Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.45 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.45
§ 5180.45. [Former R.C. 5101.19, amended and renumbered by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Adoption grant program - definitions
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly As used in sections 5180.45 to 5180.454 of the Revised Code: (A) "Adopted child" means a person who is less than eighteen years of age when the person becomes subject to a final order of adoption, an interlocutory order of adoption, or when the adoption is recognized by this state under section 3107.18 of the Revised Code. (B) "Adoption" includes an adoption arranged by an attorney, a public children services agency, private child placing agency, or a private noncustodial agency, an interstate adoption, or an international or foreign adoption. (C) "Adoptive parent" means the person or persons who obtain parental rights and responsibilities over an adopted child pursuant to a final order of adoption, an interlocutory order of adoption, or an adoption recognized by this state under section 3107.18 of the Revised Code. (D) "Casework services" means services performed or arranged by a public children services agency, private child placing agency, private noncustodial agency, or public entity with whom the department of children and youth has a Title IV-E subgrant agreement in effect, to manage the progress, provide supervision and protection of the child and the child's parent, guardian, or custodian. (E) "Foster caregiver" has the same meaning as in section 5103.02 of the Revised Code. (F) "Qualified professional" means an individual that is, but not limited to, any one of the following: (1) Audiologist; (2) Orthopedist; (3) Physician; (4) Certified nurse practitioner; (5) Physician assistant; (6) Psychiatrist; (7) Psychologist; (8) School psychologist; (9) Licensed marriage and family therapist; (10) Speech and language pathologist; (11) Licensed independent social worker; (12) Licensed professional clinical counselor; (13) Licensed social worker who is under the direct supervision of a licensed independent social worker; (14) Licensed professional counselor who is under the direct supervision of a licensed professional clinical counselor. (G) "Special needs" means any of the following: (1) A developmental disability as defined in section 5123.01 of the Revised Code; (2) A physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities; (3) Any physiological disorder or condition, cosmetic disfigurement, or anatomical loss affecting one or more body systems; (4) Any mental or psychological disorder; (5) A medical condition causing distress, pain, dysfunction, or social problems as diagnosed by a qualified professional that results in ongoing medical treatment. Last updated October 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5145.1611 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5145 / § 5145.1611
§ 5145.1611. Documentation upon inmate's release from prison
Status: in_force

April 3, 2025 House Bill 315 - 135th General Assembly (A)(1) The department of rehabilitation and correction shall provide every inmate who is released from a term of imprisonment for a felony offense and whose intended residence is within this state with the documentation listed in division (B) of this section to assist the inmate in obtaining post-release employment. (2) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, the department shall assist each inmate in creating a resume and conducting a practice job interview, provided that resources are available or third parties can assist with the resumes and interviews at no cost to the department. The department may contract with government or nonprofit workforce development reentry organizations to assist inmates in creating resumes and conducting practice job interviews. (B) For purposes of assisting an inmate in obtaining post-release employment, the department shall provide each inmate with the following documentation upon the inmate's release from custody: (1) A copy of the vocational training record of the inmate, if applicable; (2) A copy of the work record of the inmate, if applicable; (3) A certified copy of the birth certificate of the inmate, if obtainable; (4) A social security card or a replacement social security card of the inmate, if the inmate has a social security number and if obtainable; (5) An identification card or temporary identification card issued by the registrar of motor vehicles under section 4507.50 of the Revised Code, as applicable; (6) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, a resume that includes any trade learned by the inmate and the proficiency at that trade by the inmate; (7) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, documentation that the inmate has completed a practice job interview; (8) A notification to the inmate if the inmate is eligible to apply for a license from a state entity charged with oversight of an occupational license or certification, if the inmate completed the requirements for eligibility for the license or certification while incarcerated at the department's facility. (C) The following categories of inmates are not required to complete resumes or practice job interviews prior to release from incarceration: (1) Inmates who decline to participate; (2) Inmates sixty-five years of age or older; (3) Inmates granted judicial release under division (N) of section 2929.20 of the Revised Code or released as if on parole under section 2967.05 of the Revised Code; (4) Inmates released to the custody of another jurisdiction; (5) Inmates that the department of rehabilitation and correction determines would be physically or mentally unable to return to the workforce upon release from incarceration. Last updated February 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5139.38 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5139 / § 5139.38
§ 5139.38. Transferring felony delinquent to community facility for supervised treatment prior to ordering release
Status: in_force

April 7, 2009 House Bill 130 - 127th General Assembly Within ninety days prior to the expiration of the prescribed minimum period of institutionalization of a felony delinquent committed to the department of youth services and with prior approval of the committing court, the department may transfer the felony delinquent to a community facility on supervised release as described in section 5139.18 of the Revised Code. For purposes of transfers under this section, both of the following apply: (A) The community facility may be a community corrections facility that has received a grant pursuant to section 5139.36 of the Revised Code, a community residential program with which the department has contracted for purposes of this section, or another private entity with which the department has contracted for purposes of this section. Division (E) of section 5139.36 of the Revised Code does not apply in connection with a transfer of a felony delinquent that is made to a community corrections facility pursuant to this section. (B) During the period in which the felony delinquent is in the community facility, the felony delinquent shall remain in the custody of the department.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5121.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5121 / § 5121.01
§ 5121.01. Cost for support of patients in hospitals and residents
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly As used in sections 5121.01 to 5121.21 of the Revised Code: (A) "Resident" means a person admitted to an institution or other facility pursuant to Chapter 5123. of the Revised Code who is under observation or receiving habilitation and care. (B) "Applicable cost" means the rate for support applicable to a resident as specified in this section. The cost for support of residents in institutions under the jurisdiction of the department of developmental disabilities, and of residents in private facilities or homes whose care or treatment is being paid for by the department, shall be based on the average per capita cost of the care and treatment of the residents. The cost of services for residents shall be computed using the projected average daily per capita cost at the institution, or at the discretion of the department, the subunit thereof in which services are provided. Such costs shall be computed at least annually for the next prospective period using generally accepted governmental accounting principles. The cost of services for residents that are being cared for and maintained in a private facility or home under the supervision of the department and for which a purchase of services contract is being paid to the private facility or home by the department shall not be more than the per diem cost of the contract. The cost of services for a resident receiving pre-admission care, after-care, day-care, or routine consultation and treatment services in a community service unit under the jurisdiction of the department shall be computed on the basis of the average cost of such services at the institution at which they are provided. The department shall annually determine the ability to pay of a resident or the resident's liable relatives and the amount that such person shall pay in accordance with section 5121.04 of the Revised Code. Collections of support payments shall be made by the department and, subject to meeting prior requirements for payment and crediting of such collections and other available receipts, in accordance with the bond proceedings applicable to obligations issued pursuant to section 154.20 of the Revised Code, such collections and other available receipts designated by the director of developmental disabilities for deposit in the special accounts, together with insurance contract payments provided for in division (B)(8) of section 5121.04 of the Revised Code, shall be remitted to the treasurer of state for deposit in the state treasury to the credit of the developmental disabilities operating fund, which is hereby created, to be used for the general purposes of the department. The department shall make refunds of overpayment of support charges from the developmental disabilities operating fund.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.10
§ 5101.10. Expending funds
Status: in_force

July 1, 2000 House Bill 470 - 123rd General Assembly The director of job and family services may expend funds appropriated or available to the department of job and family services from public or private entities, including other governmental agencies; public or private institutions, organizations, agencies, and corporations; and individuals. For purposes of this section, the director may enter into contracts or agreements with public and private entities and make grants to public and private entities. To the extent permitted by federal law, the director may advance funds to a grantee when necessary for the grantee to perform duties under the grant as specified by the director. The director may adopt internal management rules in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code to define terms and adopt procedures and other provisions necessary to implement this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5124.50 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5124 / § 5124.50
§ 5124.50. Notice of facility closure or voluntary termination
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly An exiting operator or owner of an ICF/IID participating in the medicaid program shall provide the department of developmental disabilities and department of medicaid written notice of a facility closure or voluntary termination not less than ninety days before the effective date of the facility closure or voluntary termination. The written notice shall be provided to the department of developmental disabilities and department of medicaid in accordance with the method specified in rules authorized by section 5124.53 of the Revised Code. The written notice shall include all of the following: (A) The name of the exiting operator and, if any, the exiting operator's authorized agent; (B) The name of the ICF/IID that is the subject of the written notice; (C) The exiting operator's medicaid provider agreement number for the ICF/IID that is the subject of the written notice; (D) The effective date of the facility closure or voluntary termination; (E) The signature of the exiting operator's or owner's representative.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.17 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.17
§ 5164.17. Medicaid coverage of tobacco cessation services
Status: in_force

September 18, 2020 House Bill 11 - 133rd General Assembly The medicaid program may cover tobacco cessation services in addition to the services that must be covered under section 5164.10 of the Revised Code or may exclude coverage of additional tobacco cessation services.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5121.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5121 / § 5121.07
§ 5121.07. Petitioning for release from charges
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly Any person who has been charged with the payment of the support of a resident or for pre-admission care, after-care, day-care, or routine consultation and treatment services in a community service unit under the control of the department of developmental disabilities may petition the department for a release from, or modification of, such charge, and the department, after an investigation, may cancel or modify such former charge, or may cancel, compromise, or settle any accrued liability in an amount not exceeding five thousand dollars. Amounts in excess thereof may be canceled, compromised, or settled as provided in section 131.02 of the Revised Code. The department may for due cause increase the amount previously ordered paid.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.655 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.655
§ 5120.655. Prison nursery program fund - individual nursery accounts
Status: in_force

March 15, 2001 House Bill 661 - 123rd General Assembly The managing officer of each institution in which a prison nursery program is established pursuant to section 5120.65 of the Revised Code shall do the following: (A) Create and maintain a prison nursery program fund to pay expenses associated with the prison nursery program; (B) Create and maintain an individual nursery account for each inmate participating in the prison nursery program at the institution to help pay for the support provided to the inmate and child pursuant to the program.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5166.305 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5166 / § 5166.305
§ 5166.305. Nursing assistance by home care attendants; consent and authorization
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly A home care attendant shall comply with both of the following when assisting a consumer with nursing tasks or self-administration of medication: (A) The written consent of the consumer or consumer's authorized representative provided to the appropriate director under section 5166.306 of the Revised Code; (B) The authorizing health care professional's written authorization provided to the appropriate director under section 5166.307 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.235 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.235
§ 5103.235. Requirements for visitation, inspection, supervision of children
Status: in_force

May 14, 2008 House Bill 214 - 127th General Assembly Any requirements for visitation, inspection, or supervision of children, homes, institutions, or other agencies in another party state which may apply under Chapter 5103. of the Revised Code shall be deemed to be met if performed pursuant to an agreement entered into by appropriate officers or agencies of this state or a subdivision thereof as contemplated by paragraph (B) of Article V of the interstate compact on the placement of children.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.524 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.524
§ 5165.524. Final payment withheld pending receipt of cost reports
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The department of medicaid may not provide an exiting operator final payment under the medicaid program until the department receives all properly completed cost reports the exiting operator is required to file under sections 5165.10 and 5165.522 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.181 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.181
§ 5103.181. Background checks
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) Prior to certification of a foster home under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code, a recommending agency shall conduct a search of the United States department of justice national sex offender public web site regarding the prospective or current foster caregiver and all persons eighteen years of age or older who reside with the prospective or current foster caregiver. Certification may be denied based solely on the results of the search. (B) 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 January 1, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.113 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.113
§ 5120.113. Written reentry plans
Status: in_force

September 30, 2011 House Bill 86 - 129th General Assembly (A) For each inmate committed to the department of rehabilitation and correction, except as provided in division (B) of this section, the department shall prepare a written reentry plan for the inmate to help guide the inmate's rehabilitation program during imprisonment, to assist in the inmate's reentry into the community, and to assess the inmate's needs upon release. (B) Division (A) of this section does not apply to an inmate who has been sentenced to life imprisonment without parole or who has been sentenced to death. Division (A) of this section does not apply to any inmate who is expected to be imprisoned for thirty days or less, but the department may prepare a written reentry plan of the type described in that division if the department determines that the plan is needed. (C) The department may collect, if available, any social and other information that will aid in the preparation of reentry plans under this section. (D) In the event the department does not prepare a written reentry plan as specified in division (A) of this section, or makes a decision to not prepare a written reentry plan under division (B) of this section or to not collect information under division (C) of this section, that fact does not give rise to a claim for damages against the state, the department, the director of the department, or any employee of the department.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.162 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.162
§ 5123.162. Applicant survey to determine if standards met
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly (A) The director of developmental disabilities may conduct surveys of persons and government entities that seek a supported living certificate to determine whether the persons and government entities meet the certification standards. The director may also conduct surveys of providers to determine whether the providers continue to meet the certification standards. The director may assign to a county board of developmental disabilities the responsibility to conduct either type of survey. Each survey shall be conducted in accordance with rules adopted under section 5123.1611 of the Revised Code. (B) Following each survey of a provider, the director shall issue a report listing the date of the survey, any citations issued as a result of the survey, and the statutes or rules that purportedly have been violated and are the bases of the citations. The director shall also do both of the following: (1) Specify a date by which the provider may appeal any of the citations; (2) When appropriate, specify a timetable within which the provider must submit a plan of correction describing how the problems specified in the citations will be corrected and the date by which the provider anticipates the problems will be corrected. (C) If the director initiates a proceeding to revoke a provider's certification, the director shall include the report required by division (B) of this section with the notice of the proposed revocation the director sends to the provider. In this circumstance, the provider may not submit a plan of correction. (D) After a plan of correction is submitted, the director shall approve or disapprove the plan. If the plan of correction is approved, a copy of the approved plan shall be provided, not later than five business days after it is approved, to any person or government entity that requests it and made available on the internet web site maintained by the department of developmental disabilities. If the plan of correction is not approved and the director initiates a proceeding to revoke the provider's certification, a copy of the survey report shall be provided to any person or government entity that requests it and shall be made available on the internet web site maintained by the department. (E) In addition to survey reports described in this section, all other records associated with surveys conducted under this section are public records for the purpose of section 149.43 of the Revised Code and shall be made available on the request of any person or government entity.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.21
§ 5119.21. Support of community support system; powers and duties regarding programs and services
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) The department of behavioral health shall: (1) To the extent the department has available resources and in consultation with boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services, support the community-based continuum of care that the boards are required by section 340.032 of the Revised Code to establish. The department shall provide the support on a district or multi-district basis. The department shall assist in identifying resources, and may prioritize support, for one or more of the elements of the community-based continuum of care. For the purpose of division (A)(10) of section 340.032 of the Revised Code and to the extent the department determines is necessary, the department shall define additional elements to be included in the community-based continuum of care. (2) Provide training, consultation, and technical assistance regarding addiction services, mental health services, recovery supports, and appropriate prevention, recovery, and mental health promotion activities, including those that are culturally competent, to employees of the department, community addiction services providers, community mental health services providers, and boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services; (3) To the extent the department has available resources, promote and support a full range of addiction services, mental health services, and recovery supports that are available and accessible to all residents of this state, especially for severely emotionally disturbed children and adolescents, adults with severe mental disabilities, pregnant women, parents, guardians or custodians of children at risk of abuse or neglect, and other special target populations, including racial and ethnic minorities, as determined by the department; (4) Develop standards and measures for both of the following: (a) Evaluating the effectiveness of addiction services, including opioid treatment programs, of mental health services, and of recovery supports; (b) Increasing the accountability of community addiction services providers and community mental health services providers. (5) Design and set criteria for the determination of priority populations; (6) Promote, direct, conduct, and coordinate scientific research, taking ethnic and racial differences into consideration, concerning all of the following: (a) The causes and prevention of mental illness and addiction; (b) Methods of providing effective addiction services, mental health services, and recovery supports; (c) Means of enhancing the mental health of and recovery from addiction of all residents of this state. (7) Foster the establishment and availability of vocational rehabilitation services and the creation of employment opportunities for individuals with addiction and mental health needs, including members of racial and ethnic minorities; (8) Establish a program to protect and promote the rights of persons receiving addiction services, mental health services, and recovery supports, including the issuance of guidelines on informed consent and other rights; (9) Promote the involvement of persons who are receiving or have received addiction services, mental health services, and recovery supports including families and other persons having a close relationship to a person receiving those services and supports, in the planning, evaluation, delivery, and operation of addiction services, mental health services, and recovery supports; (10) Notify and consult with the relevant constituencies that may be affected by rules, standards, and guidelines issued by the department of behavioral health. These constituencies shall include consumers of addiction services, mental health services, and recovery supports and the families of such consumers. These constituencies may include public and private providers, employee organizations, and others when appropriate. Whenever the department proposes the adoption, amendment, or rescission of rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the notification and consultation required by this division shall occur prior to the commencement of proceedings under Chapter 119. The department shall adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that establish procedures for the notification and consultation required by this division. (11) Provide consultation to the department of rehabilitation and correction concerning the delivery of addiction services and mental health services in state correctional institutions; (12) Promote and coordinate efforts in the provision of addiction services by other state agencies, as defined in section 1.60 of the Revised Code; courts; hospitals; clinics; physicians in private practice; public health authorities; boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services; community addiction services providers; law enforcement agencies; and related groups; (13) Provide to each court of record, and biennially update, a list of the treatment and education programs within that court's jurisdiction that the court may require an offender, sentenced pursuant to section 4511.19 of the Revised Code, to attend; (14) Make the warning sign described in sections 3313.752 , 3345.41 , and 3707.50 of the Revised Code available on the department's internet web site; (15) Provide a program of gambling addiction services on behalf of the state lottery commission, pursuant to an agreement entered into with the director of the commission under division (K) of section 3770.02 of the Revised Code, and provide a program of gambling addiction services on behalf of the Ohio casino control commission, under an agreement entered into with the executive director of the commission under section 3772.062 of the Revised Code. Under Section 6(C)(3) of Article XV, Ohio Constitution, the department may enter into agreements with boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services, including boards with districts in which a casino facility is not located, and nonprofit organizations to provide addiction services, and with state institutions of higher education or private nonprofit institutions that possess a certificate of authorization issued under Chapter 1713. of the Revised Code to perform related research. (B) The department may accept and administer grants from public or private sources for carrying out any of the duties enumerated in this section. (C) The department may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as necessary to implement the requirements of this chapter. Last updated August 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.06
§ 5126.06. Resolution of complaints
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, any person who has a complaint involving any of the programs, services, policies, or administrative practices of a county board of developmental disabilities or any of the entities under contract with the county board, may file a complaint with the board. Prior to commencing a civil action regarding the complaint, a person shall attempt to have the complaint resolved through the administrative resolution process established in the rules adopted under section 5123.043 of the Revised Code. After exhausting the administrative resolution process, the person may commence a civil action if the complaint is not settled to the person's satisfaction. (B) An employee of a county board may not file under this section a complaint related to the terms and conditions of employment of the employee.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.46 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.46
§ 5123.46. Rules adopted in conjunction with board of nursing and the Ohio nurses association
Status: in_force

January 21, 2018 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly All rules adopted under sections 5123.41 to 5123.45 and section 5123.452 of the Revised Code shall be adopted in consultation with the board of nursing, the Ohio nurses association, the state medical board, and the Ohio society for respiratory care. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5107.26 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5107 / § 5107.26
§ 5107.26. Terminating employment without just cause
Status: in_force

April 6, 2023 House Bill 281 - 134th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "transitional child care" means publicly funded child care provided under division (A)(3) of section 5104.34 of the Revised Code. (B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section: (1) Each member of an assistance group participating in Ohio works first is ineligible to participate in the program for six payment months if a county department of job and family services determines that a member of the assistance group terminated the member's employment. (2) Each person who, on the day prior to the day a recipient begins to receive transitional child care, was a member of the recipient's assistance group is ineligible to participate in Ohio works first for six payment months if a county department determines that the recipient terminated the recipient's employment. (C) No assistance group member shall lose or be denied eligibility to participate in Ohio works first pursuant to division (B) of this section if the termination of employment was because an assistance group member or recipient of transitional child care secured comparable or better employment or the county department of job and family services certifies that the member or recipient terminated the employment with just cause. Just cause includes the following: (1) Discrimination by an employer based on age, race, sex, color, disability, religious beliefs, or national origin; (2) Work demands or conditions that render continued employment unreasonable, such as working without being paid on schedule; (3) Employment that has become unsuitable due to any of the following: (a) The wage is less than the federal minimum wage; (b) The work is at a site subject to a strike or lockout, unless the strike has been enjoined under section 208 of the "Labor-Management Relations Act," 61 Stat. 155 (1947), 29 U.S.C.A. 178, as amended, an injunction has been issued under section 10 of the "Railway Labor Act," 44 Stat. 586 (1926), 45 U.S.C.A. 160, as amended, or an injunction has been issued under section 4117.16 of the Revised Code; (c) The documented degree of risk to the member or recipient's health and safety is unreasonable; (d) The member or recipient is physically or mentally unfit to perform the employment, as documented by medical evidence or by reliable information from other sources. (4) Documented illness of the member or recipient or of another assistance group member of the member or recipient requiring the presence of the member or recipient; (5) A documented household emergency; (6) Lack of adequate child care for children of the member or recipient who are under six years of age. Last updated March 10, 2023 at 12:43 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5166.121 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5166 / § 5166.121
§ 5166.121. Home first component for the Ohio home care waiver program
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) Unless the Ohio home care waiver program is terminated pursuant to section 5165.12 of the Revised Code, the department of medicaid shall establish a home first component for the Ohio home care waiver program. An individual is eligible for the Ohio home care waiver program's home first component if the individual has been determined to be eligible for the Ohio home care waiver program and at least one of the following applies: (1) If the individual is under twenty-one years of age, the individual received inpatient hospital services for at least fourteen consecutive days, or had at least three inpatient hospital stays during the twelve months, immediately preceding the date the individual applies for the Ohio home care waiver program. (2) If the individual is at least twenty-one but less than sixty years of age, the individual received inpatient hospital services for at least fourteen consecutive days immediately preceding the date the individual applies for the Ohio home care waiver program. (3) The individual received private duty nursing services under the medicaid program for at least twelve consecutive months immediately preceding the date the individual applies for the Ohio home care waiver program. (4) The individual does not reside in a nursing facility or hospital long-term care unit at the time the individual applies for the Ohio home care waiver program but is at risk of imminent admission to a nursing facility or hospital long-term care unit due to a documented loss of a primary caregiver. (5) The individual resides in a nursing facility at the time the individual applies for the Ohio home care waiver program. (6) At the time the individual applies for the Ohio home care waiver program, the individual participates in the money follows the person demonstration project authorized by section 6071 of the "Deficit Reduction Act of 2005," Pub. L. No. 109-171, as amended, and either resides in a residential treatment facility or inpatient hospital setting. (B) An individual determined to be eligible for the home first component of the Ohio home care waiver program shall be enrolled in the program in accordance with rules adopted under section 5166.02 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.393 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.393
§ 5119.393. Complaint reporting and investigations
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) The department of behavioral health shall establish a procedure to receive and investigate complaints from residents, staff, and the public regarding recovery housing residences. The department may contract with one or more of the organizations specified in section 5119.39 of the Revised Code to fulfill some or all of the functions associated with receiving and investigating complaints. (B) Any organization under contract with the department to receive and investigate complaints shall make reports to the department as follows: (1) Not less than monthly, the contractor shall report the status of each pending investigation and shall report the outcome of each investigation that has been completed since the last report was made; (2) As soon as practicable, but not later than ten days after making an adverse decision, if a contractor's accreditation or its equivalent is accepted by the department for purposes of section 5119.39 of the Revised Code, the contractor shall report that decision to the department in a manner prescribed by the department. (C)(1) With respect to complaints received by the department or a contractor of the department, information and records received, collected, or generated by the department or a contractor pursuant to an investigation, and reports that are made under division (B) of this section, all of the following apply to those items, subject to division (C)(2) of this section: (a) The items are confidential and not public records under section 149.43 of the Revised Code. (b) The items are exempt from the provisions of Chapter 1347. of the Revised Code. (c) The items are not subject to discovery in any civil action. (2)(a) The items described in division (C)(1) of this section shall be disclosed if required by law. (b) The items described in division (C)(1) of this section may be disclosed to any federal, state, or local law enforcement, prosecutorial, or regulatory agency or its officers or agents. (c) The items described in division (C)(1) of this section may be admitted into evidence in a criminal trial in accordance with the Rules of Evidence, or in an administrative hearing conducted by an agency, but the court or agency shall require that appropriate measures be taken to ensure that confidentiality is maintained with respect to any part thereof that contains names or other identifying information about residents, complainants, or others whose confidentiality was protected by the department or its contractor when the items were in the possession of the department or contractor. Measures to ensure confidentiality that may be taken by the court or agency include sealing its records or redacting specific information from its records. (d) The items described in division (C)(1) of this section may be included in the registry established and maintained under section 5119.394 of the Revised Code, but the department shall make its best effort to do so in a manner that protects the confidentiality of complainants, individuals or organizations providing information about a complaint, and recovery housing residents. The department may refer to any of the foregoing in the registry as long as it removes personally identifying information or uses any other technique it considers appropriate to maintain confidentiality. Last updated August 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.0319 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.0319
§ 5103.0319. Prohibited offenses for certain minors residing in a foster home
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) No foster caregiver or prospective foster caregiver shall fail to notify the recommending agency that recommended or is recommending the foster caregiver or prospective foster caregiver for certification in writing if a person at least twelve years of age but less than eighteen years of age residing with the foster caregiver or prospective foster caregiver has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any of the following or has been adjudicated to be a delinquent child for committing an act that if committed by an adult would have constituted such a violation: (1) A violation of section 2903.01 , 2903.02 , 2903.03 , 2903.04 , 2903.11 , 2903.12 , 2903.13 , 2903.16 , 2903.21 , 2903.34 , 2905.01 , 2905.02 , 2905.05 , 2907.02 , 2907.03 , 2907.04 , 2907.05 , 2907.06 , 2907.07 , 2907.08 , 2907.09 , 2907.21 , 2907.22 , 2907.23 , 2907.25 , 2907.31 , 2907.32 , 2907.321 , 2907.322 , 2907.323 , 2909.02 , 2909.03 , 2911.01 , 2911.02 , 2911.11 , 2911.12 , 2919.12 , 2919.22 , 2919.24 , 2919.25 , 2923.12 , 2923.13 , 2923.161 , 2925.02 , 2925.03 , 2925.04 , 2925.05 , 2925.06 , or 3716.11 of the Revised Code, a violation of section 2905.04 of the Revised Code as it existed prior to July 1, 1996, a violation of section 2919.23 of the Revised Code that would have been a violation of section 2905.04 of the Revised Code as it existed prior to July 1, 1996, had the violation been committed prior to that date, a violation of section 2925.11 of the Revised Code that is not a minor drug possession offense, a violation of section 2923.01 of the Revised Code that involved an attempt to commit aggravated murder or murder, an OVI or OVUAC violation if the person previously was convicted of or pleaded guilty to one or more OVI or OVUAC violations within the three years immediately preceding the current violation, or felonious sexual penetration in violation of former section 2907.12 of the Revised Code; (2) An offense that would be a felony if committed by an adult and the court determined that the child, if an adult, would be guilty of a specification found in section 2941.141 , 2941.144 , or 2941.145 of the Revised Code or in another section of the Revised Code that relates to the possession or use of a firearm, as defined in section 2923.11 of the Revised Code, during the commission of the act for which the child was adjudicated a delinquent child; (3) A violation of an existing or former law of this state, any other state, or the United States that is substantially equivalent to any of the offenses described in division (A)(1) or (2) of this section. (B) If a recommending agency learns that a foster caregiver has failed to comply with division (A) of this section, it shall notify the department of children and youth and the department shall revoke the foster caregiver's foster home certificate. (C) As used in this section, "OVI or OVUAC violation" means a violation of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code or a violation of an existing or former law of this state, any other state, or the United States that is substantially equivalent to section 4511.19 of the Revised Code. Last updated April 27, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.0415 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.0415
§ 5123.0415. Notification of change of address
Status: in_force

September 10, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly Each person and each government entity that applies for or holds a valid license, certification, or registration issued under section 5123.161 , 5123.19 , 5123.45 , or 5126.25 of the Revised Code shall notify the director of developmental disabilities of any change in the person's or government entity's address.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5124.75 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5124 / § 5124.75
§ 5124.75. Conversion of ICF/IID beds to OhioRISE program
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code to the contrary, an ICF/IID operator shall not reserve or convert any portion of the ICF/IID's beds from providing ICF/IID services to providing services to individuals receiving services through the Ohio resilience through integrated systems and excellence (OhioRISE) program for children and youth involved in multiple state systems or children and youth with other complex behavioral health needs, if reserving or converting a bed would require the operator to discharge or terminate services to a resident occupying that bed. Last updated October 4, 2023 at 5:43 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5166.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5166 / § 5166.11
§ 5166.11. Creation of medicaid waiver components for home and community-based services programs
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "Ohio home care program" means the program the department of medicaid administers that provides state plan services and medicaid waiver component services pursuant to rules adopted for the medicaid program and a medicaid waiver that went into effect July 1, 1998. (B) The department of medicaid may create and administer two or more medicaid waiver components under which home and community-based services are provided to eligible individuals who need the level of care provided by a nursing facility or hospital. In administering the medicaid waiver components, the department may specify the following: (1) The maximum number of individuals who may be enrolled in each of the medicaid waiver components; (2) The maximum amount the medicaid program may expend each year for each individual enrolled in the medicaid waiver components; (3) The maximum amount the medicaid program may expend each year for all individuals enrolled in the medicaid waiver components; (4) Any other requirements the department selects for the medicaid waiver components. (C) (D) After the first of any of the medicaid waiver components that the department administers under this section begins to enroll eligible individuals, the department may cease to enroll additional individuals in a medicaid waiver component of the Ohio home care program.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5145.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5145 / § 5145.04
§ 5145.04. Maintaining control of prisoners - daily record of conduct
Status: in_force

October 6, 1994 House Bill 571 - 120th General Assembly The department of rehabilitation and correction shall maintain the control over prisoners committed to its custody that prevents them from committing crime, secure their self-support, and accomplish their reformation. When a prisoner is received into a state correctional institution upon direct sentence to the institution, the department shall enter in a register the date of the admission, the prisoner's name, age, nativity, nationality, and other facts as to parentage and early social influences that might indicate the constitutional and acquired defects and tendencies of the prisoner. Upon these entries in the register shall be based an estimate of the condition of the prisoner and the best probable plan of his treatment.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5122.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5122 / § 5122.21
§ 5122.21. Discharging involuntary patients
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) The chief clinical officer shall as frequently as practicable, and at least once every thirty days, examine or cause to be examined every patient, and, whenever the chief clinical officer determines that the conditions justifying involuntary hospitalization or commitment no longer obtain, shall discharge the patient not under indictment or conviction for crime and immediately make a report of the discharge to the department of behavioral health. The chief clinical officer may discharge a patient who is under an indictment, a sentence of imprisonment, a community control sanction, or a post-release control sanction or on parole ten days after written notice of intent to discharge the patient has been given by personal service or certified mail, return receipt requested, to the court having criminal jurisdiction over the patient. Except when the patient was found not guilty by reason of insanity and the defendant's commitment is pursuant to section 2945.40 of the Revised Code, the chief clinical officer has final authority to discharge a patient who is under an indictment, a sentence of imprisonment, a community control sanction, or a post-release control sanction or on parole. (B) After a finding pursuant to section 5122.15 of the Revised Code that a person is a person with a mental illness subject to court order, the chief clinical officer of the hospital or community mental health services provider to which the person is ordered or to which the person is transferred under section 5122.20 of the Revised Code, may grant a discharge without the consent or authorization of any court. Upon discharge, the chief clinical officer shall notify the court that caused the judicial hospitalization of the discharge from the hospital. Last updated August 14, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.525 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.525
§ 5165.525. Determination of debt of exiting operator; summary report
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly The department of medicaid shall determine the actual amount of debt an exiting operator owes the department under the medicaid program by completing all final fiscal audits not already completed and performing all other appropriate actions the department determines to be necessary. The department shall issue an initial debt summary report on this matter not later than sixty days after the date the exiting operator files the properly completed cost report required by section 5165.522 of the Revised Code with the department or, if the department waives the cost report requirement for the exiting operator, sixty days after the date the department waives the cost report requirement. A final debt summary report shall be issued thirty-one days after the department issues the initial debt summary report unless the exiting operator, or an affiliated operator who executes a successor liability agreement under section 5165.521 of the Revised Code, requests a review before that date. The exiting operator, and an affiliated operator who executes a successor liability agreement under section 5165.521 of the Revised Code, may request a review to contest any of the department's findings included in the initial debt summary report. The request for the review must be submitted to the department not later than thirty days after the date the department issues the initial debt summary report. The department shall conduct the review on receipt of a timely request and issue a revised debt summary report. If the department has withheld money from payment due the exiting operator under division (A) of section 5165.521 of the Revised Code, the department shall issue the revised debt summary report not later than ninety days after the date the department receives the timely request for the review unless the department and exiting operator or affiliated operator agree to a later date. The exiting operator or affiliated operator may submit information to the department explaining what the operator contests before and during the review, including documentation of the amount of any debt the department owes the operator. The exiting operator or affiliated operator may submit additional information to the department not later than thirty days after the department issues the revised debt summary report. A final debt summary report shall be issued thirty-one days after the department issues the revised debt summary report unless the exiting operator or affiliated operator timely submits additional information to the department. If the exiting operator or affiliated operator timely submits additional information to the department, the department shall consider the additional information and issue a final debt summary report not later than sixty days after the department issues the revised debt summary report unless the department and exiting operator or affiliated operator agree to a later date. Each debt summary report the department issues under this section shall include the department's findings and the amount of debt the department determines the exiting operator owes the department under the medicaid program. The department shall explain its findings and determination in each debt summary report. The exiting operator, and an affiliated operator who executes a successor liability agreement under section 5165.521 of the Revised Code, may request, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, an adjudication regarding a finding in a final debt summary report that pertains to an audit or alleged overpayment made under the medicaid program to the exiting operator. The adjudication shall be consolidated with any other uncompleted adjudication that concerns a matter addressed in the final debt summary report. Last updated October 6, 2023 at 10:47 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.317 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.317
§ 5101.317. [Former R.C. 122.701, amended and renumbered as R.C. 5101.317 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Designating new or rescinding former community action agency designation
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) Prior to designating a new community action agency or rescinding a community action agency's designation, the department of job and family services shall: (1) Determine whether a community action agency is in compliance with section 5101.315 of the Revised Code; (2) Consult with the chief elected officials of political subdivisions located within a community action agency's service area, and, in designating a new community action agency, obtain their endorsement of the agency in accordance with division (A) of section 5101.315 of the Revised Code; (3) Hold at least one public meeting within a community action agency's service area for the purpose of allowing citizens to comment on the community action agency's delivery of services; (4) Evaluate the proposed service area of the community action agency, and, as may be necessary, modify the boundaries of the service area so that low-income persons in the area are adequately and efficiently served. (B) After providing notice and hearing pursuant to sections 119.01 to 119.13 of the Revised Code, the director of job and family services: (1) May rescind the designation of a community action agency after finding that the agency is not in compliance with any or all of the provisions of section 5101.315 of the Revised Code; (2) Shall rescind the designation of a community action agency upon notification from the chief elected officials of more than one-half of the municipal corporations and the counties within a community currently served by a community action agency that such agency is not endorsed by them and after finding that the agency is not in compliance with section 5101.315 of the Revised Code. Any agency whose designation is rescinded pursuant to this section may appeal from an order rescinding such designation pursuant to section 119.12 of the Revised Code. Last updated October 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5104.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5104 / § 5104.22
§ 5104.22. Enabling approved child day camp to receive public moneys
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) The director of children and youth, pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt rules establishing a procedure and standards for the approval of child day camps that will enable an approved child day camp to receive public moneys pursuant to sections 5104.30 to 5104.39 of the Revised Code. The department of children and youth may charge a reasonable fee to inspect a child day camp to determine whether that child day camp meets the standards set forth in this section or in the rules adopted under this section. The department shall approve any child day camp that meets both of the following: (1) The department inspects the camp and determines that it meets the standards established in rules adopted under this section; (2) The camp is accredited by the American camp association or a nationally recognized organization that accredits child day camps by using standards that the department has determined are substantially similar and comparable to those of the American camp association. The department shall approve a child day camp for a period of one year and shall inspect an approved child day camp on an annual basis. (B) An approved child day camp shall comply with this section and section 5104.21 of the Revised Code and the rules adopted pursuant to those sections. If an approved child day camp is not in substantial compliance with those sections or rules at any time, the department shall terminate the child day camp's approval until the child day camp complies with those sections and rules or for a period of two years, whichever period is longer. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.14 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.14
§ 5164.14. Medicaid coverage for health care service provided by pharmacist
Status: in_force

December 16, 2020 House Bill 203 - 133rd General Assembly The medicaid program may cover a health care service that a pharmacist provides to a medicaid recipient in accordance with Chapter 4729. of the Revised Code, including any of the following services: (A) Managing drug therapy under a consult agreement pursuant to section 4729.39 of the Revised Code; (B) Administering immunizations in accordance with section 4729.41 of the Revised Code; (C) Administering drugs in accordance with section 4729.45 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.06
§ 5165.06. Nursing facility eligibility
Status: in_force

October 24, 2024 Senate Bill 144 - 135th General Assembly Subject to section 5165.072 of the Revised Code, an operator is eligible to enter into and retain a provider agreement for a nursing facility if all of the following apply: (A) The nursing facility is certified by the director of health for participation in medicaid; (B) The nursing facility is licensed by the director of health as a nursing home if so required by law and the operator is the licensed operator of the nursing home; (C) The operator and nursing facility comply with all applicable state and federal laws and rules. Last updated August 30, 2024 at 2:52 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.0221 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.0221
§ 5126.0221. Individuals disqualified from employment by board
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "specialized services" has the same meaning as in section 5123.081 of the Revised Code. (B) Except as provided in division (C) of section 5126.033 of the Revised Code, none of the following individuals may be employed by a county board of developmental disabilities: (1) An employee of an agency contracting with the county board; (2) An immediate family member of an employee of an agency contracting with the county board unless the county board adopts a resolution authorizing the immediate family member's employment with the county board or the employment is consistent with a policy adopted by the board establishing parameters for such employment and the policy is consistent with Chapter 102. and sections 2921.42 , 2921.421 , and 2921.43 of the Revised Code; (3) Except for an individual employed by a county board before October 31, 1980, the spouse, son, or daughter of a county commissioner of the county served by the county board. (4) An individual who is employed by, has an ownership interest in, performs or provides administrative duties for, or is a member of the governing board of an entity that provides specialized services, regardless of whether the entity contracts with the county board to provide specialized services.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.72 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.72
§ 5123.72. Presentation of case for state
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly The director of developmental disabilities shall designate a person to present the case on behalf of the state at the hearings provided for in sections 5123.75 and 5123.76 of the Revised Code. The designee of the director also may present the case on behalf of the state in any other hearing provided for in this chapter.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5160.38 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5160 / § 5160.38
§ 5160.38. Assignment of rights to department
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) The application for, or enrollment in, a medical assistance program constitutes an automatic assignment of rights specified in division (B) of this section to the department of medicaid. This assignment includes the rights of the medical assistance recipient and also the rights of any other member of the assistance group for whom the recipient can legally make an assignment. (B) Pursuant to this section, a medical assistance recipient assigns to the department any rights to medical support available to the recipient or other members of the recipient's assistance group under an order of a court or administrative agency, and any rights to payments by a liable third party for the cost of medical assistance paid on behalf of the recipient or other members of the assistance group. The recipient shall cooperate with the department in obtaining such payments. Medicare benefits shall not be assigned pursuant to this section. Benefits assigned to the department by operation of this section are directly reimbursable to the department by liable third parties. (C) Refusal by a medical assistance recipient to cooperate in obtaining medical assistance paid for self or any other member of the recipient's assistance group renders the recipient ineligible for a medical assistance program, unless cooperation is waived by the department. Eligibility shall continue for any individual who cannot legally assign the individual's own rights and who would have been eligible for a medical assistance program but for the refusal to assign the individual's rights or to cooperate as required by this section by another person legally able to assign the individual's rights. (D) If a medical assistance recipient or any member of the recipient's assistance group becomes ineligible for a medical assistance program, the department shall restore to the recipient or assistance group member any future rights to benefits assigned under this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5145.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5145 / § 5145.16
§ 5145.16. Work programs
Status: in_force

March 17, 1998 Senate Bill 111 - 122nd General Assembly (A) The department of rehabilitation and correction shall establish work programs in some form of labor for as many prisoners as possible who are in the custody of the department, except those prisoners who are not able to perform labor because of illness or other health problems, security requirements, routine processing, disciplinary action, or other reasonable circumstances or because they are engaged in educational, vocational, or other training. The labor may be in the department's manufacturing and service industries and agriculture, in private industry or agriculture that is located within or outside the department's institutions, in public works, in institutional jobs necessary for the proper maintenance and operation of the institutions under the control of the department, or in any other appropriate form of labor. The department, pursuant to the program, shall attempt to engage in work programs as many prisoners as possible who are in its custody and who are eligible for the programs. The department is not required to engage every eligible prisoner in a work program when sufficient money, facilities, or jobs are not available for the program; however, the department shall continuously seek sources of labor for as many eligible prisoners as possible. (B) The department, in establishing and administering work programs established pursuant to division (A) of this section, shall do all of the following: (1) Assign a level, grade within the level, or other category for each job within the penal manufacturing and service industries and agriculture, each job within private industry and agriculture, each institutional job, each job in public works, and every other job for which prisoners are eligible to perform labor. The level, grade, and other categorization of each job shall be dependent upon the skills required to perform the job, the security that is present at the job, the salary and other compensation for the job, and any other relevant characteristics of the job. (2) Establish for each institution controlled by the department a system for assigning prisoners to perform jobs, for periodically evaluating the job performance of each prisoner, and for periodically evaluating the qualifications of each prisoner for other jobs; (3) Transfer prisoners, whenever appropriate, to institutions controlled by the department to enable a prisoner to be engaged in a different job; (4) Whenever appropriate, permit prisoners to be released on transitional control, in addition to other authorized reasons for transferring a prisoner to transitional control, to gain post-release employment in private industry or agriculture; (5) Attempt to provide jobs and job training for prisoners that will be useful to the prisoners in obtaining employment when released, except that institutional jobs at the institutions need not be related to employment outside the institution; (6) Establish an accounting system to administer and allocate the earnings of the prisoners as provided by division (C)(8) of this section; (7) Require all persons in private industry or agriculture who employ prisoners to meet all applicable work safety standards. (C) The department, in establishing and administering the work programs required to be established by division (A) of this section, may do any of the following: (1) Enter into contracts with private industry and agriculture and receive grants to establish test work programs within or outside institutions under the control of the department; (2) Enter into contracts with private industry for the establishment of manufacturing and service industries within or close to institutions under the control of the department for the employment of prisoners; (3) Enter into contracts with private industry and agriculture to provide work programs for prisoners; (4) Lease or sell state-owned land for the establishment of private industry or agriculture upon the condition that the majority of the industrial or agricultural jobs created by the industry or agriculture be given to prisoners; (5) Construct factories or shops to provide work programs for prisoners; (6) Enter into contracts with labor organizations, except that the department shall not permit any prisoners to establish their own labor organization and that a labor organization shall not represent any prisoners employed within an institution controlled by the department; (7) Enter into any other contracts or perform any other functions that are necessary to comply with division (A) of this section or section 5145.161 of the Revised Code; (8) Allocate the earnings of the prisoners as follows: (a) Up to twenty-five per cent of the earnings to reimburse the state for room and board and for the expense of providing employment to the prisoner. (b) Up to twenty-five per cent of the earnings to be distributed to one or both of the following: (i) To the victims of the prisoner's offenses for restitution if the prisoner voluntarily requests or is under court order to make restitution payments; (ii) To the reparations fund established pursuant to division (A) of section 2743.191 of the Revised Code if the prisoner voluntarily participates in an approved work and training program under this section. (c) Up to twenty-five per cent of the earnings to the prisoner's dependents. (d) At least twenty-five per cent of the earnings to the account of the prisoner. (D) A prisoner who is engaged in a work program that is established under this section and in which the prisoner is required to operate a motor vehicle, as defined in division (I) of section 4509.01 of the Revised Code, is an "employee" of the state for the sole purpose of liability insurance coverage pursuant to section 9.83 of the Revised Code to cover the prisoner's required operation of the motor vehicle. A prisoner enrolled in a work program established by the department of rehabilitation and correction shall not be considered as an employee of the state under any other circumstance or for any other purpose.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5107.75 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5107 / § 5107.75
§ 5107.75. Cash assistance under Ohio works first is inalienable
Status: in_force

October 1, 1997 House Bill 408 - 122nd General Assembly Cash assistance under Ohio works first is inalienable whether by way of assignment, charge, or otherwise and exempt from execution, attachment, garnishment, and other like process.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.428 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.428
§ 5120.428. Request for review
Status: in_force

November 3, 1999 House Bill 62 - 123rd General Assembly (A) If a prisoner confined in a state correctional institution submits a timely written review request under division (B)(3) of section 5120.427 of the Revised Code, the warden of the state correctional institution in which the prisoner is confined or the warden's designee promptly shall forward the withheld material to the publication review committee. As soon as is practicable after receipt of the withheld material, the publication review committee shall review the material to determine whether it is a prohibited inflammatory material or another type of material. (B) If the publication review committee determines that the withheld material is not a prohibited inflammatory material, the committee shall cause the withheld material to be promptly forwarded to the prisoner who requested the review. (C) If the publication review committee determines that the withheld material is a prohibited inflammatory material, the committee shall forward the material to the warden or the warden's designee for disposal in the manner considered to be most appropriate under the circumstances.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5167.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5167 / § 5167.22
§ 5167.22. Recoupment of overpayment
Status: in_force

October 17, 2019 House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly When a medicaid managed care organization seeks to recoup an overpayment made to a provider, it shall provide the provider all of the details of the recoupment, including all of the following information: (A) The name, address, and medicaid identification number of the enrollee to whom the services were provided; (B) The date or dates that the services were provided; (C) The reason for the recoupment; (D) The method by which the provider may contest the proposed recoupment.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.38 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.38
§ 5119.38. Drivers' intervention program
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly A drivers' intervention program may be used as an alternative to a term of imprisonment for an offender sentenced pursuant to division (G)(1)(a) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code, if it is certified by the director of behavioral health pursuant to this section. No drivers' intervention program shall be used as an alternative to a term of imprisonment that is imposed pursuant to division (G)(1)(b), (c), (d), or (e) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code. To qualify for certification by the director and to receive funds from the statewide treatment and prevention fund created by section 4301.30 of the Revised Code in any amounts and at any times that the director determines are appropriate, a drivers' intervention program shall meet state minimum standards that the director shall establish by rule. The rules shall include, but are not limited to, standards governing program course hours and content, qualifications of program personnel, methods of identifying and testing participants to isolate participants with alcohol and drug abuse problems, referral of such persons to community addiction services providers, the prompt notification of courts by program operators of the completion of the programs by persons required by courts to attend them, and record keeping, including methods of tracking participants for a reasonable time after they have left the program. The director shall issue a certificate to any qualified drivers' intervention program. The certificate is valid for three years. Last updated August 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5147.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5147 / § 5147.15
§ 5147.15. Employment of prisoners
Status: in_force

November 8, 1990 House Bill 51, House Bill 588 - 118th General Assembly Except for articles manufactured in a county jail industry program established under section 5147.30 of the Revised Code, no articles other than those specified in section 5147.13 of the Revised Code shall be manufactured by the labor of prisoners in any jail or workhouse. This section does not prevent the employment by any political subdivision of any person so confined, elsewhere than within the jail or workhouse where that person has been committed.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.11
§ 5119.11. Medical director; qualifications; duties
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) The director of behavioral health shall appoint a medical director who is eligible or certified by the American board of psychiatry and neurology or the American osteopathic board of neurology and psychiatry, and has at least five years of clinical and two years of administrative experience. The medical director shall also have certification or substantial training and experience in the field of addiction medicine or addiction psychiatry. The medical director shall be responsible for decisions relating to medical diagnosis, treatment, prevention, rehabilitation, quality assurance, and the clinical aspects of addiction services and mental health services involving all of the following: (1) Licensure of hospitals, residential facilities, and outpatient facilities; (2) Research; (3) Community addiction and mental health plans; (4) Certification and delivery of addiction and mental health services. (B) The medical director shall also exercise clinical supervision of the chief clinical officers of hospitals and institutions under the jurisdiction of the department and shall review and approve decisions relating to the employment of the chief clinical officers. The medical director or the medical director's designee shall advise the director on matters relating to licensure, research, the certification and delivery of addiction services and mental health services, and community addiction and mental health plans. The medical director shall participate in the development of guidelines for community addiction and mental health plans. The director of behavioral health may establish other duties of the medical director. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5116.23 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5116 / § 5116.23
§ 5116.23. Lead agency responsibilities
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly (A) Each lead agency, in consultation with the local workforce development board that serves the same county for which the lead agency has been designated to serve as lead agency, shall, in accordance with rules adopted under section 5116.06 of the Revised Code, do all of the following for the fiscal biennial period, or part thereof, for which it is so designated: (1) Prepare and submit to the department of job and family services a plan containing standing procedures for determining and maintaining individuals' eligibility to participate in the comprehensive case management and employment program; (2) Administer the program in the county for which it is designated to serve as lead agency; (3) Partner with the other local participating agency and subcontractors to do both of the following: (a) Actively coordinate activities regarding the program with the other local participating agency and any subcontractors; (b) Help both local participating agencies and any subcontractors to use their expertise in administering the program. (B) If a board of county commissioners redesignates the lead agency under division (B) of section 5116.22 of the Revised Code during a fiscal biennial period, the new lead agency shall prepare and submit to the department of job and family services a new plan under division (A)(1) of this section not later than sixty days after the redesignation takes effect. (C) Each local workforce development board shall ensure that the plans prepared under division (A)(1) of this section by the lead agencies serving the same counties the board serves are included in the board's workforce development plan prepared under section 6301.07 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5162.71 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5162 / § 5162.71
§ 5162.71. Implementation of systems to improve health and reduce health disparities
Status: in_force

March 20, 2014 Senate Bill 206 - 130th General Assembly The medicaid director shall implement within the medicaid program systems that do both of the following: (A) Improve the health of medicaid recipients through the use of population health measures; (B) Reduce health disparities, including, but not limited to, those within racial and ethnic populations.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.032 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.032
§ 5123.032. Closure of a developmental center
Status: in_force

June 30, 2011 Senate Bill 171 - 129th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "developmental center" means any institution or facility of the department of developmental disabilities that, on or after January 30, 2004, is named, designated, or referred to as a developmental center. (B) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any closure of a developmental center shall be subject to, and in accordance with, this section. (C) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, at least ten days prior to making any official, public announcement that the governor intends to close one or more developmental centers, the governor shall notify the general assembly in writing that the governor intends to close one or more developmental centers. The governor shall notify the general assembly in writing of the prior announcement and that the governor intends to close the center identified in the prior announcement, and the notification to the general assembly shall constitute, for purposes of this section, the governor's official, public announcement that the governor intends to close that center. The notice required by this division shall identify by name each developmental center that the governor intends to close or, if the governor has not determined any specific developmental center to close, shall state the governor's general intent to close one or more developmental centers. When the governor notifies the general assembly as required by this division, the legislative service commission promptly shall conduct an independent study of the developmental centers of the department of developmental disabilities and of the department's operation of the centers, and the study shall address relevant criteria and factors, including, but not limited to, all of the following: (1) The manner in which the closure of developmental centers in general would affect the safety, health, well-being, and lifestyle of the centers' residents and their family members and would affect public safety and, if the governor's notice identifies by name one or more developmental centers that the governor intends to close, the manner in which the closure of each center so identified would affect the safety, health, well-being, and lifestyle of the center's residents and their family members and would affect public safety; (2) The availability of alternate facilities; (3) The cost effectiveness of the facilities identified for closure; (4) A comparison of the cost of residing at a facility identified for closure and the cost of new living arrangements; (5) The geographic factors associated with each facility and its proximity to other similar facilities; (6) The impact of collective bargaining on facility operations; (7) The utilization and maximization of resources; (8) Continuity of the staff and ability to serve the facility population; (9) Continuing costs following closure of a facility; (10) The impact of the closure on the local economy; (11) Alternatives and opportunities for consolidation with other facilities; (12) How the closing of a facility identified for closure relates to the department's plans for the future of developmental centers in this state; (13) The effect of the closure of developmental centers in general upon the state's fiscal resources and fiscal status and, if the governor's notice identifies by name one or more developmental centers that the governor intends to close, the effect of the closure of each center so identified upon the state's fiscal resources and fiscal status. (D) The legislative service commission shall complete the study required by division (C) of this section, and prepare a report that contains its findings, not later than sixty days after the governor makes the official, public announcement that the governor intends to close one or more developmental centers as described in division (C) of this section. The commission shall provide a copy of the report to each member of the general assembly who requests a copy of the report.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5124.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5124 / § 5124.06
§ 5124.06. Eligibility to enter into provider agreements
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) Subject to section 5124.072 of the Revised Code, an ICF/IID operator is eligible to enter into a provider agreement for an ICF/IID if all of the following apply: (1) The ICF/IID is certified by the director of health for participation in medicaid; (2) The ICF/IID is licensed by the director of developmental disabilities as a residential facility; (3) Subject to division (B) of this section, the operator and ICF/IID comply with all applicable state and federal statutes and rules. (B) A state rule that requires an ICF/IID operator to have received approval of a plan for the proposed ICF/IID pursuant to section 5123.042 of the Revised Code as a condition of the operator being eligible to receive medicaid payments for ICF/IID services the ICF/IID provides does not apply if, under former section 5123.193 of the Revised Code as enacted by Am. Sub. H.B. 1 of the 128th general assembly or section 5123.197 of the Revised Code, a residential facility license was obtained or modified for the ICF/IID without obtaining approval of such a plan.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5163.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5163 / § 5163.22
§ 5163.22. Life insurance policies
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) The general assembly hereby finds that the state has an insurable interest in medicaid recipients because of the state's statutory right to recover from the estate of a recipient state funds used to provide the recipient with medicaid services. (B) As used in this section: (1) "Beneficiary" means the person or entity designated in a life insurance policy to receive the proceeds of the policy on the death of the insured or maturity of the policy. (2) "Owner" means the person who has the right to designate the beneficiary of a life insurance policy and to change the designation. (C) The value of a life insurance policy that would otherwise be considered a resource in determining eligibility for the medicaid program shall be excluded from any determination of a person's eligibility for the medicaid program if the owner designates the department of medicaid as beneficiary of the policy. The department may pay premiums to keep the policy in force. Premiums paid by the department are medicaid payments correctly paid on behalf of a medicaid recipient and subject to recovery under section 5162.21 of the Revised Code. (D) The medicaid director shall deposit the proceeds of a life insurance policy that do not exceed the amount the department may recover against the property and estate of the owner under section 5162.21 of the Revised Code into the general revenue fund. The director shall pay any remaining proceeds to the person designated by the owner. If the owner failed to designate a person, the director shall pay the remaining proceeds to the surviving spouse, or, if there is no surviving spouse, to the estate of the owner. (E) If the owner designates the department of medicaid as the policy's beneficiary, the department shall notify the owner that the owner may designate a person to receive proceeds of the policy that exceed the amount the department may recover against the owner's property and estate under section 5162.21 of the Revised Code. The designation shall be made on a form provided by the department.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.0210 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.0210
§ 5126.0210. Members of board to attend annual in-service training
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly Each year, each member of a county board of developmental disabilities shall attend at least four hours of in-service training provided or approved by the department of developmental disabilities. This training shall not be considered regularly scheduled meetings of the county board.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.97 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.97
§ 5123.97. Record of probate judge
Status: in_force

July 1, 1975 Senate Bill 336 - 110th General Assembly In cases of proceedings held under this chapter, the probate judge shall file and preserve all papers filed with him and make such entries upon his docket as, together with the papers so filed, will constitute a complete record of each case determined by him. Last updated February 2, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5162.251 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5162 / § 5162.251
§ 5162.251. State directed payment program reports
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly The department of medicaid shall prepare and submit quarterly reports to the legislative service commission and the chairpersons of the standing committees in the house of representatives and the senate with jurisdiction over medicaid regarding any new state directed payment programs established under section 5162.25 of the Revised Code. Last updated August 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.50 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.50
§ 5120.50. Interstate correction compact
Status: in_force

December 28, 1976 House Bill 47 - 111th General Assembly (A) The party states, desiring by common action to fully utilize and improve their programs for the confinement, treatment, and rehabilitation of various types of offenders, declare that it is the policy of each of the party states to provide institutional facilities and such programs on a basis of cooperation with one another, thereby serving the best interest of such offenders and of society and effecting economies in capital expenditures and operational costs. The purpose of this compact is to provide for the mutual development and execution of such programs of cooperation for the confinement, treatment, and rehabilitation of offenders with the most economical use of human and material resources. (B) DEFINITIONS As used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (1) "State" means a state of the United States; the United States; a territory or possession of the United States; the District of Columbia; the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. (2) "Sending state" means a state party to this compact in which conviction or court commitment was had. (3) "Receiving state" means a state party to this compact to which an inmate is sent for confinement other than a state in which conviction or court commitment was had. (4) "Inmate" means a male or female offender who is committed, under sentence to or confined in a state penal or state reformatory institution. (5) "Institution" means any state penal or state reformatory facility, including but not limited to a facility for the mentally ill or mentally defective, in which inmates as defined in division (B)(4) of this section may lawfully be confined. (C) CONTRACTS (1) Each party state may make one or more contracts with any one or more of the other party states for the confinement of inmates on behalf of a sending state in institutions situated within receiving states. Any such contract shall provide for: (a) Its duration; (b) Payments to be made to the receiving state by the sending state for inmate maintenance, extraordinary medical and dental expenses, and any participation in or receipt by inmates of rehabilitative or correctional services, facilities, programs, or treatment not reasonably included as part of normal maintenance; (c) Participation in programs of inmate employment, if any; the disposition or crediting of any payments received by inmates on account thereof; and the crediting of proceeds from or disposal of any products resulting therefrom; (d) Delivery and retaking of inmates; (e) Such other matters as may be necessary and appropriate to fix the obligations, responsibilities, and rights of the sending and receiving states. (2) The terms and provisions of this compact shall be a part of any contract entered into by the authority of or pursuant thereto, and nothing in any such contract shall be inconsistent therewith. (D) PROCEDURES AND RIGHTS (1) Whenever the duly constituted authorities in a state party to this compact, and which has entered into a contract pursuant to division (C) of this section, shall decide that confinement in, or transfer of an inmate to, an institution within the territory of another party state is necessary or desirable in order to provide adequate quarters and care, or an appropriate program of rehabilitation or treatment, said officials may direct that the confinement be within an institution within the territory of said other party state, the receiving state to act in that regard solely as agent for the sending state. (2) No transfer shall take place pursuant to this compact unless one of the following has occurred: (a) the inmate has given his written consent to such transfer; (b) in the event the inmate does not consent to such transfer, a hearing shall be held and a record made indicating the reasons for said transfer. (3) The appropriate officials of any state party to this compact shall have access, at all reasonable times, to any institution in which it has a contractural right to confine inmates for the purpose of inspecting the facilities thereof and visiting such of its inmates as may be confined in the institution. (4) Inmates confined in an institution pursuant to the terms of this compact shall at all times be subject to the jurisdiction of the sending state and may at any time be removed therefrom for transfer to a prison or other institution within the sending state, for transfer to another institution in which the sending state may have a contractual or other right to confine inmates, for release on probation or parole, for discharge, or for any other purpose permitted by the laws of the sending state; provided that the sending state shall continue to be obligated to such payments as may be required pursuant to the terms of any contract entered into under the terms of division (C) of this section. (5) Each receiving state shall provide regular reports, no less than semiannually, to each sending state on the inmates of that sending state in institutions pursuant to this compact, including a conduct record of each inmate and certify said record to the official designated by the sending state, in order that each inmate may have official review of his or her record in determining and altering the disposition of said inmate in accordance with the law which may obtain in the sending state and in order that the same may be a source of information for the sending state. (6) All inmates who may be confined in an institution pursuant to the provisions of this compact shall be treated in a reasonable and humane manner and shall be treated equally with such similar inmates of the receiving state as may be confined in the same institution. The fact of confinement in a receiving state shall not deprive any inmate so confined of any legal rights which said inmate would have had if confined in an appropriate institution of the sending state. (7) Any hearing or hearings to which an inmate confined pursuant to this compact may be entitled by the laws of the sending state may be had before the appropriate authorities of the sending state, or of the receiving state if authorized by the sending state. The receiving state shall provide adequate facilities for such hearings as may be conducted by the appropriate officials of a sending state. In the event such hearing or hearings are had before officials of the receiving state, the governing law shall be that of the sending state and a record of the hearing or hearings as prescribed by the sending state shall be made. Said record together with any recommendations of the hearing officials shall be transmitted forthwith to the official or officials before whom the hearing would have been had if it had taken place in the sending state. In any and all proceedings had pursuant to the provisions of this division, the officials of the receiving state shall act solely as agents of the sending state and no final determination shall be made in any matter except by the appropriate officials of the sending state. (8) Any inmate confined pursuant to this compact shall be released within the territory of the sending state unless the inmate, and the sending and receiving states, shall agree upon release in some other place. The sending state shall bear the cost of such return to its territory. (9) Any inmate confined pursuant to the terms of this compact shall have any and all rights to participate in and derive any benefits, or incur or be relieved of any obligations, or have such obligations modified or his status changed on account of any action or proceeding in which he could have participated if confined in any appropriate institution of the sending state located within such state. (10) The parent, guardian, trustee, or other person or persons entitled under the laws of the sending state to act for, advise, or otherwise function with respect to any inmate shall not be deprived of or restricted in his exercise of any power in respect of any inmate confined pursuant to the terms of this compact. (E) ACTS NOT REVIEWABLE IN RECEIVING STATE: EXTRADITION (1) Any decision of the sending state in respect of any matter over which it retains jurisdiction pursuant to this compact shall be conclusive upon and not reviewable within the receiving state, but if at the time the sending state seeks to remove an inmate from an institution in the receiving state there is pending against the inmate within such state any criminal charge or if the inmate is formally accused of having committed within such state a criminal offense, the inmate shall not be returned without the consent of the receiving state until discharged from prosecution or other form of proceeding, imprisonment or detention for such offense. The duly accredited officers of the sending state shall be permitted to transport inmates pursuant to this compact through any and all states party to this compact without interference. (2) An inmate who escapes from an institution in which he is confined pursuant to this compact shall be deemed a fugitive from the sending state and from the state in which the institution is situated. In the case of an escape to a jurisdiction other than the sending or receiving state, the responsibility for institution of extradition or rendition proceedings shall be that of the sending state, but nothing contained herein shall be construed to prevent or affect the activities of officers and agencies of any jurisdiction directed toward the apprehension and return of an escapee. (F) FEDERAL AID Any state party to this compact may accept federal aid for use in connection with any institution or program, the use of which is or may be affected by this compact or any contract pursuant hereto. Any inmate in a receiving state pursuant to this compact may participate in any such federally aided program or activity for which the sending and receiving states have made contractual provision, provided that if such program or activity is not part of the customary correctional regimen, the express consent of the appropriate official of the sending state shall be required therefor. (G) ENTRY INTO FORCE This compact shall enter into force and become effective and binding upon the states so acting when it has been enacted into law by any two states. Thereafter, this compact shall enter into force and become effective and binding as to any other of said states upon similar action by such state. (H) WITHDRAWAL AND TERMINATION This compact shall continue in force and remain binding upon a party state until it shall have enacted a statute repealing the same and providing for the sending of formal written notice of withdrawal from the compact to the appropriate officials of all other party states. An actual withdrawal shall not take effect until one year after the notices provided in said statute have been sent. Such withdrawal shall not relieve the withdrawing state from its obligations assumed hereunder prior to the effective date of withdrawal. Before the effective date of withdrawal, a withdrawing state shall remove to its territory, at its own expense, such inmates as it may have confined pursuant to the provisions of this compact. (I) OTHER ARRANGEMENTS UNAFFECTED Nothing contained in this compact shall be construed to abrogate or impair any agreement or other arrangement which a party state may have with a nonparty state for the confinement, rehabilitation, or treatment of inmates nor to repeal any oher laws of a party state authorizing the making of cooperative institutional arrangements. (J) CONSTRUCTION AND SEVERABILITY The provisions of this compact shall be liberally construed and shall be severable. If any phrase, clause, sentence, or provision of this compact is declared to be contrary to the constitution of any participating state or of the United States, or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this compact and the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or circumstance shall not be affected thereby. If this compact shall be held contrary to the constitution of any state participating therein, the compact shall remain in full force and effect as to the remaining states and in full force and effect as to the state affected as to all severable matters. (K) POWERS The director of the department of rehabilitation and correction is hereby authorized and directed to do all things necessary or incidental to the carrying out of the compact in every particular and he may in his discretion delegate this authority to the deputy director of the department of rehabilitation and correction.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.88 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.88
§ 5165.88. Confidentiality
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A)(1) Except as required by court order, as necessary for the administration or enforcement of any statute relating to nursing facilities, or as provided in division (C) of this section, the department of medicaid and any contracting agency shall not release any of the following information without the permission of the individual or the individual's legal representative: (a) The identity of any resident of a nursing facility; (b) The identity of any individual who submits a complaint about a nursing facility; (c) The identity of any individual who provides the department or agency with information about a nursing facility and has requested confidentiality; (d) Any information that reasonably would tend to disclose the identity of any individual described in division (A)(1)(a) to (c) of this section. (2) An agency or individual to whom the department or contracting agency is required, by court order or for the administration or enforcement of a statute relating to nursing facilities, to release information described in division (A)(1) of this section shall not release the information without the permission of the individual who would be or would reasonably tend to be identified, or of the individual's legal representative, unless the agency or individual is required to release it by division (C) of this section, by court order, or for the administration or enforcement of a statute relating to nursing facilities. (B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, any record that identifies an individual described in division (A)(1) of this section or that reasonably would tend to identify such an individual is not a public record for the purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code, and is not subject to inspection and copying under section 1347.08 of the Revised Code. (C) If the department or a contracting agency, or an agency or individual to whom the department or contracting agency was required by court order or for administration or enforcement of a statute relating to nursing facilities to release information described in division (A)(1) of this section, uses information in any administrative or judicial proceeding against a facility that reasonably would tend to identify an individual described in division (A)(1) of this section, the department, agency, or individual shall disclose that information to the facility. However, the department, agency, or individual shall not disclose information that directly identifies an individual described in divisions (A)(1)(a) to (c) of this section, unless the individual is to testify in the proceedings. (D) No person shall knowingly register a false complaint about a nursing facility with the department or a contracting agency, or knowingly swear or affirm the truth of a false complaint, when the allegation is made for the purpose of incriminating another.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5107.42 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5107 / § 5107.42
§ 5107.42. Assignment to work activities and developmental activities
Status: in_force

July 1, 2017 Senate Bill 319 - 131st General Assembly (A) Except as provided in divisions (B) and (C) of this section, county departments of job and family services shall assign each minor head of household and adult participating in Ohio works first, other than a minor head of household participating in the LEAP program, to one or more work activities and developmental activities. If a county department assigns a minor head of household or adult to the work activity established under division (H) of section 5107.60 of the Revised Code, the county department shall make reasonable efforts to assign the minor head of household or adult to at least one other work activity at the same time. If a county department assigns a minor head of household or adult to the work activity established under section 5107.58 of the Revised Code, the county department shall assign the minor head of household or adult to at least one other work activity at the same time. A county department may not assign a minor head of household or adult to a work activity established under division (D) of section 5107.60 of the Revised Code for more than twelve months. (B) If a county department determines that a minor head of household or adult has a temporary or permanent barrier to participation in a work activity, it may assign the minor head of household or adult to one or more alternative work activities instead of assigning the minor head of household or adult to one or more work activities or developmental activities. A county department may not assign more than twenty per cent of minor heads of household and adults participating in Ohio works first to an alternative work activity. County departments shall establish standards for determining whether a minor head of household or adult has a temporary or permanent barrier to participating in a work activity. The following are examples of circumstances that a county department may consider when it develops its standards: (1) A minor head of household or adult provides the county department documented evidence that one or more members of the assistance group have been the victim of domestic violence and are in imminent danger of suffering continued domestic violence; (2) A minor head of household or adult is actively participating in alcohol and drug addiction services certified by the department of mental health and addiction services under section 5119.36 of the Revised Code; (3) An assistance group is homeless. (C) A county department may exempt a minor head of household or adult who is unmarried and caring for a minor child under twelve months of age from the work requirements of sections 5107.40 to 5107.69 of the Revised Code for not more than twelve months. While exempt, the minor head of household or adult shall be disregarded in determining whether the county department is meeting the requirement of section 5107.44 of the Revised Code. The county department shall assign the exempt minor head of household or adult to at least one developmental activity for a number of hours a week the county department determines. The county department may assign the exempt minor head of household or adult to one or more work activities, in addition to developmental activities, for a number of hours the county department determines. Division (B) of section 5107.43 of the Revised Code does not apply to the exempt minor head of household or adult. (D) A county department may reassign a minor head of household or adult when the county department determines reassignment will aid the assistance group in achieving self sufficiency and personal responsibility and shall make reassignments when circumstances requiring reassignment occur, including when a temporary barrier to participating in a work activity is eliminated. A county department shall include assignments in the self-sufficiency contract entered into under section 5107.14 of the Revised Code and shall amend the contract when a reassignment is made to include the reassignment in the contract. Last updated October 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.64 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.64
§ 5120.64. Rules regarding the return of Ohio prisoners from outside of this state into this state by a private person or entity
Status: in_force

March 15, 2001 House Bill 661 - 123rd General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Ohio prisoner" means a person who is charged with or convicted of a crime in this state or who is alleged or found to be a delinquent child in this state. (2) "Out-of-state prisoner" and "private contractor" have the same meaning as in section 9.07 of the Revised Code. (B) Not later than nine months after the effective date of this section, the department of rehabilitation and correction, in consultation with the attorney general, the county commissioners association of Ohio, and the buckeye state sheriffs association, shall adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code regarding the return of Ohio prisoners from outside of this state into this state by a private person or entity pursuant to a contract entered into with a sheriff under authority of division (E) of section 311.29 of the Revised Code or the adult parole authority under authority of division (B) of section 5149.03 of the Revised Code. The rules shall establish all of the following: (1) Standards that specify required training of officers and employees of the private person or entity that actually engage in the return of the prisoners, including standards related to the length and nature of the training; (2) Physical standards for vehicles used in the return of the prisoners; (3) standards that govern the responsibility of the private person or entity to do one or more of the following: (a) Provide an adequate policy of liability insurance to cover all injuries, death, or loss to person or property that arise from or is related to its return of the prisoners; (b) Indemnify and hold harmless the sheriff, the county, and all county officers and employees regarding a contract for the return of prisoners entered into under division (E) of section 311.29 of the Revised Code or the department of rehabilitation and correction and all state officers and employees regarding a contract for the return of prisoners entered into under division (B) of section 5149.03 of the Revised Code; (c) File a performance bond or other surety to guarantee performance. (4) Standards requiring the private person or entity to have criminal records checks and pre-employment drug testing performed for officers and employees of the private person or entity that actually engage in the return of the prisoners and to have a random drug-screening policy and be able to document compliance with the policy; (5) Standards requiring the private person or entity to have twenty-four-hour operations staff to constantly monitor activities in the field and to have on-board, constant communication ability with vehicles in the field; (6) Standards requiring the officers and employees of the private person or entity that actually engage in the return of the prisoners to be CPR and first-aid certified. (C) Upon the effective date of the rules adopted under division (B) of this section, in no case shall a private person or entity return Ohio prisoners from outside of this state into this state for a sheriff or for the adult parole authority unless the private person or entity complies with all applicable standards that are contained in the rules. (D) This section does not apply regarding any out-of-state prisoner who is brought into this state to be housed pursuant to section 9.07 of the Revised Code in a correctional facility in this state that is managed and operated by a private contractor.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.161 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.161
§ 5103.161. Notification of foster caregiver or relative with custody of permanent custody motion or prospective adoption placement
Status: in_force

October 5, 2000 House Bill 448 - 123rd General Assembly As used in this section, "permanent custody" has the same meaning as in section 2151.011 of the Revised Code. If a private child placing agency or public children services agency has placed a child in a foster home or with a relative of the child, other than a parent of the child, the agency shall notify the child's foster caregiver or relative if the agency seeks permanent custody of the child, or, if the agency already has permanent custody of the child, seeks to place the child for adoption. The notice also shall inform the foster caregiver or relative that the foster caregiver or relative can be considered for adoption. If the foster caregiver or relative informs the agency that the foster caregiver or relative wants to adopt the child, the agency shall inform the foster caregiver or relative of the process for obtaining an application to adopt the child and that the child may be placed for adoption in another home even if the foster caregiver or relative submits the application. If the agency is given permanent custody of the child and the foster caregiver or relative has informed the agency of the foster caregiver's or relative's desire to adopt the child, the agency shall consider giving preference to an adult relative over a nonrelative caregiver when determining an adoptive placement for the child, provided the adult relative satisfies all relevant child protection standards and the agency determines that the placement is in the child's best interest.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.186 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.186
§ 5119.186. Conduct collaborative training efforts for students
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) The director of behavioral health or the managing officer of an institution of the department may enter into an agreement with boards of trustees or boards of directors of one or more institutions of higher education or hospitals licensed pursuant to section 5119.33 of the Revised Code to establish, manage, and conduct collaborative training efforts for students enrolled in courses of studies for occupations or professions that involve the care and treatment for persons receiving addiction or mental health services. (B) Such collaborative training efforts may include but are not limited to programs in psychiatry, psychology, nursing, social work, counseling professions, and others considered appropriate by the director of behavioral health. Any such program shall be approved or accredited by its respective professional organization or state board having jurisdiction over the profession. (1) The department shall require that the following be provided for in agreements between the department and institutions of higher education or hospitals licensed pursuant to section 5119.33 of the Revised Code: (a) Establishment of inter-disciplinary committees to advise persons responsible for training programs. Each committee shall have representation drawn from the geographical community the institution of higher education or hospital serves and shall include representatives of agencies, boards, targeted populations as determined by the department, racial and ethnic minority groups, and publicly funded programs; (b) Funding procedures; (c) Specific outcomes and accomplishments that are expected or required of a program under such agreement; (d) The types of services to be provided under such agreement. (2) The department may require that the following be provided for in agreements between the department and institutions of higher education or hospitals licensed pursuant to section 5119.33 of the Revised Code: (a) Special arrangements for individual residents or trainees to encourage their employment in publicly funded settings upon completion of their training; (b) Procedures for the selection of residents or trainees to promote the admission, retention, and graduation of women, minorities, and disabled persons; (c) Cross-cultural training and other subjects considered necessary to enhance training efforts and the care and treatment of patients and clients; (d) Funding of faculty positions oriented toward meeting the needs of publicly funded programs. Subject to appropriations by the general assembly, the director of behavioral health has final approval of the funding of these collaborative training efforts. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.691 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.691
§ 5123.691. Admission to specialized treatment unit for minors
Status: in_force

October 17, 2019 House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "mental illness" has the same meaning as in section 5122.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The managing officer of an institution, with the concurrence of the chief program director, may admit into a specialized treatment unit for minors a minor ages ten to seventeen who is in behavior crisis and has serious behavioral challenges if one of the following applies: (1) The minor has an intellectual disability. (2) The minor has autism spectrum disorder. (3) The minor has a dual diagnosis of an intellectual disability and mental illness. (4) The minor has a dual diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder and mental illness. (C)(1) The admission of a minor into a specialized treatment unit shall be based upon the availability of beds at the institution and the clinical treatment needs of the minor. (2) The department of developmental disabilities may establish other criteria for admitting a minor into a specialized treatment unit. (D) Before a minor may be admitted into a specialized treatment unit, the minor's parent or legal guardian, the county board of developmental disabilities, and the department shall enter into a memorandum of understanding setting forth the roles and responsibilities of each of the parties regarding the care and treatment of the minor and specifying the duration of admission in the specialized treatment unit. (E)(1) The initial duration of admission for a minor in a specialized treatment unit shall not exceed one hundred eighty days. (2) The parent or legal guardian of a minor may petition the department to extend the duration of a minor's admission in a specialized treatment unit at least thirty days before the expiration of the minor's term of admission in the specialized treatment unit. The department, in its discretion, may grant or deny a petition for extended admission, but may not extend a minor's duration of admission in a specialized treatment unit beyond one year. (3) Upon the expiration of a minor's term of admission in a specialized treatment unit, the minor shall be returned to the care of the minor's parent or legal guardian. (F) The managing officer of an institution may discharge a minor from a specialized treatment unit in accordance with division (C) of section 5123.69 of the Revised Code. The uniform procedures of discharge established by rules adopted under division (G)(7) of section 5123.19 of the Revised Code shall not apply to the discharge of a minor from a specialized treatment unit.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5166.301 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5166 / § 5166.301
§ 5166.301. Home care attendant services providers
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The medicaid director shall enter into a provider agreement with an individual to authorize the individual to provide home care attendant services to consumers if the individual does both of the following: (A) Agrees to comply with the requirements of sections 5166.30 to 5166.3010 and rules adopted under section 5166.02 of the Revised Code; (B) Provides the director evidence satisfactory to the director of all of the following: (1) That the individual either meets the personnel qualifications specified in 42 C.F.R. 484.4 for home health aides or has successfully completed at least one of the following: (a) A competency evaluation program or training and competency evaluation program approved or conducted by the director of health under section 3721.31 of the Revised Code; (b) A training program approved by the appropriate director that includes training in at least all of the following and provides training equivalent to a training and competency evaluation program specified in division (B)(1)(a) of this section or meets the requirements of 42 C.F.R. 484.36(a): (i) Basic home safety; (ii) Universal precautions for the prevention of disease transmission, including hand-washing and proper disposal of bodily waste and medical instruments that are sharp or may produce sharp pieces if broken; (iii) Personal care aide services; (iv) The labeling, counting, and storage requirements for schedule II, III, IV, and V medications. (2) That the individual has obtained a certificate of completion of a course in first aid from a first aid course to which all of the following apply: (a) It is not provided solely through the internet. (b) It includes hands-on training provided by a first aid instructor who is qualified to provide such training according to standards set in rules adopted under section 5166.02 of the Revised Code. (c) It requires the individual to demonstrate successfully that the individual has learned the first aid taught in the course. (3) That the individual meets any other requirements for the medicaid provider agreement specified in rules adopted under section 5166.02 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5122.17 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5122 / § 5122.17
§ 5122.17. Temporary detention
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly Pending removal to a hospital, a person taken into custody or ordered to be hospitalized pursuant to this chapter may be detained for not more than forty-eight hours in a licensed rest or nursing home, a licensed or unlicensed hospital, a community mental health services provider, or a county home, but the person shall not be detained in a nonmedical facility used for detention of persons charged with or convicted of penal offenses unless the court finds that a less restrictive alternative cannot be made available.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5104.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5104 / § 5104.99
§ 5104.99. Penalty
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) Whoever violates section 5104.02 of the Revised Code shall be punished as follows: (1) For each offense, the offender shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars multiplied by the number of children receiving child care at the child care center or type A family child care home that either exceeds the number of children to which a type B family child care home may provide child care or, if the offender is a licensed type A family child care home that is operating as a child care center without being licensed as a center, exceeds the license capacity of the type A home. (2) In addition to the fine specified in division (A)(1) of this section, all of the following apply: (a) Except as provided in divisions (A)(2)(b), (c), and (d) of this section, the court shall order the offender to reduce the number of children to which it provides child care to a number that does not exceed either the number of children to which a type B family child care home may provide child care or, if the offender is a licensed type A family child care home that is operating as a child care center without being licensed as a center, the license capacity of the type A home. (b) If the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to one violation of section 5104.02 of the Revised Code, the court shall order the offender to cease the provision of child care to any person until it obtains a child care center license or a type A family child care home license, as appropriate, under section 5104.03 of the Revised Code. (c) If the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to two violations of section 5104.02 of the Revised Code, the offender is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, and the court shall order the offender to cease the provision of child care to any person until it obtains a child care center license or a type A family child care home license, as appropriate, under section 5104.03 of the Revised Code. The court shall impose the fine specified in division (A)(1) of this section and may impose an additional fine provided that the total amount of the fines so imposed does not exceed the maximum fine authorized for a misdemeanor of the first degree under section 2929.28 of the Revised Code. (d) If the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to three or more violations of section 5104.02 of the Revised Code, the offender is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree, and the court shall order the offender to cease the provision of child care to any person until it obtains a child care center license or a type A family child care home license, as appropriate, under section 5104.03 of the Revised Code. The court shall impose the fine specified in division (A)(1) of this section and may impose an additional fine provided that the total amount of the fines so imposed does not exceed the maximum fine authorized for a felony of the fifth degree under section 2929.18 of the Revised Code. (B) Whoever violates section 5104.09 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree. Last updated August 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.427 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.427
§ 5180.427. [Former R.C. 5101.1410, amended and renumbered  by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Certifying claim to attorney general
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly In addition to the remedies available under sections 5101.24 and 5180.423 of the Revised Code, the department of children and youth may certify a claim to the attorney general under section 131.02 of the Revised Code for the attorney general to take action under that section against a public children services agency, private child placing agency, private noncustodial agency, or government entity that provides Title IV-E reimbursable placement services to children if all of the following are the case: (A) The agency or entity files a cost report with the department pursuant to rules adopted under division (B) of section 5180.42 of the Revised Code. (B) The department receives and distributes federal Title IV-E reimbursement funds based on the cost report. (C) The agency's or entity's misstatement, misclassification, overstatement, understatement, or other inclusion or omission of any cost included in the cost report causes the United States department of health and human services to disallow all or part of the federal Title IV-E reimbursement funds the department received and distributed. (D) The agency's or entity's misstatement, misclassification, overstatement, understatement, or other inclusion or omission of any cost included in the cost report is not the direct result of a written directive concerning the agency or entity's cost report that the department issued to the agency or entity. Last updated October 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.043 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.043
§ 5126.043. Decisions by individuals with developmental disabilities; authorization for decision by adult; decisions by guardian
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly (A) Unless a guardian has been appointed for the individual, when a decision regarding receipt of a service or participation in a program provided for or funded under this chapter or Chapter 5123. or 5124. of the Revised Code by an individual with a developmental disability must be made, the individual shall be permitted to make the decision. The individual may obtain support and guidance from an adult family member or other person, but doing so does not affect the right of the individual to make the decision. (B) An individual with a developmental disability may authorize an adult to make a decision described in division (A) of this section on the individual's behalf, as long as the adult does not have a financial interest in the decision. The authorization shall be made in writing. (C) If a guardian has been appointed for an individual with a developmental disability, the guardian shall make any decision described in division (A) of this section on behalf of the individual. This section does not require appointment of a guardian. (D) Individuals with developmental disabilities, including those who have been adjudicated incompetent pursuant to Chapter 2111. of the Revised Code, have the right to participate in decisions that affect their lives and to have their needs, desires, and preferences considered. An adult or guardian who makes a decision pursuant to division (B) or (C) of this section shall make a decision that is in the best interests of the individual on whose behalf the decision is made and that is consistent with the needs, desires, and preferences of that individual. Last updated May 14, 2021 at 2:26 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.73 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.73
§ 5165.73. Uncorrected deficiencies constituting severity level three and scope level three or four findings
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly If the department of health cites a deficiency, or cluster of deficiencies, that was not substantially corrected before a survey and constitutes a severity level three and scope level three or four finding, the department of medicaid or a contracting agency may, subject to sections 5165.82 and 5165.83 of the Revised Code, impose one or more of the following remedies: (A) Do either of the following: (1) Issue an order denying medicaid payments to the facility for all medicaid eligible residents admitted after the effective date of the order; (2) Impose a fine. (B) Issue an order denying medicaid payments to the facility for medicaid eligible residents admitted after the effective date of the order who have certain diagnoses or special care needs specified by the department or agency; (C) Issue an order requiring the facility to correct the deficiency or cluster of deficiencies under the plan of correction submitted by the facility and approved by the department of health under section 5165.69 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.85 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.85
§ 5123.85. Habilitation plan
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly (A) All residents institutionalized pursuant to this chapter shall receive, within thirty days of their admission, a comprehensive evaluation, a diagnosis, a prognosis, and a description of habilitation goals consistent therewith. (B) All such residents shall have a written habilitation plan consistent with the comprehensive evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis, and goals which shall be provided, upon request of resident or resident's counsel, to resident's counsel and to any private physician designated by the resident or the resident's counsel. (C) All such residents shall receive habilitation and care consistent with the habilitation plan. The department of developmental disabilities shall set standards for habilitation and care provided to such residents, consistent wherever possible with standards set by national accreditation organizations recognized by the department. (D) All such residents shall receive periodic comprehensive re-evaluations of the habilitation plan by the professional staff of the institution at intervals not to exceed ninety days. (E) All such residents shall be provided with prompt and adequate medical treatment for any physical or mental disease or injury.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.49 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.49
§ 5126.49. Residential facility linked deposit program
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly The county board of developmental disabilities may adopt a resolution requesting the board of county commissioners to implement a residential facility linked deposit program under sections 5126.51 to 5126.62 of the Revised Code if the county board of developmental disabilities finds all of the following: (A) There is a shortage of residential facilities in the county for individuals with developmental disabilities. (B) Eligible organizations, otherwise willing and able to develop residential facilities in the county, have been unable to do so because of high interest rates. (C) Placement of residential facility linked deposits will assist in financing the development of residential facilities in the county that otherwise would not be developed because of high interest rates. The board shall transmit a certified copy of the resolution to the board of county commissioners.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.57 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.57
§ 5164.57. Recovery of medicaid overpayments
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly (A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, the department of medicaid may recover a medicaid payment or portion of a payment made to a medicaid provider to which the provider is not entitled if the department notifies the provider of the overpayment during the five-year period immediately following the end of the state fiscal year in which the overpayment was made. (2) In the case of a hospital medicaid provider, if the department determines as a result of a medicare or medicaid cost report settlement that the provider received an amount under the medicaid program to which the provider is not entitled, the department may recover the overpayment if the department notifies the provider of the overpayment during the later of the following: (a) The five-year period immediately following the end of the state fiscal year in which the overpayment was made; (b) The one-year period immediately following the date the department receives from the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services a completed, audited, medicare cost report for the provider that applies to the state fiscal year in which the overpayment was made. (B) Among the overpayments that may be recovered under this section are the following: (1) Payment for a medicaid service, or a day of service, not rendered; (2) Payment for a day of service at a full per diem rate that should have been paid at a percentage of the full per diem rate; (3) Payment for a medicaid service, or day of service, that was paid by, or partially paid by, a third party, as defined in section 5160.35 of the Revised Code, and the third party's payment or partial payment was not offset against the amount paid by the medicaid program to reduce or eliminate the amount that was paid by the medicaid program; (4) Payment when a medicaid recipient's responsibility for payment was understated and resulted in an overpayment to the provider. (C) The department may recover an overpayment under this section prior to or after any of the following: (1) Adjudication of a final fiscal audit that section 5164.38 of the Revised Code requires to be conducted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code; (2) Adjudication of a finding under any other provision of state statutes governing the medicaid program or the rules adopted under those statutes; (3) Expiration of the time to issue a final fiscal audit that section 5164.38 of the Revised Code requires to be conducted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code; (4) Expiration of the time to issue a finding under any other provision of state statutes governing the medicaid program or the rules adopted under those statutes. (D)(1) Subject to division (D)(2) of this section, the recovery of an overpayment under this section does not preclude the department from subsequently doing the following: (a) Issuing a final fiscal audit in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, as required under section 5164.38 of the Revised Code; (b) Issuing a finding under any other provision of state statutes governing the medicaid program or the rules adopted under those statutes. (2) A final fiscal audit or finding issued subsequent to the recovery of an overpayment under this section shall be reduced by the amount of the prior recovery, as appropriate. (E) Nothing in this section limits the department's authority to recover overpayments pursuant to any other provision of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.47 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.47
§ 5120.47. Leasing capital facilities
Status: in_force

July 1, 2014 House Bill 497 - 130th General Assembly The department of rehabilitation and correction shall lease capital facilities constructed, reconstructed, or otherwise improved, which facilities are financed by the treasurer of state pursuant to Chapter 154. of the Revised Code, for the use of the department, and may enter into any other agreements with the Ohio public facilities commission, the department of administrative services, or any other authorized state agency ancillary to the construction, reconstruction, improvement, financing, leasing, or operation of such capital facilities, including, but not limited to, any agreements required by the applicable bond proceedings authorized by Chapter 154. of the Revised Code. Such agreements shall not be subject to section 5120.24 of the Revised Code. Any lease of capital facilities authorized by this section shall be governed by Chapter 154. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5104.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5104 / § 5104.04
§ 5104.04. Investigating, inspecting, and licensing procedures established
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) The department of children and youth shall establish procedures to be followed in investigating, inspecting, and licensing child care centers, type A family child care homes, and licensed type B family child care homes. (B)(1)(a) The department shall, at least once during every twelve-month period of operation of a center, type A home, or licensed type B home, inspect the center, type A home, or licensed type B home. The department shall inspect a part-time center or part-time type A home at least once during every twelve-month period of operation. The department shall provide a written inspection report to the licensee within a reasonable time after each inspection. Inspections may be unannounced. No person, firm, organization, institution, or agency shall interfere with the inspection of a center, type A home, or licensed type B home by any state or local official engaged in performing duties required of the state or local official by this chapter or rules adopted pursuant to this chapter, including inspecting the center, type A home, or licensed type B home, reviewing records, or interviewing licensees, employees, children, or parents. (b) Upon receipt of any complaint that a center, type A home or licensed type B home is out of compliance with the requirements of this chapter or rules adopted pursuant to this chapter, the department shall investigate the center or home, and both of the following apply: (i) If the complaint alleges that a child suffered physical harm while receiving child care at the center or home or that the noncompliance alleged in the complaint involved, resulted in, or poses a substantial risk of physical harm to a child receiving child care at the center or home, the department shall inspect the center or home. (ii) If division (B)(1)(b)(i) of this section does not apply regarding the complaint, the department may inspect the center or home. (c) Division (B)(1)(b) of this section does not limit, restrict, or negate any duty of the department to inspect a center, type A home, or licensed type B home that otherwise is imposed under this section, or any authority of the department to inspect a center, type A home, or licensed type B home that otherwise is granted under this section. (2) If the department implements an instrument-based program monitoring information system, it may use an indicator checklist to comply with division (B)(1) of this section. (C) The department may deny an application or revoke a license of a center, type A home, or licensed type B home, if the applicant knowingly submits falsified information to the department or if the center or home does not comply with the requirements of this chapter or rules adopted pursuant to this chapter. (D) If the department finds, after notice and hearing pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, that any applicant, person, firm, organization, institution, or agency applying for licensure or licensed under section 5104.03 of the Revised Code is in violation of any provision of this chapter or rules adopted pursuant to this chapter, the department may issue an order of denial to the applicant or an order of revocation to the center, type A home, or licensed type B home revoking the license previously issued by the department. Upon the issuance of such an order, the person whose application is denied or whose license is revoked may appeal in accordance with section 119.12 of the Revised Code. (E) The surrender of a center, type A home, or licensed type B home license to the department or the withdrawal of an application for licensure by the owner or administrator of the center, type A home, or licensed type B home shall not prohibit the department from instituting any of the actions set forth in this section. (F) Whenever the department receives a complaint, is advised, or otherwise has any reason to believe that a center or type A home is providing child care without a license issued pursuant to section 5104.03 and is not exempt from licensing pursuant to section 5104.02 of the Revised Code, the department shall investigate the center or type A home and may inspect the areas children have access to or areas necessary for the care of children in the center or type A home during suspected hours of operation to determine whether the center or type A home is subject to the requirements of this chapter or rules adopted pursuant to this chapter. (G) The department, upon determining that the center or type A home is operating without a license, shall notify the attorney general, the prosecuting attorney of the county in which the center or type A home is located, or the city attorney, village solicitor, or other chief legal officer of the municipal corporation in which the center or type A home is located, that the center or type A home is operating without a license. Upon receipt of the notification, the attorney general, prosecuting attorney, city attorney, village solicitor, or other chief legal officer of a municipal corporation shall file a complaint in the court of common pleas of the county in which the center or type A home is located requesting that the court grant an order enjoining the owner from operating the center or type A home in violation of section 5104.02 of the Revised Code. The court shall grant such injunctive relief upon a showing that the respondent named in the complaint is operating a center or type A home and is doing so without a license. (H) The department shall prepare an annual report on inspections conducted under this section. The report shall include the number of inspections conducted, the number and types of violations found, and the steps taken to address the violations. The department shall file the report with the governor, the president and minority leader of the senate, and the speaker and minority leader of the house of representatives on or before the first day of January of each year, beginning in 1999. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5107.69 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5107 / § 5107.69
§ 5107.69. No jeopardy to federal funding
Status: in_force

July 1, 2000 House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly If the United States secretary of health and human services informs the department of job and family services that implementation of sections 5107.40 to 5107.69 of the Revised Code jeopardizes federal funding for the Ohio works first program, the department shall ensure that county departments of job and family services require minor heads of household and adults participating in Ohio works first to participate in work activities, developmental activities, and alternative work activities in a manner consistent with 42 U.S.C.A. 607.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5139.131 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5139 / § 5139.131
§ 5139.131. Vocational education programs
Status: in_force

July 1, 1993 House Bill 152 - 120th General Assembly The department of youth services may conduct programs for the vocational education of children committed to the department or involved in aftercare services provided by the department, under which services are provided or products are made, and offered, for sale. Any profits made from the selling of such products or services shall be deposited into the industrial and entertainment fund created under section 5139.86 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.651 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.651
§ 5123.651. Assistance in self-administration of prescribed medication
Status: in_force

April 6, 2023 House Bill 281 - 134th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "developmental disabilities personnel" and "prescribed medication" have the same meanings as in section 5123.41 of the Revised Code. (B) Developmental disabilities personnel who are not specifically authorized by other provisions of the Revised Code to provide assistance in the self-administration of prescribed medication may, under this section, provide that assistance as part of the services they provide to individuals with developmental disabilities. To provide assistance with self-administration of prescribed medication, developmental disabilities personnel are not required to be trained or certified in accordance with section 5123.42 of the Revised Code. (C) When assisting in the self-administration of prescribed medication, developmental disabilities personnel shall take only the following actions: (1) Remind an individual when to take the medication and observe the individual to ensure that the individual follows the directions on the container; (2) Assist an individual by taking the medication in its container from the area where it is stored, handing the container with the medication in it to the individual, and opening the container, if the individual is physically unable to open the container; (3) Assist, on request by or with the consent of, an individual who is physically impaired but mentally alert, with removal of oral or topical medication from the container and with the individual's taking or applying of the medication. If an individual is physically unable to place a dose of oral medication to the individual's mouth without spilling or dropping it, developmental disabilities personnel may place the dose in another container and place that container to the individual's mouth. Last updated March 10, 2023 at 1:03 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5107.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5107 / § 5107.02
§ 5107.02. Ohio works first program definitions
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly As used in this chapter: (A) "Adult" means an individual who is not a minor child. (B) "Assistance group" means a group of individuals treated as a unit for purposes of determining eligibility for and the amount of assistance provided under Ohio works first. (C) "Custodian" means an individual who has legal custody, as defined in section 2151.011 of the Revised Code, of a minor child or comparable status over a minor child created by a court of competent jurisdiction in another state. (D) "Domestic violence" means being subjected to any of the following: (1) Physical acts that resulted in, or threatened to result in, physical injury to the individual; (2) Sexual abuse; (3) Sexual activity involving a dependent child; (4) Being forced as the caretaker relative of a dependent child to engage in nonconsensual sexual acts or activities; (5) Threats of, or attempts at, physical or sexual abuse; (6) Mental abuse; (7) Neglect or deprivation of medical care. (E) "Guardian" means an individual that is granted authority by a probate court pursuant to Chapter 2111. of the Revised Code, or a court of competent jurisdiction in another state, to exercise parental rights over a minor child to the extent provided in the court's order and subject to residual parental rights of the minor child's parents. (F) "LEAP program" means the learning, earning, and parenting program conducted under section 5107.30 of the Revised Code. (G) "Minor child" means either of the following: (1) An individual who has not attained age eighteen; (2) An individual who has not attained age nineteen and is a full-time student in a secondary school or in the equivalent level of vocational or technical training. (H) "Minor head of household" means a minor child who is either of the following: (1) Is married, pregnant, and a member of an assistance group that does not include an adult; (2) Is married and is a parent of a child included in the same assistance group that does not include an adult. (I) "Ohio works first" means the program established by this chapter known as temporary assistance for needy families in Title IV-A. (J) "Payment standard" means the amount specified in rules adopted under section 5107.05 of the Revised Code that is the maximum amount of cash assistance an assistance group may receive under Ohio works first from state and federal funds. (K) "Specified relative" means the following individuals who are age eighteen or older: (1) The following individuals related by blood or adoption: (a) Grandparents, including grandparents with the prefix "great," "great-great," or "great-great-great"; (b) Siblings; (c) Aunts, uncles, nephews, and nieces, including such relatives with the prefix "great," "great-great," "grand," or "great-grand"; (d) First cousins and first cousins once removed. (2) Stepparents and stepsiblings; (3) Spouses and former spouses of individuals named in division (K)(1) or (2) of this section. (L) "Title IV-A" or "Title IV-D" means Title IV-A or Title IV-D of the "Social Security Act," 49 Stat. 620 (1935), 42 U.S.C. 301, as amended. Last updated August 16, 2023 at 1:47 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.99
§ 5180.99. Penalty
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) Whoever violates division (B) of section 5180.275 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree. (B) Whoever violates section 5180.403 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. Last updated September 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.35 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.35
§ 5119.35. Mental health and addiction services requiring certification
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, if a mental health service or alcohol and drug addiction service has been specified in rules adopted under this section as a service that is required to be certified, no person or government entity shall provide that service unless it has been certified under section 5119.36 of the Revised Code. (B) Division (A) of this section does not apply to either of the following: (1) An individual who holds a valid license, certificate, or registration issued by this state authorizing the practice of a health care profession that includes the performance of any service that is required to be certified as described in this section, regardless of whether the service is performed as part of a sole proprietorship, partnership, or group practice; (2) An individual who provides any service that is required to be certified as described in this section as part of an employment or contractual relationship with a hospital outpatient clinic that is accredited by an accreditation agency or organization approved by the director of behavioral health. (C)(1) If the director of behavioral health determines that a person or government entity is violating division (A) of this section, the director may request, in writing, that the attorney general petition the court of common pleas in the county where the person or government entity is located or providing the services to enjoin the person or government entity from engaging in the conduct that violates division (A) of this section. (2) No person or government entity that is subject to this section is eligible to receive, for a service that is subject to this section, any federal funds, state funds, or funds administered by a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services, unless that service has been certified under section 5119.36 of the Revised Code. This limitation is in addition to the injunction that may be sought under division (C)(1) of this section for a violation of division (A) of this section. (D) The director may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to specify mental health services and alcohol and drug addiction services that are required to be certified under section 5119.36 of the Revised Code. Last updated August 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.26 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.26
§ 5119.26. Civil rights and liberties of patients
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly Any person treated under this chapter or rules adopted under it shall retain the person's civil rights and liberties, including the right not to be experimented upon with treatment not accepted as good medical practice without the person's fully informed consent, the right as a person receiving services to maintain the confidentiality of health and medical records, the right as a person detained for medical purposes to receive adequate and appropriate treatment, and the right to vote.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5166.161 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5166 / § 5166.161
§ 5166.161. Home and community-based services for Holocaust survivors
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly The department of medicaid shall ensure that each ICDS participant who is a survivor of the Holocaust that occurred in Europe during World War II receives, while enrolled in the ICDS medicaid waiver component, home and community-based services of the type and in at least the amount, duration, and scope that the participant is assessed to need and would have received if the participant were enrolled in an ODA or MCD medicaid waiver component.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.32 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.32
§ 5165.32. Reduction in rate not permitted
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The department of medicaid shall not reduce a nursing facility's medicaid payment rate determined under this chapter on the basis that the provider charges a lower rate to any resident who is not eligible for medicaid.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.513 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.513
§ 5180.513. [Former R.C. 5101.855, renumbered by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Kinship care navigator program - rules
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly The department of children and youth shall adopt rules to implement the kinship care navigator program. The rules shall be adopted under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, except that rules governing fiscal and administrative matters related to implementation of the program are internal management rules and shall be adopted under section 111.15 of the Revised Code. Last updated October 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.71 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.71
§ 5123.71. Affidavit for involuntary institutionalization
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly (A)(1) Proceedings for the involuntary institutionalization of a person pursuant to sections 5123.71 to 5123.76 of the Revised Code shall be commenced by the filing of an affidavit with the probate division of the court of common pleas of the county where the person resides or where the person is institutionalized, in the manner and form prescribed by the department of developmental disabilities either on information or actual knowledge, whichever is determined to be proper by the court. The affidavit may be filed only by a person who has custody of the individual as a parent, guardian, or service provider or by a person acting on behalf of the department or a county board of developmental disabilities. This section does not apply regarding the institutionalization of a person pursuant to section 2945.39 , 2945.40 , 2945.401 , or 2945.402 of the Revised Code. The affidavit shall contain an allegation setting forth the specific category or categories under division (O) of section 5123.01 of the Revised Code upon which the commencement of proceedings is based and a statement of the factual ground for the belief that the person is a person with an intellectual disability subject to institutionalization by court order. Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, the affidavit shall be accompanied by both of the following: (a) A comprehensive evaluation report prepared by the person's evaluation team that includes a statement by the members of the team certifying that they have performed a comprehensive evaluation of the person and that they are of the opinion that the person is a person with an intellectual disability subject to institutionalization by court order; (b) An assessment report prepared by the county board of developmental disabilities under section 5123.711 of the Revised Code specifying that the individual is in need of services on an emergency or priority basis. (2) In lieu of the comprehensive evaluation report, the affidavit may be accompanied by a written and sworn statement that the person or the guardian of a person adjudicated incompetent has refused to allow a comprehensive evaluation and county board assessment and assessment reports. Immediately after accepting an affidavit that is not accompanied by the reports of a comprehensive evaluation and county board assessment, the court shall cause a comprehensive evaluation and county board assessment of the person named in the affidavit to be performed. The evaluation shall be conducted in the least restrictive environment possible and the assessment shall be conducted in the same manner as assessments conducted under section 5123.711 of the Revised Code. The evaluation and assessment must be completed before a probable cause hearing or full hearing may be held under section 5123.75 or 5123.76 of the Revised Code. A written report of the evaluation team's findings and the county board's assessment shall be filed with the court. The reports shall, consistent with the rules of evidence, be accepted as probative evidence in any proceeding under section 5123.75 or 5123.76 of the Revised Code. If the counsel for the person who is evaluated or assessed is known, the court shall send to the counsel a copy of the reports as soon as possible after they are filed and prior to any proceedings under section 5123.75 or 5123.76 of the Revised Code. (B) Any person who is involuntarily detained in an institution or otherwise is in custody under this chapter shall be informed of the right to do the following: (1) Immediately make a reasonable number of telephone calls or use other reasonable means to contact an attorney, a physician, or both, to contact any other person or persons to secure representation by counsel, or to obtain medical assistance, and be provided assistance in making calls if the assistance is needed and requested; (2) Retain counsel and have independent expert evaluation and, if the person is an indigent person, be represented by court-appointed counsel and have independent expert evaluation at court expense; (3) Upon request, have a hearing to determine whether there is probable cause to believe that the person is a person with an intellectual disability subject to institutionalization by court order. (C) No person who is being treated by spiritual means through prayer alone in accordance with a recognized religious method of healing may be ordered detained or involuntarily committed unless the court has determined that the person represents a very substantial risk of self-impairment, self-injury, or impairment or injury to others.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.30 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.30
§ 5120.30. Investigations
Status: in_force

July 1, 2009 House Bill 525 - 127th General Assembly The department of rehabilitation and correction may make any investigations that are necessary in the performance of its duties, and to that end the director of rehabilitation and correction shall have the same power as a judge of a county court to administer oaths and to enforce the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books or papers. The department shall keep a record of the investigations pursuant to the record retention schedule approved by the department of administrative services. Witnesses shall be paid the fees and mileage provided for under section 119.094 of the Revised Code, but no officer or employee of the institution under investigation is entitled to such fees. Any judge of the probate court or of the court of common pleas, upon application of the department, may compel the attendance of witnesses, the production of books or papers, and the giving of testimony before the department, by a judgment for contempt or otherwise, in the same manner as in cases before courts of common pleas.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.4210 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.4210
§ 5180.4210. [Former R.C. 5101.1413, amended and renumbered by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Young adults - payment of nonfederal share
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly Notwithstanding section 5180.42 of the Revised Code and any rules adopted thereunder, the department of children and youth shall pay the full nonfederal share of payments made pursuant to section 5180.428 of the Revised Code. No public children services agency shall be responsible for the cost of any payments made pursuant to section 5180.428 of the Revised Code. Last updated October 3, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5167.051 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5167 / § 5167.051
§ 5167.051. Coverage of services provided by pharmacist
Status: in_force

October 17, 2019 House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly If the medicaid program covers the pharmacist services described in section 5164.14 of the Revised Code, the department of medicaid may include the services in the care management system.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5168.61 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5168 / § 5168.61
§ 5168.61. ICF/IID quarterly franchise permit fees
Status: in_force

September 30, 2021 House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly The department of developmental disabilities shall do all of the following: (A) Subject to section 5168.64 of the Revised Code and divisions (B) and (C) of this section and for the purposes specified in section 5168.69 of the Revised Code, quarterly assess each ICF/IID a franchise permit fee equal to the product of the following: (1) The franchise permit fee rate; (2) The number of the ICF/IID's inpatient days for the quarter as determined using the monthly reports submitted to the department under section 5168.62 of the Revised Code. (B) If the total amount of the franchise permit fee assessed under division (A) of this section for a fiscal year exceeds the indirect guarantee percentage of the actual net patient revenue for all ICFs/IID for that fiscal year and seventy-five per cent or more of the total number of ICFs/IID receive enhanced medicaid payments or other state payments equal to seventy-five per cent or more of their total franchise permit fee assessments, do both of the following: (1) Recalculate the assessments under division (A) of this section using a per inpatient day rate equal to the indirect guarantee percentage of actual net patient revenue for all ICFs/IID for that fiscal year; (2) Refund the difference between the total amount of the franchise permit fee assessed for that fiscal year under division (A) of this section and the amount recalculated under division (B)(1) of this section as a credit against the assessments imposed under division (A) of this section for the quarters of the subsequent fiscal year. (C)(1) If the United States secretary of health and human services determines that the franchise permit fee established by sections 5168.60 to 5168.71 of the Revised Code would be an impermissible health care-related tax under section 1903(w) of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1396b(w), take all necessary actions to cease implementation of those sections in accordance with rules adopted under section 5168.71 of the Revised Code. (2) If the United States secretary of health and human services adjusts the indirect guarantee percentage at any time during the fiscal year, adjust the franchise permit fee rate and associated ICF/IID invoices so as not to exceed the indirect guarantee percentage. Last updated August 12, 2021 at 3:41 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5166.37 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5166 / § 5166.37
§ 5166.37. Medicaid waiver - additional eligibility requirements for members of expansion group
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) The medicaid director shall establish a medicaid waiver component under which an individual eligible for medicaid on the basis of being included in the expansion eligibility group must satisfy at least one of the following requirements to be able to enroll in medicaid as part of the expansion eligibility group: (1) Be at least fifty-five years of age; (2) Be employed; (3) Be enrolled in school or an occupational training program; (4) Be participating in an alcohol and drug addiction treatment program; (5) Have intensive physical health care needs or serious mental illness. (B) Not earlier than February 1, 2025, and not later than March 1, 2025, the director shall seek approval from the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services to implement the medicaid waiver component described in this section. Last updated October 6, 2023 at 10:41 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.33 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.33
§ 5119.33. Inspecting and licensing of hospitals for mentally ill persons
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) The department of behavioral health shall inspect and license all hospitals that receive persons with mental illnesses, except those hospitals managed by the department. No hospital may receive for care or treatment, either at public or private expense, any person who is or appears to have a mental illness, whether or not so adjudicated, unless the hospital has received a license from the department authorizing it to receive for care or treatment persons with mental illnesses or the hospital is managed by the department. (B) The department shall adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code prescribing minimum standards for the operation of hospitals for the care and treatment of persons with mental illnesses and establishing standards and procedures for the issuance, renewal, or revocation of full, probationary, and interim licenses. No license shall be granted to any hospital established or used for the care of persons with mental illnesses unless such hospital is operating in accordance with this section and rules adopted pursuant to this section. A full license shall expire one year after the date of issuance, a probationary license shall expire at the time prescribed by rule adopted pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code by the director of behavioral health, and an interim license shall expire ninety days after the date of issuance. A full, probationary, or interim license may be renewed, except that an interim license may be renewed only twice. The department may fix reasonable fees for licenses and for license renewals. Such hospitals are subject to inspection and on-site review by the department. (C) Except as otherwise provided in Chapter 5122. of the Revised Code, neither the director of behavioral health; an employee of the department; a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services or employee of a community mental health services provider; nor any other public official shall hospitalize any person with a mental illness for care or treatment in any hospital that is not licensed in accordance with this section. (D)(1) The department may issue an order suspending the admission of patients with mental illnesses to a hospital for care or treatment if it finds either of the following: (a) The hospital is not in compliance with rules adopted by the director pursuant to this section. (b) The hospital has been cited for more than one violation of statutes or rules during any previous period of time during which the hospital is licensed pursuant to this section. (2)(a) Except as provided in division (D)(2)(b) of this section, proceedings initiated to suspend the admission of patients are governed by Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. (b) If a suspension of admissions is proposed because the director has determined that the licensee has demonstrated a pattern of serious noncompliance or that a violation creates a substantial risk to the health and safety of patients, the director may issue an order imposing the suspension of admissions before providing an opportunity for an adjudication under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. The director shall lift the order for the suspension of admissions if the director determines that the violation that formed the basis for the order has been corrected. (3) Appeals from proceedings initiated to order the suspension of admissions shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, unless the order was issued before providing an opportunity for an adjudication, in which case all of the following apply: (a) The licensee may request a hearing not later than ten days after being served in accordance with sections 119.05 and 119.07 of the Revised Code. (b) If a timely request for a hearing that includes the licensee's current address is made, the hearing shall commence not later than thirty days after the department receives the request. (c) After commencing, the hearing shall continue uninterrupted, except for Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, unless other interruptions are agreed to by the licensee and the director. (d) If the hearing is conducted by a hearing examiner, the hearing examiner shall file a report and recommendations with the department not later than ten days after the last of the following: (i) The close of the hearing; (ii) If a transcript of the proceedings is ordered, the hearing examiner receives the transcript; (iii) If post-hearing briefs are timely filed, the hearing examiner receives the briefs. (e) The hearing examiner shall send a written copy of the report and recommendations, by certified mail, to the licensee, or the licensee's attorney, if applicable, not later than five days after the report is filed with the department. (f) Not later than five days after receiving the report and recommendations, the licensee may file objections with the department. (g) Not later than fifteen days after the hearing examiner files the report and recommendations, the department shall issue an order approving, modifying, or disapproving the report and recommendations. (h) Notwithstanding the pendency of the hearing, the department shall lift the order for the suspension of admissions if the department determines the violation that formed the basis for the order has been corrected. (E)(1) The department may deny, refuse to renew, or revoke a license for any of the following reasons: (a) The hospital is not a suitable place for the care or treatment of persons with mental illnesses. (b) The hospital refuses to be subject to inspection or on-site review by the department. (c) The hospital fails to furnish humane, kind, and adequate treatment and care. (d) The hospital fails to comply with the licensure rules of the department. (e) The department finds that the hospital is not managed and operated by qualified persons, is not adequately staffed and equipped to operate, or does not have on its staff one or more qualified physicians, including at least one psychiatrist, who is responsible for the care of the patients in the hospital. (f) The department has been notified under section 5119.334 of the Revised Code or otherwise becomes aware that the hospital, any owner, sponsor, medical director, administrator, or principal of the hospital, or any subsidiary of the hospital, owner, or sponsor has been the subject of an adverse action, as defined in that section, taken during the three-year period immediately preceding the date of notification or date of becoming aware of the adverse action. (2) Proceedings initiated to deny applications for full or probationary licenses, to refuse to renew full or probationary licenses, or to revoke full or probationary licenses are governed by Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. If an order has been issued suspending the admission of patients, the order remains in effect during the pendency of those proceedings. (F)(1) In a proceeding initiated to suspend the admission of patients, to deny an application for a full or probationary license, to refuse to renew a full or probationary license, or to revoke a full or probationary license, the department may order the suspension, denial, refusal, or revocation regardless of whether some or all of the deficiencies that prompted the proceedings have been corrected at the time of the hearing. (2) When the department issues an order suspending the admission of patients, denies an application for a full or probationary license, refuses to renew a full or probationary license, or revokes a full or probationary license, the department shall not grant an opportunity for submitting a plan of correction. (G) The department may inspect, conduct an on-site review, and review the records of any hospital that the department has reason to believe is operating without a license. Last updated August 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5161.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5161 / § 5161.02
§ 5161.02. Rules for administration of CHIP
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The medicaid director may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as necessary for the efficient administration of the children's health insurance program, including rules that establish all of the following: (A) The conditions under which the program will pay for health benefits coverage; (B) The method of the payment; (C) The amount of payment, or the method by which the amount is to be determined, for each service included in the health benefits coverage.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.37 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.37
§ 5164.37. Suspension of provider agreement without notice
Status: in_force

October 17, 2019 House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly (A) The department of medicaid may suspend a medicaid provider's provider agreement without prior notice if the department has evidence that the provider presents a danger of immediate and serious harm to the health, safety, or welfare of medicaid recipients. The department also shall suspend all medicaid payments to the medicaid provider for services rendered, regardless of the date that the services were rendered, when the department suspends the provider agreement under this section. (B) If the department suspends a medicaid provider's provider agreement under this section, the department shall do both of the following: (1) Not later than five days after suspending the provider agreement, notify the medicaid provider of the suspension; (2) Not later than ten business days after suspending the provider agreement, notify the medicaid provider that the department intends to terminate the provider agreement. (C) The notice that the department provides to a medicaid provider under division (B)(2) of this section shall include the allegation that the provider presents a danger of immediate and serious harm to the health, safety, or welfare of medicaid recipients. It may also include other grounds for terminating the provider agreement. Section 5164.38 of the Revised Code applies to the termination of the provider agreement. (D) The suspension of a medicaid provider's provider agreement and medicaid payments shall cease at the earliest of the following: (1) The department's failure to provide a notice required by division (B) of this section by the time specified in that division; (2) The department rescinds its notice to terminate the provider agreement. (3) The department issues an order regarding the termination of the provider agreement pursuant to an adjudication conducted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. (E) This section does not limit the department's authority to suspend or terminate a provider agreement or medicaid payments to a medicaid provider under any other provision of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.37 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.37
§ 5103.37. Training coordinator for child welfare training program - duties
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly The Ohio child welfare training program coordinator shall do all the following: (A) Manage, coordinate, and evaluate all of the program's training provided under section 5103.30 of the Revised Code; (B) Develop curriculum, resources, and products for the training; (C) Provide fiscal management and technical assistance to regional training staff established under section 5103.41 of the Revised Code; (D) Cooperate with the regional training staff to schedule sessions for the training, provide notices of the training sessions, and provide training materials for the sessions; (E) Employ and compensate instructors for the training; (F) Create individual training needs assessments for use pursuant to sections 5153.125 and 5153.126 of the Revised Code; (G) Provide staff for the Ohio child welfare training program steering committee established under section 5103.39 of the Revised Code; (H) Conduct any other activities necessary for the development, implementation, and management of the program as specified in the contract; (I) Identify the competencies needed to do the jobs that the training is for so that the training helps the development of those competencies; (J) Ensure that the training provides the knowledge, skill, and ability needed to do the jobs that the training is for. Last updated October 10, 2023 at 1:34 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.051 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.051
§ 5103.051. Community engagement plan
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) Each private child placing agency, private noncustodial agency, public children services agency, or superintendent of a county or district children's home shall establish a community engagement plan in accordance with rules adopted under division (B) of this section for each residential facility the agency, entity, or superintendent operates. (B) The department of children and youth shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that establish the following: (1) The contents of a community engagement plan to be established under division (A) of this section that includes the following: (a) Protocols for the community in which a residential facility is located to communicate concerns or other pertinent information directly to the agency or entity; (b) Protocols for the agency or entity in responding to a communication made under division (B)(1)(a) of this section. (2) Orientation procedures for training residential facility staff on the implementation of the community engagement plan established under division (A) of this section and procedures for responding to incidents involving a child at the facility and neighbors or the police. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5124.42 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5124 / § 5124.42
§ 5124.42. Additional penalties
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly In addition to the other penalties authorized by this chapter, the department of developmental disabilities may impose the following penalties on an ICF/IID provider: (A) If the provider does not furnish invoices or other documentation that the department requests during an audit within sixty days after the request, a fine of not more than the greater of the following: (1) One thousand dollars per audit; (2) Twenty-five per cent of the cumulative amount by which the costs for which documentation was not furnished increased the total medicaid payments to the provider during the fiscal year for which the costs were used to determine a rate. (B) If an exiting operator or owner fails to provide notice of a facility closure or voluntary termination as required by section 5124.50 of the Revised Code, or an exiting operator or owner and entering operator fail to provide notice of a change of operator as required by section 5124.51 of the Revised Code, a fine of not more than the current average bank prime rate plus four per cent of the last two monthly payments.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.44 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.44
§ 5120.44. Liberal construction of chapter
Status: in_force

April 6, 2023 House Bill 281 - 134th General Assembly Chapter 5120. of the Revised Code attempts: (A) To provide humane and scientific treatment and care and the highest attainable degree of individual development for the dependent wards of the state; (B) To provide for the delinquent, conditions of modern education and training that will restore the largest possible portion of them to useful citizenship; (C) To promote the study of the causes of dependency and delinquency, and of mental, moral, and physical impairments, with a view to cure and ultimate prevention; (D) To secure by uniform and systematic management the highest attainable degree of economy in the administration of the state institutions. Such sections shall be liberally construed to attain such purposes. Last updated March 10, 2023 at 12:54 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5160.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5160 / § 5160.10
§ 5160.10. Expending funds
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The medicaid director may expend funds appropriated or available to the department of medicaid from persons and government entities. For purposes of this section, the director may enter into contracts or agreements with persons and government entities and make grants to persons and government entities. To the extent permitted by federal law, the director may advance funds to a grantee when necessary for the grantee to perform duties under the grant as specified by the director. The director may adopt rules under section 5160.02 of the Revised Code as necessary to define terms and adopt procedures and other provisions necessary to implement this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5168.53 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5168 / § 5168.53
§ 5168.53. Appeals
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly (A) A nursing home or hospital may appeal the fee assessed under section 5168.42 of the Revised Code, as adjusted under section 5168.44 or 5168.45 of the Revised Code, and redetermined under section 5168.48 of the Revised Code solely on the grounds that the department of medicaid committed a material error in determining or redetermining the amount of the fee. A request for an appeal must be received by the department not later than fifteen days after the date the department notifies the nursing home or hospital of the fee and must include written materials setting forth the basis for the appeal. (B) If a nursing home or hospital submits a request for an appeal within the time required under division (A) of this section, the department shall hold a public hearing in Columbus not later than thirty days after the date the department receives the request for an appeal. The department shall, not later than ten days before the date of the hearing, notify, electronically or by United States postal service, the nursing home or hospital of the date, time, and place of the hearing. The department may hear all the requested appeals in one public hearing. (C) On the basis of the evidence presented at the hearing or any other evidence submitted by the nursing home or hospital, the department may adjust a fee. The department's decision is final.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5163.32 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5163 / § 5163.32
§ 5163.32. Equity interest in home exceeds $500,000
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) Except as otherwise provided by this section, no individual shall qualify for nursing facility services or other medicaid-funded long-term care services if the individual's equity interest in the individual's home exceeds five hundred thousand dollars. The medicaid director shall increase this amount effective January 1, 2011, and the first day of each year thereafter, by the percentage increase in the consumer price index for all urban consumers (all items; United States city average), rounded to the nearest one thousand dollars. (B) This section does not apply to an individual if either of the following applies: (1) Either of the following lawfully reside in the individual's home: (a) The individual's spouse; (b) The individual's child if the child is under twenty-one years of age or, under the "Social Security Act," section 1614, 42 U.S.C. 1382c, considered blind or disabled. (2) The individual qualifies, pursuant to the process established under division (C) of this section, for a waiver of this section due to a demonstrated hardship. (C) The director shall establish a process by which individuals may obtain a waiver of this section due to a demonstrated hardship. The process shall be consistent with the process for such waivers established by the United States secretary of health and human services under the "Social Security Act," section 1917(f)(4), 42 U.S.C. 1396p(f)(4). (D) Nothing in this section shall be construed as preventing an individual from using a reverse mortgage or home equity loan to reduce the individual's total equity interest in the home.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.08
§ 5119.08. Appointing special police officers for institutions
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "felony" has the same meaning as in section 109.511 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) Subject to division (C) of this section, upon the recommendation of the director of behavioral health, the managing officer of an institution under the jurisdiction of the department of behavioral health may designate one or more employees to be special police officers of the department. The special police officers shall take an oath of office, wear the badge of office, and give bond for the proper and faithful discharge of their duties in an amount that the director requires. (2) In accordance with section 109.77 of the Revised Code, the special police officers shall be required to complete successfully a peace officer basic training program approved by the Ohio peace officer training commission and to be certified by the commission. The cost of the training shall be paid by the department of behavioral health. (3) Special police officers, on the premises of institutions under the jurisdiction of the department of behavioral health and subject to the rules of the department, shall protect the property of the institutions and the persons and property of patients in the institutions, suppress riots, disturbances, and breaches of the peace, and enforce the laws of the state and the rules of the department for the preservation of good order. They may arrest any person without a warrant and detain the person until a warrant can be obtained under the circumstances described in division (F) of section 2935.03 of the Revised Code. (C)(1) The managing officer of an institution under the jurisdiction of the department of behavioral health shall not designate an employee as a special police officer of the department pursuant to division (B)(1) of this section on a permanent basis, on a temporary basis, for a probationary term, or on other than a permanent basis if the employee previously has been convicted of or has pleaded guilty to a felony. (2)(a) The managing officer of an institution under the jurisdiction of the department of behavioral health shall terminate the employment as a special police officer of the department of an employee designated as a special police officer under division (B)(1) of this section if that employee does either of the following: (i) Pleads guilty to a felony; (ii) Pleads guilty to a misdemeanor pursuant to a negotiated plea agreement as provided in division (D) of section 2929.43 of the Revised Code in which the employee agrees to surrender the certificate awarded to that employee under section 109.77 of the Revised Code. (b) The managing officer shall suspend from employment as a special police officer of the department an employee designated as a special police officer under division (B)(1) of this section if that employee is convicted, after trial, of a felony. If the special police officer files an appeal from that conviction and the conviction is upheld by the highest court to which the appeal is taken or if the special police officer does not file a timely appeal, the managing officer shall terminate the employment of that special police officer. If the special police officer files an appeal that results in that special police officer's acquittal of the felony or conviction of a misdemeanor, or in the dismissal of the felony charge against that special police officer, the managing officer shall reinstate that special police officer. A special police officer of the department who is reinstated under division (C)(2)(b) of this section shall not receive any back pay unless that special police officer's conviction of the felony was reversed on appeal, or the felony charge was dismissed, because the court found insufficient evidence to convict the special police officer of the felony. (3) Division (C) of this section does not apply regarding an offense that was committed prior to January 1, 1997. (4) The suspension from employment, or the termination of the employment, of a special police officer under division (C)(2) of this section shall be in accordance with applicable collective bargaining agreements. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.704 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.704
§ 5180.704. [Former R.C. 5101.805, amended and renumbered by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Ohio commission on fatherhood - recommendations for TANF fatherhood programs
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) Subject to division (E) of section 5101.801 of the Revised Code, the Ohio commission on fatherhood, created under section 5180.70 of the Revised Code, may make recommendations to the director of children and youth concerning the funding, approval, and implementation of fatherhood programs in this state that meet at least one of the four purposes of the temporary assistance for needy families block grant, as specified in 42 U.S.C. 601. (B) The department of children and youth may provide funding under this section to government entities and, to the extent permitted by federal law, private, not-for-profit entities with which the department enters into agreements under division (B)(4) of section 5101.801 of the Revised Code. Last updated October 3, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.58 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.58
§ 5120.58. Rules for health care benefits and preventive services
Status: in_force

September 6, 2002 House Bill 170 - 124th General Assembly The department of rehabilitation and correction shall adopt rules under section 111.15 of the Revised Code to do both of the following: (A) Establish a schedule of health care benefits that are available to offenders who are in the custody or under the supervision of the department; (B) Establish a program to encourage the utilization of preventive health care services by offenders.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.16
§ 5103.16. Certification required before associations and institutions may accept temporary or permanent custody of child
Status: in_force

March 20, 2025 House Bill 5 - 135th General Assembly (A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, no child shall be placed or accepted for placement under any written or oral agreement or understanding that transfers or surrenders the legal rights, powers, or duties of the legal parent, parents, or guardian of the child into the temporary or permanent custody of any association or institution that is not certified by the department of children and youth under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code, without the written consent of the office in the department that oversees the interstate compact for placement of children established under section 5103.20 of the Revised Code or the interstate compact on the placement of children established under section 5103.23 of the Revised Code, as applicable, or by a commitment of a juvenile court, or by a commitment of a probate court as provided in this section. A child may be placed temporarily without written consent or court commitment with persons related by blood or marriage or in a legally licensed boarding home. (B)(1) Associations and institutions certified under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code for the purpose of placing children in free foster homes or for legal adoption shall keep a record of the temporary and permanent surrenders of children. This record shall be available for separate statistics, which shall include a copy of an official birth record and all information concerning the social, mental, and medical history of the children that will aid in an intelligent disposition of the children in case that becomes necessary because the parents or guardians fail or are unable to reassume custody. (2) No child placed on a temporary surrender with an association or institution shall be placed permanently in a foster home or for legal adoption. All surrendered children who are placed permanently in foster homes or for adoption shall have been permanently surrendered, and a copy of the permanent surrender shall be a part of the separate record kept by the association or institution. (C) Any agreement or understanding to transfer or surrender the legal rights, powers, or duties of the legal parent or parents and place a child with a person seeking to adopt the child under this section shall be construed to contain a promise by the person seeking to adopt the child to pay the expenses listed in divisions (C)(1), (2), and (4) of section 3107.055 of the Revised Code and, if the person seeking to adopt the child refuses to accept placement of the child, to pay the temporary costs of routine maintenance and medical care for the child in a hospital, foster home, or other appropriate place for up to thirty days or until other custody is established for the child, as provided by law, whichever is less. (D) No child shall be placed or received for adoption or with intent to adopt unless placement is made by a public children services agency, an institution or association that is certified by the department of children and youth under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code to place children for adoption, or custodians in another state or foreign country, or unless all of the following criteria are met: (1) Prior to the placement and receiving of the child, the parent or parents of the child personally have applied to, and appeared before, the probate court of the county in which the parent or parents reside, or in which the person seeking to adopt the child resides, for approval of the proposed placement specified in the application and have signed and filed with the court a written statement showing that the parent or parents are aware of their right to contest the decree of adoption subject to the limitations of section 3107.16 of the Revised Code; (2) The court ordered an independent home study of the proposed placement to be conducted as provided in section 3107.031 of the Revised Code, and after completion of the home study, the court determined that the proposed placement is in the best interest of the child; (3) The court has approved of record the proposed placement. In determining whether a custodian has authority to place children for adoption under the laws of a foreign country, the probate court shall determine whether the child has been released for adoption pursuant to the laws of the country in which the child resides, and if the release is in a form that satisfies the requirements of the immigration and naturalization service of the United States department of justice for purposes of immigration to this country pursuant to section 101(b)(1)(F) of the "Immigration and Nationality Act," 75 Stat. 650 (1961), 8 U.S.C. 1101 (b)(1)(F), as amended or reenacted. If the parent or parents of the child are deceased or have abandoned the child, as determined under division (A) of section 3107.07 of the Revised Code, the application for approval of the proposed adoptive placement may be brought by the relative seeking to adopt the child, or by the department, board, or organization not otherwise having legal authority to place the orphaned or abandoned child for adoption, but having legal custody of the orphaned or abandoned child, in the probate court of the county in which the child is a resident, or in which the department, board, or organization is located, or where the person or persons with whom the child is to be placed reside. Unless the parent, parents, or guardian of the person of the child personally have appeared before the court and applied for approval of the placement, notice of the hearing on the application shall be served on the parent, parents, or guardian. The consent to placement, surrender, or adoption executed by a minor parent before a judge of the probate court or an authorized deputy or referee of the court, whether executed within or outside the confines of the court, is as valid as though executed by an adult. A consent given as above before an employee of a children services agency that is licensed as provided by law, is equally effective, if the consent also is accompanied by an affidavit executed by the witnessing employee or employees to the effect that the legal rights of the parents have been fully explained to the parents, prior to the execution of any consent, and that the action was done after the birth of the child. If the court approves a placement, the prospective adoptive parent with whom the child is placed has care, custody, and control of the child pending further order of the court. (E)(1) This section does not apply to an adoption by a stepparent, a grandparent, an adult sibling, a legal custodian, or a guardian. (2) As used in this section: (a) "Legal custodian" means a person who has been granted the legal custody of a child by a court of competent jurisdiction. (b) "Legal custody" has the same meaning as in section 2151.011 of the Revised Code or in any other substantially equivalent statute. Last updated February 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM