Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.24 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.24
§ 5101.24. Actions for failure to meet performance standards
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "responsible county grantee" means whichever county grantee, as defined in section 5101.21 of the Revised Code, the director of job and family services and the director of children and youth determine is appropriate to take action against under division (C) of this section. (B) Regardless of whether a family services duty is performed by a county family services agency, private or government entity pursuant to a contract entered into under section 307.982 of the Revised Code or division (C)(2) of section 5153.16 of the Revised Code, or private or government provider of a family service duty, the department of job and family services or the department of children and youth may take action under division (C) of this section against the responsible county grantee if the department determines any of the following are the case: (1) A requirement of a grant agreement entered into under section 5101.21 of the Revised Code that includes a grant for the family services duty, including a requirement for grant agreements established by rules adopted under that section, is not complied with; (2) A county family services agency fails to develop, submit to the department, or comply with a corrective action plan under division (B) of section 5101.221 of the Revised Code, or the department disapproves the agency's corrective action plan developed under division (B) of section 5101.221 of the Revised Code; (3) A requirement for the family services duty established by the department or any of the following is not complied with: a federal or state law, state plan for receipt of federal financial participation, grant agreement between the department and a federal agency, or executive order issued by the governor; (4) The responsible county grantee is solely or partially responsible, as determined by the director of job and family services or the director of children and youth, for an adverse audit finding, adverse quality control finding, final disallowance of federal financial participation, or other sanction or penalty regarding the family services duty. (C) The department may take one or more of the following actions against the responsible county grantee when authorized by division (B)(1), (2), (3), or (4) of this section: (1) Require the responsible county grantee to comply with a corrective action plan pursuant to a time schedule specified by the department. The corrective action plan shall be established or approved by the department and shall not require a county grantee to commit resources to the plan. (2) Require the responsible county grantee to comply with a corrective action plan pursuant to a time schedule specified by the department. The corrective action plan shall be established or approved by the department and require a county grantee to commit to the plan existing resources identified by the agency. (3) Require the responsible county grantee to do one of the following: (a) Share with the department a final disallowance of federal financial participation or other sanction or penalty; (b) Reimburse the department the final amount the department pays to the federal government or another entity that represents the amount the responsible county grantee is responsible for of an adverse audit finding, adverse quality control finding, final disallowance of federal financial participation, or other sanction or penalty issued by the federal government, auditor of state, or other entity; (c) Pay the federal government or another entity the final amount that represents the amount the responsible county grantee is responsible for of an adverse audit finding, adverse quality control finding, final disallowance of federal financial participation, or other sanction or penalty issued by the federal government, auditor of state, or other entity; (d) Pay the department the final amount that represents the amount the responsible county grantee is responsible for of an adverse audit finding or adverse quality control finding. (4) Impose an administrative sanction issued by the department against the responsible county grantee. A sanction may be increased if the department has previously taken action against the responsible entity under this division. (5) Perform, or contract with a government or private entity for the entity to perform, the family services duty until the department is satisfied that the responsible county grantee ensures that the duty will be performed satisfactorily. If the department performs or contracts with an entity to perform a family services duty under division (C)(5) of this section, the department may do either or both of the following: (a) Spend funds in the county treasury appropriated by the board of county commissioners for the duty; (b) Withhold funds allocated or reimbursements due to the responsible county grantee for the duty and spend the funds for the duty. (6) Request that the attorney general bring mandamus proceedings to compel the responsible county grantee to take or cease the action that causes division (B)(1), (2), (3), or (4) of this section to apply. The attorney general shall bring mandamus proceedings in the Franklin county court of appeals at the department's request. (7) If the department takes action under this division because of division (B)(3) of this section, temporarily withhold funds allocated or reimbursement due to the responsible county grantee until the department determines that the responsible county grantee is in compliance with the requirement. The department shall release the funds when the department determines that compliance has been achieved. (D) If the department proposes to take action against the responsible county grantee under division (C) of this section, the department shall notify the responsible county grantee, director of the appropriate county family services agency, and county auditor. The notice shall be in writing and specify the action the department proposes to take. The department shall send the notice by regular United States mail. Except as provided by division (E) of this section, the responsible county grantee may request an administrative review of a proposed action in accordance with administrative review procedures the department shall establish. The administrative review procedures shall comply with all of the following: (1) A request for an administrative review shall state specifically all of the following: (a) The proposed action specified in the notice from the department for which the review is requested; (b) The reason why the responsible county grantee believes the proposed action is inappropriate; (c) All facts and legal arguments that the responsible county grantee wants the department to consider; (d) The name of the person who will serve as the responsible county grantee's representative in the review. (2) If the department's notice specifies more than one proposed action and the responsible county grantee does not specify all of the proposed actions in its request pursuant to division (D)(1)(a) of this section, the proposed actions not specified in the request shall not be subject to administrative review and the parts of the notice regarding those proposed actions shall be final and binding on the responsible county grantee. (3) In the case of a proposed action under division (C)(1) of this section, the responsible county grantee shall have fifteen calendar days after the department mails the notice to the responsible county grantee to send a written request to the department for an administrative review. If it receives such a request within the required time, the department shall postpone taking action under division (C)(1) of this section for fifteen calendar days following the day it receives the request or extended period of time provided for in division (D)(5) of this section to allow a representative of the department and a representative of the responsible county grantee an informal opportunity to resolve any dispute during that fifteen-day or extended period. (4) In the case of a proposed action under division (C)(2), (3), (4), (5), or (7) of this section, the responsible county grantee shall have thirty calendar days after the department mails the notice to the responsible county grantee to send a written request to the department for an administrative review. If it receives such a request within the required time, the department shall postpone taking action under division (C)(2), (3), (4), (5), or (7) of this section for thirty calendar days following the day it receives the request or extended period of time provided for in division (D)(5) of this section to allow a representative of the department and a representative of the responsible county grantee an informal opportunity to resolve any dispute during that thirty-day or extended period. (5) If the informal opportunity provided in division (D)(3) or (4) of this section does not result in a written resolution to the dispute within the fifteen- or thirty-day period, the director of job and family services or the director of children and youth and representative of the responsible county grantee may enter into a written agreement extending the time period for attempting an informal resolution of the dispute under division (D)(3) or (4) of this section. (6) In the case of a proposed action under division (C)(3) of this section, the responsible county grantee may not include in its request disputes over a finding, final disallowance of federal financial participation, or other sanction or penalty issued by the federal government, auditor of state, or entity other than the department. (7) If the responsible county grantee fails to request an administrative review within the required time, the responsible county grantee loses the right to request an administrative review of the proposed actions specified in the notice and the notice becomes final and binding on the responsible county grantee. (8) If the informal opportunity provided in division (D)(3) or (4) of this section does not result in a written resolution to the dispute within the time provided by division (D)(3), (4), or (5) of this section, the director shall appoint an administrative review panel to conduct the administrative review. The review panel shall consist of department employees and one director or other representative of the type of county family services agency that is responsible for the kind of family services duty that is the subject of the dispute and serves a different county than the county served by the responsible county grantee. No individual involved in the department's proposal to take action against the responsible county grantee may serve on the review panel. The review panel shall review the responsible county grantee's request. The review panel may require that the department or responsible county grantee submit additional information and schedule and conduct an informal hearing to obtain testimony or additional evidence. A review of a proposal to take action under division (C)(3) of this section shall be limited solely to the issue of the amount the responsible county grantee shall share with the department, reimburse the department, or pay to the federal government, department, or other entity under division (C)(3) of this section. The review panel is not required to make a stenographic record of its hearing or other proceedings. (9) After finishing an administrative review, an administrative review panel appointed under division (D)(8) of this section shall submit a written report to the director setting forth its findings of fact, conclusions of law, and recommendations for action. The director may approve, modify, or disapprove the recommendations. If the director modifies or disapproves the recommendations, the director shall state the reasons for the modification or disapproval and the actions to be taken against the responsible county grantee. (10) The director's approval, modification, or disapproval under division (D)(9) of this section shall be final and binding on the responsible county grantee and shall not be subject to further departmental review. (E) The responsible county grantee is not entitled to an administrative review under division (D) of this section for any of the following: (1) An action taken under division (C)(6) of this section; (2) An action taken under section 5101.242 of the Revised Code; (3) An action taken under division (C)(3) of this section if the federal government, auditor of state, or entity other than the department has identified the responsible county grantee as being solely or partially responsible for an adverse audit finding, adverse quality control finding, final disallowance of federal financial participation, or other sanction or penalty; (4) An adjustment to an allocation, cash draw, advance, or reimbursement to a responsible county grantee that the department determines necessary for budgetary reasons; (5) Withholding of a cash draw or reimbursement due to noncompliance with a reporting requirement established in rules adopted under section 5101.243 of the Revised Code; (6) An action taken under division (C)(5) of this section if the department determines that an emergency exists. (F) This section does not apply to other actions the department takes against the responsible county grantee pursuant to authority granted by another state law unless the other state law requires the department to take the action in accordance with this section. (G) The director of job and family services and children and youth may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as necessary to implement this section. Last updated January 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.44 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.44
§ 5164.44. Employee status of independent provider
Status: in_force

March 23, 2016 House Bill 56 - 131st General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Aide services" means all of the following: (a) Home health aide services covered by the medicaid program as part of the home health services benefit pursuant to 42 C.F.R. 440.70(b)(2); (b) Home care attendant services covered by a participating medicaid waiver component, as defined in section 5166.30 of the Revised Code; (c) Any of the following covered by a home and community-based services medicaid waiver component: (i) Personal care aide services; (ii) Homemaker/personal care services; (iii) Community inclusion services. (2) "Independent provider" means an individual who personally provides aide services or nursing services under the medicaid program and is not employed by, under contract with, or affiliated with another entity that provides the services. (3) "Nursing services" means all of the following: (a) Nursing services covered by the medicaid program as part of the home health services benefit pursuant to 42 C.F.R. 440.70(b)(1); (b) Private duty nursing services, as defined in 42 C.F.R. 440.80, covered by the medicaid program; (c) Nursing services covered by a home and community-based services medicaid waiver component. (B) Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code to the contrary, an independent provider is not an employee of the state, or any political subdivision of the state, for any purpose under state law due to being an independent provider or any actions taken to become or remain an independent provider.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5122.29 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5122 / § 5122.29
§ 5122.29. Patients' rights
Status: in_force

October 1, 2012 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly All patients hospitalized or committed pursuant to this chapter have the following rights: (A) The right to a written list of all rights enumerated in this chapter, to that person, that person's legal guardian, and that person's counsel. If the person is unable to read, the list shall be read and explained to the person. (B) The right at all times to be treated with consideration and respect for the patient's privacy and dignity, including without limitation, the following: (1) At the time a person is taken into custody for diagnosis, detention, or treatment under Chapter 5122. of the Revised Code, the person taking that person into custody shall take reasonable precautions to preserve and safeguard the personal property in the possession of or on the premises occupied by that person; (2) A person who is committed, voluntarily or involuntarily, shall be given reasonable protection from assault or battery by any other person. (C) The right to communicate freely with and be visited at reasonable times by the patient's private counsel or personnel of the Ohio protection and advocacy system and, unless prior court restriction has been obtained, to communicate freely with and be visited at reasonable times by the patient's personal physician or psychologist. (D) The right to communicate freely with others, unless specifically restricted in the patient's treatment plan for clear treatment reasons, including without limitation the following: (1) To receive visitors at reasonable times; (2) To have reasonable access to telephones to make and receive confidential calls, including a reasonable number of free calls if unable to pay for them and assistance in calling if requested and needed. (E) The right to have ready access to letter writing materials, including a reasonable number of stamps without cost if unable to pay for them, and to mail and receive unopened correspondence and assistance in writing if requested and needed. (F) The right to the following personal privileges consistent with health and safety: (1) To wear the patient's own clothes and maintain the patient's own personal effects; (2) To be provided an adequate allowance for or allotment of neat, clean, and seasonable clothing if unable to provide the patient's own; (3) To maintain the patient's personal appearance according to the patient's own personal taste, including head and body hair; (4) To keep and use personal possessions, including toilet articles; (5) To have access to individual storage space for the patient's private use; (6) To keep and spend a reasonable sum of the patient's own money for expenses and small purchases; (7) To receive and possess reading materials without censorship, except when the materials create a clear and present danger to the safety of persons in the facility. (G) The right to reasonable privacy, including both periods of privacy and places of privacy. (H) The right to free exercise of religious worship within the facility, including a right to services and sacred texts that are within the reasonable capacity of the facility to supply, provided that no patient shall be coerced into engaging in any religious activities. (I) The right to social interaction with members of either sex, subject to adequate supervision, unless such social interaction is specifically withheld under a patient's written treatment plan for clear treatment reasons. As used in this section, "clear treatment reasons" means that permitting the patient to communicate freely with others will present a substantial risk of physical harm to the patient or others or will substantially preclude effective treatment of the patient. If a right provided under this section is restricted or withheld for clear treatment reasons, the patient's written treatment plan shall specify the treatment designed to eliminate the restriction or withholding of the right at the earliest possible time.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.214 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.214
§ 5101.214. Agreements to enhance county family services duties and workforce development activities
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly The director of job and family services and the director of children and youth may enter into a written agreement with one or more state agencies, as defined in section 117.01 of the Revised Code, and state universities and colleges to assist in the coordination, provision, or enhancement of the family services duties of a county family services agency or the workforce development activities of a local board, as defined in section 6301.01 of the Revised Code. The directors also may enter into written agreements or contracts with, or issue grants to, private and government entities under which funds are provided for the enhancement or innovation of family services duties or workforce development activities on the state or local level. The directors may adopt internal management rules in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code to implement this section. Last updated January 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.0325 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.0325
§ 5103.0325. Review of rules for agency visits
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly Notwithstanding section 106.03 of the Revised Code, the department of children and youth shall review once every two years the department's rules governing visits and contacts by a public children services agency or private child placing agency with a child in the agency's custody and placed in foster care in this state. The department shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to ensure compliance with the department's rules governing agency visits and contacts with a child in its custody. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5121.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5121 / § 5121.06
§ 5121.06. Persons liable for support
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly (A) The following persons other than the resident or the resident's estate are liable relatives and all the following persons are jointly and severally liable for the support of a resident in an institution under the control of the department of developmental disabilities: (1) The resident or the resident's estate; (2) The resident's spouse; (3) The father or mother, or both, of a minor resident under the age of eighteen years. (B) The department shall determine, pursuant to section 5121.04 of the Revised Code, the amount to be charged each resident and liable relative in the order named in this section, but shall not collect from any person more than one hundred per cent of the applicable cost. (C) An action to collect delinquent payments or to enforce agreements in default may be brought against any or all persons named in this section. To the extent parents of adult residents, pursuant to the language of this section previously in force, incurred charges for the support of such residents between the eighteenth birthday of such resident and July 1, 1975, their liability for such period may be canceled, compromised, or settled as provided in section 5121.07 of the Revised Code. (D) Irrespective of the number of residents whose care might be chargeable against a liable relative, no individual liable relative nor group of liable relatives who are members of the same family unit shall be charged with the support of more than one resident during the same period of time, and different periods of time for which such liable relative has paid the charges for such different residents' care and support shall be added together for the purpose of completing the maximum fifteen-year period of liability of such liable relative under division (B)(6) of section 5121.04 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.15
§ 5126.15. Service and support administration provided
Status: in_force

October 17, 2019 House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly (A) A county board of developmental disabilities shall provide service and support administration to each individual three years of age or older who is eligible for service and support administration if the individual requests, or a person on the individual's behalf requests, service and support administration. A board shall provide service and support administration to each individual receiving home and community-based services. A board may provide, in accordance with the service coordination requirements of 34 C.F.R. 303.23, service and support administration to an individual under three years of age eligible for early intervention services under 34 C.F.R. part 303. A board may provide service and support administration to an individual who is not eligible for other services of the board. Service and support administration shall be provided in accordance with rules adopted under section 5126.08 of the Revised Code. A board may provide service and support administration by directly employing service and support administrators or by contracting with entities for the performance of service and support administration. Individuals employed or under contract as service and support administrators shall not be in the same collective bargaining unit as employees who perform duties that are not administrative. A service and support administrator shall perform only the duties specified in division (B) of this section. While employed by or under contract with a board, a service and support administrator shall neither be employed by or serve in a decision-making or policy-making capacity for any other entity that provides programs or services to individuals with developmental disabilities nor provide programs or services to individuals with developmental disabilities through self-employment. (B) A service and support administrator shall do all of the following: (1) Establish an individual's eligibility for the services of the county board of developmental disabilities; (2) Assess individual needs for services; (3) Develop individual service plans with the active participation of the individual to be served, other persons selected by the individual, and, when applicable, the provider selected by the individual, and recommend the plans for approval by the department of developmental disabilities when services included in the plans are funded through medicaid; (4) Establish budgets for services based on the individual's assessed needs and preferred ways of meeting those needs; (5) Assist individuals in making selections from among the providers they have chosen; (6) Ensure that services are effectively coordinated and provided by appropriate providers; (7) Establish and implement an ongoing system of monitoring the implementation of individual service plans to achieve consistent implementation and the desired outcomes for the individual; (8) Incorporate identified trends and patterns of unusual incidents and major unusual incidents into amendments of an individual's service plan for the purpose of improving and enhancing the quality and appropriateness of services rendered to the individual.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5147.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5147 / § 5147.16
§ 5147.16. Purchase or lease beds of limestone, or other suitable road-building material
Status: in_force

September 28, 1973 House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly The board of county commissioners may purchase or lease beds of limestone, or other suitable road-building material, after such material is approved by the director of transportation as suitable for the construction of roads, or such board may lease and operate a plant for the manufacture of brick or other road-building materials or supplies needed for the construction or maintenance of public roads in such county and employ a superintendent to supervise the work. When such property is purchased or leased, the board shall make the arrangements necessary to work the convicts of the county.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5122.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5122 / § 5122.03
§ 5122.03. Release of voluntary patients
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly A patient admitted under section 5122.02 of the Revised Code who requests release in writing, or whose release is requested in writing by the patient's counsel, legal guardian, parent, spouse, or adult next of kin shall be released forthwith, except when any of the following is the case: (A) The patient was admitted on the patient's own application and the request for release is made by a person other than the patient, release may be conditional upon the agreement of the patient. (B) The patient was, within the past twelve months, a defendant described in division (B)(1)(a)(v)(I) of section 2945.38 of the Revised Code and the chief clinical officer of the hospital decides not to file or cause to be filed an affidavit under section 5122.11 of the Revised Code as described in division (C) of this section. In that circumstance, the chief clinical officer shall immediately notify the trial court or prosecutor described in division (B)(1)(a)(v)(I) of section 2945.38 of the Revised Code of the chief clinical officer's decision and intent to release the patient. Not later than three court days after being notified of the intent to release, the trial court or prosecutor may file or cause to be filed with the court of the county where the patient is hospitalized, or the court of the county where the patient resides, an affidavit under section 5122.11 of the Revised Code. If such an affidavit is filed, the patient's release must be postponed until a hearing under section 5122.141 of the Revised Code is held. (C) The chief clinical officer of the hospital, within three court days from the receipt of the request for release, files or causes to be filed with the court of the county where the patient is hospitalized or of the county where the patient is a resident, an affidavit under section 5122.11 of the Revised Code. Release may be postponed until the hearing held under section 5122.141 of the Revised Code. A telephone communication within three court days from the receipt of the request for release from the chief clinical officer to the court, indicating that the required affidavit has been mailed, is sufficient compliance with the time limit for filing such affidavit. Unless the patient is released within three days from the receipt of the request by the chief clinical officer, the request shall serve as a request for an initial hearing under section 5122.141 of the Revised Code. If the court finds that the patient is a person with a mental illness subject to court order, all provisions of this chapter with respect to involuntary hospitalization apply to such person. Judicial proceedings for hospitalization shall not be commenced with respect to a voluntary patient except pursuant to this section. Sections 5121.30 to 5121.56 of the Revised Code apply to persons received in a hospital operated by the department of behavioral health on a voluntary application. The chief clinical officer of the hospital shall provide reasonable means and arrangements for informing patients of their rights to release as provided in this section and for assisting them in making and presenting requests for release or for a hearing under section 5122.141 of the Revised Code. Before a patient is released from a public hospital, the chief clinical officer shall, when possible, provide notice of the patient's pending release to the board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services serving the patient's county of residence. Before the notice is given, the chief clinical officer shall inform the patient that the board will be so notified. Last updated August 14, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5122.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5122 / § 5122.19
§ 5122.19. Medical examination within 24 hours of arrival
Status: in_force

April 6, 2023 House Bill 281 - 134th General Assembly Every person transported to a hospital or community mental health services provider pursuant to sections 5122.11 to 5122.16 of the Revised Code, shall be examined by the staff of the hospital or services provider as soon as practicable after arrival at the hospital or services provider. Such an examination shall be held within twenty-four hours after the time of arrival, and if the chief clinical officer fails after such an examination to certify that in the chief clinical officer's opinion the person is a person with a mental illness subject to court order, the person shall be immediately released. Last updated March 10, 2023 at 12:57 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5167.47 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5167 / § 5167.47
§ 5167.47. Compliance with federal mental health and addiction parity laws
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 Senate Bill 284 - 133rd General Assembly (A) When contracting with a medicaid managed care organization, the department of medicaid shall require the medicaid managed care organization to provide to medicaid enrollees the same benefits and rights as required under division (B) of section 3902.36 of the Revised Code. (B) The medicaid director shall do both of the following: (1) Implement and enforce division (B) of section 3902.36 of the Revised Code with respect to medicaid managed care organizations; (2) Enforce, monitor compliance with, and ensure continued compliance with this section. (C) The director may adopt rules under section 5167.02 of the Revised Code as necessary to carry out the provisions of this section. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.49 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.49
§ 5165.49. Post-payment reviews of nursing facility Medicaid claims
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The department of medicaid may conduct a post-payment review of a claim submitted by a nursing facility provider and paid by the medicaid program to determine whether the provider was overpaid. The department shall provide the provider a written summary of the review's results. The review's results are not subject to an adjudication under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code; however, the provider may request that the medicaid director reconsider the review's results. The director shall reconsider the review's results on receipt of a request made in good faith. The department shall not deduct any amounts the department claims to be due from the provider as a result of the review from the provider's medicaid payments pursuant to section 5165.44 of the Revised Code until the conclusion of the director's reconsideration, if any, of the review.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.14 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.14
§ 5180.14. Shaken baby syndrome education program
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section and sections 5180.15 , 5180.16 , and 5180.17 of the Revised Code: (1) "Child care center," "type A family child care home," and "licensed type B family child care home" have the same meanings as in section 5104.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Child care facility" means a child care center, a type A family child care home, or a licensed type B family child care home. (3) "Foster caregiver" has the same meaning as in section 5103.02 of the Revised Code. (4) "Freestanding birthing center" has the same meaning as in section 3701.503 of the Revised Code. (5) "Hospital" has the same meaning as in section 3722.01 of the Revised Code to which either of the following applies: (a) The hospital has a maternity unit. (b) The hospital receives for care infants who have been transferred to it from other facilities and who have never been discharged to their residences following birth. (6) "Infant" means a child who is less than one year of age. (7) "Maternity unit" means the distinct portion of a hospital in which maternity services are provided. (8) "Other person responsible for the infant" includes a foster caregiver. (9) "Parent" means either parent, unless the parents are separated or divorced or their marriage has been dissolved or annulled, in which case "parent" means the parent who is the residential parent and legal custodian of the child. "Parent" also means a prospective adoptive parent with whom a child is placed. (10) "Shaken baby syndrome" means signs and symptoms, including, but not limited to, retinal hemorrhages in one or both eyes, subdural hematoma, or brain swelling, resulting from the violent shaking or the shaking and impacting of the head of an infant or small child. (B) The director of children and youth shall establish the shaken baby syndrome education program by doing all of the following: (1) Developing educational materials that present readily comprehendible information on shaken baby syndrome; (2) Making available on the department of children and youth web site in an easily accessible format the educational materials developed under division (B)(1) of this section; (3) Annually assessing the effectiveness of the shaken baby syndrome education program by doing all of the following: (a) Evaluating the reports received pursuant to section 5180.405 of the Revised Code; (b) Reviewing the content of the educational materials to determine if updates or improvements should be made; (c) Reviewing the manner in which the educational materials are distributed, as described in section 5180.15 of the Revised Code, to determine if modifications to that manner should be made. (C) In meeting the requirements under division (B) of this section, the director shall develop educational materials that, to the extent possible, minimize administrative or financial burdens on any of the entities or persons listed in section 5180.15 of the Revised Code. Last updated September 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5147.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5147 / § 5147.22
§ 5147.22. Earnings of prisoners
Status: in_force

March 31, 2021 House Bill 24 - 133rd General Assembly Except for prisoners participating in a county jail industry program established under section 5147.30 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners, or officer in charge of any workhouse or jail, shall place to the credit of each prisoner the amount of the prisoner's earnings that the board or officer considers equitable and just, taking into consideration the character of the prisoner, the nature of the crime for which the prisoner is imprisoned, and the prisoner's general deportment. The board or officer may cancel any portion of that credit for violation of the rules, want of propriety, or other misconduct. When such earnings are credited to any such prisoner and the prisoner has a child under the age of sixteen or a spouse, the board or officer in control of the workhouse or jail shall pay the earnings weekly to the person having custody of the child, or to the spouse of the prisoner, as the board or officer determines. When the prisoner has no such child or spouse, the earnings shall be paid to the prisoner upon discharge.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5107.281 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5107 / § 5107.281
§ 5107.281. Mandatory participation in learnfare program
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly A participant of Ohio works first who is enrolled in a school district in a county that is participating in the learnfare program and is not younger than age six but not older than age nineteen shall participate in the learnfare program unless one of the following is the case: (A) The participant is not yet eligible for enrollment in first grade; (B) The participant is subject to the LEAP program; (C) The participant has received one of the following: (1) A high school diploma; (2) A certificate stating that the participant has achieved the equivalent of a high school education as measured by scores obtained on a high school equivalency test approved by the department of education and workforce pursuant to division (B) of section 3301.80 of the Revised Code. (D) The participant has been excused from school attendance pursuant to section 3321.04 or is exempt under section 3321.042 of the Revised Code; (E) If child care services for a member of the participant's household are necessary for the participant to attend school, child care licensed or certified under Chapter 5104. of the Revised Code or under sections 3301.52 to 3301.59 of the Revised Code and transportation to and from the child care are not available; (F) The participant has been adjudicated a delinquent or unruly child pursuant to section 2151.28 of the Revised Code. Last updated September 19, 2023 at 11:26 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5104.041 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5104 / § 5104.041
§ 5104.041. Type A and B family child care home requirements
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) All type A family child care homes and licensed type B family child care homes shall procure and maintain one of the following: (1) Liability insurance issued by an insurer authorized to do business in this state under Chapter 3905. of the Revised Code insuring the type A or type B family child care home against liability arising out of, or in connection with, the operation of the family child care home. The insurance procured shall cover any cause for which the type A or type B family child care home would be liable, in the amount of at least one hundred thousand dollars per occurrence and three hundred thousand dollars in the aggregate. (2) A written statement signed by the parent, guardian, or custodian of each child receiving child care from the type A or type B family child care home that states all of the following: (a) The family child care home does not carry liability insurance described in division (A)(1) of this section; (b) If the licensee of a type A family child care home or a type B family child care home is not the owner of the real property where the family child care home is located, the liability insurance, if any, of the owner of the real property may not provide for coverage of any liability arising out of, or in connection with, the operation of the family child care home. (B) If the licensee of a type A family child care home or a type B family child care home is not the owner of the real property where the family child care home is located and the family child care home procures liability insurance described in division (A)(1) of this section, that licensee shall name the owner of the real property as an additional insured party on the liability insurance policy if all of the following apply: (1) The owner of the real property requests the licensee or provider, in writing, to add the owner of the real property to the liability insurance policy as an additional insured party. (2) The addition of the owner of the real property does not result in cancellation or nonrenewal of the insurance policy procured by the type A or type B family child care home. (3) The owner of the real property pays any additional premium assessed for coverage of the owner of the real property. (C) Proof of insurance or written statement required under division (A) of this section shall be maintained at the type A or type B family child care home and made available for review during inspection or investigation as required under this chapter. (D) The director of children and youth shall adopt rules for the enforcement of this section. Last updated January 29, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.37 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.37
§ 5165.37. Calculating rates and making payments
Status: in_force

November 22, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly The department of medicaid shall make its best efforts each year to calculate nursing facilities' medicaid payment rates under this chapter in time to pay the rates by the fifteenth day of August of each state fiscal year. If the department is unable to calculate the rates so that they can be paid by that date, the department shall pay each provider the rate calculated for the provider's nursing facilities under this chapter at the end of the previous state fiscal year. If the department also is unable to calculate the rates to pay the rates by the fifteenth day of September and the fifteenth day of October, the department shall pay the previous state fiscal year's rate to make those payments. The department may increase by five per cent the previous state fiscal year's rate paid for any nursing facility pursuant to this section at the request of the provider. The department shall use rates calculated for the current state fiscal year to make the payments due by the fifteenth day of November. If the rate paid to a provider for a nursing facility pursuant to this section is lower than the rate calculated for the nursing facility for the current state fiscal year, the department shall pay the provider the difference between the two rates for the number of days for which the provider was paid for the nursing facility pursuant to this section. If the rate paid for a nursing facility pursuant to this section is higher than the rate calculated for it for the current state fiscal year, the provider shall refund to the department the difference between the two rates for the number of days for which the provider was paid for the nursing facility pursuant to this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5153.162 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5153 / § 5153.162
§ 5153.162. Operation, acquisition, or maintenance of children's home, training school, or other institution for care of children
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly Pursuant to an agreement entered into under division (A)(10) of section 5153.16 of the Revised Code respecting the operation, acquisition, or maintenance of a children's home, training school, or other institution for the care of children maintained by a municipal corporation or other political subdivision, the public children services agency may acquire, operate, and maintain such an institution. The agency may enter into an agreement with a municipal corporation, a board of education, and the board of county commissioners, or with any one of them, to provide for the maintenance and operation of children's training schools. The agreement may provide for the contribution of funds by the municipal corporation, board of education, or board of county commissioners, in such proportions and amounts as the agreement states. The agreement also may provide for the operation and supervision of the training school by any one of them, or by the joint action of two or more of them, provided that municipal corporations, boards of education, and boards of county commissioners may expend moneys from their general funds for maintaining and operating the joint children's training school. Last updated October 6, 2023 at 11:49 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.234 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.234
§ 5103.234. Agreements with other party states
Status: in_force

May 14, 2008 House Bill 214 - 127th General Assembly The officers and agencies of this state and its subdivisions having authority to place children are hereby empowered to enter into agreements with appropriate officers or agencies of or in other party states pursuant to paragraph (B) of Article V of the interstate compact on the placement of children. Any such agreement which contains a financial commitment or imposes a financial obligation on this state is subject to the approval of the director of budget and management. Any such agreement which contains a financial commitment or imposes a financial obligation on any subdivision of this state shall not be binding unless it has the approval in writing of the chief local fiscal officer.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.151 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.151
§ 5103.151. Duties prospective parent of adoptee
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section and in section 5103.152 of the Revised Code, "identifying information" has the same meaning as in section 3107.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, a parent of a minor who will be, if adopted, an adopted person as defined in section 3107.45 of the Revised Code shall do all of the following as a condition of a juvenile court approving the parent's agreement with a public children services agency or private child placing agency under division (B)(1) of section 5103.15 of the Revised Code: (1) Appear personally before the court; (2) Sign the component of the form prescribed under division (A)(1)(a) of section 3107.083 of the Revised Code; (3) Check either the "yes" or "no" space provided on the component of the form prescribed under division (A)(1)(b) of section 3107.083 of the Revised Code and sign that component; (4) If the parent is the mother, complete and sign the component of the form prescribed under division (A)(1)(c) of section 3107.083 of the Revised Code. At the time the parent signs the components of the form prescribed under divisions (A)(1)(a), (b), and (c) of section 3107.083 of the Revised Code, the parent may sign, if the parent chooses to do so, the components of the form prescribed under divisions (A)(1)(d), (e), and (f) of that section. After the parent signs the components required to be signed and any discretionary components the parent chooses to sign, the parent or agency shall file the form and agreement with the court. The court or agency shall give the parent a copy of the form and agreement. The court and agency shall keep a copy of the form and agreement in the court and agency's records. The agency shall file a copy of the form and agreement with the probate court with which a petition to adopt the child who is the subject of the agreement is filed. The juvenile court shall question the parent to determine that the parent understands the adoption process, the ramifications of entering into a voluntary permanent custody surrender agreement, each component of the form prescribed under division (A)(1) of section 3107.083 of the Revised Code, and that the child and adoptive parent may receive identifying information about the parent in accordance with section 3107.47 of the Revised Code unless the parent checks the "no" space provided on the component of the form prescribed under division (A)(1)(b) of section 3107.083 of the Revised Code or has a denial of release form filed with the department of health under section 3107.46 of the Revised Code. The court also shall question the parent to determine that the parent enters into the permanent custody surrender agreement voluntarily and any decisions the parent makes in filling out the form prescribed under division (A)(1) of section 3107.083 of the Revised Code are made voluntarily. (C) A juvenile court may approve an agreement entered into under division (B)(1) of section 5103.15 of the Revised Code between a public children services agency or private child placing agency and the parents of a child who is less than six months of age and will be, if adopted, an adopted person as defined in section 3107.45 of the Revised Code without the parents personally appearing before the court if both parents do all of the following: (1) Enter into the agreement with the agency; (2) Sign the component of the form prescribed under division (A)(1)(a) of section 3107.083 of the Revised Code; (3) Check either the "yes" or "no" space provided on the component of the form prescribed under division (A)(1)(b) of section 3107.083 of the Revised Code and sign that component. At the time the parents sign the components of the form prescribed under divisions (A)(1)(a) and (b) of section 3107.083 of the Revised Code, the mother shall complete and sign the component of the form prescribed under division (A)(1)(c) of that section and the agency shall provide the parents the opportunity to sign, if they choose to do so, the components of the form prescribed under divisions (A)(1)(d), (e), and (f) of that section. Not later than two business days after the parents enter into the agreements and sign the components of the form required to be signed and any discretionary components the parents choose to sign, the agency shall file the agreements and forms with the court. The agency shall give the parents a copy of the agreements and forms. At the time the agency files the agreements and forms with the court, the agency also shall file with the court all other documents the director of children and youth requires by rules adopted under division (D) of section 3107.083 of the Revised Code to be filed with the court. The court and agency shall keep a copy of the agreements, forms, and documents in the court and attorney's records. The agency shall file a copy of the agreements, forms, and documents with the probate court with which a petition to adopt the child who is the subject of the agreement is filed. (D) Except as provided in division (E) of this section, a parent of a minor, who will be, if adopted, an adopted person as defined in section 3107.38 of the Revised Code, shall do all of the following as a condition of a juvenile court approving the parent's agreement with a public children services agency or private child placing agency under division (B)(1) of section 5103.15 of the Revised Code: (1) Appear personally before the court; (2) Sign the component of the form prescribed under division (B)(1)(a) of section 3107.083 of the Revised Code; (3) If the parent is the mother, complete and sign the component of the form prescribed under division (B)(1)(b) of section 3107.083 of the Revised Code. At the time the parent signs the components prescribed under divisions (B)(1)(a) and (b) of section 3107.083 of the Revised Code, the parent may sign, if the parent chooses to do so, the components of the form prescribed under divisions (B)(1)(c), (d), and (e) of that section. After the parent signs the components required to be signed and any discretionary components the parent chooses to sign, the parent or agency shall file the form and agreement with the court. The court or agency shall give the parent a copy of the form and agreement. The court and agency shall keep a copy of the form and agreement in the court and agency's records. The agency shall file a copy of the form and agreement with the probate court with which a petition to adopt the child who is the subject of the agreement is filed. The juvenile court shall question the parent to determine that the parent understands the adoption process, the ramifications of entering into a voluntary permanent custody surrender agreement, and each component of the form prescribed under division (B)(1) of section 3107.083 of the Revised Code. The court also shall question the parent to determine that the parent enters into the permanent custody surrender agreement voluntarily and any decisions the parent makes in filling out the form are made voluntarily. (E) A juvenile court may approve an agreement entered into under division (B)(1) of section 5103.15 of the Revised Code between a public children services agency or private child placing agency and the parent of a child who is less than six months of age and will be, if adopted, an adopted person as defined in section 3107.38 of the Revised Code without the parent personally appearing before the court if the parent does both of the following: (1) Signs the component of the form prescribed under division (B)(1)(a) of section 3107.083 of the Revised Code; (2) If the parent is the mother, completes and signs the component of the form prescribed under division (B)(1)(b) of section 3107.083 of the Revised Code. At the time the parent signs that component, the agency shall provide the parent the opportunity to sign, if the parent chooses to do so, the components of the form prescribed under divisions (B)(1)(c), (d), and (e) of section 3107.083 of the Revised Code. Not later than two business days after the parent enters into the agreement and signs the components of the form required to be signed and any discretionary components the parent chooses to sign, the agency shall file the agreement and form with the court. The agency shall give the parent a copy of the agreement and form. At the time the agency files the agreement and form with the court, the agency also shall file with the court all other documents the director of children and youth requires by rules adopted under division (D) of section 3107.083 of the Revised Code to be filed with the court. The court and agency shall keep a copy of the agreement, form, and documents in the court and agency's records. The agency shall file a copy of the agreement, form, and documents with the probate court with which a petition to adopt the child who is the subject of the agreement is filed. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5160.471 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5160 / § 5160.471
§ 5160.471. Review to determine eligibility for federal military-related health care benefits
Status: in_force

March 23, 2016 Senate Bill 10 - 131st General Assembly (A) As used in this section: "Federal military-related health care benefits" means any of the health care benefits provided by the United States department of defense or the United States department of veterans affairs to current or former service members and their eligible dependents, including the benefits provided through the programs known as tricare and champva. (B) (1) The department of medicaid shall review information in the public assistance reporting information system to determine whether an individual who is a medical assistance recipient may be eligible for federal military-related health care benefits. If the department determines that the individual may be eligible for federal military-related health care benefits, it shall notify the individual of the potential eligibility and encourage the individual to contact the veterans service commission in the county in which the individual resides for assistance in applying for the benefits. The department shall provide the appropriate contact information to the individual.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.621 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.621
§ 5123.621. Legislative intent regarding adult day services
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly It is the intent of the general assembly that all individuals being served on the effective date of this section through the array of adult day services that exists on that date, including services delivered in a sheltered workshop, be fully informed of any new home and community-based services and their option to receive those services. It is also the intent of the general assembly that those individuals be permitted to continue receiving services in a variety of settings as long as those settings offer opportunities for community integration as described in their individual service plans. Last updated March 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5107.52 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5107 / § 5107.52
§ 5107.52. Subsidized employment program
Status: in_force

July 1, 2007 House Bill 187 - 126th General Assembly (A) There is hereby established, as a work activity under Ohio works first, the subsidized employment program, under which private and government employers receive payments from appropriations to the department of job and family services for a portion of the costs of salaries, wages, and benefits those employers pay to or on behalf of employees who are participants of the subsidized employment program at the time of employment. (B) The director of job and family services may redetermine rates of payments to employers under this section annually. (C) A state agency or political subdivision may create or fill vacant full-time and part-time positions, including classified and unclassified positions for those positions that are included in the civil service under Chapter 124. of the Revised Code, for or with participants of the subsidized employment program. The director shall specify in rules adopted under section 5107.05 of the Revised Code the maximum amount of time the department will subsidize the positions. After the subsidy expires, the agency or subdivision may hire the participant for an unclassified position or as an employee in the classified civil service. The director of administrative services may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code governing this division. (D) Participants of the subsidized employment program for whom payments are made under this section: (1) Shall be considered regular employees of the employer, entitled to the same employment benefits and opportunities for advancement and affiliation with employee organizations that are available to other regular employees of the employer, and the employer shall pay premiums to the bureau of workers' compensation on account of employees for whom payments are made; (2) Shall be paid at the same rate as other employees doing similar work for the employer. (E) An agreement for employment of a subsidized employment program participant by a private employer shall require that the participant be given preference for any unsubsidized full-time position with the employer that becomes available after the participant completes any probationary or training period specified in the agreement.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5121.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5121 / § 5121.12
§ 5121.12. Collection and payment for support and maintenance of patients and residents
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly The support and maintenance of residents confined in state institutions operated by the department of developmental disabilities under section 5123.03 of the Revised Code, including those transferred to them from state correctional institutions, and also including persons under indictment or conviction for crime, shall be collected and paid in accordance with sections 5121.01 to 5121.21 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.253 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.253
§ 5126.253. Information concerning improper conduct by licensed employee
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Conduct unbecoming to the teaching profession" shall be as described in rules adopted by the state board of education. (2) "Intervention in lieu of conviction" means intervention in lieu of conviction under section 2951.041 of the Revised Code. (3) "License" has the same meaning as in section 3319.31 of the Revised Code. (4) "Pre-trial diversion program" means a pre-trial diversion program under section 2935.36 of the Revised Code or a similar diversion program under rules of a court. (B) The superintendent of each county board of developmental disabilities or the president of the board, if division (C) of this section applies, shall promptly submit to the superintendent of public instruction the information prescribed in division (D) of this section when any of the following conditions applies to an employee of the board who holds a license issued by the state board of education: (1) The superintendent or president knows that the employee has pleaded guilty to, has been found guilty by a jury or court of, has been convicted of, has been found to be eligible for intervention in lieu of conviction for, or has agreed to participate in a pre-trial diversion program for an offense described in division (B)(2) or (C) of section 3319.31 or division (B)(1) of section 3319.39 of the Revised Code. (2) The board has initiated termination or nonrenewal proceedings against, has terminated, or has not renewed the contract of the employee because the board has reasonably determined that the employee has committed an act unbecoming to the teaching profession or an offense described in division (B)(2) or (C) of section 3319.31 or division (B)(1) of section 3319.39 of the Revised Code. (3) The employee has resigned under threat of termination or nonrenewal as described in division (B)(2) of this section. (4) The employee has resigned because of or in the course of an investigation by the board regarding whether the employee has committed an act unbecoming to the teaching profession or an offense described in division (B)(2) or (C) of section 3319.31 or division (B)(1) of section 3319.39 of the Revised Code. (C) If the employee to whom any of the conditions prescribed in divisions (B)(1) to (4) of this section applies is the superintendent of a county board of developmental disabilities, the president of the board shall make the report required under this section. (D) If a report is required under this section, the superintendent or president shall submit to the superintendent of public instruction the name and social security number of the employee about whom information is required and a factual statement regarding any of the conditions prescribed in divisions (B)(1) to (4) of this section that applies to the employee. (E) A determination made by the board as described in division (B)(2) of this section or a termination, nonrenewal, resignation, or other separation described in divisions (B)(2) to (4) of this section does not create a presumption of the commission or lack of the commission by the employee of an act unbecoming to the teaching profession or an offense described in division (B)(2) or (C) of section 3319.31 or division (B)(1) of section 3319.39 of the Revised Code. (F) No individual required to submit a report under division (B) of this section shall knowingly fail to comply with that division. (G) An individual who provides information to the superintendent of public instruction in accordance with this section in good faith shall be immune from any civil liability that otherwise might be incurred or imposed for injury, death, or loss to person or property as a result of the provision of that information. Last updated January 13, 2023 at 1:00 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5168.46 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5168 / § 5168.46
§ 5168.46. Annual reports
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The department of health shall do all of the following: (A) For the purpose of the determinations made under divisions (A) and (B) of section 5168.42 of the Revised Code and not later than the first day of each June, report to the department of medicaid the following: (1) For each nursing home, the number of beds in the nursing home licensed on the preceding first day of May under section 3721.02 or 3721.09 of the Revised Code or certified on that date under Title XVIII or Title XIX; (2) For each hospital, the number of beds in the hospital registered on the preceding first day of May pursuant to section 3701.07 of the Revised Code as skilled nursing facility or long-term care beds or licensed on that date under section 3721.02 or 3721.09 of the Revised Code as nursing home beds. (B) For the purpose of the redetermination under section 5168.48 of the Revised Code and not later than the fifteenth day of each January, report to the department of medicaid, for each nursing home and hospital, the number of beds for which a bed surrender occurred during the period beginning on the first day of May of the preceding calendar year and ending on the first day of January of the calendar year in which the redetermination is made.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.274 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.274
§ 5180.274. [Former R.C. 3738.05, renumbered by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Pregnancy-associated mortality review board - production of documents; family member participation
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) Notwithstanding section 3701.243 and any other section of the Revised Code pertaining to confidentiality, and except as provided in division (B) of this section, an individual, government entity, agency that provides services specifically to individuals or families, law enforcement agency, health care provider, or other public or private entity that provided services to a woman whose death is being reviewed by the PAMR board shall submit to the board a copy of any record it possesses that the board requests. In addition, such an individual or entity may make available to the board additional information, documents, or reports that could be useful to the board's investigation. (B) No person, government entity, law enforcement agency, or prosecuting attorney shall provide any information regarding a pregnancy-associated death while an investigation of the death or prosecution of a person for causing the death is pending unless the prosecuting attorney agrees to allow the review. (C) A family member of the deceased may decline to participate in an interview as part of the review process. In that case, the review shall continue without the family member's participation. Last updated October 3, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.19
§ 5120.19. Cultivating lands - transactions between institutions
Status: in_force

July 1, 1987 House Bill 171 - 117th General Assembly (A) The department of rehabilitation and correction, in accordance with rules adopted pursuant to division (B) of section 5145.03 of the Revised Code, shall determine and direct what lands belonging to institutions under its control shall be cultivated, the crops to be raised, and the use to be made of the land and crops, and may distribute the products among the different institutions. If the crops are distributed to institutions under the control of the department, the department shall keep records of the distributions and of the fair market value of the crops distributed. The department may sell any crops that are not necessary for the institutions under its control to any person. The money received from the sale of the crops shall be deposited in the services and agricultural fund created pursuant to section 5120.29 of the Revised Code. The department may require institutions under its control, when they have proper lands and labor, to undertake intensive agriculture, may rent lands for the production of supplies for any of the institutions that have surplus labor, and may rent lands for the production of crops for sale, when it can be done to advantage. The department shall pay and assign the prisoners who perform any labor pursuant to this division in accordance with the rules adopted pursuant to division (B) of section 5145.03 of the Revised Code. (B) The department may direct the purchase of any materials, supplies, or other articles for any institution under its control from any other institution under its control at the reasonable market value, which value shall be fixed by the department. Payments for the articles shall be made as between institutions in the manner provided for payment for supplies.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5153.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5153 / § 5153.12
§ 5153.12. Classified civil service status of employees
Status: in_force

October 1, 1997 House Bill 408 - 122nd General Assembly All employees of the public children services agency shall be in the classified civil service. The agency may establish compensation rates and vacation benefits for any of its employees. Insofar as practicable, all employees holding positions in the classified service, whose duties are transferred by this section to the agency, shall be continued, with like status, by the appointing authority before any other appointments are made. This chapter shall not affect the civil service status of any employee.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.44 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.44
§ 5101.44. Ohio welfare conference
Status: in_force

July 1, 2000 House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly The department of job and family services may call an annual conference, of the officials specified in section 5101.45 of the Revised Code and representatives of the various social agencies in the state, to be known as the "Ohio welfare conference." The conference shall: (A) Facilitate discussion of the problems and methods of practical human improvement; (B) Increase the efficiency of agencies and institutions devoted to this cause; (C) Disseminate information; (D) Consider such other subjects of general social importance as may be determined upon by the conference itself. The conference shall organize by the election of officers, the appointment of the proper committees, and the adoption of rules. The department may also call other conferences, at any time or place, for the consideration of problems relating to any particular group of institutions and agencies.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5122.26 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5122 / § 5122.26
§ 5122.26. Patient absent without leave
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) If a patient is absent without leave, on a verbal or written order issued within five days of the time of the unauthorized absence by the department of behavioral health, the chief clinical officer of the hospital from which the patient is absent without leave, or the court of either the county from which the patient was committed or in which the patient is found, any health or police officer or sheriff may take the patient into custody and transport the patient to the hospital in which the patient was hospitalized or to a place that is designated in the order. The officer immediately shall report such fact to the entity that issued the order. The chief clinical officer of a hospital 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 and who has been absent without leave for more than thirty days but shall give written notice of the discharge to the court with criminal jurisdiction over the patient. The chief clinical officer of a hospital may discharge any other patient who has been absent without leave for more than fourteen days. The chief clinical officer shall take all proper measures for the apprehension of an escaped patient. The expense of the return of an escaped patient shall be borne by the hospital where the patient is hospitalized. (B)(1) Subject to division (B)(2) of this section, no patient hospitalized under Chapter 5122. of the Revised Code whose absence without leave was caused or contributed to by the patient's mental illness shall be subject to a charge of escape. (2) Division (B)(1) of this section does not apply to any person who was hospitalized, institutionalized, or confined in a facility under an order made pursuant to or under authority of section 2945.37 , 2945.371 , 2945.38 , 2945.39 , 2945.40 , 2945.401 , or 2945.402 of the Revised Code and who escapes from the facility, from confinement in a vehicle for transportation to or from the facility, or from supervision by an employee of the facility that is incidental to hospitalization, institutionalization, or confinement in the facility and that occurs outside the facility, in violation of section 2921.34 of the Revised Code. Last updated August 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5124.101 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5124 / § 5124.101
§ 5124.101. Cost reports for downsized or partially converted provider
Status: in_force

September 30, 2021 House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly (A) The provider of an ICF/IID in peer group 1, peer group 2, peer group 3, or peer group 4 that becomes a downsized ICF/IID or partially converted ICF/IID on or after July 1, 2013, or becomes a new ICF/IID on or after that date, may file with the department of developmental disabilities a cost report covering the period specified in division (B) of this section if the following applies to the ICF/IID: (1) In the case of an ICF/IID that becomes a downsized ICF/IID or partially converted ICF/IID, the ICF/IID has either of the following on the day it becomes a downsized ICF/IID or partially converted ICF/IID: (a) A medicaid-certified capacity that is at least ten per cent less than its medicaid-certified capacity on the day immediately preceding the day it becomes a downsized ICF/IID or partially converted ICF/IID; (b) At least five fewer beds certified as ICF/IID beds than it has on the day immediately preceding the day it becomes a downsized ICF/IID or partially converted ICF/IID. (2) In the case of a new ICF/IID, the ICF/IID's beds are from a downsized ICF/IID and the downsized ICF/IID has either of the following on the day it becomes a downsized ICF/IID: (a) A medicaid-certified capacity that is at least ten per cent less than its medicaid-certified capacity on the day immediately preceding the day it becomes a downsized ICF/IID; (b) At least five fewer beds certified as ICF/IID beds than it has on the day immediately preceding the day it becomes a downsized ICF/IID. (B) A cost report filed under division (A) of this section shall cover the period that begins and ends as follows: (1) In the case of an ICF/IID that becomes a downsized ICF/IID or partially converted ICF/IID: (a) The period begins with the day that the ICF/IID becomes a downsized ICF/IID or partially converted ICF/IID. (b) The period ends on the last day of the last month of the first three full months of operation as a downsized ICF/IID or partially converted ICF/IID. (2) In the case of a new ICF/IID: (a) The period begins with the day that the provider agreement for the ICF/IID takes effect. (b) The period ends on the last day of the last month of the first three full months that the provider agreement is in effect. (C)(1) If the department accepts a cost report filed under division (A) of this section for an ICF/IID that becomes a downsized ICF/IID or partially converted ICF/IID on or before the first day of October of a calendar year, the provider also shall do both of the following: (a) File with the department a cost report for the ICF/IID in accordance with division (A) of section 5124.10 of the Revised Code; (b) File with the department another cost report for the ICF/IID that covers the portion of the initial calendar year that the ICF/IID operated as a downsized ICF/IID or partially converted ICF/IID. (2) If the department accepts a cost report filed under division (A) of this section for an ICF/IID that becomes a downsized ICF/IID or partially converted ICF/IID after the first day of October of a calendar year, the provider is not required to file a cost report that covers that calendar year in accordance with division (A) of section 5124.10 of the Revised Code. Instead, the provider shall file a cost report for the ICF/IID in accordance with division (A) of section 5124.10 of the Revised Code covering the immediately following calendar year. (3) If the department accepts a cost report filed under division (A) of this section for a new ICF/IID that has a provider agreement that takes effect on or before the first day of October of a calendar year, the provider also shall file a cost report for the ICF/IID in accordance with division (A) of section 5124.10 of the Revised Code covering the portion of that calendar year that the provider agreement was in effect. (4) If the department accepts a cost report filed under division (A) of this section for a new ICF/IID that has a provider agreement that takes effect after the first day of October of a calendar year, the provider is not required to file a cost report that covers that calendar year in accordance with division (A) of section 5124.10 of the Revised Code. The provider shall file a cost report for the ICF/IID in accordance with division (A) of section 5124.10 of the Revised Code covering the immediately following calendar year. (D) The department shall refuse to accept a cost report filed under division (A) or (C)(1)(b) of this section if either of the following apply: (1) Except as provided in division (E) of section 5124.10 of the Revised Code, the provider fails to file the cost report with the department not later than ninety days after the last day of the period the cost report covers; (2) The cost report is incomplete or inadequate. (E) If the department accepts a cost report filed under division (A) or (C)(1)(b) of this section, the department shall use that cost report, rather than the cost report that otherwise would be used pursuant to section 5124.17 , 5124.19 , 5124.21 , or 5124.23 of the Revised Code, to determine the ICF/IID's medicaid payment rate in accordance with this chapter for ICF/IID services the ICF/IID provides during the period that begins and ends as follows: (1) For a cost report filed under division (A) of this section, the period begins on the following: (a) In the case of an ICF/IID that becomes a downsized ICF/IID or partially converted ICF/IID: (i) The day that the ICF/IID becomes a downsized ICF/IID or partially converted ICF/IID if that day is the first day of a month; (ii) The first day of the month immediately following the month that the ICF/IID becomes a downsized ICF/IID or partially converted ICF/IID if division (E)(1)(a)(i) of this section does not apply. (b) In the case of a new ICF/IID, the day that the ICF/IID's provider agreement takes effect. (2) For a cost report filed under division (A) of this section, the period ends on the following: (a) In the case of an ICF/IID that becomes a downsized ICF/IID or partially converted ICF/IID: (i) The last day of the fiscal year that immediately precedes the fiscal year for which the ICF/IID is paid a rate determined using a cost report filed under division (C)(1)(b) of this section if the ICF/IID became a downsized ICF/IID or partially converted ICF/IID on or before the first day of October of a calendar year; (ii) The last day of the fiscal year that immediately precedes the fiscal year for which the ICF/IID begins to be paid a rate determined using a cost report that division (C)(2) of this section requires be filed in accordance with division (A) of section 5124.10 of the Revised Code if the ICF/IID became a downsized ICF/IID or partially converted ICF/IID after the first day of October of a calendar year. (b) In the case of a new ICF/IID, the last day of the fiscal year that immediately precedes the fiscal year for which the ICF/IID begins to be paid a rate determined using a cost report that division (C)(3) or (4) of this section requires be filed in accordance with division (A) of section 5124.10 of the Revised Code. (3) For a cost report filed under division (C)(1)(b) of this section, the period begins on the day immediately following the day specified in division (E)(2)(a)(i) of this section. (4) For a cost report filed under division (C)(1)(b) of this section, the period ends on the last day of the fiscal year that immediately precedes the fiscal year for which the ICF/IID begins to be paid a rate determined using the cost report filed with the department in accordance with division (A) of section 5124.10 of the Revised Code that covers the calendar year that immediately follows the initial calendar year that the ICF/IID operated as a downsized ICF/IID or partially converted ICF/IID. (F) In place of the quarterly case-mix score otherwise used in determining the ICF/IID's per medicaid day direct care costs component rate under division (A) of section 5124.19 of the Revised Code, the ICF/IID's case-mix score in effect on the last day of the calendar quarter that ends during the period the cost report covers (or, if more than one calendar quarter ends during that period, the last of those calendar quarters) shall be used to determine the ICF/IID's per medicaid day direct care costs component rate if the department accepts a cost report filed under division (A) or (C)(1)(b) of this section by the provider of a downsized ICF/IID or partially converted ICF/IID. Last updated August 24, 2021 at 2:51 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5162.366 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5162 / § 5162.366
§ 5162.366. Referrals for certain services under the Medicaid School Program
Status: in_force

March 21, 2017 House Bill 89 - 131st General Assembly (A) Subject to division (B) of this section and for the purpose of a medicaid recipient receiving, in accordance with the recipient's individualized education program, physical therapy services, occupational therapy services, speech-language pathology services, or audiology services under the medicaid school component of the medicaid program: (1) A physical therapist is a licensed practitioner of the healing arts for the purpose of 42 C.F.R. 440.110(a)(1) and may make a referral for physical therapy services for the recipient. (2) An occupational therapist is a licensed practitioner of the healing arts for the purpose of 42 C.F.R. 440.110(b)(1) and may make a referral for occupational therapy services for the recipient. (3) A speech-language pathologist is a licensed practitioner of the healing arts for the purpose of 42 C.F.R. 440.110(c)(1) and may make a referral for speech-language pathology services for the recipient. (4) An audiologist is a licensed practitioner of the healing arts for the purpose of 42 C.F.R. 440.110(c)(1) and may make a referral for audiology services for the recipient. (B) To be able to make a referral for a service under this section, a physical therapist, occupational therapist, speech-language pathologist, or audiologist must have a provider agreement. This does not preclude a physical therapist, occupational therapist, speech-language pathologist, or audiologist from being an ordering or referring only provider.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5167.32 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5167 / § 5167.32
§ 5167.32. Improving integrity of care management system
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly Not later than July 1, 2016, the department of medicaid shall implement strategies to improve the integrity of the care management system, including strategies to do both of the following: (A) Increase the department's oversight of medicaid managed care organizations; (B) Provide incentives for identifying fraud, waste, and abuse in the care management system.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5107.76 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5107 / § 5107.76
§ 5107.76. Recovering erroneous payments
Status: in_force

July 1, 2000 House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly As used in this section, "erroneous payments" means payments of cash assistance made under Ohio works first to assistance groups not eligible to receive the assistance, including assistance paid as a result of misrepresentation or fraud and assistance paid due to an error by a member of an assistance group or a county department of job and family services. Except as provided in rules adopted under section 5107.05 of the Revised Code, each county department of job and family services shall take action to recover erroneous payments. Action may include reducing payments of cash assistance made under Ohio works first to assistance groups that receive erroneous payments or instituting a civil action. If a minor child was a member of an assistance group that received an erroneous payment but becomes a member of a new assistance group that does not include a minor head of household or adult who also was a member of the previous assistance group, a county department shall not take action against the new assistance group to recover the erroneous payment the previous assistance group received. Each county department of job and family services shall retain fifty per cent of the nonfederal share of the erroneous payments it, prior to October 1, 1996, determines occurred under this section, regardless of when recovery is made. The department of job and family services shall receive the remaining fifty per cent of the nonfederal share of those payments. Each county department shall retain twenty-five per cent of erroneous payments it, on or after October 1, 1996, determines occurred and recovers and the department shall receive the remaining seventy-five per cent.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5162.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5162 / § 5162.21
§ 5162.21. Medicaid estate recovery program
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) As used in this section and section 5162.211 of the Revised Code: (1) "Estate" includes both of the following: (a) All real and personal property and other assets to be administered under Title XXI of the Revised Code and property that would be administered under that title if not for section 2113.03 or 2113.031 of the Revised Code; (b) Any other real and personal property and other assets in which an individual had any legal title or interest at the time of death (to the extent of the interest), including assets conveyed to a survivor, heir, or assign of the individual through joint tenancy, tenancy in common, survivorship, life estate, living trust, or other arrangement. (2) "Institution" means a nursing facility, ICF/IID, or a medical institution. (3) "Permanently institutionalized individual" means an individual to whom all of the following apply: (a) Is an inpatient in an institution; (b) Is required, as a condition of the medicaid program paying for the individual's services in the institution, to spend for costs of medical or nursing care all of the individual's income except for an amount for personal needs specified by the department of medicaid; (c) Cannot reasonably be expected to be discharged from the institution and return home as determined by the department of medicaid. (4) "Qualified state long-term care insurance partnership program" means the program established under section 5164.86 of the Revised Code. (5) "Time of death" shall not be construed to mean a time after which a legal title or interest in real or personal property or other asset may pass by survivorship or other operation of law due to the death of the decedent or terminate by reason of the decedent's death. (B) To the extent permitted by federal law, the department of medicaid shall institute a medicaid estate recovery program under which the department shall, except as provided in divisions (C) and (E) of this section, and subject to division (D) of this section, do all of the following: (1) For the costs of medicaid services the medicaid program correctly paid or will pay on behalf of a permanently institutionalized individual of any age, seek adjustment or recovery from the individual's estate or on the sale of property of the individual or spouse that is subject to a lien imposed under section 5162.211 of the Revised Code; (2) For the costs of medicaid services the medicaid program correctly paid or will pay on behalf of an individual fifty-five years of age or older who is not a permanently institutionalized individual, seek adjustment or recovery from the individual's estate; (3) Seek adjustment or recovery from the estate of other individuals as permitted by federal law. (C)(1) No adjustment or recovery may be made under division (B)(1) of this section from a permanently institutionalized individual's estate or on the sale of property of a permanently institutionalized individual that is subject to a lien imposed under section 5162.211 of the Revised Code or under division (B)(2) or (3) of this section from an individual's estate while either of the following are alive: (a) The spouse of the permanently institutionalized individual or individual; (b) The son or daughter of a permanently institutionalized individual or individual if the son or daughter is under age twenty-one or, under the "Social Security Act," section 1614, 42 U.S.C. 1382c, is considered blind or disabled. (2) No adjustment or recovery may be made under division (B)(1) of this section from a permanently institutionalized individual's home that is subject to a lien imposed under section 5162.211 of the Revised Code while either of the following lawfully reside in the home: (a) The permanently institutionalized individual's sibling who resided in the home for at least one year immediately before the date of the permanently institutionalized individual's admission to the institution and on a continuous basis since that time; (b) The permanently institutionalized individual's son or daughter who provided care to the permanently institutionalized individual that delayed the permanently institutionalized individual's institutionalization and resided in the home for at least two years immediately before the date of the permanently institutionalized individual's admission to the institution and on a continuous basis since that time. (D) In the case of a participant of the qualified state long-term care insurance partnership program, adjustment or recovery required by this section may be reduced in accordance with rules authorized by division (G) of this section. (E) The department shall, in accordance with procedures and criteria established in rules authorized by division (G) of this section, waive seeking an adjustment or recovery otherwise required by this section if the medicaid director determines that adjustment or recovery would work an undue hardship. The department may limit the duration of the waiver to the period during which the undue hardship exists. (F) For the purpose of determining whether an individual meets the definition of "permanently institutionalized individual" established for this section, a rebuttable presumption exists that the individual cannot reasonably be expected to be discharged from an institution and return home if either of the following is the case: (1) The individual declares that he or she does not intend to return home. (2) The individual has been an inpatient in an institution for at least six months. (G) Rules adopted under section 5162.02 of the Revised Code shall do both of the following: (1) For the purpose of division (D) of this section and consistent with the "Social Security Act," section 1917(b)(1)(C), 42 U.S.C. 1396p(b)(1)(C), provide for reducing an adjustment or recovery in the case of a participant of the qualified state long-term care insurance partnership program; (2) For the purpose of division (E) of this section and consistent with the standards specified by the United States secretary of health and human services under the "Social Security Act," section 1917(b)(3), 42 U.S.C. 1396p(b)(3), establish procedures and criteria for waiving adjustment or recovery due to an undue hardship.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.031 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.031
§ 5126.031. Appointing ethics council
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, annually at the organizational meeting required by section 5126.029 of the Revised Code, the chairperson of the county board of developmental disabilities shall appoint three members of the board to an ethics council to review all direct services contracts. The board's chairperson may be one of those appointed. The superintendent of the board shall be a nonvoting member of the council. The chairperson shall not appoint a person to the council if the person, or any member of the person's immediate family, will have any interest in any direct services contract under review by the council while the person serves on the council or during the twelve-month period after completing service on the council. If a council member or a member of the council member's immediate family has or will have such an interest, the chairperson shall replace the member by appointing another board member to the council. The council shall meet regularly as directed by the board to perform its duties. Minutes shall be kept of the actions of the council. The minutes shall be part of the public record of the county board. Any action taken by the council on direct services contracts under its review shall be in public. The council shall afford an affected party the opportunity to meet with the council on matters related to a direct services contract or any action taken by the council. (B) If a county board establishes a policy specifying that the board is not willing to enter into direct services contracts with any person who is a board member or former board member or a member of the immediate family of a board member or former board member, the board may assume the responsibilities and perform the duties of an ethics council specified in section 5126.032 of the Revised Code. The policy shall be established by resolution adopted by a majority of the members of the board in attendance at a meeting at which there is a quorum and shall be in effect for one year after its adoption, at which time the board shall, by resolution adopted in the same manner as the initial resolution, either renew the policy or establish a new one.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5107.66 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5107 / § 5107.66
§ 5107.66. Support services
Status: in_force

May 18, 2005 House Bill 11 - 125th General Assembly Subject to the availability of funds and except as limited by section 5107.58 of the Revised Code, county departments of job and family services shall provide for participants of Ohio works first placed in a work activity, developmental activity, or alternative work activity to receive support services the county department determines to be necessary. County departments may provide for applicants of Ohio works first placed in the work activity established under section 5107.50 of the Revised Code to receive support services the county department determines to be necessary. Support services may include publicly funded child care under Chapter 5104. of the Revised Code, transportation, and other services.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5122.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5122 / § 5122.01
§ 5122.01. Hospitalization of mentally ill definitions
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly As used in this chapter and Chapter 5119. of the Revised Code: (A) "Mental illness" means a substantial disorder of thought, mood, perception, orientation, or memory that grossly impairs judgment, behavior, capacity to recognize reality, or ability to meet the ordinary demands of life. (B) "Person with a mental illness subject to court order" means a person with a mental illness who, because of the person's illness: (1) Represents a substantial risk of physical harm to self as manifested by evidence of threats of, or attempts at, suicide or serious self-inflicted bodily harm; (2) Represents a substantial risk of physical harm to others as manifested by evidence of recent homicidal or other violent behavior, evidence of recent threats that place another in reasonable fear of violent behavior and serious physical harm, or other evidence of present dangerousness; (3) Represents a substantial and immediate risk of serious physical impairment or injury to self as manifested by evidence that the person is unable to provide for and is not providing for the person's basic physical needs because of the person's mental illness and that appropriate provision for those needs cannot be made immediately available in the community; (4) Would benefit from treatment for the person's mental illness and is in need of such treatment as manifested by evidence of behavior that creates a grave and imminent risk to substantial rights of others or the person; (5)(a) Would benefit from treatment as manifested by evidence of behavior that indicates all of the following: (i) The person is unlikely to survive safely in the community without supervision, based on a clinical determination. (ii) The person has a history of lack of compliance with treatment for mental illness and one of the following applies: (I) At least twice within the thirty-six months prior to the filing of an affidavit seeking court-ordered treatment of the person under section 5122.111 of the Revised Code, the lack of compliance has been a significant factor in necessitating hospitalization in a hospital or receipt of services in a forensic or other mental health unit of a correctional facility, provided that the thirty-six-month period shall be extended by the length of any hospitalization or incarceration of the person that occurred within the thirty-six-month period. (II) Within the forty-eight months prior to the filing of an affidavit seeking court-ordered treatment of the person under section 5122.111 of the Revised Code, the lack of compliance resulted in one or more acts of serious violent behavior toward self or others or threats of, or attempts at, serious physical harm to self or others, provided that the forty-eight-month period shall be extended by the length of any hospitalization or incarceration of the person that occurred within the forty-eight-month period. (iii) The person, as a result of the person's mental illness, is unlikely to voluntarily participate in necessary treatment. (iv) In view of the person's treatment history and current behavior, the person is in need of treatment in order to prevent a relapse or deterioration that would be likely to result in substantial risk of serious harm to the person or others. (b) An individual who meets only the criteria described in division (B)(5)(a) of this section is not subject to hospitalization. (C)(1) "Patient" means, subject to division (C)(2) of this section, a person who is admitted either voluntarily or involuntarily to a hospital or other place under section 2945.39 , 2945.40 , 2945.401 , or 2945.402 of the Revised Code subsequent to a finding of not guilty by reason of insanity or incompetence to stand trial or under this chapter, who is under observation or receiving treatment in such place. (2) "Patient" does not include a person admitted to a hospital or other place under section 2945.39 , 2945.40 , 2945.401 , or 2945.402 of the Revised Code to the extent that the reference in this chapter to patient, or the context in which the reference occurs, is in conflict with any provision of sections 2945.37 to 2945.402 of the Revised Code. (D) "Licensed physician" means a person licensed under the laws of this state to practice medicine or a medical officer of the government of the United States while in this state in the performance of the person's official duties. (E) "Psychiatrist" means a licensed physician who has satisfactorily completed a residency training program in psychiatry, as approved by the residency review committee of the American medical association, the committee on post-graduate education of the American osteopathic association, or the American osteopathic board of neurology and psychiatry, or who on July 1, 1989, has been recognized as a psychiatrist by the Ohio state medical association or the Ohio osteopathic association on the basis of formal training and five or more years of medical practice limited to psychiatry. (F) "Hospital" means a hospital or inpatient unit licensed by the department of behavioral health under section 5119.33 of the Revised Code, and any institution, hospital, or other place established, controlled, or supervised by the department under Chapter 5119. of the Revised Code. (G) "Public hospital" means a facility that is tax-supported and under the jurisdiction of the department of behavioral health. (H) "Community mental health services provider" means an agency, association, corporation, individual, or program that provides community mental health services that are certified by the director of behavioral health under section 5119.36 of the Revised Code. (I) "Licensed clinical psychologist" means a person who holds a current, valid psychologist license issued under section 4732.12 of the Revised Code, and in addition, meets the educational requirements set forth in division (B) of section 4732.10 of the Revised Code and has a minimum of two years' full-time professional experience, or the equivalent as determined by rule of the state board of psychology, at least one year of which shall be a predoctoral internship, in clinical psychological work in a public or private hospital or clinic or in private practice, diagnosing and treating problems of mental illness or intellectual disability under the supervision of a psychologist who is licensed or who holds a diploma issued by the American board of professional psychology, or whose qualifications are substantially similar to those required for licensure by the state board of psychology when the supervision has occurred prior to enactment of laws governing the practice of psychology. (J) "Health officer" means any public health physician; public health nurse; or other person authorized or designated by a city or general health district or a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services to perform the duties of a health officer under this chapter. (K) "Chief clinical officer" means the medical director of a hospital, community mental health services provider, or board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services, or, if there is no medical director, the licensed physician responsible for the treatment provided by a hospital or community mental health services provider. The chief clinical officer may delegate to the attending physician responsible for a patient's care the duties imposed on the chief clinical officer by this chapter. In the case of a community mental health services provider, the chief clinical officer shall be designated by the governing body of the services provider and shall be a licensed physician or licensed clinical psychologist who supervises diagnostic and treatment services. A licensed physician or licensed clinical psychologist designated by the chief clinical officer may perform the duties and accept the responsibilities of the chief clinical officer in the chief clinical officer's absence. (L) "Working day" or "court day" means Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, except when such day is a holiday. (M) "Indigent" means unable without deprivation of satisfaction of basic needs to provide for the payment of an attorney and other necessary expenses of legal representation, including expert testimony. (N) "Respondent" means the person whose detention, commitment, hospitalization, continued hospitalization or commitment, or discharge is being sought in any proceeding under this chapter. (O) "Ohio protection and advocacy system" has the same meaning as in section 5123.60 of the Revised Code. (P) "Independent expert evaluation" means an evaluation conducted by a licensed clinical psychologist, psychiatrist, or licensed physician who has been selected by the respondent or the respondent's counsel and who consents to conducting the evaluation. (Q) "Court" means the probate division of the court of common pleas. (R) "Expunge" means: (1) The removal and destruction of court files and records, originals and copies, and the deletion of all index references; (2) The reporting to the person of the nature and extent of any information about the person transmitted to any other person by the court; (3) Otherwise insuring that any examination of court files and records in question shall show no record whatever with respect to the person; (4) That all rights and privileges are restored, and that the person, the court, and any other person may properly reply that no such record exists, as to any matter expunged. (S) "Residence" means a person's physical presence in a county with intent to remain there, except that: (1) If a person is receiving a mental health service at a facility that includes nighttime sleeping accommodations, residence means that county in which the person maintained the person's primary place of residence at the time the person entered the facility; (2) If a person is committed pursuant to section 2945.38 , 2945.39 , 2945.40 , 2945.401 , or 2945.402 of the Revised Code, residence means the county where the criminal charges were filed. When the residence of a person is disputed, the matter of residence shall be referred to the department of behavioral health for investigation and determination. Residence shall not be a basis for a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services to deny services to any person present in the board's service district, and the board shall provide services for a person whose residence is in dispute while residence is being determined and for a person in an emergency situation. (T) "Admission" to a hospital or other place means that a patient is accepted for and stays at least one night at the hospital or other place. (U) "Prosecutor" means the prosecuting attorney, village solicitor, city director of law, or similar chief legal officer who prosecuted a criminal case in which a person was found not guilty by reason of insanity, who would have had the authority to prosecute a criminal case against a person if the person had not been found incompetent to stand trial, or who prosecuted a case in which a person was found guilty. (V)(1) "Treatment plan" means a written statement of reasonable objectives and goals for an individual established by the treatment team, with specific criteria to evaluate progress towards achieving those objectives. (2) The active participation of the patient in establishing the objectives and goals shall be documented. The treatment plan shall be based on patient needs and include services to be provided to the patient while the patient is hospitalized, after the patient is discharged, or in an outpatient setting. The treatment plan shall address services to be provided. In the establishment of the treatment plan, consideration should be given to the availability of services, which may include but are not limited to all of the following: (a) Community psychiatric supportive treatment; (b) Assertive community treatment; (c) Medications; (d) Individual or group therapy; (e) Peer support services; (f) Financial services; (g) Housing or supervised living services; (h) Alcohol or substance abuse treatment; (i) Any other services prescribed to treat the patient's mental illness and to either assist the patient in living and functioning in the community or to help prevent a relapse or a deterioration of the patient's current condition. (3) If the person subject to the treatment plan has executed an advance directive for mental health treatment, the treatment team shall consider any directions included in such advance directive in developing the treatment plan. (W) "Community control sanction" has the same meaning as in section 2929.01 of the Revised Code. (X) "Post-release control sanction" has the same meaning as in section 2967.01 of the Revised Code. (Y) "Local correctional facility" has the same meaning as in section 2903.13 of the Revised Code. (Z) "Clinical nurse specialist" and "certified nurse practitioner" have the same meanings as in section 4723.01 of the Revised Code. Last updated August 14, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5145.163 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5145 / § 5145.163
§ 5145.163. Prison industries enhancement certification program
Status: in_force

September 26, 2025 House Bill 81 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Customer model enterprise" means an enterprise conducted under a federal prison industries enhancement certification program in which a private party participates in the enterprise only as a purchaser of goods and services. (2) "Employer model enterprise" means an enterprise conducted under a federal prison industries enhancement certification program in which a private party participates in the enterprise as an operator of the enterprise. (3) "Injury" and "occupational disease" have the same meanings as in section 4123.01 of the Revised Code if sustained or contracted in the course of, and arising out of, participation in authorized work activity in the federal prison industries enhancement certification program. (4) "Incarcerated worker" means any person who is committed to the custody of the department of rehabilitation and correction and who is participating in an Ohio penal industries program that is under the federal prison industries enhancement certification program. (5) "Federal prison industries enhancement certification program" means the program authorized pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 1761. (6) "Injured incarcerated worker" means an individual to which division (G) of this section applies. (7) "Compensation" means compensation as provided in sections 4123.56 to 4123.58 of the Revised Code. (B) No private party shall participate in an employer model enterprise in this state unless the private party is approved by the director of rehabilitation and correction in accordance with division (C) of this section. (C) The director may approve a private party to participate in an employer model enterprise only if the private party meets the following requirements: (1) The private party carries liability insurance in an amount the director determines to be sufficient. (2) The private party does not have an unresolved finding for recovery by the auditor of state under section 9.24 of the Revised Code. (D) The department shall treat an incarcerated worker, regardless of whether the incarcerated worker works in a customer model enterprise or an employer model enterprise, as an employee of the department for the purpose of workers' compensation coverage in accordance with Chapters 4121. and 4123. of the Revised Code. (E) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, incarcerated workers are not employees of the department. (F)(1) An incarcerated worker who is injured or who contracts an occupational disease in the course of and arising out of participation in authorized work activity in the federal prison industries enhancement certification program may request the department file a claim with the bureau of workers' compensation under Chapters 4121. and 4123. of the Revised Code within the timeframe provided for in section 4123.84 or 4123.85 of the Revised Code. (2) The dependent of an incarcerated worker who is killed or dies as the result of an injury or occupational disease contracted in the course of and arising out of participation in authorized work activity in the federal prison industries enhancement certification program may request the department file a claim with the bureau under Chapters 4121. and 4123. of the Revised Code within the timeframe provided for in section 4123.84 or 4123.85 of the Revised Code. A party may use the appeals process under Chapters 4121. and 4123. of the Revised Code regarding applications filed under division (F)(2) of this section. (G) Notwithstanding any provision of Chapter 4121. or 4123. of the Revised Code to the contrary, if the department determines that an incarcerated worker was injured or contracted an occupational disease in the course of and arising out of participation in authorized work activity in the federal prison industries enhancement certification program, whether by external accidental means or accidental in character or result, both of the following apply to the individual while that individual is in the custody of the department: (1) The individual may receive medical treatment for the injury or occupational disease. (2) The individual is barred from filing for compensation with the department or the bureau. (H) While an injured incarcerated worker is in the custody of the department, medical recommendations pertaining to, and medical treatment for, the injured incarcerated worker shall be provided exclusively through the department's network of providers. (I) Claim allowance determinations made by the department shall be limited to initial claim allowances and requests for additional conditions. An injured incarcerated worker may appeal the department's claim allowance determination or medical treatment determination by requesting a review by the department's chief medical officer. In the event of a further appeal, the injured incarcerated worker may receive a medical evaluation from a medical practitioner affiliated within the department's network of third-party medical contractors located in Franklin county. (J) Except for appeals regarding determinations under division (I) of this section, and notwithstanding any provision of Chapter 4121. or 4123. of the Revised Code to the contrary, an injured incarcerated worker is barred from appealing a determination made under this section while incarcerated. (K) After an injured incarcerated worker is released from incarceration, all of the following apply: (1) A party may use the appeals process under Chapters 4121. and 4123. of the Revised Code regarding any application filed by an injured incarcerated worker. (2) The released individual may receive medical treatment consistent with Chapters 4121. and 4123. of the Revised Code. (3) The released individual may seek compensation through the bureau consistent with Chapters 4121. and 4123. of the Revised Code. (L) Except for medical treatment as allowed under division (G) of this section, in accordance with division (J) of section 4123.54 of the Revised Code, compensation or medical benefits are not payable to or on behalf of an injured incarcerated worker during the period of confinement of the injured incarcerated worker in any correctional institution. If an injured incarcerated worker is reimprisoned within the custody of the department, compensation shall be suspended during the injured incarcerated worker's imprisonment but may resume on the worker's release from imprisonment. The department may pay for medical benefits in accordance with division (G) of this section. (M) After an injured incarcerated worker is released from the department's custody, regardless of whether the worker worked in a customer model enterprise or an employer model enterprise, all claim costs, other than medical costs paid by the department while the worker was in the department's custody, shall be paid by the department in accordance with the requirements of Chapters 4121. and 4123. of the Revised Code. (N) An incarcerated worker shall voluntarily consent to participate in a federal prison industries enhancement certification program prior to commencing participation in the program. Such consent disclaims the worker's ability to choose a medical provider while the worker is imprisoned and subjects the worker to the requirements of this section. Last updated August 7, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5166.403 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5166 / § 5166.403
§ 5166.403. Debit swipe cards
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly (A) A managed care organization that offers the health plan in which a healthy Ohio program participant enrolls shall issue a debit swipe card to be used to pay only for the following: (1) Until the amount of the noncore portion of the participant's buckeye account is zero, the costs of health care services that are covered by the health plan and provided to the participant by a provider participating in the health plan; (2) The participant's copayments under division (C) of section 5166.401 of the Revised Code; (3) Subject to rules authorized by section 5166.409 of the Revised Code, the costs of health care services that are medically necessary for the participant but not covered by the health plan. (B)(1) A healthy Ohio program participant's debit swipe card shall be credited with one point for each of the following: (a) Each dollar of medicaid funds deposited into the participant's buckeye account under division (B) of section 5166.402 of the Revised Code; (b) Each dollar contributed to the participant's buckeye account under divisions (C) and (D) of section 5166.402 of the Revised Code; (c) Each point awarded to the participant under section 5166.404 of the Revised Code. (2) Each time a healthy Ohio program participant uses the participant's debit swipe card, the amount for which the card is used shall be deducted from the number of points on the card as follows: (a) If the card is used for the purpose specified in division (A)(1) of this section, the deduction shall come from the points representing the noncore portion of the participant's buckeye account. (b) If the card is used for the purpose specified in division (A)(2) or (3) of this section, the deduction shall come from the points representing the core portion of the participant's buckeye account. (C) A healthy Ohio program participant's debit swipe card shall do all of the following: (1) Verify the participant's eligibility for the healthy Ohio program; (2) Determine whether the service the participant seeks is covered under the health plan; (3) Determine whether the provider from which the participant seeks the service is a participating provider under the health plan; (4) Be linked to the participant's buckeye account in a manner that enables the participant to know at the point of service what will be deducted from the noncore portion and core portion of the participant's buckeye account for the service and how much will remain in each portion of the account after the deduction.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.26 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.26
§ 5101.26. Disclosure of information definitions
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly As used in this section and in sections 5101.27 to 5101.30 of the Revised Code: (A) "Community control sanction" has the same meaning as in section 2929.01 of the Revised Code. (B) "County agency" means a county department of job and family services or a public children services agency. (C) "Fugitive felon" means an individual who is fleeing to avoid prosecution, or custody or confinement after conviction, under the laws of the place from which the individual is fleeing, for a crime or an attempt to commit a crime that is a felony under the laws of the place from which the individual is fleeing or, in the case of New Jersey, a high misdemeanor, regardless of whether the individual has departed from the individual's usual place of residence. (D) "Information" means records as defined in section 149.011 of the Revised Code, any other documents in any format, and data derived from records and documents that are generated, acquired, or maintained by the department of job and family services, the department of children and youth, a county agency, or an entity performing duties on behalf of the department or a county agency. (E) "Law enforcement agency" has the same meaning as in section 109.573 of the Revised Code. (F) "Post-release control sanction" has the same meaning as in section 2967.01 of the Revised Code. (G) "Public assistance" means financial assistance or social services that are provided under a program administered by the department of job and family services, department of children and youth, or a county agency pursuant to Chapter 329., 5101., 5104., 5107., or 5108. of the Revised Code or an executive order issued under section 107.17 of the Revised Code. "Public assistance" does not mean medical assistance provided under a medical assistance program, as defined in section 5160.01 of the Revised Code. (H) "Public assistance recipient" means an applicant for or recipient or former recipient of public assistance. (I) "Publicly funded child care" has the same meaning as in section 5104.01 of the Revised Code. (J) "Tuberculosis control unit" means the county tuberculosis control unit designated by a board of county commissioners under section 339.72 of the Revised Code or the district tuberculosis control unit designated pursuant to an agreement entered into by two or more boards of community commissioners under that section. Last updated August 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5104.033 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5104 / § 5104.033
§ 5104.033. Staff to child ratios
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A)(1) A child care center shall have at least two responsible adults available on the premises at all times when seven or more children are in the center. The center shall organize the children in the center in small groups, shall provide child care staff to give continuity of care and supervision to the children on a day-by-day basis, and shall ensure that no child is left alone or unsupervised. Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, the maximum number of children per child care staff member and maximum group size, by age category of children, are as follows: Age Category of Children Maximum Number of Children Per child care Staff Member Maximum Group Size (a) Infants: (i) Less than twelve months old 5:1, or 12:2 if two child care staff members are in the room 12 (ii) At least twelve months old, but less than eighteen months old 6:1 12 (b) Toddlers: (i) At least eighteen months old, but less than thirty months old 7:1 14 (ii) At least thirty months old, but less than three years old 8:1 16 (c) Preschool-age children: (i) Three years old 12:1 24 (ii) Four years old and five years old who are not school children 14:1 28 (d) School-age children (i) A child who is enrolled in or is eligible to be enrolled in a grade of kindergarten or above, but is less than eleven years old 18:1 36 (ii) Eleven through fourteen years old 20:1 40 (2) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, the maximum number of children per child care staff member and maximum group size requirements of the younger age group shall apply when age groups are combined. (B)(1) When age groups are combined, the maximum number of children per child care staff member shall be determined by the age of the youngest child in the group, except that when no more than one child thirty months of age or older receives services in a group in which all the other children are in the next older age group, the maximum number of children per child care staff member and maximum group size requirements of the older age group established under division (A) of this section shall apply. (2) The maximum number of toddlers or preschool-age children per child care staff member in a room where children are napping shall be twice the maximum number of children per child-care staff member established under division (A) of this section if all the following criteria are met: (a) At least one child care staff member is present in the room. (b) Sufficient child care staff members are on the child care center premises to meet the maximum number of children per child care staff member requirements established under division (A) of this section. (c) Naptime preparations are complete and all napping children are resting or sleeping on cots. (d) The maximum number established under division (B)(2) of this section is in effect for no more than two hours during a twenty-four-hour day. Last updated August 28, 2023 at 2:35 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.603 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.603
§ 5103.603. Certification of residential infant care center
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly The director of children and youth shall issue a certificate to a person to operate a residential infant care center as follows: (A) Pursuant to division (A) of section 5103.602 of the Revised Code if the center complies with all of the requirements under sections 5103.608 to 5103.6012 of the Revised Code and, if applicable, all of the rules adopted under section 5103.6018 of the Revised Code; (B)(1) Pursuant to division (B) of section 5103.602 of the Revised Code if the center is in compliance with all of the requirements under sections 5103.608 to 5103.6012 of the Revised Code and rules adopted under division (H) of section 5103.13 of the Revised Code, except the rules described in division (B) of section 5103.6011 of the Revised Code, on June 13, 2022. (2) If the director of children and youth adopts rules under section 5103.6018 of the Revised Code, a center issued a certificate under division (B)(1) of this section shall comply with those rules rather than the rules adopted under division (H) of section 5103.13 of the Revised Code. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.32 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.32
§ 5101.32. Procedures and formats for RC 109.5721 notices
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) The department of job and family services and the department of children and youth shall work with the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation to develop procedures and formats necessary to produce the notices described in division (D) of section 109.5721 of the Revised Code in a format that is acceptable for use by the applicable department. Each department may adopt rules in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code, as if they were internal management rules, necessary for such collaboration. (B) The department of job and family services and department of children and youth may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code necessary for utilizing the information received pursuant to section 109.5721 of the Revised Code. Last updated January 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.95 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.95
§ 5119.95. Seventy-two-hour emergency involuntary treatment
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) Following an examination by a qualified health professional and a certification by that professional that the person meets the criteria specified in section 5119.92 of the Revised Code, a probate court may order the person hospitalized for a period not to exceed seventy-two hours if the court finds by clear and convincing evidence that the person presents an imminent threat of danger to self, family, or others as a result of alcohol and other drug abuse. However, if the hearing to be held under section 5119.94 of the Revised Code will not be held within seventy-two hours, the court may order the person hospitalized until the hearing. In making its order, the court shall inform the person that the person may immediately make a reasonable number of telephone calls or use other reasonable means to contact an attorney, a licensed physician, or a qualified health professional, to contact any other person or persons to secure representation by counsel, or to obtain medical or psychological assistance and that the person will be provided assistance in making calls if the assistance is needed and requested. (B) Any person who has been admitted to a hospital under division (A) of this section shall be released from the hospital immediately upon the expiration of the time period established by the court for the hospitalization. (C) No person ordered hospitalized under this section shall be held in jail pending transportation to the hospital or evaluation unless the probate court previously has found the person to be in contempt of court for either failure to undergo treatment or failure to appear at the evaluation ordered pursuant to section 5119.94 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.188 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.188
§ 5119.188. Education and training program for employees of state correctional and youth services institutions
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "state correctional institution" has the same meaning as in section 2967.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The department of behavioral health shall develop a program that is designed to educate and train the employees of each state correctional institution, the employees of each department of youth services institution, and other persons associated by contract or otherwise with each state correctional institution or each department of youth services institution, who will be responsible for the conduct of, or otherwise providing treatment or rehabilitation services pursuant to, a substance abuse treatment or rehabilitation program offered in the institution to adult prisoners or juvenile offenders. Upon the development of the educational and training program, the department of behavioral health promptly shall commence its implementation. The department of behavioral health may charge to the department of rehabilitation and correction and to the department of youth services a reasonable annual fee that reflects the expenses incurred by it during the immediately preceding calendar year in preparing and offering the educational and training program during that year to the respective employees and other associated persons described in this division. The director of rehabilitation and correction and the director of youth services shall require the respective employees and other associated persons described in this division to attend and successfully complete the educational and training program developed pursuant to this division as a condition of their continuing to have responsibility for the conduct of, or their continuing to provide treatment or rehabilitation services pursuant to, any treatment or rehabilitation program that is offered in a state correctional institution or in a department of youth services institution to adult prisoners or juvenile offenders. If the department of behavioral health charges a reasonable annual fee as described in this division, the director involved shall cause that fee to be paid from any available funds of the department of rehabilitation and correction or any available funds of the department of youth services. (C) The department of rehabilitation and correction and the department of behavioral health jointly shall develop program specifications for the alcohol and drug addiction treatment programs offered in state correctional institutions. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.48 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.48
§ 5164.48. Medicaid payments made to organization on behalf of providers
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The medicaid director may implement a system under which medicaid payments for medicaid services are made to an organization on behalf of medicaid providers. The system may not provide for an organization to receive an amount that exceeds, in aggregate, the amount the medicaid program would have paid directly to medicaid providers if not for this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.071 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.071
§ 5165.071. Facility operator may contract with more than one provider
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly A nursing facility operator may enter into provider agreements for more than one nursing facility.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.052 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.052
§ 5126.052. Volunteer bus rider assistance program
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly (A) The superintendent of a county board of developmental disabilities providing transportation for pupils to special education programs under this chapter may establish a volunteer bus rider assistance program under which qualified persons may be authorized to ride with pupils to and from such programs. Volunteers shall not be compensated for their services and are not employees for purposes of Chapter 4117. or 4123. of the Revised Code. Nothing in this section authorizes a superintendent or board to adversely affect the employment of any employee of the board. Volunteers may be assigned duties or responsibilities by the superintendent, including but not limited to, assisting pupils in embarking and disembarking from buses and in crossing streets where necessary to ensure the safety of the pupil, assisting the bus driver, and such other activities as the superintendent determines will aid in the safe and efficient transportation of pupils. (B) The superintendent shall ensure that each pupil receiving transportation under this chapter is instructed in school bus safety, proper bus rider behavior, and the potential problems and hazards associated with school bus ridership. Such instruction shall occur within two weeks after the pupil first receives transportation under this chapter.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.06
§ 5120.06. Divisions of department
Status: in_force

March 17, 1998 Senate Bill 111 - 122nd General Assembly (A) The following divisions are hereby established in the department of rehabilitation and correction: (1) The division of business administration; (2) The division of parole and community services. (B) The director of rehabilitation and correction may establish offices, divisions in addition to those specified in division (A) of this section, bureaus, and other administrative units within the department of rehabilitation and correction and prescribe their powers and duties.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5139.51 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5139 / § 5139.51
§ 5139.51. Supervised release or discharge
Status: in_force

January 1, 2002 Senate Bill 179 - 123rd General Assembly (A) The release authority of the department of youth services shall not release a child who is in the custody of the department of youth services from institutional care or institutional care in a secure facility and shall not discharge the child or order the child's release on supervised release prior to the expiration of the prescribed minimum period of institutionalization or institutionalization in a secure facility or prior to the child's attainment of twenty-one years of age, whichever is applicable under the order of commitment, other than as is provided in section 2152.22 of the Revised Code. The release authority may conduct periodic reviews of the case of each child who is in the custody of the department and who is eligible for supervised release or discharge after completing the minimum period of time or period of time in an institution prescribed by the committing court. At least thirty days prior to conducting a periodic review of the case of a child who was committed to the department regarding the possibility of supervised release or discharge and at least thirty days prior to conducting a release review, a release hearing, or a discharge review under division (E) of this section, the release authority shall give notice of the review or hearing to the court that committed the child, to the prosecuting attorney in the case, and to the victim of the delinquent act for which the child was committed or the victim's representative. If a child is on supervised release and has had the child's parole revoked, and if, upon release, there is insufficient time to provide the notices otherwise required by this division, the release authority, at least ten days prior to the child's release, shall provide reasonable notice of the child's release to the court that committed the child, to the prosecuting attorney in the case, and to the victim of the delinquent act for which the child was committed or the victim's representative. The court or prosecuting attorney may submit to the release authority written comments regarding, or written objections to, the supervised release or discharge of that child. Additionally, if the child was committed for an act that is a category one or category two offense, the court or prosecuting attorney orally may communicate to a representative of the release authority comments regarding, or objections to, the supervised release or discharge of the child or, if a hearing is held regarding the possible release or discharge of the child, may communicate those comments at the hearing. In conducting the review of the child's case regarding the possibility of supervised release or discharge, the release authority shall consider any comments and objections so submitted or communicated by the court or prosecutor and any statements or comments submitted or communicated under section 5139.56 of the Revised Code by a victim of an act for which the child was committed to the legal custody of the department or by the victim's representative of a victim of an act of that type. The release authority shall determine the date on which a child may be placed on supervised release or discharged. If the release authority believes that a child should be placed on supervised release, it shall comply with division (B) of this section. If the release authority believes that a child should be discharged, it shall comply with division (C) or (E) of this section. If the release authority denies the supervised release or discharge of a child, it shall provide the child with a written record of the reasons for the decision. (B)(1) When the release authority decides to place a child on supervised release, consistent with division (D) of this section, the department shall prepare a written supervised release plan that specifies the terms and conditions upon which the child is to be released from an institution on supervised release and, at least thirty days prior to the release of the child on the supervised release, shall send to the committing court and the juvenile court of the county in which the child will be placed a copy of the supervised release plan and the terms and conditions of release. The juvenile court of the county in which the child will be placed, within fifteen days after its receipt of the copy of the supervised release plan, may add to the supervised release plan any additional consistent terms and conditions it considers appropriate, provided that the court may not add any term or condition that decreases the level or degree of supervision specified by the release authority in the plan, that substantially increases the financial burden of supervision that will be experienced by the department of youth services, or that alters the placement specified by the plan. If, within fifteen days after its receipt of the copy of the supervised release plan, the juvenile court of the county in which the child will be placed does not add to the supervised release plan any additional terms and conditions, the court shall enter the supervised release plan in its journal within that fifteen-day period and, within that fifteen-day period, shall send to the release authority a copy of the journal entry of the supervised release plan. The journalized plan shall apply regarding the child's supervised release. If, within fifteen days after its receipt of the copy of the supervised release plan, the juvenile court of the county in which the child will be placed adds to the supervised release plan any additional terms and conditions, the court shall enter the supervised release plan and the additional terms and conditions in its journal and, within that fifteen-day period, shall send to the release authority a copy of the journal entry of the supervised release plan and additional terms and conditions. The journalized supervised release plan and additional terms and conditions added by the court that satisfy the criteria described in this division shall apply regarding the child's supervised release. If, within fifteen days after its receipt of the copy of the supervised release plan, the juvenile court of the county in which the child will be placed neither enters in its journal the supervised release plan nor enters in its journal the supervised release plan plus additional terms and conditions added by the court, the court and the department of youth services may attempt to resolve any differences regarding the plan within three days. If a resolution is not reached within that three-day period, thereafter, the supervised release plan shall be enforceable to the same extent as if the court actually had entered the supervised release plan in its journal. (2) When the release authority receives from the court a copy of the journalized supervised release plan and, if applicable, a copy of the journalized additional terms and conditions added by the court, the release authority shall keep the original copy or copies in the child's file and shall provide a copy of each document to the child, the employee of the department who is assigned to supervise and assist the child while on release, and the committing court. (C) If a child who is in the custody of the department of youth services was committed pursuant to division (A)(1)(b), (c), (d), or (e) of section 2152.16 of the Revised Code and has been institutionalized or institutionalized in a secure facility for the prescribed minimum periods of time under those divisions and if the release authority is satisfied that the discharge of the child without the child being placed on supervised release would be consistent with the welfare of the child and protection of the public, the release authority, without approval of the court that committed the child, may discharge the child from the department's custody and control without placing the child on supervised release. Additionally, the release authority may discharge a child in the department's custody without the child being placed on supervised release if the child is removed from the jurisdiction of this state by a court order of a court of this state, another state, or the United States, or by any agency of this state, another state, or the United States, if the child is convicted of or pleads guilty to any criminal offense, or as otherwise provided by law. At least fifteen days before the scheduled date of discharge of the child without the child being placed on supervised release, the department shall notify the committing court, in writing, that it is going to discharge the child and of the reason for the discharge. Upon discharge of the child without the child being placed on supervised release, the department immediately shall certify the discharge in writing and shall transmit the certificate of discharge to the committing court. (D) In addition to requirements that are reasonably related to the child's prior pattern of criminal or delinquent behavior and the prevention of further criminal or delinquent behavior, the release authority shall specify the following requirements for each child whom it releases: (1) The child shall observe the law. (2) The child shall maintain appropriate contact, as specified in the written supervised release plan for that child. (3) The child shall not change residence unless the child seeks prior approval for the change from the employee of the department assigned to supervise and assist the child, provides that employee, at the time the child seeks the prior approval for the change, with appropriate information regarding the new residence address at which the child wishes to reside, and obtains the prior approval of that employee for the change. (E) The period of a child's supervised release may extend from the date of release from an institution until the child attains twenty-one years of age. If the period of supervised release extends beyond one year after the date of release, the child may request in writing that the release authority conduct a discharge review after the expiration of the one-year period or the minimum period or period. If the child so requests, the release authority shall conduct a discharge review and give the child its decision in writing. The release authority shall not grant a discharge prior to the discharge date if it finds good cause for retaining the child in the custody of the department until the discharge date. A child may request an additional discharge review six months after the date of a previous discharge review decision, but not more than once during any six-month period after the date of a previous discharge review decision. (F) At least two weeks before the release authority places on supervised release or discharge a child who was committed to the legal custody of the department, the release authority shall provide notice of the release or discharge as follows: (1) In relation to the placement on supervised release or discharge of a child who was committed to the department for committing an act that is a category one or category two offense, the release authority shall notify, by the specified deadline, all of the following of the release or discharge: (a) The prosecuting attorney of the county in which the child was adjudicated a delinquent child and committed to the custody of the department; (b) Whichever of the following is applicable: (i) If upon the supervised release or discharge the child will reside in a municipal corporation, the chief of police or other chief law enforcement officer of that municipal corporation; (ii) If upon the supervised release or discharge the child will reside in an unincorporated area of a county, the sheriff of that county. (2) In relation to the placement on supervised release or discharge of a child who was committed to the department for committing any act, the release authority shall notify, by the specified deadline, each victim of the act for which the child was committed to the legal custody of the department who, pursuant to section 5139.56 of the Revised Code, has requested to be notified of the placement of the child on supervised release or the discharge of the child, provided that, if any victim has designated a person pursuant to that section to act on the victim's behalf as a victim's representative, the notification required by this division shall be provided to that victim's representative.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.351 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.351
§ 5123.351. Eligibility for state reimbursement of expenses incurred by facilities and programs
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly The director of developmental disabilities, with respect to the eligibility for state reimbursement of expenses incurred by facilities and programs established and operated under Chapter 5126. of the Revised Code for persons with developmental disabilities, shall do all of the following: (A) Make rules that may be necessary to carry out the purposes of Chapter 5126. and sections 5123.35 , 5123.351 , and 5123.36 of the Revised Code; (B) Define minimum standards for qualifications of personnel, professional services, and in-service training and educational leave programs; (C) Review and evaluate community programs and make recommendations for needed improvements to county boards of developmental disabilities and to program directors; (D) Withhold state reimbursement, in whole or in part, from any county or combination of counties for failure to comply with Chapter 5126. or section 5123.35 or 5123.351 of the Revised Code or rules of the department of developmental disabilities; (E) Withhold state funds from an agency, corporation, or association denying or rendering service on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability as defined in section 4112.01 of the Revised Code, or inability to pay; (F) Provide consultative staff service to communities to assist in ascertaining needs and in planning and establishing programs.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.60 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.60
§ 5103.60. Residential infant care center definitions
Status: in_force

June 13, 2022 House Bill 265 - 134th General Assembly As used in sections 5103.602 to 5103.6018 of the Revised Code: (A) "Infant" means a child who is less than one year of age. (B) "Residential infant care center" means a facility that has as its primary purpose the provision of residential services for infants affected by substance use and the preservation of families through infant diversion practices and programs. Last updated March 21, 2022 at 4:10 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5147.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5147 / § 5147.19
§ 5147.19. Control of prisoners at hard labor
Status: in_force

November 8, 1990 House Bill 51, House Bill 588 - 118th General Assembly Except for prisoners participating in a county jail industry program established under section 5147.30 of the Revised Code, prisoners sentenced to hard labor under section 5147.18 of the Revised Code shall be under the control of the board of county commissioners, which may enact rules for the successful working of those prisoners according to sections 5147.01 to 5147.20 of the Revised Code. Sections 5147.01 to 5147.20 of the Revised Code do not authorize taking a prisoner convicted in a city from the control of the proper officer of the city and transferring him into the control of the board.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.43 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.43
§ 5123.43. Training courses for administration of prescribed medications and performance of health-related activities
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 483, House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly (A) The department of developmental disabilities shall develop courses for the training of developmental disabilities personnel in the administration of medications and performance of health-related activities pursuant to the authority granted under section 5123.42 of the Revised Code. The department may develop separate or combined training courses for the administration of prescribed medications, administration of over-the-counter medications, and performance of health-related activities. Training in the administration of prescribed medications through gastrostomy and jejunostomy tubes, the administration of insulin, the administration of medications for the treatment of metabolic glycemic disorders, the activation of a vagal nerve stimulator, and the administration of epinephrine through an autoinjector may be developed as separate courses or included in a course providing training in the administration of other prescribed medications. (B)(1) The department shall adopt rules in accordance with section 5123.46 of the Revised Code that specify the content and length of the training courses developed under this section. The rules may include any other standards the department considers necessary for the training courses. (2) In adopting rules that specify the content of a training course or part of a training course that trains developmental disabilities personnel in the administration of prescribed medications, the department shall ensure that the content includes all of the following: (a) Infection control and universal precautions; (b) Correct and safe practices, procedures, and techniques for administering prescribed medications; (c) Assessment of drug reaction, including known side effects, interactions, and the proper course of action if a side effect occurs; (d) The requirements for documentation of medications administered to each individual; (e) The requirements for documentation and notification of medication errors; (f) Information regarding the proper storage and care of medications; (g) Information about proper receipt of prescriptions and transcription of prescriptions into an individual's medication administration record; (h) Course completion standards that require successful demonstration of proficiency in administering prescribed medications; (i) Any other material or course completion standards that the department considers relevant to the administration of prescribed medications by developmental disabilities personnel. The Legislative Service Commission presents the text of this section as a composite of the section as amended by multiple acts of the General Assembly. This presentation recognizes the principle stated in R.C. 1.52(B) that amendments are to be harmonized if reasonably capable of simultaneous operation. Last updated May 14, 2021 at 2:23 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.09
§ 5101.09. Adopting rules
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) When the director of job and family services or the director of children and youth is authorized by the Revised Code to adopt a rule, the director shall adopt the rule in accordance with the following: (1) Chapter 119. of the Revised Code if any of the following apply: (a) The rule concerns the administration or enforcement of Chapter 4141. of the Revised Code; (b) The rule concerns a program administered by the department of job and family services or the director of children and youth, unless the statute authorizing the rule requires that it be adopted in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code; (c) The statute authorizing the rule requires that the rule be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. (2) Section 111.15 of the Revised Code, excluding division (D) of that section, if either of the following apply: (a) The rule concerns the day-to-day staff procedures and operations of the department or financial and operational matters between the department and another government entity or a private entity receiving a grant from the department, unless the statute authorizing the rule requires that it be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code; (b) The statute authorizing the rule requires that the rule be adopted in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code and, by the terms of division (D) of that section, division (D) of that section does not apply to the rule. (3) Section 111.15 of the Revised Code, including division (D) of that section, if the statute authorizing the rule requires that the rule be adopted in accordance with that section and the rule is not exempt from the application of division (D) of that section. (B) Except as otherwise required by the Revised Code, the adoption of a rule in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code does not make the department of job and family services, the department of children and youth, a county family services agency, or a local board subject to the notice, hearing, or other requirements of sections 119.06 to 119.13 of the Revised Code. As used in this division, "local board" has the same meaning as in section 6301.01 of the Revised Code. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.511 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.511
§ 5165.511. Agreements with entering operators effective on date of change of operator
Status: in_force

October 24, 2024 Senate Bill 144 - 135th General Assembly The department of medicaid may enter into a provider agreement with an entering operator that goes into effect at 12:01 a.m. on the effective date of the change of operator if all of the following requirements are met: (A) The department receives a properly completed written notice required by section 5165.51 of the Revised Code on or before the date required by that section. (B) The department receives from the department of health notice of intent to grant a change of operator license issued under division (B) of section 3721.026 of the Revised Code. (C) The department receives both of the following in accordance with the method specified in rules authorized by section 5165.53 of the Revised Code and not later than ten days after the effective date of the change of operator: (1) From the entering operator, a completed application for a provider agreement and all other forms and documents specified in rules authorized by section 5165.53 of the Revised Code; (2) From the exiting operator or owner, all forms and documents specified in rules authorized by section 5165.53 of the Revised Code. (D) The entering operator is eligible for medicaid payments as provided in section 5165.06 of the Revised Code. Last updated August 30, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.23 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.23
§ 5119.23. Allocations of funds for local mental health and addiction services continuums of care
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) The department of behavioral health shall establish a methodology for allocating to boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services the funds appropriated by the general assembly to the department for the purpose of the community-based continuum of care that each board establishes under section 340.032 of the Revised Code. The department shall establish the methodology after notifying and consulting with relevant constituencies as required by division (A)(10) of section 5119.21 of the Revised Code. The methodology may provide for the funds to be allocated to boards on a district or multi-district basis. (B) Subject to section 5119.25 of the Revised Code, and to required submissions and approvals under sections 340.08 and 5119.22 of the Revised Code, the department shall allocate the funds to the boards in a manner consistent with the methodology, this section, other state and federal laws, rules, and regulations. (C) In consultation with boards, community addiction services providers, community mental health services providers, and persons receiving addiction services, mental health services, and recovery supports, the department shall establish guidelines for the use of funds allocated under this section. Last updated August 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5161.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5161 / § 5161.11
§ 5161.11. CHIP part II
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The component of the children's health insurance program authorized by section 5161.10 of the Revised Code shall be known as CHIP part II.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5160.30 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5160 / § 5160.30
§ 5160.30. Administrative activities for medical assistance programs
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in divisions (B) and (C) of this section, the department of medicaid may accept applications, determine eligibility, redetermine eligibility, and perform related administrative activities for medical assistance programs. (B) The department may enter into agreements with one or more agencies of the federal government, the state, other states, and local governments of this or other states to accept applications, determine eligibility, redetermine eligibility, and perform related administrative activities on behalf of the department with respect to medical assistance programs. (C) If federal law requires a face-to-face interview to complete an eligibility determination for a medical assistance program, the department shall not conduct the face-to-face interview. (D) Subject to division (C) of this section, if the department elects to accept applications, determine eligibility, redetermine eligibility, and perform related administrative activities for a medical assistance program, both of the following apply: (1) An individual may apply for the medical assistance program to the department or an agency authorized by an agreement entered into under division (B) of this section to accept the individual's application; (2) The department is subject to federal statutes and regulations and state statutes and rules that require, permit, or prohibit an action regarding accepting applications, determining or redetermining eligibility, and performing related administrative activities for the medical assistance program.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.276 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.276
§ 5180.276. [Former R.C. 3738.07, renumbered by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Pregnancy-associated mortality review board - immunity from civil liability
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) An individual or public or private entity providing records, documents, reports, or other information to the PAMR board is immune from any civil liability for injury, death, or loss to person or property that otherwise might be incurred or imposed as a result of providing the records, documents, reports, or information to the board. (B) Each board member is immune from any civil liability for injury, death, or loss to person or property that might otherwise be incurred or imposed as a result of the member's participation on the board. Last updated October 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.382 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.382
§ 5120.382. Appointment of employees
Status: in_force

March 23, 2016 House Bill 56 - 131st General Assembly Except as otherwise provided in this chapter for appointments by division chiefs and managing officers, the director of rehabilitation and correction shall appoint employees who are necessary for the efficient conduct of the department of rehabilitation and correction and prescribe their titles and duties. A person who is appointed to an unclassified position from a permanent, classified position within the department shall retain the right to resume the position and status that the person held in the classified service immediately prior to the person's appointment to the position in the unclassified service, regardless of the number of positions the person held in the unclassified service. An employee's right to resume a position in the classified service may be exercised only when an appointing authority demotes the employee to a pay range lower than the employee's current pay range or revokes the employee's appointment to the unclassified service. An employee who holds a position in the classified service and who is appointed to a position in the unclassified service on or after January 1, 2016, shall have the right to resume a position in the classified service under this section only within five years after the effective date of the person's appointment in the unclassified service. An employee forfeits the right to resume a position in the classified service when the employee is removed from the position in the unclassified service due to incompetence, inefficiency, dishonesty, drunkenness, immoral conduct, insubordination, discourteous treatment of the public, neglect of duty, a violation of this chapter or the rules of the department or the director of administrative services, any other failure of good behavior, any other acts of misfeasance, malfeasance, or nonfeasance in office, or conviction of or plea of guilty to a felony while employed in the civil service. An employee also forfeits the right to resume the prior position in the classified service upon transfer to a different agency. Reinstatement to a position in the classified service shall be to a position substantially equal to the position in the classified service that the person previously held, as certified by the director of rehabilitation and correction and approved by the director of administrative services. If the position the person previously held in the classified service has been placed in the unclassified service or is otherwise unavailable, the person shall be appointed to a position in the classified service within the department that the director of administrative services certifies is comparable in compensation to the position the person previously held in the classified service. Service in the position in the unclassified service shall be counted as service in the position in the classified service that the person held immediately preceding the person's appointment to the position in the unclassified service. When a person is reinstated to a position in the classified service as provided in this section, the person is entitled to all rights and benefits and any status accruing to the position in the classified service during the time of the person's service in the position in the unclassified service.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5107.36 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5107 / § 5107.36
§ 5107.36. Fugitive felons and probation or parole violators ineligible for participation
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly An individual is ineligible for assistance under Ohio works first if either of the following apply: (A) The individual is a fugitive felon as defined in section 5101.26 of the Revised Code; (B) The individual is violating a condition of probation, a community control sanction, parole, or a post-release control sanction imposed under federal or state law. Last updated August 16, 2023 at 1:51 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5124.51 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5124 / § 5124.51
§ 5124.51. Notice of change of operator
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) An exiting operator or owner and entering operator shall provide the department of developmental disabilities and department of medicaid written notice of a change of operator if the ICF/IID participates in the medicaid program and the entering operator seeks to continue the ICF/IID's participation. 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 be provided to the department of developmental disabilities and department of medicaid not later than forty-five days before the effective date of the change of operator if the change of operator does not entail the relocation of residents. The written notice shall be provided to the department of developmental disabilities and department of medicaid not later than ninety days before the effective date of the change of operator if the change of operator entails the relocation of residents. The written notice shall include all of the following: (1) The name of the exiting operator and, if any, the exiting operator's authorized agent; (2) The name of the ICF/IID that is the subject of the change of operator; (3) The exiting operator's seven-digit medicaid legacy number and ten-digit national provider identifier number for the ICF/IID that is the subject of the change of operator; (4) The name of the entering operator; (5) The effective date of the change of operator; (6) The manner in which the entering operator becomes the ICF/IID's operator, including through sale, lease, merger, or other action; (7) If the manner in which the entering operator becomes the ICF/IID's operator involves more than one step, a description of each step; (8) Written authorization from the exiting operator or owner and entering operator for the department of medicaid to process a provider agreement for the entering operator; (9) The names and addresses of the persons to whom the department of developmental disabilities and department of medicaid should send initial correspondence regarding the change of operator; (10) The signature of the exiting operator's or owner's representative. (B) An exiting operator or owner and entering operator immediately shall provide the department of developmental disabilities and department of medicaid notice of any changes to information included in a written notice of a change of operator that occur after that notice is provided to the department of developmental disabilities and department of medicaid. The notice of the changes 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.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.68 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.68
§ 5165.68. Statement of deficiencies
Status: in_force

September 15, 2014 House Bill 483 - 130th General Assembly (A) Not later than ten days after an exit interview, including an exit interview at which a department of health survey team discloses a finding that immediate jeopardy exists, the department of health shall deliver to the nursing facility a detailed statement, titled a statement of deficiencies, setting forth all findings and deficiencies cited on the basis of the survey, including any finding cited pursuant to division (E) of section 5165.66 of the Revised Code. The statement shall indicate the severity and scope level of each finding and fully describe the incidents or other facts that form the basis of the department's determination of the existence of each finding and deficiency. A failure by the survey team to completely disclose in the exit interview every finding that may result from the survey does not affect the validity of any finding or deficiency cited in the statement of deficiencies. On request of the facility, the department shall provide a copy of any written worksheet or other document produced by the survey team in making recommendations regarding scope and severity levels of findings and deficiencies. (B) At the same time the department of health delivers a statement of deficiencies, it also shall deliver to the facility a separate written notice that states all of the following: (1) That the department of medicaid or a contracting agency will issue an order under section 5165.84 of the Revised Code denying payment for any medicaid eligible residents admitted on and after the effective date of the order if the facility does not substantially correct, within ninety days after the exit interview, the deficiency or deficiencies cited in the statement of deficiencies in accordance with the plan of correction it submitted under section 5165.69 of the Revised Code; (2) If a condition of substandard care has been cited on the basis of a standard survey and a condition of substandard care was also cited on the immediately preceding standard survey, that the department of medicaid or a contracting agency will issue an order under section 5165.84 of the Revised Code denying payment for any medicaid eligible residents admitted on and after the effective date of the order if a condition of substandard care is cited on the basis of the next standard survey; (3) That the department of medicaid or a contracting agency will issue an order under section 5165.88 of the Revised Code terminating the facility's participation in the medicaid program if either of the following applies: (a) The facility does not substantially correct the deficiency or deficiencies in accordance with the plan of correction it submitted under section 5165.69 of the Revised Code within six months after the exit interview. (b) The facility substantially corrects the deficiency or deficiencies within the six-month period, but after correcting it, the department of health, based on a follow-up survey conducted during the remainder of the six-month period, determines that the facility has failed to maintain compliance with certification requirements.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.26 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.26
§ 5123.26. Funds
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly The treasurer of state shall have charge of all funds under the jurisdiction of the department of developmental disabilities and shall pay out the same only in accordance with Chapter 5123. of the Revised Code. The department shall cause to be furnished a contract of indemnity to cover all moneys and funds received by it or by its managing officers, employees, or agents while such moneys or funds are in the possession of such managing officers, employees, or agents. Such funds are designated as follows: (A) Funds which are due and payable to the treasurer of state as provided by Chapter 131. of the Revised Code; (B) Those funds which are held in trust by the managing officers, employees, or agents of the institution as local funds or accounts under the jurisdiction of the department. Such contract of indemnity shall be made payable to the state and the premium for such contract of indemnity may be paid from any of the funds received for the use of the department under this chapter or Chapter 5121. of the Revised Code. Funds collected from various sources, such as the sale of goods, farm products, and all miscellaneous articles, shall be transmitted on or before Monday of each week to the treasurer of state and a detailed statement of such collections shall be made to the division of business administration by each managing officer.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.0216 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.0216
§ 5126.0216. Request for hearing on proposed removal of member
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly An appointing authority shall afford a member of a county board of developmental disabilities an opportunity for a hearing on the member's proposed removal in accordance with procedures the appointing authority shall establish, unless the appointing authority requested that the director of developmental disabilities waive the mandatory removal under section 5126.0214 of the Revised Code and the director refused to issue the waiver. The appointing authority shall hold the hearing if the member requests the hearing not later than thirty days after the date that the county board sends the member the notice required by section 5126.0215 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5124.524 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5124 / § 5124.524
§ 5124.524. Final payment withheld pending receipt of cost reports
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The department of developmental disabilities 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 5124.10 and 5124.522 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.70 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.70
§ 5123.70. Requesting release of voluntary resident
Status: in_force

July 1, 1975 Senate Bill 336 - 110th General Assembly (A) A resident admitted pursuant to section 5123.69 of the Revised Code who requests his own release or whose release is requested in writing by his counsel, legal guardian, parent, spouse, or adult next of kin shall be released forthwith except that: (1) If a resident was admitted on his own application and the request for release is made by a person other than the resident, release may be made conditional upon the agreement of the resident thereto if his continued institutionalization is supported by his most recent comprehensive evaluation; (2) If, within three court days from the receipt of the request for release, the managing officer files an affidavit or causes an affidavit to be filed under section 5123.71 of the Revised Code with the probate division of the court of common pleas of the county where the resident has his residence or where he is institutionalized, release may be postponed until a hearing can be held pursuant to section 5123.76 of the Revised Code. In such case, the request for release shall substitute for the request for a probable cause hearing under section 5123.75 of the Revised Code. A telephone communication to the probate division from the managing officer of the institution or his designee indicating that the required affidavit has been mailed by certified mail shall be sufficient compliance with division (A)(2) of this section. (B) Judicial proceedings for institutionalization shall not be commenced with respect to a voluntary resident except pursuant to division (A)(2) of this section. (C) Sections 5121.01 to 5121.10 of the Revised Code shall apply to the persons received in a public institution on a voluntary application. (D) The managing officer shall inform residents, parents, guardians, and custodians of the right to release as provided in this section and shall assist residents in making and presenting requests for release.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.91 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.91
§ 5164.91. Integrated care delivery system
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The medicaid director may implement a demonstration project called the integrated care delivery system to test and evaluate the integration of the care that dual eligible individuals receive under medicare and medicaid. No provision of Title LI of the Revised Code applies to the integrated care delivery system if that provision implements or incorporates a provision of federal law governing medicaid and that provision of federal law does not apply to the system.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.034 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.034
§ 5123.034. Developmental centers services and cost recovery
Status: in_force

September 30, 2021 House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "developmental center" has the same meaning as in section 5123.032 of the Revised Code. (B) A developmental center of the department of developmental disabilities may provide services to both of the following: (1) Individuals with developmental disabilities who reside in the community in which the developmental center is located; (2) Providers who provide services to individuals with developmental disabilities who reside in the community in which the developmental center is located. (C) The department may develop a method for recovering the costs associated with providing these services. Last updated September 9, 2021 at 4:18 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.91 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.91
§ 5123.91. Immunity
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly All persons who are not subject to any criminal provisions and who act reasonable and in good faith, either upon actual knowledge or upon information reasonably thought by them to be reliable, shall be free from any liability to a person institutionalized in institutions for persons with i ntellectual disabilities or to any other person in their procedural or physical assistance administered in the course of the institutionalization or discharge of a person pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.21
§ 5123.21. Transfers
Status: in_force

September 15, 2014 House Bill 483 - 130th General Assembly The director of developmental disabilities may transfer or authorize the transfer of an involuntary resident or a consenting voluntary resident from one public institution to another or to an institution other than a public institution or other facility, if the director determines that it would be consistent with the habilitation needs of the resident to do so. Before an involuntary resident may be transferred to a more restrictive setting, the managing officer of the institution shall file a motion with the court requesting the court to amend its order of placement issued under section 5123.76 of the Revised Code. At the resident's request, the court shall hold a hearing on the motion at which the resident has the same rights as at a full hearing under section 5123.76 of the Revised Code. Whenever a resident is transferred, the director shall give written notice of the transfer to the resident's legal guardian, parents, spouse, and counsel, or, if none is known, to the resident's nearest known relative or friend. If the resident is a minor, the director before making such a transfer shall make a minute of the order for the transfer and the reason for it upon its record and shall send a certified copy at least seven days prior to the transfer to the person shown by its record to have had the care or custody of the minor immediately prior to the minor's commitment. Whenever a consenting voluntary resident is transferred, the notification shall be given only at the resident's request. The managing officer shall advise a voluntary resident who is being transferred that the patient may decide if such a notification shall be given. In all such transfers, due consideration shall be given to the relationship of the resident to the resident's family, legal guardian, or friends, so as to maintain relationships and encourage visits beneficial to the resident.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.45 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.45
§ 5165.45. Deposits to general revenue fund
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The department of medicaid shall transmit to the treasurer of state for deposit in the general revenue fund amounts collected from the following: (A) Refunds required by, and interest charged under, section 5165.41 of the Revised Code; (B) Amounts collected from penalties imposed under section 5165.42 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5160.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5160 / § 5160.06
§ 5160.06. Fidelity bonds
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The medicaid director may require any of the employees of the department of medicaid who may be charged with custody or control of any public money or property or who is required to give bond, to give a bond, properly conditioned, in a sum to be fixed by the director which when approved by the director, shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state. The cost of such bonds, when approved by the director, shall be paid from funds available for the department. The bonds required or authorized by this section may, in the discretion of the director, be individual, schedule, or blanket bonds.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5162.65 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5162 / § 5162.65
§ 5162.65. Refunds and reconciliation fund
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly There is hereby created in the state treasury the refunds and reconciliation fund. Money the department of medicaid receives from a refund or reconciliation shall be deposited into the refunds and reconciliation fund if the department does not know the appropriate fund for the money at the time the department receives the money or if the money is to go to another government entity. Money transferred from the department of job and family services under section 5101.074 of the Revised Code also shall be deposited into the refunds and reconciliation fund. Money in the refunds and reconciliation fund, including money transferred from the department of job and family services, shall be transferred to the appropriate fund once the appropriate fund is identified or shall be transferred to another government entity, as appropriate.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5107.71 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5107 / § 5107.71
§ 5107.71. County department duties under program rules
Status: in_force

September 29, 2007 House Bill 119 - 127th General Assembly Each county department of job and family services shall do all of the following in accordance with rules adopted under section 5107.05 of the Revised Code: (A) Identify members of assistance groups applying for and participating in Ohio works first who have been subjected to domestic violence by utilizing the domestic violence screening process established in the rules; (B) Refer a member who has been subjected to domestic violence to counseling and supportive services; (C) Except as provided in section 5107.713 of the Revised Code, maintain the confidentiality of information about a member who has been subjected to domestic violence; (D) Make a determination of whether a member who has been subjected to domestic violence should be issued a waiver under section 5107.714 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.429 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.429
§ 5180.429. [Former R.C. 5101.1412, amended and renumbered by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Young adults -  voluntary participation agreement
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) Without the approval of a court, an emancipated young adult who receives payments, or on whose behalf payments are received, under division (A) of section 5180.428 of the Revised Code, may enter into a voluntary participation agreement with the department of children and youth, or its representative, for the emancipated young adult's care and placement. The agreement shall stay in effect until one of the following occurs: (1) The emancipated young adult enrolled in the program notifies the department, or its representative, that they want to terminate the agreement. (2) The emancipated young adult becomes ineligible for the program. (B) In order to maintain Title IV-E eligibility for the emancipated young adult, both of the following apply: (1) Not later than one hundred eighty days after the effective date of the voluntary participation agreement, the department or its representative must petition the court for, and obtain, a judicial determination that the emancipated young adult's best interest is served by continuing the care and placement with the department or its representative. (2) Not later than twelve months after the effective date of the voluntary participation agreement, and at least once every twelve months thereafter, the department or its representative must petition the court for, and obtain, a judicial determination that the department or its representative has made reasonable efforts to finalize a permanency plan to prepare the emancipated young adult for independence. Last updated October 3, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5145.18 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5145 / § 5145.18
§ 5145.18. Printing or binding
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly Any printing or binding performed in a state correctional institution may be performed for the use of the institution, the departments of mental health and addiction services, developmental disabilities, and rehabilitation and correction, the department of public safety in connection with the registration of motor vehicles, and for any other purpose authorized by division (B) of section 5145.03 and by sections 5145.16 and 5145.161 of the Revised Code. Last updated October 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.0215 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.0215
§ 5126.0215. Notice of grounds of removal to member and appointing authority
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly If there are grounds for the mandatory removal of a member of a county board of developmental disabilities under section 5126.0213 of the Revised Code, the county board shall supply the board member and the member's appointing authority with written notice of the grounds.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5104.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5104 / § 5104.02
§ 5104.02. License required
Status: in_force

April 9, 2025 Senate Bill 208 - 135th General Assembly (A) The director of children and youth is responsible for licensing child care centers, type A family child care homes, and type B family child care homes. Each entity operating a head start program shall meet the criteria for, and be licensed as, a child care center. The director is responsible for the enforcement of this chapter and of rules promulgated pursuant to this chapter. No person, firm, organization, institution, or agency shall operate, establish, manage, conduct, or maintain a child care center or type A family child care home without a license issued under section 5104.03 of the Revised Code. The current license shall be posted in the center or home in a conspicuous place that is accessible to parents, custodians, or guardians and employees of the center or home at all times when the center or home is in operation. (B) A person, firm, institution, organization, or agency operating any of the following programs is exempt from the requirements of this chapter: (1) A program caring for children that operates for two consecutive weeks or less and not more than six weeks total in each calendar year; (2) Caring for children in places of worship during religious activities while at least one parent, guardian, or custodian of each child is participating in such activities and is readily available; (3) Supervised training, instruction, or activities of children in specific areas, including, but not limited to: art; drama; dance; music; athletic skills or sports; computers; or an educational subject conducted on an organized or periodic basis that a child does not attend for more than eight total hours per week; (4) Programs in which the director determines that at least one parent, custodian, or guardian of each child is on the premises of the facility that offers care and is readily accessible at all times and care is not provided for more than two and one-half hours a day per child; (5) Programs that provide care and are regulated by state departments other than the department of children and youth or the department of education and workforce. (6) Any preschool program or school child program, except a head start program, that is subject to licensure by the department of children and youth under sections 3301.52 to 3301.59 of the Revised Code. (7) Any program providing care that meets all of the following requirements and, on October 20, 1987, was being operated by a nonpublic school that holds a charter issued under section 3301.16 of the Revised Code for kindergarten only: (a) The nonpublic school has given the notice to the state board of education and the director of children and youth required by Section 4 of Substitute House Bill No. 253 of the 117th general assembly; (b) The nonpublic school continues to be chartered by the department of education and workforce for kindergarten, or receives and continues to hold a charter from the department for kindergarten through grade five; (c) The program is conducted in a school building; (d) The program is operated in accordance with rules promulgated by the department of children and youth under section 3301.53 of the Revised Code. (8) A youth development program operated outside of school hours to which all of the following apply: (a) The children enrolled in the program are under nineteen years of age and enrolled in or eligible to be enrolled in a grade of kindergarten or above. (b) The program provides informal care, which is care that does not require parental signature, permission, or notice for the child receiving the care to enter or leave the program. (c) The program provides any of the following supervised activities: educational, recreational, culturally enriching, social, and personal development activities. (d) The entity operating the program is exempt from federal income taxation pursuant to 26 U.S.C. 501(a) and (c)(3). (9) A program caring for children that is operated by a nonchartered, nontax-supported school if the program meets all of the following conditions: (a) The program complies with state and local health, fire, and safety laws. (b) The program annually certifies in a report to the children's parents that the program is in compliance with division (B)(9)(a) of this section and files a copy of the report with the department of children and youth on or before the thirtieth day of September of each year. (c) The program complies with all applicable reporting requirements in the same manner as required by the department of education and workforce for nonchartered, nonpublic primary and secondary schools. (d) The program is associated with a nonchartered, nontax-supported primary or secondary school. (10) A program that provides activities for children who are five years of age or older and is operated by a county, township, municipal corporation, township park district created under section 511.18 of the Revised Code, park district created under section 1545.04 of the Revised Code, or joint recreation district established under section 755.14 of the Revised Code. (11) A home education learning pod. Last updated February 18, 2025 at 7:48 AM