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...The school employees retirement board shall appoint a committee to oversee the selection of an internal auditor. The committee shall select one or more persons for employment as an internal auditor. The board shall employ the person or persons selected by the committee. The committee shall consist of the following board members: one retirant member, one employee member, and one other member. The committee shall annu...

...(A) The school employees retirement board shall consist of the following members: (1) One member, known as the treasurer of state's investment designee, who shall be appointed by the treasurer of state for a term of four years and who shall have the following qualifications: (a) The member is a resident of this state. (b) Within the three years immediately preceding the appointment, the member has not been e...

...Each member of the school employees retirement board shall, not later than ninety days after commencing service as a board member, complete the orientation program component of the retirement board member education program established under section 171.50 of the Revised Code. Each member of the board who has served a year or longer as a board member shall, not less than twice each year, attend one or more pro...

...A person who served as an elected or appointed member of the school employees retirement board for one or more entire fiscal years in fiscal years 2000, 2001, or 2002 is ineligible for re-election or reappointment to the board if the board paid travel-related expenses of the person or reimbursed the person for travel-related expenses that averaged more than ten thousand dollars annually for those fiscal years.

...(A) Elections for employee and retirant members of the school employees retirement board shall be held on the first Monday of March. Terms of office of the employee and retirant members of the board shall be for four years each, commencing on the first day of July following the election and ending on the thirtieth day of June. The initial terms of the first retirant member and the new employee member shall commence o...

...(A) The office of a member of the school employees retirement board who is convicted of or pleads guilty to a felony, a theft offense as defined in section 2913.01 of the Revised Code, or a violation of section 102.02, 102.03, 102.04, 2921.02, 2921.11, 2921.13, 2921.31, 2921.41, 2921.42, 2921.43, or 2921.44 of the Revised Code shall be deemed vacant. A person who has pleaded guilty to or been convicted of an of...

...(A) All elections for employee or retirant members of the school employees retirement board shall be held under the direction of the board in accordance with rules adopted under section 3309.075 of the Revised Code. (B) Any member of the school employees retirement system, other than a disability benefit recipient, shall be eligible to be nominated for election as an employee member of the board who has been ...

...Notwithstanding sections 3309.05, 3309.06, and 3309.07 of the Revised Code, the school employees retirement board is not required to hold an election for a position on the board as an employee member or retirant member if only one candidate has been nominated for the position by petition in accordance with section 3309.07 of the Revised Code. The candidate shall take office as if elected. The term of office shall be ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Campaign committee" means a candidate or a combination of two or more persons authorized by a candidate to receive contributions and in-kind contributions and make expenditures on behalf of the candidate. (2) "Candidate" means an individual who has been nominated pursuant to section 3309.07 of the Revised Code for election to the school employees retirement board or who is se...

...(A) No person shall knowingly fail to file a complete and accurate campaign finance statement or independent expenditure statement in accordance with section 3309.072 of the Revised Code. (B) No person, during the course of a person seeking nomination for, and during any campaign for, election to the school employees retirement board, shall knowingly and with intent to affect the nomination or the outcome of the ca...

...A complaint alleging a violation of section 3309.073 of the Revised Code may be filed in accordance with section 3517.16 of the Revised Code.

...(A) The school employees retirement board, after consultation with the secretary of state, shall adopt rules in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code, governing all of the following: (1) The administration of elections of members of the board under section 3309.07 of the Revised Code and elections held under section 3309.06 of the Revised Code to fill vacancies on the board; (2) Nominating petit...

...Each member of the school employees retirement board upon appointment or election shall take an oath of office that he will support the constitution of the United States, the constitution of the state, and that he will diligently and honestly administer the affairs of the said board and that he will not knowingly violate or willfully permit to be violated any law applicable to Chapter 3309. of the Revised Code. Suc...

...A majority of the members of the school employees retirement board constitutes a quorum for the transaction of any business. Any action taken by the board shall be approved by a majority of the members of the board. All meetings of the board shall be open to the public except executive sessions as set forth in division (G) of section 121.22 of the Revised Code, and any portions of any sessions discussing medical reco...

...(A) Notwithstanding division (C) of section 121.22 of the Revised Code, the school employees retirement board may adopt a policy that allows a board member to attend a meeting of the board by means of video conference. The board shall include in the policy, if adopted, both of the following: (1) The number of regular meetings at which each board member shall be present in person, provided that number is not less th...

...(A) No member of the school employees retirement board shall be subject to disciplinary action by an employer for absence from the member's regular employment for service to the board. Members of the board shall serve without compensation from the retirement system, but an employer shall be reimbursed from the expense fund for any compensation paid to an employee member of the board or a retirant member emplo...

...The school employees retirement board shall elect, from its membership, a chairperson, and shall employ an executive director who shall serve as secretary.

...The treasurer of state shall be the custodian of the funds of the school employees retirement system, and all disbursements therefrom shall be paid by the treasurer of state only upon instruments duly authorized by the school employees retirement board and bearing the signatures of the board; provided, that such instruments may bear the names of the board members printed thereon and the signatures of the president an...

...The attorney general shall be the legal adviser of the school employees retirement board.

...The school employees retirement board shall secure the service of such technical and administrative employees as are necessary for the transaction of the business of the school employees retirement system. Effective ninety days after the effective date of this amendment, the board may not employ a state retirement system investment officer, as defined in section 1707.01 of the Revised Code, who does not hold a valid...

...t a prudent person acting in a like capacity and familiar with such matters would use in the conduct of an enterprise of a like character and with like aims; and by diversifying the investments of the system so as to minimize the risk of large losses, unless under the circumstances it is clearly prudent not to do so. The board, in accordance with its fiduciary duties described under this section, shall make invest...

...The school employees retirement system shall make no investments through, purchases from, or otherwise do any business with any individual who is, or any partnership, association, or corporation that is owned or controlled by, a person who within the preceding three years was employed by, a board member of, or an officer of the system, or in which a person who within the preceding three years was employed by, a board...

...) In his individual or in any other capacity act in any transaction involving the system on behalf of a party (or represent a party) whose interests are adverse to the interests of the system or the interests of its participants or beneficiaries; or (3) Receive any consideration for his own personal account from any party dealing with such system in connection with a transaction involving the assets of the system. ...

...(A) As used in this section and in section 3309.159 of the Revised Code: (1) "Agent" means a dealer, as defined in section 1707.01 of the Revised Code, who is licensed under sections 1707.01 to 1707.50 of the Revised Code or under comparable laws of another state or of the United States. (2) "Minority business enterprise" has the same meaning as in section 122.71 of the Revised Code. (3) "Ohio-qualified agent" ...

...(A) The school employees retirement system shall disclose the following to the Ohio ethics commission: (1) Anything of value received by the system from an agent and anything of value given on behalf of the system by an agent; (2) The name of any employee of the system with authority over the investment of retirement system funds or any board member of the system who deals with an agent regarding amounts described ...

...(A) The department of children and youth shall establish and maintain a uniform statewide automated child welfare information system in accordance with the requirements of 42 U.S.C. 674(a)(3)(C) and related federal regulations and guidelines. The information system shall contain records regarding any of the following: (1) Investigations of children and families, and children's care in out-of-home care, in accordan...

...Except as provided in section 5180.402 of the Revised Code, information contained in or obtained from the information system established and maintained under section 5180.40 of the Revised Code is confidential and is not subject to disclosure pursuant to section 149.43 or 1347.08 of the Revised Code.

...ncy, a title IV-E agency, a prosecuting attorney, a private child placing agency, and a private noncustodial agency may access or enter the information when either of the following is the case: (a) The access or entry is directly connected with assessment, investigation, or services regarding a child or family; (b) The access or entry is permitted by state or federal law, rule, or regulation. (2) A person ma...

...No person shall access or use information contained in the information system established and maintained under section 5180.40 of the Revised Code other than in accordance with section 5180.402 of the Revised Code or rules authorized by that section. No person shall disclose information obtained from the information system established and maintained under section 5180.40 of the Revised Code in a manner not specifie...

...(A) Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code that requires confidentiality of information that is contained in the uniform statewide automated child welfare information system established in section 5180.40 of the Revised Code, the department of children and youth shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code regarding a private child placing agency's or private noncustodial agency's ...

...(A) A public children services employee who is entering a report of an investigation of child abuse in the statewide automated child welfare information system, as required by section 5180.40 of the Revised Code, shall make a notation on each case of child abuse that indicates whether the child abuse arose from an act that caused the child to suffer from, or resulted in the child suffering from, shaken baby syndrome....

...If a person requests the department of children and youth to conduct a search of whether that person's name has been placed or remains in the statewide automated child welfare information system as an alleged perpetrator of child abuse or neglect and a search reveals that a "substantiated" disposition exists, the department shall send a letter to the person who requested the search indicating a "match."

...The department of children and youth shall work with stakeholders to establish an expungement policy regarding dispositions of child abuse or neglect in Ohio's central registry on child abuse and neglect by March 1, 2024.

...(A) As used in this section and section 5180.411 of the Revised Code, "children services" means services provided to children pursuant to Chapter 5153. of the Revised Code. (B) Within available funds, the department of children and youth shall distribute funds to the counties within thirty days after the beginning of each calendar quarter for a part of the counties' costs for children services. Funds provided t...

...Each county shall deposit all funds its public children services agency receives from appropriations made by the board of county commissioners or any other source for the purpose of providing children services into a special fund in the county treasury known as the children services fund. A county shall use money in the fund only for the purposes of meeting the expenses of providing children services.

...(A) As used in sections 5180.42 to 5180.4214 of the Revised Code: (1) "Adopted young adult" means a person: (a) Who was in the temporary or permanent custody of a public children services agency; (b) Who was adopted at the age of sixteen or seventeen and attained the age of sixteen before a Title IV-E adoption assistance agreement became effective; (c) Who has attained the age of eighteen; and (d) Who ...

...(A) The department of children and youth may apply to the United States secretary of health and human services for a waiver of requirements established under Title IV-E, or regulations adopted thereunder, to conduct a demonstration project expanding eligibility for and services provided under Title IV-E. The department may enter into agreements with the secretary necessary to implement the demonstration project, incl...

...(A) In adopting rules under section 5180.42 of the Revised Code regarding financial requirements applicable to public children services agencies, private child placing agencies, private noncustodial agencies, and government entities that provide Title IV-E reimbursable placement services to children, the department of children and youth may establish both of the following: (1) A single form for the agencies or ent...

...The department of children and youth shall establish the following penalties, which shall be enforced at the discretion of the department, for the failure of a public children services agency, private child placing agency, private noncustodial agency, or government entity that provides Title IV-E reimbursable placement services to children to comply with procedures the department establishes to ensure fiscal accounta...

...If a public children services agency fails to comply with the fiscal accountability procedures established by the department of children and youth, the department shall notify the board of county commissioners of the county served by the agency. If a private child placing agency or private noncustodial agency fails to comply with the fiscal accountability procedures, the department shall notify the executive director...

...If the department of children and youth sanctions a public children services agency, private child placing agency, or private noncustodial agency, it shall take every possible precaution to ensure that any foster children that have been placed by the agency under sanction are not unnecessarily removed from the certified foster homes in which they reside.

...Money from the children services fund shall not be used to provide a personal loan to any individual.

...en and youth may certify a claim to the attorney general under section 131.02 of the Revised Code for the attorney general to take action under that section against a public children services agency, private child placing agency, private noncustodial agency, or government entity that provides Title IV-E reimbursable placement services to children if all of the following are the case: (A) The agency or entity files...

...ysical or mental condition, which incapacity is supported by regularly updated information in the person's case record or plan. (E) Any emancipated young adult described in division (A)(1) of this section who is directly receiving foster care payments, or on whose behalf such foster care payments are received, or any relative described in division (C)(1) of this section who is receiving kinship guardianship assist...

...(A) Without the approval of a court, an emancipated young adult who receives payments, or on whose behalf payments are received, under division (A) of section 5180.428 of the Revised Code, may enter into a voluntary participation agreement with the department of children and youth, or its representative, for the emancipated young adult's care and placement. The agreement shall stay in effect until one of the followin...

...Notwithstanding section 5180.42 of the Revised Code and any rules adopted thereunder, the department of children and youth shall pay the full nonfederal share of payments made pursuant to section 5180.428 of the Revised Code. No public children services agency shall be responsible for the cost of any payments made pursuant to section 5180.428 of the Revised Code.

...(A) The department of children and youth shall adopt rules necessary to carry out the purposes of sections 5180.428 to 5180.4210 of the Revised Code, including rules that do all of the following: (1) Allow an emancipated young adult described in division (A)(1) of section 5180.428 of the Revised Code who is directly receiving foster care payments, or on whose behalf such foster care payments are received, or an ad...

...The provisions of divisions (A) and (D) to (G) of section 5180.428 of the Revised Code shall not apply if the person is eligible for temporary or permanent custody until age twenty-one pursuant to a dispositional order under sections 2151.353, 2151.414, and 2151.415 of the Revised Code.

...(A) The director of children and youth shall implement 42 U.S.C. 673(d) to provide kinship guardianship assistance under Title IV-E on behalf of a child to a relative who meets the following requirements: (1) The relative has cared for the eligible child pursuant to division (B) of this section as a foster caregiver as defined by section 5103.02 of the Revised Code for at least six consecutive months. (2) Both ...

...The department of children and youth shall adopt rules necessary to carry out the purposes of sections 5180.42, 5180.428, and 5180.4213 of the Revised Code, and 42 U.S.C. 673(d) of the "Social Security Act," including rules that do all of the following: (A) Allow a kinship guardianship young adult described in division (C) of section 5180.428 of the Revised Code on whose behalf kinship guardianship assistance is r...