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Am. Sub. H.B. 49 (2017) — FY2018-19 Budget; the Guarantee Made Conditional

Re-anchored the guarantee to FY2017 and, for the first time in the decade, made it conditional: a district that had lost 10% or more of its pupils in two years was guaranteed 95% of its prior aid rather than 100%, on a scale.

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The third of the four acts of the Bridge-formula decade, and the only one that asked anything of a district in exchange for the floor.

The condition, which is the act’s one structural idea Contents

Temporary transitional aid is re-computed to guarantee each district at least its FY2017 state aid — and then:

Every other biennium of the decade re-read the anchor and left it at 100%. This one made the floor a function of enrollment loss, which is the only time in ten years that the mechanism distinguished between districts on it. It did not remove the floor from anyone; it lowered it by at most five points for the districts emptying fastest. verified

The base is explicitly recursive here. The greenbook’s own formula box defines the FY2018-19 guarantee base as the FY2017 sum of the opportunity grant, six categoricals, capacity aid, the two bonuses, transportation — and temporary transitional aid. A district on the guarantee in FY2017 therefore carries its FY2015 anchor inside its FY2017 base. verified

Recomputations and valuation losses. The act provides for school funding recomputations and requires recommendations on compensating districts for valuation losses — the tangible personal property and public utility deregulation losses that Tangible Personal Property Tax Replacement Payments tracks. verified

What this repository computed Contents

Not what Ohio publishes. Figures derived here from committed fixtures, each one citing the test that reproduces it.

This is where the corpus can watch a guarantee stop being a hold-harmless Contents

A hold-harmless holds a district harmless. A guarantee at 95% of a prior year, for districts chosen by enrollment loss, is a managed decline — and it is the only evidence in the decade that the General Assembly regarded the floor as something to be reduced rather than re-read. inference The Fair School Funding Plan’s own clawback reduces the base for a district that has shed open-enrollment entrants, which is the same instinct applied to a different cause of loss, four years later. Whether the second was drawn from the first is not established. open

The appropriation Contents

Enacted foundation aid is $7.89 billion in FY2018 and $8.02 billion in FY2019, a 2.4% and 1.8% rise — the two slowest years of the decade before the freeze that follows. verified appropriation-lines.csv, lines 200550 and 200612

165 budget lines name H.B. 49 in their legal_basis. verified

Properties Contents

DesignationAm. Sub. H.B. 49
General Assembly132nd General Assembly
Signed2017-06-30
Effective2017-09-29
When each part took effectTwo dates, and effective above carries the codified one. Signed 30 June 2017, with the appropriation sections effective then; R.C. 3311.06, the one section this corpus still reads from this act rather than from a later amendment, is dated 29 September 2017 in crates/project/fixtures/revised-code.txt. verified crates/project

One section is not the act. Every other provision of H.B. 49 that this corpus cites has since been amended, so the fixture attributes those sections to the later act and this note can say nothing about when they first took effect. verified
What it didEnacted the FY2018-19 operating budget. Re-anchored temporary transitional aid from FY2015 to FY2017 and made it conditional on enrollment: districts losing 10% or more of total ADM between FY2014 and FY2016 were guaranteed 95% rather than 100%, on a scale from 5%. Provided for funding recomputations and for recommendations on compensating districts for valuation losses.
VetoesNine, more than any other act here, and only the first is about the funding formula. verified the greenbook

Reimbursement payments for fixed-rate TPP tax losses. The General Assembly capped a district's fixed-rate TPP reimbursement loss — including the loss of the TPP supplement — at 3.5% of the district's total resources in FY2018, extended the cap to JVSDs from FY2018, and slowed the phase-down to one-fourth of one mill of average property valuation from FY2020. Vetoed, all of it. The second time in three budgets that the legislature legislated a protection against TPP losses and the Governor removed it. See Tangible Personal Property Tax Replacement Payments.

The other eight are accountability and choice provisions: eliminating the Ohio Teacher Residency Program; requiring a grade of C or better for College Credit Plus credit; letting an effective-rated educational service center sponsor community schools outside its own or a contiguous county; several revisions to how community school sponsor evaluation scores are computed, including weighting the report card's Progress component at 60%; an exception letting a sponsor whose authority had been revoked renew for 2017-18; an exemption from state testing and graduation requirements for chartered nonpublic schools where at least 75% of students have disabilities; and permission to administer state assessments on paper.
Effect on accountabilityChanged the application periods for the Jon Peterson Special Needs and income-based EdChoice scholarship programs, and carried College Credit Plus provisions.

On the funding side it carried both of H.B. 64's report-card bonuses into FY2018-19 unchanged, and it is the act whose analysis sets the community and STEM school version beside the district one and names the difference: the charter payment is "identical to the calculation of the payment for traditional districts except that it does not use the state share index." verified crates/project, rating_payments, pinned by test

That sentence is why the un-equalized form is identifiable at all, and it is the form that outlived the equalized one — H.B. 166 froze districts and kept recalculating the charter bonuses. See Ohio report card.

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