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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 SURVEY ON WORKFORCE DIVERSITY, 2025, 30 pages
Report required by R.C. 124.91; presents the results of the Department's survey of each state agency's workforce at the time of the survey; includes statewide and agency specific information; explains how the demographic data was obtained; definitions used in the report for the racial and ethnic categories come from the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
KINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE 4 LITERACY REPORT FOR SCHOOL YEAR 2024-2025, January 2026, 20 pages
Report required by R.C. 3313.608; reports on the 2024-2025 school year to extent possible: (1) number and percentage of kindergarten through grade 4 students reading below grade level by assessment and performance level, (2) reading achievement progress for kindergarten through grade 4 students on Reading Improvement and Monitoring Plans, (3) reading achievement progress for districts and community schools operating under Reading Achievement Improvement Plans, and (4) types of intervention services offered to kindergarten through grade 4 students reading below grade level; concludes with descriptions of the Department's ongoing literacy support efforts. Accompanied by Excel spreadsheet of masked data (speadsheet will automatically download).
MODEL POLICY, GUIDANCE, BEST PRACTICES AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TRHE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CAMPUS ACT: SENATE BILL 94, 2025, 16 pages
Report required by Section 8 of S.B. 94, 135th General Assembly; includes the model policy, guidance, best practices,
and recommendations for further action developed by a committee on combating anti-semitism and other forms of racial, religious, and ethnic harassment and intimitation established by the Chancellor of Higher Education; includes appendices detailing requirements in S.B. 94 for the committee and institutions of higher learning addressed in the report, and relevant Revised Code Sections.
ANNUAL REPORT 2025, 61 pages
Report required by R.C. 121.48; includes a description of the mission and the responsibilities of the Office, as well as an organizational chart; explains the investigative process and includes a flowchart for filing a complaint; summarizes the types of allegations as fraud, waste, abuse, corruption, and conflict of interest; provides a statistical summary of cases; summarizes selected investigations from 2025.
RENEWABLE PORTFOLIO STANDARD REPORT TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY BY THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF OHIO FOR THE 2024 COMPLIANCE YEAR, 12 pages
Report required by R.C. 4928.64; addresses compliance activities in meeting benchmarks for renewable energy resources, solar, and nonsolar, describes the average annual renewable energy credits costs purchased by utilities and companies, and describes reported strategies for utility and company compliance or activities to encourage the use of renewable energy resources to satisfy the state's electricity demand. Prior to the 2020 compliance year, Ohio's Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) included a specific annual solar requirement. That solar requirement has since been eliminated, but solar resources still can be applied to the overall renewable requirement.
SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE PERIOD JULY 1, 2025-DECEMBER 31, 2025, February 14, 2026, 39 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.