Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.158 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.158
§ 5165.158. Private room incentive payment
Status: in_force

July 4, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Category one private room" means a private room that has unshared access to a toilet and sink. (2) "Category two private room" means a private room that has shared access to a toilet and sink. (B) Beginning six months following approval by the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services or on the effective date of applicable department of medicaid rules, whichever is later, but not sooner than April 1, 2024, the total per medicaid day payment rate for nursing facility services provided on or after that date in private rooms approved by the department of medicaid under division (C) of this section shall be the sum of both of the following: (1) The total per medicaid day payment rate determined for the nursing facility under section 5165.15 of the Revised Code; (2) The private room incentive payment. The private room incentive payment shall be thirty dollars per day for a category one private room and twenty dollars per day for a category two private room, beginning in state fiscal year 2024. The department may increase the payment amount for subsequent fiscal years. (C)(1) The department shall approve rooms in nursing facilities to qualify for the rate described in division (B) of this section. A nursing facility provider shall apply for approval of its private rooms by submitting an application in the form and manner prescribed by the department. The department shall begin accepting applications for approval of category one private rooms on January 1, 2024, and category two private rooms on March 1, 2024. The department may specify evidence that an applicant must supply to demonstrate that a room meets the definition of a private room under section 5165.01 of the Revised Code and may conduct an on-site inspection of the room to verify that it meets the definition. Subject to division (C)(2) of this section, the department shall approve an application if the rooms included in the application meet the definition of a private room under section 5165.01 of the Revised Code. (2) The department shall only consider applications that meet the following criteria: (a) Private rooms that are in existence on July 1, 2023, in facilities where all of the licensed beds are in service on the application date; (b) Private rooms created by surrendering licensed beds from its licensed capacity, or, if the facility does not hold a license, surrendering beds that have been certified by CMS. A nursing facility where the beds are owned by a county and the facility is operated by a person other than the county may satisfy this requirement by removing beds from service. (c) Private rooms created by adding space to the nursing facility or renovating nonbedroom space, without increasing the total licensed bed capacity; (d) A nursing facility licensed after July 1, 2023, in which all licensed beds are in service on the application date or in which private rooms were created by surrendering licensed beds from its licensed capacity. (3) The department may specify evidence that an applicant must supply to demonstrate that it meets the conditions specified in division (C)(2) of this section and may conduct an on-site inspection to verify that the conditions are met. (4) The department may deny an application if the department determines that any of the following circumstances apply: (a) The rooms included in the application do not meet the definition of a private room under section 5165.01 of the Revised Code; (b) The rooms included in the application do not meet the criteria specified in division (C)(2) of this section; (c) The applicant created private rooms by reducing the number of available beds without surrendering the beds, and surrender of the beds is required by this section; (d) Approval of the room would cause projected expenditures for private room incentive payments under this section for the fiscal year to exceed forty million dollars in fiscal year 2024 or one hundred sixty million dollars in fiscal year 2025 or subsequent fiscal years. In projecting expenditures for private room incentive payments, the department shall use a medicaid utilization percentage of fifty per cent. If the department determines that there are more approvable eligible applications submitted than can be accommodated within the applicable spending limit specified in this division, the department shall prioritize category one private rooms. (e) On the application date, the nursing facility is listed on table A or table D of the SFF list, as defined in section 5165.01 of the Revised Code or is designated as having a one-star overall rating in the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services nursing facility five-star quality rating system known as care compare. (5) Beginning July 1, 2025, to retain eligibility for private room rates, a nursing facility must do both of the following: (a) Have a policy in place to prioritize placement in a private room based on the medical and psychosocial needs of the resident; (b) Participate in the resident or family satisfaction survey performed pursuant to section 173.47 of the Revised Code. (6) The department shall hold all applications for a private room incentive payment in a pending status until the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services approves private room incentive payments and the department determines a facility is qualified for the payment. An application in pending status shall be included in the payment cap described in division (C)(4)(d) of this section as if the application were approved. (7) An applicant may request reconsideration of a denial under division (C) of this section. Last updated October 6, 2023 at 5:10 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5160.052 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5160 / § 5160.052
§ 5160.052. Procedures and formats for section 109.5721 notices
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly The department of medicaid shall collaborate with the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation to develop procedures and formats necessary to produce the notices described in division (D) of section 109.5721 of the Revised Code in a format that is acceptable for use by the department. The medicaid director may adopt rules under section 5160.02 of the Revised Code necessary for such collaboration. Any such rules shall be adopted in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code as if they were internal management rules. The medicaid director may adopt rules under section 5160.02 of the Revised Code necessary for utilizing the information received pursuant to section 109.5721 of the Revised Code. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5107.714 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5107 / § 5107.714
§ 5107.714. Waiver issued to domestic violence victim
Status: in_force

September 29, 2007 House Bill 119 - 127th General Assembly A county department of job and family services shall issue a member of an assistance group participating in Ohio works first a waiver that exempts the member from a requirement of the Ohio works first program if the county department determines that the member has been subjected to domestic violence and requiring compliance with the requirement would make it more difficult for the member to escape domestic violence or unfairly penalize the member. A waiver shall specify the particular requirement being waived. A waiver may not exempt the member from the time limit on participating in the Ohio works first program established by division (B) of section 5107.18 of the Revised Code. A waiver shall be effective for a period of time the county department determines necessary. The county department shall redetermine the member's need for the waiver not less often than a period of time specified in rules adopted under section 5107.05 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.0327 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.0327
§ 5103.0327. Physical examinations
Status: in_force

March 31, 2003 Senate Bill 245 - 124th General Assembly Any physical examination required in the determination of foster home placement may be conducted by any individual authorized by the Revised Code to conduct physical examinations, including a physician assistant, a clinical nurse specialist, a certified nurse practitioner, or a certified nurse-midwife. Any written documentation of the physical examination shall be completed by the individual who conducted the examination.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.02
§ 5101.02. Authority of director of job and family services
Status: in_force

July 1, 2000 House Bill 470 - 123rd General Assembly The director of job and family services is the executive head of the department of job and family services. All duties conferred on the various work units of the department by law or by order of the director shall be performed under such rules as the director prescribes, and shall be under the director's control.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.53 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.53
§ 5123.53. Petitioning for removal from registry
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly An individual who is included in the registry may petition the director of developmental disabilities for removal from the registry. If the director determines that good cause exists, the director shall remove the individual from the registry and may properly reply to an inquiry that the individual is not included in the registry. Good cause includes meeting rehabilitation standards established in rules adopted under section 5123.54 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.13
§ 5126.13. Regional council
Status: in_force

September 10, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly (A) A county board of developmental disabilities may enter into an agreement with one or more other county boards of developmental disabilities to establish a regional council in accordance with Chapter 167. of the Revised Code. The agreement shall specify the duties and functions to be performed by the council, which may include any duty or function a county board is required or authorized to perform under this chapter. A county board may also enter into an agreement with one or more school districts or other political subdivisions to establish a regional council in accordance with Chapter 167. of the Revised Code. (B) On or before the thirtieth day of March, the fiscal officer of a regional council described in this section shall report to the department of developmental disabilities, in the format specified by the department, all income and operating expenditures of the council for the immediately preceding calendar year.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.152 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.152
§ 5165.152. Payments for services provided to low resource utilization residents
Status: in_force

July 4, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly The total per medicaid day payment rate determined under section 5165.15 of the Revised Code shall not be paid for nursing facility services provided to low case-mix residents. Instead, the total rate for such nursing facility services shall be one hundred fifteen dollars per medicaid day. Last updated October 5, 2023 at 3:28 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.81 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.81
§ 5119.81. 9-8-8 hotline definitions
Status: in_force

April 9, 2025 Senate Bill 211 - 135th General Assembly As used in sections 5119.81 to 5119.85 of the Revised Code: (A) "9-8-8 administrator" means the administrator of the 9-8-8 suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline system, as established in section 5119.82 of the Revised Code. (B) "9-8-8 suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline" or "9-8-8 hotline" means the 9-8-8 universal telephone number in the United States, as established under 47 U.S.C. 251(e), for the purpose of the national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline system. Last updated February 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5104.41 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5104 / § 5104.41
§ 5104.41. Homeless child care
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly A child and the child's caretaker who are otherwise ineligible for publicly funded child care are eligible for homeless child care for twelve months. Last updated August 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5121.45 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5121 / § 5121.45
§ 5121.45. Action to enforce collection of delinquent payment
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) For purposes of this section, "delinquent payment" means an amount owed by a patient, patient's estate, or liable relative to the department of mental health and addiction services for which the person has failed to do either of the following not later than ninety days after the service associated with the charge was incurred: (1) Make payment in full; (2) Make a payment in accordance with the terms of an agreement entered into under section 5121.44 of the Revised Code. (B) An action to enforce the collection of a delinquent payment shall be commenced not later than six years after the later of the following: (1) The last date the department received money to satisfy the delinquent payment; (2) The date the charge was due. (C) In all actions to enforce the collection of delinquent payments, a court of record shall receive into evidence the proof of claim document made by the state together with all debts and credits. The proof of claim document shall be prima-facie evidence of the facts stated in the document. Last updated October 17, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5153.163 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5153 / § 5153.163
§ 5153.163. Payments to adoptive parent of child with special needs; kinship guardian assistance
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Adoptive parent" means, as the context requires, a prospective adoptive parent or an adoptive parent. (2) "Relative" has the same meaning as in section 5180.42 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) Before a child's adoption is finalized, a public children services agency may enter into an agreement with the child's adoptive parent under which the agency, to the extent state funds are available, may make state adoption maintenance subsidy payments as needed on behalf of the child when all of the following apply: (a) The child is a child with special needs. (b) The child was placed in the adoptive home by a public children services agency or a private child placing agency and may legally be adopted. (c) The adoptive parent has the capability of providing the permanent family relationships needed by the child. (d) The needs of the child are beyond the economic resources of the adoptive parent. (e) Acceptance of the child as a member of the adoptive parent's family would not be in the child's best interest without payments on the child's behalf under this section. (f) The gross income of the adoptive parent's family does not exceed one hundred twenty per cent of the median income of a family of the same size, including the child, as most recently determined for this state by the secretary of health and human services under Title XX of the "Social Security Act," 88 Stat. 2337, 42 U.S.C.A. 1397, as amended. (g) The child is not eligible for adoption assistance payments under Title IV-E of the "Social Security Act," 94 Stat. 501 (1980), 42 U.S.C.A. 671, as amended. (2) State adoption maintenance subsidy payment agreements must be made by either the public children services agency that has permanent custody of the child or the public children services agency of the county in which the private child placing agency that has permanent custody of the child is located. (3) State adoption maintenance subsidy payments shall be made in accordance with the agreement between the public children services agency and the adoptive parent and are subject to an annual redetermination of need. (4) Payments under this division may begin either before or after issuance of the final adoption decree, except that payments made before issuance of the final adoption decree may be made only while the child is living in the adoptive parent's home. Preadoption payments may be made for not more than twelve months, unless the final adoption decree is not issued within that time because of a delay in court proceedings. Payments that begin before issuance of the final adoption decree may continue after its issuance. (C)(1) A public children services agency may enter into an agreement with a child's relative under which the agency, to the extent state funds are available, may provide state kinship guardianship assistance as needed on behalf of the child when all of the following apply: (a) The relative has cared for the eligible child as a foster caregiver as defined by section 5103.02 of the Revised Code for at least six consecutive months. (b) Both of the following apply: (i) A juvenile court issued an order granting legal custody of the child to the relative, or a probate court issued an order granting guardianship of the child to the relative, and the order is not a temporary court order. (ii) The relative has committed to care for the child on a permanent basis. (c) The relative signed a state kinship guardianship assistance agreement prior to assuming legal guardianship or legal custody of the child. (d) The child had been removed from home pursuant to a voluntary placement agreement or as a result of a judicial determination to the effect that continuation in the home would be contrary to the welfare of the child. (e) Returning the child home or adoption are not appropriate permanency options for the child. (f) The child demonstrates a strong attachment to the relative and the relative has a strong commitment to caring permanently for the child. (g) With respect to a child who has attained fourteen years of age, the child has been consulted regarding the state kinship guardianship assistance arrangement. (h) The child is not eligible for kinship guardianship assistance payments under Title IV-E of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 673(d), as amended. (2) The public children services agency that had custody of a child immediately prior to a court granting legal custody or guardianship of the child to a relative of the child described in division (C)(1) of this section is authorized to enter into a state kinship guardianship assistance agreement with that relative. (3) State kinship guardianship assistance for a child shall be provided in accordance with a state kinship guardianship assistance agreement entered into between the public children services agency and relative of the child described in division (C)(1) of this section and is subject to an annual redetermination of need. (D) No payment shall be made under division (B) or (C) of this section on behalf of any person eighteen years of age or older beyond the end of the school year during which the person attains the age of eighteen or on behalf of a person with a mental or physical disability twenty-one years of age or older. (E) The director of children and youth shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that are needed to implement this section. The rules shall establish all of the following: (1) The application process for all forms of assistance provided under this section; (2) The method to determine the amount of assistance payable under division (B) of this section; (3) The definition of "child with special needs" for this section; (4) The process whereby a child's continuing need for services provided under division (B) or (C) of this section is annually redetermined; (5) Any other rule, requirement, or procedure the department considers appropriate for the implementation of this section. (F) The state adoption special services subsidy program ceases to exist on July 1, 2004, except that, subject to the findings of the annual redetermination process established under division (E) of this section and the child's individual need for services, a public children services agency may continue to provide state adoption special services subsidy payments on behalf of a child for whom payments were being made prior to July 1, 2004. (G) Benefits and services provided under this section are inalienable whether by way of assignment, charge, or otherwise and exempt from execution, attachment, garnishment, and other like processes. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5166.20 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5166 / § 5166.20
§ 5166.20. Additional Medicaid waiver components for home and community-based services
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly (A) The department of medicaid may create the following: (1) One or more medicaid waiver components under which home and community-based services are provided to individuals with developmental disabilities as an alternative to placement in ICFs/IID; (2) One or more medicaid waiver components under which home and community-based services are provided in the form of any of the following: (a) Early intervention and supportive services for children under three years of age who have developmental delays or disabilities the department determines are significant; (b) Therapeutic services for children who have autism; (c) Specialized habilitative services for individuals who are eighteen years of age or older and have autism. (B) No medicaid waiver component created pursuant to division (A)(2)(b) or (c) of this section shall provide services that are available under another medicaid waiver component. No medicaid waiver component created pursuant to division (A)(2)(b) of this section shall provide services to an individual that the individual is eligible to receive through an individualized education program as defined in section 3323.01 of the Revised Code. (C) The director of developmental disabilities and director of health may request that the department of medicaid create one or more medicaid waiver components under this section. (D) Before creating a medicaid waiver component under this section, the department of medicaid shall seek, accept, and consider public comments.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.24 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.24
§ 5120.24. Purchasing supplies
Status: in_force

July 1, 1993 House Bill 152 - 120th General Assembly The department of administrative services shall purchase all supplies needed for the proper support and maintenance of the institutions under the control of the department of rehabilitation and correction in accordance with the competitive selection procedures of Chapter 125. of the Revised Code and such rules as the department of administrative services adopts. All bids shall be publicly opened on the day and hour and at the place specified in the advertisement. Preference shall be given to bidders in localities wherein the institution is located if the price is fair and reasonable and not greater than the usual price. Bids not meeting the specifications shall be rejected. The department of administrative services may require such security as it considers proper to accompany the bids and shall fix the security to be given by the contractor. The department of administrative services may reject any or all bids and secure new bids, if for any reason it is considered to be in the best interest of the state to do so, and it may authorize the managing officer of any institution to purchase perishable goods and supplies for use in cases of emergency, in which cases such managing officer shall certify such fact in writing and the department of administrative services shall record the reasons for such purchase.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5107.70 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5107 / § 5107.70
§ 5107.70. Conducting assessments of assistance groups
Status: in_force

September 29, 2007 House Bill 119 - 127th General Assembly A county department of job and family services, at times it determines, may conduct assessments of assistance groups participating in Ohio works first to determine whether any members of the group are in need of other assistance or services provided by the county department or other private or government entities. Assessments may include the following: (A) Whether any member of the assistance group has a substance abuse problem; (B) Whether there are any other circumstances that may limit an assistance group member's employability. The county department may refer an assistance group member to a private or government entity that provides assistance or services the county department determines the member needs. The entity may be a public children services agency, chapter of alcoholics anonymous, narcotics anonymous, or cocaine anonymous, or any other entity the county department considers appropriate.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5122.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5122 / § 5122.99
§ 5122.99. Penalty
Status: in_force

March 17, 1998 Senate Bill 111 - 122nd General Assembly A person who violates division (B)(2) of section 5122.32 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than two thousand five hundred dollars on a first offense and not more than twenty thousand dollars on a subsequent offense. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 5153.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5153 / § 5153.10
§ 5153.10. Executive director - inquiry into community conditions
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly Each public children services agency shall designate an executive officer known as the "executive director," who shall not be in the classified civil service. The superintendent of the children's home, the county director of job and family services, or other individual may serve as the executive director. The agency shall, from time to time, inquire into community conditions affecting the welfare of children and study the work of the agency and its relation to the work of other organizations whose functions are related to child welfare. The agency may, after consultation with the executive director, adopt rules of general application, not inconsistent with law or with the rules adopted by the director of children and youth. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.02
§ 5164.02. Rules to implement chapter
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly (A) The medicaid director shall adopt rules as necessary to implement this chapter. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. (B) The rules shall establish all of the following: (1) The amount, duration, and scope of the medicaid services covered by the medicaid program; (2) The medicaid payment rate for each medicaid service or, in lieu of the rate, the method by which the rate is to be determined for each medicaid service; (3) Procedures for enforcing the rules adopted under this section that provide due process protections, including procedures for corrective action plans for, and imposing financial and administrative sanctions on, persons and government entities that violate the rules. (C) The rules may be different for different medicaid services. (D) The medicaid director is not required to adopt a rule establishing the medicaid payment rate for a medicaid service if the director adopts a rule establishing the method by which the rate is to be determined for the medicaid service and makes the rate available on the internet web site maintained by the department of medicaid.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.058 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.058
§ 5126.058. Memorandum of understanding
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly (A) Each county board of developmental disabilities shall prepare a memorandum of understanding that is developed by all of the following and that is signed by the persons identified in divisions (A)(2) to (7) of this section: (1) The senior probate judge of the county or the senior probate judge's representative; (2) The county peace officer; (3) All chief municipal peace officers within the county; (4) Other law enforcement officers handling abuse, neglect, and exploitation of individuals with developmental disabilities in the county; (5) The prosecuting attorney of the county; (6) The public children services agency; (7) The coroner of the county. (B) A memorandum of understanding shall set forth the normal operating procedure to be employed by all concerned officials in the execution of their respective responsibilities under this section and sections 313.12 , 2151.421 , 2903.16 , 5126.31 , and 5126.33 of the Revised Code and shall have as its primary goal the elimination of all unnecessary interviews of persons who are the subject of reports made pursuant to this section. A failure to follow the procedure set forth in the memorandum by the concerned officials is not grounds for, and shall not result in, the dismissal of any charge or complaint arising from any reported case of abuse, neglect, or exploitation or the suppression of any evidence obtained as a result of any reported abuse, neglect, or exploitation and does not give any rights or grounds for appeal or post-conviction relief to any person. (C) A memorandum of understanding shall include, but is not limited to, all of the following: (1) The roles and responsibilities for handling emergency and nonemergency cases of abuse, neglect, or exploitation; (2) The roles and responsibilities for handling and coordinating investigations of reported cases of abuse, neglect, or exploitation and methods to be used in interviewing the person who is the subject of the report and who allegedly was abused, neglected, or exploited; (3) The roles and responsibilities for addressing the categories of persons who may interview the person who is the subject of the report and who allegedly was abused, neglected, or exploited; (4) The roles and responsibilities for providing victim services to individuals with developmental disabilities pursuant to Chapter 2930. of the Revised Code; (5) The roles and responsibilities for the filing of criminal charges against persons alleged to have abused, neglected, or exploited individuals with developmental disabilities. (D) A memorandum of understanding may be signed by victim advocates, municipal court judges, municipal prosecutors, and any other person whose participation furthers the goals of a memorandum of understanding, as set forth in this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.81 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.81
§ 5123.81. Involuntarily committed resident absent without leave
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly When an involuntarily committed resident of an institution for persons with intellectual disabilities is absent without leave, an order shall be issued within five days after the resident's absence requiring the resident to be taken into custody by any health or police officer, or sheriff and transported to the institution from which the resident is absent. The order may be issued by the director of developmental disabilities, the managing officer of the institution from which the resident is absent, or the probate judge of the county from which the resident was ordered institutionalized or in which he is found. The officer who takes the resident into custody shall immediately notify the issuer of the order. Last updated January 3, 2024 at 10:22 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.895 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.895
§ 5101.895. Office administration
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly The department of job and family services shall be responsible for all administrative undertakings for the youth and family ombudsmen office, including the provision of offices, equipment, and supplies, as necessary. Last updated August 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.546 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.546
§ 5101.546. SNAP payment error rates methodology and technical system
Status: in_force

November 25, 2025 House Bill 434 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "payment error rate" has the same meaning as in 7 U.S.C. 2025(c)(2). (B)(1) Not later than ninety days after the effective date of this section, the department of job and family services shall develop a methodology and technical system to determine payment error rates within the supplemental nutrition assistance program. The methodology and technical system shall follow the procedures outlined in the quality control review handbook published by the United States food and nutrition service in accordance with 7 C.F.R. 275.14, except that the methodology and technical system may deviate from the outlined procedures with regard to payment errors that are not subject to the procedures outlined in the handbook. (2) The methodology and technical system shall distinguish payment errors that result from each of the following: (a) Agency errors not including fraud for each county participating in the program; (b) Assistance group errors not including fraud for each county participating in the program; (c) Errors resulting from the Ohio benefits program on a statewide basis. (C) Prior to implementing the methodology and technical system required under division (B) of this section, the department of job and family services shall consult with the chairpersons of the finance committees of both the house of representatives and the senate. (D) Upon implementation of the methodology and technical system, the department shall provide updates concerning payment error rates in the supplemental nutrition assistance program to the chairpersons of the finance committees of both the house of representatives and the senate on a quarterly basis. Last updated January 12, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5124.516 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5124 / § 5124.516
§ 5124.516. Medicaid reimbursement adjustments; change of operator
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The director of developmental disabilities may adopt rules under section 5124.03 of the Revised Code governing adjustments to the medicaid reimbursement rate for an ICF/IID that undergoes a change of operator. No rate adjustment resulting from a change of operator shall be effective before the effective date of the entering operator's provider agreement. This is the case regardless of whether the provider agreement is entered into under section 5124.511 , section 5124.512 , or, pursuant to section 5124.515 , section 5124.07 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.6016 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.6016
§ 5103.6016. [Former R.C. 5103.132, amended and renumbered by H.B. 265, 134th General Assembly, effective 6/13/2022] Firearms on grounds of residential infant care center
Status: in_force

June 13, 2022 House Bill 265 - 134th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "firearm" has the same meaning as in section 2923.11 of the Revised Code. (B) A residential infant care center that regularly maintains on its premises schedule II controlled substances, as defined in section 3719.01 of the Revised Code, may do both of the following: (1) Maintain firearms at the facility; (2) Permit security personnel to bear firearms while on the grounds of the facility. Last updated March 21, 2022 at 5:18 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.104 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.104
§ 5165.104. Form of cost reports; guidelines
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The department of medicaid shall do all of the following: (A) Prescribe the form to be used for completing a cost report and a uniform chart of accounts for the purpose of reporting costs on the form; (B) Distribute a paper copy of the form, or computer software for electronic submission of the form, to each provider at least sixty days before the date the cost report is due; (C) Establish guidelines for completing the form.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.17 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.17
§ 5120.17. Transferring inmate to psychiatric hospital
Status: in_force

March 20, 2025 Senate Bill 196 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Mental illness" means a substantial disorder of thought, mood, perception, orientation, or memory that grossly impairs judgment, behavior, capacity to recognize reality, or ability to meet the ordinary demands of life. (2) "Person with a mental illness subject to hospitalization" means a person with a mental illness to whom any of the following applies because of the person's mental illness: (a) The person represents a substantial risk of physical harm to the person as manifested by evidence of threats of, or attempts at, suicide or serious self-inflicted bodily harm. (b) The person represents a substantial risk of physical harm to others as manifested by evidence of recent homicidal or other violent behavior, evidence of recent threats that place another in reasonable fear of violent behavior and serious physical harm, or other evidence of present dangerousness. (c) The person represents a substantial and immediate risk of serious physical impairment or injury to the person as manifested by evidence that the person is unable to provide for and is not providing for the person's basic physical needs because of the person's mental illness and that appropriate provision for those needs cannot be made immediately available in the correctional institution in which the inmate is currently housed. (d) The person would benefit from treatment in a hospital for the person's mental illness and is in need of treatment in a hospital as manifested by evidence of behavior that creates a grave and imminent risk to substantial rights of others or the person. (3) "Psychiatric hospital" means all or part of a facility that is operated and managed by the department of mental health and addiction services to provide psychiatric hospitalization services in accordance with the requirements of this section pursuant to an agreement between the directors of rehabilitation and correction and mental health and addiction services or, is licensed by the department of mental health and addiction services pursuant to section 5119.33 of the Revised Code as a psychiatric hospital and is accredited by a health care accrediting organization approved by the department of mental health and addiction services and the psychiatric hospital is any of the following: (a) Operated and managed by the department of rehabilitation and correction within a facility that is operated by the department of rehabilitation and correction; (b) Operated and managed by a contractor for the department of rehabilitation and correction within a facility that is operated by the department of rehabilitation and correction; (c) Operated and managed in the community by an entity that has contracted with the department of rehabilitation and correction to provide psychiatric hospitalization services in accordance with the requirements of this section. (4) "Inmate patient" means an inmate who is admitted to a psychiatric hospital. (5) "Admitted" to a psychiatric hospital means being accepted for and staying at least one night at the psychiatric hospital. (6) "Treatment plan" means a written statement of reasonable objectives and goals for an inmate patient that is based on the needs of the inmate patient and that is established by the treatment team, with the active participation of the inmate patient and with documentation of that participation. "Treatment plan" includes all of the following: (a) The specific criteria to be used in evaluating progress toward achieving the objectives and goals; (b) The services to be provided to the inmate patient during the inmate patient's hospitalization; (c) The services to be provided to the inmate patient after discharge from the hospital, including, but not limited to, housing and mental health services provided at the state correctional institution to which the inmate patient returns after discharge or community mental health services. (7) "Emergency transfer" means the transfer of an inmate with a mental illness to a psychiatric hospital when the inmate presents an immediate danger to self or others and requires hospital-level care. (8) "Uncontested transfer" means the transfer of an inmate with a mental illness to a psychiatric hospital when the inmate has the mental capacity to, and has waived, the hearing required by division (B) of this section. (9)(a) "Independent decision-maker" means a person who is employed or retained by the department of rehabilitation and correction and is appointed by the chief or chief clinical officer of mental health services as a hospitalization hearing officer to conduct due process hearings. (b) An independent decision-maker who presides over any hearing or issues any order pursuant to this section shall be a psychiatrist, psychiatric-mental health advanced practice registered nurse, psychologist, or attorney, shall not be specifically associated with the institution in which the inmate who is the subject of the hearing or order resides at the time of the hearing or order, and previously shall not have had any treatment relationship with nor have represented in any legal proceeding the inmate who is the subject of the order. (10) "Psychiatric-mental health advanced practice registered nurse" means an advanced practice registered nurse, as defined in section 4723.01 of the Revised Code, who is either of the following: (a) A clinical nurse specialist who is certified as a psychiatric-mental health CNS, or the equivalent of such title, by the American nurses credentialing center; (b) A certified nurse practitioner who is certified as a psychiatric-mental health NP, or the equivalent of such title, by the American nurses credentialing center or American academy of nurse practitioners certification board. (B)(1) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, if the warden of a state correctional institution or the warden's designee believes that an inmate should be transferred from the institution to a psychiatric hospital, the department shall hold a hearing to determine whether the inmate is a person with a mental illness subject to hospitalization. The department shall conduct the hearing at the state correctional institution in which the inmate is confined, and the department shall provide qualified independent assistance to the inmate for the hearing. An independent decision-maker provided by the department shall preside at the hearing and determine whether the inmate is a person with a mental illness subject to hospitalization. (2) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, prior to the hearing held pursuant to division (B)(1) of this section, the warden or the warden's designee shall give written notice to the inmate that the department is considering transferring the inmate to a psychiatric hospital, that it will hold a hearing on the proposed transfer at which the inmate may be present, that at the hearing the inmate has the rights described in division (B)(3) of this section, and that the department will provide qualified independent assistance to the inmate with respect to the hearing. The department shall not hold the hearing until the inmate has received written notice of the proposed transfer and has had sufficient time to consult with the person appointed by the department to provide assistance to the inmate and to prepare for a presentation at the hearing. (3) At the hearing held pursuant to division (B)(1) of this section, the department shall disclose to the inmate the evidence that it relies upon for the transfer and shall give the inmate an opportunity to be heard. Unless the independent decision-maker finds good cause for not permitting it, the inmate may present documentary evidence and the testimony of witnesses at the hearing and may confront and cross-examine witnesses called by the department. (4) If the independent decision-maker does not find clear and convincing evidence that the inmate is a person with a mental illness subject to hospitalization, the department shall not transfer the inmate to a psychiatric hospital but shall continue to confine the inmate in the same state correctional institution or in another state correctional institution that the department considers appropriate. If the independent decision-maker finds clear and convincing evidence that the inmate is a person with a mental illness subject to hospitalization, the decision-maker shall order that the inmate be transported to a psychiatric hospital for observation and treatment for a period of not longer than thirty days. After the hearing, the independent decision-maker shall submit to the department a written decision that states one of the findings described in division (B)(4) of this section, the evidence that the decision-maker relied on in reaching that conclusion, and, if the decision is that the inmate should be transferred, the reasons for the transfer. (C)(1) The department may transfer an inmate to a psychiatric hospital under an emergency transfer order if a determination is made that the inmate has a mental illness, presents an immediate danger to self or others, and requires hospital-level care. To qualify, the determination shall be made as follows: by the chief clinical officer of mental health services of the department or that officer's designee and either a psychiatrist or psychiatric-mental health advanced practice registered nurse employed or retained by the department or, in the absence of a psychiatrist or psychiatric-mental health advanced practice registered nurse, a psychologist employed or retained by the department. (2) The department may transfer an inmate to a psychiatric hospital under an uncontested transfer order if both of the following apply: (a) A psychiatrist or psychiatric-mental health advanced practice registered nurse employed or retained by the department determines all of the following apply: (i) The inmate has a mental illness or is a person with a mental illness subject to hospitalization. (ii) The inmate requires hospital care to address the mental illness. (iii) The inmate has the mental capacity to make a reasoned choice regarding the inmate's transfer to a hospital. (b) The inmate agrees to a transfer to a hospital. (3) The written notice and the hearing required under divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section are not required for an emergency transfer or uncontested transfer under division (C)(1) or (2) of this section. (4) After an emergency transfer under division (C)(1) of this section, the department shall hold a hearing for continued hospitalization within five working days after admission of the transferred inmate to the psychiatric hospital. The department shall hold subsequent hearings pursuant to division (F) of this section at the same intervals as required for inmate patients who are transported to a psychiatric hospital under division (B)(4) of this section. (5) After an uncontested transfer under division (C)(2) of this section, the inmate may withdraw consent to the transfer in writing at any time. Upon the inmate's withdrawal of consent, the hospital shall discharge the inmate, or, within five working days, the department shall hold a hearing for continued hospitalization. The department shall hold subsequent hearings pursuant to division (F) of this section at the same time intervals as required for inmate patients who are transported to a psychiatric hospital under division (B)(4) of this section. (D)(1) If an independent decision-maker, pursuant to division (B)(4) of this section, orders an inmate transported to a psychiatric hospital or if an inmate is transferred pursuant to division (C)(1) or (2) of this section, the staff of the psychiatric hospital shall examine the inmate patient when admitted to the psychiatric hospital as soon as practicable after the inmate patient arrives at the hospital and no later than twenty-four hours after the time of arrival. The attending physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner responsible for the inmate patient's care shall give the inmate patient all information necessary to enable the patient to give a fully informed, intelligent, and knowing consent to the treatment the inmate patient will receive in the hospital. The attending physician or attending nurse shall tell the inmate patient the expected physical and medical consequences of any proposed treatment and shall give the inmate patient the opportunity to consult with another psychiatrist or psychiatric-mental health advanced practice registered nurse at the hospital and with the inmate advisor. (2) No inmate patient who is transported or transferred pursuant to division (B)(4) or (C)(1) or (2) of this section to a psychiatric hospital within a facility that is operated by the department of rehabilitation and correction shall be subjected to any of the following procedures: (a) Convulsive therapy; (b) Major aversive interventions; (c) Any unusually hazardous treatment procedures; (d) Psychosurgery. (E) The department of rehabilitation and correction shall ensure that an inmate patient hospitalized pursuant to this section receives or has all of the following: (1) Receives sufficient professional care within twenty days of admission to ensure that an evaluation of the inmate patient's current status, differential diagnosis, probable prognosis, and description of the current treatment plan have been formulated and are stated on the inmate patient's official chart; (2) Has a written treatment plan consistent with the evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis, and goals of treatment; (3) Receives treatment consistent with the treatment plan; (4) Receives periodic reevaluations of the treatment plan by the professional staff at intervals not to exceed thirty days; (5) Is provided with adequate medical treatment for physical disease or injury; (6) Receives humane care and treatment, including, without being limited to, the following: (a) Access to the facilities and personnel required by the treatment plan; (b) A humane psychological and physical environment; (c) The right to obtain current information concerning the treatment program, the expected outcomes of treatment, and the expectations for the inmate patient's participation in the treatment program in terms that the inmate patient reasonably can understand; (d) Opportunity for participation in programs designed to help the inmate patient acquire the skills needed to work toward discharge from the psychiatric hospital; (e) The right to be free from unnecessary or excessive medication and from unnecessary restraints or isolation; (f) All other rights afforded inmates in the custody of the department consistent with rules, policy, and procedure of the department. (F) The department shall hold a hearing for the continued hospitalization of an inmate patient who is transported or transferred to a psychiatric hospital pursuant to division (B)(4) or (C)(1) of this section prior to the expiration of the initial thirty-day period of hospitalization. The department shall hold any subsequent hearings, if necessary, not later than ninety days after the first thirty-day hearing and then not later than each one hundred and eighty days after the immediately prior hearing. An independent decision-maker shall conduct the hearings at the psychiatric hospital in which the inmate patient is confined. The inmate patient shall be afforded all of the rights set forth in this section for the hearing prior to transfer to the psychiatric hospital. The department may not waive a hearing for continued commitment. A hearing for continued commitment is mandatory for an inmate patient transported or transferred to a psychiatric hospital pursuant to division (B)(4) or (C)(1) of this section unless the inmate patient has the capacity to make a reasoned choice to execute a waiver and waives the hearing in writing. An inmate patient who is transferred to a psychiatric hospital pursuant to an uncontested transfer under division (C)(2) of this section and who has scheduled hearings after withdrawal of consent for hospitalization may waive any of the scheduled hearings if the inmate has the capacity to make a reasoned choice and executes a written waiver of the hearing. If upon completion of the hearing the independent decision-maker does not find by clear and convincing evidence that the inmate patient is a person with a mental illness subject to hospitalization, the independent decision-maker shall order the inmate patient's discharge from the psychiatric hospital. If the independent decision-maker finds by clear and convincing evidence that the inmate patient is a person with a mental illness subject to hospitalization, the independent decision-maker shall order that the inmate patient remain at the psychiatric hospital for continued hospitalization until the next required hearing. If at any time prior to the next required hearing for continued hospitalization, the medical director of the hospital or the attending physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner determines that the treatment needs of the inmate patient could be met equally well in an available and appropriate less restrictive state correctional institution or unit, the medical director, attending physician, or attending nurse may discharge the inmate to that facility. (G) An inmate patient is entitled to the credits toward the reduction of the inmate patient's stated prison term pursuant to Chapters 2967. and 5120. of the Revised Code under the same terms and conditions as if the inmate patient were in any other institution of the department of rehabilitation and correction. (H) The adult parole authority may place an inmate patient on parole or under post-release control directly from a psychiatric hospital. (I) If an inmate patient who is a person with a mental illness subject to hospitalization is to be released from a psychiatric hospital because of the expiration of the inmate patient's stated prison term, the director of rehabilitation and correction or the director's designee, at least fourteen days before the expiration date, may file an affidavit under section 5122.11 or 5123.71 of the Revised Code with the probate court in the county where the psychiatric hospital is located or the probate court in the county where the inmate will reside, alleging that the inmate patient is a person with a mental illness subject to court order, as defined in section 5122.01 of the Revised Code, or a person with an intellectual disability subject to institutionalization by court order, as defined in section 5123.01 of the Revised Code, whichever is applicable. The proceedings in the probate court shall be conducted pursuant to Chapter 5122. or 5123. of the Revised Code except as modified by this division. Upon the request of the inmate patient, the probate court shall grant the inmate patient an initial hearing under section 5122.141 of the Revised Code or a probable cause hearing under section 5123.75 of the Revised Code before the expiration of the stated prison term. After holding a full hearing, the probate court shall make a disposition authorized by section 5122.15 or 5123.76 of the Revised Code before the date of the expiration of the stated prison term. No inmate patient shall be held in the custody of the department of rehabilitation and correction past the date of the expiration of the inmate patient's stated prison term. (J) The department of rehabilitation and correction shall set standards for treatment provided to inmate patients. (K) A certificate, application, record, or report that is made in compliance with this section and that directly or indirectly identifies an inmate or former inmate whose hospitalization has been sought under this section is confidential. No person shall disclose the contents of any certificate, application, record, or report of that nature or any other psychiatric or medical record or report regarding an inmate with a mental illness unless one of the following applies: (1) The person identified, or the person's legal guardian, if any, consents to disclosure, and the chief clinical officer or designee of mental health services of the department of rehabilitation and correction determines that disclosure is in the best interests of the person. (2) Disclosure is required by a court order signed by a judge. (3) An inmate patient seeks access to the inmate patient's own psychiatric and medical records, unless access is specifically restricted in the treatment plan for clear treatment reasons. (4) Hospitals and other institutions and facilities within the department of rehabilitation and correction may exchange psychiatric records and other pertinent information with other hospitals, institutions, and facilities of the department, but the information that may be released about an inmate patient is limited to medication history, physical health status and history, summary of course of treatment in the hospital, summary of treatment needs, and a discharge summary, if any. (5) An inmate patient's family member who is involved in planning, providing, and monitoring services to the inmate patient may receive medication information, a summary of the inmate patient's diagnosis and prognosis, and a list of the services and personnel available to assist the inmate patient and family if the attending physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner determines that disclosure would be in the best interest of the inmate patient. No disclosure shall be made under this division unless the inmate patient is notified of the possible disclosure, receives the information to be disclosed, and does not object to the disclosure. (6) The department of rehabilitation and correction may exchange psychiatric hospitalization records, other mental health treatment records, and other pertinent information with county sheriffs' offices, hospitals, institutions, and facilities of the department of mental health and addiction services and with community mental health services providers and boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services with which the department of mental health and addiction services has a current agreement for patient care or services to ensure continuity of care. With respect to an inmate with a mental illness, disclosure under this division is limited to records regarding the inmate's medication history, physical health status and history, summary of course of treatment, summary of treatment needs, and a discharge summary, if any. No office, department, agency, provider, or board shall disclose the records and other information unless one of the following applies: (a) The inmate with a mental illness is notified of the possible disclosure and consents to the disclosure. (b) The inmate with a mental illness is notified of the possible disclosure, an attempt to gain the consent of the inmate is made, and the office, department, agency, or board documents the attempt to gain consent, the inmate's objections, if any, and the reasons for disclosure in spite of the inmate's objections. (7) Information may be disclosed to staff members designated by the director of rehabilitation and correction for the purpose of evaluating the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of services and determining if the services meet minimum standards. The name of an inmate patient shall not be retained with the information obtained during the evaluations. (L) The director of rehabilitation and correction may adopt rules setting forth guidelines for the procedures required under divisions (B), (C)(1), and (C)(2) of this section. Last updated February 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5155.261 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5155 / § 5155.261
§ 5155.261. Lien in lieu of taking property
Status: in_force

July 1, 1993 House Bill 152 - 120th General Assembly A board of county commissioners shall not be required to take charge of property in the manner prescribed by section 5155.23 of the Revised Code, if it determines that a lien may be taken on property of a person who becomes a resident of a county home. In such event a lien as provided in this section may be taken and, if taken, shall remain a lien until satisfied. For the period during which such person remains a resident of a county home, any income received from rentals on property on which such a lien is taken shall be applied to the payment of taxes on and upkeep of such property. Any balance remaining after the payment of such taxes and upkeep shall be paid to the county supplying maintenance to a resident of a county home and shall be applied toward such maintenance in the same manner described as to the proceeds of sale by sections 5155.24 and 5155.25 of the Revised Code. When a person becomes a resident of a county home under this chapter, the name and residence of the recipient and spouse, the date of such occurrence, the legal description of all real estate owned by the recipient and spouse, and such other information as the board of county commissioners requires, shall be entered upon a certificate, signed by such recipient and his or her spouse, the form of which shall be prescribed by the board of county commissioners. When the certificate describes real estate owned by such recipient or spouse, the board of county commissioners shall file for recording and indexing a certificate, or a certified copy, in the real estate mortgage records in the office of the county recorder in every county in which real property of such recipient or spouse is situated. From the time of filing the certificate in the office of the recorder, the lien attaches to all real property of such recipient or spouse described therein for all amounts of board or items thereafter furnished and shall remain a lien until satisfied. Upon filing the certificate in the office of the recorder, all persons are charged with notice of the lien and the rights of the board of county commissioners thereunder. The recorders shall keep a record of every certificate filed showing its date, the time of filing, the name and residence of the recipient or spouse, and any release, waivers, or satisfaction of the lien. There shall be no fee for filing or recording any such certificate. As an incident of the lien the recipient and spouse, or either of them, shall take a life estate of the premises in all cases in which they could have conveyed, reserved, or received that right by deed at the time of application. Such life estate shall take priority with the lien of the board of county commissioners over subsequently acquired liens except tax liens, and except in those cases wherein the life estate is voluntarily waived by express waiver, by waste, nonpayment of taxes, or by transfer to persons other than those entitled to use or reside upon the premises. The rights to such property shall descend by devise or by operation of law subject to the lien of the board of county commissioners for both past and future payments and subject to the life estate of the recipient or spouse. Upon transfer of such property to persons other than those entitled to use or reside thereon, the board of county commissioners may foreclose its lien upon any real property conveyed. The proceeds of sale in such proceeding shall be applied in the order provided by law. All real property subject to the lien of the board of county commissioners upon the death of the persons entitled to use or reside in the premises, or upon waiver of the life estate by the survivor, may be sold in foreclosure proceedings or in the administration of the owner's estate and the proceeds applied as provided by law. The board of county commissioners shall waive the priority of its lien to provide for the costs of the last illness as determined by the board of county commissioners, administration, attorney fees, administrator fees, a sum for the payment of the costs of burial, which shall be computed by deducting from five hundred dollars whatever amount is available for those purposes from all other sources, and a similar sum for the spouse of the decedent.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.032 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.032
§ 5120.032. Intensive program prisons
Status: in_force

October 16, 2009 House Bill 1 - 128th General Assembly (A) No later than January 1, 1998, the department of rehabilitation and correction may develop and implement intensive program prisons for male and female prisoners other than prisoners described in division (B)(2) of this section. The intensive program prisons, if developed and implemented, shall include institutions at which imprisonment of the type described in division (B)(2)(a) of section 5120.031 of the Revised Code is provided and prisons that focus on educational achievement, vocational training, alcohol and other drug abuse treatment, community service and conservation work, and other intensive regimens or combinations of intensive regimens. (B)(1)(a) Except as provided in division (B)(2) of this section, if one or more intensive program prisons are established under this section, if an offender is sentenced to a term of imprisonment under the custody of the department, if the sentencing court either recommends the prisoner for placement in an intensive program prison under this section or makes no recommendation on placement of the prisoner, and if the department determines that the prisoner is eligible for placement in an intensive program prison under this section, the department may place the prisoner in an intensive program prison established pursuant to division (A) of this section. If the sentencing court disapproves placement of the prisoner in an intensive program prison, the department shall not place the prisoner in any intensive program prison. If the sentencing court recommends a prisoner for placement in an intensive program prison and if the department subsequently places the prisoner in the recommended prison, the department shall notify the court of the prisoner's placement in the recommended intensive program prison and shall include with the notice a brief description of the placement. If the sentencing court recommends placement of a prisoner in an intensive program prison and the department for any reason does not subsequently place the prisoner in the recommended prison, the department shall send a notice to the court indicating why the prisoner was not placed in the recommended prison. If the sentencing court does not make a recommendation on the placement of a prisoner in an intensive program prison and if the department determines that the prisoner is eligible for placement in a prison of that nature, the department shall screen the prisoner and determine if the prisoner is suited for the prison. If the prisoner is suited for an intensive program prison, at least three weeks prior to placing the prisoner in the prison, the department shall notify the sentencing court of the proposed placement of the prisoner in the intensive program prison and shall include with the notice a brief description of the placement. The court shall have ten days from receipt of the notice to disapprove the placement. If the sentencing court disapproves the placement, the department shall not proceed with it. If the sentencing court does not timely disapprove of the placement, the department may proceed with plans for it. If the department determines that a prisoner is not eligible for placement in an intensive program prison, the department shall not place the prisoner in any intensive program prison. (b) The department may reduce the stated prison term of a prisoner upon the prisoner's successful completion of a ninety-day period in an intensive program prison. A prisoner whose term has been so reduced shall be required to serve an intermediate, transitional type of detention followed by a release under post-release control sanctions or, in the alternative, shall be placed under post-release control sanctions, as described in division (B)(2)(b)(ii) of section 5120.031 of the Revised Code. In either case, the placement under post-release control sanctions shall be under terms set by the parole board in accordance with section 2967.28 of the Revised Code and shall be subject to the provisions of that section and section 2929.141 of the Revised Code with respect to a violation of any post-release control sanction. (2) A prisoner who is in any of the following categories is not eligible to participate in an intensive program prison established pursuant to division (A) of this section: (a) The prisoner is serving a prison term for aggravated murder, murder, or a felony of the first or second degree or a comparable offense under the law in effect prior to July 1, 1996, or the prisoner previously has been imprisoned for aggravated murder, murder, or a felony of the first or second degree or a comparable offense under the law in effect prior to July 1, 1996. (b) The prisoner is serving a mandatory prison term, as defined in section 2929.01 of the Revised Code. (c) The prisoner is serving a prison term for a felony of the third, fourth, or fifth degree that either is a sex offense, an offense betraying public trust, or an offense in which the prisoner caused or attempted to cause actual physical harm to a person, the prisoner is serving a prison term for a comparable offense under the law in effect prior to July 1, 1996, or the prisoner previously has been imprisoned for an offense of that type or a comparable offense under the law in effect prior to July 1, 1996. (d) The prisoner is serving a mandatory prison term in prison for a third or fourth degree felony OVI offense, as defined in section 2929.01 of the Revised Code, that was imposed pursuant to division (G)(2) of section 2929.13 of the Revised Code. (C) Upon the implementation of intensive program prisons pursuant to division (A) of this section, the department at all times shall maintain intensive program prisons sufficient in number to reduce the prison terms of at least three hundred fifty prisoners who are eligible for reduction of their stated prison terms as a result of their completion of a regimen in an intensive program prison under this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.402 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.402
§ 5180.402. [Former R.C. 5101.132, amended and renumbered by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Uniform statewide automated child welfare information system - access to information
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) Information contained in the information system established and maintained under section 5180.40 of the Revised Code may be accessed or entered only as follows: (1) The department of job and family services, the department of children and youth, a public children services agency, a title IV-E agency, a prosecuting attorney, a private child placing agency, and a private noncustodial agency may access or enter the information when either of the following is the case: (a) The access or entry is directly connected with assessment, investigation, or services regarding a child or family; (b) The access or entry is permitted by state or federal law, rule, or regulation. (2) A person may access or enter the information in a manner, to the extent, and for the purposes authorized by rules adopted by the department. (B) As used in this section, "title IV-E agency" means a public children services agency or a public entity with which the department of job and family services or department of children and youth has a title IV-E subgrant agreement in effect. Last updated October 3, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.84 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.84
§ 5123.84. Free communication with others by residents
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly All residents of institutions for persons with i ntellectual disabilities shall be allowed to communicate freely with others, including but not restricted to the following: (A) Receiving visitors at reasonable times; (B) Being visited by counsel or personal physician, or both, at any reasonable time; (C) Having reasonable access to telephones to make and receive confidential calls, including a reasonable number of free calls if unable to pay for them and assistance in calling if requested and needed; (D) Having ready access to letter writing materials and stamps, including a reasonable number without cost if the resident is unable to pay for them, to mailing and receiving unopened correspondence, and to receiving assistance in writing if requested and needed.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5124.61 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5124 / § 5124.61
§ 5124.61. Conversion of beds in acquired ICF/IID
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly (A) For the purpose of increasing the number of slots available for home and community-based services, a person who acquires, through a request for proposals issued by the director of developmental disabilities, an ICF/IID for which a residential facility license was previously surrendered or revoked may convert some or all of the ICF/IID's beds from providing ICF/IID services to providing home and community-based services if all of the following requirements are met: (1) The person provides the directors of health and developmental disabilities and medicaid director at least ninety days' notice of the person's intent to make the conversion. (2) The person complies with the requirements of sections 5124.50 to 5124.53 of the Revised Code regarding a voluntary termination if those requirements are applicable. (3) If the person intends to convert all of the ICF/IID's beds, the person notifies each of the ICF/IID's residents that the ICF/IID is to cease providing ICF/IID services and informs each resident that the resident may do either of the following: (a) Continue to receive ICF/IID services by transferring to another ICF/IID willing and able to accept the resident if the resident continues to qualify for ICF/IID services; (b) Begin to receive home and community-based services instead of ICF/IID services from any provider of home and community-based services that is willing and able to provide the services to the resident if the resident is eligible for the services and a slot for the services is available to the resident. (4) If the person intends to convert some but not all of the ICF/IID's beds, the person notifies each of the ICF/IID's residents that the ICF/IID is to convert some of its beds from providing ICF/IID services to providing home and community-based services and inform each resident that the resident may do either of the following: (a) Continue to receive ICF/IID services from any that is willing and able to provide the services to the resident if the resident continues to qualify for ICF/IID services; (b) Begin to receive home and community-based services instead of ICF/IID services from any provider of home and community-based services that is willing and able to provide the services to the resident if the resident is eligible for the services and a slot for the services is available to the resident. (5) The person meets the requirements for providing home and community-based services at a residential facility. (B) The notice provided to the directors under division (A)(1) of this section shall specify whether some or all of the ICF/IID's beds are to be converted. If some but not all of the beds are to be converted, the notice shall specify how many of the ICF/IID's beds are to be converted and how many of the beds are to continue to provide ICF/IID services. (C) On receipt of a notice under division (A)(1) of this section, the director of health shall do the following: (1) Terminate the ICF/IID's medicaid certification if the notice specifies that all of the facility's beds are to be converted; (2) Reduce the ICF/IID's medicaid-certified capacity by the number of beds being converted if the notice specifies that some but not all of the beds are to be converted. (D) The director of health shall notify the medicaid director of the termination or reduction under division (C) of this section. On receipt of the director of health's notice, the medicaid director shall do the following: (1) Terminate the person's medicaid provider agreement that authorizes the person to provide ICF/IID services at the ICF/IID if the ICF/IID's medicaid certification was terminated; (2) Amend the person's medicaid provider agreement to reflect the ICF/IID's reduced medicaid-certified capacity if the ICF/IID's medicaid-certified capacity is reduced. The medicaid director is not required to conduct an adjudication in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code when taking action under division (D)(1) or (2) of this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.17 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.17
§ 5123.17. Care outside institution
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly The department of developmental disabilities may provide for the custody, supervision, control, treatment, and training of persons with developmental disabilities elsewhere than within the enclosure of an institution under its jurisdiction, if the department so determines with respect to any individual or group of individuals. In all such cases, the department shall ensure adequate and proper supervision for the protection of those persons and of the public.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5121.42 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5121 / § 5121.42
§ 5121.42. Termination of eligibility based on asset accumulation
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, a patient, patient's estate, or liable relative shall cease to be eligible for a discount under section 5121.36 or 5121.37 of the Revised Code on accumulation of countable assets in excess of an amount equal to fifty per cent of the difference between the following: (1) The gross annual income that corresponds with a family size of two persons at one hundred per cent of the federal poverty level for the state; (2) The gross annual income that corresponds with a family size of one person at one hundred per cent of the federal poverty level for the state. (B) Money needed to meet the patient's needs and burial fund as determined by a needs assessment conducted by the department of mental health and addiction services pursuant to rules adopted under section 5119.10 of the Revised Code shall be excluded from any determination the department makes under division (A) of this section. Last updated October 17, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.851 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.851
§ 5123.851. Procedure upon discharge
Status: in_force

September 26, 2003 House Bill 95 - 125th General Assembly When a resident institutionalized pursuant to this chapter is discharged from the institution, the managing officer of the institution may provide the resident with all personal items that were purchased in implementing the resident's habilitation plan established pursuant to section 5123.85 of the Revised Code. The personal items may be provided to the resident, regardless of the source of the funds that were used to purchase the items.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.94 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.94
§ 5119.94. Examination of petitioner; hearing; notification of respondent; disposition
Status: in_force

August 3, 2021 Senate Bill 2 - 134th General Assembly (A) Upon receipt of a petition filed under section 5119.93 of the Revised Code, the probate court shall examine the petitioner under oath as to the contents of the petition. (B) If, after reviewing the allegations contained in the petition and examining the petitioner under oath, it appears to the probate court that there is probable cause to believe the respondent may reasonably benefit from treatment, the court shall do all of the following: (1) Schedule a hearing to be held within seven days to determine if there is clear and convincing evidence that the respondent may reasonably benefit from treatment for alcohol and other drug abuse; (2) Notify the respondent, the legal guardian, if any and if known, and the spouse, parents, or nearest relative or friend of the respondent concerning the allegations and contents of the petition and of the date and purpose of the hearing; (3) Notify the respondent that the respondent may retain counsel and, if the person is unable to obtain an attorney, that the respondent may be represented by court-appointed counsel at public expense if the person is indigent. Upon the appointment of an attorney to represent an indigent respondent, the court shall notify the respondent of the name, address, and telephone number of the attorney appointed to represent the respondent. (4) Notify the respondent that the court shall cause the respondent to be examined not later than twenty-four hours before the hearing date by a physician for the purpose of a physical examination and by a qualified health professional for the purpose of a drug and alcohol addiction assessment and diagnosis. In addition, the court shall notify the respondent that the respondent may have an independent expert evaluation of the person's physical and mental condition conducted at the respondent's own expense. (5) Cause the respondent to be examined not later than twenty-four hours before the hearing date by a qualified health professional for the purpose of a drug and alcohol addiction assessment and diagnosis; (6) Conduct the hearing. (C) The qualified health professional who examines the respondent pursuant to division (B)(5) of this section or who is obtained by the respondent at the respondent's own expense shall certify the professional's findings to the court within twenty-four hours of the examination. The findings of each qualified health professional shall include a recommendation for treatment if the qualified health professional determines that treatment is necessary. (D)(1) If upon completion of the hearing held under this section the probate court finds by clear and convincing evidence that the respondent may reasonably benefit from treatment, the court shall order the treatment after considering the qualified health professionals' recommendations for treatment that have been submitted to the court under division (C) of this section. Evidence that the respondent has overdosed and been revived one or more times by an opioid antagonist, overdosed in a vehicle, or overdosed in the presence of a minor is sufficient to satisfy this evidentiary requirement. If the court orders the treatment under this division, the order shall specify the type of treatment to be provided, the type of required aftercare, and the duration of the required aftercare which shall be at least three months and shall not exceed six months, and the court shall order the treatment to be provided through a community addiction services provider or by an individual licensed or certified by the state medical board under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code, the chemical dependency professionals board under Chapter 4758. of the Revised Code, the counselor, social worker, and marriage and family therapist board under Chapter 4757. of the Revised Code, or a similar board of another state authorized to provide substance abuse treatment. In addition, the court also may order that the respondent submit to periodic examinations by a qualified mental health professional to determine if the treatment remains necessary. (2)(a) Failure of a respondent to undergo and complete any treatment ordered pursuant to this division is contempt of court. Any community addiction services provider or person providing treatment under this division shall notify the probate court of a respondent's failure to undergo or complete the ordered treatment. (b) In addition to and separate from the sanction specified in division (D)(2)(a) of this section, if a respondent fails to undergo and complete any treatment ordered pursuant to this section, the court may issue a summons. The summons shall be directed to the respondent and shall command the respondent to appear at a time and place specified in the summons. If a respondent who has been summoned under this division fails to appear at the specified time and place, the court may order a peace officer, as defined in section 2935.01 of the Revised Code, to transport the respondent to a place described in division (D)(1) of this section for treatment. The peace officer, with the approval of the officer's agency, may provide for the transportation of the respondent by a private entity. The transportation costs of the peace officer or the private entity shall be included within the costs of treatment. (E) If, at any time after a petition is filed under section 5119.93 of the Revised Code, the probate court finds that there is not probable cause to continue treatment or if the petitioner withdraws the petition, then the court shall dismiss the proceedings against the respondent. Last updated May 19, 2021 at 11:39 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5162.1310 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5162 / § 5162.1310
§ 5162.1310. Evaluation of success of expansion eligibility group
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) The department of medicaid shall periodically evaluate the success that members of the expansion eligibility group have with the following: (1) Obtaining employer-sponsored health insurance coverage; (2) Improving health conditions that would otherwise prevent or inhibit stable employment; (3) Improving the conditions of their employment, including duration and hours of employment. (B) For the purpose of aiding the department's evaluations under this section, medicaid managed care organizations shall collect and submit to the department relevant data about members of the expansion eligibility group who are enrolled in the organizations' medicaid MCO plans. The department may request that a medicaid managed care organization collect and submit to the department additional data the department needs for the evaluation. (C) The department shall complete a report for each evaluation conducted under this section. The director shall provide a copy of the report to the general assembly in accordance with section 101.68 of the Revised Code. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5107.28 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5107 / § 5107.28
§ 5107.28. Learnfare program
Status: in_force

July 1, 2000 House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly (A) As used in this section and in sections 5107.281 to 5107.287 of the Revised Code: (1) "Cash assistance payment" means the monthly amount an assistance group is eligible to receive under Ohio works first. (2) "Parent" means the parent, guardian, custodian, or specified relative with charge or care of a learnfare participant. (3) "Participating student" means a participant of Ohio works first who is subject to the school attendance requirement of the learnfare program as determined under section 5107.281 of the Revised Code. (B) The department of job and family services shall establish the learnfare program. The board of county commissioners of any county may choose to have the county participate in the learnfare program. The county department of job and family services of each participating county shall administer the program in accordance with sections 5107.28 to 5107.287 of the Revised Code and policies the county department establishes for the program. (C) The program shall provide for reduction in the cash assistance payment to the assistance group of a participating student if the student fails to comply with the program's school attendance requirement two or more times during a school year. (D) The program may provide for an incentive to encourage a parent or, if a participating student is eighteen or nineteen years of age, the student to consent to the release of the participating student's school attendance records and the participating student to comply with the program's school attendance requirement.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5104.0111 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5104 / § 5104.0111
§ 5104.0111. Director of job and family services; duties
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) The director of children and youth shall do all of the following: (1) Provide or make available in either paper or electronic form to each licensee notice of proposed rules governing the licensure of child care centers, type A homes, and type B homes; (2) Give public notice of hearings regarding the proposed rules at least thirty days prior to the date of the public hearing, in accordance with section 119.03 of the Revised Code; (3) At least thirty days before the effective date of a rule, provide, in either paper or electronic form, a copy of the adopted rule to each licensee; (4) Send to each county director of job and family services a notice of proposed rules governing the certification of in-home aides that includes an internet web site address where the proposed rules can be viewed; (5) Provide to each county director of job and family services an electronic copy of each adopted rule at least forty-five days prior to the rule's effective date; (6) Review all rules adopted pursuant to this chapter at least once every seven years. (B) The county director of job and family services shall provide or make available in either paper or electronic form to each in-home aide copies of proposed rules and shall give public notice of hearings regarding the rules to each in-home aide at least thirty days prior to the date of the public hearing, in accordance with section 119.03 of the Revised Code. At least thirty days before the effective date of a rule, the county director of job and family services shall provide, in either paper or electronic form, copies of the adopted rule to each in-home aide. (C) Additional copies of proposed and adopted rules shall be made available by the director of children and youth to the public on request at no charge. (D) The director of children and youth may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code for imposing sanctions on persons and entities that are licensed or certified under this chapter. Sanctions may be imposed only for an action or omission that constitutes a serious risk noncompliance. The sanctions imposed shall be based on the scope and severity of the violations. The director shall make a dispute resolution process available for the implementation of sanctions. The process may include an opportunity for appeal pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. (E) The director of children and youth shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that establish standards for the training of individuals who inspect or investigate type B family child care homes pursuant to section 5104.03 of the Revised Code. The department shall provide training in accordance with those standards for individuals in the categories described in this division. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.752 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.752
§ 5164.752. Determining maximum dispensing fee
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly In July of every even-numbered year, the department of medicaid shall initiate a confidential survey of the cost of dispensing drugs incurred by terminal distributors of dangerous drugs in this state. The survey shall be used as the basis for establishing the medicaid program's dispensing fees for terminal distributors in accordance with section 5164.753 of the Revised Code. The survey shall be completed and its results published not later than the last day of November of the year in which it is conducted. Each terminal distributor that is a provider of drugs under the medicaid program shall participate in the survey. Except as necessary to publish the survey's results, a terminal distributor's responses to the survey are confidential and not a public record under section 149.43 of the Revised Code. The survey shall be conducted in conformance with the requirements set forth in 42 C.F.R. 447.500 to 447.518. The survey shall include operational data and direct prescription expenses, professional services and personnel costs, and usual and customary overhead expenses of the terminal distributors surveyed. The survey shall compute and report the cost of dispensing by terminal distributors.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.46 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.46
§ 5101.46. Administering provision of social services funded through grants made under Title XX
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Title XX" means Title XX of the "Social Security Act," 88 Stat. 2337 (1974), 42 U.S.C.A. 1397, as amended. (2) "Respective local agency" means, with respect to the department of job and family services and the department of children and youth, a county department of job and family services; with respect to the department of mental health and addiction services, a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services; and with respect to the department of developmental disabilities, a county board of developmental disabilities. (3) "Federal poverty guidelines" means the poverty guidelines as revised annually by the United States department of health and human services in accordance with section 673(2) of the "Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981," 95 Stat. 511, 42 U.S.C.A. 9902, as amended, for a family size equal to the size of the family of the person whose income is being determined. (B) The departments of job and family services, children and youth, mental health, and developmental disabilities, with their respective local agencies, shall administer the provision of social services funded through grants made under Title XX. The social services furnished with Title XX funds shall be directed at the following goals: (1) Achieving or maintaining economic self-support to prevent, reduce, or eliminate dependency; (2) Achieving or maintaining self-sufficiency, including reduction or prevention of dependency; (3) Preventing or remedying neglect, abuse, or exploitation of children and adults unable to protect their own interests, or preserving, rehabilitating, or reuniting families; (4) Preventing or reducing inappropriate institutional care by providing for community-based care, home-based care, or other forms of less intensive care; (5) Securing referral or admission for institutional care when other forms of care are not appropriate, or providing services to individuals in institutions. (C)(1) All federal funds received under Title XX shall be appropriated as follows: (a) Seventy-two and one-half per cent to the department of job and family services and the department of children and youth; (b) Twelve and ninety-three one-hundredths per cent to the department of mental health and addiction services ; (c) Fourteen and fifty-seven one-hundredths per cent to the department of developmental disabilities. (2) Each of the state departments shall, subject to the approval of the controlling board, develop a formula for the distribution of the Title XX funds appropriated to the department to its respective local agencies. The formula developed by each state department shall take into account all of the following for each of its respective local agencies: (a) The total population of the area that is served by the respective local agency; (b) The percentage of the population in the area served that falls below the federal poverty guidelines; (c) The respective local agency's history of and ability to utilize Title XX funds. (3) Each of the state departments shall expend for state administrative costs not more than three per cent of the Title XX funds appropriated to the department. Each state department shall establish for each of its respective local agencies the maximum percentage of the Title XX funds distributed to the respective local agency that the respective local agency may expend for local administrative costs. The percentage shall be established by rule and shall comply with federal law governing the use of Title XX funds. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code as if they were internal management rules. (4) The department of job and family services and the department of children and youth, as applicable, shall expend for the training of the following not more than two per cent of the Title XX funds appropriated to the department: (a) Employees of county departments of job and family services; (b) Providers of services under contract with the state departments' respective local agencies; (c) Employees of a public children services agency directly engaged in providing Title XX services. (5) Title XX funds distributed for the purpose of providing family planning services shall be distributed by the respective local agencies according to the same order of priority that applies to the department of job and family services under section 5101.101 of the Revised Code. (D) The department of job and family services and the department of children and youth shall prepare an annual comprehensive Title XX social services plan on the intended use of Title XX funds. The departments shall develop a method for obtaining public comment during the development of the plan and following its completion. For each federal fiscal year, the department of job and family services and the department of children and youth shall prepare a report on the actual use of Title XX funds. The department shall make the annual report available for public inspection. The departments of mental health and addiction services and developmental disabilities shall prepare and submit to the department of job and family services the portions of each annual plan and report that apply to services for mental health and developmental disabilities. Each respective local agency of the three state departments shall submit information as necessary for the preparation of annual plans and reports. (E) Each county department of job and family services shall adopt a county profile for the administration and provision of Title XX social services in the county. In developing its county profile, the county department shall take into consideration the comments and recommendations received from the public by the county family services planning committee pursuant to section 329.06 of the Revised Code. As part of its preparation of the county profile, the county department may prepare a local needs report analyzing the need for Title XX social services. The county department shall submit the county profile to the board of county commissioners for its review. Once the county profile has been approved by the board, the county department shall file a copy of the county profile with the department of job and family services. The department shall approve the county profile if the department determines the profile provides for the Title XX social services to meet the goals specified in division (B) of this section. (F) Any of the three state departments and their respective local agencies may require that an entity under contract to provide social services with Title XX funds submit to an audit on the basis of alleged misuse or improper accounting of funds. If an audit is required, the social services provider shall reimburse the state department or respective local agency for the cost it incurred in conducting the audit or having the audit conducted. If an audit demonstrates that a social services provider is responsible for one or more adverse findings, the provider shall reimburse the appropriate state department or its respective local agency the amount of the adverse findings. The amount shall not be reimbursed with Title XX funds received under this section. The three state departments and their respective local agencies may terminate or refuse to enter into a Title XX contract with a social services provider if there are adverse findings in an audit that are the responsibility of the provider. (G) Except with respect to the matters for which each of the state departments must adopt rules under division (C)(3) of this section, the department of job and family services and the department of children and youth may adopt any rules they consider necessary to implement and carry out the purposes of this section. Rules governing financial and operational matters of the departments or matters between the departments and county departments of job and family services shall be adopted as internal management rules in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code. Rules governing eligibility for services, program participation, and other matters pertaining to applicants and participants shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. Last updated October 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5124.25 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5124 / § 5124.25
§ 5124.25. Payment of medicaid rate add-on for outlier services provided for ventilator-dependent residents
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly (A) Subject to division (D) of this section, the department of developmental disabilities may pay a medicaid rate add-on to an ICF/IID provider for outlier ICF/IID services the ICF/IID provides to qualifying ventilator-dependent residents on or after September 29, 2013, if the provider applies to the department of developmental disabilities to receive the rate add-on and the department approves the application. The department of developmental disabilities may approve a provider's application if both of the following apply: (1) The provider submits to the department of developmental disabilities a best practices protocol for providing outlier ICF/IID services under this section and the department of developmental disabilities determines that the protocol is acceptable; (2) The provider and ICF/IID meet all other eligibility requirements for the rate add-on established in rules authorized by this section. (B) An ICF/IID that has been approved by the department of developmental disabilities to provider outlier ICF/IID services under this section shall provide the services in accordance with both of the following: (1) The best practices protocol the department of developmental disabilities determined is acceptable; (2) Requirements regarding the services established in rules authorized by this section. (C) To qualify to receive outlier ICF/IID services from an ICF/IID under this section, a resident of the ICF/IID must be a medicaid recipient, be dependent on a ventilator, and meet all other eligibility requirements established in rules authorized by this section. (D) The department of developmental disabilities shall negotiate the amount of the medicaid payment rate add-on, if any, to be paid under this section, or the method by which that amount is to be determined, with the department of medicaid. The department of developmental disabilities shall not pay the rate add-on unless the department of medicaid has approved the amount of the rate add-on or method by which the amount is to be determined.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.421 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.421
§ 5123.421. Complaints and investigations
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 483, House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly The department of developmental disabilities shall accept complaints from any person or government entity regarding the administration of medications and performance of health-related activities by developmental disabilities personnel pursuant to the authority granted under section 5123.42 of the Revised Code. The department shall conduct investigations of complaints as it considers appropriate. The Legislative Service Commission presents the text of this section as a composite of the section as amended by multiple acts of the General Assembly. This presentation recognizes the principle stated in R.C. 1.52(B) that amendments are to be harmonized if reasonably capable of simultaneous operation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5168.45 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5168 / § 5168.45
§ 5168.45. Increase in franchise permit fee rate
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly (A) If the United States secretary of health and human services approves the waiver sought under section 5168.43 of the Revised Code, the department of medicaid may do both of the following regarding the franchise permit fee assessed under section 5168.42 of the Revised Code: (1) Determine how much money the franchise permit fee would have raised in a fiscal year if not for the waiver; (2) For each nursing home and hospital subject to the franchise permit fee, other than a nursing home or hospital that has its franchise permit fee rate reduced under section 5168.44 of the Revised Code, uniformly increase the amount of the franchise permit fee rate for a fiscal year to an amount that will have the franchise permit fee raise an amount of money that does not exceed the amount determined under division (A)(1) of this section for that fiscal year. (B) If the department increases the franchise permit fee rate in accordance with division (A) of this section for the first fiscal year during which the waiver takes effect, the department shall determine the amount of the increase not later than the effective date of the waiver and shall mail to each nursing home and hospital subject to the increase notice of the increase not later than the last day of the first month of the quarter that begins after the United States secretary approves the waiver. If the department increases the franchise permit fee rate in accordance with division (A) of this section for a subsequent fiscal year, the department shall make such determinations and notify the nursing homes and hospitals in accordance with section 5168.47 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.368 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.368
§ 5119.368. Telehealth services
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "telehealth services" has the same meaning as in section 4743.09 of the Revised Code. (B) Each community mental health services provider and community addiction services provider shall establish written policies and procedures describing how the provider will ensure that staff persons assisting clients with receiving telehealth services or providing telehealth services are fully trained in using equipment necessary for providing the services. (C) Prior to providing telehealth services to a client, a provider shall describe to the client the potential risks associated with receiving treatment through telehealth services and shall document that the client was provided with the risks and agreed to assume those risks. The risks communicated to a client shall address the following: (1) Clinical aspects of receiving treatment through telehealth services; (2) Security considerations when receiving treatment through telehealth services; (3) Confidentiality for individual and group counseling. (D) It is the responsibility of the provider, to the extent possible, to ensure contractually that any entity or individuals involved in the transmission of information through telehealth mechanisms guarantee that the confidentiality of the information is protected. (E) Every provider shall have a contingency plan for providing telehealth services to clients in the event that technical problems occur during the provision of those services. (F) Providers shall maintain, at a minimum, the following information pertaining to local resources: (1) The local suicide prevention telephone hotline, if available, or the national suicide prevention telephone hotline. (2) Contact information for the local police and fire departments. The provider shall provide the client written information on how to access assistance in a crisis, including one caused by equipment malfunction or failure. (G) It is the responsibility of the provider to ensure that equipment meets standards sufficient to do the following: (1) To the extent possible, ensure confidentiality of communication; (2) Provide for interactive communication between the provider and the client; (3) When providing telehealth services using synchronous technology, ensure that video or audio are sufficient to enable real-time interaction between the client and the provider and to ensure the quality of the service provided. (H) A mental health facility or unit that is serving as a client site shall be maintained in such a manner that appropriate staff persons are on hand at the facility or unit in the event of a malfunction with the equipment used to provide telehealth services. (I)(1) All telehealth services provided by interactive videoconferencing shall meet both of the following conditions: (a) Begin with the verification of the client through a name and password or personal identification number when treatment services are being provided; (b) Be provided in accordance with state and federal law. (2) When providing telehealth services in accordance with this section, a provider shall comply with all requirements under state and federal law regarding the protection of patient information. Each provider shall ensure that any username or password information and any electronic communications between the provider and a client are securely transmitted and stored. (J) The department of behavioral health may adopt rules as it considers necessary to implement this section. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. Any such rules adopted by the department are not subject to the requirements of division (F) of section 121.95 of the Revised Code. Last updated August 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5168.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5168 / § 5168.11
§ 5168.11. Hospital care assurance program fund
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in section 5162.52 of the Revised Code, all payments of assessments by hospitals under section 5168.06 of the Revised Code and all intergovernmental transfers under section 5168.07 of the Revised Code shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the hospital care assurance program fund, hereby created. All investment earnings of the hospital care assurance program fund shall be credited to the fund. The department of medicaid shall maintain records that show the amount of money in the hospital care assurance program fund at any time that has been paid by each hospital and the amount of any investment earnings on that amount. All moneys credited to the hospital care assurance program fund shall be used solely to make payments to hospitals under division (D) of this section and section 5168.09 of the Revised Code. (B) All federal matching funds received as a result of the department distributing funds from the hospital care assurance program fund to hospitals under section 5168.09 of the Revised Code shall be credited to the health care - federal fund created under section 5162.50 of the Revised Code. (C) All distributions of funds to hospitals under section 5168.09 of the Revised Code are conditional on: (1) Expiration of the time for appeals under section 5168.08 of the Revised Code without the filing of an appeal, or on court determinations, in the event of appeals, that the hospital is entitled to the funds; (2) The sum of the following being sufficient to distribute the funds after the final determination of any appeals: (a) The available money in the hospital care assurance program fund; (b) The available portion of the money in the health care - federal fund that is credited to that fund pursuant to division (B) of this section. (3) The hospital's compliance with section 5168.14 of the Revised Code. (D) If an audit conducted by the department, pursuant to 42 C.F.R. 455.304, of the amounts of payments made and funds received by hospitals under sections 5168.06 , 5168.07 , and 5168.09 of the Revised Code identifies amounts that, due to errors by the department, a hospital should not have been required to pay but did pay, should have been required to pay but did not pay, should not have received but did receive, or should have received but did not receive, the department shall: (1) Make payments to any hospital that the audit reveals paid amounts it should not have been required to pay or did not receive amounts it should have received; (2) Take action to recover from a hospital any amounts that the audit reveals it should have been required to pay but did not pay or that it should not have received but did receive. Payments made under division (D)(1) of this section shall be made from the hospital care assurance program fund. Amounts recovered under division (D)(2) of this section shall be deposited to the credit of that fund. An action authorized under Chapter 2721. of the Revised Code and filed in Franklin county shall be the exclusive remedy for any hospital that disagrees with the amount that the hospital is to be paid under division (D)(1) or the amount that is to be recovered from the hospital under division (D)(2) of this section. While any judicial proceeding is pending under division (D) of this section, a hospital shall pay to the hospital care assurance program fund any amount identified pursuant to division (D)(2) of this section that is not in dispute. Last updated August 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.082 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.082
§ 5126.082. Standards for promoting and advancing the quality of life of individuals
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly (A) In addition to the rules adopted under division (A)(2) of section 5126.08 of the Revised Code establishing standards to be followed by county boards of developmental disabilities in administering, providing, arranging, and operating programs and services and in addition to the board accreditation system established under section 5126.081 of the Revised Code, the director of developmental disabilities shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing standards for promoting and advancing the quality of life of individuals with developmental disabilities receiving any of the following: (1) Early childhood services pursuant to section 5126.05 of the Revised Code for children under age three; (2) Adult services pursuant to section 5126.05 and division (B) of section 5126.051 of the Revised Code for individuals age sixteen or older; (3) Family support services pursuant to section 5126.11 of the Revised Code. (B) The rules adopted under this section shall specify the actions county boards of developmental disabilities and the agencies with which they contract should take to do the following: (1) Offer individuals with developmental disabilities, and their families when appropriate, choices in programs and services that are centered on the needs and desires of those individuals; (2) Maintain infants with their families whenever possible by collaborating with other agencies that provide services to infants and their families and taking other appropriate actions; (3) Provide families that have children with developmental disabilities under age eighteen residing in their homes the resources necessary to allow the children to remain in their homes; (4) Create and implement community employment services based on the needs and desires of adults with developmental disabilities; (5) Create, in collaboration with other agencies, transportation systems that provide safe and accessible transportation within the county to individuals with disabilities; (6) Provide services that allow individuals with disabilities to be integrated into the community by engaging in educational, vocational, and recreational activities with individuals who do not have disabilities; (7) Provide age-appropriate retirement services for individuals age sixty-five and older with developmental disabilities; (8) Establish residential services and supported living for individuals with developmental disabilities in accordance with their needs. (C) To assist in funding programs and services that meet the standards established under this section, each county board of developmental disabilities shall make a good faith effort to acquire available federal funds, including reimbursements under Title XIX of the "Social Security Act," 79 Stat. 286 (1965), 42 U.S.C.A. 1396, as amended. (D) Each county board of developmental disabilities shall work toward full compliance with the standards established under this section, based on its available resources. Funds received under this chapter shall be used to comply with the standards. Annually, each board shall conduct a self audit to evaluate the board's progress in complying fully with the standards. (E) The department shall complete a program quality review of each county board of developmental disabilities to determine the extent to which the board has complied with the standards. The review shall be conducted in conjunction with the comprehensive accreditation review of the board that is conducted under section 5126.081 of the Revised Code. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or Chapter 5123. of the Revised Code requiring the department to distribute funds to county boards of developmental disabilities, the department may withhold funds from a board if it finds that the board is not in substantial compliance with the standards established under this section. (F) When the standards for accreditation from the commission on accreditation of rehabilitation facilities, or another accrediting agency, meet or exceed the standards established under this section, the director may accept accreditation from the commission or other agency as evidence that the board is in compliance with all or part of the standards established under this section. Programs and services accredited by the commission or agency are exempt from the program quality reviews required by division (E) of this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.201 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.201
§ 5119.201. Real or personal property transactions
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) The director of behavioral health may acquire by purchase, lease, or otherwise such real and personal property rights in the name of the state as are necessary for the purposes of the department. (B) When it is necessary for a state institution under the jurisdiction of the department to acquire any real estate, right-of-way, or easement in real estate in order to accomplish the purposes for which it was organized or is being conducted, and the department is unable to agree with the owner of such property upon the price to be paid for the property, such property may be appropriated in the manner provided for the appropriation of property for other state purposes. (C) The director may work with the department of administrative services to sell, lease, or exchange portions of real and personal property of the department when the sale, lease, or exchange is advantageous to the state. Money received from such sales, leases, or exchanges shall be credited to the department of behavioral health trust fund, created in section 5119.46 of the Revised Code. (D) 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 August 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.56 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.56
§ 5123.56. Statewide system of protective service
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly The department of developmental disabilities shall develop a statewide system of protective service in accordance with rules and standards established by the department. With respect to this program, the department may enter into a contract with any responsible public or private agency for provision of protective service by the agency, and the contract may permit the agency to charge the person receiving services fees for services provided. No costs or fees shall be charged by a probate court for the filing of a petition for guardianship, trusteeship, protectorship, or conservatorship under sections 5123.55 to 5123.59 of the Revised Code, or for any service performed by a probate court, or by any state agency in the course of petitioning for protective services, or for any protective services provided under those sections. An agency that provides protective services pursuant to a contract with another agency or a court may charge the agency or court fees for the services provided.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.91 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.91
§ 5119.91. Involuntary treatment for alcohol and other drug abuse
Status: in_force

April 6, 2023 House Bill 281 - 134th General Assembly A probate court may order involuntary treatment for a person experiencing alcohol and other drug abuse pursuant to the procedures set forth in sections 5119.90 to 5119.98 of the Revised Code. Last updated March 10, 2023 at 12:50 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5107.161 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5107 / § 5107.161
§ 5107.161. Written notice prior to sanction
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly Before a county department of job and family services sanctions an assistance group under section 5107.16 of the Revised Code, the state department of job and family services shall provide the assistance group written notice of the sanction in accordance with rules adopted under section 5107.05 of the Revised Code. The written notice shall include a provision printed in bold type face that informs the assistance group that, not later than fifteen calendar days after the state department mailed the written notice to the assistance group, the assistance group may request, for the purpose of explaining why the assistance group believes it should not be sanctioned, a state hearing under division (B) of section 5101.35 of the Revised Code which, at the assistance group's request, may be preceded by a county conference with the county department. The written notice shall include either the telephone number of an Ohio works first ombudsperson provided for under section 329.07 of the Revised Code or the toll-free telephone number of the state department of job and family services that the assistance group may call to obtain the telephone number of an Ohio works first ombudsperson. Last updated September 18, 2023 at 10:47 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.79 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.79
§ 5123.79. Discharging involuntary resident
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly (A) Notwithstanding a finding pursuant to section 5123.76 of the Revised Code that a person is a person with an intellectual disability subject to institutionalization by court order, the managing officer of an institution, with the concurrence of the chief program director, shall, except as provided in division (C) of this section, grant a discharge without the consent or the authorization of any court upon a determination that institutionalization no longer is appropriate. Upon the discharge, the managing officer of the institution shall notify the probate division of the court of common pleas that made the involuntary commitment. (B) Upon the request of the director of a private institution, program, facility, or person having custody of a resident institutionalized pursuant to section 5123.76 of the Revised Code, or on the order of the probate division of the court of common pleas, the resident may be called for a rehearing to determine the advisability of continued institutionalization at a place within the county of resident's residence or the county where the resident is institutionalized as the probate division designates. The hearing shall be held pursuant to section 5123.76 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.547 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.547
§ 5101.547. Employment and training program redesign
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) The department of job and family services shall redesign the employment and training program established under rules adopted by the department pursuant to division (A)(7) of section 5101.54 of the Revised Code. In redesigning the employment and training program, the department shall ensure that the new program meets the needs of employers in this state. (B) Not later than July 1, 2024, the department shall appear before the finance committees of both the house of representatives and the senate to report on the redesigned employment and training program established under division (A) of this section. Last updated September 26, 2023 at 5:48 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.141 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.141
§ 5119.141. Authority of department
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly In addition to the powers and duties expressly conferred on the department of behavioral health, the department may take any other action it considers necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter and Chapters 340., 2919., 2945., and 5122. of the Revised Code. Actions authorized by this section include the authority to adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter and Chapters 340., 2919., 2945., and 5122. of the Revised Code. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.29 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.29
§ 5164.29. Revised Medicaid provider enrollment system
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly Not later than December 31, 2018, the department of medicaid shall develop and implement revisions to the system by which persons and government entities become and remain medicaid providers so that there is a single system of records for the system and the persons and government entities do not have to submit duplicate data to the state to become or remain medicaid providers for any component or aspect of a component of the medicaid program, including a component or aspect of a component administered by another state agency or political subdivision pursuant to a contract entered into under section 5162.35 of the Revised Code. The departments of aging, developmental disabilities, and mental health and addiction services shall participate in the development of the revisions and shall utilize the revised system. Last updated October 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5124.53 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5124 / § 5124.53
§ 5124.53. Adoption of rules for implementation of sections 5124.50 to 5124.53
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The director of developmental disabilities shall adopt rules under section 5124.03 of the Revised Code to implement sections 5124.50 to 5124.53 of the Revised Code. The rules shall specify all of the following: (A) The method by which written notices to the department required by sections 5124.50 to 5124.53 of the Revised Code are to be provided; (B) The forms and documents that are to be provided to the department under sections 5124.511 and 5124.512 of the Revised Code, which shall include, in the case of such forms and documents provided by entering operators, all the fully executed leases, management agreements, merger agreements and supporting documents, and fully executed sales contracts and any other supporting documents culminating in the change of operator; (C) The method by which the forms and documents identified in division (B) of this section are to be provided to the department.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5153.124 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5153 / § 5153.124
§ 5153.124. Rules implementing training requirements
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A)(1) The director of children and youth shall adopt rules as necessary to implement the training requirements of sections 5153.122 and 5153.123 of the Revised Code. (2) Not later than nine months after September 30, 2021, the director shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to establish the circumstances under which an executive director of a public children services agency may waive portions of in-service training for PCSA caseworkers, in addition to the waiver described in section 5153.122 of the Revised Code. (B) Notwithstanding sections 5103.37 to 5103.42 and sections 5153.122 to 5153.127 of the Revised Code, the department of children and youth may require additional training for PCSA caseworkers and PCSA caseworker supervisors as necessary to comply with federal requirements. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.30 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.30
§ 5164.30. Provider agreement with department required
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly No person or government entity may participate in the medicaid program as a medicaid provider without a valid provider agreement with the department of medicaid.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5121.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5121 / § 5121.11
§ 5121.11. Burial or cremation of indigent patient or resident
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly The state shall bear the expense of the burial or cremation of an indigent resident who dies in a state institution operated by the department of developmental disabilities under section 5123.03 of the Revised Code or in a state correctional institution if the body is not claimed for interment or cremation at the expense of friends or relatives or is not delivered for anatomical purposes or for the study of embalming in accordance with section 1713.34 of the Revised Code. The managing officer of the institution shall provide at the grave of the person or, if the person's cremated remains are buried, at the grave of the person's cremated remains, a metal, stone, or concrete marker on which shall be inscribed the name and age of the person and the date of death. Last updated April 22, 2023 at 7:13 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.02
§ 5103.02. Placement of children definitions
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly As used in sections 5103.03 to 5103.181 of the Revised Code: (A)(1) "Association" or "institution" includes all of the following: (a) Any incorporated or unincorporated organization, society, association, or agency, public or private, that receives or cares for children for two or more consecutive weeks; (b) Any individual, including the operator of a foster home, who, for hire, gain, or reward, receives or cares for children for two or more consecutive weeks, unless the individual is related to them by blood or marriage; (c) Any individual not in the regular employ of a court, or of an institution or association certified in accordance with section 5103.03 of the Revised Code, who in any manner becomes a party to the placing of children in foster homes, unless the individual is related to such children by blood or marriage or is the appointed guardian of such children. (2) "Association" or "institution" does not include any of the following: (a) Any organization, society, association, school, agency, child guidance center, detention or rehabilitation facility, or children's clinic licensed, regulated, approved, operated under the direction of, or otherwise certified by the department of education and workforce, a local board of education, the department of youth services, the department of mental health and addiction services, or the department of developmental disabilities; (b) Any individual who provides care for only a single-family group, placed there by their parents or other relative having custody; (c) A private, nonprofit therapeutic wilderness camp; (d) A qualified organization as defined in section 2151.90 of the Revised Code. (B) "Family foster home" means a foster home that is not a specialized foster home. (C) "Foster caregiver" means a person holding a valid foster home certificate issued under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code. (D) "Foster home" means a private residence in which children are received apart from their parents, guardian, or legal custodian, by an individual reimbursed for providing the children nonsecure care, supervision, or training twenty-four hours a day. "Foster home" does not include care provided for a child in the home of a person other than the child's parent, guardian, or legal custodian while the parent, guardian, or legal custodian is temporarily away. Family foster homes and specialized foster homes are types of foster homes. (E) "Kinship caregiver" has the same meaning as in section 5180.50 of the Revised Code. (F) "Medically fragile foster home" means a foster home that provides specialized medical services designed to meet the needs of children with intensive health care needs who meet all of the following criteria: (1) Under rules adopted by the medicaid director governing medicaid payments for long-term care services, the children require a skilled level of care. (2) The children require the services of a doctor of medicine or osteopathic medicine at least once a week due to the instability of their medical conditions. (3) The children require the services of a registered nurse on a daily basis. (4) The children are at risk of institutionalization in a hospital, skilled nursing facility, or intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities. (G) "Private, nonprofit therapeutic wilderness camp" means a structured, alternative residential setting for children who are experiencing emotional, behavioral, moral, social, or learning difficulties at home or school in which all of the following are the case: (1) The children spend the majority of their time, including overnight, either outdoors or in a primitive structure. (2) The children have been placed there by their parents or another relative having custody. (3) The camp accepts no public funds for use in its operations. (H) "Recommending agency" means a public children services agency, private child placing agency, or private noncustodial agency that recommends that the department of children and youth take any of the following actions under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code regarding a foster home: (1) Issue a certificate; (2) Deny a certificate; (3) Revoke a certificate. (I) "Resource caregiver" means a foster caregiver or a kinship caregiver. (J) "Resource family" means a foster home or the kinship caregiver family. (K) "Specialized foster home" means a medically fragile foster home or a treatment foster home. (L) "Treatment foster home" means a foster home that incorporates special rehabilitative services designed to treat the specific needs of the children received in the foster home and that receives and cares for children who are emotionally or behaviorally disturbed, who are chemically dependent, who have developmental disabilities, or who otherwise have exceptional needs. Last updated October 20, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5153.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5153 / § 5153.11
§ 5153.11. Executive director - powers and duties
Status: in_force

October 1, 1997 House Bill 408 - 122nd General Assembly The executive director shall administer the work of the public children services agency, subject to the rules of the agency. With the approval of the agency, the executive director shall appoint all other employees except the superintendent of any institution maintained by the agency. Such superintendent shall appoint all employees in any such institution. Upon the advice of one or more reputable practicing physicians, the executive director may consent to such medical, dental, and surgical care, including surgery and the administration of anesthetics, inoculations, and immunizations, or other care as appears to be necessary for any child who is in the temporary or permanent custody of such agency. The executive director may also consent to the enlistment of a ward of such agency into the armed forces of the United States.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.441 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.441
§ 5123.441. Certificates to provide training courses
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 483, House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly (A) Each developmental disabilities personnel training course developed under section 5123.43 of the Revised Code shall be provided by a registered nurse. (B) To provide a training course or courses to developmental disabilities personnel, a registered nurse shall obtain the certificate or certificates required by the department of developmental disabilities and issued under section 5123.45 of the Revised Code. The registered nurse shall provide only the training course or courses authorized by the certificate or certificates the registered nurse holds. The Legislative Service Commission presents the text of this section as a composite of the section as amended by multiple acts of the General Assembly. This presentation recognizes the principle stated in R.C. 1.52(B) that amendments are to be harmonized if reasonably capable of simultaneous operation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5124.44 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5124 / § 5124.44
§ 5124.44. Deductions
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the department of developmental disabilities shall deduct the following from the next available medicaid payment the department makes to an ICF/IID provider who continues to participate in medicaid: (1) Any amount the provider is required to refund, and any interest charged, under section 5124.41 of the Revised Code; (2) The amount of any penalty imposed on the provider under section 5124.42 of the Revised Code. (B) The department and an ICF/IID provider may enter into an agreement under which a deduction required by division (A) of this section is taken in installments from payments the department makes to the provider.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5167.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5167 / § 5167.16
§ 5167.16. Home visits and cognitive behavioral therapy
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Help me grow program" means the program established by the department of health pursuant to section 5180.21 of the Revised Code. (2) "Targeted case management" has the same meaning as in 42 C.F.R. 440.169(b). (B) A medicaid managed care organization shall provide to a medicaid recipient who meets the criteria in division (C) of this section, or arrange for such recipient to receive, both of the following types of services: (1) Home visits, which shall include depression screenings, for which federal financial participation is available under the targeted case management benefit; (2) Cognitive behavioral therapy, provided by a community mental health services provider, that is determined to be medically necessary through a depression screening conducted as part of a home visit. (C) A medicaid recipient qualifies to receive the services specified in division (B) of this section if the medicaid recipient is enrolled in the help me grow program, enrolled in the medicaid managed care organization providing or arranging for the services, and is either pregnant or the birth mother of a child under five years of age. (D) If requested by a medicaid recipient eligible for the cognitive behavioral therapy covered under division (B)(2) of this section, the therapy shall be provided in the recipient's home. The medicaid managed care organization shall inform the medicaid recipient of the right to make the request and how to make it. Last updated August 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.513 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.513
§ 5165.513. Entering operator duties under provider agreement
Status: in_force

January 1, 2015 Senate Bill 276 - 130th General Assembly (A) A provider that enters into a provider agreement with the department of medicaid under section 5165.511 or 5165.512 of the Revised Code shall do all of the following: (1) Comply with all applicable federal statutes and regulations; (2) Comply with section 5165.07 of the Revised Code and all other applicable state statutes and rules; (3) Subject to division (B) of this section, comply with all the terms and conditions of the exiting operator's provider agreement, including, but not limited to, all of the following: (a) Any plan of correction; (b) Compliance with health and safety standards; (c) Compliance with the ownership and financial interest disclosure requirements of 42 C.F.R. 455.104, 455.105, and 1002.3; (d) Compliance with the civil rights requirements of 45 C.F.R. parts 80, 84, and 90; (e) Compliance with additional requirements imposed by the department; (f) Any sanctions relating to remedies for violation of the provider agreement, including deficiencies, compliance periods, accountability periods, monetary penalties, notification for correction of contract violations, and history of deficiencies. (B) Division (A)(3) of this section does not prohibit a nursing facility provider from excluding one or more parts of the nursing facility from the provider agreement pursuant to division (B)(1) of section 5165.08 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5139.271 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5139 / § 5139.271
§ 5139.271. Granting financial assistance to counties
Status: in_force

August 16, 2016 Senate Bill 310 - 131st General Assembly Subject to the approval of the controlling board, the department of youth services may grant and pay financial assistance to defray the county's share of the cost of acquiring or constructing a district detention facility, established under section 2152.41 of the Revised Code, to any county making application under section 2152.43 of the Revised Code if the department finds that the application was made in accordance with its rules and the facility or the specifications for the facility meet minimum standards established by the department. No financial assistance shall be granted for defraying the cost of land. The department shall adopt rules prescribing the minimum standards of construction and condition of existing structures, established under section 2152.41 of the Revised Code, for which financial assistance is granted under this section. The department may recommend programs of education and training and the qualifications desired for personnel of a district detention facility. The amount of financial assistance granted to any county shall not exceed sixty per cent of the county's share of the cost of acquisition or construction of the facility. A county that receives financial assistance under this section shall repay the assistance to the state if the facility for which the assistance is granted is used within the ten-year period immediately following its establishment for purposes other than those contained in section 2152.41 of the Revised Code. A board of county commissioners that uses the facility for any other purpose within that period shall enter into an agreement with the director of budget and management for the discharge of that obligation over a period not to exceed ten years. If a board of county commissioners fails to enter into an agreement for the discharge of that obligation, or fails to comply with the terms of such an agreement, the director shall direct the tax commissioner, pursuant to section 5747.54 of the Revised Code, to withhold from the distribution of the local government fund an amount sufficient to discharge the obligation. As used in this section: (A) "Construction" means the building and initial equipping of new structures. (B) "Acquisition" means "acquisition" as defined in the rules of the department, which may include the purchase, remodeling, and initial equipping of existing structures.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.114 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.114
§ 5120.114. Single validated risk assessment tool
Status: in_force

March 20, 2019 Senate Bill 231, Senate Bill 66 - 132nd General Assembly (A) The department of rehabilitation and correction shall select a single validated risk assessment tool for adult offenders. This assessment tool shall be used by the following entities: (1) Municipal courts, when the particular court orders an assessment of an offender for sentencing or another purpose; (2) Common pleas courts, when the particular court orders an assessment of an offender for sentencing or another purpose; (3) County courts, when the particular court orders an assessment of an offender for sentencing or another purpose; (4) Municipal court departments of probation; (5) County departments of probation; (6) Probation departments established by two or more counties; (7) State and local correctional institutions; (8) Private correctional facilities; (9) Community-based correctional facilities; (10) The adult parole authority; (11) The parole board ; (12) The department of mental health and addiction services; (13) Halfway houses. (B) For each entity required to use the assessment tool, every employee of the entity who actually uses the tool shall be trained and certified by a trainer who is certified by the department. Each entity utilizing the assessment tool shall develop policies and protocols regarding all of the following activities: (1) Application and integration of the assessment tool into operations, supervision, and case planning; (2) Administrative oversight of the use of the assessment tool; (3) Staff training; (4) Quality assurance; (5) Data collection and sharing as described under section 5120.115 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.051 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.051
§ 5120.051. Mentally ill and persons with intellectual disabilities who are incarcerated
Status: in_force

April 6, 2023 House Bill 281 - 134th General Assembly The department of rehabilitation and correction shall provide for the needs of persons with mental illnesses and persons with intellectual disabilities who are incarcerated in state correctional institutions. The department may designate an institution or a unit within an institution for the custody, care, special training, treatment, and rehabilitation of persons with mental illnesses or persons with intellectual disabilities. Last updated March 10, 2023 at 12:52 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5108.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5108 / § 5108.05
§ 5108.05. Provision in statement of policies
Status: in_force

September 26, 2003 House Bill 95 - 125th General Assembly In adopting a statement of policies under section 5108.04 of the Revised Code for the county's prevention, retention, and contingency program, each county department of job and family services shall do all of the following: (A) Establish or specify all of the following: (1) Benefits and services to be provided under the program that are allowable uses of federal Title IV-A funds under 42 U.S.C. 601 and 604(a), except that they may not be "assistance" as defined in 45 C.F.R. 260.31(a) but rather benefits and services that 45 C.F.R. 260.31(b) excludes from the definition of assistance; (2) Restrictions on the amount, duration, and frequency of the benefits and services; (3) Eligibility requirements for the benefits and services; (4) Fair and equitable procedures for both of the following: (a) The certification of eligibility for the benefits and services that do not have a financial need eligibility requirement; (b) The determination and verification of eligibility for the benefits and services that have a financial need eligibility requirement. (5) Objective criteria for the delivery of the benefits and services; (6) Administrative requirements; (7) Other matters the county department determines are necessary. (B) Provide for the statement of policies to be consistent with all of the following: (1) The plan of cooperation the board of county commissioners develops under section 307.983 of the Revised Code; (2) The review and analysis of the county family services committee conducted in accordance with division (B)(2) of section 329.06 of the Revised Code; (3) Title IV-A, federal regulations, state law, the Title IV-A state plan submitted to the United States secretary of health and human services under section 5101.80 of the Revised Code, and amendments to the plan. (C) Either provide the public and local government entities at least thirty days to submit comments on, or have the county family services planning committee review, the statement of policies, including the design of the county's prevention, retention, and contingency program, before the county director signs and dates the statement of policies.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.1612 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.1612
§ 5123.1612. Summary order suspending supported living certificate holder's authority to provide supported living
Status: in_force

October 17, 2019 House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly (A) The director of developmental disabilities may issue a summary order suspending a supported living certificate holder's authority to provide supported living to one or more identified individuals if the director determines that both of the following are the case: (1) The certificate holder's noncompliance with one or more requirements of this chapter or the rules adopted under it causes or presents an immediate danger of causing serious injury, harm, impairment, or death to the individual or individuals; (2) The certificate holder does not remove the conditions that caused or presented an immediate danger of causing serious injury, harm, impairment, or death to the individual or individuals before the order is issued. (B) An order issued under division (A) of this section applies only to the individual or individuals the director determines experienced or are in immediate danger of experiencing serious injury, harm, impairment, or death. An order issued under division (A) of this section takes immediate effect upon notification to the certificate holder. The county board of developmental disabilities for the county where the individual or individuals reside shall arrange for an alternative method of providing services to the individual or individuals until the order is lifted under division (E) of this section. (C) The director shall notify, by telephone, the certificate holder and the county board of developmental disabilities for the county where the individual or individuals reside of the order immediately after issuing it. The director also shall provide written notice of the order by electronic or regular mail. Both the telephone notice and the written notice to the certificate holder shall inform the certificate holder of the right to request a reconsideration of the order under division (D) of this section. (D) A certificate holder who is subject to an order issued under division (A) of this section may request that the director reconsider the order within twenty-four hours after receiving the telephone notice under division (C) of this section. The director shall reconsider the order within twenty-four hours after receiving the request. At the certificate holder's option, the reconsideration may be conducted by an in-person meeting, telephone, or review of the certificate holder's written submission that accompanies the request. The director shall issue a decision on the reconsideration within twenty-four hours following the conclusion of the meeting, telephone conversation, or review of a written submission. (E) The director shall lift an order issued under division (A) of this section if the director determines that the certificate holder has removed the conditions that led to the order and that the conditions will not recur. (F) An order issued under division (A) of this section does not constitute an action against the holder of a supported living certificate described in section 5123.166 of the Revised Code and is not subject to that section or to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. (G) The director's issuance of an order under division (A) of this section does not preclude the director from taking any other action against the holder of a supported living certificate described in section 5123.166 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.04
§ 5123.04. Director of department - powers and duties
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly (A) The director of developmental disabilities is the executive head of the department of developmental disabilities. All duties conferred on the department and its institutions by law or by order of the director shall be performed under such rules as the director prescribes, and shall be under the director's control. The director shall establish bylaws for the government of all institutions under the jurisdiction of the department. Except as otherwise is provided as to appointments by chiefs of divisions, the director shall appoint such employees as are necessary for the efficient conduct of the department, and shall prescribe their titles and duties. If the director is not a licensed physician, decisions relating to medical diagnosis and treatment shall be the responsibility of a licensed physician appointed by the director. (B) The director shall adopt rules for the proper execution of the powers and duties of the department. (C) The director shall adopt rules establishing standards that programs and facilities for persons with intellectual disabilities shall follow when performing evaluations of the mental condition of defendants ordered by the court under section 2919.271 or 2945.371 of the Revised Code, and for the treatment of defendants who have been found incompetent to stand trial under section 2945.38 of the Revised Code, and certify the compliance of such programs and facilities with the standards. (D) On behalf of the department, the director has the authority to, and responsibility for, entering into contracts and other agreements. (E) The director shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that do all of the following: (1) Specify the supplemental services that may be provided through a trust authorized by section 5815.28 of the Revised Code; (2) Establish standards for the maintenance and distribution to a beneficiary of assets of a trust authorized by section 5815.28 of the Revised Code. (F) The director shall provide monitoring of county boards of developmental disabilities. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.28 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.28
§ 5123.28. Handling funds belonging to residents
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly (A) Except as otherwise provided in this division, money or property deposited with managing officers of institutions under the jurisdiction of the department of developmental disabilities by any resident under the department's control or by relatives, guardians, conservators, and others for the special benefit of such resident, as well as all other funds and all other income paid to the resident, to the resident's estate, or on the resident's behalf, or paid to the managing officer or to the institution as representative payee or otherwise paid on the resident's behalf, shall remain in the hands of such managing officers in appropriate accounts for use accordingly. Each such managing officer shall keep itemized book accounts of the receipt and disposition of such money and property, which book shall be open at all times to the inspection of the department. The director of developmental disabilities shall adopt rules governing the deposit, transfer, withdrawal, or investment of such funds and the income of the funds, as well as rules under which such funds and income shall be paid by managing officers, institutions, or district managers for the support of such residents pursuant to Chapter 5121. of the Revised Code, or for their other needs. This division does not require, and shall not be construed as requiring, the deposit of the principal or income of a trust created pursuant to section 5815.28 of the Revised Code with managing officers of institutions under the jurisdiction of the department. (B) Whenever any resident confined in a state institution under the jurisdiction of the department dies, escapes, or is discharged from the institution, any personal funds of the resident remain in the hands of the managing officer of the institution, and no demand is made upon the managing officer by the owner of the funds or the owner's legally appointed representative, the managing officer shall hold the funds in the personal deposit fund for a period of at least one year during which time the managing officer shall make every effort possible to locate the owner or the owner's legally appointed representative. If, at the end of this period, no demand has been made for the funds, the managing officer shall dispose of the funds as follows: (1) All money in a personal deposit fund in excess of ten dollars due for the support of a resident, shall be paid in accordance with Chapter 5121. of the Revised Code. (2) All money in a personal deposit fund in excess of ten dollars not due for the support of a resident, shall be placed to the credit of the institution's local account designated as the "industrial and entertainment" fund. (3) The first ten dollars to the credit of a resident shall be placed to the credit of the institution's local account designated as the "industrial and entertainment" fund. (C) Whenever any resident in any state institution subject to the jurisdiction of the department dies, escapes, or is discharged from the institution, any personal effects of the resident remain in the hands of the managing officer of the institution, and no demand is made upon the managing officer by the owner of the personal effects or the owner's legally appointed representative, the managing officer shall hold and dispose of the personal effects in the following manner. All the miscellaneous personal effects shall be held for a period of at least one year, during which time the managing officer shall make every effort possible to locate the owner or the owner's legal representative. If, at the end of this period, no demand has been made by the owner of the property or the owner's legal representative, the managing officer shall file with the county recorder of the county of commitment of such owner, all deeds, wills, contract mortgages, or assignments. The balance of the personal effects shall be sold at public auction after being duly advertised, and the funds turned over to the treasurer of state for credit to the general revenue fund. If any of the property is not of a type to be filed with the county recorder and is not salable at public auction, the managing officer of the institution shall destroy that property.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.16
§ 5101.16. Paying county share of public assistance expenditures
Status: in_force

December 31, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly (A) As used in this section and sections 5101.161 and 5101.162 of the Revised Code: (1) "Disability financial assistance" means the financial assistance program established under former Chapter 5115. of the Revised Code. (2) "Supplemental nutrition assistance program" means the program administered by the department of job and family services pursuant to section 5101.54 of the Revised Code. (3) "Ohio works first" means the program established by Chapter 5107. of the Revised Code. (4) "Prevention, retention, and contingency" means the program established by Chapter 5108. of the Revised Code. (5) "Public assistance expenditures" means expenditures for all of the following: (a) Ohio works first; (b) County administration of Ohio works first; (c) Prevention, retention, and contingency; (d) County administration of prevention, retention, and contingency; (e) Disability financial assistance; (f) County administration of disability financial assistance; (g) County administration of the supplemental nutrition assistance program; (h) County administration of medicaid, excluding administrative expenditures for transportation services covered by the medicaid program. (6) "Title IV-A program" has the same meaning as in section 5101.80 of the Revised Code. (B) Each board of county commissioners shall pay the county share of public assistance expenditures in accordance with section 5101.161 of the Revised Code. Except as provided in division (C) of this section, a county's share of public assistance expenditures is the sum of all of the following for state fiscal year 1998 and each state fiscal year thereafter: (1) The amount that is twenty-five per cent of the county's total expenditures for disability financial assistance and county administration of that program during the state fiscal year ending in the previous calendar year that the department of job and family services determines are allowable. (2) The amount that is ten per cent, or other percentage determined under division (D) of this section, of the county's total expenditures for county administration of the supplemental nutrition assistance program and medicaid (excluding administrative expenditures for transportation services covered by the medicaid program) during the state fiscal year ending in the previous calendar year that the department determines are allowable, less the amount of federal reimbursement credited to the county under division (E) of this section for the state fiscal year ending in the previous calendar year; (3) A percentage of the actual amount of the county share of program and administrative expenditures during federal fiscal year 1994 for assistance and services, other than child care, provided under Titles IV-A and IV-F of the "Social Security Act," 49 Stat. 620 (1935), 42 U.S.C. 301, as those titles existed prior to the enactment of the "Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996," 110 Stat. 2105. The department of job and family services shall determine the actual amount of the county share from expenditure reports submitted to the United States department of health and human services. The percentage shall be the percentage established in rules adopted under division (F) of this section. (C)(1) If a county's share of public assistance expenditures determined under division (B) of this section for a state fiscal year exceeds one hundred five per cent of the county's share for those expenditures for the immediately preceding state fiscal year, the department of job and family services shall reduce the county's share for expenditures under divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section so that the total of the county's share for expenditures under division (B) of this section equals one hundred five per cent of the county's share of those expenditures for the immediately preceding state fiscal year. (2) A county's share of public assistance expenditures determined under division (B) of this section may be increased pursuant to section 5101.163 of the Revised Code and a sanction under section 5101.24 of the Revised Code. An increase made pursuant to section 5101.163 of the Revised Code may cause the county's share to exceed the limit established by division (C)(1) of this section. (D)(1) If the per capita tax duplicate of a county is less than the per capita tax duplicate of the state as a whole and division (D)(2) of this section does not apply to the county, the percentage to be used for the purpose of division (B)(2) of this section is the product of ten multiplied by a fraction of which the numerator is the per capita tax duplicate of the county and the denominator is the per capita tax duplicate of the state as a whole. The department of job and family services shall compute the per capita tax duplicate for the state and for each county by dividing the tax duplicate for the most recent available year by the current estimate of population prepared by the development services agency. (2) If the percentage of families in a county with an annual income of less than three thousand dollars is greater than the percentage of such families in the state and division (D)(1) of this section does not apply to the county, the percentage to be used for the purpose of division (B)(2) of this section is the product of ten multiplied by a fraction of which the numerator is the percentage of families in the state with an annual income of less than three thousand dollars a year and the denominator is the percentage of such families in the county. The department of job and family services shall compute the percentage of families with an annual income of less than three thousand dollars for the state and for each county by multiplying the most recent estimate of such families published by the development services agency, by a fraction, the numerator of which is the estimate of average annual personal income published by the bureau of economic analysis of the United States department of commerce for the year on which the census estimate is based and the denominator of which is the most recent such estimate published by the bureau. (3) If the per capita tax duplicate of a county is less than the per capita tax duplicate of the state as a whole and the percentage of families in the county with an annual income of less than three thousand dollars is greater than the percentage of such families in the state, the percentage to be used for the purpose of division (B)(2) of this section shall be determined as follows: (a) Multiply ten by the fraction determined under division (D)(1) of this section; (b) Multiply the product determined under division (D)(3)(a) of this section by the fraction determined under division (D)(2) of this section. (4) The department of job and family services shall determine, for each county, the percentage to be used for the purpose of division (B)(2) of this section not later than the first day of July of the year preceding the state fiscal year for which the percentage is used. (E) The department of job and family services shall credit to a county the amount of federal reimbursement the department receives from the United States departments of agriculture and health and human services for the county's expenditures for administration of the supplemental nutrition assistance program and medicaid (excluding administrative expenditures for transportation services covered by the medicaid program) that the department determines are allowable administrative expenditures. (F)(1) The director of job and family services shall adopt rules in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code to establish all of the following: (a) The method the department is to use to change a county's share of public assistance expenditures determined under division (B) of this section as provided in division (C) of this section; (b) The allocation methodology and formula the department will use to determine the amount of funds to credit to a county under this section; (c) The method the department will use to change the payment of the county share of public assistance expenditures from a calendar-year basis to a state fiscal year basis; (d) The percentage to be used for the purpose of division (B)(3) of this section, which shall, except as provided in section 5101.163 of the Revised Code, meet both of the following requirements: (i) The percentage shall not be less than seventy-five per cent nor more than eighty-two per cent; (ii) The percentage shall not exceed the percentage that the state's qualified state expenditures is of the state's historic state expenditures as those terms are defined in 42 U.S.C. 609(a)(7). (e) Other procedures and requirements necessary to implement this section. (2) The director of job and family services may amend the rule adopted under division (F)(1)(d) of this section to modify the percentage on determination that the amount the general assembly appropriates for Title IV-A programs makes the modification necessary. The rule shall be adopted and amended as if an internal management rule and in consultation with the director of budget and management. Last updated October 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.045 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.045
§ 5126.045. Fees for services
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "eligible person" means a person eligible to receive services from a county board of developmental disabilities or from an entity under contract with a county board. (B) A county board shall establish fees for services rendered to eligible persons if such fees are required by federal regulation and by rule adopted by the director of developmental disabilities. A county board may provide services to a person who does not meet the standards for eligibility. The board may establish fees for these services, which may be paid for by the person, by another person on the person's behalf of the ineligible person, or by another governmental entity.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5124.514 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5124 / § 5124.514
§ 5124.514. Exiting operator deemed operator pending change
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly In the case of a change of operator, the exiting operator shall be considered to be the operator of the ICF/IID for purposes of the medicaid program, including medicaid payments, until the effective date of the entering operator's provider agreement if the provider agreement is entered into under section 5124.511 or 5124.512 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.216 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.216
§ 5101.216. Written operational agreements with county for family service duties
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly The director of job and family services and the director of children and youth, as applicable, may enter into one or more written operational agreements with boards of county commissioners to do one or more of the following regarding family services duties: (A) Provide for the directors to amend or rescind a rule the directors previously adopted; (B) Provide for the directors to modify procedures or establish alternative procedures to accommodate special circumstances in a county; (C) Provide for the directors and board to jointly identify operational problems of mutual concern and develop a joint plan to address the problems; (D) Establish a framework for the directors and board to modify the use of existing resources in a manner that is beneficial to the department of job and family services, the department of children and youth, and the county that the board serves and improves family services duties for the recipients of the services. Last updated January 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5139.511 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5139 / § 5139.511
§ 5139.511. Verification of identity prior to release
Status: in_force

April 3, 2025 House Bill 315 - 135th General Assembly (A) Within nine months prior to the release of a youth from a secure facility under the control of the department of youth services if the youth is serving a sentence that is more than one year, or within a reasonable time if the youth is serving a sentence that is less than one year, the department of youth services shall attempt to verify the youth's age and identity in order to satisfy the requirements of section 4507.51 of the Revised Code. (B) The department shall provide each youth who does not have a current valid and unexpired state issued identification card or driver's license with the application described in section 4507.51 of the Revised Code. The department shall submit any completed application, along with a color photograph of the youth and documentary evidence of the youth's age and identity, to the registrar of motor vehicles in accordance with the process established by the registrar under sections 4507.50 and 4507.51 of the Revised Code. Last updated February 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.331 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.331
§ 5119.331. Injunction
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly If the department of behavioral health determines that a hospital not licensed by the department is receiving for care or treatment any person who is or appears to have a mental illness, the department may request in writing that the attorney general petition the court of common pleas in the county where the hospital is located to enjoin the hospital from continued operation in violation of section 5119.33 of the Revised Code. Last updated August 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5153.31 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5153 / § 5153.31
§ 5153.31. Institution or agency - transfer of power and duties
Status: in_force

October 1, 1997 House Bill 408 - 122nd General Assembly All personal property, records, files, and other documents and papers belonging to or in the possession of any agency or institution, the powers and duties of which are transferred by this chapter to the public children services agency, the proceeds of all tax levies in process of collection, the unexpended balances of all current appropriations for the use of such agencies and institutions, and the custody of all wards of such agencies and institutions, shall be deemed transferred to the agency.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5168.64 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5168 / § 5168.64
§ 5168.64. Consequences of converting beds to providing home and community-based services
Status: in_force

July 18, 2019 House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly If the operator of an ICF/IID converts, pursuant to section 5124.60 or 5124.61 of the Revised Code, all of the ICF/IID's beds to providing home and community-based services and the operator's provider agreement for the ICF/IID is terminated as a consequence, the department of developmental disabilities shall terminate the ICF/IID's franchise permit fee effective on the first day of the quarter immediately following the quarter in which the conversion takes place.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.12
§ 5180.12. [Former R.C. 3701.97, amended and renumbered by H.B. 33, 135th General Assembly, effective 1/1/2025] Stillbirth data
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "stillbirth" means death prior to the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of human conception of at least twenty weeks of gestation, which after such expulsion or extraction does not breathe or show any other evidence of life such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles. (B) The director of children and youth shall do all of the following: (1) Publish stillbirth data compiled from the department of health's fetal death statistical file and make it available on the department of children and youth's internet web site; (2) Review the stillbirth data described in division (B)(1) of this section and identify potential trends in the incidence of stillbirth and the possible causes of, and conditions that could lead to or indicate the possible occurrence of, stillbirth; (3) Develop educational materials in conjunction with statewide medical associations that may be used to apprise health care providers of trends, if any, that were identified through a review described in division (B)(2) of this section; (4) Electronically disseminate the educational materials developed under division (B)(3) of this section to the state medical board and statewide medical associations and make them available on the department of children and youth's web site in an easily accessible format. Last updated January 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.073 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.073
§ 5165.073. Termination for non-compliance with installation of fire extinguishing and fire alarm systems
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The department of medicaid shall terminate the provider agreement with a nursing facility provider that does not comply with the requirements of section 3721.071 of the Revised Code for the installation of fire extinguishing and fire alarm systems.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5162.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5162 / § 5162.15
§ 5162.15. Information required where annual medicaid payments exceed $5 million
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) As used in this section; "Agent" and "contractor" include any agent, contractor, subcontractor, or other person who, on behalf of an entity, furnishes or authorizes the furnishing of medicaid services, performs billing or coding functions, or is involved in monitoring of health care that an entity provides. "Employee" includes any officer or employee (including management employees) of an entity. "Entity" includes a governmental entity or an organization, unit, corporation, partnership, or other business arrangement, including any medicaid managed care organization, irrespective of the form of business structure or arrangement by which it exists, whether for-profit or not-for-profit. "Entity" does not include a government entity that administers one or more components of the medicaid program, unless the government entity receives medicaid payments for providing medicaid services. "Federal health care programs" has the same meaning as in the "Social Security Act," section 1128B, 42 U.S.C. 1320a-7b(f). (B) Each entity that receives or makes in a federal fiscal year payments under the medicaid program, either through the medicaid state plan or a federal medicaid waiver, totaling at least five million dollars shall, as a condition of receiving such payments, do all of the following not later than the first day of the succeeding calendar year: (1) Establish written policies for all of the entity's employees, contractors, and agents that provide detailed information about the role of all of the following in preventing and detecting fraud, waste, and abuse in federal health care programs: (a) Federal false claims law under 31 U.S.C. 3729 to 3733; (b) Federal administrative remedies for false claims and statements available under 31 U.S.C. 3801 to 3812; (c) Sections 124.341 , 2913.40 , 2913.401 , and 2921.13 of the Revised Code and any other state laws pertaining to civil or criminal penalties for false claims and statements; (d) Whistleblower protections under the laws specified in divisions (B)(1)(a) to (c) of this section. (2) Include as part of the written policies required by division (B)(1) of this section detailed provisions regarding the entity's policies and procedures for preventing and detecting fraud, waste, and abuse. (3) Disseminate the written policies required by division (B)(1) of this section to each of the entity's employees, contractors, and agents in a paper or electronic form and make the written policies readily available to the entity's employees, contractors, and agents. (4) If the entity has an employee handbook, include in the employee handbook a specific discussion of the laws specified in division (B)(1) of this section, the rights of employees to be protected as whistleblowers, and the entity's policies and procedures for preventing and detecting fraud, waste, and abuse. (5) Require the entity's contractors and agents to adopt the entity's written policies required by division (B)(1) of this section. (C) An entity that furnishes medicaid services at multiple locations or under multiple contractual or other payment arrangements is required to comply with division (B) of this section if the entity receives in a federal fiscal year medicaid payments totaling in the aggregate at least five million dollars. This applies regardless of whether the entity submits claims for medicaid payments using multiple provider identification or tax identification numbers.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5121.37 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5121 / § 5121.37
§ 5121.37. Financial assessment regarding discount - modification
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly After a patient's admittance to a hospital, the department of mental health and addiction services shall conduct a financial assessment to determine whether the patient, patient's estate, or liable relative will be charged an amount discounted from the amount the department charges under section 5121.33 of the Revised Code. The department shall make the determination in accordance with sections 5121.40 and 5121.41 of the Revised Code. If a discounted rate is to be charged, the department shall notify the person whose financial condition was assessed. The notice shall specify the per diem rate to be charged. In accordance with section 5121.42 of the Revised Code, the department may, at any time, modify an amount charged or change the per diem rate to be charged if the department learns of countable assets or income that was not previously disclosed or was acquired after the assessment was conducted. Within a reasonable time, the department shall notify in writing any person affected by a modification or change.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5139.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5139 / § 5139.12
§ 5139.12. Reporting abuse of delinquent child
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly Any person who is required, pursuant to division (A) of section 2151.421 of the Revised Code, to report the person's knowledge of or reasonable cause to suspect abuse or neglect or threat of abuse or neglect of a child under eighteen years of age or a person with a developmental disability or physical impairment under twenty-one years of age, or any person who is permitted, pursuant to division (B) of that section, to report or cause such a report to be made and who makes or causes the report to be made, shall direct that report to the state highway patrol if the child is a delinquent child in the custody of an institution. If the state highway patrol determines after receipt of the report that there is probable cause that abuse or neglect or threat of abuse or neglect of the delinquent child occurred, the highway patrol shall report its findings to the department of youth services, to the court that ordered the disposition of the delinquent child for the act that would have been an offense if committed by an adult and for which the delinquent child is in the custody of the department, to the public children services agency in the county in which the child resides or in which the abuse or neglect or threat of abuse or neglect occurred, and to the attorney general. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5124.33 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5124 / § 5124.33
§ 5124.33. No payment for day of discharge
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly No medicaid payment shall be made to an ICF/IID provider for the day a medicaid recipient is discharged from the ICF/IID, unless the recipient is discharged from the ICF/IID because all of the beds in the ICF/IID are converted from providing ICF/IID services to providing home and community-based services pursuant to section 5124.60 or 5124.61 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.25 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.25
§ 5101.25. Developing annual training goals and model training curriculum
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly The department of job and family services, and the department of children and youth in consultation with county representatives, shall develop annual training goals and model training curriculum for employees of county family services agencies and identify a variety of state funded training opportunities to meet the proposed goals. Last updated January 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.37 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.37
§ 5101.37. Investigations and hearings by department, county or child support enforcement agency
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) The department of job and family services or the department of children and youth and each county department of job and family services and child support enforcement agency may conduct any audits or investigations that are necessary in the performance of their duties, and to that end they shall have the same power as a judge of a county court to administer oaths and to enforce the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books or papers. The applicable department and each county department and agency shall keep a record of their audits and investigations stating the time, place, charges, or subject; witnesses summoned and examined; and their conclusions. Witnesses shall be paid the fees and mileage provided for under section 119.094 of the Revised Code. (B) In conducting hearings pursuant to Chapters 3119., 3121., and 3123. or pursuant to division (B) of section 5101.35 of the Revised Code, the applicable department and each child support enforcement agency have the same power as a judge of a county court to administer oaths and to enforce the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books or papers. The applicable department and each agency shall keep a record of those hearings stating the time, place, charges, or subject; witnesses summoned and examined; and their conclusions. The issuance of a subpoena by the applicable department or a child support enforcement agency to enforce attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books or papers at a hearing is discretionary and the applicable department or agency is not required to pay the fees of witnesses for attendance and travel. (C) Any judge of any division of the court of common pleas, upon application of the applicable department or a county department or child support enforcement agency, may compel the attendance of witnesses, the production of books or papers, and the giving of testimony before the applicable department, county department, or agency, by a judgment for contempt or otherwise, in the same manner as in cases before those courts. (D) Until an audit report is formally released by the applicable department, the audit report or any working paper or other document or record prepared by the applicable department and related to the audit that is the subject of the audit report is not a public record under section 149.43 of the Revised Code. (E) The director of job and family services or director of children and youth may adopt rules as necessary to implement this section. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code as if they were internal management rules. Last updated January 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5139.251 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5139 / § 5139.251
§ 5139.251. Rules for searching visitors
Status: in_force

March 31, 2003 House Bill 510 - 124th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Body cavity search" and "strip search" have the same meanings as in section 5120.421 of the Revised Code. (2) "Deadly weapon" and "dangerous ordnance" have the same meanings as in section 2923.11 of the Revised Code. (3) "Drug of abuse" has the same meaning as in section 3719.011 of the Revised Code. (4) "Intoxicating liquor" has the same meaning as in section 4301.01 of the Revised Code. (B) For purposes of determining whether visitors to an institution under the control of the department of youth services are knowingly conveying, or attempting to convey, onto the grounds of the institution any deadly weapon, dangerous ordnance, drug of abuse, intoxicating liquor, or electronic communications device in violation of section 2921.36 of the Revised Code, the department may adopt rules, pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, that are consistent with this section. (C) For the purposes described in division (B) of this section, visitors who are entering or have entered an institution under the control of the department of youth services may be searched by the use of a magnetometer or similar device, by a pat-down of the visitor's person that is conducted by a person of the same sex as that of the visitor, and by an examination of the contents of pockets, bags, purses, packages, and other containers proposed to be conveyed or already conveyed onto the grounds of the institution. Searches of visitors authorized by this division may be conducted without cause, but shall be conducted uniformly or by automatic random selection. Discriminatory or arbitrary selection searches of visitors are prohibited under this division. (D) For the purposes described in division (B) of this section, visitors who are entering or have entered an institution under the control of the department of youth services may be searched by a strip or body cavity search, but only under the circumstances described in this division. In order for a strip or body cavity search to be conducted of a visitor, the highest officer present in the institution shall expressly authorize the search on the basis of a reasonable suspicion, based on specific objective facts and reasonable inferences drawn from those facts in the light of experience, that a visitor proposed to be so searched possesses, and intends to convey or already has conveyed, a deadly weapon, dangerous ordnance, drug of abuse, intoxicating liquor, or electronic communication device onto the grounds of the institution in violation of section 2921.36 of the Revised Code. Except as otherwise provided in this division, prior to the conduct of the strip or body cavity search, the highest officer present in the institution shall cause the visitor to be provided with a written statement that sets forth the specific objective facts upon which the proposed search is based. In the case of an emergency under which time constraints make it impossible to prepare the written statement before the conduct of the proposed search, the highest officer in the institution instead shall cause the visitor to be orally informed of the specific objective facts upon which the proposed search is based prior to its conduct, and shall cause the preparation of the written statement and its provision to the visitor within twenty-four hours after the conduct of the search. Both the highest officer present in the institution and the visitor shall retain a copy of a written statement provided in accordance with this division. Any strip or body cavity search conducted pursuant to this division shall be conducted in a private setting by a person of the same sex as that of the visitor. Any body cavity search conducted under this division additionally shall be conducted by medical personnel. This division does not preclude, and shall not be construed as precluding, a less intrusive search as authorized by division (C) of this section when reasonable suspicion as described in this division exists for a strip or body cavity search.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5139.26 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5139 / § 5139.26
§ 5139.26. Acquiring and disposing of land or property
Status: in_force

November 24, 1981 House Bill 440 - 114th General Assembly The department of youth services, with the approval of the governor and the attorney general, may buy, sell, lease, or exchange portions of land or property, real or personal, under the management and control of the department, or enter into contracts relative thereto, or grant easements or licenses for the use thereof, when such purchase, sale, lease, exchange, contract, easement, or license is advantageous to the state. An action may be brought to enforce any agreement authorized by this section. Revenues received from agreements entered into under this section shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the general fund.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5107.41 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5107 / § 5107.41
§ 5107.41. Appraisal of each member of assistance group who is minor head of household or adult
Status: in_force

September 29, 2007 House Bill 119 - 127th General Assembly As soon as possible after an assistance group submits an application to participate in Ohio works first, the county department of job and family services that receives the application shall schedule and conduct an appraisal of each member of the assistance group who is a minor head of household or adult, other than a minor head of household participating in the LEAP program. The appraisal may include an evaluation of the employment, educational, physiological, and psychological abilities or liabilities, or both, of the minor head of household or adult. At the appraisal, the county department shall develop with the minor head of household or adult a plan for the assistance group to achieve the goal of self sufficiency and personal responsibility through unsubsidized employment within the time limit for participating in the Ohio works first program established by section 5107.18 of the Revised Code. The plan shall include assignments to one or more work activities, developmental activities, or alternative work activities in accordance with section 5107.42 of the Revised Code. The county department shall include the plan in the self-sufficiency contract entered into under section 5107.14 of the Revised Code. The county department shall conduct more appraisals of the minor head of household or adult at times the county department determines. If the minor head of household or adult claims to have a medically determinable physiological or psychological impairment, illness, or disability, the county department may require that the minor head of household or adult undergo an independent medical or psychological examination at a time and place reasonably convenient to the minor head of household or adult.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5104.301 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5104 / § 5104.301
§ 5104.301. Parent cooperative child care centers and parent cooperative type A family child care homes
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly A county department of job and family services may establish a program to encourage the organization of parent cooperative child care centers and parent cooperative type A family child care homes for recipients of publicly funded child care. A program established under this section may include any of the following: (A) Recruitment of parents interested in organizing a parent cooperative child care center or parent cooperative type A family child care home; (B) Provision of technical assistance in organizing a parent cooperative child care center or parent cooperative type A family child care home; (C) Assistance in the developing, conducting, and disseminating training for parents interested in organizing a parent cooperative child care center or parent cooperative type A family child care home. A county department that implements a program under this section shall receive from funds available under the child care block grant act a five thousand dollar incentive payment for each parent cooperative child care center or parent cooperative type A family child care home organized pursuant to this section. Parents of children enrolled in a parent cooperative child care center or parent cooperative type A family child care home pursuant to this section shall be required to work in the center or home a minimum of four hours per week. The director of children and youth shall adopt rules governing the establishment and operation of programs under this section. Last updated January 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5153.46 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5153 / § 5153.46
§ 5153.46. Powers between selection and purchase of site, and erection and occupancy
Status: in_force

September 14, 1957 House Bill 927 - 102nd General Assembly In the interim, between the selection and purchase of a site, and the erection and occupancy of the district children's home, the joint board of county commissioners provided by section 5153.36 of the Revised Code may delegate to board of trustees appointed under section 5153.39 of the Revised Code, such powers and duties as, in its judgment, will be of general interest or aid to the institution. Such joint board of county commissioners may appropriate a trustees' fund, to be expended by the board of trustees in payment of such contracts, purchases, or other expenses necessary to the wants or requirements of the home, which are not otherwise provided for. The board of trustees shall make a complete settlement with the joint board of county commissioners once each six months, or quarterly if required, and shall make a full report of the condition of the home and inmates, as provided by section 5153.14 of the Revised Code.