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As Introduced
136th
General Assembly
Regular
Session
H. B. No. 734
2025-2026
Representative Fowler Arthur
To
enact section 3302.27 of the Revised Code
to
establish the Outstanding Citizenship Award designation on the state
report card and to make an appropriation.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section
1.
That
section 3302.27 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:
Sec.
3302.27.
(A)
The department of education and workforce shall indicate on the state
report card issued under section 3302.03 of the Revised Code for a
school district that it has received an outstanding citizenship award
if the school district does all of the following:
(1)
Requires each school in the district to provide a time at the
beginning of each school day for all students to recite the pledge of
allegiance;
(2)
Requires each school in the district to provide a time at the
beginning of each school day for all students to observe a moment of
silence;
(3)
Encourages all students to read the founding documents of Ohio and
the United States of America;
(4)
Has eighty per cent or more of all high school students demonstrating
at least a proficient level of skill as prescribed under division
(B)(5)(a) of section 3301.0712 of the Revised Code on both the
American history and American government end-of-course examinations
prescribed under division (B)(2) of section 3301.0712 of the Revised
Code.
(B)
Each fiscal year, the department shall provide a grant of five
hundred dollars to each district that receives the outstanding
citizenship award. The district shall use the grant to pay for
transportation costs to transport the students of the district to
visit the Ohio statehouse and museum.
Section
2.
All
items in this act are hereby appropriated as designated out of any
moneys in the state treasury to the credit of the designated fund.
For all operating appropriations made in this act, those in the first
column are for fiscal year 2026 and those in the second column are
for fiscal year 2027. The operating appropriations made in this act
are in addition to any other operating appropriations made for these
fiscal years.
Section
3.
1
2
3
4
5
A
EDU
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE
B
General
Revenue Fund
C
GRF
200439
Accountability/Report
Cards
$350,000
$350,000
D
General
Revenue Fund Total
$350,000
$350,000
E
TOTAL
ALL BUDGET FUND GROUPS
$350,000
$350,000
ACCOUNTABILITY/REPORT
CARDS
The
foregoing appropriation item 200439, Accountability/Report Cards,
shall be used to issue grants to school districts that receive an
outstanding citizenship award under section 3302.27 of the Revised
Code.
Section
4.
Within
the limits set forth in this act, the Director of Budget and
Management shall establish accounts indicating the source and amount
of funds for each appropriation made in this act, and shall determine
the manner in which appropriation accounts shall be maintained.
Expenditures from operating appropriations contained in this act
shall be accounted for as though made in, and are subject to all
applicable provisions of, H.B. 96 of the 136th General Assembly.