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OHIO LEGISLATIVE SERVICE COMMISSION
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                            H.B. 525                            Bill Analysis
                  135th   General Assembly
                                                                 Click here for H.B. 525’s Fiscal Note
Version: As Introduced
Primary Sponsors: Reps. Brennan and Pizzulli
Effective date:
Shalanda Plowden, Research Analyst
                                                      SUMMARY
                     Increases the penalty for assault when the victim is a school employee or volunteer.
                     Defines “school employee or volunteer.”
                                             DETAILED ANALYSIS
Assault of school employee or volunteer
        The bill increases the penalty for assault when the victim is a school employee or
volunteer. Under current law, assault is generally a first degree misdemeanor, but the offense is
a fifth degree felony when the victim is a school teacher or administrator or a school bus
operator and the offense occurs in a school, on school premises, in a school building, on a
school bus, or while the victim is outside of school premises or a school bus and is engaged in
duties or official responsibilities associated with the victim’s employment or position as a
school teacher or administrator or a school bus operator, including, but not limited to, driving,
accompanying, or chaperoning students at or on class or field trips, athletic events, or other
school extracurricular activities or functions outside of school premises. The bill modifies this
prohibition by including school employees or volunteers to these circumstances.1
Definitions
         The bill defines “school employee or volunteer” as any person employed by or serving as
a volunteer at a school district, educational service center, other public school, or private school
and any contractor or person hired by a contractor engaged in providing services to a school
district, educational service center, other public school, or private school in any position.2
1                 R.C. 2903.13(C)(4)(d).
2                 R.C. 2903.13(E)(7).
                                                                                                         June 21, 2024
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                                      HISTORY
                             Action                        Date
Introduced                                      05-15-24
ANHB0525IN-135/ts
P a g e |2                                                                 H.B. 525
                                                                      As Introduced
Statutes affected: 
As Introduced: 2903.13