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Am. Sub. H.B. 59 (2013) — FY2014-15 Budget; a Formula Over the Bridge

Put a formula back on top of the Bridge guarantee two years after the Evidence-Based Model was repealed: a state share index, an Opportunity Grant, and seven categorical aids — all of it bounded by a guarantee at the prior distribution and a cap on gains.

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The first of four budget acts that governed Ohio school funding between the Evidence-Based Model’s repeal and the Fair School Funding Plan, and the one that ended the Bridge formula’s pure reference to prior-year amounts by building a computation over it.

What it computes. Aid runs through a state share index — a district’s position on a combined valuation and income measure, which decides the state’s share of every component — and a per-pupil Opportunity Grant, plus seven categorical aids: targeted assistance, special education additional aid, limited English proficiency, economically disadvantaged aid, K-3 literacy, gifted, and career-technical education, with transportation beside them. verified the greenbook

The formula is bounded on both sides, and the bounds are the mechanism Contents

Temporary transitional aid guarantees 100% of a district’s FY2013 state aid, where the guarantee base is its FY2013 Bridge formula funding plus supplemental guarantee plus high performance subsidy. Where foundation funding computes less than that base, the difference is paid. verified And total foundation funding is capped: a gain cap of 6.25% in FY2014 and 10.5% in FY2015 against the prior year. verified

So a district whose formula result fell was held at FY2013 and a district whose result rose was not allowed to reach it. For any district on either bound the operative distribution is not the formula — which is the property funding-regime/bridge-formula describes for the decade, here with the act that wrote it. verified

Straight A Program. A competitive innovation grant fund, outside the formula and outside the guarantee. verified

What this repository computed Contents

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

The guarantee base is recursive, and this act is where the chain that reaches FY2027 starts Contents

The FY2013 base this act guarantees is Bridge formula funding, which H.B. 153 had itself defined by reference to still earlier years. Each later act then re-anchored on the year before its own biennium — FY2015, then FY2017, then FY2019 — and every base included the prior act’s transitional aid term. The full chain is in Bridge Formula. What matters here is that it begins at a year this act did not compute either. verified the greenbook’s own formula box

The appropriation the corpus already held shows the act working Contents

Enacted foundation aid is $6.58 billion in FY2014 and $7.00 billion in FY2015, against $6.29 billion in FY2013 — a 6.4% rise in the first year, just inside the 6.25% cap once the guarantee’s floor is added, and 6.4% again in the second. verified appropriation-lines.csv, lines 200550 and 200612

It is the most-cited act of the decade in the Catalog and had no node Contents

205 budget lines name H.B. 59 in their legal_basis in catalog-line-item-basis.tsv, third of every act the Catalog names. The corpus has been reading its line structure since the Catalog was wired and could not say what the act did. verified

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DesignationAm. Sub. H.B. 59
General Assembly130th General Assembly
Signed2013-06-30
Effective2013-09-29
When each part took effectTwo dates, and effective above carries the codified one. Signed 30 June 2013, with the appropriation sections effective then; R.C. 3311.22, the one section this corpus still reads from this act rather than from a later amendment, is dated 29 September 2013 in crates/project/fixtures/revised-code.txt. verified crates/project

One section is not the act. Every other provision of H.B. 59 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 FY2014-15 operating budget. Replaced the Bridge formula's bare reference to prior amounts with a computed formula — state share index, Opportunity Grant, seven categoricals — while keeping the prior distribution as a floor through temporary transitional aid at 100% of FY2013 and adding a gain cap of 6.25% and 10.5%. Created the Straight A Program.
VetoesThree, and one of them is about what a district may do with money the formula gave it for a named purpose. verified the greenbook

Gifted funding spending requirements. The General Assembly required districts to spend funding received for gifted coordinator and gifted intervention specialist services only on those services, and to employ qualified personnel on a full-time-equivalency basis matching the units allocated. The Governor vetoed both. So the act allocated gifted units and declined to require that they buy gifted staff — which is the condition FSFP Gifted Identification and Units describes for the current plan, arriving eight years earlier as a deliberate choice rather than an omission. verified

The other two are not funding provisions: adding chiropractors to the professionals who may clear a concussed athlete for play, and exempting a community school serving mainly students with disabilities from the core-subject teacher retesting requirement.
Effect on accountabilityCarried the third-grade reading guarantee's retention provisions and a new generation of assessments, and coupled no new dollar to any of it.

This is the act that rebuilt Ohio's report card and left the funding formula rating-blind. Its nine foundation components — the opportunity grant, targeted assistance, and seven categorical aids — contain no rating term, and its greenbook is one of the seven of twelve carrying no rating-driven formula payment at all. verified crates/project, rating_payments::quiet, pinned by test

It did not let go of the last rating payment, though. Its transitional aid guarantee base is the sum of each district's FY2013 Bridge funding, supplemental guarantee and high performance subsidy — H.B. 153's $17 a pupil on an Excellent rating — so a guaranteed district carried that dollar into FY2014-15 while no FY2014-15 rating could move it. verified greenbook

Worth stating rather than leaving as an absence: the A-F report card and the third-grade reading guarantee's retention provisions arrived here, between H.B. 153's payment on the old ratings and H.B. 64's on the new measures. Ohio rebuilt the measure in a biennium that priced neither. See Ohio report card.

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