OH HB518

Courts may maintain jurisdiction over habitual truant children during the subsequent school year to monitor attendance, added as a new dispositional option under Section 2151.354

Courts cannot commit a child to a detention facility for truancy-related court order violations unless the child specifically violated the new attendance monitoring order or school attendance requirements

Parents, guardians, or custodians who contribute to a child being adjudicated as a habitual truant can be charged with contributing to the unruliness or delinquency of a child, a first-degree misdemeanor, without requiring a prior delinquency adjudication

Habitual truancy thresholds remain defined as 30+ consecutive hours absent, 42+ hours in one school month, or 72+ hours in one school year without legitimate excuse

Schools must be notified within 10 days when a child is adjudicated unruly or delinquent for truancy-related violations