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Section 101.68(B) of the Revised Code requires that when reports must be submitted to the General Assembly, copies of the reports must be submitted to the Director of the Legislative Service Commission (LSC). Section 101.68(C) requires LSC to monthly inform each member of the General Assembly of the reports received. Below is the annotated bibliography of reports recently submitted to LSC. The bibliography, compiled by the LSC Library staff, also includes other documents that may be of interest to legislators. The links to electronic copies of the documents are included; click "View Report" to open a document. Please call the LSC Library at (614) 466-5312 if you would like to receive more information about this document.
KINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE 4 LITERACY REPORT FOR SCHOOL YEAR [MEANING DATA YEAR*] 2019-2020, January 2021, 4 pages
Required by R.C. 3313.608; reports to extent possible: (1) number and percentages students who are reading below grade level by assessment and performance level, (2) reading achievement progress for students on reading improvement and monitoring plans in Ohio, and (3) types of intervention services provided to students by school districts and community schools; certain data unavailable for inclusion due to the cancellation testing in the Spring of 2020 and Section 18 of H.B. 164 of the 133rd General Assembly that eliminated the requirement to submit Reading Improvement Plans for the 2020-2021 school year.
*Clarified with the Department because the title of the report issued in January 2020 had the exact title; last year's report covered data from 2018-2019.
EDUCATOR PREPARATION PROVIDER PERFORMANCE REPORT: STATEWIDE REPORT, 2020, February 2021, 29 pages
Report required by R.C. 3333.0411; covers the period from September 1, 2019, to August 31, 2020; publishes metrics for institutions of higher education that prepare educators and other school personnel; notes Ohio's ordered school-building closure and subsequent emergency legislation addressing the coronavirus pandemic-related issues (H.B. 197 of the 133rd General Assembly) had substantial impacts on state testing during the 2019-2020 school year and as a result, the Ohio Teacher Evaluation System, the Ohio Principal Evaluation System, and Value-Added sections of this report include limited or no data; reports for individual institutions and each licensure preparation program are online at https://www.ohiohighered.org/educator-accountability/2020-performance-reports
SECOND QUARTER FINANCIAL REPORTS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2021, February 25, 2021, 5 pages + electronic zip file, 11,567 KB
Report required by 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; nine universities answered yes to at least one of the questions, mostly due to COVID-19 and some due to student refunds; contact the LSC Library for copies of the individual university reports.
BIENNIAL REPORT OF THE OHIO JUDICIAL CONFERENCE, 2019-2020, and LEGISLATIVE PLATFORM, 2021-2022, January 2021, 24 pages
Report required by R.C. 105.95; names Conference officers (includes pictures); lists executive committee members; identifies staff (with pictures); reprints statutes governing the Judicial Conference; summarizes legislative activities; identifies legislative platform proposals for 2021-2022; includes summary reports from 20 committees.
DAMAGE PREVENTION ENFORCEMENT ANNUAL REPORT TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR CALENDAR YEAR 2020, [arrived February 2021], 7 pages.
Report required by R.C. 4913.43; Public Utilities Commission of Ohio through the Underground Technical Committee (UTC) assigned authority to enforce Ohio's utility damage prevention laws; lists members of the UTC; UTC met four times and considered 31 cases in 2020; notes disposition of the cases; summarizes amounts of money collected through registrations and fines; summarizes process of conducting investigations, considering reports of inquiry, and reaching decisions.
SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE PERIOD JULY 1, 2020-DECEMBER 31, 2020, February 14, 2021, 42 pages
Report required by Article VIII, Section 11 of the Ohio Constitution and R.C. 129.22; provides brief summaries of the state's bonded debt; presents more detailed descriptions and financial information on ten types of outstanding general obligation bonds and their associated debt service funds.