Create new school financing system with state property, sales tax

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Create new school financing system with state property, sales tax

To declare the General Assembly's intent to establish a new school financing system that provides a statewide per-pupil funding payment to public and chartered nonpublic schools based on a single statewide property tax and increased state sales tax.

What This Bill Does

• To declare the General Assembly's intent to establish a new school financing system that provides a statewide per-pupil funding payment to public and chartered nonpublic schools based on a single statewide property tax and increased state sales tax.

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Official Summary Text

To declare the General Assembly's intent to establish a new school financing system that provides a statewide per-pupil funding payment to public and chartered nonpublic schools based on a single statewide property tax and increased state sales tax.

Current Bill Text

As Introduced

136th
General Assembly

Regular
Session
S. B. No. 93

2025-2026

Senator Brenner

A
BILL

To

declare
the General Assembly's intent to establish a new school financing
system that provides a statewide per-pupil funding payment to public
and chartered nonpublic schools based on a single statewide property
tax and increased state sales tax.

BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:

Section
1.
It
is the intent of the General Assembly to do all of the following:

(A)
Eliminate each school district's ability to levy property and income
taxes;

(B)
Establish a single statewide property tax and increased state sales
tax to fund schools;

(C)
Eliminate state scholarship programs for primary and secondary
students;

(D)
Establish a school financing system that calculates a statewide
amount of per-pupil funding that will be paid to the public or
chartered nonpublic school in which a student's family chooses to
enroll that student.