HB 683 Summary

• Establishes a scholarship program for children of active-duty U.S. military service members to attend chartered nonpublic schools, with awards of up to $6,000 for grades K-8 and $10,000 for grades 9-12

• Requires participating chartered nonpublic schools to administer state assessments to scholarship students and report results to the Department of Education

• Creates two new sections of the Ohio Revised Code (3310.31 and 3310.311) to implement the military children scholarship program and authorize the Department to access student data verification codes for program administration

• Authorizes up to $5,750,000 in fiscal year 2021 from the Foundation Funding appropriation to make payments for the scholarship program and additional support amounts to families

• Makes various amendments to education assessment and enrollment reporting requirements in the Revised Code and updates budget appropriations in HB 166