As Passed by the Senate

CORRECTED VERSION

132nd General Assembly

Regular Session Sub. H. B. No. 292

2017-2018

Representative Scherer

Cosponsors: Representatives Hambley, Retherford, Anielski, Antani, Brown, Faber, Galonski, Ginter, Goodman, Greenspan, Henne, Householder, Hughes, Lang, Patton, Reineke, Riedel, Roegner, Rogers, Ryan, Schaffer, Seitz, Smith, R., Sprague, Sweeney, Thompson

Senators Eklund, Beagle, Peterson, O'Brien, Burke, Gardner, Hackett, Hoagland, Hottinger, Huffman, Oelslager, Tavares, Terhar, Thomas

A BILL

To amend sections 122.6510, 124.134, 124.136, 124.152, 124.82, 124.87, 125.211, 126.231, 133.06, 323.31, 3317.021, 3375.404, 4123.932, 4503.066, 5717.04, and 5747.24 and to enact section 5709.57 of the Revised Code and to amend Section 221.10 of Am. Sub. H.B. 49 of the 132nd General Assembly and Sections 203.10, 207.100, 207.150, 207.170, 207.240, 207.260, 207.280, 207.290, 207.340, 221.13, 223.10, 223.15, 227.10, 237.10, 237.13, 253.100, 253.250, and 285.10 of H.B. 529 of the 132nd General Assembly to modify the test for determining an individual's state of residence for income tax purposes, to make appropriations and otherwise provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs, and to declare an emergency.

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

Section 1. That sections 122.6510, 124.134, 124.136, 124.152, 124.82, 124.87, 125.211, 126.231, 133.06, 323.31, 3317.021, 3375.404, 4123.932, 4503.066, 5717.04, and 5747.24 be amended and section 5709.57 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:

Sec. 122.6510. (A) As used in this section, "federal act" means the "Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act," 115 Stat. 2356 (2002), 42 U.S.C. 9601 and 9604.

(B) There is hereby created in the state treasury the Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund. The Fund shall consist of all moneys received by the state from the United States Department of Environmental Protection under repayments of loans made under the terms of the federal act, and any other money transferred to the Fund. The Fund shall may be used to make grants and loans by the Director of Development Services. All investment earnings of the Fund shall be credited to the Fund.

(C) The Director shall administer moneys received into the Fund and comply with all requirements imposed by the federal act in its application for, and administration of, administering the funds as grants and loans.

(D) The Director shall may establish a schedule of fees and charges payable by grant and loan recipients to the Director for the administration of this section.

Sec. 124.134. (A) Each full-time permanent state employee paid in accordance with section 124.152 of the Revised Code and those employees listed in divisions (B)(2) and (4) of section 124.14 of the Revised Code shall be credited with vacation leave with full pay according to length of service and accruing at a corresponding rate per biweekly pay period, as follows:

Length of Service Accrual Rate Per Pay Period

Less than 4 years 3.1 hours

4 but less than 9 years 4.6 hours

9 but less than 14 years 6.2 hours

14 but less than 19 years 6.9 hours

19 but less than 24 years 7.7 hours

24 years or more 9.2 hours

Fifty-two weeks equal one year of service.

The amount of an employee's service shall be determined in accordance with the standard specified in section 9.44 of the Revised Code. Credit for prior service, including an increased vacation accrual rate and longevity supplement, shall take effect during the first pay period that begins immediately following the date the director of administrative services approves granting credit for that prior service. No employee, other than an employee who submits proof of prior service within ninety days after the date of the employee's hiring, shall receive any amount of vacation leave for the period prior to the date of the director's approval of the grant of credit for prior service.

Part-time permanent employees who are paid in accordance with section 124.152 of the Revised Code and full-time permanent employees subject to this section who are in active pay status for less than eighty hours in a pay period shall earn vacation leave on a prorated basis. The ratio between the hours worked and the vacation hours earned by these classes of employees shall be the same as the ratio between the hours worked and the vacation hours earned by a full-time permanent employee with the same amount of service as provided for in this section.

Vacation leave is not available for use until it appears on the employee's earning statement and the compensation described in the earning statement is available to the employee. An employee may begin using accrued vacation leave upon completion of the employee's initial probation period. A probationary period that follows a separation from service that is less than thirty-one days is not considered an initial probation period for purposes of this section.

(B) Employees granted leave under this section shall forfeit their right to take or to be paid for any vacation leave to their credit which is in excess of the accrual for three years. Any excess leave shall be eliminated from the employees' leave balance.

(C) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, beginning in fiscal year 2012, an employee may be paid for up to eighty hours of vacation leave each fiscal year if the employee requested and was denied the use of vacation leave during that fiscal year. No employee shall receive payment for more than eighty hours of denied vacation leave in a single fiscal year. An employee is only eligible to receive payment for vacation leave when the employee's vacation leave credit is at, or will reach in the immediately following pay period, the maximum of the accrual for three years and the employee has been denied the use of vacation leave. An employee is not entitled to receive payment for vacation leave denied in any pay period in which the employee's vacation leave credit is not at, or will not reach in the immediately following pay period, the maximum of accrual for three years. Any vacation leave for which an employee receives payment shall be deducted from the employee's vacation leave balance. No employee is eligible to receive payment for denied vacation leave in either fiscal year 2010 or fiscal year 2011.

(D) The supreme court, general assembly, secretary of state, auditor of state, treasurer of state, and attorney general may establish by policy an alternate payment structure for employees whose vacation leave credit is at, or will reach in the immediately following pay period, the maximum of accrual for three years and the employee has been denied the use of vacation leave. An employee is not entitled to receive payment for vacation leave denied in any pay period in which the employee's vacation leave credit is not at, or will not reach in the immediately following pay period, the maximum of accrual for three years. Any vacation leave for which the employee receives payment shall be deducted from the employee's vacation leave balance.

(E) Upon Except as otherwise provided in this division, upon separation from state service, an employee granted leave under this section is entitled to compensation at the employee's current rate of pay for all unused vacation leave accrued under this section or section 124.13 of the Revised Code to the employee's credit. An employee who separates from state service with less than twelve months of total state service is not entitled to compensation for unused accrued vacation leave. In case of transfer of an employee from one state agency to another, the employee shall retain the accrued and unused accrued vacation leave. In case of the death of an employee, the unused accrued vacation leave shall be paid in accordance with section 2113.04 of the Revised Code, or to the employee's estate. An employee serving in a temporary work level who is eligible to receive compensation under this division shall be compensated at the base rate of pay of the employee's normal classification.

(F)(1) Except as provided in division (G) of this section, beginning in December 2019, and every year thereafter, the director shall allow an eligible full-time or part-time employee who is credited with vacation leave under this section to convert to cash a maximum of forty hours of unused accrued vacation leave.

(2) To be eligible for the conversion described in division (F)(1) of this section, an employee shall have not less than two hundred hours of unused accrued vacation leave available for use on the last day of the first pay period of November in the year that the employee chooses to make the conversion.

(3) Unused accrued vacation leave converted to cash under division (F)(1) of this section shall be paid to the employee in the first paycheck of December at the base rate of pay for every hour of unused accrued vacation leave that the employee converts. An employee serving in a temporary work level who elects to convert unused accrued vacation leave to cash shall do so at the base rate of pay of the employee's normal classification.

(4) An employee who separates from state service during the year shall not be eligible for the cash benefit provided under division (F) of this section.

(5) The cash benefit set forth in division (F) of this section shall not be subject to contributions to any of the retirement systems, either by the employee or the employer.

(6) The director shall establish procedures to implement this division. The director shall include in the procedures a final date by which an employee must notify the director of the amount of unused accrued vacation leave to be converted to cash. Except as provided in division (B) of this section, an employee's unused accrued vacation leave balance shall automatically carry forward if the employee does not notify the director in accordance with the procedures the director establishes.

(G) Division (F) of this section does not apply to employees of the supreme court, the general assembly, the legislative service commission, the secretary of state, the auditor of state, the treasurer of state, or the attorney general unless the supreme court, the general assembly, the legislative service commission, the secretary of state, the auditor of state, the treasurer of state, or the attorney general decides that the employees of those respective entities should be eligible for the opportunity to convert unused accrued vacation leave pursuant to division (F) of this section and notifies the director in writing on or before the first day of October of the calendar year of the decision to make the employees eligible. The first year that these entities may elect to allow to make the employees eligible is 2019. After notifying the director in writing of the decision that employees of those respective entities are eligible, those employees remain eligible until the respective entity notifies the director in writing on or before the first day of October of the calendar year that the employees are ineligible. If any entity notifies the director of a decision that employees of those entities are ineligible during any calendar year, those employees remain ineligible until the entity notifies the director in writing on or before the first day of October of the calendar year that the employees are eligible. This division does not apply to employees defined as public employees under section 4117.01 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 124.136. (A)(1) Each permanent full-time and permanent part-time employee paid in accordance with section 124.152 of the Revised Code and each employee listed in division (B)(2) or (4) of section 124.14 of the Revised Code who works thirty or more hours per week, and who meets the requirement of division (A)(2) of this section is eligible, upon the birth or adoption of a child, for a parental leave of absence and parental leave benefits under this section. Parental leave of absence shall begin on the day of the birth of a child or on the day on which custody of a child is taken for adoption placement by the prospective parents.

(2) To be eligible for leave and benefits under this section, an employee must be the biological a parent, as listed on the birth certificate, of a newly born child or the legal guardian of and reside in the same household as a newly adopted child. Employees may elect to receive two thousand dollars for adoption expenses in lieu of receiving the paid leave benefit provided under this section. Such payment may be requested upon placement of the child in the employee's home. If the child is already residing in the home, payment may be requested at the time the adoption is approved.

(3) The average number of regular hours worked, which shall include all hours of holiday pay and other types of paid leave, during the three-month period immediately preceding the day parental leave of absence begins shall be used to determine eligibility and benefits under this section for part-time employees, but such benefits shall not exceed forty hours per week. If an employee has not worked for a three-month period, the number of hours for which the employee has been scheduled to work per week during the employee's period of employment shall be used to determine eligibility and benefits under this section.

(B) Parental leave granted under this section shall not exceed six continuous weeks, which shall include four weeks or one hundred sixty hours of paid leave for permanent full-time employees and a prorated number of hours of paid leave for permanent part-time employees. All employees granted parental leave shall serve a waiting period of fourteen days that begins on the day parental leave begins and during which they shall not receive paid leave under this section. Employees may choose to work during the waiting period. During the remaining four weeks of the leave period, employees shall receive paid leave equal to seventy per cent of their base rate of pay. All of the following apply to employees granted parental leave:

(1) They remain eligible to receive all employer-paid benefits and continue to accrue all other forms of paid leave as if they were in active pay status.

(2) They are ineligible to receive overtime pay, and no portion of their parental leave shall be included in calculating their overtime pay.

(3) They are ineligible to receive holiday pay. A holiday occurring during the leave period shall be counted as one day of parental leave and be paid as such.

(C) Employees receiving parental leave may utilize available sick leave, personal leave, vacation leave, or compensatory time balances in order to be paid during the fourteen-day waiting period and to supplement the seventy per cent of their base rate of pay received during the remaining part of their parental leave period, in an amount sufficient to give them up to one hundred per cent of their pay for time on parental leave.

Use of parental leave does not affect an employee's eligibility for other forms of paid leave granted under this chapter and does not prohibit an employee from taking leave under the "Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993," 107 Stat. 6, 29 U.S.C.A. 2601, except that parental leave shall be included in any leave time provided under that act.

(D) Employees receiving disability leave benefits under section 124.385 of the Revised Code prior to becoming eligible for parental leave shall continue to receive disability leave benefits for the duration of their disabling condition or as otherwise provided under the disability leave benefits program. If an employee is receiving disability leave benefits because of pregnancy and these benefits expire prior to the expiration date of any benefits the employee would have been entitled to receive under this section, the employee shall receive parental leave for such additional time without being required to serve an additional waiting period.

Sec. 124.152. (A)(1) Except as provided in divisions division (A)(2) and (3) of this section, each exempt employee shall be paid a salary or wage in accordance with schedule E-1 or schedule E-2 of division (B) of this section.

(2) Each exempt employee who holds a position in the unclassified civil service pursuant to division (A)(26) or (30) of section 124.11 of the Revised Code may be paid a salary or wage in accordance with schedule E-1, schedule E-1 for step eight only, or schedule E-2 of division (B) or (C) of this section, as applicable.

(3)(a) Except as provided in division (A)(3)(b), (c), or (e) of this section, each exempt employee who was paid a salary or wage at step 7 in the employee's pay range on June 28, 2003, in accordance with the applicable schedule E-1 of former section 124.152 of the Revised Code and who continued to be so paid on June 29, 2003, shall be paid a salary or wage in the corresponding pay range in schedule E-1 for step eight only of division (C) of this section for as long as the employee remains in the position the employee held as of July 1, 2003. Such an employee is not eligible to be paid a salary or wage at step 7 in schedule E-1 for as long as the employee remains in the position the employee held as of July 1, 2003.

(b) If an exempt employee who is being paid a salary or wage in accordance with schedule E-1 for step eight only of division (C) of this section moves to another position, the employee shall not receive a salary or wage for that position or any other position in the future in accordance with that schedule.

(c) Each exempt employee who is being paid a salary or wage in pay range 12 through 16 of schedule E-1 for step eight only of division (C) of this section shall be paid a salary or wage in the corresponding pay range in schedule E-1 of division (B) of this section as follows:

(i) If the employee has maintained satisfactory performance in accordance with the criteria established by the employee's appointing authority within the twelve-month period immediately before July 1, 2016, at step 8 beginning on the first day of the pay period that includes July 1, 2016;

(ii) If the employee has not maintained satisfactory performance in accordance with the criteria established by the employee's appointing authority within the twelve-month period immediately before July 1, 2016, but attains satisfactory performance in accordance with the criteria before July 1, 2017, at step 8 beginning on the first day of the pay period that follows the date the employee attains satisfactory performance;

(iii) If the employee does not attain satisfactory performance in accordance with the criteria established by the employee's appointing authority before July 1, 2017, at the employee's base rate of pay as of the pay period immediately before the pay period that includes July 1, 2017, beginning on the first day of the pay period that includes July 1, 2017.

(d) If an employee described in division (A)(3)(c)(iii) of this section attains satisfactory performance in accordance with the criteria established by the employee's appointing authority, the employee shall be paid a salary or wage at step 8 in the corresponding pay range in schedule E-1 of division (B) of this section beginning on the first day of the pay period that follows the date the employee attains satisfactory performance.

(e) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, each exempt employee who is being paid a salary or wage in range 17 or 18 of schedule E-1 for step eight only of division (C) of this section on the first day of the pay period that includes July 1, 2016, shall not receive an increase in salary or wage until the maximum rate of pay for step 6 of the employee's corresponding pay range in schedule E-1 of division (B) of this section exceeds the employee's base rate of pay as of July 1, 2016.

(f) An employee who becomes eligible to receive an increase in salary or wage under division (A)(3)(e) of this section shall be paid a salary or wage in step 6 of the employee's corresponding pay range in schedule E-1 of division (B) of this section.

(B)(1) Beginning on the first day of the pay period that includes July 1, 2015, each Each exempt employee who must be paid in accordance with schedule E-1 or schedule E-2 of this section shall be paid a salary or wage in accordance with the following schedule of rates as of the pay period that includes July 1, 2018:

Schedule E-1

Pay Ranges and Step Values

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8

Range

1 Hourly 10.32 10.78 11.24 11.73

11.14 11.64 12.13 12.66

Annually 21466 22422 23379 24398

23171 24211 25230 26333

2 Hourly 12.52 13.05 13.61 14.21

13.51 14.09 14.69 15.34

Annually 26042 27144 28309 29557

28101 29307 30555 31907

3 Hourly 13.11 13.70 14.31 14.93

14.16 14.79 15.45 16.11

Annually 27269 28496 29765 31054

29453 30763 32136 33509

4 Hourly 13.77 14.38 15.07 15.74

14.86 15.53 16.28 16.98

Annually 28642 29910 31346 32739

30909 32302 33862 35318

5 Hourly 14.44 15.10 15.74 16.43

15.59 16.31 16.98 17.73

Annually 30035 31408 32739 34174

32427 33925 35318 36878

6 Hourly 15.22 15.85 16.55 17.23

16.43 17.12 17.86 18.60

Annually 31658 32968 34424 35838

34174 35610 37149 38688

7 Hourly 16.16 16.76 17.45 18.06 18.76

17.44 18.09 18.84 19.49 20.25

Annually 33613 34861 36296 37565 39021

36275 37627 39187 40539 42120

8 Hourly 17.08 17.84 18.60 19.44 20.37

18.44 19.27 20.09 20.99 21.99

Annually 35526 37107 38688 40435 42370

38355 40082 41787 43659 45739

9 Hourly 18.22 19.17 20.11 21.12 22.19

19.68 20.69 21.71 22.80 23.95

Annually 37898 39874 41829 43930 46155

40934 43035 45157 47424 49816

10 Hourly 19.67 20.74 21.85 23.11 24.35

21.23 22.39 23.59 24.95 26.28

Annually 40914 43139 45448 48069 50648

44158 46571 49067 51896 54662

11 Hourly 21.41 22.66 23.97 25.33 26.76

23.12 24.46 25.87 27.34 28.89

Annually 44533 47133 49858 52686 55661

48090 50877 53810 58867 60091

12 Hourly 23.62 24.95 26.29 27.75 29.29 30.88 33.66

25.50 26.93 28.38 29.95 31.62 33.33 34.70 36.33

Annually 49130 51896 54683 57720 60923 64230 70013

53040 56014 59030 62296 65770 69326 72176 75566

13 Hourly 26.04 27.47 28.98 30.52 32.24 33.99 37.04

28.11 29.65 31.28 32.94 34.81 36.69 38.19 39.99

Annually 54163 57138 60278 63482 67059 70699 77043

58469 61672 65062 68515 72405 76315 79435 83179

14 Hourly 28.63 30.25 31.88 33.62 35.52 37.50 40.88

30.91 32.66 34.42 36.29 38.35 40.48 42.15 44.13

Annually 59550 62920 66310 69930 73882 78000 85030

64293 67933 71594 75483 79768 84198 87672 91790

15 Hourly 31.45 33.22 35.10 37.02 39.08 41.23 44.94

33.96 35.86 37.89 39.97 42.19 44.51 46.33 48.51

Annually 65416 69098 73008 77002 81286 85758 93475

70637 74589 78811 83138 87755 92581 96366 100901

16 Hourly 34.68 36.60 38.61 40.78 43.03 45.49 49.58

37.44 39.52 41.69 44.03 46.45 49.11 51.12 53.52

Annually 72134 76128 80309 84822 89502 94619 103126

77875 82202 86715 91582 96616 102149 106330 111322

17 Hourly 38.21 40.32 42.58 44.93 47.43 50.08

41.25 43.52 45.96 48.50 51.21 54.06

Annually 79477 83866 88566 93454 98654 104166

85800 90522 95597 100880 106517 112445

18 Hourly 42.11 44.44 46.95 49.52 52.26 55.19

45.46 47.97 50.68 53.46 56.42 59.57

Annually 87589 92435 97656 103002 108701 114795

94557 99778 105414 111197 117354 123906

An employee who is being paid a salary or wage at step 6 on July 1, 2015, is eligible to move to step 7 beginning on the first day of the pay period that immediately follows July 1, 2015, if the employee has maintained satisfactory performance in accordance with the criteria established by the employee's appointing authority and the employee has not advanced a step within the twelve-month period immediately preceding the advancement to step 7.

Schedule E-2

Range Minimum Maximum

41 Hourly 16.23 41.6244.93

Annually 33758 8657093454

42 Hourly 17.89 45.9649.62

Annually 37211 95597103210

43 Hourly 19.70 50.6254.65

Annually 40976 105290113672

44 Hourly 21.73 55.3059.70

Annually 45198 115024124176

45 Hourly 24.01 60.3865.18

Annually 49941 137248135574

46 Hourly 26.43 65.9871.23

Annually 54974 137238148158

47 Hourly 29.14 72.0177.74

Annually 60611 149781161699

48 Hourly 32.14 78.5884.82

Annually 66851 163446176426

49 Hourly 35.44 84.8491.58

Annually 73715 176467190486

(2) Beginning on the first day of the pay period that includes July 1, 2016, each Each exempt employee who must be paid in accordance with schedule E-1 or schedule E-2 of this section shall be paid a salary or wage in accordance with the following schedule of rates as of the pay period that includes July 1, 2019:

Schedule E-1

Pay Ranges and Step Values

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8

Range

1 Hourly 10.58 11.05 11.52 12.02

11.45 11.96 12.46 13.01

Annually 22006 22984 23962 25002

23816 24877 25917 27061

2 Hourly 12.83 13.38 13.95 14.57

13.88 14.48 15.09 15.76

Annually 26686 27830 29016 30306

28870 30118 31387 32781

3 Hourly 13.44 14.04 14.67 15.30

14.55 15.20 15.87 16.55

Annually 27955 29203 30514 31824

30264 31616 33010 34424

4 Hourly 14.11 14.74 15.45 16.13

15.27 15.96 16.73 17.45

Annually 29349 30659 32136 33550

31762 33197 34798 36296

5 Hourly 14.80 15.48 16.13 16.84

16.02 16.76 17.45 18.22

Annually 30784 32198 33550 35027

33322 34861 36296 37898

6 Hourly 15.60 16.25 16.96 17.66

16.88 17.59 18.35 19.11

Annually 32448 33800 35277 36733

35110 36587 38168 39749

7 Hourly 16.56 17.18 17.89 18.51 19.23

17.92 18.59 19.36 20.03 20.81

Annually 34445 35734 37211 38501 39998

37274 38667 40269 41662 43285

8 Hourly 17.51 18.29 19.07 19.93 20.88

18.95 19.80 20.64 21.57 22.59

Annually 36421 38043 39666 41454 43430

39416 41184 42931 44866 46987

9 Hourly 18.68 19.65 20.61 21.65 22.74

20.22 21.26 22.31 23.43 24.61

Annually 38854 40872 42869 45032 47299

42058 44221 46405 48734 51189

10 Hourly 20.16 21.26 22.40 23.69 24.96

21.81 23.01 24.24 25.64 27.00

Annually 41933 44221 46592 49275 51917

45365 47861 50419 53331 56160

11 Hourly 21.95 23.23 24.57 25.96 27.43

23.76 25.13 26.58 28.09 29.68

Annually 45656 48318 51106 53997 57054

49421 52270 55286 58427 61734

12 Hourly 24.21 25.57 26.95 28.44 30.02 31.65 32.95 34.50

26.20 27.67 29.16 30.77 32.49 34.25 35.65 37.33

Annually 50357 53186 56056 59155 62442 65832 68536 71760

54496 57554 60653 64002 67579 71240 74152 77646

13 Hourly 26.69 28.16 29.70 31.28 33.05 34.84 36.26 37.97

28.88 30.47 32.14 33.85 35.77 37.70 39.24 41.09

Annually 55515 58573 61776 65062 68744 72467 75421 78978

60070 63378 66851 70408 74402 78416 81619 85467

14 Hourly 29.35 31.01 32.68 34.46 36.41 38.44 40.01 41.90

31.76 33.56 35.37 37.29 39.40 41.59 43.31 45.34

Annually 61048 64501 67974 71677 75733 79955 83221 87152

66061 69805 73570 77563 81952 86507 90085 94307

15 Hourly 32.24 34.05 35.98 37.95 40.06 42.26 43.99 46.06

34.89 36.85 38.93 41.07 43.35 45.73 47.60 49.84

Annually 67059 70824 74838 78936 83325 87901 91499 95805

72571 76648 80974 85426 90168 95118 99008 103667

16 Hourly 35.55 37.52 39.58 41.80 44.11 46.63 48.53 50.82

38.47 40.61 42.84 45.24 47.73 50.46 52.53 54.99

Annually 73944 78042 82326 86944 91749 96990 100942 105706

80018 84469 89107 94099 99278 104957 109262 114379

17 Hourly 39.17 41.33 43.64 46.05 48.62 51.33

42.38 44.72 47.22 49.83 52.62 55.55

Annually 81474 85966 90771 95784 101130 106766

88150 93018 98218 103646 109450 115544

18 Hourly 43.16 45.55 48.12 50.76 53.57 56.57

46.71 49.29 52.07 54.93 57.97 61.21

Annually 89773 94744 100090 105581 111426 117666

97157 102523 108306 114254 120578 127317

Schedule E-2

Range Minimum Maximum

41 Hourly 16.23 42.6646.17

Annually 33758 8873396034

42 Hourly 17.89 47.1150.98

Annually 37211 97989106038

43 Hourly 19.70 51.8956.15

Annually 40976 107931116792

44 Hourly 21.73 56.6861.34

Annually 45198 117894127587

45 Hourly 24.01 61.8966.97

Annually 49941 128731139298

46 Hourly 26.43 67.6373.19

Annually 54974 140670152235

47 Hourly 29.14 73.8179.88

Annually 60611 153525166150

48 Hourly 32.14 80.5487.15

Annually 66851 167523181272

49 Hourly 35.44 86.9694.10

Annually 73715 180877195728

(3) Beginning on the first day of the pay period that includes July 1, 2017, each Each exempt employee who must be paid in accordance with schedule E-1 or schedule E-2 of this section shall be paid a salary or wage in accordance with the following schedule of rates as of the pay period that includes July 1, 2020:

Schedule E-1

Pay Ranges and Step Values

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8

Range

1 Hourly 10.84 11.33 11.81 12.32

11.79 12.32 12.83 13.40

Annually 22547 23566 24565 25626

24523 25626 26686 27872

2 Hourly 13.15 13.71 14.30 14.93

14.30 14.91 15.54 16.23

Annually 27352 28517 29744 31054

29744 31013 32323 33758

3 Hourly 13.78 14.39 15.04 15.68

14.99 15.66 16.35 17.05

Annually 28662 29931 31283 32614

31179 32573 34008 35464

4 Hourly 14.46 15.11 15.84 16.53

15.73 16.44 17.23 17.97

Annually 30077 31429 32947 34382

32718 34195 35838 37378

5 Hourly 15.17 15.87 16.53 17.26

16.50 17.26 17.97 18.77

Annually 31554 33010 34382 35901

34320 35901 37378 39042

6 Hourly 15.99 16.66 17.38 18.10

17.39 18.12 18.90 19.68

Annually 33259 34653 36150 37648

36171 37690 39312 40934

7 Hourly 16.97 17.61 18.34 18.97 19.71

18.46 19.15 19.94 20.63 21.43

Annually 35298 36629 38147 39458 40997

38397 39832 41475 42910 44574

8 Hourly 17.95 18.75 19.55 20.43 21.40

19.52 20.39 21.26 22.22 23.27

Annually 37336 39000 40664 42494 44512

40602 42411 44221 46218 48402

9 Hourly 19.15 20.14 21.13 22.19 23.31

20.83 21.90 22.98 24.13 25.35

Annually 39832 41891 43950 46155 48485

43326 45552 47798 50190 52728

10 Hourly 20.66 21.79 22.96 24.28 25.58

22.46 23.70 24.97 26.41 27.81

Annually 42973 45323 47757 50502 53206

46717 49296 51938 54933 57845

11 Hourly 22.50 23.81 25.18 26.61 28.12

24.47 25.88 27.38 28.93 30.57

Annually 46800 49525 52374 55349 58490

50898 53830 56950 60174 63586

12 Hourly 24.82 26.21 27.62 29.15 30.77 32.44 33.77 35.36

26.99 28.50 30.03 31.69 33.46 35.28 36.72 38.45

Annually 51626 54517 57450 60632 64002 67475 70242 73549

56139 59280 62462 65915 69597 73382 76378 79976

13 Hourly 27.36 28.86 30.44 32.06 33.88 35.71 37.17 38.92

29.75 31.38 33.10 34.87 36.84 38.83 40.42 42.32

Annually 56909 60029 63315 66685 70470 74277 77314 80954

61880 65270 68848 72530 76627 80766 84074 88026

14 Hourly 30.08 31.79 33.50 35.32 37.32 39.40 41.02 42.95

32.71 34.57 36.43 38.41 40.58 42.84 44.61 46.70

Annually 62566 66123 69680 73466 77626 81952 85322 89336

68037 71906 75774 79893 84406 89107 92789 97136

15 Hourly 33.05 34.90 36.88 38.90 41.06 43.32 45.09 47.21

35.94 37.96 40.10 42.30 44.65 47.10 49.03 51.34

Annually 68744 72592 76710 80912 85405 90106 93787 98197

74755 78957 83408 87984 92872 97968 101982 106787

16 Hourly 36.44 38.46 40.57 42.85 45.21 47.80 49.75 52.09

39.62 41.83 44.13 46.60 49.16 51.97 54.11 56.64

Annually 75795 79997 84386 89128 94037 99424 103480 108347

82410 87006 91790 96928 102253 108098 112549 117811

17 Hourly 40.15 42.36 44.73 47.20 49.84 52.61

43.65 46.06 48.64 51.32 54.20 57.22

Annually 83512 88109 93038 98176 103667 109429

90792 95805 101171 106746 112736 119018

18 Hourly 44.24 46.69 49.32 52.03 54.91 57.98

48.11 50.77 53.63 56.58 59.71 63.05

Annually 92019 97115 102586 108222 114213 120598

100069 105602 111550 117686 124197 131144

Schedule E-2

Range Minimum Maximum

41 Hourly 16.23 43.7347.56

Annually 33758 9095898925

42 Hourly 17.89 48.2952.51

Annually 37211 100443109221

43 Hourly 19.70 53.1957.83

Annually 40976 110635120286

44 Hourly 21.73 58.1063.18

Annually 45198 120848131414

45 Hourly 24.01 63.4468.98

Annually 49941 131955143478

46 Hourly 26.43 69.3275.39

Annually 54974 144186156811

47 Hourly 29.14 75.6682.28

Annually 60611 157373171142

48 Hourly 32.14 82.5589.76

Annually 66851 171704186701

49 Hourly 35.44 89.1396.92

Annually 73715 185390201594

(C)(1) Beginning on the first day of the pay period that includes July 1, 2015, each exempt employee who must be paid in accordance with salary schedule E-1 for step eight only shall be paid a salary or wage in accordance with the following schedule of rates:

Schedule E-1 for Step Eight Only

Pay Ranges and Step Values

Range

12 Hourly 32.60

Annually 67808

13 Hourly 35.85

Annually 74568

14 Hourly 39.53

Annually 82222

15 Hourly 43.50

Annually 90480

16 Hourly 47.98

Annually 99798

17 Hourly 52.84

Annually 109907

18 Hourly 58.22

Annually 121098

(2) Beginning on the first day of the pay period that includes July 1, 2016, each exempt employee who must be paid in accordance with schedule E-1 for step eight only shall be paid a salary or wage in accordance with the following schedule of rates:

Schedule E-1 for Step Eight Only

Pay Ranges and Step Values

Range

12 Hourly 33.42

Annually 69514

13 Hourly 36.75

Annually 76440

14 Hourly 40.52

Annually 84282

15 Hourly 44.59

Annually 92747

16 Hourly 49.18

Annually 102294

17 Hourly 54.16

Annually 112653

18 Hourly 59.68

Annually 124134

(D) As used in this section:

(1) "Exempt employee" means a permanent full-time or permanent part-time employee paid directly by warrant of the director of budget and management whose position is included in the job classification plan established under division (A) of section 124.14 of the Revised Code but who is not considered a public employee for the purposes of Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code. "Exempt employee" also includes a permanent full-time or permanent part-time employee of the secretary of state, auditor of state, treasurer of state, or attorney general who has not been placed in an appropriate bargaining unit by the state employment relations board.

(2) "Base rate of pay" means the rate of pay established under schedule E-1 or schedule E-1 for step eight only of this section, plus the supplement provided under division (E) of section 124.181 of the Revised Code, plus any supplements enacted into law that are added to schedule E-1 or schedule E-1 for step eight only of this section.

Sec. 124.82. (A) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, the department of administrative services, in consultation with the superintendent of insurance, shall, in accordance with competitive selection procedures of Chapter 125. of the Revised Code, contract with an insurance company or a health plan in combination with an insurance company, authorized to do business in this state, for the issuance of a policy or contract of health, medical, hospital, dental, or surgical

benefits, or any combination of those benefits, covering state employees who are paid directly by warrant of the director of budget and management, including elected state officials. The department may fulfill its obligation under this division by exercising its authority under division (A)(2) of section 124.81 of the Revised Code.

(B) The Except as provided in division (D) of this section, the department may, in addition, in consultation with the superintendent of insurance, negotiate and contract with health insuring corporations holding a certificate of authority under Chapter 1751. of the Revised Code, in their approved service areas only, for issuance of a contract or contracts of health care services, covering state employees who are paid directly by warrant of the director of budget and management, including elected state officials. The department may enter into contracts with one or more insurance carriers or health plans to provide the same plan of benefits, provided that:

(1) The amount of the premium or cost for such coverage contributed by the state, for an individual or for an individual and the individual's family, does not exceed that same amount of the premium or cost contributed by the state under division (A) of this section;

(2) The employee be permitted to exercise the option as to which plan the employee will select under division (A) or (B) of this section, at a time that shall be determined by the department;

(3) (2) The health insuring corporations do not refuse to accept the employee, or the employee and the employee's family, if the employee exercises the option to select care provided by the corporations;

(4) (3) The employee may choose participation in only one of the plans sponsored by the department;

(5) (4) The director of health examines and certifies to the department that the quality and adequacy of care rendered by the health insuring corporations meet at least the standards of care provided by hospitals and physicians in that employee's community, who would be providing such care as would be covered by a contract awarded under division (A) of this section.

(C) All or any portion of the cost, premium, or charge for the coverage in divisions (A) and (B) of this section may be paid in such manner or combination of manners as the department determines and may include the proration of health care costs, premiums, or charges for part-time employees.

(D) Notwithstanding division divisions (A) and (B) of this section, the department may provide benefits equivalent to those that may be paid under a policy or contract issued by an insurance company or a health plan pursuant to division (A) or (B) of this section.

(E) This section does not prohibit the state office of collective bargaining from entering into an agreement with an employee representative for the purposes of providing fringe benefits, including, but not limited to, hospitalization, surgical care, major medical care, disability, dental care, vision care, medical care, hearing aids, prescription drugs, group life insurance, sickness and accident insurance, group legal services or other benefits, or any combination of those benefits, to employees paid directly by warrant of the director of budget and management through a jointly administered trust fund. The employer's contribution for the cost of the benefit care shall be mutually agreed to in the collectively bargained agreement. The amount, type, and structure of fringe benefits provided under this division is subject to the determination of the board of trustees of the jointly administered trust fund. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Revised Code, competitive bidding does not apply to the purchase of fringe benefits for employees under this division when those benefits are provided through a jointly administered trust fund.

(F) Members of state boards or commissions may be covered by any policy, contract, or plan of benefits or services described in division (A) or (B) of this section. Board or commission members who are appointed for a fixed term and who are compensated on a per meeting basis, or paid only for expenses, or receive a combination of per diem payments and expenses shall pay the entire amount of the premiums, costs, or charges for that coverage.

Sec. 124.87. (A) There is hereby established in the state treasury the state employee health benefit fund for the sole purpose of enabling the department of administrative services to provide state employees with any benefits specified in division divisions (A) and (B) of section 124.82 of the Revised Code.

(B) The fund shall be under the supervision of the department. The department shall be responsible, under approved bonds, for all moneys coming into, and paid out of, the fund in accordance with this section and shall ensure that the fund is actuarially sound. Amounts from the fund may be used to pay direct and indirect costs that are attributable to consultants or third-party administrators and that are necessary to administer this section.

(C) In carrying out its duties and responsibilities, the department shall do the following:

(1) Adopt rules with regard to the administration of the fund;

(2) With respect to benefits specified in division divisions (A) and (B) of section 124.82 of the Revised Code, enter into a contract with a health insuring corporation operating in accordance with Chapter 1751. of the Revised Code, a company authorized to do the business of sickness and accident insurance under Title XXXIX of the Revised Code, or a professional claim administrator, to serve as administrator of that portion of the fund set aside to provide those benefits. As used in this division, a "professional claim administrator" means any person that has experience in the handling of insurance claims and has been determined by the department to be fully qualified, financially sound, and capable of meeting all of the service requirements of the contract of administration under such criteria as may be established by rules adopted by the department. With respect to the benefits specified in division divisions (A) and (B) of section 124.82 of the Revised Code, if the fund is the secondary payor of these benefits, the amount the professional claim administrator may pay is limited to an amount that will yield a benefit no greater than the amount that would have been paid if the fund were the primary payor of these benefits.

(3) Adopt rules governing the conditions under which an employee may participate in or withdraw from the fund, and the procedure by which the employee is to contribute to the fund;

(4) Adopt rules to ensure that the fund is actuarially sound;

(5) Adopt rules to ensure the integrity of the fund, and to ensure that the fund be used solely for the purpose specified in division (A) of this section.

The department shall adopt all rules pursuant to this section in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.

(D) Amounts withheld from employees, amounts contributed by the state or from federal funds, and all amounts contributed by any state authority, shall be credited to the fund. All other income, including the income derived from any dividends and distributions, interest earned, premium rate adjustments, or other refunds, shall also be credited to the fund. Any amounts remaining in the fund after all premiums or subscription charges, and other expenses have been paid, shall be retained in the fund as a special reserve for adverse fluctuation.

(E) All income derived from the investment of the fund shall accrue to the fund.

(F) The department shall have prepared every year, by a competent actuary familiar with health and life insurance, a report showing a complete actuarial evaluation of the fund and the adequacy of the rates of contribution, which report shall contain recommendations the actuary considers advisable. The department at any time may request the actuary to make any studies or evaluations to determine the adequacy of the rates of contribution, and those rates may be adjusted by the department, as recommended by the actuary, effective as of the first of any fiscal year thereafter.

Sec. 125.211. (A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the accrued leave liability fund, for the purpose of paying both of the following:

(1) The annual cash benefit payable for every all of the following:

(a) Every hour of unused accrued vacation leave that is converted pursuant to section 124.134 of the Revised Code;

(b) Every hour of unused sick leave credit that is converted pursuant to section 124.383 of the Revised Code and for every ;

(c) Every hour of unused personal leave credit that is converted pursuant to section 124.386 of the Revised Code;

(2) Upon separation from state service, the obligation of the state to compensate its employees, including employees listed in division (B)(2) or (4) of section 124.14 of the Revised Code and employees in bargaining units who do not receive vacation leave, sick leave, or personal leave under Chapter 124. of the Revised Code, for unused vacation leave, sick leave, or personal leave credit. Any interest earned on the balances in the fund shall be credited to the fund.

(B) In performing the calculations required by section 125.21 of the Revised Code, the director of administrative services shall charge to the appropriate salary account an amount sufficient to make the payments provided in division (A) of this section.

(C) The director of administrative services, in consultation with the director of budget and management, shall develop the procedures to carry out this section.

(D) Amounts from the accrued leave liability fund may be used to pay direct and indirect costs that are attributable to consultants or a third-party administrator and that are necessary to carry out this section.

Sec. 126.231. Beginning on October 1, 2018, and every six months thereafter, the director of budget and management shall furnish to the president and minority leader of the senate, the speaker and minority leader of the house of representatives, and the chairpersons of the finance committees of the senate and house of representatives a report of all of the following:

(A) Line items that have been discontinued, without current year appropriation but have a with remaining balance open encumbrances;

(B)(1) For an October report, funds that had no expenditures in the immediately preceding fiscal year but had remaining cash balances;

(2) For an April report, funds that had no expenditures in the current fiscal year but had remaining cash balances;

(C) Funds (1) For an October report, funds that have spent less than half of their preceding fiscal year appropriations;

(2) For an April report, funds that spent or encumbered less than half of their current fiscal year appropriations through December of that fiscal year.

(D) Dedicated purpose funds that have more than one hundred per cent of their appropriation in cash on hand.

Sec. 133.06. (A) A school district shall not incur, without a vote of the electors, net indebtedness that exceeds an amount equal to one-tenth of one per cent of its tax valuation, except as provided in divisions (G) and (H) of this section and in division (D) of section 3313.372 of the Revised Code, or as prescribed in section 3318.052 or 3318.44 of the Revised Code, or as provided in division (J) of this section.

(B) Except as provided in divisions (E), (F), and (I) of this section, a school district shall not incur net indebtedness that exceeds an amount equal to nine per cent of its tax valuation.

(C) A school district shall not submit to a vote of the electors the question of the issuance of securities in an amount that will make the district's net indebtedness after the issuance of the securities exceed an amount equal to four per cent of its tax valuation, unless the superintendent of public instruction, acting under policies adopted by the state board of education, and the tax commissioner, acting under written policies of the commissioner, consent to the submission. A request for the consents shall be made at least one hundred twenty days prior to the election at which the question is to be submitted.

The superintendent of public instruction shall certify to the district the superintendent's and the tax commissioner's decisions within thirty days after receipt of the request for consents.

If the electors do not approve the issuance of securities at the election for which the superintendent of public instruction and tax commissioner consented to the submission of the question, the school district may submit the same question to the electors on the date that the next special election may be held under section 3501.01 of the Revised Code without submitting a new request for consent. If the school district seeks to submit the same question at any other subsequent election, the district shall first submit a new request for consent in accordance with this division.

(D) In calculating the net indebtedness of a school district, none of the following shall be considered:

(1) Securities issued to acquire school buses and other equipment used in transporting pupils or issued pursuant to division (D) of section 133.10 of the Revised Code;

(2) Securities issued under division (F) of this section, under section 133.301 of the Revised Code, and, to the extent in excess of the limitation stated in division (B) of this section, under division (E) of this section;

(3) Indebtedness resulting from the dissolution of a joint vocational school district under section 3311.217 of the Revised Code, evidenced by outstanding securities of that joint vocational school district;

(4) Loans, evidenced by any securities, received under sections 3313.483, 3317.0210, and 3317.0211 of the Revised Code;

(5) Debt incurred under section 3313.374 of the Revised Code;

(6) Debt incurred pursuant to division (B)(5) of section 3313.37 of the Revised Code to acquire computers and related hardware;

(7) Debt incurred under section 3318.042 of the Revised Code;

(8) Debt incurred under section 5705.2112 or 5705.2113 of the Revised Code by the fiscal board of a qualifying partnership of which the school district is a participating school district.

(E) A school district may become a special needs district as to certain securities as provided in division (E) of this section.

(1) A board of education, by resolution, may declare its school district to be a special needs district by determining both of the following:

(a) The student population is not being adequately serviced by the existing permanent improvements of the district.

(b) The district cannot obtain sufficient funds by the issuance of securities within the limitation of division (B) of this section to provide additional or improved needed permanent improvements in time to meet the needs.

(2) The board of education shall certify a copy of that resolution to the superintendent of public instruction with a statistical report showing all of the following:

(a) The history of and a projection of the growth of the tax valuation;

(b) The projected needs;

(c) The estimated cost of permanent improvements proposed to meet such projected needs.

(3) The superintendent of public instruction shall certify the district as an approved special needs district if the superintendent finds both of the following:

(a) The district does not have available sufficient additional funds from state or federal sources to meet the projected needs.

(b) The projection of the potential average growth of tax valuation during the next five years, according to the information certified to the superintendent and any other information the superintendent obtains, indicates a likelihood of potential average growth of tax valuation of the district during the next five years of an average of not less than one and one-half per cent per year. The findings and certification of the superintendent shall be conclusive.

(4) An approved special needs district may incur net indebtedness by the issuance of securities in accordance with the provisions of this chapter in an amount that does not exceed an amount equal to the greater of the following:

(a) Twelve per cent of the sum of its tax valuation plus an amount that is the product of multiplying that tax valuation by the percentage by which the tax valuation has increased over the tax valuation on the first day of the sixtieth month preceding the month in which its board determines to submit to the electors the question of issuing the proposed securities;

(b) Twelve per cent of the sum of its tax valuation plus an amount that is the product of multiplying that tax valuation by the percentage, determined by the superintendent of public instruction, by which that tax valuation is projected to increase during the next ten years.

(F) A school district may issue securities for emergency purposes, in a principal amount that does not exceed an amount equal to three per cent of its tax valuation, as provided in this division.

(1) A board of education, by resolution, may declare an emergency if it determines both of the following:

(a) School buildings or other necessary school facilities in the district have been wholly or partially destroyed, or condemned by a constituted public authority, or that such buildings or facilities are partially constructed, or so constructed or planned as to require additions and improvements to them before the buildings or facilities are usable for their intended purpose, or that corrections to permanent improvements are necessary to remove or prevent health or safety hazards.

(b) Existing fiscal and net indebtedness limitations make adequate replacement, additions, or improvements impossible.

(2) Upon the declaration of an emergency, the board of education may, by resolution, submit to the electors of the district pursuant to section 133.18 of the Revised Code the question of issuing securities for the purpose of paying the cost, in excess of any insurance or condemnation proceeds received by the district, of permanent improvements to respond to the emergency need.

(3) The procedures for the election shall be as provided in section 133.18 of the Revised Code, except that:

(a) The form of the ballot shall describe the emergency existing, refer to this division as the authority under which the emergency is declared, and state that the amount of the proposed securities exceeds the limitations prescribed by division (B) of this section;

(b) The resolution required by division (B) of section 133.18 of the Revised Code shall be certified to the county auditor and the board of elections at least one hundred days prior to the election;

(c) The county auditor shall advise and, not later than ninety-five days before the election, confirm that advice by certification to, the board of education of the information required by division (C) of section 133.18 of the Revised Code;

(d) The board of education shall then certify its resolution and the information required by division (D) of section 133.18 of the Revised Code to the board of elections not less than ninety days prior to the election.

(4) Notwithstanding division (B) of section 133.21 of the Revised Code, the first principal payment of securities issued under this division may be set at any date not later than sixty months after the earliest possible principal payment otherwise provided for in that division.

(G)(1) The board of education may contract with an architect, professional engineer, or other person experienced in the design and implementation of energy conservation measures for an analysis and recommendations pertaining to installations, modifications of installations, or remodeling that would significantly reduce energy consumption in buildings owned by the district. The report shall include estimates of all costs of such installations, modifications, or remodeling, including costs of design, engineering, installation, maintenance, repairs, measurement and verification of energy savings, and debt service, forgone residual value of materials or equipment replaced by the energy conservation measure, as defined by the Ohio facilities construction commission, a baseline analysis of actual energy consumption data for the preceding three years with the utility baseline based on only the actual energy consumption data for the preceding twelve months, and estimates of the amounts by which energy consumption and resultant operational and maintenance costs, as defined by the commission, would be reduced.

If the board finds after receiving the report that the amount of money the district would spend on such installations, modifications, or remodeling is not likely to exceed the amount of money it would save in energy and resultant operational and maintenance costs over the ensuing fifteen years, the board may submit to the commission a copy of its findings and a request for approval to incur indebtedness to finance the making or modification of installations or the remodeling of buildings for the purpose of significantly reducing energy consumption.

The facilities construction commission, in consultation with the auditor of state, may deny a request under division (G)(1) of this section by the board of education of any school district that is in a state of fiscal watch pursuant to division (A) of section 3316.03 of the Revised Code, if it determines that the expenditure of funds is not in the best interest of the school district.

No district board of education of a school district that is in a state of fiscal emergency pursuant to division (B) of section 3316.03 of the Revised Code shall submit a request without submitting evidence that the installations, modifications, or remodeling have been approved by the district's financial planning and supervision commission established under section 3316.05 of the Revised Code.

No board of education of a school district for which an academic distress commission has been established under section 3302.10 of the Revised Code shall submit a request without first receiving approval to incur indebtedness from the district's academic distress commission established under that section, for so long as such commission continues to be required for the district.

(2) The board of education may contract with a person experienced in the implementation of student transportation to produce a report that includes an analysis of and recommendations for the use of alternative fuel vehicles by school districts. The report shall include cost estimates detailing the return on investment over the life of the alternative fuel vehicles and environmental impact of alternative fuel vehicles. The report also shall include estimates of all costs associated with alternative fuel transportation, including facility modifications and vehicle purchase costs or conversion costs.

If the board finds after receiving the report that the amount of money the district would spend on purchasing alternative fuel vehicles or vehicle conversion is not likely to exceed the amount of money it would save in fuel and resultant operational and maintenance costs over the ensuing five years, the board may submit to the commission a copy of its findings and a request for approval to incur indebtedness to finance the purchase of new alternative fuel vehicles or vehicle conversions for the purpose of reducing fuel costs.

The facilities construction commission, in consultation with the auditor of state, may deny a request under division (G)(2) of this section by the board of education of any school district that is in a state of fiscal watch pursuant to division (A) of section 3316.03 of the Revised Code, if it determines that the expenditure of funds is not in the best interest of the school district.

No district board of education of a school district that is in a state of fiscal emergency pursuant to division (B) of section 3316.03 of the Revised Code shall submit a request without submitting evidence that the purchase or conversion of alternative fuel vehicles has been approved by the district's financial planning and supervision commission established under section 3316.05 of the Revised Code.

No board of education of a school district for which an academic distress commission has been established under section 3302.10 of the Revised Code shall submit a request without first receiving approval to incur indebtedness from the district's academic distress commission established under that section, for so long as such commission continues to be required for the district.

(3) The facilities construction commission shall approve the board's request provided that the following conditions are satisfied:

(a) The commission determines that the board's findings are reasonable.

(b) The request for approval is complete.

(c) If the request was submitted under division (G)(1) of this section, the installations, modifications, or remodeling are consistent with any project to construct or acquire classroom facilities, or to reconstruct or make additions to existing classroom facilities under sections 3318.01 to 3318.20 or sections 3318.40 to 3318.45 of the Revised Code.

Upon receipt of the commission's approval, the district may issue securities without a vote of the electors in a principal amount not to exceed nine-tenths of one per cent of its tax valuation for the purpose specified in division (G)(1) or (2) of this section, but the total net indebtedness of the district without a vote of the electors incurred under this and all other sections of the Revised Code, except section 3318.052 of the Revised Code, shall not exceed one per cent of the district's tax valuation.

(4)(a) So long as any securities issued under division (G)(1) of this section remain outstanding, the board of education shall monitor the energy consumption and resultant operational and maintenance costs of buildings in which installations or modifications have been made or remodeling has been done pursuant to that division. Except as provided in division (G)(4)(b) of this section, the board shall maintain and annually update a report in a form and manner prescribed by the facilities construction commission documenting the reductions in energy consumption and resultant operational and maintenance cost savings attributable to such installations, modifications, or remodeling. The resultant operational and maintenance cost savings shall be certified by the school district treasurer. The report shall be submitted annually to the commission.

(b) If the facilities construction commission verifies that the certified annual reports submitted to the commission by a board of education under division (G)(4)(a) of this section fulfill the guarantee required under division (B) of section 3313.372 of the Revised Code for three consecutive years, the board of education shall no longer be subject to the annual reporting requirements of division (G)(4)(a) of this section.

(5) So long as any securities issued under division (G)(2) of this section remain outstanding, the board of education shall monitor the purchase of new alternative fuel vehicles or vehicle conversions pursuant to that division. The board shall maintain and annually update a report in a form and manner prescribed by the facilities construction commission documenting the purchase of new alternative fuel vehicles or vehicle conversions, the associated environmental impact, and return on investment. The resultant fuel and operational and maintenance cost savings shall be certified by the school district treasurer. The report shall be submitted annually to the commission.

(H) With the consent of the superintendent of public instruction, a school district may incur without a vote of the electors net indebtedness that exceeds the amounts stated in divisions (A) and (G) of this section for the purpose of paying costs of permanent improvements, if and to the extent that both of the following conditions are satisfied:

(1) The fiscal officer of the school district estimates that receipts of the school district from payments made under or pursuant to agreements entered into pursuant to section 725.02, 1728.10, 3735.671, 5709.081, 5709.082, 5709.40, 5709.41, 5709.45, 5709.57, 5709.62, 5709.63, 5709.632, 5709.73, 5709.78, or 5709.82 of the Revised Code, or distributions under division (C) of section 5709.43 or division (B) of section 5709.47 of the Revised Code, or any combination thereof, are, after accounting for any appropriate coverage requirements, sufficient in time and amount, and are committed by the proceedings, to pay the debt charges on the securities issued to evidence that indebtedness and payable from those receipts, and the taxing authority of the district confirms the fiscal officer's estimate, which confirmation is approved by the superintendent of public instruction;

(2) The fiscal officer of the school district certifies, and the taxing authority of the district confirms, that the district, at the time of the certification and confirmation, reasonably expects to have sufficient revenue available for the purpose of operating such permanent improvements for their intended purpose upon acquisition or completion thereof, and the superintendent of public instruction approves the taxing authority's confirmation.

The maximum maturity of securities issued under division (H) of this section shall be the lesser of twenty years or the maximum maturity calculated under section 133.20 of the Revised Code.

(I) A school district may incur net indebtedness by the issuance of securities in accordance with the provisions of this chapter in excess of the limit specified in division (B) or (C) of this section when necessary to raise the school district portion of the basic project cost and any additional funds necessary to participate in a project under Chapter 3318. of the Revised Code, including the cost of items designated by the facilities construction commission as required locally funded initiatives, the cost of other locally funded initiatives in an amount that does not exceed fifty per cent of the district's portion of the basic project cost, and the cost for site acquisition. The commission shall notify the superintendent of public instruction whenever a school district will exceed either limit pursuant to this division.

(J) A school district whose portion of the basic project cost of its classroom facilities project under sections 3318.01 to 3318.20 of the Revised Code is greater than or equal to one hundred million dollars may incur without a vote of the electors net indebtedness in an amount up to two per cent of its tax valuation through the issuance of general obligation securities in order to generate all or part of the amount of its portion of the basic project cost if the controlling board has approved the facilities construction commission's conditional approval of the project under section 3318.04 of the Revised Code. The school district board and the Ohio facilities construction commission shall include the dedication of the proceeds of such securities in the agreement entered into under section 3318.08 of the Revised Code. No state moneys shall be released for a project to which this section applies until the proceeds of any bonds issued under this section that are dedicated for the payment of the school district portion of the project are first deposited into the school district's project construction fund.

Sec. 323.31. (A)(1) A person who owns agricultural real property or owns and occupies residential real property or a manufactured or mobile home that does not have an outstanding tax lien certificate or judgment of foreclosure against it, and a person who is a vendee of such property under a purchase agreement or land contract and who occupies the property, shall have at least one opportunity to pay any delinquent or unpaid current taxes, or both, charged against the property by entering into a written delinquent tax contract with the county treasurer in a form prescribed or approved by the tax commissioner. Subsequent opportunities to enter into a delinquent tax contract shall be at the county treasurer's sole discretion.

(2) The treasurer may enter into a delinquent tax contract in accordance with division (A) of this section with an owner or vendee of real property, other than residential real property or a manufactured or mobile home that is occupied by the owner, and other than agricultural real property.

(3) The delinquent tax contract described in division (A) of this section may be entered into at any time prior to an adjudication of foreclosure pursuant to proceedings by the county treasurer and the county prosecuting attorney pursuant to section 323.25 or 323.65 to 323.79 of the Revised Code or by the county prosecuting attorney pursuant to section 5721.18 of the Revised Code, the adjudication of foreclosure pursuant to proceedings by a private attorney pursuant to section 5721.37 of the Revised Code, the commencement of foreclosure and forfeiture proceedings pursuant to section 5721.14 of the Revised Code, or the commencement of collection proceedings pursuant to division (H) of section 4503.06 of the Revised Code by the filing of a civil action as provided in that division. A duplicate copy of each delinquent tax contract shall be filed with the county auditor, who shall attach the copy to the delinquent land tax certificate, delinquent vacant land tax certificate, or the delinquent manufactured home tax list, or who shall enter an asterisk in the margin next to the entry for the tract or lot on the master list of delinquent tracts, master list of delinquent vacant tracts, or next to the entry for the home on the delinquent manufactured home tax list, prior to filing it with the prosecuting attorney under section 5721.13 of the Revised Code, or, in the case of the delinquent manufactured home tax list, prior to delivering it to the county treasurer under division (H)(2) of section 4503.06 of the Revised Code. If the delinquent tax contract is entered into after the certificate or the master list has been filed with the prosecuting attorney, the treasurer shall file the duplicate copy with the prosecuting attorney.

(4) A delinquent tax contract entered into under division (A) of this section shall provide for the payment of any delinquent or unpaid current taxes, or both, in installments over a period, beginning on the date of the first payment made under the contract, not to exceed five years after the date of the first payment made under the contract; however, a person entering into a delinquent tax contract who owns and occupies residential real property may request, and the treasurer shall allow, a delinquent tax contract providing for payment in installments over a period of no fewer than two years after the date of the first payment made under the contract one of the following:

(a) Five years for a person entering into a contract on the basis of residential real property the person owns and occupies, except the period shall be not less than two years if the person so requests;

(b) Ten years for a person entering into a contract on the basis of a qualifying athletic complex, as defined in section 5709.57 of the Revised Code;

(c) Five years for a person entering into a contract on the basis of property other than that described in division (A) (4)(a) or (b) of this section.

(5) For each delinquent tax contract entered into under division (A) of this section, the county treasurer shall determine and shall specify in the delinquent tax contract the number of installments, the amount of each installment, and the schedule for payment of the installments. Except as otherwise provided for taxes, penalties, and interest under division (B) of section 319.43 of the Revised Code, the part of each installment payment representing taxes and penalties and interest thereon shall be apportioned among the several taxing districts in the same proportion that the amount of taxes levied by each district against the entry in the preceding tax year bears to the taxes levied by all such districts against the entry in the preceding tax year. The part of each payment representing assessments and other charges shall be credited to those items in the order in which they became due. Each payment made to a taxing district shall be apportioned among the taxing district's several funds for which taxes or assessments have been levied.

(6) When an installment payment is not received by the treasurer when due under a delinquent tax contract entered into under division (A) of this section or any current taxes or special assessments charged against the property become unpaid, the delinquent tax contract becomes void unless the treasurer permits a new delinquent tax contract to be entered into; if the treasurer does not permit a new delinquent tax contract to be entered into, the treasurer shall certify to the auditor that the delinquent tax contract has become void.

(7) Upon receipt of certification described in division (A)(6) of this section, the auditor shall destroy the duplicate copy of the voided delinquent tax contract. If such copy has been filed with the prosecuting attorney, the auditor immediately shall deliver the certification to the prosecuting attorney, who shall attach it to the appropriate certificate and the duplicate copy of the voided delinquent tax contract or strike through the asterisk entered in the margin of the master list next to the entry for the tract or lot that is the subject of the voided delinquent tax contract. The prosecuting attorney then shall institute a proceeding to foreclose the lien of the state in accordance with section 323.25, sections 323.65 to 323.79, or section 5721.18 of the Revised Code or, in the case of delinquent vacant land, a foreclosure proceeding in accordance with section 323.25, sections 323.65 to 323.79, or section 5721.18 of the Revised Code, or a foreclosure and forfeiture proceeding in accordance with section 5721.14 of the Revised Code. In the case of a manufactured or mobile home, the county treasurer shall cause a civil action to be brought as provided under division (H) of section 4503.06 of the Revised Code.

(B) If there is an outstanding tax certificate respecting a delinquent parcel under section 5721.32 or 5721.33 of the Revised Code, a written delinquent tax contract may not be entered into under this section. To redeem a tax certificate in installments, the owner or other person seeking to redeem the tax certificate shall enter into a redemption payment plan under division (C) of section 5721.38 of the Revised Code.

(C) As used in this section, "unpaid current taxes" means any current taxes charged on the general tax list and duplicate of real and public utility property or the manufactured home tax list and duplicate that remain unpaid after the last day prescribed for payment of the first installment of such taxes without penalty, and any penalties associated with such taxes.

Sec. 3317.021. (A) On or before the first day of June of each year, the tax commissioner shall certify to the department of education and the office of budget and management the information described in divisions (A)(1) to (5) of this section for each city, exempted village, and local school district, and the information required by divisions (A)(1) and (2) of this section for each joint vocational school district, and it shall be used, along with the information certified under division (B) of this section, in making the computations for the district under this chapter.

(1) The taxable value of real and public utility real property in the school district subject to taxation in the preceding tax year, by class and by county of location.

(2) The taxable value of tangible personal property, including public utility personal property, subject to taxation by the district for the preceding tax year.

(3)(a) The total property tax rate and total taxes charged and payable for the current expenses for the preceding tax year and the total property tax rate and the total taxes charged and payable to a joint vocational district for the preceding tax year that are limited to or to the extent apportioned to current expenses.

(b) The portion of the amount of taxes charged and payable reported for each city, local, and exempted village school district under division (A)(3)(a) of this section attributable to a joint vocational school district.

(4) The value of all real and public utility real property in the school district exempted from taxation minus both of the following:

(a) The value of real and public utility real property in the district owned by the United States government and used exclusively for a public purpose;

(b) The value of real and public utility real property in the district exempted from taxation under Chapter 725. or 1728. or section 3735.67, 5709.40, 5709.41, 5709.45, 5709.57, 5709.62, 5709.63, 5709.632, 5709.73, or 5709.78 of the Revised Code.

(5) The total federal adjusted gross income of the residents of the school district, based on tax returns filed by the residents of the district, for the most recent year for which this information is available, and the median Ohio adjusted gross income of the residents of the school district determined on the basis of tax returns filed for the second preceding tax year by the residents of the district.

(B) On or before the first day of May each year, the tax commissioner shall certify to the department of education and the office of budget and management the total taxable real property value of railroads and, separately, the total taxable tangible personal property value of all public utilities for the preceding tax year, by school district and by county of location.

(C) If on the basis of the information certified under division (A) of this section, the department determines that any district fails in any year to meet the qualification requirement specified in division (A) of section 3317.01 of the Revised Code, the department shall immediately request the tax commissioner to determine the extent to which any school district income tax levied by the district under Chapter 5748. of the Revised Code shall be included in meeting that requirement. Within five days of receiving such a request from the department, the tax commissioner shall make the determination required by this division and report the quotient obtained under division (C)(3) of this section to the department and the office of budget and management. This quotient represents the number of mills that the department shall include in determining whether the district meets the qualification requirement of division (A) of section 3317.01 of the Revised Code.

The tax commissioner shall make the determination required by this division as follows:

(1) Multiply one mill times the total taxable value of the district as determined in divisions (A)(1) and (2) of this section;

(2) Estimate the total amount of tax liability for the current tax year under taxes levied by Chapter 5748. of the Revised Code that are apportioned to current operating expenses of the district, excluding any income tax receipts allocated for the project cost, debt service, or maintenance set-aside associated with a state-assisted classroom facilities project as authorized by section 3318.052 of the Revised Code;

(3) Divide the amount estimated under division (C)(2) of this section by the product obtained under division (C)(1) of this section.

Sec. 3375.404. (A) As used in this chapter: