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Senate approves bill requiring school overdose-reversal policies and restores local flexibility on religious release time
Summary
The Ohio Senate passed House Bill 57 on Sept. 30, 2025, requiring local school boards to adopt policies for maintaining and using overdose-reversal drugs and allowing board-level flexibility on religious release time; the measure passed 28-4 after debate over church-state separation and legislative process.
The Ohio Senate passed House Bill 57 on Sept. 30, 2025, requiring school districts that choose to keep overdose-reversal medication on campus to adopt board policies for maintenance and use and directing the Department of Education and Workforce to create a model policy in consultation with the Department of Health.
Supporters said the bill is primarily a student-safety measure and also restores local control for some districts' long-standing religious release practices. Senator Brenner said the bill "would help ensure that school districts that choose to maintain overdose reversal drugs do so in a safe and effective manner" and described the legislation as a "life saving measure." Brenner noted the Department of Education and Workforce would prepare a model policy for…
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