Rep. Brownlee Votes 'NO' on Supermajority Attacks on Public Education

COLUMBUS — State Rep. Karen Brownlee (D-Symmes Twp) today voted ‘NO’ on House Bill (HB) 485, the Baby Olivia Act, and House Bill (HB) 486, the Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act. These bills push programming in public schools that are not evidence-based and allow for biased teaching of health and social studies curricula.

“These bills blatantly disregard parents’ rights and the separation of church and state by pushing one-sided, religious-based programming on children in public schools,” said Rep. Brownlee. “Once again, the supermajority would rather create culture wars in schools than focus on meaningful property tax relief, utility assistance, and commonsense firearm legislation. Ohioans deserve better.”

HB 485 and HB 486 now head to the Senate for consideration.