Legislation

The statute timeline

The formula a district is paid by is whatever the last budget act said it was. This is every act the corpus holds, in the order it was signed: 5 formulas across 50 fiscal years, from a duty written in 1851 to the budget in force now. What an act says is on its own page; what is here is where it sits.

What was in force, and for how long

5 formulas across 50 fiscal years, end to end. The spans are each formula's own first and last year in force; that they tile the years with no gap and no overlap is checked rather than drawn.

FormulaSpanYearsBienniaStatusEstablished by
Equal Yield Formula FY1976–FY1991 8 superseded before the earliest act collected here
Foundation Base Cost Formula FY1992–FY2009 9 superseded before the earliest act collected here
Evidence-Based Model FY2010–FY2011 1 superseded Am. Sub. H.B. 1
Bridge Formula FY2012–FY2021 5 superseded Am. Sub. H.B. 153
Fair School Funding Plan FY2022 onward 2 partially implemented Am. Sub. H.B. 110

Two of the 5 have no establishing act here and will not get one: they begin before the oldest act this site holds. That is the edge of the collection rather than a hole in it.

Every act, in the order it was signed

What each one did to the formula and which biennium it paid for, from the edges the corpus states. What an act says is on its own page — restating it here would put a second copy of the corpus in the site.

SignedActGeneral AssemblyFormulaPaid for
1851 Ohio Const. art. VI, sec. 2 Constitutional Convention of 1850-51 no formula change recorded not a budget act
1976 Am. Sub. H.B. 920 111th General Assembly no formula change recorded not a budget act
2001 Am. Sub. H.B. 94 124th General Assembly no formula change recorded FY2002–FY2003
2003 Am. Sub. H.B. 95amends Am. Sub. H.B. 94 125th General Assembly continues Foundation Base Cost Formula FY2004–FY2005
2005 Am. Sub. H.B. 66 126th General Assembly no formula change recorded FY2006–FY2007
2007 Am. Sub. H.B. 119amends Am. Sub. H.B. 66 127th General Assembly continues Foundation Base Cost Formula FY2008–FY2009
2009 Am. Sub. H.B. 1 128th General Assembly establishes Evidence-Based Model FY2010–FY2011
2011 Am. Sub. H.B. 153amends Am. Sub. H.B. 1 129th General Assembly establishes Bridge Formula FY2012–FY2013
2013 Am. Sub. H.B. 59amends Am. Sub. H.B. 153 130th General Assembly continues Bridge Formula FY2014–FY2015
2015 Am. Sub. H.B. 64amends Am. Sub. H.B. 59 131st General Assembly continues Bridge Formula FY2016–FY2017
2017 Am. Sub. H.B. 49amends Am. Sub. H.B. 64 132nd General Assembly continues Bridge Formula FY2018–FY2019
2019 Am. Sub. H.B. 166amends Am. Sub. H.B. 49 133rd General Assembly continues Bridge Formula FY2020–FY2021
2021 Am. Sub. H.B. 110 134th General Assembly establishes Fair School Funding Plan FY2022–FY2023
2022 Sub. H.B. 583amends Am. Sub. H.B. 110 134th General Assembly corrects Fair School Funding Plan not a budget act
2023 Am. Sub. H.B. 33amends Am. Sub. H.B. 110 135th General Assembly continues Fair School Funding Plan FY2024–FY2025
2025 Am. Sub. H.B. 96amends Am. Sub. H.B. 110, Am. Sub. H.B. 33 136th General Assembly continues Fair School Funding Plan FY2026–FY2027

The instruments that never expired

2 of the 16: they appropriate nothing, amend nothing, and were in force under every formula in the band above. A budget act is repealed by the next budget act. These were not.

1851 Ohio Const. art. VI, sec. 2 The constitutional source of Ohio's school funding obligation, adopted in 1851: the General Assembly shall secure a thorough and efficient system of common schools throughout the state. Every case here is an argument about what those words require.
1976 Am. Sub. H.B. 920 The single most consequential enactment in Ohio school finance, and the least visible in the formula itself. Its tax reduction factors hold a voted levy to roughly the dollars it raised when passed, so district revenue does not grow with valuation.