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Board legislative report reviews multiple state bills affecting schools
Summary
Board member Liz summarized several pending Ohio bills affecting K–12 schools — including measures on misbranded foods, foster‑care education liaisons, cardiac monitoring and math intervention plans — and noted many items are still moving through committees.
At the March 12 meeting, board member Liz delivered a legislative update summarizing state bills that could affect district operations and student services.
She said House Bill 10 "prevents the purchase of food misbranded as meat or eggs," which the board packet included in a policy update. Liz described House Bill 25 as requiring support for local foster‑care education liaisons to provide resources and scholarship information to students in foster care, and noted that districts likely already have staff performing that work. She also described HB437 (healthy cardiac monitoring act) as requiring physician‑completed participation forms and SB19 as proposing mandatory student math improvement plans and free tutoring for qualifying districts with low third‑grade math proficiency.
Liz emphasized many proposals are still in committee or moving between chambers and asked trustees to monitor developments, especially bills that would change attendance or participation rules that affect district policy and scheduling.
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