Senate Bill (SB) 11, signed into law last week, requires school districts to grant paid leave for the Juneteenth holiday to all regular nonteaching school employees who are employed on an eleven or twelve-month basis, rather than those who are employed on a nine- or ten-month basis. SB 11 corrects the drafting error from House Bill (HB) 110 (the 2021-2022 biennium budget bill).
With this correction, Ohio Revised Code Section 3319.087 provides eleven and twelve-month nonteaching employees Juneteenth as a paid holiday, and no longer provides Juneteenth as a paid holiday to nine or ten-month nonteaching employees. The legislation will take effect on June 9, 2022, which means that the paid holiday provisions will be in effect for the Juneteenth holiday this year.