To enhance the penalties for failing to stop for a school bus that is picking up or dropping of school children, to require the Registrar of Motor Vehicles to create a graphic that instructs drivers to stop for such a school bus, to require a deputy registrar to post the graphic at the deputy registrar's location, and to make an appropriation.
To revise the laws governing the state's workforce development system, programs that may be offered by primary and secondary schools, certificates of qualification for employment, and the Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities Agency, and to designate the first week of May as In-Demand Jobs Week.
To generally require public and chartered nonpublic schools to open for instruction after Labor Day.
To require that the computation of the capitalization rate for the purposes of determining CAUV of agricultural land be computed using a method that excludes appreciation and equity buildup and to stipulate that CAUV land used for a conservation practice or enrolled in a federal land retirement or conservation program for at least three years must be valued at the lowest of the values assigned on the basis of soil type.
Regarding community school operator contracts, the operation of Internet- and computer-based community schools, and performance metrics for blended learning schools.
To require school districts to allow approved summer food service program sponsors to use school facilities to provide food service for summer intervention services under certain conditions.
To provide a three-day sales tax "holiday" each April during which sales of qualifying Energy Star products are exempt from sales and use taxes
To require a public school to place a telephone call within one hour of the start of the school day to a parent whose child is absent without legitimate excuse.
To eliminate the Educational Choice Scholarship Pilot Program and Pilot Project Scholarship Program and to create the Opportunity Scholarship Program.
To prohibit the use of seclusion on students in public schools.