{
  "title": "Edictai records: Ohio",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "jurisdiction": "us-oh",
  "name": "Ohio",
  "records": [
    {
      "id": "us-oh-dew-ai-model-policy",
      "record_type": "document",
      "classification": "model-policy",
      "identifier": "",
      "title": "AI in Education: Model Policy for Ohio Districts and Schools",
      "status": "current",
      "date": "2025-12-30",
      "issuer": "us-oh-k12-agency",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "academic-integrity",
        "instructional-use",
        "local-policy-requirement",
        "procurement",
        "student-privacy"
      ],
      "provision_types": [],
      "summary": "A model board policy on artificial intelligence released by the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce on December 30, 2025, as required by Ohio Revised Code 3301.24. Districts, community schools, and STEM schools, which must adopt an AI policy by July 1, 2026, may adopt it as written or customize it. It covers student and staff use, ethics and academic integrity, data privacy and security, curriculum integration, and review of third-party AI tools.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/oh/#us-oh-dew-ai-model-policy"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-oh-2025-2026-hb-594",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "HB 594",
      "title": "Require students complete a high school computer science course",
      "status": "in-committee",
      "date": "2025-11-18",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ai-literacy",
        "curriculum-standards"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "ai-course-or-graduation-requirement"
      ],
      "summary": "Requires school districts to offer, and students to complete, at least one unit of high school computer science, and requires that computer science instruction cover evolving areas such as artificial intelligence, including what it is, how it works, and its impact on society.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/oh/#us-oh-2025-2026-hb-594"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-oh-2025-2026-sb-326",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "SB 326",
      "title": "Require students complete a high school computer science course",
      "status": "passed-chamber",
      "date": "2025-11-12",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ai-literacy",
        "curriculum-standards"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "ai-course-or-graduation-requirement"
      ],
      "summary": "Requires school districts to offer at least one-half unit of computer science and, beginning with students entering ninth grade on or after July 1, 2029, requires students to complete it; the unit must include instruction in artificial intelligence, and students may be exempted by demonstrating competency in computer science and AI.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/oh/#us-oh-2025-2026-sb-326"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-oh-2025-2026-hb-455",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "HB 455",
      "title": "Regards the operation of public schools and the DEW",
      "status": "enacted",
      "date": "2025-09-17",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "instructional-use"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "issues-model-policy"
      ],
      "summary": "Revises many provisions on public school operation and the Department of Education and Workforce, including a directive that the department promote innovative educational programs by publicizing model projects, including projects that use artificial intelligence in instruction.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/oh/#us-oh-2025-2026-hb-455"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-oh-2025-2026-hb-106",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "HB 106",
      "title": "Enact Alyssa's Law",
      "status": "in-committee",
      "date": "2025-02-18",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "funding",
        "procurement",
        "safety-wellbeing"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "appropriates-funding",
        "procurement-standards"
      ],
      "summary": "Enacts Alyssa's Law, appropriating $25 million for a Department of Public Safety pilot grant program that lets school districts, community schools, STEM schools, and chartered nonpublic schools buy panic alert systems or contract for artificial intelligence firearm detection software, and sets criteria the software must meet.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/oh/#us-oh-2025-2026-hb-106"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-oh-2025-2026-hb-96",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "appropriation",
      "identifier": "HB 96",
      "title": "Make state operating appropriations for FY 2026-27",
      "status": "enacted",
      "date": "2025-02-11",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "instructional-use",
        "local-policy-requirement"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "issues-model-policy",
        "requires-local-ai-policy"
      ],
      "summary": "Ohio's fiscal year 2026-2027 operating budget. Among many other provisions, it enacted Ohio Revised Code section 3301.24, which required the Department of Education and Workforce to develop a model policy on the use of artificial intelligence in schools by December 31, 2025, and requires every school district, community school, and STEM school to adopt an AI policy by July 1, 2026.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/oh/#us-oh-2025-2026-hb-96"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-oh-2025-2026-sb-19",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "SB 19",
      "title": "Regards academic intervention, math improvement and intervention",
      "status": "enacted",
      "date": "2025-01-22",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "instructional-use"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "issues-model-policy"
      ],
      "summary": "Revises academic intervention, mathematics improvement, and related school requirements, and directs the Department of Education and Workforce to promote innovative educational programs, including by publicizing model projects that use artificial intelligence in instruction.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/oh/#us-oh-2025-2026-sb-19"
    }
  ]
}