SB 120 — Establish the Urban Farmer Youth Initiative Pilot Program

As ReportedPassed by the Senate Finance Committee 136th General Assembly Regular Session Am.

Senators Blackshear, Smith, DeMora, Weinstein, Schaffer, Brenner, RomanchukRomanchuk, Cirino, Craig, Cutrona, Gavarone, Johnson, Lang, Liston, Patton, Reineke, Reynolds, Timken, Wilkin To amend sections 3781.06, 3781.061, and 5713.30 of 1 the Revised Code relating to temporary 2 greenhouses and building codes, to establish the 3 Urban Farmer Youth Initiative Pilot Program, to 4 codify certain property tax requirements for 5 agricultural land, and to make an appropriation.

16 (2) Nothing in sections 3781.06 to 3781.18, 3781.40, and 17 3791.04 of the Revised Code shall be construed to limit the 18 power of the division of industrial compliance of the department 19 Am.

120 Page 2 As ReportedPassed by the Senate Financepower Committeeof the division of industrial compliance of the department 19 of commerce to adopt rules of uniform application governing 20 manufactured home parks pursuant to section 4781.26 of the 21 Revised Code.

120 Page 3 As ReportedPassed by the Senate Finance Committee (b) Its exterior is integral to the protection or cooling, 48 or both, of the computers housed within it.

120 Page 4 As ReportedPassed by the Senate Finance Committee this section or a mobile home as defined by division (O) of 76 section 4501.01 of the Revised Code.

120 Page 5 As ReportedPassed by the Senate Finance Committee (d) The structure was manufactured after January 1, 1995;

120 Page 6 As ReportedPassed by the Senate Finance Committee (11) "Accessory structure" means a structure that is 134 attached to a residential building and serves the principal use 135 of the residential building.

120 Page 7 As ReportedPassed by the Senate Finance Committee of the Revised Code, and through the last day of May of such 162 year, one or more of the following apply:

120 Page 8 As ReportedPassed by the Senate Finance Committee (2) Tracts, lots, or parcels of land totaling less than 192 ten acres that, during the three calendar years prior to the 193 year in which application is filed under section 5713.31 of the 194 Revised Code and through the last day of May of such year, were 195 devoted exclusively to commercial animal or poultry husbandry, 196 aquaculture, algaculture meaning the farming of algae, 197 apiculture, the cultivation of hemp by a person issued a hemp 198 cultivation license under section 928.02 of the Revised Code, 199 the production for a commercial purpose of field crops, tobacco, 200 fruits, vegetables, timber, nursery stock, ornamental trees, 201 sod, or flowers where such activities produced an average yearly 202 gross income of at least twenty-five hundred dollars during such 203 three-year period or where there is evidence of an anticipated 204 gross income of such amount from such activities during the tax 205 year in which application is made, or were eligible conservation 206 land;

120 Page 9 As ReportedPassed by the Senate Finance Committee material being stored or deposited on such land pursuant to a 223 contract between the land's owner and the department of natural 224 resources or the United States army corps of engineers and no 225 action has occurred to the land that is either inconsistent with 226 the return of it to agricultural production or converts the land 227 devoted exclusively to agricultural use.

120 Page 10 As ReportedPassed by the Senate Finance Committee marijuana, as defined by section 3796.01 of the Revised Code, is 253 cultivated or processed is not land devoted exclusively to 254 agricultural use.

120 Page 11 As ReportedPassed by the Senate Finance Committee tract, lot, or parcel to be regarded as a conversion of land 282 devoted exclusively to agricultural use if the remaining portion 283 of the tract, lot, or parcel continues to be devoted exclusively 284 to agricultural use.

120 Page 12 As ReportedPassed by the Senate Finance Committee anaerobic digestion of organic materials, including animal waste 311 and agricultural crops and residues.

120 Page 13 As ReportedPassed by the Senate Finance Committee or nature water project that receives funding from the H2Ohio 339 fund created in section 126.60 of the Revised Code.

120 Page 14 As ReportedPassed by the Senate Finance Committee (B) The pilot program shall operate for fiscal year 2027 368 and offer programming in at least two, but not more than four, 369 counties.

120 Page 15 As ReportedPassed by the Senate Finance Committee 2 3 4 5 A BOR DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION B General Revenue Fund C GRF 235589 Urban Farmer Youth Initiative $0 $500,000 Pilot Program D TOTAL GRF General Revenue Fund $0 $500,000 E TOTAL ALL BUDGET FUND GROUPS $0 $500,000 URBAN FARMER YOUTH INITIATIVE PILOT PROGRAM 396 The foregoing appropriation item 235589, Urban Farmer 397 Youth Initiative Pilot Program, shall be used by the Chancellor 398 of Higher Education, in collaboration with the Ohio State 399 University and Central State University, to administer the Urban 400 Farmer Youth Initiative Pilot Program pursuant to Section 3 of 401 this act.