Bill Text: OH HB447 | 2013-2014 | 130th General Assembly | Comm Sub
Bill Title: To permit a school district resulting from the consolidation of two or more school districts or from the voluntary transfer of the entire territory of a school district to receive a loan from the Ohio school facilities commission for the construction of a new facility to support the consolidated district if specified conditions are satisfied, and to make an appropriation.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-02 - Committee Report - S [HB447 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2013-HB447-Comm_Sub.html
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Representative Lynch
Cosponsors:
Representatives Adams, J., Patterson, Roegner, Sprague, Stebelton, Thompson
| To enact sections 3318.75 and 3318.751 of the Revised | 1 |
| Code to permit a school district resulting from | 2 |
| the consolidation of two or more school districts | 3 |
| or from the voluntary transfer of the entire | 4 |
| territory of a school district to receive a loan | 5 |
| from the Ohio school facilities commission for the | 6 |
| construction of a new facility to support the | 7 |
| consolidated district if specified conditions are | 8 |
| satisfied, and to make an appropriation. | 9 |
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
| Section 1. That sections 3318.75 and 3318.751 of the Revised | 10 |
| Code be enacted to read as follows: | 11 |
| Sec. 3318.75. (A) For purposes of this section, an "eligible | 12 |
| school district" is a city, local, or exempted village school | 13 |
| district that results from the consolidation of two or more school | 14 |
| districts under section 3311.37 of the Revised Code or from a | 15 |
| voluntary transfer of the entire territory of a school district in | 16 |
| accordance with section 3311.38 or division (A)(1)(a) of section | 17 |
| 3311.24 of the Revised Code, provided all of the following | 18 |
| conditions are satisfied: | 19 |
| (1) With respect to the districts as they exist prior to the | 20 |
| consolidation or transfer: | 21 |
| (a) The districts are located in the same county. | 22 |
| (b) The county in which the districts are located has a | 23 |
| population of less than one hundred thousand as of the most recent | 24 |
| federal decennial census. | 25 |
| (c) Each of the districts has a student enrollment of less | 26 |
| than one thousand seven hundred students on the effective date of | 27 |
| the consolidation or transfer. | 28 |
| (d) Neither of the districts has previously received state | 29 |
| assistance under this chapter. | 30 |
| (2) Prior to applying for a loan under this section, the | 31 |
| department of education, in consultation with the Ohio school | 32 |
| facilities commission and the auditor of state, determined in a | 33 |
| study conducted under section 3318.751 of the Revised Code that | 34 |
| the school district resulting from the consolidation or transfer | 35 |
| would be able to repay a loan made under this section within | 36 |
| fifteen years after receiving the loan by using up to eighty per | 37 |
| cent of the savings from the consolidation or transfer. | 38 |
| (B) In addition to receiving state assistance under any other | 39 |
| section of this chapter, an eligible school district may apply for | 40 |
| a loan of up to ten million dollars from the commission for the | 41 |
| purpose of constructing a new classroom facility to meet the | 42 |
| district's needs. The application shall be submitted in a form and | 43 |
| manner specified by the commission. | 44 |
| (C) The commission shall adopt rules regarding the making and | 45 |
| repayment of loans under this section. | 46 |
| Sec. 3318.751. (A) Upon the request of a city, local, or | 47 |
| exempted village school district that may be eligible for a loan | 48 |
| under section 3318.75 of the Revised Code, the department of | 49 |
| education, in consultation with the Ohio school facilities | 50 |
| commission and the auditor of state, shall conduct a study in | 51 |
| order to identify any savings that resulted from the consolidation | 52 |
| or transfer that led to the district's formation. The department | 53 |
| shall use the information provided by the district under division | 54 |
| (B) of this section when conducting the study. | 55 |
| (B) When making a request under division (A) of this section, | 56 |
| a city, local, or exempted village school district must submit all | 57 |
| of the following information to the department: | 58 |
| (1) The district's effective tax rate; | 59 |
| (2) A description of the district's buildings obtained | 60 |
| through the consolidation or transfer that led to the district's | 61 |
| formation that have been or will be closed; | 62 |
| (3) The district's teacher and staffing levels. | 63 |
| Section 2. All items in this section are hereby appropriated | 64 |
| as designated out of any moneys in the state treasury to the | 65 |
| credit of the designated fund. For all appropriations made in this | 66 |
| act, those in the first column are for fiscal year 2014 and those | 67 |
| in the second column are for fiscal year 2015. The appropriations | 68 |
| made in this act are in addition to any other appropriations made | 69 |
| for the FY 2014-FY 2015 biennium. | 70 |
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| General Revenue Fund | 72 |
| GRF | 230501 | Consolidated District Loan Program | $ | 0 | $ | 10,000,000 | 73 | ||||
| TOTAL GRF General Revenue Fund | $ | 0 | $ | 10,000,000 | 74 | ||||||
| TOTAL ALL BUDGET FUND GROUPS | $ | 0 | $ | 10,000,000 | 75 | ||||||
| CONSOLIDATED DISTRICT LOAN PROGRAM | 76 |
| The foregoing appropriation item 230501, Consolidated | 77 |
| District Loan Program, shall be used to award loans to school | 78 |
| districts under section 3318.75 of the Revised Code. | 79 |
| Section 3. Within the limits set forth in this act, the | 80 |
| Director of Budget and Management shall establish accounts | 81 |
| indicating the source and amount of funds for each appropriation | 82 |
| made in this act, and shall determine the form and manner in which | 83 |
| appropriation accounts shall be maintained. Expenditures from | 84 |
| appropriations contained in this act shall be accounted for as | 85 |
| though made in Am. Sub. H.B. 59 of the 130th General Assembly. | 86 |
| The appropriations made in this act are subject to all | 87 |
| provisions of Am. Sub. H.B. 59 of the 130th General Assembly that | 88 |
| are generally applicable to such appropriations. | 89 |
