Ohio Rev. Code § 126.67 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 126 / § 126.67
§ 126.67. Targeted addiction assistance fund
Status: in_force

November 25, 2025 House Bill 434 - 136th General Assembly (A) The targeted addiction assistance fund is created in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of money awarded to the state by court order that is intended to address the effects of the opioid crisis. (B) Beginning January 15, 2027, any money received under the settlement agreements in cases brought by the attorney general to recompense for damages to the state caused by the opioid crisis shall be certified by the attorney general and remitted to the office of budget and management for deposit in the fund, including, but not limited to, the following cases: (1) State of Ohio v. McKesson Corp., et al., Madison C.P. No. CVH20180055 (settlement agreement of October 7, 2021); (2) State of Ohio v. CVS Health Corporation., et al., Franklin C.P. No. 24CV000387 (settlement agreement of December 9, 2022); (3) State of Ohio v. Purdue Pharma L.P., et al., Ross C.P. No. CV-17 CI000261 (settlement agreement of July 21, 2021); (4) Any other case brought or joined by the attorney general to recompense for damages to the state by the opioid crisis. (C) The director of budget and management shall notify the speaker of the house of representatives, the president of the senate, and the chairpersons of the finance committees of the house of representatives and senate when money is deposited into the fund. Last updated January 6, 2026 at 4:17 PM Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 102.021 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 102 / § 102.021
§ 102.021. Former state officials to report certain financial information
Status: in_force

October 17, 2019 House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly (A)(1) For the twenty-four-month period immediately following the end of the former state elected officer's or staff member's service or public employment, except as provided in division (B) or (D) of this section, each former state elected officer or staff member who filed or was required to file a disclosure statement under section 102.02 of the Revised Code shall file, on or before the deadlines specified in division (D) of this section, with the joint legislative ethics committee a statement that shall include the information described in divisions (A)(2), (3), (4), and (5) of this section, as applicable. The statement shall be filed on a form and in the manner specified by the joint legislative ethics committee. This division does not apply to a state elected officer or staff member who filed or was required to file a disclosure statement under section 102.02 of the Revised Code, who leaves service or public employment, and who takes another position as a state elected officer or staff member who files or is required to file a disclosure statement under that section. No person shall fail to file, on or before the deadlines specified in division (D) of this section, a statement that is required by this division. (2) The statement referred to in division (A)(1) of this section shall describe the source of all income received, in the former state elected officer's or staff member's own name or by any other person for the person's use or benefit, and briefly describe the nature of the services for which the income was received if the source of the income was any of the following: (a) An executive agency lobbyist or a legislative agent; (b) The employer of an executive agency lobbyist or legislative agent, except that this division does not apply if the employer is any state agency or political subdivision of the state; (c) Any entity, association, or business that, at any time during the two immediately preceding calendar years, was awarded one or more contracts by one or more state agencies that in the aggregate had a value of one hundred thousand dollars or more, or bid on one or more contracts to be awarded by one or more state agencies that in the aggregate had a value of one hundred thousand dollars or more. (3) If the former state elected officer or staff member received no income as described in division (A)(2) of this section, the statement referred to in division (A)(1) of this section shall indicate that fact. (4) If the former state elected officer or staff member directly or indirectly made, either separately or in combination with another, any expenditure or gift for transportation, lodging, or food or beverages to, at the request of, for the benefit of, or on behalf of any public officer or employee, and if the former state elected officer or staff member would be required to report the expenditure or gift in a statement under sections 101.70 to 101.79 or sections 121.60 to 121.69 of the Revised Code, whichever is applicable, if the former state elected officer or staff member was a legislative agent or executive agency lobbyist at the time the expenditure or gift was made, the statement referred to in division (A)(1) of this section shall include all information relative to that gift or expenditure that would be required in a statement under sections 101.70 to 101.79 or sections 121.60 to 121.69 of the Revised Code if the former state elected officer or staff member was a legislative agent or executive agency lobbyist at the time the expenditure or gift was made. (5) If the former state elected officer or staff member made no expenditure or gift as described in division (A)(4) of this section, the statement referred to in division (A)(1) of this section shall indicate that fact. (B) If, at any time during the twenty-four-month period immediately following the end of the former state elected officer's or staff member's service or public employment, a former state elected officer or staff member who filed or was required to file a disclosure statement under section 102.02 of the Revised Code becomes a legislative agent or an executive agency lobbyist, the former state elected officer or staff member shall comply with all registration and filing requirements set forth in sections 101.70 to 101.79 or sections 121.60 to 121.69 of the Revised Code, whichever is applicable, and, the former state elected officer or staff member also shall file a statement under division (A)(1) of this section except that the statement filed under division (A)(1) of this section does not need to include information regarding any income source, expenditure, or gift to the extent that that information was included in any registration or statement filed under sections 101.70 to 101.79 or sections 121.60 to 121.69 of the Revised Code. (C) Except as otherwise provided in this division, division (A)(2) of this section applies to attorneys, physicians, and other persons who engage in the practice of a profession and who, pursuant to a section of the Revised Code, the common law of this state, a code of ethics applicable to the profession, or otherwise, generally are required not to reveal, disclose, or use confidences of clients, patients, or other recipients of professional services except under specified circumstances or generally are required to maintain those types of confidences as privileged communications except under specified circumstances. Division (A)(2) of this section does not require an attorney, physician, or other professional subject to a confidentiality requirement as described in this division to disclose the name, other identity, or address of a client, patient, or other recipient of professional services if the disclosure would threaten the client, patient, or other recipient of professional services, would reveal details of the subject matter for which legal, medical, or professional advice or other services were sought, or would reveal an otherwise privileged communication involving the client, patient, or other recipient of professional services. Division (A)(2) of this section does not require an attorney, physician, or other professional subject to a confidentiality requirement as described in this division to disclose in the brief description of the nature of services required by division (A)(2) of this section any information pertaining to specific professional services rendered for a client, patient, or other recipient of professional services that would reveal details of the subject matter for which legal, medical, or professional advice was sought or would reveal an otherwise privileged communication involving the client, patient, or other recipient of professional services. (D)(1) Each state elected officer or staff member who filed or was required to file a disclosure statement under section 102.02 of the Revised Code and who leaves public service or public employment shall file an initial statement under division (A)(1) of this section not later than the day on which the former state elected officer or staff member leaves public service or public employment. The initial statement shall specify whether the person will, or will not, receive any income from a source described in division (A)(2)(a), (b), or (c) of this section. If a person files an initial statement under this division that states that the person will receive income from a source described in division (A)(2)(a), (b), or (c) of this section, the person is required to file statements under division (A)(2), (3), (4), or (5) of this section at the times specified in division (D)(2) of this section. If a person files an initial statement under this division that states that the person will not receive income from a source described in division (A)(2)(a), (b), or (c) of this section, except as otherwise provided in this division, the person is not required to file statements under division (A)(2), (4), or (5) of this section or to file subsequent statements under division (A)(3) of this section. If a person files an initial statement under this division that states that the person will not receive income from a source described in division (A)(2)(a), (b), or (c) of this section, and, subsequent to the filing of that initial statement, the person receives any income from a source described in division (A)(2)(a), (b), or (c) of this section, the person within ten days shall file a statement under division (A)(2) of this section that contains the information described in that division, and the person thereafter shall file statements under division (A)(2), (3), (4), or (5) of this section at the times specified in division (D)(2) of this section. (2) After the filing of the initial statement under division (D)(1) of this section, each person required to file a statement under division (A)(2), (3), (4), or (5) of this section shall file it on or before the last calendar day of January, May, and September. The statements described in divisions (A)(2), (3), and (5) of this section shall relate to the sources of income the person received in the immediately preceding filing period from each source of income in each of the categories listed in division (A)(2) of this section. The statement described in division (A)(4) of this section shall include any information required to be reported regarding expenditures and gifts of the type described in division (A)(4) of this section occurring since the filing of the immediately preceding statement. If, pursuant to this division, a person files a statement under division (A)(2) of this section, the person is required to file statements under division (A)(4) of this section, and subsequent statements under division (A)(2), (3), or (5) of this section, at the times specified in this division. In addition, if, subsequent to the filing of the statement under division (A)(2) of this section, the person receives any income from a source described in division (A)(2)(a), (b), or (c) of this section that was not listed on the statement filed under division (A)(2) of this section, the person within ten days shall file a statement under division (A)(2) of this section that contains the information described in that division regarding the new income source. If, pursuant to this division, a person files a statement under division (A)(3) of this section, except as otherwise provided in this division, the person thereafter is not required to file statements under division (A)(2), (4), or (5) of this section, or to file subsequent statements under division (A)(3) of this section. If, subsequent to the filing of the statement under division (A)(3) of this section, the person receives any income from a source described in division (A)(2)(a), (b), or (c) of this section, the person within ten days shall file a statement under division (A)(2) of this section that contains the information described in that division regarding the new income source, and the person thereafter shall file statements under division (A)(4) of this section, and subsequent statements under division (A)(2) or (3) of this section, at the times specified in this division. (3) No fee shall be required for filing a statement under this section, except that the joint legislative ethics committee may charge late fees in the same manner as specified in division (G) of section 101.72 of the Revised Code. (E) Any state elected officer or staff member who filed or was required to file a disclosure statement under section 102.02 of the Revised Code and who leaves public service or public employment shall provide a forwarding address to the officer's or staff member's last employer, and the employer shall provide the person's name and address to the joint legislative ethics committee. The former elected state officer or staff member shall provide updated forwarding addresses as necessary to the joint legislative ethics committee during the twenty-four-month period during which division (A)(1) of this section applies. The public agency or appointing authority that was the last employer of a person required to file a statement under division (A)(2) of this section shall furnish to the person a copy of the form needed to complete the initial statement required under division (D)(1) of this section. (F) During the twenty-four-month period immediately following the end of the former state elected officer's or staff member's service or public employment, no person required to file a statement under this section shall receive from a source described in division (A)(2)(a), (b), or (c) of this section, and no source described in division (A)(2)(a), (b), or (c) of this section shall pay to that person, any compensation that is contingent in any way upon the introduction, modification, passage, or defeat of any legislation or the outcome of any executive agency decision. (G) As used in this section "state elected officer or staff member" means any elected officer of this state, any staff, as defined in section 101.70 of the Revised Code, or any staff, as defined in section 121.60 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 113.041 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 113 / § 113.041
§ 113.041. Employee criminal records check
Status: in_force

March 24, 2008 House Bill 104 - 127th General Assembly (A) The treasurer of state may require an individual who applies for employment with, or is employed by, the treasurer of state's office to undergo a criminal records check conducted by the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation in accordance with section 109.572 of the Revised Code. If, pursuant to this division, the treasurer of state requires an individual to undergo a criminal records check, the treasurer of state shall request the superintendent to conduct a criminal records check with respect to the individual in accordance with that section. In the request, the treasurer of state may request that the superintendent obtain information from the federal bureau of investigation about the individual who is the subject of the check. The treasurer of state also may request that the superintendent as part of the criminal records check request criminal history records of the individual from other states or the federal government pursuant to the national crime prevention and privacy compact set forth in section 109.571 of the Revised Code. (B) The treasurer of state shall provide to each individual required pursuant to division (A) of this section to undergo a criminal records check a copy of the form prescribed pursuant to division (C)(1) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code and a standard impression sheet to obtain fingerprint impressions prescribed pursuant to division (C)(2) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code, obtain the completed form and impression sheet from the individual, and forward the completed form and impression sheet to the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation at the time the criminal records check is requested. Any individual subject to a criminal records check pursuant to this section who receives pursuant to this division a copy of the form prescribed pursuant to division (C)(1) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code and a copy of an impression sheet prescribed pursuant to division (C)(2) of that section and who is requested to complete the form and provide a set of fingerprint impressions shall complete the form or provide all the information necessary to complete the form and shall provide the impression sheet with the impressions of the individual's fingerprints. (C)(1) The treasurer of state may deny employment to or terminate the employment of an individual who is the subject of a criminal records check conducted pursuant to a request made under division (A) of this section if either of the following applies: (a) The individual fails to do any of the following: (i) Complete the form prescribed pursuant to division (C)(1) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code; (ii) Provide a set of the individual's fingerprint impressions on the standard impression sheet prescribed pursuant to division (C)(2) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code. (b) The individual has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any offense involving or relating to fraud, deceit, or theft. (2) In determining whether to take any employment action, up to and including termination, with respect to an individual who is a current employee for the reason listed in division (C)(1)(b) of this section, the treasurer of state shall afford the current employee a due process review. In a review under this division, the treasurer of state shall consider all of the following factors: (a) The current employee's age at the time of the offense; (b) The nature and seriousness of the offense; (c) The circumstances under which the offense was committed; (d) The degree to which the current employee participated in the offense; (e) The time elapsed since the current employee was fully discharged from imprisonment or probation for the offense, if the person was sentenced to imprisonment or placed on probation for it, or since the current employee was fully discharged from any other sanction or penalty imposed for the offense; (f) The likelihood that the circumstances leading to the offense will recur; (g) Whether the current employee is a repeat offender; (h) The current employee's employment record with the treasurer of state; (i) The current employee's efforts at rehabilitation and the results of those efforts; (j) Whether at the time of the review, any criminal proceedings are pending against the current employee; (k) Whether the current employee has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any felony or misdemeanor offense set forth in the Revised Code that is not listed in division (C)(1)(b) of this section and that bears a direct and substantial relationship to the duties and responsibilities of the position the current employee holds in the office of the treasurer of state; (l) Any other extenuating circumstances relating to the current employee or the offense. (3) If the treasurer of state conducts a review under division (C)(2) of this section, the treasurer of state shall prepare a written report of the review and shall provide a copy of the written report to the current employee who is the subject of the review. (D) The treasurer of state shall pay to the bureau of criminal identification and investigation the fee prescribed pursuant to division (C)(3) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code for each criminal records check conducted in accordance with that section upon a request pursuant to division (A) of this section. The treasurer of state may charge the individual subject to the criminal records check a fee for the costs the treasurer of state incurs in obtaining the criminal records check. A fee charged under this division shall not exceed the amount of fees the treasurer of state pays for the criminal records check. If a fee is charged under this division, the treasurer of state shall notify the individual who is the subject of the criminal records check of the fee and that the individual is required to pay the fee. (E) The report of any criminal records check conducted by the bureau of criminal identification and investigation in accordance with section 109.572 of the Revised Code and pursuant to a request made under division (A) of this section is not a public record for the purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code and shall not be made available to any person other than the individual who is the subject of the criminal records check or the individual's representative; the treasurer of state or the treasurer of state's representative; and any court, hearing officer, or other necessary individual involved in a case dealing with the denial or termination of employment. (F) Nothing in this section precludes, or shall be construed as precluding, any of the following: (1) Any public official other than the treasurer of state from conducting or having conducted a criminal records check of any individual, in any manner authorized under law; (2) The treasurer of state from conducting or having conducted a criminal records check other than in accordance with this section, in any manner otherwise authorized under law. (G) As used in this section: (1) "Criminal records check" has the same meaning as in section 109.572 of the Revised Code. (2) "Public official" has the same meaning as in section 2921.01 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 125.14 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 125 / § 125.14
§ 125.14. Investment recovery fund - recycled materials fund
Status: in_force

September 30, 2021 House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly (A) The director of administrative services shall allocate any proceeds from the transfer, sale, or lease of excess and surplus supplies in the following manner: (1) Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(2) or (3) of this section, the proceeds of such a transfer, sale, or lease shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the investment recovery fund, which is hereby created. (2) Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(2) of this section, when supplies originally were purchased with funds from nongeneral revenue fund sources, the director shall determine what fund or account originally was used to purchase the supplies, and the credit for the proceeds from any transfer, sale, or lease of those supplies shall be transferred to that fund or account. If the director cannot determine which fund or account originally was used to purchase the supplies, if the fund or account is no longer active, or if the proceeds from the transfer, sale, or lease of a unit of supplies are less than one hundred dollars or any larger amount the director may establish with the approval of the director of budget and management, then the proceeds from the transfer, sale, or lease of such supplies shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the investment recovery fund. (3) In accordance with division (H)(2) of section 125.832 of the Revised Code, when vehicles originally were purchased with moneys derived from the general revenue fund, the proceeds shall be deposited, in the director's discretion, into the state treasury to the credit of either the fleet management fund created by section 125.83 of the Revised Code or to the credit of the investment recovery fund created by this section. Any such proceeds deposited into the state treasury to the credit of the investment recovery fund may be transferred from the investment recovery fund to the fleet management fund. (B) The investment recovery fund shall be used to pay for the operating expenses of the state surplus property program and of the federal surplus property program described in sections 125.84 to 125.90 of the Revised Code. Any amounts in excess of these operating expenses shall periodically be transferred to the general revenue fund of the state. If proceeds paid into the investment recovery fund are insufficient to pay for the program's operating expenses, a service fee may be charged to state agencies to eliminate the deficit. (C) Proceeds from the sale of recyclable goods and materials shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the recycled materials fund, which is hereby created, except that the director of environmental protection, upon request, may grant an exemption from this requirement. The director shall administer the fund for the benefit of recycling programs in state agencies. Last updated July 30, 2021 at 3:51 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 101.90 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 101 / § 101.90
§ 101.90. Retirement system lobbyists and employers - definitions
Status: in_force

September 15, 2004 Senate Bill 133 - 125th General Assembly As used in sections 101.90 to 101.99 of the Revised Code: (A) "Person" and "compensation" have the same meanings as in section 101.70 of the Revised Code. (B) "Expenditure" means any of the following that is made to, at the request of, for the benefit of, or on behalf of a state retirement system, a member of the board of a state retirement system, a state retirement system investment official, or an employee of a state retirement system whose position involves substantial and material exercise of discretion in the investment of retirement system funds: (1) A payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit, reimbursement, or gift of money, real estate, or anything of value, including, but not limited to food and beverages and entertainment; (2) A contract, promise, or agreement to make an expenditure, whether or not legally enforceable; (3) The purchase, sale, or gift of services or any other thing of value. "Expenditure" does not include a contribution, gift, or grant to a foundation or other charitable organization that is exempt from federal income taxation under subsection 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. "Expenditure" does not include the purchase, sale, or gift of services or any other thing of value that is available to the general public on the same terms as it is available to the persons listed in this division, or an offer or sale of securities to any person listed in this division that is governed by regulation D, 17 C.F.R. 2301.501 to 2301.508, adopted under the authority of the "Securities Act of 1933," 48 Stat. 74, 15 U.S.C.A. and following, or that is governed by a comparable provision under state law. (C) "Employer" means any person who, directly or indirectly, engages a retirement system lobbyist. (D) "Engage" means to make any arrangement, and "engagement" means arrangement, whereby an individual is employed or retained for compensation to act for or on behalf of an employer to influence retirement system decisions or to conduct any retirement system lobbying activity. (E) "Financial transaction" means a transaction or activity that is conducted or undertaken for profit and arises from the joint ownership or the ownership or part ownership in common of any real or personal property or any commercial or business enterprise of whatever form or nature between the following: (1) A retirement system lobbyist, the retirement system lobbyist's employer, or a member of the immediate family of the retirement system lobbyist or the retirement system lobbyist's employer; and (2) A state retirement system, a member of a board of a state retirement system, a state retirement system investment official, or an employee of a state retirement system whose position involves substantial and material exercise of discretion in the investment of retirement system funds. "Financial transaction" does not include any transaction or activity described in division (E) of this section if it is available to the general public on the same terms, or if it is an offer or sale of securities to any person listed in division (E)(2) of this section that is governed by regulation D, 17 C.F.R. 2301.501 to 2301.508, adopted under the authority of the "Securities Act of 1933," 48 Stat. 74, 15 U.S.C.A. and following, or that is governed by a comparable provision under state law. (F) "Retirement system" means the public employees retirement system, Ohio police and fire pension fund, state teachers retirement system, school employees retirement system, and state highway patrol retirement system. (G) "Retirement system decision" means a decision of a retirement system regarding the investment of retirement system funds. "Retirement system decision" includes the decision by a board of a retirement system to award a contract to an agent or an investment manager. (H) "Retirement system lobbyist" means any person engaged to influence retirement system decisions or to conduct retirement system lobbying activity as one of the person's main purposes on a regular and substantial basis. "Retirement system lobbyist" does not include an elected or appointed officer or employee of a federal or state agency, or political subdivision who attempts to influence or affect executive agency decisions in a fiduciary capacity as a representative of the officer's or employee's agency or political subdivision. (I) "Retirement system lobbying activity" means contacts made to promote, oppose, reward, or otherwise influence the outcome of a retirement system decision by direct communication with a member of a board of a state retirement system, a state retirement system investment official, or an employee of a state retirement system whose position involves substantial and material exercise of discretion in the investment of retirement system funds. "Lobbying activity" does not include any of the following: (1) The action of any person having a direct interest in retirement system decisions who, under Section 3 of Article I, Ohio Constitution, assembles together with other persons to consult for their common good, instructs a person listed in the first paragraph of division (I) of this section, or petitions such a person for the redress of grievances; (2) Contacts made for the sole purpose of gathering information contained in a public record; (3) Appearances before a retirement system to give testimony. (J) "Retirement system official" means an officer or employee of a retirement system whose principal duties are to formulate policy or to participate directly or indirectly in the preparation, review, or award of financial arrangements with a retirement system. (K) "Aggrieved party" means a party entitled to resort to a remedy. (L) "Staff" means an employee of a retirement system whose position involves substantial and material exercise of discretion in the investment of retirement system funds and who is required under section 102.02 of the Revised Code to file a disclosure statement with the Ohio ethics commission.
Ohio Rev. Code § 124.84 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 124 / § 124.84
§ 124.84. Long-term care insurance - state employees
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) The department of administrative services, in consultation with the superintendent of insurance and subject to division (D) of this section, may negotiate and contract with one or more insurance companies or health insuring corporations authorized to operate or do business in this state for the purchase of a policy of long-term care insurance covering all state employees who are paid directly by warrant of the director of budget and management, including elected state officials. Any policy purchased under this division shall be negotiated and entered into in accordance with the competitive selection procedures specified in Chapter 125. of the Revised Code. As used in this section, "long-term care insurance" has the same meaning as in section 3923.41 of the Revised Code. (B) Any elected state official or state employee paid directly by warrant of the director of budget and management may elect to participate in any long-term care insurance policy purchased under division (A) of this section. All or any portion of the premium charged may be paid by the state. Participation in the policy may include the dependents and family members of the elected state official or state employee. If a participant in a long-term care insurance policy leaves employment, the participant and the participant's dependents and family members may, at their election, continue to participate in a policy established under this section. The manner of payment and the portion of premium charged the participant, dependent, and family member shall be established pursuant to division (E) of this section. (C) Any long-term care insurance policy purchased under this section or section 124.841 or 145.581 of the Revised Code shall provide for all of the following with respect to the premiums charged for the policy: (1) They shall be set at the entry age of the official or employee when first covered by the policy and shall not increase except as a class during coverage under the policy. (2) They shall be based on the class of all officials or employees covered by the policy. (3) They shall continue, pursuant to section 145.581 of the Revised Code, after the retirement of the official or employee who is covered under the policy, at the rate in effect on the date of the official's or employee's retirement. (D) Prior to entering into a contract with an insurance company or health insuring corporation for the purchase of a long-term care insurance policy under this section, the department shall request the superintendent of insurance to certify the financial condition of the company or corporation. The department shall not enter into the contract if, according to that certification, the company or corporation is insolvent, is determined by the superintendent to be potentially unable to fulfill its contractual obligations, or is placed under an order of rehabilitation or conservation by a court of competent jurisdiction or under an order of supervision by the superintendent. (E) The department shall adopt rules in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code governing long-term care insurance purchased under this section. All or any portion of the premium charged the participants, dependents, and family members shall be paid in such manner or combination of manners as the department determines.
Ohio Rev. Code § 173.50 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 173 / § 173.50
§ 173.50. PACE administration
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) Pursuant to a contract entered into with the department of medicaid as an interagency agreement under section 5162.35 of the Revised Code, the department of aging shall carry out the day-to-day administration of the component of the medicaid program known as the program of all-inclusive care for the elderly or PACE. The department of aging shall carry out its PACE administrative duties in accordance with the provisions of the interagency agreement and all applicable federal laws, including the "Social Security Act," section 1934, 42 U.S.C. 1396u-4. (B) To the extent authorized by rules authorized by section 5162.021 of the Revised Code, the director of aging may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code regarding the PACE program, including rules establishing priorities for enrolling in the program pursuant to sections 173.501 and 173.503 of the Revised Code. The rules shall address only those issues that are not addressed in rules adopted by the medicaid director for the PACE program. Last updated July 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 154.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 154 / § 154.07
§ 154.07. Contents of obligations
Status: in_force

September 29, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly For the respective purposes provided in sections 154.20 , 154.21 , 154.22 , 154.23 , 154.24 , and 154.25 of the Revised Code, the issuing authority may issue obligations of the state of Ohio as provided in Chapter 154. of the Revised Code, provided that the holders or owners of obligations shall have no right to have excises or taxes levied by the general assembly for the payment of the bond service charges. The right of holders and owners to payment of bond service charges shall be limited to the revenues or receipts and funds pledged thereto in accordance with Chapter 154. of the Revised Code, and each obligation shall bear on its face a statement to that effect. Chapter 154. of the Revised Code does not permit, and no provision of that chapter shall be applied to authorize or grant, a pledge of charges for the treatment or care of mental hygiene and retardation patients to bond service charges on obligations other than those issued for capital facilities for mental hygiene and retardation, or a pledge of any receipts of or on behalf of state supported or state assisted institutions of higher education to bond service charges on obligations other than those issued for capital facilities for state supported or state assisted institutions of higher education, or a pledge of receipts with respect to parks and recreation to bond service charges on obligations other than those issued for capital facilities for parks and recreation, or a pledge of revenues or receipts received by or on behalf of any state agency to bond service charges on obligations other than those issued for capital facilities which are in whole or in part useful to, constructed by, or financed by the state agency that receives the revenues or receipts so pledged.
Ohio Rev. Code § 133.31 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 133 / § 133.31
§ 133.31. Delivering securities
Status: in_force

October 30, 1989 House Bill 230 - 118th General Assembly (A) Unless otherwise provided in the proceedings, a subdivision that sells an issue of securities shall deliver the securities for payment within the state to the purchaser, or to a bank or trust company or other agent of the purchaser designated by the purchaser, without charge to the purchaser. The subdivision may agree to deliver the securities to any other place at the request of the purchaser, at the expense of the purchaser unless otherwise provided in the proceedings for sale. The expense of delivery to be paid by the subdivision shall not be considered in determining the best bid for securities sold at public sale. (B) The subdivision or its paying agent or registrar shall not deduct any amount from the debt charges payable on any securities as any registration, transfer, exchange, collection, payment, or other service charge.
Ohio Rev. Code § 124.25 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 124 / § 124.25
§ 124.25. Formal application for examination
Status: in_force

September 10, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly The director of administrative services shall require persons applying for an examination for original appointment in the service of the state to file with the director or the director's designee, within reasonable time prior to the examination, a formal application, in which the applicant shall state the applicant's name, address, and such other information as may reasonably be required concerning the applicant's education and experience. No inquiry shall be made as to religious or political affiliations or as to racial or ethnic origin of the applicant, except as necessary to gather equal employment opportunity or other statistics that, when compiled, will not identify any specific individual. Blank forms for applications shall be furnished by the director or the director's designee without charge to any person requesting the same. The director or the director's designee may require in connection with such application such certificate of persons having knowledge of the applicant as the good of the service demands. The director or the director's designee may refuse to appoint or examine an applicant, or, after an examination, refuse to certify the applicant as eligible, who is found to lack any of the established preliminary requirements for the examination, who is addicted to the habitual use of intoxicating liquors or drugs to excess, who has a pattern of poor work habits and performance with previous employers, who has been convicted of a felony, who has been guilty of infamous or notoriously disgraceful conduct, who has been dismissed from either branch of the civil service for delinquency or misconduct, or who has made false statements of any material fact, or practiced, or attempted to practice, any deception or fraud in the application or examination, in establishing eligibility, or securing an appointment.
Ohio Rev. Code § 135.31 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 135 / § 135.31
§ 135.31. County depository definitions
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly As used in sections 135.31 to 135.40 of the Revised Code: (A) "Active moneys" means an amount of public moneys in public depositories determined to be necessary to meet current demands upon a county treasury, and deposited in any of the following: (1) A commercial account and withdrawable, in whole or in part, on demand; (2) A negotiable order of withdrawal account as authorized in the "Consumer Checking Account Equity Act of 1980," 94 Stat. 146, 12 U.S.C.A. 1832(a); (3) A money market deposit account as authorized in the "Garn-St. Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982," 96 Stat. 1501, 12 U.S.C. 3503. (B) "Inactive moneys" means all public moneys in public depositories in excess of the amount determined to be needed as active moneys. (C) "Investing authority" means the treasurer, except as provided in section 135.34 of the Revised Code. (D) "Public deposits" means public moneys deposited in a public depository pursuant to sections 135.31 to 135.40 of the Revised Code. (E) "Public moneys" means all moneys in the treasury of a county or moneys coming lawfully into the possession or custody of the treasurer. (F) "Treasurer" means the county treasurer. (G) "No-load money market mutual fund" means a no-load money market mutual fund that is registered as an investment company under the "Investment Company Act of 1940," 54 Stat. 789, 15 U.S.C.A. 80a-1 to 80a-64, and that has the highest letter or numerical rating provided by at least one nationally recognized statistical rating organization. Last updated September 8, 2023 at 10:52 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 124.271 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 124 / § 124.271
§ 124.271. Provisional employees
Status: in_force

July 1, 2007 House Bill 187 - 126th General Assembly Any employee in the classified service of the state or any county, city, city health district, general health district, or city school district who is appointed to a position under section 124.30 of the Revised Code, and either demonstrates merit and fitness for the position by successfully completing the probationary period for the position or remains in the position for a period of six months of continuous service, whichever period is longer, shall become a permanent appointee in the classified service at the conclusion of that period.
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.36 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.36
§ 122.36. Confidential information
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly Any materials or data submitted to, made available to, or received by the director of development services or the controlling board, to the extent that the material or data consist of trade secrets, as defined in section 1333.61 of the Revised Code, or commercial or financial information, regarding projects are not public records for the purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code. Last updated October 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 109.58 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 109 / § 109.58
§ 109.58. Standard fingerprint impression sheet
Status: in_force

December 31, 1997 House Bill 342 - 122nd General Assembly The superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation shall prepare standard impression sheets on which fingerprints may be made in accordance with the fingerprint system of identification. The impression sheets may provide for other descriptive matter that the superintendent may prescribe. The superintendent shall furnish the impression sheets to each sheriff, chief of police, and person in charge of every county, multicounty, municipal, municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal jail or workhouse, community-based correctional facility, halfway house, alternative residential facility, or state correctional institution within the state. Upon the request of the board of education of a school district or of the principal or chief administrative officer of a nonpublic school, the superintendent shall provide standard impression sheets to the district or school for use in their fingerprinting programs under section 3313.96 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 102.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 102 / § 102.02
§ 102.02. Financial disclosure statement filed with ethics commission
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (H) of this section, all of the following shall file with the appropriate ethics commission the disclosure statement described in this division on a form prescribed by the appropriate commission: every person who is elected to or is a candidate for a state, county, or city office and every person who is appointed to fill a vacancy for an unexpired term in such an elective office; all members of the state board of education; the director, assistant directors, deputy directors, division chiefs, or persons of equivalent rank of any administrative department of the state; the president or other chief administrative officer of every state institution of higher education as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code; the executive director and the members of the capitol square review and advisory board appointed or employed pursuant to section 105.41 of the Revised Code; all members of the Ohio casino control commission, the executive director of the commission, all professional employees of the commission, and all technical employees of the commission who perform an internal audit function; the individuals set forth in division (B)(2) of section 187.03 of the Revised Code; the chief executive officer and the members of the board of each state retirement system; each employee of a state retirement board who is a state retirement system investment officer licensed pursuant to section 1707.163 of the Revised Code; the members of the Ohio retirement study council appointed pursuant to division (C) of section 171.01 of the Revised Code; employees of the Ohio retirement study council, other than employees who perform purely administrative or clerical functions; the administrator of workers' compensation and each member of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors; the bureau of workers' compensation director of investments; the chief investment officer of the bureau of workers' compensation; all members of the board of commissioners on grievances and discipline of the supreme court and the ethics commission created under section 102.05 of the Revised Code; every business manager, treasurer, or superintendent of a city, local, exempted village, joint vocational, or cooperative education school district or an educational service center; every person who is elected to or is a candidate for the office of member of a board of education of a city, local, exempted village, joint vocational, or cooperative education school district or of a governing board of an educational service center that has a total student count of twelve thousand or more as most recently determined by the department of education and workforce pursuant to section 3317.03 of the Revised Code; every person who is appointed to the board of education of a municipal school district pursuant to division (B) or (F) of section 3311.71 of the Revised Code; all members of the board of directors of a sanitary district that is established under Chapter 6115. of the Revised Code and organized wholly for the purpose of providing a water supply for domestic, municipal, and public use, and that includes two municipal corporations in two counties; every public official or employee who is paid a salary or wage in accordance with schedule C of section 124.15 or schedule E-2 of section 124.152 of the Revised Code; all members appointed to the Ohio livestock care standards board under section 904.02 of the Revised Code; and every other public official or employee who is designated by the appropriate ethics commission pursuant to division (B) of this section. (2) The disclosure statement shall include all of the following: (a) The name of the person filing the statement and each member of the person's immediate family and all names under which the person or members of the person's immediate family do business; (b)(i) Subject to divisions (A)(2)(b)(ii) and (iii) of this section and except as otherwise provided in section 102.022 of the Revised Code, identification of every source of income, other than income from a legislative agent identified in division (A)(2)(b)(ii) of this section, received during the preceding calendar year, in the person's own name or by any other person for the person's use or benefit, by the person filing the statement, and a brief description of the nature of the services for which the income was received. If the person filing the statement is a member of the general assembly, the statement shall identify the amount of every source of income received in accordance with the following ranges of amounts: zero or more, but less than one thousand dollars; one thousand dollars or more, but less than ten thousand dollars; ten thousand dollars or more, but less than twenty-five thousand dollars; twenty-five thousand dollars or more, but less than fifty thousand dollars; fifty thousand dollars or more, but less than one hundred thousand dollars; and one hundred thousand dollars or more. Division (A)(2)(b)(i) of this section shall not be construed to require a person filing the statement who derives income from a business or profession to disclose the individual items of income that constitute the gross income of that business or profession, except for those individual items of income that are attributable to the person's or, if the income is shared with the person, the partner's, solicitation of services or goods or performance, arrangement, or facilitation of services or provision of goods on behalf of the business or profession of clients, including corporate clients, who are legislative agents. A person who files the statement under this section shall disclose the identity of and the amount of income received from a person who the public official or employee knows or has reason to know is doing or seeking to do business of any kind with the public official's or employee's agency. (ii) If the person filing the statement is a member of the general assembly, the statement shall identify every source of income and the amount of that income that was received from a legislative agent during the preceding calendar year, in the person's own name or by any other person for the person's use or benefit, by the person filing the statement, and a brief description of the nature of the services for which the income was received. Division (A)(2)(b)(ii) of this section requires the disclosure of clients of attorneys or persons licensed under section 4732.12 of the Revised Code, or patients of persons licensed under section 4731.14 of the Revised Code, if those clients or patients are legislative agents. Division (A)(2)(b)(ii) of this section requires a person filing the statement who derives income from a business or profession to disclose those individual items of income that constitute the gross income of that business or profession that are received from legislative agents. (iii) Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(2)(b)(iii) of this section, division (A)(2)(b)(i) of this section applies to attorneys, physicians, and other persons who engage in the practice of a profession and who, pursuant to a section of the Revised Code, the common law of this state, a code of ethics applicable to the profession, or otherwise, generally are required not to reveal, disclose, or use confidences of clients, patients, or other recipients of professional services except under specified circumstances or generally are required to maintain those types of confidences as privileged communications except under specified circumstances. Division (A)(2)(b)(i) of this section does not require an attorney, physician, or other professional subject to a confidentiality requirement as described in division (A)(2)(b)(iii) of this section to disclose the name, other identity, or address of a client, patient, or other recipient of professional services if the disclosure would threaten the client, patient, or other recipient of professional services, would reveal details of the subject matter for which legal, medical, or professional advice or other services were sought, or would reveal an otherwise privileged communication involving the client, patient, or other recipient of professional services. Division (A)(2)(b)(i) of this section does not require an attorney, physician, or other professional subject to a confidentiality requirement as described in division (A)(2)(b)(iii) of this section to disclose in the brief description of the nature of services required by division (A)(2)(b)(i) of this section any information pertaining to specific professional services rendered for a client, patient, or other recipient of professional services that would reveal details of the subject matter for which legal, medical, or professional advice was sought or would reveal an otherwise privileged communication involving the client, patient, or other recipient of professional services. (c) The name of every corporation on file with the secretary of state that is incorporated in this state or holds a certificate of compliance authorizing it to do business in this state, trust, business trust, partnership, or association that transacts business in this state in which the person filing the statement or any other person for the person's use and benefit had during the preceding calendar year an investment of over one thousand dollars at fair market value as of the thirty-first day of December of the preceding calendar year, or the date of disposition, whichever is earlier, or in which the person holds any office or has a fiduciary relationship, and a description of the nature of the investment, office, or relationship. Division (A)(2)(c) of this section does not require disclosure of the name of any bank, savings and loan association, credit union, or building and loan association with which the person filing the statement has a deposit or a withdrawable share account. (d) All fee simple and leasehold interests to which the person filing the statement holds legal title to or a beneficial interest in real property located within the state, excluding the person's residence and property used primarily for personal recreation; (e) The names of all persons residing or transacting business in the state to whom the person filing the statement owes, in the person's own name or in the name of any other person, more than one thousand dollars. Division (A)(2)(e) of this section shall not be construed to require the disclosure of debts owed by the person resulting from the ordinary conduct of a business or profession or debts on the person's residence or real property used primarily for personal recreation, except that the superintendent of financial institutions and any deputy superintendent of banks shall disclose the names of all state-chartered banks and all bank subsidiary corporations subject to regulation under section 1109.44 of the Revised Code to whom the superintendent or deputy superintendent owes any money. (f) The names of all persons residing or transacting business in the state, other than a depository excluded under division (A)(2)(c) of this section, who owe more than one thousand dollars to the person filing the statement, either in the person's own name or to any person for the person's use or benefit. Division (A)(2)(f) of this section shall not be construed to require the disclosure of clients of attorneys or persons licensed under section 4732.12 of the Revised Code, or patients of persons licensed under section 4731.14 of the Revised Code, nor the disclosure of debts owed to the person resulting from the ordinary conduct of a business or profession. (g) Except as otherwise provided in section 102.022 of the Revised Code, the source of each gift of over seventy-five dollars, or of each gift of over twenty-five dollars received by a member of the general assembly from a legislative agent, received by the person in the person's own name or by any other person for the person's use or benefit during the preceding calendar year, except gifts received by will or by virtue of section 2105.06 of the Revised Code, or received from spouses, parents, grandparents, children, grandchildren, siblings, nephews, nieces, uncles, aunts, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, fathers-in-law, mothers-in-law, or any person to whom the person filing the statement stands in loco parentis, or received by way of distribution from any inter vivos or testamentary trust established by a spouse or by an ancestor; (h) Except as otherwise provided in section 102.022 of the Revised Code, identification of the source and amount of every payment of expenses incurred for travel to destinations inside or outside this state that is received by the person in the person's own name or by any other person for the person's use or benefit and that is incurred in connection with the person's official duties, except for expenses for travel to meetings or conventions of a national or state organization to which any state agency, including, but not limited to, any legislative agency or state institution of higher education as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code, pays membership dues, or any political subdivision or any office or agency of a political subdivision pays membership dues; (i) Except as otherwise provided in section 102.022 of the Revised Code, identification of the source of payment of expenses for meals and other food and beverages, other than for meals and other food and beverages provided at a meeting at which the person participated in a panel, seminar, or speaking engagement or at a meeting or convention of a national or state organization to which any state agency, including, but not limited to, any legislative agency or state institution of higher education as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code, pays membership dues, or any political subdivision or any office or agency of a political subdivision pays membership dues, that are incurred in connection with the person's official duties and that exceed one hundred dollars aggregated per calendar year; (j) If the disclosure statement is filed by a public official or employee described in division (B)(2) of section 101.73 of the Revised Code or division (B)(2) of section 121.63 of the Revised Code who receives a statement from a legislative agent, executive agency lobbyist, or employer that contains the information described in division (F)(2) of section 101.73 of the Revised Code or division (G)(2) of section 121.63 of the Revised Code, all of the nondisputed information contained in the statement delivered to that public official or employee by the legislative agent, executive agency lobbyist, or employer under division (F)(2) of section 101.73 or (G)(2) of section 121.63 of the Revised Code. (3) A person may file a statement required by this section in person, by mail, or by electronic means. (4) A person who is required to file a statement under this section shall file that statement according to the following deadlines, as applicable: (a) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (A)(4)(b), (c), and (d) of this section, the person shall file the statement not later than the fifteenth day of May of each year. (b) A person who is a candidate for elective office shall file the statement no later than the thirtieth day before the primary, special, or general election at which the candidacy is to be voted on, whichever election occurs soonest, except that a person who is a write-in candidate shall file the statement no later than the twentieth day before the earliest election at which the person's candidacy is to be voted on. (c) A person who is appointed to fill a vacancy for an unexpired term in an elective office shall file the statement within fifteen days after the person qualifies for office. (d) A person who is appointed or employed after the fifteenth day of May, other than a person described in division (A)(4)(c) of this section, shall file an annual statement within ninety days after appointment or employment. (5) No person shall be required to file with the appropriate ethics commission more than one statement or pay more than one filing fee for any one calendar year. (6) The appropriate ethics commission, for good cause, may extend for a reasonable time the deadline for filing a statement under this section. (7) A statement filed under this section is subject to public inspection at locations designated by the appropriate ethics commission except as otherwise provided in this section. (B) The Ohio ethics commission, the joint legislative ethics committee, and the board of commissioners on grievances and discipline of the supreme court, using the rule-making procedures of Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, may require any class of public officials or employees under its jurisdiction and not specifically excluded by this section whose positions involve a substantial and material exercise of administrative discretion in the formulation of public policy, expenditure of public funds, enforcement of laws and rules of the state or a county or city, or the execution of other public trusts, to file an annual statement under division (A) of this section. The appropriate ethics commission shall send the public officials or employees written notice of the requirement not less than thirty days before the applicable filing deadline unless the public official or employee is appointed after that date, in which case the notice shall be sent within thirty days after appointment, and the filing shall be made not later than ninety days after appointment. Disclosure statements filed under this division with the Ohio ethics commission by members of boards, commissions, or bureaus of the state for which no compensation is received other than reasonable and necessary expenses shall be kept confidential. Disclosure statements filed with the Ohio ethics commission under division (A) of this section by business managers, treasurers, and superintendents of city, local, exempted village, joint vocational, or cooperative education school districts or educational service centers shall be kept confidential, except that any person conducting an audit of any such school district or educational service center pursuant to Chapter 117. of the Revised Code may examine the disclosure statement of any business manager, treasurer, or superintendent of that school district or educational service center. Disclosure statements filed with the Ohio ethics commission under division (A) of this section by the individuals set forth in division (B)(2) of section 187.03 of the Revised Code shall be kept confidential. The Ohio ethics commission shall examine each disclosure statement required to be kept confidential to determine whether a potential conflict of interest exists for the person who filed the disclosure statement. A potential conflict of interest exists if the private interests of the person, as indicated by the person's disclosure statement, might interfere with the public interests the person is required to serve in the exercise of the person's authority and duties in the person's office or position of employment. If the commission determines that a potential conflict of interest exists, it shall notify the person who filed the disclosure statement and shall make the portions of the disclosure statement that indicate a potential conflict of interest subject to public inspection in the same manner as is provided for other disclosure statements. Any portion of the disclosure statement that the commission determines does not indicate a potential conflict of interest shall be kept confidential by the commission and shall not be made subject to public inspection, except as is necessary for the enforcement of Chapters 102. and 2921. of the Revised Code and except as otherwise provided in this division. (C) No person shall knowingly fail to file, on or before the applicable filing deadline established under this section, a statement that is required by this section. (D) No person shall knowingly file a false statement that is required to be filed under this section. (E)(1) Except as provided in divisions (E)(2) and (3) of this section, the statement required by division (A) or (B) of this section shall be accompanied by a filing fee of sixty dollars. (2) The statement required by division (A) of this section shall be accompanied by the following filing fee to be paid by the person who is elected or appointed to, or is a candidate for, any of the following offices: For state office $95 For office of member of general assembly $40 For county office $60 For city office $35 For office of member of the state board of education $35 For office of member of a city, local, exempted village, or cooperative education board of education or educational service center governing board $30 For position of business manager, treasurer, or superintendent of a city, local, exempted village, joint vocational, or cooperative education school district or educational service center $30 (3) No judge of a court of record or candidate for judge of a court of record, and no referee or magistrate serving a court of record, shall be required to pay the fee required under division (E)(1) or (2) or (F) of this section. (4) For any public official who is appointed to a nonelective office of the state and for any employee who holds a nonelective position in a public agency of the state, the state agency that is the primary employer of the state official or employee shall pay the fee required under division (E)(1) or (F) of this section. (F) If a statement required to be filed under this section is not filed by the date on which it is required to be filed, the appropriate ethics commission shall assess the person required to file the statement a late filing fee of ten dollars for each day the statement is not filed, except that the total amount of the late filing fee shall not exceed two hundred fifty dollars. (G)(1) The appropriate ethics commission other than the Ohio ethics commission and the joint legislative ethics committee shall deposit all fees it receives under divisions (E) and (F) of this section into the general revenue fund of the state. (2) The Ohio ethics commission shall deposit all receipts, including, but not limited to, fees it receives under divisions (E) and (F) of this section, investigative or other fees, costs, or other funds it receives as a result of court orders, and all moneys it receives from settlements under division (G) of section 102.06 of the Revised Code, into the Ohio ethics commission fund, which is hereby created in the state treasury. All moneys credited to the fund shall be used solely for expenses related to the operation and statutory functions of the commission. (3) The joint legislative ethics committee shall deposit all receipts it receives from the payment of financial disclosure statement filing fees under divisions (E) and (F) of this section into the joint legislative ethics committee investigative and financial disclosure fund. (H) Division (A) of this section does not apply to a person elected or appointed to the office of precinct, ward, or district committee member under Chapter 3517. of the Revised Code; a presidential elector; a delegate to a national convention; village or township officials and employees; any physician or psychiatrist who is paid a salary or wage in accordance with schedule C of section 124.15 or schedule E-2 of section 124.152 of the Revised Code and whose primary duties do not require the exercise of administrative discretion; or any member of a board, commission, or bureau of any county or city who receives less than one thousand dollars per year for serving in that position. Last updated July 16, 2025 at 5:01 PMEach public official or employee described in this section shall file with the Ohio ethics commission a statement of financial interest on a form prescribed by the commission.
Ohio Rev. Code § 167.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 167 / § 167.03
§ 167.03. Powers
Status: in_force

September 30, 2021 House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly (A) The council shall have the power to: (1) Study such area governmental problems common to two or more members of the council as it deems appropriate, including but not limited to matters affecting health, safety, welfare, education, economic conditions, and regional development; (2) Promote cooperative arrangements and coordinate action among its members, and between its members and other agencies of local or state governments, whether or not within Ohio, and the federal government; (3) Make recommendations for review and action to the members and other public agencies that perform functions within the region; (4) Promote cooperative agreements and contracts among its members or other governmental agencies and private persons, corporations, or agencies; (5) Operate a public safety answering point in accordance with Chapter 128. of the Revised Code; (6) Perform planning directly by personnel of the council, or under contracts between the council and other public or private planning agencies. (B) The council may: (1) Review, evaluate, comment upon, and make recommendations, relative to the planning and programming, and the location, financing, and scheduling of public facility projects within the region and affecting the development of the area; (2) Act as an areawide agency to perform comprehensive planning for the programming, locating, financing, and scheduling of public facility projects within the region and affecting the development of the area and for other proposed land development or uses, which projects or uses have public metropolitan wide or interjurisdictional significance; (3) Act as an agency for coordinating, based on metropolitan wide comprehensive planning and programming, local public policies, and activities affecting the development of the region or area. (C) The council may, by appropriate action of the governing bodies of the members, perform such other functions and duties as are performed or capable of performance by the members and necessary or desirable for dealing with problems of mutual concern. (D) The authority granted to the council by this section or in any agreement by the members thereof shall not displace any existing municipal, county, regional, or other planning commission or planning agency in the exercise of its statutory powers. (E) A council, with an educational service center as its fiscal agent, that is established to provide health care benefits to the council members' officers and employees and their dependents may do either of the following: (1) Contract to administer and coordinate a self-funded health benefit program of a nonprofit corporation organized under Chapter 1702. of the Revised Code. A council operating a program under division (E)(1) of this section that does not act as an administrator as defined in section 3959.01 of the Revised Code does not constitute engaging in the business of insurance and is not subject to the insurance laws of this state. (2)(a) Acquire, establish, manage, or operate a separate business entity, including a corporation, company, organization, partnership, or trust, and utilize its unencumbered reserve funds in the acquisition, establishment, management, or operation of the business entity to the extent approved by the council's governing board and so long as the council remains sufficiently reserved, in the exercise of sound and prudent actuarial judgment, to cover the potential cost of health care benefits for the council members' officers and employees and their dependents. (b) Where the business operations or services provided through the separate business entity constitutes engaging in the business of insurance or are otherwise subject to the insurance laws of this state, the business entity shall comply with any requirements set forth in Title XVII or Title XXXIX of the Revised Code and any other sections of the Revised Code or Administrative Code that are applicable to the business entity, and the exclusions from the requirements set forth in the Revised Code and Administrative Code that apply to the self-insurance program of the council under division (C) of section 9.833 of the Revised Code shall not apply to any such business entity or the services it offers. Last updated July 30, 2021 at 3:56 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.153 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.153
§ 122.153. Tax credit certificates; recapture of tax credits
Status: in_force

September 30, 2021 House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly (A) The department of development shall not be required to issue a tax credit certificate under section 122.152 of the Revised Code if either of the following applies: (1) The credit-eligible capital contribution was made in a program one rural business growth fund that fails to: (a) Invest fifty per cent of its eligible investment authority in growth investments within one year of the closing date; and (b) Invest one hundred per cent of its eligible investment authority in growth investments in this state within two years of the closing date. (2) The credit eligible contribution was made in a program two rural business growth fund that fails to: (a) Invest twenty-five per cent of its eligible investment authority in growth investments within one year of the closing date; (b) Invest fifty per cent of its eligible investment authority in growth investments within two years of the closing date; and (c) Invest one hundred per cent of its eligible investment authority in growth investments within three years of the closing date, including seventy-five per cent of its eligible investment authority in rural business concerns that have their principal business operations in tier two or tier three rural areas, and twenty-five per cent of its eligible investment authority in rural business concerns that have their principal business operations in tier three rural areas. The amount by which a rural business growth fund's growth investments in rural business concerns that have their principal business operations in tier one rural areas exceeds twenty-five per cent of the fund's eligible investment authority shall not count towards the satisfaction of the requirements prescribed by division (A)(2)(c) of this section. (B) The agency shall recapture tax credits claimed under section 122.152 of the Revised Code if any of the following occur with respect to the rural business growth fund: (1) The fund, after investing one hundred per cent of its eligible investment authority in growth investments in this state, fails to maintain that investment until the sixth anniversary of the closing date. For the purposes of this division, an investment is maintained even if the investment is sold or repaid so long as the fund reinvests an amount equal to the capital returned or recovered by the fund from the original investment, exclusive of any profits realized, in other growth investments in this state within one year of the receipt of such capital. (2) The fund makes a distribution or payment after the fund complies with division (G) of section 122.151 of the Revised Code and before the fund decertifies under division (D) of this section that results in the fund having less than one hundred per cent of its eligible investment authority invested in growth investments in this state. (3) The fund makes a growth investment in a rural business concern that directly or indirectly through an affiliate owns, has the right to acquire an ownership interest, makes a loan to, or makes an investment in the fund, an affiliate of the fund, or an investor in the fund. Division (A)(3) of this section does not apply to investments in publicly traded securities by a rural business concern or an owner or affiliate of a rural business concern. Before recapturing one or more tax credits under this division, the agency shall notify the fund of the reasons for the pending recapture. If the fund corrects the violations outlined in the notice to the satisfaction of the agency within thirty days of the date the notice was dispatched, the agency shall not recapture the tax credits. (C)(1) The amount by which one or more growth investments by a program one rural business growth fund in the same rural business concern exceeds twenty per cent of the fund's eligible investment authority shall not be counted as a growth investment for the purposes of this section. The amount by which one or more growth investments by a program two rural business growth fund in the same business concern exceeds five million dollars shall not be counted as a growth investment for the purposes of this section. A growth investment returned or repaid by a rural business concern to a program one or program two rural business growth fund and then reinvested by the fund in the same rural business concern does not count as an investment in the same rural business concern for the purposes of the limitations prescribed by division (C)(1) of this section. (2) The aggregate amount of growth investments by all rural business growth funds in the same rural business concern, including amounts reinvested in a rural business concern following a returned or repayment of a growth investment, shall not exceed fifteen million dollars. (3) A growth investment in an affiliate of a rural business concern shall be treated as a growth investment in that rural business concern for the purposes of division (C) of this section. (D) If the agency recaptures a tax credit under this section, the agency shall notify the superintendent of insurance of the recapture. The superintendent shall make an assessment under Chapter 5725. or 5729. of the Revised Code for the amount of the credit claimed by each certificate owner associated with the fund before the recapture was finalized. The time limitations on assessments under those chapters do not apply to an assessment under this division, but the superintendent shall make the assessment within one year after the date the agency notifies the superintendent of the recapture. Following the recapture of a tax credit under this section, no tax credit certificate associated with the fund may be utilized. Notwithstanding division (B) of section 122.152 of the Revised Code, if a tax credit is recaptured under this section the agency shall not issue future tax credit certificates to taxpayers that made credit-eligible capital contributions to the fund. (E)(1) On or after the sixth anniversary of the closing date, a fund that has not committed any of the acts described in division (B) of this section may apply to the agency to decertify as a rural business growth fund. The agency shall respond to the application within sixty days after receiving the application. In evaluating the application, the fact that no tax credit has been recaptured with respect to the fund shall be sufficient evidence to prove that the fund is eligible for decertification. The agency shall not unreasonably deny an application submitted under this division. (2) The agency shall send notice of its determination with respect to an application submitted under division (E)(1) of this section to the fund. If the application is denied, the notice shall include the reason or reasons for the determination. (3) The agency shall not recapture a tax credit due to any actions of a fund that occur after the date the fund's application for decertification is approved. Division (E)(3) of this section does not prohibit the agency from recapturing a tax credit due to the actions of a fund that occur before the date the fund's application for decertification is approved, even if those actions are discovered after that date. Last updated October 21, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 135.63 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 135 / § 135.63
§ 135.63. Adoption linked deposit program
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 101 - 135th General Assembly (A) The general assembly finds that strengthening families across Ohio is critical toward ensuring the long-term prosperity of the state. However, the upfront financial costs associated with adoption often deter families from pursuing the adoption process. Accordingly, it is declared to be the public policy of the state through the adoption linked deposit program to create the availability of reduced rate loans to reduce the financial burden of adoption and to strengthen families in this state. (B) An eligible borrower for the adoption linked deposit program is an individual who is a resident of this state and to whom either of the following applies: (1) The individual completes a home study pursuant to section 3107.031 of the Revised Code and is approved to adopt. (2) The individual is pursuing an adoption through the public foster care system and meets the requirements set by the department of children and youth. (C) An eligible lending institution for the adoption linked deposit program must be able to make secured or unsecured personal loans. (D) An eligible borrower shall certify on the loan application that the reduced rate loan will be used exclusively to pay for qualifying adoption expenses. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 173.502 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 173 / § 173.502
§ 173.502. Requests for proposals to become PACE organization [codified from Section 751.10 of H.B. 45, 134th General Assembly, pursuant to R.C. 103.131]
Status: in_force

April 7, 2023 House Bill 45 - 134th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "CMS" means the United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. (2) "Entity" has the same meaning as in 42 C.F.R. 460.10. (3) "PACE center," "PACE organization," "participant," and "state administering agency" have the same meanings as in 42 C.F.R. 460.6. (B)(1) Not later than one hundred twenty days after the effective date of this section, the Department of Aging shall issue a request for proposals from any entity interested in becoming a PACE organization, including for service areas in the counties, or contiguous zip codes within the counties, or extending from the counties, of Franklin, Hamilton, Montgomery, Lorain, Lucas, and Summit. Proposals shall be submitted to the Department not later than ninety days after the date the Department issues the request for proposals. (2) Division (B)(1) of this section does not prevent the Department from expanding the PACE program outside of the process required by that division, including by issuing other requests for proposals. (C) To be eligible for approval by the Department to become a PACE organization, an entity that submits a proposal pursuant to division (B)(1) of this section shall meet all of the following requirements: (1) The entity provides a feasibility study of its proposed service area to the Department. (2) The entity has a current, valid provider agreement, as defined in section 5164.01 of the Revised Code, or will be eligible to enter into a provider agreement by the time that the entity will begin providing services under the PACE program. (3) The entity meets all federal requirements applicable to PACE organizations. (4) The entity demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Department that the organization has experience providing health care services to frail older adults and that each member of the entity's staff, including employees and contractors, complies with 42 C.F.R. 460.64. (5) The entity has a facility suitable to be a PACE center, or plans to acquire, build, or expand a facility suitable to be a PACE center prior to beginning services, in its proposed service area, as described in the request for proposals process. (6) The entity meets any additional requirements in rules adopted by the Department pursuant to division (G) of this section. (D) The Department shall review all proposals submitted in accordance with division (B)(1) of this section. For at least each of the six service areas identified in division (C) of this section, the Department shall determine from the proposals which entities it considers qualified to become PACE organizations for each service area. The determination shall be made not later than nine months after the date the Department issues the request for proposals. (E) An entity considered by the Department as qualified to become a PACE organization may apply to CMS to become a PACE organization. The Department shall provide support to any such organization that applies to CMS, by complying with federal requirements. (F) Each entity approved to become a PACE organization by CMS shall begin providing services to participants not later than two years after the entity receives notice of its approval from CMS, consistent with federal financial participation. (G) The Director of Aging may adopt rules to implement this section. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. Last updated December 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 184.111 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 184 / § 184.111
§ 184.111. Support awarded only to in-state entities
Status: in_force

January 4, 2006 Senate Bill 236 - 126th General Assembly Except with respect to support subject to an agreement under section 184.114 of the Revised Code, the third frontier commission may award the support described in section 184.11 of the Revised Code only to in-state entities. If an entity awarded support is collaborating with any entity that is not an in-state entity on the research and development project for which the support was awarded, the in-state entity may provide any portion of that support to the other entity only if the commission, in its discretion and only under exceptional circumstances that the commission determines, permits it.
Ohio Rev. Code § 145.194 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 145 / § 145.194
§ 145.194. Contributions by law enforcement or public safety officers to defined contribution plan
Status: in_force

March 23, 2015 Senate Bill 42 - 130th General Assembly (A) A member participating in a PERS defined contribution plan who becomes a PERS law enforcement officer or PERS public safety officer shall cease making contributions to a PERS defined contribution plan. During employment as a PERS law enforcement officer or a PERS public safety officer and any concurrent employment in a position subject to this chapter, the member shall contribute only to the PERS defined benefit plan. (B) A member described in division (A) of this section with contributions standing to the member's credit in a PERS defined contribution plan may elect to have those contributions deposited and credited in the PERS defined benefit plan in accordance with section 145.814 of the Revised Code and rules governing the PERS defined benefit plan.
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.082 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.082
§ 122.082. Low-interest loans to small businesses
Status: in_force

February 24, 1983 House Bill 100 - 115th General Assembly The department of development shall provide for low-interest loans to small businesses, as defined by rules adopted pursuant to the "Small Business Act," 72 Stat. 384 (1972), 15 U.S.C.A. 632, as amended, that are engaged in the export of goods produced in this state. In carrying out the purposes of this section, the department shall develop operating procedures that are essentially the same as those of the United States export-import bank.
Ohio Rev. Code § 123.29 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 123 / § 123.29
§ 123.29. Speaker Jo Ann Davidson theatre
Status: in_force

September 28, 2016 House Bill 391 - 131st General Assembly The theater in the Vern Riffe center for government and the arts in Columbus, formerly known as the capitol theatre, shall be known as the Speaker Jo Ann Davidson theatre.
Ohio Rev. Code § 109.61 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 109 / § 109.61
§ 109.61. Sheriff or chief of police to forward information to bureau
Status: in_force

January 1, 1999 House Bill 2 - 122nd General Assembly Each sheriff or chief of police shall furnish the bureau of criminal identification and investigation with descriptions, fingerprints, photographs, and measurements of the following: (A)(1) Persons arrested who in that sheriff's or chief of police's judgment are wanted for serious offenses, are fugitives from justice, or in whose possession at the time of arrest are found goods or property reasonably believed to have been stolen; (2) Children arrested or otherwise taken into custody who in that sheriff's or chief of police's judgment are under eighteen years of age and have committed an act that would be a felony or an offense of violence if committed by an adult. (B) All persons in whose possession are found burglar outfits, burglar tools, or burglar keys, or who have in their possession high power explosives reasonably believed to be intended to be used for unlawful purposes; (C) Persons who are in possession of infernal machines or other contrivances in whole or in part and reasonably believed by the sheriff or chief of police to be intended to be used for unlawful purposes; (D) All persons carrying concealed firearms or other deadly weapons reasonably believed to be carried for unlawful purposes; (E) All persons who have in their possession inks, dies, paper, or other articles necessary in the making of counterfeit bank notes or in the alteration of bank notes, or dies, molds, or other articles necessary in the making of counterfeit money and reasonably believed to be intended to be used by them for those types of unlawful purposes.
Ohio Rev. Code § 109.41 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 109 / § 109.41
§ 109.41. Claiming escheated property
Status: in_force

January 1, 1975 House Bill 800 - 110th General Assembly Whenever any state begins procedure to escheat property of any person who is an Ohio citizen, corporation, firm, or resident, or whose last known address was in Ohio, on the ground that the property has been abandoned, or on any other grounds, the attorney general may, after making diligent effort to notify the owner of the property and failing in the same, act as attorney in fact for the Ohio owner to claim the property. Upon taking custody of the property, the attorney general shall deposit same in the general fund of Ohio, or if the property be in kind, the attorney general shall cause the same to be sold pursuant to section 2113.40 of the Revised Code, and deposit the proceeds of the sale in the general fund. Claims to the property shall thereafter be made in the manner provided for in Chapter 2743. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 154.20 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 154 / § 154.20
§ 154.20. Capital facilities for mental hygiene or retardation
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) Subject to authorization by the general assembly under section 154.02 of the Revised Code, the issuing authority may issue obligations pursuant to this chapter to pay costs of capital facilities for mental hygiene and retardation, including housing for mental hygiene and retardation patients and persons with substance use disorders. (B) Any capital facilities for mental hygiene or retardation, including housing for mental hygiene and retardation patients and persons with substance use disorders, may be leased by the commission to the department of mental health and addiction services or the department of developmental disabilities, and other agreements may be made by the commission and any one or more of these departments with respect to the use or purchase of such capital facilities or, subject to the approval of the director of the department, the commission may lease such capital facilities to, and make or provide for other agreements with respect to the use or purchase thereof with, any governmental agency having authority under law to operate such capital facilities, and the director of the department may sublease such capital facilities to, and make other agreements with respect to the use or purchase thereof with, any such governmental agency, which may include provisions for transmittal to the mental health bond service trust fund created under division (E) of this section, by such governmental agency or by a nonprofit corporation providing mental hygiene and retardation services for or under contract with or the supervision of that governmental agency, of receipts of that agency or nonprofit corporation from charges for the treatment or care of mental hygiene and retardation patients, all upon such terms and conditions as the parties may agree upon and pursuant to this chapter, notwithstanding any other provision of law affecting the leasing, acquisition, or disposition of capital facilities by the parties. (C) For purposes of this section, "available receipts" means all receipts of the state from charges for the treatment or care of mental hygiene and retardation patients, including support payments received under Chapter 5121. of the Revised Code and moneys required to be transmitted to the mental health bond service trust fund pursuant to subleases and other agreements between any of the departments and another governmental agency pursuant to division (B) of this section as the subleases and other agreements may be further implemented for internal planning, budgeting, and accounting purposes pursuant to rules adopted by the director of mental health and addiction services or director of developmental disabilities, any revenues or receipts derived by the commission from the operation, leasing, or other disposition of capital facilities financed under this section, the proceeds of obligations issued under this section and sections 154.11 and 154.12 of the Revised Code, and also means any gifts, grants, donations, and pledges, and receipts therefrom, available for the payment of bond service charges on such obligations. The issuing authority may pledge all, or such portion as that authority determines, of the available receipts to the payment of bond service charges on obligations issued under this section and under sections 154.11 and 154.12 of the Revised Code and for the establishment and maintenance of any reserves, as provided in the bond proceedings, and make other provisions therein with respect to such available receipts as authorized by this chapter, which provisions shall be controlling notwithstanding any other provision of law pertaining thereto. (D) The issuing authority may covenant in the bond proceedings that the state and state agencies shall, so long as any obligations issued under this section are outstanding, cause to be charged and collected charges for the treatment or care of mental hygiene and retardation patients sufficient in amount to provide for the payment of bond service charges on such obligations and for the establishment and maintenance of any reserves, as provided in the bond proceedings, and such covenants shall be controlling notwithstanding any other provision of law pertaining to such charges. (E) There is hereby created the mental health bond service trust fund, which shall be in the custody of the treasurer of state but shall be separate and apart from and not a part of the state treasury. All moneys received by or on account of the commission or issuing authority or state agencies and required by the applicable bond proceedings to be deposited, transferred, or credited to the fund, and all other moneys transferred or allocated to or received for the purposes of the fund, shall be deposited with the treasurer of state and credited to such fund, subject to applicable provisions of the bond proceedings, but without necessity for any act of appropriation. The mental health bond service trust fund is a trust fund and is hereby pledged to the payment of bond service charges on the obligations issued pursuant to this section and sections 154.11 and 154.12 of the Revised Code to the extent provided in the applicable bond proceedings, and payment thereof from such fund shall be made or provided for by the treasurer of state in accordance with such bond proceedings without necessity for any act of appropriation. (F) There is hereby created in the state treasury the mental health facilities improvement fund. Subject to the bond proceedings therefor, all of the proceeds of the sale of obligations pursuant to this section shall be credited to the fund, except that any accrued interest shall be credited to the mental health bond service fund. The mental health facilities improvement fund may also be comprised of gifts, grants, appropriated moneys, and other sums and securities received to the credit of such fund. All investment earnings on the cash balance in the fund shall be credited to the fund. The fund shall be applied only to the following purposes: (1) Paying costs of capital facilities for mental hygiene and retardation, including housing for mental hygiene and retardation patients or for persons with substance use disorders, under the jurisdiction of the department of mental health and addiction services or department of developmental disabilities; (2) Participating in capital facilities for mental hygiene and retardation, including housing for mental hygiene and retardation patients or for persons with substance use disorders, with the federal government, municipal corporations, counties, or other governmental agencies, or a nonprofit corporation specifically chartered to provide a mental health, substance use, or mental retardation service when such service fulfills a public purpose, which participation may be by grants or contributions to them for such capital facilities. Except as provided in division (G) of this section, the nonprofit corporation may act in concert with a limited partnership or a limited liability company eligible to participate in the nonprofit set-aside described in section 42(h)(5) of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2198, 26 U.S.C. 42, and the Ohio housing finance agency's housing tax credit program for the purpose of making use of low-income housing tax credits in support of housing for mental hygiene and retardation patients. (G) A nonprofit corporation providing a mental retardation service must obtain written approval from the director of developmental disabilities before acting in concert with a limited partnership or limited liability company as described in division (F)(2) of this section. However, the director may issue one blanket approval for all such nonprofit corporations. (H) This section is to be applied with other applicable provisions of this chapter. Last updated October 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 181.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 181 / § 181.21
§ 181.21. State criminal sentencing commission - juvenile committee
Status: in_force

October 24, 2024 House Bill 301 - 135th General Assembly (A) There is hereby created within the supreme court the state criminal sentencing commission, consisting of thirty-one members. One member shall be the chief justice of the supreme court, who shall be the chairperson of the commission. The following ten members of the commission, no more than six of whom shall be members of the same political party, shall be appointed by the chief justice: one judge of a court of appeals, three judges of courts of common pleas who are not juvenile court judges, three judges of juvenile courts, and three judges of municipal courts or county courts. Four members shall be the superintendent of the state highway patrol, the state public defender, the director of youth services, and the director of rehabilitation and correction, or their individual designees. The following twelve members, no more than seven of whom shall be members of the same political party, shall be appointed by the governor after consulting with the appropriate state associations, if any, that are represented by these members: one sheriff; two county prosecuting attorneys, at least one of whom shall be experienced in the prosecution of cases in juvenile court involving alleged delinquent children, unruly children, and juvenile traffic offenders; two peace officers of a municipal corporation or township, at least one of whom shall be experienced in the investigation of cases involving juveniles; one former victim of a violation of Title XXIX of the Revised Code; one attorney whose practice of law primarily involves the representation of criminal defendants; one member of the Ohio state bar association; one attorney whose practice of law primarily involves the representation in juvenile court of alleged delinquent children, unruly children, and juvenile traffic offenders; one full-time city prosecuting attorney; one county commissioner; and one mayor, city manager, or member of a legislative authority of a municipal corporation. Two members shall be members of the senate, one appointed by the president of the senate and one appointed by the minority leader of the senate. Two members shall be members of the house of representatives, one appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives and one appointed by the minority leader of the house of representatives. The chief justice shall become a member of the commission on August 22, 1990, and the chief justice's successors in office shall become members of the commission on the day that they assume the office of chief justice. The term of office of the chief justice as a member of the commission shall continue for as long as that person holds the office of chief justice. The term of office of the member who is an attorney whose practice of law primarily involves the representation of criminal defendants, the term of office of the member who is an attorney whose practice of law primarily involves the representation in juvenile court of alleged delinquent children, unruly children, and juvenile traffic offenders, and the term of office of the former victim of a violation of Title XXIX of the Revised Code shall be four years. The term of office of the superintendent of the state highway patrol, the state public defender, the director of youth services, and the director of rehabilitation and correction, or their individual designees, as members of the commission shall continue for as long as they hold the office of superintendent of the state highway patrol, state public defender, director of youth services, or director of rehabilitation and correction. The term of office of a municipal corporation or township peace officer as a member of the commission shall be the lesser of four years or until that person ceases to be a peace officer of a municipal corporation or township. Unless the full-time city prosecuting attorney is an elected official, the term of office of the full-time city prosecuting attorney shall be the lesser of four years or until the full-time city prosecuting attorney ceases to be a full-time city prosecuting attorney. All of the members of the commission who are elected officials shall serve the lesser of four years or until the expiration of their term of office. Any vacancy on the commission shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment. When the chief justice and governor make their appointments to the commission, they shall consider adequate representation by race and gender. (B) The commission shall select a vice-chairperson and any other necessary officers and adopt rules to govern its proceedings. The commission shall meet as necessary at the call of the chairperson or on the written request of eight or more of its members. Sixteen members of the commission constitute a quorum, and the votes of a majority of the quorum present shall be required to validate any action of the commission. All business of the commission shall be conducted in public meetings. The members of the commission shall serve without compensation, but each member shall be reimbursed for the member's actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of the member's official duties on the commission. In the absence of the chairperson, the vice-chairperson shall perform the duties of the chairperson. (C) The commission shall establish an office and shall appoint and fix the compensation of a project director and any other employees necessary to assist the commission in the execution of its authority under sections 181.21 to 181.25 of the Revised Code. The project director shall have a thorough understanding of the criminal laws of this state and experience in committee-oriented research. The other employees may include a research coordinator with experience and training in policy-oriented research; professional staff employees with backgrounds in criminal law, criminal justice, political science, or related fields of expertise; administrative assistants; and secretaries. The commission also may appoint and fix the compensation of part-time data collectors, clerical employees, and other temporary employees as needed to enable the commission to execute its authority under sections 181.21 to 181.25 of the Revised Code. (D)(1) The sentencing commission shall establish a standing juvenile committee. The committee may consist of the following commission members: (a) The chief justice of the supreme court or the chief justice's designee; (b) The director of youth services, or the director's designee; (c) The three juvenile court judges; (d) One court of common pleas judge who is not a juvenile court judge; (e) One county prosecuting attorney who is experienced in the prosecution of cases in juvenile court involving alleged delinquent children, unruly children, and juvenile traffic offenders; (f) The attorney whose practice of law primarily involves the representation in juvenile court of alleged delinquent children, unruly children, and juvenile traffic offenders; (g) The former victim of a violation of Title XXIX of the Revised Code; (h) The county commissioner; (i) One legislator from each political party; (j) The sheriff; (k) One municipal corporation or township peace officer who is experienced in the investigation of cases involving juveniles; (l) Any other persons that the chief justice or the chairperson of the committee designates. (2) The members may serve on the committee by designation of the chief justice or the chairperson of the committee. (3) The chief justice shall designate a member to serve as chairperson of the committee. The committee shall select a vice-chairperson and any other necessary officers and adopt rules to govern its proceedings. (4) The committee shall meet as necessary at the call of the chairperson or on the written request of four or more of the committee's members. A majority of the members of the committee constitutes a quorum, and the votes of a majority of the quorum present are required to validate any action of the committee, including recommendations to the commission. (5) The committee and the commission shall comply with section 181.26 of the Revised Code. Last updated August 28, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 109.36 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 109 / § 109.36
§ 109.36. Defense of officers and employees definitions
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly As used in this section and sections 109.361 to 109.366 of the Revised Code: (A)(1) "Officer or employee" means any of the following: (a) A person who, at the time a cause of action against the person arises, is serving in an elected or appointed office or position with the state or is employed by the state. (b) A person that, at the time a cause of action against the person, partnership, or corporation arises, is rendering medical, nursing, dental, podiatric, optometric, physical therapeutic, psychiatric, or psychological services pursuant to a personal services contract or purchased service contract with a department, agency, or institution of the state. (c) A person that, at the time a cause of action against the person, partnership, or corporation arises, is rendering peer review, utilization review, or drug utilization review services in relation to medical, nursing, dental, podiatric, optometric, physical therapeutic, psychiatric, or psychological services pursuant to a personal services contract or purchased service contract with a department, agency, or institution of the state. (d) A person who, at the time a cause of action against the person arises, is rendering medical, nursing, dental, podiatric, optometric, physical therapeutic, psychiatric, or psychological services to patients in a state institution operated by the department of mental health and addiction services pursuant to an agreement with the department. (2) "Officer or employee" does not include any person elected, appointed, or employed by any political subdivision of the state. (B) "State" means the state of Ohio, including but not limited to, the general assembly, the supreme court, courts of appeals, the offices of all elected state officers, and all departments, boards, offices, commissions, agencies, institutions, and other instrumentalities of the state of Ohio. "State" does not include political subdivisions. (C) "Political subdivisions" of the state means municipal corporations, townships, counties, school districts, and all other bodies corporate and politic responsible for governmental activities only in geographical areas smaller than that of the state. (D) "Employer" means the general assembly, the supreme court, courts of appeals, any office of an elected state officer, or any department, board, office, commission, agency, institution, or other instrumentality of the state of Ohio that employs or contracts with an officer or employee or to which an officer or employee is elected or appointed. Last updated October 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 173.503 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 173 / § 173.503
§ 173.503. PACE presumptive eligibility
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly The department of aging shall seek to implement a presumptive eligibility component to the PACE program, under which applicants for PACE may receive services under the program during a temporary period, to begin immediately upon application and a finding of presumptive eligibility, while a PACE organization conducts a full eligibility determination on behalf of the individual. If the individual is determined to be ineligible for PACE, the PACE organization that found the individual presumptively eligible shall be responsible for the costs of PACE services provided to the individual during the presumptive eligibility period. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 153.58 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 153 / § 153.58
§ 153.58. Prohibition
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly No officers shall violate sections 153.01 to 153.57 , inclusive, of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.173 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.173
§ 122.173. Grant against tax for new manufacturing machinery purchase
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Manufacturing machinery and equipment" means engines and machinery, and tools and implements, of every kind used, or designed to be used, in refining and manufacturing. "Manufacturing machinery and equipment" does not include property acquired after December 31, 1999, that is used: (a) For the transmission and distribution of electricity; (b) For the generation of electricity, if fifty per cent or more of the electricity that the property generates is consumed, during the one-hundred-twenty-month period commencing with the date the property is placed in service, by persons that are not related members to the person who generates the electricity. (2) "New manufacturing machinery and equipment" means manufacturing machinery and equipment, the original use in this state of which commences with the taxpayer or with a partnership of which the taxpayer is a partner. "New manufacturing machinery and equipment" does not include property acquired after December 31, 1999, that is used: (a) For the transmission and distribution of electricity; (b) For the generation of electricity, if fifty per cent or more of the electricity that the property generates is consumed, during the one-hundred-twenty-month period commencing with the date the property is placed in service, by persons that are not related members to the person who generates the electricity. (3)(a) "Purchase" has the same meaning as in section 179(d)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code. (b) For purposes of this section, any property that is not manufactured or assembled primarily by the taxpayer is considered purchased at the time the agreement to acquire the property becomes binding. Any property that is manufactured or assembled primarily by the taxpayer is considered purchased at the time the taxpayer places the property in service in the county for which the taxpayer will calculate the county excess amount. (c) Notwithstanding section 179(d) of the Internal Revenue Code, a taxpayer's direct or indirect acquisition of new manufacturing machinery and equipment is not purchased on or after July 1, 1995, if the taxpayer, or a person whose relationship to the taxpayer is described in subparagraphs (A), (B), or (C) of section 179(d)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code, had directly or indirectly entered into a binding agreement to acquire the property at any time prior to July 1, 1995. (4) "Qualifying period" means the period that begins July 1, 1995, and ends June 30, 2005. (5) "County average new manufacturing machinery and equipment investment" means either of the following: (a) The average annual cost of new manufacturing machinery and equipment purchased for use in the county during baseline years, in the case of a taxpayer that was in existence for more than one year during baseline years. (b) Zero, in the case of a taxpayer that was not in existence for more than one year during baseline years. (6) "Partnership" includes a limited liability company formed under Chapter 1705. or 1706. of the Revised Code or under the laws of any other state, provided that the company is not classified for federal income tax purposes as an association taxable as a corporation. (7) "Partner" includes a member of a limited liability company formed under Chapter 1705. or 1706. of the Revised Code or under the laws of any other state, provided that the company is not classified for federal income tax purposes as an association taxable as a corporation. (8) "Distressed area" has the same meaning as in section 122.16 of the Revised Code. (9) "Eligible area" means a distressed area, a labor surplus area, an inner city area, or a situational distress area. (10) "Inner city area" means, in a municipal corporation that has a population of at least one hundred thousand and does not meet the criteria of a labor surplus area or a distressed area, targeted investment areas established by the municipal corporation within its boundaries that are comprised of the most recent census block tracts that individually have at least twenty per cent of their population at or below the state poverty level or other census block tracts contiguous to such census block tracts. (11) "Labor surplus area" means an area designated as a labor surplus area by the United States department of labor. (12) "Official poverty line" has the same meaning as in division (A) of section 3923.51 of the Revised Code. (13) "Situational distress area" means a county or a municipal corporation that has experienced or is experiencing a closing or downsizing of a major employer that will adversely affect the county's or municipal corporation's economy. In order to be designated as a situational distress area, for a period not to exceed thirty-six months, the county or municipal corporation may petition the director of development. The petition shall include written documentation that demonstrates all of the following adverse effects on the local economy: (a) The number of jobs lost by the closing or downsizing; (b) The impact that the job loss has on the county's or municipal corporation's unemployment rate as measured by the state director of job and family services; (c) The annual payroll associated with the job loss; (d) The amount of state and local taxes associated with the job loss; (e) The impact that the closing or downsizing has on suppliers located in the county or municipal corporation. (14) "Cost" has the same meaning and limitation as in section 179(d)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. (15) "Baseline years" means: (a) Calendar years 1992, 1993, and 1994, with regard to a grant claimed for the purchase during calendar year 1995, 1996, 1997, or 1998 of new manufacturing machinery and equipment; (b) Calendar years 1993, 1994, and 1995, with regard to a grant claimed for the purchase during calendar year 1999 of new manufacturing machinery and equipment; (c) Calendar years 1994, 1995, and 1996, with regard to a grant claimed for the purchase during calendar year 2000 of new manufacturing machinery and equipment; (d) Calendar years 1995, 1996, and 1997, with regard to a grant claimed for the purchase during calendar year 2001 of new manufacturing machinery and equipment; (e) Calendar years 1996, 1997, and 1998, with regard to a grant claimed for the purchase during calendar year 2002 of new manufacturing machinery and equipment; (f) Calendar years 1997, 1998, and 1999, with regard to a grant claimed for the purchase during calendar year 2003 of new manufacturing machinery and equipment; (g) Calendar years 1998, 1999, and 2000, with regard to a grant claimed for the purchase during calendar year 2004 of new manufacturing machinery and equipment; (h) Calendar years 1999, 2000, and 2001, with regard to a grant claimed for the purchase on or after January 1, 2005, and on or before June 30, 2005, of new manufacturing machinery and equipment. (16) "Related member" has the same meaning as in section 5733.042 of the Revised Code. (17) "Qualifying controlled group" has the same meaning as in section 5733.04 of the Revised Code. (18) "Tax liability" has the same meaning as in section 122.172 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) Subject to divisions (I) and (J) of this section, a grant is allowed against the tax imposed by section 5733.06 or 5747.02 of the Revised Code for a taxpayer that purchases new manufacturing machinery and equipment during the qualifying period, provided that the new manufacturing machinery and equipment are installed in this state not later than June 30, 2006. (2)(a) Except as otherwise provided in division (B)(2)(b) of this section, a grant may be claimed under this section in excess of one million dollars only if the cost of all manufacturing machinery and equipment owned in this state by the taxpayer claiming the grant on the last day of the calendar year exceeds the cost of all manufacturing machinery and equipment owned in this state by the taxpayer on the first day of that calendar year. As used in division (B)(2)(a) of this section, "calendar year" means the calendar year in which the machinery and equipment for which the grant is claimed was purchased. (b) Division (B)(2)(a) of this section does not apply if the taxpayer claiming the grant applies for and is issued a waiver of the requirement of that division. A taxpayer may apply to the director of development for such a waiver in the manner prescribed by the director, and the director may issue such a waiver if the director determines that granting the grant is necessary to increase or retain employees in this state, and that the grant has not caused relocation of manufacturing machinery and equipment among counties within this state for the primary purpose of qualifying for the grant. (C)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (C)(2) and division (I) of this section, the grant amount is equal to seven and one-half per cent of the excess of the cost of the new manufacturing machinery and equipment purchased during the calendar year for use in a county over the county average new manufacturing machinery and equipment investment for that county. (2) Subject to division (I) of this section, as used in division (C)(2) of this section, "county excess" means the taxpayer's excess cost for a county as computed under division (C)(1) of this section. Subject to division (I) of this section, a taxpayer with a county excess, whose purchases included purchases for use in any eligible area in the county, the grant amount is equal to thirteen and one-half per cent of the cost of the new manufacturing machinery and equipment purchased during the calendar year for use in the eligible areas in the county, provided that the cost subject to the thirteen and one-half per cent rate shall not exceed the county excess. If the county excess is greater than the cost of the new manufacturing machinery and equipment purchased during the calendar year for use in eligible areas in the county, the grant amount also shall include an amount equal to seven and one-half per cent of the amount of the difference. (3) If a taxpayer is allowed a grant for purchases of new manufacturing machinery and equipment in more than one county or eligible area, it shall aggregate the amount of those grants each year. (4) Except as provided in division (J) of this section, the taxpayer shall claim one-seventh of the grant amount for the taxable year ending in the calendar year in which the new manufacturing machinery and equipment is purchased for use in the county by the taxpayer or partnership. One-seventh of the taxpayer grant amount is allowed for each of the six ensuing taxable years. Except for carried-forward amounts, the taxpayer is not allowed any grant amount remaining if the new manufacturing machinery and equipment is sold by the taxpayer or partnership or is transferred by the taxpayer or partnership out of the county before the end of the seven-year period unless, at the time of the sale or transfer, the new manufacturing machinery and equipment has been fully depreciated for federal income tax purposes. (5)(a) A taxpayer that acquires manufacturing machinery and equipment as a result of a merger with the taxpayer with whom commenced the original use in this state of the manufacturing machinery and equipment, or with a taxpayer that was a partner in a partnership with whom commenced the original use in this state of the manufacturing machinery and equipment, is entitled to any remaining or carried-forward grant amounts to which the taxpayer was entitled. (b) A taxpayer that enters into an agreement under division (C)(3) of section 5709.62 of the Revised Code and that acquires manufacturing machinery or equipment as a result of purchasing a large manufacturing facility, as defined in section 5709.61 of the Revised Code, from another taxpayer with whom commenced the original use in this state of the manufacturing machinery or equipment, and that operates the large manufacturing facility so purchased, is entitled to any remaining or carried-forward grant amounts to which the other taxpayer who sold the facility would have been entitled under this section had the other taxpayer not sold the manufacturing facility or equipment. (c) New manufacturing machinery and equipment is not considered sold if a pass-through entity transfers to another pass-through entity substantially all of its assets as part of a plan of reorganization under which substantially all gain and loss is not recognized by the pass-through entity that is transferring the new manufacturing machinery and equipment to the transferee and under which the transferee's basis in the new manufacturing machinery and equipment is determined, in whole or in part, by reference to the basis of the pass-through entity that transferred the new manufacturing machinery and equipment to the transferee. (d) Division (C)(5) of this section applies only if the acquiring taxpayer or transferee does not sell the new manufacturing machinery and equipment or transfer the new manufacturing machinery and equipment out of the county before the end of the seven-year period to which division (C)(4) of this section refers. (e) Division (C)(5)(b) of this section applies only to the extent that the taxpayer that sold the manufacturing machinery or equipment, upon request, timely provides to the tax commissioner any information that the tax commissioner considers to be necessary to ascertain any remaining or carried-forward amounts to which the taxpayer that sold the facility would have been entitled under this section had the taxpayer not sold the manufacturing machinery or equipment. Nothing in division (C)(5)(b) or (e) of this section shall be construed to allow a taxpayer to claim any grant amount with respect to the acquired manufacturing machinery or equipment that is greater than the amount that would have been available to the other taxpayer that sold the manufacturing machinery or equipment had the other taxpayer not sold the manufacturing machinery or equipment. (D) The taxpayer shall claim the grant allowed by this section in the manner provided by section 122.172 of the Revised Code. Any portion of the grant in excess of the taxpayer's tax liability for the taxable year shall not be refundable but may be carried forward for the next three consecutive taxable years. (E) A taxpayer purchasing new manufacturing machinery and equipment and intending to claim the grant shall file, with the director of development, a notice of intent to claim the grant on a form prescribed by the director of development. The director of development shall inform the tax commissioner of the notice of intent to claim the grant. No grant may be claimed under this section for any manufacturing machinery and equipment with respect to which a notice was not filed by the date of a timely filed return, including extensions, for the taxable year that includes September 30, 2005, but a notice filed on or before such date under division (E) of section 5733.33 of the Revised Code of the intent to claim the credit under that section also shall be considered a notice of the intent to claim a grant under this section. (F) The director of development shall annually certify, by the first day of January of each year during the qualifying period, the eligible areas for the tax grant for the calendar year that includes that first day of January. The director shall send a copy of the certification to the tax commissioner. (G) New manufacturing machinery and equipment for which a taxpayer claims the credit under section 5733.31 or 5733.311 of the Revised Code shall not be considered new manufacturing machinery and equipment for purposes of the grant under this section. (H)(1) Notwithstanding sections 5733.11 and 5747.13 of the Revised Code, but subject to division (H)(2) of this section, the tax commissioner may issue an assessment against a person with respect to a grant claimed under this section for new manufacturing machinery and equipment described in division (A)(1)(b) or (2)(b) of this section, if the machinery or equipment subsequently does not qualify for the grant. (2) Division (H)(1) of this section shall not apply after the twenty-fourth month following the last day of the period described in divisions (A)(1)(b) and (2)(b) of this section. (I) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section to the contrary, in the case of a qualifying controlled group, the grant available under this section to a taxpayer or taxpayers in the qualifying controlled group shall be computed as if all corporations in the group were a single corporation. The grant shall be allocated to such a taxpayer or taxpayers in the group in any amount elected for the taxable year by the group. The election shall be revocable and amendable during the period described in division (B) of section 5733.12 of the Revised Code. This division applies to all purchases of new manufacturing machinery and equipment made on or after January 1, 2001, and to all baseline years used to compute any grant attributable to such purchases; provided, that this division may be applied solely at the election of the qualifying controlled group with respect to all purchases of new manufacturing machinery and equipment made before that date, and to all baseline years used to compute any grant attributable to such purchases. The qualifying controlled group at any time may elect to apply this division to purchases made prior to January 1, 2001, subject to the following: (1) The election is irrevocable; (2) The election need not accompany a timely filed report, but the election may accompany a subsequently filed but timely application for refund, a subsequently filed but timely amended report, or a subsequently filed but timely petition for reassessment. (J) Except as provided in division (B) of section 122.172 of the Revised Code, no grant under this section may be claimed for any taxable year for which a credit is allowed under section 5733.33 of the Revised Code. If the tax imposed by section 5733.06 of the Revised Code for which a grant is allowed under this section has been prorated under division (G)(2) of section 5733.01 of the Revised Code, the grant shall be prorated by the same percentage as the tax. Last updated September 19, 2023 at 1:18 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 121.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 121 / § 121.10
§ 121.10. Director of health - qualifications
Status: in_force

July 1, 1993 House Bill 152 - 120th General Assembly The director of health shall be either: (A) A physician holding the degree of doctor of medicine from a medical college approved by the state medical board who, before assuming his duties, has been licensed to practice medicine in the state and who has had experience in pursuing some phase of medical practice; (B) An individual who has had significant experience in the public health profession.
Ohio Rev. Code § 123.24 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 123 / § 123.24
§ 123.24. Local administration competency certification program
Status: in_force

September 10, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "institution of higher education" means a state university or college, as defined in section 3345.12 of the Revised Code, or a state community college. (B) The Ohio facilities construction commission shall establish a local administration competency certification program to certify institutions of higher education to administer capital facilities projects pursuant to section 3345.51 of the Revised Code without the supervision, control, or approval of the commission. The program shall offer instruction in the administration of capital facilities projects for employees of institutions of higher education who are responsible for such administration and who are selected by their employing institutions to participate in the program. (C) The program shall provide instruction about the provisions of Chapters 9., 123., and 153. of the Revised Code and any rules or policies adopted by the commission regarding the planning, design, and construction of capital facilities, including all of the following: (1) The planning, design, and construction process; (2) Contract requirements; (3) Construction management; (4) Project management. (D) The commission shall award local administration competency certification to any institution of higher education if all of the following apply: (1) The institution applied for certification on a form and in a manner prescribed by the commission. (2) The commission determines that a sufficient number of the institution's employees, representing a sufficient number of employee classifications, responsible for the administration of capital facilities projects have successfully completed the certification program to ensure that any capital facilities project undertaken by the institution will be administered successfully and in accordance with all provisions of the Revised Code, and the board of trustees of the institution provides written assurance to the commission that the institution will select new employees to participate in the certification program as necessary to compensate for employee turnover. (3) The commission determines that the employees of the institution enrolled in the program demonstrate successful completion of the competency certification training and a satisfactory level of knowledge of and competency in the requirements for administering capital facilities projects. (4) The institution pays the fee prescribed by division (F) of this section. (5) The board of trustees of the institution provides written assurance to the commission that the institution will conduct biennial audits of the institution's administration of capital facilities projects in accordance with division (C) of section 3345.51 of the Revised Code. (6) The board of trustees of the institution agrees in writing to indemnify and hold harmless the state and the commission for any claim of injury, loss, or damage that results from the institution's administration of a capital facilities project. (E) Local administration competency certification granted under this section shall remain in effect for as long as the commission determines that both of the following apply: (1) The institution of higher education maintains a sufficient number of employees responsible for the administration of capital facilities projects who have successfully completed the certification program and have demonstrated a satisfactory level of knowledge of and competency in the requirements for administering capital facilities projects; (2) The institution is performing the biennial audits prescribed in division (C) of section 3345.51 of the Revised Code. If the commission determines that an institution of higher education has failed to comply with the conditions of division (E)(1) or (2) of this section, the commission shall revoke the institution's certification and shall notify the board of trustees of the institution in writing of the revocation. (F) The commission shall establish, subject to the approval of the director of budget and management, the amount of the fee required to be paid by any institution of higher education that seeks certification under this section. The amount of the fees shall be set to cover the costs to implement this section, including the costs for materials and the competency certification training sessions. Any fees received under this section shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the commission's fund established under section 123.201 of the Revised Code. (G) Nothing in this section shall prohibit an institution that administers a capital facilities project under section 3345.51 of the Revised Code from requesting guidance or other services from the commission.
Ohio Rev. Code § 103.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 103 / § 103.21
§ 103.21. Appropriations for compensation and expenses
Status: in_force

June 30, 2000 Senate Bill 245 - 123rd General Assembly (A) The compensation of the director and all officers and employees of the Ohio legislative service commission, the expenses of the commission, and the expenses of the director and the employees of the commission shall be paid out of appropriations made for that purpose upon vouchers approved by the director and the chairperson of the commission. (B) The director of budget and management, upon the request of the director of the legislative service commission and with the approval of the chairperson and vice-chairperson of the commission, shall make transfers of all or part of an appropriation within the commission or from one fiscal year to another.
Ohio Rev. Code § 124.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 124 / § 124.02
§ 124.02. Director of administrative services and state personnel board of review to serve as state civil service commission
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly The director of administrative services and the state personnel board of review shall exercise all functions, powers, and duties that, on or before January 1, 1959, were by law actually devolved upon, vested in, and imposed upon the state civil service commission and the offices of commissioners and members and upon their employees, agents, and representatives. Last updated July 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 109.20 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 109 / § 109.20
§ 109.20. Actions to be taken out of their order
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Upon motion of the attorney general, embodying a statement that the public interests require it, a civil action, brought or prosecuted by him on behalf of the state, or an officer, board, or commission thereof, or an action in which the state is a party, shall be taken out of its order upon the docket and assigned for trial at as early a day as practicable.
Ohio Rev. Code § 151.40 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 151 / § 151.40
§ 151.40. Issuing obligations for paying costs of revitalization projects
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Bond proceedings" includes any trust agreements, and any amendments or supplements to them, as authorized by this section. (2) "Costs of revitalization projects" includes related direct administrative expenses and allocable portions of the direct costs of those projects of the department of development or the environmental protection agency. (3) "Issuing authority" means the treasurer of state. (4) "Obligations" means obligations as defined in section 151.01 of the Revised Code issued to pay the costs of projects for revitalization purposes as referred to in division (A)(2) of Section 2o of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution and division (A)(2) of Section 2q of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution. (5) "Pledged liquor profits" means all receipts of the state representing the gross profit on the sale of spirituous liquor, as referred to in division (B)(4) of section 4301.10 of the Revised Code, after paying all costs and expenses of the division of liquor control and providing an adequate working capital reserve for the division of liquor control as provided in that division, but excluding the sum required by the second paragraph of section 4301.12 of the Revised Code, as it was in effect on May 2, 1980, to be paid into the state treasury. (6) "Pledged receipts" means, as and to the extent provided in bond proceedings: (a) Pledged liquor profits. The pledge of pledged liquor profits to obligations is subject to the priority of the pledge of those profits to obligations issued and to be issued pursuant to Chapter 166. of the Revised Code. (b) Moneys accruing to the state from the lease, sale, or other disposition or use of revitalization projects or from the repayment, including any interest, of loans or advances made from net proceeds; (c) Accrued interest received from the sale of obligations; (d) Income from the investment of the special funds; (e) Any gifts, grants, donations, or pledges, and receipts therefrom, available for the payment of debt service; (f) Additional or any other specific revenues or receipts lawfully available to be pledged, and pledged, pursuant to further authorization by the general assembly, to the payment of debt service. (B)(1) The issuing authority shall issue obligations of the state to pay costs of revitalization projects pursuant to division (B)(2) of Section 2o of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, division (B)(2) of Section 2q of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, section 151.01 of the Revised Code as applicable to this section, and this section. Not more than four hundred million dollars principal amount of obligations issued under this section for revitalization purposes may be outstanding at any one time. Not more than fifty million dollars principal amount of obligations, plus the principal amount of obligations that in any prior fiscal year could have been, but were not issued within the fifty-million-dollar fiscal year limit, may be issued in any fiscal year. (2) The provisions and authorizations in section 151.01 of the Revised Code apply to the obligations and the bond proceedings except as otherwise provided or provided for in those obligations and bond proceedings. (C) Net proceeds of obligations shall be deposited in the general revenue fund. (D) There is hereby created the revitalization projects bond service fund, which shall be in the custody of the treasurer of state, but shall be separate and apart from and not a part of the state treasury. All money received by the state and required by the bond proceedings, consistent with section 151.01 of the Revised Code and this section, to be deposited, transferred, or credited to the bond service fund, and all other money transferred or allocated to or received for the purposes of that fund, shall be deposited and credited to the bond service fund, subject to any applicable provisions of the bond proceedings, but without necessity for any act of appropriation. During the period beginning with the date of the first issuance of obligations and continuing during the time that any obligations are outstanding in accordance with their terms, so long as moneys in the bond service fund are insufficient to pay debt service when due on those obligations payable from that fund, except the principal amounts of bond anticipation notes payable from the proceeds of renewal notes or bonds anticipated, and due in the particular fiscal year, a sufficient amount of pledged receipts is committed and, without necessity for further act of appropriation, shall be paid to the bond service fund for the purpose of paying that debt service when due. (E) The issuing authority may pledge all, or such portion as the issuing authority determines, of the pledged receipts to the payment of the debt service charges on obligations issued under this section, and for the establishment and maintenance of any reserves, as provided in the bond proceedings, and make other provisions in the bond proceedings with respect to pledged receipts as authorized by this section, which provisions are controlling notwithstanding any other provisions of law pertaining to them. (F) The issuing authority may covenant in the bond proceedings, and such covenants shall be controlling notwithstanding any other provision of law, that the state and applicable officers and state agencies, including the general assembly, so long as any obligations issued under this section are outstanding, shall maintain statutory authority for and cause to be charged and collected wholesale or retail prices for spirituous liquor sold by the state or its agents so that the available pledged receipts are sufficient in time and amount to meet debt service payable from pledged liquor profits and for the establishment and maintenance of any reserves and other requirements provided for in the bond proceedings. (G) Obligations may be further secured, as determined by the issuing authority, by a trust agreement between the state and a corporate trustee, which may be any trust company or bank having a place of business within the state. Any trust agreement may contain the resolution or order authorizing the issuance of the obligations, any provisions that may be contained in any bond proceedings, and other provisions that are customary or appropriate in an agreement of that type, including, but not limited to: (1) Maintenance of each pledge, trust agreement, or other instrument comprising part of the bond proceedings until the state has fully paid or provided for the payment of debt service on the obligations secured by it; (2) In the event of default in any payments required to be made by the bond proceedings, enforcement of those payments or agreements by mandamus, the appointment of a receiver, suit in equity, action at law, or any combination of them; (3) The rights and remedies of the holders or owners of obligations and of the trustee and provisions for protecting and enforcing them, including limitations on rights of individual holders and owners. (H) The obligations shall not be general obligations of the state and the full faith and credit, revenue, and taxing power of the state shall not be pledged to the payment of debt service on them. The holders or owners of the obligations shall have no right to have any moneys obligated or pledged for the payment of debt service except as provided in this section and in the applicable bond proceedings. The rights of the holders and owners to payment of debt service are limited to all or that portion of the pledged receipts, and those special funds, pledged to the payment of debt service pursuant to the bond proceedings in accordance with this section, and each obligation shall bear on its face a statement to that effect. Last updated September 18, 2023 at 10:22 AM Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 117.103 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 117 / § 117.103
§ 117.103. Auditor of state's system for reporting fraud
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A)(1) The auditor of state shall establish and maintain a system for the reporting of fraud, including misuse and misappropriation of public money, by any public office or public official. The system shall allow Ohio residents and the employees of any public office to make anonymous complaints through a toll-free telephone number, the auditor of state's web site, or the United States mail to the auditor of state's office. The auditor of state shall review all complaints in a timely manner. (2)(a) Subject to division (A)(2)(b) of this section, the auditor of state shall keep a log of all complaints filed under this section, which is a public record under section 149.43 of the Revised Code. The log shall include the date the complaint was received, a general description of the nature of the complaint, the name of the public office or agency with regard to which the complaint is directed, and a general description of the status of the review by the auditor of state. If section 149.43 of the Revised Code or another statute provides for an applicable exemption from the definition of public record for the information recorded on the log, that information may be redacted. (b) The auditor shall not log a complaint regarding an ongoing criminal investigation, but shall log the complaint not later than thirty days after the investigation is complete. (c) If the auditor of state determines that a report made under division (A)(1) of this section involves probable fraud or theft, including misuse and misappropriation of public money by any public office or public official, the auditor of state shall promptly notify the prosecuting attorney, director of law, village solicitor, or similar chief legal officer of the municipal corporation in whose jurisdiction the probable fraud or theft occurred, unless the prosecuting attorney, director of law, village solicitor, or similar chief legal officer of the municipal corporation is identified in the report as the alleged perpetrator of the fraud or theft. (B) The auditor of state shall create training material detailing Ohio's fraud-reporting system and the means of reporting fraud, waste, and abuse. The department of administrative services shall provide the auditor of state's training material to each state employee, statewide elected official, and member of the general assembly. Such materials shall be as concise as practicable. The auditor of state shall provide the training material to employees and elected officials of a political subdivision. Current employees and elected officials as of the effective date of this amendment shall complete the training within ninety days of a date specified by the auditor of state unless good cause exists for noncompliance. Each new employee or elected official shall confirm receipt of this material within thirty days after taking office or beginning employment. The training shall be required every four years for each employee or elected official. The auditor of state shall provide a model form on the auditor of state's web site to be printed and used by public employees and elected officials to sign and verify their receipt of material as required by this section. The auditor of state shall confirm, when conducting an audit under section 117.11 of the Revised Code, that public employees and elected officials have been provided material as required by this division. Last updated September 22, 2023 at 9:29 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 184.37 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 184 / § 184.37
§ 184.37. Establishing competitive processes for awarding loans and grants
Status: in_force

June 12, 2008 House Bill 554 - 127th General Assembly The third frontier commission, in consultation with the third frontier economic stimulus advisory board, shall establish competitive processes for the purpose of awarding all of the following: (A) Loans, loan guarantees, and grants under the Ohio bioproducts development program pursuant to section 184.25 of the Revised Code; (B) Loans, loan guarantees, and grants under the Ohio biomedical development program pursuant to section 184.26 of the Revised Code. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 124.384 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 124 / § 124.384
§ 124.384. Accumulated sick leave
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, employees whose salaries or wages are paid by warrant of the director of budget and management and who have accumulated sick leave under section 124.38 or 124.382 of the Revised Code shall be paid for a percentage of their accumulated balances, upon separation for any reason, including death but excluding retirement, at their last base rate of pay at the rate of one hour of pay for every two hours of accumulated balances. An employee who retires in accordance with any retirement plan offered by the state shall be paid upon retirement for each hour of the employee's accumulated sick leave balance at a rate of fifty-five per cent of the employee's last base rate of pay. An employee serving in a temporary work level who elects to convert unused sick leave to cash shall do so at the base rate of pay of the employee's normal classification. If an employee dies, the employee's unused sick leave shall be paid in accordance with section 2113.04 of the Revised Code or to the employee's estate. In order to be eligible for the payment authorized by this section, an employee shall have at least one year of state service and shall request all or a portion of that payment no later than three years after separation from state service. No person is eligible to receive all or a portion of the payment authorized by this section at any time later than three years after the person's separation from state service. (B) A person initially employed on or after July 5, 1987, by a state agency in which the employees' salaries or wages are paid directly by warrant of the director of budget and management shall receive payment under this section only for sick leave accumulated while employed by state agencies in which the employees' salaries or wages are paid directly by warrant of the director of budget and management. Additionally, a person initially employed on or after July 5, 1987, but before October 1, 2017, by the state department of education and workforce as an unclassified employee shall receive payment under this section for sick leave placed to the employee's credit under division (E)(2) of section 124.382 of the Revised Code. (C) For employees paid in accordance with section 124.152 of the Revised Code and those employees listed in divisions (B)(2) and (4) of section 124.14 of the Revised Code, the director of administrative services, with the approval of the director of budget and management, may establish a plan for early payment of accrued sick leave and vacation leave. Last updated September 5, 2023 at 5:07 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 128.241 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 128 / § 128.241
§ 128.241. Business service user 9-1-1 requirements
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly Beginning not later than one year after the effective date of this section and except as provided in sections 128.242 and 128.243 of the Revised Code, a business service user that provides residential or business facilities, owns or controls a multiline telephone system or voice over internet protocol system in those facilities, and provides outbound dialing capacity from those facilities shall ensure both of the following: (A) In the case of a multiline telephone system that is capable of initiating a 9-1-1 call, the system is connected to the public switched telephone network in such a way that when an individual using the system dials 9-1-1, the call connects to the public safety answering point without requiring the user to dial any additional digit or code. (B) The system is configured to provide notification of any 9-1-1 call made through the system to a centralized location on the same site as the system. The business service user is not required to have a person available at the location to receive a notification. Last updated September 14, 2023 at 5:05 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 148.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 148 / § 148.05
§ 148.05. Confidentiality of records
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A)(1) As used in this division, "personal history record" means information maintained by the public employees retirement board on an individual who is a participating employee or continuing member that includes the address, telephone number, social security number, record of contributions, records of benefits, correspondence with the Ohio public employees deferred compensation program, or other information the board determines to be confidential. (2) The records of the board shall be open to public inspection, except that the following shall be excluded, except with the written authorization of the individual concerned: (a) Information pertaining to an individual's participant account; (b) The individual's personal history record. (B)(1) All medical reports, records, and recommendations of a participating employee or a continuing member that are in the possession of the board are privileged. (2) All tax information of a participating employee, continuing member, or former participant or member that is in the possession of the board shall be confidential to the extent the information is confidential under Title LVII or any other provision of the Revised Code. (C) Notwithstanding the exceptions to public inspection in division (A)(2) of this section, the board may furnish the following information: (1) If a participating employee, continuing member, or former participant or member is subject to an order issued under section 2907.15 of the Revised Code or is convicted of or pleads guilty to a violation of section 2921.41 of the Revised Code, on written request of a prosecutor as defined in section 2935.01 of the Revised Code, the board shall furnish to the prosecutor the information requested from the individual's personal history record or participant account. (2) Pursuant to a court or administrative order issued pursuant to Chapter 3119., 3121., 3123., or 3125. of the Revised Code, the board shall furnish to a court or child support enforcement agency the information required under that section. (3) Pursuant to an administrative subpoena issued by a state agency, the board shall furnish the information required by the subpoena. (4) The board shall comply with orders issued under section 3105.87 of the Revised Code. (D) A statement that contains information obtained from the program's records that is signed by the executive director or the director's designee and to which the board's official seal is affixed, or copies of the program's records to which the signature and seal are attached, shall be received as true copies of the board's records in any court or before any officer of this state. Last updated July 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.0814 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.0814
§ 122.0814. Approval of grant - agreement with applicant
Status: in_force

September 29, 2007 Senate Bill 24 - 127th General Assembly If the controlling board approves a grant for an eligible project pursuant to the annual competitive process or the discretionary process, the director of development shall enter into an agreement with the eligible applicant to provide the grant for the project. The agreement shall be executed prior to the payment or disbursement of any funds under the grant and shall contain the following provisions: (A) A designation of a single officer or employee of the eligible applicant who will serve as the manager of the eligible project; (B) A detailed description of the scope of the work required under the eligible project, including anticipated sources and uses of funds; (C) A designation of the percentage of the estimated total cost of the project for which the grant will provide funding, which shall not exceed seventy-five per cent of the cost; (D) Provisions for the recovery by the department of development of grant funds for failure to meet the terms of the agreement; (E) A requirement that annual reports be made by the eligible applicant on the progress of the eligible project and any other information about the status of the project as required by the guidelines and rules established for the job ready site program; (F) Any other provisions the director determines necessary.
Ohio Rev. Code § 101.03 — Ohio Code / Title 1 / Chapter 101 / Section 101.03
Section 101.03 | Election of officers.
Status: in_force

At the beginning of each general assembly, both the senate and the house of representatives shall elect from their respective membership a president pro tempore and other officers as each house determines.
Ohio Rev. Code § 167.041 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 167 / § 167.041
§ 167.041. Infrastructure loans
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly An educational service center serving as a fiscal agent for a regional council of governments may establish a program for the council in which the fiscal agent may enter into agreements with the governing body of one or more member governments to lend money to the member or members for the purpose of improving infrastructure within the territory of the member or members located within this state. Last updated May 6, 2021 at 12:23 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 120.38 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 120 / § 120.38
§ 120.38. Attorney-client privilege
Status: in_force

January 13, 1976 House Bill 164 - 111th General Assembly (A) All information obtained by a public defender when determining if a person is indigent, shall be held confidential within the ethical standards of attorney-client communications, unless previously on public record, or made available to the court as provided in section 120.05 of the Revised Code. (B) All communications between the individual defendant and a public defender shall be fully protected by the attorney-client privilege to the same extent and degree as though counsel had been privately engaged.
Ohio Rev. Code § 101.42 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 101 / § 101.42
§ 101.42. Subpoena
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly If the subpoena referred to in section 101.41 of the Revised Code is issued by a joint committee or a subcommittee thereof, it may be delivered to the sergeant at arms of either house as the chairman determines; if it is issued by a committee of one house, or a subcommittee of such committee, it shall be directed to the sergeant at arms of such house; but in either case it may be directed to the sheriff of any county. The officer to whom such subpoena is directed, or his assistant or deputy, shall serve and return it to the chairman issuing it, as subpoenas issued by courts of record are served and returned. The subpoena shall be substantially in the following form: The State of Ohio _____________________ County, ss.: To the sergeant at arms of the ______________, or the sheriff of the county of __________ (as the case may be): By authority of the (insert, general assembly, senate, or house of representatives, as the case may be) of the state of Ohio, you are hereby commanded to summon ___________, of ______________, to appear before the ______________ committee of the said ________________, at _____________ on the __________ day of ____________, A.D. ________, at the hours of _____________; then and there to testify concerning matters of inquiry committed to such committee, and not to depart without leave of such committee. Of this writ make due return with your proceedings in this behalf indorsed thereon. Witness my hand this __________ day of _____________, A.D. ____________ _________________ Chairman.
Ohio Rev. Code § 123.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 123 / § 123.19
§ 123.19. Theater equipment maintenance fund
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly There is hereby established in the state treasury the theater equipment maintenance fund. All appropriate theater-related revenues of the department of administrative services, as determined by the department, shall be credited to that fund and to any accounts created in that fund with the department's approval. All appropriate theater-related expenses of the department, as determined by the department, including reimbursement of, or payment to, any other fund or any governmental agency for advances made or services rendered to or on behalf of the department, shall be paid from that fund as determined by or pursuant to directions of the department. All investment earnings of that fund shall be credited to it and shall be allocated among any accounts created in the fund in the manner determined by the department.
Ohio Rev. Code § 146.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 146 / § 146.09
§ 146.09. Certification of assessment
Status: in_force

March 17, 1989 House Bill 701 - 117th General Assembly The total of all initial premiums collected by the treasurer of state under section 146.07 of the Revised Code is the basic capital account of the volunteer fire fighters' dependents fund, and no further contributions are required of its members until such time as claims against the fund have reduced it to ninety-five per cent or less of its basic capital account. In such event, the state fire marshal shall cause the following assessments, based on current valuation, to be made and certified to the legislative body of each member of the fund having a volunteer fire department or employing volunteer fire fighters: (A) For a member with an assessed property valuation of less than seven million dollars, ninety dollars; (B) For a member with an assessed property valuation of seven million dollars but less than fourteen million dollars, one hundred five dollars; (C) For a member with an assessed property valuation of fourteen million dollars but less than twenty-one million dollars, one hundred twenty dollars; (D) For a member with an assessed property valuation of twenty-one million dollars but less than twenty-eight million dollars, one hundred thirty-five dollars; (E) For a member with an assessed property valuation of twenty-eight million dollars or more, one hundred fifty dollars. Every private volunteer fire company which is a member of the fund shall be assessed one hundred fifty dollars.
Ohio Rev. Code § 166.25 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 166 / § 166.25
§ 166.25. Loans from logistics and distribution infrastructure fund
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) The director of development services, with the approval of the controlling board and subject to the other applicable provisions of this chapter, may lend money in the logistics and distribution infrastructure fund to persons for the purpose of paying allowable costs of eligible logistics and distribution projects. (B) In determining the eligible logistics and distribution projects to be assisted and the nature, amount, and terms of assistance to be provided for an eligible logistics and distribution project, the director shall consult with appropriate governmental agencies, including the department of transportation and the Ohio rail development commission. (C) Any loan made pursuant to this section shall be evidenced by a loan agreement, which shall contain such terms as the director determines necessary or appropriate, including performance measures and reporting requirements. The director may take actions necessary or appropriate to collect or otherwise deal with any loan made under this section, including requiring a loan recipient to repay the amount of the loan plus interest at a rate of three per cent above the federal short term interest rate or any other rate determined by the director. Last updated October 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 121.421 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 121 / § 121.421
§ 121.421. Investigation of casino control commission enforcement personnel
Status: in_force

June 11, 2012 House Bill 386 - 129th General Assembly (A) Notwithstanding division (D)(3) of section 121.41 of the Revised Code, in order to determine whether wrongful acts or omissions have been committed or are being committed by present or former employees, the inspector general shall investigate employees of the office of the attorney general who are contractually vested with duties to enforce Chapter 3772. of the Revised Code, including any designated bureau of criminal identification and investigation support staff that are necessary to fulfill the investigatory and law enforcement functions of the Ohio casino control commission. The inspector general and any deputy inspector general may administer oaths, examine witnesses under oath, and issue subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum to employees of the office of the attorney general to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of all kinds of books, records, papers, and tangible things deemed necessary in the course of any such investigation. (B) The inspector general may enter into any contracts that are necessary to complete an investigation. The contracts may include contracts for the services of persons who are experts in a particular field and whose expertise is necessary for successful completion of the investigation. (C) If the authority of the attorney general terminates or expires, the authority vested in the inspector general by this section terminates upon the conclusion of ongoing investigations or upon issuance of the final report of the investigations.
Ohio Rev. Code § 119.061 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 119 / § 119.061
§ 119.061. Power of certain agencies
Status: in_force

January 1, 1974 House Bill 511 - 109th General Assembly Every agency authorized by law to adopt, amend, or rescind rules may suspend the license of any person, over whom such agency has jurisdiction within the purview of sections 119.01 to 119.13 of the Revised Code, for engaging in deceptive trade practice as defined in section 4165.02 of the Revised Code. Except as otherwise expressly provided by law existing as of November 2, 1959, no agency may make rules which would limit or restrict the right of any person to advertise in compliance with law.
Ohio Rev. Code § 148.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 148 / § 148.02
§ 148.02. Ohio public employees deferred compensation program
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly The Ohio public employees deferred compensation program is hereby created for all eligible employees. The public employees retirement board created in section 145.04 of the Revised Code shall administer the program. The board may utilize its employees and property in the administration of the program in consideration of a reasonable service charge to be applied in a nondiscriminatory manner to all amounts of compensation deferred under the program. The board may exercise the same powers granted by section 145.09 of the Revised Code necessary to perform its functions under this chapter. The attorney general shall be the legal adviser of the board. The Ohio public employees deferred compensation receiving account, which is hereby created, shall be in the custody of the treasurer of state, but shall not be part of the state treasury. The Ohio public employees deferred compensation receiving account is a legal entity that is separate from the various funds created under Chapter 145. of the Revised Code. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.4055 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.4055
§ 122.4055. No responsibility for lack of response
Status: in_force

May 17, 2021 House Bill 2 - 134th General Assembly The development services agency shall not be responsible for any failure by a broadband provider to respond to a request made by the agency pursuant to section 122.4051 of the Revised Code or to submit an application for a program grant under the Ohio residential broadband expansion grant program. Last updated October 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 154.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 154 / § 154.21
§ 154.21. Capital facilities for state-supported and state-assisted institutions of higher education
Status: in_force

July 3, 2012 House Bill 482 - 129th General Assembly (A) Subject to authorization by the general assembly under section 154.02 of the Revised Code, the issuing authority may authorize and issue obligations pursuant to this chapter to pay the cost of capital facilities for state-supported and state-assisted institutions of higher education. (B) Capital facilities for institutions of higher education financed under this section may be leased by the commission to institutions of higher education or to the Ohio board of regents for the use of institutions of higher education, and such parties may make other agreement for the use or sale and purchase of the facilities; the Ohio board of regents may sublease such capital facilities to institutions of higher education, and such parties may make other agreement for the use or sale and purchase of the facilities, in any manner permitted by the lease or agreement between the commission and the Ohio board of regents ; all upon such terms and conditions as the parties may agree upon and pursuant to this chapter, notwithstanding other provisions of law affecting the leasing, acquisition, or disposition of capital facilities by such parties. Any such leases, subleases, or agreements may contain provisions setting forth the responsibilities of the commission or issuing authority, institutions of higher education, and Ohio board of regents as to the financing, construction, operation, maintenance, and insuring of such facilities and other terms and conditions applicable thereto, including designation of the "owner" for purposes of Chapter 153. of the Revised Code, and any other provisions mutually agreed upon for the purposes of this chapter. Promptly upon execution thereof, a signed or conformed copy of each such lease or agreement, and any supplement thereto, between an institution of higher education or the Ohio board of regents and the commission shall be filed by the commission with the Ohio board of regents, the issuing authority, and the director of budget and management, and promptly upon execution thereof, a signed or conformed copy of each such sublease or agreement between the Ohio board of regents and an institution of higher education shall be filed by the Ohio board of regents with the commission and the director. (C) For purposes of this section, "available receipts" means fees, tuitions, charges, revenues, and all other receipts of or on behalf of state-supported and state-assisted institutions of higher education, any revenues or receipts derived by the commission from the operation, leasing, or other disposition of capital facilities financed under this section, the proceeds of obligations issued under this section and sections 154.11 and 154.12 of the Revised Code, and also means any gifts, grants, donations, and pledges, and receipts therefrom, available for the payment of bond service charges on such obligations. Subject to any pledge of that portion of available receipts, comprised of fees, tuitions, charges, revenues, and receipts derived directly by an institution of higher education, which has been or may thereafter be made pursuant to section 3345.07 , 3345.11 , 3345.12 , 3349.05 , 3354.121 , or 3357.112 of the Revised Code, the issuing authority may pledge all or such portion as that authority determines of the available receipts to the payment of bond service charges on obligations issued under this section and sections 154.11 and 154.12 of the Revised Code and for the establishment and maintenance of any reserves, as provided in the bond proceedings, and make other provisions therein with respect to such available receipts as authorized by this chapter, which provisions shall be controlling, notwithstanding any other provision of law pertaining thereto. (D) In the event that moneys in the higher education bond service fund and available receipts from payments to be made to the commission or issuing authority under leases and agreements with the Ohio board of regents, together with any other funds made available by the general assembly, will be insufficient, without application of reserves, for the payment of bond service charges and for the establishment and maintenance of reserves, as provided in the bond proceedings, then the commission, upon consultation with the institutions of higher education to be affected and the Ohio board of regents, may require the institutions of higher education to charge, collect, and transmit to the credit of the higher education bond service fund provided for in division (E) of this section, a special student fee, which may be a segregated part of the established instruction fee or other fee, in such amount or amounts as are necessary for the payment of the bond service charges on obligations issued under this section and sections 154.11 and 154.12 of the Revised Code and for the establishment and maintenance of any reserves, as provided in the bond proceedings. Such special fee constitutes "available receipts" within the meaning thereof in division (C) of this section, and may be pledged as therein provided in addition to, or in lieu of, or to be applied prior to, other available receipts, as provided in the bond proceedings; provided, that such special fee shall not be deemed to be pledged by the institutions of higher education under section 3345.07 , 3345.11 , 3345.12 , 3349.05 , 3354.121 , or 3357.112 of the Revised Code. The issuing authority may covenant in the bond proceedings to require such special fee to be charged, collected, and transmitted pursuant to this division. In the event the initiation of such special fee is required in accordance with such covenant, the commission shall by rules transmitted to each institution of higher education affected thereby, fix, establish, and from time to time modify, as it may consider appropriate, the amount or amounts of the fee, exemptions therefrom, such distinctions, if any, as it may determine appropriate for full-time and part-time students or students enrolled in different programs, or other bases for distinction among students, so that students throughout the state in similar classifications under such rules are so far as feasible treated alike, and establish and from time to time modify other rules, procedures, and definitions for the charge, collection, and transmission of such special fees. Notwithstanding any other provision of law pertaining thereto, the governing boards of the institutions of higher education shall charge, collect, and transmit such special fee in accordance with such rules. (E) There is hereby created the higher education bond service trust fund, which shall be in the custody of the treasurer of state but shall be separate and apart from and not a part of the state treasury. All moneys received by or on account of the commission or issuing authority and required by the applicable bond proceedings to be deposited, transferred, or credited to the higher education bond service trust fund, and all other moneys transferred or allocated to or received for the purposes of the higher education bond service trust fund, shall be deposited with the treasurer of state and credited to such fund, subject to any applicable provisions of the bond proceedings, without necessity for any act of appropriation. The higher education bond service trust fund is a trust fund and is hereby pledged to the payment of bond service charges on the obligations issued pursuant to this section and sections 154.11 and 154.12 of the Revised Code to the extent provided in the applicable bond proceedings, and payment thereof from such fund shall be made or provided for by the treasurer of state in accordance with such bond proceedings without necessity for any act of appropriation. (F) There is hereby created in the state treasury the higher education improvement fund. Subject to the bond proceedings therefor, all of the proceeds of the sale of higher education obligations issued pursuant to this section or section 151.04 of the Revised Code shall be credited to the fund, except that any accrued interest received on obligations issued pursuant to this section shall be credited to the higher education bond service fund. The higher education improvement fund may also be comprised of gifts, grants, appropriated moneys, and other sums and securities received to the credit of such fund. The fund shall be applied only to the purpose of paying costs of capital facilities for state-supported and state-assisted institutions of higher education, which may include participation with one or more such institutions of higher education in any such capital facilities by way of grants, loans, or contributions to them for such capital facilities. (G) There is hereby created in the state treasury the higher education improvement taxable fund. Subject to the bond proceedings therefor, all of the net proceeds of higher education obligations issued pursuant to this section or section 151.04 of the Revised Code, the interest on which is not excluded from the calculation of gross income for federal income taxation purposes under the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C. 1 et seq., shall be credited to the fund, except that any accrued interest received on obligations issued pursuant to this section shall be credited to the higher education bond service fund. The higher education improvement taxable fund may also be comprised of gifts, grants, appropriated moneys, and other sums and securities received to the credit of such fund. The fund shall be applied only to the purpose of paying costs of capital facilities for state-supported and state-assisted institutions of higher education, which may include participation with one or more such institutions of higher education in any such capital facilities by way of grants, loans, or contributions to them for such capital facilities. (H) This section shall be applied with other applicable provisions of this chapter. (I) Any instrument by which real property is acquired pursuant to this section shall identify the agency of the state that has the use and benefit of the real property as specified in section 5301.012 of the Revised Code. Last updated October 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 109.51 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 109 / § 109.51
§ 109.51. Bureau of criminal identification and investigation created
Status: in_force

September 24, 1963 House Bill 263 - 105th General Assembly There is hereby created in the office of the attorney general, a bureau of criminal identification and investigation to be located at the site of the London correctional institution. The attorney general shall appoint a superintendent of said bureau. The superintendent shall appoint, with the approval of the attorney general, such assistants as are necessary to carry out the functions and duties of the bureau as contained in sections 109.51 to 109.63 , inclusive, of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 155.31 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 155 / § 155.31
§ 155.31. [Former R.C. 1509.71, amended and renumbered by H.B. 110 of the 134th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2021] Statement of policy; oil and gas land management commission
Status: in_force

September 30, 2021 House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly (A) It is the policy of the state to promote the exploration for, development of, and production of oil and natural gas resources owned or controlled by the state in an effort to use the state's natural resources responsibly. (B) There is hereby created the oil and gas land management commission consisting of the director of natural resources or the director's designee and the following four members appointed by the governor: (1) Two members with knowledge or experience in the oil and gas industry recommended by a statewide organization representing the oil and gas industry; (2) One member of the public with expertise in finance or real estate; (3) One member representing a statewide environmental or conservation organization. (C) Initial appointments shall be made to the commission not later than thirty days after September 30, 2011. Of the initial members appointed to the commission, one shall serve a term of two years, one shall serve a term of three years, one shall serve a term of four years, and one shall serve a term of five years. Thereafter, terms of office of members shall be for five years from the date of appointment. Each member appointed by the governor shall hold office from the date of appointment until the end of the term for which the member was appointed. The governor shall fill a vacancy occurring on the commission by appointing a member within sixty days after the vacancy occurs. A member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which the member's predecessor was appointed shall hold office for the remainder of that term. A member shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration date of the member's term until the member's successor takes office, or until a period of sixty days has elapsed, whichever occurs first. (D) Three members constitute a quorum of the commission, and no action of the commission is valid unless it has the concurrence of at least three members. The commission shall keep a record of its proceedings. The director of natural resources or the director's designee shall serve as the chairperson of the commission. (E) The governor may remove an appointed member from the commission for inefficiency, malfeasance, misfeasance, or nonfeasance. (F) Members of the commission shall receive no compensation, but shall be reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the course of the performance of their duties as members of the commission. (G) Not later than ninety days after the effective date of this amendment , the commission shall hire at least one staff member to provide clerical and other services required by the commission in the performance of its duties. Last updated October 19, 2021 at 5:05 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 124.134 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 124 / § 124.134
§ 124.134. Vacation leave - employees exempt from collective bargaining
Status: in_force

April 7, 2023 House Bill 45 - 134th General Assembly (A) Each full-time permanent state employee paid in accordance with section 124.152 of the Revised Code and those employees listed in divisions (B)(2) and (4) of section 124.14 of the Revised Code shall be credited with vacation leave with full pay according to length of service and accruing at a corresponding rate per biweekly pay period, as follows: Length of Service Per Pay Period Accrual Rate Less than 4 years 3.1 hours 4 but less than 9 years 4.6 hours 9 but less than 14 years 6.2 hours 14 but less than 19 years 6.9 hours 19 but less than 24 years 7.7 hours 24 years or more 9.2 hours Fifty-two weeks equal one year of service. The amount of an employee's service shall be determined in accordance with the standard specified in section 9.44 of the Revised Code. Credit for prior service, including an increased vacation accrual rate and longevity supplement, shall take effect during the first pay period that begins immediately following the date the director of administrative services approves granting credit for that prior service. No employee, other than an employee who submits proof of prior service within ninety days after the date of the employee's hiring, shall receive any amount of vacation leave for the period prior to the date of the director's approval of the grant of credit for prior service. Part-time permanent employees who are paid in accordance with section 124.152 of the Revised Code and full-time permanent employees subject to this section who are in active pay status for less than eighty hours in a pay period shall earn vacation leave on a prorated basis. The ratio between the hours worked and the vacation hours earned by these classes of employees shall be the same as the ratio between the hours worked and the vacation hours earned by a full-time permanent employee with the same amount of service as provided for in this section. Vacation leave is not available for use until it appears on the employee's earning statement and the compensation described in the earning statement is available to the employee. (B) Employees granted leave under this section shall forfeit their right to take or to be paid for any vacation leave to their credit which is in excess of the accrual for three years. Any excess leave shall be eliminated from the employees' leave balance. (C) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, beginning in fiscal year 2012, an employee may be paid for up to eighty hours of vacation leave each fiscal year if the employee requested and was denied the use of vacation leave during that fiscal year. No employee shall receive payment for more than eighty hours of denied vacation leave in a single fiscal year. An employee is only eligible to receive payment for vacation leave when the employee's vacation leave credit is at, or will reach in the immediately following pay period, the maximum of the accrual for three years and the employee has been denied the use of vacation leave. An employee is not entitled to receive payment for vacation leave denied in any pay period in which the employee's vacation leave credit is not at, or will not reach in the immediately following pay period, the maximum of accrual for three years. Any vacation leave for which an employee receives payment shall be deducted from the employee's vacation leave balance. No employee is eligible to receive payment for denied vacation leave in either fiscal year 2010 or fiscal year 2011. (D) The supreme court, general assembly, secretary of state, auditor of state, treasurer of state, and attorney general may establish by policy an alternate payment structure for employees whose vacation leave credit is at, or will reach in the immediately following pay period, the maximum of accrual for three years and the employee has been denied the use of vacation leave. An employee is not entitled to receive payment for vacation leave denied in any pay period in which the employee's vacation leave credit is not at, or will not reach in the immediately following pay period, the maximum of accrual for three years. Any vacation leave for which the employee receives payment shall be deducted from the employee's vacation leave balance. (E) Except as otherwise provided in this division, upon separation from state service, an employee granted leave under this section is entitled to compensation at the employee's current rate of pay for all unused vacation leave accrued under this section or section 124.13 of the Revised Code to the employee's credit. An employee who separates from state service with less than twelve months of total state service is not entitled to compensation for unused accrued vacation leave. In case of transfer of an employee from one state agency to another, the employee shall retain the unused accrued vacation leave. In case of the death of an employee, the unused accrued vacation leave shall be paid in accordance with section 2113.04 of the Revised Code, or to the employee's estate. An employee serving in a temporary work level who is eligible to receive compensation under this division shall be compensated at the base rate of pay of the employee's normal classification. (F)(1) Except as provided in division (G) of this section, beginning in December 2023, and every year thereafter, the director shall allow an eligible full-time or part-time employee who is credited with vacation leave under this section to convert a portion of the employee's unused accrued vacation leave to cash in accordance with this division. (2) To be eligible for the conversion described in division (F)(1) of this section, an employee shall have not less than one hundred hours of unused accrued vacation leave available for use on the last day of the first pay period of November in the year that the employee chooses to make the conversion. (3) An employee who has not less than two hundred hours of unused accrued vacation leave available for use on the last day of the first pay period of November in the year that the employee chooses to make the conversion is eligible to convert up to eighty hours of unused accrued vacation leave to cash under division (F)(1) of this section. An employee who has not less than one hundred hours of unused accrued vacation leave available for use on the last day of the first pay period of November in the year that the employee chooses to make the conversion is eligible to convert up to forty hours of unused accrued vacation leave to cash under division (F)(1) of this section. (4) Unused accrued vacation leave converted to cash under division (F)(1) of this section shall be paid to the employee in the first paycheck of December at the base rate of pay for every hour of unused accrued vacation leave that the employee converts. An employee serving in a temporary work level who elects to convert unused accrued vacation leave to cash shall do so at the base rate of pay of the employee's normal classification. (5) An employee who separates from state service during the year shall not be eligible for the cash benefit provided under division (F) of this section. (6) The cash benefit set forth in division (F) of this section shall not be subject to contributions to any of the retirement systems, either by the employee or the employer. (7) The director shall establish procedures to implement this division. The director shall include in the procedures a final date by which an employee must notify the director of the amount of unused accrued vacation leave to be converted to cash. Except as provided in division (B) of this section, an employee's unused accrued vacation leave balance shall automatically carry forward if the employee does not notify the director in accordance with the procedures the director establishes. (G) Division (F) of this section does not apply to employees of the supreme court, the general assembly, the legislative service commission, the secretary of state, the auditor of state, the treasurer of state, or the attorney general unless the supreme court, the general assembly, the legislative service commission, the secretary of state, the auditor of state, the treasurer of state, or the attorney general decides that the employees of those respective entities should be eligible for the opportunity to convert unused accrued vacation leave pursuant to division (F) of this section and notifies the director in writing on or before the first day of October of the calendar year of the decision to make the employees eligible. The first year that these entities may elect to allow to make the employees eligible is 2023. After notifying the director in writing of the decision that employees of those respective entities are eligible, those employees remain eligible until the respective entity notifies the director in writing on or before the first day of October of the calendar year that the employees are ineligible. If any entity notifies the director of a decision that employees of those entities are ineligible during any calendar year, those employees remain ineligible until the entity notifies the director in writing on or before the first day of October of the calendar year that the employees are eligible. This division does not apply to employees defined as public employees under section 4117.01 of the Revised Code. Last updated February 28, 2023 at 10:45 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 121.085 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 121 / § 121.085
§ 121.085. Financial literacy education fund
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly The financial literacy education fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of funds transferred to it from the consumer finance fund pursuant to section 1321.21 of the Revised Code. The fund shall be used to support various financial literacy education programs developed or implemented by the director of commerce. The fund shall be administered by the director of commerce who shall adopt rules for the distribution of fund moneys. The director of commerce shall deliver to the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, the minority leader of the senate, the minority leader of the house of representatives, and the governor an annual report that includes an outline of each adult financial literacy education program developed or implemented, the number of individuals who were educated by each program, and an accounting for all funds distributed. Last updated July 23, 2025 at 8:59 AM