Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.341 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.341
§ 5164.341. Criminal records check by independent provider
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: "Anniversary date" means the effective date of the provider agreement relating to the independent provider. "Applicant" means a person who has applied for a provider agreement to provide home and community-based services as an independent provider under a home and community-based medicaid waiver component administered by the department of medicaid. "Criminal records check" has the same meaning as in section 109.572 of the Revised Code. "Disqualifying offense" means any of the offenses listed or described in divisions (A)(3)(a) to (e) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code. "Independent provider" means a person who has a provider agreement to provide home and community-based services as an independent provider in a home and community-based services medicaid waiver component administered by the department of medicaid. "Independent provider" does not include a person who is employed by an individual enrolled in a participant-directed waiver administered by the department of medicaid. (B) The department of medicaid or the department's designee shall deny an applicant's application for a provider agreement and shall terminate an independent provider's provider agreement if either of the following applies: (1) After the applicant or independent provider is given the information and notification required by divisions (D)(2)(a) and (b) of this section, the applicant or independent provider fails to do either of the following: (a) Access, complete, or forward to the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation the form prescribed pursuant to division (C)(1) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code or the standard impression sheet prescribed pursuant to division (C)(2) of that section; (b) Instruct the superintendent to submit the completed report of the criminal records check required by this section directly to the department or the department's designee. (2) Except as provided in rules authorized by this section, the applicant or independent provider is found by either of the following to have been convicted of or have pleaded guilty to a disqualifying offense, regardless of the date of the conviction or the date of entry of the guilty plea: (a) A criminal records check required by this section; (b) In the case of an independent provider, a notice provided by the bureau of criminal identification and investigation under division (D) of section 109.5721 of the Revised Code. (C)(1) The department or the department's designee shall inform each applicant, at the time of initial application for a provider agreement, that the applicant is required to provide a set of the applicant's fingerprint impressions and that a criminal records check is required to be conducted as a condition of the department's approving the application. (2) Unless the department elects to receive notices about independent providers from the bureau of criminal identification and investigation pursuant to division (D) of section 109.5721 of the Revised Code, the department or the department's designee shall inform each independent provider on or before the time of the anniversary date of the provider agreement that the independent provider is required to provide a set of the independent provider's fingerprint impressions and that a criminal records check is required to be conducted. (D)(1) The department or the department's designee shall require an applicant to complete a criminal records check prior to entering into a provider agreement with the applicant. The department or the department's designee shall require an independent provider to complete a criminal records check at least annually unless the department elects to receive notices about independent providers from the bureau of criminal identification and investigation pursuant to division (D) of section 109.5721 of the Revised Code. If an applicant or independent provider for whom a criminal records check is required by this section does not present proof of having been a resident of this state for the five-year period immediately prior to the date the criminal records check is requested or provide evidence that within that five-year period the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation has requested information about the applicant or independent provider from the federal bureau of investigation in a criminal records check, the department or the department's designee shall request that the applicant or independent provider obtain through the superintendent a criminal records request from the federal bureau of investigation as part of the criminal records check of the applicant or independent provider. Even if an applicant or independent provider for whom a criminal records check request is required by this section presents proof of having been a resident of this state for the five-year period, the department or the department's designee may request that the applicant or independent provider obtain information through the superintendent from the federal bureau of investigation in the criminal records check. (2) The department or the department's designee shall provide the following to each applicant and independent provider for whom a criminal records check is required by this section: (a) Information about accessing, completing, and forwarding to the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation the form prescribed pursuant to division (C)(1) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code and the standard impression sheet prescribed pursuant to division (C)(2) of that section; (b) Written notification that the applicant or independent provider is to instruct the superintendent to submit the completed report of the criminal records check directly to the department or the department's designee. (3) Each applicant and independent provider for whom a criminal records check is required by this section shall pay to the bureau of criminal identification and investigation the fee prescribed pursuant to division (C)(3) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code for the criminal records check conducted of the applicant or independent provider. (E) Neither the report of any criminal records check conducted by the bureau of criminal identification and investigation in accordance with section 109.572 of the Revised Code and pursuant to a request made under this section nor a notice provided by the bureau under division (D) of section 109.5721 of the Revised Code is a public record for the purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code. Such a report or notice shall not be made available to any person other than the following: (1) The person who is the subject of the criminal records check or the person's representative; (2) The medicaid director and the staff of the department who are involved in the administration of the medicaid program; (3) The department's designee; (4) An individual receiving or deciding whether to receive home and community-based services from the person who is the subject of the criminal records check or notice from the bureau; (5) A court, hearing officer, or other necessary individual involved in a case or administrative hearing dealing with either of the following: (a) A denial, suspension, or termination of a provider agreement, including when related to the criminal records check or notice from the bureau; (b) A civil or criminal action regarding the medicaid program. With respect to an administrative hearing dealing with the denial, suspension, or termination of a provider agreement, the report of a criminal records check may be introduced as evidence at the hearing and if admitted, becomes part of the hearing record. Any such report shall be admitted only under seal and shall maintain its status as not a public record. (F) The medicaid director shall adopt rules under section 5164.02 of the Revised Code to implement this section. The rules shall specify circumstances under which the department or the department's designee may either approve an applicant's application or allow an independent provider to maintain an existing provider agreement even though the applicant or independent provider is found by either of the following to have been convicted of or have pleaded guilty to a disqualifying offense: (1) A criminal records check required by this section; (2) In the case of an independent provider, a notice provided by the bureau of criminal identification and investigation under division (D) of section 109.5721 of the Revised Code. Last updated October 10, 2023 at 11:26 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.021 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.021
§ 5120.021. Application of chapter
Status: in_force

March 22, 2019 Senate Bill 201 - 132nd General Assembly (A) The provisions of Chapter 5120. of the Revised Code, as they existed prior to July 1, 1996, and that address the duration or potential duration of incarceration or parole or other forms of supervised release, apply to all persons upon whom a court imposed a term of imprisonment prior to July 1, 1996, and all persons upon whom a court, on or after July 1, 1996, and in accordance with law existing prior to July 1, 1996, imposed a term of imprisonment for an offense that was committed prior to July 1, 1996. (B)(1) The provisions of Chapter 5120. of the Revised Code, as they exist on or after July 1, 1996, and that address the duration or potential duration of incarceration or supervised release, apply to all persons upon whom a court imposed a stated prison term for an offense committed on or after July 1, 1996. (2) The provisions of Chapter 5120. of the Revised Code, as they exist on or after the effective date of this amendment, apply to an offender who is released from confinement in a state correctional institution on or after that date. (C) Nothing in this section limits or affects the applicability of any provision in Chapter 5120. of the Revised Code, as amended or enacted on or after July 1, 1996, that pertains to an issue other than the duration or potential duration of incarceration or supervised release, to persons in custody or under the supervision of the department of rehabilitation and correction.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5104.31 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5104 / § 5104.31
§ 5104.31. Eligible providers of services for publicly funded child care
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) Publicly funded child care may be provided only by the following: (1) Any of the following licensed by the department of children and youth pursuant to section 5104.03 of the Revised Code or pursuant to rules adopted under section 5104.018 of the Revised Code: (a) A child care center, including a parent cooperative child care center; (b) A type A family child care home, including a parent cooperative type A family child care home; (c) A licensed type B family child care home. (2) An in-home aide who has been certified by the county department of job and family services pursuant to section 5104.12 of the Revised Code; (3) A child day camp approved pursuant to section 5104.22 of the Revised Code; (4) A licensed preschool program; (5) A licensed school child program; (6) A border state child care provider, except that a border state child care provider may provide publicly funded child care only to an individual who resides in an Ohio county that borders the state in which the provider is located. (B) Publicly funded child care may be provided in a child's own home only by an in-home aide. (C)(1) Except as provided in division (C)(2) of this section, a licensed child care program may provide publicly funded child care only if the program is rated through the step up to quality program established pursuant to section 5104.29 of the Revised Code. (2) A licensed child care program that is any of the following may provide publicly funded child care without being rated through the step up to quality program: (a) A program that operates only during the summer and for not more than fifteen consecutive weeks; (b) A program that operates only during school breaks; (c) A program that operates only on weekday evenings, weekends, or both; (d) A program that holds a provisional license issued under section 5104.03 of the Revised Code; (e) A program that had its step up to quality program rating removed within the previous twelve months; (f) A program that is the subject of a revocation action initiated by the department, but the license has not yet been revoked; (g) A program that provides publicly funded child care to less than twenty-five per cent of the program's license capacity; (h) A program that is a type A family child care home or licensed type B family child care home. Last updated January 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5149.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5149 / § 5149.10
§ 5149.10. Parole board
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly (A)(1) The parole board shall consist of up to twelve members, one of whom shall be designated as chairperson by the director of the department of rehabilitation and correction and who shall continue as chairperson until a successor is designated, and any other personnel that are necessary for the orderly performance of the duties of the board. In addition to the rules authorized by section 5149.02 of the Revised Code, the chief of the adult parole authority, subject to the approval of the chief of the division of parole and community services and subject to this section, shall adopt rules governing the proceedings of the parole board. The rules shall provide for all of the following: (a) The convening of full board hearings; (b) The procedures to be followed in full board hearings; (c) General procedures to be followed in other hearings of the board and by the board's hearing officers; (d) A requirement that a majority of all the board members must agree to any recommendation of clemency transmitted to the governor; (e) For parole hearings, procedures for considering the report of the warden of the institution in which the eligible prisoner is incarcerated, submitted under section 5120.68 of the Revised Code. (2) When the board members sit as a full board, the chairperson shall preside. The chairperson shall also allocate the work of the parole board among the board members. The full board shall meet at least once each month. In the case of a tie vote on the full board, the chief of the adult parole authority shall cast the deciding vote. The chairperson may designate a person to serve in the chairperson's place. (3) Except for the chairperson and the member appointed under division (B) of this section, a member appointed to the parole board on or after September 30, 2011, shall be appointed to a six-year term. A member appointed as described in this division shall hold office from the date of appointment until the end of the term for which the member was appointed. A member appointed as described in this division is eligible for reappointment for another six-year term that may or may not be consecutive to the first six-year term. A member appointed as described in this division is not eligible for reappointment after serving two six-year terms whether or not served consecutively. Vacancies shall be filled in the same manner provided for original appointments. Any member appointed as described in this division to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration date of the term for which the member's predecessor was appointed shall begin that member's first six-year term upon appointment, regardless of the time remaining in the term of the member's predecessor. A member appointed as described in this division shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration date of the member's term until the member's successor takes office or until a period of sixty days has elapsed, whichever occurs first. (4) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, no person shall be appointed a member of the board who is not qualified by education or experience in correctional work, including law enforcement, prosecution of offenses, advocating for the rights of victims of crime, probation, or parole, in law, in social work, or in a combination of the three categories. (B) The director of rehabilitation and correction, in consultation with the governor, shall appoint one member of the board, who shall be a person who has been a victim of crime or who is a member of a victim's family or who represents an organization that advocates for the rights of victims of crime. After appointment, this member shall be an unclassified employee of the department of rehabilitation and correction. The initial appointment shall be for a term ending four years after July 1, 1996. Thereafter, the term of office of the member appointed under this division shall be for four years, with each term ending on the same day of the same month as did the term that it succeeds. The member shall hold office from the date of appointment until the end of the term for which the member was appointed and may be reappointed. Vacancies shall be filled in the manner provided for original appointments. Any member appointed under this division to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration date of the term for which the member's predecessor was appointed shall hold office as a member for the remainder of that term. The member appointed under this division shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration date of the member's term until the member's successor takes office or until a period of sixty days has elapsed, whichever occurs first. The member appointed under this division shall be compensated in the same manner as other board members and shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of the member's duties. The member may vote on all cases heard by the full board under section 5149.101 of the Revised Code, has such duties as are assigned by the chairperson of the board, and shall coordinate the member's activities with the office of victims' services created under section 5120.60 of the Revised Code. As used in this division, "crime," "member of the victim's family," and "victim" have the meanings given in section 2930.01 of the Revised Code. (C) The chairperson shall submit all recommendations for or against clemency directly to the governor. (D) The chairperson shall transmit to the chief of the adult parole authority all determinations for or against parole made by the board. Parole determinations are final and are not subject to review or change by the chief. (E) In addition to its duties pertaining to parole and clemency, if an offender is sentenced to a prison term pursuant to division (A)(3), (B)(1)(a), (b), or (c), (B)(2)(a), (b), or (c), or (B)(3)(a), (b), (c), or (d) of section 2971.03 of the Revised Code, the parole board shall have control over the offender's service of the prison term during the entire term unless the board terminates its control in accordance with section 2971.04 of the Revised Code. The parole board may terminate its control over the offender's service of the prison term only in accordance with section 2971.04 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.621 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.621
§ 5101.621. Memorandum of understanding related to responsibilities in cases of adult abuse, neglect, and exploitation
Status: in_force

March 20, 2019 Senate Bill 158 - 132nd General Assembly (A) Each county department of job and family services shall prepare a memorandum of understanding that is signed by all of the following: (1) The director of the county department of job and family services; (2) If the county department has entered into an agreement or contract with a private or government entity pursuant to section 5101.652 of the Revised Code, the director of the entity; (3) The county peace officer; (4) The chief peace officer of the largest municipality within the county; (5) Other law enforcement officers handling adult abuse, neglect, and exploitation cases in the county; (6) The prosecuting attorney of the county; (7) The coroner of the county. (B) The memorandum of understanding shall set forth the procedures to be followed by the persons listed in division (A) of this section in the execution of their respective responsibilities related to cases of adult abuse, neglect, and exploitation. The memorandum of understanding shall establish all of the following: (1) An interdisciplinary team to coordinate efforts related to the prevention, reporting, and treatment of abuse, neglect, and exploitation of adults; (2) The roles and responsibilities for handling cases that have been referred by the county department to another agency pursuant to section 5101.64 of the Revised Code; (3) The roles and responsibilities for filing criminal charges against persons alleged to have abused, neglected, or exploited adults. Failure to follow the procedure set forth in the memorandum of understanding is not grounds for, and shall not result in, the dismissal of any charge or complaint arising from a report of abuse, neglect, or exploitation or the suppression of any evidence obtained as a result of a report of abuse, neglect, or exploitation and does not give any rights or grounds for appeal or post-conviction relief to any person. (C) The memorandum of understanding may, in addition, be signed by any of the following persons who are also members of the interdisciplinary team described in division (B)(1) of this section: (1) A representative of the area agency on aging, as defined in section 173.14 of the Revised Code; (2) A representative of the regional long-term care ombudsman program; (3) A representative of the board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services; (4) A representative of the board of health of a city or general health district; (5) A representative of the county board of developmental disabilities; (6) A representative of a victim assistance program; (7) A representative of a local housing authority; (8) Any other person whose participation furthers the goals of the memorandum of understanding.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.18 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.18
§ 5119.18. Classified and unclassified appointments
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly An appointing authority may appoint a person who holds a certified or permanent position in the classified service within the department of behavioral health to a position in the unclassified service within the department. A person appointed pursuant to this section to a position in the unclassified service shall retain the right to resume the position and status held by the person in the classified service immediately prior to the person's appointment to the position in the unclassified service, pursuant to division (D) of section 124.11 of the Revised Code. A person 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 person's appointment in the unclassified service. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5107.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5107 / § 5107.22
§ 5107.22. Cooperation in establishing paternity and obtaining child support
Status: in_force

March 22, 2001 Senate Bill 180 - 123rd General Assembly As used in this section, "caretaker" means the parent of a minor child or a relative acting in the parent's place. Unless good cause for failure or refusal exists as determined pursuant to rules adopted under section 5107.05 of the Revised Code, the caretaker of a minor child shall cooperate, if the caretaker is a member of the child's assistance group, in establishing the child's paternity and establishing, modifying, and enforcing a support order for the child. The child support enforcement agency with responsibility for administering the assistance group's paternity and support order requirements shall determine whether the caretaker is cooperating under this section. Cooperation includes providing sufficient information available to the caretaker to verify the identity of the minor child's father and establish, modify, and enforce a support order. With respect to charter counties only, cooperation also includes appearing at all proceedings to establish, modify, or enforce support for, and to establish paternity with respect to, the child. A child support enforcement agency shall notify the county department of job and family services serving the county in which a caretaker resides if the agency determines that the caretaker has failed or refused to cooperate under this section without good cause and the caretaker is a member of an assistance group participating in Ohio works first.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5107.37 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5107 / § 5107.37
§ 5107.37. Ineligibility of residents of public institutions
Status: in_force

September 26, 2003 House Bill 95 - 125th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, an individual who resides in a county home, city infirmary, jail, or other public institution is not eligible to participate in Ohio works first. (B) Division (A) of this section does not apply to a minor child residing with the minor child's mother who participates in a prison nursery program established under section 5120.65 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5139.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5139 / § 5139.04
§ 5139.04. Powers and duties of department
Status: in_force

July 1, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The department of youth services shall do all of the following: (A) Support service districts through a central administrative office that shall have as its administrative head a deputy director who shall be appointed by the director of the department. When a vacancy occurs in the office of that deputy director, an assistant deputy director shall act as that deputy director until the vacancy is filled. The position of deputy director and assistant deputy director described in this division shall be in the unclassified civil service of the state. (B) Receive custody of all children committed to it under Chapter 2152. of the Revised Code, cause a study to be made of those children, and issue any orders, as it considers best suited to the needs of any of those children and the interest of the public, for the treatment of each of those children; (C) Obtain personnel necessary for the performance of its duties; (D) Adopt rules that regulate its organization and operation, that implement sections 5139.34 and 5139.41 to 5139.43 of the Revised Code, and that pertain to the administration of other sections of this chapter; (E) Submit reports of its operations to the governor and the general assembly by the thirty-first day of January of each odd-numbered year; (F) Conduct a program of research in diagnosis, training, and treatment of delinquent children to evaluate the effectiveness of the department's services and to develop more adequate methods; (G) Develop a standard form for the disposition investigation report that a juvenile court is required pursuant to section 2152.18 of the Revised Code to complete and provide to the department when the court commits a child to the legal custody of the department; (H) Provide the state public defender the reasonable access authorized under division (I) of section 120.06 of the Revised Code in order to fulfill the department's constitutional obligation to provide juveniles who have been committed to the department's care access to the courts. (I) Do all other acts necessary or desirable to carry out this chapter.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5121.54 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5121 / § 5121.54
§ 5121.54. Recovery of payment by liable relative against patient
Status: in_force

January 1, 2006 House Bill 66 - 126th General Assembly If payment of any amount due the state under the provisions of this chapter is made on account of a patient by any liable relative, as defined in section 5121.30 of the Revised Code, the relative may recover from the patient, the patient's guardian, or the executor or administrator of the patient's estate, the full amount of payment made by the liable relative; provided, that in no event may a relative recover in total more than the relative has paid the state, and provided, that in no event is the person from whom recovery is sought obliged to pay at a rate of support higher than the person would have paid had the state proceeded directly against that person.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.081 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.081
§ 5123.081. Criminal records check
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1)(a) "Applicant" means any of the following: (i) A person who is under final consideration for appointment to or employment with the department of developmental disabilities or a county board of developmental disabilities; (ii) A person who is being transferred to the department or a county board; (iii) An employee who is being recalled to or reemployed by the department or a county board after a layoff; (iv) A person under final consideration for a direct services position with a provider or subcontractor. (b) Neither of the following is an applicant: (i) A person who is employed by a responsible entity in a position for which a criminal records check is required by this section and either is being considered for a different position with the responsible entity or is returning after a leave of absence or seasonal break in employment, unless the responsible entity has reason to believe that the person has committed a disqualifying offense; (ii) A person who is to provide only respite care under a family support services program established under section 5126.11 of the Revised Code if a family member of the individual with a developmental disability who is to receive the respite care selects the person. (2) "Criminal records check" has the same meaning as in section 109.572 of the Revised Code. (3) "Direct services position" means an employment position in which the employee has the opportunity to be alone with or exercises supervision or control over one or more individuals with developmental disabilities. (4) "Disqualifying offense" means any of the offenses listed or described in divisions (A)(3)(a) to (e) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code. (5)(a) "Employee" means either of the following: (i) A person appointed to or employed by the department of developmental disabilities or a county board of developmental disabilities; (ii) A person employed in a direct services position by a provider or subcontractor. (b) "Employee" does not mean a person who provides only respite care under a family support services program established under section 5126.11 of the Revised Code if a family member of the individual with a developmental disability who receives the respite care selected the person. (6) "Minor drug possession offense" has the same meaning as in section 2925.01 of the Revised Code. (7) "Provider" means a person that provides specialized services to individuals with developmental disabilities and employs one or more persons in direct services positions. (8) "Responsible entity" means the following: (a) The department of developmental disabilities in the case of either of the following: (i) A person who is an applicant because the person is under final consideration for appointment to or employment with the department, being transferred to the department, or being recalled to or reemployed by the department after a layoff; (ii) A person who is an employee because the person is appointed to or employed by the department. (b) A county board of developmental disabilities in the case of either of the following: (i) A person who is an applicant because the person is under final consideration for appointment to or employment with the county board, being transferred to the county board, or being recalled to or reemployed by the county board after a layoff; (ii) A person who is an employee because the person is appointed to or employed by the county board. (c) A provider in the case of either of the following: (i) A person who is an applicant because the person is under final consideration for a direct services position with the provider; (ii) A person who is an employee because the person is employed in a direct services position by the provider. (d) A subcontractor in the case of either of the following: (i) A person who is an applicant because the person is under final consideration for a direct services position with the subcontractor; (ii) A person who is an employee because the person is employed in a direct services position by the subcontractor. (9) "Specialized services" means any program or service designed and operated to serve primarily individuals with developmental disabilities, including a program or service provided by an entity licensed or certified by the department of developmental disabilities. If there is a question as to whether a provider or subcontractor is providing specialized services, the provider or subcontractor may request that the director of developmental disabilities make a determination. The director's determination is final. (10) "Subcontractor" means a person to which both of the following apply: (a) The person has either of the following: (i) A subcontract with a provider to provide specialized services included in the contract between the provider and the department of developmental disabilities or a county board of developmental disabilities; (ii) A subcontract with another subcontractor to provide specialized services included in a subcontract between the other subcontractor and a provider or other subcontractor. (b) The person employs one or more persons in direct services positions. (B) A responsible entity shall not employ an applicant or continue to employ an employee if either of the following applies: (1) The applicant or employee fails to comply with division (D)(3) of this section. (2) Except as provided in rules adopted under this section, the applicant or employee is found by a criminal records check required by this section to have been convicted of, pleaded guilty to, or been found eligible for intervention in lieu of conviction for a disqualifying offense. (C) Before employing an applicant in a position for which a criminal records check is required by this section, a responsible entity shall require the applicant to submit a statement with the applicant's signature attesting that the applicant has not been convicted of, pleaded guilty to, or been found eligible for intervention in lieu of conviction for a disqualifying offense. The responsible entity also shall require the applicant to sign an agreement under which the applicant agrees to notify the responsible entity within fourteen calendar days if, while employed by the responsible entity, the applicant is formally charged with, is convicted of, pleads guilty to, or is found eligible for intervention in lieu of conviction for a disqualifying offense. The agreement shall provide that the applicant's failure to provide the notification may result in termination of the applicant's employment. (D)(1) As a condition of employing any applicant in a position for which a criminal records check is required by this section, a responsible entity shall request the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation to conduct a criminal records check of the applicant. If rules adopted under this section require an employee to undergo a criminal records check, a responsible entity shall request the superintendent to conduct a criminal records check of the employee at times specified in the rules as a condition of the responsible entity's continuing to employ the employee in a position for which a criminal records check is required by this section. If an applicant or employee does not present proof that the applicant or employee has been a resident of this state for the five-year period immediately prior to the date upon which the criminal records check is requested, the responsible entity shall request that the superintendent obtain information from the federal bureau of investigation as a part of the criminal records check. If the applicant or employee presents proof that the applicant or employee has been a resident of this state for that five-year period, the responsible entity may request that the superintendent include information from the federal bureau of investigation in the criminal records check. For purposes of this division, an applicant or employee may provide proof of residency in this state by presenting, with a statement asserting that the applicant or employee has been a resident of this state for that five-year period, a valid driver's license, notification of registration as an elector, a copy of an officially filed federal or state tax form identifying the applicant's or employee's permanent residence, or any other document the responsible entity considers acceptable. (2) A responsible entity shall do all of the following: (a) Provide to each applicant and employee for whom a criminal records check is required by this section a copy of the form prescribed pursuant to division (C)(1) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code and a standard impression sheet to obtain fingerprint impressions prescribed pursuant to division (C)(2) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code; (b) Obtain the completed form and standard impression sheet from the applicant or employee; (c) Forward the completed form and standard impression sheet to the superintendent at the time the criminal records check is requested. (3) Any applicant or employee who receives pursuant to this division a copy of the form prescribed pursuant to division (C)(1) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code and a copy of the standard impression sheet prescribed pursuant to division (C)(2) of that section and who is requested to complete the form and provide a set of the applicant's or employee's fingerprint impressions shall complete the form or provide all the information necessary to complete the form and shall provide the standard impression sheet with the impressions of the applicant's or employee's fingerprints. (4) A responsible entity shall pay to the bureau of criminal identification and investigation the fee prescribed pursuant to division (C)(3) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code for each criminal records check requested and conducted pursuant to this section. (E) A responsible entity may request any other state or federal agency to supply the responsible entity with a written report regarding the criminal record of an applicant or employee. If an employee holds an occupational or professional license or other credentials, the responsible entity may request that the state or federal agency that regulates the employee's occupation or profession supply the responsible entity with a written report of any information pertaining to the employee's criminal record that the agency obtains in the course of conducting an investigation or in the process of renewing the employee's license or other credentials. The responsible entity may consider the reports when determining whether to employ the applicant or to continue to employ the employee. (F) As a condition of employing an applicant in a position for which a criminal records check is required by this section and that involves transporting individuals with developmental disabilities or operating a responsible entity's vehicles for any purpose, the responsible entity shall obtain the applicant's driving record from the bureau of motor vehicles. If rules adopted under this section require a responsible entity to obtain an employee's driving record, the responsible entity shall obtain the employee's driving record from the bureau at times specified in the rules as a condition of continuing to employ the employee. The responsible entity may consider the applicant's or employee's driving record when determining whether to employ the applicant or to continue to employ the employee. (G) A responsible entity may employ an applicant conditionally pending receipt of a report regarding the applicant requested under this section. The responsible entity shall request the report before employing the applicant conditionally. The responsible entity shall terminate the applicant's employment if it is determined from a report that the applicant failed to inform the responsible entity that the applicant had been convicted of, pleaded guilty to, or been found eligible for intervention in lieu of conviction for a disqualifying offense. (H) A responsible entity may charge an applicant a fee for costs the responsible entity incurs in obtaining a report regarding the applicant under this section if the responsible entity notifies the applicant of the amount of the fee at the time of the applicant's initial application for employment and that, unless the fee is paid, the responsible entity will not consider the applicant for employment. The fee shall not exceed the amount of the fee, if any, the responsible entity pays for the report. (I)(1) Any report obtained pursuant to this section is not a public record for purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code and shall not be made available to any person, other than the following: (a) The applicant or employee who is the subject of the report or the applicant's or employee's representative; (b) The responsible entity that requested the report or its representative; (c) The department if a county board, provider, or subcontractor is the responsible entity that requested the report and the department requests the responsible entity to provide a copy of the report to the department; (d) A county board if a provider or subcontractor is the responsible entity that requested the report and the county board requests the responsible entity to provide a copy of the report to the county board; (e) Any court, hearing officer, or other necessary individual involved in a case dealing with any of the following: (i) The denial of employment to the applicant or employee; (ii) The denial, suspension, or revocation of a certificate under section 5123.166 or 5123.45 of the Revised Code; (iii) A civil or criminal action regarding the medicaid program or a program the department administers. (2) An applicant or employee for whom the responsible entity has obtained reports under this section may submit a written request to the responsible entity to have copies of the reports sent to any state agency, entity of local government, or private entity. The applicant or employee shall specify in the request the agencies or entities to which the copies are to be sent. On receiving the request, the responsible entity shall send copies of the reports to the agencies or entities specified. (3) A responsible entity may request that a state agency, entity of local government, or private entity send copies to the responsible entity of any report regarding a records check or criminal records check that the agency or entity possesses, if the responsible entity obtains the written consent of the individual who is the subject of the report. (4) A responsible entity shall provide each applicant and employee with a copy of any report obtained about the applicant or employee under this section. (J) The director of developmental disabilities shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement this section. (1) The rules may do the following: (a) Require employees to undergo criminal records checks under this section; (b) Require responsible entities to obtain the driving records of employees under this section; (c) If the rules require employees to undergo criminal records checks, require responsible entities to obtain the driving records of employees, or both, exempt one or more classes of employees from the requirements. (2) The rules shall do all of the following: (a) If the rules require employees to undergo criminal records checks, require responsible entities to obtain the driving records of employees, or both, specify the times at which the criminal records checks are to be conducted and the driving records are to be obtained; (b) Specify circumstances under which a responsible entity may employ an applicant or employee who is found by a criminal records check required by this section to have been convicted of, pleaded guilty to, or been found eligible for intervention in lieu of conviction for a disqualifying offense but meets standards in regard to rehabilitation set by the director; (c) Require a responsible entity to request a criminal records check under this section before employing an applicant conditionally as permitted under division (G) of this section. Last updated August 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.394 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.394
§ 5119.394. Registry of recovery housing residences
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) The department of behavioral health shall establish and maintain a registry of recovery housing residences that meet the criteria described in division (A)(1) or (2) of section 5119.392 of the Revised Code. (B) For each residence, the registry shall include all of the following, subject to the confidentiality requirements of division (C) of section 5119.393 of the Revise Code: (1) Any information from the form required by division (B) of section 5119.391 of the Revised Code that the department chooses to include in the registry; (2) If a complaint received under section 5119.393 of the Revised Code has been investigated and substantiated, a description of the complaint, the date the complaint was submitted to the department or its contractor, and the outcome of the investigation; (3) Any other information the department considers appropriate. (C) The department shall immediately remove from the registry a recovery housing residence that ceases to meet the criteria described in division (A)(1) or (2) of section 5119.392 of the Revised Code, including if the criteria described in those divisions ceases to be met because the residence has had its certification or accreditation, as applicable, revoked or not renewed. (D) The department shall make the registry available to the public on the department's web site. Last updated August 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5153.36 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5153 / § 5153.36
§ 5153.36. Joint board for establishment of district children's home
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly The boards of county commissioners of two or more adjoining counties, not to exceed four, may, upon the recommendation of the public children services agencies of such counties, and subject to the approval of the department of children and youth form themselves into a joint board, and proceed to organize a district for the establishment and support of a children's home, by using a site and buildings already established in one such county, or by providing for the purchase of a site and the erection of necessary buildings thereon. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5161.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5161 / § 5161.22
§ 5161.22. Imposing restrictions where federal financial participation for CHIP parts II or III insufficient
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly If the medicaid director determines that federal financial participation for CHIP part II, part III, or both parts is insufficient to pay for part or all of the costs of health benefits coverage for all the individuals the director anticipates are eligible for the part or parts, the director may refuse to accept new applications for the part or parts or may make the eligibility requirements more restrictive for the part or parts.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.70 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.70
§ 5180.70. [Former R.C. 5101.34, renumbered by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Ohio commission on fatherhood
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) There is hereby created in the department of children and youth the Ohio commission on fatherhood. The commission shall consist of the following members: (1)(a) Four members of the house of representatives appointed by the speaker of the house, not more than two of whom are members of the same political party. Two of the members must be from legislative districts that include a county or part of a county that is among the one-third of counties in this state with the highest number per capita of households headed by females. (b) Two members of the senate appointed by the president of the senate, each from a different political party. One of the members must be from a legislative district that includes a county or part of a county that is among the one-third of counties in this state with the highest number per capita of households headed by females. (2) The governor, or the governor's designee; (3) One representative of the judicial branch of government appointed by the chief justice of the supreme court; (4) The directors of health, children and youth, rehabilitation and correction, mental health and addiction services, youth services, and education and workforce, or their designees; (5) One representative of the Ohio family and children first cabinet council created under section 121.37 of the Revised Code appointed by the chairperson of the council; (6) Five representatives of the general public appointed by the governor. These members shall have extensive experience in issues related to fatherhood. (B) Members appointed to the Ohio commission on fatherhood shall serve two-year terms. A member appointed pursuant to division (A)(1) of this section shall serve on the commission until the end of the general assembly from which the member was appointed or until the member ceases to serve in the chamber of the general assembly in which the member serves at the time of appointment, whichever occurs first. The governor or the governor's designee shall serve on the commission until the governor ceases to be governor. The directors or their designees shall serve on the commission until they cease, or the director a designee represents ceases, to be director. Each member shall serve on the commission from the date of appointment until the end of the term for which the member was appointed. Members may be reappointed. Vacancies shall be filled in the manner provided for original appointments. Any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration date of the term for which the member's predecessor was appointed shall serve on the commission for the remainder of that term. A member shall continue to serve on the commission subsequent to the expiration date of the member's term until the member's successor is appointed or until a period of sixty days has elapsed, whichever occurs first. Members shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for necessary expenses. Last updated October 20, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5109.17 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5109 / § 5109.17
§ 5109.17. Conditions for identifying blind-made products
Status: in_force

November 25, 1969 House Bill 435 - 108th General Assembly Goods or articles may be identifield as blind-made products only if the following conditions are met: (A) At least seventy-five per cent of the total hours required to prepare, process, assemble, package, and pack the product are contributed by blind persons, but such total hours do not include time spent in supervision, administration, inspection, and shipping, or time required to produce component materials which are not produced as part of a program to employ blind persons; (B) The labor performed by blind persons is not restricted to packaging or packing the goods or articles as distinguished from preparing, processing, or assembling. A package which does not contain goods which are blind-made shall not carry the label "packaged by the blind" or words of similar import.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5153.112 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5153 / § 5153.112
§ 5153.112. Caseworker qualifications
Status: in_force

April 9, 2025 House Bill 497 - 135th General Assembly (A) A public children services agency may hire as a caseworker only the following: (1) A person who has a bachelor's degree in human services-related studies; (2) A person who has a bachelor's degree in any field and has been employed for at least two years in a human services-related occupation; (3) A person who has an associate's degree in human services-related studies; (4) A person who has completed at least sixty semester credit hours or the equivalent towards a degree in human services-related studies from an accredited institution of higher education; (5) A person who has been employed for at least five years in a human services-related occupation. (B)(1) Except as provided in division (B)(2) of this section, for employment to continue, a person described in division (A)(2), (3), (4), or (5) of this section must obtain a job-related bachelor's degree not later than five years after the date employment with the agency commences. (2) An executive director of a public children services agency may waive the requirement described in division (B)(1) of this section for an employee in good standing who demonstrates inability to meet this requirement due to hardship. To be considered in good standing for the purposes of this division, an employee must meet at least all of the following requirements: (a) Be in compliance with training requirements; (b) Has not received any formal discipline during the twelve months preceding the employee's five-year anniversary date; (c) Is not the subject of any investigation into allegations of professional misconduct. (C) This section applies only to persons hired on or after October 5, 2000, and does not apply to a caseworker employed by a public children services agency before the effective date of this section who is hired by another public children services agency on or after that date. Last updated January 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.1010 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.1010
§ 5165.1010. Nursing facility fines
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly (A) Subject to division (D) of this section, the department of medicaid shall fine the provider of a nursing facility if the report of an audit conducted under section 5165.109 of the Revised Code regarding a cost report for the nursing facility includes either of the following: (1) Adverse findings that exceed three per cent of the total amount of medicaid-allowable costs reported in the cost report; (2) Adverse findings that exceed twenty per cent of medicaid-allowable costs for a particular cost center reported in the cost report. (B) A fine issued under this section shall equal the greatest of the following: (1) If the adverse findings exceed three per cent but do not exceed ten per cent of the total amount of medicaid-allowable costs reported in the cost report, the greater of three per cent of those reported costs or ten thousand dollars; (2) If the adverse findings exceed ten per cent but do not exceed twenty per cent of the total amount of medicaid-allowable costs reported in the cost report, the greater of six per cent of those reported costs or twenty-five thousand dollars; (3) If the adverse findings exceed twenty per cent of the total amount of medicaid-allowable costs reported in the cost report, the greater of ten per cent of those reported costs or fifty thousand dollars; (4) If the adverse findings exceed twenty per cent but do not exceed twenty-five per cent of medicaid-allowable costs for a particular cost center reported in the cost report, the greater of three per cent of the total amount of medicaid-allowable costs reported in the cost report or ten thousand dollars; (5) If the adverse findings exceed twenty-five per cent but do not exceed thirty per cent of medicaid-allowable costs for a particular cost center reported in the cost report, the greater of six per cent of the total amount of medicaid-allowable costs reported in the cost report or twenty-five thousand dollars; (6) If the adverse findings exceed thirty per cent of medicaid-allowable costs for a particular cost center reported in the cost report, the greater of ten per cent of the total amount of medicaid-allowable costs reported in the cost report or fifty thousand dollars. (C) Fines paid under this section shall be deposited into the health care/medicaid support and recoveries fund created under section 5162.52 of the Revised Code. (D) The department may not collect a fine under this section until all appeal rights relating to the audit report that is the basis for the fine are exhausted.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.034 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.034
§ 5126.034. Contracts in conformity with law
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly (A) If the requirements of section 5126.033 of the Revised Code have been met for a particular direct services contract, a member or former member of a county board of developmental disabilities, an employee or former employee of a county board, or an immediate family member of a member, former member, employee, or former employee of a county board is not in violation of the restrictions in Chapter 102. and sections 2921.42 and 5126.023 of the Revised Code with regard to that contract. (B) Nothing in section 5126.033 of the Revised Code shall be construed to allow a member or employee of a county board to authorize, or use the authority of the member's or employee's office or employment to secure authorization of, a contract that could result in receipt by the county board member or employee or a member of the immediate family of the county board member or employee of payment for expenses incurred on behalf of an immediate family member who is an eligible person.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5163.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5163 / § 5163.02
§ 5163.02. Rules establishing eligibility requirements for medicaid
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The medicaid director shall adopt rules as necessary to implement this chapter. The rules shall establish eligibility requirements for the medicaid program. The rules may establish requirements for applying for medicaid and determining and verifying eligibility for medicaid. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code. ( Notwithstanding any provision of state law, including statutes, administrative rules, common law, and court rules, regarding real or personal property or domestic relations, the standards established under rules adopted under this section shall be used to determine eligibility for medicaid.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5122.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5122 / § 5122.11
§ 5122.11. Court ordered treatment of mentally ill person
Status: in_force

April 6, 2023 Senate Bill 2 (GA 134), House Bill 281 (GA 134) Proceedings for a person with a mental illness subject to court order pursuant to sections 5122.11 to 5122.15 of the Revised Code shall be commenced by the filing of an affidavit in the manner prescribed by the department of mental health and addiction services and in a form prescribed in section 5122.111 of the Revised Code, by any person or persons with the probate court, either on reliable information or actual knowledge, whichever is determined to be proper by the court. This section does not apply to the hospitalization of a person pursuant to section 2945.39 , 2945.40 , 2945.401 , or 2945.402 of the Revised Code. The affidavit shall contain an allegation setting forth the specific category or categories under division (B) of section 5122.01 of the Revised Code upon which the jurisdiction of the court is based and a statement of alleged facts sufficient to indicate probable cause to believe that the person is a person with a mental illness subject to court order. The affidavit may be accompanied, or the court may require that the affidavit be accompanied, by a certificate of a psychiatrist, or a certificate signed by a licensed clinical psychologist and a certificate signed by a licensed physician stating that the person who issued the certificate has examined the person and is of the opinion that the person is a person with a mental illness subject to court order, or shall be accompanied by a written statement by the applicant, under oath, that the person has refused to submit to an examination by a psychiatrist, or by a licensed clinical psychologist and licensed physician. With regard to a defendant described in division (B)(1)(a)(v)(I) of section 2945.38 of the Revised Code for whom criminal charges were dismissed, the affidavit shall contain a space for the trial court or prosecutor filing the affidavit to indicate that the person named in the affidavit is such a defendant. Upon receipt of the affidavit, if a judge of the court or a referee who is an attorney at law appointed by the court has probable cause to believe that the person named in the affidavit is a person with a mental illness subject to court order, the judge or referee may issue a temporary order of detention ordering any health or police officer or sheriff to take into custody and transport the person to a hospital or other place designated in section 5122.17 of the Revised Code, or may set the matter for further hearing. If a temporary order of detention is issued and the person is transported to a hospital or other designated place, the court that issued the order shall retain jurisdiction over the case as it relates to the person's outpatient treatment, notwithstanding that the hospital or other designated place to which the person is transported is outside the territorial jurisdiction of the court. The person may be observed and treated until the hearing provided for in section 5122.141 of the Revised Code. If no such hearing is held, the person may be observed and treated until the hearing provided for in section 5122.15 of the Revised Code. 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 October 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.051 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.051
§ 5101.051. Filling positions with peculiar and exceptional qualifications
Status: in_force

July 1, 2000 House Bill 470 - 123rd General Assembly If the director of job and family services determines that a position with the department of job and family services can best be filled in accordance with division (A)(2) of section 124.30 of the Revised Code or without regard to a residency requirement established by a rule adopted by the director of administrative services, the director of job and family services shall provide the director of administrative services certification of the determination.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.44 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.44
§ 5180.44. [Former R.C. 5101.15, renumbered by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Reimbursement to counties for child welfare worker salaries
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly Within available funds the department of children and youth may reimburse counties in accordance with this section for a portion of the salaries paid to child welfare workers employed under section 5153.12 of the Revised Code. No county with a population of eighty thousand or less, according to the latest census accepted by the department as official, shall be entitled to reimbursement on the salaries of more than two child welfare workers, and no county with a population of more than eighty thousand, according to such census, shall be entitled to reimbursement on the salaries of more than two child welfare workers plus one additional child welfare worker for each one hundred thousand of population in excess of eighty thousand. The maximum reimbursement to which a county may be entitled on any child welfare worker shall be as follows: (A) Twenty-seven hundred dollars a year for a child welfare worker who is a graduate of an accredited high school, college, or university; (B) Thirty-three hundred dollars a year for a child welfare worker who has one year or more of graduate training in social work or a field which the department finds to be related to social work; (C) Thirty-nine hundred dollars a year for a child welfare worker who has completed two years of social work training. The salary of the executive director, designated in accordance with section 5153.10 of the Revised Code, shall be subject to reimbursement under this section, provided that the executive director qualifies under division (A), (B), or (C) of this section. No funds shall be allocated under this section until the director of children and youth has approved a plan of child welfare services for the county submitted by the public children services agency. Last updated October 3, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5168.52 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5168 / § 5168.52
§ 5168.52. Additional sanctions for past due fee installment
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) In addition to assessing a penalty pursuant to section 5168.51 of the Revised Code, the department of medicaid may do any of the following if a nursing facility or hospital fails to pay the full amount of a franchise permit fee installment when due: (1) Withhold an amount less than or equal to the installment and penalty assessed under section 5168.51 of the Revised Code from a medicaid payment due the nursing facility or hospital until the nursing facility or hospital pays the installment and penalty; (2) Offset an amount less than or equal to the installment and penalty assessed under section 5168.51 of the Revised Code from a medicaid payment due the nursing facility or hospital; (3) Terminate the nursing facility or hospital's medicaid provider agreement. (B) The department may offset a medicaid payment under division (A) of this section without providing notice to the nursing facility or hospital and without conducting an adjudication under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5109.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5109 / § 5109.15
§ 5109.15. Blind defined
Status: in_force

November 25, 1969 House Bill 435 - 108th General Assembly As used in sections 5109.15 to 5109.18 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, "blind" means having either of the following limitations: (A) Vision twenty/two hundred or less in the better eye with proper correction; (B) Field defect in the better eye with proper correction which contracts the peripheral field so that the diameter of the visual field subtends an angle no greater than twenty degrees.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5107.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5107 / § 5107.04
§ 5107.04. Sources of cash assistance payments
Status: in_force

September 29, 2007 House Bill 119 - 127th General Assembly As used in this section, "cost-of-living adjustment" means the cost-of-living adjustment made by the United States commissioner of social security under 42 U.S.C. 415(i) for benefits provided under Title II of the "Social Security Act of 1935." The department of job and family services shall make all cash assistance payments for Ohio works first from funds appropriated for the Ohio works first program. The amount of a cash assistance payment the department is to make to an assistance group shall be determined in accordance with rules adopted under section 5107.05 of the Revised Code and shall not exceed the payment standard. The department shall increase the payment standard on January 1, 2009, and the first day of each January thereafter by the cost-of-living adjustment made in the immediately preceding December. A county department of job and family services may use county funds to increase the amount of cash assistance an assistance group receives. An increase in the amount of cash assistance that results from such a use of county funds shall not be included as countable income, gross earned income, or gross unearned income of the assistance group.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5139.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5139 / § 5139.05
§ 5139.05. Order to commit
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) The juvenile court may commit any child to the department of youth services as authorized in Chapter 2152. of the Revised Code, provided that any child so committed shall be at least ten years of age at the time of the child's delinquent act, and, if the child is ten or eleven years of age, the delinquent act is a violation of section 2909.03 of the Revised Code or would be aggravated murder, murder, or a first or second degree felony offense of violence if committed by an adult. Any order to commit a child to an institution under the control and management of the department shall have the effect of ordering that the child be committed to the department and assigned to an institution or placed in a community corrections facility in accordance with division (E) of section 5139.36 of the Revised Code as follows: (1) For an indefinite term consisting of the prescribed minimum period specified by the court under division (A)(1) of section 2152.16 of the Revised Code and a maximum period not to exceed the child's attainment of twenty-one years of age, if the child was committed pursuant to section 2152.16 of the Revised Code; (2) Until the child's attainment of twenty-one years of age, if the child was committed for aggravated murder or murder pursuant to section 2152.16 of the Revised Code; (3) For a period of commitment that shall be in addition to, and shall be served consecutively with and prior to, a period of commitment described in division (A)(1) or (2) of this section, if the child was committed pursuant to section 2152.17 of the Revised Code; (4) If the child is ten or eleven years of age, to an institution, a residential care facility, a residential facility, or a facility licensed by the department of children and youth that the department of youth services considers best designated for the training and rehabilitation of the child and protection of the public. The child shall be housed separately from children who are twelve years of age or older until the child is released or discharged or until the child attains twelve years of age, whichever occurs first. Upon the child's attainment of twelve years of age, if the child has not been released or discharged, the department is not required to house the child separately. (B)(1) Except as otherwise provided in section 5139.54 of the Revised Code, the release authority of the department of youth services, in accordance with section 5139.51 of the Revised Code and at any time after the end of the minimum period specified under division (A)(1) of section 2152.16 of the Revised Code, may grant the release from custody of any child committed to the department. The order committing a child to the department of youth services shall state that the child has been adjudicated a delinquent child and state the minimum period. The jurisdiction of the court terminates at the end of the minimum period except as follows: (a) In relation to judicial release procedures, supervision, and violations; (b) With respect to functions of the court related to the revocation of supervised release that are specified in sections 5139.51 and 5139.52 of the Revised Code; (c) In relation to its duties relating to serious youthful offender dispositional sentences under sections 2152.13 and 2152.14 of the Revised Code. (2) When a child has been committed to the department under section 2152.16 of the Revised Code, the department shall retain legal custody of the child until one of the following: (a) The department discharges the child to the exclusive management, control, and custody of the child's parent or the guardian of the child's person or, if the child is eighteen years of age or older, discharges the child. (b) The committing court, upon its own motion, upon petition of the parent, guardian of the person, or next friend of a child, or upon petition of the department, terminates the department's legal custody of the child. (c) The committing court grants the child a judicial release to court supervision under section 2152.22 of the Revised Code. (d) The department's legal custody of the child is terminated automatically by the child attaining twenty-one years of age. (e) If the child is subject to a serious youthful offender dispositional sentence, the adult portion of that dispositional sentence is imposed under section 2152.14 of the Revised Code. (C) When a child is committed to the department of youth services, the department may assign the child to a hospital for mental, physical, and other examination, inquiry, or treatment for the period of time that is necessary. The department may remove any child in its custody to a hospital for observation, and a complete report of every observation at the hospital shall be made in writing and shall include a record of observation, treatment, and medical history and a recommendation for future treatment, custody, and maintenance. The department shall thereupon order the placement and treatment that it determines to be most conducive to the purposes of Chapters 2151. and 5139. of the Revised Code. The committing court and all public authorities shall make available to the department all pertinent data in their possession with respect to the case. (D) Records maintained by the department of youth services pertaining to the children in its custody shall be accessible only to department employees, except by consent of the department, upon the order of the judge of a court of record, or as provided in divisions (D)(1) and (2) of this section. These records shall not be considered "public records," as defined in section 149.43 of the Revised Code. (1) Except as otherwise provided by a law of this state or the United States, the department of youth services may release records that are maintained by the department of youth services and that pertain to children in its custody to the department of rehabilitation and correction regarding persons who are under the jurisdiction of the department of rehabilitation and correction and who have previously been committed to the department of youth services. The department of rehabilitation and correction may use those records for the limited purpose of carrying out the duties of the department of rehabilitation and correction. Records released by the department of youth services to the department of rehabilitation and correction shall remain confidential and shall not be considered public records as defined in section 149.43 of the Revised Code. (2) The department of youth services shall provide to the superintendent of the school district in which a child discharged or released from the custody of the department is entitled to attend school under section 3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code the records described in divisions (D)(4)(a) to (d) of section 2152.18 of the Revised Code. Subject to the provisions of section 3319.321 of the Revised Code and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, 20 U.S.C. 1232g, as amended, the records released to the superintendent shall remain confidential and shall not be considered public records as defined in section 149.43 of the Revised Code. (E)(1) When a child is committed to the department of youth services, the department, orally or in writing, shall notify the parent, guardian, or custodian of a child that the parent, guardian, or custodian may request at any time from the superintendent of the institution in which the child is located any of the information described in divisions (E)(1)(a), (b), (c), and (d) of this section. The parent, guardian, or custodian may provide the department with the name, address, and telephone number of the parent, guardian, or custodian, and, until the department is notified of a change of name, address, or telephone number, the department shall use the name, address, and telephone number provided by the parent, guardian, or custodian to provide notices or answer inquiries concerning the following information: (a) When the department of youth services makes a permanent assignment of the child to a facility, the department, orally or in writing and on or before the third business day after the day the permanent assignment is made, shall notify the parent, guardian, or custodian of the child of the name of the facility to which the child has been permanently assigned. If a parent, guardian, or custodian of a child who is committed to the department of youth services requests, orally or in writing, the department to provide the parent, guardian, or custodian with the name of the facility in which the child is currently located, the department, orally or in writing and on or before the next business day after the day on which the request is made, shall provide the name of that facility to the parent, guardian, or custodian. (b) If a parent, guardian, or custodian of a child who is committed to the department of youth services, orally or in writing, asks the superintendent of the institution in which the child is located whether the child is being disciplined by the personnel of the institution, what disciplinary measure the personnel of the institution are using for the child, or why the child is being disciplined, the superintendent or the superintendent's designee, on or before the next business day after the day on which the request is made, shall provide the parent, guardian, or custodian with written or oral responses to the questions. (c) If a parent, guardian, or custodian of a child who is committed to the department of youth services, orally or in writing, asks the superintendent of the institution in which the child is held whether the child is receiving any medication from personnel of the institution, what type of medication the child is receiving, or what condition of the child the medication is intended to treat, the superintendent or the superintendent's designee, on or before the next business day after the day on which the request is made, shall provide the parent, guardian, or custodian with oral or written responses to the questions. (d) When a major incident occurs with respect to a child who is committed to the department of youth services, the department, as soon as reasonably possible after the major incident occurs, shall notify the parent, guardian, or custodian of the child that a major incident has occurred with respect to the child and of all the details of that incident that the department has ascertained. (2) The failure of the department of youth services to provide any notification required by or answer any requests made pursuant to division (E) of this section does not create a cause of action against the state. (F) The department of youth services, as a means of punishment while the child is in its custody, shall not prohibit a child who is committed to the department from seeing that child's parent, guardian, or custodian during standard visitation periods allowed by the department of youth services unless the superintendent of the institution in which the child is held determines that permitting that child to visit with the child's parent, guardian, or custodian would create a safety risk to that child, that child's parents, guardian, or custodian, the personnel of the institution, or other children held in that institution. (G) As used in this section: (1) "Permanent assignment" means the assignment or transfer for an extended period of time of a child who is committed to the department of youth services to a facility in which the child will receive training or participate in activities that are directed toward the child's successful rehabilitation. "Permanent assignment" does not include the transfer of a child to a facility for judicial release hearings pursuant to section 2152.22 of the Revised Code or for any other temporary assignment or transfer to a facility. (2) "Major incident" means the escape or attempted escape of a child who has been committed to the department of youth services from the facility to which the child is assigned; the return to the custody of the department of a child who has escaped or otherwise fled the custody and control of the department without authorization; the allegation of any sexual activity with a child committed to the department; physical injury to a child committed to the department as a result of alleged abuse by department staff; an accident resulting in injury to a child committed to the department that requires medical care or treatment outside the institution in which the child is located; the discovery of a controlled substance upon the person or in the property of a child committed to the department; a suicide attempt by a child committed to the department; a suicide attempt by a child committed to the department that results in injury to the child requiring emergency medical services outside the institution in which the child is located; the death of a child committed to the department; an injury to a visitor at an institution under the control of the department that is caused by a child committed to the department; and the commission or suspected commission of an act by a child committed to the department that would be an offense if committed by an adult. (3) "Sexual activity" has the same meaning as in section 2907.01 of the Revised Code. (4) "Controlled substance" has the same meaning as in section 3719.01 of the Revised Code. (5) "Residential care facility" and "residential facility" have the same meanings as in section 2151.011 of the Revised Code. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5168.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5168 / § 5168.03
§ 5168.03. Provisions dependent on assessment as permissible health care-related tax
Status: in_force

October 17, 2019 House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly The requirements of sections 5168.06 to 5168.09 of the Revised Code apply only as long as the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services determines that the assessment imposed under section 5168.06 of the Revised Code is a permissible health care-related tax pursuant to the "Social Security Act," section 1903(w), 42 U.S.C. 1396b(w). Whenever the department of medicaid is informed that the assessment is an impermissible health care-related tax, the department shall promptly refund to each hospital the amount of money currently in the hospital care assurance program fund created by section 5168.11 of the Revised Code that has been paid by the hospital under section 5168.06 or 5168.07 of the Revised Code, plus any investment earnings on that amount. Last updated August 20, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5104.017 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5104 / § 5104.017
§ 5104.017. Adoption of rules governing the operation of type A family child care homes
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly The director of children and youth shall adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code governing the operation of type A family child care homes, including parent cooperative type A homes, part-time type A homes, and drop-in type A homes. The rules shall reflect the various forms of child care and the needs of children receiving child care. The rules shall include the following: (A) Submission of a site plan and descriptive plan of operation to demonstrate how the type A home proposes to meet the requirements of this chapter and rules adopted pursuant to this chapter for the initial license application; (B) Standards for ensuring that the physical surroundings of the type A home are safe and sanitary, including the physical environment, the physical plant, and the equipment of the type A home; (C) Standards for the supervision, care, and discipline of children receiving child care or publicly funded child care in the type A home; (D) Standards for a program of activities, and for play equipment, materials, and supplies, to enhance the development of each child; however, any educational curricula, philosophies, and methodologies that are developmentally appropriate and that enhance the social, emotional, intellectual, and physical development of each child shall be permissible; (E) Admissions policies and procedures; (F) Health care policies and procedures, including procedures for the isolation of children with communicable diseases; (G) First aid and emergency procedures; (H) Procedures for discipline and supervision of children; (I) Standards for the provision of nutritious meals and snacks; (J) Procedures for screening children, including any necessary physical examinations and the immunizations required pursuant to section 5104.014 of the Revised Code; (K) Procedures for screening employees, including any necessary physical examinations and immunizations; (L) Methods for encouraging parental participation in the type A home and methods for ensuring that the rights of children, parents, and employees are protected and that the responsibilities of parents and employees are met; (M) Procedures for ensuring the safety and adequate supervision of children traveling off the premises of the type A home while under the care of a type A home employee; (N) Procedures for record keeping, organization, and administration; (O) Procedures for issuing, denying, and revoking a license that are not otherwise provided for in Chapter 119. of the Revised Code; (P) Inspection procedures; (Q) Procedures and standards for setting initial license application fees; (R) Procedures for receiving, recording, and responding to complaints about type A homes; (S) Procedures for enforcing section 5104.04 of the Revised Code; (T) A standard requiring the inclusion of a current department of children and youth toll-free telephone number on each type A home license that any person may use to report a suspected violation by the type A home of this chapter or rules adopted pursuant to this chapter; (U) Requirements for the training of administrators and child care staff members in first aid, in prevention, recognition, and management of communicable diseases, and in child abuse recognition and prevention; (V) Standards providing for the needs of children who have disabilities or who require treatment for health conditions while the child is receiving child care or publicly funded child care in the type A home; (W) Standards for the maximum number of children per child care staff member; (X) Requirements for the amount of usable indoor floor space for each child; (Y) Requirements for safe outdoor play space; (Z) Qualifications and training requirements for administrators and for child care staff members, which shall not include requiring an administrator or child care staff member to hold or obtain a bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree; (AA) Procedures for granting a parent who is the residential parent and legal custodian, or a custodian or guardian access to the type A home during its hours of operation; (BB) Minimum requirements for instructional time for type A homes rated through the step up to quality program established pursuant to section 5104.29 of the Revised Code; (CC) Any other procedures and standards necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter regarding type A homes. Last updated January 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.64 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.64
§ 5123.64. Enforcement duties
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly (A) Every provider of services to persons with developmental disabilities shall establish policies and programs to ensure that all staff members are familiar with the rights enumerated in section 5123.62 of the Revised Code and observe those rights in their contacts with persons receiving services. Any policy, procedure, or rule of the provider that conflicts with any of the rights enumerated shall be null and void. Every provider shall establish written procedures for resolving complaints of violations of those rights. A copy of the procedures shall be provided to any person receiving services or to any parent, guardian, or advocate of a person receiving services. (B) Any person with a developmental disability who believes that the person's rights as enumerated in section 5123.62 of the Revised Code have been violated may: (1) Bring the violation to the attention of the provider for resolution; (2) Report the violation to the department of developmental disabilities, the Ohio protection and advocacy system, or the appropriate county board of developmental disabilities; (3) Take any other appropriate action to ensure compliance with sections 5123.61 to 5123.64 of the Revised Code, including the filing of a legal action to enforce rights or to recover damages for violation of rights.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.56 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.56
§ 5126.56. Applying to eligible lending institution after approval
Status: in_force

July 17, 1990 House Bill 697 - 118th General Assembly On receiving a resolution under section 5126.55 of the Revised Code approving development of a residential facility, an eligible organization may apply to an eligible lending institution, in the form prescribed by the institution, for a residential facility linked deposit loan to finance all or part of the development of the residential facility. The eligible organization shall include with its application both of the following: (A) A copy of the resolution adopted under section 5126.55 of the Revised Code; (B) A resolution, adopted by the organization's board of trustees, certifying that if the organization's application for a residential facility linked deposit loan is approved and accepted, the organization will use the loan solely to finance all or part of the cost of developing the residential facility as approved in the resolution adopted under section 5126.55 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5167.26 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5167 / § 5167.26
§ 5167.26. Records for determining costs
Status: in_force

October 17, 2019 House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly For the purpose of determining the amount the department of medicaid pays hospitals under section 5168.09 of the Revised Code and the amount of disproportionate share hospital payments paid by the medicare program pursuant to section 1915 of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1396n, a medicaid managed care organization shall keep detailed records for each hospital with which it contracts, including records regarding the cost to the hospital of providing hospital services for the organization, payments made by the organization to the hospital for the services, utilization of hospital services by the organization's enrollees, and other utilization data required by the department.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.34 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.34
§ 5126.34. Training standards for reviewing abuse and neglect reports
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly Each county board of developmental disabilities shall provide comprehensive, formal training for county board employees and other persons authorized to implement sections 5126.30 to 5126.34 of the Revised Code. The department of developmental disabilities shall adopt rules establishing minimum standards for the training provided by county boards pursuant to this section. The training provided by the county boards shall meet the minimum standards prescribed by the rules.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5167.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5167 / § 5167.21
§ 5167.21. Payments to skilled nursing facility
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Covered skilled nursing facility services" has the same meaning as in the "Social Security Act," section 1888(e)(2)(A), 42 U.S.C. 1395yy(e)(2)(A). (2) "Current medicare fee-for-service rate" means the fee-for-service rate in effect for a covered skilled nursing facility service under medicare at the time the service is provided. (3) "Skilled nursing facility" has the same meaning as in the "Social Security Act," section 1819(a), 42 U.S.C. 1395i-3(a). (B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, a medicaid managed care organization shall pay a skilled nursing facility at least the current medicare fee-for-service rate, without deduction for any coinsurance, for covered skilled nursing facility services that the skilled nursing facility provides to a dual eligible individual if the medicaid managed care organization is responsible for the payment under the terms of a contract that the medicaid managed care organization, medicaid director, and United States secretary of health and human services jointly enter into under the integrated care delivery system authorized by section 5164.91 of the Revised Code. (C) A medicaid managed care organization is required to pay the rate specified in division (B) of this section for covered skilled nursing facility services only if all of the following apply: (1) The United States secretary agrees to the payment rate as part of the contract that the medicaid managed care organization, medicaid director, and United States secretary jointly enter into under the integrated care delivery system; (2) The medicaid managed care organization receives a federal capitation payment that is an actuarially sufficient amount for the costs that the medicaid managed care organization incurs in paying the rate; (3) No state funds are used for any part of the costs that the medicaid managed care organization incurs in paying the rate; (4) The integrated care delivery system provides for dual eligible individuals to receive the covered skilled nursing facility services as part of the system.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5107.715 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5107 / § 5107.715
§ 5107.715. Explanation for refusal to issue waiver
Status: in_force

September 29, 2007 House Bill 119 - 127th General Assembly A county department of job and family services that refuses to issue a waiver under section 5107.714 of the Revised Code for a member of an assistance group participating in Ohio works first shall provide the member a written explanation for the refusal. The written explanation shall be provided to the member in a manner protecting the member's confidentiality. The member may appeal the refusal pursuant to section 5101.35 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5121.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5121 / § 5121.03
§ 5121.03. Judicial commitment
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly When any person is committed to an institution under the jurisdiction of the department of developmental disabilities pursuant to judicial proceedings, the judge ordering such commitment shall: (A) Make a reliable report on the financial condition of such person and of each of the relatives of the person who are liable for the person's support, as provided in section 5121.06 of the Revised Code and rules and procedures adopted by the director of developmental disabilities; (B) Certify to the managing officer of such institution, and the managing officer shall thereupon enter upon the managing officer's records the name and address of any guardian appointed and of any relative liable for such person's support under section 5121.06 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.197 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.197
§ 5123.197. Initial residential facility license or modification of existing facility license not required in certain instances
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly Neither an applicant for an initial residential facility license under section 5123.19 of the Revised Code nor an applicant for a modification of an existing residential facility license under that section is required to obtain approval of a plan for the proposed new residential facility or modification to the existing residential facility pursuant to section 5123.042 of the Revised Code if all of the following apply: (A) The new residential facility or modification to the existing residential facility is to serve individuals who have diagnoses or special care needs for which a medicaid payment rate is set pursuant to section 5124.152 of the Revised Code; (B) The medicaid director and director of developmental disabilities determine that there is a need under the medicaid program for the proposed new residential facility or modification to the existing residential facility and that approving the application for the initial residential facility license or modification to the existing residential facility license is fiscally prudent for the medicaid program; (C) The director of budget and management notifies the medicaid director and director of developmental disabilities that the director of budget and management agrees with the directors' determination under division (B) of this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.16
§ 5165.16. Per medicaid day payment rate for ancillary and support costs; peer groups
Status: in_force

July 4, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) The department of medicaid shall determine each nursing facility's per medicaid day payment rate for ancillary and support costs. A nursing facility's rate shall be the rate determined under division (C) of this section for the nursing facility's peer group. (B) For the purpose of determining nursing facilities' rates for ancillary and support costs, the department shall establish six peer groups composed as follows: (1) Each nursing facility located in any of the following counties shall be placed in peer group one or two: Brown, Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Hamilton, and Warren. Each nursing facility located in any of those counties that has fewer than one hundred beds shall be placed in peer group one. Each nursing facility located in any of those counties that has one hundred or more beds shall be placed in peer group two. (2) Each nursing facility located in any of the following counties shall be placed in peer group three or four: Allen, Ashtabula, Champaign, Clark, Cuyahoga, Darke, Delaware, Fairfield, Fayette, Franklin, Fulton, Geauga, Greene, Hancock, Knox, Lake, Licking, Lorain, Lucas, Madison, Mahoning, Marion, Medina, Miami, Montgomery, Morrow, Ottawa, Pickaway, Portage, Preble, Ross, Sandusky, Seneca, Stark, Summit, Trumbull, Union, and Wood. Each nursing facility located in any of those counties that has fewer than one hundred beds shall be placed in peer group three. Each nursing facility located in any of those counties that has one hundred or more beds shall be placed in peer group four. (3) Each nursing facility located in any of the following counties shall be placed in peer group five or six: Adams, Ashland, Athens, Auglaize, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Crawford, Defiance, Erie, Gallia, Guernsey, Hardin, Harrison, Henry, Highland, Hocking, Holmes, Huron, Jackson, Jefferson, Lawrence, Logan, Meigs, Mercer, Monroe, Morgan, Muskingum, Noble, Paulding, Perry, Pike, Putnam, Richland, Scioto, Shelby, Tuscarawas, Van Wert, Vinton, Washington, Wayne, Williams, and Wyandot. Each nursing facility located in any of those counties that has fewer than one hundred beds shall be placed in peer group five. Each nursing facility located in any of those counties that has one hundred or more beds shall be placed in peer group six. (C)(1) The department shall determine the rate for ancillary and support costs for each peer group established under division (B) of this section. The rate for ancillary and support costs determined under this division for a peer group shall be used for subsequent years until the department conducts a rebasing. To determine a peer group's rate for ancillary and support costs, the department shall do both of the following: (a) Determine the rate for ancillary and support costs for each nursing facility in the peer group for the applicable calendar year by using the greater of the nursing facility's actual inpatient days for the applicable calendar year or the inpatient days the nursing facility would have had for the applicable calendar year if its occupancy rate had been ninety per cent; (b) Subject to division (C)(2) of this section, identify which nursing facility in the peer group is at the twenty-fifth percentile of the rate for ancillary and support costs for the applicable calendar year determined under division (C)(1)(a) of this section. (2) In making the identification under division (C)(1)(b) of this section, the department shall exclude both of the following: (a) Nursing facilities that participated in the medicaid program under the same provider for less than twelve months in the applicable calendar year; (b) Nursing facilities whose ancillary and support costs are more than one standard deviation from the mean desk-reviewed, actual, allowable, per diem ancillary and support cost for all nursing facilities in the nursing facility's peer group for the applicable calendar year. (3) The department shall not redetermine a peer group's rate for ancillary and support costs under this division based on additional information that it receives after the rate is determined. The department shall redetermine a peer group's rate for ancillary and support costs only if the department made an error in determining the rate based on information available to the department at the time of the original determination. Last updated October 6, 2023 at 9:09 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.55 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.55
§ 5119.55. Payment for personal use of resident eligible for supplemental social security benefits
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly The department of behavioral health may pay an amount for personal use to each individual residing in a state institution as described in section 5119.14 of the Revised Code who would be eligible for supplemental security income benefits at the reduced rate established by Title XVI of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1381 et seq., if the medicaid program covers services provided in such institutions. The amount paid by the department shall not exceed the reduced supplemental security income benefit rate established by Title XVI of the "Social Security Act." Last updated August 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.60 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.60
§ 5119.60. Annual report
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly The department of behavioral health shall submit an annual report to the governor that shall describe the services the department offers and how appropriated funds have been spent. The report shall include all of the following: (A) The utilization of state hospitals by each alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health service district; (B) The number of persons served by community addiction services providers that receive funds distributed by the department, with a breakdown into categories including age, sex, race, the type of drug to which the person is addicted, and any other categories the director of behavioral health considers significant; (C) The number of persons with severe mental disabilities served in each district; (D) The number and types of addiction services, mental health services, and recovery supports provided to persons with severe mental disabilities through state-operated services, community addiction services providers, and community mental health services providers; (E) A report measuring the success of community addiction services providers, based on the measures for accountability developed by the department, including the percentage of persons served by such community addiction services providers who have not relapsed; (F) Any other information that the director considers significant or is requested by the governor. Last updated August 8, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.533 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.533
§ 5180.533. [Former R.C. 5101.885, amended and renumbered by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Kinship support program - payment amount
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly Kinship support program payments under section 5180.532 of the Revised Code shall be ten dollars and twenty cents per child, per day, to the extent funds are available. The department of children and youth shall increase the payment amount on January 1, 2022, and on the first day of each January thereafter by the cost-of-living adjustment made in the immediately preceding December. Last updated October 3, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5149.32 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5149 / § 5149.32
§ 5149.32. Eligibility for funds from subsidy programs
Status: in_force

September 30, 2011 House Bill 86 - 129th General Assembly To be eligible for funds from the subsidy programs established under division (A)(1) of section 5149.31 of the Revised Code, a municipal corporation, county, or group of counties shall comply with all of the following that are relevant: (A) Maintain programs that meet the standards adopted under division (A)(2) of section 5149.31 of the Revised Code; (B) Demonstrate that it has made efforts to unify or coordinate its correctional service programs through consolidation, written agreements, purchase of service contracts, or other means; (C) Demonstrate that the comprehensive plan for the county in which the municipal corporation is located, for the county, or for each county of the group of counties, as adopted under section 5149.34 of the Revised Code, has been approved by the director of rehabilitation and correction; (D) Deliver programming that addresses the assessed needs of high risk offenders as established by the single validated risk assessment tool described in section 5120.114 of the Revised Code and that may be delivered through available and acceptable resources within the municipal corporation, county, or group of counties or through the department of rehabilitation and correction; (E) If a subsidy was received in any prior fiscal year from a subsidy program established under division (A)(1) of section 5149.31 of the Revised Code, demonstrate that the subsidy was expended in a good faith effort to improve the quality and efficiency of its community corrections programs and to reduce the number of persons committed to state correctional institutions and to county, multicounty, municipal, municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal jails or workhouses.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.19
§ 5119.19. Psychotropic drug reimbursement program
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Community-based correctional facility" has the same meaning as in section 2929.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Drug used in medication-assisted treatment" means a drug approved by the United States food and drug administration for use in medication-assisted treatment, regardless of the method the drug is administered or the form in which it is dispensed, including an oral drug, an injectable drug, or a long-acting or extended-release drug. "Drug used in medication-assisted treatment" includes all of the following: (a) A full agonist; (b) A partial agonist; (c) An antagonist. (3) "Drug used in withdrawal management or detoxification" means a drug approved by the United States food and drug administration for use in, or a drug in standard use for, mitigating opioid or alcohol withdrawal symptoms or assisting with detoxification, regardless of the method the drug is administered or the form in which it is dispensed, including an oral drug, an injectable drug, or a long-acting or extended-release drug. "Drug used in withdrawal management or detoxification" includes all of the following: (a) A full agonist; (b) A partial agonist; (c) An antagonist; (d) An alpha-2 adrenergic agonist. (4) "Medication-assisted treatment" has the same meaning as in section 340.01 of the Revised Code. (5) "Prescribed drug" has the same meaning as in section 5164.01 of the Revised Code. (6)(a) "Psychotropic drug" means, except as provided in division (A)(6)(b) of this section, a drug that has the capability of changing or controlling mental functioning or behavior through direct pharmacological action. "Psychotropic drug" includes all of the following: (i) Antipsychotic medications, including those administered or dispensed in a long-acting injectable form; (ii) Antidepressant medications; (iii) Anti-anxiety medications; (iv) Mood stabilizing medications. (b) "Psychotropic drug" excludes a stimulant prescribed for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. (7) "Withdrawal management or detoxification" means a set of medical interventions aimed at managing the acute physical symptoms of intoxication and withdrawal. Withdrawal management seeks to minimize the physical harm caused by the intoxication and withdrawal from a substance of abuse. Detoxification denotes a clearing of toxins from the body of the patient who is acutely intoxicated, dependent on a substance of abuse, or both. (B) There is hereby created a program to be known as the behavioral health drug reimbursement program, which shall be administered by the department of behavioral health. The purpose of the program is to provide state financial assistance to counties for the cost of the following drugs that are administered or dispensed to inmates of county jails in this state and individuals confined in community-based correctional facilities in this state: psychotropic drugs, drugs used in medication-assisted treatment, and drugs used in withdrawal management or detoxification. Each county shall ensure that inmates of county jails and individuals confined in community-based correctional facilities have access to all behavioral health drugs specified in this division that are prescribed drugs covered by the fee-for-service component of the medicaid program. (C) The department, based on factors it considers appropriate, shall allocate an amount to each county for drug costs that have been or will be incurred by the county pursuant to this section. (D) The director of behavioral health may adopt rules as necessary to implement this section. The rules, if adopted, shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.611 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.611
§ 5103.611. Family preservation center certification application
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly A person who holds an active license to operate a children's crisis care facility under section 5103.13 of the Revised Code or a residential infant care center under section 5103.602 of the Revised Code may apply to the director of children and youth to obtain a certificate as a family preservation center under this section. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5122.35 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5122 / § 5122.35
§ 5122.35. Venue
Status: in_force

July 1, 1980 House Bill 900 - 113th General Assembly (A) In a case in which the jurisdiction of a court has not been specifically given or the procedure provided for, the court in the county in which a person alleged to be mentally ill is found shall have full, complete, and general jurisdiction to make disposition of such person in accordance with the procedure prescribed by Chapter 5122. of the Revised Code. (B) When an affidavit is filed in the court as provided in section 5122.11 of the Revised Code, and the person alleged to be mentally ill is detained in a hospital located in another county, the court of the county in which such hospital is located shall, upon the request of the court receiving the affidavit, hold a hearing and make disposition of such person in accordance with Chapter 5122. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.154 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.154
§ 5165.154. Calculating prospective rates for facilities with residents whose care costs are not adequately measured
Status: in_force

November 22, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly (A) To the extent, if any, provided for in rules authorized by this section, the total per medicaid day payment rate determined under section 5165.15 of the Revised Code shall not be paid for nursing facility services that a nursing facility not designated as an outlier nursing facility or unit provides to a resident who meets the criteria for admission to a designated outlier nursing facility or unit, as specified in rules authorized by section 5165.153 of the Revised Code. Instead, the provider of a nursing facility providing nursing facility services to such a resident shall be paid each state fiscal year a total per medicaid day payment rate that the department of medicaid shall prospectively determine in accordance with a methodology established in rules authorized by this section. (B) The medicaid director may adopt rules under section 5165.02 of the Revised Code to implement this section. The rules may require that a nursing facility receive authorization from the department before admitting or retaining a resident who meets the criteria for admission to a designated outlier nursing facility or unit. If the director adopts such rules, the rules shall specify the criteria and procedures the department will apply when granting the authorization.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5104.44 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5104 / § 5104.44
§ 5104.44. Effect of child support default on license or certificate
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly On receipt of a notice pursuant to section 3123.43 of the Revised Code, the department of children and youth shall comply with sections 3123.41 to 3123.50 of the Revised Code and any applicable rules adopted under section 3123.63 of the Revised Code with respect to a license or certificate issued pursuant to this chapter. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.66 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.66
§ 5101.66. Request or consent to receiving protective services
Status: in_force

September 29, 2018 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly Any person who requests or consents to receive protective services shall receive such services only after an investigation and determination of a need for protective services. The investigation shall be performed in the same manner as the investigation of a report pursuant to section 5101.65 of the Revised Code. If the person withdraws consent, the protective services shall be terminated.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5160.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5160 / § 5160.12
§ 5160.12. Seeking federal financial participation for costs incurred by entity implementing program administered by department
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "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. (B) This section does not apply to contracts entered into under section 5162.32 or 5162.35 of the Revised Code. (C) At the request of any public entity having authority to implement a program administered by the department of medicaid or any private entity under contract with a public entity to implement a program administered by the department, the 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 XIX of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1396, 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. (D) All funds collected by the department pursuant to division (C) of this section shall be distributed to the entities that incurred the costs. (E) In distributing federal financial participation pursuant to this section, the department may either enter into an agreement with the entity that is to receive the funds or distribute the funds in accordance with rules authorized by division (H) of this section. If the department decides to enter into an agreement to distribute the funds, 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 department or the entity, whichever party caused the disallowance or unavailability of federal financial participation, to assume responsibility for the expenditures; (3) Require the entity to certify to the department the availability of sufficient unencumbered funds to match the federal financial participation the entity receives under this section; (4) Establish the length of the agreement, which may be for a fixed or a continuing period of time; (5) Establish any other requirements determined by the department to be necessary for the efficient administration of the agreement. (F) 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 for the use of the funds to improve and expand the program. (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. (H) The medicaid director may adopt rules under section 5160.02 of the Revised Code 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.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5162.41 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5162 / § 5162.41
§ 5162.41. Retaining or collecting percentage of supplemental payment
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly The department of medicaid may retain or collect a percentage of the federal financial participation included in a supplemental medicaid payment to one or more medicaid providers owned or operated by a state agency or political subdivision that brings the payment to such provider or providers to the upper payment limit established by 42 C.F.R. 447.272. If the department retains or collects a percentage of that federal financial participation, the medicaid director shall adopt a rule under section 5162.02 of the Revised Code specifying the percentage the department is to retain or collect. All amounts the department retains or collects under this section shall be deposited into the health care/medicaid support and recoveries fund created under section 5162.52 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.34 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.34
§ 5164.34. Criminal records check of provider personnel, owners and officers
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Criminal records check" has the same meaning as in section 109.572 of the Revised Code. (2) "Disqualifying offense" means any of the offenses listed or described in divisions (A)(3)(a) to (e) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code. (3) "Owner" means a person who has an ownership interest in a medicaid provider in an amount designated in rules authorized by this section. (4) "Person subject to the criminal records check requirement" means the following: (a) A medicaid provider who is notified under division (E)(1) of this section that the provider is subject to a criminal records check; (b) An owner or prospective owner, officer or prospective officer, or board member or prospective board member of a medicaid provider if, pursuant to division (E)(1)(a) of this section, the owner or prospective owner, officer or prospective officer, or board member or prospective board member is specified in information given to the provider under division (E)(1) of this section; (c) An employee or prospective employee of a medicaid provider if both of the following apply: (i) The employee or prospective employee is specified, pursuant to division (E)(1)(b) of this section, in information given to the provider under division (E)(1) of this section. (ii) The provider is not prohibited by division (D)(3)(b) of this section from employing the employee or prospective employee. (5) "Responsible entity" means the following: (a) With respect to a criminal records check required under this section for a medicaid provider, the department of medicaid or the department's designee; (b) With respect to a criminal records check required under this section for an owner or prospective owner, officer or prospective officer, board member or prospective board member, or employee or prospective employee of a medicaid provider, the provider. (B) This section does not apply to any of the following: (1) An individual who is subject to a criminal records check under section 3712.09 , 3721.121 , 5123.081 , or 5123.169 of the Revised Code; (2) An individual who is subject to a database review or criminal records check under section 173.38 , 173.381 , 3740.11 , or 5164.342 of the Revised Code; (3) An individual who is an applicant or independent provider, both as defined in section 5164.341 of the Revised Code. (C) The department of medicaid may do any of the following: (1) Require that any medicaid provider submit to a criminal records check as a condition of obtaining or maintaining a provider agreement; (2) Require that any medicaid provider require an owner or prospective owner, officer or prospective officer, or board member or prospective board member of the provider submit to a criminal records check as a condition of being an owner, officer, or board member of the provider; (3) Require that any medicaid provider do the following: (a) If so required by rules authorized by this section, determine pursuant to a database review conducted under division (F)(1)(a) of this section whether any employee or prospective employee of the provider is included in a database; (b) Unless the provider is prohibited by division (D)(3)(b) of this section from employing the employee or prospective employee, require the employee or prospective employee to submit to a criminal records check as a condition of being an employee of the provider. (D)(1) The department or the department's designee shall deny or terminate a medicaid provider's provider agreement if the provider is a person subject to the criminal records check requirement and either of the following applies: (a) The provider fails to obtain the criminal records check after being given the information specified in division (G)(1) of this section. (b) Except as provided in rules authorized by this section, the provider is found by the criminal records check to have been convicted of or have pleaded guilty to a disqualifying offense, regardless of the date of the conviction or the date of entry of the guilty plea. (2) No medicaid provider shall permit a person to be an owner, officer, or board member of the provider if the person is a person subject to the criminal records check requirement and either of the following applies: (a) The person fails to obtain the criminal records check after being given the information specified in division (G)(1) of this section. (b) Except as provided in rules authorized by this section, the person is found by the criminal records check to have been convicted of or have pleaded guilty to a disqualifying offense, regardless of the date of the conviction or the date of entry of the guilty plea. (3) Except as provided in division (I) of this section, no medicaid provider shall employ a person if any of the following apply: (a) The person has been excluded from being a medicaid provider, a medicare provider, or provider for any other federal health care program. (b) If the person is subject to a database review conducted under division (F)(1)(a) of this section, the person is found by the database review to be included in a database and the rules authorized by this section regarding the database review prohibit the provider from employing a person included in the database. (c) If the person is a person subject to the criminal records check requirement, either of the following applies: (i) The person fails to obtain the criminal records check after being given the information specified in division (G)(1) of this section. (ii) Except as provided in rules authorized by this section, the person is found by the criminal records check to have been convicted of or have pleaded guilty to a disqualifying offense, regardless of the date of the conviction or the date of entry of the guilty plea. (E)(1) The department or the department's designee shall inform each medicaid provider whether the provider is subject to a criminal records check. For providers with valid provider agreements, the information shall be given at times designated in rules authorized by this section. For providers applying to be medicaid providers, the information shall be given at the time of initial application. When the information is given, the department or the department's designee shall specify the following: (a) Which of the provider's owners or prospective owners, officers or prospective officers, or board members or prospective board members are subject to a criminal records check; (b) Which of the provider's employees or prospective employees are subject to division (C)(3) of this section. (2) At times designated in rules authorized by this section, a medicaid provider that is a person subject to the criminal records check requirement shall do the following: (a) Inform each person specified under division (E)(1)(a) of this section that the person is required to submit to a criminal records check as a condition of being an owner, officer, or board member of the provider; (b) Inform each person specified under division (E)(1)(b) of this section that the person is subject to division (C)(3) of this section. (F)(1) If a medicaid provider is a person subject to the criminal records check requirement, the department or the department's designee shall require the conduct of a criminal records check by the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation. A medicaid provider shall require the conduct of a criminal records check by the superintendent with respect to each of the persons specified under division (E)(1)(a) of this section. With respect to each employee and prospective employee specified under division (E)(1)(b) of this section, a medicaid provider shall do the following: (a) If rules authorized by this section require the provider to conduct a database review to determine whether the employee or prospective employee is included in a database, conduct the database review in accordance with the rules; (b) Unless the provider is prohibited by division (D)(3)(b) of this section from employing the employee or prospective employee, require the conduct of a criminal records check of the employee or prospective employee by the superintendent. (2) If a person subject to the criminal records check requirement does not present proof of having been a resident of this state for the five-year period immediately prior to the date the criminal records check is requested or provide evidence that within that five-year period the superintendent has requested information about the person from the federal bureau of investigation in a criminal records check, the responsible entity shall require the person to request that the superintendent obtain information from the federal bureau of investigation as part of the criminal records check of the person. Even if the person presents proof of having been a resident of this state for the five-year period, the responsible entity may require that the person request that the superintendent obtain information from the federal bureau of investigation and include it in the criminal records check of the person. (G) Criminal records checks required by this section shall be obtained as follows: (1) The responsible entity shall provide each person subject to the criminal records check requirement information about accessing and completing the form prescribed pursuant to division (C)(1) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code and the standard impression sheet prescribed pursuant to division (C)(2) of that section. (2) The person subject to the criminal records check requirement shall submit the required form and one complete set of the person's fingerprint impressions directly to the superintendent for purposes of conducting the criminal records check using the applicable methods prescribed by division (C) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code. The person shall pay all fees associated with obtaining the criminal records check. (3) The superintendent shall conduct the criminal records check in accordance with section 109.572 of the Revised Code. The person subject to the criminal records check requirement shall instruct the superintendent to submit the report of the criminal records check directly to the responsible entity. If the department or the department's designee is not the responsible entity, the department or designee may require the responsible entity to submit the report to the department or designee. (H)(1) A medicaid provider may employ conditionally a person for whom a criminal records check is required by this section prior to obtaining the results of the criminal records check if both of the following apply: (a) The provider is not prohibited by division (D)(3)(b) of this section from employing the person. (b) The person submits a request for the criminal records check not later than five business days after the person begins conditional employment. (2) Except as provided in division (I) of this section, a medicaid provider that employs a person conditionally under division (H)(1) of this section shall terminate the person's employment if either of the following apply: (a) The results of the criminal records check request are not obtained within the period ending sixty days after the date the request is made. (b) Regardless of when the results of the criminal records check are obtained, the results indicate that the person has been convicted of or has pleaded guilty to a disqualifying offense, unless circumstances specified in rules authorized by this section exist that permit the provider to employ the person and the provider chooses to employ the person. (I) As used in this division, "behavioral health services" means alcohol and drug addiction services, mental health services, or both. A medicaid provider of behavioral health services may choose to employ a person who the provider would be prohibited by division (D)(3) of this section from employing or would be required by division (H)(2) of this section to terminate the person's employment if both of the following apply: (1) The person holds a valid health professional license issued under the Revised Code granting the person authority to provide behavioral health services, holds a valid peer recovery supporter certificate issued pursuant to rules adopted by the department of mental health and addiction services, or is in the process of obtaining such a license or certificate. (2) The provider does not submit any medicaid claims for any services the person provides. (J) The report of a criminal records check conducted pursuant to this section is not a public record for the purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code and shall not be made available to any person other than the following: (1) The person who is the subject of the criminal records check or the person's representative; (2) The medicaid director and the staff of the department who are involved in the administration of the medicaid program; (3) The department's designee; (4) The medicaid provider who required the person who is the subject of the criminal records check to submit to the criminal records check; (5) An individual receiving or deciding whether to receive, from the subject of the criminal records check, home and community-based services available under the medicaid state plan; (6) A court, hearing officer, or other necessary individual involved in a case or administrative hearing dealing with any of the following: (a) The denial, suspension, or termination of a provider agreement; (b) A person's denial of employment, termination of employment, or employment or unemployment benefits; (c) A civil or criminal action regarding the medicaid program. With respect to an administrative hearing dealing with the denial, suspension, or termination of a provider agreement, the report of a criminal records check may be introduced as evidence at the hearing and if admitted, becomes part of the hearing record. Any such report shall be admitted only under seal and shall maintain its status as not a public record. (K) The medicaid director may adopt rules under section 5164.02 of the Revised Code to implement this section. If the director adopts such rules, the rules shall designate the times at which a criminal records check must be conducted under this section. The rules may do any of the following: (1) Designate the categories of persons who are subject to a criminal records check under this section; (2) Specify circumstances under which the department or the department's designee may continue a provider agreement or issue a provider agreement when the medicaid provider is found by a criminal records check to have been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a disqualifying offense; (3) Specify circumstances under which a medicaid provider may permit a person to be an employee, owner, officer, or board member of the provider when the person is found by a criminal records check conducted pursuant to this section to have been convicted of or have pleaded guilty to a disqualifying offense; (4) Specify all of the following: (a) The circumstances under which a database review must be conducted under division (F)(1)(a) of this section to determine whether an employee or prospective employee of a medicaid provider is included in a database; (b) The procedures for conducting the database review; (c) The databases that are to be checked; (d) The circumstances under which, except as provided in division (I) of this section, a medicaid provider is prohibited from employing a person who is found by the database review to be included in a database. Last updated October 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.185 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.185
§ 5119.185. Clinician recruitment program
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Advanced practice registered nurse" has the same meaning as in section 4723.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Clinician" means any of the following: (a) An advanced practice registered nurse; (b) A physician; (c) A physician assistant. (3) "Physician" means an individual authorized under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery. (4) "Physician assistant" means an individual who holds a current, valid license to practice as a physician assistant issued under Chapter 4730. of the Revised Code. (B) The department of behavioral health may establish a clinician recruitment program under which the department agrees to repay all or part of the principal and interest of a government or other educational loan incurred by a clinician who agrees to provide services to inpatients and outpatients of institutions under the department's administration. To be eligible to participate in the program, a clinician must have attended the following: (1) In the case of a physician, a school that was, at the time of attendance, a medical school or osteopathic medical school in this country accredited by the liaison committee on medical education or the American osteopathic association, or a medical school or osteopathic medical school located outside this country that was acknowledged by the world health organization and verified by a member state of that organization as operating within that state's jurisdiction; (2) In the case of a physician assistant, a school that was, at the time of attendance, accredited by the accreditation review commission on education for the physician assistant or a regional or specialized and professional accrediting agency recognized by the council for higher education accreditation; (3) In the case of an advanced practice registered nurse, a school that was, at the time of attendance, accredited by a national or regional accrediting organization. (C) The department shall enter into a contract with each clinician it recruits under this section. Each contract shall include at least the following terms: (1) The clinician agrees to provide a specified scope of health care services for a specified number of hours per week and a specified number of years to patients of one or more specified institutions administered by the department. (2) The department agrees to repay all or a specified portion of the principal and interest of a government or other educational loan taken by the clinician for the following expenses if the clinician meets the service obligation agreed to and the expenses were incurred while the clinician was enrolled in, for up to a maximum of four years, a school that qualifies the clinician to participate in the program: (a) Tuition; (b) Other educational expenses for specific purposes, including fees, books, and laboratory expenses, in amounts determined to be reasonable in accordance with rules adopted under division (D) of this section; (c) Room and board, in an amount determined to be reasonable in accordance with rules adopted under division (D) of this section. (3) The clinician agrees to pay the department a specified amount, which shall be not less than the amount already paid by the department pursuant to its agreement, as damages if the clinician fails to complete the service obligation agreed to or fails to comply with other specified terms of the contract. The contract may vary the amount of damages based on the portion of the clinician's service obligation that remains uncompleted as determined by the department. (4) Other terms agreed upon by the parties. (D) If the department elects to implement the clinician recruitment program, it shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that establish all of the following: (1) Criteria for designating institutions for which clinicians will be recruited; (2) Criteria for selecting clinicians for participation in the program; (3) Criteria for determining the portion of a clinician's loan that the department will agree to repay; (4) Criteria for determining reasonable amounts of the expenses described in divisions (C)(2)(b) and (c) of this section; (5) Procedures for monitoring compliance by clinicians with the terms of their contracts; (6) Any other criteria or procedures necessary to implement the program. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.4211 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.4211
§ 5180.4211. [Former R.C. 5101.1414, amended and renumbered by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Young adults - rules
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) The department of children and youth shall adopt rules necessary to carry out the purposes of sections 5180.428 to 5180.4210 of the Revised Code, including rules that do all of the following: (1) Allow an emancipated young adult described in division (A)(1) of section 5180.428 of the Revised Code who is directly receiving foster care payments, or on whose behalf such foster care payments are received, or an adopted young adult whose adoptive parents are receiving adoption assistance payments, to maintain eligibility while transitioning into, or out of, qualified employment or educational activities; (2) Require that a thirty-day notice of termination be given by the department to an emancipated young adult described in division (A)(1) of section 5180.428 of the Revised Code who is receiving foster care payments, or on whose behalf such foster care payments are received, or to a parent receiving adoption assistance payments for an adopted young adult described in division (B)(1) of section 5180.428 of the Revised Code, who is determined to be ineligible for payments; (3) Establish the scope of practice and training necessary for case managers and supervisors who care for emancipated young adults described in division (A)(1) of section 5180.428 of the Revised Code who are receiving foster care payments, or on whose behalf such foster care payments are received, under section 5180.428 of the Revised Code. (B) The department of children and youth shall create an advisory council to evaluate and make recommendations for statewide implementation of sections 5180.428 and 5180.429 of the Revised Code. Last updated October 3, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.0312 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.0312
§ 5103.0312. Reimbursement of caregivers for training courses
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th 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 reimburse the foster caregiver in a lump sum for attending a preplacement training program operated under section 5103.034 or 5103.30 of the Revised Code and shall reimburse the foster caregiver a stipend for attending a continuing training program operated under section 5103.034 or 5103.30 of the Revised Code. The amount of the lump sum reimbursement and the stipend rate shall be established by the department of children and youth and shall be the same regardless of the type of recommending agency from which the foster caregiver seeks a recommendation. The department shall, pursuant to rules adopted under section 5103.0316 of the Revised Code, reimburse the recommending agency for stipend reimbursements it makes in accordance with this section. The department shall adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code regarding the release of lump sum stipends to an individual for attending a preplacement training program. Last updated January 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5166.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5166 / § 5166.04
§ 5166.04. Home and community-based services medicaid waiver components
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The following requirements apply to each home and community-based services medicaid waiver component: (A) Only an individual who qualifies for a component shall receive that component's medicaid services. (B) A level of care determination shall be made as part of the process of determining whether an individual qualifies for a component and shall be made each year after the initial determination if, during such a subsequent year, the administrative agency determines there is a reasonable indication that the individual's needs have changed. (C) A written plan of care or individual service plan based on an individual assessment of the medicaid services that an individual needs to avoid needing admission to a hospital, nursing facility, or ICF/IID shall be created for each individual determined eligible for a component. (D) Each individual determined eligible for a component shall receive that component's medicaid services in accordance with the individual's level of care determination and written plan of care or individual service plan. (E) No individual may receive medicaid services under a component while the individual is a hospital inpatient or resident of a skilled nursing facility, nursing facility, or ICF/IID. (F) No individual may receive prevocational, educational, or supported employment services under a component if the individual is eligible for such services that are funded with federal funds provided under 29 U.S.C. 730 or the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act," 111 Stat. 37 (1997), 20 U.S.C. 1400, as amended. (G) Safeguards shall be taken to protect the health and welfare of individuals receiving medicaid services under a component, including safeguards established in rules adopted under section 5166.02 of the Revised Code and safeguards established by licensing and certification requirements that are applicable to the providers of that component's medicaid services. (H) No medicaid services may be provided under a component by a provider that is subject to standards that the "Social Security Act," section 1616(e)(1), 42 U.S.C. 1382e(e)(1), requires be established if the provider fails to comply with the standards applicable to the provider. (I) Individuals determined to be eligible for a component, or such individuals' representatives, shall be informed of that component's medicaid services, including any choices that the individual or representative may make regarding the component's medicaid services, and given the choice of either receiving medicaid services under that component or, as appropriate, hospital services, nursing facility services, or ICF/IID services. (J) No individual shall lose eligibility for services under a component, or have the services reduced or otherwise disrupted, on the basis that the individual also receives services under the medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilities program. (K) No individual shall lose eligibility for services under a component, or have the services reduced or otherwise disrupted, on the basis that the individual's income or resources increase to an amount above the eligibility limit for the component if the individual is participating in the medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilities program and the amount of the individual's income or resources does not exceed the eligibility limit for the medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilities program. (L) No individual receiving services under a component shall be required to pay any cost sharing expenses for the services for any period during which the individual also participates in the medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilities program.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.6012 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.6012
§ 5103.6012. Residential infant care center child-to-staff ratios
Status: in_force

June 13, 2022 House Bill 265 - 134th General Assembly A residential infant care center shall not count volunteers or interns to meet child-to-staff ratios, except for in emergency situations, including an extremely ill staff member. Last updated March 21, 2022 at 4:31 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.702 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.702
§ 5180.702. [Former R.C. 5101.342, amended and renumbered by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Ohio commission on fatherhood - state summits on fatherhood
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly The Ohio commission on fatherhood shall do both of the following: (A) Organize a state summit on fatherhood every four years; (B) Prepare a report each year that does the following: (1) Identifies resources available to fund fatherhood-related programs and explores the creation of initiatives to do the following: (a) Build the parenting skills of fathers; (b) Provide employment-related services for low-income, noncustodial fathers; (c) Prevent premature fatherhood; (d) Provide services to fathers who are inmates in or have just been released from imprisonment in a state correctional institution, as defined in section 2967.01 of the Revised Code, or in any other detention facility, as defined in section 2921.01 of the Revised Code, so that they are able to maintain or reestablish their relationships with their families; (e) Reconcile fathers with their families; (f) Increase public awareness of the critical role fathers play. (2) Describes the commission's expectations for the outcomes of fatherhood-related programs and initiatives and the methods the commission uses for conducting annual measures of those outcomes; (3) Evaluates the number of fathers and children served and the number and types of additional services provided as a result of the recommendations made to the director of job and family services pursuant to section 5180.704 of the Revised Code; (4) Evaluates the performance of the nonprofit community-based organizations that received grants under section 5180.706 of the Revised Code. The commission shall submit each report to the general assembly in accordance with section 101.68 of the Revised Code. (C) Pursuant to section 5180.704 of the Revised Code, the commission may make recommendations to the director of children and youth regarding funding, approval, and implementation of fatherhood programs in this state that meet at least one of the four purposes of the temporary assistance for needy families block grant, as specified in 42 U.S.C. 601. (D) The portion of the report prepared pursuant to divisions (B)(2) and (4) of this section shall be prepared by the commission in collaboration with the director of children and youth. (E) The commission shall submit each report prepared pursuant to division (B) of this section to the president and minority leader of the senate, speaker and minority leader of the house of representatives, governor, and chief justice of the supreme court. The first report is due not later than one year after the last of the initial appointments to the commission is made under section 5180.701 of the Revised Code. Last updated October 3, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.21
§ 5165.21. Per medicaid day payment rate for tax costs
Status: in_force

October 17, 2019 House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly The department of medicaid shall determine each nursing facility's per medicaid day payment rate for tax costs. The rate for tax costs determined under this division for a nursing facility shall be used for subsequent years until the department conducts a rebasing. To determine a nursing facility's rate for tax costs, the department shall divide the nursing facility's desk-reviewed, actual, allowable tax costs paid for the applicable calendar year by the number of inpatient days the nursing facility would have had if its occupancy rate had been one hundred per cent during the applicable calendar year.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.02
§ 5165.02. Rules
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The medicaid director shall adopt rules as necessary to implement this chapter. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.103 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.103
§ 5120.103. Construction of halfway houses
Status: in_force

January 1, 2004 House Bill 490 - 124th General Assembly (A) To the extent that funds are available, the department of rehabilitation and correction, in accordance with this section and sections 5120.104 and 5120.105 of the Revised Code, may construct or provide for the construction of halfway house facilities for offenders whom a court places in a halfway house pursuant to section 2929.16 or 2929.26 of the Revised Code or who are eligible for community supervision by the department of rehabilitation and correction. (B) A halfway house organization that seeks to assist in the program planning of a halfway house facility described in division (A) of this section shall file an application with the director of rehabilitation and correction as set forth in a request for proposal. Upon the submission of an application, the division of parole and community services shall review it and, if the division believes it is appropriate, shall submit a recommendation for its approval to the director. When the division submits a recommendation for approval of an application, the director may approve the application. The director shall not take action or fail to take action, or permit the taking of action or the failure to take action, with respect to halfway house facilities that would adversely affect the exclusion of interest on public obligations or on fractionalized interests in public obligations from gross income for federal income tax purposes, or the classification or qualification of the public obligations or the interest on or fractionalized interests in public obligations for, or their exemption from, other treatment under the Internal Revenue Code. (C) The director of rehabilitation and correction and the halfway house organization may enter into an agreement establishing terms for the program planning of the halfway house facility. Any terms so established shall conform to the terms of any covenant or agreement pertaining to an obligation from which the funds used for the construction of the halfway house facility are derived. (D) The director of rehabilitation and correction, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt rules that specify procedures by which a halfway house organization may apply for a contract for program planning of a halfway house facility constructed under this section, procedures for the department to follow in considering an application, criteria for granting approval of an application, and any other rules that are necessary for the selection of program planners of a halfway house facility.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.0410 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.0410
§ 5123.0410. Individual receiving services moving to new county
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly An individual with a developmental disability who moves from one county in this state to another county in this state shall receive home and community-based services in the new county that are comparable in scope to the home and community-based services the individual receives in the prior county at the time the individual moves. If the county board serving the county to which the individual moves determines under section 5126.041 of the Revised Code that the individual is eligible for county board services, the county board shall ensure that the individual receives the comparable services. If the county board determines that the individual is not eligible for county board services, the department of developmental disabilities shall ensure that the individual receives the comparable services. If the home and community-based services that the individual receives at the time the individual moves include supported living or residential services, the department shall reduce the amount the department allocates to the county board serving the county the individual left for those supported living or residential services by an amount that equals the payment the department authorizes or projects, or both, for those supported living or residential services from the last day the individual resides in the county to the last day of the state fiscal year in which the individual moves. The department shall increase the amount the department allocates to the county board serving the county the individual moves to by the same amount. The department shall make the reduction and increase effective the day the department determines the individual has residence in the new county. The department shall determine the amount that is to be reduced and increased in accordance with the department's rules for authorizing payments for home and community-based services established adopted under section 5123.049 of the Revised Code. The department shall annualize the reduction and increase for the subsequent state fiscal year as necessary.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.23 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.23
§ 5101.23. Providing incentive awards to county agencies
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly Subject to the availability of funds, the department of job and family services and the department of children and youth may provide annual financial, administrative, or other incentive awards to county family services agencies and local areas as defined in section 6301.01 of the Revised Code. A county family services agency or local area may spend an incentive awarded under this section only for the purpose for which the funds are appropriated. The departments may adopt internal management rules in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code to establish the amounts of awards, methodology for distributing the awards, types of awards, and standards for administration. There is hereby created in the state treasury the social services incentive fund. The director of job and family services and the director of children and youth may request that the director of budget and management transfer funds in the Title IV-A reserve fund created under section 5101.82 of the Revised Code and other funds appropriated for family services duties or workforce investment activities into the fund. If the director of budget and management determines that the funds identified by the director of job and family services or the director of children and youth are available and appropriate for transfer, the director of budget and management shall make the transfer. Money in the fund shall be used to provide incentive awards under this section. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.24 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.24
§ 5126.24. Salary schedules for teaching and nonteaching employees
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "License" means an educator license issued by the state board of education under section 3319.22 of the Revised Code or a certificate issued by the department of developmental disabilities. (2) "Teacher" means a person employed by a county board of developmental disabilities in a position that requires a license. (3) "Nonteaching employee" means a person employed by a county board of developmental disabilities in a position that does not require a license. (4) "Years of service" includes all service described in division (A) of section 3317.13 of the Revised Code. (B) Subject to rules established by the director of developmental disabilities pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, each county board of developmental disabilities shall annually adopt separate salary schedules for teachers and nonteaching employees. (C) The teachers' salary schedule shall provide for increments based on training and years of service. The board may establish its own service requirements provided no teacher receives less than the salary the teacher would be paid under section 3317.13 of the Revised Code if the teacher were employed by a school district board of education and provided full credit for a minimum of five years of actual teaching and military experience as defined in division (A) of such section is given to each teacher. Each teacher who has completed training that would qualify the teacher for a higher salary bracket pursuant to this section shall file by the fifteenth day of September with the fiscal officer of the board, satisfactory evidence of the completion of such additional training. The fiscal officer shall then immediately place the teacher, pursuant to this section, in the proper salary bracket in accordance with training and years of service. No teacher shall be paid less than the salary to which the teacher would be entitled under section 3317.13 of the Revised Code if the teacher were employed by a school district board of education. The superintendent of each county board, on or before the fifteenth day of October of each year, shall certify to the state board of education and the department of education and workforce the name of each teacher employed, on an annual salary, in each special education program operated pursuant to section 3323.09 of the Revised Code during the first full school week of October. The superintendent further shall certify, for each teacher, the number of years of training completed at a recognized college, the degrees earned from a college recognized by the department of education and workforce, the type of license held, the number of months employed by the board, the annual salary, and other information that the department may request. (D) The nonteaching employees' salary schedule established by the board shall be based on training, experience, and qualifications with initial salaries no less than salaries in effect on July 1, 1985. Each board shall prepare and may amend from time to time, specifications descriptive of duties, responsibilities, requirements, and desirable qualifications of the classifications of employees required to perform the duties specified in the salary schedule. All nonteaching employees shall be notified of the position classification to which they are assigned and the salary for the classification. The compensation of all nonteaching employees working for a particular board shall be uniform for like positions except as compensation would be affected by salary increments based upon length of service. On the fifteenth day of October of each year the nonteaching employees' salary schedule and list of job classifications and salaries in effect on that date shall be filed by each board with the superintendent of public instruction and the department. If such salary schedule and classification plan is not filed, the director of education and workforce shall order the board to file such schedule and list forthwith. If this condition is not corrected within ten days after receipt of the order from the director, no money shall be distributed to the board under Chapter 3317. of the Revised Code until the director has satisfactory evidence of the board's full compliance with such order. Last updated September 21, 2023 at 9:06 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5124.68 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5124 / § 5124.68
§ 5124.68. Admission as resident in an ICF/IID with medicaid-certified capacity exceeding eight
Status: in_force

July 1, 2018 House Bill 24 - 132nd General Assembly (A)(1) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, an ICF/IID with a medicaid- certified capacity exceeding eight shall not admit an individual as a resident unless all of the following apply: (a) The provider of the ICF/IID provides written notice about the individual's potential admission, and all information about the individual in the provider's possession, to the county board of developmental disabilities serving the county in which the individual resides at the time the notice is provided. (b) The county board has provided to the individual and department of developmental disabilities a copy of the findings the county board makes pursuant to division (B) of this section; (c) Not later than seven business days after the provider provides the county board the notice required by division (A)(1)(a) of this section, the department determines that the individual chooses to receive ICF/IID services from the ICF/IID after being fully informed of all available alternatives. (2) For the purpose of division (A)(1)(a) of this section, the provider of an ICF/IID with a medicaid- certified capacity exceeding eight may provide a county board written notices about multiple individuals' potential admissions to the ICF/IID at the same time. (B) Not later than five business days after a county board receives notice from the provider of an ICF/IID with a medicaid-certified capacity exceeding eight about an individual seeking admission to the ICF/IID, the county board shall do both of the following: (1) Using the information included in the notification and the additional information, if any, the department specifies pursuant to division (C) of this section, evaluate the individual and counsel the individual about both of the following: (a) The nature, extent, and timing of the services that the individual needs; (b) The least restrictive environment in which the individual could receive the needed services. (2) Using the form prescribed under division (C) of this section, make findings about the individual based on the evaluation and counseling and provide a copy of the findings to the individual and the department. (C) The department shall prescribe the form to be used for the purpose of making findings pursuant to division (B)(2) of this section. The department may specify additional information that a county board is to use when evaluating and counseling individuals under division (B)(1) of this section. (D) Division (A) of this section does not apply to an individual seeking admission to an ICF/IID with a medicaid-certified capacity exceeding eight if any of the following is the case: (1) The individual is a medicaid recipient receiving ICF/IID services on the date immediately preceding the date the individual is admitted to the ICF/IID. (2) The individual is a medicaid recipient returning to the ICF/IID following a temporary absence for which the ICF/IID is paid to reserve a bed for the individual pursuant to section 5124.34 of the Revised Code or during which the individual received rehabilitation services in another health care setting. (3) The requirements of divisions (A)(1)(a) and (b) of this section are satisfied but the department fails to make the determination required by division (A)(1)(c) of this section before the deadline specified in that division.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5108.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5108 / § 5108.12
§ 5108.12. Responsibility for funds expended or claimed
Status: in_force

September 26, 2003 House Bill 95 - 125th General Assembly Each county department of job and family services is responsible for funds expended or claimed under the county's prevention, retention, and contingency program that the department of job and family services, auditor of state, United States department of health and human services, or other government entity determines is expended or claimed in a manner that federal or state law or policy does not permit. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.0313 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.0313
§ 5103.0313. Reimbursement of agencies for training courses
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly Except as provided in section 5103.303 of the Revised Code, the department of children and youth shall compensate a private child placing agency or private noncustodial agency for the cost of procuring or operating preplacement and continuing training programs approved by the department of children and youth under section 5103.038 of the Revised Code for prospective foster caregivers and foster caregivers who are recommended for certification by the agency. The compensation shall be paid to the agency in the form of an allowance to reimburse the agency for the cost of training pursuant to the rules adopted by the department of children and youth in accordance with section 5103.0316 of the Revised Code. Last updated January 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5149.35 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5149 / § 5149.35
§ 5149.35. Joint county corrections planning board
Status: in_force

March 17, 1998 Senate Bill 111 - 122nd General Assembly The boards of county commissioners of two or more counties may enter into an agreement for the joint development, implementation, and operation of community corrections programs and may establish and maintain a joint county corrections planning board. Subject to division (A)(2) of section 5149.34 of the Revised Code, the board shall consist of an equal number of members of each county's local corrections planning board as established and maintained under division (A)(1) or (2) of that section. The joint county corrections planning board shall comply with the comprehensive plans adopted under that section in the operation of community corrections programs, but, if provisions of the comprehensive plans are contradictory or otherwise inconsistent, the board shall determine which provisions control.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.303 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.303
§ 5103.303. Payment of department allowance to private agencies
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly When the Ohio child welfare training program provides preplacement or continuing training to a prospective foster caregiver or foster caregiver whose recommending agency is a private child placing agency or private noncustodial agency, the department of children and youth shall not pay the Ohio child welfare training program the allowance the department would otherwise pay to the private child placing agency or private noncustodial agency under section 5103.0313 of the Revised Code for the training. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.048 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.048
§ 5123.048. Payment of nonfederal share of county medicaid expenditures
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly The director of developmental disabilities may enter into an agreement with a county board of developmental disabilities under which the department of developmental disabilities is to pay the nonfederal share of medicaid expenditures for one or more of the home and community-based services that the county board would, if not for the agreement, be required by section 5126.0510 of the Revised Code to pay. The agreement shall specify which home and community-based services the agreement covers. The department shall pay the nonfederal share of medicaid expenditures for the home and community-based services that the agreement covers as long as the agreement is in effect.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5108.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5108 / § 5108.02
§ 5108.02. Prevention, retention, and contingency program
Status: in_force

July 1, 2000 House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly There is hereby established the prevention, retention, and contingency program. The department of job and family services shall administer the program, as long as federal funds are provided for the program, in accordance with Title IV-A, federal regulations, state law, the state Title IV-A plan submitted to the United States secretary of health and human services under section 5101.80 of the Revised Code, and amendments to the plan.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5166.409 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5166 / § 5166.409
§ 5166.409. Rules
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly The medicaid director shall adopt rules under section 5166.02 of the Revised Code to do all of the following: (A) For the purpose of division (F)(1)(a) of section 5166.402 of the Revised Code, establish requirements regarding preventative health services for healthy Ohio program participants. The requirements may differ for participants of different ages and genders. (B) For the purpose of division (G)(2) of section 5166.402 of the Revised Code, authorize additional uses of a buckeye account and establish the means for using the account for those purposes. (C) For the purpose of division (A)(3) of section 5166.403 of the Revised Code, establish requirements for the use of a healthy Ohio program debit swipe card to pay for the costs of medically necessary health care services not covered by the health plan in which a healthy Ohio program participant enrolls. (D) For the purpose of division (C) of section 5166.404 of the Revised Code, establish a system under which the director may award points to healthy Ohio program participants who achieve health care goals. The rules shall specify the goals that qualify for points and the number of points each goal is worth. The number of points may vary for different goals. (E) For the purpose of section 5166.407 of the Revised Code, establish procedures and requirements for the transfer of the amounts remaining in former healthy Ohio program participants' buckeye accounts to bridge accounts.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.0223 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.0223
§ 5126.0223. Electronic attendance at county board meetings
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "electronic communication" means live, audio-enabled communication that permits the board members attending a meeting, the board members present in person at the place where the meeting is conducted, and all members of the public present in person at the place where the meeting is conducted to simultaneously communicate with each other during the meeting. (B) Notwithstanding division (C) of section 121.22 and section 5126.029 of the Revised Code, each county board of developmental disabilities may establish a policy that allows board members to attend a meeting of the county board via means of electronic communication. The policy shall specify at least all of the following: (1) The number of regular meetings at which each board member shall be present in person, which may not be less than one-half of the regular meetings of the county board annually; (2) All of the following minimum standards regarding a meeting conducted using means of electronic communication: (a) That at least one-third of the board members attending the meeting shall be present in person at the place where the meeting is conducted; (b) That all votes taken at the meeting are taken by roll call vote; (c) That a board member who intends to attend a meeting via means of electronic communication notifies the chairperson of that intent not less than forty-eight hours before the meeting, except in the case of a declared emergency. (C) Notwithstanding division (C) of section 121.22 and section 5126.029 of the Revised Code, a board member who attends a meeting via means of electronic communication is considered to be present at the meeting, is counted for purposes of establishing a quorum, and may vote at the meeting. (D) Except as otherwise provided in this section, no person shall limit the number of board members who may attend a meeting via means of electronic communication, limit the total number of meetings that the board may conduct using means of electronic communication, limit the number of meetings in which any one board member may attend via means of electronic communication, or impose other limits or obligations on a board member by virtue of the board member's attending a meeting via means of electronic communication. Last updated September 26, 2023 at 5:50 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5107.58 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5107 / § 5107.58
§ 5107.58. Education program
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly 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, county departments of job and family services may establish and administer as a work activity for minor heads of households and adults participating in Ohio works first an education program under which the participant is enrolled full-time in post-secondary education leading to vocation at a state institution of higher education, as defined in section 3345.031 of the Revised Code; a private nonprofit college or university that possesses a certificate of authorization issued pursuant to Chapter 1713. of the Revised Code, or is exempted by division (E) of section 1713.02 of the Revised Code from the requirement of a certificate; a school that holds a certificate of registration and program authorization issued by the state board of career colleges and schools under Chapter 3332. of the Revised Code; a private institution exempt from regulation under Chapter 3332. of the Revised Code as prescribed in section 3333.046 of the Revised Code; or a school that has entered into a contract with the county department of job and family services. The participant shall make reasonable efforts, as determined by the county department, to obtain a loan, scholarship, grant, or other assistance to pay for the tuition, including a federal Pell grant under 20 U.S.C.A. 1070a and an Ohio college opportunity grant under section 3333.122 of the Revised Code. If the participant has made reasonable efforts but is unable to obtain sufficient assistance to pay the tuition the program may pay the tuition. On or after October 1, 1998, the county department may enter into a loan agreement with the participant to pay the tuition. The total period for which tuition is paid and loans made shall not exceed two years. If the participant, pursuant to division (B)(3) of section 5107.43 of the Revised Code, volunteers to participate in the education program for more hours each week than the participant is assigned to the program, the program may pay or the county department may loan the cost of the tuition for the additional voluntary hours as well as the cost of the tuition for the assigned number of hours. The participant may receive, for not more than three years, support services, including publicly funded child care under Chapter 5104. of the Revised Code and transportation, that the participant needs to participate in the program. To receive support services in the third year, the participant must be, as determined by the educational institution in which the participant is enrolled, in good standing with the institution. A county department that provides loans under this section shall establish procedures governing loan application for and approval and administration of loans granted pursuant to this section. Last updated August 16, 2023 at 1:55 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.343 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.343
§ 5119.343. Notice of adverse action - residential facilities
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "adverse action" means an action by a state, provincial, federal, or other licensing or regulatory authority other than the department of behavioral health to deny, revoke, suspend, place on probation, or otherwise restrict a license, certificate, or other approval to operate a residential facility or practice a health care profession. (B)(1) When submitting an application for initial or renewed licensure of a residential facility under section 5119.34 of the Revised Code, the applicant shall notify the department of behavioral health of any adverse action taken against any of the following during the three-year period immediately preceding the date of application: (a) The residential facility; (b) Any owner, operator, or manager of the facility; (c) Any subsidiary of the facility, owner, or operator. (2) Not later than seven days after receiving a notice of adverse action, the holder of a residential facility license issued under section 5119.34 of the Revised Code shall notify the department of the action. (3) To notify the department as required by this section, a copy of the notice of adverse action shall be provided to the department. Last updated August 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.7514 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.7514
§ 5164.7514. Step therapy exemption process
Status: in_force

April 5, 2019 Senate Bill 265 - 132nd General Assembly (A) All of the following shall apply to the step therapy exemption process established and implemented by the department of medicaid pursuant to division (B)(2) of section 5164.7512 of the Revised Code: (1) The process shall be clear and convenient. (2) The process shall be easily accessible on the department's web site. (3) The process shall require that a medicaid provider initiate a step therapy exemption request on behalf of a medicaid recipient. (4) The process shall require supporting documentation and rationale be submitted with each request for a step therapy exemption. (5) The process shall, pursuant to a step therapy exemption request made under division (B)(2) of section 5164.7512 of the Revised Code or an appeal made under division (B)(2) of this section, require the department to grant a step therapy exemption if either of the following applies: (a) Either of the following apply to the prescribed drug that would otherwise have to be used under the step therapy protocol: (i) The required prescription drug is contraindicated for that specific medicaid recipient, pursuant to the drug's United States food and drug administration prescribing information. (ii) The medicaid recipient tried the required prescription drug while enrolled in medicaid or other health care coverage, or another United States food and drug administration approved AB-rated prescription drug, and such prescription drug was discontinued due to lack of efficacy or effectiveness, diminished effect, or an adverse event. (b) The medicaid recipient is stable on the prescribed drug selected by the recipient's medicaid provider for the medical condition under consideration, regardless of whether or not the drug was prescribed while the individual in question was a medicaid recipient, or has already gone through a step therapy protocol. However, the department may require a stable medicaid recipient to try a pharmaceutical alternative, per the federal food and drug administration's orange book, purple book, or their successors, prior to providing coverage for the prescribed drug. (6) On granting a step therapy exemption, the department shall authorize payment for the prescribed drug prescribed by the medicaid recipient's medicaid provider. (B)(1) From the time a step therapy exemption request is received, the department shall either grant or deny the request within the following time frames: (a) Forty-eight hours for requests related to urgent care services; (b) Ten calendar days for all other requests. (2)(a) If an exemption request is denied, a medicaid provider may appeal the denial on behalf of the medicaid recipient. (b) From the time a step therapy appeal is received, the department shall either grant or deny the appeal within the following time frames: (i) Forty-eight hours for appeals related to urgent care services; (ii) Ten calendar days for all other appeals. (3) The appeal shall be between the medicaid provider making the appeal and a clinical peer appointed by or contracted by the department or the department's designee. (4) If the department does not either grant or deny an exemption request or an appeal within the time frames prescribed in division (B)(1) or (2) of this section, then such an exemption request or appeal shall be deemed to be granted. (C) If an appeal is rejected, the medicaid recipient in question may make a further appeal in accordance with section 5160.31 of the Revised Code. (D) This section shall not be construed to prevent either of the following: (1) The department from requiring a medicaid recipient to try any new or existing pharmaceutical alternative, per the federal food and drug administration's orange book, purple book, or their successors, before authorizing a medicaid payment for the prescribed drug; (2) A medicaid provider from prescribing a prescribed drug that is determined to be consistent with medical or scientific evidence.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.61 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.61
§ 5119.61. Statistics concerning care, treatment and rehabilitation
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) The department of behavioral health shall collect and compile statistics and other information on the care and treatment of persons with mental disabilities, and the care, treatment, and rehabilitation of persons with alcohol use disorder, persons with drug dependencies, persons in danger of drug dependence, and persons with or in danger of developing a gambling addiction in this state. The information shall include, without limitation, information on the number of such persons, the type of drug involved, if any, the type of care, treatment, or rehabilitation prescribed or undertaken, and the success or failure of the care, treatment, or rehabilitation. The department shall collect information about addiction services, mental health services, and recovery supports delivered and persons served as required for reporting and evaluation relating to state and federal funds expended for such purposes. (B) No community addiction services provider or community mental health services provider shall fail to supply statistics and other information within its knowledge and with respect to its addiction services, mental health services, and recovery supports upon request of the department. (C) Communications by a person seeking aid in good faith for alcohol use disorder or drug dependence are confidential, and this section does not require the collection or permit the disclosure of information which reveals or comprises the identity of any person seeking aid. (D) Based on the information collected and compiled under division (A) of this section, the department shall develop a project to assess the outcomes of persons served by community addiction services providers and community mental health services providers that receive funds distributed by the department. (E) The director of behavioral health may fine a community addiction services provider or community mental health services provider for violating division (B) of this section. In determining whether to impose a fine, the director shall consider whether the provider has engaged in a pattern of noncompliance. If a fine is imposed, it shall be one thousand dollars for a first failure to comply with division (B) of this section and two thousand dollars for each subsequent failure. The director's actions in imposing a fine shall be taken in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. All fines collected under this division shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the department's statewide treatment and prevention fund created by section 4301.30 of the Revised Code. Last updated August 8, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5153.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5153 / § 5153.13
§ 5153.13. Bonds
Status: in_force

April 12, 2021 House Bill 444 - 133rd General Assembly Except as otherwise provided in section 3.061 of the Revised Code, before entering upon official duties, the executive director shall give a bond to the county in such sum as is fixed by the public children services agency, with sufficient surety, conditioned upon the faithful performance of official duties and the full and faithful accounting of all funds and properties of the agency or county coming into the executive director's hands. Except as otherwise provided in section 3.061 of the Revised Code, before entering upon such duties, the executive director shall give a bond to the probate court, with sufficient surety, conditioned upon the full and faithful accounting of all trust funds which the executive director holds on behalf of wards. The amount of such bond shall be determined by the court and may be modified by the court, provided that the minimum amount of the bond shall be five thousand dollars. The agency may require any other employee thereof, including the superintendent of the children's home, having custody or control of funds or property, to give bond to the county, except as otherwise provided in section 3.061 of the Revised Code, in such sum as the board determines, with sufficient surety, conditioned upon the faithful performance of the duties of such employee and the full and faithful accounting of any funds and properties coming into the employee's hands. The cost of such bonds shall be paid by the agency.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5145.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5145 / § 5145.15
§ 5145.15. Employing prisoners in certain work for the state
Status: in_force

April 9, 1982 House Bill 654 - 113th General Assembly The department of rehabilitation and correction may, in accordance with rules adopted pursuant to division (B) of section 5145.03 of the Revised Code, employ a portion of the prisoners in the manufacture of articles that are used by the state, any other state, any political subdivision or institution of this state, any other state, or the United States, or private persons. The department may procure machinery and prepare shop room for that purpose. The department may employ a portion of the prisoners in the preparation and manufacture of any or all forms of road-making material for use in the construction, improvement, maintenance, and repair of highways, roads, or streets. For these purposes the department may, with the approval of the governor, purchase the necessary land, quarries, buildings, machinery, and erect buildings and shops for these purposes, and employ any persons necessary to instruct the prisoners in such manufacture. The terms and manner of employment of the persons who instruct the prisoners shall be fixed and determined by the department.