PRIORITY LEGISLATION
House Bills
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 |
COMING UP...
STATEHOUSE SESSIONS
HOUSE
Wed, May 8, 2pm |
SENATE
Wed, May 8, 1:30pm |
COMMITTEE HEARINGS
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SB 208 - Requires a military exception in an open enrollment policy - All testimony, VOTE
SB 128 - Requires disclosure of the for-profit status of certain schools - Sponsor Testimony SB 219 - Regards educator license grade bands - Proponent Testimony HB 147 - Regards teacher licensure revocation, hiring practices, conduct - All Testimony |
HOUSE & SENATE EDUCATION BILLS
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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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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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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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Passed House Higher Ed Committee
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LGBTQ+: Bans transgender individuals from K12 and higher ed restrooms and facilities aligning with gender identity
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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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TBD
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K12 Visitors & Presenters: Requires school boards to approve presentations from "patriotic" organizations to students
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TBD
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K12 Funding: Requires the Department of Education to conduct an annual audit regarding state assessments
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TBD
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K12 Technology Bans: Bans student cell phones and restricts internet and social media usage
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SENATE BILLS
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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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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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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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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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