Bill Text: OH HB623 | 2011-2012 | 129th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: To establish the Veterans Home Task Force.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-12-20 - Introduced to House [HB623 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2011-HB623-Introduced.html
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Representatives Schuring, Bubp
To establish the Veterans Home Task Force. | 1 |
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. (A) The Veterans Home Task Force shall review the | 2 |
recommendations of the United States Department of Veterans | 3 |
Affairs regarding the establishment of two additional veterans | 4 |
homes in the state. The task force shall prepare and deliver a | 5 |
report of its findings and recommendations to the General | 6 |
Assembly, in the manner described in section 101.68 of the Revised | 7 |
Code, and to the Governor, not later than December 31, 2013. Upon | 8 |
completing delivery of its report, the task force shall cease to | 9 |
exist. | 10 |
(B) There is the Veterans Home Task Force. The task force | 11 |
shall consist of the following members: | 12 |
(1) Three members who are members of a county veterans | 13 |
service commission, appointed by the Governor; | 14 |
(2) Three county commissioners, to be appointed by the | 15 |
Speaker of the House of Representatives; | 16 |
(3) Three members with expertise and experience in the field | 17 |
of Medicaid, appointed by the President of the Senate; | 18 |
(4) Three veterans, appointed by the Governor; | 19 |
(5) Two members of the Senate, one appointed by the President | 20 |
of the Senate and the other appointed by the Minority Leader of | 21 |
the Senate; | 22 |
(6) Two members of the House of Representatives, one | 23 |
appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the | 24 |
other appointed by the Minority Leader of the House of | 25 |
Representatives. | 26 |
Members shall be appointed not later than thirty days after | 27 |
the effective date of this section. The Governor shall select a | 28 |
chairperson of the task force from among the members of the task | 29 |
force. | 30 |
The task force shall convene within sixty days after the | 31 |
effective date of this section as summoned by the chairperson of | 32 |
the task force. No action shall be taken by the task force without | 33 |
the concurrence of nine members. | 34 |
A vacancy on the task force shall be filled in the same | 35 |
manner as the original appointment. | 36 |
Members of the task force are not entitled to compensation | 37 |
for serving on the task force. (A member may continue to receive | 38 |
the compensation applying to the member's regular employment.) | 39 |
Members of the task force are entitled to reimbursement of actual | 40 |
and necessary expenses they incur because of their service on the | 41 |
task force. | 42 |