Bill Text: OH HB532 | 2011-2012 | 129th General Assembly | Enrolled
Bill Title: , and to amend Section 707.10 of Am. Sub. H.B. 487 of the 129th General Assembly to revise the Ohio Military Medal of Distinction law; to allow certain community colleges to acquire, construct, and maintain housing and dining facilities; to expand the areas for which a municipal corporation in Stark County may use up to 5% of its water and sewer funds for sewage or water system extensions to include areas within a joint economic development district and areas within the municipal corporation's boundaries; to temporarily permit a school district to offer highest priority to purchase an athletic field to the current leaseholder; to permit a school district to sell or lease real property directly to a STEM school in certain circumstances; and to make an appropriation.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 63-22)
Status: (Passed) 2013-03-22 - Effective Date [HB532 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2011-HB532-Enrolled.html
To amend sections 3313.41, 3313.411, 3354.121, and 5913.11, to enact section 3313.412 of the Revised Code, and to amend Section 707.10 of Am. Sub. H.B. 487 of the 129th General Assembly to revise the Ohio Military Medal of Distinction law; to allow certain community colleges to acquire, construct, and maintain housing and dining facilities; to expand the areas for which a municipal corporation in Stark County may use up to 5% of its water and sewer funds for sewage or water system extensions to include areas within a joint economic development district and areas within the municipal corporation's boundaries; to temporarily permit a school district to offer highest priority to purchase an athletic field to the current leaseholder; to permit a school district to sell or lease real property directly to a STEM school in certain circumstances; and to make an appropriation.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio:
SECTION 1. That sections 3313.41, 3313.411, 3354.121, and 5913.11 be amended and section 3313.412 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:
Sec. 3313.41. (A) Except as provided in divisions (C), (D), (F), and (G) of this section and in section 3313.412 of the Revised Code, when a board of education decides to dispose of real or personal property that it owns in its corporate capacity and that exceeds in value ten thousand dollars, it shall sell the property at public auction, after giving at least thirty days' notice of the auction by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the school district, by publication as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code, or by posting notices in five of the most public places in the school district in which the property, if it is real property, is situated, or, if it is personal property, in the school district of the board of education that owns the property. The board may offer real property for sale as an entire tract or in parcels.
(B) When the board of education has offered real or personal property for sale at public auction at least once pursuant to division (A) of this section, and the property has not been sold, the board may sell it at a private sale. Regardless of how it was offered at public auction, at a private sale, the board shall, as it considers best, sell real property as an entire tract or in parcels, and personal property in a single lot or in several lots.
(C) If a board of education decides to dispose of real or personal property that it owns in its corporate capacity and that exceeds in value ten thousand dollars, it may sell the property to the adjutant general; to any subdivision or taxing authority as respectively defined in section 5705.01 of the Revised Code, township park district, board of park commissioners established under Chapter 755. of the Revised Code, or park district established under Chapter 1545. of the Revised Code; to a wholly or partially tax-supported university, university branch, or college; to a nonprofit institution of higher education that has a certificate of authorization under Chapter 1713. of the Revised Code; to the governing authority of a chartered nonpublic school; or to the board of trustees of a school district library, upon such terms as are agreed upon. The sale of real or personal property to the board of trustees of a school district library is limited, in the case of real property, to a school district library within whose boundaries the real property is situated, or, in the case of personal property, to a school district library whose boundaries lie in whole or in part within the school district of the selling board of education.
(D) When a board of education decides to trade as a part or an entire consideration, an item of personal property on the purchase price of an item of similar personal property, it may trade the same upon such terms as are agreed upon by the parties to the trade.
(E) The president and the treasurer of the board of education shall execute and deliver deeds or other necessary instruments of conveyance to complete any sale or trade under this section.
(F) When a board of education has identified a parcel of real property that it determines is needed for school purposes, the board may, upon a majority vote of the members of the board, acquire that property by exchanging real property that the board owns in its corporate capacity for the identified real property or by using real property that the board owns in its corporate capacity as part or an entire consideration for the purchase price of the identified real property. Any exchange or acquisition made pursuant to this division shall be made by a conveyance executed by the president and the treasurer of the board.
(G) When Except as provided in section 3313.412 of the
Revised Code, when a school district board of education decides to
dispose of real property, prior to disposing of that property
under divisions (A) to (F) of this section, it shall first offer
that property for sale to the governing authorities of the
start-up community schools established under Chapter 3314. of the
Revised Code, and the board of trustees of any college-preparatory
boarding school established under Chapter 3328. of the Revised
Code, that are located within the territory of the school
district. The district board shall offer the property at a price
that is not higher than the appraised fair market value of that
property as determined in an appraisal of the property that is not
more than one year old. If more than one community school
governing authority or college-preparatory boarding school board
of trustees accepts the offer made by the school district board,
the board shall sell the property to the governing authority or
board that accepted the offer first in time. If no community
school governing authority or college-preparatory boarding school
board of trustees accepts the offer within sixty days after the
offer is made by the school district board, the board may dispose
of the property in the applicable manner prescribed under
divisions (A) to (F) of this section.
(H) When a school district board of education has property that the board, by resolution, finds is not needed for school district use, is obsolete, or is unfit for the use for which it was acquired, the board may donate that property in accordance with this division if the fair market value of the property is, in the opinion of the board, two thousand five hundred dollars or less.
The property may be donated to an eligible nonprofit organization that is located in this state and is exempt from federal income taxation pursuant to 26 U.S.C. 501(a) and (c)(3). Before donating any property under this division, the board shall adopt a resolution expressing its intent to make unneeded, obsolete, or unfit-for-use school district property available to these organizations. The resolution shall include guidelines and procedures the board considers to be necessary to implement the donation program and shall indicate whether the school district will conduct the donation program or the board will contract with a representative to conduct it. If a representative is known when the resolution is adopted, the resolution shall provide contact information such as the representative's name, address, and telephone number.
The resolution shall include within its procedures a requirement that any nonprofit organization desiring to obtain donated property under this division shall submit a written notice to the board or its representative. The written notice shall include evidence that the organization is a nonprofit organization that is located in this state and is exempt from federal income taxation pursuant to 26 U.S.C. 501(a) and (c)(3); a description of the organization's primary purpose; a description of the type or types of property the organization needs; and the name, address, and telephone number of a person designated by the organization's governing board to receive donated property and to serve as its agent.
After adoption of the resolution, the board shall publish, in a newspaper of general circulation in the school district or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code, notice of its intent to donate unneeded, obsolete, or unfit-for-use school district property to eligible nonprofit organizations. The notice shall include a summary of the information provided in the resolution and shall be published twice. The second notice shall be published not less than ten nor more than twenty days after the previous notice. A similar notice also shall be posted continually in the board's office. If the school district maintains a web site on the internet, the notice shall be posted continually at that web site.
The board or its representatives shall maintain a list of all nonprofit organizations that notify the board or its representative of their desire to obtain donated property under this division and that the board or its representative determines to be eligible, in accordance with the requirements set forth in this section and in the donation program's guidelines and procedures, to receive donated property.
The board or its representative also shall maintain a list of all school district property the board finds to be unneeded, obsolete, or unfit for use and to be available for donation under this division. The list shall be posted continually in a conspicuous location in the board's office, and, if the school district maintains a web site on the internet, the list shall be posted continually at that web site. An item of property on the list shall be donated to the eligible nonprofit organization that first declares to the board or its representative its desire to obtain the item unless the board previously has established, by resolution, a list of eligible nonprofit organizations that shall be given priority with respect to the item's donation. Priority may be given on the basis that the purposes of a nonprofit organization have a direct relationship to specific school district purposes of programs provided or administered by the board. A resolution giving priority to certain nonprofit organizations with respect to the donation of an item of property shall specify the reasons why the organizations are given that priority.
Members of the board shall consult with the Ohio ethics commission, and comply with Chapters 102. and 2921. of the Revised Code, with respect to any donation under this division to a nonprofit organization of which a board member, any member of a board member's family, or any business associate of a board member is a trustee, officer, board member, or employee.
Sec. 3313.411. (A) As used in this section:
(1) "College-preparatory boarding school" means a college-preparatory boarding school established under Chapter 3328. of the Revised Code.
(2) "Community school" means a community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code.
(3) "Unused school facilities" means any real property that has been used by a school district for school operations, including, but not limited to, academic instruction or administration, since July 1, 1998, but has not been used in that capacity for two years.
(B)(1) On Except as provided in section 3313.412 of the
Revised Code, on and after June 30, 2011, any school district
board of education shall offer any unused school facilities it
owns in its corporate capacity for lease or sale to the governing
authorities of community schools, and the board of trustees of any
college-preparatory boarding school, that are located within the
territory of the district.
(2) At the same time that a district board makes the offer required under division (B)(1) of this section, the board also may, but shall not be required to, offer that property for sale or lease to the governing authorities of community schools with plans, stipulated in their contracts entered into under section 3314.03 of the Revised Code, either to relocate their operations to the territory of the district or to add facilities, as authorized by division (B)(3) or (4) of section 3314.05 of the Revised Code, to be located within the territory of the district.
(C)(1) If, not later than sixty days after the district board makes the offer, only one qualified party offered the property under division (B) of this section notifies the district treasurer in writing of the intention to purchase the property, the district board shall sell the property to that party for the appraised fair market value of the property as determined in an appraisal of the property that is not more than one year old.
(2) If, not later than sixty days after the district board makes the offer, more than one qualified party offered the property under division (B) of this section notifies the district treasurer in writing of the intention to purchase the property, the board shall conduct a public auction in the manner required for auctions of district property under division (A) of section 3313.41 of the Revised Code. Only the parties offered the property under division (B) of this section that notify the district treasurer of the intention to purchase the property are eligible to bid at the auction. The district board is not obligated to accept any bid for the property that is lower than the appraised fair market value of the property as determined in an appraisal that is not more than one year old.
(3) If more than one qualified party offered the property under division (B) of this section notifies the district treasurer in writing of the intention to lease the property, the district board shall conduct a lottery to select from among those parties the one qualified party to which the district board shall lease the property.
(4) The lease price offered by a district board to a community school or college-preparatory boarding school under this section shall not be higher than the fair market value for such a leasehold as determined in an appraisal that is not more than one year old.
(5) If no qualified party offered the property under division (B) of this section accepts the offer to lease or buy the property within sixty days after the offer is made, the district board may offer the property to any other entity in accordance with divisions (A) to (F) of section 3313.41 of the Revised Code.
(D) Notwithstanding division (B) of this section, a school district board may renew any agreement it originally entered into prior to June 30, 2011, to lease real property to an entity other than a community school or college-preparatory boarding school. Nothing in this section shall affect the leasehold arrangements between the district board and that other entity.
Sec. 3313.412. A school district board of education may offer for sale or lease any parcel of real property directly to the governing body of a STEM school established under Chapter 3326. of the Revised Code without offering that property under divisions (A) and (G) of section 3313.41 or under section 3313.411 of the Revised Code, if all of the following apply:
(A) The district board offered that real property for sale under division (G) of section 3313.41 of the Revised Code prior to June 30, 2011.
(B) No entity accepted the offer described in division (A) of this section.
(C) The district board still owns that real property and has decided again to dispose of it by sale or lease.
(D) The STEM school, to which the real property is sold or leased under this section, was approved for operation under section 3326.03 of the Revised Code between October 1 and December 31, 2012.
Sec. 3354.121. (A)(1) Each community college district may acquire, by purchase, lease, lease-purchase, lease with option to purchase, or otherwise, construct, equip, furnish, reconstruct, alter, enlarge, remodel, renovate, rehabilitate, improve, maintain, repair, and operate, and lease to or from others, auxiliary facilities or education facilities, except housing and dining facilities, and may pay for the facilities out of available receipts of such district. To pay all or part of the costs of auxiliary facilities or education facilities, except housing and dining facilities, and any combination of them, and to refund obligations previously issued for such purpose, each community college district may issue obligations in the manner provided by and subject to the applicable provisions of section 3345.12 of the Revised Code.
(2) A community college district that is located within one mile of a four-year private, nonprofit institution of higher education in the state may acquire, by purchase, lease, lease-purchase, lease with option to purchase, or otherwise, construct, equip, furnish, reconstruct, alter, enlarge, remodel, renovate, rehabilitate, improve, maintain, repair, and operate, and lease to or from others, housing and dining facilities, and may pay for the facilities out of the available receipts of such district. To pay all or part of the costs of the housing and dining facilities, and to refund obligations previously issued for such purpose, the community college district may issue obligations in the manner provided by and subject to the applicable provisions of section 3345.12 of the Revised Code.
(B) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the definitions set forth in section 3345.12 of the Revised Code apply to this section.
(C) Fee variations provided for in division (G) of section 3354.09 of the Revised Code need not be applied to fees pledged to secure obligations.
(D) The obligations authorized by this section are not bonded indebtedness of the community college district, shall not constitute general obligations or the pledge of the full faith and credit of such district, and the holders or owners thereof shall have no right to require the board to levy or collect any taxes for the payment of bond service charges, but they shall have the right to payment thereof solely from the available receipts and funds pledged for such payment as authorized by section 3345.12 of the Revised Code and this section.
The bond proceedings may provide the method whereby the general administrative overhead expense of the district shall be allocated among the several operations and facilities of the district for purposes of determining any operating and maintenance expenses payable from the pledged available receipts prior to the provision for payment of bond service charges, and for other purposes of the bond proceedings.
(E) The powers granted in this section are in addition to any other powers at any time granted by the Constitution and laws of the state, and not in derogation thereof or restrictions thereon.
Sec. 5913.11. (A) There is hereby created the Ohio military
medal of distinction. The adjutant general shall design the medal
and coordinate an eligibility establishment program. An individual
is eligible for the medal if the individual was killed in the line
of duty on or after September 10, 2001, while doing one of the
following:
(1) Engaging in an action against an enemy of the United States;
(2) Engaging in military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force;
(3) Serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party; or
(4) Serving in a combat zone designated by presidential order.
(B) To receive the Ohio military medal of distinction, an
individual shall be at least one of the following at the time the
member was killed in the line of duty:
(1) An Ohio A national guard member who is a resident of this
state;
(2) An Ohio national guard member;
(3) A United States military reserves member who is a resident of this state;
(3)(4) A United States armed forces member who is either a
resident of this state or stationed in this state by a United
States department of defense order.
(C)(1) At least once per year, both houses of the general
assembly the adjutant general shall obtain provide a list of
eligible medal recipients from to the adjutant general and meet in
joint convention to department of veterans services and the
governor. The adjutant general shall prepare a medal for each
eligible medal recipient. The medal shall be presented to the
recipient's primary next of kin, as designated by the recipient.
If the recipient has not designated a primary next of kin or if
the designated primary next of kin is deceased, the primary next
of kin shall be determined under the rules of the United States
department of defense.
(2) The governor and the general assembly annually shall hold a joint ceremony to recognize the medal recipients for the prior year and to present each medal to the recipient's primary next of kin, as determined under division (C)(1) of this section.
(D)(1) If a parent of the medal recipient is the primary next of kin, as determined under division (C)(1) of this section, and the medal recipient's parents are not married to each other or are legally separated from each other, the medal recipient's other living parent may request a duplicate medal at no cost.
If neither of the medal recipient's parents is the primary next of kin, as determined under division (C)(1) of this section, the living parents of the medal recipient jointly may request a duplicate medal at no cost, except that if the parents of the medal recipient are not married to each other or are legally separated from each other, each living parent may request a duplicate medal at no cost.
If the medal recipient's spouse is not the primary next of kin, the spouse may request a duplicate medal at no cost.
The adjutant general shall prescribe a form by which a parent or spouse may request a duplicate medal under division (D)(1) of this section.
(2) A surviving spouse, a natural or adopted child who is at least eighteen years of age, a parent, a brother or sister, whether of the whole or the half blood, who is at least eighteen years of age, an aunt or uncle who is at least eighteen years of age, or a grandparent of a medal recipient may apply to the adjutant general, on a form prescribed by the adjutant general, to receive a duplicate medal. The applicant shall include with the application a fee in an amount to be determined by the adjutant general. The adjutant general shall set the fee at an amount no greater than the cost of producing the duplicate medal.
(E) There is hereby created in the state treasury the military medal of distinction fund. The fund shall consist of all fees collected from applicants for duplicate medals as well as appropriations made by the general assembly for purposes of the Ohio military medal of distinction program. The fund shall be used to pay for the production of medals. Investment earnings of the fund shall be credited to the fund.
SECTION 2. That existing sections 3313.41, 3313.411, 3354.121, and 5913.11 of the Revised Code are hereby repealed.
SECTION 3. All items in this section are hereby appropriated as designated out of any moneys in the state treasury to the credit of the State Special Revenue Fund Group. For all appropriations made in this act, those in the first column are for fiscal year 2012 and those in the second column are for fiscal year 2013. The appropriations made in this act are in addition to any other appropriations made for the FY 2012-FY 2013 biennium.
State Special Revenue Fund Group
| 5LY0 | 745626 | Military Medal of Distinction | $ | 0 | $ | 2,500 | |||||
| TOTAL SSR State Special Revenue Fund Group | $ | 0 | $ | 2,500 | |||||||
| TOTAL ALL BUDGET FUND GROUPS | $ | 0 | $ | 2,500 | |||||||
MILITARY MEDAL OF DISTINCTION
On the effective date of this act, or as soon as possible thereafter, the Director of Budget and Management shall transfer $2,500 cash from the General Revenue Fund to the Military Medal of Distinction Fund (Fund 5LY0). The amount transferred shall be used by the Adjutant General for the purposes described in section 5913.11 of the Revised Code.
SECTION 4. Within the limits set forth in this act, the Director of Budget and Management shall establish accounts indicating the source and amount of funds for each appropriation made in this act, and shall determine the form and manner in which appropriation accounts shall be maintained. Expenditures from appropriations contained in this act shall be accounted for as though made in Am. Sub. H.B. 153 of the 129th General Assembly.
The appropriations made in this act are subject to all provisions of Am. Sub. H.B. 153 of the 129th General Assembly that are generally applicable to such appropriations.
SECTION 5. That Section 707.10 of Am. Sub. H.B. 487 of the 129th General Assembly be amended to read as follows:
Sec. 707.10. For fiscal years 2013 and 2014, the legislative authority of a municipal corporation in a county, with a population between three hundred seventy-five thousand and four hundred thousand according to the most recent federal decennial census, may conduct a pilot program whereby the legislative authority may use up to five per cent of the aggregate amount of money deposited in the municipal corporation's sewer fund and up to five per cent of the aggregate amount of money deposited in a fund created by the municipal corporation for water-works for the purpose of extending the municipal corporation's water or sewerage system, as applicable, if both of the following apply:
(A) The water or sewerage system is being extended to areas for economic development purposes.
(B) The areas into which the water or sewerage system is
being extended are the one of the following:
(1) The subject of a cooperative economic development agreement entered into by the municipal corporation under section 701.07 of the Revised Code;
(2) Within a joint economic development district created under sections 715.72 to 715.81 of the Revised Code for which the municipal corporation is a contracting party;
(3) Within the boundaries of the municipal corporation.
With regard to either fund, the legislative authority shall not exceed the five per cent limit established in this section.
SECTION 6. That existing Section 707.10 of Am. Sub. H.B. 487 of the 129th General Assembly is hereby repealed.
SECTION 7. (A) This section applies only to a city school district that currently leases an athletic field to the governing authority of a chartered nonpublic school.
(B) Notwithstanding section 3313.41 of the Revised Code, the board of education of a school district to which this section applies may offer for sale an athletic field that it owns in its corporate capacity to the chartered nonpublic school that is the current leaseholder of that property prior to offering that property for sale under the provisions of section 3313.41 of the Revised Code.
(C) This section shall expire on December 31, 2015.
