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...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Control" means the possession of the power to direct the management and policies of a domestic telephone company or a holding company of a domestic telephone company, or the management and policies of a domestic electric utility or a holding company of a domestic electric utility through the ownership of voting securities, by contract, or otherwise, but does not include the power th...

...(A) Upon a finding by the power siting board that there are reasonable grounds to believe that a person has violated a provision of section 4906.98 of the Revised Code, the board shall fix a time for hearing such complaint and shall notify the person. The notice shall be served not less than fifteen days before the date of hearing and shall state the matters that are the subject of the complaint. Parties to the compl...

...(A) No certificate of public convenience and necessity shall be issued by the public utilities commission to any for-hire motor carrier until the carrier has filed with the commission a liability insurance certificate, policy, or bond satisfactory to the commission, in the sum and with the provisions the commission considers necessary adequately to protect the interests of the public, having due regard for the ...

...(A) Prior to authorizing a person to act as a transportation network company driver, a transportation network company shall do all of the following: (1) Require the person to submit an application to the transportation network company that includes at least all of the following: (a) The person's address; (b) The person's age; (c) The person's driver's license number and information on the person's driving his...

...(A)(1) No telephone company shall operate in this state without first obtaining a certificate from the public utilities commission, and no wireless service provider shall operate in this state without first being registered with the commission. A telephone company not holding such a certificate on the effective date of this section, or a wireless service provider not so registered on that date, shall file, re...

...(A) An incumbent local exchange carrier that is an eligible telecommunications carrier under 47 C.F.R. 54.201 shall implement lifeline service throughout the carrier's traditional service area for its eligible residential customers. (1) Lifeline service shall consist of all of the following: (a) Monthly access line service at a recurring discount to the monthly basic local exchange service rate that provides for th...

...(A)(1) The rates, terms, and conditions for 9-1-1 service provided in this state by a telephone company or a telecommunications carrier and each of the following provided in this state by a telephone company shall be approved and tariffed in the manner prescribed by rule adopted by the public utilities commission and shall be subject to the applicable laws, including rules or regulations adopted and orders issued by ...

...(A) As used in this chapter: (1) "Ancillary service" means any function necessary to the provision of electric transmission or distribution service to a retail customer and includes, but is not limited to, scheduling, system control, and dispatch services; reactive supply from generation resources and voltage control service; reactive supply from transmission resources service; regulation service; frequency respon...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in sections 4928.31 to 4928.40 of the Revised Code, no entity shall own or control transmission facilities as defined under federal law and located in this state on or after the starting date of competitive retail electric service unless that entity is a member of, and transfers control of those facilities to, one or more qualifying transmission entities, as described in division (B) ...

...If an electric distribution utility has an existing electric security plan under which the commission had authorized the creation or continuation of riders, then, to the extent those riders will cease to exist after termination of the electric security plan, the electric distribution utility is authorized to create necessary regulatory assets or liabilities, along with carrying costs at the utility's weighted average...

...The public utilities commission shall adopt and enforce rules prescribing a uniform, statewide policy regarding electric transmission and distribution line extensions and requisite substations and related facilities that are requested by nonresidential customers of electric utilities, so that, on and after the effective date of the initial rules so adopted, all such utilities apply the same policies and charges...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in sections 4928.141 or 4928.142 or 4928.31 to 4928.40 of the Revised Code, no electric utility shall engage in this state, either directly or through an affiliate, in the businesses of supplying a noncompetitive retail electric service and supplying a product or service other than retail electric service, unless the utility implements and operates under a corporate separation plan th...

...(A) The public utilities commission shall establish reasonable procedures for expedited discovery in any proceeding initiated to consider a transition plan filed under section 4928.31 of the Revised Code. (B) Not later than forty-five days after the date on which an electric utility files a transition plan under section 4928.31 of the Revised Code, any person having a real and substantial interest in the transition...

...(A) Any Edison technology center in this state is eligible to apply for and receive assistance pursuant to section 4928.62 of the Revised Code for the purposes of creating an advanced energy manufacturing center in this state that will provide for the exchange of information and expertise regarding advanced energy, assisting with the design of advanced energy projects, developing workforce training programs fo...

...For the protection of consumers in this state, the public utilities commission shall adopt rules under section 4929.10 of the Revised Code specifying the necessary minimum service requirements of a retail natural gas supplier or governmental aggregator subject to certification under section 4929.20 of the Revised Code regarding the marketing, solicitation, sale, or provision, directly or through its billing and colle...

...Every railroad company shall destroy or remove plants, trees, brush, or other obstructive vegetation upon its right-of-way at each intersection with a public road or highway, for a distance of six hundred feet or a reasonably safe distance from the roadway of such public road or highway as shall be determined by the public utilities commission. When any railroad company fails to destroy or remove such vegetation aft...

...(A) On and after the date of first operation of a railroad quiet zone established pursuant to section 4955.42 of the Revised Code, divisions (B)(1) and (2) of section 4955.32 of the Revised Code do not apply with respect to the zone. (B) The establishment of a railroad quiet zone pursuant to sections 4955.41 to 4955.47 of the Revised Code does not preclude the sounding of a locomotive whistle, horn, bell, or o...

...(A)(1)(a) Upon the application of any bank; savings and loan association; savings bank; credit union; or association of banks, savings and loan associations, savings banks, or credit unions in this state, the secretary of state may appoint and commission any persons that the bank; savings and loan association; savings bank; credit union; or association of banks, savings and loan associations, savings banks, or credit...

...(A) The Ohio rail development commission, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt, and may amend and rescind, rules governing the process whereby a private corporation or organization may apply to the commission for a franchise for all or part of a rail system. The rules also shall establish the financial and technical criteria upon which a franchise is awarded. The criteria may include all o...

...The month of April is designated as "Ohio Child Abuse Awareness Month" to increase public awareness of the innocent victims of child abuse and to acknowledge child abuse as a serious societal problem to be addressed and eliminated.

...The twenty-first of December is designated "Homeless Persons' Memorial Day" to bring attention to the tragedy of homelessness. State and local governments, coalitions, and other entities are encouraged to sponsor events to promote awareness of the plight of the homeless and to identify actions that individuals and organizations may take to address the problem of homelessness.

...If a board of township trustees has adopted a resolution under section 503.41 of the Revised Code, the application for a license as a massager shall be made to the board and shall include the following: (A) An initial, nonrefundable filing fee of one hundred dollars and an annual nonrefundable renewal fee of fifty dollars; (B) The results of a physical examination performed by a licensed physician, a physician ass...

...(A)(1) A person who is served with a citation pursuant to division (B) of section 504.06 of the Revised Code shall answer the charge by personal appearance before, or by mail addressed to, the township fiscal officer, who shall immediately notify the township law director. An answer shall be made within fourteen days after the citation is served upon the person and shall be in one of the following forms: (a) An adm...

...date of this section, the department of medicaid shall apply for a medicaid waiver component to provide reentry services to medicaid-eligible imprisoned individuals for ninety days before an imprisoned individual's expected release date. The benefits provided shall include: (1) Mental health services; (2) Behavioral health services; (3) Substance use disorder treatment and related services; (4) A thirty-day s...

...in division (B) of this section, when a medicaid managed care organization refers an enrollee to receive services, other than emergency services provided on or after January 1, 2007, at a hospital that participates in the medicaid program but is not under contract with the organization, the hospital shall provide the service for which the referral was made and shall accept from the organization, as payment in full, t...

...d for, or otherwise made available by a medicaid health insuring corporation pursuant to the corporation's contract with the state. (b) If the centers for medicare and medicaid services of the United States department of health and human services determines that the taxation of transactions described in division (B)(11)(a) of this section constitutes an impermissible health care-related tax under the "Social Secur...

...nd management, in consultation with the medicaid director, shall request and propose multiple medicaid health care services general revenue fund appropriation items. At a minimum, the directors shall propose a separate general revenue fund appropriation item for the different health care services included in the medicaid program, including all of the following: (A) Services provided under the care management system...

...m" means the program that consists of a medicaid-funded component created under section 173.54 of the Revised Code and a state-funded component created under section 173.543 of the Revised Code and provides assisted living services to individuals who meet the program's applicable eligibility requirements. "Assisted living services" means the following home and community-based services: personal care, homemaker, ch...

... (1) "Department of aging-administered medicaid waiver component" means both of the following: (a) The medicaid-funded component of the PASSPORT program; (b) The medicaid-funded component of the assisted living program. (2) "PACE program" means the component of the medicaid program the department of aging administers pursuant to section 173.50 of the Revised Code. (B) If the department of aging determines that t...

...(A) The administrator of the medicaid estate recovery program established pursuant to section 5162.21 of the Revised Code may present an affidavit to a financial institution requesting that the financial institution release account proceeds to recover the cost of services correctly provided to a medicaid recipient who is subject to the medicaid estate recovery program. The affidavit shall include all of the fol...

...unt of any overpayments made under the medicaid program to the exiting operator, including overpayments the exiting operator disputes, and other actual and potential debts the exiting operator owes or may owe to the department and United States centers for medicare and medicaid services under the medicaid program, including a franchise permit fee. (B) In estimating the exiting operator's other actual and pot...

...nds to pay the nonfederal share of the medicaid expenditures that the county board is required by sections 5126.059 and 5126.0510 of the Revised Code to pay: (1) To the extent consistent with the levy that generated the taxes, the following taxes: (a) Taxes levied pursuant to division (L) of section 5705.19 of the Revised Code and section 5705.222 of the Revised Code; (b) Taxes levied under section 5705.191 ...

... of the Revised Code, the department of medicaid shall not seek or implement an amendment to the medicaid state plan or a medicaid waiver under section 1115 or 1915 of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1315 and 42 U.S.C. 1396n, that would expand medicaid coverage to any additional individuals or class of individuals or increase any net costs to the state, without first providing notice to the legislative service c...

...ecember of each year, the department of medicaid shall prepare a report on the department's efforts to minimize fraud, waste, and abuse in the medicaid program. The report shall include all of the following for the most recently concluded state fiscal year: (1) Improper medicaid payments and expenditures, including the individual and total dollar amounts for claims that were determined to be the result of fraud, wa...

...e the individual's death on account of medicaid services correctly paid or to be paid on the individual's behalf. (B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, the department of medicaid may impose a lien against the real property of a medicaid recipient who is a permanently institutionalized individual and against the real property of the recipient's spouse, including any real property that is join...

...e or local correctional facility was a medicaid recipient immediately prior to being confined in the facility, all of the following apply: (1) The person's eligibility for medicaid while so confined shall be suspended due to the confinement. (2) No medicaid payment shall be made for any care, services, or supplies provided to the person during the suspension described in division (B)(1) of this section. (3) T...

...(A) The medicaid program shall cover all mandatory services. (B) The medicaid program shall cover all of the optional services that state statutes require the medicaid program to cover. (C) The medicaid program may cover any of the optional services to which either of the following applies: (1) State statutes expressly permit the medicaid program to cover the optional service; (2) State statutes do not addr...

...ractitioner obtaining approval from the medicaid program prior to the service, device, or drug being performed, received, or prescribed, as applicable. (B)(1) The medicaid program shall cover evaluation and management services provided by a chiropractor if the chiropractor is licensed to practice chiropractic under Chapter 4734. of the Revised Code. (2) The medicaid director may adopt rules under section 5164.02 ...

... (B) of this section, the department of medicaid shall collect an application fee from a medicaid provider before doing any of the following: (1) Entering into a provider agreement with a medicaid provider that seeks initial enrollment as a provider; (2) Entering into a provider agreement with a former medicaid provider that seeks re-enrollment as a provider; (3) Revalidating a medicaid provider's continued enroll...

...(B) of this section, the department of medicaid may deny medicaid payment to a hospital for direct graduate medical education costs associated with the delivery of medicaid services to any medicaid recipient if the hospital refuses without good cause to contract with a medicaid managed care organization that serves the area in which the hospital is located. (B) A hospital is not subject to division (A) of thi...

...5.01 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) The medicaid director shall submit a medicaid state plan amendment to the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services seeking authorization to establish and administer a supplemental payment program to provide supplemental medicaid payments to eligible ground emergency medical transportation service providers. If approved, the medicaid director shall establish and admi...

...lf of an applicant for or recipient of medicaid. A representative may be a family member, attorney, hospital social worker, or any other person chosen to act on behalf of an applicant or recipient. (B) The department of medicaid may require each applicant for or recipient of medicaid who applies or intends to apply for admission to a nursing facility or resides in a nursing facility to undergo an assessment t...

...(A) The total per medicaid day payment rate determined under section 5165.15 of the Revised Code shall not be the initial rate for nursing facility services provided by a new nursing facility. Instead, the initial total per medicaid day payment rate for nursing facility services provided by a new nursing facility shall be determined in the following manner: (1) The initial rate for ancillary and support costs shal...

... United States centers for medicare and medicaid services or on the effective date of applicable department of medicaid rules, whichever is later, but not sooner than April 1, 2024, the total per medicaid day payment rate for nursing facility services provided on or after that date in private rooms approved by the department of medicaid under division (C) of this section shall be the sum of both of the following: ...

...rtion of a nursing facility's total per medicaid day payment rate determined under divisions (A) and (B) of section 5165.15 of the Revised Code. (2) "CMS" means the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services. (3) "Long-stay resident" means an individual who has resided in a nursing facility for at least one hundred one days. (4) "Nursing facilities for which a quality score was determined" incl...

...rector" means the following: (a) The medicaid director in the context of both of the following: (i) The Ohio home care waiver program; (ii) The integrated care delivery system medicaid waiver component authorized by section 5166.16 of the Revised Code. (b) The director of aging in the context of the medicaid-funded component of the PASSPORT program. (3) "Authorized representative" means the following: ...

...(A) As part of the medicaid program, the department of medicaid shall establish a care management system. The department shall implement the system in some or all counties. (B) The department shall designate the medicaid recipients who are required or permitted to participate in the care management system. Those who shall be required to participate in the system include medicaid recipients who receive cognitive be...

...ng as in 42 C.F.R. 440.169(b). (B) A medicaid managed care organization shall provide to a medicaid recipient who meets the criteria in division (C) of this section, or arrange for such recipient to receive, both of the following types of services: (1) Home visits, which shall include depression screenings, for which federal financial participation is available under the targeted case management benefit; (2)...