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| To amend section 3313.60 of the Revised Code to | 1 |
| require the health curriculum of each school | 2 |
| district to include instruction in prescription | 3 |
| opioid abuse prevention. | 4 |
| Section 1. That section 3313.60 of the Revised Code be | 5 |
| amended to read as follows: | 6 |
| Sec. 3313.60. Notwithstanding division (D) of section | 7 |
| 3311.52 of the Revised Code, divisions (A) to (E) of this section | 8 |
| do not apply to any cooperative education school district | 9 |
| established pursuant to divisions (A) to (C) of section 3311.52 of | 10 |
| the Revised Code. | 11 |
| (A) The board of education of each city, exempted village, | 12 |
| and local school district and the board of each cooperative | 13 |
| education school district established, pursuant to section | 14 |
| 3311.521 of the Revised Code, shall prescribe a curriculum for all | 15 |
| schools under its control. Except as provided in division (E) of | 16 |
| this section, in any such curriculum there shall be included the | 17 |
| study of the following subjects: | 18 |
| (1) The language arts, including reading, writing, spelling, | 19 |
| oral and written English, and literature; | 20 |
| (2) Geography, the history of the United States and of Ohio, | 21 |
| and national, state, and local government in the United States, | 22 |
| including a balanced presentation of the relevant contributions to | 23 |
| society of men and women of African, Mexican, Puerto Rican, and | 24 |
| American Indian descent as well as other ethnic and racial groups | 25 |
| in Ohio and the United States; | 26 |
| (3) Mathematics; | 27 |
| (4) Natural science, including instruction in the | 28 |
| conservation of natural resources; | 29 |
| (5) Health education, which shall include instruction in: | 30 |
| (a) The nutritive value of foods, including natural and | 31 |
| organically produced foods, the relation of nutrition to health, | 32 |
| and the use and effects of food additives; | 33 |
| (b) The harmful effects of and legal restrictions against the | 34 |
| use of drugs of abuse, alcoholic beverages, and tobacco; | 35 |
| (c) Venereal disease education, except that upon written | 36 |
| request of the student's parent or guardian, a student shall be | 37 |
| excused from taking instruction in venereal disease education; | 38 |
| (d) In grades kindergarten through six, instruction in | 39 |
| personal safety and assault prevention, except that upon written | 40 |
| request of the student's parent or guardian, a student shall be | 41 |
| excused from taking instruction in personal safety and assault | 42 |
| prevention; | 43 |
| (e) In grades seven through twelve, age-appropriate | 44 |
| instruction in dating violence prevention education, which shall | 45 |
| include instruction in recognizing dating violence warning signs | 46 |
| and characteristics of healthy relationships. | 47 |
| In order to assist school districts in developing a dating | 48 |
| violence prevention education curriculum, the department of | 49 |
| education shall provide on its web site links to free curricula | 50 |
| addressing dating violence prevention. | 51 |
| If the parent or legal guardian of a student less than | 52 |
| eighteen years of age submits to the principal of the student's | 53 |
| school a written request to examine the dating violence prevention | 54 |
| instruction materials used at that school, the principal, within a | 55 |
| reasonable period of time after the request is made, shall allow | 56 |
| the parent or guardian to examine those materials at that school. | 57 |
| (f) Prescription opioid abuse prevention, with an emphasis on | 58 |
| the prescription drug epidemic and the connection between | 59 |
| prescription opioid abuse and addiction to other drugs, such as | 60 |
| heroin. | 61 |
| (6) Physical education; | 62 |
| (7) The fine arts, including music; | 63 |
| (8) First aid, including a training program in | 64 |
| cardiopulmonary resuscitation, safety, and fire prevention, except | 65 |
| that upon written request of the student's parent or guardian, a | 66 |
| student shall be excused from taking instruction in | 67 |
| cardiopulmonary resuscitation. | 68 |
| (B) Except as provided in division (E) of this section, every | 69 |
| school or school district shall include in the requirements for | 70 |
| promotion from the eighth grade to the ninth grade one year's | 71 |
| course of study of American history. A board may waive this | 72 |
| requirement for academically accelerated students who, in | 73 |
| accordance with procedures adopted by the board, are able to | 74 |
| demonstrate mastery of essential concepts and skills of the eighth | 75 |
| grade American history course of study. | 76 |
| (C) As specified in divisions (B)(6) and (C)(6) of section | 77 |
| 3313.603 of the Revised Code, except as provided in division (E) | 78 |
| of this section, every high school shall include in the | 79 |
| requirements for graduation from any curriculum one-half unit each | 80 |
| of American history and government. | 81 |
| (D) Except as provided in division (E) of this section, basic | 82 |
| instruction or demonstrated mastery in geography, United States | 83 |
| history, the government of the United States, the government of | 84 |
| the state of Ohio, local government in Ohio, the Declaration of | 85 |
| Independence, the United States Constitution, and the Constitution | 86 |
| of the state of Ohio shall be required before pupils may | 87 |
| participate in courses involving the study of social problems, | 88 |
| economics, foreign affairs, United Nations, world government, | 89 |
| socialism, and 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 section 3313.60 of the Revised Code | 121 |
| is hereby repealed. | 122 |
| Section 3. Not later than July 1, 2014, the Governor's | 123 |
| Cabinet Opiate Action Team shall develop recommendations for the | 124 |
| instruction in prescription opioid abuse prevention that is | 125 |
| required for a school district's health curriculum under division | 126 |
| (A)(5)(f) of section 3313.60 of the Revised Code, as amended by | 127 |
| this act, and submit them to the Department of Education. Upon | 128 |
| receiving the recommendations, the Department shall publish them | 129 |
| in a prominent location on the Department's web site for use by | 130 |
| school districts in developing their health curricula. | 131 |