PRIORITY LEGISLATION
House Bills
HB 8 - "Don't Say LGBTQ+", forced outing of LGBTQ+ students
HB 103 - Extremist overhaul of K-12 social studies standards HB 151 - Higher Education Destruction Act HB 171 - Multicultural model curricula HB 178 - The CROWN Act HB 206 - Indefinite expulsion policies HB 214 - Bans districts from requiring, inquiring, or discussing certain values, beliefs |
HB 240 - Chaplains as unlicensed school counselors
HB 245 - Drag show ban HB 267 - Partisan school board elections HB 339 - Education savings accounts for nonchartered schools HB 394 - Bans colleges from requiring certain values, beliefs HB 445 - Requires Religious Time Release for K12 districts HB 556 - Criminalizes educators and librarians for "pandering obscenities" |
COMING UP...
STATEHOUSE SESSIONS
The Ohio Legislature is on Summer Recess and will return in the fall.
The Ohio Legislature is on Summer Recess and will return in the fall.
SENATE
Wed, June 26, 1:30pm |
HOUSE
Wed, June 26, 11am |
COMMITTEE HEARINGS
*Honesty Priority Bill
*Honesty Priority Bill
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K12 Funding: Modifies property taxation and flattens state income tax rate to 2.75%; cuts $1.2B from local government and public education
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Oppose
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UPDATE: HB 6 amended into HB 68
LGBTQ+: Requires K12 and higher education schools to ban transgender student athletes from athletic teams |
Oppose
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LGBTQ+: Requires public schools to adopt a Don't Say Gay censorship policy forcing parental notification about use of "sexuality" content
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Oppose
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K12 Staffing: Establishes the "Grow Your Own Teacher Program" loan repayment program for eligible teachers
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Interested Party
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K12 Funding: Continues the phased-in implementation of the Fair School Funding Plan
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Support
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K12 Funding: Similar to universal vouchers, creates publicly funded Education Savings Accounts for K-12 students to be used for private school education
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Oppose
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K12 Governance: State takeover of public education; creates the Department of Education and Workforce (DEW); shifts oversight of public education to governor
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Oppose
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Funding: State Budget for FY 2024-2025; establishes operating appropriations for fiscal years 2024-2025
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K12 Student Health: Allows school districts to excuse up to three mental health days for students each school year
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Interested Party
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K12 Educator Conduct: Requires schools to adopt a policy on staff members' behavior while executing their "professional duties"
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Oppose
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K12 Curriculum: Requires schools to provide conflict resolution instruction
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Support
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UPDATE: Passed
LGBTQ+: Bans gender-affirming mental and physical healthcare for minors; bans trans gender athletes from teams aligning with gender identity |
Oppose
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K12 Curriculum: Creates government-appointed "Social Studies Standards Task Force" to overhaul K-12 social studies standards using American Birthright standards
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Oppose
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LGBTQ+: Designates March 12 as "Detrans Awareness Day"
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K12 Curriculum: Eliminates retention provision in Third Grade Reading Guarantee
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Support
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K12 Homeschooling: Changes laws governing home education
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K12 Educator Conduct, Staffing: Changes licensing, hiring of educators, and consequences of conduct unbecoming to the teaching profession
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Higher Ed DEI, Instruction, Worker Rights: Bans required DEI training, policies based on race and identity, academic relationships with Chinese institutions, employee strikes, and more
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Oppose
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K12 Student Health: Regards applied behavior analysis for certain children with autism
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K12 Curriculum: Revises Ohio K12 social studies model curriculum to include instruction on the migration, experiences, and contributions of diverse communities
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Support
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Racial Equity: Enacts the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act (CROWN Act)
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Support
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Passed House Higher Ed Committee
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UPDATE: HB 183 amended into SB 104
LGBTQ+: Bans transgender individuals from K12 and higher ed restrooms and facilities aligning with gender identity |
Oppose
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K12 Discipline: Allows indefinite expulsion policies
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Oppose
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K12 Values: Bans districts from requiring or inquiring about beliefs, values, ideologies
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Oppose
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K12 Governance: Changes State Board of Education to partisan, all-elected board; aligns State Board districts with Ohio Congressional districts
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K12 Staff: Permit public schools to employ chaplains as school counselors
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Oppose
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LGBTQ+: Defines drag shows as adult cabaret performance, gender expression different than gender assigned at birth, and harmful to juveniles; restricts drag shows and trans gender expression to adult cabaret spaces only; issues penalties for violations
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Oppose
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K12 Governance: Changes school board elections from nonpartisan to partisan and requires primary elections for school board races
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Oppose
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LGBTQ+: "The Innocence Act" - Prohibits organizations from sharing "obscene" online content with minors
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K12 Partnerships: Establishes Regional Partnerships Program for neo-natal to post-secondary Ohioans
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K12 Health: "Conscientious Right to Refuse Act" - Prohibits discrimination for refusal of medical interventions for reasons
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K12 Funding: Establishes an Educational Savings Account Program for nonchartered schools
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K12 Attendance: Creates pilot program providing financial incentive to students to attend school
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K-12 Regulation: Expands eligibility for a 40-hour teaching permit to teach public safety officer courses
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K12 Regulation: Dissolves existing academic distress commissions, repeals law creating new commissions declaring emergencies
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Higher Ed: Prohibits state colleges and universities from requiring individuals to commit to specific beliefs, affiliations, ideals, or principles
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K12 Vouchers: Creates regulations and public reporting requirements for chartered nonpublic schools receiving vouchers
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K12 Nutrition: Require public schools to provide meals and related services
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K12 Staff: Increases base salary for teachers
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K12 Safety: Building Safer Communities for Ohio's Children Act -- Establishes the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention within the Department of Children and Youth, requires the Office to administer grant programs aimed at reducing firearm violence
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K12 Licensure: Regards licensure for teaching career technical education
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K12 Remote Learning: Requires State Board of Education to permit educational aides and intervention specialists to provide remote services
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K12 Remote Learning: Regards the provision of remote services for special needs scholarship recipients and credentialed professionals who may provide services under the Jon Peterson Special Needs Scholarship Program
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K12 Excused Release: Requires school districts to adopt policies authorizing a student to be excused from school to attend a course in religious instruction
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Higher Ed Schoarships: Enacts the Student Choice Program and makes appropriations
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K12 Visitors & Presenters: Requires school boards to approve presentations from "patriotic" organizations to students
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K12 Funding: Requires the Department of Education to conduct an annual audit regarding state assessments
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K12 Technology Bans: Bans student cell phones and restricts internet and social media usage
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School Employees & Volunteers: Regards the penalty for assault when the victim is a school employee or volunteer
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K12 Censorship: Creates criminal liability for certain teachers and librarians for the offense of pandering obscenity
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Oppose
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K12 Data Privacy: Permits schools to withhold directory information and to remove directory information from the public record definition
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Higher Ed Discrimination: Enacts the Campus Accountability and Modernization to Protect University Students Act (CAMPUS Act ) to prevent racial, religious, and ethnic bias, harassment, and intimidation in higher education; creates antisemitism prevention policies at state agencies; establishes campus safety and community programs
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Libraries: Defunds libraries that display “matter harmful to juveniles”
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K12 Instruction: Require school districts to offer high school computer science
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UPDATE: Adopted into 2024 State Budget
K12 Governance: State takeover of public education; creates the Department of Education and Workforce (DEW); shifts oversight of public education to governor |
Oppose
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K12 Funding, Homeschooling: Expands availability and amount of EdChoice scholarships; increases income tax credit for homeschooling families; restricts additional homeschooling regulations
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Oppose
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K12 Staffing: Expands eligibility for veterans to teach without a license
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Oppose
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K12 Curriculum: Adds specific concepts about "free market capitalism" to high school financial literacy standards
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Oppose
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K12 Governance, Privacy: Regards education records and student data privacy
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Interested Party
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Child Labor: Allows minors under 16 to work until 9pm during the school year
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K12 Governance: Provides up to 3 days of excused absences for religious observance and expressions
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Interested Party
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K12 Academic Recovery: Regards dropout prevention and recovery community schools
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Higher Ed DEI, Instruction, Worker Rights: Bans required DEI training, policies based on race and identity, academic relationships with Chinese institutions, employee strikes, and more
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Oppose
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K12 Student Health: Establishes and regulates "scholars residential centers" at private middle and high schools
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K12 Curriculum: Establishes the Urban Farmer Youth Initiative Pilot Program
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K12 Governance, Safe Schools: Enacts "Ohio Childhood Safety Act" to bring districts into compliance with fire codes
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UPDATE: Adopted into 2024 State Budget
Higher Ed Curriculum: Establishes "intellectual diversity" centers at The Ohio State University and University of Toledo College of Law |
Oppose
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K12 Intervention: Regards academic intervention services
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K12 Regulations: Reforms and de-regulates K12 education
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K12: Establishes Foster-to-College Scholarship Program
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Enacts the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair (CROWN) Act to prohibit discrimination against an individual based on hair texture and protective hair styles
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K12 Curriculum: Requires education and instruction about drug, alcohol, tobacco abuse and prevention
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K12 Regulations: Requires city, exempted village, or local school district to make exception for military children in open enrollment policies
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K12 Regulations: Requires teacher licenses specify a grade band; teachers must teach within two grade bands of their designated license
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K 12 Sports: Regards participation in interscholastic athletics for students subjected to harassment, intimidation, bullying, or other offenses.
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TBD
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Higher Education: Regards higher ed accommodations for student election officials
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TBD
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Higher Education: Enacts the Campus Accountability and Modernization to Protect University Students "CAMPUS" Act regarding the prevention of racial, religious, and ethnic bias, harassment, and intimidation at institutions of higher education, regarding antisemitism prevention policies at state agencies, to establish different campus safety and community programs
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TITLE IX: Urges excluding sexual orientation, gender identity from Title IX
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