Bill Text: OH SB312 | 2013-2014 | 130th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: To require the Facilities Construction Commission to establish a school security grant program for nonpublic schools and certain local law enforcement agencies and to make an appropriation.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-03-31 - To Finance [SB312 Detail]

Download: Ohio-2013-SB312-Introduced.html

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As Introduced

130th General Assembly Regular Session 2013-2014

S. B. No. 312

Senators Jones, LaRose 

Cosponsors: Senators Lehner, Patton, Cafaro 

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A BILL

To require the Facilities Construction Commission to

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establish a school security grant program for

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nonpublic schools and certain local law

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enforcement agencies and to make an appropriation.

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

Section 1. All items in this section are hereby appropriated	5
as designated out of any moneys in the state treasury to the	6
credit of the designated fund. For all appropriations made in this	7
act, those in the first column are for fiscal year 2014 and those	8
in the second column are for fiscal year 2015. The appropriations	9
made in this act are in addition to any other appropriations made	10
for the FY 2014-FY 2015 biennium.	11

FCC FACILITIES CONSTRUCTION COMMISSION	12

General Revenue Fund	13

GRF	230502		School Security Grants		$	3,500,000		$	0		14
TOTAL GRF General Revenue Fund					$	3,500,000		$	0		15
TOTAL ALL BUDGET FUND GROUPS					$	3,500,000		$	0		16

SCHOOL SECURITY GRANTS

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The foregoing appropriation item 230502, School Security	18
Grants, shall be used by the School Facilities Commission to	19
provide funding to all chartered nonpublic schools for school	20
security expenditures related to the purchase and installation of	21
one Multi-Agency Radio Communications System (MARCS) unit per	22
school building. If law enforcement agencies with jurisdiction	23
over all or a portion of the geographical area of a chartered	24
nonpublic school do not use MARCS, a chartered nonpublic school	25
may purchase one emergency communications system compatible with	26
the system or systems in use by law enforcement agencies with	27
jurisdiction over the school territory. A school may apply to the	28
School Facilities Commission for reimbursement up to $2,000 for	29
one MARCS unit or other emergency communications system per school	30
building installed on or after January 1, 2013.	31

Local law enforcement agencies that do not have a MARCS, or	32
other similar unit, and that have jurisdiction over all or a	33
portion of a public or chartered nonpublic school that chooses to	34
participate in the school security grant program, also are	35
permitted to participate in the program. An agency may apply to	36
the School Facilities Commission for reimbursement up to $2,000	37
for one MARCS unit or other emergency communications system	38
installed on or after January 1, 2013.	39

An amount equal to the unexpended, unencumbered portion of	40
the foregoing appropriation item 230502, School Security Grants,	41
at the end of fiscal year 2014 is hereby reappropriated to the	42
Facilities Construction Commission for the same purpose for fiscal	43
year 2015.	44

Section 2. Within the limits set forth in this act, the	45
Director of Budget and Management shall establish accounts	46
indicating the source and amount of funds for each appropriation	47
made in this act, and shall determine the form and manner in which	48
appropriation accounts shall be maintained. Expenditures from	49
appropriations contained in this act shall be accounted for as	50
though made in the main operating appropriations act of the 130th	51
General Assembly.	52

The appropriations made in this act are subject to all	53
provisions of the main operating appropriations act of the 130th	54
General Assembly that are generally applicable to such	55
appropriations.	56