Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.163 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.163
§ 5120.163. Examination, testing and treatment for certain diseases
Status: in_force

March 17, 1998 Senate Bill 111 - 122nd General Assembly At the time of reception and at other times the director determines to be appropriate, the department of rehabilitation and correction may examine and test a prisoner for tuberculosis, HIV infection, hepatitis, including but not limited to hepatitis A, B, and C, and other contagious diseases. The department may test and treat involuntarily a prisoner in a state correctional institution who refuses to be tested or treated for tuberculosis, HIV infection, hepatitis, including but not limited to hepatitis A, B, and C, or another contagious disease.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.11
§ 5120.11. Bureau of examination and classification
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly Within the department of rehabilitation and correction, there shall be established and maintained a bureau of examination and classification. The bureau shall conduct or provide for sociological, psychological, and psychiatric examination of each inmate of the correctional institutions. The examination shall be made as soon as possible after each inmate is admitted to any of the institutions, and further examinations may be made, if it is advisable. If the inmate is determined to be a person with a developmental disability, as defined in section 5123.01 of the Revised Code, the bureau shall notify the sentencing court in writing of its determination within forty-five days after sentencing. The bureau shall collect such social and other information as will aid in the interpretation of its examinations. Subject to division (C) of section 5120.21 of the Revised Code, the bureau shall keep a record of the health, activities, and behavior of each inmate while the inmate is in the custody of the state. The records, including the findings and recommendations of the bureau, shall be made available to the adult parole authority for use in imposing post-release control sanctions under section 2967.28 of the Revised Code or any other section of the Revised Code, in granting parole, and in making parole, post-release, and rehabilitation plans for the inmate when the inmate leaves the institution, and to the department for its use in approving transfers of inmates from one institution to another.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.82 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.82
§ 5165.82. Residents to whom denial of medicaid payments applies
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) An order issued under section 5165.72 , 5165.73 , 5165.74 , 5165.77 , or 5165.84 of the Revised Code denying medicaid payments to a nursing facility for all medicaid eligible residents admitted after its effective date, or an order issued under section 5165.72 , 5165.73 , or 5165.74 of the Revised Code denying medicaid payments to a nursing facility for medicaid eligible residents admitted after the effective date of the order who have specified diagnoses or special care needs, shall also apply to individuals admitted to the facility on and after the effective date of the order who are not medicaid eligible residents but become medicaid eligible residents after admission. Such an order shall not apply to any of the following: (1) An individual who was a medicaid eligible resident of the facility on the day immediately preceding the effective date of the order and continues to be a medicaid eligible resident on and after that date; (2) An individual who was a resident of the facility on the day immediately preceding the effective date of the order, continues to be a resident on and after that date, and becomes medicaid eligible on or after that date; (3) An individual who was a medicaid eligible resident of the facility prior to the effective date of the order, is temporarily absent from the facility on that or a subsequent date due to hospitalization or participation in therapeutic programs outside the facility, and chooses to return to the facility; (4) An individual who was a resident of the facility prior to the effective date of the order, is temporarily absent from the facility on that or a subsequent date due to hospitalization or participation in therapeutic programs outside the facility, becomes medicaid eligible on or after that date, and chooses to return to the facility. (B) An order issued under section 5165.72 of the Revised Code denying medicaid payments to a nursing facility for all medicaid eligible residents admitted after its effective date, or denying medicaid payments to a facility for medicaid eligible residents admitted after the effective date of the order who have specified diagnoses or special care needs shall not take effect prior to the fifth day after the order is delivered to the facility. Such an order issued under section 5165.73 or 5165.74 of the Revised Code shall not take effect prior to the twentieth day after it is delivered to the facility. (C) No nursing facility that has received an order under section 5165.72 , 5165.73 , 5165.74 , 5165.77 , or 5165.84 of the Revised Code denying medicaid payments for all new admissions of medicaid eligible residents shall admit a medicaid eligible resident on or after the effective date of the order, unless the resident is described in division (A)(3) or (4) of this section, until the order is terminated pursuant to this section. No nursing facility that has received an order under section 5165.72 , 5165.73 , or 5165.74 of the Revised Code denying medicaid payments to a nursing facility for new admissions of medicaid eligible residents with specified diagnoses or special care needs shall admit such a resident on or after the effective date of the order, unless the resident is described in division (A)(3) or (4) of this section, until the order is terminated pursuant to this section. (D) In the case of an order imposed under division (B) of section 5165.84 of the Revised Code, the department or agency shall appoint monitors in accordance with section 5165.70 of the Revised Code to conduct on-site monitoring. (E)(1) A facility may give written notice to the department of health whenever any of the following apply: (a) With respect to an order denying payment issued under section 5165.72 , 5165.73 , or 5165.74 of the Revised Code, either of the following is the case: (i) The facility has completed implementation of the plan of correction it submitted under section 5165.69 of the Revised Code and substantially corrected all deficiencies for which the order was issued. (ii) The facility has reduced the severity or scope of all of the deficiencies to a level at which sections 5165.72 to 5165.74 of the Revised Code do not authorize the order. (b) With respect to an order denying payment issued under section 5165.77 of the Revised Code, the facility has eliminated the immediate jeopardy. (c) With respect to an order denying medicaid payments issued under division (A) of section 5165.84 of the Revised Code, the facility has completed implementation of the plan of correction it submitted under section 5165.69 of the Revised Code and substantially corrected all deficiencies for which the order was issued. (d) With respect to an order denying medicaid payments issued under division (B) of section 5165.84 of the Revised Code, both of the following are the case: (i) The facility has completed implementation of the plan of correction it submitted under section 5165.69 of the Revised Code and substantially corrected all deficiencies for which the order was issued. (ii) The facility is in compliance with certification requirements and has provided adequate assurance that it will remain in compliance with them. (2) Within ten working days after it receives the notice under division (E)(1) of this section, the department of health shall conduct a follow-up survey that focuses on the cited deficiency or deficiencies, unless the department is able to determine, on the basis of documentation provided by the facility, that the facility has completed the applicable action described in divisions (E)(1)(a) to (d) of this section. If the department of health makes that determination on the basis of the documentation, the department of medicaid or contracting agency shall terminate the order denying medicaid payments as of the date the facility completed the applicable action, as subsequently verified by the department of health. If the department of health conducts a follow-up survey, the department of medicaid or contracting agency shall terminate the order denying medicaid payments as of the date the department of health makes the determination that the facility completed the applicable action. (F) The department of medicaid or contracting agency shall provide public notice implementing an order under section 5165.72 , 5165.73 , 5165.74 , 5165.77 , or 5165.84 of the Revised Code denying medicaid payments to a nursing facility for all medicaid eligible residents by publishing in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the facility is located an announcement stating: "By order of the (Ohio Department of Medicaid or name of contracting agency), effective on and after (effective date of order), (name of facility) is no longer authorized to admit Medicaid eligible residents." Immediately following termination of any such order, the department or agency shall publish in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the facility is located an announcement stating: "By order of the (Ohio Department of Medicaid or name of contracting agency), effective on and after (effective date of termination), (name of facility) is hereby authorized to admit Medicaid eligible residents." Neither the department nor the contracting agency shall issue public notice of an order under section 5165.72 , 5165.73 , or 5165.74 of the Revised Code denying payment to a nursing facility for medicaid eligible residents with specified diagnoses or special care needs; public notice is not required for such an order to take effect. (G) A facility that complies with division (E) of this section shall not be considered to have admitted to the existence of the deficiency that constitutes the basis of the department's or agency's order.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.72 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.72
§ 5164.72. Limitations on payments for inpatient hospital care
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly The number of days of inpatient hospital care for which a medicaid payment is made on behalf of a medicaid recipient to a hospital that is not paid under a diagnostic-related-group prospective payment system shall not exceed thirty days during a period beginning on the day of the recipient's admission to the hospital and ending sixty days after the termination of that hospital stay, except that the department of medicaid may make exceptions to this limitation. The limitation does not apply to children and youth participating in the program for children and youth with special health care needs established under section 3701.023 of the Revised Code. Last updated October 5, 2023 at 3:23 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.038 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.038
§ 5103.038. Agencies submitting proposals for programs
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) Every other year by a date specified in rules adopted under section 5103.0316 of the Revised Code, each private child placing agency and private noncustodial agency that seeks to operate a preplacement training program or continuing training program under section 5103.034 of the Revised Code shall submit to the department of children and youth a proposal outlining the program. The proposal may be the same as, a modification of, or different from, a model design developed by the department. (B) Not later than thirty days after receiving a proposal under division (A) of this section, the department shall either approve or disapprove the proposed program. The department shall approve a proposed preplacement training program if it complies with rules adopted under section 5103.0316 of the Revised Code, as appropriate, and, in the case of a proposal submitted by an agency operating a preplacement training program at the time the proposal is submitted, the department is satisfied with the agency's operation of the program. The department shall approve a proposed continuing training program if it complies with rules adopted under section 5103.0316 of the Revised Code and, in the case of a proposal submitted by an agency operating a continuing training program at the time the proposal is submitted, the department is satisfied with the agency's operation of the program. If the department disapproves a proposal, it shall provide the reason for disapproval to the agency that submitted the proposal and advise the agency of how to revise the proposal so that the department can approve it. (C) The department's approval under division (B) of this section of a proposed preplacement training program or continuing training program is valid only for two years following the year the proposal for the program is submitted to the department under division (A) of this section. Last updated January 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.0412 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.0412
§ 5123.0412. ODDD administration and oversight fund
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) The department of developmental disabilities may charge each county board of developmental disabilities an annual fee not to exceed one and one-quarter per cent of the total value of all medicaid paid claims for home and community-based services provided during the year to an individual eligible for services from the county board. A county board shall not pass on to a provider of home and community-based services the cost of a fee charged to the county board under this section. (B) The amounts collected from the fees charged under this section shall be deposited into the department of developmental disabilities administration and oversight fund, which is hereby created in the state treasury. The department shall use the money in the fund for any of the following purposes: (1) Medicaid administrative costs, including administrative and oversight costs of medicaid case management services and home and community-based services. The administrative and oversight costs of medicaid case management services and home and community-based services shall include costs for staff, systems, and other resources the department needs and dedicates solely to the following duties associated with the services: (a) Eligibility determinations; (b) Training; (c) Fiscal management; (d) Claims processing; (e) Quality assurance oversight; (f) Other duties the department identifies. (2) Providing technical or financial support to county boards with respect to their medicaid local administrative authority under section 5126.055 of the Revised Code for the services. (3) Providing technical or financial support to county boards with respect to their responsibility to pay the nonfederal share of expenditures under sections 5126.059 and 5126.0510 of the Revised Code. Last updated October 4, 2023 at 12:51 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.427 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.427
§ 5120.427. Right to receive materials
Status: in_force

November 3, 1999 House Bill 62 - 123rd General Assembly (A) Each prisoner confined in a state correctional institution may receive a reasonable number of materials directly from the publishers or other distributors of those materials. With the prior approval of the warden of the state correctional institution in which a prisoner is confined, each prisoner also may receive a reasonable number of materials from a source other than the publisher or other distributor of those materials. A prisoner's receipt and retention of materials is subject to security inspections conducted by the institution in which the prisoner is confined and to the rules and regulations adopted pursuant to section 5120.426 of the Revised Code. Subject to a contrary decision with respect to a material's nature by the publication review committee following a review pursuant to section 5120.428 of the Revised Code, a prisoner is not entitled to receive or retain any material that a warden or the warden's designee determines during the course of a security inspection to be a prohibited inflammatory material. (B)(1) For each state correctional institution, the warden or the warden's designee shall inspect each incoming material to determine whether the material is a prohibited inflammatory material or another type of material. The warden or the warden's designee shall not determine a material to be a prohibited inflammatory material solely on the basis of its appeal to a particular ethnic, racial, or religious audience. (2) If the warden or the warden's designee determines that an incoming material is not a prohibited inflammatory material, the warden or the warden's designee shall cause the material to be promptly forwarded to the prisoner who is its intended recipient. If the warden or the warden's designee determines that an incoming material is a prohibited inflammatory material, the warden or the warden's designee shall cause the material to be withheld from the prisoner who is its intended recipient and promptly shall provide that prisoner with a written withholding notice containing all of the following: (a) A general description of the withheld material; (b) The reason why the material has not been forwarded to the prisoner; (c) A statement of the prisoner's right under division (A) of section 5120.428 of the Revised Code to have the publication review committee review the withholding decision of the warden or the warden's designee. (3) Within five working days after a prisoner's receipt of the withholding notice described in division (B)(2) of this section, the prisoner may submit to the warden a written request for a review of the withholding decision. If the prisoner fails to submit a timely written request for a review of that nature, the failure shall constitute the prisoner's acceptance of the withholding decision, and the warden or the warden's designee shall cause the material to be disposed of in the manner that the warden or the warden's designee considered to be most appropriate under the circumstances.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.44 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.44
§ 5123.44. Training registered nurses to provide training courses for department personnel
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 483, House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly The department of developmental disabilities shall develop courses that train registered nurses to provide the developmental disabilities personnel training courses developed under section 5123.43 of the Revised Code. The department may develop courses that train registered nurses to provide all of the courses developed under section 5123.43 of the Revised Code or any one or more of the courses developed under that section. The department shall adopt rules in accordance with section 5123.46 of the Revised Code that specify the content and length of the training courses. The rules may include any other standards the department considers necessary for the training courses.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5155.24 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5155 / § 5155.24
§ 5155.24. Distributing proceeds of sale of property
Status: in_force

May 13, 1980 House Bill 561 - 113th General Assembly (A) The net proceeds arising from the sale of the property of a resident of a county home, under section 5155.23 of the Revised Code, shall be paid to the county treasurer, and by him placed to the credit of such person, to be paid out on the warrant of the county auditor, upon the order of the board of county commissioners. The superintendent or administrator of the county home shall open an account with the person and charge him with board, at a reasonable rate, and with items furnished for his exclusive use, which account shall be approved by the board. (B) Personal funds received by a county home resident which are intended for the unrestricted use of the resident may be kept by the superintendent or administrator in such a manner that the resident shall have access to these funds at reasonable hours. The county home superintendent or administrator shall keep a complete record of the personal funds of each resident, including a listing of all deposits and withdrawals transacted. All deposits and withdrawals shall be substantiated by receipts.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.09
§ 5164.09. Equivalent coverage for orally and intravenously administered cancer medications
Status: in_force

January 1, 2015 Senate Bill 99 - 130th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, the medicaid program shall cover prescribed, orally administered cancer medications on at least the same basis that it covers intraveneously administered or injected cancer medications. In implementing this section, the department of medicaid shall not institute cost-sharing requirements under section 5162.20 of the Revised Code for prescribed, orally administered cancer medications that are greater than any cost-sharing requirements instituted under that section for intraveneously administered or injected cancer medications. (B) Division (A) of this section does not preclude the department from requiring a medicaid recipient to obtain prior authorization before a prescribed, orally administered cancer medication is dispensed to the recipient. (C) This section shall not be implemented during a fiscal year if the medicaid director determines that this section's implementation would cause the costs of the medicaid program's coverage of prescribed drugs to increase by more than one per cent over such costs for the most recent previous fiscal year for which the amount of such costs is known.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.342 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.342
§ 5164.342. Criminal records checks by waiver agencies
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: "Applicant" means a person who is under final consideration for employment with a waiver agency in a full-time, part-time, or temporary position that involves providing home and community-based services. "Community-based long-term care provider" means a provider as defined in section 173.39 of the Revised Code. "Community-based long-term care subcontractor" means a subcontractor as defined in section 173.38 of the Revised Code. "Criminal records check" has the same meaning as in section 109.572 of the Revised Code. "Disqualifying offense" means any of the offenses listed or described in divisions (A)(3)(a) to (e) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code. "Employee" means a person employed by a waiver agency in a full-time, part-time, or temporary position that involves providing home and community-based services. "Waiver agency" means a person or government entity that provides home and community-based services under a home and community-based services medicaid waiver component administered by the department of medicaid, other than such a person or government entity that is certified under the medicare program. "Waiver agency" does not mean an independent provider as defined in section 5164.341 of the Revised Code. (B) This section does not apply to any individual who is subject to a database review or criminal records check under section 3740.11 of the Revised Code. If a waiver agency also is a community-based long-term care provider or community-based long-term care subcontractor, the waiver agency may provide for any of its applicants and employees who are not subject to database reviews and criminal records checks under section 173.38 of the Revised Code to undergo database reviews and criminal records checks in accordance with that section rather than this section. (C) No waiver agency shall employ an applicant or continue to employ an employee in a position that involves providing home and community-based services if any of the following apply: (1) A review of the databases listed in division (E) of this section reveals any of the following: (a) That the applicant or employee is included in one or more of the databases listed in divisions (E)(1) to (5) of this section; (b) That there is in the state nurse aide registry established under section 3721.32 of the Revised Code a statement detailing findings by the director of health that the applicant or employee abused, neglected, or exploited a long-term care facility or residential care facility resident or misappropriated property of such a resident; (c) That the applicant or employee is included in one or more of the databases, if any, specified in rules authorized by this section and the rules prohibit the waiver agency from employing an applicant or continuing to employ an employee included in such a database in a position that involves providing home and community-based services. (2) After the applicant or employee is given the information and notification required by divisions (F)(2)(a) and (b) of this section, the applicant or employee fails to do either of the following: (a) Access, complete, or forward to the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation the form prescribed to division (C)(1) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code or the standard impression sheet prescribed pursuant to division (C)(2) of that section; (b) Instruct the superintendent to submit the completed report of the criminal records check required by this section directly to the chief administrator of the waiver agency. (3) Except as provided in rules authorized by this section, the applicant or employee is found by a criminal records check required by this section to have been convicted of or have pleaded guilty to a disqualifying offense, regardless of the date of the conviction or date of entry of the guilty plea. (D) At the time of each applicant's initial application for employment in a position that involves providing home and community-based services, the chief administrator of a waiver agency shall inform the applicant of both of the following: (1) That a review of the databases listed in division (E) of this section will be conducted to determine whether the waiver agency is prohibited by division (C)(1) of this section from employing the applicant in the position; (2) That, unless the database review reveals that the applicant may not be employed in the position, a criminal records check of the applicant will be conducted and the applicant is required to provide a set of the applicant's fingerprint impressions as part of the criminal records check. (E) As a condition of employing any applicant in a position that involves providing home and community-based services, the chief administrator of a waiver agency shall conduct a database review of the applicant in accordance with rules authorized by this section. If rules authorized by this section so require, the chief administrator of a waiver agency shall conduct a database review of an employee in accordance with the rules as a condition of continuing to employ the employee in a position that involves providing home and community-based services. A database review shall determine whether the applicant or employee is included in any of the following: (1) The excluded parties list system that is maintained by the United States general services administration pursuant to subpart 9.4 of the federal acquisition regulation and available at the federal web site known as the system for award management; (2) The list of excluded individuals and entities maintained by the office of inspector general in the United States department of health and human services pursuant to the "Social Security Act," sections 1128 and 1156, 42 U.S.C. 1320a-7 and 1320c-5; (3) The registry of developmental disabilities employees established under section 5123.52 of the Revised Code; (4) The internet-based sex offender and child-victim offender database established under division (A)(11) of section 2950.13 of the Revised Code; (5) The internet-based database of inmates established under section 5120.66 of the Revised Code; (6) The state nurse aide registry established under section 3721.32 of the Revised Code; (7) Any other database, if any, specified in rules authorized by this section. (F)(1) As a condition of employing any applicant in a position that involves providing home and community-based services, the chief administrator of a waiver agency shall require the applicant to request that the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation conduct a criminal records check of the applicant. If rules authorized by this section so require, the chief administrator of a waiver agency shall require an employee to request that the superintendent conduct a criminal records check of the employee at times specified in the rules as a condition of continuing to employ the employee in a position that involves providing home and community-based services. However, a criminal records check is not required for an applicant or employee if the waiver agency is prohibited by division (C)(1) of this section from employing the applicant or continuing to employ the employee in a position that involves providing home and community-based services. If an applicant or employee for whom a criminal records check request is required by this section does not present proof of having been a resident of this state for the five-year period immediately prior to the date the criminal records check is requested or provide evidence that within that five-year period the superintendent has requested information about the applicant or employee from the federal bureau of investigation in a criminal records check, the chief administrator shall require the applicant or employee to request that the superintendent obtain information from the federal bureau of investigation as part of the criminal records check. Even if an applicant or employee for whom a criminal records check request is required by this section presents proof of having been a resident of this state for the five-year period, the chief administrator may require the applicant or employee to request that the superintendent include information from the federal bureau of investigation in the criminal records check. (2) The chief administrator shall provide the following to each applicant and employee for whom a criminal records check is required by this section: (a) Information about accessing, completing, and forwarding to the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation the form prescribed pursuant to division (C)(1) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code and the standard impression sheet prescribed pursuant to division (C)(2) of that section; (b) Written notification that the applicant or employee is to instruct the superintendent to submit the completed report of the criminal records check directly to the chief administrator. (3) A waiver agency shall pay to the bureau of criminal identification and investigation the fee prescribed pursuant to division (C)(3) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code for any criminal records check required by this section. However, a waiver agency may require an applicant to pay to the bureau the fee for a criminal records check of the applicant. If the waiver agency pays the fee for an applicant, it may charge the applicant a fee not exceeding the amount the waiver agency pays to the bureau under this section if the waiver agency notifies the applicant at the time of initial application for employment of the amount of the fee and that, unless the fee is paid, the applicant will not be considered for employment. (G)(1) A waiver agency may employ conditionally an applicant for whom a criminal records check is required by this section prior to obtaining the results of the criminal records check if both of the following apply: (a) The waiver agency is not prohibited by division (C)(1) of this section from employing the applicant in a position that involves providing home and community-based services. (b) The chief administrator of the waiver agency requires the applicant to request a criminal records check regarding the applicant in accordance with division (F)(1) of this section not later than five business days after the applicant begins conditional employment. (2) A waiver agency that employs an applicant conditionally under division (G)(1) of this section shall terminate the applicant's employment if the results of the criminal records check, other than the results of any request for information from the federal bureau of investigation, are not obtained within the period ending sixty days after the date the request for the criminal records check is made. Regardless of when the results of the criminal records check are obtained, if the results indicate that the applicant has been convicted of or has pleaded guilty to a disqualifying offense, the waiver agency shall terminate the applicant's employment unless circumstances specified in rules authorized by this section exist that permit the waiver agency to employ the applicant and the waiver agency chooses to employ the applicant. (H) The report of any criminal records check conducted pursuant to a request made under this section is not a public record for the purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code and shall not be made available to any person other than the following: (1) The applicant or employee who is the subject of the criminal records check or the representative of the applicant or employee; (2) The chief administrator of the waiver agency that requires the applicant or employee to request the criminal records check or the administrator's representative; (3) The medicaid director and the staff of the department who are involved in the administration of the medicaid program; (4) The director of aging or the director's designee if the waiver agency also is a community-based long-term care provider or community-based long-term care subcontractor; (5) An individual receiving or deciding whether to receive home and community-based services from the subject of the criminal records check; (6) A court, hearing officer, or other necessary individual involved in a case or administrative hearing dealing with any of the following: (a) A denial of employment of the applicant or employee; (b) Employment or unemployment benefits of the applicant or employee; (c) A civil or criminal action regarding the medicaid program; (d) A denial, suspension, or termination of a provider agreement. With respect to an administrative hearing dealing with a denial, suspension, or termination of a provider agreement, the report of a criminal records check may be introduced as evidence at the hearing and if admitted, becomes part of the hearing record. Any such report shall be admitted only under seal and shall maintain its status as not a public record. (I) The medicaid director shall adopt rules under section 5164.02 of the Revised Code to implement this section. (1) The rules may do the following: (a) Require employees to undergo database reviews and criminal records checks under this section; (b) If the rules require employees to undergo database reviews and criminal records checks under this section, exempt one or more classes of employees from the requirements; (c) For the purpose of division (E)(7) of this section, specify other databases that are to be checked as part of a database review conducted under this section. (2) The rules shall specify all of the following: (a) The procedures for conducting a database review under this section; (b) If the rules require employees to undergo database reviews and criminal records checks under this section, the times at which the database reviews and criminal records checks are to be conducted; (c) If the rules specify other databases to be checked as part of a database review, the circumstances under which a waiver agency is prohibited from employing an applicant or continuing to employ an employee who is found by the database review to be included in one or more of those databases; (d) The circumstances under which a waiver agency may employ an applicant or employee who is found by a criminal records check required by this section to have been convicted of or have pleaded guilty to a disqualifying offense. (J) The amendments made by H.B. 487 of the 129th general assembly to this section do not preclude the department of medicaid from taking action against a person for failure to comply with former division (H) of this section as that division existed on the day preceding January 1, 2013. Last updated October 10, 2023 at 11:29 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.516 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.516
§ 5165.516. Medicaid reimbursement adjustments; change of operator
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The medicaid director may adopt rules under section 5165.02 of the Revised Code governing adjustments to the medicaid payment rate for a nursing facility 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 5165.511 , section 5165.512 , or, pursuant to section 5165.515 , section 5165.07 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5155.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5155 / § 5155.01
§ 5155.01. Contracts for new buildings and additions
Status: in_force

April 6, 2017 House Bill 290 - 131st General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "appointing authority" has the same meaning as in section 124.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The board of county commissioners shall make all contracts for new buildings and for additions to existing buildings necessary for the county home. The board shall prescribe rules for the management and good government of the home. (C)(1) If the superintendent or administrator of the county home is a public employee, the superintendent or administrator is the county home's appointing authority and may employ an administrative assistant and additional necessary personnel, at rates of wages to be fixed by the board of county commissioners, as may not be found available on the part of the residents of the facility. (2) If the superintendent or administrator is not a public employee, the board is the appointing authority for any public employees of the county home. The superintendent or administrator may make recommendations to the board regarding the employment or removal of any public employee of the county home. The board is not the appointing authority for a county home employee who is not a public employee. (D) The superintendent or administrator and administrative assistant shall be removed if either of them requires or permits residents or employees to render services for the private interests of the superintendent or administrator, the administrative assistant, any member of the board of county commissioners, any private interest, or any member of the board of county hospital trustees if that board has entered into an agreement or otherwise has operational control as provided in section 5155.011 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5121.44 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5121 / § 5121.44
§ 5121.44. Extended payment agreement - security interest in residence prohibited
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The department of mental health and addiction services may enter into an extended payment agreement with a patient, patient's estate, or liable relative who has notified the department that the patient, estate, or relative cannot reasonably pay an amount the department has charged. In no case shall the department take a security interest, mortgage, or lien against the principal family residence of a patient or liable relative. Last updated October 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5153.18 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5153 / § 5153.18
§ 5153.18. Public children services agency - executive director - powers and duties
Status: in_force

October 1, 1997 House Bill 408 - 122nd General Assembly (A) The public children services agency shall have the capacity possessed by natural persons to institute proceedings in any court. (B) When appointed by the probate court exercising jurisdiction in adoption proceedings, the executive director may act as next friend of any child and perform the duties of such next friend. (C) When appointed by the probate court, in lieu of a guardian, in accordance with section 2111.05 of the Revised Code: (1) The executive director may act as trustee of the estate of any ward, provided such an estate does not exceed one thousand dollars in value. (2) The executive director may also act as trustee, on behalf of any ward, of periodic payments of not more than twenty-five dollars per week of which such ward is entitled as a claimant pursuant to the terms of any insurance policy, annuity, pension, benefit, or allowance, governmental or private. (3) Such director shall administer all trusteeships in accordance with the laws relating to fiduciaries. The funds of any such trusteeship shall not be mingled with other moneys of the agency or of the county. The cost of any such trusteeship shall be paid out of the funds of the trust, but no fee shall be allowed to the executive director as such trustee. At least once a year, or more often if required by the probate court, the executive director shall make a complete report and accounting to the agency as to the disposition of all trust funds administered by the executive director during the year.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5124.17 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5124 / § 5124.17
§ 5124.17. ICF/IID's per medicaid day capital component rate
Status: in_force

September 30, 2021 House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly (A) For each fiscal year, the department of developmental disabilities shall determine each ICF/IID's per medicaid day capital component rate. An ICF/IID's rate for a fiscal year shall equal the sum of the following: (1) The lesser of the following: (a) The sum of all of the following: (i) The ICF/IID's per diem fair rental value rate for the fiscal year as determined under division (B) of this section; (ii) The ICF/IID's per diem equipment rate for the fiscal year as determined under division (D) of this section; (iii) The ICF/IID's per diem secondary building rate for the fiscal year as determined under division (E) of this section. (b) The sum determined for the fiscal year under division (G) of this section. (2) The ICF/IID's per diem nonextensive renovation rate for the fiscal year as determined under division (H) of this section. (B) An ICF/IID's per diem fair rental value rate for a fiscal year is the quotient of the following: (1) The ICF/IID's fair rental value as determined under division (C) of this section; (2) The greater of the following: (a) The number of the ICF/IID's inpatient days for the applicable cost report year; (b) The number of inpatient days the ICF/IID would have had during the applicable cost report year if its occupancy rate had been ninety-two per cent that year. (C)(1) An ICF/IID's fair rental value is the product of the following: (a) The sum of the following: (i) The ICF/IID's depreciated current asset value as determined under division (C)(2) of this section; (ii) The ICF/IID's land value as determined under division (C)(10) of this section. (b) Eleven per cent. (2) An ICF/IID's depreciated current asset value is its current asset value, as determined under division (C)(3) of this section, depreciated by the product of the following: (a) The ICF/IID's effective age as determined under division (C)(5) of this section; (b) One and six-tenths per cent. (3) An ICF/IID's current asset value is the product of the following: (a) The ICF/IID's value per square foot as determined under division (C)(4) of this section; (b) The lesser of the ICF/IID's square footage and the following: (i) If the ICF/IID is in peer group 1 and is a downsized ICF/IID, its medicaid-certified capacity on the last day of the applicable cost report year multiplied by one thousand; (ii) If the ICF/IID is in peer group 1 and is not a downsized ICF/IID, its medicaid-certified capacity on the last day of the applicable cost report year multiplied by five hundred fifty; (iii) If the ICF/IID is in peer group 2 and is a downsized ICF/IID, its medicaid-certified capacity on the last day of the applicable cost report year multiplied by one thousand; (iv) If the ICF/IID is in peer group 2 and is not a downsized ICF/IID, its medicaid-certified capacity on the last day of the applicable cost report year multiplied by seven hundred fifty; (v) If the ICF/IID is in peer group 3, its medicaid-certified capacity on the last day of the applicable cost report year multiplied by eight hundred fifty; (vi) If the ICF/IID is in peer group 4 or peer group 5, its medicaid-certified capacity on the last day of the applicable cost report year multiplied by nine hundred. (4)(a) An ICF/IID's value per square foot shall be determined by using the version of the following RS means data that was most recently published at the time the determination is made: (i) If the ICF/IID is in peer group 1 or peer group 2, the RS means data for assisted-senior living facility construction costs; (ii) If the ICF/IID is in peer group 3, peer group 4, or peer group 5, the RS means data for nursing home construction costs. (b) Except as provided in division (C)(4)(c) of this section, in determining an ICF/IID's value per square foot, the following modifier shall be used: (i) If the ICF/IID is located in Summit county, the modifier specified in the applicable RS means data for Akron; (ii) If the ICF/IID is located in Athens county, the modifier specified in the applicable RS means data for Athens; (iii) If the ICF/IID is located in Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake, Medina, Portage, Stark, Trumbull, or Wayne county, the modifier specified in the applicable RS means data for Canton; (iv) If the ICF/IID is located in Ross county, the modifier specified in the applicable RS means data for Chillicothe; (v) If the ICF/IID is located in Hamilton county, the modifier specified in the applicable RS means data for Cincinnati; (vi) If the ICF/IID is located in Cuyahoga county, the modifier specified in the applicable RS means data for Cleveland; (vii) If the ICF/IID is located in Franklin county, the modifier specified in the applicable RS means data for Columbus; (viii) If the ICF/IID is located in Montgomery county, the modifier specified in the applicable RS means data for Dayton; (ix) If the ICF/IID is located in Brown, Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Champaign, Darke, Greene, Logan, Miami, Preble, Shelby, or Warren county, the modifier specified in the applicable RS means data for Hamilton; (x) If the ICF/IID is located in Allen, Auglaize, Defiance, Erie, Fulton, Hancock, Henry, Huron, Mercer, Paulding, Putnam, Ottawa, Sandusky, Seneca, Van Wert, Williams, or Wood county, the modifier specified in the applicable RS means data for Lima; (xi) If the ICF/IID is located in Lorain county, the modifier specified in the applicable RS means data for Lorain; (xii) If the ICF/IID is located in Ashland, Crawford, Delaware, Fairfield, Fayette, Hardin, Knox, Licking, Madison, Morrow, Pickaway, Richland, Union, or Wyandot county, the modifier specified in the applicable RS means data for Mansfield; (xiii) If the ICF/IID is located in Marion county, the modifier specified in the applicable RS means data for Marion; (xiv) If the ICF/IID is located in Clark county, the modifier specified in the applicable RS means data for Springfield; (xv) If the ICF/IID is located in Jefferson county, the modifier specified in the applicable RS means data for Steubenville; (xvi) If the ICF/IID is located in Lucas county, the modifier specified in the applicable RS means data for Toledo; (xvii) If the ICF/IID is located in Mahoning county, the modifier specified in the applicable RS means data for Youngstown; (xviii) If the ICF/IID is located in Adams, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Gallia, Guernsey, Harrison, Highland, Hocking, Holmes, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Muskingum, Noble, Perry, Pike, Scioto, Tuscarawas, Vinton, or Washington county, the modifier specified in the applicable RS means data for Zanesville. (c) If a modifier ceases to be specified in the applicable RS means data for a city listed in division (C)(4)(b) of this section, the director of developmental disabilities shall specify in rules adopted under section 5124.03 of the Revised Code a different modifier for the counties that are affected by the change. (5) An ICF/IID's effective age shall be determined as follows: (a) Determine the sum of the numbers of the ICF/IID's new bed equivalents for renovations for the applicable cost report year and the immediately preceding thirty-nine calendar years as determined for each of those years under division (C)(7)(a) of this section; (b) Determine the sum of the numbers of the ICF/IID's new bed equivalents for additions that do not increase the ICF/IID's medicaid-certified capacity for the applicable cost report year and the immediately preceding thirty-nine calendar years as determined for each of those years under division (C)(8)(a) of this section; (c) Determine the sum of the numbers of the ICF/IID's new beds resulting from additions that increase the ICF/IID's medicaid-certified capacity for the applicable cost report year and the immediately preceding thirty-nine calendar years as determined for each of those years under division (C)(9)(a) of this section; (d) Determine the sum of the sums determined under divisions (C)(5)(a), (b), and (c) of this section; (e) Determine the difference of the following: (i) The ICF/IID's medicaid-certified capacity on the last day of the applicable cost report year; (ii) The lesser of the amount specified in division (C)(5)(e)(i) of this section and the sum determined under division (C)(5)(d) of this section. (f) For the purpose of determining the weighted age of the ICF/IID's original beds, determine the product of the following: (i) The difference determined under division (C)(5)(e) of this section; (ii) The ICF/IID's age as determined under division (C)(6) of this section. (g) Determine the sum of the weighted ages of the ICF/IID's new bed equivalents for renovations for the applicable cost report year and the immediately preceding thirty-nine calendar years as determined for each of those years under division (C)(7)(c) of this section; (h) Determine the sum of the weighted ages of the ICF/IID's new bed equivalents for additions that do not increase its medicaid-certified capacity for the applicable cost report year and the immediately preceding thirty-nine calendar years as determined for each of those years under division (C)(8)(d) of this section; (i) Determine the sum of the weighted ages of the ICF/IID's new beds resulting from additions that increase its medicaid-certified capacity for the applicable cost report year and the immediately preceding thirty-nine calendar years as determined for that period and each of those years under division (C)(9)(b) of this section; (j) Determine the sum of the following: (i) The product determined under division (C)(5)(f) of this section; (ii) The sum of the sums determined under divisions (C)(5)(g), (h), and (i) of this section. (k) Determine the quotient of the following: (i) The sum determined under division (C)(5)(j) of this section; (ii) The ICF/IID's medicaid-certified capacity on the last day of the applicable cost report year. (6) An ICF/IID's age is the lesser of the following: (a) The difference between the following: (i) The calendar year in which occurs the last day of the period covered by the cost report being used to determine the ICF/IID's rate under this section; (ii) The calendar year in which the ICF/IID was initially constructed. (b) Forty. (7)(a) The number, for a year, of an ICF/IID's new bed equivalents for renovations is the quotient of the following: (i) The ICF/IID's desk-reviewed, actual, allowable renovation costs for the year; (ii) Seventy thousand dollars. (b) The age of an ICF/IID's new bed equivalents for renovations is the difference of the following: (i) The calendar year in which occurs the last day of the period covered by the cost report being used to determine the ICF/IID's rate under this section; (ii) The calendar year the renovations were completed. (c) The weighted age, for a year, of an ICF/IID's new bed equivalents for renovations is the product of the following: (i) The number, for that year, of the ICF/IID's new bed equivalents for renovations as determined under division (C)(7)(a) of this section; (ii) The age of those new bed equivalents as determined under division (C)(7)(b) of this section. (8)(a) The number, for a year, of an ICF/IID's new bed equivalents for additions that do not increase its medicaid-certified capacity is the quotient of the following: (i) The value of such additions made to the ICF/IID that year as determined under division (C)(8)(b) of this section; (ii) Seventy thousand dollars. (b) The value of additions that do not increase an ICF/IID's medicaid-certified capacity is the product of the following: (i) The total square footage of the additions; (ii) The ICF/IID's value per square foot as determined under division (C)(4) of this section. (c) The age of an ICF/IID's new bed equivalents for additions that do not increase its medicaid-certified capacity is the difference of the following: (i) The calendar year in which occurs the last day of the period covered by the cost report being used to determine the ICF/IID's rate under this section; (ii) The calendar year the additions were completed. (d) The weighted age, for a year, of an ICF/IID's new bed equivalents for additions that do not increase its medicaid-certified capacity is the product of the following: (i) The number, for that year, of the ICF/IID's new bed equivalents for such additions as determined under division (C)(8)(a) of this section; (ii) The age of those new bed equivalents as determined under division (C)(8)(c) of this section. (9)(a) The number, for a year, of new beds resulting from additions that increase an ICF/IID's medicaid-certified capacity is the number by which the new beds increased the ICF/IID's medicaid-certified capacity that year. (b) The weighted age, for a year, of new beds resulting from additions that increase an ICF/IID's medicaid-certified capacity is the product of the following: (i) The number by which those new beds increased the ICF/IID's medicaid-certified capacity that year; (ii) The difference of the calendar year in which occurs the last day of the period covered by the cost report being used to determine the ICF/IID's rate under this section and the calendar year the ICF/IID's medicaid-certified capacity was so increased. (10) An ICF/IID's land value is the product of the following: (a) The ICF/IID's current asset value as determined under division (C)(3) of this section; (b) Ten per cent. (D) An ICF/IID's per diem equipment rate for a fiscal year shall be the lesser of the following: (1) The quotient of the following: (a) The ICF/IID's costs for capital equipment for the applicable cost report year; (b) The greater of the following: (i) The number of the ICF/IID's inpatient days for the applicable cost report year; (ii) The number of inpatient days the ICF/IID would have had during the applicable cost report year if its occupancy rate had been ninety-two per cent that year. (2) The following amount: (a) If the ICF/IID is in peer group 1, five dollars; (b) If the ICF/IID is in peer group 2, six dollars and fifty cents; (c) If the ICF/IID is in peer group 3, eight dollars; (d) If the ICF/IID is in peer group 4 or peer group 5, nine dollars. (E) An ICF/IID's per diem secondary building rate for a fiscal year is the quotient of the following: (1) The ICF/IID's secondary building value as determined under division (F) of this section; (2) The greater of the following: (a) The number of the ICF/IID's inpatient days for the applicable cost report year; (b) The number of inpatient days the ICF/IID would have had during the applicable cost report year if its occupancy rate had been ninety-two per cent that year. (F)(1) An ICF/IID's secondary building value is the product of the following: (a) The sum of the following: (i) The sum of the depreciated current asset values of the ICF/IID's secondary buildings as determined under division (F)(2) of this section; (ii) The sum of the land values of the ICF/IID's secondary buildings as determined under division (F)(6) of this section. (b) A rental rate of eleven per cent. (2) The depreciated current asset value of an ICF/IID's secondary building is the current asset value of the secondary building, as determined under division (F)(3) of this section, depreciated by the product of the following: (a) The age of the secondary building as determined under division (F)(5) of this section; (b) One and six-tenths per cent. (3) The current asset value of an ICF/IID's secondary building is the product of the following: (a) The part of the secondary building's square footage that is allocated to the ICF/IID; (b) The secondary building's value per square foot as determined under division (F)(4) of this section. (4) The value per square foot of an ICF/IID's secondary building shall be determined by using the following: (a) Except as provided in division (F)(4)(b) of this section, the most recent national average commercial cost estimate for office/warehouse buildings according to information available at buildingjournal.com on the last day of the applicable cost report year; (b) If the national average commercial cost estimate for office/warehouse buildings ceases to be available at buildingjournal.com, the most recent comparable cost estimate as specified in rules the director of developmental disabilities shall adopt under section 5124.03 of the Revised Code. (5) The age of an ICF/IID's secondary building is the lesser of the following: (a) The difference of the following: (i) The calendar year in which occurs the last day of the period covered by the cost report being used to determine the ICF/IID's rate under this section; (ii) The calendar year the secondary building was initially constructed. (b) Forty. (6) The land value of an ICF/IID's secondary building is the product of the following: (a) The current asset value of the ICF/IID's secondary building as determined under division (F)(3) of this section; (b) Ten per cent. (G) For the purposes of divisions (A)(1)(b) and (H)(1)(b)(ii) of this section, the department shall determine the sum of the following for each ICF/IID for each fiscal year: (1) The quotient of the following: (a) The ICF/IID's desk-reviewed, actual, allowable capital costs for the applicable cost report year; (b) The greater of the following: (i) The number of the ICF/IID's inpatient days for the applicable cost report year; (ii) The number of inpatient days the ICF/IID would have had during the applicable cost report year if its occupancy rate had been ninety-two per cent that year. (2) The following amount: (a) If the ICF/IID is in peer group 1 or peer group 2, three dollars; (b) If the ICF/IID is in peer group 3, peer group 4, or peer group 5, five dollars. (3) The greater of the following: (a) Ten per cent of the difference of the following: (i) The sum of the quotient determined for the fiscal year under division (G)(1) of this section and the applicable amount specified in division (G)(2) of this section; (ii) The sum determined for the fiscal year under division (A)(1)(a) of this section. (b) Zero. (H) An ICF/IID's per diem nonextensive renovation rate for a fiscal year is the following: (1) If the sum of the ICF/IID's per diem costs of nonextensive renovations for the applicable cost report year as determined under division (I) of this section and the ICF/IID's per diem costs of ownership for the applicable cost report year as determined under division (J) of this section is greater than the sum determined for the ICF/IID for the fiscal year under division (G) of this section, the lesser of the following: (a) The ICF/IID's per diem costs of nonextensive renovations for the applicable cost report year as determined under division (I) of this section; (b) The difference of the following: (i) The sum of the ICF/IID's per diem costs of nonextensive renovation for the applicable cost report year as determined under division (I) of this section and the ICF/IID's per diem costs of ownership for the applicable cost report year as determined under division (J) of this section; (ii) The sum determined for the ICF/IID for the fiscal year under division (G) of this section. (2) If the sum of the ICF/IID's per diem costs of nonextensive renovation for the applicable cost report year as determined under division (I) of this section and the ICF/IID's per diem costs of ownership for the applicable cost report year as determined under division (J) of this section is less than or equal to the sum determined for the ICF/IID for the fiscal year under division (G) of this section, zero. (I) An ICF/IID's per diem costs of nonextensive renovations for an applicable cost report year are the quotient of the following: (1) The ICF/IID's desk-reviewed, actual, allowable costs of nonextensive renovations for the applicable cost report year; (2) The greater of the following: (a) The number of the ICF/IID's inpatient days for the applicable cost report year; (b) The number of inpatient days the ICF/IID would have had during the applicable cost report year if its occupancy rate had been ninety-two per cent that year. (J) An ICF/IID's per diem costs of ownership for an applicable cost report year are the quotient of the following: (1) The ICF/IID's desk-reviewed, actual, allowable costs of ownership for the applicable cost report year; (2) The greater of the following: (a) The number of the ICF/IID's inpatient days for the applicable cost report year; (b) The number of inpatient days the ICF/IID would have had during the applicable cost report year if its occupancy rate had been ninety-two per cent that year. Last updated August 24, 2021 at 2:53 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.99
§ 5123.99. Penalty
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly (A) Whoever violates section 5123.16 or 5123.20 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. (B) Whoever violates division (C), (E), or (G)(3) of section 5123.61 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree or, if the abuse or neglect constitutes a felony, a misdemeanor of the second degree. In addition to any other sanction or penalty authorized or required by law, if a person who is convicted of or pleads guilty to a violation of division (C), (E), or (G)(3) of section 5123.61 of the Revised Code is a developmental disabilities employee, as defined in section 5123.50 of the Revised Code, the offender shall be eligible to be included in the registry regarding misappropriation, abuse, neglect, or other specified misconduct by developmental disabilities employees established under section 5123.52 of the Revised Code. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.40 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.40
§ 5103.40. Ohio child welfare program steering committee
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly The Ohio child welfare training program steering committee shall do all of the following: (A) Following procedures the committee shall establish, adopt, amend, and rescind by-laws as necessary regarding the committee's governance, frequency of meetings, and other matters concerning the committee's operation; (B) Conduct strategic planning activities regarding the Ohio child welfare training program; (C) Provide the department of children and youth and Ohio child welfare training program coordinator recommendations regarding the program's operation; (D) After reviewing individual training needs assessments completed under sections 5153.125 and 5153.126 of the Revised Code, consult with the Ohio child welfare training program coordinator on the design and content of the training that the program provides pursuant to divisions (D) and (E) of section 5103.30 of the Revised Code; (E) Review curricula created for the training provided under section 5103.30 of the Revised Code; (F) Provide the department recommendations regarding the curricula reviewed under division (E) of this section as the committee determines necessary for the training to be relevant to the needs of the child welfare field; (G) Evaluate the training and provide the department recommendations as the committee determines necessary for the training to be able to enable all of the following: (1) Assessors to satisfy the training requirement of section 3107.014 of the Revised Code; (2) Prospective foster caregivers and foster caregivers to satisfy the preplacement and continuing training requirements of sections 5103.031 , 5103.032 , and 5103.033 of the Revised Code; (3) PCSA caseworkers to satisfy the training requirements of section 5153.122 of the Revised Code; (4) PCSA caseworker supervisors to satisfy the training requirements of section 5153.123 of the Revised Code. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.311 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.311
§ 5101.311. [Former R.C. 122.66, amended and renumbered as R.C. 5101.311 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Definitions
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly As used in sections 5101.311 to 5101.318 of the Revised Code: (A) "Poverty line" means the official poverty line established by the director of the United States office of management and budget and as revised by the secretary of health and human services in accordance with section 673(2) of the "Community Services Block Grant Act," 95 Stat. 1609, 42 U.S.C.A. 9902. (B) "Low-income person" means a person whose adjusted gross income as defined in division (A) of section 5747.01 of the Revised Code is below the poverty line as defined in division (A) of this section. (C) "Advocacy" means the act of pleading for, supporting, or recommending actions on behalf of low-income persons. (D) "Community action agency" means a community-based and operated private nonprofit agency or organization incorporated under Chapter 1702. of the Revised Code that includes or is designed to include a sufficient number of projects or components to provide a range of services and activities having a measurable and potentially major impact on the causes of poverty in the community or those areas of the community where poverty is a particularly acute problem and is designated as a community action agency by the department of job and family services pursuant to sections 5101.313 and 5101.315 of the Revised Code. A "community action agency" is not a state agency or public office. (E) "Community" means a city, village, county, multicity or multicounty unit, a neighborhood or other area, disregarding boundaries or political subdivisions, which provides a suitable organizational base and possesses a commonality of needs and interests for a community action program suitable to be served by a community action agency. (F) "Service area" means the geographical area served by a community action agency. Last updated October 3, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.894 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.894
§ 5101.894. Reporting suspected violations of state law
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly To the extent permitted by state or federal law, a representative of the youth and family ombudsmen office may report to an appropriate authority any suspected violation of state law discovered during the course of a complaint review. Last updated August 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.02
§ 5180.02. Duties of director
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) The director of children and youth is the chief executive of and appointing authority for the department of children and youth. In this role, the director shall administer the department and implement the delivery in this state of children's services, including by doing all of the following: (1) Adopting as necessary rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code and section 111.15 of the Revised Code; (2) Approving and entering into contracts, agreements, and other business arrangements on behalf of the department; (3) Making as necessary appointments to the department and approving actions related to departmental employees and officers, including their hiring, promotion, termination, discipline, or investigation; (4) Administering the department and directing the performance of its employees and officers; (5) Applying for grants available under federal law or from other federal, state, or private sources and allocating, disbursing, or accounting for any funds awarded; (6) Any other action as necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. (B) Whenever by law a duty is imposed on or an action is required of the department, the director or director's designee shall fulfill the duty or perform the action. (C) The director may organize the department for its efficient operation, including by creating as necessary any divisions or offices within it. The director also may establish procedures for the governance of the department, the conduct of its employees and officers, the performance of its business, and the custody, use, and preservation of departmental books, documents, papers, property, and records. (D) If the director issues any directive governing the delivery in this state of children's services, each state and local agency involved in the delivery of those services shall comply with the directive and collaborate with the department. (E) For purposes of division (A)(1) of this section, if a law permits or requires the director to adopt a rule, the director shall do so in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, unless the law requiring or permitting adoption of the rule specifies a different rule adoption procedure. Last updated September 11, 2023 at 4:56 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5168.27 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5168 / § 5168.27
§ 5168.27. Implementation shall not cause reduction in federal participation for medicaid program
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The medicaid director shall implement the assessment imposed by section 5168.21 of the Revised Code in a manner that does not cause a reduction in federal financial participation for the medicaid program under the "Social Security Act," section 1903(w), 42 U.S.C. 1396b(w). Last updated July 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5104.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5104 / § 5104.03
§ 5104.03. Application for and renewal of license
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "owner" has the same meaning as in section 5104.01 of the Revised Code, except that "owner" also includes a firm, organization, institution, or agency, as well as any individual governing board members, partners, or authorized representatives of the owner. (B) Any person, firm, organization, institution, or agency seeking to establish a child care center, type A family child care home, or licensed type B family child care home shall apply for a license to the director of children and youth on such form as the director prescribes. The director shall provide at no charge to each applicant for licensure a copy of the child care license requirements in this chapter and a copy of the rules adopted pursuant to this chapter. The copies may be provided in paper or electronic form. Fees shall be set by the director pursuant to sections 5104.015 , 5104.017 , and 5104.018 of the Revised Code and shall be paid at the time of application for a license to operate a center, type A home, or type B home. Fees collected under this section shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund. (C)(1) Upon filing of the application for a license, the director shall investigate and inspect the center, type A home, or type B home to determine the license capacity for each age category of children of the center, type A home, or type B home and to determine whether the center, type A home, or type B home complies with this chapter and rules adopted pursuant to this chapter. When, after investigation and inspection, the director is satisfied that this chapter and rules adopted pursuant to it are complied with, subject to division (G) of this section, a license shall be issued as soon as practicable in such form and manner as prescribed by the director. The license shall be designated as provisional and shall be valid for at least twelve months from the date of issuance and until the continuous license is issued or until the provisional license is revoked or suspended pursuant to section 5104.042 of the Revised Code. (2) The director may contract with a government entity or a private nonprofit entity for the entity to inspect type A or type B family child care homes pursuant to this section. If the director contracts with a government entity or private nonprofit entity for that purpose, the entity may contract with another government entity or private nonprofit entity for the other entity to inspect type A or type B homes pursuant to this section. The director, government entity, or private nonprofit entity shall conduct an inspection prior to the issuance of a license for a type A or type B home and, as part of that inspection, ensure that the home is safe and sanitary. (D) The director shall investigate and inspect the center, type A home, or type B home at least once during operation under a license designated as provisional. If after the investigation and inspection the director determines that the requirements of this chapter and rules adopted pursuant to this chapter are met, subject to division (G) of this section, the director shall issue a continuous license to the center or home. (E) Each license shall state the name of the licensee, the name of the administrator, the address of the center, type A home, or licensed type B home, and the license capacity for each age category of children. The license shall include thereon, in accordance with sections 5104.015 , 5104.017 , and 5104.018 of the Revised Code, the toll-free telephone number to be used by persons suspecting that the center, type A home, or licensed type B home has violated a provision of this chapter or rules adopted pursuant to this chapter. A license is valid only for the licensee, administrator, address, and license capacity for each age category of children designated on the license. The license capacity specified on the license is the maximum number of children in each age category that may be cared for in the center, type A home, or licensed type B home at one time. A center or home licensee shall notify the director in writing when the administrator, address, or license capacity of the center or home changes. The director shall amend the current license to reflect a change in any of the following: (1) An administrator, if the administrator meets the requirements of this chapter and rules adopted pursuant to this chapter; (2) Address, if the new address meets the requirements of this chapter and rules adopted pursuant to this chapter; (3) License capacity for any age category of children as determined by the director of children and youth. (F) If the director revokes the license of a center, a type A home, or a type B home, the director shall not issue another license to the owner of the center, type A home, or type B home until five years have elapsed from the date the license is revoked. If the director denies an application for a license, the director shall not consider another application from the applicant until five years have elapsed from the date the application is denied. (G)(1) Except as provided in division (G)(2) of this section, all actions of the director with respect to licensing centers, type A homes, or type B homes, refusal to license, and revocation of a license shall be in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. Except as provided in division (G)(2) of this section, any applicant who is denied a license or any owner whose license is revoked may appeal in accordance with section 119.12 of the Revised Code. (2) The following actions by the director are not subject to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code: (a) The director ceases its review of an application because the owner of a center, type A home, or type B home sought a license before five years had elapsed from the date the previous license was revoked and the director does not issue the license. (b) The director ceases its review of an application because the applicant applied for licensure before five years had elapsed from the date the previous application was denied and the director does not issue the license. (c) The director closes a license because the director has determined that the center, type A home, or type B home is no longer operating at the address stated on the license and did not notify the director of the address change as described in division (E) of this section. (H) In no case shall the director issue a license under this section for a center, type A home, or type B home if the director, based on documentation provided by the appropriate county department of job and family services, determines that the applicant had been certified as an in-home aide, that the county department revoked that certification within the immediately preceding five years, that the revocation was based on the applicant's refusal or inability to comply with the criteria for certification, and that the refusal or inability resulted in a risk to the health or safety of children. (I) An owner of a type B family child care home that receives a license pursuant to this section is an independent contractor and is not an employee of the department of children and youth. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5108.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5108 / § 5108.08
§ 5108.08. Benefits and services inalienable
Status: in_force

September 5, 2001 House Bill 94 - 124th General Assembly Benefits and services provided under the prevention, retention, and contingency program are inalienable whether by way of assignment, charge, or otherwise and exempt from execution, attachment, garnishment, and other like process.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5139.52 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5139 / § 5139.52
§ 5139.52. Violating term or condition of supervised release or judicial release
Status: in_force

September 19, 2014 Senate Bill 143 - 130th General Assembly (A) At any time during a child's supervised release or during the period of a child's judicial release to department of youth services supervision, if the regional administrator or the employee of the department assigned to supervise and assist the child has reasonable grounds to believe that the child has violated a term or condition of the supervised release or judicial release, the administrator or employee may request a court to issue a summons that requires the child to appear for a hearing to answer charges of the alleged violation. The summons shall contain a brief statement of the alleged violation, including the date and place of the violation, and shall require the child to appear for a hearing before the court at a specific date, time, and place. (B)(1) At any time while a child is on supervised release or during the period of a child's judicial release to department of youth services supervision, a regional administrator or a designee of a regional administrator, upon application of the employee of the department assigned to supervise and assist the child as described in this division, may issue, or cause to be issued, an order of apprehension for the arrest of the child for the alleged violation of a term or condition of the child's supervised release or judicial release. An application requesting an order of apprehension shall set forth that, in the good faith judgment of the employee of the department assigned to supervise and assist the child making the application, there is reasonable cause to believe that the child who is on supervised release or judicial release to department of youth services supervision has violated or is violating a term or condition of the child's supervised release or judicial release, shall state the basis for that belief, and shall request that the child be taken to an appropriate place of secure detention pending a probable cause determination. As an alternative to an order of apprehension for the child, a regional administrator or the employee of the department assigned to supervise and assist the child may request a court to issue a warrant for the arrest of the child. Subject to the provision of prior notice required by division (D)(1) of this section, if a regional administrator or a designee of a regional administrator issues, in writing, an order of apprehension for the arrest of a child, a staff member of the department of youth services who has been designated pursuant to division (A)(1) of section 5139.53 of the Revised Code as being authorized to arrest and who has received the training described in division (B)(1) of that section, or a peace officer, as defined in section 2935.01 of the Revised Code, may arrest the child, without a warrant, and place the child in secure detention in accordance with this section. If a child is on supervised release or judicial release to department of youth services supervision, any peace officer, as defined in section 2935.01 of the Revised Code, may arrest the child without a warrant or order of apprehension if the peace officer has reasonable grounds to believe that the child has violated or is violating any of the following that has been prescribed by the release authority or department of youth services relative to the child: (a) A condition that prohibits the child's ownership, possession, or use of a firearm, deadly weapon, ammunition, or dangerous ordnance, all as defined in section 2923.11 of the Revised Code; (b) A condition that prohibits the child from being within a specified structure or geographic area; (c) A condition that confines the child to a residence, facility, or other structure; (d) A condition that prohibits the child from contacting or communicating with any specified individual; (e) A condition that prohibits the child from associating with a specified individual; (f) Any other rule, term, or condition governing the conduct of the child that has been prescribed by the release authority. (2) Subject to the provision of prior notice required by division (D)(1) of this section, a staff member of the department of youth services who is designated by the director pursuant to division (A)(1) of section 5139.53 of the Revised Code and who has received the training described in division (B)(1) of that section, a peace officer, as defined in section 2935.01 of the Revised Code, or any other officer with the power to arrest may execute a warrant or order of apprehension issued under division (B)(1) of this section and take the child into secure custody. (C) A staff member of the department of youth services who is designated by the director of youth services pursuant to division (A)(1) of section 5139.53 of the Revised Code and who has received the training described in division (B)(1) of that section, a peace officer, as defined in section 2935.01 of the Revised Code, or any other officer with the power to arrest may arrest without a warrant or order of apprehension and take into secure custody a child in the legal custody of the department, if the staff member, peace officer, or other officer has reasonable cause to believe that the child who is on supervised release or judicial release to department of youth services supervision has violated or is violating a term or condition of the supervised release or judicial release in any of the following manners: (1) The child committed or is committing an offense or delinquent act in the presence of the staff member, peace officer, or other officer. (2) There is probable cause to believe that the child violated a term or condition of supervised release or judicial release and that the child is leaving or is about to leave the state. (3) The child failed to appear before the release authority pursuant to a summons for a modification or failed to appear for a scheduled court hearing. (4) The arrest of the child is necessary to prevent physical harm to another person or to the child. (D)(1) Except as otherwise provided in this division, prior to arresting a child under this section, either in relation to an order of apprehension or a warrant for arrest or in any other manner authorized by this section, a staff member or employee of the department of youth services shall provide notice of the anticipated arrest to each county, municipal, or township law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over the place at which the staff member or employee anticipates making the arrest. A staff member or employee is not required to provide the notice described in this division prior to making an arrest in any emergency situation or circumstance described under division (C) of this section. (2) If a child is arrested under this section and if it is known that the child is on supervised release or judicial release to department of youth services supervision, a juvenile court, local juvenile detention facility, or jail shall notify the appropriate department of youth services regional office that the child has been arrested and shall provide to the regional office or to an employee of the department of youth services a copy of the arrest information pertaining to the arrest. (3) Nothing in this section limits the power to make an arrest that is granted to specified peace officers under section 2935.03 of the Revised Code, to any person under section 2935.04 of the Revised Code, or to any other specified category of persons by any other provision of the Revised Code, or the power to take a child into custody that is granted pursuant to section 2151.31 of the Revised Code. (E) If a child who is on supervised release or who is under a period of judicial release to department of youth services supervision is arrested under an order of apprehension, under a warrant, or without a warrant as described in division (B)(1), (B)(2), or (C) of this section and taken into secure custody, all of the following apply: (1) If no motion to revoke the child's supervised release or judicial release has been filed within seventy-two hours after the child is taken into secure custody, the juvenile court, in making its determinations at a detention hearing as to whether to hold the child in secure custody up to seventy-two hours so that a motion to revoke the child's supervised release or judicial release may be filed, may consider, in addition to all other evidence and information considered, the circumstances of the child's arrest and, if the arrest was pursuant to an order of apprehension, the order and the application for the order. (2) If no motion to revoke the child's supervised release or judicial release has been filed within seventy-two hours after the child is taken into secure custody and if the child has not otherwise been released prior to the expiration of that seventy-two-hour period, the child shall be released upon the expiration of that seventy-two-hour period. (3) If the person is eighteen, nineteen, or twenty years of age, the person may be confined in secure detention in the jail of the county in which the person is taken into custody. If the person is under eighteen years of age, the person may be confined in secure detention in the nearest juvenile detention facility. (4) If a motion to revoke the child's supervised release or judicial release is filed after the child has been taken into secure custody and the court decides at the detention hearing to release the child from secure custody, the court may release the child on the same terms and conditions that are currently in effect regarding the child's supervised release or judicial release, pending revocation or subsequent modification. (F) If a child who is on supervised release is arrested under an order of apprehension, under a warrant, or without a warrant as described in division (B)(1), (B)(2), or (C) of this section and taken into secure custody, and if a motion to revoke the child's supervised release is filed, the juvenile court of the county in which the child is placed promptly shall schedule a time for a hearing on whether the child violated any of the terms and conditions of the supervised release. If a child is released on supervised release and the juvenile court of the county in which the child is placed otherwise has reason to believe that the child has not complied with the terms and conditions of the supervised release, the court of the county in which the child is placed, in its discretion, may schedule a time for a hearing on whether the child violated any of the terms and conditions of the supervised release. If the court of the county in which the child is placed on supervised release conducts a hearing and determines at the hearing that the child did not violate any term or condition of the child's supervised release, the child shall be released from custody, if the child is in custody at that time, and shall continue on supervised release under the terms and conditions that were in effect at the time of the child's arrest, subject to subsequent revocation or modification. If the court of the county in which the child is placed on supervised release conducts a hearing and determines at the hearing that the child violated one or more of the terms and conditions of the child's supervised release, the court, if it determines that the violation was a serious violation, may revoke the child's supervised release, reinstate the original order of commitment of the child, and order the child to be returned to the department of youth services for institutionalization or, in any case, may make any other disposition of the child authorized by law that the court considers proper. If the court orders the child to be returned to a department of youth services institution, the child shall remain institutionalized for a minimum period of ninety days, the department shall not reduce the minimum ninety-day period of institutionalization for any time that the child was held in secure custody subsequent to the child's arrest and pending the revocation hearing and the child's return to the department, the release authority, in its discretion, may require the child to remain in institutionalization for longer than the minimum ninety-day period, the child is not eligible for judicial release or early release during the minimum ninety-day period of institutionalization, and the period of institutionalization shall be served concurrently with any other commitment to the department of youth services. If the court orders the child to be returned to a department of youth services institution, the time during which the child was confined pursuant to division (B) of section 2152.18 of the Revised Code and the time during which the child was held in a secure department facility prior to the child's release shall be considered as time served in fulfilling the original order of commitment but shall not reduce the minimum ninety-day period of institutionalization. This division does not apply regarding a child who is under a period of judicial release to department of youth services supervision. Division (E) of section 2152.22 of the Revised Code applies in relation to a child who is under a period of judicial release to department of youth services supervision. (G) The department of youth services shall assess and provide appropriate programming for a child who is returned to a department of youth services institution under this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.83 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.83
§ 5101.83. Repaying fraudulent assistance
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Assistance group" has the same meaning as in section 5107.02 of the Revised Code, except that it also means a group provided benefits and services under the prevention, retention, and contingency program or the comprehensive case management and employment program. (2) "Fraudulent assistance" means assistance and services, including cash assistance, provided under the Ohio works first program established under Chapter 5107., or benefits and services provided under the prevention, retention, and contingency program established under Chapter 5108. of the Revised Code or under the comprehensive case management and employment program established under Chapter 5116. of the Revised Code, to or on behalf of an assistance group that is provided as a result of fraud by a member of the assistance group, including an intentional violation of the program's requirements. "Fraudulent assistance" does not include assistance or services to or on behalf of an assistance group that is provided as a result of an error that is the fault of a county department of job and family services, the Ohio department of job and family services, or the department of children and youth. (B) If a county director of job and family services determines that an assistance group has received fraudulent assistance, the assistance group is ineligible to participate in the Ohio works first program, the prevention, retention, and contingency program, or the comprehensive case management and employment program until a member of the assistance group repays the cost of the fraudulent assistance. If a member repays the cost of the fraudulent assistance and the assistance group otherwise meets the eligibility requirements for the Ohio works first program, the prevention, retention, and contingency program, or the comprehensive case management and employment program, the assistance group shall not be denied the opportunity to participate in the program. This section does not limit the ability of a county department of job and family services to recover erroneous payments under section 5107.76 of the Revised Code. The Ohio department of job and family services and the department of children and youth shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement this section. Last updated January 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.06
§ 5101.06. Establishing work units
Status: in_force

July 1, 2000 House Bill 470 - 123rd General Assembly The director of job and family services may establish work units within the department of job and family services as necessary for the efficient operation of the department. The director shall appoint the chief of each work unit.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.50 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.50
§ 5103.50. License for private, nonprofit therapeutic wilderness camp
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in sections 5103.50 to 5103.55 of the Revised Code, "private, nonprofit therapeutic wilderness camp" has the same meaning as in section 5103.02 of the Revised Code. (B) The director of children and youth shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement standards set forth in division (D) of this section and section 5103.54 of the Revised Code that are substantially similar, as determined by the director, to other similarly situated providers of residential care to children. (C) The director of children and youth shall issue a license to a private, nonprofit therapeutic wilderness camp that submits an application to the director, on a form prescribed by the director, that indicates to the director's satisfaction that the camp meets the standards set forth in rules adopted under division (B) of this section. (D) In accordance with rules adopted by the director under division (B) of this section, the camp shall develop and implement written policies that establish all of the following: (1) Standards for hiring, training, and supervising staff; (2) Standards for behavioral intervention, including standards prohibiting the use of prone restraint and governing the use of other restraints or isolation; (3) Standards for recordkeeping, including specifying information that must be included in each child's record, who may access records, confidentiality, maintenance, security, and disposal of records; (4) A procedure for handling complaints about the camp from the children attending the camp, their families, staff, and the public; (5) Standards for emergency and disaster preparedness, including procedures for emergency evacuation and standards requiring that a method of emergency communication be accessible at all times; (6) Standards that ensure the protection of children's civil rights; (7) Standards for the admission and discharge of children attending the camp, including standards for emergency discharge; (8) Standards for the supervision of children, including minimum staff to child ratios; (9) Standards for ensuring proper medical care, including administration of medications; (10) Standards for proper notification of critical incidents; (11) Standards regarding the health and safety of residents, including proper health department approvals, fire inspections, and food service licenses; (12) Standards for ensuring the reporting requirements under section 2151.421 of the Revised Code are met. (E) The camp shall ensure that no child resides at the camp for more than twelve consecutive months, unless the camp has completed a full evaluation that determines the child is not ready for reunification with the child's family or guardian. Such evaluation shall include any outside professional determined to be necessary by the director of children and youth. This evaluation shall be conducted in accordance with rules adopted by the director. (F) The camp shall cooperate with any request from the director for an inspection or for access to records or written policies of the camp. (G) The camps shall ensure that no child is left without supervision of camp staff at any time. (H) The camp shall ensure that if there is a weather emergency or warning issued by the national weather service in the camp's geographic area, the children will be moved to a safe structure guarded from the weather event. (I) The camp shall ensure that all sharp tools used in the camp, including axes and knives, are locked unless in use by camp staff or otherwise under camp staff supervision. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.701 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.701
§ 5180.701. [Former R.C. 5101.341, renumbered by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Ohio commission on fatherhood - administration
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) The Ohio commission on fatherhood shall elect a chairperson from among its members in every odd-numbered year. (B) The governor shall appoint an individual to serve as the commission's executive director. The executive director shall serve at the pleasure of the governor and shall report to the director of children and youth or the director's designee. The governor shall fix the executive director's salary on the basis of the executive director's experience and the executive director's responsibilities and duties. The executive director shall be in the unclassified civil service. The department of children and youth shall provide staff and other support services as necessary for the commission to fulfill its duties. (C) The commission may accept gifts, grants, donations, contributions, benefits, and other funds from any public agency or private source to carry out any or all of the commission's duties. The funds shall be deposited into the Ohio commission on fatherhood fund, which is hereby created in the state treasury. All gifts, grants, donations, contributions, benefits, and other funds received by the commission pursuant to this division shall be used solely to support the operations of the commission. Last updated October 3, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5124.46 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5124 / § 5124.46
§ 5124.46. Adjudications under the administrative procedure act
Status: in_force

September 30, 2021 House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly All of the following are subject to an adjudication conducted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code: (A) Any audit disallowance that the department of developmental disabilities makes as the result of an audit under section 5124.109 of the Revised Code; (B) Any medicaid payment deemed an overpayment under section 5124.523 of the Revised Code; (C) Any penalty the department imposes under section 5124.42 of the Revised Code or section 5124.523 of the Revised Code. Last updated August 12, 2021 at 2:38 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.39 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.39
§ 5119.39. Certification or accreditation of recovery housing residences
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) The department of behavioral health shall monitor the operation of recovery housing in this state by doing either of the following: (1) Certifying recovery housing residences through a process established by the department; (2) Accepting accreditation, or its equivalent for recovery housing, from one or more of the following: (a) The Ohio affiliate of the national alliance for recovery residences; (b) Oxford house, inc.; (c) Any other organization that is designated by the department for purposes of this section. (B) If the department certifies recovery housing residences, the department shall, in rules adopted under section 5119.397 of the Revised Code, establish requirements for initial certification and renewal certification, as well as grounds and procedures for disciplinary action against operators of recovery housing residences. Last updated August 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5153.126 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5153 / § 5153.126
§ 5153.126. Determining supervisor's training needs
Status: in_force

September 21, 2006 Senate Bill 238 - 126th General Assembly The executive director of each public children services agency or a person designated by the executive director shall work with each PCSA caseworker supervisor employed by the agency to determine the supervisor's training needs in accordance with, and ensure the supervisor's compliance with, the training requirements of section 5153.123 of the Revised Code. Once every two years, each PCSA caseworker supervisor and the executive director of the public children services agency employing the supervisor, or the person designated by the executive director, shall jointly complete the supervisor's individual training needs assessment created under section 5103.37 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5161.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5161 / § 5161.06
§ 5161.06. CHIP part I
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The component of the children's health insurance program authorized by section 5161.05 of the Revised Code shall be known as CHIP part I.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.033 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.033
§ 5126.033. Direct services contract requirements
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly (A) A county board of developmental disabilities shall not enter into a direct services contract unless the contract is limited either to the actual amount of the expenses or to a reasonable and allowable amount projected by the board. (B) A county board shall not enter into a direct services contract that would result in payment to a board member, former board member, employee, former employee, or member of the immediate family of a board member, former board member, employee, or former employee if the person who would receive services under the contract stands to receive any preferential treatment or any unfair advantage over other eligible persons. (C) A county board shall not enter into a direct services contract for services provided in accordance with section 5126.11 or sections 5126.40 to 5126.46 of the Revised Code under which an individual, agency, or other entity will employ an individual who is also an employee of that county board unless all of the following conditions are met: (1) The employee is not in a capacity to influence the award of the contract. (2) The employee has not attempted in any manner to secure the contract on behalf of the individual, agency, or other entity. (3) The employee is not employed in management level two or three according to rules adopted by the director of developmental disabilities and does not provide service and support administration. (4) The employee is not employed by the board during the period when the contract is developed as an administrator or supervisor responsible for approving or supervising services to be provided under the contract and agrees not to take such a position while the contract is in effect, regardless of whether the position is related to the services provided under the contract. (5) The employee has not taken any actions that create the need for the services to be provided under the contract. (6) The individual, agency, or other entity seeks the services of the employee because of the employee's expertise and familiarity with the care and condition of one or more eligible persons and other individuals with such expertise and familiarity are unavailable, or an eligible person has requested to have the services provided by that employee. The superintendent of the county board shall notify the employee and the individual, agency, or other entity that seeks the employee's services of the ethics council's determination under section 5126.032 of the Revised Code regarding the contract. The council's determination shall be binding on all parties. The employee who is the subject of the contract shall inform the superintendent of the county board of any employment the employee has outside the county board that is with any individual, agency, or other entity that has a contract with the county board.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.07
§ 5120.07. Ex-offender reentry coalition
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) There is hereby created the ex-offender reentry coalition consisting of the following twenty-one members or their designees: (1) The director of rehabilitation and correction; (2) The director of aging; (3) The director of mental health and addiction services; (4) The director of development; (5) The director of education and workforce; (6) The director of health; (7) The director of job and family services; (8) The director of developmental disabilities; (9) The director of public safety; (10) The director of youth services; (11) The chancellor of higher education; (12) A representative or member of the governor's staff; (13) The executive director of the opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency; (14) The director of the department of commerce; (15) The executive director of a health care licensing board created under Title XLVII of the Revised Code, as appointed by the chairperson of the coalition; (16) The director of veterans services; (17) An ex-offender appointed by the director of rehabilitation and correction; (18) Two members of the house of representatives appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, one of whom shall be the chairperson of the standing committee in the house of representatives that primarily addresses criminal justice matters and the other of whom shall be a member of the minority party in the house of representatives; (19) Two members of the senate appointed by the president of the senate, one of whom shall be the chairperson of the standing committee in the senate that primarily addresses criminal justice matters and the other of whom shall be a member of the minority party in the senate. (B) The members of the coalition shall serve without compensation. The director of rehabilitation and correction or the director's designee shall be the chairperson of the coalition. (C) In consultation with persons interested and involved in the reentry of ex-offenders into the community, the members of the coalition shall meet periodically for the purpose of formulating, discussing, and developing policies and practices that facilitate the expansion and improvement of reentry services provided by state and local agencies in the collaborative efforts of those agencies to reintegrate offenders into society while simultaneously maintaining public safety and reducing recidivism in this state. Not later than one year after April 7, 2009, and on or before the same date of each year thereafter, the coalition shall submit to the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate a report, including recommendations for legislative action, the activities of the coalition, and the barriers affecting the successful reentry of ex-offenders into the community. The report shall analyze the effects of those barriers on ex-offenders and on their children and other family members in various areas, including but not limited to, the following: (1) Admission to public and other housing; (2) Child support obligations and procedures; (3) Parental incarceration and family reunification; (4) Social security benefits, veterans' benefits, food stamps, and other forms of public assistance; (5) Employment; (6) Education programs and financial assistance; (7) Substance abuse and sex offender treatment programs and financial assistance and mental health services and financial assistance; (8) Civic and political participation; (9) Other collateral consequences under the Revised Code or the Ohio administrative code law that may result from a criminal conviction. (D)(1) The report shall also include the following information: (a) Identification of state appropriations for reentry programs; (b) Identification of other funding sources for reentry programs that are not funded by the state. (2) The coalition shall gather information about reentry programs in a repository maintained and made available by the coalition. Where available, the information shall include the following: (a) The amount of funding received; (b) The number of program participants; (c) The composition of the program, including program goals, methods for measuring success, and program success rate; (d) The type of post-program tracking that is utilized; (e) Information about employment rates and recidivism rates of ex-offenders. Last updated September 19, 2023 at 11:33 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5107.283 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5107 / § 5107.283
§ 5107.283. Incentives for meeting learnfare school attendance requirement
Status: in_force

July 1, 2000 House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly The county department of job and family services may provide an incentive established by the county department to the participating student or student's assistance group, whichever is appropriate, if the parent or, if the student is eighteen or nineteen years of age, the student, consents to the release of the student's school attendance records and the student complies with the learnfare school attendance requirement. An incentive may be a cash bonus or other form of incentive. The county department shall not receive any additional state or federal funds to pay for incentives.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.08
§ 5120.08. Bonds for employees
Status: in_force

July 12, 1972 House Bill 494 - 109th General Assembly The department of rehabilitation and correction shall require any of its employees and each officer and employee of every institution under its control who may be charged with custody or control of any money or property belonging to the state or who is required to give bond, to give a surety company bond, properly conditioned, in a sum to be fixed by the department which when approved by the department, shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state. The cost of such bonds, when approved by the department, shall be paid from funds available for the department. The bonds required or authorized by this section may, in the discretion of the director of rehabilitation and correction, be individual, schedule, or blanket bonds.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5161.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5161 / § 5161.15
§ 5161.15. Request for waiver to pay costs for certain individuals
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly In accordance with federal law governing the children's health insurance program, the medicaid director may submit a request for a federal waiver to the United States secretary of health and human services to pay, except as provided in section 5161.22 of the Revised Code, for part or all of the cost of health benefits coverage for individuals under nineteen years of age with family incomes above two hundred per cent of the federal poverty line but not exceeding three hundred per cent of the federal poverty line. If the director submits the waiver request, the director shall stipulate in the request that the payments will be available only while federal financial participation is available for them.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5163.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5163 / § 5163.10
§ 5163.10. Implementation of the presumptive eligibility for pregnant women option
Status: in_force

April 6, 2017 Senate Bill 332 - 131st General Assembly (A) As used in this section: ( 1) "Presumptive eligibility for pregnant women option" means the option available under section 1920 of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1396r-1, to make ambulatory prenatal care available to pregnant women under the medicaid program during presumptive eligibility periods. ( 2) "Qualified provider" has the same meaning as in section 1920(b)(2) of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1396r-1(b)(2). (B) The medicaid director shall implement the presumptive eligibility for pregnant women option. Any entity that is eligible to be a qualified provider and requests to serve as a qualified provider may serve as a qualified provider for purposes of the presumptive eligibility for pregnant women option if the department of medicaid determines the entity is capable of making determinations of presumptive eligibility for pregnant women.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.6010 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.6010
§ 5103.6010. Residential infant care center operational requirements
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly A residential infant care center shall do the following: (A) If using medication to treat infants, hold a terminal distributor of dangerous drugs license issued by the state board of pharmacy under section 4729.54 of the Revised Code. (B) Comply, except as otherwise provided in this section and section 5103.6011 of the Revised Code, with all requirements under rule 5101:2-9-02 of the Administrative Code; (C) Develop a plan of safe care in accordance with the "Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016," Pub. L. No. 114-198, for an infant born substance exposed as follows: (1) Assist with the health and substance use disorder treatment needs of the infant and affected family or caregiver; (2) Develop and implement a program to monitor, support, and connect affected families or caregivers through the provision of and referral to appropriate services for the infant and affected family or caregiver. (D) Develop and implement a program for parents and caregivers that, either individually or in a group setting, teaches parenting skills, bonding, and caring for the infant's special needs. (E) Require both of the following: (1) Child-care staff, volunteers, and interns in positions responsible for the daily direct care or supervision of children to be at least eighteen years old and have a high school diploma or certificate of high school equivalence; (2) Volunteers and interns who are under twenty-one years of age to be supervised. (F) Request a criminal records check with respect to volunteers and interns in accordance with section 2151.86 of the Revised Code; (G) Employ registered nurses, patient care assistants, or licensed professional nurses to meet required child-to-staff ratios; (H) Require the center's peer supporter, family advocate, licensed social worker, licensed independent social worker, licensed professional counselor, or licensed professional clinical counselor to do the following: (1) Provide wraparound services to affected family and caregivers; (2) Coordinate and cooperate with any transferring hospital, public children services agency, and private child placing agency; (3) Refer affected families or caregivers to appropriate community agencies and services for support and aftercare; (4) Follow up with affected families and caregivers following the infant's discharge. (I)(1) Encourage employee-supervised dyad care and permit one of the infant's parents or caregivers to room-in with the infant for bonding and education; (2) Provide the following for dyad care and rooming-in: (a) A single bed and all necessary bed sheets, pillow cases, pillows, and blankets; (b) All meals and snacks, which shall be provided in a designated family kitchen area if the center has such an area; (c) A minimum of one private shower and toilet for the use of the parents or caregivers who are rooming-in. (3) Notify the parent or caregiver that the center's rules and policies shall be followed or rooming-in may be restricted or canceled. (J) Have one bathing room for every six infants that includes a minimum of one hip level bathtub with hot and cold water, one changing station, and a door with a full-length glass window for safety and observation; (K) Meet the child-to-staff ratio of at least one awake child-care staff on duty at all times for every five infants; (L) Use cribs and other infant sleep products that meet the United States consumer product safety commission's safety standards for safe sleep; (M) Follow the department of children and youth's safe sleep education program recommendations established under section 5180.16 of the Revised Code. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.59 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.59
§ 5103.59. Professional treatment staff training program
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly The department of children and youth shall work with private child placing agencies and private noncustodial agencies to establish a comprehensive, competency-based professional treatment staff training program for employees of private child placing agencies and private noncustodial agencies that meets the requirements of division (B)(1) of section 5103.58 of the Revised Code. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5122.46 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5122 / § 5122.46
§ 5122.46. History connection and state agencies to provide access to information
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly The Ohio history connection and each state agency shall, at the request of the department of behavioral health, provide the department access to records and information in the possession of the Ohio history connection or state agency for purposes of creating compilations. Last updated August 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.512 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.512
§ 5180.512. [Former R.C. 5101.854, amended and renumbered by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Kinship care navigator program - regional program duties
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly The program in each kinship care navigator region established under section 5180.511 of the Revised Code shall provide information and referral services and assistance in obtaining support services for kinship caregivers within its region. Last updated October 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5147.20 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5147 / § 5147.20
§ 5147.20. Resentence of prisoner sick or incapacitated for work
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly When a prisoner sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor under section 5147.17 of the Revised Code, becomes sick or incapacitated for work, or the board of county commissioners finds it impracticable to employ him, the prisoner shall be taken forthwith before the court or magistrate which imposed the sentence and he shall be resentenced to confinement in the jail or a workhouse for the unexpired portion of his sentence. If such prisoner becomes able to labor before completing his sentence, or if the board finds it practicable to employ him, he shall be liable to work, as provided in section 5147.18 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.96 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.96
§ 5164.96. Ground emergency medical transportation supplemental payment program
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "ground emergency medical transportation service provider" means a public emergency medical service organization as defined in section 4765.01 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) The medicaid director shall submit a medicaid state plan amendment to the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services seeking authorization to establish and administer a supplemental payment program to provide supplemental medicaid payments to eligible ground emergency medical transportation service providers. If approved, the medicaid director shall establish and administer the program. (2) To be eligible to receive payments under the supplemental payment program, a ground emergency medical transportation service provider must hold a valid medicaid provider agreement and provide emergency medical transportation services to medicaid recipients. (C) The medicaid director shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement this section. Last updated October 6, 2023 at 5:09 PM Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 5167.171 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5167 / § 5167.171
§ 5167.171. Uniform prior approval form for progesterone
Status: in_force

October 17, 2019 House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly Each medicaid managed care organization shall, if the organization requires practitioners to obtain prior approval before administering progesterone to the organization's enrollees who are pregnant, use a uniform prior approval form for progesterone that is not more than one page.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.51 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.51
§ 5119.51. Services fund for individuals with mental illness
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "supplemental services" has the same meaning as in section 5815.28 of the Revised Code. (B) There is hereby created in the state treasury the services fund for individuals with mental illness. On the death of the beneficiary of a trust created pursuant to section 5815.28 of the Revised Code, the portion of the remaining assets of the trust specified in the trust instrument shall be deposited to the credit of the fund. Money credited to the fund shall be used for individuals with mental illness. Supplemental services may be provided through the department or boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services. In accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the department of behavioral health may adopt any rules necessary to implement this section. Last updated August 8, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.45 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.45
§ 5101.45. Conference expenses
Status: in_force

January 1, 2004 House Bill 490 - 124th General Assembly The necessary expenses of such officers and employees of the state, county, and municipal boards, benevolent and correctional institutions, officials responsible for the administration of public funds used for the relief and maintenance of the poor, officials authorized to administer laws on community control sanctions, and members of the boards of county visitors as are invited by the department of job and family services to the conferences provided for in section 5101.44 of the Revised Code, shall be paid from any fund available for their respective offices, boards, and institutions, provided they first procure a certificate from the director of job and family services as evidence that they were invited to and were in attendance at the sessions of such conferences. As used in this section, "community control sanction" has the same meaning as in section 2929.01 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.471 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.471
§ 5164.471. Summary data regarding perinatal services
Status: in_force

April 6, 2017 Senate Bill 332 - 131st General Assembly Not less than once each year and in accordance with all state and federal laws governing the confidentiality of patient-identifying information, the department of medicaid shall make summary data regarding perinatal services available on request to local organizations concerned with infant mortality reduction initiatives and recipients of grants administered by the division of family and community health services in the department of health.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5122.47 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5122 / § 5122.47
§ 5122.47. Deposit of compilations with history connection and state library
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly The department of behavioral health shall deposit a copy of each compilation with the Ohio history connection and the state library as soon as a compilation is completed. The department shall not disclose any record or information used to create a compilation except as provided in sections 149.43 and 5122.31 of the Revised Code. Last updated August 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.518 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.518
§ 5165.518. Nursing facility operator identity
Status: in_force

October 24, 2024 Senate Bill 144 - 135th General Assembly (A) Each nursing facility shall ensure that the identity of the operator that holds the license to operate the facility issued under section 3721.02 of the Revised Code and the operator that holds the medicaid provider agreement for the facility issued under section 5165.07 of the Revised Code is the same person and is consistently identified for both purposes. (B) A nursing facility that has a difference in the identity of the operator that holds the license to operate the facility issued under section 3721.02 of the Revised Code and the operator holding the medicaid provider agreement for the facility issued under section 5165.07 of the Revised Code shall, not later than one year after the effective date of this section , take action to ensure that the same person is the operator for both purposes and is consistently identified for both purposes. An action taken in accordance with this division shall not be considered a change of operator as defined in section 3721.01 or 5165.01 of the Revised Code. Last updated September 20, 2024 at 9:48 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5121.47 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5121 / § 5121.47
§ 5121.47. Limitation on charges to liable relatives for multiple patients
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly Irrespective of the number of patients for which the department of mental health and addiction services may charge a liable relative under sections 5121.33 and 5121.35 of the Revised Code, the department shall not charge a liable relative or group of liable relatives who are members of the same family unit for the support of more than one patient during the same period of time. Last updated October 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.041 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.041
§ 5101.041. Data matching agreements
Status: in_force

September 30, 2021 House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly (A) The director of job and family services shall enter into the following data matching agreements: (1) An agreement with the department of rehabilitation and correction, under which the director of rehabilitation and correction is required to provide the director of job and family services with a searchable list, updated weekly, identifying all persons committed to the several institutions governed by the department of rehabilitation and correction. (2) Agreements with the director of the state lottery commission and executive director of the Ohio casino control commission, under which the director and executive director provide the director of job and family services with a searchable list identifying all individuals with substantial lottery or gambling winnings. The director of job and family services shall check the list at least monthly to determine if the information affects any public assistance recipient's eligibility. (3) An agreement with the director of health, under which the director of health is required to provide the director of job and family services with a searchable list identifying new and updated vital statistics records, including death records. The director of job and family services shall check the list at least monthly for vital statistics records involving public assistance recipients that may affect a recipient's eligibility. (B) The agreements required by division (A) of this section shall describe the manner in which each agency is to report the information to the department of job and family services. Last updated September 9, 2021 at 2:41 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.026 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.026
§ 5126.026. Reappointment of members of board
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly Except as otherwise provided in this section and section 5126.0218 of the Revised Code, a member of a county board of developmental disabilities may be reappointed to the county board. Prior to making a reappointment, the appointing authority shall ascertain, through written communication with the board, that the member being considered for reappointment meets the requirements of sections 5126.022 and 5126.0218 of the Revised Code. A member who has served during each of three consecutive terms shall not be reappointed for a subsequent term until two years after ceasing to be a member of the county board, except that a member who has served for ten years or less within three consecutive terms may be reappointed for a subsequent term before becoming ineligible for reappointment for two years. If, however, a county board experiences extenuating circumstances that would severely restrict the board from being able to fill a pending vacancy of a board member who will become ineligible for service on the board after serving three consecutive terms, the appointing authority may request a waiver from the director of developmental disabilities to allow that member to serve an additional four-year term subsequent to serving three consecutive four-year terms. The director shall determine if the extenuating circumstances associated with the board warrant the granting of such a waiver.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.754 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.754
§ 5164.754. Agreement for multiple-state drug purchasing program
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "dangerous drug" and "manufacturer of dangerous drugs" have the same meaning as in section 4729.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The medicaid director may enter into or administer an agreement or cooperative arrangement with other states to create or join a multiple-state prescription drug purchasing program for the purpose of negotiating with manufacturers of dangerous drugs to receive discounts or rebates for dangerous drugs covered by the medicaid program.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.49 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.49
§ 5120.49. Standards and guidelines for termination of parole board's control over certain sexually violent offenders
Status: in_force

January 1, 2008 Senate Bill 10 - 127th General Assembly The department of rehabilitation and correction, by rule adopted under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall prescribe standards and guidelines to be used by the parole board in determining, pursuant to section 2971.04 of the Revised Code, whether it should terminate its control over an offender's service of a prison term imposed upon the offender under division (A)(3), (B)(1)(a), (b), or (c), (B)(2)(a), (b), or (c), or (B)(3)(a), (b), (c), or (d) of section 2971.03 of the Revised Code. The rules shall include provisions that specify that the parole board may not terminate its control over an offender's service of a prison term imposed upon the offender under any of the specified divisions until after the offender has served the minimum term imposed as part of that prison term and until the parole board has determined that the offender does not represent a substantial risk of physical harm to others.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.13
§ 5103.13. Children's crisis care facilities requirements and limitations
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section and section 5103.131 of the Revised Code: (1)(a) "Children's crisis care facility" means a facility that has as its primary purpose the provision of residential and other care to either or both of the following: (i) One or more preteens voluntarily placed in the facility by the preteen's parent or other caretaker who is facing a crisis that causes the parent or other caretaker to seek temporary care for the preteen and referral for support services; (ii) One or more preteens placed in the facility by a public children services agency or private child placing agency that has legal custody or permanent custody of the preteen and determines that an emergency situation exists necessitating the preteen's placement in the facility rather than an institution certified under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code or elsewhere. (b) "Children's crisis care facility" does not include any of the following: (i) 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; (ii) Any individual who provides care for only a single-family group, placed there by their parents or other relative having custody; (iii) Any residential infant care center, as an entity deemed a residential infant care center under section 5103.602 of the Revised Code shall no longer be licensed as a children's crisis care center. (2) "Legal custody" and "permanent custody" have the same meanings as in section 2151.011 of the Revised Code. (3) "Pediatric medical service" means medical service required to be provided by, or with oversight from, a licensed medical professional, including prescribing medication, administering rectal or intravenous medication, and outpatient laboratory service, and providing for sick visits, on-site well child exams, and children assisted by medical technology. (4) "Preteen" means an individual under thirteen years of age. (B) No person shall operate a children's crisis care facility or hold a children's crisis care facility out as a certified children's crisis care facility unless there is a valid children's crisis care facility certificate issued under this section for the facility. (C)(1) A person seeking to operate a children's crisis care facility shall apply to the director of children and youth to obtain a certificate for the facility. (2)(a) The director shall certify the person's children's crisis care facility if the facility meets all of the certification standards established in rules adopted under division (H) of this section and the person complies with all of the rules governing the certification of children's crisis care facilities adopted under that division. The issuance of a children's crisis care facility certificate does not exempt the facility from a requirement to obtain another certificate or license mandated by law. (b) The director shall not issue a waiver to a person for compliance with any of the requirements imposed under this section or any of the rules adopted under division (H) of this section. (D) No certified children's crisis care facility shall do any of the following: (1) Provide residential care to a preteen for more than one hundred twenty days in a calendar year; (2) Provide residential care to a preteen for more than ninety consecutive days, which shall include the aggregate of days spent at different facility locations if a preteen is transferred in accordance with division (E)(4) of this section; (3) Provide residential care to a preteen for more than fourteen consecutive days if a public children services agency or private child placing agency placed the preteen in the facility; (4) Fail to comply with section 2151.86 of the Revised Code. (E) A certified children's crisis care facility shall do the following: (1) Employ a licensed social worker, a licensed independent social worker, a licensed professional counselor, or a licensed professional clinical counselor; (2) Require, if pediatric medical service is provided at the facility, the following for the provision of pediatric medical service: (a) Medical service to be provided by a qualified, licensed, and insured medical professional; (b) All staff, volunteers, and interns to comply with the privacy requirements of the "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996," 104 Pub. L. No. 191, 110 Stat. 2021, 42 U.S.C. 1320d et seq., as amended; (c) If a preteen is admitted by the preteen's parent or caretaker and if the preteen requires ongoing medical care following discharge from the facility, a medical professional or licensed social worker to make the medical professional's or social worker's best effort to ensure the parent or caretaker is competent to provide the ongoing care; (d) The facility to have a dedicated and private enclosed space for the purpose of a medical professional to receive and treat patients and that contains a sink or tub, medical exam table, medical record system, and pediatric medical equipment. (3) Require, if a preteen is admitted by the preteen's parent or caretaker, the facility's licensed social worker, licensed independent social worker, licensed professional counselor, or licensed professional clinical counselor to make their best efforts to ensure the parent or caretaker is competent in the basic parenting skills needed to care for the preteen; (4) Require only a transfer summary for the transfer of a preteen from one certified children's crisis care facility location to another, if the facility has more than one location; (5) Require the facility to have a dedicated and private enclosed space for the purpose of completing required admission paperwork and medical forms; (6) Require the facility to develop a visitation plan for the preteen's parent or caretaker with the preteen while residential care is being provided, which shall occur during awake hours and not include overnight visits, for the parent or caretaker with the preteen. (F) A certified children's crisis care facility may do the following: (1) Count administrative staff, interns, and volunteers toward child staff ratios required under paragraph (G) of rule 5101:2-9-36 of the Administrative Code for up to three hours if the administrative staff, interns, or volunteers meet the following requirements: (a) Completed training in the mission of the children's crisis care facility; (b) Completed training pursuant to rule 5101:2-9-03 of the Administrative Code; (c) Are supervised by facility staff. (2) Use contracted transportation providers, on whom criminal records checks have been conducted in accordance with section 2151.86 of the Revised Code, to transport preteens, if such use is necessary for the facility to maintain required child staff ratios. (G) The director of children and youth may suspend or revoke a children's crisis care facility's certificate pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code if the facility violates or fails to comply with any of the requirements under this section or ceases to meet any of the certification standards established in rules adopted under division (H) of this section or the facility's operator ceases to comply with any of the rules governing the certification of children's crisis care facilities adopted under that division. (H) The director of children and youth shall adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code for the certification of children's crisis care facilities. The rules shall specify that a certificate shall not be issued to an applicant if the conditions at the children's crisis care facility would jeopardize the health or safety of the preteens placed in the facility. Last updated October 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5122.20 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5122 / § 5122.20
§ 5122.20. Transfers
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly The director of behavioral health or the director's designee may transfer, or authorize the transfer of, an involuntary patient, or a consenting voluntary patient hospitalized pursuant to section 5122.02 or sections 5122.11 to 5122.15 of the Revised Code, from one public hospital to another, or to a hospital, community mental health services provider, or other facility offering treatment or other services for mental illness, if the medical director of the department of behavioral health determines that it would be consistent with the medical needs of the patient to do so. If such a transfer is made to a private facility, the transfer shall be conditioned upon the consent of the facility. Before an involuntary patient may be transferred to a more restrictive setting, the chief clinical officer shall file a motion with the court requesting the court to amend its order of placement issued under section 5122.15 of the Revised Code. At the patient's request, the court shall hold a hearing on the motion at which the patient has the same rights as at a full hearing under section 5122.15 of the Revised Code. The hearing shall be held within ten days after the date on which the respondent was transferred to the more restrictive setting or on which the motion was filed, whichever is earlier. On the motion of the respondent, the respondent's counsel, or the chief clinical officer, or on its own motion, and for good cause shown, the court may order a continuance of the hearing for up to ten days. Whenever an involuntary patient is transferred, written notice of the transfer shall be given to the patient's legal guardian, parents, spouse, and counsel, or, if none is known, to the patient's nearest known relative or friend. If the patient is a minor, the department, before making such a transfer, shall make a minute of the order for the transfer and the reason for it upon its record and shall send a certified copy at least seven days prior to the transfer to the person shown by its record to have had the care or custody of the minor immediately prior to the minor's commitment. Whenever a consenting voluntary patient is transferred, the notification shall be given only at the patient's request. The chief clinical officer shall advise a voluntary patient who is being transferred that the patient may decide if the notification shall be given. In all such transfers, due consideration shall be given to the wishes of the patient, and the relationship of the patient to the patient's family, legal guardian, or friends, so as to maintain the relationship and encourage visits beneficial to the patient. When a voluntary patient whose medical or psychological needs are found by the chief clinical officer to warrant a transfer refuses to be transferred to an alternate facility, the chief clinical officer may file an affidavit for a hearing under section 5122.11 of the Revised Code. Last updated August 14, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.03
§ 5120.03. Designation of use of institutions
Status: in_force

March 29, 2007 House Bill 699 - 126th General Assembly (A) Subject to division (C) of this section, the director of rehabilitation and correction may change the purpose for which any institution or place under the control of the department of rehabilitation and correction is being used. The director may designate a new or another use for such institution, if the change of use and new designation has for its objective, improvement in the classification, segregation, care, education, cure, or rehabilitation of persons subject to the control of the department. (B) The director of rehabilitation and correction, by executive order, issued on or before December 31, 1988, shall eliminate the distinction between penal institutions and reformatory institutions. Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code or the Administrative Code to the contrary, upon the issuance of the executive order, any distinction made between the types of prisoners sentenced to or otherwise assigned to the institutions under the control of the department shall be discontinued. (C) The director shall contract under section 9.06 of the Revised Code for the private operation and management of not less than two facilities under the control of the department, unless the contractor managing and operating a facility is not in substantial compliance with the material terms and conditions of its contract and no other person or entity is willing and able to satisfy the obligations of the contract. All inmates assigned to a facility operated and managed by a private contractor remain inmates in the care and custody of the department. The statutes, rules, and policies of the department may apply to the private contractor and any inmate assigned to a facility operated and managed by a private contractor as agreed to in the contract entered into under section 9.06 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.40 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.40
§ 5119.40. Determination of services needed
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "individual with a mental illness" and "specialized services" have the same meanings as in section 5165.03 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) Except as provided in division (B)(2) of this section and rules adopted under division (E)(3) of this section, for purposes of section 5165.03 of the Revised Code, the department of behavioral health shall determine in accordance with the "Social Security Act," section 1919(e)(7), 42 U.S.C. 1396r(e)(7), and regulations adopted under section 1919(f)(8)(A) of that act, 42 U.S.C. 1396r(f)(8)(A), whether, because of the individual's physical and mental condition, an individual with a mental illness seeking admission to a nursing facility requires the level of services provided by a nursing facility and, if the individual requires that level of services, whether the individual requires specialized services for mental illness. The determination required by this division shall be based on an independent physical and mental evaluation performed by a person or entity other than the department. (2) Except as provided in division (B)(3) of this section, a determination under division (B)(1) of this section is not required for any of the following: (a) An individual seeking readmission to a nursing facility after having been transferred from a nursing facility to a hospital for care; (b) An individual who meets all of the following conditions: (i) The individual is admitted to the nursing facility directly from a hospital after receiving inpatient care at the hospital; (ii) The individual requires nursing facility services for the condition for which care in the hospital was received; (iii) The individual's attending physician has certified, before admission to the nursing facility, that the individual is likely to require less than thirty days of nursing facility services. (c) An individual transferred from one nursing facility to another nursing facility, with or without an intervening hospital stay. (3) A determination under division (B)(1) of this section is required for an individual described in division (B)(2)(a) or (b) of this section if the hospital from which the individual is transferred or directly admitted to a nursing facility is either of the following: (a) A hospital that the department maintains, operates, manages, and governs under section 5119.14 of the Revised Code for the care and treatment of persons with mental illnesses; (b) A free-standing hospital, or unit of a hospital, licensed by the department under section 5119.33 of the Revised Code. (C) Except as provided in rules adopted under division (E)(3) of this section, the department of behavioral health shall review and determine for each resident of a nursing facility who has a mental illness, whether the resident, because of the resident's physical and mental condition, requires the level of services provided by a nursing facility and whether the resident requires specialized services for mental illness. The review and determination shall be conducted in accordance with section 1919(e)(7) of the "Social Security Act" and the regulations adopted under section 1919(f)(8)(A) of the act and based on an independent physical and mental evaluation performed by a person or entity other than the department. The review and determination shall be completed promptly after a nursing facility has notified the department that there has been a significant change in the resident's mental or physical condition. (D)(1) In the case of a nursing facility resident who has continuously resided in a nursing facility for at least thirty months before the date of a review and determination under division (C) of this section, if the resident is determined not to require the level of services provided by a nursing facility, but is determined to require specialized services for mental illness, the department, in consultation with the resident's family or legal representative and care givers, shall do all of the following: (a) Inform the resident of the institutional and noninstitutional alternatives covered under the state plan for medical assistance; (b) Offer the resident the choice of remaining in the nursing facility or receiving covered services in an alternative institutional or noninstitutional setting; (c) Clarify the effect on eligibility for services under the state plan for medical assistance if the resident chooses to leave the facility, including its effect on readmission to the facility; (d) Provide for or arrange for the provision of specialized services for the resident's mental illness in the setting chosen by the resident. (2) In the case of a nursing facility resident who has continuously resided in a nursing facility for less than thirty months before the date of the review and determination under division (C) of this section, if the resident is determined not to require the level of services provided by a nursing facility, but is determined to require specialized services for mental illness, or if the resident is determined to require neither the level of services provided by a nursing facility nor specialized services for mental illness, the department shall act in accordance with its alternative disposition plan approved by the United States department of health and human services under section 1919(e)(7)(E) of the "Social Security Act." (3) In the case of an individual who is determined under division (B) or (C) of this section to require both the level of services provided by a nursing facility and specialized services for mental illness, the department of behavioral health shall provide or arrange for the provision of the specialized services needed by the individual or resident while residing in a nursing facility. (E) The department of behavioral health shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that do all of the following: (1) Establish criteria to be used in making the determinations required by divisions (B) and (C) of this section. The criteria shall not exceed the criteria established by regulations adopted by the United States department of health and human services under section 1919(f)(8)(A) of the "Social Security Act." (2) Specify information to be provided by the individual or nursing facility resident being assessed; (3) Specify any circumstances, in addition to circumstances listed in division (B) of this section, under which determinations under divisions (B) and (C) of this section are not required to be made. Last updated August 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.0220 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.0220
§ 5126.0220. Superintendent of county board - powers and duties
Status: in_force

September 10, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly (A) The superintendent of the county board of developmental disabilities shall do all of the following: (1) Administer the work of the board, subject to the board's rules; (2) Recommend to the board the changes necessary to increase the effectiveness of the programs and services offered pursuant to Chapters 3323. and 5126. of the Revised Code; (3) Employ persons for all positions authorized by the board, approve contracts of employment for management employees that are for a term of one year or less, and approve personnel actions that involve employees in the classified civil service as may be necessary for the work of the board; (4) Approve compensation for employees within the limits set by the salary schedule and budget set by the board, and ensure that all employees and consultants are properly reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of official duties; (5) Provide consultation to public agencies as defined in division (C) of section 102.01 of the Revised Code, including other county boards of developmental disabilities, and to individuals, agencies, or organizations providing services supported by the board. (B) The superintendent may authorize the payment of board obligations by the county auditor.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.044 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.044
§ 5123.044. Determination of violation of rights; assistance to individuals
Status: in_force

October 17, 2019 House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly The department of developmental disabilities shall determine whether county boards of developmental disabilities violate the rights that individuals with developmental disabilities have under section 5126.046 of the Revised Code to obtain home and community-based services, ICF/IID services, nonmedicaid residential services, or nonmedicaid supported living from qualified and willing providers. The department shall provide assistance to an individual with a developmental disability who requests assistance with the individual's rights under that section if the department is notified of a county board's alleged violation of the individual's rights under that section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.703 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.703
§ 5180.703. [Former R.C. 5101.343, renumbered by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Ohio commission on fatherhood - exempt from sunset review
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly Sections 101.82 to 101.87 of the Revised Code do not apply to the Ohio commission on fatherhood. Last updated October 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.01
§ 5126.01. County boards of developmental disabilities definitions
Status: in_force

October 17, 2019 House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly As used in this chapter: (A) As used in this division, "adult" means an individual who is eighteen years of age or over and not enrolled in a program or service under Chapter 3323. of the Revised Code and an individual sixteen or seventeen years of age who is eligible for adult services under rules adopted by the director of developmental disabilities pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. (1) "Adult services" means services provided to an adult outside the home, except when they are provided within the home according to an individual's assessed needs and identified in an individual service plan, that support learning and assistance in the area of self-care, sensory and motor development, socialization, daily living skills, communication, community living, social skills, or vocational skills. (2) "Adult services" includes all of the following: (a) Adult day habilitation services; (b) Employment services; (c) Educational experiences and training obtained through entities and activities that are not expressly intended for individuals with developmental disabilities, including trade schools, vocational or technical schools, adult education, job exploration and sampling, unpaid work experience in the community, volunteer activities, and spectator sports. (B)(1) "Adult day habilitation services" means adult services that do the following: (a) Provide access to and participation in typical activities and functions of community life that are desired and chosen by the general population, including such activities and functions as opportunities to experience and participate in community exploration, companionship with friends and peers, leisure activities, hobbies, maintaining family contacts, community events, and activities where individuals without disabilities are involved; (b) Provide supports or a combination of training and supports that afford an individual a wide variety of opportunities to facilitate and build relationships and social supports in the community. (2) "Adult day habilitation services" includes all of the following: (a) Personal care services needed to ensure an individual's ability to experience and participate in vocational services, educational services, community activities, and any other adult day habilitation services; (b) Skilled services provided while receiving adult day habilitation services, including such skilled services as behavior management intervention, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, physical therapy, and nursing services; (c) Training and education in self-determination designed to help the individual do one or more of the following: develop self-advocacy skills, exercise the individual's civil rights, acquire skills that enable the individual to exercise control and responsibility over the services received, and acquire skills that enable the individual to become more independent, integrated, or productive in the community; (d) Recreational and leisure activities identified in the individual's service plan as therapeutic in nature or assistive in developing or maintaining social supports; (e) Transportation necessary to access adult day habilitation services; (f) Habilitation management, as described in section 5126.14 of the Revised Code. (3) "Adult day habilitation services" does not include activities that are components of the provision of residential services, family support services, or supported living services. (C) "Appointing authority" means the following: (1) In the case of a member of a county board of developmental disabilities appointed by, or to be appointed by, a board of county commissioners, the board of county commissioners; (2) In the case of a member of a county board appointed by, or to be appointed by, a senior probate judge, the senior probate judge. (D) "Community employment," "competitive employment," and "integrated setting" have the same meanings as in section 5123.022 of the Revised Code. (E) "Supported employment services" means vocational assessment, job training and coaching, job development and placement, worksite accessibility, and other services related to employment outside a sheltered workshop. "Supported employment services" includes both of the following: (1) Job training resulting in the attainment of community employment, supported work in a typical work environment, or self-employment; (2) Support for ongoing community employment, supported work at community-based sites, or self-employment. (F) "Developmental disability" means a severe, chronic disability that is characterized by all of the following: (1) It is attributable to a mental or physical impairment or a combination of mental and physical impairments, other than a mental or physical impairment solely caused by mental illness as defined in division (A) of section 5122.01 of the Revised Code; (2) It is manifested before age twenty-two; (3) It is likely to continue indefinitely; (4) It results in one of the following: (a) In the case of a person under age three, at least one developmental delay, as defined in rules adopted under section 5123.011 of the Revised Code, or a diagnosed physical or mental condition that has a high probability of resulting in a developmental delay, as defined in those rules; (b) In the case of a person at least age three but under age six, at least two developmental delays, as defined in rules adopted under section 5123.011 of the Revised Code; (c) In the case of a person age six or older, a substantial functional limitation in at least three of the following areas of major life activity, as appropriate for the person's age: self-care, receptive and expressive language, learning, mobility, self-direction, capacity for independent living, and, if the person is at least age sixteen, capacity for economic self-sufficiency. (5) It causes the person to need a combination and sequence of special, interdisciplinary, or other type of care, treatment, or provision of services for an extended period of time that is individually planned and coordinated for the person. "Developmental disability" includes intellectual disability. (G) "Early childhood services" means a planned program of habilitation designed to meet the needs of individuals with developmental disabilities who have not attained compulsory school age. (H) "Employment services" means prevocational services or supported employment services. (I)(1) "Environmental modifications" means the physical adaptations to an individual's home, specified in the individual's service plan, that are necessary to ensure the individual's health, safety, and welfare or that enable the individual to function with greater independence in the home, and without which the individual would require institutionalization. (2) "Environmental modifications" includes such adaptations as installation of ramps and grab-bars, widening of doorways, modification of bathroom facilities, and installation of specialized electric and plumbing systems necessary to accommodate the individual's medical equipment and supplies. (3) "Environmental modifications" does not include physical adaptations or improvements to the home that are of general utility or not of direct medical or remedial benefit to the individual, including such adaptations or improvements as carpeting, roof repair, and central air conditioning. (J) "Family support services" means the services provided under a family support services program operated under section 5126.11 of the Revised Code. (K) "Habilitation" means the process by which the staff of the facility or agency assists an individual with a developmental disability in acquiring and maintaining those life skills that enable the individual to cope more effectively with the demands of the individual's own person and environment, and in raising the level of the individual's personal, physical, mental, social, and vocational efficiency. Habilitation includes, but is not limited to, programs of formal, structured education and training. (L) "Home and community-based services" has the same meaning as in section 5123.01 of the Revised Code. (M) "ICF/IID" and "ICF/IID services" have the same meanings as in section 5124.01 of the Revised Code. (N) "Immediate family" means parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, spouses, sons, daughters, aunts, uncles, mothers-in-law, fathers-in-law, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, sons-in-law, and daughters-in-law. (O) "Intellectual disability" means a mental impairment manifested during the developmental period characterized by significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficiencies in the effectiveness or degree with which an individual meets the standards of personal independence and social responsibility expected of the individual's age and cultural group. (P) "Medicaid case management services" means case management services provided to an individual with a developmental disability that the state medicaid plan requires. (Q) "Prevocational services" means services that provide learning and work experiences, including volunteer work experiences, from which an individual can develop general strengths and skills that are not specific to a particular task or job but contribute to employability in community employment, supported work at community-based sites, or self-employment. (R) "Residential services" means services to individuals with developmental disabilities to provide housing, food, clothing, habilitation, staff support, and related support services necessary for the health, safety, and welfare of the individuals and the advancement of their quality of life. "Residential services" includes program management, as described in section 5126.14 of the Revised Code. (S) "Resources" means available capital and other assets, including moneys received from the federal, state, and local governments, private grants, and donations; appropriately qualified personnel; and appropriate capital facilities and equipment. (T) "Senior probate judge" means the current probate judge of a county who has served as probate judge of that county longer than any of the other current probate judges of that county. If a county has only one probate judge, "senior probate judge" means that probate judge. (U) "Service and support administration" means the duties performed by a service and support administrator pursuant to section 5126.15 of the Revised Code. (V)(1) "Specialized medical, adaptive, and assistive equipment, supplies, and supports" means equipment, supplies, and supports that enable an individual to increase the ability to perform activities of daily living or to perceive, control, or communicate within the environment. (2) "Specialized medical, adaptive, and assistive equipment, supplies, and supports" includes the following: (a) Eating utensils, adaptive feeding dishes, plate guards, mylatex straps, hand splints, reaches, feeder seats, adjustable pointer sticks, interpreter services, telecommunication devices for the deaf, computerized communications boards, other communication devices, support animals, veterinary care for support animals, adaptive beds, supine boards, prone boards, wedges, sand bags, sidelayers, bolsters, adaptive electrical switches, hand-held shower heads, air conditioners, humidifiers, emergency response systems, folding shopping carts, vehicle lifts, vehicle hand controls, other adaptations of vehicles for accessibility, and repair of the equipment received. (b) Nondisposable items not covered by medicaid that are intended to assist an individual in activities of daily living or instrumental activities of daily living. (W) "Supportive home services" means a range of services to families of individuals with developmental disabilities to develop and maintain increased acceptance and understanding of such persons, increased ability of family members to teach the person, better coordination between school and home, skills in performing specific therapeutic and management techniques, and ability to cope with specific situations. (X)(1) "Supported living" means services provided for as long as twenty-four hours a day to an individual with a developmental disability through any public or private resources, including moneys from the individual, that enhance the individual's reputation in community life and advance the individual's quality of life by doing the following: (a) Providing the support necessary to enable an individual to live in a residence of the individual's choice, with any number of individuals who are not disabled, or with not more than three individuals with developmental disabilities unless the individuals are related by blood or marriage; (b) Encouraging the individual's participation in the community; (c) Promoting the individual's rights and autonomy; (d) Assisting the individual in acquiring, retaining, and improving the skills and competence necessary to live successfully in the individual's residence. (2) "Supported living" includes the provision of all of the following: (a) Housing, food, clothing, habilitation, staff support, professional services, and any related support services necessary to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of the individual receiving the services; (b) A combination of lifelong or extended-duration supervision, training, and other services essential to daily living, including assessment and evaluation and assistance with the cost of training materials, transportation, fees, and supplies; (c) Personal care services and homemaker services; (d) Household maintenance that does not include modifications to the physical structure of the residence; (e) Respite care services; (f) Program management, as described in section 5126.14 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.0419 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.0419
§ 5123.0419. Interagency workgroup on autism
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) The director of developmental disabilities shall establish an interagency workgroup on autism. The purpose of the workgroup shall be to improve the coordination of the state's efforts to address the service needs of individuals with autism spectrum disorders and the families of those individuals. In fulfilling this purpose, the director may enter into interagency agreements with the government entities represented by the members of the workgroup. The agreements may specify any or all of the following: (1) The roles and responsibilities of government entities that enter into the agreements; (2) Procedures regarding the receipt, transfer, and expenditure of funds necessary to achieve the goals of the workgroup; (3) The projects to be undertaken and activities to be performed by the government entities that enter into the agreements. (B)(1) The entity contracted to administer programs and coordinate services for infants, preschool and school-age children, and adults with autism and low incidence disabilities under section 3323.32 of the Revised Code shall serve as the coordinating body of the workgroup. (2) The coordinating body of the workgroup shall ensure that the workgroup submits an annual report to the director of developmental disabilities by the thirty-first day of December of each year that includes recommendations for the workgroup's priorities and goals for the next year. (3) The department shall contract with the coordinating body on the implementation of the recommendations and other department initiatives for individuals with autism and other low incidence disabilities. (C) Money received from government entities represented by the members of the workgroup shall be deposited into the state treasury to the credit of the interagency workgroup on autism fund, which is hereby created in the state treasury. Money credited to the fund shall be used by the department of developmental disabilities solely to support the activities of the workgroup. (D) The workgroup shall hold at least two meetings per year that are open to the public for the purposes of reporting its work and hearing public feedback. Last updated October 4, 2023 at 2:51 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.32 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.32
§ 5119.32. Utilizing federal block grant funds
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly The department of behavioral health is hereby designated as the state administrative agency for the substance abuse prevention treatment block grant and the community mental health services block grant authorized by the "Public Health Services Act," 95 Stat. 357, 543, 42 U.S.C. 300x, as amended, and similar alcohol, drug abuse, or mental health programs that are specified in an appropriations act. Last updated August 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5121.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5121 / § 5121.05
§ 5121.05. Investigation powers
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly The department of developmental disabilities may subpoena witnesses, take testimony under oath, and examine any public records relating to the income and other assets of a resident or liable relative. All information, conclusions, and recommendations shall be submitted to the department by the investigating agent of the department. The department shall determine the amount of support to be paid, by whom, and whether clothing shall be furnished by the relatives or guardian.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.33 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.33
§ 5164.33. Denying, terminating, and suspending provider agreements
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) The medicaid director may do the following for any reason permitted or required by federal law and when the director determines that the action is in the best interests of medicaid recipients or the state: (1) Deny, refuse to revalidate, suspend, or terminate a provider agreement; (2) Exclude an individual, provider of services or goods, or other entity from participation in the medicaid program. (B) No individual, provider, or entity excluded from participation in the medicaid program under this section shall do any of the following: (1) Own, or provide services to, any other medicaid provider or risk contractor; (2) Arrange for, render, or order services for medicaid recipients during the period of exclusion; (3) During the period of exclusion, receive direct payments under the medicaid program or indirect payments of medicaid funds in the form of salary, shared fees, contracts, kickbacks, or rebates from or through any other medicaid provider or risk contractor. (C) An individual, provider, or entity excluded from participation in the medicaid program under this section may request a reconsideration of the exclusion. The director shall adopt rules under section 5164.02 of the Revised Code governing the process for requesting a reconsideration. (D) Nothing in this section limits the applicability of section 5164.38 of the Revised Code to a medicaid provider.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.78 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.78
§ 5164.78. Medicaid payment rates for certain neonatal and newborn services
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) The medicaid payment rates for the following neonatal and newborn services shall equal not less than seventy-five per cent of the medicare payment rates for the services in effect on the date the services are provided to medicaid recipients eligible for the services: (1) Initial care for normal newborns; (2) Subsequent day, hospital care for normal newborns; (3) Same day, initial history and physical examination and discharge for normal newborns; (4) Initial neonatal critical care for children not more than twenty-eight days old; (5) Subsequent day, neonatal critical care for children not more than twenty-eight days old; (6) Subsequent day, pediatric critical care for children at least twenty-nine days but less than two years old; (7) Initial neonatal intensive care; (8) Subsequent day, neonatal intensive noncritical care for children weighing less than one thousand five hundred grams; (9) Subsequent day, neonatal intensive noncritical care for children weighing at least one thousand five hundred grams but not more than two thousand five hundred grams; (10) Subsequent day, neonatal noncritical care for children weighing more than two thousand five hundred grams but not more than five thousand grams. (B) The medicaid payment rates for other medicaid services selected by the medicaid director shall be less than the amount of the rates in effect on November 22, 2017, so that the cost of the rates set pursuant to division (A) of this section do not increase medicaid expenditures. The director may not select any medicaid service for which the medicaid payment rate is determined in accordance with state statutes. Last updated October 5, 2023 at 3:24 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.07
§ 5101.07. Support services federal operating fund
Status: in_force

June 30, 2005 House Bill 66 - 126th General Assembly There is hereby created in the state treasury the support services federal operating fund. The fund shall consist of federal funds the department of job and family services receives and that the director of job and family services determines are appropriate for deposit into the fund. Money in the fund shall be used to pay the federal share of both of the following: (A) The department's costs for computer projects; (B) The operating costs of the parts of the department that provide general support services for the department's work units established under section 5101.06 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.0310 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.0310
§ 5103.0310. Background checks
Status: in_force

April 3, 2025 House Bill 315 - 135th General Assembly (A) Prior to employing a person or engaging a subcontractor, intern, or volunteer, an institution or association, as defined in division (A)(1)(a) of section 5103.02 of the Revised Code, that is a residential facility, as defined in division (A)(8) of section 5103.05 of the Revised Code, shall do the following regarding the person, subcontractor, intern, or volunteer: (1) Obtain a search of the United States department of justice national sex offender public web site regarding the person; (2) Obtain a summary report of a search of the uniform statewide automated child welfare information system in accordance with divisions (A) and (B) of section 5103.18 of the Revised Code. (B) An institution or association, as defined in division (A)(1)(a) of section 5103.02 of the Revised Code, that is not a residential facility, as defined in division (A)(8) of section 5103.05 of the Revised Code, shall obtain the search and summary report described in division (A) of this section before hiring a person, or engaging a subcontractor, intern, or volunteer, who will have access to children. (C) If, at the time of September 30, 2021, the institution or association has not obtained a report required under division (A) or (B) of this section for the person, subcontractor, intern, or volunteer, the institution or association shall obtain the report. (D) The institution or association may refuse to employ the person or engage the subcontractor, intern, or volunteer based solely on the results of the search described in division (A)(1) or (B) of this section or the findings of the summary report described in division (B)(1)(a) of section 5103.18 of the Revised Code. (E) The director of children and youth shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code necessary for the implementation and execution of this section. Last updated February 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5139.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5139 / § 5139.03
§ 5139.03. Control and management of state institutions or facilities
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly (A) The department of youth services shall control and manage all state institutions or facilities established or created for the training or rehabilitation of delinquent children committed to the department, except where the control and management of an institution or facility is vested by law in another agency. The department shall employ, in addition to other personnel authorized under Chapter 5139. of the Revised Code, sufficient personnel to maintain food service and buildings and grounds operations. (B) The department of youth services shall, insofar as practicable, purchase foods and other commodities incident to food service operations from the department of mental health and addiction services. The department of youth services may enter into agreements with the department of mental health and addiction services providing for assistance and consultation in the construction of, or major modifications to, capital facilities of the department of youth services. (C) The directors of mental health and addiction services and of youth services shall enter into written agreements to implement this section. Such directors may, from time to time, amend any agreements entered into under this section for the purposes of making more efficient use of personnel, taking advantage of economies in quantity purchasing, or for any other purpose which is mutually advantageous to both the department of youth services and the department of mental health and addiction services. Last updated October 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5124.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5124 / § 5124.99
§ 5124.99. Penalty for violation of cost reporting provisions
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly Whoever violates section 5124.102 or division (E) of section 5124.08 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars for the first offense and not less than one thousand dollars nor more than five thousand dollars for each subsequent offense. Fines paid under this section shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 5168.51 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5168 / § 5168.51
§ 5168.51. Assessment for past due fee installment
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly If a nursing home or hospital fails to pay the full amount of a franchise permit fee installment when due, the department of medicaid may assess a five per cent penalty on the amount due for each month or fraction thereof the installment is overdue.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5162.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5162 / § 5162.10
§ 5162.10. Review of medicaid program; corrective action; sanctions
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The medicaid director may conduct reviews of the medicaid program. The reviews may include physical inspections of records and sites where medicaid services are provided and interviews of medicaid providers and medicaid recipients. If the director determines pursuant to a review that a person or government entity has violated a rule governing the medicaid program, the director may establish a corrective action plan for the violator and impose fiscal, administrative, or both types of sanctions on the violator in accordance with rules adopted under section 5162.02 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5167.30 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5167 / § 5167.30
§ 5167.30. Managed care performance payment program
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly (A)(1) The department of medicaid shall establish a managed care performance payment program. Under the program, the department may provide payments to medicaid managed care organizations that meet performance standards established by the department. (2) In establishing performance standards, the department may consult any of the following: (a) Any quality measurements developed under the pediatric quality measures program established pursuant to the "Social Security Act," section 1139A, 42 U.S.C. 1320b-9a; (b) Any core set of adult health quality measures for medicaid eligible adults used for purposes of the "Social Security Act," section 1139A, 42 U.S.C. 1320b-9b, and any adult health quality used for purposes of the medicaid quality measurement program when the program is established under that section of the "Social Security Act"; (c) The most recent healthcare effectiveness data and information set and quality measurement tool established by the national committee for quality assurance. (3) The standards that must be met to receive the payments may be specified in the contract the department enters into with a medicaid managed care organization. (4) If a medicaid managed care organization meets the performance standards established by the department, the department shall make one or more performance payments to the organization. The amount of each performance payment, the number of payments, and the schedule for making the payments shall be established by the department. The payments shall be discontinued if the department determines that the organization no longer meets the performance standards. The department shall not make or discontinue payments based on any performance standard that has been in effect as part of the organization's contract for less than six months. (B) For purposes of the program, the department shall establish an amount that is to be withheld each time a premium payment is made to a medicaid managed care organization. The amount shall be established as a percentage of each premium payment. The percentage shall be the same for all medicaid managed care organizations. The sum of all withholdings under this division shall not exceed five per cent of the total of all premium payments made to all medicaid managed care organizations. Each medicaid managed care organization shall agree to the withholding as a condition of receiving or maintaining its provider agreement with the department. When the amount is established and each time the amount is modified thereafter, the department shall certify the amount to the director of budget and management and begin withholding the amount from each premium the department pays to a medicaid managed care organization.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5153.37 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5153 / § 5153.37
§ 5153.37. Annual assessment of taxes for support of home
Status: in_force

September 14, 1957 House Bill 927 - 102nd General Assembly The board of county commissioners of any county having a children's home, and the joint boards of county commissioners of district children's homes, shall make annual assessments of taxes sufficient to support and defray all necessary expenses of such home.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.101 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.101
§ 5165.101. Cost of franchise permit fee not reimbursable expense
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly A nursing facility provider filing the nursing facility's cost report with the department of medicaid under section 5165.10 or 5165.522 of the Revised Code shall report as a nonreimbursable expense the cost of the nursing facility's franchise permit fee.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5167.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5167 / § 5167.05
§ 5167.05. Inclusion of prescribed drugs in care management system
Status: in_force

October 17, 2019 House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly The department of medicaid may include prescribed drugs covered by the medicaid program in the care management system.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.034 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.034
§ 5120.034. Reentry services by nonprofit faith-based organizations
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A)(1) The department of rehabilitation and correction shall permit representatives of all nonprofit faith-based, business, professional, civic, educational, and community organizations that are registered with the department to enter institutions under the control of the department for the purpose of providing reentry services to inmates. Reentry services may include, but are not limited to, counseling, housing, job-placement, and money-management assistance. (2) The department shall adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code for the screening and registration of nonprofit faith-based, business, professional, civic, educational, and community organizations that apply to provide reentry services in institutions under the department's control. (B)(1) The department shall post a department telephone number on the department's official internet web site that nonprofit faith-based, business, professional, civic, educational, and community organizations that wish to provide reentry services to inmates may call to obtain information. The internet web site also shall list all of the nonprofit faith-based, business, professional, civic, educational, and community organizations that are registered with the department under this section. (2) The department shall actively recruit nonprofit faith-based, business, professional, civic, educational, and community organizations to provide reentry services in institutions under the department's control. The department shall recruit nonprofit organizations from all faiths and beliefs. (C) Annually, the department shall issue a written report on the department's progress in implementing the recommendations of the correctional faith-based initiatives task force. The department shall provide a copy of the written report to the general assembly in accordance with section 101.68 of the Revised Code. (D) The department shall not endorse or sponsor any faith-based reentry program or endorse any specific religious message. The department may not require an inmate to participate in a faith-based program. Last updated August 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.74 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.74
§ 5123.74. Emergency institutionalization by probate court
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly (A) On receipt of an affidavit under section 5123.71 of the Revised Code, the probate division of the court of common pleas may, if it has probable cause to believe that the person named in the affidavit is a person with an intellectual disability subject to institutionalization by court order and that emergency institutionalization is required, do any of the following: (1) Issue a temporary order of detention ordering any health or police officer or sheriff to take into custody and transport such person to an institution or other place as designated in section 5123.77 of the Revised Code; (2) Order the county board of developmental disabilities to provide services to the individual in the community if the board's assessment of the individual conducted under section 5123.711 of the Revised Code identifies that resources are available to meet the individual's needs in an appropriate manner within the community as an alternative to institutionalization; (3) Set the matter for further hearing. (B) A managing officer of a nonpublic institution may, and the managing officer of a public institution shall, receive for observation, diagnosis, habilitation, and care any person whose admission is ordered pursuant to division (A)(1) of this section. The alternatives to institutionalization that may be ordered under division (A)(2) of this section are limited to those that are necessary to remediate the emergency condition; necessary for the person's health, safety or welfare; and necessary for the protection of society, if applicable. (C) A person detained under this section may be observed and habilitated until the probable cause hearing provided for in section 5123.75 of the Revised Code. If no probable cause hearing is requested or held, the person may be evaluated and shall be provided with habilitative services until the full hearing is held pursuant to section 5123.76 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5168.86 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5168 / § 5168.86
§ 5168.86. Implementation
Status: in_force

June 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly The medicaid director may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. as necessary to implement sections 5168.75 to 5168.86 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.131 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.131
§ 5120.131. Industrial and entertainment fund - commissary fund
Status: in_force

July 12, 1972 House Bill 494 - 109th General Assembly Each managing officer of an institution under the jurisdiction of the department of rehabilitation and correction as described in section 5120.05 of the Revised Code, with the approval of the director of the department of rehabilitation and correction, may establish local institution funds designated as follows: (A) Industrial and entertainment fund created and maintained for the entertainment and welfare of the inmates of the institutions under the jurisdiction of the department. The director shall establish rules and regulations for the operation of the industrial and entertainment fund. (B) Commissary fund created and maintained for the benefit of inmates in the institutions under the jurisdiction of the department. Commissary revenue over and above operating costs and reserve shall be considered profits. All profits from the commissary fund operations shall be paid into the industrial and entertainment fund and used only for the entertainment and welfare of inmates. The director shall establish rules and regulations for the operation of the commissary fund.