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To require a tiered disciplinary procedure for harassment, intimidation, or bullying in school; to require annual student instruction about preventing such acts; and to create the offense of aggravated bullying as a third-degree misdemeanor.

To modify the conditions that determine the relative priority of property tax exemptions when a parcel subject to a tax increment financing arrangement concurrently qualifies for another exemption.

To name the central office building of the Department of Education as the "Governor Ted Strickland Department of Education Building."

To provide for a permanent three-day sales tax "holiday" each August during which sales of clothing and school supplies are exempt from sales and use tax.

With regard to teacher evaluations.

 To enact the "SAFE Act" to revise the procedures for emergency removal of a student, to prohibit certain suspensions and expulsions of students in grades prekindergarten through three, to require each public school to implement a positive behavior intervention and supports framework in accordance with state standards, and to make an appropriation.

To require the State Board of Education to establish criteria and procedures for the awarding of school safety funds to school districts and to make an appropriation.

To require public schools annually to provide parents of students in any of grades five through twelve with educational information regarding eating disorders.

To make capital appropriations and changes to the law governing capital projects and to make reappropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 2020.