The Ohio Student Association organizers – the voters closest in age to the students who will ultimately be affected by this bill – will kick off their campaign to prevent House Bill 616 from becoming Ohio state law.ĭubbed “Ohio’s Don’t Say Gay bill,” HB 616 borrows heavily from the language used in the Florida legislation of the same name. And young Black people were up in arms, literally. In April, Republican legislators introduced the latest bill viewed by many as an attack on education.