Legislative Description

To rename the Department of Development the "Development Services Agency"; to establish the Office of TourismOhio within the Development Services Agency, create the TourismOhio Advisory Board, and establish a pilot program to test a new funding mechanism for the state's travel and tourism marketing; to modify the operation of JobsOhio, including by requiring annual ethics training, ethical conduct statements, and the development of a gift policy; to makes changes to the Capital Access Loan Program Fund and to allow transfers to the Capital Access Loan Program Fund from the Minority Business Enterprise Loan Fund; to provide for projects that were started prior to receiving a tax credit from the Ohio Tax Credit Authority; to modify reporting requirements under the Voluntary Action Program; to require the Director of Development Services to administer federal funds received for Brownfields revitalization purposes; to terminate the Water and Sewer Commission; to terminate the Development Financing Advisory Council; to require the Director of Development Services to make certain information available to the public with respect to each project for which state-funded financial assistance is awarded by the Development Services Agency; to expand eligibility for the historic rehabilitation tax credit; to establish an annual debt service limitation on project financing obligations issued for certain economic development programs; and to increase the membership of the Third Frontier Commission.

Development functions-revisions

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