Bill Text: OH HB485 | 2013-2014 | 130th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: To require hospice care programs to establish policies to prevent diversion of controlled substances that contain opioids; to require a prescriber to obtain written informed consent from a minor's parent, guardian, or other person responsible for the minor before issuing a prescription for a controlled substance that contains an opioid to the minor and to establish sanctions for a prescriber's violation of this requirement; to establish requirements to be followed by prescribers in reviewing patient information in the State Board of Pharmacy's Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System; to license private, nonprofit therapeutic wilderness camps; to authorize the collection of additional health information through OARRS; to establish the Office of Human Services Innovation in the Department of Job and Family Services; to establish the Ohio Healthier Buckeye Council and the Ohio Healthier Buckeye Grant Program; and to authorize the State Medical Board to conduct a pilot program regarding the use of teleconferencing at its committee meetings.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 22-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-04-10 - To Medicaid, Health & Human Services [HB485 Detail]

Download: Ohio-2013-HB485-Introduced.html

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As Introduced

130th General Assembly Regular Session 2013-2014

H. B. No. 485

Representatives Smith, Johnson 

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A BILL

To establish the Office of Human Services Innovation

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in the Department of Job and Family Services.

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BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:

Section 1. (A) There is hereby established in the Department	3
of Job and Family Services the Office of Human Services	4
Innovation. The Director of Job and Family Services shall	5
establish the Office's organizational structure, may reassign the	6
Department's staff and resources as necessary to support the	7
Office's activities, and is responsible for the Office's	8
operations. The Superintendent of Public Instruction, Chancellor	9
of the Ohio Board of Regents, Director of the Governor's Office of	10
Workforce Transformation, and Director of the Governor's Office of	11
Health Transformation shall assist the Director of Job and Family	12
Services with leadership and organizational support for the	13
Office.	14

(B) Not later than January 1, 2015, the Office shall submit	15
to the Governor recommendations for all of the following:	16

(1) Coordinating services across all public assistance	17
programs to help individuals find employment, succeed at work, and	18
stay out of poverty;	19

(2) Revising incentives for public assistance programs to	20
foster person-centered case management;	21

(3) Standardizing and automating eligibility determination	22
policies and processes for public assistance programs;	23

(4) Other matters the Office considers appropriate.

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(C) In its development of the recommendations under division	25
(B) of this section, the Office shall do both of the following:	26

(1) Have as its goal the coordination and reform of state	27
programs to assist Ohioans in preparing for life and the dignity	28
of work and to promote individual responsibility and work	29
opportunity;	30

(2) Not later than three months after the effective date of	31
this section, establish clear principles to guide the development	32
of the recommendations, clearly identify problems to be addressed	33
in the recommendations, and make an inventory of all existing	34
state and other resources that the Office considers relevant to	35
the development of the recommendations.	36

(D) The Office shall convene and coordinate the directors and	37
staff of the departments, agencies, boards, commissions, and	38
institutions of the executive branch of the state as necessary to	39
develop the recommendations to be submitted to the Governor under	40
division (B) of this section. The departments, agencies, boards,	41
commissions, and institutions shall comply with all requests and	42
directives that the Office makes, subject to the supervision of	43
the directors of the departments, agencies, offices, boards, and	44
commissions. The Office also shall convene other individuals	45
interested in the issues that the Office addresses in the	46
development of the recommendations to obtain such individuals'	47
input on, and support for, the recommendations.	48