ANNUAL REPORT FY 2018, 24 pp.

Provides highlights of the Department's activities for the seven divisions: Equal Opportunity, Human Resources, Collective Bargaining, LeanOhio, Information Technology, General Services, and Director's Office and Administrative Support; identifies the Department's key accomplishments during the Kasich administration.

ACTUARIAL VALUATION OF STATE EMPLOYEE HEALTH BENEFIT FUND FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2018, 20 pp.

Presents the actuarial valuation report prepared by L & E Actuaries & Consultants.

STATE EMPLOYEE HEALTH BENEFIT FUND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY FINANCIAL INFORMATION FOR THE YEARS ENDED JUNE 30, 2018 AND 2017, AND THE INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT THEREON, 18 pp.

Presents the Independent Auditors' report from the firm of Schneider Downs & Co., Inc., followed by Management's Discussion and Analysis; contains several financial statements.

2018 CONSUMER PROTECTION ANNUAL REPORT, 32 pp.

Summarizes the work of the Consumer Protection Section of the Ohio Attorney General's office during 2018; briefly describes lawsuits, judgments, and settlements sought to ensure compliance with the Consumer Sales Practices Act; reports on the programs of the Consumer Assistance, Identity Theft, and Education Units, and Elder Justice Initiative; notes the top complaint to the Consumer Protection Unit relates to motor vehicles.

ANNUAL REPORT ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN OHIO, 2018, 379 pp.

Report required by H.B. 18 (122nd General Assembly); provides legislative history of capital punishment in Ohio; presents statistics, including demographic characteristics, about individuals receiving death sentences; includes case history sheets of every case that resulted in a death sentence since 1981, noting state and federal procedural events; reports that as of December 31, 2018, 329 individuals received a death sentence (four individuals received two death sentences) to make a total of 333 death sentences received; identifies by name the 143 active death sentences and includes the date of scheduled execution; and identifies the person and date of the 56 executions that have taken place under Ohio's current law through December 31, 2018. 

OHIO ATTORNEY GENERAL'S 2018 REPORT TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY: PILOT PROJECT REGARDING THE REMOVAL OF SEALED OR EXPUNGED RECORDS FROM DATABASES, November 2018, 32 pp.

Report fulfills the requirements of H.B. 49's (132nd General Assembly) pilot program concerning the use a "qualified third party" to be "responsible for receiving notices of sealing or expungement from a court and directing identified data repositories and other website to remove the record from its database or website"; the Attorney General's office was entrusted with the responsibilities of selecting and contracting with a vendor (Higbee & Associates), determining the distribution of the fee, promulgating rules, oversight, and reporting; provides brief statistics about utilization and summarizes feedback of the clerks of court, and others.  

CRIMES VICTIM SERVICES ANNUAL REPORT FY 2018, 29 pp.

Fulfills the requirements of R.C. 2743.69 to provide an annual update on claims to and expenditures from the Ohio Victims of Crime Compensation Fund; reports that 2,726 new claims were paid totaling $7,282,291 in FY 2018; includes chart indicating awards by type of incident and the percentage of the total awards, and the number and amount of awards made by county. 

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COLLEGE CREDIT PLUS PROGRAM 2017-2018, current as of November 2018, 24 pp.

Issued pursuant to R.C. 3365.15; reports on a variety of participation and performance data and compares data to prior reporting years. (Prepared with the Ohio Department of Education.)

ANNUAL REPORT ON OHIO MEANS INTERNSHIPS AND CO-OPS, December 31, 2018, 10 pp.

Prepared pursuant to R.C. 3333.041; reports on the academic and economic impact of Ohio's co-op internship program and includes specific information about: (1) the progress and performance metrics for each initiative that received an award in the previous fiscal year (2) economic indicators of the impact of each initiative, and all initiatives as a whole, on the regional economies and the statewide economy and (3) the chancellor's strategy in allocating awards among state institutions of higher education and how the actual awards fit that strategy.

SECOND QUARTER FINANCIAL REPORTS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2019, MARCH 5, 2019, 3 pp. + electronic file, zip file, size 6,901 KB

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 officer of all 37 of Ohio's state-supported colleges and universities for which the desired answer is NO; Shawnee State University, and Columbus State Community College, responded in the affirmative to some of the questions; contact the LSC Library for copies of the individual university reports from part two.

ANNUAL REPORT FEDERAL FISCAL YEAR 2017 [AND] STATE FISCAL YEAR 2018, 18 pp.

Highlights its services to promote the inclusion of persons with disabilities in the workplace; reviews recent legislation; identifies and summarizes its two bureaus: Vocational Rehabilitation and Services for the Visually Impaired, and its two divisions: Disability Determination and Employer and Innovation Services, through which its work is carried out; provides brief financial information for federal and state revenue and expenditures; includes "Performance Progress Scorecard," for the two Bureaus reporting statistics on various metrics from FFY 2014 to FFY 2017.

RENEWABLE PORTFOLIO STANDARD REPORT TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY BY THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF OHIO FOR THE 2017 COMPLIANCE YEAR, March 2019, 13 pp.

Submitted to fulfill the requirements of S.B. 221 (127th General Assembly), but reflects the elimination of the advanced energy provisions enacted in S.B. 310 (130th General Assembly), including a title change from the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard Report; addresses 2017 compliance activities, 2017 average renewable energy credits costs, and describes strategies for utility and company compliance or activities to encourage the use of renewable energy resources to satisfy the state's electricity demand.

ANNUAL REPORT, 2018: EVALUATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING THE OPERATIONS OF THE STATE RETIREMENT SYSTEMS, 132ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY, JANUARY 1, 2018-DECEMBER 31, 2018, March 19, 2019, 30 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) for the entire 132nd General Assembly (2017-2018).  

FINAL REPORT OF THE SPEAKER'S TASK FORCE ON EDUCATION AND POVERTY, December 4, 2018, 564 pp.

Task Force, chaired by Representative Bob Cupp, met from July 2017 through November 2018; membership included state representatives and representatives from schools; purpose was to "examine the issue of poverty and education and, in particular, the achievement gap related to that circumstance; presents meetings summaries, agendas, and materials, findings and conclusions; includes statements of final thoughts from the Task Force members and recommendations from the Task Force.