SB 287 creates the Farming and Workforce Development Program to provide training for seasonal crop farming jobs in Ohio. The program targets residents aged 16-35, including individuals with past felony convictions (as long as they meet eligibility criteria). County offices of Ohio State University Extension and Central State University Extension will develop the training curriculum, application process, and implementation guidelines. The bill appropriates state funds for program operations, with funding allocated for fiscal year 2026 and beyond.
To enact sections 3301.96 and 3333.89 of the Revised Code to establish the Foster-to-College Scholarship Program, to require the Department of Education and Workforce to hire a full-time school foster care liaison, and to make an appropriation for the Foster-to-College Scholarship Program.
To amend section 4713.08 and to enact section 4713.47 of the Revised Code to establish a natural hair stylist education grant program and to make an appropriation.
To amend sections 124.1310, 323.151, 323.152, 323.153, 3737.22, 3901.86, 4113.41, 4765.01, 4765.55, 5747.08, and 5747.98 and to enact sections 3333.27, 4765.551, 4765.61, 5747.87, and 5747.88 of the Revised Code to make changes regarding volunteer fire departments and volunteer firefighters and to make an appropriation.
To enact section 3333.89 of the Revised Code to enact the Clinical Teaching Subsidy Reform Act regarding the state university clinical teaching subsidy.
To amend sections 4905.02 and 4928.53 and to enact sections 4933.51, 4933.52, 4933.53, 4933.54, 4933.55, 4933.57, and 4933.58 of the Revised Code to exempt electric submetering companies from classification as a public utility, to impose various requirements on such companies, and to extend eligibility for the percentage of income payment plan program to certain electric submetering company customers.
To amend sections 3314.03, 3326.11, and 3328.24 and to enact section 3319.2214 of the Revised Code regarding implicit bias training for licensed educators and to make an appropriation.
To enact section 3333.47 of the Revised Code to enact the Hunger-Free Campus Act to establish the Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program and designation and to make an appropriation.
SB 32 creates Ohio's Child Care Cred Program, which shares child care costs equally among eligible employees, their employers, and the state's Department of Children and Youth (each paying one-third). It directly affects Ohio employees who live in the state, cannot use publicly funded child care, and are selected by their employer to participate. The program requires voluntary enrollment, sets eligibility rules for employees, employers, and licensed child care providers, and has the department manage payments and administration. The bill appropriates state funds specifically for this program to help reduce child care expenses for participating families.
To amend sections 5101.54 and 5101.542 of the Revised Code to require Ohio's SNAP program to begin using chip-enabled EBT cards, to name this act the Enhanced Cybersecurity for SNAP Act, and to make an appropriation.
