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Section 4313.02 | Transfer of enterprise acquisition project to JobsOhio.

...(A) The state may transfer to JobsOhio, and JobsOhio may accept the transfer of, all or a portion of the enterprise acquisition project for a transfer price payable by JobsOhio to the state. Any such transfer shall be treated as an absolute conveyance and true sale of the interest in the enterprise acquisition project purported to be conveyed for all purposes, and not as a pledge or other security interest. The chara...

Section 4712.01 | Credit services organization act definitions.

...ns and is approved by the United States department of housing and urban development, the United States department of veterans affairs, the federal national mortgage association, or the federal home loan mortgage corporation. (G) "Superintendent of financial institutions" includes the deputy superintendent for consumer finance as provided in section 1181.21 of the Revised Code.

Section 4712.02 | Certificate of registration.

...A) A credit services organization shall file a registration application with, and receive a certificate of registration from, the division of financial institutions before conducting business in this state. The registration application shall be accompanied by a one-hundred-dollar fee and shall contain all of the following information: (1) The name and address of the credit services organization; (2) The name an...

Section 4712.03 | Suspension, revocation or refusal of certificate of registration.

...After notice and a hearing conducted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the superintendent of financial institutions may suspend, revoke, or refuse to issue or renew a certificate of registration if any of the following conditions applies to the applicant for registration or registrant: (A) The applicant or registrant obtained a certificate of registration through any false or fraudulent representa...

Section 4712.04 | Providing buyer with written statement of rights.

...nterpret the information in your credit file. You have a right to dispute inaccurate information by contacting the consumer reporting agency directly. However, neither you nor any credit services organization has the right to have accurate, current, and verifiable information removed from your consumer reporting agency report. The consumer reporting agency must remove accurate, negative information from your report ...

Section 4712.05 | Contents and execution of contract.

...(A) Each contract between the buyer and a credit services organization for the purchase of the services of the organization shall be in writing, dated and signed by the buyer, and shall include all of the following: (1) A statement, in type that is boldfaced, capitalized, underlined, or otherwise conspicuously set out from surrounding written material and that is in immediate proximity to the space reserved for the...

Section 4712.06 | Surety bond.

...ons are met: (1) A copy of the bond is filed with the division of financial institutions. (2) The bond is in favor of any person, and of the state for the benefit of any person, that is injured by any violation of sections 4712.01 to 4712.14 of the Revised Code. (3) The bond is in the amount of fifty thousand dollars. (4) The bond is maintained and in effect for at least two years after the date on which the cred...

Section 4712.07 | Prohibited acts.

...No credit services organization, salesperson, agent, or representative of a credit services organization, or independent contractor that sells or attempts to sell the services of a credit services organization shall do any of the following: (A) Charge or receive directly or indirectly from a buyer money or other consideration readily convertible into money until all services the organization has agreed to perform fo...

Section 4712.071 | Prohibited extensions of credit.

...No credit services organization shall sell, provide, or perform any of the services authorized under division (C)(1) of section 4712.01 of the Revised Code in connection with an extension of credit that meets any of the following conditions: (A) The amount of credit is less than five thousand dollars. (B) The repayment term is one year or less. (C) The annual percentage rate exceeds twenty-eight per cent. For...

Section 4712.08 | Prohibiting fraudulent activities.

...No credit services organization shall do any of the following: (A) Obtain a certificate of registration through any false or fraudulent representation or make any substantial misrepresentation in any registration application; (B) Make false promises through advertising or other means in the conduct of its business or engage in a continued course of misrepresentations in the conduct of its business; (C) Engage in c...

Section 4712.09 | Waiving rights.

...(A) No credit services organization shall cause or attempt to cause a buyer to waive a right under sections 4712.01 to 4712.14 of the Revised Code. (B) Any waiver by a buyer of a right under sections 4712.01 to 4712.14 of the Revised Code is void.

Section 4712.10 | Action for recovery of damages.

...(A)(1) A buyer injured by a violation of sections 4712.01 to 4712.14 of the Revised Code may bring an action for recovery of damages. (2) Damages awarded under division (A)(1) of this section shall not be less than the amount paid by the buyer to the credit services organization, plus reasonable attorney's fees and court costs. (3) The buyer may be awarded punitive damages. (4) No action shall be brought under div...

Section 4712.11 | Violating consumer sales practices act.

...(A) A violation of division (J) of section 4712.02, division (E) of section 4712.04, division (D) or (E) of section 4712.05, division (A) of section 4712.06, section 4712.07 or 4712.08, or division (A) of section 4712.09 of the Revised Code is deemed to be an unfair or deceptive act or practice in violation of section 1345.02 of the Revised Code.

Section 4712.12 | Investigating violations - injunctions.

...ng to such matter. If a person fails to file any statement or report, obey any subpoena, give testimony, produce any book, record, or other document as required by such a subpoena, or permit photocopying of any book, record, or other document subpoenaed, the court of common pleas of any county in this state, upon application made to it by the division, shall compel obedience by attachment proceedings for contempt, as...

Section 4712.13 | Disclosing certificate of registration number.

...A credit services organization shall disclose in any printed or published advertisement relating to the credit services organization's services, the number designated on the certificate of registration that is issued to the credit services organization by the division of financial institutions under sections 4712.01 to 4712.14 of the Revised Code. No credit services organization shall fail to comply with this section...

Section 4712.14 | Administrative rules.

...The superintendent of financial institutions may adopt, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, reasonable rules to carry out the purposes of sections 4712.01 to 4712.14 of the Revised Code.

Section 4712.15 | Compliance with law regarding sanctions for human trafficking.

...The superintendent of financial institutions shall comply with section 4776.20 of the Revised Code.

Section 4712.99 | Penalty.

...(A) Whoever violates division (J) of section 4712.02, division (E) of section 4712.04, division (D) or (E) of section 4712.05, division (A) of section 4712.06, section 4712.07 or 4712.08, or division (A) of section 4712.09 of the Revised Code is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree. (B)(1) Whoever violates section 4712.071 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than one h...

Section 5101.01 | Referring to department or director of public welfare or human services; references to county department of job and family services; references to board of county commissioners.

...(A) As used in the Revised Code, the "department of public welfare" and the "department of human services" mean the department of job and family services and the "director of public welfare" and the "director of human services" mean the director of job and family services. Except as provided in section 5160.011 of the Revised Code, whenever the department or director of public welfare or the department or direc...

Section 5101.02 | Authority of director of job and family services.

...y services is the executive head of the department of job and family services. All duties conferred on the various work units of the department by law or by order of the director shall be performed under such rules as the director prescribes, and shall be under the director's control.

Section 5101.03 | Assistant directors - powers and duties.

...The assistant directors of the department of job and family services shall exercise the powers and perform the duties which the director of job and family services may order. The director is authorized to designate which assistant director shall act as director in the absence or disability of the director or in case of a vacancy in the position of director.

Section 5101.04 | Contract with commercial consumer reporting agency.

...nce for needy families block grant, and unemployment compensation benefits. The department shall undertake efforts to incorporate real-time employment and income information into existing verification and eligibility determination procedures. (B) No third-party vendor shall conduct pre-screening activities regarding supplemental nutrition assistance program applicants unless the vendor has entered into a pre-scree...

Section 5101.041 | Data matching agreements.

...ommission and executive director of the Ohio casino control commission, under which the director and executive director provide the director of job and family services with a searchable list identifying all individuals with substantial lottery or gambling winnings. The director of job and family services shall check the list at least monthly to determine if the information affects any public assistance recipient's el...

Section 5101.042

... 5104.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The department of job and family services shall update the systems used by the department and by county departments of job and family services to determine eligibility for public assistance benefits programs. The updates shall include a mechanism by which application information input by individual caseworkers may be tracked and audited and shall require county departments of job a...

Section 5101.05 | Appointing employees.

...sary for the efficient operation of the department of job and family services. The director may prescribe the title and duties of the employees.

Section 5101.051 | Filling positions with peculiar and exceptional qualifications.

...ces determines that a position with the department of job and family services can best be filled in accordance with division (A)(2) of section 124.30 of the Revised Code or without regard to a residency requirement established by a rule adopted by the director of administrative services, the director of job and family services shall provide the director of administrative services certification of the determination.

Section 5101.06 | Establishing work units.

...ces may establish work units within the department of job and family services as necessary for the efficient operation of the department. The director shall appoint the chief of each work unit.

Section 5101.061 | Office of human services innovation.

...(A) There is hereby established in the department of job and family services the office of human services innovation. The office shall develop recommendations, as described in division (B) of this section, regarding the coordination and reform of state programs to assist the residents of this state in preparing for life and the dignity of work and to promote individual responsibility and work opportunity. The dire...

Section 5101.07 | Support services federal operating fund.

...fund shall consist of federal funds the department of job and family services receives and that the director of job and family services determines are appropriate for deposit into the fund. Money in the fund shall be used to pay the federal share of both of the following: (A) The department's costs for computer projects; (B) The operating costs of the parts of the department that provide general support services fo...

Section 5101.071 | Support services state operating fund.

...pay for both of the following: (A) The department of job and family services' costs for computer projects; (B) The operating costs of the parts of the department that provide general support services for the department's work units established under section 5101.06 of the Revised Code.

Section 5101.072 | Human services projects fund.

... and other similar revenue sources. The department of job and family services shall use the fund to support program and administrative expenses related to the implementation of human services initiatives within the department.

Section 5101.073 | ODJFS general services administration and operating fund.

...money from any of the funds used by the department of job and family services, except the general revenue fund, to the ODJFS audit settlements and contingency fund. Upon receipt of such a request, the director of budget and management may transfer the money requested. The director of budget and management, in consultation with the director of job and family services, may transfer money from the ODJFS audit settlement...

Section 5101.074 | Disposition of refunds.

...If the department of job and family services receives money from a refund or reconciliation related to the medicaid program, the department shall transfer the money to the department of medicaid for deposit into the refunds and reconciliation fund created under section 5162.65 of the Revised Code.

Section 5101.08 | Fidelity bonds.

...when approved by the director, shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state. The cost of such bonds, when approved by the director, shall be paid from funds available for the department. The bonds required or authorized by this section may, in the discretion of the director, be individual, schedule, or blanket bonds.

Section 5101.09 | Adopting rules.

... concerns a program administered by the department of job and family services or the director of children and youth, unless the statute authorizing the rule requires that it be adopted in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code; (c) The statute authorizing the rule requires that the rule be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. (2) Section 111.15 of the Revised Code, excluding ...

Section 5101.10 | Expending funds.

... funds appropriated or available to the department of job and family services from public or private entities, including other governmental agencies; public or private institutions, organizations, agencies, and corporations; and individuals. For purposes of this section, the director may enter into contracts or agreements with public and private entities and make grants to public and private entities. To the extent p...

Section 5101.101 | Order of priority for distribution of funds for family planning services.

...rder of priority to be followed by the department of job and family services when distributing funds for the purpose of providing family planning services, including funds the department receives through Title XX of the "Social Security Act," 88 Stat. 2337 (1974), 42 U.S.C. 1397, as amended, and funds the department receives through Title IV-A of the "Social Security Act," 110 Stat. 2113 (1996), 42 U.S.C. 601,...

Section 5101.11 | Seeking federal financial participation for costs incurred by entity implementing program administered by department.

...cludes an agency, board, commission, or department of the state or a political subdivision of the state; a private, nonprofit entity; a school district; a private school; or a public or private institution of higher education. (2) "Federal financial participation" means the federal government's share of expenditures made by an entity in implementing a program administered by the department of job and family servic...

Section 5101.111 | Foundation grant fund.

...reated in the state treasury. Money the department of job and family services or the department of children and youth receives from private foundations in support of pilot projects that promote exemplary programs for enhancing the health, safety, and well-being of children and families shall be credited to the fund. The applicable department may expend the money on such projects, may use the money, to the extent allo...

Section 5101.12 | Maximizing receipt of federal revenue.

...The department of job and family services or department of children and youth may enter into contracts to maximize federal revenue without the expenditure of state money. In selecting private entities with which to contract, the applicable department shall engage in a request for proposals process. The applicable department, subject to the approval of the controlling board, may also directly enter into contracts with...

Section 5101.13 | [Amended and renumbered as R.C. 5180.40 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Uniform statewide automated child welfare information system.

...(A) The department of children and youth shall establish and maintain a uniform statewide automated child welfare information system in accordance with the requirements of 42 U.S.C.A. 674(a)(3)(C) and related federal regulations and guidelines. The information system shall contain records regarding any of the following: (1) Investigations of children and families, and children's care in out-of-home care, in accord...

Section 5101.131 | [Amended and renumbered as R.C. 5180.401 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Child welfare system information confidential.

...Except as provided in section 5101.132 of the Revised Code, information contained in or obtained from the information system established and maintained under section 5101.13 of the Revised Code is confidential and is not subject to disclosure pursuant to section 149.43 or 1347.08 of the Revised Code.

Section 5101.132 | [Amended and renumbered as R.C. 5180.402 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Access to child welfare system information.

... or entered only as follows: (1) The department of job and family services, the department of children and youth, a public children services agency, a title IV-E agency, a prosecuting attorney, a private child placing agency, and a private noncustodial agency may access or enter the information when either of the following is the case: (a) The access or entry is directly connected with assessment, investigation...

Section 5101.133 | [Amended and renumbered as R.C. 5180.403 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Use and disclosure of system information restricted.

...No person shall access or use information contained in the information system established and maintained under section 5101.13 of the Revised Code other than in accordance with section 5101.132 of the Revised Code or rules authorized by that section. No person shall disclose information obtained from the information system established and maintained under section 5101.13 of the Revised Code in a manner not specified...

Section 5101.134 | [Amended and renumbered as R.C. 5180.404 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Rules governing private agency use of system information.

...ection 5101.13 of the Revised Code, the department of children and youth shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code regarding a private child placing agency's or private noncustodial agency's access, data entry, and use of information in the uniform statewide automated child welfare information system. (B)(1) The department of children and youth may adopt rules in accordance with section...

Section 5101.135 | [Amended and renumbered as R.C. 5180.405 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Shaken baby syndrome notation in child abuse report.

...he 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 ...

Section 5101.136 | [Amended and renumbered as R.C. 5180.406 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Request for search of system information.

...If a person requests the department of job and family services to conduct a search of whether that person's name has been placed or remains in the statewide automated child welfare information system as an alleged perpetrator of child abuse or neglect and a search reveals that a "substantiated" disposition exists, the department shall send a letter to the person who requested the search indicating a "match."

Section 5101.137 | [Amended and renumbered as R.C. 5180.407 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Expungement policy.

...spositions of child abuse or neglect in Ohio's central registry on child abuse and neglect by March 1, 2024.

Section 5101.14 | [Amended and renumbered as R.C. 5180.41 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Payments to counties for part of their costs for children services.

...ode. (B) Within available funds, the department of children and youth shall distribute funds to the counties within thirty days after the beginning of each calendar quarter for a part of the counties' costs for children services. Funds provided to the county under this section shall be deposited into the children services fund created pursuant to section 5101.144 of the Revised Code. (C) In each fiscal year,...

Section 5101.141 | [Amended and renumbered as R.C. 5180.42 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Administering federal payments for foster care and adoption assistance.

... only to fund the following: (1) The Ohio child welfare training program established under section 5103.30 of the Revised Code; (2) The university partnership program for college and university students majoring in social work who have committed to work for a public children services agency upon graduation; (3) Efforts supporting organizational excellence, including voluntary activities to be accredited by a...

Section 5101.142 | [Amended and renumbered as R.C. 5180.421 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 09/30/2025] Conducting demonstration project expanding eligibility for and services provided under Title IV-E.

...(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, incl...

Section 5101.144

...Each county shall deposit all funds its public children services agency receives from appropriations made by the board of county commissioners or any other source for the purpose of providing children services into a special fund in the county treasury known as the children services fund. A county shall use money in the fund only for the purposes of meeting the expenses of providing children services.

Section 5101.145 | [Amended and renumbered as R.C. 5180.422 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 09/30/2025] Rules concerning financial requirements applicable to public children services, private child placing, and private noncustodial agencies.

...ble placement services to children, the department of children and youth shall establish both of the following: (1) A single form for the agencies or entities to report costs reimbursable under Title IV-E and costs reimbursable under medicaid; (2) Procedures to monitor cost reports submitted by the agencies or entities. (B) The procedures established under division (A)(2) of this section shall be implemented...

Section 5101.146 | [Amended and renumbered as R.C. 5180.423 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 09/30/2025] Establishing penalties for noncompliance with fiscal accountability procedures.

...The department of children and youth shall establish the following penalties, which shall be enforced at the discretion of the department, for the failure of a public children services agency, private child placing agency, private noncustodial agency, or government entity that provides Title IV-E reimbursable placement services to children to comply with procedures the department establishes to ensure fiscal accounta...

Section 5101.147 | [Renumbered as R.C. 5180.424 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 09/30/2025] Notification of agency's noncompliance with fiscal accountability procedures.

...ntability procedures established by the department of children and youth, the department shall notify the board of county commissioners of the county served by the agency. If a private child placing agency or private noncustodial agency fails to comply with the fiscal accountability procedures, the department shall notify the executive director of each public children services agency that has entered into a contract ...

Section 5101.148 | [Renumbered as R.C. 5180.425 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 09/30/2025] No unnecessarily removal of children from certified foster homes.

...If the department of children and youth sanctions a public children services agency, private child placing agency, or private noncustodial agency, it shall take every possible precaution to ensure that any foster children that have been placed by the agency under sanction are not unnecessarily removed from the certified foster homes in which they reside.

Section 5101.149 | [Renumbered as R.C. 5180.426 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 09/30/2025] Prohibiting personal loans.

...Money from the children services fund shall not be used to provide a personal loan to any individual.

Section 5101.1410 | [Amended and renumbered as R.C. 5180.427 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Certifying a claim.

...e the case: (A) The agency or entity files a cost report with the department pursuant to rules adopted under division (B) of section 5101.141 of the Revised Code. (B) The department receives and distributes federal Title IV-E reimbursement funds based on the cost report. (C) The agency's or entity's misstatement, misclassification, overstatement, understatement, or other inclusion or omission of any cost inc...

Section 5101.1411 | [Amended and renumbered as R.C. 5180.428 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Federal payments for foster care and adoption assistance.

...ttings. (G) Any determination by the department of job and family services or the department of children and youth that denies or terminates foster care assistance, kinship guardianship assistance, kinship support program payments, or adoption assistance payments shall be subject to a state hearing pursuant to section 5101.35 of the Revised Code.

Section 5101.1412 | [Amended and renumbered as R.C. 5180.429 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Voluntary participation agreement for child's care and placement.

...untary participation agreement with the department of children and youth, or its representative, for the emancipated young adult's care and placement. The agreement shall stay in effect until one of the following occurs: (1) The emancipated young adult enrolled in the program notifies the department, or its representative, that they want to terminate the agreement. (2) The emancipated young adult becomes inelig...

Section 5101.1413 | [Amended and renumbered as R.C. 5180.4210 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Payment of nonfederal share.

...e and any rules adopted thereunder, the department of children and youth shall pay the full nonfederal share of payments made pursuant to section 5101.1411 of the Revised Code. No public children services agency shall be responsible for the cost of any payments made pursuant to section 5101.1411 of the Revised Code.

Section 5101.1414 | [Amended and renumbered as R.C. 5180.4211 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Adoption of rules.

...(A) The department of children and youth shall adopt rules necessary to carry out the purposes of sections 5101.1411 to 5101.1413 of the Revised Code, including rules that do all of the following: (1) Allow an emancipated young adult described in division (A)(1) of section 5101.1411 of the Revised Code who is directly receiving foster care payments, or on whose behalf such foster care payments are received, or an ...

Section 5101.1415 | [Amended and renumbered as R.C. 5180.4212 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Person eligible for temporary or permanent custody until age twenty-one.

...The provisions of divisions (A) and (D) to (G) of section 5101.1411 of the Revised Code shall not apply if the person is eligible for temporary or permanent custody until age twenty-one pursuant to a dispositional order under sections 2151.353, 2151.414, and 2151.415 of the Revised Code.

Section 5101.1416 | [Amended and renumbered as R.C. 5180.4213 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 09/30/2025] Kinship guardianship assistance.

...(A) Not later than nine months after the effective date of this section , the director of job and family services shall submit an amendment to the state plan required by 42 U.S.C. 671 to the United States secretary of health and human services to implement 42 U.S.C. 673(d) to provide kinship guardianship assistance under Title IV-E on behalf of a child to a relative who meets the following requirements: (1) The re...

Section 5101.1417 | [Amended and renumbered as R.C. 5180.4214 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 09/30/2025] Rules to carry out federal foster care, adoption, and kinship guardian assistance.

...The department of children and youth shall adopt rules necessary to carry out the purposes of sections 5101.141, 5101.1411, and 5101.1416 of the Revised Code, and 42 U.S.C. 673(d) of the "Social Security Act," including rules that do all of the following: (A) Allow a kinship guardianship young adult described in division (C) of section 5101.1411 of the Revised Code on whose behalf kinship guardianship assistance i...

Section 5101.1418 | [Amended and renumbered as R.C. 5180.43 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 09/30/2025] Post-adoption special services subsidy payments.

...xisted before the adoption petition was filed; or (ii) Developed after the adoption petition was filed and can be directly attributed to factors in the child's preadoption background, medical history, or biological family's background or medical history. (b) The department determines the expenses necessitated by the child's disability or condition are beyond the adoptive parent's economic resources. (2) Serv...

Section 5101.15 | [Renumbered as R.C. 5180.44 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 09/30/2025] Schedule of reimbursement.

...Within available funds the department of children and youth may reimburse counties in accordance with this section for a portion of the salaries paid to child welfare workers employed under section 5153.12 of the Revised Code. No county with a population of eighty thousand or less, according to the latest census accepted by the department as official, shall be entitled to reimbursement on the salaries of more than tw...

Section 5101.16 | Paying county share of public assistance expenditures.

...tion 5101.54 of the Revised Code. (3) "Ohio works first" means the program established by Chapter 5107. of the Revised Code. (4) "Prevention, retention, and contingency" means the program established by Chapter 5108. of the Revised Code. (5) "Public assistance expenditures" means expenditures for all of the following: (a) Ohio works first; (b) County administration of Ohio works first; (c) Prevention, retention...

Section 5101.161 | Public assistance fund.

... the sixteenth day of May annually, the department of job and family services shall certify to the board of county commissioners of each county the amount estimated by the department to be needed in the following state fiscal year to meet the county share, as determined under division (B) of section 5101.16 of the Revised Code, of public assistance expenditures. Each January, the board shall appropriate the amount ce...

Section 5101.162 | Reimbursing county expenditures for county administration of food stamps or medicaid.

...tions made by the general assembly, the department of job and family services may, at its sole discretion, use available federal funds to reimburse county expenditures for county administration of the supplemental nutrition assistance program or medicaid (excluding administrative expenditures for transportation services covered by the medicaid program) even though the county expenditures meet or exceed the maxi...

Section 5101.163 | Increase in county share of public assistance expenditures.

...ined in 42 U.S.C. 609(a)(7)(B)(i). The department of job and family services may increase a county's share of public assistance expenditures determined under division (B) of section 5101.16 of the Revised Code if the United States secretary of health and human services requires an increase in the state's maintenance of effort because of one or more failures, resulting from the actions or inactions of one or more cou...

Section 5101.17 | Payments made under Economic Opportunity Act not regarded as income or resources.

...In determining the need of any person under Chapter 5107. of the Revised Code, the first eighty-five dollars plus one-half of the excess over eighty-five dollars of payments made to or in behalf of any person for or with respect to any month under Title I or II of the "Economic Opportunity Act of 1964," 78 Stat. 508, 42 U.S.C.A. 2701, as amended, shall not be regarded as income or resources. No payments made under su...

Section 5101.18 | Determining what payments shall be regarded or disregarded as income in determining aid.

...administered in whole or in part by the department of job and family services and whether such determination would jeopardize the receipt of any federal grant or payment by the state or any receipt of aid under Chapter 5107. of the Revised Code.

Section 5101.181 | Matching agency records to determine overpayment of public assistance.

...means any or all of the following: (1) Ohio works first; (2) Prevention, retention, and contingency; (3) Disability financial assistance provided prior to December 31, 2017, under former Chapter 5115. of the Revised Code; (4) General assistance provided prior to July 17, 1995, under former Chapter 5113. of the Revised Code. (B) As part of the procedure for the determination of overpayment to a recipient of publi...

Section 5101.182 | Matching income tax returns to determine overpayment of public assistance.

...ublic assistance and for which the tax department retains income tax returns. Within fourteen days of receipt of the request, the commissioner shall inform the auditor of state whether the individual filed an individual income tax return for the taxable years in question, of the amount of the federal adjusted gross income as reported on such returns, of the addresses on such returns, and whether the returns we...

Section 5101.183 | Rules regarding recovering cost of social services provided or diverted to ineligible persons.

...able under programs administered by the department of job and family services or the department of children and youth: (1) Benefits or services provided to any of the following: (a) Persons who were not eligible for the benefits or services but who secured the benefits or services through fraud or misrepresentation; (b) Persons who were eligible for the benefits or services but who intentionally diverted the...

Section 5101.184 | Collecting overpayments of assistance from state and federal income tax refunds.

...(A) The director of job and family services shall work with the tax commissioner to collect overpayments of assistance under Chapter 5107., former Chapter 5115., former Chapter 5113., or section 5101.54 of the Revised Code from refunds of state income taxes for taxable year 1992 and thereafter that are payable to the recipients of such overpayments. Any overpayment of assistance, whether obtained by fraud or misrepr...

Section 5101.19 | [Amended and renumbered as R.C. 5180.45 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 09/30/2025] Adoption grant program definitions.

... agency, or public entity with whom the department of children and youth has a Title IV-E subgrant agreement in effect, to manage the progress, provide supervision and protection of the child and the child's parent, guardian, or custodian. (E) "Foster caregiver" has the same meaning as in section 5103.02 of the Revised Code. (F) "Qualified professional" means an individual that is, but not limited to, any one o...

Section 5101.191 | [Amended and renumbered as R.C. 5180.451 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 09/30/2025] Adoption grant program.

...outh shall establish and administer the Ohio adoption grant program in accordance with sections 5101.19 to 5101.194 of the Revised Code. (B) The director shall provide one, but not both, of the following one-time payments for an adopted child to the child's adoptive parent if the requirements of division (A) of section 5101.192 of the Revised Code, but not division (B) of that section, are satisfied regarding the ...

Section 5101.192 | [Amended and renumbered as R.C. 5180.452 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 09/30/2025] Adoption grant program eligibility.

...ously received a grant payment from the Ohio adoption grant program for the adopted child for whom the parent is seeking payment. (2) The adoptive parent does not also currently claim an adoption tax credit pursuant to former section 5747.37 of the Revised Code for the adopted child for whom the parent is seeking payment. (3) The adoptive parent applies for the grant not later than one year after the final adopti...

Section 5101.193 | [Amended and renumbered as R.C. 5180.453 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 09/30/2025] Adoption grant program rules.

... 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 5101.191 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,...

Section 5101.194 | [Amended and renumbered as R.C. 5180.454 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 09/30/2025] Adoption grant program records.

...Any document provided to the department of children and youth under division (C) of section 5101.193 of the Revised Code remains a public record under section 149.43 of the Revised Code if it was a public record under that section before being provided to the department.

Section 5101.20 | Grant agreements for workforce development activities.

...y for and use of grants provided by the department of job and family services to the grantee for the administration of workforce development activities funded under the "Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act," 29 U.S.C. 3101 et seq. (C) The director may award grants to local areas only through grant agreements entered into under this section. (D) In the case of a local area comprised of multiple political subdiv...

Section 5101.201 | Agreements with one-stop operators and partners implementing Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.

... 6301.01 of the Revised Code, and other OhioMeansJobs center partners for the purpose of implementing the requirements of section 121 of the "Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act," 29 U.S.C. 3151.

Section 5101.21 | Written grant agreements between director and county.

...y, or property in lieu of money, to the department of job and family services or the department of children and youth and that either department awards to a county grantee. "Grant" may include state funds the department awards to a county grantee to match the federal financial assistance. "Grant" does not mean either of the following: (a) Technical assistance that provides services instead of money; (b) Other a...

Section 5101.211 | Written agreements with state agency, university or college or private or government entity.

...The director of job and family services may provide for a grant agreement entered into under section 5101.21 of the Revised Code to have a retroactive effective date of the first day of July of an odd-numbered year if both of the following are the case: (A) The agreement is entered into after that date and before the last day of that July. (B) The board of county commissioners requests the retroactive eff...

Section 5101.212 | Duty of religious organization contracting with department.

...The department of job and family services shall publish in a manner accessible to the public all of the following that concern family services duties for which grants included in grant agreements entered into under section 5101.21 of the Revised Code are awarded: state plans for receipt of federal financial participation, agreements between the department and a federal agency, and executive orders issued by ...

Section 5101.214 | Agreements to enhance county family services duties and workforce development activities.

...The director of job and family services and the director of children and youth may enter into a written agreement with one or more state agencies, as defined in section 117.01 of the Revised Code, and state universities and colleges to assist in the coordination, provision, or enhancement of the family services duties of a county family services agency or the workforce development activities of a local board, as defi...

Section 5101.215 | Agreements with religious organization.

...If the director of job and family services enters into an agreement or contracts with, or issues a grant to, a religious organization under section 5101.214 of the Revised Code, the religious organization shall comply with section 104 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity and Reconciliation Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-193).

Section 5101.216 | Written operational agreements with county for family service duties.

...s in a manner that is beneficial to the department of job and family services, the department of children and youth, and the county that the board serves and improves family services duties for the recipients of the services.

Section 5101.22 | Establishing performance and administrative standards for county agencies.

...The department of job and family services and the department of children and youth, as applicable, may establish performance and other administrative standards for the administration and outcomes of family services duties and determine at intervals the departments decide the degree to which a county family services agency complies with a performance or other administrative standard. The departments may use statistica...

Section 5101.221 | County family services agency corrective action plan.

...by division (C) of this section, if the department of job and family services or the department of children and youth determines that a county family services agency has failed to comply with a performance or other administrative standard established under section 5101.22 of the Revised Code or by federal law for the administration or outcome of a family services duty, the department shall require the agency to devel...

Section 5101.222 | Administrative rules.

...The director of job and family services may adopt rules in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code to implement sections 5101.22 to 5101.222 of the Revised Code. If the director adopts the rules, the director shall adopt the rules as if they were internal management rules.

Section 5101.23 | Providing incentive awards to county agencies.

...bject to the availability of funds, the department of job and family services and the department of children and youth may provide annual financial, administrative, or other incentive awards to county family services agencies and local areas as defined in section 6301.01 of the Revised Code. A county family services agency or local area may spend an incentive awarded under this section only for the purpose for which ...

Section 5101.24 | Actions for failure to meet performance standards.

... provider of a family service duty, the department of job and family services or the department of children and youth may take action under division (C) of this section against the responsible county grantee if the department determines any of the following are the case: (1) A requirement of a grant agreement entered into under section 5101.21 of the Revised Code that includes a grant for the family services duty,...

Section 5101.241 | Actions for noncompliance with workforce development activity standards or requirements.

...ted officials of a local area. (B) The department of job and family services may take action under division (C) of this section against the responsible entity, regardless of who performs the workforce development activity, if the department determines any of the following are the case: (1) An entity has failed to comply with the terms and conditions of a grant agreement executed between the department and a local a...

Section 5101.242 | Certification of claim to recover funds.

...The department of job and family services may certify a claim to the attorney general under section 131.02 of the Revised Code for the attorney general to take action under that section against a responsible county grantee or responsible entity to recover any funds that the department determines the responsible county grantee or responsible entity owes the department for actions taken under division (C)(2), (3)...

Section 5101.243 | Administrative rules.

...The director of job and family services and the director of children and youth may adopt rules in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code establishing reporting requirements for family services duties and workforce development activities. If the directors adopt the rules, the directors shall adopt the rules as if they were internal management rules and, before adopting the rules, give the public an opportu...

Section 5101.244 | Adjustment to recover expenditures exceeding allowable amount.

...(A) If the department of job and family services or the department of children and youth determines that a grant awarded to a county grantee in a grant agreement entered into under section 5101.21 of the Revised Code, an allocation, advance, or reimbursement the department makes to a county family services agency, or a cash draw a county family services agency makes exceeds the allowable amount for the grant, allocat...

Section 5101.25 | Developing annual training goals and model training curriculum.

...The department of job and family services, and the department of children and youth in consultation with county representatives, shall develop annual training goals and model training curriculum for employees of county family services agencies and identify a variety of state funded training opportunities to meet the proposed goals.