Send An Email to Your State Legislators TODAY!

We need you to speak up and speak out against HB 698, the so-called “SB 1 Compliance Supplemental Appropriations Act.” The sponsor of the bill and chair of the committee, Rep. Tom Young cut off opponent testimony on the bill after only an hour earlier this week and has now given proponents of the bill the floor. The best way to share your concerns with HB 698 is to contact your legislators and tell them to stop HB 698.

Click HERE to Help Stop HB 698.

Working with our partners, we’ve made it easy for you to contact your legislators and tell them to oppose HB 698. Click the link above to be directed to the email campaign where in less than 5 minutes you can send a letter to your state representative and state senator to let them know you oppose HB 698.

Don’t Let Them Silence You!

Supporters of HB 698 are pointing to the “low” amount of opponent testimony on HB 698, 172 submissions compared to 1,700+ on SB 1, as an indication that their constituents aren’t opposed to this new attack on higher education.

What they don’t tell you is all the ways the sponsor and chair of the committee worked to silence faculty: maneuvering the order of hearings; giving opponents less than two business days to submit testimony; and scheduling the bill at the end of the semester when most students and faculty have already left campus or are in the throes of finals and end of semester grades.

HB 698 is Bad for Higher Education, Faculty & Students

• HB 698 is another attack on academic freedom, tenure, and collective bargaining.
• HB 698 further demonizes diversity, equity, and inclusion and those who worked in that space.
• HB 698 creates watch lists of certain employees and creates working conditions that are barriers to employment.
• HB 698 includes tens of millions of dollars in unfunded mandates.
• HB 698 gives policy makers another weapon to cut higher ed funding.
• HB 698 will cause tuition to skyrocket–pricing Ohio families out of higher education.