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...(A) The department of children and youth shall serve as the state's primary children's services agency and shall facilitate and coordinate the delivery of children's services in this state, including, but not limited to, those related to adoption, child care, child welfare, early childhood education, early intervention, foster care, home visiting, infant and early childhood mental consultation, and preschool special ...

...(A) The governor shall create the children and youth advisory council in accordance with 42 U.S.C. 9837b(b)(1) and 20 U.S.C. 1441 and shall appoint one of its members to serve as chairperson of the council with the director of children and youth serving as co-chairperson. (B)(1) The council shall serve as both the state advisory council on early childhood education and care, as described in 42 U.S.C. 9837b(b)(1), ...

...ctor's designee; (5) The director of children and youth or the director's designee; (6) The director of health or the director's designee; (7) The director of developmental disabilities or the director's designee; (8) The executive director of the commission on minority health or the executive director's designee; (9) The attorney general or the attorney general's designee; (10) A health commissione...

...ach calendar quarter, the department of children and youth shall determine the state's preliminary infant mortality and preterm birth rates, as well as the stillbirth rate, delineated by race and ethnic group. The rates shall be determined using a simple rolling average. The department shall publish the rates in a quarterly report, which shall also include a description of the data sources and methodology used to det...

...luntary muscles. (B) The director of children and youth shall do all of the following: (1) Publish stillbirth data compiled from the department of health's fetal death statistical file and make it available on the department of children and youth's internet web site; (2) Review the stillbirth data described in division (B)(1) of this section and identify potential trends in the incidence of stillbirth and th...

...(A) The department of children and youth shall create an infant mortality scorecard. The scorecard shall report all of the following: (1) The state's performance on population health measures, including the infant mortality rate, preterm birth rate, and low birth weight rate, delineated by race, ethnic group, region of the state, and the state as a whole; (2) Preliminary data the department possesses on the sta...

...nd 5180.17 of the Revised Code: (1) "Child care center," "type A family child care home," and "licensed type B family child care home" have the same meanings as in section 5104.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Child care facility" means a child care center, a type A family child care home, or a licensed type B family child care home. (3) "Foster caregiver" has the same meaning as in section 5103.02 of the Revise...

...uted in the following manner: (1) By childbirth educators and the staff of obstetricians' offices, to an expectant parent who uses their services; (2) By the staff of pediatric physicians' offices, to any of the following who use their services: an infant's parent, guardian, or other person responsible for the infant; (3) By the staff of a hospital or freestanding birthing center, to an infant's parent, guar...

...investigation. (B) The department of children and youth shall establish the safe sleep education program by doing all of the following: (1) Developing educational materials that present readily comprehendible information on safe sleeping practices for infants and possible causes of sudden unexpected infant death; (2) Making available on the department's internet web site in an easily accessible format the ed...

...ace and environment. The director of children and youth shall develop questions that facilities may use when implementing the infant safe sleep screening procedure required by this division. The director may consult with persons and government entities that have expertise in infant safe sleep practices when developing the questions. (C) If, prior to an infant's discharge from a facility to the infant's residenc...

...The director of children and youth shall require each recipient of a grant the department of children and youth administers that pertains to safe crib procurement to report annually to the department both of the following: (A) Demographic information specified by the director of children and youth regarding the individuals to whom safe cribs were distributed; (B) If known, the extent to which distributed cribs ...

...(A) The department of children and youth shall create a population-based questionnaire designed to examine maternal behaviors and experiences before, during, and after a woman's pregnancy, as well as during the early infancy of the woman's child. The questionnaire shall collect information that is similar to the information collected by the pregnancy risk assessment monitoring system (PRAMS) questionnaire that the de...

...(A) The director of children and youth shall identify each government program providing benefits, other than the help me grow program established by the department of children and youth pursuant to section 5180.21 of the Revised Code, that has the goal of reducing infant mortality and negative birth outcomes or the goal of reducing disparities among women who are pregnant or capable of becoming pregnant and who belon...

...(A) The department of children and youth shall establish the help me grow program as the state's evidence-based parent support program that encourages early prenatal and well-baby care, as well as provides parenting education to promote the comprehensive health and development of children. The program shall provide home visiting services to families with a pregnant woman or child under five years of age that meet the...

...(A) The department of children and youth shall create a central intake and referral system for all home visiting programs operating in this state. Through a competitive bidding process, the department of children and youth may select one or more persons or government entities to operate the system. In its oversight of the one or more system operators, the department shall streamline the system to ensure families and ...

...(A) The department of children and youth shall develop educational materials describing the health risks of lead-based paint and measures that may be taken to reduce those risks. (B) As part of the home visiting services described in section 5180.21 of the Revised Code, each eligible family residing in a house, apartment, or other residence built before January 1, 1979, shall receive a copy of the educational mate...

...section 2151.011 of the Revised Code, a child day camp, as defined in section 5104.01 of the Revised Code, or a child day camp operated by any county, township, municipal corporation, township park district created under section 511.18 of the Revised Code, park district created under section 1545.04 of the Revised Code, or joint recreation district established under section 755.14 of the Revised Code may procure epin...

...section 2151.011 of the Revised Code, a child day camp, as defined in section 5104.01 of the Revised Code, or a child day camp operated by any county, township, municipal corporation, township park district created under section 511.18 of the Revised Code, park district created under section 1545.04 of the Revised Code, or joint recreation district established under section 755.14 of the Revised Code may procure inha...

...section 2151.011 of the Revised Code; a child day camp, as defined in section 5104.01 of the Revised Code; or a child day camp operated by any county, township, municipal corporation, township park district created under section 511.18 of the Revised Code, park district created under section 1545.04 of the Revised Code, or joint recreation district established under section 755.14 of the Revised Code may procure inje...

...hereby established in the department of children and youth a pregnancy-associated mortality review (PAMR) board to identify and review all pregnancy-associated deaths statewide for the purpose of reducing the incidence of those deaths.

...The PAMR board may not conduct a review of a pregnancy-associated death while an investigation of the death or prosecution of a person for causing the death is pending unless the prosecuting attorney agrees to allow the review. The law enforcement agency conducting the criminal investigation, on the conclusion of the investigation, and the prosecuting attorney prosecuting the case, on the conclusion of the prosecutio...

... the PAMR board: (A) The director of children and youth shall appoint the board's members. In doing so, the director shall make a good faith effort to select members who represent all regions of the state and multiple areas of expertise and constituencies concerned with the care of pregnant and postpartum women. (B) The board, by a majority vote of a quorum of its members, shall select an individual to serve as...

...ies; (C) Providing the department of children and youth with aggregate data, trends, and patterns regarding pregnancy-associated deaths using data and other relevant information specified in rules adopted under section 5180.278 of the Revised Code; (D) Developing effective interventions to reduce the mortality of pregnant and postpartum women.

...(A) Notwithstanding section 3701.243 and any other section of the Revised Code pertaining to confidentiality, and except as provided in division (B) of this section, an individual, government entity, agency that provides services specifically to individuals or families, law enforcement agency, health care provider, or other public or private entity that provided services to a woman whose death is being reviewed by th...

...and data submitted to the department of children and youth by the board, other than the biennial reports described in section 5180.277 of the Revised Code, are confidential and not a public record under section 149.43 of the Revised Code. Such materials shall be used by the board and department only in the exercise of the proper functions of the board and department. (B) No person shall permit or encourage the una...

...on, in any action in which a court or a child support enforcement agency issues or modifies a child support order or in any other proceeding in which a court or agency determines the amount of child support to be paid pursuant to a child support order, the court or agency shall issue a minimum child support order requiring the obligor to pay a minimum of eighty dollars a month for all the children subject to that ord...

...Whenever a court issues a child support order, it shall include in the order specific provisions for regular, holiday, vacation, parenting time, and special visitation in accordance with section 3109.051, 3109.11, or 3109.12 of the Revised Code or in accordance with any other applicable section of the Revised Code.

...ing, impoundment, or withholding of any child support payment because of a denial of or interference with a right of parenting time or visitation included as a specific provision of the child support order or as a method of enforcing the specific provisions of the child support order dealing with parenting time or visitation.

...For purposes of sections 3119.11 and 3119.12 of the Revised Code, "person with a disability" means a person with a mental or physical disability, whose disability began before the person reached the age of majority, and whose disability makes the person incapable of supporting or maintaining oneself.

...Code, when issuing or modifying a court child support order, a court may provide for the care and maintenance of a child who is a person with a disability and the subject of the order, to be issued or continue after the date the child reaches the age of majority. This section applies regardless of whether the child is younger or older than the age of majority when the court issues or modifies the order. The court sha...

...othing in the Revised Code authorizes a child support enforcement agency to issue an administrative child support order for a person who has reached the age of eighteen, including a person with a disability. In all cases in which the agency is prohibited from issuing an administrative child support order, the agency may request the appropriate court with jurisdiction to take action under section 3119.11 of the Revise...

...The court may order an amount of child support that deviates from the amount of child support that would otherwise result from the use of the basic child support schedule and the applicable worksheet if, after considering the factors and criteria set forth in section 3119.23 of the Revised Code, the court determines that the amount calculated pursuant to the basic child support schedule and the applicable worksheet w...

... (A) Special and unusual needs of the child or children, including needs arising from the physical or psychological condition of the child or children; (B) Other court-ordered payments; (C) Extended parenting time or extraordinary costs associated with parenting time, including extraordinary travel expenses when exchanging the child or children for parenting time; (D) The financial resources and the earning a...

...(A) If court-ordered parenting time exceeds ninety overnights per year, the court shall consider whether to grant a deviation pursuant to section 3119.22 of the Revised Code for the reason set forth in division (C) of section 3119.23 of the Revised Code. This deviation is in addition to any adjustments provided under division (A) of section 3119.051 of the Revised Code. ( B) If court-ordered parenting time is equal...

...e Revised Code shall order an amount of child support to be paid under the child support order that is calculated in accordance with the schedule and with the worksheet, except that, if that amount would be unjust or inappropriate to the children or either parent and therefore not in the best interest of the child because of the extraordinary circumstances of the parents or because of any other factors or criteria se...

...at issues or modifies an administrative child support order, shall impose on the obligor under the support order a processing charge in the amount of two per cent of the support payment to be collected under a support order. No court or agency may call the charge a poundage fee. (B) In each child support case that is a Title IV-D case, the department of job and family services shall annually claim thirty-five dolla...

...(A) As used in this section, "current support payment" means the amount of support due an obligee that an obligor is required to pay in a particular payment for the current month as specified in a support order. "Current support payment" does not include payments on arrearages under the support order. (B) The obligor shall pay the amount imposed pursuant to section 3119.27 of the Revised Code with every current supp...

...ical expenses incurred on behalf of the child. (B) "Health insurance coverage" means accessible private health insurance that provides primary care services within thirty miles from the residence of the child subject to the child support order. (C) "Health plan administrator" means any entity authorized under Title XXXIX of the Revised Code to engage in the business of insurance in this state, any health insuring...

...ovide health insurance coverage for the children who are the subject of an order issued under section 3119.30 of the Revised Code.

... In any action or proceeding in which a child support order is issued or modified, the court, with respect to court child support orders, and the child support enforcement agency, with respect to administrative child support orders, shall determine the person or persons responsible for the health care coverage of the children subject to the child support order and shall include provisions for the health care coverage...

...t provides for the health care needs of children subject to a child support order shall be considered to be a requirement included as part of the child support order. The child support order shall be considered to have been issued in accordance with former section 3111.241 or 3113.217 of the Revised Code as those sections existed on and after January 1, 1998, and prior to March 22, 2001. A child support order issued...

...When the court, with respect to a court child support order, or the child support enforcement agency, with respect to an administrative child support order, determines the person or persons responsible for the health care coverage of the children subject to the order pursuant to section 3119.30 of the Revised Code, all of the following apply: (1) The court or agency shall consider any health insurance coverage in w...

...ed in the same manner as the underlying child support order.

...ction or proceeding in which a court or child support enforcement agency is determining the person responsible for the health care coverage of the children who are or will be the subject of a child support order, each party shall provide to the court or child support enforcement agency a list of any group health insurance policies, contracts, or plans available to the party and the cost of coverage under the availabl...

...A child support order shall contain all of the following: (A)(1) If the obligor, obligee, or both obligor and obligee, are required under section 3119.30 of the Revised Code to provide health care coverage for the children, a requirement that whoever is required to provide health care coverage provide to the other, not later than thirty days after the issuance of the order, information regarding the benefits, limit...

...A child support enforcement agency shall send the national medical support notice to the employer of a person required to provide health insurance coverage for the children who are the subject of a child support order. The child support enforcement agency shall act in accordance with federal regulations governing the national medical support notice and rules adopted by the department of job and family services under ...

...the Revised Code of a new hire match, a child support enforcement agency shall send to a person's new employer a national medical support notice if the person is the person required to provide health insurance coverage for the children who are the subject of a child support order.

...At the same time that a child support enforcement agency sends a national medical support notice under section 3119.33 or 3119.34 of the Revised Code to the employer of a person required to provide health insurance coverage for children who are the subject of a child support order, the agency shall send a notice of medical support enforcement activity to that person.

...o provide health insurance coverage for children who are the subject of a child support order; (C) A statement that a national medical support notice has been sent to the person's employer; (D) A statement of the purpose of the national medical support notice, of what it will require of the person's employer and any applicable health plan administrator, and that amounts will be withheld from the person's income to ...

...ction 3119.35 of the Revised Code. All child support enforcement agencies shall use the form in issuing the notice under that section.