LSC Budget Analysis — H.B. 96 (FY2026-27)
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Source. Ohio Legislative Service Commission, Legislative Budget Office. The document set
for a single budget act: Redbook (as introduced), Bill Analysis and Budget in Brief at
each stage of passage, Greenbook (as enacted), and the appropriation spreadsheet.
Type. Primary source — official fiscal and legal analysis.
Location. lsc.ohio.gov/budget/136/main-operating-budget. The as-enacted Greenbook for
the Department of Education and Workforce is at
lsc.ohio.gov/assets/legislation/136/hb96/en0/files/hb96-edu-greenbook-as-enacted-136th-general-assembly.pdf.
What it contains. For H.B. 96: the enacted phase-in percentages, appropriations by line item and fiscal year, and the analysis of every change to the Fair School Funding Plan. LSC publishes the equivalent set for every biennium, which makes this the only continuous appropriation series across the whole period this corpus covers, and the main source for the pre-2000 record where department files do not reach.
Access constraints. Freely available. The lsc.ohio.gov asset host does not present a
valid TLS chain to standard fetching tools — retrieval failed repeatedly during the first
extraction phase, and the enacted-Greenbook figures could not then be taken from it directly.
That is handled now: connect retrieves the department’s Greenbook as hb96-edu-greenbook,
pins it in source-digests.txt, and commits the extract as
dew-greenbook.txt, so enacted figures drawn
from it are [verified] rather than inference.
Caveat — the most important one in the catalog. LSC publishes at every stage of passage,
and the versions differ materially. The House-passed Budget in Brief describes bridge-formula
funding of $11.24 billion in FY2026 and $11.49 billion in FY2027; that is the House proposal,
not the enacted law. A figure from this source is meaningless without the stage it belongs to —
as introduced, as passed by the House, as passed by the Senate, or as enacted. The URL
path segment (in, ph, ps, en0) encodes it, and every record drawn from here must carry
it.
Separately, LSC simulations are estimates made before a fiscal year closes. They describe the same quantity as a department payment report and routinely disagree with it. Never merge the two series.
Every act’s enrolled analysis dates it, on its cover
The bill analysis as enrolled opens with an Effective date: line, and for a budget act that
line is the only place outside the enrolled act’s own section-by-section clauses that says which
half took effect when. The enrolled PDF itself cannot: it prints the governor’s approval and the
Secretary of State’s filing stamp as blank templates.
The same path shape serves it for older acts, with en for en0 and enrolled for enacted:
lsc.ohio.gov/assets/legislation/{GA}/{bill}/en/files/{bill}-bill-analysis-as-enrolled-{GA}{st|nd|rd|th}-general-assembly.pdf.
The ordinal suffix is part of the name — 131st, 133rd — and a wrong one is a 404. Read 29
September 2026 for their covers alone, and not fetched by the connector:
| act | cover |
|---|---|
| H.B. 94, 124th | certain provisions effective September 5, 2001 |
| H.B. 66, 126th | June 30, 2005; certain provisions September 29, 2005 |
| H.B. 119, 127th | June 30, 2007; certain provisions September 29, 2007 |
| H.B. 1, 128th | July 17, 2009; certain provisions October 16, 2009 |
| H.B. 153, 129th | June 30, 2011; certain provisions September 29, 2011 |
| H.B. 64, 131st | June 30, 2015; certain provisions September 29, 2015 |
| H.B. 166, 133rd | July 18, 2019; most provisions October 17, 2019 |
| H.B. 110, 134th | operating appropriations June 30, 2021; other provisions generally September 30, 2021 |
H.B. 95 of the 125th has no analysis at that path: the URL answers with LSC’s Selected Issues fiscal volume instead, which carries no effective date. Its dates, and H.B. 583’s, come from the legislature’s version index, recorded at Ohio bills before enactment — the text as introduced, which agrees with every cover above where it has a value.