Ohio 2025-2026 Regular Session

Ohio House Bill HB42 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version

                            As Introduced
136th General Assembly
Regular Session	H. B. No. 42
2025-2026
Representatives Fischer, Williams
Cosponsors: Representatives Thomas, D., Schmidt, King, Dean, Gross, Johnson, 
Workman, Click, Klopfenstein, Bird, Lear
A B I L L
To amend section 3301.0714 and to enact sections 
107.26, 2965.01, 2965.02, 3301.0717, 5101.546, 
5107.101, and 5162.138 of the Revised Code to 
require certain agencies to collect and report 
data concerning the citizenship or immigration 
status of persons with whom they come into 
contact.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That section 3301.0714 be amended and sections 
107.26, 2965.01, 2965.02, 3301.0717, 5101.546, 5107.101 , and 
5162.138 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:
Sec. 107.26.  By the thirty-first day of March of each  
year, the governor shall submit a report to the general assembly 
in accordance with section 101.68 of the Revised Code 
summarizing all information submitted to the governor under 
sections 2965.01, 3301.0717, 3722.15, 5101.546, and 5107.101 of 
the Revised Code for the previous calendar year. This report 
also shall be posted on the governor's web site.
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Sec. 2965.01.  	(A) As used in this section, "law  
enforcement agency" means a municipal or township police 
department, the office of a sheriff, the state highway patrol, 
or any other state or local governmental body that enforces 
criminal laws and that has employees who have a statutory power 
of arrest.
(B) A law enforcement agency shall collect and maintain, 
as part of the law enforcement agency's official records 
concerning each person in detention, the person's citizenship or 
immigration status, if the information is available. At the 
request of the law enforcement agency, a prosecuting attorney, a 
court clerk, or the department of rehabilitation and correction 
shall provide any available citizenship or immigration status 
information to the law enforcement agency.
(C) By the thirty-first day of January of each year, each 
law enforcement agency shall submit a report to the office of 
the attorney general including all of the following information, 
if available:
(1) The number of people detained in the previous year who 
were citizens or nationals of the Unites States;
(2) The number of people detained in the previous year who 
were not a citizen or national of the United States but were 
lawfully present in the United States;
(3) The number of people detained in the previous year who 
were unlawfully present in the United States.
(D) By the twenty-eighth day of February of each year, the 
attorney general shall submit a report to the governor 
summarizing all information submitted to the attorney general 
under division (C) of this section in the previous calendar 
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year.
(E) The attorney general may adopt rules establishing the 
format of the citizenship information collected by a law 
enforcement agency and the format of the annual reports 
submitted to the attorney general.
Sec. 2965.02.  	(A) The department of rehabilitation and  
correction shall collect and maintain, as part of the 
department's official records concerning each person in 
detention, the person's citizenship or immigration status, if 
the information is available. At the request of the department, 
a prosecuting attorney, law enforcement agency, or court clerk 
shall provide any available citizenship or immigration status 
information to the department.
(B) By the twenty-eighth day of February of each year, the 
department of rehabilitation and correction shall submit a 
report to the governor summarizing all of the following 
information, if available:
(1) The number of people detained in the previous year who 
were citizens or nationals of the Unites States;
(2) The number of people detained in the previous year who 
were not a citizen or national of the United States but were 
lawfully present in the United States;
(3) The number of people detained in the previous year who 
were unlawfully present in the United States.
Sec. 3301.0714. (A) The department of education and 
workforce shall adopt rules for a statewide education management 
information system. The rules shall require the department to 
establish guidelines for the establishment and maintenance of 
the system in accordance with this section and the rules adopted 
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under this section. The guidelines shall include: 
(1) Standards identifying and defining the types of data 
in the system in accordance with divisions (B) and (C) of this 
section; 
(2) Procedures for annually collecting and reporting the 
data to the department in accordance with division (D) of this 
section; 
(3) Procedures for annually compiling the data in 
accordance with division (G) of this section; 
(4) Procedures for annually reporting the data to the 
public in accordance with division (H) of this section; 
(5) Standards to provide strict safeguards to protect the 
confidentiality of personally identifiable student data. 
(B) The guidelines adopted under this section shall 
require the data maintained in the education management 
information system to include at least the following: 
(1) Student participation and performance data, for each 
grade in each school district as a whole and for each grade in 
each school building in each school district, that includes: 
(a) The numbers of students receiving each category of 
instructional service offered by the school district, such as 
regular education instruction, vocational education instruction, 
specialized instruction programs or enrichment instruction that 
is part of the educational curriculum, instruction for gifted 
students, instruction for students with disabilities, and 
remedial instruction. The guidelines shall require instructional 
services under this division to be divided into discrete 
categories if an instructional service is limited to a specific 
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subject, a specific type of student, or both, such as regular 
instructional services in mathematics, remedial reading 
instructional services, instructional services specifically for 
students gifted in mathematics or some other subject area, or 
instructional services for students with a specific type of 
disability. The categories of instructional services required by 
the guidelines under this division shall be the same as the 
categories of instructional services used in determining cost 
units pursuant to division (C)(3) of this section. 
(b) The numbers of students receiving support or 
extracurricular services for each of the support services or 
extracurricular programs offered by the school district, such as 
counseling services, health services, and extracurricular sports 
and fine arts programs. The categories of services required by 
the guidelines under this division shall be the same as the 
categories of services used in determining cost units pursuant 
to division (C)(4)(a) of this section. 
(c) Average student grades in each subject in grades nine 
through twelve; 
(d) Academic achievement levels as assessed under sections 
3301.0710, 3301.0711, and 3301.0712 of the Revised Code; 
(e) The number of students designated as having a 
disabling condition pursuant to division (C)(1) of section 
3301.0711 of the Revised Code; 
(f) The numbers of students reported to the department 
pursuant to division (C)(2) of section 3301.0711 of the Revised 
Code; 
(g) Attendance rates and the average daily attendance for 
the year. For purposes of this division, a student shall be 
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counted as present for any field trip that is approved by the 
school administration. 
(h) Expulsion rates; 
(i) Suspension rates; 
(j) Dropout rates; 
(k) Rates of retention in grade; 
(l) For pupils in grades nine through twelve, the average 
number of carnegie units, as calculated in accordance with the 
director's rules; 
(m) Graduation rates, to be calculated in a manner 
specified by the department that reflects the rate at which 
students who were in the ninth grade three years prior to the 
current year complete school and that is consistent with 
nationally accepted reporting requirements; 
(n) Results of diagnostic assessments administered to 
kindergarten students as required under section 3301.0715 of the 
Revised Code to permit a comparison of the academic readiness of 
kindergarten students. However, no district shall be required to 
report to the department the results of any diagnostic 
assessment administered to a kindergarten student, except for 
the language and reading assessment described in division (A)(2) 
of section 3301.0715 of the Revised Code, if the parent of that 
student requests the district not to report those results. 
(o) The number of students earning each state diploma seal 
included in the system prescribed under division (A) of section 
3313.6114 of the Revised Code; 
(p) The number of students demonstrating competency for 
graduation using each option described in divisions (B)(1)(a) to 
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(d) of section 3313.618 of the Revised Code; 
(q) The number of students completing each foundational 
and supporting option as part of the demonstration of competency 
for graduation pursuant to division (B)(1)(b) of section 
3313.618 of the Revised Code; 
(r) The number of students enrolled in all-day 
kindergarten, as defined in section 3321.05 of the Revised Code ;
(s) The number of students who are citizens or nationals 
of the United States;
(t) The number of students who are not citizens or 
nationals of the United States but who are lawfully present in 
the United States, disaggregated by specific immigration status;
(u) The number of students who are not lawfully present in 
the United States. 
(2) Personnel and classroom enrollment data for each 
school district, including: 
(a) The total numbers of licensed employees and 
nonlicensed employees and the numbers of full-time equivalent 
licensed employees and nonlicensed employees providing each 
category of instructional service, instructional support 
service, and administrative support service used pursuant to 
division (C)(3) of this section. The guidelines adopted under 
this section shall require these categories of data to be 
maintained for the school district as a whole and, wherever 
applicable, for each grade in the school district as a whole, 
for each school building as a whole, and for each grade in each 
school building. 
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time equivalent employees providing each category of service 
used pursuant to divisions (C)(4)(a) and (b) of this section, 
and the total numbers of licensed employees and nonlicensed 
employees and the numbers of full-time equivalent licensed 
employees and nonlicensed employees providing each category used 
pursuant to division (C)(4)(c) of this section. The guidelines 
adopted under this section shall require these categories of 
data to be maintained for the school district as a whole and, 
wherever applicable, for each grade in the school district as a 
whole, for each school building as a whole, and for each grade 
in each school building. 
(c) The total number of regular classroom teachers 
teaching classes of regular education and the average number of 
pupils enrolled in each such class, in each of grades 
kindergarten through five in the district as a whole and in each 
school building in the school district. 
(d) The number of lead teachers employed by each school 
district and each school building. 
(3)(a) Student demographic data for each school district, 
including information regarding the gender ratio of the school 
district's pupils, the racial make-up of the school district's 
pupils, the number of English learners in the district, and an 
appropriate measure of the number of the school district's 
pupils who reside in economically disadvantaged households. The 
demographic data shall be collected in a manner to allow 
correlation with data collected under division (B)(1) of this 
section. Categories for data collected pursuant to division (B)
(3) of this section shall conform, where appropriate, to 
standard practices of agencies of the federal government. 
(b) With respect to each student entering kindergarten, 
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whether the student previously participated in a public 
preschool program, a private preschool program, or a head start 
program, and the number of years the student participated in 
each of these programs. 
(4)(a) The core curriculum and instructional materials 
being used for English language arts in each of grades pre-
kindergarten to five; 
(b) The reading intervention programs being used in each 
of grades pre-kindergarten to twelve. 
(5) Any data required to be collected pursuant to federal 
law. 
(C) The education management information system shall 
include cost accounting data for each district as a whole and 
for each school building in each school district. The guidelines 
adopted under this section shall require the cost data for each 
school district to be maintained in a system of mutually 
exclusive cost units and shall require all of the costs of each 
school district to be divided among the cost units. The 
guidelines shall require the system of mutually exclusive cost 
units to include at least the following: 
(1) Administrative costs for the school district as a 
whole. The guidelines shall require the cost units under this 
division (C)(1) to be designed so that each of them may be 
compiled and reported in terms of average expenditure per pupil 
in enrolled ADM in the school district, as determined pursuant 
to section 3317.03 of the Revised Code. 
(2) Administrative costs for each school building in the 
school district. The guidelines shall require the cost units 
under this division (C)(2) to be designed so that each of them 
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may be compiled and reported in terms of average expenditure per 
full-time equivalent pupil receiving instructional or support 
services in each building. 
(3) Instructional services costs for each category of 
instructional service provided directly to students and required 
by guidelines adopted pursuant to division (B)(1)(a) of this 
section. The guidelines shall require the cost units under 
division (C)(3) of this section to be designed so that each of 
them may be compiled and reported in terms of average 
expenditure per pupil receiving the service in the school 
district as a whole and average expenditure per pupil receiving 
the service in each building in the school district and in terms 
of a total cost for each category of service and, as a breakdown 
of the total cost, a cost for each of the following components: 
(a) The cost of each instructional services category 
required by guidelines adopted under division (B)(1)(a) of this 
section that is provided directly to students by a classroom 
teacher; 
(b) The cost of the instructional support services, such 
as services provided by a speech-language pathologist, classroom 
aide, multimedia aide, or librarian, provided directly to 
students in conjunction with each instructional services 
category; 
(c) The cost of the administrative support services 
related to each instructional services category, such as the 
cost of personnel that develop the curriculum for the 
instructional services category and the cost of personnel 
supervising or coordinating the delivery of the instructional 
services category. 
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(4) Support or extracurricular services costs for each 
category of service directly provided to students and required 
by guidelines adopted pursuant to division (B)(1)(b) of this 
section. The guidelines shall require the cost units under 
division (C)(4) of this section to be designed so that each of 
them may be compiled and reported in terms of average 
expenditure per pupil receiving the service in the school 
district as a whole and average expenditure per pupil receiving 
the service in each building in the school district and in terms 
of a total cost for each category of service and, as a breakdown 
of the total cost, a cost for each of the following components: 
(a) The cost of each support or extracurricular services 
category required by guidelines adopted under division (B)(1)(b) 
of this section that is provided directly to students by a 
licensed employee, such as services provided by a guidance 
counselor or any services provided by a licensed employee under 
a supplemental contract; 
(b) The cost of each such services category provided 
directly to students by a nonlicensed employee, such as 
janitorial services, cafeteria services, or services of a sports 
trainer; 
(c) The cost of the administrative services related to 
each services category in division (C)(4)(a) or (b) of this 
section, such as the cost of any licensed or nonlicensed 
employees that develop, supervise, coordinate, or otherwise are 
involved in administering or aiding the delivery of each 
services category. 
(D)(1) The guidelines adopted under this section shall 
require school districts to collect information about individual 
students, staff members, or both in connection with any data 
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required by division (B) or (C) of this section or other 
reporting requirements established in the Revised Code. The 
guidelines may also require school districts to report 
information about individual staff members in connection with 
any data required by division (B) or (C) of this section or 
other reporting requirements established in the Revised Code. 
The guidelines shall not authorize school districts to request 
social security numbers of individual students. The guidelines 
shall prohibit the reporting under this section of a student's 
name, address, and social security number to the department. The 
guidelines shall also prohibit the reporting under this section 
of any personally identifiable information about any student, 
except for the purpose of assigning the data verification code 
required by division (D)(2) of this section, to any other person 
unless such person is employed by the school district or the 
information technology center operated under section 3301.075 of 
the Revised Code and is authorized by the district or technology 
center to have access to such information or is employed by an 
entity with which the department contracts for the scoring or 
the development of state assessments. The guidelines may require 
school districts to provide the social security numbers of 
individual staff members and the county of residence for a 
student. Nothing in this section prohibits the department from 
providing a student's county of residence to the department of 
taxation to facilitate the distribution of tax revenue. 
(2)(a) The guidelines shall provide for each school 
district or community school to assign a data verification code 
that is unique on a statewide basis over time to each student 
whose initial Ohio enrollment is in that district or school and 
to report all required individual student data for that student 
utilizing such code. The guidelines shall also provide for 
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assigning data verification codes to all students enrolled in 
districts or community schools on the effective date of the 
guidelines established under this section. The assignment of 
data verification codes for other entities, as described in 
division (D)(2)(d) of this section, the use of those codes, and 
the reporting and use of associated individual student data 
shall be coordinated by the department of education and 
workforce in accordance with state and federal law. 
School districts shall report individual student data to 
the department through the information technology centers 
utilizing the code. The entities described in division (D)(2)(d) 
of this section shall report individual student data to the 
department in the manner prescribed by the department. 
(b)(i) Except as provided in sections 3301.941, 3310.11, 
3310.42, 3310.63, 3313.978, 3317.20, and 5747.057 of the Revised 
Code, and in division (D)(2)(b)(ii) of this section, at no time 
shall the department have access to information that would 
enable any data verification code to be matched to personally 
identifiable student data. 
(ii) For the purpose of making per-pupil payments to 
community schools under section 3317.022 of the Revised Code, 
the department shall have access to information that would 
enable any data verification code to be matched to personally 
identifiable student data. 
(c) Each school district and community school shall ensure 
that the data verification code is included in the student's 
records reported to any subsequent school district, community 
school, or state institution of higher education, as defined in 
section 3345.011 of the Revised Code, in which the student 
enrolls. Any such subsequent district or school shall utilize 
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the same identifier in its reporting of data under this section. 
(d)(i) The director of any state agency that administers a 
publicly funded program providing services to children who are 
younger than compulsory school age, as defined in section 
3321.01 of the Revised Code, including the directors of health, 
job and family services, mental health and addiction services, 
children and youth, and developmental disabilities, shall 
request and receive, pursuant to sections 3301.0723 and 5180.33 
of the Revised Code, a data verification code for a child who is 
receiving those services. 
(ii) The director of developmental disabilities, director 
of health, director of job and family services, director of 
mental health and addiction services, medicaid director, 
executive director of the commission on minority health, 
executive director of the opportunities for Ohioans with 
disabilities agency, or director of education and workforce, on 
behalf of a program that receives public funds and provides 
services to children who are younger than compulsory school age, 
may request and receive, pursuant to section 3301.0723 of the 
Revised Code, a data verification code for a child who is 
receiving services from the program. 
(E) The guidelines adopted under this section may require 
school districts to collect and report data, information, or 
reports other than that described in divisions (A), (B), and (C) 
of this section for the purpose of complying with other 
reporting requirements established in the Revised Code. The 
other data, information, or reports may be maintained in the 
education management information system but are not required to 
be compiled as part of the profile formats required under 
division (G) of this section or the annual statewide report 
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required under division (H) of this section. 
(F) The board of education of each school district shall 
annually collect and report to the department, in accordance 
with the guidelines established by the department, the data 
required pursuant to this section. A school district may collect 
and report these data notwithstanding section 2151.357 or 
3319.321 of the Revised Code. 
(G) The department shall, in accordance with the 
procedures it adopts, annually compile the data reported by each 
school district pursuant to division (D) of this section. The 
department shall design formats for profiling each school 
district as a whole and each school building within each 
district and shall compile the data in accordance with these 
formats. These profile formats shall: 
(1) Include all of the data gathered under this section in 
a manner that facilitates comparison among school districts and 
among school buildings within each school district; 
(2) Present the data on academic achievement levels as 
assessed by the testing of student achievement maintained 
pursuant to division (B)(1)(d) of this section. 
(H)(1) The department shall, in accordance with the 
procedures it adopts, annually prepare a statewide report for 
all school districts and the general public that includes the 
profile of each of the school districts developed pursuant to 
division (G) of this section. Copies of the report shall be sent 
to each school district. 
(2) The department shall, in accordance with the 
procedures it adopts, annually prepare an individual report for 
each school district and the general public that includes the 
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profiles of each of the school buildings in that school district 
developed pursuant to division (G) of this section. 
(I) Any data that is collected or maintained pursuant to 
this section and that identifies an individual pupil is not a 
public record for the purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised 
Code. 
(J) As used in this section: 
(1) "School district" means any city, local, exempted 
village, or joint vocational school district and, in accordance 
with section 3314.17 of the Revised Code, any community school. 
As used in division (L) of this section, "school district" also 
includes any educational service center or other educational 
entity required to submit data using the system established 
under this section. 
(2) "Cost" means any expenditure for operating expenses 
made by a school district excluding any expenditures for debt 
retirement except for payments made to any commercial lending 
institution for any loan approved pursuant to section 3313.483 
of the Revised Code. 
(K) Any person who removes data from the information 
system established under this section for the purpose of 
releasing it to any person not entitled under law to have access 
to such information is subject to section 2913.42 of the Revised 
Code prohibiting tampering with data. 
(L)(1) In accordance with division (L)(2) of this section 
and the rules adopted under division (L)(10) of this section, 
the department may sanction any school district that reports 
incomplete or inaccurate data, reports data that does not 
conform to data requirements and descriptions published by the 
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department, fails to report data in a timely manner, or 
otherwise does not make a good faith effort to report data as 
required by this section. 
(2) If the department decides to sanction a school 
district under this division, the department shall take the 
following sequential actions: 
(a) Notify the district in writing that the department has 
determined that data has not been reported as required under 
this section and require the district to review its data 
submission and submit corrected data by a deadline established 
by the department. The department also may require the district 
to develop a corrective action plan, which shall include 
provisions for the district to provide mandatory staff training 
on data reporting procedures. 
(b) Withhold up to ten per cent of the total amount of 
state funds due to the district for the current fiscal year and, 
if not previously required under division (L)(2)(a) of this 
section, require the district to develop a corrective action 
plan in accordance with that division; 
(c) Withhold an additional amount of up to twenty per cent 
of the total amount of state funds due to the district for the 
current fiscal year; 
(d) Direct department staff or an outside entity to 
investigate the district's data reporting practices and make 
recommendations for subsequent actions. The recommendations may 
include one or more of the following actions: 
(i) Arrange for an audit of the district's data reporting 
practices by department staff or an outside entity; 
(ii) Conduct a site visit and evaluation of the district; 
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(iii) Withhold an additional amount of up to thirty per 
cent of the total amount of state funds due to the district for 
the current fiscal year; 
(iv) Continue monitoring the district's data reporting; 
(v) Assign department staff to supervise the district's 
data management system; 
(vi) Conduct an investigation to determine whether to 
suspend or revoke the license of any district employee in 
accordance with division (N) of this section; 
(vii) If the district is issued a report card under 
section 3302.03 of the Revised Code, indicate on the report card 
that the district has been sanctioned for failing to report data 
as required by this section; 
(viii) If the district is issued a report card under 
section 3302.03 of the Revised Code and incomplete or inaccurate 
data submitted by the district likely caused the district to 
receive a higher performance rating than it deserved under that 
section, issue a revised report card for the district; 
(ix) Any other action designed to correct the district's 
data reporting problems. 
(3) Any time the department takes an action against a 
school district under division (L)(2) of this section, the 
department shall make a report of the circumstances that 
prompted the action. The department shall send a copy of the 
report to the district superintendent or chief administrator and 
maintain a copy of the report in its files. 
(4) If any action taken under division (L)(2) of this 
section resolves a school district's data reporting problems to 
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the department's satisfaction, the department shall not take any 
further actions described by that division. If the department 
withheld funds from the district under that division, the 
department may release those funds to the district, except that 
if the department withheld funding under division (L)(2)(c) of 
this section, the department shall not release the funds 
withheld under division (L)(2)(b) of this section and, if the 
department withheld funding under division (L)(2)(d) of this 
section, the department shall not release the funds withheld 
under division (L)(2)(b) or (c) of this section. 
(5) Notwithstanding anything in this section to the 
contrary, the department may use its own staff or an outside 
entity to conduct an audit of a school district's data reporting 
practices any time the department has reason to believe the 
district has not made a good faith effort to report data as 
required by this section. If any audit conducted by an outside 
entity under division (L)(2)(d)(i) or (5) of this section 
confirms that a district has not made a good faith effort to 
report data as required by this section, the district shall 
reimburse the department for the full cost of the audit. The 
department may withhold state funds due to the district for this 
purpose. 
(6) Prior to issuing a revised report card for a school 
district under division (L)(2)(d)(viii) of this section, the 
department may hold a hearing to provide the district with an 
opportunity to demonstrate that it made a good faith effort to 
report data as required by this section. The hearing shall be 
conducted by a referee appointed by the department. Based on the 
information provided in the hearing, the referee shall recommend 
whether the department should issue a revised report card for 
the district. If the referee affirms the department's contention 
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that the district did not make a good faith effort to report 
data as required by this section, the district shall bear the 
full cost of conducting the hearing and of issuing any revised 
report card. 
(7) If the department determines that any inaccurate data 
reported under this section caused a school district to receive 
excess state funds in any fiscal year, the district shall 
reimburse the department an amount equal to the excess funds, in 
accordance with a payment schedule determined by the department. 
The department may withhold state funds due to the district for 
this purpose. 
(8) Any school district that has funds withheld under 
division (L)(2) of this section may appeal the withholding in 
accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. 
(9) In all cases of a disagreement between the department 
and a school district regarding the appropriateness of an action 
taken under division (L)(2) of this section, the burden of proof 
shall be on the district to demonstrate that it made a good 
faith effort to report data as required by this section. 
(10) The director of education and workforce shall adopt 
rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement 
division (L) of this section. 
(M) No information technology center or school district 
shall acquire, change, or update its student administration 
software package to manage and report data required to be 
reported to the department unless it converts to a student 
software package that is certified by the department. 
(N) The state board of education, in accordance with 
sections 3319.31 and 3319.311 of the Revised Code, may suspend 
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or revoke a license as defined under division (A) of section 
3319.31 of the Revised Code that has been issued to any school 
district employee found to have willfully reported erroneous, 
inaccurate, or incomplete data to the education management 
information system. 
(O) No person shall release or maintain any information 
about any student in violation of this section. Whoever violates 
this division is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. 
(P) The department shall disaggregate the data collected 
under division (B)(1)(n) of this section according to the race 
and socioeconomic status of the students assessed. 
(Q) If the department cannot compile any of the 
information required by division (I) of section 3302.03 of the 
Revised Code based upon the data collected under this section, 
the department shall develop a plan and a reasonable timeline 
for the collection of any data necessary to comply with that 
division. 
Sec. 3301.0717.  	The department of education and workforce  
shall require each public school to report data under divisions 
(B)(1)(s) to (u) of section 3301.0714 of the Revised Code by the 
thirty-first day of January each calendar year. That report 
shall include the number of each category of students described 
in those divisions who were enrolled in the school on the 
thirty-first day of December of the prior calendar year. Not 
later than the twenty-eighth day of February of each calendar 
year, the department shall submit to the governor a report 
summarizing that data.
Sec. 5101.546.  	(A) A county department of job and family  
services shall collect data that indicate one of the following 
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regarding each household that receives supplemental nutrition 
assistance program benefits:
(1) All members of the household are citizens or nationals 
of the United States.
(2) At least one member of the household is not a citizen 
or national of the United States but is lawfully present in the 
United States, including specific immigration status.
(B) By the thirty-first day of January of each year, each 
county department of job and family services shall submit a 
report to the Ohio department of job and family services 
including both of the following for the previous calendar year:
(1) The total number of households for which:
(a) All members were citizens or nationals of the United 
States;
(b) At least one member of the household was not a citizen 
or national of the United States but was lawfully present in the 
United States, disaggregated by immigration status;
(2) The monetary value of benefits provided to households 
that include a member who is not a citizen or national of the 
United States but is lawfully present in the United States.
(C) By the twenty-eighth day of February of each year, the 
Ohio department of job and family services shall submit a report 
to the governor summarizing all information submitted to the 
department under division (B) of this section for the previous 
calendar year.
(D) The Ohio department of job and family services may 
adopt rules establishing the format of the citizenship or 
immigration information collected by a county department and the 
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format of the annual reports submitted to the Ohio department of 
job and family services. The rules shall be adopted in 
accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.
Sec. 5107.101.  	(A) A county department of job and family  
services shall collect data that indicate one of the following 
regarding each assistance group that receives cash assistance:
(1) All members of the assistance group are citizens or 
nationals of the United States.
(2) At least one member of the assistance group is not a 
citizen or national of the United States but is lawfully present 
in the United States.
(3) For child-only assistance groups, each parent, 
guardian, custodian, or specified relative residing with and 
caring for the child is a citizen or national of the United 
States.
(4) For child-only assistance groups, at least one parent, 
guardian, custodian, or specified relative residing with and 
caring for the child is not a citizen or national of the United 
States but is lawfully present in the United States.
(B) By the thirty-first day of January of each year, each 
county department of job and family services shall submit a 
report to the Ohio department of job and family services 
including both of the following for the previous calendar year:
(1) The total number of assistance groups for which:
(a) All members were citizens or nationals of the United 
States;
(b) At least one member was not a citizen or national of 
the United States but was lawfully present in the United States, 
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disaggregated by immigration status;
(c) Each parent, guardian, custodian, or specified 
relative residing with and caring for a child in a child-only 
assistance group was a citizen or national of the United States;
(d) At least one parent, guardian, custodian, or specified 
relative residing with and caring for a child in a child-only 
assistance group was not a citizen or national of the United 
States but was lawfully present in the United States, 
diaggregated by immigration status.
(2) The monetary value of benefits provided to assistance 
groups that included a member who was not a citizen or national 
of the United States but was lawfully present in the United 
States.
(C) By the twenty-eighth day of February of each year, the 
Ohio department of job and family services shall submit a report 
to the governor summarizing all information submitted to the 
department under division (B) of this section for the previous 
calendar year.
(D) The Ohio department of job and family services may 
adopt rules establishing the format of the citizenship or 
immigration information collected by a county department and the 
format of the annual reports submitted to the Ohio department of 
job and family services. The rules shall be adopted in 
accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.
Sec. 5162.138.  	(A) By the thirty-first day of January each  
year, the department of medicaid shall submit a report to the 
governor that includes the following information:
(1) The number of qualified aliens enrolled in the 
medicaid program;
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(2) The number of qualified aliens who applied for 
benefits under the medicaid program in the previous calendar 
year;
(3) The number of individuals not lawfully present in the 
United States who received alien emergency medical assistance, 
as specified in section 1903(v) of the "Social Security Act," 42 
U.S.C. 1396b(v), in the previous calendar year.
(B) As used in this section, "qualified alien" has the 
same meaning as in section 431(b) of the federal "Personal 
Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996," 
8 U.S.C. 1641(b).
Section 2. That existing section 3301.0714 of the Revised 
Code is hereby repealed.
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