SupportOhio·2025Updated August 28, 2026
Truth in the classroom and decency in public
HB 485Proponent testimony given
CCV’s policy executive director David Mahan testified on what schools teach children and what children are exposed to in public spaces.
Issues Education
As the legislature titles itTo amend sections 3301.0718, 3302.07, 3314.03, 3326.11, and 3328.24 and to enact section 3313.6034 of the Revised Code to enact the Baby Olivia Act to require human growth and development instruction in public schools.
CCV at the Statehouse
74 people filed testimony on this bill in total. The full witness record is the legislature’s.
HB 485
Bill author
Melanie MillerHouse district 67, with 34 co-sponsors
Heard in
Senate Education, House Education6 hearings on the record
Bill text
CCV’s reporting
David Mahan Testifies: Every child deserves truth in the classroom and decency in publicOct 30, 2025
Timeline
- Most recent
- Mar 24, 20262nd Hearing: Senate Education, chaired by Andrew O. Brenner
- Mar 10, 20261st Hearing: Senate Education, chaired by Andrew O. Brenner
- Nov 18, 20254th Hearing: House Education, chaired by Sarah Fowler Arthur
- Nov 13, 20253rd Hearing: House Education, chaired by Sarah Fowler Arthur
- Oct 28, 20252nd Hearing: House Education, chaired by Sarah Fowler Arthur
- Oct 7, 20251st Hearing: House Education, chaired by Sarah Fowler Arthur
- Earliest
Committee hearings as the Ohio Legislature records them. CCV’s own account of this bill is the post named above, dated Oct 30, 2025.
