2011 Ohio Revised Code
Title [33] XXXIII EDUCATION - LIBRARIES
Chapter 3318: SCHOOL FACILITIES
3318.70 Funding to assist STEM schools in the acquisition of classroom facilities.

(A) As used in this section:

(1) “Acquisition of classroom facilities” has the same meaning as in section 3318.40 of the Revised Code.

(2) “Classroom facilities” has the same meaning as in section 3318.01 of the Revised Code.

(3) “STEM school” means a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics school established under Chapter 3326. of the Revised Code that is not governed by a single school district board of education, as prescribed by section 3326.51 of the Revised Code.

(B) Upon receipt of a written proposal by the governing body of a STEM school, the Ohio school facilities commission, subject to approval of the controlling board, may provide funding to assist that STEM school in the acquisition of classroom facilities. The proposal of the governing body shall be submitted in a form and in the manner prescribed by the commission and shall indicate both the total amount of state funding requested and the amount of nonstate funding pledged for the acquisition of the classroom facilities, which shall not be less than the total amount of state funding requested. If the commission decides in favor of providing funding for the classroom facilities and if the controlling board approves that funding, the commission shall enter into an agreement with the governing body for the acquisition of the classroom facilities and shall encumber, in accordance with section 3318.11 of the Revised Code, the approved funding from the amounts appropriated to the commission for classroom facilities assistance projects. The agreement shall include a stipulation of the ownership of the classroom facilities in the event the STEM school permanently closes at any time.

Added by 129th General Assembly File No. 28, HB 153, § 101.01, eff. 9/29/2011.