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| To amend sections 2151.3516 and 3313.60 of the | 1 |
| Revised Code to increase the number of hours after | 2 |
| birth that a parent may voluntarily deliver the | 3 |
| child to a safe haven without the parent | 4 |
| expressing an intent to return for the child and | 5 |
| to include awareness of the Safe Havens Law in the | 6 |
| health curriculum prescribed for high school | 7 |
| students. | 8 |
| Section 1. That sections 2151.3516 and 3313.60 of the Revised | 9 |
| Code be amended to read as follows: | 10 |
| Sec. 2151.3516. The following persons, while acting in an | 11 |
| official capacity, shall take possession of a child who is | 12 |
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| child's parent has voluntarily delivered the child to that person | 14 |
| without the parent expressing an intent to return for the child. | 15 |
| (A) A peace officer on behalf of the law enforcement agency | 16 |
| that employs the officer; | 17 |
| (B) A hospital employee on behalf of the hospital that has | 18 |
| granted the person privilege to practice at the hospital or that | 19 |
| employs the person; | 20 |
| (C) An emergency medical service worker on behalf of the | 21 |
| emergency medical service organization that employs the worker or | 22 |
| for which the worker provides services. | 23 |
| Sec. 3313.60. Notwithstanding division (D) of section | 24 |
| 3311.52 of the Revised Code, divisions (A) to (E) of this section | 25 |
| do not apply to any cooperative education school district | 26 |
| established pursuant to divisions (A) to (C) of section 3311.52 of | 27 |
| the Revised Code. | 28 |
| (A) The board of education of each city and exempted village | 29 |
| school district, the governing board of each educational service | 30 |
| center, and the board of each cooperative education school | 31 |
| district established pursuant to section 3311.521 of the Revised | 32 |
| Code shall prescribe a curriculum for all schools under their | 33 |
| control. Except as provided in division (E) of this section, in | 34 |
| any such curriculum there shall be included the study of the | 35 |
| following subjects: | 36 |
| (1) The language arts, including reading, writing, spelling, | 37 |
| oral and written English, and literature; | 38 |
| (2) Geography, the history of the United States and of Ohio, | 39 |
| and national, state, and local government in the United States, | 40 |
| including a balanced presentation of the relevant contributions to | 41 |
| society of men and women of African, Mexican, Puerto Rican, and | 42 |
| American Indian descent as well as other ethnic and racial groups | 43 |
| in Ohio and the United States; | 44 |
| (3) Mathematics; | 45 |
| (4) Natural science, including instruction in the | 46 |
| conservation of natural resources; | 47 |
| (5) Health education, which shall include instruction in: | 48 |
| (a) The nutritive value of foods, including natural and | 49 |
| organically produced foods, the relation of nutrition to health, | 50 |
| the use and effects of food additives; | 51 |
| (b) The harmful effects of and legal restrictions against the | 52 |
| use of drugs of abuse, alcoholic beverages, and tobacco; | 53 |
| (c) Venereal disease education, except that upon written | 54 |
| request of the student's parent or guardian, a student shall be | 55 |
| excused from taking instruction in venereal disease education; | 56 |
| (d) In grades kindergarten through six, instruction in | 57 |
| personal safety and assault prevention, except that upon written | 58 |
| request of the student's parent or guardian, a student shall be | 59 |
| excused from taking instruction in personal safety and assault | 60 |
| prevention; | 61 |
| (e) In high school, information about section 2151.3516 of | 62 |
| the Revised Code, pertaining to the permissible desertion of a | 63 |
| child less than one hundred forty-four hours after birth by a | 64 |
| parent with no intent to return for the child. | 65 |
| (6) Physical education; | 66 |
| (7) The fine arts, including music; | 67 |
| (8) First aid, including a training program in | 68 |
| cardiopulmonary resuscitation, safety, and fire prevention, except | 69 |
| that upon written request of the student's parent or guardian, a | 70 |
| student shall be excused from taking instruction in | 71 |
| cardiopulmonary resuscitation. | 72 |
| (B) Except as provided in division (E) of this section, every | 73 |
| school or school district shall include in the requirements for | 74 |
| promotion from the eighth grade to the ninth grade one year's | 75 |
| course of study of American history. | 76 |
| (C) Except as provided in division (E) of this section, every | 77 |
| high school shall include in the requirements for graduation from | 78 |
| any curriculum one unit of American history and government, | 79 |
| including a study of the constitutions of the United States and of | 80 |
| Ohio. | 81 |
| (D) Except as provided in division (E) of this section, basic | 82 |
| instruction in geography, United States history, the government of | 83 |
| the United States, the government of the state of Ohio, local | 84 |
| government in Ohio, the Declaration of Independence, the United | 85 |
| States Constitution, and the Constitution of the state of Ohio | 86 |
| shall be required before pupils may participate in courses | 87 |
| involving the study of social problems, economics, foreign | 88 |
| affairs, United Nations, world government, socialism and | 89 |
| communism. | 90 |
| (E) For each cooperative education school district | 91 |
| established pursuant to section 3311.521 of the Revised Code and | 92 |
| each city, exempted village, and local school district that has | 93 |
| territory within such a cooperative district, the curriculum | 94 |
| adopted pursuant to divisions (A) to (D) of this section shall | 95 |
| only include the study of the subjects that apply to the grades | 96 |
| operated by each such school district. The curriculums for such | 97 |
| schools, when combined, shall provide to each student of these | 98 |
| districts all of the subjects required under divisions (A) to (D) | 99 |
| of this section. | 100 |
| (F) The board of education of any cooperative education | 101 |
| school district established pursuant to divisions (A) to (C) of | 102 |
| section 3311.52 of the Revised Code shall prescribe a curriculum | 103 |
| for the subject areas and grade levels offered in any school under | 104 |
| its control. | 105 |
| (G) Upon the request of any parent or legal guardian of a | 106 |
| student, the board of education of any school district shall | 107 |
| permit the parent or guardian to promptly examine, with respect to | 108 |
| the parent's or guardian's own child: | 109 |
| (1) Any survey or questionnaire, prior to its administration | 110 |
| to the child; | 111 |
| (2) Any textbook, workbook, software, video, or other | 112 |
| instructional materials being used by the district in connection | 113 |
| with the instruction of the child; | 114 |
| (3) Any completed and graded test taken or survey or | 115 |
| questionnaire filled out by the child; | 116 |
| (4) Copies of the statewide academic standards and each model | 117 |
| curriculum developed pursuant to section 3301.079 of the Revised | 118 |
| Code, which copies shall be available at all times during school | 119 |
| hours in each district school building. | 120 |
| Section 2. That existing sections 2151.3516 and 3313.60 of | 121 |
| the Revised Code are hereby repealed. | 122 |