Ohio Rev. Code § 5104.25 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5104 / § 5104.25
§ 5104.25. Prohibiting smoking
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section, no child care center shall permit any person to smoke in any indoor or outdoor space that is part of the center. The administrator of a child care center shall post in a conspicuous place at the main entrance of the center a notice stating that smoking is prohibited in any indoor or outdoor space that is part of the center, except under the conditions described in division (C) of this section. (B) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section, no type A family child care home or licensed type B family child care home shall permit any person to smoke in any indoor or outdoor space that is part of the home during the hours the home is in operation. Smoking may be permitted during hours other than the hours of operation if the administrator of the home has provided to a parent, custodian, or guardian of each child receiving child care at the home notice that smoking occurs or may occur at the home when it is not in operation. The administrator of a type A family child care home or a licensed type B family child care home shall post in a conspicuous place at the main entrance of the home a notice specifying the hours the home is in operation and stating that smoking is prohibited during those hours in any indoor or outdoor space that is part of the home, except under the conditions described in division (C) of this section. (C) A child care center, type A family child care home, or licensed type B family child care home may allow persons to smoke at the center or home during its hours of operation if those persons cannot be seen smoking by the children being cared for and if they smoke in either of the following: (1) An indoor area that is separately ventilated from the rest of the center or home; (2) An outdoor area that is so far removed from the children being cared for that they cannot inhale any smoke. (D) The director of children and youth, in consultation with the director of health, shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement the requirements of this section. These rules may prohibit smoking in a child care center, type A family child care home, or licensed type B family child care home if its design and structure do not allow persons to smoke under the conditions described in division (C) of this section or if repeated violations of division (A) or (B) of this section have occurred there. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.82 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.82
§ 5123.82. Application for habilitation and care of discharged resident
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly (A) Any person who has been institutionalized under this chapter may, at any time after discharge from such institution, make application to the managing officer of any public institution for habilitation and care if such person feels the person is in need of such services. If the chief program director determines the applicant to be in need of such services, the managing officer may provide such services as are required by the applicant. (B) Any person may apply to the managing officer of any public institution for habilitation and care if such person feels the person is in need of such services. If the person's condition warrants, the person may be enrolled as an outpatient and, during such enrollment, the person may receive services subject to Chapter 5121. of the Revised Code. (C) The application prescribed in division (A) or (B) of this section may also be made on behalf of a minor by a parent, guardian, or custodian of a minor, and on behalf of an adult adjudicated incompetent by the guardian or custodian of the adult. (D) The managing officer of the public institution may refer any discharged resident who makes an application under this section to the director of any program that serves the county in which such resident resides and is offered by the county board of developmental disabilities for persons with intellectual disabilities, or to such other facility as the director of developmental disabilities may designate. Upon notice of such referral, the director of such program may provide the services required by the applicant.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.093 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.093
§ 5123.093. Duties of citizen's advisory council
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly The citizen's advisory councils established under section 5123.092 of the Revised Code shall do all of the following: (A) Transmit to the director of developmental disabilities verbal or written information, received from any person or organization associated with the institution or within the community, that an advisory council considers important; (B) Review the records of all applicants to any unclassified position at the institution, except for resident physician positions filled under section 5123.11 of the Revised Code; (C) Review and evaluate institutional employee training and continuing education programs; (D) On or before the thirty-first day of January of each year, submit a written report to the director of developmental disabilities regarding matters affecting the institution including, but not limited to, allegations of dehumanizing practices and violations of individual or legal rights; (E) Review institutional budgets, programs, services, and planning; (F) Develop and maintain within the community relationships with community developmental disabilities organizations; (G) Participate in the formulation of the institution's objectives, administrative procedures, program philosophy, and long range goals; (H) Bring any matter that an advisory council considers important to the attention of the director of developmental disabilities; (I) Recommend to the director of developmental disabilities persons for appointment to citizen's advisory councils; (J) Adopt any rules or procedures necessary to carry out this section. The chairperson of the advisory council or the chairperson's designee shall be notified within twenty-four hours of any alleged incident of abuse to a resident or staff member by anyone. Incidents of resident or staff abuse shall include, but not be limited to, sudden deaths, accidents, suicides, attempted suicides, injury caused by other persons, alleged criminal acts, errors in prescribing or administering medication, theft from clients, fires, epidemic disease, administering unprescribed drugs, unauthorized use of restraint, withholding of information concerning alleged abuse, neglect, or any deprivation of rights as defined in Chapter 5122. or 5123. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.028 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.028
§ 5126.028. Members of board not compensated - reimbursement for expenses
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly Members of a county board of developmental disabilities shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for necessary expenses incurred in the conduct of county board business, including expenses that are incurred in the member's county of residence in accordance with an established policy of the county board.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.891 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.891
§ 5101.891. Youth and family ombudsmen office
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) There is created a youth and family ombudsmen office under the department of job and family services consisting of the following: (1) A family ombudsman, who shall be appointed by the governor, to investigate complaints made by adults; (2) A youth ombudsman, who shall be appointed by the governor with advice from the overcoming hurdles in Ohio youth advisory board, to investigate complaints made by youth and to advocate for the best interests of children involved in concerns investigated by the office; (3) Not fewer than two regional ombudsmen; (4) Any necessary support staff. (B) The office shall investigate and resolve concerns made by or on behalf of children and families involved with public children services agencies, Title IV-E agencies, or private provider agencies that administer or oversee foster care or placement services for the children services system. The office shall ensure the independent and impartial review of youth, family, and community complaints or concerns. Last updated September 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5168.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5168 / § 5168.05
§ 5168.05. Submitting financial statement and cost report
Status: in_force

October 17, 2019 House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, each hospital, on or before the first day of July of each year or at a later date approved by the medicaid director, shall submit to the department of medicaid a financial statement for the preceding calendar year that accurately reflects the income, expenses, assets, liabilities, and net worth of the hospital, and accompanying notes. A hospital that has a fiscal year different from the calendar year shall file its financial statement within one hundred eighty days of the end of its fiscal year or at a later date approved by the director. The financial statement shall be prepared by an independent certified public accountant and reflect an official audit report prepared in a manner consistent with generally accepted accounting principles. The financial statement shall, to the extent that the hospital has sufficient financial records, show bad debt and charity care separately from courtesy care and contractual allowances. (B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, each hospital, within one hundred eighty days after the end of the hospital's cost reporting period, shall submit to the department a cost report in a format prescribed in rules adopted under section 5168.02 of the Revised Code. The department shall grant a hospital an extension of the one hundred eighty day period if the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services extends the date by which the hospital must submit its cost report for the hospital's cost reporting period. (C) The director may adopt rules under section 5168.02 of the Revised Code specifying financial information that must be submitted by hospitals for which no financial statement or cost report is available. The rules shall specify deadlines for submitting the information. Each such hospital shall submit the information specified in the rules not later than the deadline specified in the rules. Last updated July 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.41 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.41
§ 5120.41. Courses of study
Status: in_force

October 6, 1994 House Bill 571 - 120th General Assembly The courses of study for the instruction and training of all persons in the correctional institutions under the control of the department of rehabilitation and correction shall be subject to the approval of the superintendent of public instruction.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.0211 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.0211
§ 5126.0211. Virtual attendance at in-service training sessions
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly A member of a county board of developmental disabilities shall be considered present at an in-service training session even though the member is not physically present in the room in which the session is held if the member is connected to the session through a system that enables the member to communicate with the individuals participating in the session and such individuals to communicate with the member.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.421 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.421
§ 5180.421. [Former R.C. 5101.142, amended and renumbered by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Demonstration projects expanding Title IV-E eligibility and services
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) The department of children and youth may apply to the United States secretary of health and human services for a waiver of requirements established under Title IV-E, or regulations adopted thereunder, to conduct a demonstration project expanding eligibility for and services provided under Title IV-E. The department may enter into agreements with the secretary necessary to implement the demonstration project, including agreements establishing the terms and conditions of the waiver authorizing the project. If a demonstration project is to be established, the department shall do all of the following: (1) Have the director of children and youth adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code governing the project. The rules shall be consistent with the agreements the department enters into with the secretary. (2) Enter into agreements with public children services agencies that the department selects for participation in the project. The department shall not select an agency that objects to participation or refuses to be bound by the terms and conditions of the project. (3) Contract with persons or governmental agencies providing services under the project; (4) Amend the state plan required by section 471 of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 671, as amended, as needed to implement the project; (5) Conduct ongoing evaluations of the project; (6) Perform other administrative and operational activities required by the agreement with the secretary. (B) The department may apply to the United States secretary of health and human services for a waiver of the requirements established under Title IV-B of the "Social Security Act of 1967," 42 U.S.C. 620 or regulations adopted thereunder and established under any other federal law or regulations that affect the children services functions prescribed by Chapter 5153. of the Revised Code, to conduct demonstration projects or otherwise improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the children services function. Last updated October 3, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5149.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5149 / § 5149.02
§ 5149.02. Adult parole authority
Status: in_force

March 31, 2003 House Bill 510 - 124th General Assembly There is hereby created in the division of parole and community services of the department of rehabilitation and correction at bureau level an adult parole authority. The adult parole authority consists of its chief, a field services section, and a parole board. The director of rehabilitation and correction shall appoint the chief of the adult parole authority, one or more superintendents of the field services section, and the chairperson of the parole board, all of whom shall serve at the pleasure of the director and shall be in the unclassified civil service. The authority is a regular administrative unit of the department of rehabilitation and correction and shall operate under rules adopted by the director. The chief of the division of parole and community services may adopt supplemental rules governing operation of the authority, assigning specific powers and duties to the chief of the authority, and assigning specific functions to sections within the authority. No person shall be appointed as chief of the adult parole authority who is not qualified by education or experience in correctional work, including law enforcement, probation, or parole, in law, in social work, or in a combination of the three categories.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5155.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5155 / § 5155.13
§ 5155.13. Superintendent or administrator compensation and expenses
Status: in_force

May 13, 1980 House Bill 561 - 113th General Assembly The superintendent or administrator of the county home shall receive no extra compensation for his services under sections 5155.08 to 5155.12 of the Revised Code, except his actual expense in pursuing a resident who left the home, to be paid out of the county home fund.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5122.43 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5122 / § 5122.43
§ 5122.43. Payment of costs, fees, and expenses of proceedings - reimbursement
Status: in_force

April 6, 2023 House Bill 281 - 134th General Assembly (A) Costs, fees, and expenses of all proceedings held under this chapter shall be paid as follows: (1) To police and health officers, other than sheriffs or their deputies, the same fees allowed to constables, to be paid upon the approval of the probate judge; (2) To sheriffs or their deputies, the same fees allowed for similar services in the court of common pleas; (3) To physicians or licensed clinical psychologists acting as expert witnesses and to other expert witnesses designated by the court, an amount determined by the court; (4) To other witnesses, the same fees and mileage as for attendance at the court of common pleas, to be paid upon the approval of the probate judge; (5) To a person, other than the sheriff or the sheriff's deputies, for taking a person with a mental illness to a hospital or removing a person with a mental illness from a hospital, the actual necessary expenses incurred, specifically itemized, and approved by the probate judge; (6) To assistants who convey persons with a mental illness to the hospital when authorized by the probate judge, a fee set by the probate court, provided the assistants are not drawing a salary from the state or any political subdivision of the state, and their actual necessary expenses incurred, provided that the expenses are specifically itemized and approved by the probate judge; (7) To an attorney appointed by the probate division for an indigent who allegedly is a person with a mental illness pursuant to any section of this chapter or a person experiencing alcohol and other drug abuse and who may be ordered under sections 5119.91 to 5119.98 of the Revised Code to undergo treatment, the fees that are determined by the probate division. When those indigent persons are before the court, all filing and recording fees shall be waived. (8) To a referee who is appointed to conduct proceedings under this chapter that involve a respondent whose domicile is or, before the respondent's hospitalization, was not the county in which the proceedings are held, compensation as fixed by the probate division, but not more than the compensation paid for similar proceedings for respondents whose domicile is in the county in which the proceedings are held; (9) To a court reporter appointed to make a transcript of proceedings under this chapter, the compensation and fees allowed in other cases under section 2101.08 of the Revised Code. (B) A county shall pay for the costs, fees, and expenses described in division (A) of this section with money appropriated pursuant to section 2101.11 of the Revised Code. A county may seek reimbursement from the department of mental health and addiction services by submitting a request and certification by the county auditor of the costs, fees, and expenses to the department within two months of the date the costs, fees, and expenses are incurred by the county. Each fiscal year, based on past allocations, historical utilization, and other factors the department considers appropriate, the department shall allocate for each county an amount for reimbursements under this section. A county's allocation may be zero. The department shall set aside an amount in addition to the allocations to cover court costs associated with proceedings held under this chapter for counties that received an allocation of zero but that incurred expenditures authorized by the department. The total of all the allocations plus the additional amount set aside shall equal the amount appropriated for the fiscal year to the department specifically for the purposes of this section. On receipt, the department shall review each request for reimbursement and prepare a voucher for the amount of the costs, fees, and expenses incurred by the county, provided that the total amount of money paid to all counties in each fiscal year shall not exceed the total amount of moneys specifically appropriated to the department for these purposes. The department's total reimbursement to each county shall be the lesser of the full amount requested or either the amount allocated for the county under this division, or, for counties that received an allocation of zero, the amount approved by the department. In addition, the department shall distribute any surplus remaining from the money appropriated for the fiscal year to the department for the purposes of this section as follows to counties whose full requests exceed their allocations: (1) If the surplus is sufficient to reimburse such counties the full amount of their requests, each such county shall receive the full amount of its request; (2) If the surplus is insufficient, each such county shall receive a percentage of the surplus determined by dividing the difference between the county's full request and its allocation by the difference between the total of the full requests of all such counties and the total of the amounts allocated for all such counties. The department may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement the payment of costs, fees, and expenses under this section. Last updated October 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.913 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.913
§ 5164.913. Home health aide and personal care aide training
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A)(1) In addition to any other eligibility requirement of this chapter, to be eligible to serve as a personal care aide under the integrated care delivery system, an individual must successfully complete thirty hours of pre-service training acceptable to the department of medicaid. To maintain eligibility, each personal care aide must successfully complete six hours of in-service training acceptable to the department. Such training must be completed every twelve months. (2) In administering the integrated care delivery system, the department shall not require a personal care aide to do either of the following: (a) Complete more than thirty hours of pre-service training; (b) Complete more than six hours of in-service training in a twelve-month period. (B) The department of medicaid shall not require an individual serving as a home health aide under the integrated care delivery system to complete more hours of pre-service training or annual in-service training than required by federal law. (C) Only the following may supervise a home health aide or personal care aide under the integrated care delivery system: (1) A registered nurse; (2) A licensed practical nurse under the direction of a registered nurse. Last updated October 6, 2023 at 5:07 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.57 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.57
§ 5101.57. Use of public facilities for nontheurapeutic abortions prohibited
Status: in_force

September 29, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Nontherapeutic abortion" has the same meaning as in section 124.85 of the Revised Code. (2) "Political subdivision" means any body corporate and politic that is responsible for governmental activities in a geographic area smaller than the state, except that "political subdivision" does not include either of the following: (a) A municipal corporation; (b) A county that has adopted a charter under Section 3 of Article X, Ohio Constitution, to the extent that it is exercising the powers of local self-government as provided in that charter and is subject to Section 3 of Article XVIII, Ohio Constitution. (3) "Public facility" means any institution, structure, equipment, or physical asset that is owned, leased, or controlled by this state or any agency, institution, instrumentality, or political subdivision thereof. "Public facility" includes any state university, state medical college, health district, joint hospital, or public hospital agency. (B) No public facility shall be used for the purpose of performing or inducing a nontherapeutic abortion. Last updated March 22, 2022 at 6:55 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5139.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5139 / § 5139.16
§ 5139.16. Accepting gifts and bequests
Status: in_force

November 24, 1981 House Bill 440 - 114th General Assembly The department of youth services may accept, hold, and use, for the benefit of the department or the children committed to it, any gift, donation, bequest, or devise, and may agree to and perform all conditions of the gift, donation, bequest, or devise, not contrary to law.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.806 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.806
§ 5101.806. TANF spending plan
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) The department of job and family services shall prepare and submit to the governor not later than the first day of November in each even-numbered year a TANF spending plan describing the anticipated spending of temporary assistance for needy families block grant funds for the upcoming state fiscal biennium. The report shall be prepared in such a manner as to facilitate the inclusion of the information contained in the report in the governor's budget in accordance with division (D)(7) of section 107.03 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) Not later than sixty days after the end of the first state fiscal year of a fiscal biennium, the department shall prepare and submit an updated TANF spending plan to the chairperson of a standing committee of the house of representatives designated by the speaker of the house of representatives, the chairperson of a standing committee of the senate designated by the president of the senate, and the minority leaders of both the house of representatives and the senate. The updated TANF spending plan shall, at a minimum, include both of the following: (a) The total amount of temporary assistance for needy families block grant funds distributed during the first fiscal year of the fiscal biennium. (b) An updated estimate of the total amount of temporary assistance for needy families block grant funds that will be distributed during the second fiscal year of the fiscal biennium. (2) A chairperson of a standing committee designated by the speaker of the house of representatives or president of the senate under division (B)(1) of this section may call the director of job and family services to testify before the committee regarding the TANF spending plan. Last updated September 22, 2023 at 1:52 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.96 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.96
§ 5119.96. Issuance of summons; failure to attend examination; transportation to hospital
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly When a probate court is authorized to issue an order that the respondent be transported to a hospital, the court may issue a summons. If the respondent fails to attend an examination scheduled before the hearing under section 5119.94 of the Revised Code, the court shall issue a summons. A summons so issued shall be directed to the respondent and shall command the respondent to appear at a time and place specified in the summons. If a respondent who has been summoned fails to appear at the hospital or the examination, the probate court may order the sheriff or any other peace officer to transport the respondent to a hospital on the list provided under section 5119.97 of the Revised Code for treatment. The sheriff or any other peace officer, upon agreement of a person authorized by the peace officer, may authorize a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services, a private services provider under contract with a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services, or an ambulance service designated by a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services to transport the respondent to the hospital. The transportation costs of the sheriff, other peace officer, ambulance service, or other private services provider under contract with the board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services shall be included in the costs of treatment for alcohol and other drug abuse to be paid by the petitioner.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5121.36 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5121 / § 5121.36
§ 5121.36. Application for discount - determination - notice
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) A patient, patient's estate, or liable relative may apply for a discount by completing an application form prescribed by the director of mental health and addiction services. The department of mental health and addiction services may require a patient, estate, or relative to furnish any of the following with an application form: (1) A copy of the patient's, estate's, or liable relative's federal income tax return for the year preceding the date of application or, if that is not yet available, the preceding year; (2) A copy of the patient's, estate's, or liable relative's employee tax withholding return (form W-2) for the year preceding the date of application; (3) Any other relevant documents prescribed by the director of mental health and addiction services. (B) To be considered, an application must be submitted to the department not later than ninety days after the date the patient is admitted to a hospital. (C) From the information provided by a patient, estate, or relative, the department shall determine whether the department will charge the person a discounted amount in accordance with sections 5121.40 and 5121.41 of the Revised Code. In making this determination, the department shall consider whether the patient is covered by an insurance policy or other contract that provides for payment of expenses and treatment for mental illness. If the department determines that the patient has coverage, the department shall require payment in accordance with section 5121.43 of the Revised Code. (D) The department shall notify the patient, executor or administrator of the patient's estate, or liable relative who submitted the application form in writing regarding whether that person will be charged a discounted amount and the per diem rate to be charged. (E) In accordance with section 5121.42 of the Revised Code, the department may, at any time, modify an amount charged or change the per diem rate to be charged if the department learns of countable assets or income that was not previously disclosed or was acquired after the application form was submitted. Within a reasonable time, the department shall notify in writing any person affected by a modification or change.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.73 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.73
§ 5123.73. Notice of hearing
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly (A) After receipt of the affidavit required by section 5123.71 of the Revised Code, the court shall cause written notice, by mail or otherwise, of any hearing the court directs, to be given to all of the following persons: (1) The respondent; (2) The respondent's legal guardian, if any; (3) The respondent's spouse, if address is known; (4) The person filing the affidavit; (5) Any one person designated by the respondent, except that if the respondent does not make a selection, the notice shall be sent to the adult next of kin other than the person who filed the affidavit, if that person's address is known to the court; (6) The respondent's counsel; (7) The director of developmental disabilities or the director's designee under section 5123.72 of the Revised Code. (B) All persons entitled to notice under this section may waive that notice. (C) A copy of the affidavit and of any temporary order shall be served with a notice under this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5104.013 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5104 / § 5104.013
§ 5104.013. Criminal records checks
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 147 - 135th General Assembly (A)(1) As used in this section: (a) "Applicant" means either of the following: (i) A person who is under final consideration for appointment to or employment in a position with a licensed preschool program or licensed school child program that provides publicly funded child care, authorized private before and after school care program, child care center, type A family child care home, licensed type B family child care home, or child day camp; (ii) A person who would serve in any position with a licensed preschool program or licensed school child program that provides publicly funded child care, authorized private before and after school care program, child care center, type A family child care home, licensed type B family child care home, or child day camp pursuant to a contract with another entity. (b) "Authorized private before and after school care program" has the same meaning as in section 3301.52 of the Revised Code. (c) "Criminal records check" has the same meaning as in section 109.572 of the Revised Code. (2) Regarding an authorized private before and after school care program only, "director" means an individual who is responsible for ensuring compliance with this section and any rules adopted under it. (B)(1) At the times specified in division (B)(2)(a) of this section, the director of children and youth shall request the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation to conduct a criminal records check for each of the following persons: (a) Any owner or licensee of a child care center; (b) Any owner or licensee of a type A family child care home or licensed type B family child care home and any person eighteen years of age or older who resides in the home; (c) Any owner of an approved child day camp; (d) Any director of a licensed preschool program or licensed school child program that provides publicly funded child care; (e) Any owner or director of an authorized private before and after school care program; (f) Any in-home aide; (g) Any applicant or employee, including an administrator, of a child care center, type A family child care home, licensed type B family child care home, approved child day camp, licensed preschool program or licensed school child program that provides publicly funded child care, or authorized private before and after school care program. (2)(a) The director shall request a criminal records check at the following times: (i) In the case of an owner or licensee of child care center or an owner or licensee of a type A family child care home or licensed type B family child care home or a resident of such a home, at the time of initial application for licensure and every five years thereafter; (ii) In the case of an owner of an approved child day camp, at the time of initial application for approval and every five years thereafter; (iii) In the case of a director of a licensed child care program or licensed school child program, at the time of initial application to provide publicly funded child care and every five years thereafter; (iv) In the case of an owner or director of an authorized private before and after school care program, at the time of initial application for licensure and every five years thereafter; (v) In the case of an in-home aide, at the time of initial application for certification and every five years thereafter; (vi) Except as provided in division (B)(2)(a)(vii) of this section, in the case of an applicant or employee, at the time of initial application for employment and every five years thereafter; (vii) In the case of an applicant who has been determined eligible for employment after a review of a criminal records check within the past five years and who has been employed by a licensed preschool program or licensed school child program that provides publicly funded child care, authorized private before and after school care program, child care center, type A family child care home, licensed type B family child care home, or approved child day camp within the past one hundred eighty consecutive days, every five years after the date of the initial determination. (b) A criminal records check requested at the time of initial application shall include a request that the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation obtain information from the federal bureau of investigation as part of the criminal records check for the person, including fingerprint-based checks of national crime information databases as described in 42 U.S.C. 671 for the person subject to the criminal records check. (c) A criminal records check requested at any time other than the time of initial application may include a request that the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation obtain information from the federal bureau of investigation as part of the criminal records check for the person, including fingerprint-based checks of national crime information databases as described in 42 U.S.C. 671 for the person subject to the criminal records check. (3) With respect to a criminal records check requested for a person described in division (B)(1) of this section, the director of children and youth shall do all of the following: (a) Provide to the person a copy of the form prescribed pursuant to division (C)(1) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code and a standard impression sheet to obtain fingerprint impressions prescribed pursuant to division (C)(2) of that section; (b) Obtain the completed form and impression sheet from the person; (c) Forward the completed form and impression sheet to the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation; (d) Review the results of the criminal records check. (4) A person who receives from the director a copy of the form and standard impression sheet and who is requested to complete the form and provide a set of fingerprint impressions shall complete the form or provide all of the information necessary to complete the form and shall provide the impression sheet with the impressions of the person's fingerprints. If the person, upon request, fails to provide the information necessary to complete the form or fails to provide impressions of the person's fingerprints, the director of children and youth or a county director of job and family services may consider the failure a reason to deny licensure, approval, or certification or to determine an employee ineligible for employment. (5) Except as provided in rules adopted under division (F) of this section: (a) The director of children and youth shall refuse to issue a license to or approve a center, type A home, type B home, child day camp, preschool program, school child program, or authorized private before and after school care program, and shall revoke a license or approval, and a county director of job and family services shall not certify an in-home aide and shall revoke a certification, if a person for whom a criminal records check was required under divisions (B)(1)(a) to (B)(1)(f) of this section has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any of the violations described in division (A)(5) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code. (b) The director of children and youth shall not issue a license to a type A home or type B home if a resident of the type A home or type B home is under eighteen years of age and has been adjudicated a delinquent child for committing either a violation of any section listed in division (A)(5) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code or an offense of another state or the United States that is substantially equivalent to an offense listed in division (A)(5) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code. (c) The director shall determine an applicant or employee ineligible for employment if the person has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any of the violations described in division (A)(5) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code. (6) Each child care center, type A home, type B home, approved child day camp, licensed child care program, licensed school child program, authorized private before and after school care program, and in-home aide shall pay to the bureau of criminal identification and investigation the fee prescribed pursuant to division (C)(3) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code for each criminal records check conducted in accordance with that section upon a request made pursuant to division (B) of this section. A center, home, camp, preschool program, school child program, or authorized private before and after school care program may charge an applicant a fee for the costs it incurs in obtaining a criminal records check under this section. A fee charged under this division shall not exceed the amount the center, home, camp, or program pays under this section. If a fee is charged, the center, home, camp, or program shall notify the applicant at the time of the applicant's initial application for employment of the amount of the fee and that, unless the fee is paid, the center, home, camp, or program will not consider the applicant for employment. (7) The report of any criminal records check conducted by the bureau of criminal identification and investigation in accordance with section 109.572 of the Revised Code and pursuant to a request made under division (B) of this section is confidential and not a public record for the purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code. The report shall not be made available to any person other than the person who is the subject of the criminal records check or the person's representative, the director of children and youth, the director of a county department of job and family services, and any court, hearing officer, or other necessary individual involved in a case dealing with a denial or revocation of licensure, approval, or certification related to the criminal records check. (C)(1) At the times specified in division (C)(2) of this section, the director of children and youth shall search the uniform statewide automated child welfare information system for information concerning any abuse or neglect report made pursuant to section 2151.421 of the Revised Code of which any of the following persons is a subject: (a) Any owner or licensee of a child care center; (b) Any owner or licensee of a type A family child care home or licensed type B family child care home and any person eighteen years of age or older who resides in the home; (c) Any owner of an approved child day camp; (d) Any director of a licensed preschool program or licensed school child program that provides publicly funded child care; (e) Any owner or director of an authorized private before and after school care program; (f) Any in-home aide; (g) Any applicant or employee, including an administrator, of a child care center, type A family child care home, licensed type B family child care home, approved child day camp, licensed preschool program or licensed school child program that provides publicly funded child care, or authorized private before and after school care program. (2) The director shall search the information system at the following times: (a) In the case of an owner or licensee of child care center or an owner or licensee of a type A family child care home or licensed type B family child care home or a resident of such a home, at the time of initial application for licensure and every five years thereafter; (b) In the case of an owner of an approved child day camp, at the time of initial application for approval and every five years thereafter; (c) In the case of a director of a licensed child care program or licensed school child program, at the time of initial application to provide publicly funded child care and every five years thereafter; (d) In the case of an owner or director of an authorized private before and after school care program, at the time of initial application for licensure and every five years thereafter; (e) In the case of an in-home aide, at the time of initial application for certification and every five years thereafter; (f) Except as provided in division (C)(2)(g) of this section, in the case of an applicant or employee, at the time of initial application for employment and every five years thereafter; (g) In the case of an applicant who has been determined eligible for employment after a search of the uniform statewide automated child welfare information system within the past five years and who has been employed by a licensed preschool program or licensed school child program that provides publicly funded child care, authorized private before and after school care program, child care center, type A family child care home, licensed type B family child care home, or approved child day camp within the past one hundred eighty consecutive days, every five years after the date of the initial determination. (3) The director shall consider any information discovered pursuant to division (C)(1) of this section or that is provided by a public children services agency pursuant to section 5153.175 of the Revised Code. If the director determines that the information, when viewed within the totality of the circumstances, reasonably leads to the conclusion that the person may directly or indirectly endanger the health, safety, or welfare of children, the director of children and youth or county director of job and family services shall do any of the following: (a) Refuse to issue a license to or approve a center, type A home, type B home, child day camp, preschool program, school child program, or authorized private before and after school care program; (b) Revoke a license or approval; (c) Refuse to certify an in-home aide or revoke a certification; (d) Determine an applicant or employee ineligible for employment with the center, type A home, licensed type B home, child day camp, preschool program, school child program, or authorized private before and after school care program. (4) Any information obtained under division (C) of this section is confidential and not a public record for the purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code. The information shall not be made available to any person other than the person who is the subject of the search or the person's representative, the director of children and youth, the director of a county department of job and family services, and any court, hearing officer, or other necessary individual involved in a case dealing with a denial or revocation of licensure, approval, or certification related to the search. (D)(1) At the times specified in division (D)(2) of this section, the director of children and youth shall inspect the state registry of sex offenders and child-victim offenders established under section 2950.13 of the Revised Code and the national sex offender registry as described in 42 U.S.C. 16901 to determine if any of the following persons is registered or required to be registered as an offender: (a) Any owner or licensee of a child care center; (b) Any owner or licensee of a type A family child care home or licensed type B family child care home and any person eighteen years of age or older who resides in the home; (c) Any owner of an approved child day camp; (d) Any director of a licensed preschool program or licensed school child program that provides publicly funded child care; (e) Any owner or director of an authorized private before and after school care program; (f) Any in-home aide; (g) Any applicant or employee, including an administrator, of a child care center, type A family child care home, licensed type B family child care home, approved child day camp, licensed preschool program or licensed school child program that provides publicly funded child care, or authorized private before and after school care program. (2) The director shall inspect each registry at the following times: (a) In the case of an owner or licensee of child care center or an owner or licensee of a type A family child care home or type B family child care home or a resident of such a home, at the time of initial application for licensure and every five years thereafter; (b) In the case of an owner of an approved child day camp, at the time of initial application for approval and every five years thereafter; (c) In the case of a director of a licensed child care program or licensed school child program, at the time of initial application to provide publicly funded child care; (d) In the case of an owner or director of an authorized private before and after school care program, at the time of initial application for licensure and every five years thereafter; (e) In the case of an in-home aide, at the time of initial application for certification and every five years thereafter; (f) Except as provided in division (D)(2)(g) of this section, in the case of an applicant or employee, at the time of initial application for employment and every five years thereafter; (g) In the case of an applicant who has been determined eligible for employment after an inspection of the state registry of sex offenders and child-victim offenders established under section 2950.13 of the Revised Code and the national sex offender registry as described in 42 U.S.C. 16901 within the past five years and who has been employed by a licensed preschool program or licensed school child program that provides publicly funded child care, authorized private before and after school care program, child care center, type A family child care home, licensed type B family child care home, or approved child day camp within the past one hundred eighty consecutive days, every five years after the date of the initial determination. (3) If the director determines that the person is registered or required to be registered on either registry, the director of children and youth or county director of job and family services shall do any of the following: (a) Refuse to issue a license to or approve a center, type A home, type B home, child day camp, preschool program, school child program, or authorized private before and after school care program; (b) Revoke a license or approval; (c) Refuse to certify an in-home aide or revoke a certification; (d) Determine an applicant or employee ineligible for employment with the center, type A home, licensed type B home, child day camp, preschool program, school child program, or authorized private before and after school care program. (4) Any information obtained under division (D) of this section is confidential and not a public record for the purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code. The information shall not be made available to any person other than the person who is the subject of the inspection or the person's representative, the director of children and youth, the director of a county department of job and family services, and any court, hearing officer, or other necessary individual involved in a case dealing with a denial or revocation of licensure, approval, or certification related to the search. (E) Whenever the director of children and youth determines a person ineligible for employment under division (B), (C), or (D) of this section, the director shall as soon as practicable notify the following of that determination: the licensed preschool program or licensed school child program that provides publicly funded child care, authorized private before and after school care program, child care center, type A family child care home, licensed type B family child care home, or approved child day camp that is considering the person for appointment or employment. A licensed preschool program or licensed school child program that provides publicly funded child care, authorized private before and after school care program, child care center, type A family child care home, licensed type B family child care home, or approved child day camp shall not employ a person who is determined under this section to be ineligible for employment. (F)(1) An administrator of a child day camp, other than an approved child day camp shall request the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation to conduct a criminal records check for any applicant or employee, including an administrator, of the child day camp. The request shall be made at the time of initial application for employment and every five years thereafter. (2) A criminal records check requested at the time of initial application shall include a request that the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation obtain information from the federal bureau of investigation as part of the criminal records check for the person, including fingerprint-based checks of national crime information databases as described in 42 U.S.C. 671 for the person subject to the criminal records check. (3) A criminal records check requested at any time other than the time of initial application may include a request that the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation obtain information from the federal bureau of investigation as part of the criminal records check for the person, including fingerprint-based checks of national crime information databases as described in 42 U.S.C. 671 for the person subject to the criminal records check. (4) With respect to a criminal records check requested under division (F) of this section, the administrator shall do all of the following: (a) Provide to the applicant or employee a copy of the form prescribed pursuant to division (C)(1) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code and a standard impression sheet to obtain fingerprint impressions prescribed pursuant to division (C)(2) of that section; (b) Obtain the completed form and impression sheet from the applicant or employee; (c) Forward the completed form and impression sheet to the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation; (d) Review the results of the criminal records check. (5) An applicant or employee who receives from the administrator a copy of the form and standard impression sheet and who is requested to complete the form and provide a set of fingerprint impressions shall complete the form or provide all of the information necessary to complete the form and shall provide the impression sheet with the impressions of the person's fingerprints. If the applicant or employee, upon request, fails to provide the information necessary to complete the form or fails to provide impressions of the person's fingerprints, the administrator may consider the failure a reason to determine an applicant or employee ineligible for employment. (6) A child day camp, other than an approved child day camp, may employ an applicant or continue to employ an employee until the criminal records check required by this section is completed and the camp receives the results of the check. Until the administrator has reviewed the results of the criminal records check and determines that the applicant or employee is eligible for employment, the camp shall not grant the applicant or employee sole responsibility for the care, custody, or control of a child. If the results indicate that the applicant or employee is ineligible for employment, the camp shall immediately release the applicant or employee from employment. (7) Except as provided in rules adopted under this section, the administrator shall determine an applicant or employee ineligible for employment if the person has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any of the violations described in division (A)(5) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code. If the applicant or employee is determined ineligible, the child day camp shall not employ the applicant or employee or contract with another entity for the services of the applicant or employee. (8) Each child day camp shall pay to the bureau of criminal identification and investigation the fee prescribed pursuant to division (C)(3) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code for each criminal records check conducted in accordance with that section upon a request made pursuant to division (F) of this section. A camp may charge an applicant or employee a fee for the costs it incurs in obtaining a criminal records check under division (F) of this section. A fee charged under this division shall not exceed the fees the camp pays under this section. If a fee is charged, the camp shall notify the applicant at the time of the applicant's initial application for employment of the amount of the fee and that, unless the fee is paid, the camp will not consider the applicant for employment. (9) The report of any criminal records check conducted by the bureau of criminal identification and investigation in accordance with section 109.572 of the Revised Code and pursuant to a request made under division (F) of this section is confidential and not a public record for the purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code. The report shall not be made available to any person other than the person who is the subject of the criminal records check or the person's representative, the director of children and youth, the administrator, and any court, hearing officer, or other necessary individual involved in a case dealing with a denial or revocation of registration related to the criminal records check. (G) The director of children and youth shall adopt rules as necessary to implement this section. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. The rules shall specify exceptions to the prohibitions in divisions (B), (E), and (F) of this section for a person who has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a criminal offense listed in division (A)(5) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code but who meets standards in regard to rehabilitation set by the director. (H)(1) Whenever the director of children and youth requests a criminal records check, searches the uniform statewide automated child welfare information system, or inspects the state registry of sex offenders and child-victim offenders and national sex offender registry as required by this section and finds that a person who is subject to the requirements of division (B), (C), or (D) of this section resided in another state during the previous five years, the director shall request the following from the other state: a criminal records check and information from the uniform statewide automated child welfare information system or state registry of sex offenders. (2) Whenever the director receives from an agency of another state a request for a criminal records check or for information from the uniform statewide automated child welfare information system or state registry of sex offenders that is related to a child care license or the provision of publicly funded child care, the director shall provide to that other state's agency the results of the records check and information from the system and registry. Last updated October 31, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5147.14 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5147 / § 5147.14
§ 5147.14. Authority to procure equipment
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The board or officer in charge of any workhouse or jail may provide, prepare, and procure machinery, power, and shop room for the manufacture of the articles specified in section 5147.13 of the Revised Code, and may employ such persons as may be necessary to instruct persons confined in such workhouses or jails in such manufacture.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5153.30 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5153 / § 5153.30
§ 5153.30. Accepting gifts and bequests
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly The public children services agency may accept and receive bequests, donations, and gifts of funds or property, real or personal, for child care and services. The facilities or services to be established or maintained through any such gift shall be subject to the approval of the department of children and youth. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.092 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.092
§ 5123.092. Citizen's advisory council
Status: in_force

October 17, 2019 House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly (A) There is hereby established at each institution and branch institution under the control of the department of developmental disabilities a citizen's advisory council. Each council shall consist of seven members, including parents or other relatives of residents of institutions under the control of the department, community leaders, professional persons in relevant fields, and persons who have an interest in or knowledge of developmental disabilities. The managing officer of the institution shall be a nonvoting member of the council. (B) The director of developmental disabilities shall be the appointing authority for the voting members of each citizen's advisory council. Each time the term of a voting member expires, the managing officer of the institution with which the council is associated shall recommend to the director one or more persons to serve on the council. The director may accept a nominee of the managing officer or reject the nominee or nominees. If the director rejects the nominee or nominees, the managing officer shall further recommend to the director one or more other persons to serve on the council. This procedure shall continue until a member is appointed to the council. Terms of office shall be for three years, each term ending on the same day of the same month of the year as did the term which it succeeds. No member shall serve more than two consecutive terms, except that any former member may be appointed if one year or longer has elapsed since the member served two consecutive terms. Each member shall hold office from the date of appointment until the end of the term for which the member was appointed. Any vacancy shall be filled in the same manner in which the original appointment was made, and the appointee to a vacancy in an unexpired term shall serve the balance of the term of the original appointee. Any member shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration date of the member's term until the member's successor takes office, or until a period of sixty days has elapsed, whichever occurs first. (C) Each citizen's advisory council shall elect from its appointed members a chairperson, vice-chairperson, and secretary. A person elected to an office may serve in that position until the person is no longer a member of the council. (D) Members of a citizen's advisory council shall be expected to attend all meetings of the council. A majority of the members constitutes a quorum. A citizen's advisory council shall meet six times annually, or more frequently if three members request the chairperson to call a meeting. The council shall keep minutes of each meeting and shall submit them to the managing officer of the institution with which the council is associated. (E) Members of citizen's advisory councils shall receive no compensation for their services, except that they shall be reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties by the institution with which they are associated from funds allocated to it, provided that reimbursement for those expenses shall not exceed limits imposed upon the department of developmental disabilities by administrative rules regulating travel within this state. (F) The councils shall have reasonable access to all patient treatment and living areas and records of the institution, except those records of a strictly personal or confidential nature. The councils shall have access to a patient's personal records with the consent of the patient or the patient's legal guardian or, if the patient is a minor, with the consent of the parent or legal guardian of the patient. (G) As used in this section, "branch institution" means a facility that is located apart from an institution and is under the control of the managing officer of the institution.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5163.31 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5163 / § 5163.31
§ 5163.31. Real property not homestead after 13-month institutional residence
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) Except as provided by division (A) of this section and for the purpose of determining whether an aged, blind, or disabled individual is eligible for nursing facility services, ICF/IID services, or other medicaid-funded long-term care services, the medicaid director may consider an aged, blind, or disabled individual's real property to not be the individual's homestead or principal place of residence once the individual has resided in a nursing facility, ICF/IID, or other medical institution for at least thirteen months. (B) Division (A) of this section does not apply to an individual if any of the following reside in the individual's real property that, because of this division, continues to be considered the individual's homestead or principal place of residence: (1) The individual's spouse; (2) The individual's child if any of the following apply: (a) The child is under twenty-one years of age. (b) The child is considered blind or disabled under the "Social Security Act," section 1614, 42 U.S.C. 1382c. (c) The child is financially dependent on the individual for housing as determined in accordance with rules adopted under section 5163.02 of the Revised Code. (3) The individual's sibling if the sibling has a verified equity interest in the real property and resided in the real property for at least one year immediately before the date the individual was admitted to the nursing facility, ICF/IID, or other medical institution.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.45 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.45
§ 5120.45. Burial or cremation of inmate
Status: in_force

August 5, 1998 Senate Bill 117 - 122nd General Assembly The state shall bear the expense of the burial or cremation of an inmate who dies in a state correctional institution, if the body is not claimed for interment or cremation at the expense of friends or relatives, or is not delivered for anatomical purposes or for the study of embalming in accordance with section 1713.34 of the Revised Code. When the expense is borne by the state, interment of the person or the person's cremated remains shall be in the institution cemetery or other place provided by the state. The managing officer of the institution shall provide at the grave of the person or, if the person's cremated remains are buried, at the grave of the person's cremated remains, a metal, stone, or concrete marker on which shall be inscribed the name and age of the person and the date of death.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.69 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.69
§ 5123.69. Voluntary admission
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, any person who is eighteen years of age or older and who is or believes self to be a person with an intellectual disability may make written application to the managing officer of any institution for voluntary admission. Except as provided in division (D) of this section, the application may be made on behalf of a minor by a parent or guardian, and on behalf of an adult adjudicated mentally incompetent by a guardian. (B) The managing officer of an institution, with the concurrence of the chief program director, may admit a person applying pursuant to this section only after a comprehensive evaluation has been made of the person and only if the comprehensive evaluation concludes that the person has an intellectual disability and would benefit significantly from admission. (C) The managing officer shall discharge any voluntary resident if, in the judgment of the chief program director, the results of a comprehensive examination indicate that institutionalization no longer is advisable. In light of the results of the comprehensive evaluation, the managing officer also may discharge any voluntary resident if, in the judgment of the chief program director, the discharge would contribute to the most effective use of the institution in the habilitation and care of persons with developmental disabilities. (D) A person who is found incompetent to stand trial or not guilty by reason of insanity and who is committed pursuant to section 2945.39 , 2945.40 , 2945.401 , or 2945.402 of the Revised Code shall not voluntarily commit self pursuant to this section until after the final termination of the commitment, as described in division (J) of section 2945.401 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5145.32 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5145 / § 5145.32
§ 5145.32. Screening for drugs of abuse
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly Every officer or employee of a correctional institution under the control or supervision of the department of rehabilitation and correction, and every contractor, or employee of such contractor, upon entering the grounds of a state correctional institution, shall be subject to screening to prevent the conveyance of drugs of abuse into the institution. Last updated August 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 5167.34 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5167 / § 5167.34
§ 5167.34. Immunity from liability
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly A medicaid managed care organization, its officers, employees, or other persons associated with the managed care organization are not liable in a civil action for damages or other relief for furnishing information to the department of medicaid regarding potential fraud, waste, or abuse in the medicaid program.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.452 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.452
§ 5123.452. Adjudication orders
Status: in_force

October 9, 2021 House Bill 263, Senate Bill 3 - 134th General Assembly (A) If good cause exists as specified in division (B) of this section and determined in accordance with procedures established in rules adopted under section 5123.46 of the Revised Code, the director of developmental disabilities may issue an adjudication order requiring that one of the following actions be taken against a person seeking or holding a certificate issued under section 5123.45 of the Revised Code: (1) Refusal to issue or renew a certificate; (2) Revocation of a certificate; (3) Suspension of a certificate. (B) The following constitute good cause for taking action under division (A) of this section against a certificate holder: (1) The certificate holder violates sections 5123.41 to 5123.45 of the Revised Code or rules adopted under those sections; (2) Confirmed abuse or neglect; (3) The certificate holder has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a disqualifying offense, as defined in section 5123.081 of the Revised Code; (4) Misfeasance; (5) Malfeasance; (6) Nonfeasance; (7) In the case of a certificate holder who is a registered nurse, the board of nursing has taken disciplinary action against the certificate holder under Chapter 4723. of the Revised Code; (8) Other conduct the director determines is or would be injurious to individuals. (C) The director shall issue an adjudication order under division (A) of this section in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. Last updated October 20, 2021 at 11:21 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.191 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.191
§ 5165.191. Resident assessment data
Status: in_force

September 30, 2021 House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly Each calendar quarter, each nursing facility provider shall compile complete assessment data for each resident of each of the provider's nursing facilities, regardless of payment source, who is in the nursing facility, or on hospital or therapeutic leave from the nursing facility, on the last day of the quarter. A resident assessment instrument specified in rules authorized by this section shall be used to compile the resident assessment data. Each provider shall submit the resident assessment data to the department of health and, if required by the rules, the department of medicaid. The resident assessment data shall be submitted not later than fifteen days after the end of the calendar quarter for which the data is compiled. If the resident assessment data is to be submitted to the department of medicaid, it shall be submitted to the department through the medium or media specified in the rules. Rules adopted under section 5165.02 of the Revised Code shall do all of the following: (A) In a manner consistent with the "Social Security Act," section 1919(e)(5), 42 U.S.C. 1396r(e)(5), specify a resident assessment instrument to be used by nursing facility providers under this section; (B) Specify whether nursing facility providers must submit the resident assessment data to the department of medicaid; (C) Specify any resident assessment data that is excluded from the case mix calculation made under section 5165.192 of the Revised Code; (D) If the rules specify that nursing facility providers must submit the resident assessment data to the department, specify the medium or media through which the data is to be submitted. Last updated August 12, 2021 at 3:35 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5121.31 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5121 / § 5121.31
§ 5121.31. Community mental health services patients maintained at state expense
Status: in_force

January 1, 2006 House Bill 66 - 126th General Assembly All patients shall be maintained at the expense of the state. The traveling and incidental expenses in conveying them to a hospital shall be paid by the county of commitment. On admission, patients shall be neatly and comfortably clothed. Thereafter, the expense of necessary clothing shall be borne by the responsible relatives or guardian if they are financially able. If not furnished, the state shall bear the expense. Any required traveling expense after admission to the hospital shall be borne by the state if the responsible relatives or guardian is unable to do so.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5149.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5149 / § 5149.05
§ 5149.05. Training requirements for permission to carry firearm
Status: in_force

March 31, 2003 House Bill 510 - 124th General Assembly The chief of the adult parole authority may grant an employee permission to carry a firearm in the discharge of the employee's official duties if the employee has successfully completed a basic firearm training program that is approved by the executive director of the Ohio peace officer training commission. In order to continue to carry a firearm in the discharge of the employee's official duties, the employee annually shall successfully complete a firearms requalification program in accordance with section 109.801 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5160.52 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5160 / § 5160.52
§ 5160.52. Authority to enter into interstate compacts for provision of medical assistance to children
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The medicaid director may provide for the department of medicaid to develop, participate in the development of, negotiate, and enter into one or more interstate compacts on behalf of this state with agencies of any other states, for the provision of medical assistance to children in relation to whom all of the following apply: (A) They have special needs. (B) This state or another state that is a party to the interstate compact is providing adoption assistance on their behalf. (C) They move into this state from another state or move out of this state to another state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.6015 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.6015
§ 5103.6015. Federal grant application for residential infant care centers
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly The department of children and youth may apply to the United States secretary of health and human services for a federal grant under the "Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act," 42 U.S.C. 5116, and the "Family First Prevention Services Act," 42 U.S.C. 50711, 50723, and 50741 to assist residential infant care centers certified under section 5103.603 of the Revised Code in providing temporary residential and other care to infants. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5104.341 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5104 / § 5104.341
§ 5104.341. Validity of determination of eligibility
Status: in_force

September 15, 2014 House Bill 483 - 130th General Assembly (A) An eligibility determination made under section 5104.34 of the Revised Code for publicly funded child care is valid for one year. (B) The county department of job and family services shall adjust the appropriate level of a fee charged under division (B) of section 5104.34 of the Revised Code if a caretaker parent reports changes in income, family size, or both.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5166.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5166 / § 5166.05
§ 5166.05. Review of plans of care and individual service plans
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The department of medicaid may review and approve, modify, or deny written plans of care and individual service plans that section 5166.04 of the Revised Code requires be created for individuals determined eligible for a home and community-based services medicaid waiver component. If a state agency or political subdivision contracts with the department under section 5162.35 of the Revised Code to administer a home and community-based services medicaid waiver component and approves, modifies, or denies a written plan of care or individual service plan pursuant to the agency's or subdivision's administration of the component, the department may review the agency's or subdivision's approval, modification, or denial and order the agency or subdivision to reverse or modify the approval, modification, or denial. The state agency or political subdivision shall comply with the department's order. The department of medicaid shall be granted full and immediate access to any records the department needs to implement its duties under this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.405 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.405
§ 5180.405. [Former R.C. 5101.135, amended and renumbered by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Uniform statewide automated child welfare information system - shaken baby syndrome notation
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) A public children services employee who is entering a report of an investigation of child abuse in the statewide automated child welfare information system, as required by section 5180.40 of the Revised Code, shall make a notation on each case of child abuse that indicates whether the child abuse arose from an act that caused the child to suffer from, or resulted in the child suffering from, shaken baby syndrome. (B) On the first day of March of each year, the department of children and youth shall report to the director of health the number of reports of child abuse that arose from an act that caused the child to suffer from, or resulted in the child suffering from, shaken baby syndrome and that arose during the calendar year immediately preceding the calendar year in which the report is made, as determined by an examination of the statewide automated child welfare information system established and maintained under section 5180.40 of the Revised Code. (C) As used in this section, "shaken baby syndrome" has the same meaning as in section 5180.14 of the Revised Code. Last updated October 3, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.35 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.35
§ 5101.35. Appeals
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1)(a) "Agency" means the following entities that administer a family services program: (i) The department of job and family services; (ii) The department of children and youth; (iii) A county department of job and family services; (iv) A public children services agency; (v) A private or government entity administering, in whole or in part, a family services program for or on behalf of the department of job and family services, the department of children and youth, or a county department of job and family services or public children services agency. (b) If the department of medicaid contracts with the department of job and family services to hear appeals authorized by section 5160.31 of the Revised Code regarding medical assistance programs, "agency" includes the department of medicaid. (2) "Appellant" means an applicant, participant, former participant, recipient, or former recipient of a family services program who is entitled by federal or state law to a hearing regarding a decision or order of the agency that administers the program. (3)(a) "Family services program" means all of the following: (i) A Title IV-A program as defined in section 5101.80 of the Revised Code; (ii) Programs that provide assistance under Chapter 5104. of the Revised Code; (iii) Programs that provide assistance under section 5101.461 , 5101.54 , 5119.41 , 5153.163 , 5153.165 , or 5180.42 of the Revised Code; (iv) Title XX social services provided under section 5101.46 of the Revised Code, other than such services provided by the department of mental health and addiction services, the department of developmental disabilities, a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services, or a county board of developmental disabilities. (b) If the department of medicaid contracts with the department of job and family services to hear appeals authorized by section 5160.31 of the Revised Code regarding medical assistance programs, "family services program" includes medical assistance programs. (4) "Medical assistance program" has the same meaning as in section 5160.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Except as provided by divisions (G) and (H) of this section, an appellant who appeals under federal or state law a decision or order of an agency administering a family services program shall, at the appellant's request, be granted a state hearing by the department of job and family services or the department of children and youth, as appropriate. This state hearing shall be conducted in accordance with rules adopted under this section. The state hearing shall be recorded, but neither the recording nor a transcript of the recording shall be part of the official record of the proceeding. Except as provided in section 5160.31 of the Revised Code, a state hearing decision is binding upon the agency and department, unless it is reversed or modified on appeal to the director of job and family services, director of children and youth, or a court of common pleas. (C) Except as provided by division (G) of this section, an appellant who disagrees with a state hearing decision may make an administrative appeal to the director of job and family services or director of children and youth in accordance with rules adopted under this section. This administrative appeal does not require a hearing, but the director or the director's designee shall review the state hearing decision and previous administrative action and may affirm, modify, remand, or reverse the state hearing decision. An administrative appeal decision is the final decision of the department and, except as provided in section 5160.31 of the Revised Code, is binding upon the department and agency, unless it is reversed or modified on appeal to the court of common pleas. (D) An agency shall comply with a decision issued pursuant to division (B) or (C) of this section within the time limits established by rules adopted under this section. If a county department of job and family services or a public children services agency fails to comply within these time limits, the department may take action pursuant to section 5101.24 of the Revised Code. If another agency, other than the department of medicaid, fails to comply within the time limits, the department may force compliance by withholding funds due the agency or imposing another sanction established by rules adopted under this section. (E) An appellant who disagrees with an administrative appeal decision of the director of job and family services, the director of children and youth, or either director's designee issued under division (C) of this section may appeal from the decision to the court of common pleas pursuant to section 119.12 of the Revised Code. The appeal shall be governed by section 119.12 of the Revised Code except that: (1) The person may apply to the court for designation as an indigent and, if the court grants this application, the appellant shall not be required to furnish the costs of the appeal. (2) The appellant shall mail the notice of appeal to the department of job and family services or director of children and youth, as appropriate, and file notice of appeal with the court within thirty days after the department mails the administrative appeal decision to the appellant. For good cause shown, the court may extend the time for mailing and filing notice of appeal, but such time shall not exceed six months from the date the department mails the administrative appeal decision. Filing notice of appeal with the court shall be the only act necessary to vest jurisdiction in the court. (3) The department shall be required to file a transcript of the testimony of the state hearing with the court only if the court orders the department to file the transcript. The court shall make such an order only if it finds that the department and the appellant are unable to stipulate to the facts of the case and that the transcript is essential to a determination of the appeal. The department shall file the transcript not later than thirty days after the day such an order is issued. (F) The department of job and family service and department of children and youth, as applicable, shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement this section, including rules governing the following: (1) State hearings under division (B) of this section. The rules shall include provisions regarding notice of eligibility termination and the opportunity of an appellant appealing a decision or order of a county department of job and family services to request a county conference with the county department before the state hearing is held. (2) Administrative appeals under division (C) of this section; (3) Time limits for complying with a decision issued under division (B) or (C) of this section; (4) Sanctions that may be applied against an agency under division (D) of this section. (G) The department of job and family services and the department of children and youth, as applicable, may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing an appeals process for an appellant who appeals a decision or order regarding a Title IV-A program identified under division (A)(4)(c), (d), (e), (f), (g), or (h) of section 5101.80 of the Revised Code that is different from the appeals process established by this section. The different appeals process may include having a state agency that administers the Title IV-A program pursuant to an interagency agreement entered into under section 5101.801 of the Revised Code administer the appeals process. (H) If an appellant receiving medicaid through a health insuring corporation that holds a certificate of authority under Chapter 1751. of the Revised Code is appealing a denial of medicaid services based on lack of medical necessity or other clinical issues regarding coverage by the health insuring corporation, the person hearing the appeal may order an independent medical review if that person determines that a review is necessary. The review shall be performed by a health care professional with appropriate clinical expertise in treating the recipient's condition or disease. The department shall pay the costs associated with the review. A review ordered under this division shall be part of the record of the hearing and shall be given appropriate evidentiary consideration by the person hearing the appeal. (I) The requirements of Chapter 119. of the Revised Code apply to a state hearing or administrative appeal under this section only to the extent, if any, specifically provided by rules adopted under this section. Last updated August 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5166.308 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5166 / § 5166.308
§ 5166.308. Nursing assistance by home care attendants; unauthorized actions
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly When authorizing a home care attendant to assist a consumer with nursing tasks or self-administration of medication, a health care professional may not authorize a home care attendant to do any of the following: (A) Perform a task that is outside of the health care professional's scope of practice; (B) Assist the consumer with the self-administration of a medication, including a schedule II, schedule III, schedule IV, or schedule V drug unless both of the following apply: (1) The medication is administered orally, topically, or via a gastrostomy tube or jejunostomy tube, including through any of the following: (a) In the case of an oral medication, a metered dose inhaler; (b) In the case of a topical medication, including a transdermal medication, either of the following: (i) An eye, ear, or nose drop or spray; (ii) A vaginal or rectal suppository. (c) In the case of a gastrostomy tube or jejunostomy tube, only through a pre-programmed pump. (2) The medication is in its original container and the label attached to the container displays all of the following: (a) The consumer's full name in print; (b) The medication's dispensing date, which must not be more than twelve months before the date the attendant assists the consumer with self-administration of the medication; (c) The exact dosage and means of administration that match the health care professional's authorization to the attendant. (C) Assist the consumer with the self-administration of a schedule II, schedule III, schedule IV, or schedule V medication unless, in addition to meeting the requirements of division (B) of this section, all of the following apply: (1) The medication has a warning label on its container. (2) The attendant counts the medication in the consumer's or authorized representative's presence when the medication is administered to the consumer and records the count on a form used for the count as specified in rules adopted under section 5166.02 of the Revised Code. (3) The attendant recounts the medication in the consumer's or authorized representative's presence at least monthly and reconciles the recount on a log located in the consumer's clinical record. (4) The medication is stored separately from all other medications and is secured and locked at all times when not being administered to the consumer to prevent unauthorized access. (D) Perform an intramuscular injection; (E) Perform a subcutaneous injection unless it is for a routine dose of insulin; (F) Program a pump used to deliver a medication unless the pump is used to deliver a routine dose of insulin; (G) Insert, remove, or discontinue an intravenous access device; (H) Engage in intravenous medication administration; (I) Insert or initiate an infusion therapy; (J) Perform a central line dressing change.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.013 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.013
§ 5123.013. Application of chapter
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly The provisions of this chapter regarding institutionalization apply to a person who is found incompetent to stand trial or not guilty by reason of insanity and is committed pursuant to section 2945.39 , 2945.40 , 2945.401 , or 2945.402 of the Revised Code to the extent that the provisions are not in conflict with any provision of sections 2945.37 to 2945.402 of the Revised Code. If a provision of this chapter is in conflict with a provision in sections 2945.37 to 2945.402 of the Revised Code regarding a person who has been so committed, the provision in sections 2945.37 to 2945.402 of the Revised Code shall control regarding that person.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5103.391 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5103 / § 5103.391
§ 5103.391. Appointment of members
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly The director of children and youth shall appoint all of the following to serve on the Ohio child welfare training program steering committee: (A) Employees of the department of children and youth; (B) One representative of each of the regional training centers established under section 5103.41 of the Revised Code; (C) One representative of a statewide organization that represents the interests of public children services agencies; (D) One representative of the Ohio child welfare training program coordinator; (E) Two current foster caregivers certified by the department of children and youth under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code; (F) Employees of public children services agencies. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.023 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.023
§ 5123.023. Employment first task force
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) The director of developmental disabilities shall establish an employment first task force consisting of the departments of developmental disabilities, education and workforce, medicaid, job and family services, and mental health and addiction services ; and the opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency. The purpose of the task force shall be to improve the coordination of the state's efforts to address the needs of individuals with developmental disabilities who seek community employment as defined in section 5123.022 of the Revised Code. (B) The department of developmental disabilities may enter into interagency agreements with any of the government entities on the task force. The interagency agreements may specify either or both of the following: (1) The roles and responsibilities of the government entities that are members of the task force, including any money to be contributed by those entities; (2) The projects and activities of the task force. (C) There is hereby created in the state treasury the employment first taskforce fund. Any money received by the task force from its members shall be credited to the fund. The department of developmental disabilities shall use the fund to support the work of the task force. Last updated October 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.081 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.081
§ 5126.081. System of accreditation for county boards of developmental disabilities
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly (A) In addition to the rules adopted under division (A)(2) of section 5126.08 of the Revised Code establishing standards for the administration, provision, arrangement, and operation of programs and services by county boards of developmental disabilities, the department of developmental disabilities shall establish a system of accreditation for county boards of developmental disabilities to ensure that the boards are in compliance with federal and state statutes and rules. The department shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code governing the system of accreditation. The rules shall include appropriate timelines for compliance when a board is found to be not in compliance and appropriate actions to be taken by boards in complying with the accreditation requirements. (B) Prior to accrediting a board, the department shall conduct a comprehensive, on-site review of the board. During the review, the department shall document the board's compliance with the department's accreditation requirements. After completing the review, the department shall conduct an exit conference with the president of the board, the superintendent of the board, and any other officials the board asks to have present. The department shall discuss its findings from the review with the board's representatives and provide a written report of its findings not later than thirty days following the exit conference. If the department finds that the board is in compliance with the requirements for accreditation, the department shall issue evidence of accreditation to the board. Accreditation may be granted for periods of up to five years and may be renewed. Not less than once prior to the date a board's accreditation is scheduled to expire, the department shall conduct a comprehensive, on-site review of the board. Each board shall conduct an annual audit of itself to evaluate its compliance with the requirements for accreditation. The department may conduct an interim review of any new program or service initiated by a board after its last comprehensive review. The department may conduct other reviews and investigations as necessary to enforce this section. (C) If the department determines through its review of a board that the board is not in compliance with the requirements for accreditation, the department shall, except as provided in division (F) of this section, grant the board an opportunity to correct the matters in which it is not in compliance. The department shall grant the board an appropriate length of time to comply with the requirements prior to taking any action to deny accreditation to the board. To avoid denial of accreditation, the board superintendent shall prepare a plan of correction to remediate the matters specified in the department's written report as not being in compliance with the requirements for accreditation. The superintendent shall submit the plan to the board for review, and the board shall review the plan. If the board believes that the plan is sufficient to correct the matters, the board shall approve the plan by resolution and submit the plan to the department for its review. The department shall review the plan of correction. If the department approves the plan, the board shall commence action to implement the plan. The department shall, as necessary, conduct follow-up reviews of the board to determine whether it has met the requirements for accreditation. If the plan of correction submitted by a board is disapproved, the department shall inform the board of the reasons for disapproval and may grant the board an opportunity to submit a revised plan of correction. A board may request technical assistance from the department, other boards, or professional organizations in preparing plans of correction and in implementing plans of correction. (D) If, after being given the opportunity to implement a plan of correction, a board continues to fail to meet the requirements for accreditation, the department shall issue an order denying accreditation to the board. The department may deny accreditation to the board for all or part of the programs or services offered by the board. The department shall simultaneously notify all of the following officials in the county: the members of the board of county commissioners, the senior probate judge, the county auditor, and the president and superintendent of the county board of developmental disabilities. The notice shall identify the programs and services that have been denied accreditation, the requirements for accreditation with which the board is not in compliance, and the responsibilities of the county officials to contract under division (E)(1) of this section to have the board's programs and services administered by another party or become subject to administrative receivership under division (E)(2) of this section. (E)(1) When a board is denied accreditation, the department shall first give the board the option of contracting to have the board's programs and services that were denied accreditation administered by an accredited county board of developmental disabilities or another qualified entity subject to the approval of the department. The board may contract with more than one board that has been accredited. When a board enters into a contract, the board shall, by resolution, give the contractor full administrative authority over the programs and services that the contractor will administer. (2) If a board fails to exercise its option of entering into a contract under division (E)(1) of this section sooner than thirty days after the department denies accreditation, the department shall appoint an administrative receiver of the board's programs and services that were denied accreditation. The department may appoint employees of the department, management personnel from county boards of developmental disabilities, or individuals from other entities as necessary to meet its needs for appointing an administrative receiver, except that individuals from other entities may be appointed only when qualified department employees or board management personnel are unavailable. The department may not appoint an individual who is employed by or affiliated with an entity that is under contract with the board. The administrative receiver shall assume full administrative responsibility for the board's programs and services that were denied accreditation. (3) The board or entity that contracts with a board under division (E)(1) of this section, or the administrative receiver appointed under division (E)(2) of this section, shall develop and implement a plan of correction to remediate the matters that caused the department to deny accreditation. The contractor or administrative receiver shall submit the plan to the department, and the department shall review the plan. If the plan is approved by the department, the contractor or administrative receiver shall commence action to implement the plan. The contractor or administrative receiver shall report to the department any findings it can make pertaining to issues or circumstances that are beyond the control of the board and result in the unlikelihood that compliance with the requirements for accreditation can be achieved unless the issues or circumstances are remediated. (4) For purposes of divisions (E)(1) and (2) of this section, the department shall require the board that has been denied accreditation to transfer control of state and federal funds it is eligible to receive for the board's programs and services that have been denied accreditation in an amount necessary for the contractor or administrative receiver to fulfill its duties in administering the programs and services for the board. The transfer of control of funds does not cause any programs and services of the board that are accredited to lose their accreditation. If the board refuses to transfer control of funds, the department may withhold state and federal funds from the board in an amount necessary for the contractor or administrative receiver to fulfill its duties. The amount transferred or withheld from a board shall include reimbursements for the personnel of the contractor or administrative receiver, including amounts for time worked, travel, and related expenses. A contractor or administrative receiver that has assumed the administration of a board's programs and services has the right to authorize the payment of bills in the same manner that a board may authorize payment of bills under this chapter and section 319.16 of the Revised Code. (F) When the department's review of a board reveals serious health and safety issues within the programs and services offered by the board, the department shall order the board to correct the violations immediately or appoint an administrative receiver. (G) At any time a board can demonstrate that it is capable of assuming its duties in compliance with the department's requirements for accreditation, the department shall reverse its order denying accreditation and issue evidence of accreditation to the board. A board may appeal the department's denial of accreditation or refusal to reverse a denial of accreditation only by filing a complaint under section 5123.043 of the Revised Code. If in its appeal the board can demonstrate that it is capable of assuming its duties in compliance with the department's requirements for accreditation, the department shall reverse its order denying accreditation and shall issue evidence of accreditation to the board. (H) All notices issued to a board by the department under this section shall be delivered to the board's president and superintendent. (I) A board's president may designate another member of the board as the individual to be responsible for fulfilling all or part of the president's responsibilities established under this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.055 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.055
§ 5126.055. Services provided by board that has medicaid local administrative authority
Status: in_force

September 30, 2021 House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in section 5126.056 of the Revised Code, a county board of developmental disabilities has medicaid local administrative authority to, and shall, do all of the following for an individual with a developmental disability who resides in the county that the county board serves and seeks or receives home and community-based services: (1) Perform assessments and evaluations of the individual. As part of the assessment and evaluation process, all of the following apply: (a) The county board shall make a recommendation to the department of developmental disabilities on whether the department should approve or deny the individual's application for the services, including on the basis of whether the individual needs the level of care an ICF/IID provides. (b) If the individual's application is denied because of the county board's recommendation and the individual appeals pursuant to section 5160.31 of the Revised Code, the county board shall present, with the department of developmental disabilities or department of medicaid, whichever denies the application, the reasons for the recommendation and denial at the hearing. (c) If the individual's application is approved, the county board shall recommend to the departments of developmental disabilities and medicaid the services that should be included in the individual service plan. If either department under section 5166.21 of the Revised Code approves, reduces, denies, or terminates a service included in the plan because of the county board's recommendation, the board shall present, with the department that made the approval, reduction, denial, or termination, the reasons for the recommendation and approval, reduction, denial, or termination at a hearing held pursuant to an appeal made under section 5160.31 of the Revised Code. (2) Perform any duties assigned to the county board in rules adopted under section 5126.046 of the Revised Code regarding the individual's right to choose a qualified and willing provider of the services and, at a hearing held pursuant to an appeal made under section 5160.31 of the Revised Code, present evidence of the process for appropriate assistance in choosing providers; (3) If the county board is certified under section 5123.161 of the Revised Code to provide the services and agrees to provide the services to the individual and the individual chooses the county board to provide the services, furnish, in accordance with the county board's medicaid provider agreement and for the authorized reimbursement rate, the services the individual requires; (4) Monitor the services provided to the individual and ensure the individual's health, safety, and welfare. The monitoring shall include quality assurance activities. If the county board provides the services, the department of developmental disabilities shall also monitor the services. (5) Develop, with the individual and the provider of the individual's services, an effective individual service plan that includes coordination of services, recommend that the departments of developmental disabilities and medicaid approve the plan, and implement the plan unless either department disapproves it. The plan shall include a summary page, agreed to by the county board, provider, and individual receiving services, that clearly outlines the amount, duration, and scope of services to be provided under the plan. (6) Have an investigative agent conduct investigations under section 5126.313 of the Revised Code that concern the individual; (7) Have a service and support administrator perform the duties under division (B)(8) of section 5126.15 of the Revised Code that concern the individual. (B) A county board shall perform its medicaid local administrative authority under this section in accordance with all of the following: (1) All applicable federal and state laws; (2) All applicable policies of the departments of developmental disabilities and medicaid and the United States department of health and human services; (3) The department of medicaid's supervision under its authority as the single state medicaid agency; (4) The department of developmental disabilities' oversight. (C) The departments of developmental disabilities and medicaid shall communicate with and provide training to county boards regarding medicaid local administrative authority granted by this section. The communication and training shall include issues regarding audit protocols and other standards established by the United States department of health and human services that the departments determine appropriate for communication and training. County boards shall participate in the training. The departments shall assess the county board's compliance against uniform standards that the departments shall establish. (D) A county board may not delegate its medicaid local administrative authority granted under this section but may contract with a person or government entity, including a council of governments, for assistance with its medicaid local administrative authority. A county board that enters into such a contract shall notify the director of developmental disabilities. The notice shall include the tasks and responsibilities that the contract gives to the person or government entity. The person or government entity shall comply in full with all requirements to which the county board is subject regarding the person or government entity's tasks and responsibilities under the contract. The county board remains ultimately responsible for the tasks and responsibilities. (E) A county board that has medicaid local administrative authority under this section shall, through the departments of developmental disabilities and medicaid, reply to, and cooperate in arranging compliance with, a program or fiscal audit or program violation exception that a state or federal audit or review discovers. The department of medicaid shall timely notify the department of developmental disabilities and the county board of any adverse findings. After receiving the notice, the county board, in conjunction with the department of developmental disabilities, shall cooperate fully with the department of medicaid and timely prepare and send to the department a written plan of correction or response to the adverse findings. The county board is liable for any adverse findings that result from an action it takes or fails to take in its implementation of medicaid local administrative authority. (F) If the department of developmental disabilities or department of medicaid determines that a county board's implementation of its medicaid local administrative authority under this section is deficient, the department that makes the determination shall require that county board do the following: (1) If the deficiency affects the health, safety, or welfare of an individual with a developmental disability, correct the deficiency within twenty-four hours; (2) If the deficiency does not affect the health, safety, or welfare of an individual with a developmental disability, receive technical assistance from the department or submit a plan of correction to the department that is acceptable to the department within sixty days and correct the deficiency within the time required by the plan of correction. Last updated August 12, 2021 at 2:41 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.011 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5120 / § 5120.011
§ 5120.011. Sanctions imposed for frivolous actions
Status: in_force

October 17, 1996 House Bill 455 - 121st General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "civil action or appeal against a government entity or employee," "inmate," "political subdivision," and "employee" have the same meanings as in section 2969.21 of the Revised Code. (B) The director of rehabilitation and correction may adopt rules under section 5120.01 of the Revised Code to implement the procedures described in sections 2323.51 , 2969.22 , and 2969.23 of the Revised Code. (C) The director of rehabilitation and correction shall adopt rules that provide that, if an inmate files a civil action or appeal against a government entity or employee or files a civil action against the state, a political subdivision, or an employee in a federal court and if the court in which the action or appeal is filed dismisses the action or appeal pursuant to section 2969.24 of the Revised Code or the federal court finds the action to be frivolous under 28 U.S.C. 1915(d), the inmate shall be subject to one or more of the following sanctions: (1) Extra work duty, without compensation, for not more than sixty days; (2) The loss of commissary privileges for not more than sixty days; (3) The loss of sundry-package privileges for one time in any calendar year; (4) The loss of television privileges for not more than sixty days; (5) The loss of radio privileges for not more than sixty days; (6) The loss of recreational activity privileges for not more than sixty days.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.83 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.83
§ 5165.83. Fines
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "certified beds" means beds certified under Title XVIII or Title XIX. (B) If the department of medicaid or a contracting agency imposes a fine on a nursing facility under section 5165.72 , 5165.73 , or 5165.74 of the Revised Code, it may impose one or more of the following: (1) One hundred sixty per cent of the amount calculated under division (C) of this section for any deficiency or cluster of deficiencies that constitutes a severity level four and scope level four finding; (2) One hundred forty per cent of the amount calculated under division (C) of this section for any deficiency or cluster of deficiencies that constitutes a severity level four and scope level three finding; (3) One hundred twenty per cent of the amount calculated under division (C) of this section for any deficiency or cluster of deficiencies that constitutes a severity level four and scope level two finding; (4) The amount calculated under division (C) of this section for any deficiency or cluster of deficiencies that constitutes a severity level four and scope level one finding or any deficiency or cluster of deficiencies that constitutes a severity level three and scope level four finding; (5) Ninety per cent of the amount calculated under division (C) of this section for any deficiency or cluster of deficiencies that constitutes a severity level three and scope level three finding; (6) Eighty per cent of the amount calculated under division (C) of this section for any deficiency or cluster of deficiencies that constitutes a severity level three and scope level two finding; (7) Seventy per cent of the amount calculated under division (C) of this section for any deficiency or cluster of deficiencies that constitutes a severity level three and scope level one finding; (8) Fifty per cent of the amount calculated under division (C) of this section for any deficiency or cluster of deficiencies that constitutes a severity level two and scope level four finding; (9) Forty per cent of the amount calculated under division (C) of this section for any deficiency or cluster of deficiencies that constitutes a severity level two and scope level three finding. (C) The amount subject to division (B) of this section shall be the product of multiplying two dollars and fifty cents for each day the fine is in effect by the total number of licensed nursing home beds or certified beds, whichever is greater, in the facility as of the date the deficiency or cluster of deficiencies that is the reason for the fine was cited. (D)(1) The department of medicaid or contracting agency shall not impose on a facility, at any one time, more than four fines as a result of any one survey. (2) The department of medicaid or contracting agency shall not impose more than one fine based on a deficiency or cluster of deficiencies. However, if the department of health, in a follow-up or other subsequent survey, finds a change in the scope or severity of the deficiency or cluster of deficiencies, the department of medicaid or contracting agency may increase or decrease the fine in accordance with division (B) of this section to reflect the change in scope or severity. The department or agency shall give the facility written notice of the change in the amount of the fine. The change shall take effect on the date the follow-up or other subsequent survey is completed. If the department of health finds that a deficiency is a repeat deficiency, the department of medicaid or contracting agency may impose a fine that is one hundred per cent greater than the fine specified in division (B) of this section for the deficiency. (E) The total amount of fines the department of medicaid or contracting agency may impose on a facility in a single calendar year shall not exceed five hundred dollars for each licensed nursing home bed or certified bed, whichever is greater in number, in the facility. (F)(1) Except as provided in division (F)(2) of this section, the department of medicaid or contracting agency shall not impose a fine under section 5165.72 , 5165.73 , or 5165.74 of the Revised Code if the deficiency or cluster of deficiencies is substantially corrected within twenty days after the nursing facility receives the statement provided under division (B) of section 5165.75 of the Revised Code. The department or agency shall inform the nursing facility in that statement that the fine will not be imposed if the deficiency or cluster of deficiencies is substantially corrected within the twenty-day period. (2) If a nursing facility has substantially corrected a deficiency or cluster of deficiencies within six months after the exit interview of a survey that was the basis for citing a deficiency or cluster of deficiencies, but after correcting it has been cited for the same deficiency or cluster of deficiencies by the department of health on the basis of a subsequent survey conducted during the remainder of the six-month period, the department of medicaid or contracting agency may impose a fine beginning on the date of the exit interview of the subsequent survey. (G) Whenever a facility believes that it has completed implementation of the plan of correction it submitted under section 5165.69 of the Revised Code and substantially corrected the cited deficiency or cluster of deficiencies that is the basis for a fine, it may give written notice to that effect to the department of health. After receiving the notice, the department shall conduct a follow-up survey of the facility that focuses on the deficiency or cluster, unless the department is able to determine, on the basis of documentation provided by the facility, that the facility has substantially corrected the deficiency or cluster. If, based on the follow-up survey, the department establishes that the facility had not completed implementation of the plan of correction at the time the department received the notice, any fine based on the deficiency or cluster shall be doubled effective from the date the department received the notice. A facility that complies with this division shall not be considered to have admitted the existence of the deficiency or cluster that is the basis for the fine. (H) Except for a fine imposed under division (C) of section 5165.72 of the Revised Code and as provided in division (F)(2) of this section, the department of medicaid or contracting agency shall impose a fine only if the facility fails to give notice under division (G) of this section within twenty days after it receives the statement required by division (B) of section 5165.75 of the Revised Code or if the department of health determines, based on a follow-up survey, that the deficiency or cluster of deficiencies for which the fine is proposed has not been substantially corrected within the twenty-day period. The fine shall be imposed effective on the twenty-first day after the facility receives the statement under division (B) of section 5165.75 of the Revised Code. The fine shall remain in effect until the earliest of the following: (1) The date the department of health receives notice under division (G) of this section, unless the department determines, on the basis of a follow-up survey, that the deficiency or cluster of deficiencies that is the basis for the fine has not been substantially corrected as of that date; (2) The date on which the department of health makes a determination, on the basis of a follow-up survey, that the deficiency or cluster of deficiencies has been substantially corrected; (3) The date the facility substantially corrected the deficiency or cluster, as subsequently determined by the department of health on the basis of documentation provided by the facility. (I) Any fine imposed by the department of medicaid or contracting agency under this section is subject to appeal under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. If the facility does not request a hearing under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code and either pays or agrees in writing to pay the fine when payment becomes due under division (J) of this section, the department or agency shall reduce the fine by fifty per cent. The department or agency may compromise any claim for payment of a fine under sections 5165.60 to 5165.89 of the Revised Code. (J) The department of medicaid or contracting agency shall collect interest on fines, at the rate per calendar month that equals one-twelfth of the rate per year prescribed by section 5703.47 of the Revised Code for the calendar year that includes the month for which the interest charge accrues. Payment of a fine is due, and interest begins to accrue on the unpaid fine or balance, on the thirty-first day after the department or agency issues a final adjudication order imposing the fine. If the deficiency or deficiencies on which the fine is based have not been corrected when the final adjudication order is issued, the payment is due, and interest begins to accrue on the unpaid fine or balance, on the thirty-first day after the deficiency or deficiencies are corrected and the department or agency mails a notice specifying the amount of the fine to the facility. (K) The department of medicaid or contracting agency shall collect fines and interest imposed under this section through one of the following means: (1) A lump sum payment from the provider; (2) Periodic payments for a period not to exceed twelve months, in accordance with a schedule approved by the department or agency; (3) Appropriately reducing the amounts of medicaid payments made to the facility for nursing facility services provided to medicaid eligible residents for a period not to exceed twelve months following the date on which payment of the fine becomes due under division (J) of this section. An amount equal to the amount by which each payment is reduced shall be deposited to the credit of the residents protection fund in accordance with section 5162.66 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.80 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.80
§ 5164.80. Public notice for changes to payment rates for medicaid assistance
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly As necessary to comply with the "Social Security Act," section 1902(a)(13)(A), 42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)(13)(A), and any other federal law that requires public notice of proposed changes to payment rates for medicaid services, the medicaid director shall give public notice in the register of Ohio of any change to a method or standard used to determine the medicaid payment rate for a medicaid service.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.95 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.95
§ 5164.95. Standards for payments for telehealth services; eligible practitioners
Status: in_force

April 9, 2025 Senate Bill 95 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "telehealth service" means a health care service delivered to a patient through the use of interactive audio, video, or other telecommunications or electronic technology from a site other than the site where the patient is located. (B) The department of medicaid shall establish standards for medicaid payments for health care services the department determines are appropriate to be covered by the medicaid program when provided as telehealth services. The standards shall be established in rules adopted under section 5164.02 of the Revised Code. In accordance with section 5162.021 of the Revised Code, the medicaid director shall adopt rules authorizing the directors of other state agencies to adopt rules regarding the medicaid coverage of telehealth services under programs administered by the other state agencies. Any such rules adopted by the medicaid director or the directors of other state agencies are not subject to the requirements of division (F) of section 121.95 of the Revised Code. (C)(1) To the extent permitted under rules adopted under section 5164.02 of the Revised Code and applicable federal law, the following practitioners are eligible to provide telehealth services covered pursuant to this section: (a) A physician licensed under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code to practice medicine and surgery, osteopathic medicine and surgery, or podiatric medicine and surgery; (b) A psychologist, independent school psychologist, or school psychologist licensed under Chapter 4732. of the Revised Code; (c) A physician assistant licensed under Chapter 4730. of the Revised Code; (d) A clinical nurse specialist, certified nurse-midwife, or certified nurse practitioner licensed under Chapter 4723. of the Revised Code; (e) An independent social worker, independent marriage and family therapist, or professional clinical counselor licensed under Chapter 4757. of the Revised Code; (f) An independent chemical dependency counselor licensed under Chapter 4758. of the Revised Code; (g) A supervised practitioner or supervised trainee; (h) An audiologist or speech-language pathologist licensed under Chapter 4753. of the Revised Code; (i) An audiology aide or speech-language pathology aide, as defined in section 4753.072 of the Revised Code, or an individual holding a conditional license under section 4753.071 of the Revised Code; (j) An occupational therapist or physical therapist licensed under Chapter 4755. of the Revised Code; (k) An occupational therapy assistant or physical therapist assistant licensed under Chapter 4755. of the Revised Code. (l) A dietitian licensed under Chapter 4759. of the Revised Code; (m) A chiropractor licensed under Chapter 4734. of the Revised Code; (n) A pharmacist licensed under Chapter 4729. of the Revised Code; (o) A genetic counselor licensed under Chapter 4778. of the Revised Code; (p) An optometrist licensed under Chapter 4725. of the Revised Code to practice optometry; (q) A respiratory care professional licensed under Chapter 4761. of the Revised Code; (r) A certified Ohio behavior analyst certified under Chapter 4783. of the Revised Code; (s) A practitioner who provides services through a medicaid school program; (t) Subject to section 5119.368 of the Revised Code, a practitioner authorized to provide services and supports certified under section 5119.36 of the Revised Code through a community mental health services provider or community addiction services provider; (u) A certified mental health assistant licensed under Chapter 4772. of the Revised Code; (v) Any other practitioner the medicaid director considers eligible to provide telehealth services. (2) In accordance with division (B) of this section and to the extent permitted under rules adopted under section 5164.02 of the Revised Code and applicable federal law, the following provider types are eligible to submit claims for medicaid payments for providing telehealth services: (a) Any practitioner described in division (C)(1) of this section, except for those described in divisions (C)(1)(g), (i), and (k) of this section; (b) A professional medical group; (c) A federally qualified health center or federally qualified health center look-alike, as defined in section 3701.047 of the Revised Code; (d) A rural health clinic; (e) An ambulatory health care clinic; (f) An outpatient hospital; (g) A medicaid school program; (h) Subject to section 5119.368 of the Revised Code, a community mental health services provider or community addiction services provider that offers services and supports certified under section 5119.36 of the Revised Code; (i) Any other provider type the medicaid director considers eligible to submit the claims for payment. (D)(1) When providing telehealth services under this section, a practitioner shall comply with all requirements under state and federal law regarding the protection of patient information. A practitioner shall ensure that any username or password information and any electronic communications between the practitioner and a patient are securely transmitted and stored. (2) When providing telehealth services under this section, every practitioner site shall have access to the medical records of the patient at the time telehealth services are provided. Last updated January 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5101.62 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5101 / § 5101.62
§ 5101.62. Training program
Status: in_force

September 29, 2018 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly The department of job and family services shall do all of the following: (A) Provide a program of ongoing, comprehensive, formal training on the implementation of sections 5101.60 to 5101.73 of the Revised Code and require all protective services caseworkers and their supervisors to undergo the training; (B) Develop and make available educational materials for individuals who are required under section 5101.63 of the Revised Code to make reports of abuse, neglect, and exploitation; (C) Facilitate ongoing cooperation among state agencies on issues pertaining to the abuse, neglect, or exploitation of adults.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5104.30 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5104 / § 5104.30
§ 5104.30. Administration and coordination of federal and state funding for publicly funded child care
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) The department of children and youth is hereby designated as the state agency responsible for administration and coordination of federal and state funding for publicly funded child care in this state. Publicly funded child care shall be provided to the following: (1) Recipients of transitional child care as provided under section 5104.34 of the Revised Code; (2) Participants in the Ohio works first program established under Chapter 5107. of the Revised Code; (3) Individuals who would be participating in the Ohio works first program if not for a sanction under section 5107.16 of the Revised Code and who continue to participate in a work activity, developmental activity, or alternative work activity pursuant to an assignment under section 5107.42 of the Revised Code; (4) A family receiving publicly funded child care on October 1, 1997, until the family's income reaches one hundred fifty per cent of the federal poverty line; (5) Subject to available funds, other individuals determined eligible in accordance with rules adopted under section 5104.38 of the Revised Code. The department shall apply to the United States department of health and human services for authority to operate a coordinated program for publicly funded child care, if the director of children and youth determines that the application is necessary. For purposes of this section, the department of children and youth may enter into agreements with other state agencies that are involved in regulation or funding of child care. The department shall consider the special needs of migrant workers when it administers and coordinates publicly funded child care and shall develop appropriate procedures for accommodating the needs of migrant workers for publicly funded child care. (B) The department of children and youth shall distribute state and federal funds for publicly funded child care, including appropriations of state funds for publicly funded child care and appropriations of federal funds available under the child care block grant act, Title IV-A, and Title XX. The department may use any state funds appropriated for publicly funded child care as the state share required to match any federal funds appropriated for publicly funded child care. (C) In the use of federal funds available under the child care block grant act, all of the following apply: (1) The department may use the federal funds to hire staff to prepare any rules required under this chapter and to administer and coordinate federal and state funding for publicly funded child care. (2) Not more than five per cent of the aggregate amount of the federal funds received for a fiscal year may be expended for administrative costs. (3) The department shall allocate and use at least four per cent of the federal funds for the following: (a) Activities designed to provide comprehensive consumer education to parents and the public; (b) Activities that increase parental choice; (c) Activities, including child care resource and referral services, designed to improve the quality, and increase the supply, of child care; (d) Establishing the step up to quality program pursuant to section 5104.29 of the Revised Code. (4) The department shall ensure that the federal funds will be used only to supplement, and will not be used to supplant, federal, state, and local funds available on the effective date of the child care block grant act for publicly funded child care and related programs. If authorized by rules adopted by the department pursuant to section 5104.42 of the Revised Code, county departments of job and family services may purchase child care from funds obtained through any other means. (D) The department shall encourage the development of suitable child care throughout the state, especially in areas with high concentrations of recipients of public assistance and families with low incomes. The department shall encourage the development of suitable child care designed to accommodate the special needs of migrant workers. On request, the department, through its employees or contracts with state or community child care resource and referral service organizations, shall provide consultation to groups and individuals interested in developing child care. The department of children and youth may enter into interagency agreements with the department of education and workforce, the chancellor of higher education, the department of development, and other state agencies and entities whenever the cooperative efforts of the other state agencies and entities are necessary for the department of children and youth to fulfill its duties and responsibilities under this chapter. The department shall develop and maintain a registry of persons providing child care. The director shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing procedures and requirements for the registry's administration. (E)(1) The director shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing both of the following: (a) Payment rates for providers of publicly funded child care not later than the first day of July in each odd-numbered year; (b) A procedure for paying providers of publicly funded child care. (2) In establishing payment rates under division (E)(1)(a) of this section, the director shall do all of the following: (a) Use the information obtained from the market rate survey developed and conducted in accordance with 45 C.F.R. 98.45; (b) Establish an enhanced payment rate for providers who enroll children whose caretaker parents work nontraditional hours; (c) With regard to the step up to quality program established pursuant to section 5104.29 of the Revised Code, establish enhanced payment rates for child care providers that participate in the program. (3) In establishing payment rates under division (E)(1)(a) of this section, the director may establish different payment rates based on any of the following: (a) Geographic location of the provider; (b) Type of care provided; (c) Age of the child served; (d) Special needs of the child served; (e) Whether the expanded hours of service are provided; (f) Whether weekend service is provided; (g) Whether the provider has exceeded the minimum requirements of state statutes and rules governing child care; (h) Any other factors the director considers appropriate. Last updated August 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5168.84 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5168 / § 5168.84
§ 5168.84. Modification or cessation
Status: in_force

June 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly If the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services determines that the franchise fee is an impermissible health care-related tax under section 1903(w) of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1396b(w), the department of medicaid shall do either of the following as appropriate: (A) Modify the imposition of the franchise fee, including (if necessary) the amount of the franchise fee, in a manner needed for the United States centers to reverse its determination; (B) Take all necessary actions to cease the imposition of the franchise fee until the determination is reversed.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.18 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.18
§ 5123.18. Contracts with person or agency to provide services
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly The department of developmental disabilities may enter into a contract with a person or government agency to provide residential services to individuals with developmental disabilities in need of residential services. To be eligible to enter into a contract with the department under this section, a person or government entity and the home in which the residential services are provided must meet all applicable standards for licensing or certification by the appropriate government entity.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.043 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.043
§ 5123.043. Complaint resolution
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly (A) The director of developmental disabilities shall adopt rules establishing procedures for administrative resolution of complaints filed under division (B) of this section and section 5126.06 of the Revised Code. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. (B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, any person or county board of developmental disabilities that has a complaint involving any of the programs, services, policies, or administrative practices of the department of developmental disabilities or any of the entities under contract with the department, may file a complaint with the department. Prior to commencing a civil action regarding the complaint, a person or county board shall attempt to have the complaint resolved through the administrative resolution process established in the rules adopted under this section. After exhausting the administrative resolution process, the person or county board may commence a civil action if the complaint is not settled to the person's or county board's satisfaction. (C) An employee of the department may not file under this section a complaint related to the terms and conditions of employment for the employee.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5119.30 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5119 / § 5119.30
§ 5119.30. Program providing information and services to courts
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly The department of behavioral health promptly shall develop and maintain a program that continually provides the courts of this state with relevant information pertaining to addiction services and programs available both within their jurisdictions and statewide in order to facilitate the ability of the courts to utilize treatment and rehabilitation alternatives in addition to or in lieu of imposing sentences of imprisonment upon appropriate offenders. Last updated August 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5160.48 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5160 / § 5160.48
§ 5160.48. Rules for conditions and procedures for the release of information
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) The medicaid director shall adopt rules under section 5160.02 of the Revised Code implementing sections 5160.45 to 5160.481 of the Revised Code and governing the custody, use, disclosure, and preservation of the information generated or received by the department of medicaid, county departments of job and family services, other state and county entities, contractors, grantees, private entities, or officials participating in the administration of medical assistance programs. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. The rules may define who is an "authorized representative" for purposes of sections 5160.45 and 5160.46 of the Revised Code. The rules shall specify conditions and procedures for the release of information, which may include both of the following: (1) Permitting a provider of a service under a medical assistance program limited access to information that is essential for the provider to render the service or to bill for the service rendered; (2) Permitting a contractor, grantee, or other state or county entity limited access to information that is essential for the contractor, grantee, or entity to perform administrative or other duties on behalf of the department or a county department. (B) The department of aging, when investigating a complaint under section 173.20 of the Revised Code, shall be granted any limited access permitted in the rules authorized by division (A)(1) of this section. A contractor, grantee, or entity given access to information pursuant to the rules authorized by division (A)(2) of this section is bound by the director's rules. Disclosure of the information by the contractor, grantee, or entity in a manner not authorized by the rules is a violation of section 5160.45 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5149.101 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5149 / § 5149.101
§ 5149.101. Full board hearings
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A)(1)(a) A victim of a violation of section 2903.01 or 2903.02 of the Revised Code, an offense of violence that is a felony of the first, second, or third degree, or an offense punished by a sentence of life imprisonment, the victim's representative, or any person described in division (B)(5) of this section may request, through the office of victims' services, for the board to hold a full board hearing that relates to the proposed parole or re-parole of the person that committed the violation. If a victim, victim's representative, or any person described in division (B)(5) of this section requests a full board hearing pursuant to this division, the board shall hold a full board hearing. (b) A family member of a victim who is not described in division (B)(5) of this section may request, through the office of victims' services, for the board to hold a full board hearing that relates to the proposed parole or re-parole of a person who committed a violation of section 2903.01 or 2903.02 of the Revised Code, an offense of violence that is a felony of the first, second, or third degree, or an offense punished by a sentence of life imprisonment. At a meeting of the board at which a majority of board members are present, the majority of those present shall determine whether a full board hearing shall be held, if a family member of the victim makes a request pursuant to this division. (c) If a person is convicted of a violation of section 2903.01 or 2903.02 of the Revised Code, an offense of violence that is a felony of the first, second, or third degree, or an offense punished by a sentence of life imprisonment, the prosecuting attorney may submit a request directly to the board to hold a full board hearing that relates to the proposed parole or re-parole of the person who committed the violation. If the prosecutor requests a full board hearing pursuant to this division, the board shall hold a full board hearing. (2) At least thirty days before the full hearing, except as otherwise provided in this division, the board shall give notice of the date, time, and place of the hearing to the victim regardless of whether the victim has requested the notification. The notice of the date, time, and place of the hearing shall not be given under this division to a victim if the victim has requested pursuant to division (B)(2) of section 2930.03 of the Revised Code that the notice not be provided to the victim. At least thirty days before the full board hearing and regardless of whether the victim has requested that the notice be provided or not be provided under this division to the victim, the board shall give similar notice to the prosecuting attorney in the case, the law enforcement agency that arrested the prisoner if any officer of that agency was a victim of the offense, and, if different than the victim, the person who requested the full hearing. If the prosecuting attorney has not previously been sent an institutional summary report with respect to the prisoner, upon the request of the prosecuting attorney, the board shall include with the notice sent to the prosecuting attorney an institutional summary report that covers the offender's participation while confined in a state correctional institution in training, work, and other rehabilitative activities and any disciplinary action taken against the offender while so confined. Upon the request of a law enforcement agency that has not previously been sent an institutional summary report with respect to the prisoner, the board also shall send a copy of the institutional summary report to the law enforcement agency. If notice is to be provided as described in this division, the board may give the notice by any reasonable means, including regular mail, telephone, and electronic mail, in accordance with division (D)(1) of section 2930.16 of the Revised Code. If the notice is based on an offense committed prior to March 22, 2013, the notice also shall include the opt-out information described in division (D)(1) of section 2930.16 of the Revised Code. The board, in accordance with division (D)(2) of section 2930.16 of the Revised Code, shall keep a record of all attempts to provide the notice, and of all notices provided, under this division. The preceding paragraph, and the notice-related provisions of divisions (E)(2) and (K) of section 2929.20 , division (D)(1) of section 2930.16 , division (H) of section 2967.12 , division (E)(1)(b) of section 2967.19 as it existed prior to April 4, 2023, division (A)(3)(b) of section 2967.26 , and division (D)(1) of section 2967.28 of the Revised Code enacted in the act in which this paragraph was enacted, shall be known as "Roberta's Law." (B) At a full board hearing that relates to the proposed parole or re-parole of a prisoner and that has been petitioned for or requested in accordance with division (A) of this section, the parole board shall permit the following persons to appear and to give testimony or to submit written statements: (1) The prosecuting attorney of the county in which the original indictment against the prisoner was found and members of any law enforcement agency that assisted in the prosecution of the original offense; (2) The judge of the court of common pleas who imposed the original sentence of incarceration upon the prisoner, or the judge's successor; (3) The victim of the original offense for which the prisoner is serving the sentence or the victim's representative designated pursuant to section 2930.02 of the Revised Code; (4) The victim of any behavior that resulted in parole being revoked; (5) With respect to a full board hearing held pursuant to division (A)(1)(a) or (c) of this section, all of the following: (a) The spouse of the victim of the original offense; (b) The parent or parents of the victim of the original offense; (c) The sibling of the victim of the original offense; (d) The child or children of the victim of the original offense. (6) A state public defender when designated by the director of the department of rehabilitation and correction pursuant to division (A)(5) of section 120.06 of the Revised Code, private counsel, or some other person designated by the prisoner as a representative, as permitted by the board. (C) Except as otherwise provided in this division, a full board hearing of the parole board is not subject to section 121.22 of the Revised Code. The persons who may attend a full board hearing are the persons described in divisions (B)(1) to (6) of this section, and representatives of the press, radio and television stations, and broadcasting networks who are members of a generally recognized professional media organization. At the request of a person described in division (B)(3) of this section, representatives of the news media described in this division shall be excluded from the hearing while that person is giving testimony at the hearing. The prisoner being considered for parole has no right to be present at the hearing, but may be represented as described in division (B)(6) of this section. If there is an objection at a full board hearing to a recommendation for the parole of a prisoner, the board may approve or disapprove the recommendation or defer its decision until a subsequent full board hearing. The board may permit interested persons other than those listed in this division and division (B) of this section to attend full board hearings pursuant to rules adopted by the adult parole authority. (D) If the victim of the original offense died as a result of the offense and the offense was aggravated murder, murder, an offense of violence that is a felony of the first, second, or third degree, or an offense punished by a sentence of life imprisonment, the family of the victim may show at a full board hearing a video recording not exceeding five minutes in length memorializing the victim. (E) The adult parole authority shall adopt rules for the implementation of this section. The rules shall specify reasonable restrictions on the number of media representatives that may attend a hearing, based on considerations of space, and other procedures designed to accomplish an effective, orderly process for full board hearings. Last updated September 19, 2023 at 3:25 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5163.097 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5163 / § 5163.097
§ 5163.097. Director to make federally required changes
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly If the United States secretary of health and human services requires that a provision of the medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilities program be changed or removed in order for the secretary to approve the program or to avoid an extended delay in the secretary's approval, the medicaid director shall make the change or removal. The change or removal may cause the medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilities program to include a provision that is inconsistent with sections 5163.09 to 5163.096 of the Revised Code. Such a change or removal shall be made only to the extent necessary to obtain the United States secretary's approval or avoid an extended delay in the secretary's approval and shall be reflected in rules authorized by section 5163.098 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5168.49 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5168 / § 5168.49
§ 5168.49. Change of operator; division of franchise permit fees
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly If a nursing home or hospital undergoes a change of operator during a fiscal year, the responsibility for paying the franchise permit fee that was determined for the nursing home or hospital under section 5168.47 of the Revised Code, or redetermined for the nursing home or hospital under section 5168.48 of the Revised Code, for that fiscal year shall be divided proportionally. The exiting operator shall be responsible for paying the amount of the fee that is for the part of the fiscal year that ends on the day before the effective date of the change of operator. The entering operator shall be responsible for paying the amount of the fee that is for the part of the fiscal year that begins on the effective date of the change of operator. The department of medicaid is not required to notify the entering operator regarding the amount of that fiscal year's fee for which the entering operator is responsible.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5155.33 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5155 / § 5155.33
§ 5155.33. Sale or lease of county home farm
Status: in_force

September 14, 1957 House Bill 926 - 102nd General Assembly After a county home has been closed as provided by section 5155.31 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners may sell or lease any part of the county home farm, and all receipts from such sales or leases shall be paid to the county treasurer and credited to the general county fund, and shall be subject to appropriation for such purposes as the board decides.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5180.453 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5180 / § 5180.453
§ 5180.453. [Former R.C. 5101.193, amended and renumbered by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Adoption grant program rules
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) The director of children and youth shall adopt rules to administer and implement the Ohio adoption grant program. The director, in consultation with the tax commissioner, shall also adopt rules authorizing the department to withhold and remit to the Internal Revenue Service federal income tax from grant payments under division (B) of section 5180.451 of the Revised Code, provided such withholding is authorized under federal law or approved by the Internal Revenue Service. (B) No application fee shall be charged for the grant program. (C) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the director may require, as necessary to administer the Ohio adoption grant program, either or both of the following: (1) Certified copies of any court or legal document necessary to prove a final order of adoption, an interlocutory order of adoption, or recognition of the adoption under section 3107.18 of the Revised Code; (2) Any department, agency, court, or division of the state, including the department of health, to provide any document related to the adoption. (D)(1) No person shall knowingly produce or submit any false or misleading documentation or information to the department of children and youth in an effort to qualify for or obtain a grant from the Ohio adoption grant program. (2) Whoever violates division (D)(1) of this section is guilty of falsification in accordance with section 2921.13 of the Revised Code. (E) Notwithstanding any provision of section 121.95 of the Revised Code to the contrary, a regulatory restriction contained in a rule adopted under section 5180.453 of the Revised Code is not subject to sections 121.95 to 121.953 of the Revised Code. Last updated October 3, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5149.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5149 / § 5149.03
§ 5149.03. Duties of adult parole authority
Status: in_force

January 1, 2004 House Bill 490 - 124th General Assembly (A) The adult parole authority shall administer Chapter 5149. and the provisions of Chapter 2967., Chapter 2971., and sections 2301.27 to 2301.32 , 2941.46 , 2951.06 , and 2951.08 of the Revised Code that impose duties upon the authority. The authority may enter into a written agreement with a person or government entity to share information, personnel, and services for one or more of the following purposes: training, crime interdiction, fugitive apprehension, and community supervision. The agreement may permit the authority to act in concert with and provide assistance to a law enforcement agency, as defined in section 5101.26 of the Revised Code, in detecting, tracking, apprehending, or detaining an individual subject to arrest. (B)(1) As used in division (B) of this section: (a) "Ohio prisoner" has the same meaning as in section 5120.64 of the Revised Code. (b) "Out-of-state prisoner" and "private contractor" have the same meanings as in section 9.07 of the Revised Code. (2) The adult parole authority, in order to discharge its duties under Chapters 2967. and 5149. of the Revised Code, may enter into a contract with a private person or entity for the return of Ohio prisoners who are the responsibility of the department of rehabilitation and correction from outside of this state to a location in this state specified by the adult parole authority. If the adult parole authority enters into a contract as described in this division, subject to division (B)(3) of this section, the private person or entity in accordance with the contract may return Ohio prisoners from outside of this state to locations in this state specified by the adult parole authority. A contract entered into under this division shall include all of the following: (a) Specific provisions that assign the responsibility for costs related to medical care of prisoners while they are being returned that is not covered by insurance of the private person or entity; (b) Specific provisions that set forth the number of days, not exceeding ten, within which the private person or entity, after it receives the prisoner in the other state, must deliver the prisoner to the location in this state specified by the adult parole authority, subject to the exceptions adopted as described in division (B)(2)(c) of this section; (c) Any exceptions to the specified number of days for delivery specified as described in division (B)(2)(b) of this section; (d) A requirement that the private person or entity immediately report all escapes of prisoners who are being returned to this state, and the apprehension of all prisoners who are being returned and who have escaped, to the adult parole authority and to the local law enforcement agency of this state or another state that has jurisdiction over the place at which the escape occurs; (e) A schedule of fines that the adult parole authority shall impose upon the private person or entity if the private person or entity fails to perform its contractual duties, and a requirement that, if the private person or entity fails to perform its contractual duties, the adult parole authority shall impose a fine on the private person or entity from the schedule of fines and, in addition, may exercise any other rights it has under the contract. (f) If the contract is entered into on or after the effective date of the rules adopted by the department of rehabilitation and correction under section 5120.64 of the Revised Code, specific provisions that comport with all applicable standards that are contained in those rules. (3) If the private person or entity that enters into the contract fails to perform its contractual duties, the adult parole authority shall impose upon the private person or entity a fine from the schedule, the money paid in satisfaction of the fine shall be paid into the state treasury, and the adult parole authority may exercise any other rights it has under the contract. If a fine is imposed under this division, the adult parole authority may reduce the payment owed to the private person or entity pursuant to any invoice in the amount of the fine. (4) Upon the effective date of the rules adopted by the department of rehabilitation and correction under section 5120.64 of the Revised Code, notwithstanding the existence of a contract entered into under division (B)(2) of this section, in no case shall the private person or entity that is a party to the contract return Ohio prisoners from outside of this state into this state for the adult parole authority unless the private person or entity complies with all applicable standards that are contained in the rules. (5) Divisions (B)(1) to (4) of this section do not apply regarding any out-of-state prisoner who is brought into this state to be housed pursuant to section 9.07 of the Revised Code in a correctional facility in this state that is managed and operated by a private contractor.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5123.423 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5123 / § 5123.423
§ 5123.423. Family members administering medications or performing health-related activities
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly A family member may administer medications or perform health-related activities as described in section 5123.42 of the Revised Code without either of the following: nursing delegation or a certificate issued under section 5123.45 of the Revised Code. Last updated August 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5166.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5166 / § 5166.22
§ 5166.22. Allocating enrollment numbers to county board of developmental disabilities
Status: in_force

October 17, 2019 House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly (A) Subject to division (B) of this section, when the department of developmental disabilities allocates enrollment numbers to a county board of developmental disabilities for home and community-based services specified in division (A)(1) of section 5166.20 of the Revised Code and provided under any of the medicaid waiver components that the department administers under section 5166.21 of the Revised Code, the department shall consider both of the following: (1) The number of individuals with developmental disabilities placed on the county board's waiting list established for the services pursuant to section 5126.042 of the Revised Code; (2) Anything else the department considers necessary to enable the county board to provide the services to individuals placed on the county board's waiting list established for the services pursuant to section 5126.042 of the Revised Code. (B) Division (A) of this section applies to home and community-based services provided under the medicaid waiver component known as the transitions developmental disabilities waiver only to the extent, if any, provided by the contract required by section 5166.21 of the Revised Code regarding the component.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5122.27 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5122 / § 5122.27
§ 5122.27. Chief clinical officer duties
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly The chief clinical officer of the hospital or the chief clinical officer's designee shall assure that all patients hospitalized or committed pursuant to this chapter shall: (A) Receive, within twenty days of their admission sufficient professional care to assure that an evaluation of current status, differential diagnosis, probable prognosis, and description of the current treatment plan is stated on the official chart; (B) Have a written treatment plan consistent with the evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis, and goals which shall be provided, upon request of the patient or patient's counsel, to the patient's counsel and to any private physician or licensed clinical psychologist designated by the patient or the patient's counsel or to the Ohio protection and advocacy system; (C) Receive treatment consistent with the treatment plan. The department of behavioral health shall set standards for treatment provided to such patients, consistent wherever possible with standards set by the joint commission. (D) Receive periodic reevaluations of the treatment plan by the professional staff at intervals not to exceed ninety days; (E) Be provided with adequate medical treatment for physical disease or injury; (F) Receive humane care and treatment, including without limitation, the following: (1) The least restrictive environment consistent with the treatment plan; (2) The necessary facilities and personnel required by the treatment plan; (3) A humane psychological and physical environment; (4) The right to obtain current information concerning the patient's treatment program and expectations in terms that the patient can reasonably understand; (5) Participation in programs designed to afford the patient substantial opportunity to acquire skills to facilitate return to the community or to terminate an involuntary commitment; (6) The right to be free from unnecessary or excessive medication; (7) Freedom from restraints or isolation unless it is stated in a written order by the chief clinical officer or the chief clinical officer's designee, or the patient's individual physician or psychologist in a private or general hospital. If the chief clinical officer of the hospital is unable to provide the treatment required by divisions (C), (E), and (F) of this section for any patient hospitalized pursuant to Chapter 5122. of the Revised Code, the chief clinical officer shall immediately notify the patient, the court, the Ohio protection and advocacy system, the director of behavioral health, and the patient's counsel and legal guardian, if known. If within ten days after receipt of such notification by the director, the director is unable to effect a transfer of the patient, pursuant to section 5122.20 of the Revised Code, to a hospital, community mental health services provider, or other medical facility where treatment is available, or has not received an order of the court to the contrary, the involuntary commitment of any patient hospitalized pursuant to Chapter 5122. of the Revised Code and defined as a person with a mental illness subject to court order under division (B)(4) of section 5122.01 of the Revised Code shall automatically be terminated. Last updated August 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5165.40 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5165 / § 5165.40
§ 5165.40. Adjustment of rates
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly If a nursing facility provider properly amends a cost report for the nursing facility under section 5165.107 of the Revised Code and the amended report shows that the provider received a lower medicaid payment rate under the original cost report than the provider was entitled to receive, the department of medicaid shall adjust the provider's rate for the nursing facility prospectively to reflect the corrected information. The department shall pay the adjusted rate beginning two months after the first day of the month after the provider files the amended cost report. If the department finds, from an exception review of resident assessment data conducted pursuant to section 5165.193 of the Revised Code after the effective date of a nursing facility's rate for direct care costs that is based on the resident assessment data, that inaccurate resident assessment data resulted in the provider receiving a lower rate for the nursing facility than it was entitled to receive, the department prospectively shall adjust the provider's rate accordingly. The department shall make payments to the provider using the adjusted rate for the remainder of the six-month period for which the resident assessment data is used to determine the rate, beginning one month after the first day of the month after the exception review is completed.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5117.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5117 / § 5117.01
§ 5117.01. Energy credit program definitions
Status: in_force

November 26, 2004 House Bill 369 - 125th General Assembly As used in sections 5117.01 to 5117.12 of the Revised Code: (A) "Credit" means the credit on utility heating bills granted under division (A) of section 5117.09 of the Revised Code. (B) "Current monthly bill" means the amount charged for energy consumed in the most recent monthly billing period and does not include any past due balance. (C) "Current total income" means the adjusted gross income of the head of household and the person's spouse for the six-month period beginning the first day of January and ending the thirtieth day of June of the year in which an application is made, as determined under the "Internal Revenue Code of 1954," 68A Stat. 3, 26 U.S.C. 1, as amended, adjusted as follows: (1) Subtract the amount of disability benefits included in adjusted gross income but not to exceed twenty-six hundred dollars; (2) Add old age and survivors benefits received pursuant to the "Social Security Act" that are not included in federal adjusted gross income; (3) Add retirement, pension, annuity, or other retirement payments or benefits not included in federal adjusted gross income; (4) Add payments received pursuant to the "Railroad Retirement Act," 50 Stat. 307, 45 U.S.C. 228; (5) Add interest on federal, state, and local government obligations; (6) For an applicant who received a credit or payment for the preceding heating season on the basis of being permanently and totally disabled and whose application renewal form for the upcoming heating season is made on the basis of attaining sixty-five years of age or older, subtract the following amount: (a) If the applicant received disability benefits that were not included in federal adjusted gross income in the year preceding a year in which the applicant applies for the credit or payment on the basis of attaining sixty-five years of age or older, subtract an amount equal to the disability benefits the applicant received in that preceding year, to the extent included in current total income, as defined in this section, and not subtracted under division (C)(1) of this section in the current year; (b) If the applicant received disability benefits that were included in federal adjusted gross income in the year preceding a year in which the applicant applies for the credit or payment on the basis of attaining sixty-five years of age or older, subtract an amount equal to the amount of disability benefits that were subtracted pursuant to division (C)(1) of this section in that preceding year, to the extent included in current total income, as defined in this section, and not subtracted under division (C)(1) of this section in the current year. Disability benefits paid by the department of veterans' affairs or a branch of the armed forces of the United States on account of an injury or disability are not included in current total income. (D) "Energy company" means every retail propane dealer that distributes propane by pipeline, and every electric light, rural electric, gas, or natural gas company. (E) "Energy dealer" means every retail dealer of fuel oil, propane, coal, wood, and kerosene. (F) "Head of household" means a person who occupies a household as the person's homestead and who is financially responsible for its other occupants, if any, or the spouse of such a person if both occupy the same household. No person is a head of household if the person occupies a household for the taxable year prior to the year in which an application is filed and was claimed as a dependent on the federal income tax return of another occupant of the same household and was not the taxpayer's spouse or if the person could have been claimed if such a return had been filed for such year and was not the other occupant's spouse. (G) "Household" means any dwelling unit, including a unit in a multiple unit dwelling, a manufactured home, or a mobile home, to which utility heating services or energy commodities are provided. (H) "Payment" means the one hundred twenty-five-dollar payment provided under division (A) of section 5117.10 of the Revised Code. (I) "Permanently and totally disabled" refers to a person who has, on the first day of July of the year an application is made, some impairment in body or mind that makes the person unable to work at any substantially remunerative employment that the person would otherwise be reasonably able to perform and that will, with reasonable probability, continue for an indefinite period of at least twelve months without any present indication of recovery therefrom, or who has been certified as permanently and totally disabled by a state or federal agency having the function of so classifying persons. (J) "Sixty-five years of age or older" refers to a person who has attained age sixty-four prior to the first day of January of the year an application is made. (K) "Total income" means the adjusted gross income of the head of household and the person's spouse for the year preceding the year in which an application is made, as determined under the "Internal Revenue Code of 1954," 68A Stat. 3, 26 U.S.C. 1, as amended, adjusted as follows: (1) Subtract the amount of disability benefits included in adjusted gross income but not to exceed fifty-two hundred dollars; (2) Add old age and survivors benefits received pursuant to the "Social Security Act" that are not included in federal adjusted gross income; (3) Add retirement, pension, annuity, or other retirement payments or benefits not included in federal adjusted gross income; (4) Add payments received pursuant to the "Railroad Retirement Act," 50 Stat. 307, 45 U.S.C. 228; (5) Add interest on federal, state, and local government obligations; (6) For an applicant who received a credit or payment for the preceding heating season on the basis of being permanently and totally disabled and whose application renewal form for the upcoming heating season is made on the basis of attaining sixty-five years of age or older, subtract the following amount: (a) If the applicant received disability benefits that were not included in federal adjusted gross income in the year preceding a year in which the applicant applies for the credit or payment on the basis of attaining sixty-five years of age or older, subtract an amount equal to the disability benefits the applicant received in that preceding year, to the extent included in total income, as defined in this section, and not subtracted under division (K)(1) of this section in the current year; (b) If the applicant received disability benefits that were included in federal adjusted gross income in the year preceding a year in which the applicant applies for the credit or payment on the basis of attaining sixty-five years of age or older, subtract an amount equal to the amount of disability benefits that were subtracted pursuant to division (K)(1) of this section in that preceding year, to the extent included in total income, as defined in this section, and not subtracted under division (K)(1) of this section in the current year. Disability benefits paid by the department of veterans' affairs or a branch of the armed forces of the United States on account of an injury or disability shall not be included in total income. (L) "Purchased power costs" means charges for the costs of power purchased by an electric light company under Chapters 4905. and 4909. of the Revised Code and includes charges resulting from the exchange of electric power.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5160.40 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5160 / § 5160.40
§ 5160.40. Third-party duties; medicaid managed care organizations
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "business day" means any day of the week excluding Saturday, Sunday, and a legal holiday, as defined in section 1.14 of the Revised Code. (B) Subject to divisions (C) and (D) of this section, a third party shall do all of the following: (1) Accept the department of medicaid's right of recovery under section 5160.37 of the Revised Code and the assignment of rights to the department that are described in section 5160.38 of the Revised Code; (2) Respond to an inquiry by the department regarding a claim for payment of a medical item or service that was submitted to the third party not later than six years after the date of the provision of such medical item or service; (3) Respond to the department's request for payment of a claim described in division (B)(2) of this section not later than sixty business days after receipt of written proof of the claim, either by paying the claim or issuing a written denial to the department; (4) Not charge a fee to do either of the following for a claim described in division (B)(2) of this section: (a) Determine whether the claim should be paid; (b) Process the claim. (5) Pay a claim described in division (B)(2) of this section; (6) Not deny a claim submitted by the department solely on the basis of the date of submission of the claim, type or format of the claim form, or a failure by the medical assistance recipient who is the subject of the claim to present proper documentation of coverage at the time of service, if both of the following have occurred: (a) The claim was submitted by the department not later than six years after the date of the provision of the medical item or service. (b) An action by the department to enforce its right of recovery under section 5160.37 of the Revised Code on the claim was commenced not later than six years after the department's submission of the claim. (7) Consider the department's payment of a claim for a medical item or service to be the equivalent of the medical assistance recipient having obtained prior authorization for the item or service from the third party; (8) Not deny a claim described in division (B)(7) of this section that is submitted by the department solely on the basis of the medical assistance recipient's failure to obtain prior authorization for the medical item or service. (C) For purposes of the requirements in division (B) of this section, a third party shall treat a medicaid managed care organization as the department for a claim if the individual who is the subject of the claim received a medical item or service through a medicaid managed care organization and the department has assigned its right of recovery for the claim to the medicaid managed care organization. Even if the department assigned its right of recovery to a medicaid managed care organization, the department may, beginning one year from the date the organization paid the claim, recoup from a third party an amount that was assigned to the organization but not collected. (D) If the department of medicaid, as permitted by division (K) of section 5160.37 of the Revised Code, assigns to a medical assistance provider the department's right of recovery for a claim for which it has notified the provider that it intends to recoup its prior payment for a claim, a third party shall treat the provider as the department and shall pay the provider the greater of the following: (1) The amount the department intends to recoup from the provider for the claim. (2) If the third party and the provider have an agreement that requires the third party to pay the provider at the time the provider presents the claim to the third party, the amount that is to be paid under that agreement. (E) The time limitations associated with the requirements in divisions (B)(2) and (6) of this section apply only to submissions of claims to, and payments of claims by, a health insurer to which the "Social Security Act," section 1902(a)(25)(I), 42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)(25)(I), applies. Last updated October 6, 2023 at 11:55 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5168.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5168 / § 5168.01
§ 5168.01. Hospital care assurance program definitions
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly As used in sections 5168.01 to 5168.14 of the Revised Code: (A) "Bad debt," "charity care," "courtesy care," and "contractual allowances" have the same meanings given these terms in regulations adopted under Title XVIII of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq. (B) "Cost reporting period" means the twelve-month period used by a hospital in reporting costs for purposes of Title XVIII of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq. (C) "Disproportionate share hospital" means a hospital that meets the definition of a disproportionate share hospital in rules adopted under section 5168.02 of the Revised Code. (D) "Federal poverty line" means the official poverty line defined by the United States office of management and budget based on the most recent data available from the United States bureau of the census and revised by the United States secretary of health and human services pursuant to the "Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981," section 673(2), 42 U.S.C. 9902(2). (E) "Governmental hospital" means a county hospital with more than five hundred registered beds or a state-owned and -operated hospital with more than five hundred registered beds. (F)(1) "Hospital" means a nonfederal hospital to which either of the following applies: (a) The hospital is registered under section 3701.07 of the Revised Code as a general medical and surgical hospital or a pediatric general hospital, and provides inpatient hospital services, as defined in 42 C.F.R. 440.10 ; (b) The hospital is recognized under the medicare program as a cancer hospital and is exempt from the medicare prospective payment system. (2) "Hospital" does not include a hospital operated by a health insuring corporation that has been issued a certificate of authority under section 1751.05 of the Revised Code or a hospital that does not charge patients for services. (G) "Indigent care pool" means the sum of the following: (1) The total of assessments to be paid in a program year by all hospitals under section 5168.06 of the Revised Code, less the assessments deposited into the health care/medicaid support and recoveries fund created under section 5162.52 of the Revised Code; (2) The total amount of intergovernmental transfers required to be made in the same program year by governmental hospitals under section 5168.07 of the Revised Code, less the amount of transfers deposited into the health care/medicaid support and recoveries fund created under section 5162.52 of the Revised Code; (3) The total amount of federal matching funds that will be made available in the same program year as a result of funds distributed by the department of medicaid to hospitals under section 5168.09 of the Revised Code. (H) "Intergovernmental transfer" means any transfer of money by a governmental hospital under section 5168.07 of the Revised Code. (I) "Medicaid services" has the same meaning as in section 5164.01 of the Revised Code. (J) "Program year" means a period beginning the first day of October, or a later date designated in rules adopted under section 5168.02 of the Revised Code, and ending the thirtieth day of September, or an earlier date designated in rules adopted under that section. (K) "Registered beds" means the total number of hospital beds registered with the department of health, as reported in the most recent "directory of registered hospitals" published by the department of health. (L) "Third-party payer" means any person or government entity that may be liable by law or contract to make payment to or on behalf of an individual for health care services. "Third-party payer" does not include a hospital. (M) "Total facility costs" means the total costs for all services rendered to all patients, including the direct, indirect, and overhead cost to the hospital of all services, supplies, equipment, and capital related to the care of patients, regardless of whether patients are enrolled in a health insuring corporation, excluding costs associated with providing skilled nursing services in distinct-part nursing facility units, as shown on the hospital's cost report filed under section 5168.05 of the Revised Code. Effective October 1, 1993, if rules adopted under section 5168.02 of the Revised Code so provide, "total facility costs" may exclude costs associated with providing care to recipients of any of the governmental programs listed in division (B) of that section. (N) "Uncompensated care" means bad debt and charity care. Last updated July 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5124.108 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5124 / § 5124.108
§ 5124.108. Desk review
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The department of developmental disabilities shall conduct a desk review of all cost reports it receives under sections 5124.10 , 5124.101 , and 5124.522 of the Revised Code. Based on the desk review, the department shall make a preliminary determination of whether the reported costs are allowable costs. The department shall notify each ICF/IID provider of whether any of the reported costs are preliminarily determined not to be allowable costs, the medicaid payment rate determined under this chapter as a result of the determination regarding allowable costs, and the reasons for the determination and resulting rate. The department shall allow the provider to verify the calculation and submit additional information.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5126.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5126 / § 5126.21
§ 5126.21. Management employees
Status: in_force

September 15, 2014 House Bill 483 - 130th General Assembly As used in this section, "management employee" does not include the superintendent of a county board of developmental disabilities. (A)(1) Each management employee of a county board of developmental disabilities shall hold a limited contract for a period of not less than one year and not more than five years, except that a management employee hired after the beginning of a program year may be employed under a limited contract expiring at the end of the program year. The board shall approve all contracts of employment for management employees that are for a term of more than one year. A management employee shall receive notice of the superintendent's intention not to rehire the employee at least ninety days prior to the expiration of the contract. (2) During the term of a contract a management employee's salary may be increased, but shall not be reduced unless the reduction is part of a uniform plan affecting all employees of the board. (B) All management employees may be removed, suspended, or demoted for cause pursuant to section 5126.23 of the Revised Code. (C) All management employees shall receive employee benefits as established by the board. Sections 124.38 and 325.19 of the Revised Code do not apply to management employees. (D) The superintendent of a county board of developmental disabilities shall notify all management employees of the board of their salary no later than thirty days before the first day of the new contract year. (E) Each county board of developmental disabilities shall establish a lay-off policy to be followed if it determines a reduction in the number of management employees is necessary. (F) If a management employee position becomes vacant, the superintendent first shall consider whether to enter into an agreement with another county board for the sharing of personnel under 5126.02 of the Revised Code. If the superintendent determines there are no significant efficiencies or it is impractical to share personnel, the superintendent may employ a management employee to fill the vacancy.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5139.31 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5139 / § 5139.31
§ 5139.31. Inspections
Status: in_force

April 7, 2009 House Bill 130 - 127th General Assembly The department of youth services may inspect any school, forestry camp, district detention facility, or other facility for which an application for financial assistance has been made to the department under section 2152.43 or 2151.651 of the Revised Code or for which financial assistance has been granted by the department under section 5139.27 , 5139.271 , or 5139.281 of the Revised Code. The inspection may include, but need not be limited to, examination and evaluation of the physical condition of the school, forestry camp, district detention facility, or other facility, including any equipment used in connection with it; observation and evaluation of the programming and treatment of children admitted to it; examination and analysis and copying of any papers, records, or other documents relating to the qualifications of personnel, the commitment of children to it, and its administration.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5168.66 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5168 / § 5168.66
§ 5168.66. Additional sanctions for overdue installment
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) In addition to assessing a penalty pursuant to section 5168.65 of the Revised Code, the department of developmental disabilities may do any of the following if an ICF/IID fails to pay the full amount of a franchise permit fee installment when due: (1) Withhold an amount less than or equal to the installment and penalty assessed under section 5168.65 of the Revised Code from a medicaid payment due the ICF/IID until the ICF/IID pays the installment and penalty; (2) Offset an amount less than or equal to the installment and penalty assessed under section 5168.65 of the Revised Code from a medicaid payment due the ICF/IID; (3) Provide for the department of medicaid to terminate the ICF/IID's provider agreement. (B) The department may offset a medicaid payment under division (A) of this section without providing notice to the ICF/IID and without conducting an adjudication under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5149.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5149 / § 5149.22
§ 5149.22. Ohio council for interstate adult offender supervision
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly There is hereby established the Ohio council for interstate adult offender supervision pursuant to Article IV of the interstate compact for adult offender supervision. The council shall be comprised of at least twelve members. One member shall be the compact administrator for this state for the interstate compact for adult offender supervision or the administrator's designee. The speaker of the house of representatives shall appoint one member, shall be of the house of representatives. The president of the senate shall appoint one member, who shall be a member of the senate. The chief justice of the supreme court shall appoint three members, two of whom shall be members of the judiciary. The governor shall appoint five members, including a representative of a crime victim's organization, a member of the executive branch, a prosecuting attorney, a member of the state public defender's office, and a chief probation officer. The attorney general shall appoint one member, who shall be from the bureau of criminal identification and investigation. The director of rehabilitation and correction shall appoint as many additional members as the director considers necessary to fulfill the mission of the compact. The Ohio council for interstate adult offender supervision is not subject to section 101.84 of the Revised Code. Each appointee to the state council shall be appointed in consultation with the department of rehabilitation and correction and shall serve at the pleasure of the appointing authority. The members of the council shall serve without compensation, but each member shall be reimbursed for the member's actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of the member's official duties on the council. The compact administrator for this state for the interstate compact for adult offender supervision, or the administrator's designee, shall serve as commissioner of the state council and as this state's representative to the interstate commission established under Article III of that compact.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5164.751 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5164 / § 5164.751
§ 5164.751. State maximum allowable cost program
Status: in_force

April 12, 2021 Senate Bill 263 - 133rd General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "state maximum allowable cost" means the per unit amount the medicaid program pays a terminal distributor of dangerous drugs for a prescribed drug included in the state maximum allowable cost program established under division (B) of this section. "State maximum allowable cost" excludes dispensing fees and copayments, coinsurance, or other cost-sharing charges, if any. (B) Subject to section 5167.123 of the Revised Code, the medicaid director shall establish a state maximum allowable cost program for purposes of managing medicaid payments to terminal distributors of dangerous drugs for prescribed drugs identified by the director pursuant to this division. The director shall do all of the following with respect to the program: (1) Identify and create a list of prescribed drugs to be included in the program. (2) Update the list of prescribed drugs described in division (B)(1) of this section on a weekly basis. (3) Review the state maximum allowable cost for each prescribed drug included on the list described in division (B)(1) of this section on a weekly basis.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5168.40 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 51 / Chapter 5168 / § 5168.40
§ 5168.40. Franchise permit fee definitions
Status: in_force

July 4, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly As used in sections 5168.40 to 5168.56 of the Revised Code: (A) "Bed surrender" means the following: (1) In the case of a nursing home, the removal of a bed from a nursing home's licensed capacity in a manner that reduces the total licensed capacity of all nursing homes and makes it impossible for the bed to ever be a part of any nursing home's licensed capacity; (2) In the case of a hospital, the removal of a hospital bed from registration under section 3701.07 of the Revised Code as a skilled nursing facility bed or long-term care bed in a manner that reduces the total number of hospital beds registered under that section as skilled nursing facility beds or long-term care beds and makes it impossible for the bed to ever be registered as a skilled nursing facility bed or long-term care bed. (B) "Change of operator" has the same meaning as in section 5165.01 of the Revised Code. (C) "Effective date of a change of operator" means the day an entering operator becomes the operator of a nursing home or hospital. (D) "Entering operator" means the person or government entity that will become the operator of a nursing home or hospital on the effective date of a change of operator. (E) "Exiting operator" means an operator that will cease to be the operator of a nursing home or hospital on the effective date of a change of operator. (F) "Franchise permit fee rate" means the rate determined in accordance with section 5168.41 of the Revised Code. (G) "Hospital" has the same meaning as in section 3727.01 of the Revised Code. (H) "Hospital long-term care unit" means any distinct part of a hospital in which any of the following beds are located: (1) Beds registered pursuant to section 3701.07 of the Revised Code as skilled nursing facility beds or long-term care beds; (2) Beds licensed as nursing home beds under section 3721.02 or 3721.09 of the Revised Code. (I) "Indirect guarantee percentage" means the percentage specified in the "Social Security Act," section 1903(w)(4)(C)(ii), 42 U.S.C. 1396b(w)(4)(C)(ii), that is to be used in determining whether a class of providers is indirectly held harmless for any portion of the costs of a broad-based health-care-related tax. If the indirect guarantee percentage changes during a fiscal year, the indirect guarantee percentage is the following: (1) For the part of the fiscal year before the change takes effect, the percentage in effect before the change; (2) For the part of the fiscal year beginning with the date the indirect guarantee percentage changes, the new percentage. (J) "Medicaid days" and "nursing facility" have the same meanings as in section 5165.01 of the Revised Code. (K)(1) "Nursing home" means all of the following: (a) A nursing home licensed under section 3721.02 or 3721.09 of the Revised Code, including any part of a home for the aging licensed as a nursing home; (b) A facility or part of a facility, other than a hospital, that is certified as a skilled nursing facility under Title XVIII; (c) A nursing facility, other than a portion of a hospital certified as a nursing facility. (2) "Nursing home" does not include either of the following: (a) A county home, county nursing home, or district home operated pursuant to Chapter 5155. of the Revised Code; (b) A nursing home maintained and operated by the department of veterans services under section 5907.01 of the Revised Code. (L) "Operator" means the person or government entity responsible for the daily operating and management decisions for a nursing home or hospital. (M) "Title XIX" means Title XIX of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq. (N) "Title XVIII" means Title XVIII of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq. Last updated September 5, 2023 at 3:40 PM