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2025 Ohio Revised Code
Title 33 | Education-Libraries
Chapter 3321 | School Attendance
Section 3321.043 | Excused Absences for Driver Education.

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OH Rev Code § 3321.043 (2025)
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Effective: September 30, 2025

Latest Legislation: House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly

(A) As used in this section, "driver education course" means a private driver training course approved by the director of public safety in accordance with Chapter 4508. of the Revised Code.

(B) If a high school student enrolled in a school district is absent from school for the sole purpose of attending a driver education course, the district shall count that absence as an excused absence, up to a maximum of eight hours for that student. The student shall only be absent for up to two hours per day for not more than four days in meeting the maximum eight hours authorized by this section. The days may be nonconsecutive. No student may be released from a core curriculum subject course to attend a driver education course.

(C) The district shall require any student absent from school in accordance with this section to complete any classroom assignments that the student misses because of the absence.

Last updated August 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM

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