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Am. Sub. H.B. 33 (2023) — FY2024-25 Budget

The FY2024-25 operating budget, and the most consequential single act for the Fair School Funding Plan after the one that created it. Three changes, each of which the corpus needed a node to attach to.

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It refreshed the cost inputs. The base cost build-up moved from FY2018 statewide average salaries to FY2022. verified This is the only time the reference year has been updated, and it is the proof that the mechanism can work as designed — the base cost statewide average moved from roughly $7,352 in FY2023 to roughly $8,240 in FY2025, and most of that is the input refresh rather than the phase-in. inference It is also the benchmark against which H.B. 96’s decision to hold the year at FY2022 has to be read.

It advanced the phase-in to 50% in FY2024 and 66.67% in FY2025. inference

It made EdChoice universal. Eligibility for the expansion scholarship, previously income-limited, was opened to all Ohio students with the award amount scaled by family income relative to the federal poverty level rather than eligibility gated by it. verified This is the change that made the scholarship channel large enough to matter in statewide funding arithmetic, and it is the change the 2025 Franklin County decision found unconstitutional. inference

It also created the Department of Education and Workforce, converting the state education agency from a body answering to an independent State Board into a cabinet department answering to the Governor. verified

The income bands and the vetoes are now recorded, and both came out differently from how this node framed them. The act prescribed eight bands for FY2024 and switched to the continuous formula only from FY2025, so the scale is a table for one year and a curve thereafter — EdChoice Expansion Scholarship carries the schedule and the comparison against the curve. verified And the act carries one veto, not a set of line items: see vetoes, which is about community school enrollment auditing and touches no scholarship. verified crates/project

Appropriation totals for the act as a whole are still not recorded here. open The scholarship channel specifically is not one of them and cannot become one: LSC states in both editions that the budget “does not allocate specific amounts to each scholarship program”, so there is no per-program appropriation in this act to record. verified

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DesignationAm. Sub. H.B. 33
General Assembly135th General Assembly
Signed2023-07-04
Effective2023-07-04
When each part took effectTwo dates, and effective above carries the appropriation one. The act was signed 4 July 2023 and the appropriation sections took effect then; the codified amendments took effect ninety days later, and all ten sections this corpus reads from the act — R.C. 3302.01, 3302.10, 3310.01, 3310.03, 3310.032, 3310.08, 3313.975, 3317.03, 3327.02 and 5753.11 — are dated 3 October 2023 in crates/project/fixtures/revised-code.txt. verified crates/project, which records the act and the date per section

That makes effective here the signing date, where H.B. 96 sets it to the codified one on the reasoning that the sections the formula is read from are what the field is for. The two nodes disagree about what the field means, and this note records the disagreement rather than settling it. open
What it didEnacted the FY2024-25 operating budget. Updated Fair School Funding Plan cost inputs from FY2018 to FY2022; advanced the formula phase-in to 50% in FY2024 and 66.67% in FY2025; extended EdChoice Expansion eligibility to all students with income-scaled award amounts; replaced the Ohio Department of Education with the cabinet-level Department of Education and Workforce. Signing date to be confirmed against the enrolled act. open
VetoesOne, and it is not about a scholarship. verified crates/project, which asserts the greenbook carries exactly one Vetoed provision section and that its text names none of the five programs

The act would have required the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review to review any change the department proposed to its manual of standards and procedures for reviewing and auditing community schools' full-time-equivalency enrollment reports. Vetoed — the second time in two budgets that a provision putting the department's community school accounting under legislative rule review was struck; the first was H.B. 110's on EMIS.

The FTE manual decides how much a community school is paid, so what was vetoed is legislative review of the document behind the deduct.
Effect on accountabilityDissolved the academic distress commission for Lorain City School District. verified the department's commission page Not a funding provision, and recorded here because an Ohio budget act carries the funding formula and the accountability regime in one instrument — a property the corpus could not see until it held both domains.

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