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Committee adopts substitute measures for SB7 and SB34; tables amendment on historical documents list
Summary
In brief committee actions, the Senate Education Committee adopted substitute versions of Senate Bill 7 and Senate Bill 34 and tabled an amendment that proposed replacing the bill sponsor’s list of nine historical documents with the National Archives' list of 100 milestone documents.
The Ohio Senate Education Committee completed procedural action on two bills and tabled an amendment during its session.
Vice Chair Blessing moved to adopt Substitute Bill 490-3 to Senate Bill 7. The substitute adds opioids and opiates to the list of substances covered by prevention education, adds bullying and hazing curriculum to public school health requirements, retains chartered nonpublic schools as permissive participants in prevention education, and clarifies language about surveys and district tracking of prevention curriculum effectiveness. With no objections raised in committee, the substitute was adopted.
The committee then considered Substitute Bill 485-1 to Senate Bill 34. The substitute makes Legislative Service Commission technical changes, narrows the display requirement to classrooms where social studies or history is taught beginning in fourth grade, and changes a local‑control selection requirement so that local school boards determine which four of the named historical documents are displayed (changing the prior 1‑of‑9 approach to 4‑of‑9). The substitute was adopted without objection.
Senator Theresa Smith offered amendment AM0247 to replace the bill sponsor’s nine historical documents with the National Archives and Records Administration’s list of 100 milestone documents. After discussion, Vice Chair Blessing moved to table the amendment and the clerk called the roll. The amendment was tabled; the transcript does not include a full roll‑call tally in the record provided to the committee.
These actions concluded the committee’s hearings for those bills. No additional floor or fiscal votes were recorded in the committee transcript for these items at this session.
