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OH HB625
Bill
Status
Introduced
12/8/2025
Primary Sponsor
Gary Click
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AI Summary
- Beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, each school district board of education and school governing body operating a high school that offers a team sport must adopt a policy allowing students from neighboring schools that do not offer that sport to petition to participate.
- Participation requires approval from both the student's home school superintendent or chief administrative officer and the executive director of the interscholastic athletics organization.
- Students in districts with multiple high schools must first petition to play at another high school within their own district before seeking to participate at an outside school.
- A student may not participate in the same team sport at more than one high school in a single school year, and students are ineligible to petition solely because their school lacks a preferred competition level (e.g., varsity vs. junior varsity).
- Schools that individually lack enough players may partner with a neighboring school to form a single combined team, with "sufficient number" defined as the minimum roster for competition plus half that number, rounded up.
Legislative Description
Enact the Student Athlete Mobility (SAM) Act
Education
Last Action
Referred to committee: Education
2/4/2026
Committee Referrals
Education 2/4/2026
Full Bill Text
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