As Introduced

136th General Assembly

Regular Session S. B. No. 93

2025-2026

Senator Brenner

A BILL

To declare the General Assembly's intent to establish a new school financing system that provides a statewide per-pupil funding payment to public and chartered nonpublic schools based on a single statewide property tax and increased state sales tax.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:

Section 1. It is the intent of the General Assembly to do all of the following:

(A) Eliminate each school district's ability to levy property and income taxes;

(B) Establish a single statewide property tax and increased state sales tax to fund schools;

(C) Eliminate state scholarship programs for primary and secondary students;

(D) Establish a school financing system that calculates a statewide amount of per-pupil funding that will be paid to the public or chartered nonpublic school in which a student's family chooses to enroll that student.