(A) The Ohio facilities construction commission shall establish and administer the aging school accelerator pilot program. The commission shall adopt guidelines and procedures for the pilot program. Under the pilot program, the commission shall provide support for the classroom facilities projects of each school district that meets the following criteria on or before the effective date of this section :
(1) The district has at least one building that is used primarily for classroom instruction in which all or a significant portion of the structure is at least one hundred years old.
(2) The district has never been approved to receive assistance under sections 3318.01 to 3318.20 of the Revised Code or has not completed all segments of a project approved under those sections.
(3) The district's operating expenditure per pupil for fiscal year 2025 was in the lowest twenty-five per cent of all school districts in the state.
(4) The district qualifies to serve all of its students in one school building according to the commission's policies.
(B) The commission shall determine which school districts qualify for the pilot program and notify the qualifying districts. To participate in the pilot program, a qualifying district annually shall set aside the equivalent of one-half mill for each dollar of valuation for maintenance on the project, for a number of years and in a manner determined by the commission.
(C) The commission shall set aside from the amounts appropriated to the commission for classroom facilities assistance projects for the appropriate fiscal year an amount determined by the commission to be adequate to serve qualifying districts and offer the funding to qualifying districts. The state share of the basic project cost for a classroom facilities project under the pilot program shall be at least forty per cent of the total project cost.
(D) Once a pilot project is completed under this section, the project shall be considered served and ineligible for further assistance under sections 3318.01 to 3318.20 of the Revised Code, except for the corrective action program established under section 3318.49 of the Revised Code and any additional assistance provided under section 3318.042 of the Revised Code to cover the district's portion of the cost for that program.
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