Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.57 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.57
§ 5120.57. Reimbursement for health care services rendered to insured offender
Status: in_force

September 6, 2002 House Bill 170 - 124th General Assembly (A) For each offender who is in the custody or under the supervision of the department of rehabilitation and correction, the department may make a determination as to whether the offender is covered under an individual or group sickness and accident insurance policy or an individual or group health insuring corporation policy, contract, or agreement. If the offender has coverage of that type, the department shall familiarize itself with the terms and conditions to receive benefits under the policy, contract, or agreement. (B) If, pursuant to division (A) of this section, it is determined that the offender is covered under an individual or group sickness and accident insurance policy or an individual or group health insuring corporation policy, contract, or agreement and if, while that coverage is in force, the department renders or arranges for the rendering of health care services to the person in accordance with the terms and conditions of the policy, contract, or agreement, the department or provider of the health care services, as appropriate under the terms and conditions of the policy, contract, or agreement, may submit a claim for payment for the health care services to the appropriate third-party payer. If the policy holder is the offender, the offender shall be required to assign payment of benefits directly to the provider or department, as appropriate. If the policy holder is not the offender, the policy holder shall be asked to voluntarily provide policy information and assign payments directly to the provider or department, as appropriate. The department shall provide the third-party payer with a copy of the assignment of benefits by the policy holder. The policy holder and the third-party payer shall make all arrangements necessary to ensure that payment of any amount due on the claim is made to the provider or department as specified in the assignment. The department shall remain ultimately responsible for payment of all health care services provided to an offender in the custody or under the supervision of the department but shall be the payer of last resort. If the department pays a provider for health care services rendered to an offender and payment subsequently is made for the same services by a third-party payer, the provider shall refund the duplicate payment to the department and, the department shall deposit the refunded payment into the offender financial responsibility fund as described in division (E) of this section. (C) If, pursuant to division (A) of this section, it is determined that the offender is covered under an individual or group sickness and accident insurance policy or an individual or group health insuring corporation policy, contract, or agreement, the department shall make a determination, after considering security, public safety, and transportation issues, whether or not to render or arrange for the rendering of health care services in accordance with the terms and conditions of the policy, contract, or agreement. The department, based on security, public safety, or transportation concerns or any combination of those concerns, may arrange for the rendering of health care services for the offender at a health care facility, by a provider, or at a health care facility and by a provider not covered by the policy, contract, or agreement and pay the costs of the health care services for the offender. (D) If the department renders or arranges for the rendering of health care services to an offender and pays for the services, the department reserves the right to seek reimbursement from a third-party payer for the services if it subsequently is determined that the offender was covered under an individual or group sickness and accident insurance policy or an individual or group health insuring corporation policy, contract, or agreement. The department shall submit a claim for reimbursement of the type described in this division within the time frames applicable to claims submitted by a policy holder in accordance with the terms and conditions of the policy, contract, or agreement. (E) Any payment made to the department pursuant to division (B) of this section shall be deposited into the offender financial responsibility fund created in section 5120.56 of the Revised Code. (F) If, at the time the department arranges for health care services for an offender and a provider renders those services, the department determines pursuant to division (A) of this section that the offender is covered, or potentially is covered, under an individual or group sickness and accident insurance policy or an individual or group health insuring corporation policy, contract, or agreement, then all of the following apply: (1) The department is responsible for any cost-sharing, co-payments, or deductibles required under the policy, contract, or agreement. (2) If the insurer or potential insurer denies the claim for payment, the department remains liable for payment to the provider of services. (3) If an insurer covers a service, but the amount the insurer pays to the provider is less than the amount negotiated and established by contract then in effect between the department and the provider, the department is liable for reimbursing the difference to the provider. (G) Nothing in this section requires a third-party payer to reimburse any provider or the department for health care services not covered under the terms or conditions of an individual or group sickness and accident insurance policy, an individual or group health insuring corporation policy, contract, or agreement, or any other policy, contract, or agreement.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.72 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.72
§ 5165.72. Uncorrected deficiencies constituting severity level four findings
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) If the department of health cites a deficiency, or cluster of deficiencies, that was not substantially corrected before a survey and constitutes a severity level four finding, the department of medicaid or contracting agency shall, subject to sections 5165.79 to 5165.83 of the Revised Code, impose a remedy for the deficiency or cluster of deficiencies. The department or agency may act under either division (A)(1) or (2) of this section: (1) The department or agency may impose one or more of the following remedies: (a) Issue an order terminating the nursing facility's participation in the medicaid program. (b) Do either of the following: (i) Regardless of whether the provider consents, appoint a temporary manager of the facility. (ii) Apply to the common pleas court of the county in which the facility is located for such injunctive or other equitable relief as is necessary for the appointment of a special master with such powers and authority over the facility and length of appointment as the court considers necessary. (c) Do either of the following: (i) Issue an order denying medicaid payments to the facility for all medicaid eligible residents admitted after the effective date of the order; (ii) Impose a fine. (d) Issue an order denying medicaid payments to the facility for medicaid eligible residents admitted after the effective date of the order who have certain diagnoses or special care needs specified by the department or agency. (2) The department or agency may impose one or more of the following remedies: (a) Appoint, subject to the continuing consent of the provider, a temporary manager of the facility; (b) Do either of the following: (i) Regardless of whether the provider consents, appoint a temporary manager of the facility; (ii) Apply to the common pleas court of the county in which the facility is located for such injunctive or other equitable relief as is necessary for the appointment of a special master with such powers and authority over the facility and length of appointment as the court considers necessary. (c) Do either of the following: (i) Issue an order denying medicaid payments to the facility for all medicaid eligible residents admitted after the effective date of the order; (ii) Impose a fine. (d) Issue an order denying medicaid payments to the facility for medicaid eligible residents admitted after the effective date of the order who have certain diagnoses or special care needs specified by the department or agency; (e) Issue an order requiring the facility to correct the deficiency or cluster of deficiencies under the plan of correction submitted by the facility and approved by the department of health under section 5165.69 of the Revised Code. (B) The department of medicaid or contracting agency shall deliver a written order issued under division (A)(1) of this section terminating a nursing facility's participation in the medicaid program to the facility within five days after the exit interview. If the facility alleges, at any time prior to the later of the twentieth day after the exit interview or the fifteenth day after it receives the order, that the deficiency or cluster of deficiencies for which the order was issued has been substantially corrected, the department of health shall conduct a follow-up survey to determine whether the deficiency or cluster of deficiencies has been substantially corrected. The order shall take effect and the facility's participation shall terminate on the twentieth day after the exit interview, unless the facility has substantially corrected the deficiency or cluster of deficiencies that constituted a severity level four finding or did not receive notice from the department of medicaid or contracting agency within five days after the exit interview. In the latter case, the order shall take effect and the facility's participation shall terminate on the fifteenth day after the facility received the order. (C) If the department of health cites a deficiency or cluster of deficiencies pursuant to division (E) of section 5165.66 of the Revised Code that constituted a severity level four finding, the department of medicaid or a contracting agency shall, subject to section 5165.83 of the Revised Code, impose a fine. The fine shall be in effect for a period equal to the number of days the deficiency or cluster of deficiencies existed at the facility.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.17 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.17
§ 5103.17. Advertising or inducements as to adoption or foster home placement
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Advertise" means a method of communication that is electronic, written, visual, or oral and made by means of personal representation, newspaper, magazine, circular, billboard, direct mailing, sign, radio, television, telephone, or otherwise. (2) "Qualified adoptive parent" means a person who is eligible to adopt a child under section 3107.03 of the Revised Code and for whom an assessor has conducted a home study to determine whether the person is suitable to adopt a child, if required by section 3107.031 of the Revised Code. (B) Subject to section 5103.16 of the Revised Code and to division (C), (D), or (E) of this section, no person or government entity, other than a private child placing agency or private noncustodial agency certified by the department of children and youth under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code or a public children services agency, shall advertise that the person or government entity will adopt children or place them in foster homes, hold out inducements to parents to part with their offspring or in any manner knowingly become a party to the separation of a child from the child's parents or guardians, except through a juvenile court or probate court commitment. (C) The biological parent of a child may advertise the availability for placement of the parent's child for adoption to a qualified adoptive parent. (D) A qualified adoptive parent may advertise that the qualified adoptive parent is available for placement of a child into the qualified adoptive parent's care for the purpose of adopting the child. (E) A government entity may advertise about its role in the placement of children for adoption or any other information that would be relevant to qualified adoptive parents. (F) Except as provided in section 3107.055 of the Revised Code, the following apply: (1) No person shall offer money or anything of value in exchange for placement of a child for adoption. (2) No biological parent may request money or anything of value in exchange for placement for adoption of the parent's child with a qualified adoptive parent. (G) If the department of children and youth has reasonable cause to believe a violation of this section has been committed, the department shall notify the attorney general or the county prosecutor, city attorney, village solicitor, or other chief legal officer of the political subdivision in which the violation has allegedly occurred. On receipt of the notification, the attorney general, county prosecutor, city attorney, village solicitor, or other chief legal officer shall take action to enforce this section through injunctive relief or criminal charge. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5139.35 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5139 / § 5139.35
§ 5139.35. Prior consent of committing court required for placement in less restrictive setting
Status: in_force

January 1, 2002 Senate Bill 179 - 123rd General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section and division (C)(2) of section 5139.06 of the Revised Code, the department of youth services shall not place a child committed to it pursuant to section 2152.16 or divisions (A) and (B) of section 2152.17 of the Revised Code who has not been institutionalized or institutionalized in a secure facility for the prescribed minimum period of institutionalization in an institution with a less restrictive setting than that in which the child was originally placed, other than an institution under the management and control of the department, without first obtaining the prior consent of the committing court. (B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, the department of youth services shall notify the committing court, in writing, of any placement of a child committed to it pursuant to division (A)(1)(b), (c), (d), or (e) of section 2152.16 or divisions (A) and (B) of section 2152.17 of the Revised Code who has been institutionalized or institutionalized in a secure facility for the prescribed minimum period of institutionalization under those divisions in an institution with a less restrictive setting than that in which the child was originally placed, other than an institution under the management and control of the department, at least fifteen days before the scheduled date of placement. (C) If, pursuant to division (C)(2) of section 5139.06 of the Revised Code, the department of youth services transfers a child committed to it pursuant to division (A)(1)(b), (c), (d), or (e) of section 2152.16 or divisions (A) and (B) of section 2152.17 of the Revised Code to a correctional medical center established by the department of rehabilitation and correction, the department of youth services shall send the committing court a certified copy of the transfer order.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.63 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.63
§ 5120.63. Random drug testing of state prisoners
Status: in_force

April 7, 2009 House Bill 130 - 127th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Random drug testing" means a procedure in which blood or urine specimens are collected from individuals chosen by automatic, random selection and without prearrangement or planning, for the purpose of scientifically analyzing the specimens to determine whether the individual ingested or was injected with a drug of abuse. (2) "State correctional institution" has the same meaning as in section 2967.01 of the Revised Code. (3) "Stated prison term" has the same meaning as in section 2929.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The department of rehabilitation and correction shall establish and administer a statewide random drug testing program in which all persons who were convicted of or pleaded guilty to a felony offense and are serving a stated prison term in a state correctional institution shall submit to random drug testing. The department may enter into contracts with laboratories or entities in the state that are accredited by the national institute on drug abuse to perform blood or urine specimen collection, documentation, maintenance, transportation, preservation, storage, and analyses and other duties required under this section in the performance of random drug testing of prisoners in those correctional institutions. The terms of any contract entered into under this division shall include a requirement that the laboratory or entity and its employees, the superintendents, managing officers, and employees of state correctional institutions, all employees of the department, and all other persons comply with the standards for the performance of random drug testing as specified in the policies and procedures established by the department under division (D) of this section. If no laboratory or entity has entered into a contract as specified in this division, the department shall cause a prisoner to submit to random drug testing performed by a reputable public laboratory to determine whether the prisoner ingested or was injected with a drug of abuse. (C) A prisoner who is subjected to random drug testing under this section and whose test indicates that the prisoner ingested or was injected with a drug of abuse shall pay the fee for that positive test and other subsequent test fees as a sanction specified by the department of rehabilitation and correction pursuant to division (D)(6) of this section. (D) The department of rehabilitation and correction shall establish policies and procedures to implement the random drug testing program established under this section. The policies and procedures shall include, but are not limited to, provisions that do the following: (1) Establish standards for the performance of random drug testing that include, but are not limited to, standards governing the following: (a) The collection by the laboratory or entity described in division (B) of this section of blood or urine specimens of individuals in a scientifically or medically approved manner and under reasonable and sanitary conditions; (b) The collection and testing by the laboratory or entity described in division (B) of this section of blood or urine specimens with due regard for the privacy of the individual being tested and in a manner reasonably calculated to prevent substitutions or interference with the collection and testing of the specimens; (c) The documentation of blood or urine specimens collected by the laboratory or entity described in division (B) of this section and documentation procedures that reasonably preclude the possibility of erroneous identification of test results and that provide the individual being tested an opportunity to furnish information identifying any prescription or nonprescription drugs used by the individual in connection with a medical condition; (d) The collection, maintenance, storage, and transportation by the laboratory or entity described in division (B) of this section of blood or urine specimens in a manner that reasonably precludes the possibility of contamination or adulteration of the specimens; (e) The testing by the laboratory or entity described in division (B) of this section of blood or urine specimen of an individual to determine whether the individual ingested or was injected with a drug of abuse, in a manner that conforms to scientifically accepted analytical methods and procedures and that may include verification or confirmation of any positive test result by a reliable analytical method; (f) The analysis of an individual's blood or urine specimen by an employee of the laboratory or entity described in division (B) of this section who is qualified by education, training, and experience to perform that analysis and whose regular duties include the analysis of blood or urine specimens to determine the presence of a drug of abuse and whether the individual who is the subject of the test ingested or was injected with a drug of abuse. (2) Specify the frequency of performing random drug testing of prisoners in a state correctional institution; (3) Prescribe procedures for the automatic, random selection of prisoners in a state correctional institution to submit to random drug testing under this section; (4) Provide for reasonable safeguards for the transmittal from the laboratory or entity described in division (B) of this section to the department of the results of the random drug testing of prisoners in state correctional institutions pursuant to division (F) of this section; (5) Establish a reasonable fee to cover the costs associated with random drug testing and analyses performed by a laboratory or entity under this section and establish procedures for the collection of those fees from the prisoners subjected to the drug test; (6) Establish guidelines for imposing sanctions upon a prisoner whose test results indicate that the prisoner ingested or was injected with a drug of abuse. (E) The warden of each correctional institution, pursuant to the contract entered into under division (B) of this section or, if no contract was entered into under that division, pursuant to the policies and procedures established by the department of rehabilitation and correction under division (D) of this section, shall facilitate the collection, documentation, maintenance, and transportation by the laboratory or entity described in division (B) of this section, of the blood or urine specimens of the prisoners in the state correctional institution who are subject to random drug testing. (F) A laboratory or entity that performs random drug testing of prisoners and analyses of blood or urine specimens under this section shall transmit the results of each drug test to the department of rehabilitation and correction. The department shall file for record the results of the drug tests that indicate whether or not each prisoner in the state correctional institution who was subjected to the drug test ingested or was injected with a drug of abuse. The department shall send a copy of the results of the drug tests to the warden of the state correctional institution in which the prisoner who was subjected to the drug test is confined. The warden shall give appropriate notice of the drug test results to each prisoner who was subjected to the drug test and whose drug test results indicate that the prisoner ingested or was injected with a drug of abuse. In accordance with institutional disciplinary procedures, the warden shall afford that prisoner an opportunity to be heard regarding the results of the drug test and to present contrary evidence at a hearing held before the warden within thirty days after notification to the prisoner under this division. After the hearing, if a hearing is held, the warden shall make a determination regarding any evidence presented by the prisoner. If the warden rejects the evidence presented by the prisoner at the hearing or if no hearing is held under this division, the warden may subject the prisoner to sanctions that include payment of the fee for the test. (G) All fees for random drug tests collected from prisoners under this section or collected by the adult parole authority under section 2929.15 , 2951.05 , or 2967.131 of the Revised Code shall be forwarded to the treasurer of state for deposit in the offender financial responsibility fund created in division (I) of section 5120.56 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5153.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5153 / § 5153.02
§ 5153.02. Who may serve as county public children services agency
Status: in_force

July 1, 2000 House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly Each county shall have a public children services agency. Any of the following may be the public children services agency: (A) A county children services board; (B) A county department of job and family services; (C) A private or government entity designated under section 307.981 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.0213 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.0213
§ 5126.0213. Grounds for removal of member of board
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly (A) Subject to sections 5126.0214 and 5126.0216 of the Revised Code, an appointing authority shall remove a member of a county board of developmental disabilities for any of the following reasons: (1) Neglect of duty; (2) Misconduct; (3) Malfeasance; (4) Ineligibility to serve on the county board pursuant to section 5126.023 of the Revised Code; (5) Failure to attend at least four hours of in-service training session each year; (6) Failure to attend within one year four regularly scheduled board meetings; (7) Failure to attend within one year two regularly scheduled board meetings if the member gave no prior notice of the member's absence; (8) Consistently poor performance on the county board, as demonstrated by documentation that the president of the county board provides to the appointing authority and the appointing authority determines is convincing evidence. (B) The removal provisions of divisions (A)(6) and (7) of this section do not apply to absences from special meetings or work sessions.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5107.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5107 / § 5107.01
§ 5107.01. Legislative policy
Status: in_force

October 1, 1997 House Bill 408 - 122nd General Assembly (A) The Ohio general assembly hereby states the following beliefs with regard to the Ohio works first program: (1) That the first priority for minor heads of household and adults participating in the program is to work, which includes keeping an employer's schedule and satisfying the employer's work requirements, and to develop marketable skills. (2) That many minor heads of household and adults participating in the program need to complete high school or receive training for an occupation in order to qualify for employment. (B) The general assembly recognizes that some provisions of the Ohio works first program as operated pursuant to federal waivers granted by the United States secretary of health and human services pursuant to requests made under former section 5101.09 of the Revised Code enacted by Substitute House Bill No. 167 of the 121st general assembly and pursuant to requests made under section 5107.30 of the Revised Code, regarding the LEAP program, prior to the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-193) are inconsistent with that act. It is the intent of the general assembly to rely on the federal waivers for authority to conduct the program in the manner specified in this chapter to ensure the work readiness of program participants by requiring at least twenty hours of weekly participation in work activities, including, except as limited by division (B)(2) of section 5107.43 of the Revised Code, a work activity established under section 5107.58 of the Revised Code in which a participant is enrolled full-time in post-secondary education leading to vocation, and no more than ten hours of weekly participation in developmental activities in accordance with sections 5107.40 to 5107.69 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5149.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5149 / § 5149.21
§ 5149.21. Interstate compact for adult offender supervision
Status: in_force

July 24, 2002 House Bill 269 - 124th General Assembly The "interstate compact for adult offender supervision" is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining in that compact in the form substantially as follows: "INTERSTATE COMPACT FOR ADULT OFFENDER SUPERVISION ARTICLE I PURPOSE The compacting states to this interstate compact recognize that each state is responsible for the supervision of adult offenders in the community who are authorized pursuant to the bylaws and rules of this compact to travel across state lines both to and from each compacting state in such a manner as to track the location of offenders, transfer supervision authority in an orderly and efficient manner, and when necessary return offenders to the originating jurisdictions. The compacting states also recognize that Congress, by enacting the "Crime Control Act," 4 U.S.C. Section 112 (1965), has authorized and encouraged compacts for cooperative efforts and mutual assistance in the prevention of crime. It is the purpose of this compact and the interstate commission created under this compact, through means of joint and cooperative action among the compacting states: to provide the framework for the promotion of public safety and protect the rights of victims through the control and regulation of the interstate movement of offenders in the community; to provide for the effective tracking, supervision, and rehabilitation of these offenders by the sending and receiving states; and to equitably distribute the costs, benefits, and obligations of the compact among the compacting states. In addition, this compact will: create an interstate commission that will establish uniform procedures to manage the movement between states of adults placed under community supervision and released to the community under the jurisdiction of courts, paroling authorities, corrections, or other criminal justice agencies that will promulgate rules to achieve the purpose of this compact; ensure an opportunity for input and timely notice to victims and to jurisdictions where defined offenders are authorized to travel or to relocate across state lines; establish a system of uniform data collection, access to information on active cases by authorized criminal justice officials, and regular reporting of compact activities to heads of state councils, state executive, judicial, and legislative branches and criminal justice administrators; monitor compliance with rules governing interstate movement of offenders and initiate interventions to address and correct noncompliance; and coordinate training and education regarding regulations of interstate movement of offenders for officials involved in such activity. The compacting states recognize that there is no "right" of any offender to live in another state and that duly accredited officers of a sending state may at all times enter a receiving state and in that state apprehend and retake any offender under supervision subject to the provisions of this compact and bylaws and rules promulgated under this compact. It is the policy of the compacting states that the activities conducted by the interstate commission created in this compact are the formation of public policies and are therefore public business. ARTICLE II DEFINITIONS As used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires a different construction: (A) "Adult" means both individuals legally classified as adults and juveniles treated as adults by court order, statute, or operation of law. (B) "Bylaws" means those bylaws established by the interstate commission for its governance, or for directing or controlling the interstate commission's actions or conduct. (C) "Compact administrator" means the individual in each compacting state who is appointed pursuant to the terms of this compact and who is responsible for the administration and management of the state's supervision and transfer of offenders subject to the terms of this compact, the rules adopted by the interstate commission, and policies adopted by the state council under this compact. (D) "Compacting state" means any state that has enacted the enabling legislation for this compact. (E) "Commissioner" means the voting representative of each compacting state appointed pursuant to Article III of this compact. (F) "Interstate commission" means the interstate commission for adult offender supervision established by this compact. (G) "Member" means the commissioner of a compacting state or designee, who is a person officially connected with the commissioner. (H) "Noncompacting state" means any state that has not enacted the enabling legislation for this compact. (I) "Offender" means an adult placed under, or subject, to supervision as the result of the commission of a criminal offense and released to the community under the jurisdiction of courts, paroling authorities, corrections, or other criminal justice agencies. (J) "Person" means any individual, corporation, business enterprise, or other legal entity, either public or private. (K) "Rules" means acts of the interstate commission, duly promulgated pursuant to Article VIII of this compact, substantially affecting interested parties in addition to the interstate commission. The rules shall have the force and effect of law in the compacting states. (L) "State" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any other territorial possessions of the United States. (M) "State council" means the resident members of the state council for interstate adult offender supervision created by each state under Article III of this compact. ARTICLE III THE COMPACT COMMISSION The compacting states hereby create the "interstate commission for adult offender supervision." The interstate commission shall be a body corporate and joint agency of the compacting states. The interstate commission shall have all the responsibilities, powers, and duties set forth in this compact, including the power to sue and be sued, and any additional powers that may be conferred upon it by subsequent action of the respective legislatures of the compacting states in accordance with the terms of this compact. The interstate commission shall consist of commissioners selected and appointed by resident members of a state council for interstate adult offender supervision for each state. In addition to the commissioners who are the voting representatives of each state, the interstate commission shall include individuals who are not commissioners but who are members of interested organizations. The non-commissioner members must include a member of the national organizations of governors, legislators, state chief justices, attorneys general, and crime victims. All non-commissioner members of the interstate commission shall be ex-officio (nonvoting) members. The interstate commission may provide in its bylaws for any additional, ex-officio, nonvoting members that it deems necessary. Each compacting state represented at any meeting of the interstate commission is entitled to one vote. A majority of the compacting states shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, unless a larger quorum is required by the bylaws of the interstate commission. The interstate commission shall meet at least once each calendar year. The chairperson may call additional meetings and, upon the request of twenty-seven or more compacting states, shall call additional meetings. Public notice shall be given of all meetings, and meetings shall be open to the public. The interstate commission shall establish an executive committee, which shall include commission officers, members, and others as shall be determined by the bylaws. The executive committee shall have the power to act on behalf of the interstate commission during periods when the interstate commission is not in session, with the exception of rulemaking or amendment to the compact. The executive committee oversees the day-to-day activities managed by the executive director and interstate commission staff; administers enforcement and compliance with the provisions of the compact, its bylaws, and as directed by the interstate commission; and performs other duties as directed by commission or set forth in the bylaws. ARTICLE IV THE STATE COUNCIL Each member state shall create a state council for interstate adult offender supervision. The compact administrator or the administrator's designee shall be the commissioner of the state council to serve on the interstate commission. While each member state may determine the membership of its own state council, its membership must include at least one representative from the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of government, victims groups, and compact administrators. Each compacting state retains the right to determine the qualifications of the compact administrator who shall be appointed by the governor. In addition to appointment of its commissioner to the national interstate commission, each state council shall exercise oversight and advocacy concerning its participation in interstate commission activities and other duties as may be determined by each member state, including, but not limited to, development of policy concerning operations and procedures of the compact within that state. ARTICLE V POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE INTERSTATE COMMISSION The interstate commission shall have the following powers: (A) To adopt a seal and suitable bylaws governing the management and operation of the interstate commission; (B) To promulgate rules that have the force and effect of statutory law and are binding in the compacting states to the extent and in the manner provided in this compact; (C) To oversee, supervise, and coordinate the interstate movement of offenders subject to the terms of this compact and any bylaws adopted and rules promulgated by the compact commission; (D) To enforce compliance with compact provisions, interstate commission rules, and bylaws, using all necessary and proper means, including, but not limited to, the use of judicial process; (E) To establish and maintain offices; (F) To purchase and maintain insurance and bonds; (G) To borrow, accept, or contract for services of personnel, including, but not limited to, members and their staffs; (H) To establish and appoint committees and hire staff that it considers necessary for the carrying out of its functions, including, but not limited to, an executive committee as required by Article III of this compact. The committees shall have the power to act on behalf of the interstate commission in carrying out its powers and duties under this compact. (I) To elect or appoint any officers, attorneys, employees, agents, or consultants, and to fix their compensation, define their duties, and determine their qualifications; and to establish the interstate commission's personnel policies and programs relating to, among other things, conflicts of interest, rates of compensation, and qualifications of personnel; (J) To accept any and all donations and grants of money, equipment, supplies, materials, and services, and to receive, utilize, and dispose of those donations and grants; (K) To lease, purchase, accept contributions or donations of, or otherwise to own, hold, improve, or use any property, real, personal, or mixed; (L) To sell, convey, mortgage, pledge, lease, exchange, abandon, or otherwise dispose of any property, real, personal, or mixed; (M) To establish a budget and make expenditures and levy dues as provided in Article X of this compact; (N) To sue and be sued; (O) To provide for dispute resolution among compacting states; (P) To perform any functions that may be necessary or appropriate to achieve the purposes of this compact; (Q) To report annually to the legislatures, governors, judiciary, and state councils of the compacting states concerning the activities of the interstate commission during the preceding year. The reports shall also include any recommendations that may have been adopted by the interstate commission. (R) To coordinate education, training, and public awareness regarding the interstate movement of offenders for officials involved in such activity; (S) To establish uniform standards for the reporting, collecting, and exchanging of data. ARTICLE VI ORGANIZATION AND OPERATION OF THE INTERSTATE COMMISSION (A) Bylaws The interstate commission shall, by a majority of the members, within twelve months of the first interstate commission meeting, adopt bylaws to govern its conduct as may be necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of the compact, including, but, not limited to all of the following: (1) Establishing the fiscal year of the interstate commission; (2) Establishing an executive committee and any other committees that may be necessary; (3) Providing reasonable standards and procedures: (a) For the establishment of committees; (b) Governing any general or specific delegation of any authority or function of the interstate commission. (4) Providing reasonable procedures for calling and conducting meetings of the interstate commission, and ensuring reasonable notice of each meeting; (5) Establishing the titles and responsibilities of the officers of the interstate commission; (6) Providing reasonable standards and procedures for the establishment of the personnel policies and programs of the interstate commission. Notwithstanding any civil service or other similar laws of any compacting state, the bylaws shall exclusively govern the personnel policies and programs of the interstate commission. (7) Providing a mechanism for winding up the operations of the interstate commission and the equitable return of any surplus funds that may exist upon the termination of the compact after the payment or reserving of all of its debts and obligations; (8) Providing transition rules for "start up" administration of the compact; (9) Establishing standards and procedures for compliance and technical assistance in carrying out the compact. (B) Officers and staff The interstate commission shall, by a majority of the members, elect from among its members a chairperson and a vice chairperson, each of whom shall have the authorities and duties as may be specified in the bylaws. The chairperson or, in his or her absence or disability, the vice chairperson, shall preside at all meetings of the interstate commission. The officers so elected shall serve without compensation or remuneration from the interstate commission; provided that, subject to the availability of budgeted funds, the officers shall be reimbursed for any actual and necessary costs and expenses incurred by them in the performance of their duties and responsibilities as officers of the interstate commission. The interstate commission shall, through its executive committee, appoint or retain an executive director for the period, upon the terms and conditions, and for the compensation that the interstate commission considers appropriate. The executive director shall serve as secretary to the interstate commission, and hire and supervise the other staff that may be authorized by the interstate commission, but shall not be a member. (C) Corporate records of the interstate commission The interstate commission shall maintain its corporate books and records in accordance with the bylaws. (D) Qualified immunity, defense and indemnification The members, officers, executive director, and employees of the interstate commission shall be immune from suit and liability, either personally or in their official capacity, for any claim for damage to or loss of property or personal injury or other civil liability caused or arising out of any actual or alleged act, error or omission that occurred within the scope of interstate commission employment, duties, or responsibilities; provided that nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to protect any such person from suit or liability for any damage, loss, injury, or liability caused by the intentional or willful and wanton misconduct of any such person. Upon the request of the attorney general, the interstate commission shall assist in the defense of the commissioner of a compacting state, or the commissioner's representatives or employees, or the interstate commission's representatives or employees, in any civil action seeking to impose liability, arising out of any actual or alleged act, error, or omission that occurred within the scope of interstate commission employment, duties, or responsibilities, or that the defendant had a reasonable basis for believing occurred within the scope of interstate commission employment, duties, or responsibilities; provided, that the actual or alleged act, error, or omission did not result from intentional wrongdoing on the part of the person. The interstate commission shall indemnify and hold the commissioner of a compacting state, the appointed designee, or employees, or the interstate commission's representatives or employees, harmless in the amount of any settlement or judgment obtained against such persons arising out of any actual or alleged act, error, or omission that occurred within the scope of interstate commission employment, duties, or responsibilities, or that such persons had a reasonable basis for believing occurred within the scope of interstate commission employment, duties, or responsibilities, provided that the actual or alleged act, error, or omission did not result from gross negligence or intentional wrongdoing on the part of the person. ARTICLE VII ACTIVITIES OF THE INTERSTATE COMMISSION (A) The interstate commission shall meet and take any actions that are consistent with the provisions of this compact. Except as otherwise provided in this compact and unless a greater percentage is required by the bylaws, in order to constitute an act of the interstate commission, the act shall have been taken at a meeting of the interstate commission and shall have received an affirmative vote of a majority of the members present. Each member of the interstate commission shall have the right and power to cast a vote to which that compacting state is entitled and to participate in the business and affairs of the interstate commission. A member shall vote in person on behalf of the state and shall not delegate a vote to another member state. However, a state council shall appoint another authorized representative, in the absence of the commissioner from that state, to cast a vote on behalf of the member state at a specified meeting. The bylaws may provide for members' participation in meetings by telephone or other means of telecommunication or electronic communication. Any voting conducted by telephone or other means of telecommunication or electronic communication shall be subject to the same quorum requirements of meetings where members are present in person. The interstate commission shall meet at least once during each calendar year. The chairperson of the interstate commission may call additional meetings at any time and, upon the request of a majority of the members, shall call additional meetings. The interstate commission's bylaws shall establish conditions and procedures under which the interstate commission shall make its information and official records available to the public for inspection or copying. The interstate commission may exempt from disclosure any information or official records to the extent they would adversely affect personal privacy rights or proprietary interests. In promulgating those rules, the interstate commission may make available to law enforcement agencies records and information otherwise exempt from disclosure and may enter into agreements with law enforcement agencies to receive or exchange information or records subject to nondisclosure and confidentiality provisions. Public notice shall be given of all meetings, and all meetings shall be open to the public, except as set forth in the rules or as otherwise provided in the compact. The interstate commission shall promulgate rules consistent with the principles contained in the "Government in Sunshine Act," 5 U.S.C. Section 552(b), as amended. The interstate commission and any of its committees may close a meeting to the public if it determines by two-thirds vote that an open meeting would be likely to do any of the following: (1) Relate solely to the interstate commission's internal personnel practices and procedures; (2) Disclose matters specifically exempted from disclosure by statute; (3) Disclose trade secrets or commercial or financial information that is privileged or confidential; (4) Involve accusing any person of a crime or formally censuring any person; (5) Disclose information of a personal nature if disclosure would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy; (6) Disclose investigatory records compiled for law enforcement purposes; (7) Disclose information contained in or related to examination, operating, or condition reports prepared by, on behalf of, or for the use of the interstate commission with respect to a regulated entity for the purpose of regulation or supervision of the regulated entity; (8) Disclose information, the premature disclosure of which would significantly endanger the life of a person or the stability of a regulated entity; (9) Specifically relate to the interstate commission's issuance of a subpoena or its participation in a civil action or proceeding. (B) For every meeting closed pursuant to this provision, the interstate commission's chief legal officer shall publicly certify that, in the legal officer's opinion, the meeting may be closed to the public, and shall reference each relevant exemptive provision. The interstate commission shall keep minutes, and the minutes shall fully and clearly describe all matters discussed in any meeting and shall provide a full and accurate summary of any actions taken, and the reasons for the actions, including a description of each of the views expressed on any item and the record of any roll call vote (reflected in the vote of each member on the question). All documents considered in connection with any action shall be identified in the minutes. The interstate commission shall collect standardized data concerning the interstate movement of offenders as directed through its bylaws and rules. The bylaws and rules shall specify the data to be collected, the means of collection and data exchange, and reporting requirements. ARTICLE VIII RULEMAKING FUNCTIONS OF THE INTERSTATE COMMISSION (A) The interstate commission shall promulgate rules in order to effectively and efficiently achieve the purposes of the compact including transition rules governing administration of the compact during the period in which it is being considered and enacted by the states. Rulemaking shall occur pursuant to the criteria set forth in this article and the bylaws and rules adopted pursuant to this article. The rulemaking shall substantially conform to the principles of the "Federal Administrative Procedure Act," 5 U.S.C.S. section 551 et seq., and the "Federal Advisory Committee Act," 5 U.S.C.S. app. 2, section 1 et seq., as amended (hereinafter "APA"). All rules and amendments shall become binding as of the date specified in each rule or amendment. If a majority of the legislatures of the compacting states rejects a rule, by enactment of a statute or resolution in the same manner used to adopt the compact, then the rule shall have no further force and effect in any compacting state. When promulgating a rule, the interstate commission shall do all of the following: (1) Publish the proposed rule stating with particularity the text of the rule that is proposed and the reason for the proposed rule; (2) Allow persons to submit written data, facts, opinions and arguments, which information shall be publicly available; (3) Provide an opportunity for an informal hearing; (4) Promulgate a final rule and its effective date, if appropriate, based on the rulemaking record. (B) Not later than sixty days after a rule is promulgated, any interested person may file a petition in the United States district court for the District of Columbia or in the federal district court where the interstate commission's principal office is located for judicial review of the rule. If the court finds that the interstate commission's action is not supported by substantial evidence, as defined in the APA, in the rulemaking record, the court shall hold the rule unlawful and set it aside. Subjects to be addressed within twelve months after the first meeting shall at a minimum include all of the following: (1) Notice to victims and an opportunity to be heard; (2) Offender registration and compliance; (3) Violations and returns; (4) Transfer procedures and forms; (5) Eligibility for transfer; (6) Collection of restitution and fees from offenders; (7) Data collection and reporting; (8) The level of supervision to be provided by the receiving state; (9) Transition rules governing the operation of the compact and the interstate commission during all or part of the period between the effective date of the compact and the date on which the last eligible state adopts the compact; (10) Mediation, arbitration, and dispute resolution. (C) The existing rules governing the operation of the previous compact superseded by this act shall be null and void twelve months after the first meeting of the interstate commission created under this compact. Upon determination by the interstate commission that an emergency exists, it may promulgate an emergency rule, and the emergency rule shall become effective immediately upon adoption, provided that the usual rulemaking procedures provided under this compact shall be retroactively applied to the rule as soon as reasonably possible, in no event later than ninety days after the effective date of the rule. ARTICLE IX OVERSIGHT, ENFORCEMENT, AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION BY THE INTERSTATE COMMISSION (A) Oversight The interstate commission shall oversee the interstate movement of adult offenders in the compacting states and shall monitor such activities being administered in noncompacting states that may significantly affect compacting states. The courts and executive agencies in each compacting state shall enforce this compact and shall take all actions necessary and appropriate to effectuate the compact's purposes and intent. In any judicial or administrative proceeding in a compacting state pertaining to the subject matter of this compact that may affect the powers, responsibilities, or actions of the interstate commission, the interstate commission shall be entitled to receive all service of process in any such proceeding and shall have standing to intervene in the proceeding for all purposes. (B) Dispute Resolution The compacting states shall report to the interstate commission on issues or activities of concern to them and cooperate with and support the interstate commission in the discharge of its duties and responsibilities. The interstate commission shall attempt to resolve any disputes or other issues that are subject to the compact and that may arise among compacting states and noncompacting states. The interstate commission shall enact a bylaw or promulgate a rule providing for both mediation and binding dispute resolution for disputes among the compacting states. (C) Enforcement The interstate commission, in the reasonable exercise of its discretion, shall enforce the provisions of this compact using any or all means set forth in Article XII, division B, of this compact. ARTICLE X FINANCE The interstate commission shall pay or provide for the payment of the reasonable expenses of its establishment, organization, and ongoing activities. The interstate commission shall levy on and collect an annual assessment from each compacting state to cover the cost of the internal operations and activities of the interstate commission and its staff. The annual assessment shall be in a total amount sufficient to cover the interstate commission's annual budget as approved each year. The aggregate annual assessment amount shall be allocated based upon a formula to be determined by the interstate commission, taking into consideration the population of the state and the volume of interstate movement of offenders in each compacting state, and shall promulgate a rule that is binding upon all compacting states and governs the assessment. The interstate commission shall not incur any obligations of any kind prior to securing the funds adequate to meet the obligation, and the interstate commission shall not pledge the credit of any of the compacting states, except by and with the authority of the compacting state. The interstate commission shall keep accurate accounts of all receipts and disbursements. The receipts and disbursements of the interstate commission shall be subject to the audit and accounting procedures established under its bylaws. However, all receipts and disbursements of funds handled by the interstate commission shall be audited yearly by a certified or licensed public accountant, and the report of the audit shall be included in and become part of the annual report of the interstate commission. ARTICLE XI COMPACTING STATES, EFFECTIVE DATE AND AMENDMENT Any state, as defined in Article II of this compact, is eligible to become a compacting state. The compact shall become effective and binding upon legislative enactment of the compact into law by no less than thirty-five of the states. The initial effective date shall be the later of July 1, 2001, or upon enactment into law by the thirty-fifth jurisdiction. After the initial effective date, it shall become effective and binding, as to any other compacting state, upon enactment of the compact into law by that state. The governors of nonmember states or their designees shall be invited to participate in interstate commission activities on a nonvoting basis prior to adoption of the compact by all states and territories of the United States. Amendments to the compact may be proposed by the interstate commission for enactment by the compacting states. No amendment shall become effective and binding upon the interstate commission and the compacting states unless and until it is enacted into law by unanimous consent of the compacting states. ARTICLE XII WITHDRAWAL, DEFAULT, TERMINATION, AND JUDICIAL ENFORCEMENT (A) Withdrawal Once effective, the compact shall continue in force and remain binding upon each and every compacting state; provided that a compacting state may withdraw from the compact ("withdrawing state") by enacting a statute specifically repealing the statute that enacted the compact into law. The effective date of withdrawal is the effective date of the repeal. The withdrawing state shall immediately notify the chairperson of the interstate commission in writing upon the introduction of legislation repealing this compact in the withdrawing state. The interstate commission shall notify the other compacting states of the withdrawing state's intent to withdraw within sixty days of its receipt of the notice from the withdrawing state. The withdrawing state is responsible for all assessments, obligations, and liabilities incurred through the effective date of withdrawal, including any obligations, the performance of which extend beyond the effective date of withdrawal. Reinstatement following withdrawal of any compacting state shall occur upon the withdrawing state reenacting the compact or upon any later date as determined by the interstate commission. (B) Default (1) If the interstate commission determines that any compacting state has at any time defaulted ("defaulting state") in the performance of any of its obligations or responsibilities under this compact, the bylaws, or any duly promulgated rules, the interstate commission may impose any or all of the following penalties: (a) Fines, fees, and costs in any amounts that are determined to be reasonable as fixed by the interstate commission; (b) Remedial training and technical assistance as directed by the interstate commission; (c) Suspension and termination of membership in the compact. Suspension shall be imposed only after all other reasonable means of securing compliance under the bylaws and rules have been exhausted. Immediate notice of suspension shall be given by the interstate commission to the governor, the chief justice or chief judicial officer of the state, the majority and minority leaders of the defaulting state's legislature, and the state council. (2) The grounds for default include, but are not limited to, failure of a compacting state to perform the obligations or responsibilities imposed upon it by this compact, interstate commission bylaws, or duly promulgated rules. The interstate commission shall immediately notify the defaulting state in writing of the penalty imposed by the interstate commission on the defaulting state pending a cure of the default. The interstate commission shall stipulate the conditions and the time period within which the defaulting state must cure its default. If the defaulting state fails to cure the default within the time period specified by the interstate commission, in addition to any other penalties imposed in this compact, the defaulting state may be terminated from the compact upon an affirmative vote of a majority of the compacting states and all rights, privileges, and benefits conferred by this compact shall be terminated from the effective date of suspension. Within sixty days of the effective date of termination of a defaulting state, the interstate commission shall notify the governor, the chief justice or chief judicial officer, the majority and minority leaders of the defaulting state's legislature, and the state council of the termination. The defaulting state is responsible for all assessments, obligations and liabilities incurred through the effective date of termination including any obligations, the performance of which extends beyond the effective date of termination. The interstate commission shall not bear any costs relating to the defaulting state unless otherwise mutually agreed upon between the interstate commission and the defaulting state. Reinstatement following termination of any compacting state requires both a reenactment of the compact by the defaulting state and the approval of the interstate commission pursuant to the rules. (C) Judicial enforcement The interstate commission may, by majority vote of the members, initiate legal action in the United States district court for the District of Columbia or, at the discretion of the interstate commission, in the federal district where the interstate commission has its offices to enforce compliance with the provisions of the compact, its duly promulgated rules, and bylaws, against any compacting state in default. In the event judicial enforcement is necessary, the prevailing party shall be awarded all costs of the litigation including reasonable attorneys fees. (D) Dissolution of compact The compact dissolves effective upon the date of the withdrawal or default of the compacting state that reduces membership in the compact to one compacting state. Upon the dissolution of this compact, the compact becomes null and void and shall be of no further force or effect, and the business and affairs of the interstate commission shall be wound up, and any surplus funds shall be distributed in accordance with the bylaws. ARTICLE XIII SEVERABILITY AND CONSTRUCTION The provisions of this compact shall be severable, and, if any phrase, clause, sentence, or provision is deemed unenforceable, the remaining provisions of the compact shall be enforceable. The provisions of this compact shall be liberally constructed to effectuate its purposes. ARTICLE XIV BINDING EFFECT OF COMPACT AND OTHER LAWS (A) Other laws Nothing in this compact prevents the enforcement of any other law of a compacting state that is not inconsistent with this compact. All compacting states' laws conflicting with this compact are superseded to the extent of the conflict. (B) Binding effect of the compact All lawful actions of the interstate commission, including all rules and bylaws promulgated by the interstate commission, are binding upon the compacting states. All agreements between the interstate commission and the compacting states are binding in accordance with their terms. Upon the request of a party to a conflict over meaning or interpretation of interstate commission actions, and upon a majority vote of the compacting states, the interstate commission may issue advisory opinions regarding such meaning or interpretation. If any provision of this compact exceeds the constitutional limits imposed on the legislature of any compacting state, the obligations, duties, powers, or jurisdiction sought to be conferred by that provision upon the interstate commission shall be ineffective and the obligations, duties, powers, or jurisdiction shall remain in the compacting state and shall be exercised by the agency of that state to which the obligations, duties, powers, or jurisdiction are delegated by law in effect at the time this compact becomes effective."
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.29 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.29
§ 5101.29. Certain child care records not subject to public records law
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly When contained in a record held by the department of job and family services, the department of children and youth, or a county agency, the following are not public records for purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code: (A) Names and other identifying information regarding children enrolled in or attending a child care center or home subject to licensure or registration under Chapter 5104. of the Revised Code; (B) Names and other identifying information regarding children placed with an institution or association certified under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code; (C) Names and other identifying information regarding a person who makes an oral or written complaint regarding an institution, association, child care center, or home subject to licensure or registration to the department or other state or county entity responsible for enforcing Chapter 5103. or 5104. of the Revised Code; (D)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (D)(2) of this section, names, documentation, and other identifying information regarding a foster caregiver or a prospective foster caregiver, including the foster caregiver application for certification under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code and the home study conducted pursuant to section 5103.0324 of the Revised Code. (2) Notwithstanding division (D)(1) of this section, the following are public records for the purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code, when contained in a record held by the department of job and family services, the department of children and youth, a county agency, or other governmental entity: (a) All of the following information regarding a currently certified foster caregiver who has had a foster care certificate revoked pursuant to Chapter 5103. of the Revised Code or, after receiving a current or current renewed certificate has been convicted of, pleaded guilty to, or indicted or otherwise charged with any offense described in division (C)(1) of section 2151.86 of the Revised Code: (i) The foster caregiver's name, date of birth, and county of residence; (ii) The date of the foster caregiver's certification; (iii) The date of each placement of a foster child into the foster caregiver's home; (iv) If applicable, the date of the removal of a foster child from the foster caregiver's home and the reason for the foster child's removal unless release of such information would be detrimental to the foster child or other children residing in the foster caregiver's home; (v) If applicable, the date of the foster care certificate revocation and all documents related to the revocation unless otherwise not a public record pursuant to section 149.43 of the Revised Code. (b) Nonidentifying foster care statistics including, but not limited to, the number of foster caregivers and foster care certificate revocations. Last updated January 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5162.56 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5162 / § 5162.56
§ 5162.56. Health care special activities fund
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly There is created in the state treasury the health care special activities fund. The department of medicaid shall deposit all funds it receives pursuant to the administration of the medicaid program into the fund, other than any such funds that are required by law to be deposited into another fund. The department shall use the money in the fund to pay for expenses related to the services provided under, and the administration of, the medicaid program.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.36 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.36
§ 5123.36. State participation in developmental disability construction programs
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly (A) To the extent funds are available and on application by a county board of developmental disabilities or private nonprofit agency incorporated to provide developmental disability services, the director of developmental disabilities may enter into an agreement with the county board or agency to assist the county board or agency with a developmental disability construction project. Except as provided by division (B) of this section, the director may provide up to ninety per cent of the total project cost where circumstances warrant. The director may, where circumstances warrant, use existing facilities or other in-kind match for the local share of the communities' share of the cost. (B) Upon the recommendation of the director, for projects of the highest priority of the department of developmental disabilities, the controlling board may authorize the director to provide more than ninety per cent of the total cost of a project under this section. (C) A county board is eligible for funds under this section for a project bid on or after January 1, 1992, under either section 153.07 or 307.86 of the Revised Code, as long as all other applicable requirements were followed. (D) A private nonprofit agency that receives funds pursuant to this section for the construction of a single-family home, including, where appropriate, the acquisition and installation of a single-family home fabricated in an off-site facility, is not subject to the requirements of Chapter 153. of the Revised Code with respect to the construction project, notwithstanding any provision of that chapter to the contrary. (E) The director may not assist a project under this section unless the controlling board or director of budget and management also approves the project pursuant to section 126.14 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.31 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.31
§ 5180.31. [Former R.C. 5123.024, amended and renumbered by H.B. 33, 135th General Assembly, effective 1/1/2025] Implementation of part C early intervention services program
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly The department of children and youth may do any of the following as the lead agency to implement the state's part C early intervention services program, as described in section 5180.30 of the Revised Code: (A) Enter into an interagency agreement with one or more other state agencies to implement the program and ensure coordination of early childhood programs; (B) Distribute program funds through contracts, grants, or subsidies to entities that are program service providers; (C) Establish a system of payment to program service providers. Last updated January 10, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5149.311 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5149 / § 5149.311
§ 5149.311. Establishment and administration of probation improvement grant and probation incentive grant
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly (A) The department of rehabilitation and correction shall establish and administer the probation improvement grant and the probation incentive grant for common pleas, municipal, and county court probation departments and community-based correctional facilities that supervise offenders sentenced by courts of common pleas, municipal courts, or county courts. (B)(1) The probation improvement grant shall provide funding to common pleas, municipal, and county court probation departments and community-based correctional facilities to adopt policies and practices based on the latest research on how to reduce the number of offenders on probation supervision who violate the conditions of their supervision. (2) The department shall adopt rules for the distribution of the probation improvement grant, including both of the following: (a) The formula for the allocation of the subsidy based on the number of offenders placed on probation annually in each jurisdiction; (b) The allocation of funds for the purpose of offsetting costs incurred by political subdivisions in relation to offenders who are prohibited from serving the term of imprisonment in an institution under the control of the department of rehabilitation and correction pursuant to division (B)(3)(c) of section 2929.34 of the Revised Code. (C)(1) The probation incentive grant shall provide a performance-based level of funding to common pleas, municipal, and county court probation departments and community-based correctional facilities that are successful in reducing the number of offenders on probation supervision whose terms of supervision are revoked. (2) The department shall calculate annually any cost savings realized by the state from a reduction in the percentage of people who are incarcerated because their terms of supervised probation were revoked. The cost savings estimate shall be calculated for each jurisdiction served by the probation department or community-based correctional facility eligible for a grant under this section and be based on the difference from the average of such commitments from the five calendar years immediately preceding the calendar year in which application for the grant was made and the fiscal year under examination. (3) The department shall adopt rules that specify the subsidy amount to be appropriated to common pleas, municipal, and county court probation departments and community-based correctional facilities that successfully reduce the percentage of people on probation who are incarcerated because their terms of supervision are revoked. (D) The following stipulations apply to both the probation improvement grant and the probation incentive grant: (1) In order to be eligible for the probation improvement grant and the probation incentive grant, common pleas, municipal, and county courts must satisfy all requirements under sections 2301.27 and 2301.30 of the Revised Code. Except for sentencing decisions made by a court when use of the risk assessment tool is discretionary, in order to be eligible for the probation improvement grant and the probation incentive grant, a court or community-based correctional facility must utilize the single validated risk assessment tool selected by the department of rehabilitation and correction under section 5120.114 of the Revised Code. (2) The department may deny a subsidy under this section to any applicant if the applicant fails to comply with the terms of any agreement entered into pursuant to any of the provisions of this section. (3) The department shall evaluate or provide for the evaluation of the policies, practices, and programs the common pleas, municipal, or county court probation departments or community-based correctional facilities utilize with the programs of subsidies established under this section and establish means of measuring their effectiveness. (4) The department shall specify the policies, practices, and programs for which common pleas, municipal, or county court probation departments or community-based correctional facilities may use the program subsidy and shall establish minimum standards of quality and efficiency that recipients of the subsidy must follow. The department shall give priority to supporting evidence-based policies and practices, as defined by the department.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.897 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.897
§ 5101.897. Employee prohibitions
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) No employee of the youth and family ombudsmen office shall do any of the following: (1) Hold any office of trust or profit; (2) Engage in any occupation or business interfering or inconsistent with the duties of the office; (3) Serve on any committee of any political party; (4) Have any interest that is, or may be, in conflict with the interests and concerns of the office. (B) As used in this section, "office of trust or profit" means any of the following: (1) A federal or state elective office or an elective office of a political subdivision of the state; (2) A position on a board or commission of the state that is appointed by the governor; (3) An office set forth in section 121.03 , 121.04 , or 121.05 of the Revised Code; (4) An office of the government of the United States that is appointed by the president of the United States. Last updated July 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.41 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.41
§ 5165.41. Redetermination of rates
Status: in_force

November 22, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly (A) The department of medicaid shall redetermine a provider's medicaid payment rate for a nursing facility using revised information if any of the following results in a determination that the provider received a higher medicaid payment rate for the nursing facility than the provider was entitled to receive: (1) The provider properly amends a cost report for the nursing facility under section 5165.107 of the Revised Code; (2) The department makes a finding based on an audit under section 5165.109 of the Revised Code; (3) The department makes a finding based on an exception review of resident assessment data conducted under section 5165.193 of the Revised Code after the effective date of the nursing facility's rate for direct care costs that is based on the resident assessment data; (4) The department makes a finding based on a post-payment review conducted under section 5165.49 of the Revised Code. (B) The department shall apply the redetermined rate to the periods when the provider received the incorrect rate to determine the amount of the overpayment. The provider shall refund the amount of the overpayment. The department may charge the provider the following amount of interest from the time the overpayment was made: (1) If the overpayment resulted from costs reported for calendar year 1993, the interest shall be no greater than one and one-half times the current average bank prime rate. (2) If the overpayment resulted from costs reported for a subsequent calendar year: (a) The interest shall be no greater than two times the current average bank prime rate if the overpayment was no more than one per cent of the total medicaid payments to the provider for the state fiscal year for which the overpayment was made. (b) The interest shall be no greater than two and one-half times the current average bank prime rate if the overpayment was more than one per cent of the total medicaid payments to the provider for the state fiscal year for which the overpayment was made.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.08
§ 5164.08. Breast cancer and cervical cancer screening
Status: in_force

September 23, 2022 House Bill 371 - 134th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Screening mammography" means a radiologic examination utilized to detect unsuspected breast cancer at an early stage in asymptomatic women and includes the x-ray examination of the breast using equipment that is dedicated specifically for mammography, including the x-ray tube, filter, compression device, screens, film, and cassettes, and that has an average radiation exposure delivery of less than one rad mid-breast. "Screening mammography" includes digital breast tomosynthesis. "Screening mammography" includes two views for each breast. The term also includes the professional interpretation of the film. "Screening mammography" does not include diagnostic mammography. (2) "Supplemental breast cancer screening" means any additional screening method deemed medically necessary by a treating health care provider for proper breast cancer screening in accordance with applicable American college of radiology guidelines, including magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound, or molecular breast imaging. (B) The medicaid program shall cover all of the following: (1) To detect the presence of breast cancer in adult women, screening mammography; (2) To detect the presence of breast cancer in adult women meeting any of the conditions described in division (C)(2) of this section, supplemental breast cancer screening; (3) To detect the presence of cervical cancer, cytologic screening. (C)(1) The medicaid program's coverage pursuant to division (B)(1) of this section shall cover expenses for one screening mammography every year, including digital breast tomosynthesis. (2) The medicaid program's coverage pursuant to division (B)(2) of this section shall cover expenses for supplemental breast cancer screening for an adult woman who meets any of the following conditions: (a) The woman's screening mammography demonstrates, based on the breast imaging reporting and data system established by the American college of radiology, that the woman has dense breast tissue; (b) The woman is at an increased risk of breast cancer due to family history, prior personal history of breast cancer, ancestry, genetic predisposition, or other reasons as determined by the woman's health care provider. (D) The medicaid program's coverage of screening mammographies pursuant to division (B)(1) or (2) of this section shall be provided only for screening mammographies or supplemental breast cancer screenings that are performed in a facility or mobile mammography screening unit that is accredited under the American college of radiology mammography accreditation program or in a hospital as defined in section 3727.01 of the Revised Code. (E) The medicaid program's coverage of cytologic screenings pursuant to division (B)(3) of this section shall be provided only for cytologic screenings that are processed and interpreted in a laboratory certified by the college of American pathologists or in a hospital as defined in section 3727.01 of the Revised Code. Last updated October 31, 2022 at 5:19 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.27 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.27
§ 5101.27. Restricting disclosure of information regarding public assistance recipients
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) Except as permitted by this section, section 5101.273 , 5101.28 , or 5101.29 of the Revised Code, or rules adopted under section 5101.30 of the Revised Code, or when required by federal law, no person or government entity shall knowingly solicit, disclose, receive, use, permit the use of, or participate in the use of any information regarding a public assistance recipient for any purpose not directly connected with the administration of a public assistance program. (B) To the extent permitted by federal law, the department of job and family services, the department of children and youth, and county agencies shall do all of the following: (1) Release information regarding a public assistance recipient for purposes directly connected to the administration of the program to a government entity responsible for administering that public assistance program; (2) Provide information regarding a public assistance recipient to a law enforcement agency for the purpose of any investigation, prosecution, or criminal or civil proceeding relating to the administration of that public assistance program; (3) Provide, for purposes directly connected to the administration of a program that assists needy individuals with the costs of public utility services, information regarding a recipient of financial assistance provided under a program administered by the department or a county agency pursuant to Chapter 5107. or 5108. of the Revised Code to an entity administering the public utility services program. (C)(1) To the extent permitted by federal law and subject to division (C)(2) of this section, the department of children and youth shall release, for purposes directly connected to a public health investigation related to section 3301.531 or 5104.037 of the Revised Code, information regarding a public assistance recipient who receives publicly funded child care, so long as all of the following conditions are met: (a) The department of health or the tuberculosis control unit has initiated a public health investigation related to section 3301.531 or 5104.037 of the Revised Code and has assessed the investigation as an emergency. (b) The department of health or the tuberculosis control unit has notified the department of children and youth about the investigation and has requested that the department of children and youth release the information for purposes of the investigation. (c) The department of children and youth is unable to timely obtain voluntary, written authorization that complies with section 5101.272 of the Revised Code. (2) If the conditions specified in division (C)(1) of this section are met, the department of children and youth shall release to the department of health or the tuberculosis control unit the minimum information necessary to fulfill the needs of the department of health or tuberculosis control unit related to the public health investigation. (3) If the department of children and youth releases information pursuant to division (C) of this section, it shall immediately notify the public assistance recipient. (D) To the extent permitted by federal law and section 1347.08 of the Revised Code, the departments and county agencies shall provide access to information regarding a public assistance recipient to all of the following: (1) The recipient; (2) The authorized representative; (3) The legal guardian of the recipient; (4) The attorney of the recipient, if the attorney has written authorization that complies with section 5101.272 of the Revised Code from the recipient. (E) To the extent permitted by federal law and subject to division (F) of this section, the departments and county agencies may do both of the following: (1) Release information about a public assistance recipient if the recipient gives voluntary, written authorization that complies with section 5101.272 of the Revised Code; (2) Release information regarding a public assistance recipient to a state, federal, or federally assisted program that provides cash or in-kind assistance or services directly to individuals based on need or for the purpose of protecting children to a government entity responsible for administering a children's protective services program. (F) Except when the release is required by division (B), (C), or (D) of this section or is authorized by division (E)(2) of this section, the department or county agency shall release the information only in accordance with the authorization. The department or county agency shall provide, at no cost, a copy of each written authorization to the individual who signed it. (G) The department of job and family services and the department of children and youth may adopt rules defining "authorized representative" for purposes of division (D)(2) of this section. Last updated January 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5107.65 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5107 / § 5107.65
§ 5107.65. Works first participants not to displace employees
Status: in_force

July 1, 2000 House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly (A) (1) No participant of Ohio works first shall be assigned to a work activity, developmental activity, or alternative work activity when the employer removes or discharges a person, for the purpose of substituting the participant in the person's place, in any of the following circumstances: (a) The person is already employed as a regular full-time or part-time employee of the employer; (b) The person has been employed full time or part time as a participant in a work activity, developmental activity, or alternative work activity; (c) The person is or has been involved in a dispute between a labor organization and the employer; (d) The person is on layoff from the same or any substantially equivalent job. (B) No employer shall hire a participant of Ohio works first part-time to circumvent hiring a full-time employee. (C) County departments of job and family services shall establish and maintain a grievance procedure for resolving complaints by individuals or their representatives that the assignment of a participant of Ohio works first violates this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5167.14 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5167 / § 5167.14
§ 5167.14. Data security agreements for managed care organization's use of drug database
Status: in_force

October 17, 2019 House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly Each medicaid managed care organization shall enter into a data security agreement with the state board of pharmacy governing the managed care organization's use of the board's drug database established and maintained under section 4729.75 of the Revised Code. This section does not apply if the board no longer maintains the drug database.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.162 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.162
§ 5103.162. Qualified immunity of foster caregiver
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, a resource caregiver shall be immune from liability in a civil action to recover damages for injury, death, or loss to person or property allegedly caused by an act or omission in connection with a power, duty, responsibility, or authorization under this chapter or under rules adopted under authority of this chapter. (B) The immunity described in division (A) of this section does not apply to a resource caregiver if, in relation to the act or omission in question, any of the following applies: (1) The act or omission was manifestly outside the scope of the resource caregiver's power, duty, responsibility, or authorization. (2) The act or omission was with malicious purpose, in bad faith, or in a wanton or reckless manner. (3) Liability for the act or omission is expressly imposed by a section of the Revised Code. (C)(1) A resource caregiver shall use a reasonable and prudent parent standard when considering whether to authorize a foster child who resides in the resource home to participate in extracurricular, enrichment, and social activities. (2) A public children services agency, private child placing agency, or private noncustodial agency that serves as the child's custodian or as the supervising agency for the resource caregiver shall be immune from liability in a civil action to recover damages for injury, death, or loss to person or property that result from a resource caregiver's or agency's decisions using a reasonable and prudent parent standard in accordance with division (C)(1) of this section. (3) Nothing in this section shall affect, limit, abridge, or otherwise modify the immunities and defenses available to a public children services agency as a political subdivision under Chapter 2744. of the Revised Code. (4) As used in this section, "reasonable and prudent parent standard" means the standard characterized by careful and sensible parental decisions that maintain the child's health, safety, and best interests while at the same time encouraging the child's emotional and developmental growth, that a caregiver or agency shall use when determining whether to allow a child in the care of a resource caregiver to participate in extracurricular, enrichment, and social activities. Last updated October 6, 2023 at 12:33 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.42 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.42
§ 5119.42. State aid for community construction programs
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "private, nonprofit organization" means a private association, organization, corporation, or other entity that is tax exempt under section 501(a) and described in section 501(c) of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C. 501. (B) To the extent funds are available and on application by boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services, the director of behavioral health may approve state reimbursement of, or state grants for, community construction programs including residential housing for persons with severe mental disabilities and persons with substance use disorders. The director may also approve an application for reimbursement or a grant for such programs submitted by other governmental entities or by private, nonprofit organizations, after the application has been reviewed and recommended for approval or disapproval by the board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services for the district from which the application came, and the application is consistent with the board's approved community addiction and mental health plan submitted under division (A) of section 340.03 of the Revised Code and the board's approved budget and list of addiction services, mental health services, and recovery supports submitted under divisions (A) and (B) of section 340.08 of the Revised Code. (C)(1) The director of behavioral health shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that specify procedures for applying for state reimbursement of and state grants for community construction programs, including residential housing for persons with severe mental disabilities and persons with substance use disorders and procedures and criteria for approval of such reimbursement and grants. (2) The director of behavioral health shall not approve state reimbursement or a state grant unless all of the following conditions are met: (a) The applicant includes with the application a plan specifying the services, in addition to housing, that will be provided to persons who will reside in the residential housing. Services specified may include any of the services described in section 340.09 of the Revised Code. (b) The director is satisfied that the residential housing for persons with severe mental disabilities will be developed to promote the maximum practical integration of persons with severe mental disabilities with persons at the same site who do not have severe mental disabilities. (c) The use of any funds distributed pursuant to the reimbursement or grant will not subject any obligation from which the funds are derived to federal income taxation. (3) The director may enter into an agreement establishing terms for any reimbursement or grant approved under this division with the organization, board, or other government entity that is the recipient of the reimbursement or grant. Any such agreement is subject to any covenant or agreement pertaining to any obligation issued to provide funds for the reimbursement or grant. Last updated August 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5167.45 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5167 / § 5167.45
§ 5167.45. Information about medicaid recipients' races, ethnicities, and primary languages
Status: in_force

April 6, 2017 Senate Bill 332 - 131st General Assembly The department of medicaid shall include information about medicaid recipients' races, ethnicities, and primary languages in data the department shares with medicaid managed care organizations. Medicaid managed care organizations shall include this information in the data the organizations share with providers.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.47 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.47
§ 5101.47. Administrative activities for certain programs
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in divisions (B) and (C) of this section, both of the following apply to the department of job and family services: (1) The department shall accept applications, determine eligibility, redetermine eligibility, and perform related administrative activities for the supplemental nutrition assistance program administered by the department pursuant to section 5101.54 of the Revised Code. The department may assign the duties described in division (A)(1) of this section to any county department of job and family services. (2) The department may accept applications, determine eligibility, redetermine eligibility, and perform related administrative activities for either of the following: (a) Programs administered by the department that the director of job and family services determines are supportive of children, adults, or families; (b) Other programs administered by the department regarding which the director determines administrative cost savings and efficiency may be achieved through the department accepting applications, determining eligibility, redetermining eligibility, or performing related administrative activities. (B) If federal law requires a face-to-face interview to complete an eligibility determination for a program specified in or pursuant to division (A) of this section, the face-to-face interview shall not be conducted by the department of job and family services. (C) Subject to division (B) of this section, if the department is required or elects to accept applications, determine eligibility, redetermine eligibility, and perform related administrative activities for a program specified in or pursuant to division (A) of this section, both of the following apply: (1) An individual seeking services under the program may apply for the program to the department or to the entity that state law governing the program authorizes to accept applications for the program. (2) The department is subject to federal statutes and regulations and state statutes and rules that require, permit, or prohibit an action regarding accepting applications, determining or redetermining eligibility, and performing related administrative activities for the program. (D)(1) The department of children and youth may accept applications, determine eligibility, redetermine eligibility, and perform related administrative activities for publicly funded child care provided under Chapter 5104. of the Revised Code. (2) If the department elects to accept applications, determine eligibility, redetermine eligibility, and perform related administrative activities for publicly funded child care, both of the following apply: (a) An individual seeking publicly funded child care may apply to the department or to the entity that state law governing the program authorizes to accept applications for publicly funded child care. (b) The department is subject to federal statutes and regulations and state statutes and rules that require, permit, or prohibit an action regarding accepting applications, determining or redetermining eligibility, and performing related administrative activities for publicly funded childcare. (E) The director of job and family services and the director of children and youth may adopt rules as necessary to implement this section. Last updated January 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.107 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.107
§ 5165.107. Amendments to cost reports
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section and not later than three years after a nursing facility provider files a cost report with the department of medicaid under section 5165.10 of the Revised Code, the provider may amend the cost report if the provider discovers a material error in the cost report or additional information to be included in the cost report. The department shall review the amended cost report for accuracy and notify the provider of its determination. (B) A provider may not amend a cost report if the department has notified the provider that an audit of the cost report or a cost report of the provider for a subsequent cost reporting period is to be conducted under section 5165.109 of the Revised Code. The provider may, however, provide the department information that affects the costs included in the cost report. Such information may not be provided after the adjudication of the final settlement of the cost report.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5124.26 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5124 / § 5124.26
§ 5124.26. Payment of medicaid rate add-on for outlier ICF/IID services
Status: in_force

October 17, 2019 House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly (A) Subject to division (D) of this section, the department of developmental disabilities may pay a medicaid rate add-on to an ICF/IID provider for outlier ICF/IID services the ICF/IID provides to residents identified as needing intensive behavioral support services, if the provider applies to the department to receive the rate add-on and the department approves the application. The department may approve a provider's application if both of the following apply: (1) The provider submits to the department a best practices protocol for providing outlier ICF/IID services under this section and the department determines that the protocol is acceptable; (2) The provider meets all other eligibility requirements for the rate add-on established in rules adopted under section 5124.03 of the Revised Code. (B) An ICF/IID that has been approved by the department to provide outlier ICF/IID services under this section shall provide the services in accordance with both of the following: (1) The best practices protocol described in division (A)(1) of this section; (2) Requirements regarding the services established in rules adopted under section 5124.03 of the Revised Code. (C) To qualify to receive outlier ICF/IID services from an ICF/IID under this section, a resident of the ICF/IID must be a medicaid recipient, be determined to need intensive behavioral support services, and meet all other eligibility requirements established in rules adopted under section 5124.03 of the Revised Code. (D) The department shall negotiate with the department of medicaid the amount of the medicaid payment rate add-on, if any, to be paid under this section or the method by which that amount is to be determined.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5160.20 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5160 / § 5160.20
§ 5160.20. Audits and investigations; authority of department
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) The department of medicaid may conduct any audits or investigations that are necessary in the performance of the department's duties, and to that end, the department has the same power as a judge of a county court to administer oaths and to enforce the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books or papers. The department shall keep a record of the department's audits and investigations stating the time, place, charges, or subject; witnesses summoned and examined; and the department's conclusions. Witnesses shall be paid the fees and mileage provided for under section 119.094 of the Revised Code. (B) Any judge of any division of the court of common pleas, on application of the department, may compel the attendance of witnesses, the production of books or papers, and the giving of testimony before the department, by a judgment for contempt or otherwise, in the same manner as in cases before those courts. (C) Until an audit report is formally released by the department, the audit report or any working paper or other document or record prepared by the department and related to the audit that is the subject of the audit report is not a public record under section 149.43 of the Revised Code. (D) The medicaid director may adopt rules under section 5160.02 of the Revised Code as necessary to implement this section. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code as if they were internal management rules.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.391 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.391
§ 5119.391. Required form for recovery housing residence operator
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) The department of behavioral health shall monitor the establishment of recovery housing residences in this state. (B) For purposes of division (A) of this section, and within the timeframe specified in division (C) of this section, each person or government entity that will operate a recovery housing residence on or after October 3, 2023, including any recovery housing that was established and in operation prior to October 3, 2023, shall file with the department, on a form prescribed by the department, all of the following information: (1) The name of the recovery housing residence and any other name under which the residence does business; (2) The address of the recovery housing residence; (3) The name of the person or government entity operating the residence; (4) The primary telephone number and electronic mail address for the recovery housing operator; (5) The date the recovery housing residence was first occupied, or will be occupied, by its first resident; (6) Information related to any existing accreditation or its equivalent that the recovery housing residence has obtained or is in the process of obtaining; (7) Any other information the department considers appropriate. (C) The form required by division (B) of this section shall be filed with the department as follows: (1) For a recovery housing residence that began operating before the effective date of this section, not later than thirty days after October 3, 2023; (2) For a recovery housing residence that will begin operating on or after October 3, 2023, not later than thirty days after the first resident begins occupying the residence. (D) If the department accepts accreditation or its equivalent from an organization specified in section 5119.39 of the Revised Code, the department may provide copies of forms filed in accordance with this section to any such organization. Last updated August 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.242 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.242
§ 5101.242. Certification of claim to recover funds
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly The department of job and family services or the director of children and youth may certify a claim to the attorney general under section 131.02 of the Revised Code for the attorney general to take action under that section against a responsible county grantee or responsible entity to recover any funds that the department determines the responsible county grantee or responsible entity owes the department for actions taken under division (C)(2), (3), (4), or (5) of section 5101.24 or 5101.241 of the Revised Code. Last updated August 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5153.33 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5153 / § 5153.33
§ 5153.33. Investing funds
Status: in_force

October 1, 1997 House Bill 408 - 122nd General Assembly Funds in the hands of the public children services agency, donated or transferred to such agency under sections 5153.31 and 5153.32 of the Revised Code, and which are not immediately needed, may be invested in bonds of the United States or of any political subdivision of the state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.036 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.036
§ 5103.036. Accepting training from other programs
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) For the purpose of determining whether a prospective foster caregiver or foster caregiver has satisfied the requirement of section 5103.031 or 5103.032 of the Revised Code, a recommending agency shall accept training obtained from either of the following: (1) Any preplacement or continuing training program approved by the department of children and youth under section 5103.038 of the Revised Code; (2) The Ohio child welfare training program pursuant to divisions (B) and (C) of section 5103.30 of the Revised Code. (B) A recommending agency may require that a prospective foster caregiver or foster caregiver successfully complete additional training as a condition of the agency recommending that the department of children and youth certify the prospective foster caregiver or foster caregiver's foster home under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code. Last updated January 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.334 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.334
§ 5119.334. Notice of adverse action - hospitals
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "adverse action" means an action by a state, provincial, federal, or other licensing or regulatory authority other than the department of behavioral health to deny, revoke, suspend, place on probation, or otherwise restrict a license, certificate, or other approval to operate a hospital or practice a health care profession. (B)(1) When submitting an application for initial or renewed licensure of a hospital under section 5119.33 of the Revised Code, the applicant shall notify the department of behavioral health of any adverse action taken against any of the following during the three-year period immediately preceding the date of application: (a) The hospital; (b) Any owner, sponsor, medical director, administrator, or principal of the hospital; (c) Any subsidiary of the hospital, owner, or sponsor. (2) Not later than seven days after receiving a notice of adverse action, the holder of a hospital license issued under section 5119.33 of the Revised Code shall notify the department of the action. (C) To notify the department as required by this section, a copy of the notice of adverse action shall be provided to the department. Last updated August 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.26 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.26
§ 5164.26. Healthcheck component
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The department of medicaid shall establish a combination of written and oral methods designed to provide information about healthcheck to all persons eligible for the program or their parents or guardians. The department shall ensure that its methods of providing information are effective. Each entity that distributes or accepts applications for medicaid shall prominently display a notice that complies with the methods of providing information about healthcheck established under this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5166.30 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5166 / § 5166.30
§ 5166.30. Coverage of home care attendant services
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in sections 5166.30 to 5166.3010 of the Revised Code: (1) "Adult" means an individual at least eighteen years of age. (2) "Appropriate director" means the following: (a) The medicaid director in the context of both of the following: (i) The Ohio home care waiver program; (ii) The integrated care delivery system medicaid waiver component authorized by section 5166.16 of the Revised Code. (b) The director of aging in the context of the medicaid-funded component of the PASSPORT program. (3) "Authorized representative" means the following: (a) In the case of a consumer who is a minor, the consumer's parent, custodian, or guardian; (b) In the case of a consumer who is an adult, an individual selected by the consumer pursuant to section 5166.3010 of the Revised Code to act on the consumer's behalf for purposes regarding home care attendant services. (4) "Authorizing health care professional" means a health care professional who, pursuant to section 5166.307 of the Revised Code, authorizes a home care attendant to assist a consumer with self-administration of medication, nursing tasks, or both. (5) "Consumer" means an individual to whom all of the following apply: (a) The individual is enrolled in a participating medicaid waiver component. (b) The individual has a medically determinable physical impairment to which both of the following apply: (i) It is expected to last for a continuous period of not less than twelve months. (ii) It causes the individual to require assistance with activities of daily living, self-care, and mobility, including either assistance with self-administration of medication or the performance of nursing tasks, or both. (c) In the case of an individual who is an adult, the individual is mentally alert and is, or has an authorized representative who is, capable of selecting, directing the actions of, and dismissing a home care attendant. (d) In the case of an individual who is a minor, the individual has an authorized representative who is capable of selecting, directing the actions of, and dismissing a home care attendant. (6) "Controlled substance" has the same meaning as in section 3719.01 of the Revised Code. (7) "Custodian" has the same meaning as in section 2151.011 of the Revised Code. (8) "Gastrostomy tube" means a percutaneously inserted catheter that terminates in the stomach. (9) "Guardian" has the same meaning as in section 2111.01 of the Revised Code. (10) "Health care professional" means a physician or registered nurse. (11) "Home care attendant" means an individual holding a valid provider agreement in accordance with section 5166.301 of the Revised Code that authorizes the individual to provide home care attendant services to consumers. (12) "Home care attendant services" means all of the following as provided by a home care attendant: (a) Personal care aide services; (b) Assistance with the self-administration of medication; (c) Assistance with nursing tasks. (13) "Jejunostomy tube" means a percutaneously inserted catheter that terminates in the jejunum. (14) "Medication" means a drug as defined in section 4729.01 of the Revised Code. (15) "Minor" means an individual under eighteen years of age. (16) "Participating medicaid waiver component" means all of the following: (a) The medicaid-funded component of the PASSPORT program; (b) The Ohio home care waiver program; (c) The integrated care delivery system medicaid waiver component authorized by section 5166.16 of the Revised Code. (17) "Physician" means an individual authorized under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery. (18) "Practice of nursing as a registered nurse," "practice of nursing as a licensed practical nurse," and "registered nurse" have the same meanings as in section 4723.01 of the Revised Code. "Registered nurse" includes an advanced practice registered nurse, as defined in section 4723.01 of the Revised Code. (19) "Schedule II," "schedule III," "schedule IV," and "schedule V" have the same meanings as in section 3719.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Participating medicaid waiver components may cover home care attendant services in accordance with sections 5166.30 to 5166.3010 of the Revised Code and rules adopted under section 5166.02 of the Revised Code. Last updated October 6, 2023 at 10:39 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.20 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.20
§ 5126.20. Employee definitions
Status: in_force

September 10, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly As used in this section and sections 5126.21 to 5126.25 of the Revised Code: (A) "Service employee" means a person employed by a county board of developmental disabilities in a position which may require registration under section 5126.25 of the Revised Code but for which a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university is not required, and includes employees in the positions listed in division (C) of section 5126.22 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) "Professional employee" means both of the following: (a) A person employed by a board in a position for which either a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university or a license or certificate issued under Title XLVII of the Revised Code is a minimum requirement; (b) A person employed by a board as a conditional status service and support administrator. (2) "Professional employee" includes employees in the positions listed in division (B) of section 5126.22 of the Revised Code. (C) "Management employee" means a person employed by a board in a position having supervisory or managerial responsibilities and duties, and includes employees in the positions listed in division (A) of section 5126.22 of the Revised Code. (D) "Limited contract" means a contract of limited duration which is renewable at the discretion of the superintendent. (E) "Supervisory responsibilities and duties" includes the authority to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline other employees of the board; to responsibly direct them; to adjust their grievances; or to effectively recommend such action, if the exercise of that authority is not of a merely routine or clerical nature but requires the use of independent judgment. (F) "Managerial responsibilities and duties" includes formulating policy on behalf of the board, responsibly directing the implementation of policy, assisting in the preparation for the conduct of collective negotiations, administering collectively negotiated agreements, or having a major role in personnel administration. (G) "Investigative agent" means an individual who conducts investigations under section 5126.313 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5162.212 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5162 / § 5162.212
§ 5162.212. Certification of amounts due under estate recovery program; collection
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The department of medicaid shall certify amounts due under the medicaid estate recovery program instituted under section 5162.21 of the Revised Code to the attorney general pursuant to section 131.02 of the Revised Code. The attorney general may enter into a contract with any person or government entity to collect the amounts due on behalf of the attorney general. The attorney general, in entering into a contract under this section, shall comply with all of the requirements that must be met for the state to receive federal financial participation for the costs incurred in entering into the contract and carrying out actions under the contract. The contract may provide for the person or government entity with which the attorney general contracts to be compensated from the property recovered under the medicaid estate recovery program or may provide for another manner of compensation agreed to by the parties to the contract. Regardless of whether the attorney general collects the amounts due under the medicaid estate recovery program or contracts with a person or government entity to collect the amounts due on behalf of the attorney general, the amounts due shall be collected in accordance with applicable requirements of federal statutes and regulations and state statutes and rules.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5124.511 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5124 / § 5124.511
§ 5124.511. Agreements with entering operators effective on date of change of operator
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The department of medicaid may enter into a provider agreement with an entering operator that goes into effect at 12:01 a.m. on the effective date of the change of operator if all of the following requirements are met: (A) The department receives a properly completed written notice required by section 5124.51 of the Revised Code on or before the date required by that section. (B) The department receives both of the following in accordance with the method specified in rules authorized by section 5124.53 of the Revised Code and not later than ten days after the effective date of the change of operator: (1) From the entering operator, a completed application for a provider agreement and all other forms and documents specified in rules authorized by section 5124.53 of the Revised Code; (2) From the exiting operator or owner, all forms and documents specified in rules authorized by section 5124.53 of the Revised Code. (C) The entering operator is eligible to enter into a provider agreement for the ICF/IID as provided in section 5124.06 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.192 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.192
§ 5165.192. Case-mix scores for nursing facilities
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A)(1) Except as provided in division (B) of this section and in accordance with the process specified in rules authorized by this section, the department of medicaid shall do all of the following: (a) Every quarter, determine the following two case-mix scores for each nursing facility: (i) A quarterly case-mix score that includes each resident who is a medicaid recipient and is not a low case-mix resident; (ii) A quarterly case-mix score that includes each resident regardless of payment source. (b) Every six months, determine a semiannual average case-mix score for each nursing facility by using the quarterly case-mix scores determined for the nursing facility pursuant to division (A)(1)(a)(i) of this section; (c) After the end of each calendar year, determine an annual average case-mix score for each nursing facility by using the quarterly case-mix scores determined for the nursing facility pursuant to division (A)(1)(a)(ii) of this section. (2) When determining case-mix scores under division (A)(1) of this section, the department shall use all of the following: (a) Data from a resident assessment instrument specified in rules authorized by section 5165.191 of the Revised Code; (b) Except as provided in rules authorized by this section, the case-mix values established by the United States department of health and human services; (c) Except as modified in rules authorized by this section, the grouper methodology used on October 1, 2019, for the patient driven payment model nursing index, by the United States department of health and human services for prospective payment of skilled nursing facilities under the medicare program. (B)(1) Subject to division (B)(2) of this section, the department, for one or more months of a calendar quarter, may assign to a nursing facility a case-mix score that is five per cent less than the nursing facility's case-mix score for the immediately preceding calendar quarter if any of the following apply: (a) The provider does not timely submit complete and accurate resident assessment data necessary to determine the nursing facility's case-mix score for the calendar quarter; (b) The nursing facility was subject to an exception review under section 5165.193 of the Revised Code for the immediately preceding calendar quarter; (c) The nursing facility was assigned a case-mix score for the immediately preceding calendar quarter. (2) Before assigning a case-mix score to a nursing facility due to the submission of incorrect resident assessment data, the department shall permit the provider to correct the data. The department may assign the case-mix score if the provider fails to submit the corrected resident assessment data not later than the earlier of the forty-fifth day after the end of the calendar quarter to which the data pertains or the deadline for submission of such corrections established by regulations adopted by the United States department of health and human services under Title XVIII and Title XIX. (3) If, for more than six months in a calendar year, a provider is paid a rate determined for a nursing facility using a case-mix score assigned to the nursing facility under division (B)(1) of this section, the department may assign the nursing facility a cost per case-mix unit that is five per cent less than the nursing facility's actual or assigned cost per case-mix unit for the immediately preceding calendar year. The department may use the assigned cost per case-mix unit, instead of determining the nursing facility's actual cost per case-mix unit in accordance with section 5165.19 of the Revised Code, to establish the nursing facility's rate for direct care costs for the fiscal year immediately following the calendar year for which the cost per case-mix unit is assigned. (4) The department shall take action under division (B)(1), (2), or (3) of this section only in accordance with rules authorized by this section. The department shall not take an action that affects rates for prior payment periods except in accordance with sections 5165.41 and 5165.42 of the Revised Code. (C) The medicaid director shall adopt rules under section 5165.02 of the Revised Code as necessary to implement this section. (1) The rules shall do all of the following: (a) Specify the process for determining the semiannual and annual average case-mix scores for nursing facilities; (b) Modify the grouper methodology specified in division (A)(2)(c) of this section as follows: (i) Incorporate the grouper methodology for the patient driven payment model nursing index used by the United States department of health and human services on October 1, 2019, for prospective payment of skilled nursing facilities under the medicare program; (ii) Make other changes the department determines are necessary. (c) Establish procedures under which resident assessment data shall be reviewed for accuracy and providers shall be notified of any data that requires correction; (d) Establish procedures for providers to correct resident assessment data and specify a reasonable period of time by which providers shall submit the corrections. The procedures may limit the content of corrections in the manner required by regulations adopted by the United States department of health and human services under Title XVIII and Title XIX. (e) Specify when and how the department will assign case-mix scores or costs per case-mix unit to a nursing facility under division (B) of this section if information necessary to calculate the nursing facility's case-mix score is not provided or corrected in accordance with the procedures established by the rules. (2) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the rules may provide for the exclusion of case-mix scores assigned to a nursing facility under division (B) of this section from the determination of the nursing facility's semiannual or annual average case-mix score and the cost per case-mix unit for the nursing facility's peer group. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.11
§ 5180.11. [Former R.C. 3701.951, amended and renumbered by H.B. 33, 135th General Assembly, effective 1/1/2025] Infant mortality, preterm birth, and stillbirth rates
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Preliminary infant mortality and preterm birth rates" means infant mortality and preterm birth rates that are derived from vital records as defined in section 3705.01 of the Revised Code, are not considered finalized by the department of health, and are subject to modification as additional birth and death data are received by the department and added to vital records. (2) "Stillbirth" has the same meaning as in section 5180.12 of the Revised Code. (B) Each calendar quarter, the department of children and youth shall determine the state's preliminary infant mortality and preterm birth rates, as well as the stillbirth rate, delineated by race and ethnic group. The rates shall be determined using a simple rolling average. The department shall publish the rates in a quarterly report, which shall also include a description of the data sources and methodology used to determine the rates. The department shall make each report available on its internet web site not later than five business days after the rates are determined. Last updated January 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5153.43 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5153 / § 5153.43
§ 5153.43. Site of district children's home
Status: in_force

September 14, 1957 House Bill 927 - 102nd General Assembly When the board of trustees appointed under section 5153.39 of the Revised Code does not choose an established institution in one of the counties of the district it may select a suitable site for the erection of a district children's home. Such site must be easily accessible, and when, in the judgment of the board, it is equally conducive to health, economy in purchasing or in building, and to the general interest of the home and inmates, such site shall be as near as practicable to the geographical center of the district. When only two counties form such district the site shall be as near as practicable to the dividing line between such counties.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.61 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.61
§ 5123.61. Reporting abuse, neglect, and other major unusual incidents
Status: in_force

September 29, 2018 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Law enforcement agency" means the state highway patrol, the police department of a municipal corporation, or a county sheriff. (2) "Abuse" has the same meaning as in section 5123.50 of the Revised Code, except that it includes a misappropriation, as defined in that section. (3) "Neglect" has the same meaning as in section 5123.50 of the Revised Code. (B) The department of developmental disabilities shall establish a registry office for the purpose of maintaining reports of abuse, neglect, and other major unusual incidents made to the department under this section and reports received from county boards of developmental disabilities under section 5126.31 of the Revised Code. The department shall establish committees to review reports of abuse, neglect, and other major unusual incidents. (C)(1) Any person listed in division (C)(2) of this section, having reason to believe that an individual with a developmental disability has suffered or faces a substantial risk of suffering any wound, injury, disability, or condition of such a nature as to reasonably indicate abuse or neglect of that individual, shall immediately report or cause reports to be made of such information to the entity specified in this division. Except as provided in section 5120.173 of the Revised Code or as otherwise provided in this division, the person making the report shall make it to a law enforcement agency or to the county board of developmental disabilities. If the report concerns a resident of a facility operated by the department of developmental disabilities the report shall be made either to a law enforcement agency or to the department. If the report concerns any act or omission of an employee of a county board of developmental disabilities, the report immediately shall be made to the department and to the county board. (2) All of the following persons are required to make a report under division (C)(1) of this section: (a) Any physician, including a hospital intern or resident, any dentist, podiatrist, chiropractor, practitioner of a limited branch of medicine as specified in section 4731.15 of the Revised Code, hospital administrator or employee of a hospital, nurse licensed under Chapter 4723. of the Revised Code, employee of an outpatient health facility as defined in section 5101.60 of the Revised Code, employee of a home health agency, employee of a residential facility licensed under section 5119.34 of the Revised Code that provides accommodations, supervision, and personal care services for three to sixteen unrelated adults, or employee of a community mental health facility; (b) Any school teacher or school authority, licensed professional clinical counselor, licensed professional counselor, independent social worker, social worker, independent marriage and family therapist, marriage and family therapist, psychologist, attorney, peace officer, coroner, or residents' rights advocate as defined in section 3721.10 of the Revised Code; (c) A superintendent, board member, or employee of a county board of developmental disabilities; an administrator, board member, or employee of a residential facility licensed under section 5123.19 of the Revised Code; an administrator, board member, or employee of any other public or private provider of services to an individual with a developmental disability, or any developmental disabilities employee, as defined in section 5123.50 of the Revised Code; (d) A member of a citizen's advisory council established at an institution or branch institution of the department of developmental disabilities under section 5123.092 of the Revised Code; (e) A member of the clergy who is employed in a position that includes providing specialized services to an individual with a developmental disability, while acting in an official or professional capacity in that position, or a person who is employed in a position that includes providing specialized services to an individual with a developmental disability and who, while acting in an official or professional capacity, renders spiritual treatment through prayer in accordance with the tenets of an organized religion. (3)(a) The reporting requirements of this division do not apply to employees of the Ohio protection and advocacy system. (b) An attorney or physician is not required to make a report pursuant to division (C)(1) of this section concerning any communication the attorney or physician receives from a client or patient in an attorney-client or physician-patient relationship, if, in accordance with division (A) or (B) of section 2317.02 of the Revised Code, the attorney or physician could not testify with respect to that communication in a civil or criminal proceeding, except that the client or patient is deemed to have waived any testimonial privilege under division (A) or (B) of section 2317.02 of the Revised Code with respect to that communication and the attorney or physician shall make a report pursuant to division (C)(1) of this section, if both of the following apply: (i) The client or patient, at the time of the communication, is an individual with a developmental disability. (ii) The attorney or physician knows or suspects, as a result of the communication or any observations made during that communication, that the client or patient has suffered or faces a substantial risk of suffering any wound, injury, disability, or condition of a nature that reasonably indicates abuse or neglect of the client or patient. (4) Any person who fails to make a report required under division (C) of this section and who is a developmental disabilities employee, as defined in section 5123.50 of the Revised Code, shall be eligible to be included in the registry regarding misappropriation, abuse, neglect, or other specified misconduct by developmental disabilities employees established under section 5123.52 of the Revised Code. (D) The reports required under division (C) of this section shall be made forthwith by telephone or in person and shall be followed by a written report. The reports shall contain the following: (1) The names and addresses of the individual with a developmental disability and the individual's custodian, if known; (2) The age of the individual with a developmental disability; (3) Any other information that would assist in the investigation of the report. (E) When a physician performing services as a member of the staff of a hospital or similar institution has reason to believe that an individual with a developmental disability has suffered injury, abuse, or physical neglect, the physician shall notify the person in charge of the institution or that person's designated delegate, who shall make the necessary reports. (F) Any person having reasonable cause to believe that an individual with a developmental disability has suffered or faces a substantial risk of suffering abuse or neglect may report or cause a report to be made of that belief to the entity specified in this division. Except as provided in section 5120.173 of the Revised Code or as otherwise provided in this division, the person making the report shall make it to a law enforcement agency or the county board of developmental disabilities. If the individual is a resident of a facility operated by the department of developmental disabilities, the report shall be made to a law enforcement agency or to the department. If the report concerns any act or omission of an employee of a county board of developmental disabilities, the report immediately shall be made to the department and to the county board. (G)(1) Upon the receipt of a report concerning the possible abuse or neglect of an individual with a developmental disability, the law enforcement agency shall inform the county board of developmental disabilities or, if the individual is a resident of a facility operated by the department of developmental disabilities, the department. (2) On receipt of a report under this section that includes an allegation of action or inaction that may constitute a crime under federal law or the law of this state, the department of developmental disabilities shall notify the law enforcement agency. (3) When a county board of developmental disabilities receives a report under this section that includes an allegation of action or inaction that may constitute a crime under federal law or the law of this state, the superintendent of the board or an individual the superintendent designates under division (H) of this section shall notify the law enforcement agency. The superintendent or individual shall notify the department of developmental disabilities when it receives any report under this section. (4) When a county board of developmental disabilities receives a report under this section and believes that the degree of risk to the person is such that the report is an emergency, the superintendent of the board or an employee of the board the superintendent designates shall attempt a face-to-face contact with the individual with a developmental disability who allegedly is the victim within one hour of the board's receipt of the report. (H) The superintendent of the board may designate an individual to be responsible for notifying the law enforcement agency and the department when the county board receives a report under this section. (I) An adult with a developmental disability about whom a report is made may be removed from the adult's place of residence only by law enforcement officers who consider that the adult's immediate removal is essential to protect the adult from further injury or abuse or in accordance with the order of a court made pursuant to section 5126.33 of the Revised Code. (J) A law enforcement agency shall investigate each report of abuse or neglect it receives under this section. In addition, the department, in cooperation with law enforcement officials, shall investigate each report regarding a resident of a facility operated by the department to determine the circumstances surrounding the injury, the cause of the injury, and the person responsible. The investigation shall be in accordance with the memorandum of understanding prepared under section 5126.058 of the Revised Code. The department shall determine, with the registry office which shall be maintained by the department, whether prior reports have been made concerning an adult with a developmental disability or other principals in the case. If the department finds that the report involves action or inaction that may constitute a crime under federal law or the law of this state, it shall submit a report of its investigation, in writing, to the law enforcement agency. If the individual with a developmental disability is an adult, with the consent of the adult, the department shall provide such protective services as are necessary to protect the adult. The law enforcement agency shall make a written report of its findings to the department. If the individual with a developmental disability is an adult and is not a resident of a facility operated by the department, the county board of developmental disabilities shall review the report of abuse or neglect in accordance with sections 5126.30 to 5126.33 of the Revised Code and the law enforcement agency shall make the written report of its findings to the county board. (K) Any person or any hospital, institution, school, health department, or agency participating in the making of reports pursuant to this section, any person participating as a witness in an administrative or judicial proceeding resulting from the reports, or any person or governmental entity that discharges responsibilities under sections 5126.31 to 5126.33 of the Revised Code shall be immune from any civil or criminal liability that might otherwise be incurred or imposed as a result of such actions except liability for perjury, unless the person or governmental entity has acted in bad faith or with malicious purpose. (L) No employer or any person with the authority to do so shall discharge, demote, transfer, prepare a negative work performance evaluation, reduce pay or benefits, terminate work privileges, or take any other action detrimental to an employee or retaliate against an employee as a result of the employee's having made a report under this section. This division does not preclude an employer or person with authority from taking action with regard to an employee who has made a report under this section if there is another reasonable basis for the action. (M) Reports made under this section are not public records as defined in section 149.43 of the Revised Code. Information contained in the reports on request shall be made available to the individual who is the subject of the report, to the individual's legal counsel, and to agencies authorized to receive information in the report by the department or by a county board of developmental disabilities. (N) Notwithstanding section 4731.22 of the Revised Code, the physician-patient privilege shall not be a ground for excluding evidence regarding the injuries or physical neglect of an individual with a developmental disability or the cause thereof in any judicial proceeding resulting from a report submitted pursuant to this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.105 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.105
§ 5165.105. Addendum for disputed costs
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The department of medicaid shall develop an addendum to the cost report form that a nursing facility provider may use to set forth costs that the provider believes the department may dispute. The department may consider such costs in determining a nursing facility's medicaid payment rate. If the department does not consider such costs in determining a nursing facility's medicaid payment rate, the provider may seek reconsideration of the determination in accordance with section 5165.38 of the Revised Code. If the department subsequently includes such costs in a nursing facility's medicaid payment rate, the department shall pay the provider interest at a reasonable rate established in rules adopted under section 5165.02 of the Revised Code for the period that the rate excluded the costs.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.06
§ 5164.06. Medicaid coverage of occupational therapy services
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The medicaid program shall cover occupational therapy services provided by an occupational therapist licensed under section 4755.08 of the Revised Code. Coverage shall not be limited to services provided in a hospital or nursing facility. Any licensed occupational therapist may enter into a provider agreement with the department of medicaid to provide occupational therapy services under the medicaid program.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.41 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.41
§ 5119.41. Residential state supplement program
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) The department of behavioral health shall implement the residential state supplement program under which the state supplements the amounts received by aged, blind, or disabled adults as supplemental security income payments under Title XVI of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1381 et seq., or as social security benefits or social security disability insurance benefits under Title II of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 401 et seq. Residential state supplement payments shall be used for the provision of accommodations, supervision, and personal care services to recipients of supplemental security income payments, social security benefits, and social security disability insurance benefits who the department determines are at risk of needing institutional care. In implementing the program, the department may designate one or more entities to be responsible for providing administrative services regarding the program. The department may designate an entity either by entering into a contract with the entity to provide the services or by otherwise delegating to the entity the responsibility to provide the services. (B) To be eligible for residential state supplement payments, an individual must satisfy all eligibility requirements established by rules adopted under this section. (C) The director of behavioral health and the medicaid director shall adopt rules as necessary to implement the residential state supplement program, including the requirements that an individual must satisfy to be eligible for payments under the program. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. The rules adopted by the director of behavioral health may establish the method to be used to determine the payment an eligible individual will receive under the program. The amount the general assembly appropriates for the program may be a factor included in the method that director establishes. To the extent permitted by Title XVI of the "Social Security Act" and any other provision of federal law, the rules adopted by the medicaid director may establish standards for adjusting the eligibility requirements concerning the level of impairment an individual must have so that the amount appropriated for the program by the general assembly is adequate for the number of eligible individuals. The rules shall not limit the eligibility of individuals who are disabled solely on a basis classifying disabilities as physical or mental. (D) The county department of job and family services of the county in which an applicant for the residential state supplement program resides or the department of medicaid shall determine whether the applicant meets income and resource requirements for the program. The county department of job and family services or the department of medicaid shall notify each individual who is denied approval for payments under the program of the individual's right to a hearing. On request, the hearing shall be provided in accordance with section 5101.35 of the Revised Code. (E) An individual in a licensed or certified living arrangement receiving state supplementation on November 15, 1990, under former section 5101.531 of the Revised Code shall not become ineligible for payments under this program solely by reason of the individual's living arrangement as long as the individual remains in the living arrangement in which the individual resided on November 15, 1990. Last updated August 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.031 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.031
§ 5165.031. Hearing
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly An individual who applies for admission to or resides in a nursing facility may appeal if adversely affected by a determination made by the department of mental health and addiction services under section 5119.40 of the Revised Code or by the department of developmental disabilities under section 5123.021 of the Revised Code. If the individual is an applicant for or recipient of medicaid, the individual may appeal pursuant to section 5160.31 of the Revised Code. If the individual is not an applicant for or recipient of medicaid, the individual may appeal pursuant to a process the department of medicaid shall establish, which shall be similar to the appeals process established by section 5101.35 of the Revised Code. The department of medicaid shall provide notice of the right to appeal to individuals adversely affected by determinations made under sections 5119.40 and 5123.021 of the Revised Code. Any decision made on the basis of such an appeal is binding on the department of mental health and addiction services and the department of developmental disabilities. Last updated October 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.36 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.36
§ 5120.36. Executive, administrative, and fiscal supervision of institutions
Status: in_force

July 12, 1972 House Bill 494 - 109th General Assembly The department of rehabilitation and correction, in addition to the powers expressly conferred, shall have all power and authority necessary for the full and efficient exercise of the executive, administrative, and fiscal supervision over the state institutions described in section 5120.05 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5163.104 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5163 / § 5163.104
§ 5163.104. Presumptive eligibility error rate reports
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly As used in this section, "presumptive eligibility error rate" has the same meaning as in section 5163.103 of the Revised Code. Quarterly, the department of medicaid shall report to the general assembly the presumptive eligibility error rate for presumptive eligibility determinations made during the previous quarter. Reports made under this section shall be submitted to the general assembly in accordance with section 101.68 of the Revised Code. Last updated August 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.544 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.544
§ 5101.544. Failure of household member to perform required action
Status: in_force

October 16, 2009 House Bill 1 - 128th General Assembly If the benefits of a household are reduced under a federal, state, or local means-tested public assistance program for failure of a member of the household to perform an action required under the program, the household may not receive, for the duration of the reduction, an increased allotment of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits as the result of a decrease in the income of the household to the extent that the decrease is the result of the reduction. The department of job and family services shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement this section. The rules shall be consistent with 7 U.S.C. 2017(d) and federal regulations.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5107.287 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5107 / § 5107.287
§ 5107.287. Good cause for being absent from school
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly The county department of job and family services shall establish policies defining "good cause for being absent from school" and specifying what constitutes a day of attendance for purposes of the learnfare program's school attendance requirement. Not later than the fifteenth day of each month of a school year or another time agreed to by the county department of job and family services and department of education and workforce but not later than the thirtieth day of each month, each attendance officer or assistant appointed under section 3321.14 or 3321.15 of the Revised Code who oversees the attendance of students enrolled in the school districts of a county that is participating in the learnfare program shall report to the county department of job and family services the previous month's school attendance record of each participating student. The report shall specify which if any of the participating student's absences are excused because the absence meets the definition of "good cause for being absent from school." No absence for which there is good cause shall be considered in determining whether a participating student has complied with the learnfare program's school attendance requirement. Last updated September 19, 2023 at 11:29 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5168.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5168 / § 5168.02
§ 5168.02. Adoption of rules
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) The medicaid director shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code for the purpose of administering sections 5168.01 to 5168.14 of the Revised Code, including rules that do all of the following: (1) Define as a "disproportionate share hospital" any hospital included under the "Social Security Act," section 1923(b), 42 U.S.C. 1396r-4(b), and any other hospital the director determines appropriate; (2) Prescribe the form for submission of cost reports under section 5168.05 of the Revised Code; (3) Establish, in accordance with division (A) of section 5168.06 of the Revised Code, the assessment rate or rates to be applied to hospitals under that section; (4) Establish schedules for hospitals to pay installments on their assessments under section 5168.06 of the Revised Code and for governmental hospitals to pay installments on their intergovernmental transfers under section 5168.07 of the Revised Code; (5) Establish procedures to notify hospitals of adjustments made under division (B)(2)(b) of section 5168.06 of the Revised Code in the amount of installments on their assessment; (6) Establish procedures to notify hospitals of adjustments made under division (D) of section 5168.08 of the Revised Code in the total amount of their assessment and to adjust for the remainder of the program year the amount of the installments on the assessments; (7) Establish, in accordance with section 5168.09 of the Revised Code, the methodology for paying hospitals under that section. The director shall consult with hospitals when adopting the rules required by divisions (A)(4) and (5) of this section in order to minimize hospitals' cash flow difficulties. (B) Rules adopted under this section may provide that "total facility costs" excludes costs associated with any of the following: (1) Medicaid recipients; (2) Recipients of the program for children and youth with special health care needs established under section 3701.023 of the Revised Code; (3) Medicare beneficiaries; (4) Recipients of Title V of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 701 et seq.; (5) Any other category of costs deemed appropriate by the director in accordance with Title XIX of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq., and the rules adopted under that title. Last updated July 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.02
§ 5123.02. Duties of department
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly The department of developmental disabilities shall do the following: (A) Promote comprehensive statewide programs and services for persons with developmental disabilities and their families wherever they reside in the state. These programs shall include public awareness, prevention, assessment, treatment, training, and care. (B) Provide administrative leadership for statewide services; (C) Develop and maintain, to the extent feasible, data on all services and programs that governmental and private agencies provide for persons with developmental disabilities; (D) Provide leadership to local authorities in planning and developing community-wide services for persons with developmental disabilities and their families; (E) Promote programs of professional training and research in cooperation with other state departments, agencies, and institutions of higher learning. Last updated March 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5145.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5145 / § 5145.21
§ 5145.21. Arrest and return of escaped prisoner
Status: in_force

October 6, 1994 House Bill 571 - 120th General Assembly The warden of a state correctional institution shall arrest and again commit to the institution a convict who escapes from the institution and is found at large, whether the term for which he was sentenced to imprisonment has expired. Last updated October 6, 2021 at 10:53 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.64 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.64
§ 5165.64. Annual standard surveys
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) The department of health shall conduct a survey, titled a standard survey, of every nursing facility in this state on a statewide average of not more than once every twelve months. Each nursing facility shall undergo a standard survey at least once every fifteen months as a condition of meeting certification requirements. The department may extend a standard survey; such a survey is titled an extended survey. (B) The department may conduct surveys in addition to standard surveys when it considers them necessary. (C) The department shall conduct surveys in accordance with the regulations, guidelines, and procedures issued by the United States secretary of health and human services under Title XVIII and Title XIX, sections 5165.65 to 5165.68 of the Revised Code, and rules adopted under section 3721.022 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5167.123 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5167 / § 5167.123
§ 5167.123. Medicaid MCO contracts with 340B program participants
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) No contract between a medicaid managed care organization, including a third-party administrator, and a 340B grantee shall contain any of the following provisions: (1) A payment rate for a prescribed drug provided by a 340B grantee to an individual as a result of health care services provided by the grantee directly to the individual, that is less than the payment rate applied to health care providers that are not 340B grantees; (2) A fee that is not imposed on a health care provider that is not a 340B grantee; (3) A fee amount that exceeds the amount for a health care provider that is not a 340B grantee. (B) The organization, or its contracted third-party administrators, shall not discriminate against a 340B grantee in a manner that prevents or interferes with a medicaid recipient's choice to receive a prescription drug from a 340B grantee. (C) Any provision of a contract entered into between the organization and a 340B grantee that is contrary to division (A) of this section is unenforceable and shall be replaced with the dispensing fee or payment rate that applies for health care providers that are not 340B grantees. (D) A medicaid managed care organization or a third-party administrator shall provide a payment rate for all prescribed drugs obtained through the federal 340B drug pricing program by providers that are not 340B grantees that is equal to the payment rate for those prescribed drugs that is specified in the medicaid state plan. (E) Any payment made pursuant to a payment rate described in this section is subject to audit by the department of medicaid under section 5160.20 of the Revised Code. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.57 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.57
§ 5123.57. Evaluation before guardianship or trusteeship begins
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly No guardianship or trusteeship appointment shall be made under sections 5123.55 to 5123.59 of the Revised Code and no person shall be accepted for service by a protector under those sections unless a comprehensive evaluation has been made in a clinic or other facility approved by the department of developmental disabilities. The evaluation shall include a medical, psychological, social, and educational evaluation, and a copy of the evaluation shall be filed with the department. Any agency that is appointed as a guardian, trustee, or conservator under sections 5123.55 to 5123.59 of the Revised Code or accepted as a protector under those sections shall provide for a review at least once each year in writing of the physical, mental, and social condition of each person with a developmental disability for whom it is acting as guardian, trustee, or protector. An agency providing protective services under contract with the department shall file these reports with the department of developmental disabilities. Any record of the department or agency pertaining to a person with a developmental disability shall not be a public record under section 149.43 of the Revised Code. Information contained in those records shall not be disclosed publicly in such a manner as to identify individuals, but may be made available to persons approved by the director of developmental disabilities or the court.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.881 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.881
§ 5164.881. Health home services
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly The medicaid director, in consultation with the director of developmental disabilities, may develop and implement within the medicaid program a system under which eligible individuals with chronic conditions, as defined in the "Social Security Act," section 1945 (h)(1), 42 U.S.C. 1396w-4(h)(1), who also have developmental disabilities may receive health home services, as defined in the "Social Security Act," section 1945 (h)(4), 42 U.S.C. 1396w-4(h)(4). Any such system shall focus on the needs of individuals and have as its goal improving services and outcomes under the medicaid program by improving integration of long-term care services and supportive services with primary and acute health care services. In developing any system under this section, the directors shall consult with representatives of county boards of developmental disabilities, the Ohio provider resource association, and the arc of Ohio. The directors may consult with any other individuals or entities that have an interest in the well being of individuals with developmental disabilities.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5168.41 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5168 / § 5168.41
§ 5168.41. Determination of nursing home and hospital long-term care franchise permit fee rate
Status: in_force

July 1, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) The franchise permit fee rate shall be determined for each fiscal year as follows: (1) Determine the estimated total net patient revenues for all nursing homes and hospital long-term care units for the fiscal year; (2) Multiply the estimated total net patient revenues determined under division (A)(1) of this section by the lesser of the following: (a) The indirect guarantee percentage; (b) Six per cent. (3) Divide the product determined under division (A)(2) of this section by the number of days in the fiscal year; (4) Determine the sum of the following: (a) The total number of beds in all nursing homes and hospital long-term care units that are subject to the franchise permit fee for the fiscal year; (b) The total number of nursing home beds that are exempt from the franchise permit fee for the fiscal year because of the waiver obtained pursuant to section 5168.43 of the Revised Code. (5) Divide the quotient determined under division (A)(3) of this section by the sum determined under division (A)(4) of this section. (B) In determining the estimated total net patient revenues for all nursing homes and hospital long-term care units for a fiscal year, the department of medicaid shall use at least all of the following: (1) Information from medicaid cost reports filed under section 5165.10 of the Revised Code that are the most recent at the time the determination is made; (2) The projected total medicaid payment rates for nursing facility services for the fiscal year; (3) The projected total number of medicaid days for the fiscal year.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.156 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.156
§ 5165.156. Centers of excellence component
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The medicaid director may establish a centers of excellence component of the medicaid program. The purpose of the centers of excellence component is to increase the efficiency and quality of nursing facility services provided to medicaid recipients with complex nursing facility service needs. The director may adopt rules under section 5165.02 of the Revised Code governing the component, including rules that establish a method of determining the medicaid payment rates for nursing facilities providing nursing facility services to medicaid recipients participating in the component. The rules may specify the extent to which, if any, of the provisions of sections 5165.153 and 5165.154 of the Revised Code are to apply to the centers of excellence component. If such rules are adopted, the nursing facilities that provide nursing facility services to medicaid recipients participating in the centers of excellence component shall be paid for those services in accordance with the method established in the rules instead of the total per medicaid day payment rate determined under section 5165.15 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.523 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.523
§ 5165.523. Failure to file cost report; payments deemed overpayments
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly If an exiting operator required by section 5165.522 of the Revised Code to file a cost report with the department of medicaid fails to file the cost report in accordance with that section, all payments under the medicaid program for the period the cost report is required to cover are deemed overpayments until the date the department receives the properly completed cost report. The department may impose on the exiting operator a penalty of one hundred dollars for each calendar day the properly completed cost report is late.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5147.18 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5147 / § 5147.18
§ 5147.18. Duty of county commissioners to work prisoners at hard labor
Status: in_force

September 3, 1970 Senate Bill 460 - 108th General Assembly In counties which have secured property and completed arrangements for the working of their convicts, the board of county commissioners, whenever practicable, shall cause to be worked as provided in sections 5147.01 to 5147.26 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, all convicts sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor, and also all male convicts, physically capable of performing hard labor, confined in the county jail or workhouse for failure to pay a fine in criminal prosecution, or who plead insolvency or inability to pay such fine. A person confined for failure to pay a fine shall be released when the fine has been discharged by his labor at the rates to be fixed by such board.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.82 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.82
§ 5119.82. 9-8-8 hotline administration
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly There is hereby established a 9-8-8 administrator within the department of behavioral health to oversee the administration of the 9-8-8 suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline system statewide. Last updated August 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.215 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.215
§ 5101.215. Agreements with religious organization
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly If the director of job and family services or the director of children and youth enters into an agreement or contracts with, or issues a grant to, a religious organization under section 5101.214 of the Revised Code, the religious organization shall comply with section 104 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity and Reconciliation Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-193). Last updated August 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5117.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5117 / § 5117.21
§ 5117.21. Percentage of funds to be used for energy-related home repair
Status: in_force

November 26, 1982 Senate Bill 550 - 114th General Assembly Not less than fifteen per cent of the funds received by the state in any fiscal year for the low-income home energy assistance block grant under Title XXVI of the "Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981," 95 Stat. 893, 42 U.S.C.A. 8621, and any amendments thereto, shall be used to provide low cost residential weatherization or other energy-related home repair for low-income households in accordance with that act, and any amendments thereto. The annual state home energy assistance application and plan and any revisions filed with the United States secretary of health and human services under the act shall include the requirement of this section, and any such plan in effect on the effective date of this section shall promptly be revised to include the requirement of this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.7512 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.7512
§ 5164.7512. Definitions for sections 5164.7512 to 5164.7514
Status: in_force

April 5, 2019 Senate Bill 265 - 132nd General Assembly (A) As used in sections 5164.7512 to 5164.7514 of the Revised Code: (1) "Clinical practice guidelines" means a systematically developed statement to assist providers and medicaid recipients in making decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances and conditions. (2) "Clinical review criteria" means the written screening procedures, decision abstracts, clinical protocols, and clinical practice guidelines used by the medicaid program to determine whether or not a health care service or drug is appropriate and consistent with medical or scientific evidence. (3) "Medical or scientific evidence" has the same meaning as in section 3922.01 of the Revised Code. (4) "Step therapy exemption" means an overriding of a step therapy protocol in favor of immediate coverage of a medicaid provider's selected prescription drug. (5) "Step therapy protocol" means a protocol under which it is determined through a specific sequence whether the medicaid program, under either a pharmacy or medical benefit, will pay for a prescribed drug that a medicaid provider, consistent with medical or scientific evidence, prescribes for a medicaid recipient's specified medical condition, including both self-administered and physician-administered drugs. (6) "Urgent care services" has the same meaning as in section 3922.041 of the Revised Code. (B) If the department of medicaid utilizes a step therapy protocol for the medicaid program under which it is recommended that prescribed drugs be taken in a specific sequence, the department shall do all of the following: (1) Implement that step therapy protocol using clinical review criteria that are based on clinical practice guidelines or medical or scientific evidence. The department shall take into account the needs of atypical patient populations and diagnoses when establishing clinical review criteria. (2) In a manner consistent with section 5164.7514 of the Revised Code, establish and implement a step therapy exemption process under which medicaid recipients and medicaid providers who prescribe prescribed drugs for medicaid recipients may request and receive a step therapy exemption; (3)(a) Make available, to all medicaid providers, a list of all drugs covered by the medicaid program that are subject to a step therapy protocol; (b) Along with the information required under division (B) (3)(a) of this section, the department of medicaid shall indicate what information or documentation must be provided to the department for a step therapy exemption request to be considered complete. Such information shall be provided for each drug, if the requirements vary according to the drug or protocol in question. (c) The list required under division (B)(3)(a) of this section, along with all of the required information or documentation described in division (B)(3)(b) of this section, shall be made available on the department of medicaid's web site or provider portal. (C) This section shall not be construed as requiring the department to set up a new entity to develop clinical review criteria for step therapy protocols.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.50 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.50
§ 5180.50. [Former R.C. 5101.85, amended and renumbered by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Kinship caregiver defined
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly As used in sections 5180.51 to 5180.514 of the Revised Code, "kinship caregiver" means any of the following who is eighteen years of age or older and is caring for a child in place of the child's parents: (A) The following individuals related by blood or adoption to the child: (1) Grandparents, including grandparents with the prefix "great," "great-great," or "great-great-great"; (2) Siblings; (3) Aunts, uncles, nephews, and nieces, including such relatives with the prefix "great," "great-great," "grand," or "great-grand"; (4) First cousins and first cousins once removed. (B) Stepparents and stepsiblings of the child; (C) Spouses and former spouses of individuals named in divisions (A) and (B) of this section; (D) A legal guardian of the child; (E) A legal custodian of the child; (F) Any nonrelative adult that has a familiar and long-standing relationship or bond with the child or the family, which relationship or bond will ensure the child's social ties. Last updated October 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.654 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.654
§ 5120.654. Collecting support payments
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) The rights to support assigned by an inmate pursuant to section 5120.652 of the Revised Code constitute an obligation of the person who is responsible for providing the support to the department of rehabilitation and correction for the support provided the inmate and child pursuant to the prison nursery program. The division of child support in the department of job and family services shall collect support payments made pursuant to the assignment and forward them to the department of rehabilitation and correction. (B) The department of rehabilitation and correction may receive the following: (1) Money that is assigned or donated on behalf of, and assistance provided under Ohio works first to, a specific inmate or child participating in the prison nursery program; (2) Money assigned or donated to establish and maintain the prison nursery program. (C) The amounts described in division (B)(1) of this section shall be placed in the individual nursery account created and maintained under section 5120.655 of the Revised Code for the inmate and child for whom the money was received. The money described in division (B)(2) of this section shall be deposited in the appropriate prison nursery program fund.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.52 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.52
§ 5123.52. Registry of employees guilty of abuse, neglect or misappropriation
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly (A) The department of developmental disabilities shall establish a registry of developmental disabilities employees consisting of the names of individuals included in the registry pursuant to section 5123.51 of the Revised Code. (B) Before a person or government entity hires, contracts with, or employs an individual as a developmental disabilities employee, the person or government entity shall inquire whether the individual is included in the registry. (C) When it receives an inquiry regarding whether an individual is included in the registry, the department shall inform the person making the inquiry whether the individual is included in the registry. (D)(1) Except as otherwise provided in a collective bargaining agreement entered into under Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code that is in effect on November 22, 2000, no person or government entity shall hire, contract with, or employ as a developmental disabilities employee an individual who is included in the registry. Notwithstanding sections 4117.08 and 4117.10 of the Revised Code, no agreement entered into under Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code after November 22, 2000, may contain any provision that in any way limits the effect or operation of this section. (2) Neither the department nor any county board of developmental disabilities may enter into a new contract or renew a contract with a person or government entity that fails to comply with division (D)(1) of this section until the department or board is satisfied that the person or government entity will comply. (3) A person or government entity that fails to hire or retain as a developmental disabilities employee an individual because the individual is included in the registry shall not be liable in damages in a civil action brought by the employee or applicant for employment. Termination of employment pursuant to division (D)(1) of this section constitutes a discharge for just cause for the purposes of section 4141.29 of the Revised Code. (E) Information contained in the registry is a public record for the purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code and is subject to inspection and copying under section 1347.08 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.56 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.56
§ 5180.56. [Former R.C. 5101.8812, amended and renumbered by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Inalienability of kinship benefits
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly Benefits and services provided under the kinship guardianship assistance program, extended kinship guardianship assistance program, kinship support program, and kinship permanency incentive program are inalienable whether by way of assignment, charge, or otherwise and exempt from execution, attachment, garnishment, and other like processes. Last updated October 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5107.286 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5107 / § 5107.286
§ 5107.286. Communications concerning participating student's attendance
Status: in_force

July 1, 2000 House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly Communications between the school district and the county department of job and family services concerning a participating student's attendance shall be made only through the attendance officers and assistants appointed under section 3321.14 or 3321.15 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.091 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.091
§ 5123.091. Changing purpose and use of institutions
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly The director of developmental disabilities may, by rule and with the approval of the governor, change the purpose for which any institution under the control of the department is being used. The director may designate a new or another use for the institution, provided the change of use and new designation has for its objective improvement in the classification, segregation, care, education, cure, or rehabilitation of the persons admitted.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.22
§ 5119.22. Director of behavioral health duties
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 (GA 136), Senate Bill 138 (GA 136) The director of behavioral health, with respect to all mental health and addiction facilities, addiction services, mental health services, and recovery supports established and operated or provided under Chapter 340. of the Revised Code, shall do all of the following: (A) Adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter and Chapters 340. and 5122. of the Revised Code; (B) Review and evaluate the community-based continuum of care required by section 340.032 of the Revised Code to be established in each service district, taking into account the findings and recommendations of the board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services of the district submitted under division (A)(4) of section 340.03 of the Revised Code and the priorities and plans of the department of behavioral health, including the needs of residents of the district currently receiving services in state-operated hospitals, and make recommendations for needed improvements to boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services; (C) At the director's discretion, provide to boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services state or federal funds, in addition to those allocated under section 5119.23 of the Revised Code, for special programs or projects the director considers necessary but for which local funds are not available; (D)(1) Establish criteria to be taken into account by each board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services when it conducts program audits under section 340.03 of the Revised Code to review and evaluate the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of the facility services, addiction services, mental health services, and recovery supports for which it contracts under section 340.036 of the Revised Code. The criteria shall include requirements ensuring appropriate utilization of the services and supports. The department shall assess each board's evaluation of the services and supports and the compliance of each board with this section, Chapter 340. of the Revised Code, and other state or federal law and regulations. (2) The department, in cooperation with the board, periodically shall review and evaluate the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of both of the following: (a) The facility services, addiction services, mental health services, and recovery supports for which each board contracts under section 340.036 of the Revised Code; (b) The facilities, addiction services, and mental health services that each board operates or provides under section 340.037 of the Revised Code. The department shall collect information that is necessary to perform its review and evaluation. (E) Issue guidelines to be followed by each board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services when it reviews under division (A)(6) of section 340.03 of the Revised Code any annual financial audit reports submitted to the board by community addiction services providers and community mental health services providers; (F) To the extent the director determines necessary and after consulting with boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services, community addiction services providers, and community mental health services providers, develop and operate, or contract for the operation of, a community behavioral health information system or systems. The department shall specify the information that must be provided by the boards and providers for inclusion in the system or systems. Boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services, community addiction services providers, and community mental health services providers shall submit information requested by the department in the form and manner and in accordance with time frames prescribed by the department. Information collected by the department may include all of the following: (1) Information on addiction services, mental health services, and recovery supports provided; (2) Financial information regarding expenditures of federal, state, or local funds; (3) Information about persons served. The department shall not collect any personal information from the boards or providers except as required or permitted by state or federal law for purposes related to payment, health care operations, program and service evaluation, reporting activities, research, system administration, and oversight. (G) In consultation with representatives of boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services and after consideration of recommendations made by the medical director appointed under section 5119.11 of the Revised Code, establish all of the following: (1) Guidelines, including a timetable, for the boards' development and submission of proposed community addiction and mental health plans, budgets, and lists of addiction services, mental health services, and recovery supports under sections 340.03 and 340.08 of the Revised Code; (2) Procedures, including a timetable, for the director's review and approval or disapproval of the plans, budgets, and lists; (3) Procedures for corrective action regarding the plans, budgets, and lists, including submission of revised or new plans, budgets, and lists; (4) Procedures for the director to follow in offering technical assistance to boards to assist them in making the plans, budgets, and lists acceptable or in making proposed amendments to approved plans, budgets, and lists meet criteria for approval; (5) Procedures for issuing time-limited waivers under section 5119.221 of the Revised Code. (H) Review each board's proposed community addiction and mental health plan, budget, and list of addiction services, mental health services, and recovery supports submitted pursuant to sections 340.03 and 340.08 of the Revised Code and approve or disapprove the plan, the budget, and the list in whole or in part. The director shall disapprove a board's proposed budget in whole or in part if the proposed budget would not make available in the board's service district the essential elements of the community-based continuum of care required by section 340.032 of the Revised Code, including, except as otherwise authorized by a time-limited waiver issued under section 5119.221 of the Revised Code, an array of addiction services and recovery supports for all levels of opioid and co-occurring drug addiction. Prior to a final decision to disapprove a plan, budget, or list in whole or in part, a representative of the director shall meet with the board and discuss the reason for the action the director proposes to take and any corrective action that should be taken to make the plan, budget, or list acceptable to the director. In addition, the director shall offer technical assistance to the board to assist it to make the plan, budget, or list acceptable. The director shall give the board a reasonable time in which to revise the plan, budget, or list. The board thereafter shall submit a revised plan, budget, or list or a new plan, budget, or list. (I) Approve or disapprove all or part of proposed amendments that a board of alcohol, drug addiction, or mental health services submits under section 340.03 or 340.08 of the Revised Code to an approved community addiction and mental health plan, budget, or list of addiction services, mental health services, and recovery supports. If the director disapproves of all or part of any proposed amendment, the director shall provide the board an opportunity to present its position. The director shall inform the board of the reasons for the disapproval and of the criteria that must be met before the proposed amendment may be approved. The director shall give the board a reasonable time within which to meet the criteria and shall offer technical assistance to the board to help it meet the criteria. The Legislative Service Commission presents the text of this section as a composite of the section as amended by multiple acts of the General Assembly. This presentation recognizes the principle stated in R.C. 1.52(B) that amendments are to be harmonized if reasonably capable of simultaneous operation. Last updated August 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5168.54 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5168 / § 5168.54
§ 5168.54. Nursing home franchise permit fee fund
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the nursing home franchise permit fee fund. All payments and penalties paid by nursing homes and hospitals under sections 5168.47 , 5168.48 , and 5168.51 of the Revised Code shall be deposited into the fund. The fund shall also consist of money deposited into it pursuant to sections 3769.08 and 3769.26 of the Revised Code. Subject to division (B) of section 3769.08 of the Revised Code, the department of medicaid shall use the money in the fund to make medicaid payments to providers of nursing facility services and providers of home and community-based services, and to fund expanding the state ombudsman long-term care program and resident and family surveys at the department of aging, the addition of surveyors at the department of health, and to fund quality and consumer information resources. Money in the fund may also be used for the residential state supplement program established under section 5119.41 of the Revised Code. (B) Any money remaining in the nursing home franchise permit fee fund after payments specified in division (A) of this section are made shall be retained in the fund. Any interest or other investment proceeds earned on money in the fund shall be credited to the fund and used to make medicaid payments in accordance with division (A) of this section. Last updated September 5, 2023 at 3:42 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5149.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5149 / § 5149.04
§ 5149.04. Field services section
Status: in_force

March 31, 2003 House Bill 510 - 124th General Assembly (A) Persons paroled, conditionally pardoned, or released to community supervision shall be under jurisdiction of the adult parole authority and shall be supervised by the field services section through its staff of parole and field officers in such manner as to insure as nearly as possible the offender's rehabilitation while at the same time providing maximum protection to the general public. All state and local officials shall furnish such information to officers of the section as they may request in the performance of their duties. (B) The superintendent, or superintendents, of the field services section shall be a person, or persons, especially qualified by training and experience in the field of corrections. The superintendent, or superintendents, shall supervise the work of the section and shall formulate and execute an effective program of offender supervision. The superintendent, or superintendents, shall collect and preserve any records and statistics with respect to offenders that are required by the chief of the authority. The section also shall include other personnel who are necessary for the performance of the section's duties. No person shall be appointed as a superintendent who is not qualified by education or experience in correctional work including law enforcement, probation, or parole work, in law, in social work, or in a combination of the three categories. (C) The superintendent, or superintendents, of the field services section, with the approval of the chief of the authority, may establish district offices for the section and may assign necessary parole and field officers and clerical staff to the district offices. (D) The field services section in the exercise of its supervision over offenders and persons conditionally pardoned shall carry out all lawful orders, terms, and conditions prescribed by the authority, the chief of the division of parole and community services, or the governor.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5124.106 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5124 / § 5124.106
§ 5124.106. Failure to timely file report; consequences
Status: in_force

September 15, 2014 House Bill 483 - 130th General Assembly (A) If an ICF/IID provider required by section 5124.10 of the Revised Code to file a cost report for the ICF/IID fails to file the cost report by the date it is due or the date, if any, to which the due date is extended pursuant to division (E) of that section, or files an incomplete or inadequate report for the ICF/IID under that section, the department of developmental disabilities shall do both of the following: (1) Give written notice to the provider that the provider agreement for the ICF/IID will be terminated in thirty days unless the provider submits a complete and adequate cost report for the ICF/IID within thirty days; (2) Reduce the per medicaid day payment rate for the provider's ICF/IID by the amount specified in division (B) of this section for the period of time specified in division (C) of this section. (B) For the purpose of division (A)(2) of this section, an ICF/IID's per medicaid day payment rate shall be reduced by the following amount: (1) In the case of a reduction made during the period beginning on the effective date of this amendment and ending on the first day of the first fiscal year beginning after the effective date of this amendment, two dollars; (2) In the case of a reduction made during the first fiscal year beginning after the effective date of this amendment and each fiscal year thereafter, the amount of the reduction in effect on the last day of the fiscal year immediately preceding the fiscal year in which the reduction is made adjusted by the rate of inflation during that immediately preceding fiscal year, as shown in the consumer price index for all items for all urban consumers for the midwest region, published by the United States bureau of labor statistics. (C) The period of time that an ICF/IID's per medicaid day payment rate is reduced under this section shall begin and end as follows: (1) The period shall begin on the following date: (a) The day immediately following the date the cost report is due or to which the due date is extended, as applicable, if the reduction is made because the provider fails to file a cost report by that date; (b) The day the department gives the provider written notice under division (A)(1) of this section of the proposed provider agreement termination, if the reduction is made because the provider files an incomplete or inadequate cost report. (2) The period shall end on the last day of the thirty-day period specified in the notice given under division (A)(1) of this section or any additional period allowed for an appeal of the proposed provider agreement termination.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.86 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.86
§ 5101.86. Adult emergency assistance program
Status: in_force

June 30, 1999 House Bill 283 - 123rd General Assembly (A) As used in this section, poverty guideline means the official poverty guideline as revised annually by the United States secretary of health and human services in accordance with section 673 of the Community Services Block Grant Act, 95 Stat. 511 (1981), 42 U.S.C.A. 9902, as amended, for a family size equal to the size of the family of the person whose income is being determined. (B) The department of human services shall establish the adult emergency assistance program with funds appropriated by the general assembly. Funds appropriated for the program shall be used to assist persons eligible for the program with emergency needs, including food, clothing, shelter, and other essential goods or services. The funds shall be used for direct payments to, or on behalf of, eligible persons. A person is eligible for the program if the person meets all of the following requirements: (1) The person is at least eighteen years of age; (2) The person is not a parent residing with the parent's child; (3) The person does not have income greater than forty per cent of the poverty guideline, unless the person is sixty-five years of age or older and receiving supplemental security income under Title XVI of the Social Security Act, 86 Stat. 1475 (1972), 42 U.S.C.A. 1383, as amended. (C) As soon as possible after the start of each fiscal year, the department shall distribute, in a single payment, the funds appropriated that fiscal year for the program to the Ohio state set-aside committee of the federal emergency management agency or to a fiscal agent designated by the committee. The committee shall determine the amount of the appropriation to be allocated to each county, and the committee or its fiscal agent shall distribute the allocations to the counties. Each county's allocation shall be paid to a nonprofit entity that serves as the county's emergency food and shelter board or to a fiscal agent designated by the entity. If an entity serves as the emergency food and shelter board for more than one county, the allocation for each of those counties shall be paid to that entity. The committee may reallocate funds during a fiscal year based on its determination of local needs and expenditures. The committee or its fiscal agent may use up to three per cent of the amount appropriated for a fiscal year for administrative expenses. The committee may allow any county entity receiving funds under this section, the entity's fiscal agent, or an entity designated by the county entity to use up to four per cent of the county's allocation for administrative expenses. (D) If any local entity returns unexpended funds for the program to the committee, the committee shall return the funds to the department. The department shall seek approval from the controlling board to transfer the unexpended funds to increase that fiscal year's appropriation for the program. If the controlling board approves the increase, the department shall distribute the increased appropriation to the committee or its fiscal agent. The committee may allocate, distribute, and reallocate the additional funds in the same manner as other funds appropriated that fiscal year for the program. (E) Each entity receiving funds under this section shall report to the committee, in the form and manner required by the committee, information regarding the entity's use of the funds. The committee shall compile the information received from these reports and provide it to the department and the general assembly. The committee shall provide the department and the general assembly with the information no later than the thirtieth day of September of each fiscal year.