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...The office of child support may publish and distribute a set of posters throughout the state annually.

...The office of child support shall use funds appropriated by the general assembly for child support administration to conduct the poster program under sections 3123.95 to 3123.9510 of the Revised Code.

...In accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the director of job and family services shall adopt rules for the operation of the poster program established by the office. The rules shall specify the following: (A) Criteria and procedures for the office to use in reviewing the names of obligors submitted by child support enforcement agencies to be displayed on a poster and in selecting the delinquent obligors ...

...A child support enforcement agency may establish a program to increase child support collections by publishing and distributing a series of posters displaying child support obligors who are delinquent in their support payments.

...Each poster described in section 3123.96 of the Revised Code shall display photographs of, and information about, ten obligors who are liable for support arrearages and whose whereabouts are unknown to the child support enforcement agency. Each poster shall list a toll-free telephone number that may be called to report information regarding the whereabouts of any of the obligors displayed on the poster. The agency ma...

...A child support enforcement agency shall select obligors for inclusion on a poster from obligors that meet the criteria in section 3123.952 of the Revised Code. The agency shall send notice to each obligor whose name is being considered for display on a poster. The notice shall be sent by regular mail to the obligor's last known address and shall include the information specified in section 3123.956 of the Revised Co...

...Whoever violates section 3123.20 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars and imprisoned not less than ten nor more than thirty days.

...As used in this chapter, "Title IV-D case" means any case in which the child support enforcement agency is enforcing the child support order pursuant to Title IV-D of the "Social Security Act," 88 Stat. 2351 (1975), 42 U.S.C. 651, as amended.

...The office of child support is hereby created in the department of job and family services.

...The office of child support shall establish and administer a program of child support enforcement that meets the requirements of Title IV-D of the "Social Security Act," 88 Stat. 2351 (1975), 42 U.S.C. 651, as amended, and any rules adopted under Title IV-D. The program of child support enforcement shall include the location of absent parents, establishment of parentage, establishment and modification of child suppo...

...hild support shall develop a program to publicize the state procedures for establishing the existence of a parent and child relationship and the advantages of establishing such a relationship. The office may require any board, commission, or agency of the state to participate in the publicity program.

...The office of child support shall establish, by rule adopted pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, a program of spousal support enforcement in conjunction with child support enforcement. The program shall conform, to the extent practicable, to the program for child support enforcement established pursuant to section 3125.03 of the Revised Code.

...The department of job and family services shall enter into an agreement with the secretary of health and human services, as authorized by the "Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act of 1980," 94 Stat. 3572, 42 U.S.C. 663, as amended, under which the services of the parent locater service established pursuant to Title IV-D of the "Social Security Act," 88 Stat. 2351 (1975), 42 U.S.C. 651, as amended, are made available to...

...all convert to the automated system all records that are maintained by any county entity and that are related to any case for which a local agency is enforcing a child support order in accordance with Title IV-D of the "Social Security Act," 88 Stat. 2351 (1975), 42 U.S.C. 651, as amended.

...The director of job and family services shall adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code concerning access to, and use of, data maintained in the automated system established pursuant to section 3125.07 of the Revised Code that do the following: (A) Permit access to and use of data only to the extent necessary to carry out programs under Title IV-D of the "Social Security Act," 88 Stat. 2351 (1975), 42...

...Each county shall have a child support enforcement agency. A government entity designated under former section 2301.35 of the Revised Code prior to October 1, 1997, or a private or government entity designated under section 307.981 of the Revised Code on or after that date may serve as a county's child support enforcement agency.

...The child support enforcement agency for a county is the local Title IV-D agency for the county and shall operate a program for support enforcement in the county that complies with Title IV-D of the "Social Security Act," 88 Stat. 2351 (1975), 42 U.S.C. 651, as amended, any rules adopted pursuant to that title, and state law. Each child support enforcement agency shall be be responsible in the county it serves for ...

...Each child support enforcement agency shall enter into a plan of cooperation with the board of county commissioners under section 307.983 of the Revised Code and comply with each grant agreement the board enters into under sections 307.98 and 5101.21 and contracts the board enters into under sections 307.981 and 307.982 of the Revised Code that affect the agency.

...nt agency may enter into contracts with public agencies and private vendors for assistance in establishing paternity or support obligations, or for the performance of other administrative duties of the agency. Each child support enforcement agency may contract with a collection agent for the collection of arrearages owed under child support orders being administered by the agency. If the department of job and family ...

...Each child support enforcement agency shall enter into written agreements with the courts, the prosecuting attorney, and law enforcement officials of the county it serves that establish cooperative working arrangements and specify areas of responsibility for the enforcement of support among the agency, courts, and officials. The agreements shall provide for the reimbursement of the courts and law enforcement officia...

...In providing for service of process of a notice or order as required under this chapter or Chapter 3111., 3115., 3119., 3121., or 3123. of the Revised Code and in locating the individual to be served, a child support enforcement agency may do one or both of the following: (A) Contract with the sheriff of the county served by the agency to compensate the sheriff's office for the provision of services, staff, or equip...

...pport enforcement agency shall maintain records of support orders being administered or otherwise handled by the agency pursuant to sections 3121.81 to 3121.86 of the Revised Code.

...ee under a support order may review all records maintained under section 3125.15 of the Revised Code that pertain to the support order and any other information maintained by the child support enforcement agency, except to the extent prohibited by state or federal law.

...Without the authorization of the court of common pleas or the consent of the prosecuting attorney and without engaging in competitive bidding to obtain the legal services, any child support enforcement agency may employ, through its appointing authority, staff attorneys to advise, assist, and represent the agency in its performance of its functions pertaining to the enforcement of support orders. The option to ...

...A child support enforcement agency shall administer a Title IV-A program identified under division (A)(4)(c) or (h) of section 5101.80 of the Revised Code that the department of job and family services provides for the agency to administer under the department's supervision pursuant to section 5101.801 of the Revised Code.

...mbursement rates for all or part of the costs associated with developing and distributing educational materials related to the importance of prenatal and postnatal dental care.

...The medicaid director shall provide, to a veteran who has submitted an application for the medicaid program, information about the county veterans service office that can assist with investigating and applying for benefits through the United States department of veterans affairs. As used in this section, "veteran" has the same meaning as in section 5901.01 of the Revised Code.

...e for, pay for, or reimburse any of the costs of health care services under a health benefit plan, including a sickness and accident insurance company and a health insuring corporation. "Health plan issuer" also includes a managed care organization under contract with the department of medicaid and, if the services are to be provided on a fee-for-service basis, the Medicaid program. (D) The medicaid director shall a...

...Before making any payment rate increases greater than ten per cent under the medicaid program, the medicaid director shall notify the standing committees with oversight of the medicaid program as provided in section 103.41 of the Revised Code of the increase.

...As used in this chapter: "Caretaker relative" has the same meaning as in 42 C.F.R. 435.4 as that regulation is amended effective January 1, 2014. "Expansion eligibility group" means the medicaid eligibility group described in section 1902(a)(10)(A)(i)(VIII) of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)(10)(A)(i)(VIII). "Federal financial participation" has the same meaning as in section 5160.01 of the Revised C...

...The medicaid director shall adopt rules as necessary to implement this chapter. The rules shall establish eligibility requirements for the medicaid program. The rules may establish requirements for applying for medicaid and determining and verifying eligibility for medicaid. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code. ( Notwithstanding any provision of state law, includi...

...(A) The medicaid program shall cover all mandatory eligibility groups. (B) The medicaid program shall cover all of the optional eligibility groups that state statutes require the medicaid program to cover. (C) The medicaid program may cover any of the optional eligibility groups to which either of the following applies: (1) State statutes expressly permit the medicaid program to cover the optional eligibility g...

...(A) If the federal medical assistance percentage for medical assistance provided to members of the expansion eligibility group is set below ninety per cent, the department of medicaid shall do both of the following: (1) Immediately discontinue all medical assistance for members of the group. (2) Not later than fifteen business days after the change to the federal medical assistance percentage, certify to the dire...

...The medicaid program shall cover all of the following optional eligibility groups: (A) The group consisting of children placed with adoptive parents who are specified in section 1902(a)(10)(A)(ii)(VIII) of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)(10)(A)(ii)(VIII); (B) Subject to section 5163.061 of the Revised Code, the group consisting of women during pregnancy and the maximum postpartum period permitted ...

...The income eligibility threshold is two hundred per cent of the federal poverty line for women during pregnancy and the postpartum period beginning on the last day of the pregnancy who are covered by the medicaid program under division (B) of section 5163.06 of the Revised Code.

...The medicaid director shall adopt rules under section 5163.02 of the Revised Code as necessary to provide medicaid coverage for the optional eligibility group described in section 1902(a)(10)(A)(ii)(XIII) of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)(10)(A)(ii)(XIII). By requiring the medicaid program to provide coverage to the optional eligibility group consisting of employed individuals with disabilities unde...

...The medicaid director shall implement the option authorized by the "Social Security Act," section 1931(b)(2)(C), 42 U.S.C. 1396u-1(b)(2)(C), to set the income eligibility threshold at ninety per cent of the federal poverty line for parents and caretaker relatives who are covered by the medicaid program under that section of the "Social Security Act."

...(A) As used in sections 5163.09 to 5163.098 of the Revised Code: "Applicant" means an individual who applies to participate in the medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilities program. "Earned income" has the meaning established by rules authorized by section 5163.098 of the Revised Code. "Employed individual with a medically improved disability" has the same meaning as in the "Social Security Act," section ...

...Under the medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilities program, an individual who does both of the following in accordance with rules authorized by section 5163.098 of the Revised Code qualifies for the medicaid program: (A) Applies for the medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilities program; (B) Provides satisfactory evidence of all of the following: (1) That the individual is at least sixteen years of age...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the maximum value of resources, less amounts disregarded pursuant to rules authorized by section 5163.098 of the Revised Code, that an individual may have without the individual exceeding the resource eligibility limit for the medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilities program shall not exceed ten thousand dollars. (B) Each calendar year, the medicaid...

...For the purpose of determining whether an individual is within the income eligibility limit for the medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilities program, all of the following apply: (A) Twenty thousand dollars of the individual's earned income shall be disregarded. (B) No amount that the individual's employer pays to obtain health insurance for one or more members of the individual's family shall be treated as ...

...An individual shall not be required to pay a premium as a condition of qualifying for the medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilities program.

...No individual shall be denied eligibility for the medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilities program on the basis that the individual receives services under a home and community-based services medicaid waiver component.

...An individual participating in the medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilities program may continue to participate in the program for up to six months even though the individual ceases to have earnings from employment or to be an employed individual with a medically improved disability due to ceasing to be employed if the individual continues to meet all other eligibility requirements for the program.

...If the United States secretary of health and human services requires that a provision of the medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilities program be changed or removed in order for the secretary to approve the program or to avoid an extended delay in the secretary's approval, the medicaid director shall make the change or removal. The change or removal may cause the medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilitie...

...(A) The medicaid director shall adopt rules under section 5163.02 of the Revised Code as necessary to implement the medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilities program. The rules shall do all of the following: (1) Specify assets, asset values, and amounts to be disregarded in determining asset and income eligibility limits for the program; (2) Establish meanings for the terms "earned income," "health insurance...

...(A) As used in this section: ( 1) "Presumptive eligibility for pregnant women option" means the option available under section 1920 of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1396r-1, to make ambulatory prenatal care available to pregnant women under the medicaid program during presumptive eligibility periods. ( 2) "Qualified provider" has the same meaning as in section 1920(b)(2) of the "Social Security Act," 42 U....

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Children's hospital" has the same meaning as in section 2151.86 of the Revised Code. (2) "Federally qualified health center" has the same meaning as in section 1905(l)(2)(B) of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1396d(l)(2)(B). (3) "Federally qualified health center look-alike" has the same meaning as in section 3701.047 of the Revised Code. (4) "Presumptive eligibility for...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Presumptive eligibility error rate" means the rate at which a qualified entity or qualified provider deems an individual presumptively eligible for medicaid under sections 5163.10 to 5163.102 of the Revised Code when the individual is ineligible for the medicaid program. (2) "Qualified entity" has the same meaning as in section 5163.101 of the Revised Code. (3) "Qualified pr...

...As used in this section, "presumptive eligibility error rate" has the same meaning as in section 5163.103 of the Revised Code. Quarterly, the department of medicaid shall report to the general assembly the presumptive eligibility error rate for presumptive eligibility determinations made during the previous quarter. Reports made under this section shall be submitted to the general assembly in accordance with sectio...