Bill Text: OH HB670 | 2013-2014 | 130th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: To require the Director of Health with assistance from the Ohio State University Extension Program to establish and administer a pilot program for the purpose of reducing infant mortality in high-risk communities and to make an appropriation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-11-18 - To Finance and Appropriations [HB670 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2013-HB670-Introduced.html
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Representative Schuring
| To require the Director of Health with assistance | 1 |
| from the Ohio State University Extension Program | 2 |
| to establish and administer a pilot program for | 3 |
| the purpose of reducing infant mortality in | 4 |
| high-risk communities and to make an | 5 |
| appropriation. | 6 |
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
| Section 1. (A) Not later than one month after the effective | 7 |
| date of this section, the Director of Health shall establish and | 8 |
| administer a pilot program for the purpose of reducing infant | 9 |
| mortality in high-risk communities. The pilot program shall be | 10 |
| operated for two years. The Director shall select the | 11 |
| participating communities, located in five counties, in accordance | 12 |
| with the selection process specified in rules adopted under | 13 |
| division (F) of this section. | 14 |
| (B) The Ohio State University Extension Program shall assist | 15 |
| the Director with the pilot program's administration. To that end, | 16 |
| Extension Program personnel shall do both of the following: | 17 |
| (1) Recruit volunteers in each participating community and | 18 |
| train them to provide services, tailored to the community's needs, | 19 |
| in a culturally sensitive manner; | 20 |
| (2) Seek assistance from other University staff with | 21 |
| knowledge or expertise that the Director or Extension Program | 22 |
| personnel believe could facilitate the program's success. | 23 |
| (C) The Director shall solicit and consider input regarding | 24 |
| the pilot program from interested individuals and organizations in | 25 |
| the participating communities. | 26 |
| (D) Volunteers providing services as described in division | 27 |
| (B)(1) of this section may receive a stipend. If a stipend is | 28 |
| paid, the stipend amount and payment process shall be determined | 29 |
| in accordance with rules adopted under division (F) of this | 30 |
| section. | 31 |
| (E) The Director shall develop a process to evaluate the | 32 |
| program's success. Not later than two months after the program's | 33 |
| conclusion, the Director shall prepare a written report that | 34 |
| summarizes the Director's findings from the evaluation. On | 35 |
| completion, the report shall be submitted to the Governor and, in | 36 |
| accordance with section 101.68 of the Revised Code, the General | 37 |
| Assembly. | 38 |
| (F) The Director shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter | 39 |
| 119. of the Revised Code to specify both of the following: | 40 |
| (1) The process to be used in selecting high-risk communities | 41 |
| to participate in the pilot program, including standards that | 42 |
| require the communities to be selected from the five counties with | 43 |
| the highest infant mortality rate and permit the communities to be | 44 |
| identified by zip code or portions of zip codes that are | 45 |
| contiguous; | 46 |
| (2) If a stipend is paid to volunteers under division (D) of | 47 |
| this section, the stipend amount to be paid and the process to be | 48 |
| used in paying it. | 49 |
| Section 2. All items in this section are hereby appropriated | 50 |
| as designated out of any moneys in the state treasury to the | 51 |
| credit of the designated fund. For all appropriations made in this | 52 |
| act, those in the first column are for fiscal year 2014 and those | 53 |
| in the second column are for fiscal year 2015. The appropriations | 54 |
| made in this act are in addition to any other appropriations made | 55 |
| for the FY 2014-2015 biennium. | 56 |
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| General Revenue Fund | 58 |
| GRF | 440480 | Infant Mortality Pilot Program | $ | 0 | $ | 1,000,000 | 59 | ||||
| TOTAL GRF General Revenue Fund | $ | 0 | $ | 1,000,000 | 60 | ||||||
| TOTAL ALL BUDGET FUND GROUPS | $ | 0 | $ | 1,000,000 | 61 | ||||||
| INFANT MORTALITY PILOT PROGRAM | 62 |
| The foregoing appropriation item 440480, Infant Mortality | 63 |
| Pilot Program, shall be used to implement and operate a two-year | 64 |
| pilot program in high-risk communities to reduce infant mortality | 65 |
| in accordance with Section 1 of this act. An amount equal to the | 66 |
| unexpended, unencumbered portion of this appropriation item at the | 67 |
| end of fiscal year 2015 is hereby reappropriated to the Department | 68 |
| of Health for the same purpose for fiscal year 2016. | 69 |
| Section 3. Within the limits set forth in this act, the | 70 |
| Director of Budget and Management shall establish accounts | 71 |
| indicating the source and amount of funds for each appropriation | 72 |
| made in this act, and shall determine the form and manner in which | 73 |
| appropriation accounts shall be maintained. Expenditures from | 74 |
| appropriations contained in this act shall be accounted for as | 75 |
| though made in Am. Sub. H.B. 59 of the 130th General Assembly. | 76 |
| The appropriations made in this act are subject to all | 77 |
| provisions of Am. Sub. H.B. 59 of the 130th General Assembly that | 78 |
| are generally applicable to such appropriations. | 79 |
