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...(A) Each officer whose office is created by sections 121.02, 121.04, and 121.05 of the Revised Code, before entering upon the duties of office, shall take and subscribe an oath of office as provided by law and give bond, conditioned according to law, with security to be approved by the governor in the penal sum, not less than ten thousand dollars, fixed by the governor. The department of administrative services may p...

...Except as otherwise authorized in this section and section 108.05 of the Revised Code, each officer whose office is created by sections 121.02, 121.04, and 121.05 of the Revised Code shall devote the entire amount of time for which he receives compensation from that office to the duties of the office, and shall hold no other office or position of profit. Such an officer is entitled to his actual and necessary expen...

...The director of each department may, with the approval of the governor, establish and appoint advisory boards to aid in the conduct of the work of his department or any division thereof. Such advisory boards shall exercise no administrative function, and their members shall receive no compensation, but may receive their actual and necessary expenses.

...Each department may employ, subject to the civil service laws in force at the time the employment is made, the necessary employees, and, if the rate of compensation is not otherwise fixed by law, fix their compensation. All offices created by sections 121.04 and 121.05 of the Revised Code shall be in the unclassified civil service of the state.

...The director of each department shall, with the approval of the governor, maintain a central office at a location in the state that the director finds necessary for the efficient performance of the department. The central office of a department shall not be relocated from Columbus to another location in this state until the director of the department has conducted a cost-benefit analysis of the relocation and provide...

...Not later than ten days after receiving notice from the federal government about a reduction or other modification to federal funding a state agency receives, the state agency that received the notice shall submit a copy to the president of the senate, or the president's designee, and to the speaker of the house of representatives, or the speaker's designee. Not later than ten days after receiving notice from the f...

...Under the direction of the governor, the directors of departments shall devise a practical and working basis for co-operation and co-ordination of work and for the elimination of duplication and overlapping functions. They shall co-operate with each other in the employment of services and the use of quarters and equipment. The director of any department may empower or require an employee of another department, subjec...

...Each department shall make and file a report of its transactions and proceedings at the time and in the manner prescribed by section 149.01 of the Revised Code.

...department acquires an interest in real property, including any deed, transfer, grant, reservation, agreement creating an easement, or lease, shall identify the department for whose use and benefit the interest in real property is acquired, as specified in section 5301.012 of the Revised Code.

...Whenever power is vested in any state department, board, or commission, to inspect, examine, secure data or information, or to procure assistance from another department, office, or institution, a duty is hereby imposed upon the department, office, or institution upon which demand is made to make such power effective.

...Each department shall adopt and keep an official seal, which shall consist of the coat of arms of the state, as described in section 5.04 of the Revised Code, within a circle one and one-fourth inches in diameter, and shall be surrounded by the proper name of the department, to which may be added the title of any division, board, or commission within the department, if the director of the department so prescribes. Su...

...Records in the custody of each agency shall be retained for time periods in accordance with law establishing specific retention periods, and in accordance with retention periods or disposition instructions established by the state records administration.

...ing. (2) To consider the purchase of property for public purposes, the sale of property at competitive bidding, or the sale or other disposition of unneeded, obsolete, or unfit-for-use property in accordance with section 505.10 of the Revised Code, if premature disclosure of information would give an unfair competitive or bargaining advantage to a person whose personal, private interest is adverse to the general p...

...(A) As used in this section: "Hearing" means an administrative hearing, hearing as defined in section 119.01 of the Revised Code, or other hearing at which a person may present written or oral testimony on a matter before the public body. "Meeting" has the same meaning as in section 121.22 of the Revised Code. "Public body" has the same meaning as in section 121.22 of the Revised Code. "Multi-party meeting" m...

...(A) The secretary of state shall establish and maintain a list of all persons against whom more than one final, unappealable finding of contempt of court by a federal court or court of appeals has been issued and has remained uncorrected by the court within the immediately preceding two-year period after the listing of the finding by the secretary of state for failure to correct an unfair labor practice prohibited by...

...As used in sections 121.30 to 121.34 of the Revised Code, "Spanish-speaking people" means persons who possess any of the following characteristics: (A) Use Spanish as their primary language; (B) Regard themselves as or are regarded in their community as being of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central American, South American, Spanish, or other Spanish-speaking origin or descent.

...There is hereby created the commission on Hispanic-Latino affairs consisting of eleven voting members appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. The speaker of the house of representatives shall recommend to the governor two persons for appointment to the commission, the president of the senate shall recommend to the governor two such persons, and the minority leaders of the house and senate...

...The commission on Hispanic-Latino affairs shall: (A) Gather and disseminate information and conduct hearings, conferences, investigations, and special studies on problems and programs concerning Spanish-speaking people; (B) Secure appropriate recognition of the accomplishments and contributions of Spanish-speaking people to this state; (C) Stimulate public awareness of the problems of Spanish-speaking people...

...mission which shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (A) Serve as a clearinghouse to review and comment on all proposals to meet the needs of Spanish-speaking people that are submitted to it by public and private agencies; (B) Apply for and accept grants and gifts from governmental and private sources to be administered by the office or subcontracted to local agencies; (C) Monitor and evaluate all pr...

...al health; (9) The opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency; (10) The department of children and youth. (B) In revising eligibility standards and eligibility determination procedures, a state agency shall not make any program's eligibility standards or eligibility determination procedures inconsistent with state or federal law. To the extent authorized by state and federal law, the revisions may pr...

...(A) As used in this section, "home care dependent adult" means an individual who resides in a private home or other noninstitutional and unlicensed living arrangement, without the presence of a parent or guardian, but has health and safety needs that require the provision of regularly scheduled home care services to remain in the home or other living arrangement because one of the following is the case: (1) The in...

... or bequest any moneys, lands, or other property for the purposes for which the council is established. The agent shall hold, apply, and dispose of the moneys, lands, or other property according to the terms of the gift, grant, devise, or bequest. Any interest or earnings shall be treated in the same manner and are subject to the same terms as the gift, grant, devise, or bequest from which it accrues. (b)(i) If th...

...one or more agencies represented on the Ohio family and children first cabinet council. The director may transfer only money that state or federal law permits to be used for the cabinet council's administrative costs. Money in the fund shall be used to pay the cabinet council's administrative costs.

...vide the following information to the Ohio family and children first cabinet council: (1) The types of individuals the agency identifies as being at-risk individuals; (2) The total per-individual cost to the agency for care coordination services provided to at-risk individuals; (3) The administrative cost per individual for care coordination services provided to at-risk individuals; (4) The specific work p...

...idential, and release of information is limited to those with whom the county family and children first council is permitted by law to share the information. Access to and use of data in the Ohio automated service coordination information system shall be limited to the extent necessary to carry out the duties of the family and children first cabinet council and the county family and children first councils establishe...

...(A) Subject to division (D) of this section, the department of developmental disabilities may pay a medicaid rate add-on to an ICF/IID provider for outlier ICF/IID services the ICF/IID provides to residents identified as needing intensive behavioral support services, if the provider applies to the department to receive the rate add-on and the department approves the application. The department may approve a provider'...

...Except as otherwise provided in section 5124.30 of the Revised Code, the department of developmental disabilities, in determining whether an ICF/IID's direct care costs and indirect care costs are allowable, shall place no limit on specific categories of reasonable costs other than compensation of owners, compensation of relatives of owners, and compensation of administrators. Compensation cost limits for owners an...

...Except as provided in section 5124.17 of the Revised Code, the costs of goods, services, and facilities, furnished to an ICF/IID provider by a related party are includable in the allowable costs of the provider at the reasonable cost to the related party.

...The department of developmental disabilities shall adjust medicaid payment rates determined under this chapter to account for reasonable additional costs that must be incurred by ICFs/IID to comply with requirements of federal or state statutes, rules, or policies enacted or amended after January 1, 1992, or with orders issued by state or local fire authorities.

...The department of developmental disabilities shall not reduce an ICF/IID's medicaid payment rate determined under this chapter on the basis that the provider charges a lower rate to any resident who is not eligible for medicaid.

...No medicaid payment shall be made to an ICF/IID provider for the day a medicaid recipient is discharged from the ICF/IID, unless the recipient is discharged from the ICF/IID because all of the beds in the ICF/IID are converted from providing ICF/IID services to providing home and community-based services pursuant to section 5124.60 or 5124.61 of the Revised Code.

...(A) As used in this section, "participation in therapeutic programs" includes visits to potential new residential settings. (B) The department of developmental disabilities shall pay an ICF/IID provider one hundred per cent of the total per medicaid day payment rate determined for the ICF/IID under this chapter to reserve a bed for a resident who is a medicaid recipient if all of the following apply: (1) The recipi...

...Medicaid payments may be made for ICF/IID services provided not later than thirty days after the effective date of an involuntary termination of the ICF/IID that provides the services if the services are provided to a medicaid recipient who is eligible for the services and resided in the ICF/IID before the effective date of the involuntary termination.

...The department of developmental disabilities shall make its best efforts each year to determine ICFs/IID's medicaid payment rates under this chapter in time to pay the rates by August fifteenth of each fiscal year. If the department is unable to calculate the rates so that they can be paid by that date, the department shall pay each provider the rate calculated for the provider's ICFs/IID under those sections a...

...(A) The director of developmental disabilities shall establish a process under which an ICF/IID provider, or a group or association of ICF/IID providers, may seek reconsideration of medicaid payment rates established under this chapter. Except as provided in divisions (B) to (E) of this section, the only issue that a provider, group, or association may raise in the rate reconsideration is whether the rate was calcula...

...If an ICF/IID provider properly amends a cost report for an ICF/IID under section 5124.107 of the Revised Code and the amended report shows that the provider received a lower medicaid payment rate under the original cost report than the provider was entitled to receive, the department of developmental disabilities shall adjust the provider's rate for the ICF/IID prospectively to reflect the corrected information. The...

...(A) The department of developmental disabilities shall redetermine a provider's medicaid payment rate for an ICF/IID using revised information if either of the following results in a determination that the provider received a higher medicaid payment rate for the ICF/IID than the provider was entitled to receive: (1) The provider properly amends a cost report for the ICF/IID under section 5124.107 of the Revised Cod...

...In addition to the other penalties authorized by this chapter, the department of developmental disabilities may impose the following penalties on an ICF/IID provider: (A) If the provider does not furnish invoices or other documentation that the department requests during an audit within sixty days after the request, a fine of not more than the greater of the following: (1) One thousand dollars per audit; (2)...

...For the purposes of sections 5124.41 and 5124.42 of the Revised Code, the department of developmental disabilities shall determine the current average bank prime rate using statistical release H.15, "selected interest rates," a weekly publication of the federal reserve board, or any successor publication. If statistical release H.15, or its successor, ceases to contain the bank prime rate information or ceases ...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the department of developmental disabilities shall deduct the following from the next available medicaid payment the department makes to an ICF/IID provider who continues to participate in medicaid: (1) Any amount the provider is required to refund, and any interest charged, under section 5124.41 of the Revised Code; (2) The amount of any penalty imposed...

...The department of developmental disabilities shall transmit to the treasurer of state for deposit in the general revenue fund amounts collected from the following: (A) Refunds required by, and interest charged under, section 5124.41 of the Revised Code; (B) Penalties imposed under section 5124.42 of the Revised Code.

...All of the following are subject to an adjudication conducted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code: (A) Any audit disallowance that the department of developmental disabilities makes as the result of an audit under section 5124.109 of the Revised Code; (B) Any medicaid payment deemed an overpayment under section 5124.523 of the Revised Code; (C) Any penalty the department imposes under section 51...

...An exiting operator or owner of an ICF/IID participating in the medicaid program shall provide the department of developmental disabilities and department of medicaid written notice of a facility closure or voluntary termination not less than ninety days before the effective date of the facility closure or voluntary termination. The written notice shall be provided to the department of developmental disabilitie...

...(A) An exiting operator or owner and entering operator shall provide the department of developmental disabilities and department of medicaid written notice of a change of operator if the ICF/IID participates in the medicaid program and the entering operator seeks to continue the ICF/IID's participation. The written notice shall be provided to the department of developmental disabilities and department of medic...

...The department of medicaid may enter into a provider agreement with an entering operator that goes into effect at 12:01 a.m. on the effective date of the change of operator if all of the following requirements are met: (A) The department receives a properly completed written notice required by section 5124.51 of the Revised Code on or before the date required by that section. (B) The department receives both ...

...(A) The department of medicaid may enter into a provider agreement with an entering operator that goes into effect at 12:01 a.m. on the date determined under division (B) of this section if all of the following are the case: (1) The department receives a properly completed written notice required by section 5124.51 of the Revised Code. (2) The department receives, from the entering operator and in accordance ...

...A provider that enters into a provider agreement with the department of medicaid under section 5124.511 or 5124.512 of the Revised Code shall do all of the following: (A) Comply with all applicable federal statutes and regulations; (B) Comply with section 5124.07 of the Revised Code and all other applicable state statutes and rules; (C) Comply with all the terms and conditions of the exiting operator's provi...

...In the case of a change of operator, the exiting operator shall be considered to be the operator of the ICF/IID for purposes of the medicaid program, including medicaid payments, until the effective date of the entering operator's provider agreement if the provider agreement is entered into under section 5124.511 or 5124.512 of the Revised Code.

...The department of medicaid may enter into a provider agreement as provided in section 5124.07 of the Revised Code, rather than section 5124.511 or 5124.512 of the Revised Code, with an entering operator if the entering operator does not agree to a provider agreement that satisfies the requirements of division (C) of section 5124.513 of the Revised Code. The department may not enter into the provider agreement u...

...The director of developmental disabilities may adopt rules under section 5124.03 of the Revised Code governing adjustments to the medicaid reimbursement rate for an ICF/IID that undergoes a change of operator. No rate adjustment resulting from a change of operator shall be effective before the effective date of the entering operator's provider agreement. This is the case regardless of whether the provider agree...