safety inspection; (5) A satisfactory fire inspection; (6) A valid food permit, if applicable. (K) That the sponsor has conducted a pre-opening site visit to the school for the school year for which the assurances are provided; (L) That the school has designated a date it will open for the school year for which the assurances are provided that is in compliance with division (A)(25) of section 3314.03 of the Revised Code; (M) That the school has met all of the sponsor's requirements for opening and any other requirements of the sponsor. (N) That, for any school that operates using the blended learning model, as defined in section 3301.079 of the Revised Code, the sponsor has reviewed the following information, submitted by the school: (1) An indication of what blended learning model or models will be used; (2) A description of how student instructional needs will be determined and documented; (3) The method to be used for determining competency, granting credit, and promoting students to a higher grade level; (4) The school's attendance requirements, including how the school will document participation in learning opportunities; (5) A statement describing how student progress will be monitored; (6) A statement describing how private student data will be protected; (7) A description of the professional development activities that will be offered to teachers. Last updated July 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 3375.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3375 / § 3375.01
§ 3375.01. State library board
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly A state library board is hereby created to be composed of five members to be appointed by the director of education and workforce. One member shall be appointed each year for a term of five years. No one is eligible to membership on the state library board who is or has been for a year previous to appointment a member of the state board of education. A member of the state library board shall not during the member's term of office be a member of the board of library trustees for any library in any subdivision in the state. Before entering on official duties, each member shall subscribe to the official oath of office. All vacancies on the state library board shall be filled by the director by appointment for the unexpired term. The members shall receive no compensation, but shall be paid their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties or in the conduct of authorized board business, within or without the state. At its regular meeting next prior to the beginning of each fiscal biennium, the state library board shall elect a president and vice-president each of whom shall serve for two years or until a successor is elected and qualified. The state library board is responsible for the state library of Ohio and a statewide program of development and coordination of library services, and its powers include the following: (A) Maintain the state library, holding custody of books, periodicals, pamphlets, films, recordings, papers, and other materials and equipment. The board may purchase or procure from an insurance company licensed to do business in this state policies of insurance insuring the members of the board and the officers, employees, and agents of the state library against liability on account of damage or injury to persons or property resulting from any act or omission of the board members, officers, employees, and agents of the state library in their official capacity. (B) Accept, receive, administer, and expend, in accordance with the terms thereof, any moneys, materials, or other aid granted, appropriated, or made available to it for library purposes, by the United States, or any of its agencies, or by any other source, public or private; (C) Administer such funds as the general assembly may make available to it for the improvement of public library services, interlibrary cooperation, or for other library purposes; (D) Contract with other agencies, organizations, libraries, library schools, boards of education, universities, public and private, within or without the state, for library services, facilities, research, or any allied or related purpose; (E) In accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, approve, disapprove, or modify resolutions for establishment of county district libraries, and approve, disapprove, or modify resolutions to determine the boundaries of such districts, along county lines or otherwise, and approve, disapprove, or modify resolutions to redefine boundaries, along county lines or otherwise, where questions subsequently arise as a result of school district consolidations; (F) Upon consolidation of two or more school districts and in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, define and adjust the boundaries of the new public library district resulting from such consolidation and resolve any disputes or questions pertaining to the boundaries, organization, and operation of the new library district; (G) Upon application of one or more boards of library trustees and in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, define, amend, and adjust the boundaries of the library districts making such application and the boundaries of adjacent library districts; (H) Upon application of one or more boards of library trustees, or upon the state library board's own initiative, and in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, define, amend, and adjust the boundaries of overlapping library districts to eliminate areas of overlap; (I) Upon application of any private corporation or library association maintaining a free public library prior to September 4, 1947, and in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, define, amend, and adjust the boundaries of a library district for the private corporation or library association for the sole purpose of preventing or eliminating areas of overlap with other library districts in relation to tax levies described in sections 5705.19 , 5705.191 , and 5705.21 of the Revised Code that are or may be levied in support of the private corporation or library association; (J) Certify its actions relating to boundaries authorized in this section, to boards of election, taxing authorities, the boards of trustees of libraries affected, and other appropriate bodies; (K) Encourage and assist the efforts of libraries and local governments to develop mutual and cooperative solutions to library service problems; (L) Recommend to the governor and to the general assembly such changes in the law as will strengthen and improve library services and operations; (M) In accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, adopt such rules as are necessary for the carrying out of any function imposed on it by law, and provide such rules as are necessary for its government and the government of its employees. The board may delegate to the state librarian the management and administration of any function imposed on it by law. Last updated September 5, 2023 at 10:18 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 3313.376 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3313 / § 3313.376
§ 3313.376. Service centers may jointly purchase commodities
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly As used in this section, "client school district" means a city, exempted village, or local school district that has entered into an agreement under section 3313.843 or 3313.845 of the Revised Code to receive any services from an educational service center. For the purpose of obtaining quantity discounts in purchasing textbooks; computer equipment, including computer software; school buses; and natural gas, electricity, and other utility services, the governing boards of two or more educational service centers may enter into agreements, including installment purchase and lease-purchase contracts, to jointly purchase such commodities to be utilized by client school districts of the educational service centers.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3319.392 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3319 / § 3319.392
§ 3319.392. Criminal records check of private contract employee
Status: in_force

September 12, 2008 House Bill 428 - 127th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Designated official" means the superintendent, or the superintendent's designee, in the case of a school district or educational service center and the chief administrator, or the chief administrator's designee, in the case of a chartered nonpublic school. (2) "Essential school services" means services provided by a private company under contract with a school district, educational service center, or chartered nonpublic school that the district or service center superintendent or the chief administrator of the chartered nonpublic school has determined are necessary for the operation of the district, service center, or chartered nonpublic school and that would need to be provided by employees of the district, service center, or chartered nonpublic school if the services were not provided by the private company. (3) "License" has the same meaning as in section 3319.31 of the Revised Code. (B) This section applies to any person who is an employee of a private company under contract with a school district, educational service center, or chartered nonpublic school to provide essential school services and who will work in the district, service center, or chartered nonpublic school in a position that does not require a license issued by the state board of education, is not for the operation of a vehicle for pupil transportation, and that involves routine interaction with a child or regular responsibility for the care, custody, or control of a child. (C) No school district, educational service center, or chartered nonpublic school shall permit a person to whom this section applies to work in the district, service center, or chartered nonpublic school, unless one of the following applies to the person: (1) The person's employer presents proof of both of the following to the designated official: (a) That the person has been the subject of a criminal records check conducted in accordance with division (D) of this section within the five-year period immediately prior to the date on which the person will begin working in the district, service center, or chartered nonpublic school; (b) That the criminal records check indicates that the person has not been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any offense described in division (B)(1) of section 3319.39 of the Revised Code. (2) During any period of time in which the person will have routine interaction with a child or regular responsibility for the care, custody, or control of a child, the designated official has arranged for an employee of the district, service center, or chartered nonpublic school to be present in the same room with the child or, if outdoors, to be within a thirty-yard radius of the child or to have visual contact with the child. (D) Any private company that has been hired or seeks to be hired by a school district, educational service center, or chartered nonpublic school to provide essential school services may request the bureau of criminal identification and investigation to conduct a criminal records check of any of its employees for the purpose of complying with division (C)(1) of this section. Each request for a criminal records check under this division shall be made to the superintendent of the bureau in the manner prescribed in section 3319.39 of the Revised Code. Upon receipt of a request, the bureau shall conduct the criminal records check in accordance with section 109.572 of the Revised Code as if the request had been made under section 3319.39 of the Revised Code. Notwithstanding division (H) of section 109.57 of the Revised Code, the private company may share the results of any criminal records check conducted under this division with the designated official for the purpose of complying with division (C)(1) of this section, but in no case shall the designated official release that information to any other person.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3333.82 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3333 / § 3333.82
§ 3333.82. Chancellor to establish clearinghouse of digital texts and distance learning courses
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) The chancellor of higher education shall establish a clearinghouse of digital texts, interactive distance learning courses, and other distance learning courses delivered via a computer-based method offered by school districts, community schools, STEM schools, state institutions of higher education, private colleges and universities, and other nonprofit and for-profit course providers for sharing with other school districts, community schools, STEM schools, state institutions of higher education, private colleges and universities, and individuals for the fee set pursuant to section 3333.84 of the Revised Code. The chancellor shall not be responsible for the content of digital texts or courses offered through the clearinghouse; however, all such digital texts and courses shall be delivered only in accordance with technical specifications approved by the chancellor and on a common statewide platform administered by the chancellor. The chancellor may provide professional development and training on the use of the distance learning clearinghouse. The clearinghouse's distance learning program for students in grades kindergarten to twelve shall be based on the following principles: (1) All Ohio students shall have access to high quality digital texts and distance learning courses at any point in their educational careers. (2) All students shall be able to customize their education using digital texts and distance learning courses offered through the clearinghouse and no student shall be denied access to any digital text or course in the clearinghouse in which the student is eligible to enroll. (3) Students may take distance learning courses for all or any portion of their curriculum requirements and may utilize a combination of digital texts and distance learning courses and courses taught in a traditional classroom setting. (4) Students may earn an unlimited number of academic credits through distance learning courses. (5) Students may take distance learning courses at any time of the calendar year. (6) Student advancement to higher coursework shall be based on a demonstration of subject area competency instead of completion of any particular number of hours of instruction. (B) To offer digital texts or a course through the clearinghouse, a provider shall apply to the chancellor in a form and manner prescribed by the chancellor. The application for each digital text or course shall describe the digital text or course of study in as much detail as required by the chancellor, whether an instructor is provided, the qualification and credentials of the instructor, the number of hours of instruction, and any other information required by the chancellor. The chancellor may require course providers to include in their applications information recommended by the state board of education under former section 3353.30 of the Revised Code. (C) The chancellor shall review the technical specifications of each application submitted under division (B) of this section. In reviewing applications, the chancellor may consult with the department of education and workforce; however, the responsibility to either approve or not approve a digital text or course for the clearinghouse belongs to the chancellor. The chancellor may request additional information from a provider that submits an application under division (B) of this section, if the chancellor determines that such information is necessary. The chancellor may negotiate changes in the proposal to offer a digital text or course, if the chancellor determines that changes are necessary in order to approve the digital text or course. (D) The chancellor shall catalog each digital text or course approved for the clearinghouse, through a print or electronic medium, displaying the following: (1) Information necessary for a student and the student's parent, guardian, or custodian and the student's school district, community school, STEM school, college, or university to decide whether to enroll in or subscribe to the course; (2) Instructions for enrolling in that digital text or course, including deadlines for enrollment. (E) Any expenses related to the installation of a course into the common statewide platform shall be borne by the course provider. (F) The chancellor may contract with an entity to perform any or all of the chancellor's duties under sections 3333.81 to 3333.88 of the Revised Code. Last updated September 12, 2023 at 1:13 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 3314.071 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3314 / § 3314.071
§ 3314.071. Liability on contracts
Status: in_force

June 29, 1999 House Bill 282 - 123rd General Assembly Any contract entered into by the governing authority or any officer or director of a community school, including the contract required by sections 3314.02 and 3314.03 of the Revised Code, is deemed to be entered into by such individuals in their official capacities as representatives of the community school. No officer, director, or member of the governing authority of a community school incurs any personal liability by virtue of entering into any contract on behalf of the school.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3313.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3313 / § 3313.21
§ 3313.21. Authority of school board over selection of instructional materials and curriculum
Status: in_force

September 17, 2014 House Bill 487 - 130th General Assembly (A) The board of education of each school district shall be the sole authority in determining and selecting all of the following to be used in the schools under its control: (1) Textbooks, pursuant to section 3329.08 of the Revised Code, and reading lists; (2) Instructional materials; (3) Academic curriculum. (B) The board of education of each school district may permit educators to create instructional materials, including textbooks, that are consistent with the curriculum adopted by the district board for use in the educators' classrooms. (C) Nothing in this section is intended to promote or encourage the utilization of any particular text or source material on a statewide basis.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3318.081 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 33 / Chapter 3318 / § 3318.081
§ 3318.081. Supplemental agreement with Ohio facilities construction commission
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly If the board of education of a school district authorized to impose a tax pursuant to section 3318.06 of the Revised Code determines that taxable value of property subject to the tax has increased to the extent it will not be necessary to impose such tax for twenty-three years in order to generate an amount equal to the amount of the project cost supplied by the state, it may request the county auditor to determine the amount remaining to be paid and the estimated rate of taxation required each year to pay such remainder in equal installments over the maximum number of remaining years the tax may be in effect. The auditor shall make such determination upon request and certify the results thereof to the board of education. Upon receipt of the auditor's determination, the board of education may request the Ohio facilities construction commission to enter into a supplemental agreement under which the district may pay the remainder of the amount in annual amounts equal to the quotient obtained by dividing the amount remaining to be paid by the maximum number of remaining years the tax may be in effect. If such an agreement is entered into, the commission shall certify a copy thereof to the county auditor and the tax authorized by section 3318.06 of the Revised Code thereafter shall be levied at the rate required to make the annual payments required by the supplemental agreement rather than the rate required by such section.