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...There is hereby established the comprehensive case management and employment program. The department of job and family services shall coordinate and supervise the administration of the program to the extent funds are available for this purpose under the TANF block grant or the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.

...The comprehensive case management and employment program is all of the following: (A) A Title IV-A program for the purpose of division (A)(4)(c) of section 5101.80 of the Revised Code and, therefore, subject to all statutes applicable to such a program, including sections 5101.16, 5101.35, 5101.80, and 5101.801 of the Revised Code; (B) A workforce development activity and, therefore, subject to all statutes applica...

...anted by the United States secretary of health and human services; (2) The combined state plan authorized by section 103 of the "Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act," 29 U.S.C. 3113, amendments to the plan, and any waivers regarding the plan granted by the United States secretary of labor. (D) The rules adopted under division (A)(1)(a) of this section may deviate from Chapter 5107. of the Revised Code.

...(A) Each work-eligible individual shall participate in the comprehensive case management and employment program as a condition of participating in Ohio works first if the individual is at least fourteen but not more than twenty-four years of age. (B) Each individual who is an in-school youth or out-of-school youth shall participate in the comprehensive case management and employment program as a condition of enrollm...

...In accordance with rules adopted under section 5116.06 of the Revised Code, a lead agency shall provide for all of the following to occur: (A) An individual participating in the comprehensive case management and employment program undergoing an assessment of the individual's employment and training needs; (B) An individual opportunity plan being created for the individual as part of the assessment; (C) The indivi...

...(A) An individual opportunity plan created under section 5116.11 of the Revised Code shall specify which of the following services, if any, an individual participating in the comprehensive case management and employment program needs: (1) Support for the individual to obtain a high school diploma or a certificate of high school equivalence; (2) Job placement; (3) Job retention support; (4) Other services that aid...

...In accordance with rules adopted under section 5116.06 of the Revised Code, each local workforce development board shall decide whether to authorize the use of its youth workforce investment activity funds for the comprehensive case management and employment program. The decision shall be made for each fiscal biennial period. A board's decision applies to all of the counties the board serves.

...If a local workforce development board decides under section 5116.20 of the Revised Code not to authorize the use of its youth workforce investment activity funds for the comprehensive case management and employment program for a fiscal biennial period, all of the following shall apply to that fiscal biennial period: (A) The board shall use its youth workforce investment activity funds in accordance with Section 129...

...(A) If a local workforce development board decides under section 5116.20 of the Revised Code to authorize the use of its youth workforce investment activity funds for the comprehensive case management and employment program for a fiscal biennial period, all of the following shall apply to that fiscal biennial period: (1) Before the beginning of the fiscal biennial period, the board shall enter into a written agreeme...

...(A) Each lead agency, in consultation with the local workforce development board that serves the same county for which the lead agency has been designated to serve as lead agency, shall, in accordance with rules adopted under section 5116.06 of the Revised Code, do all of the following for the fiscal biennial period, or part thereof, for which it is so designated: (1) Prepare and submit to the department of job and ...

...A lead agency is responsible for all of the funds received for the comprehensive case management and employment program by the county for which the lead agency is designated to be the lead agency and shall use the funds in a manner consistent with federal and state law. The lead agency shall coordinate this responsibility with any entity that has been designated to serve as a local grant subrecipient or a local fisca...

...If a lead agency fails to enroll in the comprehensive case management and employment program an individual who is required by section 5116.10 of the Revised Code to participate in the program and to take corrective action that the department of job and family services requires the lead agency to take as a consequence of that failure, the department may take the action authorized by division (C)(5) of section 5101.24 ...

...As used in sections 5117.01 to 5117.12 of the Revised Code: (A) "Credit" means the credit on utility heating bills granted under division (A) of section 5117.09 of the Revised Code. (B) "Current monthly bill" means the amount charged for energy consumed in the most recent monthly billing period and does not include any past due balance. (C) "Current total income" means the adjusted gross income of the head of hous...

...(A) The director of development shall adopt rules, or amendments and rescissions of rules, pursuant to section 4928.52 of the Revised Code, for the administration of the Ohio energy credit program under sections 5117.01 to 5117.12 of the Revised Code. (B) As a means of efficiently administering the program, the director may extend, by as much as a total of thirty days, any date specified in such sections for ...

...(A)(1) The director of development shall prescribe the form of the application for assistance under the Ohio energy credit program. The application shall be in the form of a signed statement, shall require no more information than is necessary to establish an applicant's eligibility under section 5117.07 of the Revised Code, and shall be clear and concise in its format, requirements, and instructions. The form shall ...

...buting application forms to appropriate public locations. The distribution system shall be designed to make application forms available to as many qualified persons as possible. (C) The director shall arrange for the establishment of a toll-free telephone number to enable all persons in this state to make inquiries and obtain information concerning the credits or payments.

...The director of development, in consultation with the commission on Hispanic-Latino affairs, shall develop an outreach program, including Spanish-speaking communication formats, designed to make all Spanish-speaking persons who meet the eligibility requirements for participation in the Ohio energy credit program aware of the nature and extent of available benefits and methods for acquiring and making applications. Th...

...rsing home, hospital, or other extended health care facility is not eligible for a credit or payment for the costs of providing the source of energy for the primary heating system of the facility. (C) The director shall establish a procedure whereby the director commissioner can verify total income and current total income for the calendar year in which an applicant is determined eligible for a payment or credit. If...

...(A) In September of each year, the tax commissioner shall adjust the total income amounts set forth in sections 5117.07 and 5117.09 of the Revised Code to be used for applications submitted for the heating season commencing in the next calendar year, by completing the following steps: (1) Determine the percentage increase in the gross domestic product deflator determined by the bureau of economic analysis of the Un...

...(A)(1) On or before the tenth day of October, the director of development shall begin to prepare and certify to each energy company that provides energy for home heating a list containing the name and account number of each head of household determined eligible for a credit under divisions (A) and (B) of section 5117.07 of the Revised Code and served by that company, the address of the household, and the source of th...

...(A)(1) With respect to each of its residential customers, every energy company shall, after receipt of a certification list provided under division (A) of section 5117.08 of the Revised Code, cause the granting of a credit in accordance with this section against the monthly billing of each household appearing on the list except as provided in division (A) of section 5117.08 of the Revised Code. In the case of an appl...

...(A) On or before the fifteenth day of January, the director of development services shall pay each applicant determined eligible for a payment under divisions (A) and (B) of section 5117.07 of the Revised Code one hundred twenty-five dollars. (B) The director may withhold from any payment to which a person would otherwise be entitled under division (A) of this section any amount that the director determines was erro...

...(A) No person shall purposely fail to grant the credit provided under division (A) of section 5117.09 of the Revised Code. Each day that each person entitled to the credit is not afforded the credit constitutes a separate offense. Clerical errors shall not be considered an offense under this division. (B) No person shall knowingly make a false statement for the purpose of obtaining a credit or payment. (C) No perso...

...form. The director may consult with the public utilities commission and the consumers' counsel in prescribing the contents of such reports and complying with the requirements of division (C)(4) of this section. (B) Before the thirty-first day of January of each year, the director shall prepare a written report including a final review of the Ohio energy credit program for which applications were required to be maile...

...led with the United States secretary of health and human services under the act shall include the requirement of this section, and any such plan in effect on the effective date of this section shall promptly be revised to include the requirement of this section.