Bill Text: OH SB242 | 2013-2014 | 130th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: To revise the membership composition of the State Board of Education.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-11-19 - To Education [SB242 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2013-SB242-Introduced.html
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Senator Sawyer
Cosponsors:
Senators Seitz, Kearney, Skindell, Tavares, Turner, Schiavoni, Brown, Obhof
| To amend section 3301.01 of the Revised Code to | 1 |
| revise the membership composition of the State | 2 |
| Board of Education. | 3 |
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
| Section 1. That section 3301.01 of the Revised Code be | 4 |
| amended to read as follows: | 5 |
| Sec. 3301.01. (A) There is hereby created the state board of | 6 |
| education consisting of nineteen members with eleven elected | 7 |
| members, one each to be elected in accordance with section 3301.03 | 8 |
| of the Revised Code from each of the districts established in | 9 |
| accordance with division (B) of this section, and with eight | 10 |
| members to be appointed by the governor with the advice and | 11 |
| consent of the senate. | 12 |
| In addition to the nineteen elected or appointed members, the | 13 |
| chairperson and ranking minority member of the committee of the | 14 |
| senate that primarily deals with education and the chairperson and | 15 |
| ranking minority member of the committee of the house of | 16 |
| representatives that primarily deals with education shall be | 17 |
| nonvoting ex officio members of the board. | 18 |
| (B)(1) The territory of each state board of education | 19 |
| district for each elected voting member of the board shall consist | 20 |
| of the territory of three contiguous senate districts as | 21 |
| established in the most recent apportionment for members of the | 22 |
| general assembly, but the territory of no senate district shall be | 23 |
| part of the territory of more than one state board of education | 24 |
| district. Each state board of education district shall be as | 25 |
| compact as practicable. The districts shall include, when | 26 |
| practicable, some districts that primarily consist of territory in | 27 |
| rural areas and some districts that primarily consist of territory | 28 |
| in urban areas. | 29 |
| (2) If, after the apportionment for members of the general | 30 |
| assembly is made in any year, the general assembly does not during | 31 |
| that year enact legislation establishing state board of education | 32 |
| districts in accordance with division (B)(1) of this section, the | 33 |
| governor shall designate the boundaries of the districts in | 34 |
| accordance with division (B)(1) of this section no later than the | 35 |
| thirty-first day of January of the year next succeeding such | 36 |
| apportionment. Upon making such designation, the governor shall | 37 |
| give written notice of the boundaries of the districts to each | 38 |
| member of the state board of education, including the nonvoting ex | 39 |
| officio members; the superintendent of public instruction; the | 40 |
| president of the senate; the speaker of the house of | 41 |
| representatives; and the board of elections of each county in each | 42 |
| new district. On the first day of February in any year in which | 43 |
| the governor designates the boundaries of state board of education | 44 |
| districts under this section, the state board of education | 45 |
| districts as they existed prior to that date shall cease to exist | 46 |
| and the new districts shall be created. | 47 |
| Section 2. That existing section 3301.01 of the Revised Code | 48 |
| is hereby repealed. | 49 |
