Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.091 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.091
§ 5119.091. Attorney general duties
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly The attorney general shall attend to all claims instituted on behalf of or against the department of behavioral health or any institution under the jurisdiction of the department and the managing officer thereof, except such institutions as are privately owned or operated under a license from the department of behavioral health, and shall represent the public hospital in proceedings under section 5122.15 of the Revised Code. The department of behavioral health shall reimburse the attorney general for the compensation of assistant attorneys general required to represent the public hospital in proceedings under section 5122.15 of the Revised Code and shall also pay the costs of litigation incurred by the attorney general under that section. If a writ of habeas corpus is applied for, the clerk of the court shall give notice of the time and place of hearing to the attorney general. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5147.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5147 / § 5147.12
§ 5147.12. Labor of prisoners not to be sold
Status: in_force

January 1, 2004 House Bill 490 - 124th General Assembly The labor or time of any person confined in any workhouse or jail shall not be let, farmed out, given, sold, or contracted to any person. Work performed under a work-release program authorized under section 5147.28 of the Revised Code is not in violation of this section. This section does not apply to any person serving a periodic sentence under division (B) of section 2929.26 of the Revised Code, insofar as that person is engaged between periods of confinement in the person's regular trade or occupation for the support of the person or the person's family. This section does not apply to prisoners participating in a county jail industry program established under section 5147.30 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.182 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.182
§ 5101.182. Matching income tax returns to determine overpayment of public assistance
Status: in_force

September 29, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly As part of the procedure for the determination of overpayment to a recipient of public assistance pursuant to section 5101.181 of the Revised Code, the director of job and family services may semiannually, at times determined jointly by the auditor of state and the tax commissioner, furnish to the tax commissioner in computer format the name and social security number of each individual who receives public assistance. Within sixty days after receiving the name and social security number of a recipient of public assistance, the commissioner shall inform the auditor of state whether the individual filed an Ohio individual income tax return, separate or joint, as provided by section 5747.08 of the Revised Code, for either or both of the two taxable years preceding the year in which the director furnished the names and social security numbers to the commissioner. If the individual did so file, at the same time the commissioner shall also inform the auditor of state of the amount of the federal adjusted gross income as reported on such returns and of the addresses on such returns. The commissioner shall also advise the auditor of state whether such returns were filed on a joint basis, as provided in section 5747.08 of the Revised Code, in which case the federal adjusted gross income as reported may be that of the individual or the individual's spouse. If the auditor of state determines that further investigation is needed, the auditor of state may request the commissioner to determine whether the individual filed income tax returns for any previous taxable years in which the individual received public assistance and for which the tax department retains income tax returns. Within fourteen days of receipt of the request, the commissioner shall inform the auditor of state whether the individual filed an individual income tax return for the taxable years in question, of the amount of the federal adjusted gross income as reported on such returns, of the addresses on such returns, and whether the returns were filed on a joint or separate basis. If the auditor of state determines that further investigation is needed of a recipient of public assistance who filed an Ohio individual income tax return, the auditor of state may request a certified copy of the Ohio individual income tax return or returns of that person for the taxable years described above, together with any other documents the commissioner has concerning the return or returns. Within fourteen days of receipt of such a request in writing, the commissioner shall forward the returns and documents to the auditor of state. The director of job and family services, county director of job and family services, county prosecutor, attorney general, auditor of state, or any agent or employee of those officials having access to any information or documents furnished by the commissioner pursuant to this section shall not divulge or use any such information except for the purpose of determining overpayment of public assistance, or for an audit, investigation, or prosecution, or in accordance with a proper judicial order. Any person who violates this provision shall thereafter be disqualified from acting as an agent or employee or in any other capacity under appointment or employment of any state or county board, commission, or agency.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5108.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5108 / § 5108.04
§ 5108.04. Statement of policies governing the prevention, retention, and contingency program
Status: in_force

October 16, 2009 House Bill 1 - 128th General Assembly Each county department of job and family services shall adopt a written statement of policies governing the prevention, retention, and contingency program for the county. The statement of policies shall be adopted not later than October 1, 2003, and shall be updated at least every two years thereafter. A county department may amend its statement of policies to modify, terminate, and establish new policies. A county department also may amend its statement of policies to suspend operation of its prevention, retention, and contingency program temporarily. The county director of job and family services shall sign and date the statement of policies and any amendment to it. Neither the statement of policies nor any amendment to it may have an effective date that is earlier than the date of the county director's signature. Each county department of job and family services shall provide the department of job and family services a written copy of the statement of policies and any amendments it adopts to the statement not later than ten calendar days after the statement or amendment's effective date.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.55 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.55
§ 5103.55. Compulsory school attendance
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly A parent of a child attending a private, nonprofit therapeutic wilderness camp is not relieved of the parent's obligations regarding compulsory school attendance pursuant to section 3321.04 or 3321.042 of the Revised Code. Last updated September 22, 2023 at 4:20 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5167.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5167 / § 5167.12
§ 5167.12. Requirements when prescribed drugs are included in care management system
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly If prescribed drugs are included in the care management system: (A) Medicaid MCO plans may include strategies for the management of drug utilization, but any such strategies are subject to the limitations and requirements of this section and the approval of the department of medicaid. (B) A medicaid MCO plan shall not impose a prior authorization requirement in the case of a drug to which all of the following apply: (1) The drug is an antidepressant or antipsychotic. (2) The drug is administered or dispensed in a standard tablet or capsule form, except that in the case of an antipsychotic, the drug also may be administered or dispensed in a long-acting injectable form. (3) The drug is prescribed by any of the following: (a) A physician who has registered the physician's psychiatric specialty with the department; (b) A psychiatrist who is practicing at a location on behalf of a community mental health services provider whose mental health services are certified by the department of mental health and addiction services under section 5119.36 of the Revised Code; (c) A certified nurse practitioner, as defined in section 4723.01 of the Revised Code, who is certified in psychiatric mental health by a national certifying organization approved by the board of nursing under section 4723.46 of the Revised Code; (d) A clinical nurse specialist, as defined in section 4723.01 of the Revised Code, who is certified in psychiatric mental health by a national certifying organization approved by the board of nursing under section 4723.46 of the Revised Code. (4) The drug is prescribed for a use that is indicated on the drug's labeling, as approved by the federal food and drug administration. (C) The department shall authorize a medicaid MCO plan to include a pharmacy utilization management program under which prior authorization through the program is established as a condition of obtaining a controlled substance pursuant to a prescription. (D) Each medicaid managed care organization and medicaid MCO plan shall comply with sections 5164.091 , 5164.10 , 5164.7511 , 5164.7512 , and 5164.7514 of the Revised Code as if the organization were the department and the plan were the medicaid program. Last updated October 20, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.35 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.35
§ 5120.35. Annual report suggestions and recommendations
Status: in_force

July 12, 1972 House Bill 494 - 109th General Assembly In its annual report, the department of rehabilitation and correction shall make any suggestions or recommendations it considers wise for the more effectual accomplishment of the general purpose of Chapter 5120. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.11
§ 5123.11. Residency medical and psychological training programs
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly (A) The director of developmental disabilities may enter into an agreement with the boards of trustees or boards of directors of two or more universities in which there is a college of medicine or college of osteopathic medicine, or of two or more colleges of medicine or colleges of osteopathic medicine, or any combination of those universities and colleges, to establish, manage, and conduct residency medical training programs. The agreement may also provide for clinical clerkships for medical students. The director shall also enter into an agreement with the boards of trustees or boards of directors of one or more universities in which there is a school of professional psychology to establish, manage, and conduct residency psychological training programs. (B) The department shall pay all costs incurred by a university or college that relate directly to the training of resident physicians or psychologists in programs developed under this section. The director of developmental disabilities shall ensure that any procedures and limitations imposed for the purpose of reimbursing universities or colleges, or for direct payment of residents' salaries, are incorporated into agreements between the department and the universities or colleges. Any agreement shall provide that residency training for a physician shall not exceed four calendar years.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.052 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.052
§ 5103.052. Residential facility - applicability
Status: in_force

April 3, 2025 House Bill 315 - 135th General Assembly Sections 5103.052 to 5103.0513 of the Revised Code apply only to a residential facility that is operated by a public children services agency, private child placing agency, private noncustodial agency, or superintendent of a county or district children's home for the placement of foster children. Last updated February 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.99
§ 5120.99. Penalty
Status: in_force

March 17, 1998 Senate Bill 111 - 122nd General Assembly A person who violates division (B)(2) of section 5120.211 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than two thousand five hundred dollars on a first offense and not more than twenty thousand dollars on a subsequent offense. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 5160.021 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5160 / § 5160.021
§ 5160.021. Adoption of rules
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) When the medicaid director is authorized by a statute to adopt a rule, the director shall adopt the rule in accordance with the following: (1) Chapter 119. of the Revised Code if either of the following applies: (a) The statute authorizing the rule requires that the rule be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. (b) Unless division (A)(2)(b) of this section applies, the statute authorizing the rule does not specify the procedure for the rule's adoption. (2) Section 111.15 of the Revised Code, excluding divisions (D) and (E) of that section, if either of the following applies: (a) The statute authorizing the rule requires that the rule be adopted in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code and, by the terms of division (D) of that section, division (D) of that section does not apply to the rule. (b) The statute authorizing the rule does not specify the procedure for the rule's adoption and the rule concerns the day-to-day staff procedures and operations of the department of medicaid or financial and operational matters between the department and a person or government entity receiving a grant from the department. (3) Section 111.15 of the Revised Code, including divisions (D) and (E) of that section, if the statute authorizing the rule requires that the rule be adopted in accordance with that section and the rule is not exempt from the application of division (D) of that section. (B) Except as otherwise required by a statute, the adoption of a rule in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code does not make the department of medicaid subject to the notice, hearing, or other requirements of sections 119.06 to 119.13 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.0322 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.0322
§ 5103.0322. Notice to applicant or certificate holder of decisions
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly On receipt of a recommendation from a public children services agency, private child placing agency, or private noncustodial agency regarding an application for a family foster home or treatment foster home certification under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code, the department of children and youth shall decide whether to issue the certificate. The department shall notify the agency and the applicant of its decision. If the department's decision is different from the recommendation of the agency, the department shall state in the notice the reason that the decision is different from the recommendation. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.38 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.38
§ 5123.38. Effect of transfer from supported services to commitment to ICF/IID
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, if an individual is committed to a state-operated ICF/IID pursuant to sections 5123.71 to 5123.76 of the Revised Code, the county board of developmental disabilities of the county from which the individual was ordered institutionalized is responsible for the nonfederal share of medicaid expenditures for the individual's care in the state-operated ICF/IID. The department of developmental disabilities shall collect the amount of the nonfederal share from the county board by either withholding that amount from funds the department has otherwise allocated to the county board or submitting an invoice for payment of that amount to the county board. (B) Division (A) of this section does not apply under either of the following circumstances: (1) Not later than one hundred eighty days after the date of the commitment of an individual, the county board arranges for the provision of alternative services for the individual, and the individual is discharged from the ICF/IID. (2) The director of developmental disabilities, after determining that circumstances warrant granting a waiver in an individual's case, grants the county board a waiver that exempts the county board from responsibility for the nonfederal share for that case.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5122.301 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5122 / § 5122.301
§ 5122.301. Civil rights of patients
Status: in_force

July 1, 1989 House Bill 381 - 118th General Assembly No person shall be deprived of any public or private employment solely because of having been admitted to a hospital or otherwise receiving services, voluntarily or involuntarily, for a mental illness or other mental disability. Any person admitted to a hospital or otherwise taken into custody, voluntarily or involuntarily, under this chapter retains all civil rights not specifically denied in the Revised Code or removed by an adjudication of incompetence following a judicial proceeding other than a proceeding under sections 5122.11 to 5122.15 of the Revised Code. As used in this section, "civil rights" includes, without limitation, the rights to contract, hold a professional, occupational, or motor vehicle driver's or commercial driver's license, marry or obtain a divorce, annulment, or dissolution of marriage, make a will, vote, and sue and be sued.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.0323 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.0323
§ 5103.0323. Audit prior to renewal of certificate
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "American institute of certified public accountants auditing standards" and "AICPA auditing standards" mean the auditing standards published by the American institute of certified public accountants. (B) Not later than two years after the date of certification, and at least every two years thereafter, a private child placing agency or private noncustodial agency shall provide the department of children and youth evidence of an independent financial statement audit performed by a licensed public accounting firm following applicable AICPA auditing standards for the two most recent fiscal years. (C) The independent audits must demonstrate that the agency operated in a fiscally accountable manner as determined by the department of children and youth. (D) The director of children and youth may adopt rules as necessary to implement this section. The director shall adopt the rules in accordance with section 119.03 of the Revised Code. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.10
§ 5126.10. Standard cost allocation procedures
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly The director of developmental disabilities shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing standard cost allocation procedures and shall require county boards of developmental disabilities to use such procedures to allocate all indirect costs to services provided pursuant to Chapters 3323. and 5126. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5104.034 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5104 / § 5104.034
§ 5104.034. Trained staff required on premises
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly Each child care center shall have on the center premises and readily available at all times at least one child care staff member who has completed a course in first aid, one staff member who has completed a course in prevention, recognition, and management of communicable diseases which is approved by the state department of health, and a staff member who has completed a course in child abuse recognition and prevention training which is approved by the department of children and youth. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5122.31 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5122 / § 5122.31
§ 5122.31. Confidentiality
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) All certificates, applications, records, and reports made for the purpose of this chapter and sections 2945.38 , 2945.39 , 2945.40 , 2945.401 , and 2945.402 of the Revised Code, other than court journal entries or court docket entries, and directly or indirectly identifying a patient or former patient or person whose hospitalization or commitment has been sought under this chapter, shall be kept confidential and shall not be disclosed by any person except: (1) If the person identified, or the person's legal guardian, if any, or if the person is a minor, the person's parent or legal guardian, consents, and if the disclosure is in the best interests of the person, as may be determined by the court for judicial records and by the chief clinical officer for medical records; (2) When disclosure is provided for in this chapter or Chapters 340. or 5119. of the Revised Code or in accordance with other provisions of state or federal law authorizing such disclosure; (3) That hospitals, boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services, and community mental health services providers may release necessary medical information to insurers and other third-party payers, including government entities responsible for processing and authorizing payment, to obtain payment for goods and services furnished to the patient; (4) Pursuant to a court order signed by a judge; (5) That a patient shall be granted access to the patient's own psychiatric and medical records, unless access specifically is restricted in a patient's treatment plan for clear treatment reasons; (6) That hospitals and other institutions and facilities within the department of behavioral health may exchange psychiatric records and other pertinent information with other hospitals, institutions, and facilities of the department, and with community mental health services providers and boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services with which the department has a current agreement for patient care or services. Records and information that may be released pursuant to this division shall be limited to medication history, physical health status and history, financial status, summary of course of treatment in the hospital, summary of treatment needs, and a discharge summary, if any. (7) That hospitals within the department and other institutions and facilities within the department may exchange psychiatric records and other pertinent information with payers and other providers of treatment, health services, and recovery supports if the purpose of the exchange is to facilitate continuity of care for a patient or for the emergency treatment of an individual; (8) That a patient's family member who is involved in the provision, planning, and monitoring of services to the patient may receive medication information, a summary of the patient's diagnosis and prognosis, and a list of the services and personnel available to assist the patient and the patient's family, if the patient's treating physician determines that the disclosure would be in the best interests of the patient. No such disclosure shall be made unless the patient is notified first and receives the information and does not object to the disclosure. (9) That community mental health services providers may exchange psychiatric records and certain other information with the board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services and other services providers in order to provide services to a person involuntarily committed to a board. Release of records under this division shall be limited to medication history, physical health status and history, financial status, summary of course of treatment, summary of treatment needs, and discharge summary, if any. (10) That information may be disclosed to the executor or the administrator of an estate of a deceased patient when the information is necessary to administer the estate; (11) That records in the possession of the Ohio history connection may be released to the closest living relative of a deceased patient upon request of that relative; (12) That records pertaining to the patient's diagnosis, course of treatment, treatment needs, and prognosis shall be disclosed and released to the appropriate prosecuting attorney if the patient was committed pursuant to section 2945.38 , 2945.39 , 2945.40 , 2945.401 , or 2945.402 of the Revised Code, or to the attorney designated by the board for proceedings pursuant to involuntary commitment under this chapter. (13) That the department of behavioral health may exchange psychiatric hospitalization records, other mental health treatment records, and other pertinent information with the department of rehabilitation and correction and with the department of youth services to ensure continuity of care for inmates or offenders who are receiving mental health services in an institution of the department of rehabilitation and correction or the department of youth services and may exchange psychiatric hospitalization records, other mental health treatment records, and other pertinent information with boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services and community mental health services providers to ensure continuity of care for inmates or offenders who are receiving mental health services in an institution and are scheduled for release within six months. The release of records under this division is limited to records regarding an inmate's or offender's medication history, physical health status and history, summary of course of treatment, summary of treatment needs, and a discharge summary, if any; (14) That records and reports relating to a person who has been deceased for fifty years or more are no longer considered confidential. (B) Before records are disclosed pursuant to divisions (A)(3), (6), and (9) of this section, the custodian of the records shall attempt to obtain the patient's consent for the disclosure. No person shall reveal the contents of a medical record of a patient except as authorized by law. (C) The managing officer of a hospital who releases necessary medical information under division (A)(3) of this section to allow an insurance carrier or other third party payor to comply with section 5121.43 of the Revised Code shall neither be subject to criminal nor civil liability. Last updated August 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.30 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.30
§ 5101.30. Rules for conditions and procedures for the release of information
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) The director of job and family services and the director of children and youth shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code implementing sections 5101.26 to 5101.30 of the Revised Code and governing the custody, use, disclosure, and preservation of the information generated or received by the department of job and family services, the department of children and youth, county agencies, other state and county entities, contractors, grantees, private entities, or officials participating in the administration of public assistance programs. The rules shall comply with applicable federal statutes and regulations. (1) The rules shall specify conditions and procedures for the release of information which may include, among other conditions and procedures, both of the following: (a) Permitting providers of services or assistance under public assistance programs limited access to information that is essential for the providers to render services or assistance or to bill for services or assistance rendered. The department of aging, when investigating a complaint under section 173.20 of the Revised Code, shall be granted any limited access permitted in the rules pursuant to division (A)(1) of this section. (b) Permitting a contractor, grantee, or other state or county entity limited access to information that is essential for the contractor, grantee, or entity to perform administrative or other duties on behalf of the department or county agency. A contractor, grantee, or entity given access to information pursuant to division (A)(2) of this section is bound by the director's rules, and disclosure of the information by the contractor, grantee, or entity in a manner not authorized by the rules is a violation of section 5101.27 of the Revised Code. (2) The rules may define who is an "authorized representative" for purposes of sections 5101.27 and 5101.272 of the Revised Code. (B) Whenever names, addresses, or other information relating to public assistance recipients is held by any agency other than the department or a county agency, that other agency shall adopt rules consistent with sections 5101.26 to 5101.30 of the Revised Code to prevent the publication or disclosure of names, lists, or other information concerning those recipients. Last updated July 30, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5167.40 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5167 / § 5167.40
§ 5167.40. Appointment of temporary manager
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The department of medicaid shall appoint a temporary manager for a medicaid managed care organization if the department determines that the medicaid managed care organization has repeatedly failed to meet substantive requirements specified in the "Social Security Act," sections 1903(m) and 1932, 42 U.S.C. 1396b(m) and 1396u-2; or 42 C.F.R. 438 Part I. The appointment of a temporary manager does not preclude the department from imposing other sanctions available to the department against the medicaid managed care organization. The medicaid managed care organization shall pay all costs of having the temporary manager perform the temporary manager's duties, including all costs the temporary manager incurs in performing those duties. If the temporary manager incurs costs or liabilities on behalf of the medicaid managed care organization, the medicaid managed care organization shall pay those costs and be responsible for those liabilities. The appointment of a temporary manager is not subject to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, but the managed care organization may request a reconsideration of the appointment. Reconsiderations shall be requested and conducted in accordance with rules the medicaid director shall adopt under section 5167.02 of the Revised Code. The appointment of a temporary manager does not cause the medicaid managed care organization to lose the right to appeal, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, any proposed termination or any decision not to revalidate the medicaid managed care organization's provider agreement or the right to initiate the sale of the medicaid managed care organization or its assets.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.09
§ 5123.09. Managing officer of institution - powers and duties
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly Subject to the rules of the department of developmental disabilities, each institution under the jurisdiction of the department shall be under the control of a managing officer to be known as a superintendent or by other appropriate title. The managing officer shall be appointed by the director of developmental disabilities and shall be in the unclassified service and serve at the pleasure of the director. Each managing officer shall be of good moral character and have skill, ability, and experience in the managing officer's profession. Appointment to the position of managing officer of an institution may be made from persons holding positions in the classified service in the department. The managing officer, under the director, shall have entire executive charge of the institution for which the managing officer is appointed, except as provided in section 5119.44 of the Revised Code. Subject to civil service rules and rules adopted by the department, the managing officer shall appoint the necessary employees, and the managing officer or the director may remove those employees for cause. A report of all appointments, resignations, and discharges shall be filed with the appropriate division at the close of each month. After conference with the managing officer of each institution, the director shall determine the number of employees to be appointed to the various institutions and clinics.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.071 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.071
§ 5164.071. Doula program
Status: in_force

April 30, 2024 House Bill 101 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "doula" has the same meaning as in section 4723.89 of the Revised Code. (B) The medicaid program shall cover doula services that are provided by a doula if the doula has a valid provider agreement and is certified under section 4723.89 of the Revised Code. Medicaid payments for doula services shall be determined on the basis of each pregnancy, regardless of whether multiple births occur as a result of that pregnancy. (C) Any provider outcome measurements or incentives the department of medicaid implements for the medicaid coverage of doula services shall be consistent with this state's medicare-medicaid plan quality withhold provider or managed care plan methodology and benchmarks. (D) The medicaid director shall adopt rules under section 5164.02 of the Revised Code to implement this section. Last updated February 12, 2024 at 9:13 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.11
§ 5101.11. Seeking federal financial participation for costs incurred by entity implementing program administered by department
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Entity" includes an agency, board, commission, or department of the state or a political subdivision of the state; a private, nonprofit entity; a school district; a private school; or a public or private institution of higher education. (2) "Federal financial participation" means the federal government's share of expenditures made by an entity in implementing a program administered by the department of job and family services. (B) At the request of any public entity having authority to implement a program administered by the department of job and family services or the department of children and youth, or any private entity under contract with a public entity to implement a program administered by the applicable department, the applicable department may seek to obtain federal financial participation for costs incurred by the entity. Federal financial participation may be sought from programs operated pursuant to Title IV-A of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.; Title IV-E of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 670 et seq.; the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, 7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.; and any other statute or regulation under which federal financial participation may be available, except that federal financial participation may be sought only for expenditures made with funds for which federal financial participation is available under federal law. (C) All funds collected by the department of job and family services or the department of children and youth pursuant to division (B) of this section shall be distributed to the entities that incurred the costs, except for any amounts retained by the applicable department pursuant to division (D)(3) of this section. (D) In distributing federal financial participation pursuant to this section, the department of job and family services or the department of children and youth may either enter into an agreement with the entity that is to receive the funds or distribute the funds in accordance with rules adopted under division (F) of this section. If an agreement to distribute the funds is entered into, the agreement may include terms that do any of the following: (1) Provide for the whole or partial reimbursement of any cost incurred by the entity in implementing the program; (2) In the event that federal financial participation is disallowed or otherwise unavailable for any expenditure, require the applicable department or the entity, whichever party caused the disallowance or unavailability of federal financial participation, to assume responsibility for the expenditures; (3) Permit the applicable department to retain not more than five per cent of the amount of the federal financial participation to be distributed to the entity; (4) Require the public entity to certify the availability of sufficient unencumbered funds to match the federal financial participation it receives under this section; (5) Establish the length of the agreement, which may be for a fixed or a continuing period of time; (6) Establish any other requirements determined by the applicable department to be necessary for the efficient administration of the agreement. (E) An entity that receives federal financial participation pursuant to this section for a program aiding children and their families shall establish a process for collaborative planning with the department of job and family services or the department of children and youth for the use of the funds to improve and expand the program. (F) The director of job and family services and the director of children and youth each shall adopt rules as necessary to implement this section, including rules for the distribution of federal financial participation pursuant to this section. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. Each director may adopt or amend any statewide plan required by the federal government for a program administered by that department, as necessary to implement this section. (G) Federal financial participation received pursuant to this section shall not be included in any calculation made under section 5101.16 or 5101.161 of the Revised Code. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5122.111 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5122 / § 5122.111
§ 5122.111. Affidavit of mental illness
Status: in_force

April 6, 2023 Senate Bill 2 (GA 134), House Bill 281 (GA 134) To initiate proceedings for court-ordered treatment of a person under section 5122.11 of the Revised Code, a person or persons shall file an affidavit with the probate court that is identical in form and content to the following: AFFIDAVIT OF MENTAL ILLNESS The State of Ohio ____________________ County, ss. ____________________ Court ________________________________________________________________the undersigned, residing at ________________________________________________________________says, that he/she has information to believe or has actual knowledge that ________________________________________________________________(Please specify specific category(ies) below with an X.) [ ] Represents a substantial risk of physical harm to self as manifested by evidence of threats of, or attempts at, suicide or serious self-inflicted bodily harm; [ ] Represents a substantial risk of physical harm to others as manifested by evidence of recent homicidal or other violent behavior or evidence of recent threats that place another in reasonable fear of violent behavior and serious physical harm or other evidence of present dangerousness; [ ] Represents a substantial and immediate risk of serious physical impairment or injury to self as manifested by evidence of being unable to provide for and of not providing for basic physical needs because of mental illness and that appropriate provision for such needs cannot be made immediately available in the community; [ ] Would benefit from treatment for mental illness and is in need of such treatment as manifested by evidence of behavior that creates a grave and imminent risk to substantial rights of others or the person; or [ ] Would benefit from treatment as manifested by evidence of behavior that indicates all of the following: (a) The person is unlikely to survive safely in the community without supervision, based on a clinical determination. (b) The person has a history of lack of compliance with treatment for mental illness and one of the following applies: (i) At least twice within the thirty-six months prior to the filing of an affidavit seeking court-ordered treatment of the person under section 5122.111 of the Revised Code, the lack of compliance has been a significant factor in necessitating hospitalization in a hospital or receipt of services in a forensic or other mental health unit of a correctional facility, provided that the thirty-six-month period shall be extended by the length of any hospitalization or incarceration of the person that occurred within the thirty-six-month period. (ii) Within the forty-eight months prior to the filing of an affidavit seeking court-ordered treatment of the person under section 5122.111 of the Revised Code, the lack of compliance resulted in one or more acts of serious violent behavior toward self or others or threats of, or attempts at, serious physical harm to self or others, provided that the forty-eight-month period shall be extended by the length of any hospitalization or incarceration of the person that occurred within the forty-eight-month period. (c) The person, as a result of mental illness, is unlikely to voluntarily participate in necessary treatment. (d) In view of the person's treatment history and current behavior, the person is in need of treatment in order to prevent a relapse or deterioration that would be likely to result in substantial risk of serious harm to the person or others. ________________________________________________________________ (Name of the party filing the affidavit) further says that the facts supporting this belief are as follows: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ These facts being sufficient to indicate probable cause that the above said person is a person with a mental illness subject to court order. The undersigned represents a trial court or a prosecutor who, as described in division (B)(1)(a)(v)(I) of section 2945.38 of the Revised Code, is alleging that the above said person is a person with a mental illness subject to court order: [ ] Yes [ ] No (please specify answer with an X). If Yes, please specify the name and address of the trial court or prosecutor: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Name of Patient's Last Physician or Licensed Clinical Psychologist ________________________________________________________________Address of Patient's Last Physician or Licensed Clinical Psychologist ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The name and address of respondent's legal guardian, spouse, and adult next of kin are: Name Kinship Address __________ Legal Guardian __________ - __________ __________ Spouse __________ - __________ __________ Adult Next of Kin __________ - __________ __________ Adult Next of Kin __________ - __________ The following constitutes additional information that may be necessary for the purpose of determining residence: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Dated this _____________ day of _______________, 20___ _____________________________ Signature of the party filing - the affidavit Sworn to before me and signed in my presence on the day and year above dated. ____________________________ Signature of Probate Judge, - Deputy Clerk, or Notary - Public WAIVER I, the undersigned party filing the affidavit hereby waive the issuing and service of notice of the hearing on said affidavit, and voluntarily enter my appearance herein. Dated this _____________ day of _______________, 20___ - _____________________________ - Signature of the party filing - the affidavit The Legislative Service Commission presents the text of this section as a composite of the section as amended by multiple acts of the General Assembly. This presentation recognizes the principle stated in R.C. 1.52(B) that amendments are to be harmonized if reasonably capable of simultaneous operation. Last updated September 20, 2023 at 9:37 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5162.30 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5162 / § 5162.30
§ 5162.30. Medicaid administrative claiming program
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) The medicaid director shall create a medicaid administrative claiming program under which federal financial participation is received for the administrative costs incurred by the department of health and the Arthur G. James cancer hospital and Richard J. Solove research institute of the Ohio state university in analyzing and evaluating both of the following pursuant to sections 3701.261 and 3701.262 of the Revised Code: (1) Cancer reports under the Ohio cancer incidence surveillance system; (2) The incidence, prevalence, costs, and medical consequences of cancer on medicaid recipients and other low-income populations. (B) The medicaid director shall consult with the director of health in creating the medicaid administrative claiming program.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5155.26 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5155 / § 5155.26
§ 5155.26. Exempting property from possession proceedings
Status: in_force

May 13, 1980 House Bill 561 - 113th General Assembly A board of county commissioners shall not seek to take charge of property in the manner prescribed by section 5155.23 of the Revised Code if the guardian, spouse, heirs, or persons entitled to the residuary interest in such property give bond to the board or officers to their satisfaction, and if, at such times as the board requires, such persons pay into the hands of the superintendent or administrator of the county home, an amount sufficient to support the person while he remains a resident of the county home. The probate court may, at the time of hearing a petition for sale, in lieu of an order for sale, order the guardian, spouse, heirs, or persons entitled to a residuary interest in the property of such person, to make payments to the superintendent or administrator of the county home for the maintenance of such person, and failure to do so shall make any person so ordered punishable by the court as for contempt.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.0329 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.0329
§ 5103.0329. Waiver of non-safety standards for kinship caregivers seeking foster home certification
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly A recommending agency may submit a request to the department of children and youth, on a case-by-case basis only, to waive any non-safety standards for a kinship caregiver seeking foster home certification. Non-safety standards include training hours and other requirements under sections 5103.031 and 5103.032 of the Revised Code and standards established by rules adopted under sections 5103.03 and 5103.0316 of the Revised Code, in accordance with 42 U.S.C. 671 (a)(10). Last updated July 28, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.96 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.96
§ 5123.96. Payment of costs, fees, and expenses of proceedings
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly Costs, fees, and expenses of all proceedings held under this chapter shall be paid as follows: (A) To police and health officers, other than sheriffs or their deputies, the same fees allowed to constables, to be paid upon the approval of the probate judge; (B) To sheriffs or their deputies, the same fees allowed for similar services in the court of common pleas; (C) To physicians or licensed clinical psychologists acting as expert witnesses and to other expert witnesses designated by the court, an amount determined by the court; (D) To witnesses in an administrative proceeding, the same fees and mileage as are provided to witnesses by section 119.094 of the Revised Code, and to witnesses in a judicial proceeding, the same fees and mileage as are provided to witnesses by section 2335.06 of the Revised Code, to be paid upon the approval of the probate judge; (E) To a person, other than the sheriff or the sheriff's deputies, for taking a person with an intellectual disability to an institution or removing a person with an intellectual disability from an institution, the actual necessary expenses incurred, specifically itemized, and approved by the probate judge; (F) To assistants who convey persons with intellectual disabilities to institutions when authorized by the probate judge, a fee set by the probate court, provided the assistants are not drawing a salary from the state or any political subdivision of the state, and their actual necessary expenses incurred, provided that the expenses are specifically itemized and approved by the probate judge; (G) To an attorney appointed by the probate division for an indigent who allegedly is a person with an intellectual disability pursuant to any section of this chapter, the fees that are determined by the probate division. When those indigent persons are before the court, all filing and recording fees shall be waived. (H) To a referee who is appointed to conduct proceedings under this chapter that involve a respondent whose domicile is or, before the respondent's institutionalization, was not the county in which the proceedings are held, compensation as fixed by the probate division, but not more than the compensation paid for similar proceedings for respondents whose domicile is in the county in which the proceedings are held; (I) To a court reporter appointed to make a transcript of proceedings under this chapter, the compensation and fees allowed in other cases under section 2101.08 of the Revised Code. All costs, fees, and expenses described in this section, after payment by the county from appropriations pursuant to section 2101.11 of the Revised Code, shall be certified by the county auditor to the department of developmental disabilities within two months of the date the costs, fees, and expenses are incurred by the county. Payment shall be provided for by the director of budget and management upon presentation of properly verified vouchers. The director of developmental disabilities may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement the payment of costs, fees, and expenses under this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.55 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.55
§ 5123.55. Protective services definitions
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly As used in sections 5123.55 to 5123.59 of the Revised Code: (A) "Guardian" means a guardian of the person, limited guardian, interim guardian, or emergency guardian pursuant to appointment by the probate court under Chapter 2111. of the Revised Code. (B) "Trustee" means a trustee appointed by and accountable to the probate court, in lieu of a guardian and without a judicial determination of incompetency, with respect to an estate of ten thousand dollars or less. (C) "Protector" means an agency under contract with the department of developmental disabilities acting with or without court appointment to provide guidance, service, and encouragement in the development of maximum self-reliance to a person with a developmental disability, independent of any determination of incompetency. (D) "Protective service" means performance of the duties of a guardian, trustee, or conservator, or acting as a protector, with respect to a person with a developmental disability. (E) "Conservator" means a conservator of the person pursuant to an appointment by a probate court under Chapter 2111. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.05
§ 5103.05. Notice of operation
Status: in_force

April 3, 2025 House Bill 315 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in sections 5103.05 to 5103.0513 of the Revised Code: (1) "Children's residential center" means a facility that is operated by a private child placing agency, private noncustodial agency, or public children services agency, that has been certified by the department of children and youth to operate a children's residential center, and in which eleven or more children, including the children of any staff residing at the facility, are given nonsecure care and supervision twenty-four hours a day. (2) "Children's crisis care facility" has the same meaning as in section 5103.13 of the Revised Code. (3) "County children's home" means a facility established under section 5153.21 of the Revised Code. (4) "District children's home" means a facility established under section 5153.42 of the Revised Code. (5) "First responder" means an EMT, EMT-basic, AEMT, EMT-I, paramedic, firefighter, or volunteer firefighter. (6) "Group home for children" means any public or private facility that is operated by a private child placing agency, private noncustodial agency, or public children services agency, that has been certified by the department to operate a group home for children, and that meets all of the following criteria: (a) Gives, for compensation, a maximum of ten children, including the children of the operator or any staff who reside in the facility, nonsecure care and supervision twenty-four hours a day by a person or persons who are unrelated to the children by blood or marriage, or who is not the appointed guardian of any of the children; (b) Is not certified as a foster home; (c) Receives or cares for children for two or more consecutive weeks. "Group home for children" does not include any facility that provides care for children from only a single-family group, placed at the facility by the children's parents or other relative having custody. (7) "Law enforcement officer" means a sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, police officer of a township or joint police district, marshal, deputy marshal, municipal police officer, or state highway patrol trooper. (8) "Residential facility" means a group home for children, children's crisis care facility, children's residential center, residential parenting facility that provides twenty-four-hour child care, county children's home, or district children's home. A foster home is not a residential facility. (9) "Residential parenting facility" means a facility operated by a private child placing agency, private noncustodial agency, or public children services agency, that has been certified by the department to operate a residential parenting facility, in which teenage mothers and their children reside for the purpose of keeping mother and child together, teaching parenting and life skills to the mother, and assisting teenage mothers in obtaining educational or vocational training and skills. (10) "Nonsecure care and supervision" means care and supervision of a child in a residential facility that does not confine or prevent movement of the child within the facility or from the facility. (11) "Volunteer firefighter" has the same meaning as in section 146.01 of the Revised Code. (B) In its application for a certificate, the operator of a residential facility shall demonstrate, to the satisfaction of the department of children and youth, that the proposed residential facility meets all applicable local planning and zoning requirements. A residential facility shall maintain compliance with all applicable local planning and zoning requirements in order for the facility's certificate to remain in good standing. (C) Prior to the commencement of operations of a residential facility, the operator of the facility shall provide to the board of township trustees or the legislative authority of the municipal corporation wherein the facility will be located notification that the facility will be in operation. (D) Divisions (B) and (C) of this section shall apply only to a residential facility that is operated by a public children services agency, private noncustodial agency, private child placing agency, or superintendent of a county or district children's home for the placement of foster children. (E) Within ten days after the commencement of operations at a residential facility, the facility shall provide the following to all county, municipal, or township law enforcement agencies, emergency management agencies, and fire departments with jurisdiction over the facility: (1) Written notice that the facility is located and will be operating in the agency's or department's jurisdiction. The written notice shall provide the address of the facility, identify the facility as a group home for children, children's crisis care facility, children's residential center, residential parenting facility, county children's home, or district children's home, and provide contact information for the facility. (2) A copy of the facility's procedures for emergencies and disasters established pursuant to rules adopted under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code; (3) A copy of the facility's medical emergency plan established pursuant to rules adopted under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code; (4) A copy of the facility's community engagement plan established pursuant to rules adopted under section 5103.051 of the Revised Code. (F) Within ten days of any change to the facility's information described in divisions (E)(2), (3), and (4) of this section, the facility shall provide to all county, municipal, or township law enforcement agencies, emergency management agencies, and fire departments with jurisdiction over the facility updated copies of the information required to be provided under divisions (E)(2), (3), and (4) of this section. (G) A residential facility that is operated by a public children services agency, private noncustodial agency, private child placing agency, or superintendent of a county or district children's home for the placement of foster children also shall provide the information described in divisions (E) and (F) of this section to the board of township trustees or the legislative authority of the municipal corporation wherein the facility will be located. (H) The department may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code necessary to implement this section. Last updated February 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.222 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.222
§ 5101.222. Administrative rules
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly The director of job and family services or the director of children and youth may adopt rules in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code to implement sections 5101.22 to 5101.222 of the Revised Code. If the director adopts the rules, the director shall adopt the rules as if they were internal management rules. Last updated August 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5162.133 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5162 / § 5162.133
§ 5162.133. Annual program report; distribution; contents
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly Not less than once each year, the medicaid director shall submit a report on the medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilities program to the governor and the general assembly. The copy to the general assembly shall be submitted in accordance with section 101.68 of the Revised Code. The report shall include all of the following information: (A) The number of individuals who participated in the medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilities program; (B) The cost of the program; (C) The average amount of earned income of participants' families; (D) The average amount of time participants have participated in the program; (E) The types of other health insurance participants have been able to obtain. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.47 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.47
§ 5126.47. Joint county residential services consortium
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly A county board of developmental disabilities may, pursuant to a resolution adopted by an affirmative vote of the majority of its members, establish, by agreement with one or more other county boards of developmental disabilities, a residential services consortium to jointly provide residential services and supported living. The agreement shall designate one board to assume the fiscal responsibilities for the consortium. The county auditor of the designated county shall establish a community developmental disabilities residential services fund for the consortium. Each board that is a member of the consortium shall cause to be deposited in the fund any state or federal money received for community residential services the county board has agreed to contribute to the consortium.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5161.30 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5161 / § 5161.30
§ 5161.30. Contract to perform administrative duties
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The medicaid director may contract with a government entity or person to perform the director's administrative duties regarding CHIP part I, part II, part III, two of the parts, or all three parts, other than the duty to submit a state child health plan to the United States secretary of health and human services under section 5161.10 of the Revised Code, the duty to submit a waiver request under section 5161.15 of the Revised Code, and the duty to adopt rules under section 5161.02 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.70 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.70
§ 5165.70. On-site monitoring
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The department of health may appoint employees of the department to conduct on-site monitoring of a nursing facility whenever a finding is cited, including any finding cited pursuant to division (E) of section 5165.66 of the Revised Code, or an emergency is found to exist. Appointment of monitors under this section is not subject to appeal under section 5165.87 or any other section of the Revised Code. No employee of a facility for which monitors are appointed, no person employed by the facility within the previous two years, and no person who currently has a consulting or other contract with the department or the facility, shall be appointed as a monitor under this section. Every monitor appointed under this section shall have the professional qualifications necessary to monitor correction of the finding or elimination of the emergency.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.29 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.29
§ 5123.29. Industrial and entertainment fund - commissary fund
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly Each managing officer of an institution under the jurisdiction of the department of developmental disabilities, with the approval of the director of developmental disabilities, may establish funds in the institutions under the jurisdiction of the department, designated as follows: (A) Industrial and entertainment fund for the entertainment and welfare of the residents of the institution. (B) Commissary fund for the benefit of residents of the institution. Commissary revenue in excess of operating costs and reserve shall be considered profits. All profits from the commissary fund operations shall be paid into the industrial and entertainment fund, and used only for the entertainment and welfare of residents. The director shall establish rules for the operation of the industrial and entertainment and commissary funds.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5124.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5124 / § 5124.21
§ 5124.21. Per medicaid day indirect care costs component rate
Status: in_force

September 30, 2021 House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly (A) For each fiscal year, the department of developmental disabilities shall determine each ICF/IID's per medicaid day indirect care costs component rate. An ICF/IID's rate shall be the lesser of the individual rate determined under division (B) of this section and the maximum rate determined for the ICF/IID's peer group under division (C) of this section. (B) An ICF/IID's individual rate is the sum of the following: (1) The ICF/IID's desk-reviewed, actual, allowable, per diem indirect care costs for the applicable cost report year, adjusted for the inflation rate estimated under division (E) of this section; (2) Subject to division (D) of this section, an efficiency incentive equal to the difference between the amount of the per diem indirect care costs for the applicable cost report year determined for the ICF/IID under division (B)(1) of this section and the maximum rate established for the ICF/IID's peer group under division (C) of this section for that year. (C)(1) The maximum rate for an ICF/IID's peer group shall be the following percentage above the peer group's median per diem indirect care costs for the applicable cost report year: (a) For ICFs/IID in peer group 1, eight per cent; (b) For ICFs/IID in peer group 2 or peer group 3, ten per cent; (c) For ICFs/IID in peer group 4 or peer group 5, twelve per cent. (2) The department shall not redetermine a peer group's maximum rate under division (C)(1) of this section based on additional information that it receives after the maximum rate is set. The department shall redetermine a peer group's maximum rate only if the department made an error in computing the maximum rate based on the information available to the department at the time of the original calculation. (D) The efficiency incentive for an ICF/IID shall not exceed the following: (1) If the ICF/IID is in peer group 1, five per cent of the peer group's maximum rate established under division (C)(1)(a) of this section; (2) If the ICF/IID is in peer group 2, peer group 3, peer group 4, or peer group 5, six per cent of the peer group's maximum rate established under division (C)(1)(b) or (c) of this section. (E) When adjusting rates for inflation under division (B)(1) of this section, the department shall estimate the rate of inflation for the eighteen-month period beginning on the first day of July of the applicable cost report year and ending on the thirty-first day of December of the fiscal year for which the rate is determined. To estimate the rate of inflation, the department shall use the following: (1) Subject to division (E)(2) of this section, the consumer price index for all items for all urban consumers for the midwest region, published by the United States bureau of labor statistics; (2) If the United States bureau of labor statistics ceases to publish the index specified in division (E)(1) of this section, a comparable index that the bureau publishes and the department determines is appropriate. Last updated August 24, 2021 at 2:55 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5162.363 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5162 / § 5162.363
§ 5162.363. Administration of medicaid school component
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly The department of medicaid shall enter into an interagency agreement with the department of education and workforce under section 5162.35 of the Revised Code that provides for the department of education and workforce to administer the medicaid school component of the medicaid program other than the aspects of the component that sections 5162.36 to 5162.366 of the Revised Code require the department of medicaid to administer. The interagency agreement may include a provision that provides for the department of education and workforce to pay to the department of medicaid the nonfederal share of a portion of the administrative expenses the department of medicaid incurs in administering the aspects of the component that the department of medicaid administers. To the extent authorized by rules authorized by section 5162.021 of the Revised Code, the department of education and workforce shall adopt rules establishing a process by which qualified medicaid school providers participating in the medicaid school component pay to the department of education and workforce the nonfederal share of the department's expenses incurred in administering the component. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. Last updated September 21, 2023 at 9:15 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5107.17 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5107 / § 5107.17
§ 5107.17. Resuming participation following sanction
Status: in_force

September 10, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly Both of the following must occur before an assistance group may resume participation in Ohio works first following a sanction under section 5107.16 of the Revised Code: (A) The assistance group must reapply under section 5107.12 of the Revised Code if any of the following apply: (1) It is the assistance group's regularly scheduled time for an eligibility redetermination; (2) If the sanction was imposed under division (A)(1) of section 5107.16 of the Revised Code, the failure or refusal on which the sanction was based is not considered to have ceased until after one payment month immediately following the date the sanction began; (3) If the sanction was imposed under division (A)(2) of section 5107.16 of the Revised Code, the failure or refusal on which the sanction was based is not considered to have ceased until after three payment months immediately following the date the sanction began; (4) If the sanction was imposed under division (A)(3) of section 5107.16 of the Revised Code, the failure or refusal on which the sanction was based is not considered to have ceased until after six payment months immediately following the date the sanction began. (B) The adult member of the assistance group or the assistance group's minor head of household whose failure or refusal, without good cause, to comply in full with a provision of a self-sufficiency contract caused the sanction must enter into a new, or amend an existing, self-sufficiency contract under section 5107.14 of the Revised Code, if required to do so by rules adopted under section 5107.05 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5104.051 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5104 / § 5104.051
§ 5104.051. Responsibility for inspections
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A)(1) The department of commerce is responsible for the inspections of child care centers as required by division (A)(1) of section 5104.05 of the Revised Code. Where there is a municipal, township, or county building department certified under section 3781.10 of the Revised Code to exercise enforcement authority with respect to the category of building occupancy which includes child care centers, all inspections required under division (A)(1) of section 5104.05 of the Revised Code shall be made by that department according to the standards established by the board of building standards. Inspections in areas of the state where there is no municipal, township, or county building department certified under section 3781.10 of the Revised Code to exercise enforcement authority with respect to the category of building occupancy which includes child care centers shall be made by personnel of the department of commerce. Inspections of centers shall be contingent upon payment of a fee by the applicant to the department having jurisdiction to inspect. (2) The department of commerce is responsible for the inspections of type A family child care homes as required by division (B)(3) of section 5104.05 of the Revised Code. Where there is a municipal, township, or county building department certified under section 3781.10 of the Revised Code to exercise enforcement authority with respect to the category of building occupancy which includes type A homes, all inspections required under division (B)(3) of section 5104.05 of the Revised Code shall be made by that department according to the standards established by the board of building standards. Inspections in areas of the state where there is no municipal, township, or county building department certified under section 3781.10 of the Revised Code to exercise enforcement authority with respect to the category of building occupancy which includes type A homes shall be made by personnel of the department of commerce. Inspections of type A homes shall be contingent upon payment of a fee by the applicant to the department having jurisdiction to inspect. (B) The state fire marshal is responsible for the inspections required by divisions (A)(2) and (B)(1) of section 5104.05 of the Revised Code. In municipal corporations and in townships outside municipal corporations where there is a fire prevention official, the inspections shall be made by the fire chief or the fire prevention official under the supervision of and according to the standards established by the state fire marshal. In townships outside municipal corporations where there is no fire prevention official, inspections shall be made by the employees of the state fire marshal. (C) The state fire marshal shall enforce all statutes and rules pertaining to fire safety and fire prevention in child care centers and type A family child care homes. In the event of a dispute between the state fire marshal and any other responsible officer under sections 5104.05 and 5104.051 of the Revised Code with respect to the interpretation or application of a specific fire safety statute or rule, the interpretation of the state fire marshal shall prevail. (D) As used in this division, "licensor" has the same meaning as in section 3717.01 of the Revised Code. The licensor for food service operations in the city or general health district in which the center is located is responsible for the inspections required under Chapter 3717. of the Revised Code. (E) Any moneys collected by the department of commerce under this section shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the industrial compliance operating fund created in section 121.084 of the Revised Code. Last updated August 31, 2023 at 9:48 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.60 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.60
§ 5123.60. Ohio protection and advocacy system
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section and section 5123.601 of the Revised Code, "Ohio protection and advocacy system" means the nonprofit entity designated by the governor in accordance with Am. Sub. H.B. 153 of the 129th general assembly to serve as the state's protection and advocacy system and client assistance program. (B) The Ohio protection and advocacy system shall provide both of the following: (1) Advocacy services for people with disabilities, as provided under section 101 of the "Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000," 114 Stat. 1678 (2000), 42 U.S.C. 15001; (2) A client assistance program, as provided under section 112 of the "Rehabilitation Act of 1973," 29 U.S.C. 732. (C) The Ohio protection and advocacy system may establish any guidelines necessary for its operation. (D) The Ohio protection and advocacy system shall adopt a policy that acknowledges and supports the right of individuals who receive services from the Ohio protection and advocacy system to reside in and receive services from an ICF/IID. Last updated October 4, 2023 at 2:58 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5104.039 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5104 / § 5104.039
§ 5104.039. Access to centers for parents or guardians
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) Any parent who is the residential parent and legal custodian of a child enrolled in a child care center and any custodian or guardian of such a child shall be permitted unlimited access to the center during its hours of operation for the purposes of contacting their children, evaluating the care provided by the center, evaluating the premises of the center, or for other purposes approved by the director. A parent of a child enrolled in a child care center who is not the child's residential parent shall be permitted unlimited access to the center during its hours of operation for those purposes under the same terms and conditions under which the residential parent of that child is permitted access to the center for those purposes. However, the access of the parent who is not the residential parent is subject to any agreement between the parents and, to the extent described in division (B) of this section, is subject to any terms and conditions limiting the right of access of the parent who is not the residential parent, as described in division (I) of section 3109.051 of the Revised Code, that are contained in a parenting time order or decree issued under that section, section 3109.12 of the Revised Code, or any other provision of the Revised Code. (B) If a parent who is the residential parent of a child has presented the administrator or the administrator's designee with a copy of a parenting time order that limits the terms and conditions under which the parent who is not the residential parent is to have access to the center, as described in division (I) of section 3109.051 of the Revised Code, the parent who is not the residential parent shall be provided access to the center only to the extent authorized in the order. If the residential parent has presented such an order, the parent who is not the residential parent shall be permitted access to the center only in accordance with the most recent order that has been presented to the administrator or the administrator's designee by the residential parent or the parent who is not the residential parent. (C) Upon entering the premises pursuant to division (A) or (B) of this section, the parent who is the residential parent and legal custodian, the parent who is not the residential parent, or the custodian or guardian shall notify the administrator or the administrator's designee of the parent's, custodian's, or guardian's presence. Last updated August 28, 2023 at 2:48 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5153.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5153 / § 5153.19
§ 5153.19. Determining ability to pay cost of care
Status: in_force

October 1, 1997 House Bill 408 - 122nd General Assembly The public children services agency shall, before entering into any agreement obligating the agency with respect to the care of any child, determine the ability of the child, parent, guardian, or other person to pay for the cost of such care, having due regard for other dependents. Such determination shall, if accepted by the parent, guardian, or other person, be made a part of such agreement. If the executive director has been appointed in lieu of a guardian and is acting as trustee of the estate of the child, such determination shall be subject to the approval of the probate court.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5167.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5167 / § 5167.13
§ 5167.13. Implementation of coordinated services program for enrollees who abuse prescribed drugs
Status: in_force

October 17, 2019 House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly Each medicaid managed care organization shall implement a coordinated services program for the organization's enrollees who are found to have obtained prescribed drugs under the medicaid program at a frequency or in an amount that is not medically necessary. The program shall be implemented in a manner that is consistent with section 1915(a)(2) of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1396n(a)(2), and 42 C.F.R. 431.54(e).
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.7515 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.7515
§ 5164.7515. Annual benchmark for prescribed drug spending growth
Status: in_force

October 17, 2019 House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly (A) Not later than July 1, 2020, the medicaid director shall establish an annual benchmark for prescribed drug spending growth under the medicaid program. If the director determines that prescribed drug spending in a given year is projected to exceed the benchmark for that year, the director shall identify specific prescribed drugs that significantly contribute to exceeding the benchmark. (B) For a prescribed drug identified by the director under division (A) of this section, the director shall determine if there is a current supplemental rebate for that drug between the drug's manufacturer and the department or its designee. If there is a current supplemental rebate for the drug, the director may renegotiate the supplemental rebate agreement. If there is not a supplemental rebate for the drug, the director shall evaluate whether to pursue a supplemental rebate agreement for the drug with the drug manufacturer. In making that evaluation, the director may consider any of the following: (1) The prescribed drug's actual cost to the state; (2) Whether the drug's manufacturer is providing significant discounts or rebates for other prescribed drugs under the medicaid program; (3) Any other information the director considers relevant. (C)(1) If the director determines that a prescribed drug rebate agreement renegotiation is warranted under division (B) of this section, the director shall establish a target rebate amount. In determining the target rebate amount, the director may consider any of the following: (a) Publicly available information relevant to pricing the prescribed drug; (b) Information the department has that is relevant to the pricing of the drug; (c) Information relating to value-based pricing of the drug for medicaid recipients; (d) The seriousness and prevalence of the conditions for which the drug is prescribed; (e) The drug's volume of use among medicaid recipients; (f) The effectiveness of the drug in treating conditions for which it is prescribed or improving a patient's health, quality of life, or overall health outcomes; (g) The likelihood that use of the drug will reduce the need for other medical care, including hospitalization; (h) The average wholesale price, wholesale acquisition cost, and retail price of the drug, and the cost of the drug under the medicaid program, not including any rebates received for the drug under the program; (i) In the case of generic drugs, the number of manufacturers that produce the drug; (j) Whether there are pharmaceutical equivalents to the drug; (k) Any other information the director considers relevant. (2) In negotiating a new rebate agreement under division (B) of this section, the director shall seek to negotiate an amount that is equal to the target rebate amount under division (C)(1) of this section. The director shall not enter into a rebate agreement that is less than sixty per cent of the target rebate amount. If no rebate agreement is established or renegotiated under this section, the director may consider removing the drug from the medicaid program's preferred drug list and imposing a prior authorization requirement on the drug in accordance with section 5160.34 of the Revised Code. (D) The director shall publish a list of the prescribed drugs it identifies as being responsible for increasing spending above the annual benchmark for prescribed drug spending growth.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.196 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.196
§ 5123.196. Maximum number of beds
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (E) of this section, the director of developmental disabilities shall not issue a license under section 5123.19 of the Revised Code on or after July 1, 2003, if issuance will result in there being more beds in all residential facilities licensed under that section than is permitted under division (B) of this section. (B) The maximum number of beds for the purpose of division (A) of this section shall not exceed ten thousand eight hundred thirty-eight minus, except as provided in division (C) of this section, both of the following: (1) The number of such beds that cease to be residential facility beds on or after July 1, 2003, because a residential facility license is revoked, terminated, or not renewed for any reason or is surrendered in accordance with section 5123.19 of the Revised Code; (2) The number of such beds for which a licensee voluntarily converts to use for supported living on or after July 1, 2003. (C) The director is not required to reduce the maximum number of beds pursuant to division (B) of this section by a bed that ceases to be a residential facility bed if the director determines that the bed is needed to provide services to an individual with a developmental disability who resided in the residential facility in which the bed was located. (D) The director shall maintain an up-to-date written record of the maximum number of residential facility beds provided for by division (B) of this section. (E) The director may issue an interim license under division (Q) of section 5123.19 of the Revised Code and issue, pursuant to rules adopted under division (G)(9) of that section, a waiver allowing a residential facility to admit more residents than the facility is licensed to admit regardless of whether the interim license or waiver will result in there being more beds in all residential facilities licensed under that section than is permitted under division (B) of this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5107.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5107 / § 5107.12
§ 5107.12. Application for participation by assistance group
Status: in_force

January 27, 2012 House Bill 337 - 129th General Assembly An assistance group seeking to participate in the Ohio works first program shall apply to a county department of job and family services using an application containing information the director of job and family services requires pursuant to rules adopted under section 5107.05 of the Revised Code and any additional information the county department requires. If cash assistance under the program is to be paid by the director of budget and management through the medium of direct deposit as provided by section 329.03 of the Revised Code, the application shall be accompanied by information the director needs to make direct deposits. When a county department receives an application for participation in Ohio works first, it shall promptly make an investigation and record of the circumstances of the applicant in order to ascertain the facts surrounding the application and to obtain such other information as may be required. Upon the completion of the investigation, the county department shall determine as soon as possible whether the applicant is eligible to participate, the amount of cash assistance the applicant should receive, and the approximate date when participation shall begin. The amount of cash assistance so determined shall be certified to the department of job and family services in such form as the department shall prescribe. Warrants, direct deposits, or debit cards shall be delivered or made payable in the manner the department may prescribe. To the extent required by rules adopted under section 5107.05 of the Revised Code, a participant of Ohio works first shall notify the county department immediately upon the receipt or possession of additional income not previously reported to the county department. Any failure to so notify a county department shall be regarded as prima-facie evidence of an intent to defraud.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5153.25 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5153 / § 5153.25
§ 5153.25. Industrial, agricultural, and other pursuits
Status: in_force

October 1, 1997 House Bill 408 - 122nd General Assembly The superintendent of the county children's home may provide and carry on, in connection with a children's home, such industrial, agricultural, and other pursuits for the children in such home as are deemed expedient by the public children services agency. Any products of such pursuits not needed to maintain the home may be sold, and all receipts from such sales shall be paid into the county treasury.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5162.36 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5162 / § 5162.36
§ 5162.36. Medicaid school component
Status: in_force

March 21, 2017 House Bill 89 - 131st General Assembly The medicaid director shall create, in accordance with sections 5162.36 to 5 162.366 of the Revised Code, the medicaid school component of the medicaid program.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5122.25 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5122 / § 5122.25
§ 5122.25. Rehearing
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly Upon the request of a hospital, person, board, community mental health services provider, or facility who has custody of a patient hospitalized pursuant to section 5122.15 of the Revised Code, or on the order of the court, such patient may be called for a rehearing at such place within the county of the patient's residence or the county where such patient is hospitalized as the court designates. The hearing shall be conducted pursuant to section 5122.15 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5163.103 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5163 / § 5163.103
§ 5163.103. Presumptive eligibility error rate training
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Presumptive eligibility error rate" means the rate at which a qualified entity or qualified provider deems an individual presumptively eligible for medicaid under sections 5163.10 to 5163.102 of the Revised Code when the individual is ineligible for the medicaid program. (2) "Qualified entity" has the same meaning as in section 5163.101 of the Revised Code. (3) "Qualified provider" has the same meaning as in section 5163.10 of the Revised Code. (B) Notwithstanding sections 5163.10 to 5163.102 of the Revised Code, the department of medicaid shall require each qualified entity or qualified provider that has a presumptive eligibility error rate exceeding seven and one-half per cent in a calendar month to do both of the following: (1) Submit to the department for approval a corrective action plan specifying the steps the qualified entity or qualified provider will take to reduce its presumptive eligibility error rate, including details about the training required under division (B)(2) of this section; (2) Provide training for all of its staff who make presumptive eligibility determinations to ensure their thorough knowledge of presumptive eligibility prescreening procedures. The training shall occur for each month the qualified entity or qualified provider's presumptive eligibility error rate exceeds seven and one-half per cent. Last updated October 12, 2023 at 11:40 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.344 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.344
§ 5119.344. Summary suspension of a class one residential facility serving children
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "principal" means an owner, operator, or manager of a class one residential facility. (B) The department of mental health and addiction services may suspend, without a prior hearing, the license of a class one residential facility that serves children if any of the following occurs: (1) A child suffers a serious injury or dies while residing in the residential facility. (2) The department, a public children services agency, or a county department of job and family services determines that a principal, employee, volunteer, or nonresident occupant of the residential facility created a serious risk to the health or safety of a child residing in the facility that resulted in or could have resulted in a child's death or injury. (3) A principal, employee, resident, volunteer, or nonresident occupant of the facility was charged by an indictment, information, or complaint with an offense relating to the death, injury, or sexual assault of another person that occurred on the premises of the facility. (4) A principal, employee, volunteer, or nonresident occupant of the facility was charged by an indictment, information, or complaint with an offense relating to the death, injury, or sexual assault of a child residing in the facility. (5) A public children services agency receives a report pursuant to section 2151.421 of the Revised Code, and the person alleged to have inflicted abuse or neglect on the child, who is the subject of the report, is either of the following: (a) A principal of the residential facility; (b) An employee of the residential facility who has not been immediately placed on administrative leave or released from employment. (6) The residential facility is not in compliance with the rule, adopted under section 5119.34 of the Revised Code, pertaining to background investigations for owners, operators, employees, and other specified individuals. (C) In suspending a license under division (B) of this section, the department shall comply with section 119.07 of the Revised Code. The owner of a class one residential facility may request an adjudicatory hearing before the department pursuant to sections 119.06 and 119.12 of the Revised Code. If a hearing is requested and the department does not issue its final adjudication order within one hundred twenty days after the suspension, the suspension is void on the one hundred twenty-first day after the suspension, unless the hearing on the suspension is continued on agreement by the parties or for good cause. (D) Any summary suspension imposed under this section shall remain in effect until any of the following occurs: (1) The public children services agency completes its investigation of the report pursuant to section 2151.421 of the Revised Code and determines that all of the allegations are unsubstantiated. (2) All criminal charges are disposed of through dismissal or a finding of not guilty. (3) The department issues, pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, a final order terminating the suspension. (E) A class one residential facility serving children shall not have children placed in the facility while a summary suspension remains in effect. Upon the issuance of the order of suspension, the department shall place a hold on the license or indicate that the license is suspended in Ohio's statewide automated child welfare information system. (F) The director of mental health and addiction services may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing standards and procedures for the summary suspension of licenses. (G) This section does not limit the authority of the department to take other action, such as issuing an order suspending the admission of residents to a residential facility, refusing to issue or renew a license for a facility, or revoking a facility's license under section 5119.34 of the Revised Code. Last updated August 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.25 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.25
§ 5123.25. Purchasing supplies
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly The department of administrative services shall purchase all supplies needed for the proper support and maintenance of the institutions under the control of the department of developmental disabilities in accordance with the competitive selection procedures of Chapter 125. of the Revised Code and such rules as the department of administrative services adopts. All bids shall be publicly opened on the day and hour and at the place specified in the advertisement. Preference shall be given to bidders in localities wherein the institution is located, if the price is fair and reasonable and not greater than the usual price. The department of administrative services may require such security as it considers proper to accompany the bids and shall fix the security to be given by the contractor. The department of administrative services may reject any or all bids and secure new bids, if for any reason it is considered for the best interest of the state to do so, and it may authorize the managing officer of any institution to purchase perishable goods and supplies for use in cases of emergency, in which cases the managing officer shall certify such fact in writing and the department of administrative services shall record the reasons for the purchases.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.035 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.035
§ 5103.035. Needs assessment and continuing training plan
Status: in_force

January 22, 2021 House Bill 8 - 133rd General Assembly A public children services agency, private child placing agency, or private noncustodial agency acting as a recommending agency for a foster caregiver shall develop and implement a written needs assessment and continuing training plan for the foster caregiver in accordance with rules adopted under section 5103.0316 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.52 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.52
§ 5103.52. Inspection
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) The director of children and youth may inspect a private, nonprofit therapeutic wilderness camp at any time. (B) The director may request access to the camp's records or to the written policies adopted by the camp pursuant to section 5103.50 of the Revised Code. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5108.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5108 / § 5108.01
§ 5108.01. Prevention, retention, and contingency program definitions
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly As used in this chapter: (A) "County family services planning committee" means the county family services planning committee established under section 329.06 of the Revised Code. (B) "Prevention, retention, and contingency program" means the program established by this chapter and funded in part with federal funds provided under Title IV-A. (C) "Title IV-A" means Title IV-A of the "Social Security Act," 49 Stat. 620 (1935), 42 U.S.C. 301, as amended.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.803 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.803
§ 5101.803. Title IV-A demonstration program
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) Subject to division (E) of section 5101.801 of the Revised Code, there is hereby created the Title IV-A demonstration program to provide funding for innovative and promising prevention and intervention projects that meet one or more of the four purposes of the temporary assistance for needy families block grant as specified in 42 U.S.C. 601 and are for individuals with specific and multiple barriers to achieving or maintaining self-sufficiency and personal responsibility. The department of job and family services and the department of children and youth, as applicable, may provide funding for such projects to government entities and, to the extent permitted by federal law, private, not-for-profit entities with which either department enters into agreements under division (B)(2) of section 5101.801 of the Revised Code. In accordance with criteria the department develops, the department of job and family services or the department of children and youth, as applicable, may solicit proposals from entities seeking to enter into an agreement with the applicable department under division (B)(2) of section 5101.801 of the Revised Code. The department of job and family services or the department of children and youth, as applicable, may enter into such agreements with entities that do both of the following: (1) Meet the proposals' criteria; (2) If the entity's proposed project does not potentially affect persons in each county of the state, provides the department evidence that the entity has notified, in writing, the county department of job and family services of each county where persons may be affected by the implementation of the project. (B) In developing the criteria, soliciting the proposals, and entering in the agreements, the department of job and family services and the department of children and youth shall comply with all applicable federal and state laws, the Title IV-A state plan submitted to the United States secretary of health and human services under section 5101.80 of the Revised Code, amendments to the Title IV-A state plan submitted to the United States secretary under that section, and federal waivers the United States secretary grants. Last updated January 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.452 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.452
§ 5180.452. [Former R.C. 5101.192, amended and renumbered by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Adoption grant eligibility
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) To receive a grant payment under division (B) of section 5180.451 of the Revised Code, all of the following must be satisfied: (1) The adoptive parent has not previously received a grant payment from the Ohio adoption grant program for the adopted child for whom the parent is seeking payment. (2) The adoptive parent does not also currently claim an adoption tax credit pursuant to former section 5747.37 of the Revised Code for the adopted child for whom the parent is seeking payment. (3) The adoptive parent applies for the grant not later than one year after the final adoption order, interlocutory order of adoption, or recognition of the adoption by this state under section 3107.18 of the Revised Code for the adopted child for whom the grant payment is sought. (4) The adoption was not by a parent whose spouse is a biological or adoptive parent of the child prior to the adoption for which the payment is sought. (5) The adoption is finalized on or after January 1, 2023. (6) The adoptive parent was a resident of Ohio at the time the adoption was finalized. (B) To receive a grant payment under division (C) of section 5180.451 of the Revised Code, both of the following must be satisfied: (1) The requirements of division (A) of this section must be satisfied. (2) A qualified professional who does not provide casework services to the adopted child diagnoses the child with one or more special needs in the professional's area of expertise prior to the final order of adoption, interlocutory order of adoption, or recognition of the adoption by this state under section 3107.18 of the Revised Code. Last updated October 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5162.364 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5162 / § 5162.364
§ 5162.364. Adoption of rules for medicaid school component
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly The medicaid director shall adopt rules under section 5162.02 of the Revised Code as necessary to implement the medicaid school component of the medicaid program, including rules that establish or specify all of the following: (A) Conditions a board of education of a city, local, or exempted school district, a governing board of an educational service center, governing authority of a community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code,, and Ohio deaf and blind education services must meet to participate in the component; (B) Services the component covers; (C) Payment rates for the services the component covers. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. Last updated October 10, 2023 at 9:00 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.037 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.037
§ 5103.037. Appointment of board president, administrator, or officer
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) Prior to employing or appointing a person as board president, or as an administrator or officer, an institution or association shall do the following regarding the person: (1) Request a summary report of a search of the uniform statewide automated child welfare information system in accordance with divisions (A) and (B) of section 5103.18 of the Revised Code; (2) Request a certified search of the findings for recovery database; (3) Conduct a database review at the federal web site known as the system for award management; (4) Conduct a search of the United States department of justice national sex offender public web site. (B) The institution or association may refuse to hire or appoint a person as board president, or as an administrator or officer as follows: (1) Based solely on the findings of the summary report described in division (B)(1)(a) of section 5103.18 of the Revised Code or the results of the search described in division (A)(4) of this section; (2) Based on the results of a certified search or database review described in division (A)(2) or (3) of this section, when considered within the totality of circumstances. (C) The director of children and youth shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code necessary for the implementation and execution of this section. Last updated January 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5122.41 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5122 / § 5122.41
§ 5122.41. Transmission of court papers
Status: in_force

July 1, 1989 Senate Bill 156 - 117th General Assembly The court, upon making an order hospitalizing a person under this chapter, shall immediately transmit to the chief clinical officer of the hospital, copies, under his official seal, of court papers in the case, including the certificate of the medical witnesses and of his findings in the case. Upon hospitalization, the chief clinical officer of the hospital to which the patient is admitted shall take possession of all money and other valuables that may be upon the person of the patient, and shall within ten days file a list thereof with the probate judge of the county of which the patient is a resident. If the amount of money is fifty dollars or less it shall be retained and expended by the chief clinical officer of the hospital for the benefit of the patient. Unless a guardian of the estate of the patient has already been appointed, the probate judge may, upon his own motion and without notice, appoint a special guardian of the estate of the patient. Any special guardian, before being appointed, shall file a bond approved by the probate judge in the same amount as is required by section 2109.04 of the Revised Code. A special guardian as provided for in this section, and while acting as such, shall be governed by all laws applicable to guardians of the estates of either minors or incompetents. The special guardian shall be allowed such compensation for his services as the court thinks reasonable, provided he forthwith performs all the duties incumbent upon him.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.381 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.381
§ 5120.381. Deputy warden
Status: in_force

March 23, 2016 House Bill 56 - 131st General Assembly Subject to the rules of the department of rehabilitation and correction, the director of rehabilitation and correction may appoint a deputy warden for each institution under the jurisdiction of the department. A deputy warden shall be in the unclassified service and serve at the pleasure of the director of rehabilitation and correction. The director of rehabilitation and correction shall make an appointment to the position of deputy warden from persons having criminal justice experience. A person who is appointed to a position as deputy warden from a permanent, classified position within the department shall retain the right to resume the position and status that the person held in the classified service immediately prior to the person's appointment to the position in the unclassified service, regardless of the number of positions the person held in the unclassified service. An employee's right to resume a position in the classified service may be exercised only when an appointing authority demotes the employee to a pay range lower than the employee's current pay range or revokes the employee's appointment to the unclassified service. An employee who holds a position in the classified service and who is appointed to a position in the unclassified service on or after January 1, 2016, shall have the right to resume a position in the classified service under this section only within five years after the effective date of the employee's appointment in the unclassified service. An employee forfeits the right to resume a position in the classified service when the employee is removed from the position in the unclassified service due to incompetence, inefficiency, dishonesty, drunkenness, immoral conduct, insubordination, discourteous treatment of the public, neglect of duty, a violation of this chapter or the rules of the department or the director of administrative services, any other failure of good behavior, any other acts of misfeasance, malfeasance, or nonfeasance in office, or conviction of or plea of guilty to a felony while employed in the civil service. An employee also forfeits the right to resume the prior position in the classified service upon transfer to a different agency. Reinstatement to a position in the classified service shall be to a position substantially equal to the position in the classified service that the person previously held, as certified by the director of rehabilitation and correction and approved by the director of administrative services. If the position the person previously held in the classified service has been placed in the unclassified service or is otherwise unavailable, the person shall be appointed to a position in the classified service within the department that the director of administrative services certifies is comparable in compensation to the position the person previously held in the classified service. Service in the position in the unclassified service shall be counted as service in the position in the classified service that the person held immediately preceding the person's appointment to the position in the unclassified service. When a person who is reinstated to a position in the classified service as provided in this section, the person is entitled to all rights and benefits and any status accruing to the position during the time of the person's service in the unclassified service.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.93 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.93
§ 5164.93. Incentive payments for adoption and use of electronic health record technology
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) The department of medicaid may establish a program under which it provides incentive payments, as authorized by the "Social Security Act," section 1903(a)(3)(F) and (t), 42 U.S.C. 1396b(a)(3)(F) and (t), to encourage the adoption and use of electronic health record technology by medicaid providers who are identified under that federal law as eligible professionals. (B) After the department has made a determination regarding the amount of a medicaid provider's electronic health record incentive payment or the denial of an incentive payment, the department shall notify the provider. The provider may request that the department reconsider its determination. A request for reconsideration shall be submitted in writing to the department not later than fifteen days after the provider receives notification of the determination. The request shall be accompanied by written materials setting forth the basis for, and supporting, the reconsideration request. On receipt of a timely request, the department shall reconsider the determination. On the basis of the written materials accompanying the request, the department may uphold, reverse, or modify its original determination. The department shall mail to the provider by certified mail a written notice of the reconsideration decision. In accordance with Chapter 2505. of the Revised Code, the medicaid provider may appeal the reconsideration decision by filing a notice of appeal with the court of common pleas of Franklin county. The notice shall identify the decision being appealed and the specific grounds for the appeal. The notice of appeal shall be filed not later than fifteen days after the department mails its notice of the reconsideration decision. A copy of the notice of appeal shall be filed with the department not later than three days after the notice is filed with the court. (C) The medicaid director may adopt rules under section 5162.02 of the Revised Code as necessary to implement this section. The rules, if any, shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.30 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.30
§ 5165.30. Related party costs to pass through
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly Except as provided in section 5165.17 of the Revised Code, the costs of goods, services, and facilities, furnished to a nursing facility provider by a related party are includable in the allowable costs of the provider at the reasonable cost to the related party.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.23 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.23
§ 5126.23. Discipline of management employee or superintendent
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "employee" means a management employee or superintendent of a county board of developmental disabilities. (B) An employee may be removed, suspended, or demoted in accordance with this section for violation of written rules set forth by the board or for incompetency, inefficiency, dishonesty, drunkenness, immoral conduct, insubordination, discourteous treatment of the public, neglect of duty, or other acts of misfeasance, malfeasance, or nonfeasance. (C) Prior to the removal, suspension, or demotion of an employee pursuant to this section, the employee shall be notified in writing of the charges against the employee. Except as otherwise provided in division (H) of this section, not later than thirty days after receiving such notification, a predisciplinary conference shall be held to provide the employee an opportunity to refute the charges against the employee. At least seventy-two hours prior to the conference, the employee shall be given a copy of the charges against the employee. If the removal, suspension, or demotion action is directed against a management employee, the conference shall be held by the superintendent or a person the superintendent designates, and the superintendent shall notify the management employee within fifteen days after the conference of the decision made with respect to the charges. If the removal, suspension, or demotion action is directed against a superintendent, the conference shall be held by the members of the board or their designees, and the board shall notify the superintendent within fifteen days after the conference of its decision with respect to the charges. (D) Within fifteen days after receiving notification of the results of the predisciplinary conference, an employee may file with the board a written demand for a hearing before the board or before a referee, and the board shall set a time for the hearing which shall be within thirty days from the date of receipt of the written demand, and the board shall give the employee at least twenty days notice in writing of the time and place of the hearing. (E) If a referee is demanded by an employee or a county board, the hearing shall be conducted by a referee selected in accordance with division (F) of this section; otherwise, it shall be conducted by a majority of the members of the board and shall be confined to the charges enumerated at the predisciplinary conference. (F) Referees for the hearings required by this section shall be selected from the list of names compiled by the director of education and workforce pursuant to section 3319.161 of the Revised Code. Upon receipt of notice that a referee has been demanded by an employee or a county board, the director shall immediately designate three persons from such list, from whom the referee for the hearing shall be chosen, and the director shall immediately notify the designees, the county board, and the employee. If within five days of receipt of the notice, the county board and employee are unable to agree upon one of the designees to serve as referee, the director shall appoint one of the designees to serve as referee. The appointment of the referee shall be entered in the minutes of the county board. The referee appointed shall be paid the referee's usual and customary fee for attending the hearing which shall be paid from the general fund of the county board of developmental disabilities. (G) The board shall provide for a complete stenographic record of the proceedings, and a copy of the record shall be furnished to the employee. Both parties may be present at the hearing, be represented by counsel, require witnesses to be under oath, cross-examine witnesses, take a record of the proceedings, and require the presence of witnesses in their behalf upon subpoena to be issued by the county board. If any person fails to comply with a subpoena, a judge of the court of common pleas of the county in which the person resides, upon application of any interested party, shall compel attendance of the person by attachment proceedings as for contempt. Any member of the board or the referee may administer oaths to witnesses. After a hearing by a referee, the referee shall file a report within ten days after the termination of the hearing. After consideration of the referee's report, the board, by a majority vote, may accept or reject the referee's recommendation. After a hearing by the board, the board, by majority vote, may enter its determination upon its minutes. If the decision, after hearing, is in favor of the employee, the charges and the record of the hearing shall be physically expunged from the minutes and, if the employee has suffered any loss of salary by reason of being suspended, the employee shall be paid the employee's full salary for the period of such suspension. Any employee affected by a determination of the board under this division may appeal to the court of common pleas of the county in which the board is located within thirty days after receipt of notice of the entry of such determination. The appeal shall be an original action in the court and shall be commenced by the filing of a complaint against the board, in which complaint the facts shall be alleged upon which the employee relies for a reversal or modification of such determination. Upon service or waiver of summons in that appeal, the board immediately shall transmit to the clerk of the court for filing a transcript of the original papers filed with the board, a certified copy of the minutes of the board into which the determination was entered, and a certified transcript of all evidence adduced at the hearing or hearings before the board or a certified transcript of all evidence adduced at the hearing or hearings before the referee, whereupon the cause shall be at issue without further pleading and shall be advanced and heard without delay. The court shall examine the transcript and record of the hearing and shall hold such additional hearings as it considers advisable, at which it may consider other evidence in addition to the transcript and record. Upon final hearing, the court shall grant or deny the relief prayed for in the complaint as may be proper in accordance with the evidence adduced in the hearing. Such an action is a special proceeding, and either the employee or the board may appeal from the decision of the court of common pleas pursuant to the Rules of Appellate Procedure and, to the extent not in conflict with those rules, Chapter 2505. of the Revised Code. (H) Notwithstanding divisions (C) to (G) of this section, a county board and an employee may agree to submit issues regarding the employee's removal, suspension, or demotion to binding arbitration. The terms of the submission, including the method of selecting the arbitrator or arbitrators and the responsibility for compensating the arbitrator, shall be provided for in the arbitration agreement. The arbitrator shall be selected within fifteen days of the execution of the agreement. Chapter 2711. of the Revised Code governs the arbitration proceedings. Last updated September 21, 2023 at 8:59 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.61 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.61
§ 5101.61. Implementing adult protective services
Status: in_force

September 29, 2018 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly (A) The county departments of job and family services shall implement sections 5101.60 to 5101.71 of the Revised Code. (B) The director of job and family services may adopt rules in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code to carry out the purposes of sections 5101.60 to 5101.71 of the Revised Code. The rules adopted pursuant to this division may include a requirement that the county departments provide on forms prescribed by the rules a plan of proposed expenditures, and a report of actual expenditures, of funds necessary to implement sections 5101.60 to 5101.71 of the Revised Code and other requirements for intake procedures, investigations, case management, and the provision of protective services.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5149.34 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5149 / § 5149.34
§ 5149.34. Local corrections planning board
Status: in_force

September 30, 2011 House Bill 86 - 129th General Assembly (A)(1) If a county desires to receive a subsidy from a subsidy program established under division (A)(1) of section 5149.31 of the Revised Code for community corrections programs as described in division (A)(2) of that section, the board of county commissioners of the county shall establish, by a resolution as described in this division, and maintain a local corrections planning board that, except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, shall include an administrator of a county, multicounty, municipal, municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal jail or workhouse located in the county; a county commissioner of that county; a judge of the court of common pleas of that county; a judge of a municipal court or county court of that county; an attorney whose practice of law primarily involves the representation of criminal defendants; the chief law enforcement officer of the largest municipal corporation located in the county; the county sheriff; one or more prosecutors, as defined in section 2935.01 of the Revised Code; the executive director of the board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services serving that county or the executive director's designee, or the executive directors of both the community mental health board and the alcohol and drug addiction services board serving that county or their designees, whichever is applicable; the executive director of the county board of developmental disabilities of that county or the executive director's designee; an administrator of a halfway house serving that county, if any, or the administrator's designee; an administrator of a community-based correctional facility, if any, serving the court of common pleas of that county or the administrator's designee; an administrator of a community corrections act-funded program in that county, if any, or the administrator's designee; one or more representatives of the public, one of whom shall be a victim of crime; one or more additional representatives of the law enforcement community; one or more additional representatives of the judiciary; one or more additional representatives of the field of corrections; and officials from the largest municipal corporation located in the county. A majority of the members of the board shall be employed in the adult criminal justice field. At least two members of the board shall be members of the largest racial minority population, if any, in the county, and at least two other members of the board shall be women. The resolution shall state the number and nature of the members, the duration of their terms, the manner of filling vacancies on the board, and the compensation, if any, that members are to receive. The board of county commissioners also may specify, as part of the resolution, any other duties the local corrections planning board is to assume. (2) If, for good cause shown, including, but not limited to, the refusal of a specified individual to serve on a local corrections planning board, a particular county is not able to satisfy the requirements specified in division (A)(1) of this section for the composition of such a board, the director of rehabilitation and correction may waive the requirements to the extent necessary and approve a composition for the board that otherwise is consistent with the requirements. (B) Each local corrections planning board established pursuant to division (A) of this section shall adopt within eighteen months after its establishment, and from time to time shall revise, a comprehensive plan for the development, implementation, and operation of corrections services in the county. The plan shall include a description of the offender population's assessed needs as established by the single validated risk assessment tool described in section 5120.114 of the Revised Code, with particular attention to high risk offenders, and the capacity to deliver services and programs within the county and surrounding region that address the offender population's needs. The plan shall be adopted and revised after consideration has been given to the impact that it will have or has had on the populations of state correctional institutions and county, multicounty, municipal, municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal jails or workhouses in the county, and shall be designed to unify or coordinate corrections services in the county and to reduce the number of persons committed, consistent with the standards adopted under division (A)(2) of section 5149.31 of the Revised Code, from that county to state correctional institutions and to county, multicounty, municipal, municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal jails or workhouses. The plan and any revisions to the plan shall be submitted to the board of county commissioners of the county in which the local corrections planning board is located for approval. If a county has a community-based correctional facility and program established in accordance with sections 2301.51 to 2301.58 of the Revised Code, the budgets of the facility and program shall not be subject to approval by the local corrections planning board, but instead shall continue to be determined in accordance with those sections. However, the local corrections planning board shall include the facility and program as part of the comprehensive plan adopted and revised pursuant to this division. (C) As used in this section: (1) "Halfway house" and "community-based correctional facility" have the same meanings as in section 2929.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Offender population" means the total number of offenders currently receiving corrections services provided by the county.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.66 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.66
§ 5165.66. Citations for failure to comply with one or more certification requirements
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in section 3721.17 of the Revised Code, a finding shall be cited only on the basis of a survey and a determination that one or more actions, practices, situations, or incidents at a nursing facility caused or resulted from the facility's failure to comply with one or more certification requirements. The department of health shall determine whether the actions, practices, situations, or incidents can be justified by either of the following: (1) The actions, practices, situations, or incidents resulted from a resident exercising the resident's rights guaranteed under the laws of the United States or of this state; (2) The actions, practices, situations, or incidents resulted from a facility following the orders of a person licensed under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code to practice medicine or surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery. (B) If the department of health determines both that the actions, practices, situations, or incidents cannot be justified by the factors identified in division (A) of this section and that one or more of the following are applicable, the department shall declare that the actions, practices, situations, or incidents constitute a finding: (1) The actions, practices, situations, or incidents could have been prevented by one or more persons involved in the facility's operation; (2) No person involved in the facility's operation identified the actions, practices, situations, or incidents prior to the survey; (3) Prior to the survey, no person involved in the facility's operation initiated action to correct the noncompliance caused by or resulting in the actions, practices, situations, or incidents; (4) The facility does not have in effect, if needed, a contingency plan that is reasonably calculated to prevent physical, mental, or emotional harm to residents while permanent corrective action is being taken. (C) The department of health shall determine the severity level and scope level of each finding. (D) A deficiency that is substantially corrected within the time limits specified in sections 5165.79 to 5165.83 of the Revised Code and for which no remedy is imposed, shall be counted as a deficiency for the purpose of determining whether a deficiency is a repeat deficiency. (E) Whenever the department of health determines that during the period between two surveys a finding existed at the facility, but the facility substantially corrected it prior to the second survey, the department shall cite it. However, the department of medicaid or a contracting agency shall impose a remedy only as provided in division (C) of section 5165.72 of the Revised Code. (F) Immediately upon determining the severity and scope of a finding at a nursing facility, the department of health shall notify the department of medicaid and any contracting agency of the finding, the severity and scope of the finding, and whether the finding creates immediate jeopardy. Immediately upon determining that an emergency exists at a facility that does not result from a deficiency that creates immediate jeopardy, the department of health shall notify the department of medicaid and any contracting agency.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5117.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5117 / § 5117.07
§ 5117.07. Determining eligibility
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) On or before the first day of October, the director of development shall review all applications submitted under division (C) of section 5117.03 of the Revised Code and shall determine the eligibility of each applicant to receive a credit or payment. The total income and current total income amounts set forth in division (A) of this section are subject to adjustment under section 5117.071 of the Revised Code. (1) An applicant is eligible for a credit of thirty per cent if the applicant is a head of household, has a total income of five thousand dollars or less or a current total income of two thousand five hundred dollars or less, owns and occupies or rents and occupies a household receiving the source of energy for its primary heating system from an energy company and such energy is separately metered, and is either of the following: (a) Sixty-five years of age or older; (b) Permanently and totally disabled. (2) An applicant is eligible for a credit of twenty-five per cent if the applicant is a head of household, has a total income of more than five thousand dollars but not more than nine thousand dollars or a current total income of more than two thousand five hundred dollars but not more than four thousand five hundred dollars, is sixty-five years of age or older or permanently and totally disabled, and owns and occupies or rents and occupies a household receiving the source of energy for its primary heating system from an energy company and such energy is separately metered. (3) An applicant is eligible for a payment if either of the following applies to the applicant: (a) The applicant would be eligible for the credit under division (A)(1) or (2) of this section but for the fact that the source of energy for the primary heating system of the applicant's household is not separately metered; (b) The applicant is a head of household, has a total income of no more than nine thousand dollars or a current total income of no more than four thousand five hundred dollars, is sixty-five years of age or older or permanently and totally disabled, and owns and occupies or rents and occupies a household receiving the source of energy for its primary heating system from an energy dealer. (4) In the case of a multiple unit dwelling for which separate metering for the source of energy for its primary heating system is not provided, more than one applicant occupying such dwelling may be determined eligible for a payment under division (A)(3)(a) of this section. (B) Notwithstanding division (A) of this section: (1) No head of household who resides in public housing or receives a rent subsidy from a government agency is eligible for a credit or payment unless the person's rent subsidy does not reflect the costs of that person's household receiving the source of energy for its primary heating system; (2) A resident of a nursing home, hospital, or other extended health care facility is not eligible for a credit or payment for the costs of providing the source of energy for the primary heating system of the facility. (C) The director shall establish a procedure whereby the director can verify total income and current total income for the calendar year in which an applicant is determined eligible for a payment or credit. If a person receives a credit or payment that the person is ineligible to receive under division (A) of this section as determined by the director, that person shall refund to the director the credit or payment, or excess portion of a credit or payment, that person received. The sum refunded shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the electric partnership plan fund created in section 4928.51 of the Revised Code. (D) The director may request an additional certification of permanent and total disability for any applicant claiming such status on an application renewal form submitted under section 5117.03 of the Revised Code. Such certification shall be requested from the person or agency named on the form pursuant to division (B)(1) of section 5117.03 of the Revised Code. If such additional certification is refused due to a conclusion by the person or agency that the applicant is not permanently and totally disabled, the director shall determine the applicant ineligible for any credit or payment. If such additional certification is unavailable or refused for any other reason, the director may determine the applicant to be eligible for a credit or payment provided the director has good cause to believe the applicant is permanently and totally disabled. (E) On or before the first day of October, the director shall notify each applicant of the disposition of the applicant's application under divisions (A) and (B) of this section. At the same time, the director shall notify the applicant, regardless of whether the applicant's application is approved or disapproved, that the applicant may be eligible to participate in a state or federal weatherization program and should contact the applicant's community action agency for further information. If an application is disapproved, the applicant may appeal to the director for a hearing on the matter. A notice of disapproval shall include a detailed explanation of the applicant's right of appeal under this chapter. Any such appeal shall be on an appeal form prescribed by the director and shall be filed with the director within twenty days of the receipt of the notice of disapproval. Last updated August 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.428 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.428
§ 5180.428. [Former R.C. 5101.1411, amended and renumbered by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Young adults - foster care and adoption assistance payments
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A)(1) The director of children and youth shall implement 42 U.S.C. 675(8) to make federal payments for foster care under Title IV-E directly to, or on behalf of, any emancipated young adult who meets the following requirements: (a) The emancipated young adult signs a voluntary participation agreement. (b) The emancipated young adult satisfies division (D) of this section. (2) Any emancipated young adult who meets the requirements of division (A)(1) of this section may apply for foster care payments and make the appropriate application at any time. (B)(1) The director of children and youth shall implement 42 U.S.C. 675(8) to make federal payments for adoption assistance under Title IV-E available to any parent who meets all of the following requirements: (a) The parent adopted a person who is an adopted young adult and the parent entered into an adoption assistance agreement under 42 U.S.C. 673 while the adopted person was age sixteen or seventeen. (b) The parent maintains parental responsibility for the adopted young adult. (c) The adopted young adult satisfies division (D) of this section. (2) Any parent who meets the requirements of division (B)(1) of this section that are applicable to a parent may request an extension of adoption assistance payments at any time before the adopted young adult reaches age twenty-one. (3) An adopted young adult who is eligible to receive adoption assistance payments is not considered an emancipated young adult and is therefore not eligible to receive payment under division (A) of this section. (C)(1) The director of children and youth shall implement 42 U.S.C. 673(d) to provide kinship guardianship assistance under Title IV-E available to any relative who meets all of the following requirements: (a) Both of the following apply: (i) A juvenile court issued an order granting legal custody of a person who is a kinship guardianship young adult to the relative, or a probate court issued an order granting guardianship of a person who is a kinship guardianship young adult to the relative, and the order is not a temporary court order. (ii) The relative entered into a kinship guardianship assistance agreement under 42 U.S.C. 673(d) while the kinship guardianship young adult was age sixteen or seventeen. (b) The relative maintains parental responsibility for the kinship guardianship young adult. (c) The kinship guardianship young adult satisfies division (D) of this section. (2) Any person who meets the requirements of division (C)(1) of this section may request an extension of kinship guardianship assistance at any time before the kinship guardianship young adult reaches age twenty-one. (3) A kinship guardianship young adult who is eligible to receive kinship guardianship assistance is not considered an emancipated young adult and is therefore not eligible to receive assistance under division (A) of this section. (D) In addition to other requirements, an adopted, kinship guardianship, or emancipated young adult must meet at least one of the following criteria: (1) Is completing secondary education or a program leading to an equivalent credential; (2) Is enrolled in an institution that provides post-secondary or vocational education; (3) Is participating in a program or activity designed to promote, or remove barriers to, employment; (4) Is employed for at least eighty hours per month; (5) Is incapable of doing any of the activities described in divisions (D)(1) to (4) of this section due to a physical or mental condition, which incapacity is supported by regularly updated information in the person's case record or plan. (E) Any emancipated young adult described in division (A)(1) of this section who is directly receiving foster care payments, or on whose behalf such foster care payments are received, or any relative described in division (C)(1) of this section who is receiving kinship guardianship assistance, or any parent receiving adoption assistance payments, may refuse the payments at any time. (F)(1) An emancipated young adult described in division (A)(1) of this section who is directly receiving foster care payments, or on whose behalf such foster care payments are received, or any relative described in division (C)(1) of this section who is receiving kinship guardianship assistance and the kinship guardianship young adult, or a parent receiving adoption assistance payments and the adopted young adult shall be eligible for services set forth in the federal, "Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008," P.L. 110-351. (2) An emancipated young adult described in division (A)(1) of this section who is directly receiving foster care payments, or on whose behalf such foster care payments are received, pursuant to this section, may be eligible to reside in a supervised independent living setting, including apartment living, room and board arrangements, college or university dormitories, host homes, and shared roommate settings. (G) Any determination by the department of children and youth that denies or terminates foster care assistance, kinship guardianship assistance, or adoption assistance payments shall be subject to a state hearing pursuant to section 5101.35 of the Revised Code. Last updated October 3, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5166.407 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5166 / § 5166.407
§ 5166.407. Disqualification for medicaid; disposition of remainder in buckeye account
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly (A) If a healthy Ohio program participant ceases to qualify for medicaid due to increased family countable income and purchases a health insurance policy or obtains health care coverage under an eligible employer-sponsored health plan, the amount remaining in the former participant's buckeye account shall be transferred to an account to be known as a bridge account. The amount so transferred may be used only to pay for the following: (1) If the former participant has purchased a health insurance policy, the former participant's costs in purchasing the policy and paying for the former participant's out-of-pocket expenses under the policy for health care services and prescription drugs covered by the policy; (2) If the former participant has obtained health care coverage under an eligible employer-sponsored health plan, the former participant's out-of-pocket expenses under the plan for health care services and prescription drugs covered by the plan. (B) Only the amount remaining in a former healthy Ohio program participant's buckeye account at the time the former participant ceased to participate in the healthy Ohio program shall be deposited into the bridge account. The bridge account shall be closed once the amount transferred to it under division (A) of this section is exhausted. (C) The medicaid director shall notify a former healthy Ohio program participant when a bridge account is established for the former participant under this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.7511 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.7511
§ 5164.7511. Medication synchronization for medicaid recipients
Status: in_force

March 22, 2020 Senate Bill 229 - 132nd General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Cost-sharing" means any cost-sharing requirements instituted for the medicaid program under section 5162.20 of the Revised Code. (2) "Medication synchronization" means a pharmacy service that synchronizes the filling or refilling of prescriptions in a manner that allows the dispensed drugs to be obtained on the same date each month. (3) "Prescriber" has the same meaning as in section 4729.01 of the Revised Code. (B) With respect to coverage of prescribed drugs, the medicaid program shall provide for medication synchronization for a medicaid recipient if all of the following conditions are met: (1) The recipient elects to participate in medication synchronization. (2) The recipient, the prescriber, and a pharmacist at a pharmacy participating in the medicaid program agree that medication synchronization is in the best interest of the recipient. (3) The prescribed drug to be included in the medication synchronization meets the requirements of division (C) of this section. (C) To be eligible for inclusion in medication synchronization for a medicaid recipient, a prescribed drug must meet all of the following requirements: (1) Be covered by the medicaid program; (2) Be prescribed for the treatment and management of a chronic disease or condition and be subject to refills; (3) Satisfy all relevant prior authorization criteria; (4) Not have quantity limits, dose optimization criteria, or other requirements that would be violated if synchronized; (5) Not have special handling or sourcing needs, as determined by the medicaid program, that require a single, designated pharmacy to fill or refill the prescription; (6) Be formulated so that the quantity or amount dispensed can be effectively divided in order to achieve synchronization; (7) Not be a schedule II controlled substance, opioid analgesic, or benzodiazepine, as those terms are defined in section 3719.01 of the Revised Code. (D)(1) To provide for medication synchronization under division (B) of this section, the medicaid program shall authorize coverage of a prescribed drug subject to medication synchronization when the drug is dispensed in a quantity or amount that is less than a thirty-day supply. (2) The requirement of division (D)(1) of this section applies only once for each prescribed drug subject to medication synchronization for the same medicaid recipient, except when either of the following occurs: (a) The prescriber changes the dosage or frequency of administration of the prescribed drug subject to medication synchronization. (b) The prescriber prescribes a different drug. (E)(1) In providing for medication synchronization under division (B) of this section, the medicaid program shall apply a prorated daily cost-sharing rate for a supply of a prescribed drug subject to medication synchronization that is dispensed at a pharmacy participating in the program. (2) Division (E)(1) of this section does not require the medicaid program to waive any cost-sharing requirement in its entirety. (F) In providing for medication synchronization under division (B) of this section, the medicaid program shall not use payment structures that incorporate dispensing fees that are determined by calculating the days' supply of drugs dispensed. Dispensing fees shall be based exclusively on the total number of prescriptions that are filled or refilled. (G) This section does not require the medicaid program to provide to a pharmacy participating in the program or a pharmacist at a participating pharmacy any monetary or other financial incentive for the purpose of encouraging the pharmacy or pharmacist to recommend medication synchronization to a medicaid recipient.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.31 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.31
§ 5119.31. Procedure for purchase of supplies
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly The department of administrative services shall purchase all supplies needed for the proper support and maintenance of the institutions under the control of the department of behavioral health in accordance with the competitive selection procedures of Chapter 125. of the Revised Code and such rules as the department of administrative services adopts. All bids shall be publicly opened on the day and hour and at the place specified in the advertisement. Preference shall be given to bidders in localities wherein the institution is located, if the price is fair and reasonable and not greater than the usual price; but bids not meeting the specifications shall be rejected. The department of administrative services may require such security as it considers proper to accompany the bids and shall fix the security to be given by the contractor. The department of administrative services may reject any or all bids and secure new bids, if for any reason it is deemed for the best interest of the state to do so, and it may authorize the managing officer of any institution to purchase perishable goods and supplies for use in cases of emergency, in which cases such managing officer shall certify such fact in writing and the department of administrative services shall record the reasons for such purchase. Last updated August 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5160.292 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5160 / § 5160.292
§ 5160.292. Medicaid eligibility fraud
Status: in_force

July 1, 2019 House Bill 119 - 132nd General Assembly If a violation of section 2913.401 of the Revised Code or a similar offense is suspected in the process of determining or redetermining a medical assistance recipient's eligibility, the case shall be referred for investigation to the county prosecutor of the county in which the medical assistance recipient resides, referred for an administrative disqualification hearing, or both.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5168.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5168 / § 5168.99
§ 5168.99. Penalties
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly (A) The medicaid director shall impose a penalty for each day that a hospital fails to report the information required under section 5168.05 of the Revised Code on or before the dates specified in that section. The amount of the penalty shall be established by the director in rules adopted under section 5168.02 of the Revised Code. (B) In addition to any other remedy available to the department of medicaid under law to collect unpaid assessments and transfers under sections 5168.01 to 5168.14 of the Revised Code, the director shall impose a penalty of ten per cent of the amount due on any hospital that fails to pay assessments or make intergovernmental transfers by the dates required by rules adopted under section 5168.02 of the Revised Code. (C) In addition to any other remedy available to the department of medicaid under law to collect unpaid assessments imposed under section 5168.21 of the Revised Code, the director shall impose a penalty of ten per cent of the amount due on any hospital that fails to pay the assessment by the date it is due. (D) The director shall waive the penalties provided for in this section for good cause shown by the hospital. (E) All penalties imposed under this section shall be deposited into the health care/medicaid support and recoveries fund created by section 5162.52 of the Revised Code. Last updated August 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5149.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5149 / § 5149.12
§ 5149.12. General supervision of probation and parole
Status: in_force

March 31, 2003 House Bill 510 - 124th General Assembly The adult parole authority shall exercise general supervision over the work of all probation and parole officers throughout the state, excluding those appointed in county probation departments and those appointed by municipal judges.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.163 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.163
§ 5101.163. Increase in county share of public assistance expenditures
Status: in_force

September 29, 2005 House Bill 66 - 126th General Assembly As used in this section, "maintenance of effort" means qualified state expenditures as defined in 42 U.S.C. 609(a)(7)(B)(i). The department of job and family services may increase a county's share of public assistance expenditures determined under division (B) of section 5101.16 of the Revised Code if the United States secretary of health and human services requires an increase in the state's maintenance of effort because of one or more failures, resulting from the actions or inactions of one or more county family services agencies, to meet a requirement under Title IV-A of the "Social Security Act," 110 Stat. 2113 (1996), 42 U.S.C. 601, as amended. The department may so increase a county's share of public assistance expenditures only to the amount the county's county family services agencies are responsible for the increase in the state's maintenance of effort as determined pursuant to rules the director of job and family services shall adopt under section 111.15 of the Revised Code. The department is not required to make the increase in accordance with section 5101.24 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.181 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.181
§ 5119.181. Certain convictions preclude appointments
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) No appointing officer shall appoint a person to fill a position in either the classified or unclassified service of the department of behavioral health if the person has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a violation of the following: (1) Any felony contained in the Revised Code, if the felony bears a direct and substantial relationship to the position being filled; (2) Any crime contained in the Revised Code constituting a misdemeanor of the first degree on the first offense and a felony on subsequent offenses, if the crime bears a direct and substantial relationship to the position being filled; (3) An existing or former law of this state, any other state, or the United States, if the law violated is substantially equivalent to any of the offenses described in division (A)(1) or (2) of this section. (B) The director of behavioral health shall adopt rules, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, to implement this section. (C) The director or an appointing officer shall request the bureau of criminal identification and investigation created by section 109.51 of the Revised Code or, at the director's or appointing officer's discretion, any other state or federal agency, to supply the director or appointing officer with a written report regarding the criminal records of any applicant. For each investigation undertaken at the department's request under this section, the department shall pay a reasonable fee to the bureau or other state or federal agency conducting the investigation. The amount of the fee shall be determined by the bureau or other state or federal agency conducting the investigation and shall be sufficient to cover the costs of conducting the investigation. The report made by the bureau or other state or federal agency is not a public record for purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code and shall not be made available to any person, except the applicant, the director, the appointing officer or the appointing officer's designees, or any hearing officer involved in a case denying employment. (D) As used in this section, "applicant" means a person who is under final consideration for appointment to a position in the classified or unclassified service of the department of behavioral health. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.061 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.061
§ 5164.061. Chiropractic services
Status: in_force

June 13, 2022 House Bill 136 - 134th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Prescriber" has the same meaning as in section 4729.01 of the Revised Code, but does not include a dentist, optometrist, or veterinarian. (2) "Prior authorization requirement" means any practice in which coverage of a health care service, device, or drug is dependent upon a recipient or health care practitioner obtaining approval from the medicaid program prior to the service, device, or drug being performed, received, or prescribed, as applicable. (B)(1) The medicaid program shall cover evaluation and management services provided by a chiropractor if the chiropractor is licensed to practice chiropractic under Chapter 4734. of the Revised Code. (2) The medicaid director may adopt rules under section 5164.02 of the Revised Code to cover other services provided by a chiropractor under the medicaid program. (3) With respect to the coverage described in this section, all of the following apply: (a) A chiropractor may provide covered services in any location, including a hospital or nursing facility. (b) The medicaid program shall not impose a prior authorization requirement on covered services. (c) The medicaid program shall not make coverage contingent upon the medicaid recipient first receiving a referral, prescription, or treatment from a prescriber. (C) If a service described in this section could be provided by either a chiropractor licensed under Chapter 4734. of the Revised Code or a licensed health professional other than a chiropractor, the medicaid program shall pay the chiropractor the same amount for the service that it pays the licensed health professional. Last updated March 22, 2022 at 2:03 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.6017 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.6017
§ 5103.6017. Suspension or revocation of residential infant care center certification
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly The director of children and youth may suspend or revoke a residential infant care center's certificate pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code if the center violates or fails to comply with any of the requirements under sections 5103.608 to 5103.6012 of the Revised Code and, as applicable, the rules adopted under section 5103.6018 of the Revised Code or division (H) of section 5103.13 of the Revised Code. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5107.62 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5107 / § 5107.62
§ 5107.62. Developmental activities for minor heads of households and adults participating in Ohio works first
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly County departments of job and family services shall establish and administer developmental activities for minor heads of households and adults participating in Ohio works first. In establishing developmental activities, county departments are not limited by the restrictions that Title IV-A imposes on work activities. Developmental activities may be identical or similar to, or different from, work activities and alternative work activities. In accordance with a federal waiver granted by the United States secretary of health and human services pursuant to a request made under former section 5101.09 of the Revised Code, a county department may establish and administer a developmental activity under which a minor head of household or adult attends a school, special education program, or adult high school continuation program that conforms to the minimum standards prescribed by the director of education and workforce or instructional courses designed to prepare the minor head of household or adult to earn a certificate of high school equivalence. Pursuant to the waiver, a minor head of household or adult assigned to this developmental activity is required to earn a high school diploma, adult education diploma, or certificate of high school equivalence not later than two years after the date the minor head of household or adult is placed in the activity. Last updated September 19, 2023 at 11:31 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5122.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5122 / § 5122.04
§ 5122.04. Outpatient services for minors without knowledge or consent of parent or guardian
Status: in_force

July 1, 1989 Senate Bill 156 - 117th General Assembly (A) Upon the request of a minor fourteen years of age or older, a mental health professional may provide outpatient mental health services, excluding the use of medication, without the consent or knowledge of the minor's parent or guardian. Except as otherwise provided in this section, the minor's parent or guardian shall not be informed of the services without the minor's consent unless the mental health professional treating the minor determines that there is a compelling need for disclosure based on a substantial probability of harm to the minor or to other persons, and if the minor is notified of the mental health professional's intent to inform the minor's parent, or guardian. (B) Services provided to a minor pursuant to this section shall be limited to not more than six sessions or thirty days of services whichever occurs sooner. After the sixth session or thirty days of services the mental health professional shall terminate the services or, with the consent of the minor, notify the parent, or guardian, to obtain consent to provide further outpatient services. (C) The minor's parent or guardian shall not be liable for the costs of services which are received by a minor under division (A). (D) Nothing in this section relieves a mental health professional from the obligations of section 2151.421 of the Revised Code. (E) As used in this section, "mental health professional" has the same meaning as in section 340.02 of the Revised Code. Last updated March 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5153.41 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5153 / § 5153.41
§ 5153.41. Superintendent of home - bond - powers and duties
Status: in_force

September 14, 1957 House Bill 927 - 102nd General Assembly The board of trustees of a district children's home shall appoint the superintendent thereof. Before entering upon his duties such superintendent shall give a bond to the board, in such sum as it fixes, with sufficient surety, conditioned upon the faithful performance of his duties and the full and faithful accounting of the funds and properties coming into his hands. The superintendent shall appoint all employees, who, except for the superintendent, shall be in the classified civil service. The superintendent, under the supervision and subject to the rules and regulations of the board, shall control, manage, operate, and have general charge of the home, and shall have the custody of its property, files, and records. The children to be admitted for care in such home, the period during which they shall be cared for in the home, and the removal and transfer of children from such home shall be determined by the executive secretaries of the respective counties, subject to the terms of the agreement, surrender, or commitment respecting any particular child.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5139.36 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5139 / § 5139.36
§ 5139.36. Grants to operate community corrections facilities for felony delinquents
Status: in_force

September 15, 2014 House Bill 483 - 130th General Assembly (A) In accordance with this section and the rules adopted under it and from funds appropriated to the department of youth services for the purposes of this section, the department shall make grants that provide financial resources to operate community corrections facilities for felony delinquents. (B)(1) Each community corrections facility that intends to seek a grant under this section shall file an application with the department of youth services at the time and in accordance with the procedures that the department shall establish by rules adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. In addition to other items required to be included in the application, a plan that satisfies both of the following shall be included: (a) It reduces the number of felony delinquents committed to the department from the county or counties associated with the community corrections facility. (b) It ensures equal access for minority felony delinquents to the programs and services for which a potential grant would be used. (2) The department of youth services shall review each application submitted pursuant to division (B)(1) of this section to determine whether the plan described in that division, the community corrections facility, and the application comply with this section and the rules adopted under it. (C) To be eligible for a grant under this section and for continued receipt of moneys comprising a grant under this section, a community corrections facility shall satisfy at least all of the following requirements: (1) Be constructed, reconstructed, or improved, and be financed by the treasurer of state pursuant to section 307.021 of the Revised Code and Chapter 154. of the Revised Code, for the use of the department of youth services and be designated as a community corrections facility; (2) Have written standardized criteria governing the types of felony delinquents that are eligible for the programs and services provided by the facility; (3) Have a written standardized intake screening process and an intake committee that at least performs both of the following tasks: (a) Screens all eligible felony delinquents who are being considered for admission to the facility in lieu of commitment to the department; (b) Notifies, within ten days after the date of the referral of a felony delinquent to the facility, the committing court whether the felony delinquent will be admitted to the facility. (4) Comply with all applicable fiscal and program rules that the department adopts in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code and demonstrate that felony delinquents served by the facility have been or will be diverted from a commitment to the department. (D) The department of youth services shall determine the method of distribution of the funds appropriated for grants under this section to community corrections facilities. (E)(1) The department of youth services shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to establish the minimum occupancy threshold of community corrections facilities. (2) A child in the custody of the department of youth services may be placed in a community corrections facility in accordance with either division (E)(2)(a) or (b) of this section. A child placed in a community corrections facility pursuant to either division shall remain in the legal custody of the department of youth services during the period in which the child is in the community corrections facility. The department shall charge bed days to the county in accordance with sections 5139.41 to 5139.43 of the Revised Code. (a) The department may make referrals for the placement of children in its custody to a community corrections facility. At least forty-five days prior to the referral of a child or within any shorter period prior to the referral of the child that the committing court may allow, the department shall notify the committing court of its intent to place the child in a community corrections facility. The court shall have thirty days after the receipt of the notice to approve or disapprove the placement. If the court does not respond to the notice of the placement within that thirty-day period, the department shall proceed with the placement. (b) The department may, with the consent of the juvenile court with jurisdiction over the Montgomery county center for adolescent services, establish a single unit within the community corrections facility for female felony delinquents committed to the department's custody. If the unit is established under this division, the department may place a female felony delinquent committed to the department's custody into the unit in the community corrections facility. (3) Counties that are not associated with a community corrections facility may refer children to a community corrections facility with the consent of the facility. The department of youth services shall debit the county that makes the referral in accordance with sections 5139.41 to 5139.43 of the Revised Code. (F) The board or other governing body of a community corrections facility shall meet not less often than once per quarter. A community corrections facility may reimburse the members of the board or other governing body of the facility and the members of an advisory board created by the board or other governing body of the facility for their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties. The members of the board or other governing body of the facility and the members of an advisory board created by the board or other governing body of the facility shall serve without compensation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.372 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.372
§ 5123.372. Deadline for acquisition of replacement facility
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly If the director of developmental disabilities approves an application submitted under section 5123.37 of the Revised Code, the director shall establish a deadline by which the county board of developmental disabilities or private, nonprofit agency that submitted the application must notify the director that the county board or agency is ready to acquire a replacement facility to be used for the purpose stated in the application. The director may extend the deadline as many times as the director determines necessary.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.401 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.401
§ 5180.401. [Former R.C. 5101.131, amended and renumbered by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Uniform statewide automated child welfare information system - confidentiality
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly Except as provided in section 5180.402 of the Revised Code, information contained in or obtained from the information system established and maintained under section 5180.40 of the Revised Code is confidential and is not subject to disclosure pursuant to section 149.43 or 1347.08 of the Revised Code. Last updated October 3, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.165 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.165
§ 5123.165. Provision of supported living and residence
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, no person or government entity may provide supported living to an individual with a developmental disability if the person or government entity also provides the individual a residence. (B) A person may provide supported living to an individual with a developmental disability even though the person also provides the individual a residence if either of the following apply: (1) The person also resides in the residence with the individual and does not provide at any one time supported living to more than a total of three individuals with developmental disabilities who reside in that residence; (2) The person is an association of family members related to two or more of the individuals with developmental disabilities who reside in the residence and does not provide at any one time supported living to more than a total of four individuals with developmental disabilities who reside in that residence.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5153.26 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5153 / § 5153.26
§ 5153.26. Fund for payment of emergency accounts
Status: in_force

October 1, 1997 House Bill 408 - 122nd General Assembly At the request of the superintendent of the county children's home, the public children services agency may issue orders upon the county auditor for the payment to such superintendent of a sum, not exceeding two hundred dollars at any one time, to be designated the fund for the payment of emergency accounts, and to be used and accounted for by the superintendent. The amounts so paid in any year, after the first full year of operation, shall not exceed twenty per cent of the total expenditures for such children's home during the preceding year.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.08
§ 5103.08. Administering funds under state dependent care development grants
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly The department of children and youth may enter into contracts with the department of education and workforce authorizing the department of children and youth to administer funds received by the department of education and workforce under the "State Dependent Care Development Grants Act," 100 Stat. 968 (1986), 42 U.S.C.A. 9871, as amended. In fulfilling its duties under such a contract, the department of children and youth may make grants to or enter into contracts with other public or private entities. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5160.42 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5160 / § 5160.42
§ 5160.42. Sanctions against third parties for violations
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) If a third party violates section 5160.39 , 5160.40 , or 5160.41 of the Revised Code, a governmental entity that is responsible for issuing a license, certificate of authority, registration, or approval that authorizes the third party to do business in this state may impose a fine against the third party or deny, revoke, or terminate the third party's license, certificate, registration, or approval to do business in this state. The governmental entity shall determine which sanction is to be imposed. All actions to impose the sanction shall be taken in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. (B) In addition to the sanctions that may be imposed under division (A) of this section for a violation of section 5160.39 , 5160.40 , or 5160.41 of the Revised Code, the attorney general may petition a court of common pleas to enjoin the violation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.397 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.397
§ 5119.397. Rulemaking
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly The director of behavioral health may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement sections 5119.39 to 5119.396 of the Revised Code. Last updated August 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.86 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.86
§ 5165.86. Delivery of notices
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly The department of medicaid, the department of health, and any contracting agency shall deliver a written notice, statement, or order to a nursing facility under sections 5165.60 to 5165.66 and 5165.69 to 5165.89 of the Revised Code by certified mail, hand delivery, or other means reasonably calculated to provide prompt actual notice. If the notice, statement, or order is mailed, it shall be addressed to the administrator of the facility as indicated in the department's or agency's records. If it is hand delivered, it shall be delivered to a person at the facility who would appear to the average prudent person to have authority to accept it. Delivery of written notice by a nursing facility to the department of health, the department of medicaid, or a contracting agency under sections 5165.60 to 5165.89 of the Revised Code shall be by certified mail, hand delivery, or other means reasonably calculated to provide prompt actual notice to the appropriate department or the agency. Last updated September 18, 2023 at 11:03 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.55 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.55
§ 5126.55. Resolution approving or disapproving development of proposed residential facility
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly The county board of developmental disabilities shall review each application filed under section 5126.54 of the Revised Code and adopt a resolution approving or disapproving development of the proposed residential facility. The county board shall not approve development of the proposed residential facility unless it finds, based upon the application and its evaluation of the applicant, that development of the residential facility is consistent with its plan and priorities, under section 5126.05 of the Revised Code, for the provision of residential facilities for individuals with developmental disabilities residing in the county. The resolution shall include specific findings of fact justifying the approval or disapproval. The county board shall transmit a certified copy of the resolution to the applicant and to the board of county commissioners.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5121.20 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5121 / § 5121.20
§ 5121.20. Suits by the institutions
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Claims due a benevolent institution may be sued for in the name of the institution.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.22
§ 5103.22. State human services administration
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly As used in division (B) of Article VIII of section 5103.20 of the Revised Code, "state human services administration" means the department of children and youth. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.032 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.032
§ 5126.032. Reviewing direct services contracts
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly (A) The ethics council appointed for a county board of developmental disabilities shall review all direct services contracts, and approve or disapprove each contract in accordance with the standards in section 5126.033 of the Revised Code. The council shall develop, in consultation with the prosecuting attorney, and recommend to the board ethical standards, contract audit procedures, and grievance procedures with respect to the award and reconciliation of direct services contracts. The superintendent, or an employee of the county board designated by the superintendent, shall, in accordance with a policy established by the county board, certify to the council a copy of each proposed direct services contract or contract renewal at a reasonable time before the contract would take effect if entered into or renewed, if, at the time the contract or renewal is proposed, resources approved by the board for such purposes are available. The council shall promptly review each direct services contract certified to it. If the contract does not meet the conditions specified in section 5126.033 of the Revised Code, the council shall recommend that the board not enter into the contract or suggest specified revisions. The superintendent shall provide all the information the council needs to make its determinations. The council shall certify to the board its recommendation with regard to each contract. Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the board, by resolution, shall enter into each direct services contract that the council recommends or recommends with specified revisions. The board shall not enter into any contract that is not recommended by the council or enter into any contract to which revisions are suggested if the contract does not include the specified revisions. (B) The prosecuting attorney, at the request of the board, shall prepare a legal review of any direct services contract that has been recommended, or recommended with revisions, by the council. The board shall enter into only those contracts submitted for review that are determined by the prosecuting attorney to be in compliance with state law.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5117.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5117 / § 5117.99
§ 5117.99. Penalty
Status: in_force

September 30, 1980 House Bill 1237 - 113th General Assembly (A) Whoever violates division (A) of section 5117.11 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. (B) Whoever violates division (B), (C), or (E) of section 5117.11 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. (C) Whoever violates division (D) of section 5117.11 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 5124.512 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5124 / § 5124.512
§ 5124.512. Agreements with entering operators effective at a later date
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) The department of medicaid may enter into a provider agreement with an entering operator that goes into effect at 12:01 a.m. on the date determined under division (B) of this section if all of the following are the case: (1) The department receives a properly completed written notice required by section 5124.51 of the Revised Code. (2) The department receives, from the entering operator and in accordance with the method specified in rules authorized by section 5124.53 of the Revised Code, a completed application for a provider agreement and all other forms and documents specified in rules adopted under that section. (3) The department receives, from the exiting operator or owner and in accordance with the method specified in rules authorized by section 5124.53 of the Revised Code, all forms and documents specified in rules adopted under that section. (4) One or more of the following apply: (a) The requirement of division (A)(1) of this section is met after the time required by section 5124.51 of the Revised Code; (b) The requirement of division (A)(2) of this section is met more than ten days after the effective date of the change of operator; (c) The requirement of division (A)(3) of this section is met more than ten days after the effective date of the change of operator. (5) The entering operator is eligible to enter into a provider agreement for the ICF/IID as provided in section 5124.06 of the Revised Code. (B) The department shall determine the date a provider agreement entered into under this section is to go into effect as follows: (1) The effective date shall give the department sufficient time to process the change of operator and give the department sufficient time to assure no duplicate payments are made and make the withholding required by section 5124.521 of the Revised Code. (2) The effective date shall be not earlier than the latest of the following: (a) The effective date of the change of operator; (b) The date that the entering operator complies with section 5124.51 of the Revised Code and division (A)(2) of this section; (c) The date that the exiting operator or owner complies with section 5124.51 of the Revised Code and division (A)(3) of this section. (3) The effective date shall be not later than the following after the later of the dates specified in division (B)(2) of this section: (a) Forty-five days if the change of operator does not entail the relocation of residents; (b) Ninety days if the change of operator entails the relocation of residents.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5107.713 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5107 / § 5107.713
§ 5107.713. Domestic violence information provided to department
Status: in_force

September 29, 2007 House Bill 119 - 127th General Assembly When a county department of job and family services identifies a member of an assistance group applying for or participating in Ohio works first who has been subjected to domestic violence, the county department shall provide information about the member to the department of job and family services. The department shall maintain the information for federal reporting and statistical analysis purposes only.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.1610 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.1610
§ 5123.1610. Termination or refusal of provider agreement for supported living
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 483 - 131st General Assembly (A) All of the following apply if the department of medicaid, pursuant to section 5164.38 of the Revised Code, refuses to enter into, terminates, or refuses to revalidate a provider agreement that authorizes a person or government entity to provide supported living under the medicaid program: (1) In the case of a refusal to enter into a provider agreement, the person or government entity's application to provide medicaid-funded supported living under a supported living certificate is automatically denied on the date the department of medicaid refuses to enter into the provider agreement. (2) In the case of a terminated provider agreement, the person or government entity's authority to provide medicaid-funded supported living under a supported living certificate is automatically revoked on the date that the provider agreement is terminated. (3) In the case of a provider agreement that expires because the department of medicaid refuses to revalidate it, the person or government entity's authority to provide medicaid-funded supported living under a supported living certificate is automatically revoked on the date that the provider agreement expires, unless the expiration date of the provider agreement is the same as the expiration date of the supported living certificate, in which case the director of developmental disabilities shall refuse to renew the person or government entity's authority to provide medicaid-funded supported living under the certificate. (B) The director of developmental disabilities is not required to issue an adjudication order in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to do any of the following pursuant to this section: (1) Deny a person or government entity's application to provide medicaid-funded supported living; (2) Revoke a person or government entity's authority to provide medicaid-funded supported living; (3) Refuse to renew a person or government entity's authority to provide medicaid-funded supported living. (C) This section does not affect a person or government entity's opportunity or authority to do either of the following: (1) Apply to provide nonmedicaid-funded supported living under a supported living certificate; (2) Provide nonmedicaid-funded supported living under a supported living certificate. Last updated May 6, 2021 at 5:17 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.64 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.64
§ 5101.64. Referring cases of abuse
Status: in_force

September 29, 2018 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly (A) If a county department of job and family services knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the subject of a report made under section 5101.63 of the Revised Code or of an investigation conducted under section 5101.65 of the Revised Code is an individual with a developmental disability as defined in section 5126.01 of the Revised Code, the county department shall refer the case to the county board of developmental disabilities of that county for review pursuant to section 5126.31 of the Revised Code. If a county board of developmental disabilities refers a case to the county department of job and family services in accordance with section 5126.31 , the county department of job and family services shall proceed with the case in accordance with sections 5101.60 to 5101.71 of the Revised Code. (B) If a county department of job and family services knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the subject of a report made under section 5101.63 of the Revised Code or of an investigation conducted under section 5101.65 of the Revised Code is a resident of a long-term care facility, as defined in section 173.14 of the Revised Code, the department shall refer the case to the office of the state long-term care ombudsman program for review pursuant to section 173.19 of the Revised Code. If the state ombudsman or regional long-term care ombudsman program refers a case to the county department of job and family services in accordance with rules adopted pursuant to section 173.20 of the Revised Code, the county department shall proceed with the case in accordance with sections 5101.60 to 5101.71 of the Revised Code. (C) If a county department of job and family services knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the subject of a report made under section 5101.63 of the Revised Code or of an investigation conducted under section 5101.65 of the Revised Code is a resident of a nursing home, as defined in section 3721.01 of the Revised Code, and has allegedly been abused, neglected, or exploited by an employee of the nursing home, the department shall refer the case to the department of health for investigation pursuant to section 3721.031 of the Revised Code. (D) If a county department of job and family services knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the subject of a report made under section 5101.63 of the Revised Code or of an investigation conducted under section 5101.65 of the Revised Code is a child, as defined in section 5153.01 of the Revised Code, the department shall refer the case to the public children services agency of that county. (E) If a county department of job and family services knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the subject of a report made under section 5101.63 of the Revised Code or of an investigation conducted under section 5101.65 of the Revised Code is being or has been criminally exploited, the department shall notify a local law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over the area where the subject resides. (F) A referral by the county department of job and family services of a case to another public regulatory agency or investigatory entity pursuant to this section shall be made in accordance with rules adopted by the department of job and family services.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5167.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5167 / § 5167.01
§ 5167.01. Definitions
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly As used in this chapter: (A) "340B grantee" means an entity described in section 340B(a)(4)(A)-(K) of the "Public Health Service Act," 42 U.S.C. 256b(a)(4)(A)-(K) that is designated as an active (A)-(K) entity under the health resources and services administration covered entity daily report, and includes any pharmacy under contract with the entity to dispense drugs on behalf of the entity. (B) "Affiliated company" means an entity, including a third-party payer or specialty pharmacy, with common ownership, members of a board of directors, or managers, or that is a parent company, subsidiary company, jointly held company, or holding company with respect to the other entity. (C) "Care management system" means the system established under section 5167.03 of the Revised Code. (D) "Controlled substance" has the same meaning as in section 3719.01 of the Revised Code. (E) "Dual eligible individual" has the same meaning as in section 5160.01 of the Revised Code. (F) "Emergency services" has the same meaning as in the "Social Security Act," section 1932(b)(2), 42 U.S.C. 1396u-2(b)(2). (G) "Enrollee" means a medicaid recipient who participates in the care management system and enrolls in a medicaid MCO plan. (H) "ICDS participant" and "integrated care delivery system" have the same meanings as in section 5164.01 of the Revised Code. (I) "ICDS successor program" means a fully integrated dual eligible special needs plan established in accordance with 42 C.F.R. 422.107, that the department of medicaid utilizes as a replacement for the integrated care delivery system. (J) "Medicaid managed care organization" means a managed care organization under contract with the department of medicaid pursuant to section 5167.10 of the Revised Code. (K) "Medicaid MCO plan" means a plan that a medicaid managed care organization, pursuant to its contract with the department of medicaid under section 5167.10 of the Revised Code, makes available to medicaid recipients participating in the care management system. (L) "Medicaid waiver component" has the same meaning as in section 5166.01 of the Revised Code. (M) "Network provider" has the same meaning as in 42 C.F.R. 438.2. (N) "Nursing facility services" has the same meaning as in section 5165.01 of the Revised Code. (O) "Part B drug" means a drug or biological described in section 1842(o)(1)(C) of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1395u(o)(1)(C). (P) "Pharmacy benefit manager" has the same meaning as in section 3959.01 of the Revised Code. (Q) "Practice of pharmacy" has the same meaning as in section 4729.01 of the Revised Code. (R) "Prescribed drug" has the same meaning as in section 5164.01 of the Revised Code. (S) "Prior authorization requirement" has the same meaning as in section 5160.34 of the Revised Code. (T) "Provider" means any person or government entity that furnishes services to a medicaid recipient enrolled in a medicaid MCO plan, regardless of whether the person or entity has a provider agreement. (U) "Provider agreement" has the same meaning as in section 5164.01 of the Revised Code. (V) "State pharmacy benefit manager" means the pharmacy benefit manager selected by and under contract with the medicaid director under section 5167.24 of the Revised Code. (W) "Third-party administrator" means any person who adjusts or settles claims on behalf of an insuring entity in connection with life, dental, health, prescription drugs, or disability insurance or self-insurance programs and includes a pharmacy benefit manager. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.631 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.631
§ 5120.631. State correctional institution feminine hygiene products
Status: in_force

March 20, 2026 House Bill 29 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Emergency" has the same meaning as in section 341.261 of the Revised Code. (2) "Female" means of or denoting the sex that can bear offspring or produce eggs and has XX chromosomes, distinguished biologically by the production of gametes or ova that can be fertilized by male gametes. (3) "Feminine hygiene products" means tampons and sanitary napkins that are used for the menstrual cycle. (4) "State correctional institution" has the same meaning as in section 2967.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Each state correctional institution housing female inmates shall provide inmates experiencing a menstrual cycle with an adequate supply based on individualized need, in perpetuity and without reprimand, of feminine hygiene products in a variety of sizes at no cost to the inmates. (C) Each state correctional institution housing female inmates shall have a written policy and procedure in place that does all of the following: (1) Protects inmates from the denial of feminine hygiene products based on race, sex, income status, degree of charge, disability status, or any other type of discriminatory identity; (2) Establishes proper methods of storing, administering, and disposing of feminine hygiene products; (3) Establishes sanitary and safe procedures for hand washing and cleaning of surfaces between restrooms and the designated area for disposal bins. (D) Each state correctional institution housing female inmates shall provide a separate disposal container with a lid in a safe, designated area for use by inmates experiencing a menstrual cycle within the institution to dispose of used, soiled, or damaged feminine hygiene products. (E) Except when the state correctional institution is experiencing an emergency, no state correctional institution housing female inmates shall deny inmates access to feminine hygiene products. (F) Except when the state correctional institution is experiencing an emergency, each state correctional institution housing female inmates shall provide inmates experiencing menstruation a minimum of one shower per day with access to hot water for washing, regardless of whether the inmates are separated from the general population for disciplinary status. Last updated January 9, 2026 at 9:03 AM