Bill Title: Regarding annual reports about certain employers of public assistance recipients.
Sponsorship: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-12-08 - Passed 3rd Consideration House
[HB331 Detail]Download: Ohio-2009-HB331-Comm_Sub.html
As Reported by the House State Government Committee
| 128th General Assembly | | Regular Session | | 2009-2010 |
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Cosponsors:
Representatives Yuko, Stewart, Foley, Ujvagi, Boyd, Domenick, Koziura, Skindell, Phillips, Brown, Harris, Murray, Gerberry, Belcher, Lundy, Mallory
A BILL
| To enact section 5101.87 of the Revised Code | 1 |
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regarding annual reports about certain employers | 2 |
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of public assistance recipients. | 3 |
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
| Section 1. That section 5101.87 of the Revised Code be | 4 |
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enacted to read as follows: | 5 |
| Sec. 5101.87. (A) As used in this section: | 6 |
| (1) "Children's health insurance program" means the | 7 |
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children's health insurance program parts I, II, and III provided | 8 |
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for by sections 5101.50 to 5101.529 of the Revised Code. | 9 |
| (2) "Employer" means any individual, sole proprietorship, | 10 |
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partnership, limited liability company, corporation, or any other | 11 |
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entity that is doing business in this state. "Employer" also | 12 |
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includes all entities or persons that are controlled by or | 13 |
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affiliated with any such individual, sole proprietorship, | 14 |
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partnership, limited liability company, corporation, or other | 15 |
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entity. Whether an entity or person is controlled by or affiliated | 16 |
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with another shall be determined by applying the principles set | 17 |
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forth on January 1, 1993, in subsections 414(b) and (c) of the | 18 |
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"Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C. 414, | 19 |
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except that a voting power
of fifty-one per cent shall be applied | 20 |
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to the determination of control or affiliation. | 21 |
| (3) "Medicaid" means the medical assistance program provided | 22 |
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for under Title XIX of the "Social Security Act of 1935," 42 | 23 |
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U.S.C. 1396 et seq. | 24 |
| (4) "Ohio works first" means the program provided for by | 25 |
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Chapter 5107. of the Revised Code. | 26 |
| (5) "Supplemental nutrition assistance program" means the | 27 |
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program provided for by the "Food and Nutrition Act of 2008," | 28 |
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U.S.C. 2011 et seq.
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| (B) The director of job and family services shall annually | 30 |
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complete a report that specifies all of the following: | 31 |
| (1) The name of each of the fifty employers that employed the | 32 |
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most employees who were either of the following while employed by | 33 |
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the employer in this state during the previous year: | 34 |
| (a) Recipients of the children's health insurance program, | 35 |
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medicaid, Ohio works first, or supplemental nutrition assistance | 36 |
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program; | 37 |
| (b) Individuals whose incomes were counted in determining | 38 |
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eligibility for the children's health insurance program, medicaid, | 39 |
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Ohio works first, or supplemental nutrition assistance program. | 40 |
| (2) The number of individuals described in divisions | 41 |
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(B)(1)(a) and (b) of this section employed in the previous year by | 42 |
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each employer specified in the report; | 43 |
| (3) The total cost to the state for the previous year of | 44 |
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providing benefits under the children's health insurance program, | 45 |
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medicaid, Ohio works first, or supplemental nutrition assistance | 46 |
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program to employees of each of the employers specified in the | 47 |
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report, specified separately for each employer. | 48 |
| (C) The annual reports are a public record under section | 49 |
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149.43 of the Revised Code. The reports shall not include any | 50 |
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identifying information about any employee described in division | 51 |
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(B)(1)(a) or (b) of this section. | 52 |
| (D) The director of job and family services shall provide a | 53 |
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copy of the annual reports to all of the following: | 54 |
| (1) Each member of the general assembly; | 55 |
| (2) The director of development; | 56 |
| (3) The director of budget and management or, if the director | 57 |
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designates an employee of the office of budget and management to | 58 |
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serve on the controlling board in the director's place, the | 59 |
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designated employee; | 60 |
| (4) Each member of the tax credit authority. | 61 |
| The director of development, members of the controlling | 62 |
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board, and members of the tax credit authority shall consider the | 63 |
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information included in the report when determining whether to | 64 |
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grant an employer a contract, award, subsidy, or incentive or to | 65 |
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approve such a contract, award, subsidy, or incentive. The | 66 |
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director of development, controlling board, and tax credit | 67 |
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authority shall notify the director of job and family services of | 68 |
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the impact the report has on decisions regarding contracts, | 69 |
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awards, subsidies, and incentives.
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| (E) Not later than one year after the effective date of this | 71 |
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section, the director of job and family services shall make the | 72 |
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annual reports available on a searchable internet web site. The | 73 |
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internet web site shall include information provided to the | 74 |
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director by the director of development, controlling board, and | 75 |
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tax credit authority regarding the impact the report has on | 76 |
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decisions regarding contracts, awards, subsidies, and incentives. | 77 |
