Ohio

As of 2025, Ohio became the 45th U.S. state to allow high school athletes to enter into name, image and likeness (NIL) agreements.

The Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) adopted a bylaw on 2025-11-24 permitting member high schools to allow student-athletes to enter into NIL agreements and establishing reporting procedures and limitations intended to protect student eligibility while complying with recruiting and amateurism bylaws.

In Ohio, when the bipartisan redistricting commission fails to adopt a congressional map, the responsibility to enact a congressional map reverts to the state legislature.

Ohio's state constitution required the Ohio Redistricting Commission to adopt new congressional districts because the prior districts had been adopted after the 2020 census without bipartisan support.

Ohio law permits opponents of a legislative redistricting bill to mount an initiative petition campaign seeking to force a public referendum on a newly passed congressional map.

As of 2025, six U.S. states—Ohio, Alabama, Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, and Wyoming—have rules that prohibit high school athletes from accepting payments for their name, image, and likeness (NIL).

As of 2025-10-20, six U.S. states (Ohio, Alabama, Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, and Wyoming) had rules prohibiting high school athletes from accepting payments for their name, image, and likeness (NIL).

A 2025 Wright State University-led study of 246 deceased Ohio drivers reviewing fatal crashes over a six-year period found that nearly 42% tested positive for THC with an average blood concentration of 30.7 ng/mL.

A 2024 Stateline analysis of CDC data found that the suicide rate for U.S. adults aged 18-27 increased nearly 20% between 2014 and 2024, rising from 13.8 deaths per 100,000 people in 2014 to 16.4 deaths per 100,000 people in 2024.