Ohio Legislative Service Commission
Wendy Zhan, Director
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Agency Reports Submitted to the General Assembly

Section 101.68(B) of the Revised Code requires that when annual or other types of reports are to be submitted to the General Assembly, it is sufficient for copies of the reports to be submitted to the Director of the Legislative Service Commission (LSC). The Director is then to inform each member of the General Assembly of the content and form of the report as well as the cost of its preparation and the number of copies printed. Submission of reports to LSC eliminates the need to send reports to each member of the General Assembly.

As required under section 101.68(C), below is the annotated bibliography of documents recently received. In addition, the bibliography includes other documents that may be of interest to legislators. Electronic copies of the documents also are included if available; click "View Report" to open a document. Please call the LSC Library at (614) 466-5312 to borrow a copy of any of the reports that are not available in an electronic format, or visit the Library on the 9th floor of the Riffe Center. New lists will be sent to you as the arrival of documents warrants.

CLEVELAND MUNICIPAL SCHOOL DISTRICT

PERFORMANCE FOR THE 2017-2018 SCHOOL YEAR, October 23, 2018, 9 pp.

Issued pursuant to H.B. 525 of the 129th General Assembly; reports on the progress made on four different goals from the Cleveland Plan: (1) increasing the number of high performing schools and decreasing the the number of failing schools, (2) increasing the district's value-added measure, (3) focusing the district's central office on key support and governance roles and transferring authority and resources to schools, and (4) investing and phasing in high-leverage system reforms across all schools from preschool to college and career.

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379.1535/C59
DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, OHIO. DEPT. OF

DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES STAKEHOLDER WORKGROUP FINAL REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS, August 10, 2018, 9 pp. + attachments

Created in H.B. 49 of the 132nd General Assembly to "evaluate services provided to individuals with developmental disabilities living in the community ... (and) ... to develop recommendations related to the provision of such services;" report address required topics - determining if immediate action is necessary to ensure the health and safety of individuals with develomental disabilities, including the use of standarized protocols support for quality services beyond minimum compliance standards  -- monitoring health and safety of individuals with developmental disabilities including on-site monitoring by the Department or on-behalf of the Department -- clarifying stakeholder roles and responsibilities, including when adverse actions are necessary; report fullfills requirement of the legislation; makes suggestions for further study.

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362.3/Oh3dd
EDUCATION, OHIO. DEPT. OF

COMPENSATION FOR DECREASE IN VALUATION OF DISTRICT PUBLIC UTILITY PERSONAL PROPERTY, March 6, 2018, 3 pp.

Report required under R.C. 3317.27 as passed by H.B. 49 of the 132nd General Assembly; this report serves as the Ohio Department  of Education's recommendation for a payment structure for additional state funds to districts that experienced at least a fifty percent decrease in valuation of public utility personal property at a specified time; Benton-Carroll-Salem Local School District in Ottawa County and Manchester Local School district in Adams County are expected to be the districts that meet the requirements of R.C. 3317.27; describes four guiding principles that should be considered when providing additional state resources to a school district: total resources, student population, timing, and temporary.

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379.122/C73
HEALTH, OHIO. DEPT. OF

ANNUAL REPORT SFY 2017, 32 pp.

Reviews major departmental activities and public health initiatives of SFY 2017; presents mission and vision statements; includes organization chart; brief financial section uses charts and graphs to report on revenue and expenditures.  

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350.077771/Oh3/2017
HIGHER EDUCATION, OHIO. DEPT. OF

FOURTH QUARTER FINANCIAL REPORTS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2018, AUGUST 24, 2018, 3 pp. + electronic file, zip file, size 6.93MB.

Prepared pursuant to R.C. 3345.72; part one contains responses to 12 questions, designed to probe for serious cash flow problems, answered by the campus fiscal officers of all 37 of Ohio's state-supported colleges and universities for which the desired answer is NO; in this report Shawnee State, Columbus State Community College, Rio Grand Community College, and Wright State responded in the affirmative to some of the questions; contact the LSC Library for copies of the individual university reports for part two.

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379.118/UN3q/4th QTR FY2018
HIGHWAY PATROL, OHIO STATE

DISTRACTED DRIVING REPORT, 2017, March 14, 2018, 3 pp.

Report required by R.C. 4511.204; for the period of 2013-2017, includes statistics on texting violations by month and electronic U18 violations by month; and includes a map marking the locations within counties where the violations occurred. 

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363.1257/Oh3
MEDICAID, OHIO. DEPT. OF

SENATE BILL 332: ACCESS BARRIER ASSESSMENT: INITIAL REVIEW AND STRATEGY, [April 2018], 16  pp.

Fulfills the initial reporting requirement of S.B. 332 of the 131st General Assembly for the Ohio Department of Medicaid (ODM) to assess barriers that women of reproductive age experience when accessing interventions intended to reduce tobacco use, prevent prematurity, and promote optimal birth spacing; announces going forward ODM will use a community-based approach to gain an understanding of barriers facing Ohio's Medicaid beneficiaries; reports ODM contracted with Health Services Advisory Group (HSAG) to conduct the assessment; plans to report at the statutorily required intervals. 

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362.10425 B81
OPPORTUNITIES FOR OHIOANS WITH DISABILITIES (AGENCY: OHIO)

ANNUAL REPORT FFY YEAR 2016 [AND] SFY 2017, 16 pp.

Describes the services the Bureaus of Vocational Rehabilitation and Services for the Visually Impaired, and the divisions of Employer and Innovation Services and of Disability Determination; provides brief financial information for federal and state revenue, and federal and state expenditures.

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350.8419/Oh3/FFY 2016 & SFY 2017
PUBLIC SAFETY, OHIO. DEPT. OF

ANNUAL REPORT 2018, 13 pp.

Reports on the yearly activities of the divisions of the Department of Public Safety, including the Ohio State Highway Patrol, Bureau of Motor Vehicles, Emergency Medical Services, and the Emergency Management Agency, Private Investigator and Security Guard Services, Ohio Homeland Security, and Administration.

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338.3149771 Oh3ca/2018
RETIREMENT STUDY COUNCIL, OHIO

ANNUAL REPORT, 2017: EVALUATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING THE OPERATIONS OF THE STATE RETIREMENT SYSTEMS, 132ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY, JANUARY 1, 2017-DECEMBER 31, 2017, March 13, 2018, 26 pp.

Report submitted to fulfill the requirements of R.C. 171.04; includes information on the retirement systems' investment performance, progress on achieving 30-year funding plans, and the status of health care funds; reports on enacted pension legislation, and pending pension-related issues and recommendations; itemizes documents statutorily required of the retirement systems and of the Ohio Retirement Study Commission; includes a brief status report on pension-identified legislation (enacted and pending) through December 31, 2017.  

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350.5 OH3rs/2017
SINKING FUND COMMISSION OF OHIO

SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE PERIOD JANUARY 1, 2018 THROUGH JUNE 30, 2018, August 14, 2018, 40 pp.

Presents detailed statement of condition of bonded debt; summarizes, in narrative form, the legislative authority for each category of bonds and the dollar amount, if any, left to be issued.

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336.3432/Oh3/2018(1)
STATE TEACHERS RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF OHIO

COMPREHENSIVE ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT FISCAL YEARS ENDING JUNE 30, 2017, AND 2016, December 2017, 84 pp.

Identifies Board and senior staff members; states its mission and vision and guiding principles;  presents the independent auditors' report by the firm of CliftonLarsonAllen followed by management's discussion and analysis; includes the following sections: financial, investment, actuarial, and statistical.

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332.6725/Oh3c/2017
TAXATION, OHIO. DEPT. OF

STATE AND PERMISSIVE (LOCAL) SALES AND USE TAX COLLECTIONS FOR INDUSTRIES DIRECTLY AND INDIRECTLY RELATED TO TRAVEL AND TOURISM, JANUARY 1, 2018 - JULY 30, 2018, 2 pp.

Fulfills requirement of R.C. 5739.36, as enacted in H.B. 66 of the 126th General Assembly; prepared by the Tax Commissioner, for the purpose of tracking the growth and economic impact of the travel and tourism industry; summarizes tax revenues related to travel and tourism collected during each semiannual period using business activity codes directly and indirectly related to travel and tourism; reflects combined state and permissive local sales and use tax collection data.

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336.2713/Oh3/January 1, 2018-July 30, 2018
TAXATION, OHIO. DEPT. OF

ANNUAL REPORT SFY 2017, 187 pp.

Describes basic responsibilities of the Department and its initiatives in SFY 2017; provides brief fiscal information about the Department;  provides detailed descriptions of the tax base, rates, and provisions of each of the state taxes administered by the Department, three revenue sharing funds administered by the Department and 13 locally administered taxes; contains detailed statistical data concerning each individual tax, comparisons to other states, if applicable, and a history of the major legislative changes to the tax.

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336.200771/Oh3/SFY 2017
TREASURER OF STATE, OHIO.

LEASE-REVENUE OBLIGATIONS ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE PERIOD JULY 1, 2017 THROUGH JUNE 30, 2018, 54 pp.

Issued in accordance with Revised Code Chapters 154. and 152.; concerns capital facilities for: higher education, mental health, parks and recreation, cultural and sports, state correctional, administrative, juvenile correctional, highway safety and transportation; includes Financial Statements, Supplementary Financial Information, and the Independent Auditors' Report thereon from Kennedy Cottrell Richards.

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350.726/Oh3t/2018
TURNPIKE AND INFRASTRUCTURE COMMISSION, OHIO

COMPREHENSIVE ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2017 AND 2016, 71 pp.; 150 copies printed; unit cost $9.95

Submitted in accordance with the requirements of R.C. 5537.17; outlines activities in 2017; contains organizational chart and photographs of members and officers; includes financial section with independent auditors' report from Plante Moran, Management's Discussion and Analysis, and other financial statement reports; includes a statistical section containing information about revenues and expenses, revenue bond coverage, and various traffic statistics from 2008-2017.

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350.87812771/Oh3/2017
VETERINARY MEDICINE, THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY. COLLEGE OF

CANINE RESEARCH REPORT TO THE OHIO GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR 2017, April 30, 2018, 52 pp.

Report required by R.C. 955.14; provides progress reports for 6 final, 16 interim, and 10 newly funded research projects; identifies amount of money allocated for each described research project; includes a spreadsheet noting the amount of funds contributed by each county from the collection of dog licenses; explains the grant review process; includes blank grant application.

WORKERS' COMPENSATION, OHIO. BUREAU OF

MINORITY BUSINESS ENTERPRISE REPORT, September 19, 2018, 2 pp.

Submitted to fulfill the reporting requirements of R.C. 4123.446(B).

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338.6422/Oh3m/2018