Child abuse and reporting bill.

The bill creates an additional exception that applies to districts that otherwise entirely prohibit open enrollment or only accept open enrollment of students from adjacent districts. The bill requires these districts to permit a student who is not a native student of the district to open enroll in the district if the student’s parent is an active duty member of the armed forces of the United States who is stationed in Ohio and who provides the district a copy of the parent’s official written order verifying the parent’s status as an active duty member of the armed forces.

This legislation updates the definitions of the U.S. armed forces, armed services, and uniformed services throughout the Ohio Revised Code to include the U.S. Space Force. "Armed forces" means the armed forces of the United States, including the army, navy, air force, marine corps, space force, coast guard, or any reserve component of those forces; the national guard of any state; the commissioned corps of the United States public health service; the merchant marine service during wartime; such other service as may be designated by congress; and the Ohio organized militia when engaged in full-time national guard duty for a period of more than thirty days.