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...The department of behavioral health shall keep in its office, accessible only to its employees, except by the consent of the department or the order of the judge of a court of record, a record showing the name, residence, sex, age, nativity, occupation, condition, and date of entrance or commitment of every patient in the institutions governed by it, the date, cause, and terms of discharge and the condition of such p...

...A person, firm, or corporation may file a petition in the court of common pleas of the county in which a benevolent institution of the department of behavioral health is located, in which petition the desire to erect or carry on at a less distance than that prescribed in section 3767.19 of the Revised Code shall be set forth, the business prohibited, the precise point of its establishment, and the reasons and circums...

...(A) As used in this section, "felony" has the same meaning as in section 109.511 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) Subject to division (C) of this section, upon the recommendation of the director of behavioral health, the managing officer of an institution under the jurisdiction of the department of behavioral health may designate one or more employees to be special police officers of the department. The special police ...

...ysician and a graduate of an accredited medical college, who has had special training and experience in the treatment of mental illness or other condition found in patients in the department.

...The attorney general shall attend to all claims instituted on behalf of or against the department of behavioral health or any institution under the jurisdiction of the department and the managing officer thereof, except such institutions as are privately owned or operated under a license from the department of behavioral health, and shall represent the public hospital in proceedings under section 5122.15 of the Revis...

...certification and delivery of addiction services and mental health services. (B) The director shall: (1) Adopt rules for the proper execution of the powers and duties of the department with respect to the institutions under its control, and require the performance of additional duties by the officers of the institutions as necessary to fully meet the requirements, intents, and purposes of this chapter. In case of...

..., and the clinical aspects of addiction services and mental health services involving all of the following: (1) Licensure of hospitals, residential facilities, and outpatient facilities; (2) Research; (3) Community addiction and mental health plans; (4) Certification and delivery of addiction and mental health services. (B) The medical director shall also exercise clinical supervision of the chief clinical ...

...and govern state institutions and other services for the care and treatment of persons with mental illnesses. (B)(1) The department of behavioral health may, with the approval of the governor, designate the name and purpose of any institutions under its jurisdiction and may change, with the approval of the governor, the designation and name when necessary. (2) The department shall divide the state into districts...

...In addition to the powers and duties expressly conferred on the department of behavioral health, the department may take any other action it considers necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter and Chapters 340., 2919., 2945., and 5122. of the Revised Code. Actions authorized by this section include the authority to adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that may be necessary to carry out t...

...The department of behavioral health may make such investigations as are necessary in the performance of its duties and to that end the director of behavioral health shall have the same power as a judge of a county court to administer oaths and to enforce the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books or papers. The department shall keep a record of such investigations stating the time, place...

...n with the department of job and family services, shall develop a joint state plan to improve the accessibility and timeliness of alcohol and drug addiction services for individuals identified by a public children services agency as in need of those services. The plan shall address the fact that Ohio works first participants may be among the persons receiving services under section 340.15 of the Revised Code and shal...

...luding by requiring community addiction services providers that receive public funds to give priority to pregnant women referred for treatment; (4) Provides for the continued monitoring of women who were addicted to a drug of abuse during their pregnancies, after the birth of their children, and for the availability of treatment and rehabilitation for those women; (5) Provides a manner of determining the aggregat...

...An appointing authority may appoint a person who holds a certified or permanent position in the classified service within the department of behavioral health to a position in the unclassified service within the department. A person appointed pursuant to this section to a position in the unclassified service shall retain the right to resume the position and status held by the person in the classified service immediate...

...(A) No appointing officer shall appoint a person to fill a position in either the classified or unclassified service of the department of behavioral health if the person has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a violation of the following: (1) Any felony contained in the Revised Code, if the felony bears a direct and substantial relationship to the position being filled; (2) Any crime contained in the Revised...

...The department of behavioral health may require any of its employees and each officer and employee of every institution under its control who may be charged with custody or control of any money or property belonging to the state or who is required to give bond, to give a surety company bond, properly conditioned, in a sum to be fixed by the department which when approved by the department, shall be filed in the offic...

...The department of behavioral health may provide educational grants or tuition reimbursements to upgrade the education, training, and professional achievement of its employees, whenever it determines that provision of such grants or reimbursements is essential to the achievement of its goals. The department may enter into agreements with its employees for the purposes of this section. The agreements may require, as a ...

... that was, at the time of attendance, a medical school or osteopathic medical school in this country accredited by the liaison committee on medical education or the American osteopathic association, or a medical school or osteopathic medical school located outside this country that was acknowledged by the world health organization and verified by a member state of that organization as operating within that state's ju...

...ns receiving addiction or mental health services. (B) Such collaborative training efforts may include but are not limited to programs in psychiatry, psychology, nursing, social work, counseling professions, and others considered appropriate by the director of behavioral health. Any such program shall be approved or accredited by its respective professional organization or state board having jurisdiction over the pr...

...The courses of study for the instruction and training of all persons in institutions under the control of the department of behavioral health shall be subject to the approval of the superintendent of public instruction. All teachers employed in institutions under the control of the department of behavioral health shall possess such educator licenses or have such qualifications and approval as the superintendent of...

...e employees of each department of youth services institution, and other persons associated by contract or otherwise with each state correctional institution or each department of youth services institution, who will be responsible for the conduct of, or otherwise providing treatment or rehabilitation services pursuant to, a substance abuse treatment or rehabilitation program offered in the institution to adult prison...

...ement or detoxification" means a set of medical interventions aimed at managing the acute physical symptoms of intoxication and withdrawal. Withdrawal management seeks to minimize the physical harm caused by the intoxication and withdrawal from a substance of abuse. Detoxification denotes a clearing of toxins from the body of the patient who is acutely intoxicated, dependent on a substance of abuse, or both. (B) T...

...ter into a contract for the purchase of services related to the program. Each branch site may operate one or more portable units or EEG combined neuromodulation portable units if the director determines that portable units or EEG combined neuromodulation portable units are necessary to expand access to care. The contract shall include provisions requiring the supplier to create and conduct a clinical trial, to establ...

...k with the department of administrative services to sell, lease, or exchange portions of real and personal property of the department when the sale, lease, or exchange is advantageous to the state. Money received from such sales, leases, or exchanges shall be credited to the department of behavioral health trust fund, created in section 5119.46 of the Revised Code. (D) Any instrument by which real property is acqu...

...ohol, drug addiction, and mental health services, support the community-based continuum of care that the boards are required by section 340.032 of the Revised Code to establish. The department shall provide the support on a district or multi-district basis. The department shall assist in identifying resources, and may prioritize support, for one or more of the elements of the community-based continuum of care. For th...

...The department of behavioral health may establish a process and standards for the state certification of certified community behavioral health clinics. The process and standards may be based on the provisions of section 223 of the "Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014," 42 U.S.C. 1396a note. If the department establishes a process and standards for the state certification of certified community behavioral heal...

...deration of recommendations made by the medical director appointed under section 5119.11 of the Revised Code, establish all of the following: (1) Guidelines, including a timetable, for the boards' development and submission of proposed community addiction and mental health plans, budgets, and lists of addiction services, mental health services, and recovery supports under sections 340.03 and 340.08 of the Revised C...

...ohol, drug addiction, and mental health services a time-limited waiver of the requirement of section 340.033 of the Revised Code that ambulatory detoxification and medication-assisted treatment be made available within the borders of the board's service district if the director determines that both of the following apply: (1) The board seeking the waiver has made reasonable efforts to make ambulatory detoxification...

...ohol, drug addiction, and mental health services the funds appropriated by the general assembly to the department for the purpose of the community-based continuum of care that each board establishes under section 340.032 of the Revised Code. The department shall establish the methodology after notifying and consulting with relevant constituencies as required by division (A)(10) of section 5119.21 of the Revised Code....

...ohol, drug addiction, and mental health services shall submit an annual report to the department of behavioral health specifying how the board used funds allocated to the board under section 5119.23 of the Revised Code for administrative functions in the year preceding the report's submission. The director of behavioral health shall establish the date by which the report must be submitted each year.

...ohol, drug addiction, and mental health services under section 5119.23 of the Revised Code if either of the following circumstances apply: (1) The board fails to comply with Chapter 340. or 5119. of the Revised Code or rules of the department of behavioral health; (2) The board denies available service on the basis of race, color, religion, ancestry, military status, sex, age, national origin, disability as defin...

...nsent, the right as a person receiving services to maintain the confidentiality of health and medical records, the right as a person detained for medical purposes to receive adequate and appropriate treatment, and the right to vote.

...ion of the persons seeking or receiving services, the provider-client relationship, and the administration of the program.

...nuity of care for the person or for the emergency treatment of the person; (8) That the department of behavioral health and community mental health services providers may exchange psychiatric records and other pertinent information with boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services for purposes of any board function set forth in Chapter 340. of the Revised Code. Boards of alcohol, drug addiction, an...

...ohol, drug addiction, and mental health services and community mental health boards, shall develop a coordinated system for tracking and monitoring persons found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed pursuant to section 2945.40 of the Revised Code who have been granted a conditional release and persons found incompetent to stand trial and committed pursuant to section 2945.39 of the Revised Code who have bee...

...ant information pertaining to addiction services and programs available both within their jurisdictions and statewide in order to facilitate the ability of the courts to utilize treatment and rehabilitation alternatives in addition to or in lieu of imposing sentences of imprisonment upon appropriate offenders.

... goods and supplies for use in cases of emergency, in which cases such managing officer shall certify such fact in writing and the department of administrative services shall record the reasons for such purchase.

...The department of behavioral health may examine into, with or without expert assistance, the question of the mental and physical condition of any person committed to or involuntarily confined in any hospital for persons with mental illnesses, or restrained of liberty at any place within this state by reason of alleged mental illness and may order and compel the discharge of any such person who is not a person with a ...

...k grant and the community mental health services block grant authorized by the "Public Health Services Act," 95 Stat. 357, 543, 42 U.S.C. 300x, as amended, and similar alcohol, drug abuse, or mental health programs that are specified in an appropriations act.

... that the hospital, any owner, sponsor, medical director, administrator, or principal of the hospital, or any subsidiary of the hospital, owner, or sponsor has been the subject of an adverse action, as defined in that section, taken during the three-year period immediately preceding the date of notification or date of becoming aware of the adverse action. (2) Proceedings initiated to deny applications for full or p...

...If the department of behavioral health determines that a hospital not licensed by the department is receiving for care or treatment any person who is or appears to have a mental illness, the department may request in writing that the attorney general petition the court of common pleas in the county where the hospital is located to enjoin the hospital from continued operation in violation of section 5119.33 of the Rev...

...ted to pay any hospital for psychiatric services for which a license is required under section 5119.33 of the Revised Code unless the hospital is licensed by the department of behavioral health. As used in this section, "third-party payer" means a health insuring corporation licensed under Chapter 1751. of the Revised Code, an insurance company that issues sickness and accident insurance in conformity with Chapter...

...No person shall keep or maintain a hospital for the care or treatment of persons with mental illnesses unless it is licensed by the department of behavioral health, as provided by section 5119.33 of the Revised Code.

...The hospital; (b) Any owner, sponsor, medical director, administrator, or principal of the hospital; (c) Any subsidiary of the hospital, owner, or sponsor. (2) Not later than seven days after receiving a notice of adverse action, the holder of a hospital license issued under section 5119.33 of the Revised Code shall notify the department of the action. (C) To notify the department as required by this sectio...

...nder any program established to provide emergency shelter housing or transitional housing for the homeless; (h) A terminal care facility for the homeless that has entered into an agreement with a hospice care program under section 3712.07 of the Revised Code; (i) A facility approved by the veterans administration under section 104(a) of the "Veterans Health Care Amendments of 1983," 97 Stat. 993, 38 U.S.C. 630,...

...viding accommodations and personal care services for one to five unrelated persons and licensed as a residential facility that meets the criteria specified in division (B)(1)(b) of section 5119.34 of the Revised Code as a permitted use in any residential district or zone, including any single-family residential district or zone of any political subdivision. Such facilities may be required to comply with area, height,...

...ate in transfer planning except when an emergency exists and immediate transfer is necessary. (d) Make periodic reports on the status of the residential facility to the court; the appropriate state agencies; and the board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services. Each report shall be made available to residents, their guardians, and families. (e) Compromise demands or claims; and (f) Generally do ...

...(A) As used in this section, "adverse action" means an action by a state, provincial, federal, or other licensing or regulatory authority other than the department of behavioral health to deny, revoke, suspend, place on probation, or otherwise restrict a license, certificate, or other approval to operate a residential facility or practice a health care profession. (B)(1) When submitting an application for initial ...

...partment of mental health and addiction services may suspend, without a prior hearing, the license of a class one residential facility that serves children if any of the following occurs: (1) A child suffers a serious injury or dies while residing in the residential facility. (2) The department, a public children services agency, or a county department of job and family services determines that a principal, emplo...

...two, or class three facility; (D) The services offered at the facility.

...ment entity is located or providing the services to enjoin the person or government entity from engaging in the conduct that violates division (A) of this section. (2) No person or government entity that is subject to this section is eligible to receive, for a service that is subject to this section, any federal funds, state funds, or funds administered by a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health serv...

...access to the person's own psychiatric, medical, or other treatment records unless access is specifically restricted in the person's treatment plan for clear treatment reasons; (iv) The right to have a client rights officer provided by the provider or board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services advise the person of the person's rights, including the person's rights under Chapter 5122. of the Revis...

... Revised Code, each community addiction services provider shall do all of the following: (1) Maintain a waiting list for the provider's included opioid and co-occurring drug addiction services and recovery supports; (2) Notify an individual included on the provider's waiting list when the provider has a slot available for the individual and, if the individual does not contact the provider about the slot within a ...

...rning the duties of community addiction services providers under section 5119.362 of the Revised Code. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. The director shall adopt rules under this section that authorize the department of behavioral health to determine an advanced practice registered nurse's, physician assistant's, or physician's compliance with section 3719.064 of the R...

...ts it receives from community addiction services providers under section 5119.362 of the Revised Code: (1) Subject to division (B) of this section, make the reports available on the department's internet web site; (2) Make the reports available in an electronic format to boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services in a manner that provides the information about an individual contained in a repo...

...rocedures used by a community addiction services provider accepting and beginning to serve a new individual, including procedures regarding intake forms and questionnaires; (B) Enable a community addiction services provider to retain an individual as an active patient even though the patient last received services from the provider more than thirty days before resumption of services so that the individual and provi...

...ohol, drug addiction, and mental health services ensure that each community mental health services provider and community addiction services provider with which it contracts under section 340.036 of the Revised Code to provide certifiable services and supports establish grievance procedures consistent with rules adopted under section 5119.36 of the Revised Code that are available to all persons seeking or receiving c...

...r other approval to provide certifiable services and supports or an equivalent to certifiable services and supports. (B)(1) When submitting an application for initial or renewed certification of one or more certifiable services and supports, the applicant shall notify the department of behavioral health of any adverse action taken against the following during the three-year period immediately preceding the date of...

...A) As used in this section, "telehealth services" has the same meaning as in section 4743.09 of the Revised Code. (B) Each community mental health services provider and community addiction services provider shall establish written policies and procedures describing how the provider will ensure that staff persons assisting clients with receiving telehealth services or providing telehealth services are fully trained ...

...g a similar program: an owner, sponsor, medical director, administrator, or principal of the provider; a subsidiary of the provider; or a subsidiary of the provider's owner or sponsor. Good standing shall be evidenced by both of the following: (a) Not having been denied a license, certificate, or similar approval to operate an opioid treatment program by this state or another jurisdiction; (b) Not having been t...

...On application by a community addiction services provider that has purchased or leased real property to be used as the location of an opioid treatment program subject to licensure under section 5119.37 of the Revised Code, the department of behavioral health shall determine whether the location of the proposed program complies with the requirements of division (C)(4) of section 5119.37 of the Revised Code by not bein...

... of such persons to community addiction services providers, the prompt notification of courts by program operators of the completion of the programs by persons required by courts to attend them, and record keeping, including methods of tracking participants for a reasonable time after they have left the program. The director shall issue a certificate to any qualified drivers' intervention program. The certificate i...

...(A) The department of behavioral health shall monitor the operation of recovery housing in this state by doing either of the following: (1) Certifying recovery housing residences through a process established by the department; (2) Accepting accreditation, or its equivalent for recovery housing, from one or more of the following: (a) The Ohio affiliate of the national alliance for recovery residences; (b)...

...(A) The department of behavioral health shall monitor the establishment of recovery housing residences in this state. (B) For purposes of division (A) of this section, and within the timeframe specified in division (C) of this section, each person or government entity that will operate a recovery housing residence on or after October 3, 2023, including any recovery housing that was established and in operation pri...

...(A) Beginning January 1, 2025, no person or government entity shall operate a recovery housing residence unless either of the following applies: (1)(a) If the department of behavioral health certifies recovery housing residences, the recovery housing residence is certified by the department. (b) If the department accepts accreditation or its equivalent from an organization specified in section 5119.39 of the Re...

...(A) The department of behavioral health shall establish a procedure to receive and investigate complaints from residents, staff, and the public regarding recovery housing residences. The department may contract with one or more of the organizations specified in section 5119.39 of the Revised Code to fulfill some or all of the functions associated with receiving and investigating complaints. (B) Any organization un...

...(A) The department of behavioral health shall establish and maintain a registry of recovery housing residences that meet the criteria described in division (A)(1) or (2) of section 5119.392 of the Revised Code. (B) For each residence, the registry shall include all of the following, subject to the confidentiality requirements of division (C) of section 5119.393 of the Revise Code: (1) Any information from the f...

...(A) Beginning January 1, 2025, no person or government entity shall advertise or represent any residence or other building to be a recovery housing residence, sober living home, or any other alcohol and drug free housing for persons recovering from alcohol use disorder or drug addiction unless the residence or building meets either of the following conditions: (1) The residence or building is on the registry estab...

...ng January 1, 2025, community addiction services providers and community mental health services providers shall not refer clients to a recovery housing residence unless the residence is on the registry established and maintained under section 5119.394 of the Revised Code on the date that the referral is made. Community addiction services providers and community mental health services providers shall maintain records ...

...The director of behavioral health may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement sections 5119.39 to 5119.396 of the Revised Code.

...atives covered under the state plan for medical assistance; (b) Offer the resident the choice of remaining in the nursing facility or receiving covered services in an alternative institutional or noninstitutional setting; (c) Clarify the effect on eligibility for services under the state plan for medical assistance if the resident chooses to leave the facility, including its effect on readmission to the facility;...

...dations, supervision, and personal care services to recipients of supplemental security income payments, social security benefits, and social security disability insurance benefits who the department determines are at risk of needing institutional care. In implementing the program, the department may designate one or more entities to be responsible for providing administrative services regarding the program. The de...

...ohol, drug addiction, and mental health services, the director of behavioral health may approve state reimbursement of, or state grants for, community construction programs including residential housing for persons with severe mental disabilities and persons with substance use disorders. The director may also approve an application for reimbursement or a grant for such programs submitted by other governmental entitie...

...ohol, drug addiction, and mental health services, another governmental entity, or a private, nonprofit organization that received a grant or reimbursement under section 5119.42 of the Revised Code for a facility on which the department of behavioral health holds a security interest. (B) A board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services, another governmental entity, or a private, nonprofit organization...

...r from the department of administrative services. The appraiser shall deliver to the director of behavioral health a signed certificate of the probable market value of the lands and facilities as determined from the preliminary appraisal. (3) The director of behavioral health shall certify to the clerk of the house of representatives and to the clerk of the senate a list of all lands and facilities which may be so...

...When it is necessary for a state institution under the jurisdiction of the department of behavioral health to acquire any real estate, right of way, or easement in real estate in order to accomplish the purposes for which it was organized or is being conducted, and the department is unable to agree with the owner of such property upon the price to be paid therefor, such property may be appropriated in the manner prov...

...ocurement, storage, and distribution of medical and laboratory supplies, dental supplies, medical records, forms, optical supplies, and sundries; (3) Procurement, storage, repackaging, distribution, and dispensing of drugs, the provision of professional pharmacy consultation, and drug information services; (4) Other goods and services. (D) The department of behavioral health may provide the goods and service...

...ioral health from the sale of goods and services, including, but not limited to, shared service agreements with other governmental entities and nongovernmental entities, employee housing and cafeteria receipts, fees for copying services, and sales of other tangible personal property under the department's control, shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the sale of goods and services fund, which is her...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the department of behavioral health trust fund. The trust fund shall receive all amounts, subject to any provisions in bond documents, received from the sale or lease of lands and facilities by the department. All moneys in the trust fund are subject to appropriation by the general assembly or may be used with the approval of the controlling board. The use of moneys ...

... the fund to support gambling addiction services, alcohol and drug addiction services, other services that relate to gambling addiction and substance abuse, and research that relates to gambling addiction and substance abuse. Treatment and prevention services supported by money in the fund under this section shall be services that are certified by the department of behavioral health. The director shall prepare an a...

...ening tool approved by the department's medical director; (2) Community detoxification and withdrawal management options and community treatment options; (3) A searchable database of certified substance abuse providers organized by zip code; (4) Information on recovery supports, including recovery housing residences; (5) Clinical information regarding what a person may expect during detoxification, withdr...

...(A) The director of behavioral health shall collaborate with the state board of pharmacy and attorney general in the establishment and administration of a drug take-back program, as provided under section 4729.69 of the Revised Code. (B) The department may accept grants, gifts, or donations for purposes of the program. Money received under this division shall be deposited into the drug take-back program fund estab...

...The director of behavioral health may accept, hold, and administer in trust on behalf of the state, if it is for the public interest, any grant, gift, devise, or bequest of money or property made to the state for the use or benefit of any institution described in section 5119.14 of the Revised Code or for the use and benefit of persons with mental illnesses under its control. If the trust so provides, the money or pr...

... As used in this section, "supplemental services" has the same meaning as in section 5815.28 of the Revised Code. (B) There is hereby created in the state treasury the services fund for individuals with mental illness. On the death of the beneficiary of a trust created pursuant to section 5815.28 of the Revised Code, the portion of the remaining assets of the trust specified in the trust instrument shall be deposi...

...Each managing officer of an institution under the jurisdiction of the department of behavioral health as described in section 5119.14 of the Revised Code, with the approval of the director of behavioral health, may establish local institution funds designated as follows: (A) Industrial and entertainment fund created and maintained for the entertainment and welfare of the patients of the institution. The director s...

...The treasurer of state shall have charge of all funds under the jurisdiction of the department of behavioral health and shall pay out the same only in accordance with this chapter. The department shall cause to be furnished a contract of indemnity to cover all funds received by it or by its managing officers, employees, or agents while the funds are in the possession of such managing officers, employees or agents....

...et seq., if the medicaid program covers services provided in such institutions. The amount paid by the department shall not exceed the reduced supplemental security income benefit rate established by Title XVI of the "Social Security Act."

...Money or property deposited with managing officers of institutions under the jurisdiction of the department of behavioral health by any patient under the department's control or by relatives, guardians, conservators, and others for the special benefit of such patient, as well as all other funds and all other income paid to the patient, the patient's estate, or on the patient's behalf, or paid to the managing officer ...

...to the governor that shall describe the services the department offers and how appropriated funds have been spent. The report shall include all of the following: (A) The utilization of state hospitals by each alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health service district; (B) The number of persons served by community addiction services providers that receive funds distributed by the department, with a breakdown into...

...all collect information about addiction services, mental health services, and recovery supports delivered and persons served as required for reporting and evaluation relating to state and federal funds expended for such purposes. (B) No community addiction services provider or community mental health services provider shall fail to supply statistics and other information within its knowledge and with respect to it...

...nd the patient; furnished all available medical and other pertinent records concerning the patient; given the qualified medical or other appropriate clinical authorities of the receiving state an opportunity to examine the patient if said authorities so wish; and unless the receiving state shall agree to accept the patient. (d) In the event that the laws of the receiving state establish a system of priorities for t...

...Pursuant to Article X of the compact set forth in section 5119.70 of the Revised Code, the director of behavioral health and the director of developmental disabilities each shall designate an officer who shall be the compact administrator for the department and who, acting jointly with like officers of other party states, shall adopt rules to carry out more effectively the terms of the compact. The compact administra...

...The compact administrator may enter into supplementary agreements with appropriate officials of other states pursuant to articles VII and XI of the compact set forth in section 5119.70 of the Revised Code. In the event that such supplementary agreements require or contemplate the use of any institution or facility of this state or require or contemplate the provision of any service by this state, no such agreem...

...Any payments necessary to discharge any financial obligations imposed upon the state of Ohio by the compact or by any supplementary agreement entered into thereunder, as provided in sections 5119.70 to 5119.72 of the Revised Code, shall be made from appropriated funds upon presentation to the director of budget and management of itemized vouchers approved by the compact administrator.

...As used in sections 5119.81 to 5119.85 of the Revised Code: (A) "9-8-8 administrator" means the administrator of the 9-8-8 suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline system, as established in section 5119.82 of the Revised Code. (B) "9-8-8 suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline" or "9-8-8 hotline" means the 9-8-8 universal telephone number in the United States, as established under 47 U.S.C....

...There is hereby established a 9-8-8 administrator within the department of behavioral health to oversee the administration of the 9-8-8 suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline system statewide.

...(A) Not later than one year after the effective date of this section and annually thereafter, the 9-8-8 administrator shall compile an annual report regarding the operation of the 9-8-8 national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline in this state. (B) Each annual report shall, at a minimum, specify all of the following: (1) The total number of 9-8-8 call centers in this state to which calls, texts,...

...(A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the 9-8-8 fund. The fund shall consist of all money from the following sources: (1) Appropriations made by the general assembly; (2) Money awarded to the state by donation, gift, or bequest, and other money received for purposes of this section; (3) Interest or other earnings on the fund. (B) Money in the fund shall be used to oversee and administer the 9-8-8 ...

...(A) As used in this section, "telephone company" has the same meaning as in section 128.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Except for willful or wanton misconduct, a telephone company, a provider of interconnected voice over internet protocol service, and any other installer, maintainer, or provider, through the sale or otherwise, of customer premises equipment, or service used for or with the 9-8-8 hotline, and their res...

...The director of behavioral health shall consult with the superintendent of insurance as required by section 3901.90 of the Revised Code to develop consumer and payer education on behavioral health insurance parity and establish and promote a consumer hotline to collect information and help consumers understand and access their insurance benefits. The department of behavioral health and the department of insurance s...

...ohol, drug addiction, and mental health services" means a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services established under section 340.02 or 340.021 of the Revised Code. (D) "Danger" or "threat of danger to self, family, or others" means substantial physical harm or threat of substantial physical harm upon self, family, or others. (E) "Hospital" has the same meaning as in section 3701.01 or 3727.0...