Tuesday, March 16, 1999
Highlights of Taft's budget
Here are some of the key points of Gov. Bob Taft's $39.98 billion, two-year budget:
EDUCATION
• Basic per-student subsidy increases from $3,851 this year to $4,038 next year, and to $4,226 in the second year of the budget.
• The OhioReads program, designed to make sure all students can read by fourth grade, gets $25 million.
• High school seniors who pass the 12th-grade proficiency test would get a $500 scholarship to a state college or university. Price tag: $17.5 million annually.
• All the anticipated state budget surplus, projected to be more than $400 million, would go to school building and technology aid.
HEALTH CARE
• Children's Health Insurance Program gets $6.8 million next year and $24 million the second year to provide heath care to uninsured children of low-income families.
• Ohio Department of Health childhood immunization program gets $7.4 million in first year, and $7.9 million the second.
ELDERLY
• Alzheimer Respite program gets $7.6 million over the two years to increase the number or eligible caregivers from 1,200 to 3,600.
• Senior community services, such as “meals on wheels” and transportation: $27.4 million for two years.
• Passport program for in-home care gets $56.4 million in first year of budget, and $60.3 million the second.
JOBS
• A 30.3 percent increase, to $18 million, for Ohio Industrial Training Grants in the first year of the budget. The grants, which help companies retrain workers, would total $20 million the second year.
• Urban Redevelopment loans, totaling $10 million each year, would be used to entice business to distressed urban locations.
PRISONS
• The budget includes $80 million to open new prisons in Grafton, Conneaut and Toledo and new camps in Lima and Glouster.
• Community corrections efforts would get $110 million.
• A new youth facility will open in Marion, with a price of $17 million.
TAXES
• Tax breaks, totaling $147 million, would include deductions for the first two years of college, adoptions, health insurance and long-term care insurance. The homestead property tax deduction for the elderly and disabled also would increase.
— The Associated Press
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