Ohio Revised Code Search

...(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...

...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 belong to a racial or ethnic minority. A program shall be identified only if it provides education, training, and supp...

...(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 ...

...s; (9) One individual who represents county boards of developmental disabilities, recommended by the Ohio association of county boards of developmental disabilities; (10) A home visiting contractor who provides services within the help me grow program through a contract, grant, or other agreement with the department of children and youth; (11) A home visiting contractor who provides services within one or mo...

...Beginning in fiscal year 2026, the department of children and youth shall facilitate and allocate funds for a biennial summit on home visiting programs. The purpose of each summit is to convene persons and government entities involved with the delivery of home visiting services in this state, as well as other interested persons, to do all of the following: (A) Share the latest research on evidence-based and innova...

...(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...

...The department of children and youth shall serve as the "lead agency," as described by 20 U.S.C. 1435(a)(10), to implement the state's part C early intervention services program, through which early intervention services are provided to eligible infants and toddlers in accordance with part C of the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act," 20 U.S.C. 1431 et seq., and regulations implementing that part in 34 C.F....

...The department of children and youth may do any of the following as the lead agency to implement the state's part C early intervention services program, as described in section 5180.30 of the Revised Code: (A) Enter into an interagency agreement with one or more other state agencies to implement the program and ensure coordination of early childhood programs; (B) Distribute program funds through contracts, gran...

... Procedures to appeal a decision by the department of developmental disabilities to deny an application to be a program service provider or to terminate a provider's status; (F) Procedures for addressing complaints by persons who receive program services; (G) Criteria for the payment of program service providers; (H) The metrics or indicators used to measure program service provider performance.

...e independent contractor engaged by the department of education and workforce to create and maintain such codes for school districts and community schools under division (D)(2) of section 3301.0714 of the Revised Code for each child who is receiving services from the state's part C early intervention services program. The director shall request from the parent, guardian, or custodian of the child, or from any other p...

... member of the council representing the department of health or the department of children and youth shall serve as chairperson. The council is not subject to sections 101.82 to 101.87 of the Revised Code.

...nizations located in each participating county to ensure all books distributed under the program remain at no cost to Ohio families; (2) Provide advice and recommendations to the Dollywood foundation on the appointment and hiring of the Ohio director of the Dollywood foundation who will manage the daily operations of Dolly Parton's imagination library of Ohio; (3) Provide strategic advice to the state director; ...

...based parenting education programs, the department of children and youth shall ensure state departments, agencies, and boards have information to communicate with parents, caregivers, and child care providers about such programs to promote their benefits, including their parenting, caregiving, and educational resources.

...As used in Chapters 5501., 5503., 5511., 5513., 5515., 5516., 5517., 5519., 5521., 5523., 5525., 5527., 5528., 5529., 5531., 5533., and 5535. of the Revised Code: (A) "Transportation facilities" means all publicly owned modes and means of transporting people and goods, including the physical facilities, garages, district offices, and other related buildings therefor, and including, but not limited to, highways, righ...

..., and functions conferred by law on the department of transportation and the divisions of the department shall be performed under such rules as the director of transportation may prescribe, and shall be under the director's control. The director shall appoint such employees of the department as are necessary, and shall prescribe their titles and duties.

...issions, regional transit authorities, county transit boards, and port authorities, to administer the design, qualification of bidders, competitive bid letting, construction inspection, research, and acceptance of any projects or transportation facilities administered by the department, provided the administration of such projects or transportation facilities is performed in accordance with all applicable state...

...The department of transportation shall: (A) Consider energy conservation as an integral factor along with economics, engineering, safety, and the environment in the planning, design, and utilization of transportation facilities; (B) Reevaluate existing plans for highways and other transportation modes and require regional transportation studies and local planning agencies operating under state coordination or with ...

...e duties, powers, and functions of the department among the divisions of the department. Each division shall be headed by a deputy director, whose title shall be designated by the director, and shall include those other officers and employees as may be necessary to carry out the work of the division. Each deputy director of each division shall be in the unclassified civil service of the state and shall serve ...

...vanced air mobility division within the department of transportation. The director shall appoint a deputy director of that division and shall assign the duties, powers, and functions of that deputy director in accordance with section 5501.04 of the Revised Code. (B) The purpose of the division is to integrate advanced air mobility capabilities into existing public service networks within the state and to support ad...

...Moneys appropriated to the department of transportation and derived from fees, excises, or license taxes relating to the registration, operation, or use of vehicles on public highways, or to fuels used for propelling such vehicle, shall not be expended for any purpose other than as provided in Section 5a of Article XII, Ohio Constitution, and such moneys may be expended only for expenses directly chargeable to the pu...

...urchased with money appropriated to the department of transportation may be transferred to a municipality with a population of no more than ten thousand persons as of December 31, 1992, if the real property is to be used for the public purpose of providing health care services to the community.

...letion of matters relating thereto, the department of transportation or the director of transportation shall be held to constitute the continuation of the department of highways and the director of highways. All rules, regulations, acts, determinations, and decisions pertaining to such duties, powers, and functions of the department of highways and the director of highways, in force and effect at the time of such tra...

...h the requirements of the United States department of transportation, or any administration in the department, including, but not limited to, the federal transit administration. The director may designate in the criteria certain dates after which applications for specified portions of the appropriations made for this purpose will not be accepted. (B) May issue grants from any elderly and disabled transit fare assis...

...All funds received by the department of transportation from federal, local, or private sources for the purpose of carrying out public transportation programs shall be deposited into the highway operating fund.