Am. Sub. H.B. 64 (2015) — FY2016-17 Budget; Capacity Aid
Kept H.B. 59's formula and moved the guarantee's anchor forward two years, from FY2013 to FY2015. Added capacity aid, which pays on what a mill raises rather than on what a district is worth, and performance bonuses for graduation and third-grade reading.
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The second of the four acts of the Bridge-formula decade, and the one that changed the formula’s content most while changing its architecture least.
Capacity aid is the substantive addition, and it measures something the state share index does not: what one mill actually raises per pupil in a district, rather than where the district sits in the statewide valuation-and-income ranking. Two districts can share an index position and differ in what a levy is worth to them. verified the greenbook
Performance bonuses pay on measured outcomes — a graduation bonus and a third-grade reading bonus — which is unusual in Ohio’s formula and is the ancestor of the Fair School Funding Plan’s performance supplement. A transportation supplement sits beside base pupil transportation. verified
The anchor moves, and moving it is the decade’s only recurring act of policy Contents
Temporary transitional aid had guaranteed 100% of FY2013 state aid. This act re-computes it at 100% of FY2015. verified That is the whole of what a biennium does to the floor: it does not remove it, it does not escalate it, it re-reads it two years later.
One carve-out shows how carefully the base has to be handled. In FY2017 career-technical education and its associated services funds are paid outside the guarantee, so the guarantee base for that year is adjusted by subtracting each district’s FY2016 career-technical funds — otherwise the base would guarantee money the formula was no longer counting toward it. verified
What this repository computed Contents
Not what Ohio publishes. Figures derived here from committed fixtures, each one citing the test that reproduces it.
It is the most-cited act in the whole Catalog and had no node Contents
214 budget lines name H.B. 64 in their legal_basis in
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more than any other act the Catalog names, including every act that already had a node.
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The appropriation Contents
Enacted foundation aid is $7.39 billion in FY2016 and $7.70 billion in FY2017, a 5.5% and
4.2% rise. verified appropriation-lines.csv, lines 200550 and 200612 The decade’s growth is
steady and unremarkable in every year except its last three, which is the finding on
H.B. 166.
Capacity aid and local capacity are not the same idea twice Contents
The Fair School Funding Plan’s local capacity
measure replaced the charge-off and is a deduction from what the state pays. Capacity aid was
an addition on top of a formula whose state share came from an index. Both answer “what can
this district actually raise”, from opposite directions, six years apart. Whether the second
descends from the first is not established here — no replaces edge is claimed and
regime-diff aligns neither. open
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| Designation | Am. Sub. H.B. 64 |
|---|---|
| General Assembly | 131st General Assembly |
| Signed | 2015-06-30 |
| Effective | 2015-09-29 |
| When each part took effect | Two dates, and effective above carries the codified one. Signed 30 June 2015, with the appropriation sections effective then; the codified amendments took effect on 29 September 2015, and some provisions on other dates. verified LSC's enrolled analysis The legislature's version index returns every date field empty for this act, so the analysis is the only source. (the legislature's version index) |
| What it did | Enacted the FY2016-17 operating budget. Kept H.B. 59's state share index and Opportunity Grant, added capacity aid, graduation and third-grade reading bonuses, and a transportation supplement. Re-anchored temporary transitional aid from FY2013 to FY2015 and moved career-technical funds outside the guarantee for FY2017. |
| Vetoes | Five, and two of them are the largest funding vetoes in the decade. verified the greenbook The secondary per-pupil guarantee. The General Assembly wrote a second floor into the formula: after the temporary transitional aid guarantee and the gain cap were applied, every district would have been guaranteed at least 20% of the formula amount per pupil — $1,180 in FY2016 and $1,200 in FY2017 — phased in at 15% and 25%. Vetoed. A floor under the floor, passed by both chambers and struck by one person, and it appears in no enacted figure this corpus holds. The TPP supplement's second year. The FY2017 appropriation of $78.3 million and its supporting formula calculations, plus a related provision transferring $12 million of GRF cash to the School District TPP Supplement Fund in each fiscal year. Vetoed, leaving FY2016's supplement in place and FY2017's not. The transfers from the Medicaid Reserve Fund and the FY2015 surplus were retained. See Tangible Personal Property Tax Replacement Payments. Also vetoed: an exemption from the property tax replacement phase-out for districts containing a nuclear power plant where replacement payments were 10% or more of total resources, which would have reached exactly two districts — Perry Local in Lake County and Benton-Carroll-Salem in Ottawa County; and the removal of the rule requiring a JVSD to spend at least 75% of its state career-technical funding on career-technical programs. |
| Effect on accountability | Introduced the graduation and third-grade reading bonuses, which pay on report-card measures and so join the funding and accountability systems.Graduation rate × 0.075 × formula amount × graduate count × state share index, and the same shape on third-grade reading proficiency. verified crates/project, rating_payments, pinned by testIt is the equalized one. H.B. 119's Closing the Achievement Gap paid more to districts with more failing buildings and only to poor ones; H.B. 153's subsidy for high performance had already reversed that, paying $17 a pupil on an Excellent rating, flat at any valuation. This pays more to districts with better results, at fifty times Closing the Achievement Gap's rate, and the state share index makes the payment larger in poorer districts rather than gating it on poverty. No other Ohio payment on success has carried an equalizer. verified The mechanism, its wealth gradient and its disappearance are at performance supplement rate; the chronology of every rating-to-dollar coupling is at Ohio report card. |
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| Instance of | Legislation |
|---|---|
| Amends | Am. Sub. H.B. 59 (2013) — FY2014-15 Budget; a Formula Over the Bridge |
| Continues | Bridge Formula |
| Precedes | FSFP Performance Supplement |
| Appropriates for | FY2016-2017 Biennium |
| Sourced from | LSC Redbook — Ohio Department of Education and Workforce |