Effective: June 30, 2007
Latest Legislation: House Bill 119 - 127th General Assembly
(A) Except as provided under division (B) of this section, employees of a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics school may organize and collectively bargain pursuant to Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code. Notwithstanding division (D)(1) of section 4117.06 of the Revised Code, a unit containing teaching and nonteaching employees employed under this section shall be considered an appropriate unit.
(B) If a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics school is created by converting all or part of an existing school operated by a school district or an existing conversion community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code, at the time of conversion, the employees assigned to the STEM school shall remain part of any collective bargaining unit in which they were included immediately prior to the conversion and shall remain subject to any collective bargaining agreement for that unit in effect on the first day of July of the year in which the STEM school initially begins operation and shall be subject to any subsequent collective bargaining agreement for that unit, unless a petition is certified as sufficient under division (E) of this section with regard to those employees. Any new employees assigned to the STEM school also shall be included in the unit to which they would have been assigned had the conversion not taken place and shall be subject to the collective bargaining agreement for that unit unless a petition is certified as sufficient under division (E) of this section with regard to those employees.
Notwithstanding division (B) of section 4117.01 of the Revised Code, the board of education of the school district that operated or sponsored the STEM school prior to conversion and not the STEM school shall be regarded, for purposes of Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code, as the "public employer" of the employees assigned to a conversion STEM school subject to a collective bargaining agreement pursuant to this division unless a petition is certified under division (E) of this section with regard to those employees. Only on and after the effective date of a petition certified as sufficient under division (E) of this section shall division (A) of this section apply to those employees and only on and after the effective date of that petition shall Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code apply to the school with regard to those employees.
(C) Notwithstanding sections 4117.03 to 4117.18 of the Revised Code and Section 4 of Amended Substitute Senate Bill No. 133 of the 115th general assembly, the employees assigned to a conversion STEM school who are subject to a collective bargaining agreement pursuant to division (B) of this section shall cease to be subject to that agreement and all subsequent agreements pursuant to that division and shall cease to be part of the collective bargaining unit that is subject to that and all subsequent agreements, if a majority of the employees assigned to the STEM school who are subject to that collective bargaining agreement sign and submit to the state employment relations board a petition requesting all of the following:
(1) That all the employees assigned to the STEM school who are subject to that agreement be removed from the bargaining unit that is subject to that agreement and be designated by the state employment relations board as a new and separate bargaining unit for purposes of Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code;
(2) That the employee organization certified as the exclusive representative of the employees of the bargaining unit from which the employees are to be removed be certified as the exclusive representative of the new and separate bargaining unit for purposes of Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code;
(3) That the STEM school be regarded as the "public employer" of those employees for purposes of Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code.
(D) Notwithstanding sections 4117.03 to 4117.18 of the Revised Code and Section 4 of Amended Substitute Senate Bill No. 133 of the 115th general assembly, the employees assigned to a conversion STEM school who are subject to a collective bargaining agreement pursuant to division (B) of this section shall cease to be subject to that agreement and all subsequent agreements pursuant to that division, shall cease to be part of the collective bargaining unit that is subject to that and all subsequent agreements, and shall cease to be represented by any exclusive representative of that collective bargaining unit, if a majority of the employees assigned to the STEM school who are subject to that collective bargaining agreement sign and submit to the state employment relations board a petition requesting all of the following:
(1) That all the employees assigned to the STEM school who are subject to that agreement be removed from the bargaining unit that is subject to that agreement;
(2) That any employee organization certified as the exclusive representative of the employees of that bargaining unit be decertified as the exclusive representative of the employees assigned to the STEM school who are subject to that agreement;
(3) That the STEM school be regarded as the "public employer" of those employees for purposes of Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code.
(E) Upon receipt of a petition under division (C) or (D) of this section, the state employment relations board shall check the sufficiency of the signatures on the petition. If the signatures are found sufficient, the board shall certify the sufficiency of the petition and so notify the parties involved, including the board of education of the school district that operated or sponsored the STEM school prior to conversion, the STEM school, and any exclusive representative of the bargaining unit. The changes requested in a certified petition shall take effect on the first day of the month immediately following the date on which the sufficiency of the petition is certified under this division.
Structure Ohio Revised Code
Title 33 | Education-Libraries
Chapter 3326 | Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics Schools
Section 3326.01 | Stem and Steam Defined.
Section 3326.02 | Stem Committee Established.
Section 3326.03 | Stem School Proposals.
Section 3326.031 | Single Governing Body May Direct Group of Multiple Stem Schools.
Section 3326.032 | Stem School Equivalent Designation.
Section 3326.04 | Stem or Steam Program of Excellence Designation.
Section 3326.06 | Nonprofit Enterprise to Support Coordination of Efforts.
Section 3326.07 | Schools Part of State Program - Dissolution.
Section 3326.08 | Stem School Administration and Oversight.
Section 3326.081 | Suspension of Employee Pending Criminal Action.
Section 3326.082 | Computer Science and Technology Fund.
Section 3326.09 | Team Responsible for Curriculum Development.
Section 3326.10 | Admission Procedures.
Section 3326.101 | Tuition for Nonresidents.
Section 3326.11 | Statutory Compliance Requirements.
Section 3326.112 | Compliance With Standards for Financial Reporting.
Section 3326.12 | Schools to Comply With Rc Chapter 3323.
Section 3326.13 | Qualifications and Licensure of Teachers.
Section 3326.14 | State Assessment Requirements.
Section 3326.15 | High School Credit.
Section 3326.16 | Schools to Comply With Health and Safety Provisions.
Section 3326.17 | Annual Report Card for Each School.
Section 3326.18 | Employees May Organize and Bargain Collectively.
Section 3326.19 | Rc Chapter 124 Inapplicable to Nonteaching Employees.
Section 3326.20 | Transportation for Native Students.
Section 3326.21 | School Treasurer - Financial Records.
Section 3326.211 | Unauditable Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics School.
Section 3326.22 | Enforcement of Truancy Laws.
Section 3326.23 | Annual Assurances of Schools to Department.
Section 3326.24 | Report of Employee Conviction or Alternative Disposition.
Section 3326.241 | Employee Investigation Report Kept in Personnel File.
Section 3326.242 | Application of Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Section 3326.243 | False Report of Employee Misconduct Prohibited.
Section 3326.25 | Criminal Records Check of Private Contract Employee.
Section 3326.26 | Body Mass Index and Weight Status Category Screening.
Section 3326.27 | Liability for Damages Due to Concussions.
Section 3326.271 | Stem School Employees; Liability.
Section 3326.28 | Procurement of Epinephrine Autoinjectors for Stem Schools.
Section 3326.29 | Liability Related to Sudden Cardiac Arrest.
Section 3326.30 | Procurement of Inhalers by Stem School.
Section 3326.31 | Stem School Funding Definitions.
Section 3326.32 | Report of Information Required by Department.
Section 3326.34 | Costs in Excess of Threshold Catastrophic Costs.
Section 3326.35 | Payment Adjustment for Students Enrolled Only Part of the Year.
Section 3326.36 | Payment Adjustment for Students Participating in College Credit Plus Program.
Section 3326.37 | Exclusions From Department Payments to Schools or Governing Bodies.
Section 3326.38 | Permitted Applications by Schools.
Section 3326.39 | Expenditures of Career-Technical Education Funding.
Section 3326.40 | Expenditure of Disadvantaged Pupil Impact Aid.
Section 3326.44 | Stem School Spending for English Learners.
Section 3326.45 | Stem School May Contract for Provision of Services.
Section 3326.49 | Schools May Not Levy Taxes or Issue Tax-Secured Bonds.
Section 3326.50 | Schools Shall Not Charge Tuition.
Section 3326.51 | Government of Stem School by District.
Section 3326.52 | Policies for Use of Credit Card Accounts.
Section 3326.60 | Procurement of Glucagon, Qualified Immunity.