Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.527 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.527
§ 5165.527. Release of amount withheld on postponement of change of operator
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The department of medicaid, at its sole discretion, may release the amount withheld under division (A) of section 5165.521 of the Revised Code if the exiting operator submits to the department written notice of a postponement of a change of operator, facility closure, or voluntary withdrawal of participation and the transactions leading to the change of operator, facility closure, or voluntary withdrawal of participation are postponed for at least thirty days but less than ninety days after the date originally proposed for the change of operator, facility closure, or voluntary withdrawal of participation as reported in the written notice required by section 5165.50 or 5165.51 of the Revised Code. The department shall release the amount withheld if the exiting operator submits to the department written notice of a cancellation or postponement of a change of operator, facility closure, or voluntary withdrawal of participation and the transactions leading to the change of operator, facility closure, or voluntary withdrawal of participation are canceled or postponed for more than ninety days after the date originally proposed for the change of operator, facility closure, or voluntary withdrawal of participation as reported in the written notice required by section 5165.50 or 5165.51 of the Revised Code. A written notice shall be provided to the department in accordance with the method specified in rules authorized by section 5165.53 of the Revised Code. After the department receives a written notice regarding a cancellation or postponement of a facility closure or voluntary withdrawal of participation, the exiting operator or owner shall provide new written notice to the department under section 5165.50 of the Revised Code regarding any transactions leading to a facility closure or voluntary withdrawal of participation at a future time. After the department receives a written notice regarding a cancellation or postponement of a change of operator, the exiting operator or owner and entering operator shall provide new written notice to the department under section 5165.51 of the Revised Code regarding any transactions leading to a change of operator at a future time.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.47 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.47
§ 5123.47. Authorizing in-home worker to perform health care tasks
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "In-home care" means the supportive services provided within the home of an individual with a developmental disability who receives funding for the services through a county board of developmental disabilities, including any recipient of residential services funded as home and community-based services, family support services provided under section 5126.11 of the Revised Code, or supported living provided in accordance with sections 5126.41 to 5126.47 of the Revised Code. "In-home care" includes care that is provided outside an individual's home in places incidental to the home, and while traveling to places incidental to the home, except that "in-home care" does not include care provided in the facilities of a county board of developmental disabilities or care provided in schools. (2) "Parent" means either parent of a child, including an adoptive parent but not a foster parent. (3) "Unlicensed in-home care worker" means an individual who provides in-home care on a self-employed basis and does not employ, either directly or through contract, another person to provide the in-home care, but who is not a health care professional. (4) "Health care professional" means any of the following: (a) A dentist who holds a valid license issued under Chapter 4715. of the Revised Code; (b) A registered or licensed practical nurse who holds a valid license issued under Chapter 4723. of the Revised Code; (c) An optometrist who holds a valid license issued under Chapter 4725. of the Revised Code; (d) A pharmacist who holds a valid license issued under Chapter 4729. of the Revised Code; (e) A person who holds a valid license or certificate issued under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code to practice medicine and surgery, osteopathic medicine and surgery, podiatric medicine and surgery, or a limited brand of medicine; (f) A physician assistant who holds a valid license issued under Chapter 4730. of the Revised Code; (g) An occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant or a physical therapist or physical therapist assistant who holds a valid license issued under Chapter 4755. of the Revised Code; (h) A respiratory care professional who holds a valid license issued under Chapter 4761. of the Revised Code; (i) A certified mental health assistant who holds a valid license issued under Chapter 4772. of the Revised Code. (5) "Health care task" means a task that is prescribed, ordered, or otherwise directed by a health care professional acting within the scope of the professional's practice. "Health care task" includes the administration of medications. (B) Except as provided in division (F) of this section, a family member of an individual with a developmental disability may authorize an unlicensed in-home care worker to perform health care tasks as part of the in-home care the worker provides to the individual, if all of the following apply: (1) The family member is the primary supervisor of the care. (2) At the time the family member both authorizes the unlicensed in-home care worker to perform health care tasks and supervises the care provided to the individual, the family member is not acting as a paid provider for the individual. (3) The unlicensed in-home care worker has been selected by the family member or the individual receiving care and is under the direct supervision of the family member. (4) The health care task is completed in accordance with standard, written instructions. (5) Performance of the health care task requires no judgment based on specialized health care knowledge or expertise. (6) The outcome of the health care task is reasonably predictable. (7) Performance of the health care task requires no complex observation of the individual receiving the care. (8) Improper performance of the health care task will result in only minimal complications that are not life-threatening. (C) A family member who authorizes an unlicensed in-home care worker to perform health care tasks under this section shall do all of the following: (1) Obtain a prescription, if applicable, and written instructions from a health care professional for the care to be provided to the individual; (2) Authorize the unlicensed in-home care worker to provide the care by preparing a written document granting the authority; (3) Provide the unlicensed in-home care worker with appropriate training and written instructions in accordance with the instructions obtained from the health care professional; (4) Be available to communicate with the unlicensed in-home care worker either in person or by telecommunication while the in-home care worker performs a health care task. (D) Before an unlicensed in-home care worker may perform the health care tasks authorized by a family member under this section, the worker shall accept the written document described in division (C)(2) of this section granting the worker that authority. (E) A family member who authorizes an unlicensed in-home care worker to perform health care tasks retains full responsibility for the health and safety of the individual receiving the care and for ensuring that the worker provides the care appropriately and safely. No entity that funds or monitors the provision of in-home care may be held liable for the results of the care provided under this section by an unlicensed in-home care worker, including such entities as the county board of developmental disabilities and the department of developmental disabilities. An unlicensed in-home care worker who is authorized under this section by a family member to provide care to an individual may not be held liable for any injury caused in providing the care, unless the worker provides the care in a manner that is not in accordance with the training and instructions received or the worker acts in a manner that constitutes willful or wanton misconduct. (F) A county board of developmental disabilities may evaluate the authority granted by a family member under this section to an unlicensed in-home care worker at any time it considers necessary and shall evaluate the authority on receipt of a complaint. In evaluating the authority, the board shall use appropriately licensed health care professionals. If, after its evaluation, the board determines that a family member has acted in a manner that is inappropriate for the health and safety of the individual receiving the care, then all of the following apply: (1) The authorization granted by the family member to an unlicensed in-home care worker is void. (2) The family member may not authorize other unlicensed in-home care workers to provide the care. (3) The board shall authorize appropriately licensed or certified providers to instead perform the health care tasks. (4) The board shall provide the family member an opportunity to file a complaint under section 5126.06 of the Revised Code. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.517 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.517
§ 5165.517. Determination of change of operator for purposes of licensure not controlling
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The department of health's determination that a change of operator has or has not occurred for purposes of licensure under Chapter 3721. of the Revised Code shall not affect the department of medicaid's determination of whether or when a change of operator occurs or the effective date of an entering operator's provider agreement under section 5165.511 , section 5165.512 , or, pursuant to section 5165.515 , section 5165.07 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5160.29 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5160 / § 5160.29
§ 5160.29. Verification of eligibility for medical assistance program
Status: in_force

July 1, 2019 House Bill 119 - 132nd General Assembly (A) As part of the process of determining an individual's eligibility for a medical assistance program, at least all of the following information about the individual shall be verified: (1) Identity; (2) Citizenship and alien eligibility; (3) Social security number; (4) State residency status; (5) Disability status; (6) Gross nonexempt income; (7) Household status ; (8) Medical expenses; (9) Enrollment status in other state-administered public assistance programs within and outside the state. ( B) As part of the process of determining an individual's eligibility for a medical assistance program, each applicant, or a person acting on the applicant's behalf, shall verify the applicant's identity. (C)(1) The department of medicaid shall sign a memorandum of understanding with any department, agency, or division as needed to obtain the information specified in division (A) of this section. (2) The department may contract with one or more independent vendors to provide the information identified in division (A) of this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.542 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.542
§ 5123.542. Notice explaining prohibited conduct
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly (A) Each of the following shall annually provide a written notice to each of its developmental disabilities employees explaining the conduct for which a developmental disabilities employee may be included in the registry established under section 5123.52 of the Revised Code: (1) The department of developmental disabilities; (2) Each county board of developmental disabilities; (3) Each provider and subcontractor, as defined in section 5123.081 of the Revised Code; (4) Each owner, operator, or administrator of a residential facility, as defined in section 5123.19 of the Revised Code; (5) Each owner, operator, or administrator of a program certified by the department to provide supported living. (B) The department of developmental disabilities or a county board of developmental disabilities shall provide the notice required by division (A) of this section to a developmental disabilities employee who is an independent provider, as defined in section 5123.16 of the Revised Code. (C) The notice described in division (A) of this section shall be in a form and provided in a manner prescribed by the department of developmental disabilities. The form shall be the same for all persons and entities required to provide notice under division (A) of this section. (D) The fact that a developmental disabilities employee does not receive the notice required by this section does not exempt the employee from inclusion in the registry established under section 5123.52 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5139.55 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5139 / § 5139.55
§ 5139.55. Office of victims' services
Status: in_force

January 1, 2002 Senate Bill 179 - 123rd General Assembly (A)(1) The office of victims' services is hereby created within the release authority of the department of youth services. The office of victims' services shall provide assistance to victims, victims' representatives, and members of a victim's family. The assistance shall include, but shall not be limited to, all of the following: (a) If the court has provided the name and address of the victims of the child's acts to the department of youth services, notification that the child has been committed to the department, notification of the right of the victim or another authorized person to designate a person as a victim's representative under section 5139.56 of the Revised Code and of the actions that must be taken to make that designation, and notification of the right to be notified of release reviews, pending release hearings, revocation reviews, and discharge reviews related to that child and of the right to participate in release proceedings under that section and of the actions that must be taken to exercise those rights; (b) The provision of information about the policies and procedures of the department of youth services and the status of children in the legal custody of the department. (2) The office shall make available information to assist victims of delinquent children on supervised release or in a secure facility. (B) The office of victims' services shall employ a victims administrator who shall administer the duties of the office. The victims administrator shall be in the unclassified civil service and a managing officer of the department. The office shall employ other staff members to assist the members of the release authority and hearing representatives in identifying victims' issues, ensure that the release authority upholds the provisions of section 5139.56 of the Revised Code, and make recommendations to the release authority in accordance with policies adopted by the department. (C) The office of victims' services shall coordinate its activities with the chairperson of the release authority. The victims administrator and other employees of the office shall have full access to the records of children in the legal custody of the department in accordance with division (D) of section 5139.05 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5167.221 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5167 / § 5167.221
§ 5167.221. Assessment of recoupment efforts
Status: in_force

October 17, 2019 House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly The department of medicaid shall assess the efforts of medicaid managed care organizations to recoup overpayments made to providers who are network providers and providers who are not network providers. The assessments shall examine the amount of time recoupment efforts take starting from the time providers receive final payment and ending when the recoupment effort is completed. Each medicaid managed care organization shall submit to the department information regarding such recoupment efforts that the department needs to perform the assessments. The department shall specify what information is so needed. Following the assessments, the department shall include in the contracts entered into with medicaid managed care organizations under section 5167.10 of the Revised Code terms the department determines are reasonable to establish limits on such recoupment efforts. The terms shall include exceptions for cases of fraud and other types of deception.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.16
§ 5164.16. Coverage of one or more state plan home and community-based services
Status: in_force

September 18, 2020 House Bill 11 - 133rd General Assembly The medicaid program may cover one or more state plan home and community-based services that the department of medicaid selects for coverage. A medicaid recipient of any age may receive a state plan home and community-based service if the recipient has countable income not exceeding two hundred twenty-five per cent of the federal poverty line, has a medical need for the service, and meets all other eligibility requirements for the service specified in rules adopted under section 5164.02 of the Revised Code. The rules may not require a medicaid recipient to undergo a level of care determination to be eligible for a state plan home and community-based service.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5163.45 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5163 / § 5163.45
§ 5163.45. Confinement of medicaid recipient in correctional facility
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A)(1) As used in this section, subject to division (A)(2) of this section, "state or local correctional facility" means any of the following: (a) A "state correctional institution," as defined in section 2967.01 of the Revised Code; (b) A "local correctional facility," as defined in section 2903.13 of the Revised Code; (c) A correctional facility that is privately operated and managed pursuant to section 9.06 of the Revised Code. (2) "State or local correctional facility" does not include any facility operated directly by or at the direction of the department of youth services. (B) If a person who is confined in a state or local correctional facility was a medicaid recipient immediately prior to being confined in the facility, all of the following apply: (1) The person's eligibility for medicaid while so confined shall be suspended due to the confinement. (2) No medicaid payment shall be made for any care, services, or supplies provided to the person during the suspension described in division (B)(1) of this section. (3) The suspension described in division (B)(1) of this section shall end upon the release of the person from the confinement. (4) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, the person shall not be required to reapply or undergo a redetermination of eligibility for medicaid when the suspension described in division (B)(1) of this section ends. (C) A person may be disenrolled from medicaid any time after the suspension described in division (B)(1) of this section ends if the person is no longer eligible for medicaid. A person may be required to undergo a redetermination of eligibility for medicaid any time after the suspension described in division (B)(1) of this section ends if it is time or past time for the person's eligibility redetermination or the person's circumstances have changed in a manner warranting a redetermination.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.035 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.035
§ 5120.035. Community-based substance use disorder treatment for qualified prisoners
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Community treatment provider" means a program that provides substance use disorder assessment and treatment for persons and that satisfies all of the following: (a) It is located outside of a state correctional institution. (b) It shall provide the assessment and treatment for qualified prisoners referred and transferred to it under this section in a suitable facility that is licensed pursuant to division (D) of section 2967.14 of the Revised Code. (c) All qualified prisoners referred and transferred to it under this section shall reside initially in the suitable facility specified in division (A)(1)(b) of this section while undergoing the assessment and treatment. (2) "Electronic monitoring device" has the same meaning as in section 2929.01 of the Revised Code. (3) "State correctional institution" has the same meaning as in section 2967.01 of the Revised Code. (4) "Qualified prisoner" means a person who satisfies all of the following: (a) The person is confined in a state correctional institution under a prison term imposed for a felony of the third, fourth, or fifth degree that is not an offense of violence. (b) The department of rehabilitation and correction determines, using a standardized assessment tool, that the person has a substance use disorder. (c) The person has not more than twelve months remaining to be served under the prison term described in division (A)(4)(a) of this section. (d) The person is not serving any prison term other than the term described in division (A)(4)(a) of this section. (e) The person is eighteen years of age or older. (f) The person does not show signs of drug or alcohol withdrawal and does not require medical detoxification. (g) As determined by the department of rehabilitation and correction, the person is physically and mentally capable of uninterrupted participation in the substance use disorder treatment program established under division (B) of this section. (B) The department of rehabilitation and correction shall establish and operate a program for community-based substance use disorder treatment for qualified prisoners. The purpose of the program shall be to provide substance use disorder assessment and treatment through community treatment providers to help reduce substance use relapses and recidivism for qualified prisoners while preparing them for reentry into the community and improving public safety. (C)(1) The department shall determine which qualified prisoners in its custody should be placed in the substance use disorder treatment program established under division (B) of this section. The department has full discretion in making that determination. If the department determines that a qualified prisoner should be placed in the program, the department may refer the prisoner to a community treatment provider the department has approved under division (E) of this section for participation in the program and transfer the prisoner from the state correctional institution to the provider's approved and licensed facility. Except as otherwise provided in division (C)(3) of this section, no prisoner shall be placed under the program in any facility other than a facility of a community treatment provider that has been so approved. If the department places a prisoner in the program, the prisoner shall receive credit against the prisoner's prison term for all time served in the provider's approved and licensed facility and may earn days of credit under section 2967.193 or 2967.194 of the Revised Code, but otherwise neither the placement nor the prisoner's participation in or completion of the program shall result in any reduction of the prisoner's prison term. (2) If the department places a prisoner in the substance use disorder treatment program, the prisoner does not satisfactorily participate in the program, and the prisoner has not served the prisoner's entire prison term, the department may remove the prisoner from the program and return the prisoner to a state correctional institution. (3) If the department places a prisoner in the substance use disorder treatment program and the prisoner is satisfactorily participating in the program, the department may permit the prisoner to reside at a residence approved by the department if the department determines, with input from the community treatment provider, that residing at the approved residence will help the prisoner prepare for reentry into the community and will help reduce substance use relapses and recidivism for the prisoner. If a prisoner is permitted under this division to reside at a residence approved by the department, the prisoner shall be monitored during the period of that residence by an electronic monitoring device. (D)(1) When a prisoner has been placed in the substance use disorder treatment program established under division (B) of this section, before the prisoner is released from custody of the department upon completion of the prisoner's prison term, the department shall conduct and prepare an evaluation of the prisoner, the prisoner's participation in the program, and the prisoner's needs regarding substance use disorder treatment upon release. Before the prisoner is released from custody of the department upon completion of the prisoner's prison term, the parole board or the court acting pursuant to an agreement under section 2967.29 of the Revised Code shall consider the evaluation, in addition to all other information and materials considered, as follows: (a) If the prisoner is a prisoner for whom post-release control is mandatory under section 2967.28 of the Revised Code, the board or court shall consider it in determining which post-release control sanction or sanctions to impose upon the prisoner under that section. (b) If the prisoner is a prisoner for whom post-release control is not mandatory under section 2967.28 of the Revised Code, the board or court shall consider it in determining whether a post-release control sanction is necessary and, if so, which post-release control sanction or sanctions to impose upon the prisoner under that section. (2) If the department determines that a prisoner it placed in the substance use disorder treatment program successfully completed the program and successfully completed a term of post-release control, if applicable, and if the prisoner submits an application under section 2953.32 or the prosecutor in the case submits an application under section 2953.39 of the Revised Code for sealing or expungement of the record of the conviction, the director may issue a letter to the court in support of the application. (E)(1) The department shall accept applications from community treatment providers that satisfy the requirement specified in division (E)(2) of this section and that wish to participate in the substance use disorder treatment program established under division (B) of this section, and shall approve for participation in the program at least four and not more than eight of the providers that apply. To the extent feasible, the department shall approve one or more providers from each geographical quadrant of the state. (2) Each community treatment provider that applies under division (E)(1) of this section to participate in the program shall have the provider's alcohol and drug addiction services that provide substance use disorder treatment certified by the department of mental health and addiction services under section 5119.36 of the Revised Code. A community treatment provider is not required to have the provider's halfway house or residential treatment certified by the department of mental health and addiction services. (F) The department of rehabilitation and correction shall adopt rules for the operation of the substance use disorder treatment program it establishes under division (B) of this section and shall operate the program in accordance with this section and those rules. The rules shall establish, at a minimum, all of the following: (1) Criteria that establish which qualified prisoners are eligible for the program; (2) Criteria that must be satisfied to transfer a qualified prisoner to a residence pursuant to division (C)(3) of this section; (3) Criteria for the removal of a prisoner from the program pursuant to division (C)(2) of this section; (4) Criteria for determining when an offender has successfully completed the program for purposes of division (D)(2) of this section; (5) Criteria for community treatment providers to provide assessment and treatment, including minimum standards for treatment. Last updated August 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5155.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5155 / § 5155.11
§ 5155.11. Duties of prosecuting attorney
Status: in_force

May 13, 1980 House Bill 561 - 113th General Assembly On the request of the superintendent or administrator of the county home the prosecuting attorney shall prepare the affidavit provided for by section 5155.08 of the Revised Code, and shall also represent the complainant at the hearing provided for by section 5155.09 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5155.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5155 / § 5155.15
§ 5155.15. Vouchers for payments
Status: in_force

May 13, 1980 House Bill 561 - 113th General Assembly The county auditor shall receive vouchers given by the board of county commissioners, and countersigned by its clerk to any person other than the commissioners themselves, for labor, provisions, medical attendance, or supplies of any kind furnished to the facility, and shall give the person a warrant on the county treasurer for the proper amount. The treasurer shall pay such warrant from the county home fund, and the vouchers shall show the specific items allowed by the board, or shall be accompanied by a statement in writing showing the items.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5153.131 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5153 / § 5153.131
§ 5153.131. Liability insurance
Status: in_force

October 5, 2000 House Bill 448 - 123rd General Assembly A public children services agency may procure a policy or policies of insurance insuring employees of the agency, volunteers, foster caregivers associated with the agency, and, if a county children services board is the public children services agency, board members against liability arising from the performance of their official duties.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5155.32 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5155 / § 5155.32
§ 5155.32. Screening of residents after closing of home
Status: in_force

May 13, 1980 House Bill 561 - 113th General Assembly After a county home has been closed as provided in section 5155.31 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners, or a person appointed by the board for that purpose, shall determine who is eligible for county care, and shall certify and convey persons determined eligible to the county home with which a contract has been made under such section, and shall perform all the duties of the superintendent or administrator of a county home so far as such duties relate to acceptance and discharge of persons determined eligible for county care. The board may appoint a person or a social or welfare agency to perform these duties for it.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5153.47 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5153 / § 5153.47
§ 5153.47. Control of farm
Status: in_force

September 14, 1957 House Bill 927 - 102nd General Assembly The choice of an established site and buildings, or the purchase of a site, stock, implements, and general farm equipment, should there be a farm, the erection of buildings, and the completion and furnishing of the district children's home for occupancy, shall be in the hands of the joint board of county commissioners organized under section 5153.36 of the Revised Code. Such joint board of county commissioners may delegate all or a portion of these duties to the board of trustees provided for under section 5153.39 of the Revised Code, under such restrictions and regulations as the joint board of county commissioners imposes.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.10
§ 5180.10. [Former R.C. 3701.68, amended and renumbered by H.B. 33, 135th General Assembly, effective 1/1/2025] Commission on infant mortality
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Academic medical center" means a medical school and its affiliated teaching hospitals. (2) "State registrar" has the same meaning as in section 3705.01 of the Revised Code. (B) There is hereby created the commission on infant mortality. The commission shall do all of the following: (1) Conduct a complete inventory of services provided or administered by the state that are available to address the infant mortality rate in this state; (2) For each service identified under division (B)(1) of this section, determine both of the following: (a) The sources of the funds that are used to pay for the service; (b) Whether the service and its funding sources have a connection with programs provided or administered by local or community-based public or private entities and, to the extent they do not, whether they should. (3) With assistance from academic medical centers, track and analyze infant mortality rates by county for the purpose of determining the impact of state and local initiatives to reduce those rates. (C) The commission shall consist of the following members: (1) Two members of the senate, one from the majority party and one from the minority party, each appointed by the senate president; (2) Two members of the house of representatives, one from the majority party and one from the minority party, each appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives; (3) The governor or the governor's designee; (4) The medicaid director or the director's designee; (5) The director of children and youth or the director's designee; (6) The director of health or the director's designee; (7) The director of developmental disabilities or the director's designee; (8) The executive director of the commission on minority health or the executive director's designee; (9) The attorney general or the attorney general's designee; (10) A health commissioner of a city or general health district, appointed by the governor; (11) A coroner, deputy coroner, or other person who conducts death scene investigations, appointed by the governor; (12) An individual who represents the Ohio hospital association, appointed by the association's president; (13) An individual who represents the Ohio children's hospital association, appointed by the association's president; (14) Two individuals who represent community-based programs that serve pregnant women or new mothers whose infants tend to be at a higher risk for infant mortality, appointed by the governor; (15) Two individuals who represent children's interests, one to be appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives and one to be appointed by the senate president. (D) An appointed commission member shall hold office until a successor is appointed. A vacancy shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment. From among the members, the president of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives shall appoint two to serve as co-chairpersons of the commission. A member shall serve without compensation except to the extent that serving on the commission is considered part of the member's regular duties of employment. (E) The commission may request assistance from the staff of the legislative service commission. (F) For purposes of division (B)(3) of this section, the state registrar shall ensure that the commission and academic medical centers located in this state have access to any electronic system of vital records the state registrar or department of health maintains, including the Ohio public health information warehouse. Not later than six months after March 19, 2015, the commission on infant mortality shall prepare a written report of its findings and recommendations concerning the matters described in division (B) of this section. On completion, the commission shall submit the report to the governor and, in accordance with section 101.68 of the Revised Code, the general assembly. (G) The president of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives shall determine the responsibilities of the commission following submission of the report under division (F) of this section. (H) The commission is not subject to sections 101.82 to 101.87 of the Revised Code. (I) The commission shall provide information to the Ohio housing finance agency for the purposes of division (A) of section 175.14 of the Revised Code. Last updated January 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.58 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.58
§ 5126.58. Board approval or disapproval of loan application
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly The county board of developmental disabilities shall adopt a resolution approving or disapproving an eligible organization's application for a residential facility linked deposit loan. The county board shall disapprove an application unless it finds, based on the application and its evaluation of the applicant, each of the following: (A) The applicant has fully complied with sections 5126.54 and 5126.56 of the Revised Code. (B) Development of the residential facility will materially contribute to alleviating the shortage of residential facilities in the county for individuals with developmental disabilities. (C) The applicant is ready to proceed with development of the residential facility, but is unable to do so because of high interest rates. (D) The board of county commissioners has certified that public moneys of the county are currently available for placement of the residential facility linked deposit necessary to provide low-cost financing to the applicant. (E) Placement of the residential facility linked deposit, considered in the aggregate with all other residential facility linked deposits under the county's residential facility linked deposit program, will not cause the total amount of the county's residential facility linked deposits to exceed an amount equal to ten per cent of the operating budget of the county board of developmental disabilities for the current year. If placement of the residential facility linked deposit would cause the total amount of the county's residential facility linked deposits to exceed the maximum established by this division, the county board may accept the application but limit the amount of the residential facility linked deposit accordingly. The resolution shall include specific findings of fact justifying acceptance or rejection of the application. If the board accepts the application, it shall specify the amount of the residential facility linked deposit in the resolution. The county board shall transmit a certified copy of the resolution to the applicant, the eligible lending institution, and the county's investing authority.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5153.20 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5153 / § 5153.20
§ 5153.20. Cost of care charged to county of legal residence
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A)(1) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the cost of care furnished by the public children services agency or the board of county commissioners to any child having a legal residence in another county shall be charged to the county of legal residence. No expense shall be incurred by the agency or the board of county commissioners, on account of such care, except for temporary or emergency care, without the consent of the agency or board of county commissioners, or as provided by this section. If such consent cannot be obtained the board of county commissioners may file a petition in the court of common pleas of the county in which the child is found for a determination of legal residence of such child. Summons in such a proceeding shall be served, as in other civil actions, upon the board of county commissioners and the executive director of the agency of the county alleged to be the county of legal residence, but the answer day shall be the tenth day after the issuance of such summons. The return day shall be the fifth day after issuance of the summons. The cause shall be set for hearing not less than ten nor more than thirty days after the issuance of the summons. The finding and determination by the court upon such application, subject to the right of appeal, shall be final and conclusive as to the county chargeable under this section with the costs of the care of such child. The board of county commissioners out of its general funds shall reimburse the agency furnishing such care, upon receipt of itemized statements. (2) Any moneys received by the agency furnishing such care from persons liable for the cost of any part of such care, by agreement or otherwise, shall be credited to the county of legal residence. (3) The agency may remove and deliver any child, having legal residence in another county in Ohio and deemed to be in need of public care, to the public children services agency of the county of legal residence. All cost incidental to the transportation of such child and of any escort required shall be paid by the public children services agency which delivers back the child. With the approval of the department of children and youth, any child whose legal residence has been found to be in another state or country may be transferred to the department for return to the place of legal residence, or such child may be returned by the agency. All costs incidental to the transportation of such child and of any escort required shall be paid by the department of children and youth if it returns the child, otherwise the cost shall be paid by the agency, subject in either case to such reimbursement as may be obtained from the responsible persons or authorities of the place of legal residence. The department of children and youth may enter into agreements with the authorities of other states relative to the placement and return of children. (B)(1) If a court determines that reasonable efforts have been made to prevent removal of an adopted child from the child's home pursuant to section 2151.419 of the Revised Code and an adopted child is placed in the temporary or permanent custody of a public children services agency or a private child placing agency within thirty-six months of the date that the child's adoption was finalized, the agency that previously held permanent custody of the child when the child was placed with the adoptive parent shall be given opportunity to participate in planning for the child's care and treatment and shall assume fifty per cent of the financial responsibility for the care and treatment. Shared planning and financial responsibility shall cease on the first day of the thirty-seventh month after the date that the child's adoption was finalized and, on this date, the custodial agency shall then assume full planning and financial responsibility. The custodial agency and the agency that previously held permanent custody of the child may enter into a written agreement for shared financial responsibility that differs from the responsibilities allocated in this division. (2) Division (B)(1) of this section does not apply to any of the following: (a) An adoption by a stepparent whose spouse is a biological or adoptive parent of the child; (b) An international adoption; (c) An adoption where either the custodial agency or agency that previously held permanent custody of the child is not in this state. (3) Nothing in division (B) of this section shall prevent a court or a child support enforcement agency from issuing a child support order. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5153.24 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5153 / § 5153.24
§ 5153.24. Admission, removal and transfer of children to children's home
Status: in_force

September 14, 1957 House Bill 927 - 102nd General Assembly The children to be admitted for care in a county children's home, the period during which such children shall be cared for therein, and the removal and transfer of children therefrom shall be determined by the executive secretary, subject to the agreement, surrender, or commitment respecting any particular child.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5163.091 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5163 / § 5163.091
§ 5163.091. Qualifications for program
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly Under the medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilities program, an individual who does both of the following in accordance with rules authorized by section 5163.098 of the Revised Code qualifies for the medicaid program: (A) Applies for the medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilities program; (B) Provides satisfactory evidence of all of the following: (1) That the individual is at least sixteen years of age and under sixty-five years of age; (2) Except as provided in section 5163.096 of the Revised Code, that one of the following applies to the individual: (a) The individual is considered disabled for the purpose of the supplemental security income program, regardless of whether the individual receives supplemental security income benefits, and the individual has earnings from employment. (b) The individual is an employed individual with a medically improved disability. (3) That the value of the individual's resources, less amounts disregarded pursuant to rules authorized by section 5163.098 of the Revised Code, does not exceed the amount provided for by section 5163.092 of the Revised Code; (4) That the individual's income, less amounts disregarded pursuant to section 5163.093 of the Revised Code, does not exceed two hundred fifty per cent of the federal poverty line; (5) That the individual meets the additional eligibility requirements for the medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilities program established in rules authorized by section 5163.098 of the Revised Code. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.194 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.194
§ 5123.194. Waiving support collection requirements to facilitate independent living
Status: in_force

September 29, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly In the case of an individual who resides in a residential facility and is preparing to move into an independent living arrangement and the individual's liable relative, the department of developmental disabilities may waive the support collection requirements of sections 5121.04 and 5123.122 of the Revised Code for the purpose of allowing income or resources to be used to acquire items necessary for independent living. The department shall adopt rules in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code to implement this section, including rules that establish the method the department shall use to determine when an individual is preparing to move into an independent living arrangement.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5153.28 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5153 / § 5153.28
§ 5153.28. Reporting child in need of public care
Status: in_force

October 1, 1997 House Bill 408 - 122nd General Assembly Boards of township trustees, the superintendent of any county home, and other officers and employees of any county, municipal corporation, or other political subdivisions of the state shall make a report to the public children services agency respecting any child in the county coming to their attention, who is deemed to be in need of public care. No child shall be kept or maintained in any county home, except with the approval of the public children services agency of such county.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5162.82 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5162 / § 5162.82
§ 5162.82. Payment rate increase report
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly Before making any payment rate increases greater than ten per cent under the medicaid program, the medicaid director shall notify the standing committees with oversight of the medicaid program as provided in section 103.41 of the Revised Code of the increase. Last updated August 20, 2025 at 11:34 AM Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 5124.62 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5124 / § 5124.62
§ 5124.62. Request for federal approval of conversion of beds
Status: in_force

September 15, 2014 House Bill 483 - 130th General Assembly The director of developmental disabilities may request that the medicaid director seek the approval of the United States secretary of health and human services to increase the number of slots available for home and community-based services by a number not exceeding the number of beds that were part of the licensed capacity of a residential facility that had its license revoked or surrendered under section 5123.19 of the Revised Code if the residential facility was an ICF/IID at the time of the license revocation or surrender. The request may include beds the director of developmental disabilities removed from such a residential facility's licensed capacity before transferring ownership or operation of the residential facility pursuant to a request for proposals.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.71 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.71
§ 5119.71. Duties of compact administrators
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly Pursuant to Article X of the compact set forth in section 5119.70 of the Revised Code, the director of behavioral health and the director of developmental disabilities each shall designate an officer who shall be the compact administrator for the department and who, acting jointly with like officers of other party states, shall adopt rules to carry out more effectively the terms of the compact. The compact administrators of each department shall serve subject to the pleasure of the governor and shall cooperate with all departments, agencies, and officers of and in the government of this state and its subdivisions in facilitating the proper administration of the compact or of any supplementary agreements entered into by this state thereunder. Last updated August 8, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5104.016 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5104 / § 5104.016
§ 5104.016. Rules establishing minimum requirements for child care centers
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly The director of children and youth, in addition to the rules adopted under section 5104.015 of the Revised Code, shall adopt rules establishing minimum requirements for child care centers. The rules shall include the requirements set forth in sections 5104.032 to 5104.034 of the Revised Code. Except as provided in section 5104.07 of the Revised Code, the rules shall not change the square footage requirements of section 5104.032 of the Revised Code or the maximum number of children per care staff member and maximum group size requirements of section 5104.033 of the Revised Code. However, the rules shall provide procedures for determining compliance with those requirements. Last updated January 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.171 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.171
§ 5119.171. Youth prevention program
Status: in_force

March 20, 2026 Senate Bill 56 - 136th General Assembly The department of behavioral health shall establish and administer a statewide program to prevent youth use of cannabis. The program shall do the following: (A) Use a harm reduction approach; (B) Include practices aimed at the prevention or reduction of substance use, substance abuse, substance dependence, and substance use disorders; (C) Use other evidence-based approaches selected by the department. Last updated February 9, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5117.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5117 / § 5117.04
§ 5117.04. Right of qualified residential customers to receive credit or payment
Status: in_force

July 1, 2000 Senate Bill 3 - 123rd General Assembly (A) Every energy company and energy dealer, at least once during June, and once during August, shall begin to distribute to each of its residential heating customers a plain and clear notice, printed in ten-point type on a sheet or card on which no other words appear on either the front or back, that states the right of qualified residential customers to receive a credit or payment under the Ohio energy credit program and that explains in detail, in a fashion reasonably calculated to inform, the relevant mechanisms established under sections 5117.01 to 5117.12 of the Revised Code to effectuate that right. The notice shall also contain, in ten-point boldface type, the following statement: "The right of eligible customers to receive a credit against utility bills or a payment for energy bills is provided in legislation (House Bill 657) passed by the General Assembly and signed by the Governor." (B) The director of development shall cause to be printed notices of the type specified in division (A) of this section and application forms in sufficient quantity for distribution. The director shall maintain a system for distributing application forms to appropriate public locations. The distribution system shall be designed to make application forms available to as many qualified persons as possible. (C) The director shall arrange for the establishment of a toll-free telephone number to enable all persons in this state to make inquiries and obtain information concerning the credits or payments.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.86 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.86
§ 5164.86. Qualified state long-term care insurance partnership program
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The medicaid director shall establish a qualified state long-term care insurance partnership program consistent with the definition of that term in the "Social Security Act," section 1917(b)(1)(C)(iii), 42 U.S.C. 1396p(b)(1)(C)(iii). An individual participating in the program who is subject to the medicaid estate recovery program instituted under section 5162.21 of the Revised Code shall be eligible for the reduced adjustment or recovery under division (D) of that section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.345 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.345
§ 5119.345. Residential facility directory
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly The department of behavioral health shall publish a directory of all residential facilities licensed under section 5119.34 of the Revised Code on the department's web site. For each facility, the directory shall include all of the following: (A) The name of the facility; (B) The facility's full address; (C) The facility's categorization as a class one, class two, or class three facility; (D) The services offered at the facility. Last updated August 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5149.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5149 / § 5149.09
§ 5149.09. Appointing officers and employees
Status: in_force

March 17, 1998 Senate Bill 111 - 122nd General Assembly The chief of the division of parole and community services is the principal appointing authority of the adult parole authority, and the chief shall appoint all officers and employees of the authority except for those officers appointed by the director of rehabilitation and correction pursuant to section 5149.02 or division (B) of section 5149.10 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.23 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.23
§ 5103.23. Interstate Compact on Placement of Children
Status: in_force

May 14, 2008 House Bill 214 - 127th General Assembly The interstate compact on the placement of children is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining therein in form substantially as follows: Article I. Purpose and Policy. It is the purpose and policy of the party states to cooperate with each other in the interstate placement of children to the end that: (A) Each child requiring placement shall receive the maximum opportunity to be placed in a suitable environment and with persons or institutions having appropriate qualifications and facilities to provide a necessary and desirable degree and type of care. (B) The appropriate authorities in a state where a child is to be placed may have full opportunity to ascertain the circumstances of the proposed placement, thereby promoting full compliance with applicable requirements for the protection of the child. (C) The proper authorities of the state from which the placement is made may obtain the most complete information on the basis of which to evaluate a projected placement before it is made. (D) Appropriate jurisdictional arrangements for the care of children will be promoted. Article II. Definitions. As used in this compact: (A) "Child" means a person who, by reason of minority, is legally subject to parental, guardianship or similar control. (B) "Sending agency" means a party state, officer or employee thereof; a subdivision of a party state, or officer or employee thereof; a court of a party state; a person, corporation, association, charitable agency, or other entity which sends, brings, or causes to be sent or brought any child to another party state. (C) "Receiving state" means the state to which a child is sent, brought, or caused to be sent or brought, whether by public authorities or private persons or agencies, and whether for placement with state or local public authorities or for placement with private agencies or persons. (D) "Placement" means the arrangement for the care of a child in a family free or boarding home, or in a child-caring agency or institution but does not include any institution caring for the mentally ill, mentally defective, or epileptic, or any institution primarily educational in character, and any hospital or other medical facility. Article III. Conditions for Placement. (A) No sending agency shall send, bring, or cause to be sent or brought into any other party state any child for placement in foster care or as a preliminary to a possible adoption unless the sending agency shall comply with each and every requirement set forth in this article and with the applicable laws of the receiving state governing the placement of children therein. (B) Prior to sending, bringing or causing any child to be sent or brought into a receiving state for placement in foster care or as a preliminary to a possible adoption, the sending agency shall furnish the appropriate public authorities in the receiving state written notice of the intention to send, bring, or place the child in the receiving state. The notice shall contain: (1) The name, date and place of the birth of the child; (2) The identity and address or addresses of the parents or legal guardian; (3) The name and address of the person, agency, or institution to or with which the sending agency proposes to send, bring, or place the child; (4) A full statement of the reasons for such proposed action and evidence of the authority pursuant to which the placement is proposed to be made. (C) Any public officer or agency in a receiving state which is in receipt of a notice pursuant to division (B) of this article may request of the sending agency, or any other appropriate officer or agency of or in the sending agency's state, and shall be entitled to receive therefrom, such supporting or additional information as it may deem necessary under the circumstances to carry out the purpose and policy of this compact. (D) The child shall not be sent, brought, or caused to be sent or brought into the receiving state until the appropriate public authorities in the receiving state shall notify the sending agency, in writing, to the effect that the proposed placement does not appear to be contrary to the interests of the child. Article IV. Penalty for Illegal Placement. The sending, bringing, or causing to be sent or brought into any receiving state of a child in violation of the terms of this compact shall constitute a violation of the laws respecting the placement of children of both the state in which the sending agency is located or from which it sends or brings the child and of the receiving state. Such violation may be punished or subjected to penalty in either jurisdiction in accordance with its laws. In addition to liability for any such punishment or penalty, any such violation shall constitute full and sufficient grounds for the suspension or revocation of any license, permit, or other legal authorization held by the sending agency which empowers or allows it to place, or care for children. Article V. Retention of Jurisdiction. (A) The sending agency shall retain jurisdiction over the child sufficient to determine all matters in relation to the custody, supervision, care, treatment and disposition of the child which it would have had if the child had remained in the sending agency's state, until the child is adopted, reaches majority, becomes self-supporting or is discharged with the concurrence of the appropriate authority in the receiving state. Such jurisdiction shall also include the power to effect or cause the return of the child or its transfer to another location and custody pursuant to law. The sending agency shall continue to have financial responsibility for support and maintenance of the child during the period of the placement. Nothing contained herein shall defeat a claim of jurisdiction by a receiving state sufficient to deal with an act of delinquency or crime committed therein. (B) When the sending agency is a public agency, it may enter into an agreement with an authorized public or private agency in the receiving state providing for the performance of one or more services in respect of such case by the latter as agent for the sending agency. (C) Nothing in this compact shall be construed to prevent a private charitable agency authorized to place children in the receiving state from performing services or acting as agent in that state for a private charitable agency of the sending state; nor to prevent the agency in the receiving state from discharging financial responsibility for the support and maintenance of a child who has been placed on behalf of the sending agency without relieving the responsibility set forth in paragraph (A) hereof. Article VI. Institutional Care of Delinquent Children. A child adjudicated delinquent may be placed in an institution in another party jurisdiction pursuant to this compact but no such placement shall be made unless the child is given a court hearing on notice to the parent or guardian with opportunity to be heard prior to his being sent to such other party jurisdiction for institutional care and the court finds that: (A) Equivalent facilities for the child are not available in the sending agency's jurisdiction; and (B) Institutional care in the other jurisdiction is in the best interest of the child and will not produce undue hardship. Article VII. Compact Administrator. The executive head of each jurisdiction party to this compact shall designate an officer who shall be general coordinator of activities under this compact in his jurisdiction and who, acting jointly with like officers of other party jurisdictions, shall have power to promulgate rules and regulations to carry out more effectively the terms and provisions of this compact. Article VIII. Limitations. This compact shall not apply to: (A) The sending or bringing of a child into a receiving state by his parent, step-parent, grandparent, adult brother or sister, adult uncle or aunt, or his guardian and leaving the child with any such relative or non-agency guardian in the receiving state. (B) Any placement, sending or bringing of a child into a receiving state pursuant to any other interstate compact to which both the state from which the child is sent or brought and the receiving state are party, or to any other agreement between said states which has the force of law. Article IX. Enactment and Withdrawal. This compact shall be open to joinder by any state, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and, with the consent of congress, the government of Canada, or any province thereof. It shall become effective with respect to any such jurisdiction when such jurisdiction has enacted the same into law. Withdrawal from this compact shall be by the enactment of a statute repealing the same, but shall not take effect until two years after the effective date of such statute and until written notice of the withdrawal has been given by the withdrawing state to the governor of each other party jurisdiction. Withdrawal of a party state shall not affect the rights, duties and obligations under this compact of any sending agency therein with respect to a placement made prior to the effective date of withdrawal. Article X. Construction and Severability. The provisions of this compact shall be liberally construed to effectuate the purposes thereof. The provisions of this compact shall be severable and if any phrase, clause, sentence or provision of this compact is declared to be contrary to the constitution of any party state or of the United States or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this compact and the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person or circumstance shall not be affected thereby. If this compact shall be held contrary to the constitution of any state party thereto, the compact shall remain in full force and effect as to the state affected as to all severable matters.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.08
§ 5123.08. Classified and unclassified appointments
Status: in_force

March 23, 2016 House Bill 56 - 131st General Assembly An appointing officer may appoint a person who holds a certified position in the classified service within the department of developmental disabilities 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, regardless of the number of positions the person held in the unclassified service. An employee's right to resume a position in the classified service may only be exercised when an appointing authority demotes the employee to a pay range lower than the employee's current pay range or revokes the employee's appointment to the unclassified service. An employee who holds a position in the classified service and who is appointed to a position in the unclassified service on or after January 1, 2016, shall have the right to resume a position in the classified service under this section only within five years after the effective date of the employee's appointment in the unclassified service. An employee forfeits the right to resume a position in the classified service when the employee is removed from the position in the unclassified service due to incompetence, inefficiency, dishonesty, drunkenness, immoral conduct, insubordination, discourteous treatment of the public, neglect of duty, violation of this chapter or Chapter 124. of the Revised Code, the rules of the director of developmental disabilities or the director of administrative services, any other failure of good behavior, any other acts of misfeasance, malfeasance, or nonfeasance in office, or conviction of a felony while employed in the civil service. An employee also forfeits the right to resume a position in the classified service upon transfer to a different agency. Reinstatement to a position in the classified service shall be to a position substantially equal to that position in the classified service held previously, as certified by the director of administrative services. If the position the person previously held in the classified service has been placed in the unclassified service or is otherwise unavailable, the person shall be appointed to a position in the classified service within the department that the director of administrative services certifies is comparable in compensation to the position the person previously held in the classified service. Service in the position in the unclassified service shall be counted as service in the position in the classified service held by the person immediately prior to the person's appointment to the position in the unclassified service. When a person is reinstated to a position in the classified service as provided in this section, the person is entitled to all rights, status, and benefits accruing to the position in the classified service during the time of the person's service in the position in the unclassified service.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.111 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.111
§ 5120.111. Rules and forms for community-based correctional facilities and programs
Status: in_force

September 30, 2011 House Bill 86 - 129th General Assembly With respect to community-based correctional facilities and programs and district community-based correctional facilities and programs authorized under section 2301.51 of the Revised Code, the department of rehabilitation and correction shall do all of the following: (A) Adopt rules, under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, that serve as criteria for the operation of community-based correctional facilities and programs and district community-based correctional facilities and programs approved in accordance with sections 2301.51 and 5120.10 of the Revised Code; (B) Adopt rules, under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, governing the procedures for the submission of proposals for the establishment of community-based correctional facilities and programs and district community-based correctional facilities and programs to the division of parole and community services under division (B) of section 2301.51 of the Revised Code; (C) Prescribe forms that are to be used by facility governing boards of community-based correctional facilities and programs and district community-based correctional facilities and programs in making application for state financial assistance under section 2301.56 of the Revised Code; (D) Adopt rules, under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, that prescribe the standards of operation for the facilities and programs that must be satisfied for community-based correctional facilities and programs and district community-based correctional facilities and programs to be eligible for state financial assistance. The standards adopted by the department shall specify the class of offender whose degree of felony, whose community control sanction revocation history, or whose risk level as assessed by the single validated risk assessment tool described in section 5120.114 of the Revised Code, make the offender suitable for admission to the facility. The rules shall make the level of state financial assistance provided to every facility contingent upon the number of offenders admitted to the facility each fiscal year who satisfy the admission suitability standards established by the department. (E) Through the division of parole and community services, accept and review proposals for the establishment of community-based correctional facilities and programs and district community-based correctional facilities and programs and approve those proposals that satisfy the minimum requirements contained in section 2301.52 of the Revised Code; and administer the program for state financial assistance to the facilities and programs in accordance with section 5120.112 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.82 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.82
§ 5101.82. Title IV-A reserve fund
Status: in_force

October 1, 1997 House Bill 408 - 122nd General Assembly There is hereby created in the state treasury the Title IV-A reserve fund. If authorized by the agreement between the director of budget and management and the United States secretary of the treasury entered into pursuant to section 131.36 of the Revised Code, the director of budget and management may transfer to the Title IV-A reserve fund money appropriated for the Ohio works first program established under Chapter 5107. of the Revised Code and the prevention, retention, and contingency program established under Chapter 5108. of the Revised Code that is available at the end of a federal fiscal year after the appropriation is reconciled. The director of budget and management shall transfer money in the Title IV-A reserve fund to the general revenue fund for the purpose of funding the Ohio works first program and the prevention, retention, and contingency program and, in accordance with section 5101.23 of the Revised Code, to the social services incentive fund created under that section. The director also shall transfer money in the Title IV-A reserve fund to the cash management improvement fund created under section 131.37 of the Revised Code to the extent transfers are required by the agreement entered into pursuant to section 131.36 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.273 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.273
§ 5180.273. [Former R.C. 3738.04, amended and renumbered by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Pregnancy-associated mortality review board - duties
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly The PAMR board shall seek to reduce the incidence of pregnancy-associated deaths in this state by doing all of the following: (A) Promoting cooperation, collaboration, and communication between all groups, professions, agencies, and entities that serve pregnant and postpartum women and families; (B) Recommending and developing plans for implementing service and program changes, as well as changes to the groups, professions, agencies, and entities that serve pregnant and postpartum women and families; (C) Providing the department of children and youth with aggregate data, trends, and patterns regarding pregnancy-associated deaths using data and other relevant information specified in rules adopted under section 5180.278 of the Revised Code; (D) Developing effective interventions to reduce the mortality of pregnant and postpartum women. Last updated October 3, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.43 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.43
§ 5165.43. Determination of interest rate
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly For the purposes of sections 5165.41 and 5165.42 of the Revised Code, the department of medicaid shall determine the current average bank prime rate using statistical release H.15, "selected interest rates," a weekly publication of the federal reserve board, or any successor publication. If statistical release H.15, or its successor, ceases to contain the bank prime rate information or ceases to be published, the department shall request a written statement of the average bank prime rate from the federal reserve bank of Cleveland or the federal reserve board.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5104.291 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5104 / § 5104.291
§ 5104.291. Early learning and development program ratings
Status: in_force

April 9, 2025 House Bill 7 - 135th General Assembly (A) This section establishes standards and conditions for rating the following early learning and development programs in the step up to quality program: (1) A licensed child care center operating a head start or early head start program; (2) A licensed child care center accredited by the national association for the education of young children, or its successor organization; (3) A licensed type A or type B family child care home under contract to provide head start or early head start services; (4) A licensed type A or type B family child care home accredited by the national association for the education of young children, or its successor organization. (B)(1) On a periodic basis, the department of children and youth shall do both of the following: (a) Review head start program performance standards described in 45 C.F.R. Part 1302 and determine which step up to quality program ratings tier corresponds with minimum head start program performance standards; (b) Review accreditation standards for the national association for the education of young children, or its successor organization, and determine which step up to quality program ratings tier corresponds with minimum accreditation standards. (2) Beginning July 1, 2025, the department shall rate each program described in divisions (A)(1) to (4) of this section in the step up to quality program ratings tier that the department has determined corresponds with the minimum standards. (C) The department shall prescribe the manner in which a program shall demonstrate to the department that the program is meeting the requirements of this section. Last updated February 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.18 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.18
§ 5103.18. Pre-placement report of child welfare system information search
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A)(1) Prior to certification as a foster home under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code, a recommending agency shall obtain a summary report of a search of the uniform statewide automated child welfare information system, established under section 5180.40 of the Revised Code, from an entity listed in section 5180.402 of the Revised Code. (2) Whenever a prospective foster parent or any other person eighteen years of age or older who resides with a prospective foster parent has resided in another state within the five-year period immediately prior to the date on which a criminal records check is requested for the person under division (A) of section 2151.86 of the Revised Code, the recommending agency shall request a check of the central registry of abuse and neglect of this state from the department of children and youth regarding the prospective foster parent or the person eighteen years of age or older who resides with the prospective foster parent to enable the agency to check any child abuse and neglect registry maintained by that other state. The recommending agency shall make the request and shall review the results of the check before the prospective foster parent may be finally approved for placement of a child. Information received pursuant to such a request shall be considered for purposes of this chapter as if it were a summary report required under division (A) of this section. The department of children and youth shall comply with any request to check the central registry that is similar to the request described in this division and that is received from any other state. (B)(1) The summary report required under division (A) of this section shall contain, if applicable, a chronological list of abuse and neglect determinations or allegations of which a person seeking to become a foster caregiver of a child is subject and in regards to which a public children services agency has done one of the following: (a) Determined that abuse or neglect occurred; (b) Initiated an investigation, and the investigation is ongoing; (c) Initiated an investigation, and the agency was unable to determine whether abuse or neglect occurred. (2) The summary report required under division (A) of this section shall not contain any of the following: (a) An abuse and neglect determination of which a person seeking to become a foster caregiver of a child is subject and in regards to which a public children services agency determined that abuse or neglect did not occur; (b) Information or reports the dissemination of which is prohibited by, or interferes with eligibility under, the "Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act," 88 Stat. 4 (1974), 42 U.S.C. 5101 et seq., as amended; (c) The name of the person who or entity that made, or participated in the making of, the report of abuse or neglect. (C)(1) A foster home certification may be denied based on a summary report containing the information described under division (B)(1)(a) of this section, when considered within the totality of the circumstances. (2) A foster home certification shall not be denied solely based on a summary report containing the information described under division (B)(1)(b) or (c) of this section. (D) The director of children and youth shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code necessary for the implementation and execution of this section. Last updated August 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.201 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.201
§ 5101.201. Agreements with one-stop operators and partners implementing Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly As the director of the state agency for the implementation of several workforce programs, the director of job and family services may enter into agreements with local boards, as defined in section 6301.01 of the Revised Code, and other OhioMeansJobs center partners for the purpose of implementing the requirements of section 121 of the "Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act," 29 U.S.C. 3151.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5168.56 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5168 / § 5168.56
§ 5168.56. Implementing provisions
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The medicaid director shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to do both of the following: (A) Prescribe the actions the department of medicaid will take to cease implementation of sections 5168.40 to 5168.56 of the Revised Code if the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services determines that the franchise permit fee established by those sections is an impermissible health-care related tax under the "Social Security Act," section 1903(w), 42 U.S.C. 1396b(w); (B) Establish any requirements or procedures the director considers necessary to implement sections 5168.40 to 5168.56 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.93 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.93
§ 5119.93. Initiation of proceedings; petition
Status: in_force

April 6, 2023 House Bill 281 - 134th General Assembly (A) A person may initiate proceedings for treatment for an individual experiencing alcohol and other drug abuse by filing a verified petition in the probate court. The petition and all subsequent court documents shall be entitled: "In the interest of (name of respondent)." A spouse, relative, or guardian of the individual concerning whom the petition is filed shall file the petition. A petition filed under this division shall be kept confidential and shall not be disclosed by any person, except as needed for purposes of this section or when disclosure is ordered by a court. (B) A petition filed under division (A) of this section shall set forth all of the following: (1) The petitioner's relationship to the respondent; (2) The respondent's name, residence address, and current location, if known; (3) The name and residence of the respondent's parents, if living and if known, or of the respondent's legal guardian, if any and if known; (4) The name and residence of the respondent's spouse, if any and if known; (5) The name and residence of the person having custody of the respondent, if any, or if no such person is known, the name and residence of a near relative or a statement that the person is unknown; (6) The petitioner's belief, including the factual basis for the belief, that the respondent is experiencing alcohol and other drug abuse and presents an imminent danger or imminent threat of danger to self, family, or others if not treated for alcohol or other drug abuse; (7) If the petitioner's belief specified in division (B)(6) of this section is that the respondent is experiencing opioid or opiate abuse, the information provided in the petition under that division also shall include any evidence that the respondent has overdosed and been revived one or more times by an opioid antagonist, overdosed in a vehicle, or overdosed in the presence of a minor. (C)(1) Any petition filed pursuant to divisions (A) and (B) of this section shall be accompanied by a certificate of a physician who has examined the respondent within two days prior to the day that the petition is filed in the probate court. The physician shall be authorized to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code. A physician who is responsible for admitting persons into treatment, if that physician examines the respondent, may be the physician who completes the certificate. The physician's certificate shall set forth the physician's findings in support of the need to treat the respondent for alcohol or other drug abuse. The certificate shall indicate if the respondent presents an imminent danger or imminent threat of danger to self, family, or others if not treated. Further, the certificate shall indicate the type and length of treatment required and if the respondent can reasonably benefit from treatment. If the physician's certificate indicates that inpatient treatment is required, the certificate shall identify any inpatient facilities known to the physician that are able and willing to provide the recommended inpatient treatment. If the respondent refuses to undergo an examination with a physician concerning the respondent's possible need for treatment for alcohol or other drug abuse, the petition shall state that the respondent has refused all requests made by the petitioner to undergo a physician's examination. In that case, the petitioner shall not be required to provide a physician's certificate with the petition. (2) Any petition filed pursuant to divisions (A) and (B) of this section shall contain a statement that the petitioner has arranged for treatment of the respondent. Further, the petition shall be accompanied by a statement from the person or facility who has agreed to provide the treatment that verifies that the person or facility has agreed to provide the treatment and the estimated cost of the treatment. (D) Any petition filed pursuant to divisions (A) and (B) of this section shall be accompanied by both of the following: (1) One of the following: (a) A security deposit to be deposited with the clerk of the probate court that will cover half of the estimated cost of treatment of the respondent; (b) Documentation establishing that insurance coverage of the petitioner or respondent will cover at least half of the estimated cost of treatment of the respondent; (c) Other evidence to the satisfaction of the court establishing that the petitioner or respondent will be able to cover some of the estimated cost of treatment of the respondent. (2) One of the following: (a) A guarantee, signed by the petitioner or another person authorized to file the petition, obligating the guarantor to pay the costs of the examinations of the respondent conducted by the physician and qualified health professional under division (B)(5) of section 5119.94 of the Revised Code, the costs of the respondent that are associated with a hearing conducted in accordance with section 5119.94 of the Revised Code and that the court determines to be appropriate, and the costs of any treatment ordered by the court; (b) Documentation establishing that insurance coverage of the petitioner or respondent will cover the costs described in division (D)(2)(a) of this section; (c) Documentation establishing that, consistent with the evidence described in division (D)(1)(c) of this section, the petitioner or respondent will cover some of the costs described in division (D)(2)(a) of this section. Last updated March 10, 2023 at 12:52 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.161 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.161
§ 5123.161. Application for supported living certificate
Status: in_force

December 29, 2023 Senate Bill 131 - 134th General Assembly A person or government entity that seeks to provide supported living shall apply to the director of developmental disabilities for a supported living certificate. Except as provided in sections 5123.166 and 5123.169 of the Revised Code, the director shall issue to the person or government entity a supported living certificate if the person or government entity follows the application process established in rules adopted under section 5123.1611 of the Revised Code, meets the applicable certification standards established in those rules, and pays the certification fee established in those rules. The director shall issue a supported living certificate in accordance with Chapter 4796. of the Revised Code to a person if either of the following applies: (A) The person holds a supported living certificate issued by another state. (B) The person has satisfactory work experience, a government certification, or a private certification as described in that chapter as a person providing supported living in a state that does not issue that certificate. Last updated December 29, 2023 at 5:40 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.134 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.134
§ 5120.134. Vending commission fund
Status: in_force

June 30, 1995 House Bill 117 - 121st General Assembly Each managing officer of an institution under the jurisdiction of the department of rehabilitation and correction, based upon a recommendation of the institution's joint labor management committee, may establish a local institution fund that shall be designated the vending commission fund and that shall be created and maintained for the benefit and welfare of the employees of that institution. The fund shall receive the profits from vending commission areas that are designated solely for use by department of rehabilitation and correction employees. The director of rehabilitation and correction shall establish rules for the operation of employee vending commission funds.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5168.76 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5168 / § 5168.76
§ 5168.76. Franchise fee on health insuring corporation plans
Status: in_force

June 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly (A) For the purposes specified in section 5168.85 of the Revised Code and subject to sections 5168.82 , 5168.83 , and 5168.84 of the Revised Code, a franchise fee is hereby imposed each month beginning with July 2017 on each health insuring corporation plan. The franchise fee shall have a component based on Ohio medicaid member months and another component based on other Ohio member months. (B) The department of medicaid shall determine the amount of the monthly franchise fee to be imposed on a health insuring corporation plan under the component based on Ohio medicaid member months. The determination shall be made as part of the process of determining the annual capitated payment rates to be paid to medicaid managed care organizations under the care management system. The following rates shall be used as part of the determination: CUMULATIVE TOTAL NUMBER OF OHIO MEDICAID MEMBER MONTHS APPLICABLE RATE For the first 250,000 $56 For 250,001 to 500,000 $45 For 500,001 and above $26 (C) The amount of the monthly franchise fee to be imposed on a health insuring corporation plan under the component based on other Ohio member months shall be determined by multiplying the number of other Ohio member months that the health insuring corporation plan had for the month by the applicable rate or rates. The applicable rate or rates to be used in the calculation for a health insuring corporation plan for a month shall depend on the cumulative total number of other Ohio member months the health insuring corporation plan had for all of a rate year's months that ended before the beginning of the month in which the franchise fee is due. The following table shows the applicable rate or rates: CUMULATIVE TOTAL NUMBER OF OTHER OHIO MEMBER MONTHS APPLICABLE RATE For the first 150,000 $2 For 150,001 and above $1
Ohio Rev. Code § 5108.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5108 / § 5108.06
§ 5108.06. Specification of benefits and services
Status: in_force

September 26, 2003 House Bill 95 - 125th General Assembly In adopting a statement of policies under section 5108.04 of the Revised Code for the county's prevention, retention, and contingency program, a county department of job and family services may specify both of the following: (A) Benefits and services to be provided under the program that prevent and reduce the incidence of out-of-wedlock pregnancies or encourage the formation and maintenance of two-parent families as permitted by 45 C.F.R. 260.20(c) and (d); (B) How the county department will certify individuals' eligibility for such benefits and services.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.42 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.42
§ 5103.42. [Former R.C. 5103.422, amended and renumbered by H.B. 33, 135th General Assembly, effective 10/3/2023] Regional training staff responsibilities
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly A regional training staff's responsibilities shall include all of the following: (A) Securing facilities suitable for conducting the training provided under section 5103.30 of the Revised Code; (B) Providing administrative services and paying all administrative costs related to the conduct of the training; (C) Maintaining a database of the data contained in the individual training needs assessments for each PCSA caseworker and PCSA caseworker supervisor employed by a public children services agency located in the training region; (D) Analyzing training needs of PCSA caseworkers and PCSA caseworker supervisors employed by a public children services agency and other training populations described in section 5103.30 of the Revised Code and located in the training region; (E) Coordinating the training for the region with the Ohio child welfare training program coordinator. Last updated October 12, 2023 at 12:03 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.28 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.28
§ 5165.28. Rate for added, replaced, or renovated beds
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly If a provider of a nursing facility adds or replaces one or more medicaid certified beds to or at the nursing facility, or renovates one or more of the nursing facility's beds, the medicaid payment rate for the added, replaced, or renovated beds shall be the same as the medicaid payment rate for the nursing facility's existing beds.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5149.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5149 / § 5149.11
§ 5149.11. Oaths - subpoenas - witnesses
Status: in_force

July 1, 2009 House Bill 525 - 127th General Assembly In the exercise of any of the powers vested in the adult parole authority, the chief of the authority, any member of the board, or any hearing officer may administer oaths and in the name of the authority may issue subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum. The authority may compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of records and papers of all kinds and description including any and all books, accounts, documents, memorandums, and transcripts of testimony, pertaining to any inquiry within the powers and duties of the authority. Upon the failure of any person to comply with any order of the authority or any subpoena or subpoena duces tecum lawfully issued, or upon the refusal of any witness to testify to any matter regarding which the witness may be lawfully interrogated, a judge of the court of common pleas of any county in this state, on the application of the authority, shall compel obedience by attachment proceedings for contempt, as in the case of disobedience of the requirements of a subpoena issued from a court of common pleas or a refusal to testify therein. Each witness who appears before the authority or before a member of the parole board by the authority's or member's order shall receive for attendance the fees and mileage provided for under section 119.094 of the Revised Code, and the fees and mileage shall be audited and paid out of the state treasury in the same manner as other expenses are audited and paid, upon the presentation of properly verified vouchers approved by the chief of the authority. The chief of the authority or a member of the board, or any party who is the subject of the investigation, may in any investigation cause depositions of witnesses residing within or without the state to be taken in the manner prescribed by sections 2319.08 , 2319.09 , 2319.11 , and 2319.27 of the Revised Code and the Civil Rules. Copies of the proceedings, minutes, actions, findings, recommendations, orders, and other records of the authority or its predecessors shall be verified and certified to by the officer conducting or responsible for such and attested by the chief of the authority, and when certified and attested shall be received in evidence as proof of the facts therein stated. Minutes, actions, findings, recommendations, determinations, and orders made and kept by the adult parole authority are public records.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.0417 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.0417
§ 5123.0417. Programs for person under 22 with intensive behavioral needs
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly (A) The director of developmental disabilities shall establish one or more programs for individuals under twenty-two years of age who have intensive behavioral needs, including such individuals with a primary diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder. The programs may include one or more medicaid waiver components that the director administers pursuant to section 5166.21 of the Revised Code. The programs may do one or more of the following: (1) Establish models that incorporate elements common to effective intervention programs and evidence-based practices in services for children with intensive behavioral needs; (2) Design a template for individualized education programs and individual service plans that provide consistent intervention programs and evidence-based practices for the care and treatment of children with intensive behavioral needs; (3) Disseminate best practice guidelines for use by families of children with intensive behavioral needs and professionals working with such families; (4) Develop a transition planning model for effectively mainstreaming school-age children with intensive behavioral needs to their public school district; (5) Contribute to the field of early and effective identification and intervention programs for children with intensive behavioral needs by providing financial support for scholarly research and publication of clinical findings. (B) The director of developmental disabilities shall collaborate with the medicaid director and consult with the executive director of the Ohio center for autism and low incidence and university-based programs that specialize in services for individuals with developmental disabilities when establishing programs under this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5124.38 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5124 / § 5124.38
§ 5124.38. Process for reconsideration of rates
Status: in_force

September 30, 2021 House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly (A) The director of developmental disabilities shall establish a process under which an ICF/IID provider, or a group or association of ICF/IID providers, may seek reconsideration of medicaid payment rates established under this chapter. Except as provided in divisions (B) to (E) of this section, the only issue that a provider, group, or association may raise in the rate reconsideration is whether the rate was calculated in accordance with this chapter and the rules adopted under section 5124.03 of the Revised Code. The provider, group, or association may submit written arguments or other materials that support its position. The provider, group, or association and department shall take actions regarding the rate reconsideration within time frames specified in rules authorized by this section. If the department determines, as a result of the rate reconsideration, that the rate established for one or more ICFs/IID is less than the rate to which the ICF/IID is entitled, the department shall increase the rate. If the department has paid the incorrect rate for a period of time, the department shall pay the provider of the ICF/IID the difference between the amount the provider was paid for that period for the ICF/IID and the amount the provider should have been paid for the ICF/IID. (B)(1) The department, through the rate reconsideration process, may increase during a fiscal year the medicaid payment rate determined for an ICF/IID under this chapter if the provider demonstrates that the ICF/IID's actual, allowable costs have increased because of any of the following extreme circumstances: (a) A natural disaster; (b) If the ICF/IID has an appropriate claims management program, an increase in the ICF/IID's workers' compensation experience rating of greater than five per cent; (c) If the ICF/IID is an inner-city ICF/IID, increased security costs; (d) A change of ownership that results from bankruptcy, foreclosure, or findings by the department of health of violations of medicaid certification requirements; (e) Other extreme circumstances specified in rules authorized by this section. (2) An ICF/IID may qualify for a rate increase under this division only if its per diem, actual, allowable costs have increased to a level that exceeds its total rate. An increase under this division is subject to any rate limitations or maximum rates established by this chapter for specific cost centers. Any rate increase granted under this division shall take effect on the first day of the first month after the department receives the request. (C) The department, through the rate reconsideration process, may increase an ICF/IID's rate as determined under this chapter if the department, in the department's sole discretion, determines that the rate as determined under those sections works an extreme hardship on the ICF/IID. (D)(1) Subject to any applicable limitation under section 5124.17 of the Revised Code, when beds certified for the medicaid program are added to an existing ICF/IID or replaced at the same site, the department, through the rate reconsideration process, may proportionately increase the ICF/IID's per medicaid day capital component rate determined under that section to account for the costs of the beds that are added or replaced. (2) If the department grants an increase under division (D)(1) of this section, the increase shall go into effect one month after the first day of the month after the department receives sufficient documentation needed to determine the amount of the increase. (3) The provider of an ICF/IID that has its per medicaid day payment rate for reasonable capital costs increased under division (D)(1) of this section shall report double accumulated depreciation in an amount equal to the depreciation included in the rate adjustment on its cost report for the first year of operation. During the term of any loan used to finance a project for which the rate increase is granted, the provider, if the ICF/IID is operated by the same provider, shall subtract from the interest costs it reports on the ICF/IID's cost report an amount equal to the difference between the following: (a) The actual, allowable interest costs for the loan during the calendar year for which the costs are being reported; (b) The actual, allowable interest costs attributable to the loan that were used to calculate the rates paid to the provider for the ICF/IID during the same calendar year. (E) If the provider of an ICF/IID submits to the department revised assessment data for a resident of the ICF/IID under division (D) of section 5124.191 of the Revised Code and the revised assessment data results in at least a fifteen per cent increase in the ICF/IID's case-mix score determined under section 5124.193 of the Revised Code, the provider may request that the department, through the rate reconsideration process, increase the ICF/IID's per medicaid day direct care costs component rate determined under section 5124.19 of the Revised Code to account for the increase in the ICF/IID's case-mix score. If the department determines that the revised assessment data so increases the ICF/IID's case-mix score, the department shall grant the rate increase. The increase shall go into effect one month after the first day of the month after the department receives sufficient documentation needed to determine the amount of the increase. (F) The department's decision at the conclusion of a rate reconsideration process is not subject to any administrative proceedings under Chapter 119. or any other provision of the Revised Code. (G) The director of developmental disabilities shall adopt rules under section 5124.03 of the Revised Code as necessary to implement this section. Last updated August 12, 2021 at 2:37 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.111 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.111
§ 5101.111. Foundation grant fund
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly The foundation grant fund is hereby created in the state treasury. Money the department of job and family services or the department of children and youth receives from private foundations in support of pilot projects that promote exemplary programs for enhancing the health, safety, and well-being of children and families shall be credited to the fund. The applicable department may expend the money on such projects, may use the money, to the extent allowable, to match federal funds in support of such projects, and shall comply with requirements the foundations have stipulated in their agreements with the applicable department as to the purposes for which the money may be expended. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5104.39 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5104 / § 5104.39
§ 5104.39. Monitoring present and anticipated future expenditures for publicly funded child day-care
Status: in_force

April 9, 2025 House Bill 238 - 135th General Assembly (A) The director of children and youth shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing a procedure for monitoring the expenditures for publicly funded child care to ensure that expenditures do not exceed the available federal and state funds for publicly funded child care. The department of children and youth, with the assistance of the office of budget and management, shall monitor the anticipated future expenditures for publicly funded child care and shall compare those anticipated future expenditures to available federal and state funds for publicly funded child care. Whenever the department determines that the anticipated future expenditures for publicly funded child care will exceed the available federal and state funds, the department shall promptly notify the county departments of job and family services and, before the available state and federal funds are used, the director shall issue and implement an administrative order that shall specify both of the following: (1) Priorities for expending the remaining available federal and state funds for publicly funded child care; (2) Instructions and procedures to be used by the county departments regarding eligibility determinations. (B) The order may do any or all of the following: (1) Suspend enrollment of all new participants in any program of publicly funded child care; (2) Limit enrollment of new participants to those with incomes at or below a specified percentage of the federal poverty line; (3) Disenroll existing participants with income above a specified percentage of the federal poverty line; (4) Change the schedule of fees paid by eligible caretaker parents that has been established pursuant to section 5104.38 of the Revised Code; (5) Change the rate of payment for providers of publicly funded child care that has been established pursuant to section 5104.30 of the Revised Code. (C) Each county department shall comply with the order no later than thirty days after it is issued. (D) If after issuing an order under this section to suspend or limit enrollment of new participants or disenroll existing participants the department determines that available state and federal funds for publicly funded child care exceed the anticipated future expenditures for publicly funded child care, the director may issue and implement another administrative order increasing income eligibility levels to a specified percentage of the federal poverty line. The order shall include instructions and procedures to be used by the county departments. Each county department shall comply with the order not later than thirty days after it is issued. (E) The department of children and youth shall do all of the following: (1) Conduct a quarterly evaluation of the program of publicly funded child care that is operated pursuant to sections 5104.30 to 5104.43 of the Revised Code; (2) Prepare reports based upon the evaluations that specify for each county the number of participants and amount of expenditures; (3) Provide copies of the reports to both houses of the general assembly and, on request, to interested parties. Last updated February 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.81 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.81
§ 5165.81. Qualifications of temporary manager of nursing facility
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) A temporary manager of a nursing facility appointed by the department of medicaid or a contracting agency under sections 5165.60 to 5165.89 of the Revised Code shall meet all of the following qualifications: (1) Be licensed as a nursing home administrator under Chapter 4751. of the Revised Code; (2) Have demonstrated competence as a nursing home administrator; (3) Have had no disciplinary action taken against the temporary manager by any licensing board or professional society in this state. (B) The salary of a temporary manager or special master appointed under sections 5165.60 to 5165.89 of the Revised Code shall be paid by the facility and set by the department of medicaid or contracting agency, in the case of a temporary manager, or by the court, in the case of a special master, at a rate not to exceed the maximum allowable compensation for an administrator under the medicaid program. The extent to which this compensation is allowable under the medicaid program is subject to and limited by this chapter and rules adopted under section 5165.02 of the Revised Code. Subject to division (C) of this section, any costs incurred on behalf of a nursing facility by a temporary manager or special master appointed under sections 5165.60 to 5165.89 of the Revised Code shall be paid by the facility. The allowability of these costs under the medicaid program shall be subject to and governed by this chapter and rules adopted under section 5165.02 of the Revised Code. This division does not prohibit a facility from applying for or receiving any waiver of cost ceilings available under the rules. (C) No temporary manager or special master appointed under sections 5165.60 to 5165.89 of the Revised Code shall enter into any employment contract on behalf of a facility, or purchase any capital goods using facility funds totaling more than ten thousand dollars, unless the temporary manager or special master has obtained prior approval for the contract or purchase from either the provider or the court. (D)(1) A temporary manager appointed for a nursing facility under section 5165.72 of the Revised Code is hereby vested, subject to division (C) of this section, with the legal authority necessary to correct any deficiency or cluster of deficiencies at a facility, bring the facility into compliance with certification requirements, and otherwise ensure the health and safety of the residents. (2) A temporary manager appointed under section 5165.77 of the Revised Code is hereby vested, subject to division (C) of this section, with the authority necessary to eliminate the emergency, bring the facility into compliance with certification requirements, and otherwise ensure the health and safety of the residents. (3) A temporary manager appointed under section 5165.80 of the Revised Code is hereby vested, subject to division (C) of this section, with the authority necessary to ensure the transfer of medicaid eligible residents to other appropriate care settings and, if applicable, the orderly closure of the facility, and to otherwise ensure the health and safety of the residents. (E) Prior to acting under division (A)(1)(b) or (2)(b) of section 5165.72 of the Revised Code to appoint a temporary manager or apply for a special master, the department of medicaid or contracting agency shall order the facility to substantially correct the deficiency or deficiencies within five days after receiving the statement and inform the facility, in the statement it provides pursuant to division (B) of section 5165.75 of the Revised Code, of the order and that it will not take that action unless the facility fails to substantially correct the deficiency or deficiencies within that five-day period. At the end of the five-day period, the department of health shall conduct a follow-up survey that focuses on the deficiency or deficiencies. If the department of health determines that the facility has substantially corrected the deficiency or deficiencies within that time, the department of medicaid or contracting agency shall not appoint a temporary manager or apply for a special master. If the department of health determines that the facility has failed to substantially correct the deficiency or deficiencies within that time, the department of medicaid or contracting agency may proceed with appointment of the temporary manager or application for a special master. Until the statement required under division (B) of section 5165.75 of the Revised Code is actually delivered, no action taken by the department or agency to appoint a temporary manager or apply for a temporary manager under division (A)(1)(b) or (2)(b) of section 5165.72 of the Revised Code shall have any legal effect. No action taken by a facility under this division to substantially correct a deficiency or deficiencies shall be considered an admission by the facility of the existence of a deficiency or deficiencies. (F) Appointment of a temporary manager under division (A)(1)(b) or (2)(b) of section 5165.72 or division (A)(1)(d) of section 5165.77 of the Revised Code shall expire at the end of the seventh day following the appointment. If the department of medicaid or contracting agency finds that the deficiency or deficiencies that prompted the appointment under division (A)(1)(b) or (2)(b) of section 5165.72 of the Revised Code cannot be substantially corrected, or the condition of immediate jeopardy that prompted the appointment under division (A)(1)(d) of section 5165.77 of the Revised Code cannot be eliminated, prior to the expiration of the appointment, it may take one of the following actions: (1) Appoint, subject to the continuing consent of the provider, a temporary manager for the facility; (2) Apply to the common pleas court of the county in which the facility is located for an order appointing a special master who, under the authority and direct supervision of the court and subject to divisions (B) and (C) of this section, may take such additional actions as are necessary to correct the deficiency or deficiencies or eliminate the condition of immediate jeopardy and bring the facility into compliance with certification requirements. (G) The court, on finding that the deficiency or deficiencies for which a special master was appointed under division (F)(2) of this section or division (A)(1)(b) or (2)(b) of section 5165.72 of the Revised Code has been substantially corrected, or the emergency for which a special master was appointed under division (F)(2) of this section or division (A)(1)(b) or (B)(2) of section 5165.77 of the Revised Code has been eliminated, that the facility has been brought into compliance with certification requirements, and that the provider has established the management capability to ensure continued compliance with the certification requirements, shall immediately terminate its jurisdiction over the facility and return control and management of the facility to the provider. If the deficiency or deficiencies cannot be substantially corrected, or the emergency cannot be eliminated practicably within a reasonable time following appointment of the special master, the court may order the special master to close the facility and transfer all residents to other nursing facilities or other appropriate care settings. (H) This section does not apply to temporary resident safety assurance managers appointed under section 5165.78 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.31 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.31
§ 5126.31. Reviewing reports of abuse and neglect
Status: in_force

September 29, 2018 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly (A) A county board of developmental disabilities shall review reports of abuse and neglect made under section 5123.61 of the Revised Code and reports referred to it under section 5101.64 of the Revised Code to determine whether the individual who is the subject of the report is an adult with a developmental disability in need of services to deal with the abuse or neglect. The county board shall give notice of each report to the registry office of the department of developmental disabilities established pursuant to section 5123.61 of the Revised Code on the first working day after receipt of the report. If the report alleges that there is a substantial risk to the adult of immediate physical harm or death, the county board shall initiate review within twenty-four hours of its receipt of the report. If the county board determines that the individual is sixty years of age or older but does not have a developmental disability, it shall refer the case to the county department of job and family services. If the county board determines that the individual is an adult with a developmental disability, it shall continue its review of the case. (B) For each review over which the county board retains responsibility under division (A) of this section, it shall do all of the following: (1) Give both written and oral notice of the purpose of the review to the adult and, if any, to the adult's legal counsel or caretaker, in simple and clear language; (2) Visit the adult, in the adult's residence if possible, and explain the notice given under division (B)(1) of this section; (3) Request from the registry office any prior reports concerning the adult or other principals in the case; (4) Consult, if feasible, with the person who made the report under section 5101.63 or 5123.61 of the Revised Code and with any agencies or persons who have information about the alleged abuse or neglect; (5) Cooperate fully with the law enforcement agency responsible for investigating the report and for filing any resulting criminal charges and, on request, turn over evidence to the agency; (6) Determine whether the adult needs services, and prepare a written report stating reasons for the determination. No adult shall be determined to be abused, neglected, or in need of services for the sole reason that, in lieu of medical treatment, the adult relies on or is being furnished spiritual treatment through prayer alone in accordance with the tenets and practices of a church or religious denomination of which the adult is a member or adherent. (C) The county board shall arrange for the provision of services for the prevention, correction or discontinuance of abuse or neglect or of a condition resulting from abuse or neglect for any adult who has been determined to need the services and consents to receive them. These services may include, but are not limited to, service and support administration, fiscal management, medical, mental health, home health care, homemaker, legal, and residential services and the provision of temporary accommodations and necessities such as food and clothing. The services do not include acting as a guardian, trustee, or protector as defined in section 5123.55 of the Revised Code. If the provision of residential services would require expenditures by the department of developmental disabilities, the county board shall obtain the approval of the department prior to arranging the residential services. To arrange services, the county board shall: (1) Develop an individualized service plan identifying the types of services required for the adult, the goals for the services, and the persons or agencies that will provide them; (2) In accordance with rules established by the director of developmental disabilities, obtain the consent of the adult or the adult's guardian to the provision of any of these services and obtain the signature of the adult or guardian on the individualized service plan. An adult who has been found incompetent under Chapter 2111. of the Revised Code may consent to services. If the county board is unable to obtain consent, it may seek, if the adult is incapacitated, a court order pursuant to section 5126.33 of the Revised Code authorizing the board to arrange these services. (D) The county board shall ensure that the adult receives the services arranged by the board from the provider and shall have the services terminated if the adult withdraws consent. (E) On completion of a review, the county board shall submit a written report to the registry office established under section 5123.61 of the Revised Code. If the report includes a finding that an individual with a developmental disability is a victim of action or inaction that may constitute a crime under federal law or the law of this state, the board shall submit the report to the law enforcement agency responsible for investigating the report. Reports prepared under this section are not public records as defined in section 149.43 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.90 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.90
§ 5119.90. Definitions for sections 5119.90 to 5119.98
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly As used in sections 5119.90 to 5119.98 of the Revised Code: (A) "Alcohol and other drug abuse" means alcohol use disorder or drug addiction. (B) "Another drug" means a controlled substance as defined in section 3719.01 of the Revised Code or a harmful intoxicant as defined in section 2925.01 of the Revised Code. (C) "Board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services" means a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services established under section 340.02 or 340.021 of the Revised Code. (D) "Danger" or "threat of danger to self, family, or others" means substantial physical harm or threat of substantial physical harm upon self, family, or others. (E) "Hospital" has the same meaning as in section 3701.01 or 3727.01 of the Revised Code but does not include either a hospital operated by the department of behavioral health or an inpatient unit licensed by the department. (F) "Intoxicated" means being under the influence of alcohol, another drug, or both alcohol and another drug and, as a result, having a significantly impaired ability to function. (G) "Petitioner" means a person who institutes a proceeding under sections 5119.91 to 5119.98 of the Revised Code. (H) "Probate court" means the probate division of the court of common pleas. (I) "Qualified health professional" means a person that is properly credentialed or licensed to conduct a drug and alcohol assessment and diagnosis under Ohio law. (J) "Residence" means the legal residence of a person as determined by applicable principles governing conflicts of law. (K) "Respondent" means a person alleged in a petition filed or hearing under sections 5119.91 to 5119.98 of the Revised Code to be a person who is experiencing alcohol and other drug abuse and who may be ordered under those sections to undergo treatment. (L) "Treatment" means services and programs for the care and rehabilitation of intoxicated persons and persons experiencing alcohol and other drug abuse. "Treatment" includes residential treatment, a halfway house setting, and an intensive outpatient or outpatient level of care. Last updated August 8, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5122.42 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5122 / § 5122.42
§ 5122.42. Preservation of rights and privileges
Status: in_force

March 16, 1978 House Bill 725 - 112th General Assembly Nothing in this chapter limits any rights, privileges, or immunities under the constitution, and laws of the United States or this state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.87 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.87
§ 5123.87. Labor or tasks performed by residents
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly (A) No resident of an institution for persons with i ntellectual disabilities shall be compelled to perform labor that involves the operation, support, or maintenance of the institution or for which the institution is under contract with an outside organization. Privileges or release from the institution shall not be conditional upon the performance of such labor. Residents who volunteer to perform such labor shall be compensated at a rate derived from the value of the work performed, having reference to the prevailing wage rate for comparable work or wage rates established under section 4111.06 of the Revised Code. (B) A resident may be required to perform habilitative tasks that do not involve the operation, support, or maintenance of the institution if those tasks are an integrated part of the resident's habilitation plan and supervised by a member of the institution's professional staff who is designated by the chief program director. (C) A resident may be required to perform tasks of a personal housekeeping nature.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.54 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.54
§ 5101.54. Administering food stamp program
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) The director of job and family services shall administer the supplemental nutrition assistance program in accordance with the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.). The department of job and family services may: (1) Prepare and submit to the secretary of the United States department of agriculture a plan for the administration of the supplemental nutrition assistance program; (2) Prescribe forms for applications, certificates, reports, records, and accounts of county departments of job and family services, and other matters; (3) Require such reports and information from each county department of job and family services as may be necessary and advisable; (4) Administer and expend any sums appropriated by the general assembly for the purposes of the supplemental nutrition assistance program and all sums paid to the state by the United States as authorized by the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008; (5) Conduct such investigations as are necessary; (6) Enter into interagency agreements and cooperate with investigations conducted by the department of public safety, including providing information for investigative purposes, exchanging property and records, passing through federal financial participation, modifying any agreements with the United States department of agriculture, providing for the supply, security, and accounting of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits for investigative purposes, and meeting any other requirements necessary for the detection and deterrence of illegal activities in the supplemental nutrition assistance program; (7) Adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code governing employment and training requirements of recipients of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits, including rules specifying which recipients are subject to the requirements and establishing sanctions for failure to satisfy the requirements. The rules shall be consistent with 7 U.S.C. 2015, including its work and employment and training requirements, and, to the extent practicable, shall provide for the recipients to participate in work activities, developmental activities, and alternative work activities described in sections 5107.40 to 5107.69 of the Revised Code that are comparable to programs authorized by 7 U.S.C. 2015(d)(4). The rules may reference rules adopted under section 5107.05 of the Revised Code governing work activities, developmental activities, and alternative work activities described in sections 5107.40 to 5107.69 of the Revised Code. (8) Adopt rules in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code that are consistent with the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, the regulations adopted thereunder, and this section governing the following: (a) Eligibility requirements for the supplemental nutrition assistance program; (b) Sanctions for failure to comply with eligibility requirements; (c) Allotment of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits; (d) To the extent permitted under federal statutes and regulations, a system under which some or all recipients of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits subject to employment and training requirements established by rules adopted under division (A)(7) of this section receive the benefits after satisfying the requirements; (e) Administration of the program by county departments of job and family services; (f) Other requirements necessary for the efficient administration of the program. (9) Submit a plan to the United States secretary of agriculture for the department of job and family services to operate a simplified supplemental nutrition assistance program pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2035 under which requirements governing the Ohio works first program established under Chapter 5107. of the Revised Code also govern the supplemental nutrition assistance program in the case of households receiving supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits and participating in Ohio works first. (10) Collect information on suspicious electronic benefit transfer card transactions and provide the information to each impacted county department for analysis and investigation. Such information shall include transactions of even dollar amounts, full monthly benefit amounts, multiple same-day transactions, out-of-state transactions, and any other suspicious trends. (B) A household that is entitled to receive supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits and that is determined to be in immediate need of nutrition assistance shall receive certification of eligibility for program benefits, pending verification, within twenty-four hours, or, if mitigating circumstances occur, within seventy-two hours, after application, if: (1) The results of the application interview indicate that the household will be eligible upon full verification; (2) Information sufficient to confirm the statements in the application has been obtained from at least one additional source, not a member of the applicant's household. Such information shall be recorded in the case file and shall include: (a) The name of the person who provided the name of the information source; (b) The name and address of the information source; (c) A summary of the information obtained. The period of temporary eligibility shall not exceed one month from the date of certification of temporary eligibility. If eligibility is established by full verification, benefits shall continue without interruption as long as eligibility continues. There is no limit on the number of times a household may receive expedited certification of eligibility under this division as long as before each expedited certification all of the information identified in division (F)(1) of this section was verified for the household at the last expedited certification or the household's eligibility was certified under normal processing standards since the last expedited certification. At the time of application, the county department of job and family services shall provide to a household described in this division a list of community assistance programs that provide emergency food. (C) Before certifying supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits, the department shall verify the eligibility of each household in accordance with division (F) of this section. All applications shall be approved or denied through full verification within thirty days from receipt of the application by the county department of job and family services. (D) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the certification of households that qualify under federal regulations to receive supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits without charge under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008. (E) Any person who applies for the supplemental nutrition assistance program shall receive a voter registration application under section 3503.10 of the Revised Code. (F)(1) In order to verify household eligibility as required by federal regulations and this section, the department shall, except as provided in division (F)(2) of this section, verify at least the following information before certifying supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits: (a) Household composition; (b) Identity; (c) Citizenship and alien eligibility status; (d) Social security numbers; (e) State residency status; (f) Disability status; (g) Gross nonexempt income; (h) Utility expenses; (i) Medical expenses; (j) Enrollment status in other state-administered public assistance programs within and outside this state; (k) Any available information related to potential identity fraud or identity theft. (2) A household's eligibility for supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits may be certified before all of the information identified in division (F)(1) of this section is verified if the household's certification is being expedited under division (B) of this section. (3) On at least a quarterly basis and consistent with federal regulations, as information is received by a county department of job and family services, the county department shall review and act on information identified in division (F)(1) of this section that indicates a change in circumstances that may affect eligibility, to the extent such information is available to the department. (4) Consistent with federal regulations, as part of the application for public assistance and before certifying benefits under the supplemental nutrition assistance program, the department shall require an applicant, or a person acting on the applicant's behalf, to verify the identity of the members of the applicant household. (5)(a) The department shall sign a memorandum of understanding with any department, agency, or division as needed to obtain the information identified in division (F)(1) of this section. (b) The department may contract with one or more independent vendors to provide the information identified in division (F)(1) of this section. (c) Nothing in this section prevents the department or a county department of job and family services from receiving or reviewing additional information related to eligibility not identified in this section or from contracting with one or more independent vendors to provide additional information not identified in this section. (6) The department shall explore joining a multistate cooperative, such as the national accuracy clearinghouse, to identify individuals enrolled in public assistance programs outside of this state. (G) The department shall use the same criteria to verify gross nonexempt income from self-employment pursuant to division (F)(1) of this section as were used during initial certification when: (1) Reviewing information pursuant to division (F)(3) of this section regarding households with income from self-employment; (2) Recertifying households with income from self- employment. (H) If the department receives information concerning a household certified to receive supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits that indicates a change in circumstances that may affect eligibility, the department shall take action in accordance with federal regulations, including verifying unclear information, providing prior written notice of a change or adverse action, and notifying the household of the right to a fair hearing. (I) In the case of suspected fraud, the department shall refer the case for an administrative disqualification hearing or to the county prosecutor of the county in which the applicant or recipient resides for investigation, or both. (J) The department shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement divisions (F) to (I) of this section. (K) Except as prohibited by federal law, the department may assign any of the duties described in this section to any county department of job and family services. Last updated September 19, 2023 at 2:38 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5166.303 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5166 / § 5166.303
§ 5166.303. Responsibilities of home care attendants
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly A home care attendant shall do all of the following: (A) Maintain a clinical record for each consumer to whom the attendant provides home care attendant services in a manner that protects the consumer's privacy; (B) Participate in a face-to-face visit every ninety days with all of the following to monitor the health and welfare of each of the consumers to whom the attendant provides home care attendant services: (1) The consumer; (2) The consumer's authorized representative, if any; (3) A registered nurse who agrees to answer any questions that the attendant, consumer, or authorized representative has about consumer care needs, medications, and other issues. (C) Document the activities of each visit required by division (B) of this section in the consumer's clinical record with the assistance of the registered nurse. (D) The face-to-face visit requirement in division (B) of this section may be satisfied by telephone or electronically if permitted by rules adopted under section 5166.02 of the Revised Code. Last updated September 14, 2023 at 9:42 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.13
§ 5123.13. Special police officers
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "felony" has the same meaning as in section 109.511 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) Subject to division (C) of this section, upon the recommendation of the director of developmental disabilities, the managing officer of an institution under the jurisdiction of the department of developmental disabilities may designate one or more employees to be special police officers of the department. The special police officers shall take an oath of office, wear the badge of office, and give bond for the proper and faithful discharge of their duties in an amount that the director requires. (2) In accordance with section 109.77 of the Revised Code, the special police officers shall be required to complete successfully a peace officer basic training program approved by the Ohio peace officer training commission and to be certified by the commission. The cost of the training shall be paid by the department of developmental disabilities. (3) Special police officers, on the premises of institutions under the jurisdiction of the department of developmental disabilities and subject to the rules of the department, shall protect the property of the institutions and the persons and property of patients in the institutions, suppress riots, disturbances, and breaches of the peace, and enforce the laws of the state and the rules of the department for the preservation of good order. They may arrest any person without a warrant and detain the person until a warrant can be obtained under the circumstances described in division (F) of section 2935.03 of the Revised Code. (C)(1) The managing officer of an institution under the jurisdiction of the department of developmental disabilities shall not designate an employee as a special police officer of the department pursuant to division (B)(1) of this section on a permanent basis, on a temporary basis, for a probationary term, or on other than a permanent basis if the employee previously has been convicted of or has pleaded guilty to a felony. (2)(a) The managing officer of an institution under the jurisdiction of the department of developmental disabilities shall terminate the employment as a special police officer of the department of an employee designated as a special police officer under division (B)(1) of this section if that employee does either of the following: (i) Pleads guilty to a felony; (ii) Pleads guilty to a misdemeanor pursuant to a negotiated plea agreement as provided in division (D) of section 2929.43 of the Revised Code in which the employee agrees to surrender the certificate awarded to that employee under section 109.77 of the Revised Code. (b) The managing officer shall suspend from employment as a special police officer of the department an employee designated as a special police officer under division (B)(1) of this section if that employee is convicted, after trial, of a felony. If the special police officer files an appeal from that conviction and the conviction is upheld by the highest court to which the appeal is taken or if the special police officer does not file a timely appeal, the managing officer shall terminate the employment of that special police officer. If the special police officer files an appeal that results in that special police officer's acquittal of the felony or conviction of a misdemeanor, or in the dismissal of the felony charge against that special police officer, the managing officer shall reinstate that special police officer. A special police officer of the department who is reinstated under division (C)(2)(b) of this section shall not receive any back pay unless that special police officer's conviction of the felony was reversed on appeal, or the felony charge was dismissed, because the court found insufficient evidence to convict the special police officer of the felony. (3) Division (C) of this section does not apply regarding an offense that was committed prior to January 1, 1997. (4) The suspension from employment, or the termination of the employment, of a special police officer under division (C)(2) of this section shall be in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5121.33 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5121 / § 5121.33
§ 5121.33. Billing cycle charges to patient or relative
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in sections 5121.35 , 5121.43 , 5121.46 , 5121.47 , 5121.49 , and 5121.52 of the Revised Code, the department of mental health and addiction services shall, for each billing cycle, charge a patient, patient's estate, or liable relative the amount calculated under division (B) of this section for care and treatment the patient receives in a hospital operated by the department. (B) The amount to be charged under division (A) of this section shall be calculated by multiplying the hospital's per diem charge or ancillary per diem rate determined under section 5121.32 of the Revised Code, whichever the department determines applies, by the number of days the patient was admitted to the hospital during the period that is covered by the billing cycle. Last updated August 14, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.4212 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.4212
§ 5180.4212. [Former R.C. 5101.1415, amended and renumbered by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Young adults - applicability
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly The provisions of divisions (A) and (D) to (G) of section 5180.428 of the Revised Code shall not apply if the person is eligible for temporary or permanent custody until age twenty-one pursuant to a dispositional order under sections 2151.353 , 2151.414 , and 2151.415 of the Revised Code. Last updated October 3, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.01
§ 5119.01. Definitions
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this chapter: (1) "Addiction" means the chronic and habitual use of alcoholic beverages, the use of a drug of abuse as defined in section 3719.011 of the Revised Code, or the use of gambling by an individual to the extent that the individual no longer can control the individual's use of alcohol, the individual becomes physically or psychologically dependent on the drug, the individual's use of alcohol or drugs endangers the health, safety, or welfare of the individual or others, or the individual's gambling causes psychological, financial, emotional, marital, legal, or other difficulties endangering the health, safety, or welfare of the individual or others. (2) "Addiction services" means services, including intervention, for the treatment of persons with alcohol, drug, or gambling addictions, and for the prevention of such addictions. (3) "Alcohol and drug addiction services" means services, including intervention, for the treatment of persons with alcohol use disorder or persons who abuse drugs of abuse and for the prevention of alcohol use disorder and drug addiction. (4) "Alcohol use disorder" means a medical condition characterized by an individual's impaired ability to stop or control the individual's alcohol use despite adverse social, occupational, or health consequences. An alcohol use disorder may be classified as mild, moderate, or severe. (5) "Certifiable services and supports" means all of the following: (a) Alcohol and drug addiction services; (b) Mental health services; (c) The types of recovery supports that are specified in rules adopted under section 5119.36 of the Revised Code as requiring certification under that section. (6) "Community addiction services provider" means an agency, association, corporation or other legal entity, individual, or program that provides one or more of the following: (a) Alcohol and drug addiction services that are certified by the director of behavioral health under section 5119.36 of the Revised Code; (b) Gambling addiction services; (c) Recovery supports that are related to alcohol and drug addiction services or gambling addiction services and paid for with federal, state, or local funds administered by the department of behavioral health or a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services. (7) "Community mental health services provider" means an agency, association, corporation, individual, or program that provides either of the following: (a) Mental health services that are certified by the director of behavioral health under section 5119.36 of the Revised Code; (b) Recovery supports that are related to mental health services and paid for with federal, state, or local funds administered by the department of behavioral health or a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services. (8) "Drug addiction" means the use of a drug of abuse, as defined in section 3719.011 of the Revised Code, by an individual to the extent that the individual becomes physically or psychologically dependent on the drug or endangers the health, safety, or welfare of the individual or others. (9) "Gambling addiction" means the use of gambling by an individual to the extent that it causes psychological, financial, emotional, marital, legal, or other difficulties endangering the health, safety, or welfare of the individual or others. (10) "Gambling addiction services" means services for the treatment of persons who have a gambling addiction and for the prevention of gambling addiction. (11) "Hospital" means a hospital or inpatient unit licensed by the department of behavioral health under section 5119.33 of the Revised Code, and any institution, hospital, or other place established, controlled, or supervised by the department under this chapter. (12) "Included opioid and co-occurring drug addiction services and recovery supports" means the addiction services and recovery supports that, pursuant to section 340.033 of the Revised Code, are included in the array of services and recovery supports for all levels of opioid and co-occurring drug addiction required to be included in the community-based continuum of care established under section 340.032 of the Revised Code. (13) "Medication-assisted treatment" has the same meaning as in section 340.01 of the Revised Code. (14) "Mental illness" means a substantial disorder of thought, mood, perception, orientation, or memory that grossly impairs judgment, behavior, capacity to recognize reality, or ability to meet the ordinary demands of life. (15) "Mental health services" means services for the assessment, care, or treatment of persons who have a mental illness and for the prevention of mental illness. (16) "Opioid treatment program" has the same meaning as in 42 C.F.R. 8.2. (17) "Recovery housing residence" means a residence for individuals recovering from alcohol use disorder or drug addiction that provides an alcohol-free and drug-free living environment, peer support, assistance with obtaining alcohol and drug addiction services, and other recovery assistance for alcohol use disorder and drug addiction. (18) "Recovery supports" means assistance that is intended to help an individual with alcohol use disorder, drug addiction, or mental illness, or a member of such an individual's family, initiate and sustain the individual's recovery from alcohol use disorder, drug addiction, or mental illness. "Recovery supports" does not mean alcohol and drug addiction services or mental health services. (19)(a) "Residence," except when referring to a recovery housing residence or the meaning of "residence" in section 5119.90 of the Revised Code, means a person's physical presence in a county with intent to remain there, except in either of the following circumstances: (i) If a person is receiving a mental health treatment service at a facility that includes nighttime sleeping accommodations, "residence" means that county in which the person maintained the person's primary place of residence at the time the person entered the facility; (ii) If a person is committed pursuant to section 2945.38 , 2945.39 , 2945.40 , 2945.401 , or 2945.402 of the Revised Code, "residence" means the county where the criminal charges were filed. (b) When the residence of a person is disputed, the matter of residence shall be referred to the department of behavioral health for investigation and determination. Residence shall not be a basis for a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services to deny services to any person present in the board's service district, and the board shall provide services for a person whose residence is in dispute while residence is being determined and for a person in an emergency situation. (B) Any reference in this chapter to a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services also refers to an alcohol and drug addiction services board or a community mental health board in a service district in which an alcohol and drug addiction services board or a community mental health board has been established under section 340.021 or former section 340.02 of the Revised Code. Last updated August 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.241 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.241
§ 5101.241. Actions for noncompliance with workforce development activity standards or requirements
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Local area" and "chief elected official" have the same meaning as in section 5101.20 of the Revised Code. (2) "Responsible entity" means the chief elected officials of a local area. (B) The department of job and family services may take action under division (C) of this section against the responsible entity, regardless of who performs the workforce development activity, if the department determines any of the following are the case: (1) An entity has failed to comply with the terms and conditions of a grant agreement executed between the department and a local area under section 5101.20 of the Revised Code. (2) A performance standard for the workforce development activity established by the federal government or the department is not met. (3) An entity has failed to comply with a workforce development activity requirement established by the department, a federal or state law, a state plan for receipt of federal financial participation, a grant agreement between the department and a federal agency, or an executive order. (4) The responsible entity is solely or partially responsible, as determined by the director of job and family services, for an adverse audit finding, adverse quality control finding, final disallowance of federal financial participation, or other sanction or penalty regarding the workforce development activity. (C) The department may take one or more of the following actions against the responsible entity when authorized by division (B)(1), (2), (3), or (4) of this section: (1) Require the responsible entity to submit to and comply with a corrective action plan, established or approved by the department, pursuant to a time schedule specified by the department; (2) Require the responsible entity to do one of the following: (a) Share with the department a final disallowance of federal financial participation or other sanction or penalty; (b) Reimburse the department the amount the department pays to the federal government or another entity that represents the amount the responsible entity is responsible for of an adverse audit finding, adverse quality control finding, final disallowance of federal financial participation, or other sanction or penalty issued by the federal government, auditor of state, or other entity; (c) Pay the federal government or another entity the amount that represents the amount the responsible entity is responsible for of an adverse audit finding, adverse quality control finding, final disallowance of federal financial participation, or other sanction or penalty issued by the federal government, auditor of state, or other entity; (d) Pay the department the amount that represents the amount the responsible entity is responsible for of an adverse audit finding, adverse quality control finding, or other sanction or penalty issued by the department. (3) Impose a financial or administrative sanction or adverse audit finding issued by the department against the responsible entity, which may be increased with each subsequent action taken against the responsible entity; (4) Perform or contract with a government or private entity for the entity to perform the workforce development activity until the department is satisfied that the responsible entity ensures that the activity will be performed to the department's satisfaction. If the department performs or contracts with an entity to perform the workforce development activity under division (C)(4) of this section, the department may withhold funds allocated to or reimbursements due to the responsible entity for the activity and use those funds to implement division (C)(4) of this section. (5) Request the attorney general to bring mandamus proceedings to compel the responsible entity to take or cease the actions listed in division (B) of this section. The attorney general shall bring any mandamus proceedings in the Franklin county court of appeals at the department's request. (6) If the department takes action under this division because of division (B)(3) of this section, withhold funds allocated or reimbursement due to the responsible entity until the department determines that the responsible entity is in compliance with the requirement. The department shall release the funds when the department determines that compliance has been achieved. (7) Issue a notice of intent to revoke approval of all or part of the local plan effected that conflicts with state or federal law and effectuate the revocation. (D) The department shall notify the responsible entity and the appropriate county auditor before taking action under division (C) of this section. The notice shall be in writing and specify the proposed action. The department shall send the notice by regular United States mail. Except as provided in division (E) of this section, the responsible entity may request an administrative review of a proposed action in accordance with administrative review procedures the department shall establish. The administrative review procedures shall comply with all of the following: (1) A request for an administrative review shall state specifically all of the following: (a) The proposed action specified in the notice from the department for which the review is requested; (b) The reason why the responsible entity believes the proposed action is inappropriate; (c) All facts and legal arguments that the responsible entity wants the department to consider; (d) The name of the person who will serve as the responsible entity's representative in the review. (2) If the department's notice specifies more than one proposed action and the responsible entity does not specify all of the proposed actions in its request pursuant to division (D)(1)(a) of this section, the proposed actions not specified in the request shall not be subject to administrative review and the parts of the notice regarding those proposed actions shall be final and binding on the responsible entity. (3) The responsible entity shall have fifteen calendar days after the department mails the notice to the responsible entity to send a written request to the department for an administrative review. The responsible entity and the department shall attempt to resolve informally any dispute and may develop a written resolution to the dispute at any time prior to submitting the written report described in division (D)(7) of this section to the director. (4) In the case of a proposed action under division (C)(2) of this section, the responsible entity may not include in its request disputes over a finding, final disallowance of federal financial participation, or other sanction or penalty issued by the federal government, auditor of state, or other entity other than the department. (5) If the responsible entity fails to request an administrative review within the required time, the responsible entity loses the right to request an administrative review of the proposed actions specified in the notice and the notice becomes final and binding on the responsible entity. (6) The director of job and family services shall appoint an administrative review panel to conduct the administrative review. The review panel shall consist of department employees who are not involved in the department's proposal to take action against the responsible entity. The review panel shall review the responsible entity's request. The review panel may require that the department or responsible entity submit additional information and schedule and conduct an informal hearing to obtain testimony or additional evidence. A review of a proposal to take action under division (C)(2) of this section shall be limited solely to the issue of the amount the responsible entity shall share with the department, reimburse the department, or pay to the federal government, department, or other entity under division (C)(2) of this section. The review panel is not required to make a stenographic record of its hearing or other proceedings. (7) After finishing an administrative review, an administrative review panel appointed under division (D)(6) of this section shall submit a written report to the director setting forth its findings of fact, conclusions of law, and recommendations for action. The director may approve, modify, or disapprove the recommendations. (8) The director's approval, modification, or disapproval under division (D)(7) of this section shall be final and binding on the responsible entity and shall not be subject to further review. (E) The responsible entity is not entitled to an administrative review under division (D) of this section for any of the following: (1) An action taken under division (C)(5) or (6) of this section; (2) An action taken under section 5101.242 of the Revised Code; (3) An action taken under division (C)(2) of this section if the federal government, auditor of state, or entity other than the department has identified the responsible entity as being solely or partially responsible for an adverse audit finding, adverse quality control finding, final disallowance of federal financial participation, or other sanction or penalty; (4) An adjustment to an allocation, cash draw, advance, or reimbursement to the responsible entity's local area that the department determines necessary for budgetary reasons; (5) Withholding of a cash draw or reimbursement due to noncompliance with a reporting requirement established in rules adopted under section 5101.243 of the Revised Code. (F) This section does not apply to other actions the department takes against the responsible entity pursuant to authority granted by another state law unless the other state law requires the department to take the action in accordance with this section. (G) The director of job and family services may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as necessary to implement this section. (H) The governor may decertify a local board for any of the following reasons in accordance with subsection (c)(3) of section 107 of the "Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act," 29 U.S.C. 3122: (1) Fraud or abuse; (2) Failure to carry out the requirements of the federal "Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act," 29 U.S.C. 3101 et seq.; (3) Failure to meet local performance accountability measures for the local area for two consecutive program years, as specified in subsection (c)(3)(B) of section 107 of the "Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act," 29 U.S.C. 3122. (I)(1) If the governor determines that there has been a substantial violation of a specific provision of the "Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act," 29 U.S.C. 3101 et seq., and that corrective action has not been taken, the governor shall take one of the following actions: (a) Issue a notice of intent to revoke approval of all or part of a local plan affected by the violation; (b) Impose a reorganization plan. (2) A reorganization plan imposed under division (I)(1) of this section may include any of the following: (a) Decertifying the local board involved in the violation; (b) Prohibiting the use of eligible providers; (c) Selecting an alternate entity to administer the program for the local area involved in the violation; (d) Merging the local area with one or more other local areas; (e) Making other changes that the governor determines to be necessary to secure compliance with the specific provision. An action taken by the governor pursuant to this section may be appealed and shall not become effective until the time for appeal has expired or a final decision has been issued on the appeal.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.65 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.65
§ 5101.65. Investigations
Status: in_force

September 29, 2018 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly The county department of job and family services or its designee shall be responsible for the investigation of all reports provided for in section 173.20 or 5101.63 and all cases referred to it under section 5126.31 of the Revised Code and for evaluating the need for and, to the extent of available funds, providing or arranging for the provision of protective services. Investigation of the report provided for in section 5101.63 or a case referred to the department under section 5126.31 of the Revised Code shall be initiated within twenty-four hours after the department receives the report or case if any emergency exists; otherwise investigation shall be initiated within three working days. Investigation of the need for protective services shall include a face-to-face visit with the adult who is the subject of the report, preferably in the adult's residence, and consultation with the person who made the report, if feasible, and agencies or persons who have information about the adult's alleged abuse, neglect, or exploitation. The department shall give written notice of the intent of the investigation and an explanation of the notice in language reasonably understandable to the adult who is the subject of the investigation, at the time of the initial interview with that person. Upon completion of the investigation, the department shall determine from its findings whether or not the adult who is the subject of the report is in need of protective services. No adult shall be determined to be abused, neglected, or in need of protective services for the sole reason that, in lieu of medical treatment, the adult relies on or is being furnished spiritual treatment through prayer alone in accordance with the tenets and practices of a church or religious denomination of which the adult is a member or adherent. The department shall write a report which confirms or denies the need for protective services and states why it reached this conclusion.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.055 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.055
§ 5103.055. Communications regarding a residential facility
Status: in_force

April 3, 2025 House Bill 315 - 135th General Assembly Not later than ninety days after the effective date of this section, the director of children and youth shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to establish both of the following: (A) A procedure for individuals in a community in which a residential facility is located to communicate concerns, complaints, or other pertinent information to the department regarding the facility; (B) Standards for tracking and retaining communications received under division (A) of this section. Last updated February 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5168.23 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5168 / § 5168.23
§ 5168.23. Assessment payment schedule
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly Each hospital shall pay the amount it is assessed under section 5168.21 of the Revised Code in accordance with a payment schedule the department of medicaid shall establish for each assessment program year. The department shall consult with the Ohio hospital association before establishing the payment schedule for any assessment program year. The department shall include the payment schedule in each preliminary determination notice the department issues to hospitals under division (A) of section 5168.22 of the Revised Code. Last updated July 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5162.25 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5162 / § 5162.25
§ 5162.25. State directed payment program requirements
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "State directed payment program" means a payment program authorized by the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services under 42 C.F.R. 438.6(c). (2) "Preprint" means a form created by the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services to request approval of a state directed payment program, as required under 42 C.F.R. 438.6(c). (B)(1) Except as provided in division (B)(2) or (3) of this section, the medicaid director shall comply with this section for all new and existing state directed payment programs. (2) The medicaid director shall not establish more than fifty state directed payment programs during a fiscal biennium. (3) This section does not apply to a state directed payment program that is funded by the department of medicaid or the hospital franchise permit fee program. (C) All of the following apply to a state directed payment program that is subject to this section: (1) The program shall comply with the requirements of 42 C.F.R. 438.6(c), including all of the following: (a) The program shall be approved by the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services, and the director shall seek approval for the program in accordance with section 5162.07 of the Revised Code. (b) Directed payments under the program shall not exceed the average commercial rate for all providers participating under a preprint unless exempted by a value-based purchasing agreement approved by the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services. (c) The program shall be subject to an evaluation plan, in accordance with 42 C.F.R. 438.6(c)(2)(ii)(D). (2) The program shall be for hospital providers and services or professional services provided by hospitals. (3) Unless otherwise determined by the medicaid director, only one state directed payment preprint may be approved for each of the following provider classes: (a) Inpatient and outpatient hospital services; (b) Physician services; (c) Children's hospitals participating in the outcomes acceleration for kids quality initiative. (D) A hospital provider participating in a state directed payment program shall do all of the following: (1) Enter into one or more contracts related to the state directed payment program as necessary, as determined by the department; (2) Comply with all average commercial rate reporting requirements established by the department, related to the requirements set forth in 42 C.F.R. 438.6(c)(2)(iii); (3) Comply with the department's state directed payment quality measure set, including the metrics and targets set by the department for the state directed payment program to advance the goals and objectives specified in the department's quality strategy, as specified in 42 C.F.R. 438.6(c)(2)(ii)(C) and 42 C.F.R. 438.340; (4) Cooperate with any evaluation or reporting requirements established by the department related to the requirements set forth in 42 C.F.R. 438.6(c)(2)(ii)(D) and (F). (E) For any preprint effective for a rating period beginning on or after January 1, 2027, a hospital provider contract required under division (D)(1) of this section shall be executed not later than the first day of October preceding the first fiscal year of a biennium. A contract required under this section may be entered into in accordance with section 5162.32 of the Revised Code. (F) The department shall enter into an agreement with the authorized representative of each entity participating in a state directed payment program established under this section. No agreement entered into under this section shall be valid and enforceable unless the director of budget and management first certifies that there is a balance in the appropriation used to support state directed payment programs that is not already obligated under existing directed payment programs, in an amount at least equal to the cost in the current fiscal year of the state directed payment program that is the subject of the agreement. (G)(1) All funds supporting a state directed payment program shall comply with the requirements specified in 42 C.F.R. 433.51. No hospital provider may participate in a state directed payment program unless sufficient funds are obligated and appropriated. (2) The department shall not at any time provide general revenue funds or other state funds for a state directed payment program that is subject to this section. The director shall terminate or decline to establish any state directed payment program if either of the following is the case: (a) Local funding is not available or sufficient to sustain the program. (b) The federal government restricts or limits the availability of federal funds to support state directed payment programs or otherwise requires the state to utilize general revenue funds or other state funds as a condition of establishing or maintaining a state directed payment program. (H) The department shall not utilize more than two per cent of funds received to support a state directed payment program established under this section, including federal financial participation, for the administration of state directed payment programs. Additionally, the department shall not utilize more than two per cent of funds received to support a state directed payment program established under this section, including federal financial participation, for the administration of the department and the medicaid program. Last updated August 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.312 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.312
§ 5101.312. [Former R.C. 122.67, amended and renumbered as R.C. 5101.312 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Job and family services authority over community services assistance personnel
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly The director of job and family services shall employ and fix the compensation of professional and technical unclassified personnel as necessary to carry out the provisions of sections 5101.311 to 5101.317 of the Revised Code. Last updated October 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5116.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5116 / § 5116.02
§ 5116.02. Program established
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly There is hereby established the comprehensive case management and employment program. The department of job and family services shall coordinate and supervise the administration of the program to the extent funds are available for this purpose under the TANF block grant or the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5168.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5168 / § 5168.22
§ 5168.22. Preliminary determination of assessment amount
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) Before or during each assessment program year, the department of medicaid shall issue to each hospital the preliminary determination of the amount that the hospital is assessed under section 5168.21 of the Revised Code for the assessment program year. Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the preliminary determination becomes the final determination for the assessment program year fifteen days after the preliminary determination is issued to the hospital. (B) A hospital may request that the department reconsider the preliminary determination issued to the hospital under division (A) of this section by submitting to the department a written request for a reconsideration not later than fourteen days after the hospital's preliminary determination is issued to the hospital. The request must be accompanied by written materials setting forth the basis for the reconsideration, which may be delivered to the department by regular mail, electronic mail, or in-person delivery. On receipt of the timely request, the department shall reconsider the preliminary determination and may adjust the preliminary determination on the basis of the written materials accompanying the request. The result of the reconsideration is the final determination of the hospital's assessment under section 5168.21 of the Revised Code for the assessment program year. (C) The department shall issue to each hospital a written notice of the final determination of its assessment for the assessment program year. A hospital may appeal the final determination to the court of common pleas of Franklin county, pursuant to Chapter 2505. of the Revised Code. The complete record of the proceedings shall include all documentation considered by the department in issuing the final determination. While a judicial appeal is pending, the hospital shall pay, in accordance with section 5168.23 of the Revised Code, any amount of its assessment that is not in dispute. Last updated August 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.231 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.231
§ 5103.231. Determination of financial responsibility
Status: in_force

May 14, 2008 House Bill 214 - 127th General Assembly Financial responsibility for any child placed pursuant to the provisions of the interstate compact on the placement of children shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of Article V of section 5103.23 of the Revised Code. However, in the event of parental or complete default of performance thereunder, the provisions of laws fixing responsibility for the support of children also may be invoked.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.0326 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.0326
§ 5103.0326. Nonrenewals based on refusals to accept children
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) A recommending agency may recommend that the department of children and youth revoke a foster home certificate under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code if the foster caregiver refused to accept the placement of any children into the foster home during the preceding twelve months. Based on the agency's recommendation, the department may revoke a foster home certificate pursuant to an adjudication under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. (B) The department of children and youth may revoke, pursuant to an adjudication under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the certification of any foster caregiver who has not cared for one or more foster children in the foster caregiver's home within the preceding twelve months. Prior to the revocation of any certification pursuant to this division, the recommending agency shall have the opportunity to provide good cause for the department to continue the certification and not revoke the certification. If the department decides to revoke the certification, the department shall notify the recommending agency that the certification will be revoked. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5153.123 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5153 / § 5153.123
§ 5153.123. Caseworker supervisor in-service training
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly Each PCSA caseworker supervisor shall complete in-service training during the first year of the supervisor's continuous employment as a PCSA caseworker supervisor. The training shall include courses in screening reports of child abuse, neglect, or dependency. After a PCSA caseworker supervisor's first year of continuous employment as a PCSA caseworker supervisor, the supervisor annually shall complete thirty hours of training in areas relevant to the supervisor's assigned duties. During the first two years of continuous employment as a PCSA caseworker supervisor, each PCSA caseworker supervisor shall complete training in recognizing the signs of domestic violence and its relationship to child abuse as established in rules the director of children and youth shall adopt pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5124.24 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5124 / § 5124.24
§ 5124.24. Determination of per medicaid day quality incentive payment
Status: in_force

October 17, 2019 House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly (A) For fiscal year 2022 and each fiscal year thereafter, the department of developmental disabilities shall determine in accordance with division (C) of this section a per medicaid day quality incentive payment for each ICF/IID that earns for the fiscal year at least one point under division (B) of this section. (B) Each fiscal year beginning with fiscal year 2022, the department, in accordance with rules authorized by this section, shall award to an ICF/IID points for quality indicators the ICF/IID meets for the fiscal year. The quality indicators used under this division shall be based on the recommendations contained in the report submitted to the director of developmental disabilities by the ICF/IID quality indicators workgroup established by Section 261.230 this act . (C) An ICF/IID's per medicaid day quality incentive payment for a fiscal year shall be the product of the following: (1) The relative weight point value for the fiscal year as determined under division (D) of this section; (2) The number of points the ICF/IID was awarded under division (B) of this section for the fiscal year. (D) The relative weight point value for a fiscal year shall be determined as follows: (1) For each ICF/IID, determine the product of the following: (a) The number of inpatient days the ICF/IID had for the applicable cost report year; (b) The number of points the ICF/IID was awarded under division (B) of this section for the fiscal year. (2) Determine the sum of all of the products determined under division (D)(1) of this section for the fiscal year; (3) Determine the amount equal to one per cent of the total desk-reviewed, actual, allowable direct care costs of all ICFs/IID for the applicable cost report year; (4) Divide the amount determined under division (D)(3) of this section by the sum determined under division (D)(2) of this section. (E) The director of developmental disabilities shall adopt rules under section 5124.03 of the Revised Code as necessary to implement this section, including rules that specify or establish all of the following: (1) The data needed for the department to determine whether an ICF/IID meets the quality indicators specified in division (B) of this section, the medium through which a report of the data is to be submitted to the department, and the date by which the report of the data must be submitted to the department; (2) Satisfactory evidence needed to determine that an ICF/IID has met the quality indicators; (3) The method by which ICFs/IID are to be awarded points under division (B) of this section and the number of points that each quality indicator is worth based on the quality indicator's relative importance compared to the other quality indicators.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.255 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.255
§ 5126.255. RC 5126.253 and RC 5126.254 prevail over contractual provisions
Status: in_force

March 30, 2007 House Bill 79 - 126th General Assembly Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code, the provisions of sections 5126.253 and 5126.254 of the Revised Code prevail over any conflicting provisions of a collective bargaining agreement or contract for employment entered into after the effective date of this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.0510 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.0510
§ 5126.0510. Payment of nonfederal share of home services expenditures
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly (A) Except as otherwise provided in an agreement entered into under section 5123.048 of the Revised Code and subject to divisions (B), (C), (D), and (E) of this section, a county board of developmental disabilities shall pay the nonfederal share of medicaid expenditures for the following home and community-based services provided to an individual with a developmental disability who the county board determines under section 5126.041 of the Revised Code is eligible for county board services: (1) Home and community-based services provided by the county board to such an individual; (2) Home and community-based services provided by a provider other than the county board to such an individual who is enrolled as of June 30, 2007, in the medicaid waiver component under which the services are provided; (3) Home and community-based services provided by a provider other than the county board to such an individual who, pursuant to a request the county board makes, enrolls in the medicaid waiver component under which the services are provided after June 30, 2007; (4) Home and community-based services provided by a provider other than the county board to such an individual for whom there is in effect an agreement entered into under division (F) of this section between the county board and director of developmental disabilities. (B) In the case of medicaid expenditures for home and community-based services for which division (A)(2) of this section requires a county board to pay the nonfederal share, the following shall apply to such services provided during fiscal year 2008 under the individual options medicaid waiver component: (1) The county board shall pay no less than the total amount the county board paid as the nonfederal share for home and community-based services provided in fiscal year 2007 under the individual options medicaid waiver component; (2) The county board shall pay no more than the sum of the following: (a) The total amount the county board paid as the nonfederal share for home and community-based services provided in fiscal year 2007 under the individual options medicaid waiver component; (b) An amount equal to one per cent of the total amount the department of developmental disabilities and county board paid as the nonfederal share for home and community-based services provided in fiscal year 2007 under the individual options medicaid waiver component to individuals the county board determined under section 5126.041 of the Revised Code are eligible for county board services. (C) A county board is not required to pay the nonfederal share of home and community-based services provided after June 30, 2008, that the county board is otherwise required by division (A)(2) of this section to pay if the department of developmental disabilities fails to comply with division (A) of section 5123.0416 of the Revised Code. (D) A county board is not required to pay the nonfederal share of home and community-based services that the county board is otherwise required by division (A)(3) of this section to pay if both of the following apply: (1) The services are provided to an individual who enrolls in the medicaid waiver component under which the services are provided as the result of an order issued following an appeal made under section 5160.31 of the Revised Code or an appeal of the order to a court of common pleas; (2) There are more individuals who are eligible for services from the county board enrolled in home and community-based services than is required by section 5126.0512 of the Revised Code. (E) A county board is not required to pay the nonfederal share of home and community-based services that the county board is otherwise required by division (A) of this section to pay if the services are provided to an individual who enrolls, pursuant to division (D) of section 5124.69 of the Revised Code, in the medicaid waiver component under which the services are provided. (F) A county board may enter into an agreement with the director of developmental disabilities under which the county board agrees to pay the nonfederal share of medicaid expenditures for one or more home and community-based services that the county board is not otherwise required by division (A)(1), (2), or (3) of this section to pay and that are provided to an individual the county board determines under section 5126.041 of the Revised Code is eligible for county board services. The agreement shall specify which home and community-based services the agreement covers. The county board 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 § 5120.60 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.60
§ 5120.60. Office of victim services
Status: in_force

September 30, 2011 House Bill 86 - 129th General Assembly (A) There is hereby created in the division of parole and community services the office of victim services. (B) The office shall provide assistance to victims of crime, victims' representatives designated under section 2930.02 of the Revised Code, and members of the victim's family. The assistance shall include, but not be limited to, providing information about the policies and procedures of the department of rehabilitation and correction and the status of offenders under the department's jurisdiction. (C) The office shall also make available publications that will assist victims in contacting staff of the department about problems with offenders under the supervision of the adult parole authority or confined in state correctional institutions under the department's jurisdiction. (D) The office shall employ a victim coordinator who shall administer the office's functions. The victim coordinator shall be in the unclassified civil service and report directly to the chief of the division. (E) The office shall also employ at least three persons in the unclassified civil service whose primary duties shall be to help parole board hearing officers identify victims' issues and to make recommendations to the parole board in accordance with rules adopted by the department. The member of the parole board appointed pursuant to division (B) of section 5149.10 of the Revised Code shall approve the hiring of the employees of the office. (F) The office shall coordinate its activities with the member of the parole board appointed pursuant to division (B) of section 5149.10 of the Revised Code. The victim coordinator and other employees of the office shall have full access to records of prisoners under the department's jurisdiction. (G) Information provided to the office of victim services by victims of crime or a victim representative designated under section 2930.02 of the Revised Code for the purpose of program participation, of receiving services, or to communicate acts of an inmate or person under the supervision of the adult parole authority that threaten the safety and security of the victim shall be confidential and is not a public record under section 149.43 of the Revised Code. (H)(1) If a person who was convicted of or pleaded guilty to an offense of violence that is a felony escapes from a correctional institution under the control of the department of rehabilitation and correction or otherwise escapes from the custody of the department, the office of victim services shall notify each victim of the offense or offenses committed by that person of that person's escape and, if applicable, of that person's subsequent apprehension. The office shall give this notice as soon as practicable after the escape and the office identifies and locates the victim. The office shall give this notice to each victim of the escaped person, regardless of whether the victim is registered for notification with the office, unless the victim has specifically notified the office that the victim does not wish to be notified regarding the person. The office may give the notice required by this division by telephone, in person, or by e-mail or other electronic means. If the office cannot locate a victim to whom notice is to be provided under this division, the office shall send the notice in writing to the last known address of that victim. (2) If a person escapes as described in division (H)(1) of this section, the office of victim services may request assistance from the prosecuting attorney of the county in which the person was convicted of or pleaded guilty to the offense in identifying and locating the victim of the offense. (I) Any reference in any Revised Code section other than this section to the "office of victims' services" of the division of parole and community services or of the department of rehabilitation and correction shall be construed as being a reference to, and meaning, the office of victim services created by division (A) of this section. (J) As used in this section, "crime," "member of the victim's family," and "victim" have the meanings given in section 2930.01 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.25 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.25
§ 5120.25. Books and accounts
Status: in_force

July 12, 1972 House Bill 494 - 109th General Assembly The department of correction shall keep in its office a proper and complete set of books and accounts with each institution, which shall clearly show the nature and amount of every expenditure authorized and made at such institution, and which shall contain an account of all appropriations made by the general assembly and of all other funds, together with the disposition of such funds. The department shall prescribe the form of vouchers, records, and methods of keeping accounts at each of the institutions, which shall be as nearly uniform as possible. The department may examine the records of each institution, at any time. The department may authorize any of its bookkeepers, accountants, or employees to examine and check the records, accounts, and vouchers or take an inventory of the property of any institution, or do whatever is necessary, and pay the actual and reasonable expenses incurred in such service when an itemized account is filed and approved.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.92 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.92
§ 5119.92. Criteria for involuntary treatment
Status: in_force

April 6, 2023 House Bill 281 - 134th General Assembly No person shall be ordered to undergo treatment under sections 5119.90 to 5119.98 of the Revised Code unless all of the following apply to that person: (A) The person experiences alcohol and other drug abuse. (B) The person presents an imminent danger or imminent threat of danger to self, family, or others as a result of alcohol and other drug abuse, or there exists a substantial likelihood of such a threat in the near future. (C) The person can reasonably benefit from treatment. Last updated March 10, 2023 at 12:51 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5168.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5168 / § 5168.08
§ 5168.08. Preliminary determination of assessment
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) Before or during each program year, the department of medicaid shall issue to each hospital the preliminary determination of the amount that the hospital is assessed under section 5168.06 of the Revised Code during the program year. The preliminary determination of a hospital's assessment shall be calculated for a cost-reporting period that is specified in rules adopted under section 5168.02 of the Revised Code. The department shall consult with hospitals each year when determining the date on which it will issue the preliminary determinations in order to minimize hospitals' cash flow difficulties. If no hospital submits a request for reconsideration under division (B) of this section, the preliminary determination constitutes the final reconciliation of each hospital's assessment under section 5168.06 of the Revised Code. The final reconciliation constitutes an interim final order and may be subject to adjustments made by the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services pursuant to division (D) of this section. (B) Not later than fourteen days after the preliminary determinations are issued, any hospital may submit to the department a written request to reconsider the preliminary determinations. The request shall be accompanied by written materials setting forth the basis for the reconsideration, which may be delivered to the department by regular mail, electronic mail, or in-person delivery. On the basis of the evidence submitted to the department, the department shall reconsider and may adjust the preliminary determinations. The result of the reconsideration is the final reconciliation of the hospital's assessment under section 5168.06 of the Revised Code. The final reconciliation constitutes an interim final order and may be subject to adjustments by the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services pursuant to division (D) of this section. (C) The department shall issue to each hospital a written notice of its assessment for the program year under the final reconciliation. A hospital may appeal the final reconciliation of its assessment to the court of common pleas of Franklin county, pursuant to Chapter 2505. of the Revised Code. The complete record of the proceedings shall include all documentation considered by the department in issuing the final reconciliation. While a judicial appeal is pending, the hospital shall pay, in accordance with the schedules required by division (B) of section 5168.06 of the Revised Code, any amount of its assessment that is not in dispute into the hospital care assurance program fund created in section 5168.11 of the Revised Code. (D) In the course of any program year, the department may adjust the assessment rate or rates established in rules pursuant to section 5168.06 of the Revised Code or adjust the amounts of intergovernmental transfers required under section 5168.07 of the Revised Code and, as a result of the adjustment, adjust each hospital's assessment and intergovernmental transfer, to reflect refinements made by the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services during that program year to the limits it prescribed under the "Social Security Act," section 1923(f), 42 U.S.C. 1396r-4(f). When adjusted, the assessment rate or rates must comply with division (A) of section 5168.06 of the Revised Code. An adjusted intergovernmental transfer must comply with division (A) of section 5168.07 of the Revised Code. The department shall notify hospitals of adjustments made under this division and adjust for the remainder of the program year the installments paid by hospitals under sections 5168.06 and 5168.07 of the Revised Code in accordance with rules adopted under section 5168.02 of the Revised Code. Last updated August 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM