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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management › Section 126.071 | Monetary Settlement; Consultation With Director of Budget and Management.

Effective:
September 29, 2017
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly
No state agency shall agree to any monetary settlement that obligates payment from any fund within the state treasury without consulting with the director of budget and management.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management › Section 126.08 | Director of Budget and Management - Powers and Duties.

Effective:
September 29, 2007
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 119 - 127th General Assembly
The director of budget and management may exercise control over the financial transactions of state agencies, including approving, disapproving, voiding, or invalidating encumbrances or transactions, except those in the judicial and legislative branches, by:
(A) Requiring encumbrancing documents or any other financial information to be submitted to the director to evaluate the legality of an expenditure, except that the director shall not disapprove any encumbrancing document submitted by the attorney general, auditor of state, secretary of state, or treasurer of state unless there is an insufficient unobligated balance in the appropriation or the encumbrance does not meet all other legal requirements. Those portions of an appropriation that are encumbered are not available for expenditure for any purpose other than that indicated on the encumbrancing document. If any requirements of the director regarding the submission of encumbrancing documents or other financial information are not complied with, or if any encumbrancing document is disapproved in whole or in part, the director shall notify the submitting agency thereof and shall not authorize payment unless the reasons for disapproval are corrected.
(B) Requiring the allocation and allotment of any appropriation by quarter or by any other period of time.
(C) Reporting to the attorney general for such action, civil or criminal, as the attorney general considers necessary, all facts showing improper payment of public money or misappropriation of public property;
(D) By adopting rules for carrying into effect any powers granted by this chapter.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management › Section 126.09 | Monthly Distribution Schedule of Subsidies.

Effective:
July 1, 1985
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 201 - 116th General Assembly
In order to comply with Sections 1 and 3 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, the director of budget and management may determine the monthly distribution schedule of any subsidies appropriated by the general assembly. In each period that he finds it necessary to adjust the normal distribution of any such subsidies, he shall first notify the controlling board of the need for such action, and explain the reasons therefor.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management › Section 126.12 | Recovering Statewide Indirect Costs.

Effective:
June 30, 2011
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly
(A)(1) The office of budget and management shall prepare and administer a statewide indirect cost allocation plan that provides for the recovery of statewide indirect costs from any fund of the state. The director of budget and management may make transfers of statewide indirect costs from the appropriate fund of the state to the general revenue fund on an intrastate transfer voucher. The director, for reasons of sound financial management, also may waive the recovery of statewide indirect costs. Prior to making a transfer in accordance with this division, the director shall notify the affected agency of the amounts to be transferred.
(2) To support development and upgrade costs to the state's enterprise resource planning system, the director also may make transfers of statewide indirect costs attributable to debt service paid for the system to the OAKS support organization fund created in section 126.24 of the Revised Code. Transfers may be made from either of the following:
(a) The appropriate fund of the state;
(b) The general revenue fund, if the statewide indirect costs have been collected under division (A)(1) of this section and deposited in the general revenue fund.
(B) As used in this section, "statewide indirect costs" means operating costs incurred by an agency in providing services to any other agency, for which there was no billing to such other agency for the services provided, and for which disbursements have been made from the general revenue fund or other funds.
(C) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, in order to reduce the payment of adjustments to the federal government as determined under the plan prepared under division (A)(1) of this section, the director of budget and management shall, on or before the first day of September each fiscal year, designate such funds of the state as the director considers necessary to retain their own interest earnings.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management › Section 126.13 | Designating Program or Activity for Performance Review.

Effective:
September 29, 1995
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 117 - 121st General Assembly
As soon as practical after the enactment of any act containing appropriations for current expenses, the director of budget and management shall designate which programs or activities receiving appropriations for current expenses in the act shall be subject to performance reviews. The director shall notify in writing the head of each affected agency of the designations, the requirement to prepare a separate program performance report for each designated program or activity, and the information to be included in the report. The director shall not designate for performance review any program or activity assigned to the attorney general, auditor of state, secretary of state, treasurer of state, or agencies of the legislative or judicial branches. The director may remove the designation from a program or activity by notifying the head of the affected agency in writing of such removal. Appropriations for capital expenses are not subject to this section.
For each designated program or activity, the affected agency shall prepare a separate program performance report containing the information required by the director and submit the report as part of the agency's budget request under division (D) of section 126.02 of the Revised Code by the dates required in that section or as otherwise required by the director. If an agency fails to submit a program performance report for a designated program or activity or if, in the judgment of the director, the report submitted does not contain the information required, the director shall disapprove the agency's budget request for the designated program or activity in the state budget estimate submitted to the governor under section 126.02 of the Revised Code. The governor, in his budget submission to the general assembly under section 107.03 of the Revised Code, shall not recommend any appropriation for the program or activity and shall explain the reason for not recommending an appropriation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management › Section 126.14 | Controlling Board to Approve Release of Appropriation for Purchase of Real Estate or Other Capital Project.

Effective:
September 29, 2013
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly
The release of any money appropriated for the purchase of real estate shall be approved by the controlling board. The release of money appropriated for all other capital projects is also subject to the approval of the controlling board, except that the director of budget and management may approve the release of money appropriated for specific projects in accordance with the requirements of this section and except that the director of budget and management may approve the release of unencumbered capital balances, for a project to repair, remove, or prevent a public exigency declared to exist by the executive director of the Ohio facilities construction commission under section 123.10 of the Revised Code in the amount designated in that declaration.
Within sixty days after the effective date of any act appropriating money for capital projects, the director shall determine which appropriations are for general projects and which are for specific projects. Specific projects may include specific higher education projects that are to be funded from general purpose appropriations from the higher education improvement fund or the higher education improvement taxable fund created in section 154.21 of the Revised Code. Upon determining which projects are general and which are specific, the director shall submit to the controlling board a list that includes a brief description of and the estimated expenditures for each specific project. The release of money for any specific higher education projects that are to be funded from general purpose appropriations from the higher education improvement fund or the higher education improvement taxable fund but that are not included on the list, and the release of money for any specific higher education projects included on the list that will exceed the estimated expenditures by more than ten per cent, are subject to the approval of the controlling board.
The director may create new appropriation items and make transfers of appropriations to them for specific higher education projects included on the list that are to be funded from general purpose appropriations for basic renovations that are made from the higher education improvement fund or the higher education improvement taxable fund.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management › Section 126.141 | Contingency Reserve for Capital Appropriations.

Effective:
September 29, 2011
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly
Any request for release of capital appropriations by the director of budget and management or the controlling board for facilities projects shall contain a contingency reserve, the amount of which shall be determined by the public authority, for payment of unanticipated project expenses. Any amount deducted from the encumbrance for a contractor's contract as an assessment for liquidated damages shall be added to the encumbrance for the contingency reserve. Contingency reserve funds shall be used to pay costs resulting from unanticipated job conditions, to comply with rulings regarding building and other codes, to pay costs related to errors, omissions, or other deficiencies in contract documents, to pay costs associated with changes in the scope of work, to pay interest due on late payments, and to pay the costs of settlements and judgments related to the project.
Any funds remaining upon completion of a project may, upon approval of the controlling board, be released for the use of the agency or instrumentality to which the appropriation was made for other capital facilities projects.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management › Section 126.15 | Adjusting Capital or Operating Budgets.

Effective:
March 18, 1999
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 850 - 122nd General Assembly
If the director of budget and management determines that adjustments to the capital or operating budgets are required because of the reorganization of administrative agencies, the transfer of programs, the creation of new funds, the modification of capital projects, or the consolidation of funds, as authorized by an act of the general assembly, the director may both require the head of the administering agency to certify the estimated amount of the cash balance to be transferred to the receiving fund and transfer the estimated amount to the receiving fund when needed to make payment. Not more than thirty days after certifying the estimated amount, the head of the administering agency shall certify to the director the final amount to be transferred. The director shall adjust the amount transferred to reflect any difference between the estimated amount transferred and the final amount.
The director of budget and management may cancel encumbrances and reestablish encumbrances or parts of encumbrances as needed in the appropriate funds and appropriation items for the same purposes and same vendors. The director may transfer appropriation authority necessary to reestablish such encumbrances in a different fund or appropriation item within an agency or between agencies as the director determines necessary. The director shall reduce each of the appropriation balances of each fiscal year by the amount of the encumbrances canceled in the respective funds or appropriation items.
The director also may transfer any unencumbered or unallotted balances to the appropriate line item to be used for the same purposes.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management › Section 126.22 | Director - Accounting Powers.

Effective:
September 29, 2017
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly
The director of budget and management may:
(A) Perform accounting services for and design and implement accounting systems with state agencies;
(B) Provide other accounting services, including the maintenance and periodic auditing of the financial records of and submission of vouchers by state agencies, provision of assistance in the analysis of the financial position of state agencies, and preparation and submission of reports;
(C) Change any accounting code appearing in appropriations acts of the general assembly;
(D) Correct accounting errors committed by any state agency or state institution of higher education, including, but not limited to, the reestablishment of encumbrances cancelled in error.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management › Section 126.23 | Reports on State Funds.

Effective:
July 1, 1985
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 201 - 116th General Assembly
The director of budget and management shall furnish to the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives and the legislative budget office of the legislative service commission monthly reports of revenues, disbursements and expenses, transfers, lapses, and balances for each fund of the state. A daily report of fiscal transactions shall be provided to the legislative budget office.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management › Section 126.24 | Oaks Support Organization Fund.

Effective:
June 30, 2011
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly
The OAKS support organization fund is hereby created in the state treasury for the purpose of paying the operating, development, and upgrade expenses of the state's enterprise resource planning system. The fund shall consist of transfers received pursuant to division (A)(2) of section 126.12 of the Revised Code and agency payroll charge revenues that are designated to support the operating, development, and upgrade costs of the Ohio administrative knowledge system. All investment earnings of the fund shall be credited to the fund.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management › Section 126.25 | User Charges - State Accounting Fund.

Effective:
October 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
The services provided by the director of budget and management under sections 126.21 and 126.42 of the Revised Code shall be supported by charges. The director shall determine a rate that is sufficient to defray the expense of those services and the manner by which those charges shall be collected. All money collected from the charges shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the accounting and budgeting fund, which is hereby created. Rebates or revenue shares received from any payment card program established under division (B) of section 126.21 of the Revised Code and miscellaneous payments that reimburse expenses paid from the accounting and budgeting fund may be deposited into the accounting and budgeting fund and used to support the services provided by the director.
Last updated September 21, 2023 at 3:08 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management › Section 126.26 | Director as Chairperson of Gubernatorial Transition Committee - Powers and Duties.

Effective:
September 29, 1997
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 215 - 122nd General Assembly
The director of budget and management, when serving as chairperson of the gubernatorial transition committee appointed under section 107.29 of the Revised Code, shall:
(A) Make available to the governor-elect all the information the office of budget and management has concerning the income and revenues of the state and the state budget, and assign one or more employees of the office to assist the governor-elect in the governor-elect's study of the information;
(B) In consultation with the director of administrative services, assign and make available office space sufficient to accommodate the governor-elect and the governor-elect's immediate staff pending the governor-elect's inauguration as governor;
(C) As necessary, direct any state agency to furnish such information as may be necessary to the governor, the governor-elect, or the gubernatorial transition committee;
(D) Preside as chairperson at all meetings of the gubernatorial transition committee;
(E) Pay the reasonable and necessary expenses incurred by or on behalf of the governor-elect from moneys appropriated for that purpose under section 107.30 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management › Section 126.27 | Filing Budget Estimates With Governor-Elect.

Effective:
July 1, 1985
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 201 - 116th General Assembly
Each state agency for which direct appropriations are proposed shall, not later than the first day of December in each year that a new governor is elected, file with the governor-elect its budget estimates. The estimates shall include the details set forth in divisions (A) to (D) of section 126.02 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management › Section 126.28 | Powers to Take Testimony and Produce Evidence.

Effective:
July 1, 1985
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 201 - 116th General Assembly
In the exercise of any power mentioned in this chapter, the director of budget and management may compel the attendance and testimony of witnesses, administer oaths, examine such persons as he considers necessary, and compel the production of records. The orders and subpoenas issued by the director under this section may be enforced by proceedings in contempt upon application to any court of common pleas.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management › Section 126.29 | Agency Scheduled to Terminate Operations.

Effective:
July 1, 1985
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 201 - 116th General Assembly
(A) Whenever any state agency, whether in the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of government, is scheduled to terminate its operations on a specified date, the agency shall notify the director of budget and management not earlier than one hundred twenty days prior to the specified termination date and, if feasible, not later than ninety days prior to such date. If notice cannot feasibly be given at least ninety days prior to such date, notice shall be given as soon after the ninetieth day prior to the termination date as possible. The director shall:
(1) Encumber, from the appropriation of the agency for the fiscal year that includes the date on which the agency is scheduled to terminate its operations, an amount sufficient to pay all expenses incurred prior to the date on which operations are terminated;
(2) Notify the department of administrative services of the need to:
(a) Provide for the final payment by mail of the wages or salaries and the value of accumulated vacation leave to former employees of the agency;
(b) Certify the employment status of former employees of the agency who are eligible for unemployment compensation under Chapter 4141. of the Revised Code or under other state or federal law.
(3) Pay any expenses incurred by the agency prior to its termination date but for which a bill is not received until after its termination date;
(4) Attend to any other matters associated with winding up the affairs of the agency.
(B) Upon completion of the winding up of the affairs of the agency, but not later than one hundred eighty days after its termination date, the director shall request the auditor of state to conduct a final audit of the agency.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management › Section 126.301 | Statute of Limitations.

Effective:
July 1, 1993
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 152 - 120th General Assembly
Except for unclaimed funds under Chapter 169. of the Revised Code, an action against the state or an agency thereof for failure to make any distribution or other payment shall be brought within five years after the cause of action has accrued.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management › Section 126.35 | Warrants or Electronic Fund Transfers for Payments - Electronic Benefit Transfers.

Effective:
December 31, 2017
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly
(A) The director of budget and management shall draw warrants or process electronic funds transfers against the treasurer of state pursuant to all requests for payment that the director has approved under section 126.07 of the Revised Code.
(B) Unless a cash assistance payment is to be made by electronic benefit transfer, payment by the director of budget and management to a participant in the Ohio works first program pursuant to Chapter 5107. of the Revised Code or a recipient of cash assistance provided under the refugee assistance program established under section 5101.49 of the Revised Code shall be made by direct deposit to the account of the participant or recipient in the financial institution designated under section 329.03 of the Revised Code. Payment by the director of budget and management to a recipient of benefits distributed through the medium of electronic benefit transfer pursuant to section 5101.33 of the Revised Code shall be by electronic benefit transfer. Payment by the director of budget and management as compensation to an employee of the state who has, pursuant to section 124.151 of the Revised Code, designated a financial institution and account for the direct deposit of such payments shall be made by direct deposit to the account of the employee. Payment to any other payee who has designated a financial institution and account for the direct deposit of such payment may be made by direct deposit to the account of the payee in the financial institution as provided in section 9.37 of the Revised Code. Accounts maintained by the director of budget and management or the director's agent in a financial institution for the purpose of effectuating payment by direct deposit or electronic benefit transfer shall be maintained in accordance with section 135.18 of the Revised Code.
(C) All other payments from the state treasury shall be made by paper warrants, electronic funds transfers, or by direct deposit payable to the respective payees. The director of budget and management may mail the paper warrants to the respective payees or distribute them through other state agencies, whichever the director determines to be the better procedure.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management › Section 126.36 | Replacement of Lost or Destroyed Warrant.

Effective:
December 1, 2006
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 530 - 126th General Assembly
If the director of budget and management is satisfied, by affidavit or otherwise, that any warrant on the state treasury drawn by the director has been lost or destroyed prior to its presentation for payment, the director may issue to the proper person a replacement of the lost or destroyed warrant; provided, that before issuing the replacement, the director shall require that the person making application therefor execute a formal agreement to indemnify the state for any loss or damage sustained on account of the issuance of the replacement and the subsequent presentation and payment of the original. The form of the agreement shall be prepared by the attorney general. The agreement when executed shall be filed with the director. The treasurer of state shall not be liable because of the payment of any replacement warrant drawn under this section.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management › Section 126.37 | Stale Warrants for Payment.

Effective:
September 30, 2021
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly
(A) The director of budget and management shall void any warrant the director draws on the state treasury that is not presented for payment to the treasurer of state within ninety days after the date of issuance.
(B) If a warrant voided pursuant to division (A) of this section was drawn against an appropriation of the current fiscal year and the holder of the voided warrant presents the warrant for reissuance, in the same fiscal year, to the state agency that made the payment originally, the agency shall prepare a voucher for the holder of the voided warrant, in the amount shown on the warrant that has been voided, against the same appropriation of the same fiscal year if the agency is satisfied that payment is proper.
(C) If a warrant was drawn against an appropriation of the first fiscal year of the fiscal biennium and voided pursuant to division (A) of this section in either fiscal year of the biennium and if the holder of the voided warrant presents the warrant for reissuance, in the second fiscal year of the biennium, to the state agency that made the payment originally, the agency shall prepare a voucher for the holder of the voided warrant, in the amount shown on the warrant that has been voided, against funds transferred to the agency by the director pursuant to section 131.33 of the Revised Code, if the agency is satisfied that payment is proper. If no such funds are available for transfer, the agency shall prepare the voucher against any unexpended appropriations of the current fiscal year available to it.
(D) If a warrant was drawn against an appropriation and, during the same biennium, was voided pursuant to division (A) of this section, and if, after that biennium, the holder of the voided warrant presents the warrant for reissuance to the state agency that made the payment originally, the agency shall prepare a voucher for the holder of the voided warrant, in the amount shown on the warrant that has been voided, against any appropriation of the current fiscal year made to the agency if the agency is satisfied that payment is proper.
(E) If a warrant voided pursuant to division (A) of this section was drawn against an appropriation of a previous fiscal year and voided after that fiscal biennium and if the holder of the voided warrant presents the warrant for reissuance to the state agency that made the payment originally, the agency shall forward the warrant to the director with a request for reissuance. The director shall make payment to the holder of the voided warrant, in the amount shown on the warrant that has been voided, against an appropriation of the current fiscal year made to the director for the reissuance of voided warrants, if the director is satisfied that reissuance of the warrant is proper.
Last updated July 20, 2021 at 10:11 AM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management › Section 126.38 | Furnishing Earnings Statement With Each Pay Warrant.

Effective:
December 1, 2006
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 530 - 126th General Assembly
The director of budget and management shall furnish an earnings statement with each pay warrant issued to a state employee paid on a payroll voucher. The statement shall include a summary of the earnings information provided to the director pursuant to section 125.21 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management › Section 126.40 | Forgery Recovery Fund.

Effective:
June 30, 2007
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 119 - 127th General Assembly
There is hereby created in the state treasury the forgery recovery fund. The fund shall consist of all moneys collected by the attorney general from the resolution of cases of fraud or forgery involving warrants issued by the director of the office of budget and management. The director shall use the fund to pay costs associated with the reissue of state warrants to payees whose warrants were fraudulently redeemed.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management › Section 126.42 | [Former r.c. 125.22, Amended and Renumbered by h.b. 33, 135th General Assembly, Effective 10/3/2023] Support Services for Boards and Commissions.

Effective:
October 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
(A) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the office of budget and management shall perform routine support for the following boards and commissions:
(1) Architects board;
(2) State chiropractic board;
(3) State cosmetology and barber board;
(4) Accountancy board;
(5) State dental board;
(6) Ohio occupational therapy, physical therapy, and athletic trainers board;
(7) State board of registration for professional engineers and surveyors;
(8) Board of embalmers and funeral directors;
(9) State board of psychology;
(10) Counselor, social worker, and marriage and family therapist board;
(11) State veterinary medical licensing board;
(12) Commission on Hispanic-Latino affairs;
(13) Commission on African-Americans;
(14) Chemical dependency professionals board;
(15) State vision professionals board;
(16) State speech and hearing professionals board.
(B)(1) For purposes of this section, the office of budget and management shall perform the following routine support services for the boards and commissions named in division (A) of this section unless the controlling board exempts a board or commission from this requirement on the recommendation of the office of budget and management:
(a) Preparing and processing payroll and other personnel documents;
(b) Preparing and processing vouchers, purchase orders, encumbrances, and other accounting documents;
(c) Maintaining ledgers of accounts and balances;
(d) Preparing and monitoring budgets and allotment plans in consultation with the boards and commissions;
(e) Routine human resources and personnel services;
(f) Other routine support services that the director of budget and management considers appropriate to achieve efficiency.
(2) In addition to the routine support services listed in division (B)(1) of this section, the office of budget and management may perform other services which a board or commission named in division (A) of this section delegates to the office and the office accepts.
(3) The office of budget and management may perform routine support services for any professional or occupational licensing board or commission not named in division (A) of this section at the request of the board or commission.
(C) The office of budget and management shall determine the fees to be charged to the boards and commissions, which shall be in proportion to the services performed for each board or commission.
Last updated September 25, 2023 at 5:26 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management › Section 126.48 | Internal Audit Report as Public Record.

Effective:
October 17, 2019
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly
(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, any internal audit report produced by the office of internal audit in the office of budget and management and all work papers of the internal audit are confidential and are not public records under section 149.43 of the Revised Code until the final report of an internal audit's findings and recommendations is submitted to the state audit committee, the governor, and the director of the state agency involved.
(B) The following are not public records under section 149.43 of the Revised Code:
(1) An internal audit report or work paper that meets the definition of a security record or infrastructure record under section 149.433 of the Revised Code;
(2) Any information derived from a state tax return or state tax return information as permitted to be used by the office of internal audit under section 5703.21 of the Revised Code.
(3) Any record or document necessary for the performance of an internal audit received by the office of internal audit under division (C) of section 126.45 of the Revised Code, that is otherwise exempt from disclosure under state or federal law.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management › Section 126.50 | Definitions.

Effective:
September 29, 2011
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly
As used in sections 126.503, 126.504, 126.505, and 126.506 of the Revised Code, "state agency" has the same meaning as in section 1.60 of the Revised Code, but does not include the elected state officers, the general assembly or any legislative agency, a court or any judicial agency, or a state institution of higher education.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management › Section 126.503 | Control of Travel Expenses.

Effective:
July 1, 2013
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 51 - 130th General Assembly
All state agencies shall control travel expenses by doing all of the following:
(A) Complying with any travel directives issued by the director of budget and management;
(B) Using, when possible, the online travel authorization and expense reimbursement process;
(C) Conducting meetings, whenever possible and in compliance with section 121.22 of the Revised Code, using conference calls, teleconferences, webinars, or other technology tools;
(D) Using fleet vehicles for official state travel whenever possible; and
(E) Following restrictions set by the department of administrative services regarding mileage reimbursement pursuant to section 125.832 of the Revised Code.
In addition to the methods of travel expense control listed above, a state agency may use a state-contracted rental vehicle provider for employee vehicle travel exceeding one hundred miles.
The director of budget and management shall not reimburse any state agency employee for unauthorized travel expenses.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management › Section 126.504 | Use of Interoffice Mailing Service; Printing, Copying, Mail Preparation and Related Services.

Effective:
October 16, 2009
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 128th General Assembly
(A) Each state agency shall use the interoffice mailing service provided by the department of administrative services for all mail deliveries to other state agencies located within a reasonable distance.
(B) By October 1, 2009, each state agency shall direct all major printing, copying, mail preparation, and related services through the department of administrative services and shall eliminate any internal operations providing those services.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management › Section 126.505 | Compliance With Standardization and Strategic Sourcing Policy and Control-on-Equipment Directives.

Effective:
October 16, 2009
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 128th General Assembly
(A) Each state agency shall comply with any purchasing standardization and strategic sourcing policy directives issued by the director of administrative services.
(B) Each state agency shall comply with any control-on-equipment directives issued by the director of budget and management. The director shall issue and revise as necessary control-on-equipment directives that apply to all furniture and equipment purchases.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management › Section 126.506 | Participation in Technology Consolidation Projects.

Effective:
October 16, 2009
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 128th General Assembly
(A) Each state agency shall participate in information technology consolidation projects implemented by the state chief information officer under section 125.18 of the Revised Code.
(B) At the direction of and in the format specified by the director of administrative services, each state agency shall maintain a list of information technology assets possessed by the agency and associated costs related to those assets.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management › Section 126.62 | All Ohio Future Fund.

Effective:
October 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
(A) The all Ohio future fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of money credited to it and any donations, gifts, bequests, or other money received for deposit in the fund. All investment earnings of the fund shall be credited to the fund. Money in the fund shall be used to promote economic development throughout the state, including infrastructure projects and other infrastructure improvements.
(B) The director shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that establish requirements and procedures to provide financial assistance from the all Ohio future fund. The director shall consult with JobsOhio in adopting the rules.
(C) No money shall be expended from the all Ohio future fund, pursuant to appropriation, until it has been released by the controlling board.
Last updated September 21, 2023 at 5:56 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management › Section 126.65 | State Post-Traumatic Stress Fund.

Effective:
April 12, 2021
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 308 - 133rd General Assembly
(A) The state post-traumatic stress fund is created in the state treasury. The director of budget and management shall be the trustee of the fund.
(B) The state post-traumatic stress fund shall be used for the following purposes:
(1) Payment of compensation for lost wages that result from a public safety officer being disabled by post-traumatic stress disorder received in the course of, and arising out of, employment as a public safety officer but without an accompanying physical injury;
(2) Payment of medical, nurse, therapy, and hospital services and medicines required to treat a public safety officer diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder received in the course of, and arising out of, employment as a public safety officer but without an accompanying physical injury;
(3) Payment of administrative costs incurred in providing the compensation and benefits described in divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section.
(C) No employer shall discharge, demote, reassign, or take any punitive action against any public safety officer because the officer filed a claim or instituted, pursued, or testified in any proceedings related to compensation or benefits paid from the state post traumatic stress fund as a result of a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder received in the course of, and arising out of, employment as a public safety officer but without an accompanying physical injury. Any such officer may file an action in the common pleas court of the county of the officer's employment in which the relief which may be granted shall be limited to reasonable attorney fees and reinstatement with back pay, if the action is based on discharge, or an award for wages lost if based upon demotion, reassignment, or punitive action taken, offset by earnings subsequent to discharge, demotion, reassignment, or punitive action taken. The action shall be forever barred unless filed within one hundred eighty days immediately following the discharge, demotion, reassignment, or punitive action taken, and no action may be instituted or maintained unless the employer has received written notice of a claimed violation of this section within the ninety days immediately following the discharge, demotion, reassignment, or punitive action taken.
(D) There shall be no payments made from the state post-traumatic stress fund pursuant to division (B) of this section and no person is eligible for any claims and no liability shall accrue to any state party under this section.
Last updated May 7, 2021 at 5:16 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 127 | Controlling Board › Section 127.12 | Controlling Board Created.

Effective:
June 29, 2011
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 114 - 129th General Assembly
There is hereby created a controlling board consisting of all of the following:
(A) The director of budget and management or an employee of the office of budget and management designated by the director;
(B) The chairperson or vice-chairperson of the finance-appropriations committee of the house of representatives, as designated by the speaker;
(C) The chairperson or vice-chairperson of the finance committee of the senate, as designated by the president;
(D) Two members of the house of representatives appointed by the speaker, one from the majority party and one from the minority party;
(E) Two members of the senate appointed by the president, one from the majority party and one from the minority party.
Notwithstanding section 101.26 of the Revised Code, the legislative members, when engaged in their duties as members of the controlling board, shall be paid at the per diem rate of one hundred fifty dollars, and their necessary traveling expenses, which shall be paid from the funds appropriated for the payment of expenses of legislative committees.
In the event of the absence, illness, disability, death, or resignation of a legislative member, the following persons may serve in the member's absence: for the chairperson or vice-chairperson of the finance-appropriations committee of the house of representatives, the speaker or a member of the house designated by the speaker; for the chairperson or vice-chairperson of the senate finance committee, the president or a member of the senate designated by the president; for a member of the board appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, or the president of the senate, the speaker or the president, as the case may be, or a member of the house of representatives or of the senate of the same party as such controlling board member, designated by such speaker or president.
As used in any statute, "controlling board," unless the context otherwise requires, means the controlling board created by this section.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 127 | Controlling Board › Section 127.13 | Organization.

Effective:
July 1, 1993
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 152 - 120th General Assembly
The director of budget and management or his designee shall be president of the controlling board. The president shall prepare the proposed agenda for the meetings of the board and shall provide, at least seven days prior to the meeting, copies of the proposed agenda and supporting documentation to the members of the board and to the legislative budget office of the legislative service commission.
The director shall designate an employee of the office of budget and management to serve as secretary of the controlling board. The secretary shall assist the president of the board and shall make and keep a record of each request received by the board and of its action thereon. The secretary shall certify a copy of the record of each action to each member of the board and to the director.
The controlling board may adopt procedural rules for the conduct of the business of the board, may approve, disapprove, modify as to specific dollar amounts, or defer requests, and may require that a request from the senate, the house of representatives, the supreme court, or an elected member of the executive department as defined in Section 1 of Article III, Ohio Constitution, not currently before the controlling board be added to the agenda for a specified future meeting of the board, provided that such request has been previously submitted to the president for inclusion in the agenda for a board meeting. The controlling board also may adopt rules authorizing the president to act on its behalf in exigent circumstances affecting the public health, safety, or welfare.
The affirmative vote of no fewer than four members of the controlling board shall be required for any action of the board. The board shall meet at least once a month.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 127 | Controlling Board › Section 127.15 | Hearing on Transfers.

Effective:
October 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
The controlling board may authorize any state agency for which an appropriation is made, in any act making appropriations for capital improvements, to expend the moneys appropriated otherwise than in accordance with the items set forth, and for such purpose may authorize transfers among items or create new items and authorize transfers thereto, provided that prior to such transfers the agency seeking the same shall notify by mail or electronic mail the elected representatives to the general assembly from the counties affected by such transfers, stating the time and place of the hearing on the proposed transfers thereto. Such transfers among items shall not alter in total the appropriation to any state agency except as otherwise provided by the general assembly. The board may not authorize the transfer of a capital appropriation item of any state agency for use by such agency for operating expenses, except as otherwise provided by the general assembly.
Last updated August 9, 2023 at 11:39 AM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 127 | Controlling Board › Section 127.162 | Approval of Purchase by Controlling Board.

Effective:
September 29, 2011
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly
(A) Upon the request of a state agency or the director of budget and management, the controlling board may approve the making of a purchase if the agency seeking to make the purchase has met both of the following requirements:
(1) The agency has utilized one of the following competitive selection or evaluation and selection processes:
(a) The requirements for competitive sealed bidding under section 125.07 of the Revised Code;
(b) The requirements for competitive sealed proposals under section 125.071 of the Revised Code;
(c) The requirements for reverse auctions under section 125.072 of the Revised Code;
(d) The evaluation and selection requirements for professional design services under section 153.69 of the Revised Code;
(e) Agency released competitive opportunity that demonstrates a competitive process involving a request for proposals, request for qualifications, or request for information.
(2) The agency has provided in its request to the board a detailed explanation of the competitive selection or evaluation and selection process it utilized.
(B) The controlling board, by a majority vote, may disapprove or defer a request submitted under this section or request that the agency resubmit the request pursuant to section 127.16 of the Revised Code if the agency fails to demonstrate it utilized one of the competitive selection or evaluation and selection requirements described in division (A)(1) of this section.
(C) Nothing in this section shall be construed to modify the cumulative purchasing thresholds established in divisions (B) and (E) of section 127.16 of the Revised Code.