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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.
ANNUAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SCHOOL DISTRICTS UNABLE TO MEET EXPENSES, August 3, 2021, 1 page
Report required by R.C. 3313.488; no districts are subject to this statute at this time.
OHIO'S EARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVES REPORT, 2020, December 2020, 13 pages
Report required by R.C. 3317.60; reviews early child initiatives in Ohio, including preschool, Head Start, and others; provides links to sources for information about early learning opportunities in other states; includes appendix that breaks down the Ohio information by administrating agency, name of program, statistics about participation, and the program budget.
REPORT ON STUDENT-TEACHER METRICS FOR INTERNET- OR COMPUTER-BASED COMMUNITY SCHOOLS, November 2020, 3 pages
Report required by R.C. 3314.21; summarizes the following information that the statute requires the Department to compile from "e-schools": classroom size, ratio of teachers to students per classroom, and the the number of student-teacher meetings conducted in person or by video conference; describes the process schools were asked to follow to obtain the information; includes a table of the responses received from each school.
FOURTH QUARTER FINANCIAL REPORTS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2021, August 17, 2021, 4 pages + electronic zip file, size 9392 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 officer of all 37 of Ohio's state-supported colleges and universities for which the desired answer is NO; five answered yes to at least one of the questions; contact the LSC Library for copies of the individual university reports.
ORPHAN WELL PROGRAM REPORT, 2020, 31 pages
Report required by R.C. 1509.971; presents in a series of four tables: (1) an idle and orphaned well inventory, listed by county, for calendar years 2019 and 2020, (2) contracts awarded for plugging idle and orphaned wells, by county and project number, for calendar year 2020, (3) idle and orphaned well project change orders for calendar year 2020, and (4) idle and orphaned well project mitigation for calendar year 2020; describes notable projects and includes pictures; describes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the program.
SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE PERIOD JANUARY 1, 2021-JUNE 30,2021, August 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.
REPORT, August 5, 2021, 34 pages
Report required by R.C. 4141.12; statute requires the Council to examine the process by which an individual files an unemployment claim; report makes recommendations for changes with the process, provides historical background on the system of unemployment insurance, outlines the federal and state legislative responses to the unemployment situation that came as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, reviews the common themes from constituent testimony on their experiences applying for unemployment, includes section that discusses fraud and non fraud overpayments, and describes the Public-Private Partnership (P3 Project) with the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services that is designed to adopt best practices from industry leaders to prevent fraud and improve and streamline services.
ANNUAL REPORT, 2020, 14 pages
Presents the Office's mission; reports on the activities of the Office in the areas of digital access, the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, TechCred programs, Individual Microcredential Assistance Program (IMAP), Industry Sector Partnership grant program, support of science, technology, engineering, math, and medicine (STEMM) fields, steamlining processes to obtain credentials, and the launch of the DataOhio Portal.