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H.B. 101 Final Analysis
135th General Assembly
Click here for H.B. 101’s Fiscal Note
Primary Sponsors: Reps. Bird and Schmidt
Effective date: April 30, 2024; appropriations effective January 30, 2024; certain provisions
effective January 1, 2025
Effective date:
Daniel DeSantis and Jeff Grim, Research Analysts
Other LSC staff
SUMMARY
Village dissolution
 Allows the question of dissolution to be placed on the ballot only at a general election
held in an even-numbered year.
 Modifies the process for winding up the affairs of a dissolved village as follows:
 Requires a Transition Supervisory Board to be established to supervise the various
aspects of the transition.
 Requires the appointment of a receiver-trustee to perform certain duties including
the collection of taxes, resolution of debts, distribution of property, continuity of
utility services, handling of public records requests, and other matters.
 Requires former village officials to assist the Board.
Geauga County prosecuting attorney
 Requires the Geauga County prosecuting attorney to prosecute all violations of state law
arising within the unincorporated areas of Geauga County.
Competitive bidding
 Increases the competitive bidding threshold amount to $75,000 for villages and park
districts.
Large Settlements and Awards Fund
 Creates a Large Settlements and Awards Fund and directs the proceeds of any court order,
judgment, settlement, or compromise exceeding $5 million to the fund.
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Reporting election results
 Requires boards of elections and the Secretary of State to transmit election results,
including those of county court judge and municipal court judge, to the Administrative
Director of the Supreme Court by email or other telecommunication device.
 Requires election results on the Governor, members of Congress, and others to be
emailed to the Senate President, rather than mailed.
F-9 liquor permits
 Modifies eligibility for an F-9 permit as follows:
 Eliminates the law restricting the permits to Franklin County;
 Expands the eligible applicants to include a nonprofit that provides or manages
entertainment programming at a municipal park under an agreement with the
municipal corporation that owns the park; and
 Eliminates the restriction that the park property be the subject of an agreement
between various entities for hosting art or orchestral performances.
 Allows a person to possess an opened container of beer or intoxicating liquor that has
been lawfully purchased for on-premises consumption from an F-9 permit holder.
 Continues to allow a person to possess on an F-9 permit premises a container of beer or
intoxicating liquor that was not purchased from an F-9 permit holder with the permit
holder’s permission, but eliminates qualifications that a person could do so only if certain
conditions applied, including attending a free art or music performance.
Treasurer of State
 Exempts from the Public Records Law certain records related to the linked deposit
programs from the Treasurer of State and participating financial institutions.
 Specifies the termination date for public depositories designated on or around July 4,
2022, is Sunday, July 6, 2025.
Primary and secondary education
 Increases the minimum state share percentage for joint vocational school districts from
5% to 10% for FY 2024 and FY 2025.
 Qualifies a child for the Autism Scholarship Program if, in addition to other requirements,
the child is eligible to enter school in any of grades preschool through 12 during the school
year in which a scholarship is first sought.
 Clarifies that projects that received conditional approval from the Ohio Facilities
Construction Commission during 2023 are subject to the 16-month window during which
voters must approve bonds and tax levies.
 Continues school districts’ and community schools’ authority to employ an educator to
teach outside of the educator’s designated grade band beyond December 29, 2023.
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 Clarifies that the State Board of Education, rather than the Department of Education and
Workforce (DEW), is responsible for criminal records checks and RAPBACK enrollment of
pre-service teaching permit holders.
 Requires DEW, rather than the State Board, to adopt and update reading competencies
for all reading credentials and training.
 Removes the DEW Director from the Educator Standards Board and its subcommittees.
 Makes corrective changes related to the establishment of DEW and the transfer of State
Board’s and Superintendent of Public Instruction’s powers and duties.
Higher education
 Exempts private, nonprofit colleges and universities from posting on their websites that
students have a right to access transcripts for the purpose of seeking employment,
regardless of whether they owe an institutional debt.
 Abolishes the Center for Civics, Culture, and Society at the University of Cincinnati.
 Establishes a Center for Civics, Culture, and Workface Development at Wright State
University.
 Transfers from the University of Cincinnati to Wright State a $2 million earmark to support
the center.
Preschool and school child programs
 Revises the law effective January 1, 2025, governing minimum standards for licensed
preschool and school child programs, including by requiring the Department of Children
and Youth to adopt those standards in rule, rather than to do so jointly and in consultation
with the DEW Director.
STRS membership for pre-service teaching
 Includes, as State Teachers Retirement System members, student teachers who hold pre-
service teacher permits and are employed as substitute teachers, and excludes them from
School Employees Retirement System membership.
Doula services
 Modifies recently enacted law establishing doula certification by the Board of Nursing and
creating a Medicaid program to cover doula services.
Respiratory care applicants’ information
 Eliminates the requirement that the State Medical Board’s register of applicants and
licensees show the residential address of applicants to practice respiratory care.
9-1-1 charges and fees
 Applies the next generation 9-1-1 access fee to wireless service priced under $5 per
month.
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 Modifies the payment sources for refunds of wireless 9-1-1 charges and next generation
9-1-1 access fees.
Tax law
 Makes clarifying changes to a recently enacted income tax deduction for contributions to
homeownership savings accounts.
 Makes technical corrections to various tax laws that were amended or enacted in H.B. 33
of the 135th General Assembly, the main appropriations act.
Other appropriations
 Makes other appropriations.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Village dissolution ........................................................................................................................... 6
Surrender by electors .................................................................................................................. 6
Dissolution in question ................................................................................................................ 6
Dissolution is effective ................................................................................................................ 7
Transition period ......................................................................................................................... 7
Transition Supervisory Board ................................................................................................. 8
Taxes ....................................................................................................................................... 9
Debt ...................................................................................................................................... 10
Property ................................................................................................................................ 10
Utilities.................................................................................................................................. 11
Public records ....................................................................................................................... 11
Community improvement corporations............................................................................... 12
Special improvement districts .............................................................................................. 12
Tax increment financing ....................................................................................................... 12
LGF payments ....................................................................................................................... 12
Fund transfers....................................................................................................................... 13
Transition over .......................................................................................................................... 13
Geauga County prosecuting attorney ........................................................................................... 14
Competitive bidding...................................................................................................................... 14
F-9 liquor permits.......................................................................................................................... 14
Reporting election results ............................................................................................................. 15
Large Settlements and Awards Fund ............................................................................................ 16
Treasurer of State ......................................................................................................................... 16
Public records – linked deposit programs ................................................................................. 16
Treasurer of State reporting...................................................................................................... 17
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Public depositories .................................................................................................................... 17
Primary and secondary education ................................................................................................ 18
Minimum state share percentage ............................................................................................. 18
Autism Scholarship Program eligibility...................................................................................... 18
Conditional approval for school facilities projects .................................................................... 18
Employment outside designated grade bands ......................................................................... 18
Pre-service teaching permits..................................................................................................... 19
Reading competencies .............................................................................................................. 19
Educator Standards Board......................................................................................................... 19
Corrective changes .................................................................................................................... 19
Higher education........................................................................................................................... 19
Institutional debt ....................................................................................................................... 19
Center for Civics, Culture, and Workforce Development ......................................................... 19
Instructional requirements ................................................................................................... 20
Academic council .................................................................................................................. 21
Director search and responsibilities ..................................................................................... 21
Faculty................................................................................................................................... 22
Benefits for military service members ................................................................................. 22
Preschool and school child programs ........................................................................................... 22
STRS membership for pre-service teaching .................................................................................. 22
Doula services ............................................................................................................................... 23
Definitions ................................................................................................................................. 23
Criminal records check .............................................................................................................. 23
Application fee .......................................................................................................................... 23
Doula Advisory Group ............................................................................................................... 23
Membership ......................................................................................................................... 23
Responsibilities ..................................................................................................................... 24
Medicaid .................................................................................................................................... 25
Respiratory care applicants’ information ..................................................................................... 25
9-1-1 charges and fees .................................................................................................................. 25
Minimum fee exemption........................................................................................................... 25
Refunds ...................................................................................................................................... 26
Tax deduction for homeownership savings accounts .................................................................. 26
Tax law technical corrections........................................................................................................ 27
Other appropriations .................................................................................................................... 27
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DETAILED ANALYSIS
Village dissolution
There are three pathways to a village dissolution: surrender of corporate powers by the
electors, dissolution of a village in fiscal emergency, and dissolution of a village that meets
population, size, and other factors.1 The act modifies one aspect of the first pathway (surrender
by the electors), and overhauls the process for winding up the affairs of a dissolved village. Under
the act, no matter how a dissolution is initiated, all will utilize the same process to wind up the
village’s affairs.2
Surrender by electors
The act modifies when a question of dissolution may appear on the ballot. Under
continuing law, the residents of a village may submit a petition to the village’s legislative authority
to put the question of dissolution on the ballot; th