HB 659 Summary

• Requires community schools with for-profit operators to disclose their for-profit status on official websites, promotional materials, and employment contracts in type size as large or larger than other text (excluding school name).

• Mandates that third-party promotional materials for for-profit community schools include disclosure that the operator is "A FOR-PROFIT BUSINESS IN THE STATE OF OHIO" in prominent type size.

• Extends similar disclosure requirements to for-profit post-secondary educational institutions registered under Ohio law, including private colleges, universities, seminaries, and religious institutions.

• Requires for-profit barber schools and cosmetology schools to disclose their for-profit status on websites, promotional materials, and instructional contracts in type size at least as large as other text.

• Applies disclosure requirements to third-party promotional materials for all covered for-profit educational institutions.