Tracking Status Report
Rachel Chilton
School Funding
Callender, J. Sweeney, B.
To create a new school financing system for fiscal year 2022 and each fiscal year thereafter.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Finance Primary & Secondary Education Sub. (3/1/2021; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Education Laws
Sobecki, L. Crossman, J.
To waive state testing requirements for the 2020-2021 school year, to provide exemptions from state report cards and other provisions related to test results, and to declare an emergency.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Primary & Secondary Education (2/9/2021; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Women's Sports
Powell, J. Stoltzfus, R.
To enact the "Save Women's Sports Act" to require schools, state institutions of higher education, and private colleges to designate separate single-sex teams and sports for each sex.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Primary & Secondary Education (6/24/2021; CONTINUED-SUBSTITUTE (See separate story))
HB 67
Enacted
Testing Requirements
Koehler, K. Bird, A.
With regard to state assessments, high school graduation requirements, and community school sponsor evaluations for the 2020-2021 school year, to require the Department of Education to seek a waiver from federal accountability and school identification requirements, and to declare an emergency.
Text & Analysis
Signed by the Governor
(3/20/2021; Signed: March 20, 2021, Effective: March 20, 2021)
HB 99
Enacted
Armed School Staff
Hall, T.
To establish the Ohio School Safety Crisis Center and the Ohio Mobile Training Team to develop a curriculum and provide instruction and training for individuals to convey deadly weapons and dangerous ordnance in a school safety zone, to expressly exempt such individuals from a peace officer basic training requirement, to require public notice if a board of education or school governing body authorizes persons to go armed in a school, and to make an appropriation.
Text & Analysis
Signed by the Governor
(6/13/2022; Signed: June 13, 2022, Effective: immediately)
Academic Commissions
Smith, K. Manning, G.
To dissolve existing academic distress commissions and to repeal the law on the creation of new commissions.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Primary & Secondary Education (3/9/2021; CONTINUED)
Abuse Prevention
Lipps, S. Kelly, B.
With respect to age-appropriate student instruction in child sexual abuse and sexual violence prevention and inservice staff training in child sexual abuse prevention.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Primary & Secondary Education (12/14/2022; REPORTED-SUBSTITUTE (No testimony))
HB 122
Enacted
To establish and modify requirements regarding the provision of telehealth services, to establish a provider credentialing program within the Medicaid program, to revise the law governing the State Medical Board's One-Bite Program, and to extend the suspension of certain programs and requirements under the state's insurance laws until January 1, 2026.
Text & Analysis
Signed by the Governor
(12/22/2021; Signed: December 22, 2021, Effective: March 21, 2022)
Teacher Mentorship and School Athletics
Jones, D.
To continue the changes on and after that date, to reduce the duration of the Alternative Resident Educator License from four to two years, to permit such a licensee to teach preschool, to revise the Ohio Teacher Residency Program as it exists beginning on April 12, 2023, to require one day of professional development leave each school year for classroom teachers to observe veteran teachers, and to enact the Save Women's Sports Act to require schools to designate separate single-sex teams and sports for each sex.
Text & Analysis
House Refuses to Concur in Senate Amendments
(12/14/2022; 46-41)
Passed
in Senate Primary & Secondary Education (12/14/2022; 23-7 (Amended) (Earlier: REPORTED-AMENDED))
HB 169
Enacted
Pandemic Recovery
Cutrona, A. Swearingen, D.
To make appropriations to support recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Text & Analysis
Signed by the Governor
(12/23/2021; Signed: December 23, 2021, Effective: Immediately)
HB 170
Enacted
School Support
Bird, A. Richardson, T.
To provide assistance to schools and other entities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and to make an appropriation.
Text & Analysis
Signed by the Governor
(6/2/2021; Signed: June 2, 2021, Effective: June 2, 2021)
Occupational Licenses
Powell, J.
To require an occupational licensing authority to issue a license or government certification to an applicant who holds a license, government certification, or private certification or has satisfactory work experience in another state under certain circumstances and to amend the version of section 3319.22 of the Revised Code that is scheduled to take effect on April 12, 2023, to continue the changes on and after that date.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in Senate (11/15/2022; Workforce & Higher Education)
Education Funding
McClain, R. John, M.
To establish a school funding formula that allows families to choose the option for all computed funding amounts associated with students' education to follow them to the public and nonpublic schools they attend.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Finance (2/15/2022; CONTINUED (See separate story))
State Board of Education
Bird, A. Miller, J.
To change the voting membership of the State Board of Education to consist of only elected members.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Government Oversight (10/28/2021; CONTINUED-AMENDED (No testimony))
Education Curriculum
Jones, D.
Regards the teaching of certain current events and certain concepts regarding race and sex in public schools.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House State & Local Government (9/22/2021; CONTINUED-AMENDED (See separate story))
Education Curriculum
Grendell, D. Fowler Arthur, S.
To prohibit school districts, community schools, STEM schools, and state agencies from teaching, advocating, or promoting divisive concepts.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House State & Local Government (2/16/2022; CONTINUED-SUBSTITUTE (See separate story))
Conversion Therapy
Lightbody, M.
To protect minors by prohibiting certain licensed health care professionals from engaging in conversion therapy when treating minor patients.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (9/21/2021; Health)
COVID-19 Vaccination Prohibition
Koehler, K.
To prohibit a political subdivision, public official, public school, state agency, or state institution of higher education from taking certain actions related to the COVID-19 vaccine, to codify the qualified civil immunities under H.B. 606 of the 133rd General Assembly permanently, to repeal section 3792.05 of the Revised Code on the date that is two years after the effective date of that section, and to declare an emergency.
Text & Analysis
Introduced
in House (9/20/2021)
Adverse Childhood Experiences Study
Pavliga, G. Edwards, J.
To establish the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study Commission.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Health (12/14/2022; CONTINUED)
Sex Alteration
Click, G. Grendell, D.
To prohibit certain procedures to alter a minor child's sex and to designate this act as the Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Families, Aging & Human Services (11/16/2022; CONTINUED-SUBSTITUTE-AMENDED (See separate story))
Mental Health Training
Loychik, M. Pavliga, G.
To require school athletic coaches to complete mental health training and to revise the renewal requirements for pupil-activity program permits.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Primary & Secondary Education (11/29/2022; CONTINUED)
Third Grade Reading Guarantee
Manning, G. Robinson, P.
To eliminate retention under the Third Grade Reading Guarantee.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Primary & Secondary Education (12/13/2022; CONTINUED)
Occupational Regulations
John, M. Fowler Arthur, S.
To revise and streamline the state's occupational regulations, to extend the authorization for two boards set to expire under Sunset Review Law, and to amend the version of section 4723.481 of the Revised Code that is scheduled to take effect on September 30, 2024, to continue the change on and after that date.
Text & Analysis
Signed by the Governor
(1/5/2023)
Mental Health and Disabilities
Swearingen, D.
Regards the composition and authority of boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services and the taxing authority for such services.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Behavioral Health & Recovery Supports (5/19/2022; CONTINUED-SUBSTITUTE)
Education Policies
Lightbody, M. Bird, A.
To require the State Board of Education to issue temporary educator licenses to applicants with expired professional teacher's certificates and professional educator licenses, with regard to the composition of the Educator Standards Board and its subcommittees, STEM school classroom facilities project funding, full-time equivalency for students enrolled in certain community schools for the 2022-2023 school year, the provision of intervention services under the Autism Scholarship Program, children of military families participation in the college credit plus program, high school graduation requirements for transfer and chartered nonpublic school students, and regarding the education of children experiencing developmental delays and state operating funding for districts and schools educating them; to expand where multiple community school facilities may be located under a community school sponsor contract; and to permit state universities to develop a policy regulating student organizations' use of university logos.
Text & Analysis
Signed by the Governor
(1/5/2023)
School Board Elections
Loychik, M.
Regarding the nomination and election of members of school district boards of education.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Government Oversight (12/1/2022)
HB 583
Enacted
Substitute Teachers
Bird, A. Jones, D.
Regarding substitute teachers, the school financing system, the Educational Choice Scholarship Program, the Pilot Project Scholarship Program, the ACE Educational Savings Account Program, Community Schools of Quality, community school sponsors, state funding for certain community schools, dyslexia screening requirements, tutoring programs, alternative resident education licenses, Ohio School Safety Month, the career-technical education income tax credit, practical nurse education programs, and to make an appropriation.
Text & Analysis
Signed by the Governor
(6/24/2022; Signed: June 24, 2022, Effective: September 21, 2022)
State Board of Education Districts
Sobecki, L. Ingram, C.
To declare the General Assembly's intent to establish new State Board of Education districts.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Government Oversight (12/1/2022; CONTINUED)
Public School Curriculum
Loychik, M. Schmidt, J.
Regards the promotion and teaching of divisive or inherently racist concepts in public schools.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House State & Local Government (5/31/2022; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Mental Health Days
Blackshear, W. Miranda, J.
To allow school districts to permit students to take up to three mental health days away from school each school year.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Primary & Secondary Education (11/15/2022; CONTINUED)
Student Protection Act
Young, T. White, A.
To enact the "Student Protection Act" to require that high school health instruction include self-defense training.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (5/17/2022; Health)
Student Athletes
Miller, A. Miller, J.
To authorize the Ohio High School Athletic Association to establish the rules of play and athlete eligibility regulations for interscholastic athletics for grades seven to twelve.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (11/15/2022; Primary & Secondary Education)
Student Health and Instruction
Swearingen, D. Carruthers, S.
Requires public schools to adopt a prescribed policy on parental notification on student health and well-being and instructional materials with sexually explicit content.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (11/15/2022; State & Local Government)
Date Designation
Smith, M.
To designate October 26th as "Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy Awareness Day" and to name this act Brenna's Law.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (11/15/2022; Health)
Performance Evaluations
Bird, A.
To require each public school to adopt a policy regarding certain expectations related to the performance of staff member professional duties.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Primary & Secondary Education (11/29/2022; CONTINUED)
Education Laws
Fedor, T. Manning, N.
To make changes to education law for the 2020-2021 school year in response to implications from COVID-19 and to declare an emergency.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Primary & Secondary Education (2/23/2021; CONTINUED (See separate story))
Conversion Therapy
Maharath, T. Antonio, N.
To protect minors by prohibiting certain licensed health care professionals from engaging in conversion therapy when treating minor patients.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Health (11/16/2022; CONTINUED)
Local Fiscal Recovery
Blessing, L. Brenner, A.
To make an appropriation related to coronavirus local fiscal recovery and to make changes in laws regarding vaccinations.
Text & Analysis
Passed
in House (6/24/2021; 60-34 (Amended))
Women's Sports
Roegner, K.
To enact the"Save Women's Sports Act" to require schools, state institutions of higher education, and private colleges to designate separate single-sex teams and sports for each sex.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in Senate (3/17/2021; Workforce & Higher Education)
Mask Mandates
Brenner, A.
Regards to mask mandates and facial covering requirements for public schools, state institutions of higher education, and businesses.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in Senate (9/8/2021; General Government Budget)
SB 229
Enacted
Blended Learning
Blessing, L.
Regarding blended or remote learning models for the 2021-2022 school year, the state report card, emergency management plans, withdrawal of untested students from internet- or computer-based schools, the Third Grade Reading Guarantee, high school financial literacy instruction, Educational Choice and Cleveland Scholarship payments, operating subsidies for educational service centers, and to declare an emergency.
Text & Analysis
Signed by the Governor
(12/14/2021; Signed: December 14, 2021, Effective: Immediately; earlier Delivered to the Governor)
Psychologist License
Williams, S.
To modify the supervised professional experience requirement to obtain a psychologist license.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in Senate (10/6/2021; Health)
Aggravated Bullying
Williams, S.
To require a tiered disciplinary procedure for and student instruction on preventing harassment, intimidation, or bullying in school and to create the offense of aggravated bullying as a third-degree misdemeanor.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in Senate (11/30/2021; Primary & Secondary Education)
Child Developmental Delays
Brenner, A.
Regards the education of children experiencing developmental delays and state operating funding for districts and schools educating them.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Primary & Secondary Education (12/6/2022; CONTINUED (No testimony))
Mental Health Assistants
Gavarone, T.
To license certified mental health assistants.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Health (12/14/2022; CONTINUED)
Childhood Trauma
Brinkman, T. Denson, S.
Urging the Governor to declare a State of Emergency on Childhood Trauma in Ohio.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Behavioral Health & Recovery Supports (11/17/2022; CONTINUED)
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