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... The award by the Ohio rail development commission of a franchise for all or part of a rail system shall be the sole license required for a franchisee to exercise all specified franchise powers and enjoy all specified franchise rights. The franchise shall be for a term of not less than thirty-five, but not more than fifty years from the date of commencement of actual service operations. With the approval of the gener...

...y and request the Ohio rail development commission to appropriate real property for sale to the franchisee in accordance with division (A)(5) of section 4981.29 of the Revised Code; (2) Plan, design, finance, construct, reconstruct, improve, operate, and maintain its portion of the rail system and any ancillary system facilities; (3) Set and charge rates and fares for the use of its portion of the rail system, and ...

...(A) The Ohio rail development commission shall review all plans and specifications of a franchisee for its portion of a rail system to ensure that the plans and specifications conform to commission standards, and shall inspect and approve the construction of all portions of the rail system. The commission shall assume responsibility for and indemnify any franchisee for third-party claims arising out of franchisee des...

...ned by a railroad corporation, in the immediate vicinity of any rail system station or terminal of the commission or a franchisee, including, without limitation, parcels that abut, are adjacent or contiguous to, or otherwise increase in value due to the existence of, the station or terminal. An assessment levied under this division shall be for the purpose of enabling the commission to collect a portion of the increa...

...The "Interstate High Speed Intercity Rail Passenger Network Compact" is hereby ratified, enacted into law and entered into by the state of Ohio with all other states legally joining therein the form substantially as follows: "INTERSTATE HIGH SPEED INTERCITY RAIL PASSENGERNETWORK COMPACT Article IPolicy and Purpose Because the beneficial service of and profitability of a high speed intercity rail passenger system w...

...nsportation and the rail development commission shall include all federally designated high-speed rail corridors in Ohio and all passenger rail corridors in the Ohio hub study. The department of transportation and the rail development commission shall work with Amtrak to examine methods to improve existing service between Toledo and Cleveland with a goal of creating optimum service to connect ...

... report year" means the calendar year immediately preceding the calendar year in which a fiscal year for which a medicaid payment rate determination is made begins. (2) When a cost report the department of developmental disabilities accepts under division (A) or (C)(1)(b) of section 5124.101 of the Revised Code is used in determining an ICF/IID's medicaid payment rate, "cost report year" means the period that the ...

...The department of medicaid shall enter into a contract with the department of developmental disabilities under section 5162.35 of the Revised Code that provides for the department of developmental disabilities to assume the powers and duties of the department of medicaid with regard to the medicaid program's coverage of ICF/IID services. The contract shall include a schedule for the assumption of the powers and...

...To the extent authorized by rules authorized by section 5162.021 of the Revised Code, the director of developmental disabilities shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as necessary to implement this chapter.

...The medicaid program shall cover ICF/IID services when all of the following apply: (A) The ICF/IID services are provided to a medicaid recipient eligible for the services. (B) The ICF/IID services are provided by an ICF/IID for which the provider has a valid provider agreement. (C) Federal financial participation is available for the ICF/IID services.

...(A) Subject to section 5124.072 of the Revised Code, an ICF/IID operator is eligible to enter into a provider agreement for an ICF/IID if all of the following apply: (1) The ICF/IID is certified by the director of health for participation in medicaid; (2) The ICF/IID is licensed by the director of developmental disabilities as a residential facility; (3) Subject to division (B) of this section, the operator a...

...(A) Except as provided in section 5124.072 of the Revised Code, the department of medicaid shall enter into a provider agreement with an ICF/IID operator who applies, and is eligible, for the provider agreement. (B) A provider agreement shall require the department of developmental disabilities, pursuant to its agreement with the department of medicaid under section 5124.02 of the Revised Code, to make medica...

...An ICF/IID operator may enter into provider agreements for more than one ICF/IID.

...The department of medicaid shall not revalidate an ICF/IID provider agreement if the provider fails to maintain eligibility for the provider agreement as provided in section 5124.06 of the Revised Code.

...(A) Every provider agreement with an ICF/IID provider shall do both of the following: (1) Except as provided by division (B) of this section, include any part of the ICF/IID that meets federal and state standards for medicaid certification; (2) Prohibit the provider from doing either of the following: (a) Discriminating against a resident on the basis of race, color, sex, creed, or national origin; (b) Subje...

...An ICF/IID resident has a cause of action against the provider of the ICF/IID for breach of the provider agreement obligations or other duties imposed by section 5124.08 of the Revised Code. The action may be commenced by the resident, or on the resident's behalf by the resident's sponsor, by the filing of a civil action in the court of common pleas of the county in which the ICF/IID is located or in the court ...

...nd ends on the first day of the month immediately following the first three full months of operation under the new provider. (C) If the medicaid payment rate for a new ICF/IID was most recently determined in accordance with section 5124.151 of the Revised Code, the provider shall file with the department a cost report for the new ICF/IID not later than, except as provided in division (E) of this section, ninety days...

...edicaid-certified capacity on the day immediately preceding the day it becomes a downsized ICF/IID or partially converted ICF/IID; (b) At least five fewer beds certified as ICF/IID beds than it has on the day immediately preceding the day it becomes a downsized ICF/IID or partially converted ICF/IID. (2) In the case of a new ICF/IID, the ICF/IID's beds are from a downsized ICF/IID and the downsized ICF/IID has ei...

...No ICF/IID provider shall report fines paid under section 5124.99 of the Revised Code in a cost report filed under section 5124.10, 5124.101, or 5124.522 of the Revised Code.

...Cost reports shall be completed using the form prescribed under section 5124.104 of the Revised Code and in accordance with the guidelines established under that section.

...The department of developmental disabilities shall do all of the following: (A) Prescribe the form to be used for completing a cost report and a uniform chart of accounts for the purpose of reporting costs on the form; (B) Distribute a paper copy of the form, or computer software for electronic submission of the form, to each provider at least sixty days before the date the cost report is due; (C) Establish ...

...The department of developmental disabilities shall develop an addendum to the cost report form that an ICF/IID provider may use to set forth costs that the provider believes the department may dispute. The department may consider such costs in determining an ICF/IID's medicaid payment rate. If the department does not consider such costs in determining an ICF/IID's medicaid payment rate, the provider may seek re...

...t on the last day of the fiscal year immediately preceding the fiscal year in which the reduction is made adjusted by the rate of inflation during that immediately preceding fiscal year, as shown in the consumer price index for all items for all urban consumers for the midwest region, published by the United States bureau of labor statistics. (C) The period of time that an ICF/IID's per medicaid day payment r...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section and not later than three years after an ICF/IID provider files a cost report with the department of developmental disabilities under section 5124.10 or 5124.101 of the Revised Code, the provider may amend the cost report if the provider discovers a material error in the cost report or additional information to be included in the cost report. The department ...

...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 deter...

...ve or complaint of the public utilities commission, that any rate, fare, charge, toll, rental, schedule, classification, or service, or any joint rate, fare, charge, toll, rental, schedule, classification, or service rendered, charged, demanded, exacted, or proposed to be rendered, charged, demanded, or exacted, is in any respect unjust, unreasonable, unjustly discriminatory, unjustly preferential, or in violation of...

...The public utilities commission shall operate a telephone call center for consumer complaints, to receive complaints by any person, firm, or corporation against any public utility. The commission shall expeditiously provide the consumers' counsel with all information concerning residential consumer complaints received by the commission in the operation of the telephone call center and with any materials produced in t...

...The public utilities commission shall ascertain and prescribe suitable and convenient standard commercial units of the product or service of any public utility when the character of its product or service is such that it can be determined. Such units shall be the lawful units for the purposes of Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., 4923., and 4925. of the Revised Code.

...The public utilities commission may ascertain and fix adequate and serviceable standards for the measurement of quality, pressure, initial voltage, or other conditions pertaining to the supply or quality of the product furnished or adequacy of service rendered by any public utility and may prescribe reasonable regulations for examination, testing, and measurement of such product or service. It may establish reasonabl...

...The public utilities commission may provide instruments for, and carry on, the examination and testing of all appliances used for the measurement of any product or service of a public utility or for the examination and testing of any devices or appliances of such public utility used for testing for accuracy any appliance used for the measurement of any product or service of such public utility. Any consumer or user m...

...int and file with the public utilities commission schedules showing all rates, joint rates, rentals, tolls, classifications, and charges for service of every kind furnished by it, and all rules and regulations affecting them. The schedules shall be plainly printed and kept open to public inspection. The commission may prescribe the form of every such schedule, and may prescribe, by order, changes in the form o...

...ng jurisdiction of the public utilities commission may file an application with the commission for the accounting authority to classify a cost that meets the requirements of division (C) of this section as a regulatory asset for the purpose of recovering the cost. The commission, by order, shall authorize such accounting authority as may be reasonably necessary to classify the cost as a regulatory asset. (C) A cost...

...as been issued by the public utilities commission establishing rates for the company pertaining to those customers; (b) A provision in an ordinance adopted pursuant to section 743.26 or 4909.34 of the Revised Code or Section 4 of Article XVIII, Ohio Constitution, with respect to which a gas company or natural gas company is required or allowed to adjust the rates it charges under such an ordinance in accordanc...

...uch agreement from the public utilities commission, which approval shall be granted if the purchase price is to be based on the total cost of service of the facility developer or developers in producing the synthetic natural gas or other fuels for a reasonable profit to said developer or developers, taking into account the desirability of encouraging energy research and development, the developmental nature of the fa...

... every six months, the public utilities commission shall examine Ohio coal research and development costs incurred by a gas or natural gas company. The commission shall adopt a rule that: (A) Requires periodic reports, audits, and hearings and establishes investigative procedures for the purposes of this section; (B) Allows recovery on a uniform basis per unit of sale of the Ohio coal research and development costs...

...ss it is filed with and approved by the commission pursuant to an application that is submitted by the public utility or the mercantile customer or group of mercantile customers of an electric distribution utility and is posted on the commission's docketing information system and is accessible through the internet. Every such public utility is required to conform its schedules of rates, tolls, and charges to such ar...

...ce were filed with the public utilities commission under section 4928.47 of the Revised Code, as that section existed prior to its repeal by H.B. 15 of the 136th General Assembly, no later than March 31, 2025. (C) No electric distribution utility shall recover any of the following costs through any rate, charge, or recovery from retail electric service customers that are not receiving behind the meter electric gen...

...chedule filed with the public utilities commission which is in effect at the time. No public utility shall refund or remit directly or indirectly, any rate, rental, toll, or charge so specified, or any part thereof, or extend to any person, firm, or corporation, any rule, regulation, privilege, or facility except such as are specified in such schedule and regularly and uniformly extended to all persons, firms, and c...

...e when, on remand, the public utilities commission makes changes to the rider or rates to implement the supreme court's decision. (B) The commission shall order the payment of the refunds described in division (A) of this section in a manner designed to allocate the refunds to customer classes in the same proportion as the charges were originally collected. (C) The commission shall determine how to allocate any r...

...(A) No public utility shall directly or indirectly, or by any special rate, rebate, drawback, or other device or method, charge, demand, collect, or receive from any person, firm, or corporation a greater or lesser compensation for any services rendered, or to be rendered, except as provided in Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., and 4923. of the Revised Code, than it charges, demands, collects, or rec...

... induce any party to a public utilities commission proceeding to enter into a settlement of a matter pending before the commission: (1) Make a cash payment to that party; (2) Enter into any agreement or any financial or private arrangement with that party that is not made part of the public case record. (C) Notwithstanding division (B) of this section, the commission may do any of the following: (1) Reasonabl...

...Except as provided in sections 4905.33 and 4905.35 and Chapter 4928. of the Revised Code, Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., 4923., and 4927. of the Revised Code do not prevent any public utility or railroad from granting any of its property for any public purpose, or granting reduced rates or free service of any kind to the United States, to the state or any political subdivision of the state, ...

...(A) No public utility shall make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any person, firm, corporation, or locality, or subject any person, firm, corporation, or locality to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage. (B)(1) A natural gas company that is a public utility shall offer its regulated services or goods to all similarly situated consumers, including persons with which it is a...

...harge, or service, the public utilities commission may order separate hearings on such complaint and may consider and determine the matters complained of separately at such times and places as it prescribes. No complaint shall necessarily be dismissed because of the absence of direct damage to the complainant.

...Whenever the public utilities commission is of the opinion, after hearing had upon complaint or upon its own initiative or complaint, served as provided in section 4905.26 of the Revised Code, that the rules, regulations, measurements, or practices of any public utility with respect to its public service are unjust or unreasonable, or that the equipment or service of such public utility is inadequate, inefficient, im...

...Whenever the public utilities commission is of the opinion, after hearing had, as provided in section 4905.26 of the Revised Code, or upon its own initiative or complaint, that repairs, improvements, or additions to the plant or equipment of any public utility should reasonably be made, in order to promote the convenience or welfare of the public or of employees, or in order to secure adequate service or facilities, ...

...bject to review by the public utilities commission, as provided in sections 4909.34 and 4909.39 of the Revised Code. The legislative authority and commission, in determining the practicability of such additions and extensions, shall take into consideration the supply of the product furnished by such public utility available, the returns upon the cost and expense of constructing such extensions, and the amount of rev...

...orized by order of the public utilities commission, issue stocks, bonds, notes, and other evidences of indebtedness, payable at periods of more than twelve months after their date of issuance, when necessary: (1) For the acquisition of property, the construction, completion, extension, renewal, or improvement of its facilities, or the improvement of its service; or (2) For reorganization or readjustment of it...

...zed by an order of the public utilities commission and not otherwise, issue notes, or other evidences of indebtedness payable at periods of not more than twelve months. This section shall not apply to: (A) The issue, renewal, or assumption of liability or notes, and other evidences of indebtedness maturing not more than twelve months after the date of such issue, renewal, or assumption of liability, and aggregating ...

... prior approval of the public utilities commission under this section. (2) To obtain approval required under division (B)(1) of this section, the person seeking the approval shall file an application with the public utilities commission demonstrating that the acquisition will promote public convenience and result in the provision of adequate service for a reasonable rate, rental, toll, or charge. The application sha...