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...Whoever violates section 147.10 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars.

...irector of administrative services, the public utilities commission, the superintendent of insurance, the superintendent of financial institutions, the superintendent of purchases and printing, the fire marshal, the industrial commission, the administrator of workers' compensation, the state department of transportation, the department of health, the state medical board, the state dental board, the board of embalmers...

...ty. (F) "Archive" includes any public record that is transferred to the state archives or other designated archival institutions because of the historical information contained on it. (G) "Records" includes any document, device, or item, regardless of physical form or characteristic, including an electronic record as defined in section 1306.01 of the Revised Code, created or received by or coming under the jurisd...

...Wherever in the Revised Code annual reports are required to be made to the governor, or annual reports to the governor are referred to, such reports shall be made in triplicate and filed as provided in section 149.01 of the Revised Code, and the special information required by any section of the Revised Code to be included in such annual report shall be included in such triplicate reports.

...The governor may at any time require to be filed with him a detailed report from any state officer, board, or commission.

...Messages of the governor, and the inaugural address of the governor-elect, shall be produced and distributed in electronic form to the governor, to each member of the general assembly, and to the state library. A physical copy of the message or address shall be provided, upon request, to any recipient named in this section.

...The annual reports of the elective state officers shall be printed in such numbers as the superintendent of purchases and printing determines.

...One bound copy of each of the final journals and appendixes shall be made available to each member of the general assembly.

...l forward to each library that receives publications under section 149.12 of the Revised Code one copy of each pamphlet law received. The secretary of state shall distribute any remaining copies of each pamphlet law on the request of interested persons. (B)(1) If the secretary of state chooses to distribute the pamphlet laws in an electronic format instead of distributing copies as provided in division (A) of this...

...ectronic format. The annual or biennial publication shall contain all enrolled acts and joint resolutions, a subject index, a table indicating Revised Code sections affected, and the secretary of state's certificate that the laws, as compiled and distributed, are true copies of the original enrolled acts or joint resolutions in the secretary of state's office. (B)(1) The secretary of state may distribute the paper o...

...All boards, commissions, agencies, institutions, and departments in the executive branch of state government shall submit to the auditor of state a copy of each formal internally or independently produced audit report, as well as any management study or report that recommends changes that would affect the auditing system. Pursuant to section 117.43 of the Revised Code, no such report shall be produced without the app...

...rchive and provide permanent access and records to each public or college library in the state designated by the state library board to be a depository for state publications. (D) The print publications described in division (A) of this section and the electronic publications described in division (C) of this section shall be considered already prepared and available for inspection, and, subject to applicable copyr...

...Revised Code as a depository for state publications; (B) In each county containing no library described in division (A) of this section, to a public library designated by the state library board to receive the journals, bulletins, and summaries described in this section. The state library board shall designate libraries that can best preserve the publications and are so located geographically that they can mak...

...The secretary of state shall distribute all copies of the laws and all copies of the bound house and senate journals. If no provision is made by law for the distribution of any report printed by the state, it may be distributed by the state library board in accordance with section 149.11 of the Revised Code, on the order of the officer making the report.

...Highway maps shall be published by the state and shall be officially designated as "Highway Maps of Ohio." The director of transportation may designate the improved roads by color, and revise such maps from time to time as the improvement of the roads may justify. The director shall secure a copyright of the maps from time to time when so published. The director may distribute the first edition of these maps, which...

...ublic, by the official publisher. (5) "Record" means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. (6) "State" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. (B) Sections...

...es legal material only in an electronic record, the publisher shall designate the electronic record as official and comply with division (A) of section 149.23 and with section 149.24 of the Revised Code. (B) An official publisher that publishes legal material in an electronic record and also publishes the material in a record other than an electronic record may designate the electronic record as official if the pub...

...sher of legal material in an electronic record that is designated as official under section 149.22 of the Revised Code shall authenticate the record. To authenticate an electronic record, the publisher shall provide a method for a user to determine that the record received by the user from the publisher is unaltered from the official record published by the publisher. (B) Legal material in an electronic record that...

... is reasonably available for use by the public on a permanent basis.

...n of, preservation and security of, and public access to, legal material in an electronic record, and other electronic records, a s promulgated by national standard-setting bodies; (C) The needs of users of legal material in an electronic record; (D) The views of governmental officials and entities, and other interested persons; (E) To the extent practicable, methods and technologies for the authentication of, ...

...In applying and construing sections 149.21 to 149.27 of the Revised Code, a court shall consider the need to promote uniformity of the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it.

...Sections 149.21 to 149.27 of the Revised Code modify, limit, and supersede the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, 15 U.S.C. 7001 et seq., but do not modify, limit, or supersede 15 U.S.C. 7001(c) or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices or documents described in 15 U.S.C. 7003(b).

...hio history connection shall accurately record all expenditures of such funds in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles. The auditor of state shall audit all funds and fiscal records of the Ohio history connection. The public functions to be performed by the Ohio history connection shall include all of the following: (A) Creating, supervising, operating, protecting, maintaining, and promoting ...

...(A) There is hereby created the Ohio historic site preservation advisory board, to consist of seventeen members appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. Terms of office shall be for three years, commencing on the fifteenth day of January and ending on the fourteenth day of January. Each member shall hold office from the date of the member's appointment until the end of the term for which t...

...(A) The Ohio history connection, in addition to its other functions, shall establish a museum in the vicinity of Wilberforce to be known as the national museum of Afro-American history and culture. For this purpose the Ohio history connection may accept donations of money, property, and personal services, apply for and receive federal assistance, acquire real property or any estate, right, or interest therein, constr...

...(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...

...To the extent permissible under federal law, the department of medicaid shall redetermine the eligibility of members of the expansion eligibility group for medicaid benefits every six months.

...If a medicaid recipient is the beneficiary of a trust created pursuant to section 5815.28 of the Revised Code, then, notwithstanding any contrary provision of this chapter or of a rule adopted under section 5163.02 of the Revised Code, divisions (C) and (D) of that section shall apply in determining the assets or resources of the recipient, the recipient's estate, the settlor, or the settlor's estate and to cla...

...d supplant or replace medicaid or other public assistance; (b) A provision that prohibits the trustee from making payments that would impact or have an effect on the applicant's or recipient's right, ability, or opportunity to receive medicaid or other public assistance; (c) A provision that attempts to prevent the trust or its corpus or principal from being a resource available to the applicant or recipient. (...

...(A) The general assembly hereby finds that the state has an insurable interest in medicaid recipients because of the state's statutory right to recover from the estate of a recipient state funds used to provide the recipient with medicaid services. (B) As used in this section: (1) "Beneficiary" means the person or entity designated in a life insurance policy to receive the proceeds of the policy on the death...

... Documentation may include tax returns, records from financial institutions, and real property records.

...(A) Except as provided by division (A) of this section and for the purpose of determining whether an aged, blind, or disabled individual is eligible for nursing facility services, ICF/IID services, or other medicaid-funded long-term care services, the medicaid director may consider an aged, blind, or disabled individual's real property to not be the individual's homestead or principal place of residence once th...