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H.B. 571 Bill Analysis
135th General Assembly
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Version: As Reported by House Behavioral Health
Primary Sponsor: Rep. White
Effective date:
Chenwei Zhang, Attorney
SUMMARY
▪ Requires schools and higher education institutions to include the National Suicide and
Crisis Lifeline telephone number, 988, on student identification cards, student planners,
and electronic portals.
▪ Clarifies that this requirement is limited to those the school provides or issues after the
act’s effective date and that the school may continue to use identification cards and
planners that were printed before the act’s effective date.
▪ Requires institutions of higher education to provide information about declarations for
mental health treatment as part of the institution’s student orientation, onboarding, or
transfer materials and programs.
DETAILED ANALYSIS
National Suicide Lifeline telephone number
The bill requires schools and higher education institutions to include the National Suicide
and Crisis Lifeline telephone number, 988, or its successor, on certain items and electronic
portals. More specifically, each city, local, and exempted village school district and chartered
nonpublic school serving any of grades nine through twelve must include the telephone number
on all of the following, if provided or used by the school:
▪ Each student identification card issued after the bill’s effective date;
▪ Each planner issued to a student after the bill’s effective date;
▪ Any electronic portal administered by the district or school that may be accessed by
students.1
1 R.C. 3313.473.
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Each state institution of higher education and each private college must include the
telephone number on each student identification card issued after the bill’s effective date and
on any electronic portal administered by the state institution or private college that may be
accessed by the students, if provided or used by the institution or college.2
The bill also clarifies that each of these schools may issue or provide student identification
cards or planners that do not include the telephone number if the items were printed before the
bill’s effective date.3 This applies even if the card or planner is issued after the bill’s effective date.
Finally, the bill makes conforming changes in existing law regarding certain schools to
reflect this new requirement, as described below:
R.C. Section Description
R.C. 3313.03(A)(11)(d) Specifies provisions that must be included in each contract
entered into between a sponsor and the governing authority
of a community school (often referred to as a “charter
school”), which includes a provision that the school must
comply with the bill’s requirement.
R.C. 3326.11 Requires each science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics school and its governing body to comply with
the bill’s requirement.
R.C. 3328.24 Requires each college preparatory boarding school and its
board of trustees to comply with the bill’s requirement.
Information on declarations for mental health treatment
The bill requires each institution of higher education to provide new students and the
students’ parents or guardians information about declarations for mental health treatment as
part of the state institution’s student orientation, onboarding, or transfer materials and
programs. Under existing law, an adult (declarant) who has the capacity to consent to mental
health treatment decisions may execute a declaration governing the use or continuation, or the
withholding or withdrawal, of mental health treatment. The declarant may designate a person to
act as a proxy to make decisions regarding mental health treatment pursuant to the declaration.
A state institution must provide information on how to access and execute a declaration and
considerations to determine whether a declaration would be beneficial to a student. The bill also
requires the Chancellor of Higher Education, in collaboration with the Director of Mental Health
and Addiction Services, to create a standard information sheet that institutions may use to
convey this information.4
2 R.C. 3345.37(D) and 3345.371.
3 Section 3.
4 R.C. 3345.87; R.C. 2135.02, not in the bill.
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HISTORY
Action Date
Introduced 05-15-24
Reported, H. Behavioral Health 11-26-24
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Statutes affected:
As Introduced: 3314.03, 3326.11, 3328.24, 3345.37