Testimony of Jon Honeck, Ph.D. On S.B. 236 before the Senate Finance & Financial Institutions Committe

The new constitutional amendment says that the General Assembly shall provide for
ensuring the accountability of all state funding provided for the purposes described in the
amendment. The bipartisan Agreement in Principle reached last summer by the
legislative leadership on the implementing legislation for the amendment calls for
"accountability, integrity and transparency with respect to the disbursement of funds for
the three components of this bond issuance."...

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[1] This was the approach taken by the General Assembly for members of the board of trustees and the executive director of the Tobacco Use Prevention and Control Foundation; members of the board of trustees and the executive director of the Southern Ohio Agricultural and Community Development Foundation; and the former Biomedical Research and Technology Transfer Commission.

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