>> ladies and gentlemen governor mike dewine. [applause] [applause]

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>> welcome to the house. gov. dewine: thank you very much. [applause] gov. dewine: thank you very much. [applause] gov. dewine: thank you. speaker stevens, president huffman, leader antonio, members of the general assembly, chief justice kennedy, justices of the ohio supreme court, elected officials, lieutenant governor houston, fellow citizens of ohio . we meet at a time of great opportunity for ohio. a time of great opportunity for ohio and its citizens. yet it is also a time of great challenges.

our future is bright, but that future will be defined by how well we educate all our children. and how we tired -- tear down the barriers to their success. we are challenged as never before because at no time in our history has the full education of our children been more important. the budget that i will present to you today reflects the moral imperative we have to see that all ohioans are fully educated. therefore, every ohio in will have the tools to live up to their full god-given potential. [applause] gov. dewine: our budget is fiscally sound.

spending one time and money on one-time expenditures. averting a fiscal cliff in future years when this one-time money is gone. it is a budget that focuses on our people, our families and our children. for they are truly ohio's greatest assets. it reflects our obligation to make sure every ohioan has the tools to succeed, to get a good job, to live their dreams, whatever that may be. so my fellow ohioans, let us start with our children. we know that reading unlocks the door for all future learning and truly provides a lifetime of opportunities. it opens the door to good jobs.

but really, it opens the door to life. we need to take what seems like a dark world and make it right. fire a child's imagination and turns what looks like a black and white world to vivid, bright colors. tragically, today 40% of all ohio third-grade

further, our budget directs them to help students in charter schools. by providing funding to each school to pay for curriculum based on the science of reading and for professional development for those teachers needing it in that curriculum. [applause]

thank you for your support. at this time i would like to introduce my bride, fran, i best friend and right of over 55 years. [applause] fran 51% of ohio children are now enrolled in the dolly parton imagination library. when we took office and she became first leading that number was under 10%. she also told me that 360 6000

ohio kids are receiving a free book in the mail every single month. not only that, since friend became first lady more than 10 million books have been mailed to ohio's children. [applause] you have helped by providing funding for the books and by connecting us with organizations and supporters in your districts who work with and serve children and families. i also want to thank those local organizations, united way, public libraries hospitals, preschools and so many others. we have also provided funding and who have helped with enrollment. imagination library is really about helping families.

we know sometimes it's tough, it's difficult to be a parent. but what happens at home and how what child grows up impacts them more than really anything else. for ohio to be the best state in the nation to raise a family we must do everything we can to better support families and so our budget will do the following. to ease the financial burden on new parents, our budget asks you to repeal the state sales tax on critical and fet supplies such as diapers, wipes, craves, -- and safety equipment. [applause]

currently children adopted to the public children service system have access to medicaid coverage. the children adopted their

private agencies do not. even if these children have complex medical needs. we now many families would love to open their homes to a child, including children have serious health needs. those families cannot afford to do so. in our budget we will exchange the same opportunity to all children adopted in the state of ohio. [applause] once again, with your help, with your help we have been transforming foster care in ohio we create a foster youth bill of rights and establish an advocate for youth and families who independently investigate reports of abuse and mix conduct

test misconduct within the foster care system. i am also proud of the work to create the transformation counsel. members of this council trouble across the state to your directly from those impacted by foster care. they developed 37 separate recommendations to improve the system. i am pleased to report to you that every single one of those recommendations has been fully implemented or is in the process of being implemented and i thank you for that implementation as well. [applause] we also must together in our last two budgets between more than doubled state funding for them. however, ohio still remains

remain in the bottom national lever funding. many agencies continue to struggle. so to better support children, families, and the caseworkers who serve them we will once again increase their funding in our new proposed budget. there vulnerable children who have unique needs who up until now has no place to go to receive help. this cannot even comprehend. we will help them as well. in our last budget, we created our help program point children -- for children with mental health challenges. these children are at risk for not being able to stay at home with their families. now families are assigned a hands-on case manager.

someone who can provide individualized attention and help that family get the best possible care for the child. ohio rises not getting an immediate care to over 16,000 ohio children by helping develop new services tailored to the specific needs of these children. our budget, it will allow us to connect many more families to these desperately needed services. it is giving hope back to families. in the words of one mother and i quote, ohio raise has saved my son's life. he is smiling again. has left her, there is laughter in our home and my son is healing. when i first became governor

mice first act was create this children's initiative. we also quickly learned that the support we provide are strewn across departments, agencies, offices, sometimes causing duplication and inefficiencies. the issues impacting the lives are simply too important. so in our budget, i'm asking you, i am proposing the creation of an cap that level agency called the department of children and youth. [applause] this statewide agency will allow us to have a short focus on

children's issues our proposed department will consolidate programs from six different state agencies and focus specifically on the following, the physical health of others, and vince, and children. children's behavioral health and the early identification and intervention of mental health needs. children in foster care. early childhood education. we are excited about the prospect of this department and what it will mean for ohio children and for their families. once -- one thing about safety in school today they do. schools received little help so i created school safety center which is dedicated to helping schools, public and private.

public and private to addressing security needs from the physical security of their buildings to training school officials, to improving schools and emergency response plans. each day, our experts, the school safety center is getting social media for threats to our students. they are responding to calls to the anonymous tip line and working with local officials on each districts unique safety needs. our proposed budget will allow us to continue to expand this work. further, some school officials have told me that they would like to place a school resource officer in their schools. but they simply could not afford to do so. in this budget, that we are presenting to you we are for all schools, again, public and private who want a school

resource officer with additional state funding to help them do that. [applause] last because times there is a trust that gets built between students and officers that otherwise would not occur just by the officer being in this goal every single day. one of the fringe benefits. when kids feel safe at school they are better able to learn. we want all students to attend schools where they're safe and have the resources they need to succeed.

which is why our budget continues the implementation of the school funding formula. [applause] children have unique needs that best those fades. that is why our budget proposal includes a scholarship program to expand it to families below poverty level. this investment will allow more families than ever to take advantage of the scholarship and find the best goal for their children. [applause]

for some family, choice means a charter school. we are continuing to expand choice for those family by increasing funding for high-quality charter schools. under our budget, for students attending high-quality charter schools how are budget provides an additional $3000 for each economically developed disadvantaged student. it also increases the facilities funding for all charter schools from $500 to $1000. [applause]

parents want their children to be healthy and happy and to find a passion. something they love to do something that allows them to live out their dreams were ever their dreams may be. any families see their children find that passion in career centers. lieutenant governor of houston, fran and i have spent a lot of time visiting career tech centers around our state. i met students learning hvac and construction trades as well as studying sports medicine, cybersecurity, as a workforce center i visited students and manufacturers who are now providing them jobs. at the tri-rivers career center i talked with teachers teaching welding, robotics, welding, and are.

when we were visiting these career centers we about the different programs they were offering we would ask about the number of students enrolled in so often they would tell us that markets want to take these courses but there is a waitlist because they're not enough open spots. and other cases they don't have the most modern up-to-date equipment needed to teach certain courses. we must change that and we are going to change this. [applause] to reach more students and to provide better training for 21st century jobs, our budget will invest $300 million of one-time funding for capital improvements and equipment for our career tech education across the state.

if a child's passion takes them to college so many families worry if they can afford it. for the first time ever, we will provide need-based financial aid to students choosing to enroll in community colleges or university regional campuses. our budget will also expand to the state need-based scholarship. in two very part waste. -- ways. we will expand eligibility to can -- to include more working

families. we will increase the scholarship amount to $6,000 per student renewable for each of four years. [applause] further if you at the top of the graduating class, or ever you go to high school we plan to report to with the $5,000 a year scholarship also renewable for each of four years if you choose to attend college in the state of ohio.

[applause] to learn, and ultimately live and work here in the state of ohio. we now the changes we announced will help them do that. keeping our young people in a higher has never been more important as we create jobs faster than we can fill them. i want to take a moment again to recognize my friend and my partner and that is lieutenant governor john houston. [applause]

john eisenberg -- don has worked relentlessly. since the announcement just a year ago we celebrated groundbreaking's, expansions, all across the state of ohio. any formula for silly, there is a health research in cincinnati. ohio which has such a rich history in automotive is also becoming a merging force. chose avon lake for the assembly of its all-new commercial electric vehicle. general motors selected toledo for a plant in the united states

and honda partnership stretches back 40 years. we're on the road. [applause] my friends, ohio is truly on the move. 48 companies left the east coast or west coast for ohio that is creating more than 14 thousand net jobs, $1.1 billion in payroll and almost $25 billion in new capital investments. we have had so many successes

and everyone is excited about and tell and everything else. i have heard from so many people outside of central ohio who say how about us? one of the reasons intel is locating -- located in think it is because the site was one of the few in the state that could handle a development project of that magnitude. we simply do not have enough shovel ready development ready sites for the kinds of calls we are getting from companies all around the world. if a manufacturer calls and said we need 400 acres with water, gas, and electricity, we need to have sites immediately available. our goal is this, debate in

ohio's economic revival and for all ohioans to prosper from it. every region of the state has good sites. not many of them are ready for development. when he businesses looking for a site, i can tell you from experience in talking to them they want to move now. they want to move quickly. so what do we do? we must get these sites ready so we can capture these jobs and capture them in every part of the state of ohio. as ronald reagan once said, america is too great for smaller greens. but my friends, so is ohio. [applause]

that is why our budget creates the future fund. a one-time investment that will provide a lifetime of returns. we will make an unprecedented $2.5 billion investment to prepare the infrastructure of large economic development sites located in every single part of the state of ohio. [applause] and my commitment is this, with the consolidated of the sites every citizen will be within commuting distance of at least one of these sites. [applause]

innovation is in our blood and with your help we have thriving innovation districts in cleveland, columbus, and cincinnati. they partnered businesses with colleges and universities to get stem education talent. bringing about research, technology, and lifesaving advancements. we want $150 million to create new innovation hubs in regions throughout the state of ohio. [applause] these hubs will bring together each community's strengths to attract the very best talent.

the pastor, i talked a lot about mental health. but, you know, there was a time when nobody wanted to talk about it. a time when people would simply look the other way. i fell ohioans, -- my fellow ohioans, that time is over. [applause] each one of us knows someone who is struggling. maybe you have a friend who is depressed or anxious about the future. maybe your brother or your sister has schizophrenia. but you never told your friends because you are too embarrassed. maybe your mom or dad has an addiction to alcohol or opioids. maybe your child has bipolar disorder and has contemplated suicide or maybe you yourself have.

thankfully, more people today are starting to talk more openly about these issues. sharing publicly has a mental health struggles. we applaud him for that and all who are talking. also through education campaigns like our public-private partnership to keep the stigma commercials with -- which are not bea -- been seen by almost everyone in ohio. not everyone's face can be changed but nothing could be changed unless it is faced. so my fellow ohioans we must face the fact that out of ohio when will ever fully live up to their potential or live a person's full -- purposeful life if they remain in the shadows and untreated. [applause]

despite all the good intentions of the past our country has never built a mental health system. 60 years ago president john f. kennedy signed the community mental health act of 1963. releasing thousands of women and men from psychiatric hospitals. the promise that was that a systematic care will be built so these men and women with untreated mental illness could live with negative -- dignity and receive treatment within their on communities. sadly that promise was never fully kept. not nationally or here in the state of ohio. the community system was never fully built. with your help, we have started to make progress since the time i took office, beginning with

student wellness and student success dollars for our school right up to the present, the additional resources you provided we are tackling things head on. i think you for that. we know there is still so much to do. the budget released today is centered on building a community care system that increases preventive efforts. offering better prices response services and treatment options. growing our behavioral health workforce and focusing on much-needed research and innovation. in this budget you will see growing investments to expand was working. now we will take into all 88 counting -- counties.

delivered in person or through telehealth services. suicide prevention and the needless loss of our brothers and sisters. support for the youngest ohioans so they can have a great start to life and get help at the earliest sign of a behavioral help needed. expansion of the care system. so fewer end up in the emergency room entries access to state hospitals and psychiatric hospitals emergency departments, courts, and jails. proposing a one-time investment to expand the capacity of pediatric health care system to address the shortage of health care professionals serving children into expand critical facilities. now, those royal families are

getting resources others, language. we must do more. we must not accept that mental illness and addiction are inevitable or that some of these illnesses can't be prevented. or that we have advanced treatment just as far as a auto or recovery is only for the few. that of these things are true. highlands know how to impact change. ohioans don't wait for others to solve our problems. what is in our dna is a passion for and history have research and innovation. from the wright brothers taken the lead on flight research, the

polio vaccine, our history is when we have a problem we figure out solutions and in the rest of the world follows ohio. [applause] as we look to how we continue to address the mental health and addiction challenges of our citizens i'm reminded of something quoted there comes a point where we need to stop pulling people out of the river. we need to go upstream and i don't why they are falling in. so to make any change we need to figure out why so many of our citizens keep falling into the proverbial river and get to the root cause of mental wellness

and addiction. we must engage the best and brightest minds in ohio and the ones we can attract to ohio to focus on what is really holding families back. our budget will approach mental health from research to treatment to understanding the biological and situational aspects of mental illness. we have brought things together in a cohesive way. this work will involve a coordinated, comprehensive investment and new innovations to achieve better outcomes and all recognize that what worked for one person in one community may not work for everyone everywhere else in ohio. so, members of the general

assembly i ask you to again join me, and join me this time in creating the action for resiliency network or the sore network. this network will harness the talents of citizens to deploy a first of its kind comprehensive multi-year research study that includes an ohioans from all regions of the state. this and other research opportunities will help us launch new discoveries about the brain and about resilience. it will help us understand the unique nature of mental health victims across urban, suburban, cruel, and appellation communities. to see what treatments work best . it will look at individuals but also to multigenerational view of how these individuals fit into a family.

it will have a team of counselors, social workers, sociologists, nurses, and medical doctors from all over ohio and they will work collectively to determine what support programs the community can best improve resiliency. so we can remain in our communities and in their on hums with her on family it will help us support our most vulnerable citizens by figuring out how to most effectively reduce the risk of suicide, the risk of addiction, the risk of overdose, and by investing in these initiatives that we know will work. finally, as these great minds develop new ways to treat conditions we will train haverhill helped foreclose in cutting edge therapies and we

will put this research into practice and we will do this in real time. and we will do it in every single corner of the state. [applause] we will do these things because they keep ohioans working and there state thriving. we will also do them because it is simply the right to do. [applause] too many i experienced this is putting a strain on the housing market with low and

moderate incomes. we started a conversation last year in the days of the legislative selection. i pledged that we would address the issue of housing holistic meant to develop housing for lower income families. help ohio wins -- ohioans achieve the dream have hung on a ship. i am proposing in this budget a series of tax changes and programs for the first time ever we will create penn state tax credits and single-family housing tax credits to stimulate the construction of more housing from our families. [applause]

and create to allow citizens to safer adopt payments and other qualified housing expenses with a reduced state tax consequence. every ohio family, has a family member or knows someone living in a nursing home. oh has over 960 nursing homes. most of them are very got with many wonderful and compassionate workers caring for the residents. let me say thank you to all of them for caring for our loved ones. [applause]

tragically nursing, horror stories have been every part of our state. i have received letters from families begging for help. often times these are preventable tragedies caused by systemic problems in the nursing home, including poor infection prevention and control, medication errors, failure to provide care and sometimes elder abuse. sadly, ohio ranks 39th has a state in the most recent cms overall quality store readings. and disturbingly, when we look at the record, too many facilities have very inconsistent compliance or standards of care going up and down, up and down repeating the same deficiencies over and over again.

i know that the general assembly will be looking at the rebasing system this year. i look forward to working with olivia and with her nursing homes to make sure nursing homes are adequately funded. that any discussion about rebasing must quality in our nursing homes. [applause] this matter is urgent that i

will give this group a short time not report to the state of ohio they will travel across the state, they will hear directly from residents and families about their own lived experiences. we will give them a voice and we will empower them to help drive solutions. [applause] the most important function of government is to help keep families safe. i want to thank you for your continued support for efforts to keep our families safe. your support, you have helped hundreds of agencies push body cams. recent events have shown us how important that can be. headshot is the critical need for ongoing training for our law enforcement officers. and so in addition to more recent aces

this is consistent with one of the recommendations from one of your legislatures thought enforcement study commissions. training makes a difference and we must invest in it. [applause] three your support -- through

your support fight and prevent crime. west lake police department came to as because of a spike in domestic violence. with grant funding they purchased technology and as a result westlake lake reporting a reduced gun related crimes by 77%. we also improved the narcotic intelligence center to focus all day every day helping local authorities with direct trafficking and investigations. many agencies don't have the capacity to process large amounts of data from computers and cell phones. so far, they have assisted in nearly 3200 criminal investigations and analyzed more than 7500 digital devices.

i want to talk about the next generation 911 system. something that every single ohioans should focus on. you might be surprised to learn that under many current 911 systems when you call yourself on it doesn't necessarily go directly to your dispatch center. however, the next generation 911 system routes calls directly to a local dispatcher and uses your cell phones gps to get first responses to your exact location. great burden on local government. our budget will fully fund this system in every single ohio community. [applause]

we will also help our agencies utilize the multi agency radio communication system that most of us know as marks. more than 3000 agencies currently use it to communicate with each other across jurisdictional lines. however, as you know, many others use different radio systems making communication difficult. to improve the way our first responders communicate our budget will fully pay the monthly fees for any agency that uses mark's radios. [applause] in ohio, water is one of our

greatest assets. it is tied to our health, quality of work, ability to create jobs and our ability to fish. again, thank you for protecting ohio's water and her twice in the past investing in h2o which has focused on the algae bloom problem. i'm happy to report this problem is -- this is going according to plan. so far, we have enrolled 1.5 million acres of farmland to reduce the runoff. we are actively creating more than 265 wetlands to further the same nutrients out. as part of this process, h2o ohio is planting trees,

protected endangered species. further, h2 ohio is focused on putting dust replacing lead pipes. the program replaced every grid service line reading in cleveland, ohio. [applause] now, we had plans to expand it to the entire state. we will begin or to improve the quality and health of our rivers which are critical for wildlife habitat, infrastructure, drinking water, economic development, and recreation. with your support, we will create h2 ohio rivers. to the cuyahoga to cognac creek

we will work to preserve and protect the health of ohio's workers. -- rivers. we will clean up waterways, removing dams and restoring rivers across the state to their former glory. [applause] the bible warns us of uncertain and unclear leadership. the trumpet given uncertain sound, how shall prepare himself for battle? so i have tried today to be aware of what i believe we must go to his estate and what we must do. however i also recognize the

great role, the constitutional role of this general assembly and the role you play in our system of government. for all of us, all of us must remember and i think take comfort in the effective greatness not so much in our leaders but rather in the wisdom and common sense and the goodness of our people. [applause] may god bless ohio. and may god bless his people. thank you very much. [applause]

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