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HB907 • 2026

Enact the Food Literacy and Nutrition Education Act

Enact the Food Literacy and Nutrition Education Act

Education
Passed Legislature

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Sponsor
Dontavius L. Jarrells
Last action
Official status
As Introduced
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Enact the Food Literacy and Nutrition Education Act

To amend section 3301.0718 and to enact section 3301.0733 of the Revised Code to enact the Food Literacy and Nutrition Education Act to require the Department of Education and Workforce to adopt food literacy standards for grades kindergarten through twelve.

What This Bill Does

  • To amend section 3301.0718 and to enact section 3301.0733 of the Revised Code to enact the Food Literacy and Nutrition Education Act to require the Department of Education and Workforce to adopt food literacy standards for grades kindergarten through twelve.

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Bill History

  1. Ohio Legislature

    As Introduced

Official Summary Text

To amend section 3301.0718 and to enact section 3301.0733 of the Revised Code to enact the Food Literacy and Nutrition Education Act to require the Department of Education and Workforce to adopt food literacy standards for grades kindergarten through twelve.

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As Introduced

136th
General Assembly

Regular
Session
H. B. No. 907

2025-2026

Representatives Jarrells, Ritter

Cosponsors: Representatives Upchurch,
McNally, Lett, Robinson

To
amend section 3301.0718 and to enact section 3301.0733 of the Revised
Code
to
enact the Food Literacy and Nutrition Education Act to require the
Department of Education and Workforce to adopt food literacy
standards for grades kindergarten through twelve.

BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:

Section
1.
That
section 3301.0718 be amended and section 3301.0733 of the Revised
Code be enacted to read as follows:

Sec.
3301.0718.
The

Except
as provided in section 3301.0733 of the Revised Code, the
department
of education and workforce shall not adopt or revise any standards or
curriculum in the area of health unless, by concurrent resolution,
the standards, curriculum, or revisions are approved by both houses
of the general assembly. Before the house of representatives or
senate votes on a concurrent resolution approving health standards,
curriculum, or revisions, its standing committee having jurisdiction
over education legislation shall conduct at least one public hearing
on the standards, curriculum, or revisions.

Sec.
3301.0733.
(A)
Not later than December 31, 2026, the department of education and
workforce shall adopt standards for food literacy education in grades
kindergarten through twelve. The department shall formulate the
standards based on a review of relevant and current national and
state standards. The standards shall include information that will
provide students with specific guidance on how to make informed
healthy food choices, including how to prepare meals and how food is
grown. The department may revise the standards consistent with this
section.

(B)
Upon adoption of the food literacy standards, the department shall,
in a timely manner, post the standards, and any revisions of the
standards, to its publicly accessible web site and provide the
standards and any revisions to all school districts, community
schools established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code, STEM
schools established under Chapter 3326. of the Revised Code, and
college-preparatory boarding schools established under Chapter 3328.
of the Revised Code. Each district and school shall post the provided
standards and revisions on its publicly accessible web site. Any
district or school may utilize the standards in its curriculum. A
district or school that does not utilize the standards in its
curriculum shall provide its students with a copy of, or access to,
the standards.

(C)
Upon written request of a student's parent or guardian, a district or
school shall excuse the student from any food literacy instruction
aligned with the standards adopted by the department.

Nothing
in this section shall be construed to exempt a student from the
health education requirements or any other requirements for high
school graduation under section 3313.603 of the Revised Code.

Section
2.
That
existing section 3301.0718 of the Revised Code is hereby repealed.

Section
3.
This
act shall be known as the Food Literacy and Nutrition Education Act.