HB 462 updates Ohio school health policies to allow schools to stock and administer nasal epinephrine devices for students with severe allergies without requiring a separate prescription for each student. It directly affects students with life-threatening allergies, school nurses, and staff who may need to respond to allergic reactions. The key provision removes the requirement for individual prescriptions per student, enabling schools to maintain a stock of the device for immediate use in emergencies. This change streamlines access to critical treatment during allergic reactions at school. The bill amends existing sections of Ohio's Revised Code governing school health procedures.
To create the Workforce Investment Now (WIN) for Child Care pilot program to provide publicly funded child care to child care staff members and to make an appropriation.
To enact sections 3319.66, 3319.70, 3345.84, and 6301.113 of the Revised Code to enact the Future Educators Support Act regarding financial support for student teachers and teaching as an in-demand job.
To amend section 5104.30 and to enact section 5104.302 of the Revised Code to make foster caregivers and kinship caregivers eligible for publicly funded child care.
To enact section 3333.1211 of the Revised Code to create the Higher Education Evidence-Based Innovation Fund and Grant Program and to require the Chancellor of Higher Education to conduct a study on retrenchment processes at state institutions of higher education.
HB 125 requires Ohio school districts to grant excused absences for students in kindergarten through grade 12 to participate in scheduled 4-H and FFA programs. Students must provide the school principal with documentation of their participation, and schools must allow them to make up missed work without penalty to their grades. The bill excludes absences during state standardized testing periods or when a student is suspended, expelled, or otherwise disciplined for activities that would prevent participation in educational trips. This policy directly affects K-12 students involved in these agricultural youth programs by ensuring their school attendance records reflect participation in approved activities.
To enact sections 3301.96 and 3333.89 of the Revised Code to establish the Foster-to-College Scholarship Program, to require the Department of Education and Workforce to hire a full-time school foster care liaison, and to make an appropriation for the Foster-to-College Scholarship Program.
To amend section 5104.02 of the Revised Code to exempt from licensure family child care providers certified by a branch of the United States armed forces.
To amend sections 3313.5310, 3707.58, 3707.59, 4723.24, 4723.28, 4723.99, 4730.14, 4730.25, 4730.99, 4731.22, 4731.281, and 4731.99 and to enact sections 3707.591, 4723.484, 4730.46, 4731.89, and 5164.21 of the Revised Code regarding cardiac monitoring for youth and to name the amendments and enactments by this act the Healthy Cardiac Monitoring Act.
To amend sections 319.301, 323.08, 323.152, 323.155, 323.158, 3317.017, 3317.02, 3317.021, 3317.16, 4503.06, 4503.065, and 4503.0610 and to enact section 319.303 of the Revised Code to authorize a reduction in school district property taxes affected by a millage floor that would limit increases in such taxes according to inflation and to require a corresponding adjustment in the school funding formula.
