To amend sections 101.83, 101.84, 101.85, 101.86, 119.01, 121.084, 121.32, 127.14, 149.304, 173.03, 173.04, 901.90, 1121.12, 1121.18, 1121.29, 1123.01, 1123.02, 1123.03, 1123.04, 1155.13, 1163.16, 1181.11, 1315.122, 1349.71, 1506.22, 1506.23, 1506.24, 1521.19, 1733.32, 3119.024, 3301.90, 3311.71, 3313.6013, 3335.27, 3345.062, 3701.025, 3701.63, 3702.79, 3702.80, 3702.81, 3702.85, 3702.86, 3702.93, 3702.94, 3705.35, 3705.36, 3718.03, 3727.312, 3727.313, 3727.321, 3727.39, 3727.41, 3743.54, 3746.04, 3769.083, 3769.085, 3769.086, 3905.04, 3905.481, 3905.484, 3905.485, 3905.486, 3905.88, 3929.631, 3929.64, 3929.68, 3930.02, 3930.03, 4121.03, 4121.121, 4121.77, 4123.341, 4123.342, 4123.35, 4169.02, 4169.03, 4169.04, 4169.05, 4169.06, 4503.52, 4503.77, 4723.61, 4723.63, 4723.69, 4981.361, 5104.39, 5111.708, 5123.032, and 5123.093; to amend, for the purpose of adopting new section numbers as indicated in parentheses, sections 1506.22 (6161.04), 1506.23 (6161.05), and 1506.24 (6161.06); to enact sections 184.21 and 6161.021; and to repeal sections 101.37, 121.374, 122.98, 122.981, 125.833, 181.22, 184.23, 184.231, 1181.16, 1181.17, 1501.25, 1506.12, 1506.21, 1733.329, 1733.3210, 2151.282, 2323.44, 3311.77, 3319.70, 3319.71, 3701.92, 3702.92, 3727.32, 3727.322, 3746.03, 3769.084, 3905.483, 4121.79, 4501.025, 4723.62, 4723.621, 4937.01, 4937.02, 4937.03, 4937.04, 4937.05, 5104.08, 5111.709, 5111.710, and 5902.15 of the Revised Code; to repeal section 101.38 of the Revised Code on December 31, 2011; to amend Section 203 of Am. Sub. H.B. 15 of the 128th General Assembly and Section 513.03 of Am. Sub. H.B. 66 of the 126th General Assembly as subsequently amended; and to repeal Section 3 of Am. H.B. 416 of the 127th General Assembly, Sections 265.70.20, 709.10, and 751.13 of Am. Sub. H.B. 1 of the 128th General Assembly, Sections 755.40, 755.80, and 756.40 of Am. Sub. H.B. 2 of the 128th General Assembly, Section 3 of Sub. H.B. 7 of the 127th General Assembly, Section 555.17 of Am. Sub. H.B. 67 of the 127th General Assembly, Sections 263.30.30, 337.20.20, 377.20, 737.11, and 737.12 of Am. Sub. H.B. 119 of the 127th General Assembly, Sections 6 and 7 of Sub. H.B. 125 of the 127th General Assembly, Section 2 of Sub. H.B. 233 of the 127th General Assembly, Section 3 of Am. H.B. 416 of the 127th General Assembly, Sections 703.30 and 715.50 of Am. Sub. H.B. 562 of the 127th General Assembly, Section 512.45 of Am. Sub. H.B. 100 of the 127th General Assembly as subsequently amended, Section 4 of Am. Sub. S.B. 77 of the 127th General Assembly, Sections 206.10.12, 206.42.12, 206.66.24, 206.66.43, 209.63.58, 503.09, 503.12, and 560.03 of Am. Sub. H.B. 66 of the 126th General Assembly, Sections 3 and 4 of Sub. H.B. 187 of the 126th General Assembly, Section 1 of Sub. H.B. 371 of the 126th General Assembly, Section 235.60.70 of Am. Sub. H.B. 699 of the 126th General Assembly, Section 3 of Am. Sub. S.B. 167 of the 126th General Assembly, Section 5 of Am. Sub. S.B. 260 of the 126th General Assembly, Section 3 of Am. Sub. S.B. 311 of the 126th General Assembly, Section 3 of Sub. S.B. 393 of the 126th General Assembly, Sections 12 and 25 of Am. Sub. H.B. 87 of the 125th General Assembly, Sections 41.35 and 153 of Am. Sub. H.B. 95 of the 125th General Assembly, Section 3 of Sub. H.B. 204 of the 125th General Assembly, Section 8 of Sub. H.B. 299 of the 125th General Assembly, Section 6 of Am. Sub. H.B. 516 of the 125th General Assembly, Section 3 of Am. Sub. S.B. 86 of the 125th General Assembly, Section 5 of Sub. H.B. 57 of the 124th General Assembly, Section 3 of Am. Sub. H.B. 474 of the 124th General Assembly, Section 4 of Am. Sub. S.B. 281 of the 124th General Assembly, Section 701.20 of Am. Sub. H.B. 562 of the 127th General Assembly as subsequently amended, Section 206.66.53 of Am. Sub. H.B. 66 of the 126th General Assembly as subsequently amended, Section 6 of Sub. H.B. 336 of the 126th General Assembly as subsequently amended, Section 755.03 of Am. Sub. H.B. 530 of the 126th General Assembly, as subsequently amended, Section 6 of Am. Sub. S.B. 238 of the 126th General Assembly as subsequently amended, Section 8 of Am. Sub. S.B. 311 of the 126th General Assembly as subsequently amended, Section 152 of Am. Sub. H.B. 95 of the 125th General Assembly, as subsequently amended, Section 59.29 of Am. Sub. H.B. 95 of the 125th General Assembly as subsequently amended, and Section 69 of H.B. 117 of the 121st General Assembly as subsequently amended to implement the recommendations of the Sunset Review Committee by abolishing, terminating, transferring, or renewing various agencies and by reestablishing the Sunset Review Committee but postponing its operation until the 132nd General Assembly, and to terminate the operation of certain provisions of this act on December 31, 2016, by repealing sections 101.82, 101.83, 101.84, 101.85, 101.86, and 101.87 of the Revised Code on that date.

Section 1. That sections 101.83, 101.84, 101.85, 101.86, 119.01, 121.084, 121.32, 127.14, 149.304, 173.03, 173.04, 901.90, 1121.12, 1121.18, 1121.29, 1123.01, 1123.02, 1123.03, 1123.04, 1155.13, 1163.16, 1181.11, 1315.122, 1349.71, 1506.22, 1506.23, 1506.24, 1521.19, 1733.32, 3119.024, 3301.90, 3311.71, 3313.6013, 3335.27, 3345.062, 3701.025, 3701.63, 3702.79, 3702.80, 3702.81, 3702.85, 3702.86, 3702.93, 3702.94, 3705.35, 3705.36, 3718.03, 3727.312, 3727.313, 3727.321, 3727.39, 3727.41, 3743.54, 3746.04, 3769.083, 3769.085, 3769.086, 3905.04, 3905.481, 3905.484, 3905.485, 3905.486, 3905.88, 3929.631, 3929.64, 3929.68, 3930.02, 3930.03, 4121.03, 4121.121, 4121.77, 4123.341, 4123.342, 4123.35, 4169.02, 4169.03, 4169.04, 4169.05, 4169.06, 4503.52, 4503.77, 4723.61, 4723.63, 4723.69, 4981.361, 5104.39, 5111.708, 5123.032, and 5123.093 be amended, sections 1506.22 (6161.04), 1506.23 (6161.05), and 1506.24 (6161.06) be amended for the purpose of adopting new section numbers as indicated in parentheses, and sections 184.21 and 6161.021 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:

Sec. 101.83.  (A) An agency in existence on January 1, 2005 2011, shall expire on December 31, 2010 2016, unless the agency is renewed in accordance with division (D) of this section and, if so renewed, shall expire thereafter on the thirty-first day of December of the fourth year after the year in which it was most recently renewed unless the agency is renewed in accordance with division (D) of this section. An agency created after January 1, 2005 2011, that is created on the thirty-first day of December shall expire not later than four years after its creation, unless the agency is renewed in accordance with division (D) of this section. An agency created after January 1, 2005 2011, that is created on any other date shall be considered for the purpose of this section to have been created on the preceding thirty-first day of December, and the agency shall expire not later than four years after the date it was considered to have been created, unless the agency is renewed in accordance with division (D) of this section. Any act creating or renewing an agency shall contain a distinct section providing a specific expiration date for the agency in accordance with this division.

(B) If the general assembly does not renew or transfer an agency on or before its expiration date, it shall expire on that date.

The director of budget and management shall not authorize the expenditure of any moneys for any agency on or after the date of its expiration.

(C) The general assembly may provide by law for the orderly, efficient, and expeditious conclusion of an agency's business and operation. The rules, orders, licenses, contracts, and other actions made, taken, granted, or performed by the agency shall continue in effect according to their terms notwithstanding the agency's abolition, unless the general assembly provides otherwise by law. The general assembly may provide by law for the temporary or permanent transfer of some or all of a terminated or transferred agency's functions and personnel to a successor agency or officer.

The abolition, termination, or transfer of an agency shall not cause the termination or dismissal of any claim pending against the agency by any person, or any claim pending against any person by the agency. Unless the general assembly provides otherwise by law for the substitution of parties, the attorney general shall succeed the agency with reference to any pending claim.

(D) An agency may be renewed by passage of a bill that continues the statutes creating and empowering the agency, that amends or repeals those statutes, or that enacts new statutes, to improve agency usefulness, performance, or effectiveness.

Sec. 101.84.  (A) There is hereby created the sunset review committee, to be composed of nine members and function in calendar years 2009 2015 and 2010 2016. The president of the senate shall appoint three members of the senate to the committee, not more than two of whom shall be members of the same political party. The speaker of the house of representatives shall appoint three members of the house of representatives to the committee, not more than two of whom shall be members of the same political party. The governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint three members to the committee, not more than two of whom shall be members of the same political party. Members shall be appointed within fifteen days after the commencement of the first regular session of the 128th 131st general assembly.

(B) Each member of the committee who is appointed by the president of the senate or the speaker of the house of representatives shall serve during that committee member's term of office or until that committee member no longer is a member of the senate or the house of representatives, whichever is applicable. Each member of the committee who is appointed by the governor shall serve a two-year term that ends on the thirty-first day of December in 2010 2016. A vacancy on the committee shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment.

In the first regular session of the 128th 131st general assembly, the chairperson of the committee shall be a member of the house of representatives, and the vice-chairperson of the committee shall be a member of the senate. In the second regular session of the 128th 131st general assembly, the chairperson of the committee shall be a member of the senate, and the vice-chairperson of the committee shall be a member of the house of representatives.

Members of the committee shall receive no compensation, but shall be reimbursed for their necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties.

(C) The committee shall meet not later than thirty days after the first day of the first regular session of the 128th 131st general assembly to choose a chairperson and to commence establishment of the schedule for agency review provided for in section 101.85 of the Revised Code or perform other committee duties under sections 101.82 to 101.87 of the Revised Code. Five members of the committee shall constitute a quorum for the conduct of committee business.

Sec. 101.85.  (A) The sunset review committee, not later than sixty days after its first meeting in 2009 2015, shall schedule for review each agency in existence on January 1, 2009 2015. The committee, by a unanimous vote, also may schedule for review any state board or commission described in division (A)(9) of section 101.82 of the Revised Code that is in existence on that date, and any board or commission so scheduled shall be considered an agency for purposes of sections 101.82 to 101.87 of the Revised Code.

(B) The chairperson of the committee shall send a copy of the schedule for review of agencies for calendar year 2009 2015 and calendar year 2010 2016 to each of the agencies scheduled for review during that year and to the director of the legislative service commission. The director shall publish a copy of the schedule in the Ohio Administrative Code and in the register of Ohio created under section 103.051 of the Revised Code. The commission shall provide the committee with a list of agencies, and state boards and commissions described in division (A)(9) of section 101.82 of the Revised Code, in existence on January 1, 2009 2015, to assist the committee in identifying agencies and exercising its duties under sections 101.82 to 101.87 of the Revised Code with respect to those agencies.

Sec. 101.86.  (A) Not later than six months prior to the date on which an agency in existence on January 1, 2009 2015, is scheduled to expire under division (A) of section 101.83 of the Revised Code, the sunset review committee shall hold hearings to receive the testimony of the public and of the chief executive officer of each agency scheduled for review and otherwise shall consider and evaluate the usefulness, performance, and effectiveness of the agency.

(B) Each agency that is scheduled for review shall submit to the committee a report that contains all of the following information:

(1) The agency's primary purpose and its various goals and objectives;

(2) The agency's past and anticipated workload, the number of staff required to complete that workload, and the agency's total number of staff;

(3) The agency's past and anticipated budgets and its sources of funding;

(4) The number of members of its governing board or other governing entity and their compensation, if any.

(C) Each agency shall have the burden of demonstrating to the committee a public need for its continued existence. In determining whether an agency has demonstrated that need, the committee shall consider all of the following:

(1) The extent to which the agency has permitted qualified applicants to serve the public;

(2) The cost-effectiveness of the agency in terms of number of employees, services rendered, and administrative costs incurred, both past and present;

(3) The extent to which the agency has operated in the public interest, and whether its operation has been impeded or enhanced by existing statutes and procedures and by budgetary, resource, and personnel practices;

(4) Whether the agency has recommended statutory changes to the general assembly that would benefit the public as opposed to the persons regulated by the agency, if any, and whether its recommendations and other policies have been adopted and implemented;

(5) Whether the agency has required any persons it regulates to report to it the impact of agency rules and decisions on the public as they affect service costs and service delivery;

(6) Whether persons regulated by the agency, if any, have been required to assess problems in their business operations that affect the public;

(7) Whether the agency has encouraged public participation in its rule-making and decision-making;

(8) The efficiency with which formal public complaints filed with the agency have been processed to completion;

(9) Whether the programs or services of the agency duplicate or overlap those of other agencies;

(10) Whether the purpose for which the agency was created has been fulfilled, has changed, or no longer exists;

(11) Whether federal law requires that the agency be renewed in some form;

(12) Changes needed in the enabling laws of the agency in order for it to comply with the criteria suggested by the considerations listed in divisions (C)(1) to (11) of this section.

(D) In its initial review of each agency, the committee, whenever possible, shall realign agency titles to conform to the following descriptions:

(1) Commission: an administrative appeals or hearing agency;

(2) Authority: an agency empowered to issue bonds or notes;

(3) Board: an agency having a licensing function only;

(4) Council: an advisory body to a major agency or department;

(5) Committee: an advisory body to a minor agency or department.

Sec. 119.01.  As used in sections 119.01 to 119.13 of the Revised Code:

(A)(1) "Agency" means, except as limited by this division, any official, board, or commission having authority to promulgate rules or make adjudications in the civil service commission, the division of liquor control, the department of taxation, the industrial commission, the bureau of workers' compensation, the functions of any administrative or executive officer, department, division, bureau, board, or commission of the government of the state specifically made subject to sections 119.01 to 119.13 of the Revised Code, and the licensing functions of any administrative or executive officer, department, division, bureau, board, or commission of the government of the state having the authority or responsibility of issuing, suspending, revoking, or canceling licenses.

Except as otherwise provided in division (I) of this section, sections 119.01 to 119.13 of the Revised Code do not apply to the public utilities commission. Sections 119.01 to 119.13 of the Revised Code do not apply to the utility radiological safety board; to the controlling board; to actions of the superintendent of financial institutions and the superintendent of insurance in the taking possession of, and rehabilitation or liquidation of, the business and property of banks, savings and loan associations, savings banks, credit unions, insurance companies, associations, reciprocal fraternal benefit societies, and bond investment companies; to any action taken by the division of securities under section 1707.201 of the Revised Code; or to any action that may be taken by the superintendent of financial institutions under section 1113.03, 1121.06, 1121.10, 1125.09, 1125.12, 1125.18, 1157.01, 1157.02, 1157.10, 1165.01, 1165.02, 1165.10, 1349.33, 1733.35, 1733.361, 1733.37, or 1761.03 of the Revised Code.

Sections 119.01 to 119.13 of the Revised Code do not apply to actions of the industrial commission or the bureau of workers' compensation under sections 4123.01 to 4123.94 of the Revised Code with respect to all matters of adjudication, or to the actions of the industrial commission, bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, and bureau of workers' compensation under division (D) of section 4121.32, sections 4123.29, 4123.34, 4123.341, 4123.342, 4123.40, 4123.411, 4123.44, 4123.442, 4127.07, divisions (B), (C), and (E) of section 4131.04, and divisions (B), (C), and (E) of section 4131.14 of the Revised Code with respect to all matters concerning the establishment of premium, contribution, and assessment rates.

(2) "Agency" also means any official or work unit having authority to promulgate rules or make adjudications in the department of job and family services, but only with respect to both of the following:

(a) The adoption, amendment, or rescission of rules that section 5101.09 of the Revised Code requires be adopted in accordance with this chapter;

(b) The issuance, suspension, revocation, or cancellation of licenses.

(B) "License" means any license, permit, certificate, commission, or charter issued by any agency. "License" does not include any arrangement whereby a person, institution, or entity furnishes medicaid services under a provider agreement with the department of job and family services pursuant to Title XIX of the "Social Security Act," 49 Stat. 620 (1935), 42 U.S.C. 301, as amended.

(C) "Rule" means any rule, regulation, or standard, having a general and uniform operation, adopted, promulgated, and enforced by any agency under the authority of the laws governing such agency, and includes any appendix to a rule. "Rule" does not include any internal management rule of an agency unless the internal management rule affects private rights and does not include any guideline adopted pursuant to section 3301.0714 of the Revised Code.

(D) "Adjudication" means the determination by the highest or ultimate authority of an agency of the rights, duties, privileges, benefits, or legal relationships of a specified person, but does not include the issuance of a license in response to an application with respect to which no question is raised, nor other acts of a ministerial nature.

(E) "Hearing" means a public hearing by any agency in compliance with procedural safeguards afforded by sections 119.01 to 119.13 of the Revised Code.

(F) "Person" means a person, firm, corporation, association, or partnership.

(G) "Party" means the person whose interests are the subject of an adjudication by an agency.

(H) "Appeal" means the procedure by which a person, aggrieved by a finding, decision, order, or adjudication of any agency, invokes the jurisdiction of a court.

(I) "Rule-making agency" means any board, commission, department, division, or bureau of the government of the state that is required to file proposed rules, amendments, or rescissions under division (D) of section 111.15 of the Revised Code and any agency that is required to file proposed rules, amendments, or rescissions under divisions (B) and (H) of section 119.03 of the Revised Code. "Rule-making agency" includes the public utilities commission. "Rule-making agency" does not include any state-supported college or university.

(J) "Substantive revision" means any addition to, elimination from, or other change in a rule, an amendment of a rule, or a rescission of a rule, whether of a substantive or procedural nature, that changes any of the following:

(1) That which the rule, amendment, or rescission permits, authorizes, regulates, requires, prohibits, penalizes, rewards, or otherwise affects;

(2) The scope or application of the rule, amendment, or rescission.

(K) "Internal management rule" means any rule, regulation, or standard governing the day-to-day staff procedures and operations within an agency.

Sec. 121.084.  (A) All moneys collected under sections 3783.05, 3791.07, 4104.07, 4104.18, 4104.44, 4105.17, 4105.20, 4169.03, 4171.04, and 5104.051 of the Revised Code, and any other moneys collected by the division of labor shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the labor operating fund, which is hereby created. The department of commerce shall use the moneys in the fund for paying the operating expenses of the division and the administrative assessment described in division (B) of this section.

(B) The director of commerce, with the approval of the director of budget and management, shall prescribe procedures for assessing the labor operating fund a proportionate share of the administrative costs of the department of commerce. The assessment shall be made in accordance with those procedures and be paid from the labor operating fund to the division of administration fund created in section 121.08 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 121.32.  The commission on Hispanic-Latino affairs shall:

(A) Gather and disseminate information and conduct hearings, conferences, investigations, and special studies on problems and programs concerning Spanish-speaking people;

(B) Secure appropriate recognition of the accomplishments and contributions of Spanish-speaking people to this state;

(C) Stimulate public awareness of the problems of Spanish-speaking people by conducting a program of public education;

(D) Develop, coordinate, and assist other public and private organizations that serve Spanish-speaking people, including the conducting of training programs for community leadership and service project staff;

(E) Advise the governor, general assembly, and state departments and agencies of the nature, magnitude, and priorities of the problems of Spanish-speaking people;

(F) Advise the governor, general assembly, and state departments and agencies on, and assist in the development and implementation of, comprehensive and coordinated policies, programs, and procedures focusing on the special problems and needs of Spanish-speaking people, especially in the fields of education, employment, energy, health, housing, welfare, and recreation;

(G) Propose new programs concerning Spanish-speaking people to public and private agencies and evaluate for such agencies existing programs or prospective legislation concerning Spanish-speaking people;

(H) Review and approve grants to be made from federal, state, or private funds which are administered or subcontracted by the office of Spanish-speaking affairs;

(I) Review and approve the annual report prepared by the office of Spanish-speaking affairs;

(J) Create an interagency council consisting of the following persons or their authorized representatives: one member of the senate appointed by the president of the senate; one member of the house of representatives appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives; the directors of administrative services, agriculture, education, development, health, highway safety, job and family services, liquor control, mental health, developmental disabilities, natural resources, rehabilitation and correction, youth services, transportation, environmental protection, and budget and management; the chairperson of the Ohio civil rights commission, the administrators of the bureau of workers' compensation and the rehabilitation services commission, and an additional member of the governor's cabinet appointed by the governor. The commission on Hispanic-Latino affairs, by rule, may designate other state officers or their representatives to be members of the council. The director of the commission shall be the chairperson of the council.

The interagency council shall provide Provide and coordinate with state agencies the exchange of information relative to the needs of Spanish-speaking people and to promote the delivery of state services to such people. The council shall meet at the call of the chairperson.

Sec. 127.14.  The controlling board may, at the request of any state agency or the director of budget and management, authorize, with respect to the provisions of any appropriation act:

(A) Transfers of all or part of an appropriation within but not between state agencies, except such transfers as the director of budget and management is authorized by law to make, provided that no transfer shall be made by the director for the purpose of effecting new or changed levels of program service not authorized by the general assembly;

(B) Transfers of all or part of an appropriation from one fiscal year to another;

(C) Transfers of all or part of an appropriation within or between state agencies made necessary by administrative reorganization or by the abolition of an agency or part of an agency;

(D) Transfers of all or part of cash balances in excess of needs from any fund of the state to the general revenue fund or to such other fund of the state to which the money would have been credited in the absence of the fund from which the transfers are authorized to be made, except that the controlling board may not authorize such transfers from the accrued leave liability fund, auto registration distribution fund, budget stabilization fund, development bond retirement fund, facilities establishment fund, gasoline excise tax fund, general revenue fund, higher education improvement fund, highway improvement bond retirement fund, highway obligations bond retirement fund, highway capital improvement fund, highway operating fund, horse racing tax fund, improvements bond retirement fund, public library fund, liquor control fund, local government fund, local transportation improvement program fund, mental health facilities improvement fund, Ohio fairs fund, parks and recreation improvement fund, public improvements bond retirement fund, school district income tax fund, state agency facilities improvement fund, state and local government highway distribution fund, state highway safety fund, state lottery fund, undivided liquor permit fund, Vietnam conflict compensation bond retirement fund, volunteer fire fighters' dependents fund, waterways safety fund, wildlife fund, workers' compensation fund, workers' compensation council remuneration fund, or any fund not specified in this division that the director of budget and management determines to be a bond fund or bond retirement fund;

(E) Transfers of all or part of those appropriations included in the emergency purposes account of the controlling board;

(F) Temporary transfers of all or part of an appropriation or other moneys into and between existing funds, or new funds, as may be established by law when needed for capital outlays for which notes or bonds will be issued;

(G) Transfer or release of all or part of an appropriation to a state agency requiring controlling board approval of such transfer or release as provided by law;

(H) Temporary transfer of funds included in the emergency purposes appropriation of the controlling board. Such temporary transfers may be made subject to conditions specified by the controlling board at the time temporary transfers are authorized. No transfers shall be made under this division for the purpose of effecting new or changed levels of program service not authorized by the general assembly.

As used in this section, "request" means an application by a state agency or the director of budget and management seeking some action by the controlling board.

When authorizing the transfer of all or part of an appropriation under this section, the controlling board may authorize the transfer to an existing appropriation item and the creation of and transfer to a new appropriation item.

Whenever there is a transfer of all or part of funds included in the emergency purposes appropriation by the controlling board, pursuant to division (E) of this section, the state agency or the director of budget and management receiving such transfer shall keep a detailed record of the use of the transferred funds. At the earliest scheduled meeting of the controlling board following the accomplishment of the purposes specified in the request originally seeking the transfer, or following the total expenditure of the transferred funds for the specified purposes, the state agency or the director of budget and management shall submit a report on the expenditure of such funds to the board. The portion of any appropriation so transferred which is not required to accomplish the purposes designated in the original request to the controlling board shall be returned to the proper appropriation of the controlling board at this time.

Notwithstanding any provisions of law providing for the deposit of revenues received by a state agency to the credit of a particular fund in the state treasury, whenever there is a temporary transfer of funds included in the emergency purposes appropriation of the controlling board pursuant to division (H) of this section, revenues received by any state agency receiving such a temporary transfer of funds shall, as directed by the controlling board, be transferred back to the emergency purposes appropriation.

The board may delegate to the director of budget and management authority to approve transfers among items of appropriation under division (A) of this section.

Sec. 149.304.  Any person owning or in possession of an Ohio homestead or tract of land which has been owned or in the possession of his the person's family for one hundred years or more may apply to the Ohio historical society to list the homestead or tract of land in a register to be maintained by the society. The society shall provide forms for such applications and shall submit applications received to the Ohio historic site preservation advisory board, which shall rule on the authenticity of the homestead or ownership or possession of the tract of land according to criteria it shall establish and make public.

Upon authentication of the homestead or tract of land by the board, the society shall list the homestead or tract of land on its register and provide the applicant with a plaque of suitable design determined by the society to be affixed to the homestead or tract of land. The plaque shall identify the homestead or tract of land as an historic homestead and specify that it is one hundred years or more old as of the date of recognition. If the date or year of construction of the homestead or purchase of tract of land is known, that date or year may appear on the plaque in lieu of the fact that the homestead or tract of land is one hundred years or more old. The plaque shall not bear the name of any member of the society, board, or any other public official, but may carry an appropriate emblem to be determined by the society.

All costs of administering the historic homestead register program, including maintenance of the register, research into the authenticity of the homestead or tract of land, plaque, and plaque design, and mailing costs, shall be determined by the society and shall be borne by the applicant.

The applicant shall be responsible for displaying the plaque on the homestead or tract of land in a suitable manner, and shall bear all costs of such display.

The society may arrange to present plaques to applicants so desiring at the society's annual meeting.

Sec. 173.03.  (A) There is hereby created the Ohio advisory council for the aging, which shall consist of twelve members to be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. Two ex officio members of the council shall be members of the house of representatives appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives and shall be members of two different political parties. Two ex officio members of the council shall be members of the senate appointed by the president of the senate and shall be members of two different political parties. The directors of mental health, developmental disabilities, health, and job and family services, or their designees, shall serve as ex officio members of the council. The council shall carry out its role as defined under the "Older Americans Act of 1965," 79 Stat. 219, 42 U.S.C. 3001, as amended.

At the first meeting of the council, and annually thereafter, the members shall select one of their members to serve as chairperson and one of their members to serve as vice-chairperson.

(B) Members of the council shall be appointed for a term of three years, except that for the first appointment members of the Ohio commission on aging who were serving on the commission immediately prior to July 26, 1984, shall become members of the council for the remainder of their unexpired terms. Thereafter, appointment to the council shall be for a three-year term by the governor. Each member shall hold office from the date of appointment until the end of the term for which the member was appointed. Any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which the member's predecessor was appointed shall hold office for the remainder of the term. Any No member may shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration date of the member's term until a successor takes office and shall be compensated for the period served between the expiration of the member's term and the beginning of the successor's term unless reappointed under the provisions of this section, and no member shall serve more than three consecutive terms on the council.

(C) Membership of the council shall represent all areas of Ohio and shall be as follows:

(1) A majority of members of the council shall have attained the age of sixty and have a knowledge of and continuing interest in the affairs and welfare of the older citizens of Ohio. The fields of business, labor, health, law, and human services shall be represented in the membership.

(2) No more than seven members shall be of the same political party.

(D) Any member of the council may be removed from office by the governor for neglect of duty, misconduct, or malfeasance in office after being informed in writing of the charges and afforded an opportunity for a hearing. Two consecutive unexcused absences from regularly scheduled meetings constitute neglect of duty.

(E) Members of the council shall be compensated at the rate of fifty dollars for each day actually employed in the discharge of official duties but not to exceed two thousand dollars per year and in addition shall be allowed actual and necessary expenses The director of aging may reimburse a member for actual and necessary traveling and other expenses incurred in the discharge of official duties; but reimbursement shall be made in the manner, and at rates that do not exceed those, prescribed by the director of budget and management for any officer, member, or employee of, or consultant to, any state agency.

(F) Council members are not limited as to the number of terms they may serve.

(G) Council members shall not be interested directly or indirectly in any contract awarded by the department of aging The department of aging may award grants to or enter into contracts with a member of the advisory council or an entity that the member represents if any of the following apply:

(1) The department determines that the member or the entity the member represents is capable of providing the goods or services specified under the terms of the grant or contract.

(2) The member has not taken part in any discussion or vote of the council related to whether the council should recommend that the department of aging award the grant to or enter into the contract with the member of the advisory council or the entity that the member represents.

(G) A member of the advisory council is not in violation of Chapter 102. or section 2921.42 of the Revised Code with regard to receiving a grant or entering into a contract under this section if the requirements of division (F) of this section have been met.

Sec. 173.04.  (A) As used in this section, "respite care" means short-term, temporary care or supervision provided to a person who has Alzheimer's disease in the absence of the person who normally provides that care or supervision.

(B) Through the internet web site maintained by the department of aging, the director of aging shall disseminate Alzheimer's disease training materials for licensed physicians, registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, administrators of health care programs, social workers, and other health care and social service personnel who participate or assist in the care or treatment of persons who have Alzheimer's disease. The training materials disseminated through the web site may be developed by the director or obtained from other sources.

(C) To the extent funds are available, the director shall administer respite care programs and other supportive services for persons who have Alzheimer's disease and their families or care givers. Respite care programs shall be approved by the director and shall be provided for the following purposes:

(1) Giving persons who normally provide care or supervision for a person who has Alzheimer's disease relief from the stresses and responsibilities that result from providing such care;

(2) Preventing or reducing inappropriate institutional care and enabling persons who have Alzheimer's disease to remain at home as long as possible.

(D) The director may provide services under this section to persons with Alzheimer's disease and their families regardless of the age of the persons with Alzheimer's disease.

(E) The director shall may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code governing respite care programs and other supportive services, the distribution of funds, and the purpose for which funds may be utilized under this section.

(F) The director may create an Alzheimer's disease and related disorders task force to advise the director on the following:

(1) The rights of persons with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders;

(2) The development and evaluation of education and training programs, home care programs, and respite care programs that serve persons with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders;

(3) How to serve persons with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders in Ohio's unified long-term care budget system.

If a task force is created, the members shall include representatives of the Alzheimer's disease association and other organizations the director considers appropriate.

Sec. 184.21.  (A) There is hereby created the third frontier biomedical and bioproducts advisory board. The advisory board shall provide general advice to the commission regarding biomedical and bioproducts issues. The advisory board shall consider the recommendations of the Ohio agriculture to chemicals, polymers, and advanced materials taskforce when providing advice.

(B) The board shall consist of nine members selected for their biomedical or bioproducts knowledge and experience. The governor shall appoint three members. The speaker of the house of representatives shall appoint two members, one of whom may be recommended by the minority leader of the house of representatives. The president of the senate shall appoint two members, one of whom may be recommended by the minority leader of the senate. The director of development or the director's designee shall serve as a member. The director of agriculture or the director's designee shall serve as a member. Membership on the advisory board created under section 184.03 of the Revised Code does not prohibit membership on the advisory board created under this section. All members of the board shall serve at the pleasure of their appointing authorities.

(C) The board shall select from among its members a chairperson. A majority of board members constitutes a quorum, and no action shall be taken without the affirmative vote of a majority of the members.

(D) A vacancy shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment. The governor may remove any member of the board for malfeasance, misfeasance, or nonfeasance after a hearing in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.

(E) Members of the board shall not act as representatives of any specific disciplinary, regional, or organizational interest. Members shall represent a wide variety of experience valuable in technology research and development, product process innovation and commercialization, and creating and managing high-growth technology-based companies.

(F) Members of the board shall file financial disclosure statements described in division (B) of section 102.02 of the Revised Code.

(G) Members of the board shall serve without compensation, but shall receive their reasonable and necessary expenses incurred in the conduct of board business.

(H) The department of development shall provide office space and facilities for the board.

Sec. 901.90. (A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the Ohio agriculture license plate scholarship fund consisting of the contributions the registrar of motor vehicles receives pursuant to section 4503.503 of the Revised Code. Money shall be expended from the fund only as provided in division (C)(B) of this section.

(B)(1) There is hereby created the Ohio agriculture license plate scholarship fund board, consisting of the director of agriculture or the director's designee and one representative appointed by each of the following organizations:

(a) The Ohio agriculture council;

(b) The Ohio corngrowers association;

(c) The Ohio farm bureau federation;

(d) The Ohio soy association;

(e) The Ohio state university college of food, agricultural, and environmental sciences;

(f) The Ohio young farmers association.

(2) All original appointments to the board shall be made not later than ninety days after the effective date of this section, and all vacancies shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment. Members of the board shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for the actual expenses they incur in performing their duties. The director of agriculture or the director's designee shall serve as chairperson. The board shall adopt rules governing their meetings and proceedings.

(C) There is hereby established the Ohio agriculture license plate scholarship program to benefit students who attend an institution of higher learning located in this state and are enrolled in a program that is related to agriculture. The board director of agriculture shall adopt rules governing all aspects of the program, including any additional eligibility requirements, the application process, scholarship amounts, and any requirements a student must meet in order to retain a scholarship.

All decisions of the board director relating to the scholarship program, including the decision to award, renew, not renew, or revoke a scholarship, are final.

Sec. 1121.12.  An examination of the records and affairs of a bank under section 1121.10 of the Revised Code may include the examination of a controlling shareholder of the bank that is a bank holding company registered with the federal reserve, but only to the extent explicitly permitted under this section. To examine the records and affairs of a controlling shareholder that is a bank holding company registered with the federal reserve, the superintendent of financial institutions may do one of the following:

(A) Rely on an examination of the bank holding company conducted by a financial institution regulatory authority of another state, the United States, or another country, as provided in division (A)(3) of section 1121.11 of the Revised Code;

(B) Participate with the financial institution regulatory authorities of other states, the United States, and other countries in a joint or coordinated examination of the bank holding company, provided that both of the following apply:

(1) The examination of the bank holding company is validly authorized by and conducted pursuant to the laws of this state and such other state, the United States, or other country.

(2) Participation of the examiners of the division of financial institutions will increase the efficiency in regulating financial institutions, and not increase the cost of examination to the bank holding company.

(C) Examine the bank holding company pursuant to an agreement with financial institution regulatory authorities of other states, the United States, or other countries, provided that both of the following apply:

(1) The examination of the bank holding company is validly authorized by and conducted pursuant to the laws of this state and such other state, the United States, or other country.

(2) The other financial institution regulatory authority agrees to rely on the superintendent's examination in lieu of conducting its own examination.

(D) Examine the bank holding company if both of the following apply:

(1) The superintendent has reasonable cause to believe that there is a significant risk of imminent material harm to the bank and the examination of the bank holding company is necessary to fully determine the risk to the bank, or to determine how best to address the risk to the bank.

(2) Either of the following occurs:

(a) The superintendent, in writing, requests the federal reserve to examine the bank holding company, and within fifteen days the federal reserve does not commence an examination of the bank holding company and notifies the superintendent that the federal reserve does not object to the examination.

(b) The banking commission financial consumer council concurs with the superintendent's determination of both of the following:

(i) There is reasonable cause to believe that there a is a significant risk of imminent material harm to the bank.

(ii) The examination of the bank holding company is necessary to fully determine the risk to the bank, or to determine how best to address the risk to the bank.

For purposes of this section, a bank holding company includes not only the bank holding company, but also includes any nonbank affiliates of the bank holding company that are subject to examination by the federal reserve.

Sec. 1121.18.  (A) Information leading to, arising from, or obtained in the course of the examination of a bank or any examination conducted pursuant to the authority of section 1121.10 or 1121.11 of the Revised Code is privileged and confidential. No person, including any person to whom the information is disclosed under the authority of this section, shall disclose information leading to, arising from, or obtained in the course of an examination, except as specifically provided in this section.

(B) The superintendent of financial institutions and the superintendent's agents and employees may disclose information leading to, arising from, or obtained in the course of an examination conducted pursuant to section 1121.10 or 1121.11 of the Revised Code as follows:

(1) To the governor, director of commerce, or deputy director of commerce to enable them to act in the interests of the public;

(2) To the banking commission financial consumer council to enable the commission council to effectively advise the superintendent and take action on any matter the superintendent presents to the commission council;

(3) To financial institution regulatory authorities of this and other states, the United States, and other countries to assist them in their regulatory duties;

(4) To the directors, officers, agents, and parent company of the bank or other person examined to assist them in conducting the business of the bank or other person examined in a safe and sound manner and in compliance with law;

(5) To law enforcement authorities conducting criminal investigations.

(C)(1) Information leading to, arising from, or obtained in the course of an examination of a bank or other person pursuant to section 1121.10 or 1121.11 of the Revised Code shall not be discoverable from any source, and shall not be introduced into evidence, except in the following circumstances:

(a) In connection with criminal proceedings;

(b) When, in the opinion of the superintendent, it is appropriate with regard to enforcement actions taken and decisions made by the superintendent under the authority of Chapters 1101. to 1127. of the Revised Code regarding a bank, trust company, or other person;

(c) When litigation has been initiated by the superintendent in furtherance of the powers, duties, and obligations imposed upon the superintendent by Chapters 1101. to 1127. of the Revised Code;

(d) When authorized by agreements between the superintendent and financial institution regulatory authorities of this and other states, the United States, and other countries authorized by section 1121.11 of the Revised Code;

(e) When and in the manner authorized in section 1181.25 of the Revised Code.

(2) The discovery of information leading to, arising from, or obtained in the course of an examination pursuant to division (C)(1)(b), (c), or (d) of this section shall be limited to information that directly relates to the bank, trust company, regulated person, or other person who is the subject of the enforcement action, decision, or litigation.

(D) A report of an examination conducted pursuant to section 1121.10 or 1121.11 of the Revised Code is the property of the division of financial institutions. Under no circumstances may the bank or other person examined, its directors, officers, employees, agents, regulated persons, or contractors, or any person having knowledge or possession of a report of examination, or any of its contents, disclose or make public in any manner the report of examination or its contents. The authority provided in division (B)(4) of this section for use of examination information to assist in conducting the business of the bank or other person examined in a safe and sound manner and in compliance with law shall not be construed to authorize disclosure of a report of examination or any of its contents in conducting business with the examined bank's or person's customers, creditors, or shareholders, or with other persons.

(E) Whoever violates this section shall be removed from office, shall be liable, with the violator's bonder in damages to the person injured by the disclosure of information, and is guilty of a felony of the fourth degree.

Sec. 1121.29.  (A)(1) Each bank subject to inspection and examination by the superintendent of financial institutions and transacting business on the thirty-first day of December, or the bank's successor in interest, shall pay to the superintendent assessments as provided in this section. On the first day of July each year, the superintendent shall make each assessment based on the total assets as shown on the books of the bank as of the thirty-first day of December of the previous year. The superintendent shall collect the assessment on an annual or periodic basis, as provided by the superintendent. All assessments shall be paid within fourteen days of receiving an invoice for payment of the assessment.

(2) After determining the budget of the division of financial institutions for examination and regulation of banks, but prior to establishing the schedule of assessments under this division necessary to fund that budget, the superintendent shall include any amounts collected but not yet expended or encumbered by the superintendent in the previous fiscal year's budget and remaining in the division of banks fund pursuant to division (C) of section 1121.30 of the Revised Code.

(3) Each bank shall pay an assessment of not more than forty-five cents for each one thousand dollars of the gross amount of the assets of the bank, but in no case less than one thousand dollars. The superintendent shall establish the actual schedule of assessments on an annual basis, present the schedule to the banking commission financial consumer council for confirmation, and, each first day of January, forward copies of the current year's schedule to banks doing business under authority granted by the superintendent, or their successors in interest.

If during the period between the banking commission's council's confirmation of the schedule of assessments and the completion of the fiscal year in which those assessments will be collected, the banking commission council determines additional money is required to adequately fund the operations of the division of financial institutions for that fiscal year, the banking commission council may, by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of its members, increase the schedule of assessments for that fiscal year. The superintendent shall promptly notify each bank of the increased assessment, and each bank shall pay the increased assessment as made and invoiced by the superintendent.

(4) A bank authorized by the superintendent to commence business in the period between assessments shall pay the actual reasonable costs of the division's examinations and visitations. The bank shall pay the costs within fourteen days after receiving an invoice for payment.

(B)(1) Whenever in the judgment of the superintendent the condition or conduct of a bank renders it necessary to make additional examinations and follow-up visitations within the examination cycle beyond the minimum required by division (A) of section 1121.10 of the Revised Code, the superintendent may charge the bank for the additional examinations and follow-up visitations as provided in division (C)(2) of this section. The bank shall pay the fee charged within fourteen days after receiving an invoice for payment.

(2) The superintendent may charge a bank for any examination of the bank's operations as a trust company and data processing facility in accordance with division (C) of this section whether that examination is the only examination of the bank in the examination cycle or in addition to other examinations of the bank's operations.

(C) The superintendent shall periodically establish a schedule of fees to be paid for the following:

(1) Examination of a bank or trust company at the request of the board of directors or the holders of a majority of the shares of that bank or trust company pursuant to division (C) of section 1121.10 of the Revised Code;

(2) Additional examinations and visitations of a bank in an examination cycle beyond the minimum required by division (A) of section 1121.10 of the Revised Code;

(3) Examinations of subsidiaries and affiliates;

(4) Examinations of data processing facilities;

(5) Examinations of trust companies;

(6) Application for a de novo charter;

(7) Application for a reorganization, including a merger, consolidation, or transfer of assets and liabilities;

(8) Application for an interim reorganization;

(9) Application for an additional banking office;

(10) Application for conversion to a bank doing business under authority granted by the superintendent;

(11) Notice of acquisition of control of a bank;

(12) Application for purchase by a bank of its own stock;

(13) Application for a debt or equity issue;

(14) Application for change in location;

(15) Application for authorization to act as a trust company;

(16) Certification of qualification as a trust company;

(17) Application for a foreign bank representative office, agency, or branch;

(18) All other examinations, applications, and notices considered necessary by the superintendent.

(D)(1) The superintendent may waive any fees provided for in division (C) of this section to protect the interests of depositors and for other fair and reasonable purposes as determined by the superintendent.

(2) The fees established by the superintendent pursuant to division (C) of this section for processing applications and notices and conducting and processing examinations shall be reasonable considering the direct and indirect costs to the division, as determined by the superintendent, of processing the applications and for conducting and processing the examinations.

(3) The superintendent may determine charging a fee authorized pursuant to division (C) of this section for a particular examination, application, notice, or certification is not necessary.

(E) The superintendent shall determine and charge reasonable fees for furnishing and certifying copies of documents filed with the division and for any expenses incurred by the division in the publication or serving of required notices.

(F) Assessments and examination and application fees charged and collected pursuant to this section are not refundable. Any fee charged for an examination pursuant to this section shall be paid within fourteen days after receiving an invoice for payment of the fee.

(G) The superintendent shall pay all assessments and fees charged pursuant to this section and all forfeitures required to be paid to the superintendent into the state treasury to the credit of the bank's fund.

Sec. 1123.01.  (A) There is hereby created in the division of financial institutions a banking commission financial consumer council which shall consist of seven twelve members. The deputy superintendent for banks, the deputy superintendent for savings and loan associations and savings banks, and the deputy superintendent for credit unions shall be a member members of the commission and its shall alternate as chairperson. The governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint the remaining six nine members.

(B) After the second Monday in January of each year, the governor shall appoint two three members. Terms of office shall be for three years commencing on the first day of February and ending on the thirty-first day of January. Each member shall hold office from the date appointed until the end of the term for which appointed. In the case of a vacancy in the office of any member, the governor shall appoint a successor who shall hold office for the remainder of the term for which the successor's predecessor was appointed. Any member shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration date of the member's term until the member's successor is appointed, or until sixty days have elapsed, whichever occurs first.

(C) No person appointed as a member of the commission may serve more than two consecutive full terms. However, a member may serve two consecutive full terms following the remainder of a term for which the member was appointed to fill a vacancy.

(D)(1) At least three two of the six nine members appointed to the commission council shall be, at the time of appointment, executive officers of banks transacting business under authority granted by the superintendent of financial institutions, and four of the six members appointed to the commission shall have banking experience. At least two of the nine members appointed to the council shall be, at the time of appointment, executive officers of a savings and loan association organized and transacting business under authority granted by the superintendent of financial institutions. At least two of the nine members appointed to the council shall be, at the time of appointment, executive officers of a savings bank organized and transacting business under authority granted by the superintendent. At least two of the nine members appointed to the council shall be, at the time of appointment, executive officers of a credit union organized under Chapter 1733. of the Revised Code. The membership of the commission council shall be representative of the banking industry as a whole, including savings and loan associations, savings banks, credit unions, and representatives of banks financial institutions of various asset sizes as determined by the superintendent of financial institutions from time to time.

(2) No person who has been convicted of, or has pleaded guilty to, a felony involving dishonesty or breach of trust shall take or hold office as a member of the banking commission council.

(E) The members of the commission council shall receive no salary, but their expenses incurred in the performance of their duties shall be paid from funds appropriated for that purpose.

(F) The governor may remove any of the six nine members appointed to the commission council whenever in the governor's judgment the public interest requires removal. Upon removing a member of the commission council, the governor shall file with the superintendent a statement of the cause for the removal.

Sec. 1123.02.  (A) The banking commission financial consumer council shall hold regular meetings at the times and places it fixes, and shall meet at any time on call of the deputy superintendent for banks, the deputy superintendent for savings and loan associations and savings banks, or the deputy superintendent for credit unions upon two days' notice unless the commission council by resolution provides for a shorter notice.

(B) A majority of the full commission council constitutes a quorum, and action taken by a majority of those present at a meeting at which there is a quorum constitutes the action of the commission council.

(C) No member shall participate before the commission council in a proceeding involving any bank financial institution of which the member is, or was at any time in the preceding twelve months, a member of the board of directors, an officer, an employee, or a shareholder. A member may refrain from participating in a proceeding before the commission council for any other cause the member considers sufficient.

(D) The commission council may, by a majority vote of those present at a meeting at which there is a quorum, adopt and amend bylaws and rules the commission council, in its judgment, considers necessary and proper. The commission council shall select one of its members as secretary, who shall keep a record of all its proceedings.

Sec. 1123.03.  The banking commission financial consumer council shall do all of the following:

(A) Make recommendations to the deputy superintendent for banks and, the superintendent of financial institutions, the deputy superintendent for savings and loan associations and savings banks, and the deputy superintendent for credit unions on matters relating to the business of banking, savings and loan associations, savings banks, and credit unions;

(B) Consider and make recommendations on any matter the superintendent or deputy superintendent submits to the commission council for that purpose;

(C) Pass upon and determine any matter the superintendent or deputy superintendent submits to the commission council for determination;

(D) Consider and determine whether to confirm the annual schedule of assessments proposed by the superintendent in accordance with section 1121.29 and with division (A) of sections 1155.13 and 1163.16 of the Revised Code, and the assessment determined pursuant to section 1733.321 of the Revised Code;

(E) Determine whether to increase the schedule of assessments as provided in division (A)(3) of section 1121.29 of the Revised Code;

(F) Determine, as provided in division (D) of section 1121.12 of the Revised Code, both of the following:

(1) Whether there is reasonable cause to believe that there is a significant risk of imminent material harm to the bank;

(2) Whether the examination of the bank holding company is necessary to fully determine the risk to the bank, or to determine how best to address the risk to the bank.

(G) Submit to the governor recommendations concerning amendments to the savings and loan association or savings bank laws and credit union laws of this state or rules adopted pursuant to those laws that the council considers appropriate;

(H) Consult with, advise, and make recommendations to the superintendent of financial institutions and the deputy superintendent for credit unions on matters relating to the business for credit unions, including field of membership, regulation, examination, safety and soundness, and applications of credit unions under this chapter;

(I) Consider and determine whether to confirm the supervisory fees proposed by the superintendent of financial institutions in accordance with division (E) of section 1733.32 of the Revised Code;

(J) With respect to the adoption, amendment, or rescission of rules adopted pursuant to this chapter, be present at the public hearing required by section 119.03 of the Revised Code and provide recommendations, advice, or assistance at the public hearing.

Sec. 1123.04.  Neither the deputy superintendent for banks nor any other No member of the banking commission financial consumer council is liable, in any civil or criminal action or proceeding, for any mistake of judgment or discretion in any action taken, or in any omission made, by the member in good faith.

Sec. 1155.13.  (A)(1) Each savings and loan association subject to inspection and examination by the superintendent of financial institutions and transacting business in this state as of the thirty-first day of December of the prior fiscal year, or the savings and loan association's successor in interest, shall pay annual assessments to the superintendent as provided in this section.

(2) After determining the budget of the division of financial institutions for examination and regulation of savings and loan associations, but prior to establishing the annual assessment amount necessary to fund that budget, the superintendent shall include any amounts collected but not yet expended or encumbered by the superintendent in the previous fiscal year's budget and remaining in the savings institutions fund from the amount to be assessed. Based upon the resulting budget amount and upon confirmation of the schedule of assessments by the savings and loan associations and savings banks board financial consumer council, the superintendent shall make an assessment upon each savings and loan association based on the total assets as shown on the books of the savings and loan association as of the thirty-first day of December of the previous fiscal year. The assessments shall be collected on an annual or periodic basis within the fiscal year, as determined by the superintendent.

(3) Annually and prior to making any assessment pursuant to division (A)(2) of this section, the superintendent shall present to the savings and loan associations and savings banks board financial consumer council for confirmation a schedule of the assessments to be billed savings and loan associations pursuant to division (A)(2) of this section.

(4) A savings and loan association authorized by the superintendent to commence business in the period between assessments shall pay the actual reasonable costs of the division's examinations and visitations.

(B) Assessments and fees charged pursuant to this section shall be paid within fourteen days after receiving an invoice for payment of the assessment or fee.

Any assessment or fee collected is not refundable.

(C) The superintendent shall pay all assessments and fees charged pursuant to this section and all forfeitures required to be paid to the superintendent into the state treasury to the credit of the savings institutions fund established under section 1181.18 of the Revised Code.

(D) Any money deposited into the state treasury to the credit of the savings institutions fund, but not expended or encumbered by the superintendent to defray the costs of administering Chapters 1151. to 1157. of the Revised Code, shall remain in the savings institutions fund for expenditures by the superintendent in subsequent years in the administration of Chapters 1151. to 1157. of the Revised Code.

Sec. 1163.16.  (A)(1) Each savings bank subject to inspection and examination by the superintendent of financial institutions and transacting business in this state as of the thirty-first day of December of the prior fiscal year, or the savings bank's successor in interest, shall pay annual assessments to the superintendent as provided in this section.

(2) After determining the budget of the division of financial institutions for examination and regulation of savings banks, but prior to establishing the annual assessment amount necessary to fund that budget, the superintendent shall include any amounts collected but not yet expended or encumbered by the superintendent in the previous fiscal year's budget and remaining in the savings institutions fund from the amount to be assessed. Based upon the resulting budget amount and upon confirmation of the schedule of assessments by the savings and loan associations and savings banks board financial consumer council, the superintendent shall make an assessment upon each savings bank based on the total assets as shown on the books of the savings bank as of the thirty-first day of December of the previous fiscal year. The assessments shall be collected on an annual or periodic basis within the fiscal year, as determined by the superintendent.

(3) Annually and prior to making any assessment pursuant to division (A)(2) of this section, the superintendent shall present to the savings and loan associations and savings banks board financial consumer council for confirmation a schedule of the assessments to be billed savings banks pursuant to division (A)(2) of this section.

(4) A savings bank authorized by the superintendent to commence business in the period between assessments shall pay the actual reasonable costs of the division's examinations and visitations.

(B) Assessments and fees charged pursuant to this section shall be paid within fourteen days after receiving an invoice for payment of the assessment or fee.

Any assessment or fee collected is not refundable.

(C) The superintendent shall pay all assessments and fees charged pursuant to this section and all forfeitures required to be paid to the superintendent into the state treasury to the credit of the savings institutions fund established under section 1181.18 of the Revised Code.

(D) Any money deposited into the state treasury to the credit of the savings institutions fund, but not expended or encumbered by the superintendent to defray the costs of administering Chapters 1161. to 1165. of the Revised Code, shall remain in the savings institutions fund for expenditures by the superintendent in subsequent years in the administration of Chapters 1161. to 1165. of the Revised Code.

Sec. 1181.11.  Copies of all certificates, records, and papers in the office of the superintendent of financial institutions, including the records of the banking commission, the savings and loan associations and savings banks board, and the credit union financial consumer council, duly certified by the superintendent and authenticated by the superintendent's seal of office, shall be evidence, in all courts of this state, of every matter which could be proved by the production of the original.

Sec. 1315.122.  (A) Information leading to, arising from, or obtained in the course of the examination of a licensee or other person conducted pursuant to the authority of sections 1315.01 to 1315.18 of the Revised Code is privileged and confidential. No person, including any person to whom the information is disclosed under the authority of this section, shall disclose information leading to, arising from, or obtained in the course of an examination, except as specifically provided in this section.

(B) The superintendent of financial institutions and the superintendent's agents and employees may disclose information leading to, arising from, or obtained in the course of an examination conducted pursuant to section 1315.12 or 1315.121 of the Revised Code as follows:

(1) To the governor, director of commerce, or deputy director of commerce to enable them to act in the interests of the public;

(2) To the banking commission financial consumer council, created pursuant to section 1123.01 of the Revised Code, to enable the commission council to effectively advise the superintendent and take action on any matter the superintendent presents to the commission council;

(3) To financial institution regulatory authorities of this and other states, the United States, and other countries to assist them in their regulatory duties;

(4) To the directors, officers, agents, and parent company of the licensee or other money transmitter examined to assist them in conducting the business of the licensee or other money transmitter examined in a safe and sound manner and in compliance with the law;

(5) To law enforcement authorities conducting criminal investigations.

(C) Information leading to, arising from, or obtained in the course of an examination of a licensee or other person pursuant to sections 1315.01 to 1315.18 of the Revised Code shall not be discoverable from any source. The information shall not be introduced into evidence, except in the following circumstances:

(1) In connection with criminal proceedings;

(2) When, in the opinion of the superintendent, it is appropriate with regard to enforcement actions taken and decisions made by the superintendent under the authority of sections 1315.01 to 1315.18 of the Revised Code regarding a licensee or other person;

(3) When litigation has been initiated by the superintendent in furtherance of the powers, duties, and obligations imposed upon the superintendent by sections 1315.01 to 1315.18 of the Revised Code;

(4) When authorized by agreements between the superintendent and financial institution regulatory authorities of this and other states, the United States, and other countries authorized by section 1315.121 of the Revised Code;

(5) When and in the manner authorized in section 1181.25 of the Revised Code.

(D) A report of an examination conducted pursuant to section 1315.12 or 1315.121 of the Revised Code is the property of the division of financial institutions. Under no circumstances may the licensee or other money transmitter examined, its directors, officers, employees, agents, regulated persons, or contractors, or any person having knowledge or possession of a report of examination, or any of its contents, disclose or make public in any manner the report of examination or its contents. The authority provided in division (B)(4) of this section for use of examination information to assist in conducting the business of the licensee or other money transmitter examined in a safe and sound manner and in compliance with law shall not be construed to authorize disclosure of a report of examination or any of its contents in conducting business with the examined licensee's or other money transmitter's customers, creditors, or shareholders, or with other persons.

(E) Whoever violates this section shall be removed from office, shall be liable, with the violator's bonder in damages to the person injured by the disclosure of information, and is guilty of a felony of the fourth degree.

Sec. 1349.71.  (A) There is hereby created a consumer finance education board, consisting of the following twelve members:

(1) An employee of the Ohio attorney general's office, appointed by the governor;

(2) An employee of the department of commerce, appointed by the governor;

(3) An employee of the Ohio housing finance agency, appointed by the governor;

(4) A representative of Ohio minority advocacy groups, appointed by the governor;

(5) A member of the Ohio bankers league, appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives;

(6) A member of the Ohio mortgage bankers association, appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives;

(7) A member of the Ohio credit union league, appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives;

(8) A member of the Ohio community bankers association, appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives;

(9) A representative of the Ohio real estate industry, appointed by the president of the senate;

(10) A member of the Ohio mortgage brokers association, appointed by the president of the senate;

(11) A representative of the financial services industry, appointed by the president of the senate;

(12) A representative of consumer advocacy organizations, appointed by the president of the senate.

(B) Geographically diverse representation of the state shall be considered in making appointments. Of the initial appointments to the board, four shall be for a term ending December 31, 2008, four shall be for a term ending December 31, 2009, and four shall be for a term ending December 31, 2010. Thereafter, terms of office are for three years, commencing on the first day of January and ending on the thirty-first day of December. Each member shall hold office from the date of the member's appointment until the end of the term for which the member is appointed. Prior to assuming the duties of office, each member shall subscribe to, and file with the secretary of state, the constitutional oath of office. Vacancies that occur on the board shall be filled in the manner prescribed for regular appointments to the board. A member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which the member's predecessor was appointed shall hold office for the remainder of that predecessor's term. A member shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration date of the member's term until the member's successor takes office or until sixty days have elapsed, whichever occurs first. No person shall serve as a member of the board for more than two consecutive terms. The governor may remove a member pursuant to section 3.04 of the Revised Code.

(C) Annually, upon the qualification of the members appointed in that year, the board shall organize by selecting from its members a chairperson. The board shall meet at least once each calendar quarter to conduct its business with the place of future meetings to be decided by a vote of its members. Each member shall be provided with written notice of the time and place of each board meeting at least ten days prior to the scheduled date of the meeting. A majority of the members of the board constitutes a quorum to transact and vote on all business coming before the board.

(D)(1) The governor shall call the first meeting of the consumer finance education board. At that meeting, and annually thereafter, the board shall elect a chairperson for a one-year term and may elect members to other positions on the board as the board considers necessary or appropriate.

(2) Each member of the board shall receive an amount fixed pursuant to division (J) of section 124.15 of the Revised Code for each day employed in the discharge of the member's official duties, and the member's actual and necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of those duties.

(E) The board may obtain services from any state agency, including, but not limited to, the department of commerce or its successor agency.

(F) The board shall assemble an advisory committee of representatives from the following organizations or groups for the purpose of receiving recommendations on policy, rules, and activities of the board:

(1) The department of aging;

(2) The department of rehabilitation and correction;

(3) The department of development;

(4) The department of job and family services;

(5) The Ohio treasurer of state's office;

(6) The county treasurers association of Ohio;

(7) Ohio college professors;

(8) Ohio university professors;

(9) The Ohio board of regents;

(10) The Ohio community development corporations association;

(11) The Ohio council for economic education;

(12) The Ohio state university extension service.

Sec. 1521.19. (A) There is hereby created the Ohio water resources council consisting of the directors of agriculture, development, environmental protection, health, natural resources, transportation, and the Ohio public works commission, the chairperson of the public utilities commission of Ohio, the executive director of the Ohio water development authority, and an executive assistant in the office of the governor appointed by the governor. The governor shall appoint one of the members of the council to serve as its chairperson. The council may adopt bylaws that are necessary for the implementation of this section. The council shall provide a forum for policy development, collaboration and coordination among state agencies, and strategic direction with respect to state water resource programs. The council shall be assisted in its functions by a state agency coordinating group and an advisory group as provided in this section.

(B) The state agency coordinating group shall consist of the executive director of the Ohio Lake Erie commission and a member or members from each state agency, commission, and authority represented on the council, to be appointed by the applicable director, chairperson, or executive director. However, the environmental protection agency shall be represented on the group by the chiefs of the divisions within that agency having responsibility for surface water programs and drinking and ground water programs, and the department of natural resources shall be represented on the group by the chief of the division of soil and water resources. The chairperson of the council shall appoint a leader of the state agency coordinating group. The group shall provide assistance to and perform duties on behalf of the council as directed by the council.

(C) The advisory group shall consist of not more than twenty-four members, each representing an organization or entity with an interest in water resource issues. The council shall appoint the members of the advisory group. Of the initial appointments, not more than ten members shall be appointed for one-year terms, and not more than ten members shall be appointed for two-year terms. Of the four initial appointments made after April 6, 2007, two of the members shall be appointed for one-year terms, and two of the members shall be appointed for two-year terms. Thereafter, all advisory group members shall serve two-year terms. Members may be reappointed. Each member shall hold office from the date of the member's appointment until the end of the member's term. A member shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration date of the member's term until the member's successor takes office or until a period of sixty days has elapsed, whichever occurs first. The council may remove a member for misfeasance, nonfeasance, or malfeasance in office. The council shall appoint members to fill any vacancies on the group. A member appointed to fill a vacancy shall hold office for the remainder of the term for which that member was appointed.

The chairperson of the council shall appoint a chairperson of the advisory group. The advisory group shall advise the council on water resources issues addressed by the council.

(D)(C) There is hereby created in the state treasury the Ohio water resources council fund. The department of natural resources shall serve as the fiscal agent for the fund. The departments of agriculture, development, environmental protection, health, natural resources, and transportation shall transfer moneys to the fund in equal amounts via intrastate transfer voucher. The public utilities commission of Ohio, Ohio public works commission, and Ohio water development authority may transfer moneys to the fund. If a voluntary transfer of moneys is made to the fund, the portion that is required to be transferred by the departments of agriculture, development, environmental protection, health, natural resources, and transportation may be equally reduced. Moneys in the fund shall be used to pay the operating expenses of the Ohio water resources council, including those specified in division (E)(D) of this section.

(E)(D) The Ohio water resources council may hire staff to support its activities. The council may enter into contracts and agreements with federal agencies, state agencies, political subdivisions, and private entities to assist in accomplishing its objectives. Advisory group members shall be reimbursed for expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of their duties pursuant to section 126.31 of the Revised Code and any applicable rules pertaining to travel reimbursement adopted by the office of budget and management.

Sec. 1733.32.  (A)(1) The superintendent of financial institutions shall see that the laws relating to credit unions are executed and enforced.

(2) The deputy superintendent for credit unions shall be the principal supervisor of credit unions. In that position, the deputy superintendent for credit unions shall, notwithstanding division (A)(3) of this section, be responsible for conducting examinations and preparing examination reports under that division. In addition, the deputy superintendent for credit unions shall, notwithstanding sections 1733.191, 1733.41, 1733.411, and 1733.412 of the Revised Code, have the authority to adopt rules in accordance with those sections, and, notwithstanding section 1733.05 of the Revised Code, shall have the authority to approve issues and matters pertaining to fields of membership. In performing or exercising any of the examination, rule-making, or other regulatory functions, powers, or duties vested by division (A)(2) of this section in the deputy superintendent for credit unions, the deputy superintendent for credit unions shall be subject to the control of the superintendent of financial institutions.

(3) The superintendent of financial institutions shall develop and implement a system for evaluating the safety and soundness of credit unions and for determining when examinations and supervisory actions are necessary. Credit unions shall be subject to periodic examinations, as specified in rules adopted by the superintendent, and their books, records, and accounts shall be open to the inspection of the superintendent at all times. For the purpose of such examination or inspection, the superintendent may subpoena witnesses, administer oaths, receive testimony, and order the submission of documents.

(B) Every credit union shall prepare and submit, on forms provided by the superintendent, a financial report to the superintendent showing its assets and liabilities whenever requested to do so by the superintendent. Every financial report shall be verified by the oaths of the two principal officers in charge of the affairs of the credit union at the time of such verification and shall be submitted to the superintendent within thirty days after the superintendent requests the financial report.

(C) An annual financial report of the affairs and business of the credit union, showing its condition as of the thirty-first day of December unless otherwise authorized by the superintendent, shall be filed with the superintendent not later than the date authorized in the rules adopted by the superintendent.

(D) If a financial report or an annual financial report is not filed with the superintendent in accordance with division (B) or (C) of this section, the superintendent may do both of the following:

(1) Assess a fine, determined by rule adopted by the superintendent, for each day the report is in arrears;

(2) If the superintendent gives written notice to the president of the credit union of the superintendent's intention to do so, issue an order revoking the credit union's articles of incorporation and appointing a liquidating agent to liquidate the credit union in accordance with section 1733.37 of the Revised Code.

(E)(1) Except as provided in division (E)(2) of this section, each credit union doing business in this state shall remit, semiannually and within fifteen days after billing, to the treasurer of state, a supervisory fee in an amount determined by the superintendent and confirmed by the credit union financial consumer council. The supervisory fee described in division (E)(1) of this section shall be based on a percentage of the gross assets of the credit union as shown by its last annual financial report filed with the superintendent in accordance with division (C) of this section. The minimum supervisory fee shall be determined by the superintendent and confirmed by the credit union financial consumer council.

(2) Each corporate credit union doing business in this state shall remit, semiannually and within fifteen days after billing, to the treasurer of state, a supervisory fee determined by rule adopted by the superintendent and confirmed by the credit union financial consumer council. The aggregate annual amount of the fee shall not exceed the annual operating fee that the national credit union administration charges a federally chartered credit union pursuant to the "Federal Credit Union Act," 84 Stat. 994 (1970), 12 U.S.C.A. 1751.

(3) The superintendent annually shall present to the credit union financial consumer council for confirmation the supervisory fees to be billed credit unions and corporate credit unions pursuant to division (E) of this section.

(4) If any supervisory fee is not remitted in accordance with division (E)(1) or (2) of this section, the superintendent may assess a fine, determined by rule adopted by the superintendent, for each day that each fee is in arrears.

(5)(a) Subject to division (E)(5)(b) of this section, the total amount of each semiannual billing to all credit unions and corporate credit unions combined shall equal one-half of the appropriation made by the main operating appropriation act, including any modifications made by the controlling board, to the division of financial institutions for the regulation of credit unions for the fiscal year in which the billings occur, except that the superintendent, in determining the supervisory fees, may take into consideration any funds lapsed from the appropriation made in the previous fiscal year.

(b) If during the period between the credit union financial consumer council's confirmation of supervisory fees and when supervisory fees described in this section are collected, the credit union financial consumer council determines additional money is required to adequately fund the operations of the division of financial institutions for that fiscal year, the credit union financial consumer council may, by the affirmative vote of five of its members, increase the supervisory fees billed. The superintendent promptly shall notify each credit union and corporate credit union of the increased supervisory fees, and each credit union or corporate credit union shall pay the increased supervisory fees billed by the superintendent.

(6) The fees or fines collected pursuant to this section shall be credited to the credit unions fund created in section 1733.321 of the Revised Code.

(F) A report of such examination shall be forwarded to the president of each credit union after the completion of the examination. The report may contain comments relative to the management of the affairs of the credit union and also as to the general condition of its assets. Within thirty days of the receipt of the report, a meeting of the directors shall be called to consider matters contained in the report, and the president shall notify the superintendent of any action taken at the meeting.

(G)(1) The superintendent shall furnish reports of examinations or other appropriate information to any organization referred to in section 1733.041 of the Revised Code when requested by the organization and authorized by the credit union. The superintendent may charge a fee for such reports and other information as may be established by rules adopted by the superintendent.

(2) A report of examination furnished pursuant to division (G)(1) of this section is the property of the division of credit unions and may be used by the examined credit union only in the conduct of its business. Under no circumstances may the credit union, its current or former directors, officers, employees, agents, shareholders, participants in the conduct of its affairs, or their agents disclose or make public, in any manner, a report of examination or its contents.

(H) Except as provided in this division, information obtained by the superintendent of financial institutions and the superintendent's employees as a result of or arising out of the examination or independent audit of a credit union, from required reports, or because of their official position, shall be confidential. Such information may be disclosed only in connection with criminal proceedings or, subject to section 1733.327 of the Revised Code, when it is necessary for the superintendent to take official action pursuant to Chapter 1733. of the Revised Code and the rules adopted thereunder regarding the affairs of the credit union examined. Such information may also be introduced into evidence or disclosed when and in the manner authorized in section 1181.25 of the Revised Code. This division does not prevent the superintendent from properly exchanging information relating to an examined credit union pursuant to division (F) or (G) of this section, with officials of properly authorized state or federal financial institution regulatory authorities, with any insurer recognized under section 1733.041, or with any surety recognized under section 1733.23 of the Revised Code. This division also does not prevent the superintendent from disclosing information contained in the financial reports or annual financial reports described in division (B) or (C) of this section to recognized credit union trade associations, to share guarantee insurance organizations, to federal or state agencies, or to the general public. Financial reports and annual financial reports described in divisions (B) and (C) of this section, call reports, or financial statements required to be filed with the division of financial institutions are public records for purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code. Information relating to the examination or independent audit of a credit union, other than information that is permitted to be disclosed by this section or is a public record, is not a public record for purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 3119.024.  At least once every four years, the department of job and family services shall review the basic child support schedule set forth in section 3119.021 of the Revised Code to determine whether child support orders issued in accordance with the schedule and worksheets adequately provide for the needs of the children who are subject to the child support orders, prepare a report of its review, and submit a copy of the report to both houses of the general assembly.

For each review, the department shall establish a child support guideline advisory council to assist the department in the completion of its reviews and reports. Each council shall be composed of obligors; obligees; judges of courts of common pleas who have jurisdiction over domestic relations cases; attorneys whose practice includes a significant number of domestic relations cases; representatives of child support enforcement agencies; other persons interested in the welfare of children; three members of the senate appointed by the president of the senate, no more than two of whom are members of the same party; and three members of the house of representatives appointed by the speaker of the house, no more than two of whom are members of the same party.

The department shall consider input from the council prior to the completion of any report under this section.

The advisory council shall cease to exist at the time that it submits its report to the general assembly.

Any expenses incurred by an advisory council shall be paid by the department.

On or before the first day of March of every fourth year after 1993, the department shall submit a report under this division to both houses of the general assembly.

Sec. 3301.90.  The governor shall create the early childhood advisory council in accordance with 42 U.S.C. 9837b(b)(1) and shall appoint one of its members to serve as chairperson of the council. The council shall serve as the state advisory council on early childhood education and care, as described in 42 U.S.C. 9837b(b)(1). In addition to the duties specified in 42 U.S.C. 9837b(b)(1), the council shall advise the state regarding the creation and duties of the center for early childhood development and shall promote family-centered programs and services that acknowledge and support the social, emotional, cognitive, intellectual, and physical development of children and the vital role of families in ensuring the well-being and success of children.

The council shall also develop recommendations that explore the implementation of a single financing system for early care and education programs that includes aligned payment mechanisms and consistent eligibility and copayment policies. The council shall submit its recommendations to the governor.

Sec. 3311.71.  (A) As used in this section and in sections 3311.72 to 3311.77 3311.76 of the Revised Code:

(1) "Municipal school district" means a school district that is or has ever been under a federal court order requiring supervision and operational, fiscal, and personnel management of the district by the state superintendent of public instruction.

(2) "Mayor" means the mayor of the municipal corporation containing the greatest portion of a municipal school district's territory.

(B) Whenever any municipal school district is released by a federal court from an order requiring supervision and operational, fiscal, and personnel management of the district by the state superintendent, the management and control of that district shall be assumed, effective immediately, by a new nine-member board of education. Members of the new board shall be appointed by the mayor, who shall also designate one member as the chairperson of the board. In addition to the rights, authority, and duties conferred upon the chairperson by sections 3311.71 to 3311.76 of the Revised Code, the chairperson shall have all the rights, authority, and duties conferred upon the president of a board of education by the Revised Code that are not inconsistent with sections 3311.71 to 3311.76 of the Revised Code.

(C) No school board member shall be appointed by the mayor pursuant to division (B) of this section until the mayor has received a slate of at least eighteen candidates nominated by a municipal school district nominating panel, at least three of whom reside in the municipal school district but not in the municipal corporation containing the greatest portion of the district's territory. The municipal school district nominating panel shall be initially convened and chaired by the state superintendent of public instruction, who shall serve as a nonvoting member for the first two years of the panel's existence, and shall consist of eleven persons selected as follows:

(1) Three parents or guardians of children attending the schools of the municipal school district appointed by the district parent-teacher association, or similar organization selected by the state superintendent;

(2) Three persons appointed by the mayor;

(3) One person appointed by the president of the legislative body of the municipal corporation containing the greatest portion of the municipal school district's territory;

(4) One teacher appointed by the collective bargaining representative of the school district's teachers;

(5) One principal appointed through a vote of the school district's principals, which vote shall be conducted by the state superintendent;

(6) One representative of the business community appointed by an organized collective business entity selected by the mayor;

(7) One president of a public or private institution of higher education located within the municipal school district appointed by the state superintendent of public instruction.

The municipal school district nominating panel shall select one of its members as its chairperson commencing two years after the date of the first meeting of the panel, at which time the state superintendent of public instruction shall no longer convene or chair the panel. Thereafter, the panel shall meet as necessary to make nominations at the call of the chairperson. All members of the panel shall serve at the pleasure of the appointing authority. Vacancies on the panel shall be filled in the same manner as the initial appointments.

(D) No individual shall be appointed by the mayor pursuant to division (B) or (F) of this section unless the individual has been nominated by the nominating panel, resides in the school district, and holds no elected public office. At any given time, four of the nine members appointed by the mayor to serve on the board pursuant to either division (B) or (F) of this section shall have displayed, prior to appointment, significant expertise in either the education field, finance, or business management. At all times at least one member of the board shall be an individual who resides in the municipal school district but not in the municipal corporation containing the greatest portion of the district's territory.

(E) The terms of office of all members appointed by the mayor pursuant to division (B) of this section shall expire on the next thirtieth day of June following the referendum election required by section 3311.73 of the Revised Code. The mayor may, with the advice and consent of the nominating panel, remove any member appointed pursuant to that division or division (F) of this section for cause.

(F) If the voters of the district approve the continuation of an appointed board at the referendum election required by section 3311.73 of the Revised Code, the mayor shall appoint the members of a new board from a slate prepared by the nominating panel in the same manner as the initial board was appointed pursuant to divisions (B), (C), and (D) of this section. Five of the members of the new board shall be appointed to four-year terms and the other four shall be appointed to two-year terms, each term beginning on the first day of July. Thereafter, the mayor shall appoint members to four-year terms in the same manner as described in divisions (B), (C), and (D) of this section. The minimum number of individuals who shall be on the slate prepared by the nominating panel for this purpose shall be at least twice the number of members to be appointed, including at least two who reside in the municipal school district but not in the municipal corporation containing the greatest portion of the district's territory.

(G) In addition to the nine members appointed by the mayor, the boards appointed pursuant to divisions (B) and (F) of this section shall include the following nonvoting ex officio members:

(1) If the main campus of a state university specified in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code is located within the municipal school district, the president of the university or the president's designee;

(2) If any community college has its main branch located within the district, the president of the community college that has the largest main branch within the district, or the president's designee.

Sec. 3313.6013. (A) As used in this section, "dual enrollment program" means a program that enables a student to earn credit toward a degree from an institution of higher education while enrolled in high school or that enables a student to complete coursework while enrolled in high school that may earn credit toward a degree from an institution of higher education upon the student's attainment of a specified score on an examination covering the coursework. Dual enrollment programs may include any of the following:

(1) The post-secondary enrollment options program established under Chapter 3365. of the Revised Code;

(2) Advanced placement courses;

(3) Any similar program established pursuant to an agreement between a school district or chartered nonpublic high school and an institution of higher education.

(B) Each city, local, exempted village, and joint vocational school district and each chartered nonpublic high school shall provide students enrolled in grades nine through twelve with the opportunity to participate in a dual enrollment program. For this purpose, each school district and chartered nonpublic high school shall offer at least one dual enrollment program in accordance with division (B)(1) or (2) of this section, as applicable.

(1) A city, local, or exempted village school district meets the requirements of this division through its mandatory participation in the post-secondary enrollment options program established under Chapter 3365. of the Revised Code. However, a city, local, or exempted village school district may offer any other dual enrollment program, in addition to the post-secondary enrollment options program, and each joint vocational school district shall offer at least one other duel dual enrollment program, to students in good standing, as defined by the partnership for continued learning under section 3301.42 of the Revised Code as it existed prior to the effective date of this amendment or as subsequently defined by the department of education.

(2) A chartered nonpublic high school that elects to participate in the post-secondary enrollment options program established under Chapter 3365. of the Revised Code meets the requirements of this division. Each chartered nonpublic high school that elects not to participate in the post-secondary enrollment options program instead shall offer at least one other dual enrollment program to students in good standing, as defined by the partnership for continued learning under section 3301.42 of the Revised Code as it existed prior to the effective date of this amendment or as subsequently defined by the department of education.

(C) Each school district and each chartered nonpublic high school shall provide information about the dual enrollment programs offered by the district or school to all students enrolled in grades eight through eleven.

Sec. 3335.27.  The engineering experiment station shall be under the control of the board of trustees of the Ohio state university, through the regular administrative and fiscal officers. The board shall appoint a director on recommendation of the president of the university. There shall be an advisory committee of seven members appointed by the board of which committee the director shall be ex officio a member, and chairperson, said director, and the other six members to be chosen from the faculty of the college of engineering. The term of these members shall be for three years. The director and advisory committee shall select suitable subjects for investigation, apportion the available funds, and with the consent of the board may provide for the dissemination of the results to the people of the state.

Sec. 3345.062. If the partnership for continued learning, after consulting with the Ohio board of regents and the state board of education, does not complete and submit recommendations for legislative changes for the operation of the post-secondary enrollment options program, as required by division (B) of section 3301.42 of the Revised Code as it existed prior to the effective date of this amendment, by the deadline prescribed in that division, each Each state university, as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code, shall offer via the internet or interactive distance learning at least two college level courses, one each in science and mathematics, by which high school students may earn both high school and college credit. During such course, the university may include a single presentation, of not more than two minutes in length, that describes its other programs and courses. The university may assess a fee for the course required under this section of not more than one-tenth of the amount per credit hour normally assessed by the university for an undergraduate course at its main campus.

Sec. 3701.025.  (A) There is hereby created the medically handicapped children's medical advisory council consisting of twenty-one members to be appointed by the director of health for terms set in accordance with rules adopted by the public health council under division (A)(11) of section 3701.021 of the Revised Code. The medically handicapped children's medical advisory council shall advise the director regarding the administration of the program for medically handicapped children, the suitable quality of medical practice for providers, and the requirements for medical eligibility for the program.

All members of the council shall be licensed physicians, surgeons, dentists, and other professionals in the field of medicine, representative of the various disciplines involved in the treatment of children with medically handicapping conditions, and representative of the treatment facilities involved, such as hospitals, private and public health clinics, and private physicians' offices, and shall be eligible for the program.

Members of the council shall receive no compensation, but shall receive their actual and necessary travel expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties in accordance with the rules of the office of budget and management.

(B) The director of health may appoint a maternal and child health council to represent the views of service providers, other interest groups, consumers, and various geographic areas of the state. The maternal and child health council shall advise the department of health on matters pertaining to maternal and child health and, in particular, the "Maternal and Child Health Block Grant," Title V of the "Social Security Act," 95 Stat. 818, (1981) 42 U.S.C.A. 701, as amended. Members of the council shall receive no compensation, but shall receive their actual and necessary travel expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties in accordance with the rules of the office of budget and management.

Sec. 3701.63. (A) As used in this section and section 3701.64 of the Revised Code:

(1) "Child day-care center," "type A family day-care home," and "certified type B family day-care home" have the same meanings as in section 5104.01 of the Revised Code.

(2) "Child care facility" means a child day-care center, a type A family day-care home, or a certified type B family day-care home.

(3) "Freestanding birthing center" has the same meaning as in section 3702.51 of the Revised Code.

(4) "Hospital" means a hospital classified pursuant to rules adopted under section 3701.07 of the Revised Code as a general hospital or children's hospital.

(5) "Maternity unit" means any unit or place in a hospital where women are regularly received and provided care during all or part of the maternity cycle, except that "maternity unit" does not include an emergency department or similar place dedicated to providing emergency health care.

(6) "Parent" means either parent, unless the parents are separated or divorced or their marriage has been dissolved or annulled, in which case "parent" means the parent who is the residential parent and legal custodian of the child. "Parent" also means a prospective adoptive parent with whom a child is placed.

(7) "Shaken Baby Syndrome" means signs and symptoms, including, but not limited to, retinal hemorrhages in one or both eyes, subdural hematoma, or brain swelling, resulting from the violent shaking or the shaking and impacting of the head of an infant or small child.

(B) The director of health shall establish the shaken baby syndrome education program by doing all of the following:

(1) By not later than one year after the effective date of this section February 29, 2008, with the advice of the work group appointed under division (D) of this section, developing educational materials that present readily comprehendible information on shaken baby syndrome;

(2) Making available on the department of health web site in an easily accessible format the educational materials developed under division (B)(1) of this section;

(3) Beginning in 2009, annually assessing the effectiveness of the shaken baby syndrome education program by evaluating the reports received pursuant to section 5101.135 of the Revised Code.

(C) In meeting the requirements under division (B) of this section, the director shall not develop educational materials that will impose an administrative or financial burden on any of the entities or persons listed in section 3701.64 of the Revised Code.

(D) The director of health shall appoint and convene a work group to advise the director on the shaken baby syndrome educational materials the director is required to develop under division (B) of this section. The work group shall include at least one representative of each of the following:

(1) Child abuse prevention advocates;

(2) The staff of the "help me grow" program established pursuant to section 3701.61 of the Revised Code;

(3) Experts in the field of infant care, particularly in the area of infant calming methods;

(4) Maternity unit directors;

(5) Parenting skills educators;

(6) Child care facilities.

The work group may also include, at the director's discretion, representatives of other professions whose members have practical experience regarding shaken baby syndrome and representatives of citizens' organizations whose members are knowledgeable about shaken baby syndrome.

Sec. 3702.79.  The director of health, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt rules as necessary to implement and administer sections 3702.71 to 3702.78 of the Revised Code. In preparing rules, the director shall consult with the physician medical loan repayment advisory board.

Sec. 3702.80.  The physician medical loan repayment advisory board, annually on or before the first day of March, shall submit a report to the governor and general assembly describing the operations of the physician loan repayment program during the previous calendar year. The report shall include information about all of the following:

(A) The number of requests received by the director of health that a particular area be designated as a health resource shortage area;

(B) The areas that have been designated as health resource shortage areas and the priorities that have been assigned to them;

(C) The number of applicants for participation in the physician loan repayment program;

(D) The number and primary care specialties of physicians assigned to health resource shortage areas and the payments made on behalf of these physicians under the physician loan repayment program;

(E) The health resource shortage areas that have not been matched with all of the primary care physicians they respectively need;

(F) The number of primary care physicians failing to complete their service obligations, the amount of damages owed, and the amount of damages collected.

Sec. 3702.81.  There is hereby created the physician medical loan repayment advisory board. The board shall consist of ten fourteen members as follows:

(A) The following five members appointed by the governor: a representative of the Ohio academy of family practice, a representative of the board of regents, a representative of the Ohio association of community health centers, a representative of the Ohio state medical association, and a representative of the Ohio osteopathic association;

(B) Two members of the house of representatives, one from each political party, appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives;

(C) Two members of the senate, one from each political party, appointed by the president of the senate.

(D) The director of health or an employee of the department of health designated by the director.

Of the initial appointments made by the governor, three shall be for terms ending June 30, 1994, and four shall be for terms ending June 30, 1995. Of the initial appointments made by the speaker of the house of representatives, one shall be for a term ending June 30, 1994, and one shall be for a term ending June 30, 1995. Of the initial appointments made by the president of the senate, one shall be for a term ending June 30, 1994, and one shall be for a term ending June 30, 1995. Thereafter, terms (E) Four representatives of the dental profession, appointed by the governor from persons nominated by the Ohio dental association.

Terms of office shall be two years, commencing on the first day of July and ending on the thirtieth day of June. Each member shall hold office from the date of appointment until the end of the term for which the member was appointed, except that a legislative member ceases to be a member of the board upon ceasing to be a member of the general assembly.

Vacancies shall be filled in the manner prescribed for the original appointment. A member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which the member's predecessor was appointed shall hold office for the remainder of that term. A member shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration of the member's term until a successor takes office or until sixty days have elapsed, whichever occurs first. No person shall be appointed to the board for more than two consecutive terms.

The governor, speaker, president, or director may remove a member for whom the governor, speaker, president, or director was the appointing authority, for misfeasance, malfeasance, or willful neglect of duty.

The board shall designate a member to serve as chairperson of the board.

The board shall meet at least once annually. The chairperson shall call special meetings as needed or upon the request of six eight members.

Six Eight members of the board constitute a quorum to transact and vote on all business coming before the board.

Members of the board shall serve without compensation.

The department of health shall provide the board with staff assistance as requested by the board.

Sec. 3702.85.  There is hereby created the dentist loan repayment program, which shall be administered by the department of health in cooperation with the dentist medical loan repayment advisory board. The program shall provide loan repayment on behalf of individuals who agree to provide dental services in areas designated as dental health resource shortage areas by the director of health pursuant to section 3702.87 of the Revised Code.

Under the program, the department of health, by means of a contract entered into under section 3702.91 of the Revised Code, may agree to repay all or part of the principal and interest of a government or other educational loan taken by an individual for the following expenses incurred while the individual was enrolled in an accredited dental college or a dental college located outside of the United States that meets the standards of section 4715.11 of the Revised Code:

(A) Tuition;

(B) Other educational expenses, such as fees, books, and laboratory expenses that are for purposes and in amounts determined reasonable by the director of health;

(C) Room and board, in an amount determined reasonable by the director of health.

Sec. 3702.86.  The director of health, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt rules as necessary to implement and administer sections 3702.85 to 3702.95 of the Revised Code. In preparing rules, the director shall consult with the dentist medical loan repayment advisory board.

Sec. 3702.93. The dentist medical loan repayment advisory board shall determine the amounts that will be paid as loan repayments on behalf of participants in the dentist loan repayment program. In the first and second years, no repayment shall exceed twenty-five thousand dollars in each year. In the third and fourth years, no repayment shall exceed thirty-five thousand dollars in each year. If, however, a repayment results in an increase in the participant's federal, state, or local income tax liability, the department of health, at the participant's request and with the approval of the director of health, may reimburse the participant for the increased tax liability, regardless of the amount of the repayment in that year.

Sec. 3702.94.  The dentist medical loan repayment advisory board, annually on or before the first day of March, shall submit a report to the governor and general assembly describing the operations of the dentist loan repayment program during the previous calendar year. The report shall include information about all of the following:

(A) The number of requests received by the director of health that a particular area be designated as a dental health resource shortage area;

(B) The areas that have been designated as dental health resource shortage areas and the priorities that have been assigned to them;

(C) The number of applicants for participation in the dentist loan repayment program;

(D) The number of dentists assigned to dental health resource shortage areas and the payments made on behalf of those dentists under the dentist loan repayment program;

(E) The dental health resource shortage areas that have not been matched with all of the dentists they need;

(F) The number of dentists failing to complete their service obligations, the amount of damages owed, and the amount of damages collected.

Sec. 3705.35.  Not later than one hundred eighty days after the effective date of this section October 5, 2000, the director of health shall, in consultation with the council created under section 3705.34 of the Revised Code, adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to do all of the following:

(A) Implement the birth defects information system;

(B) Specify the types of congenital anomalies and abnormal conditions of newborns to be reported to the system under section 3705.30 of the Revised Code;

(C) Establish reporting requirements for information concerning diagnosed congenital anomalies and abnormal conditions of newborns;

(D) Establish standards that must be met by persons or government entities that seek access to the system;

(E) Establish a form for use by parents or legal guardians who seek to have information regarding their children removed from the system and a method of distributing the form to local health departments, as defined in section 3705.33 of the Revised Code, and to physicians. The method of distribution must include making the form available on the internet.

Sec. 3705.36.  Three years after the date a birth defects information system is implemented pursuant to section 3705.30 of the Revised Code, and annually thereafter, the department of health shall prepare a report regarding the birth defects information system. The council created under section 3705.34 of the Revised Code shall, not later than two years after the date a birth defects information system is implemented, specify the information the department is to include in each report. The department shall file the report with the governor, the president and minority leader of the senate, the speaker and minority leader of the house of representatives, the departments of developmental disabilities, education, and job and family services, the commission on minority health, and the news media.

Sec. 3718.03. (A) There is hereby created the sewage treatment system technical advisory committee consisting of the director of health or the director's designee and ten members who are knowledgeable about sewage treatment systems and technologies. Of the ten members, four shall be appointed by the governor, three shall be appointed by the president of the senate, and three shall be appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives.

(1) Of the members appointed by the governor, one shall represent academia, one shall be a representative of the public who is not employed by the state or any of its political subdivisions and who does not have a pecuniary interest in household sewage treatment systems, one shall be an engineer from the environmental protection agency, and one shall be selected from among soil scientists in the division of soil and water resources in the department of natural resources.

(2) Of the members appointed by the president of the senate, one shall be a health commissioner who is a member of and recommended by the association of Ohio health commissioners, one shall represent the interests of manufacturers of household sewage treatment systems, and one shall represent installers and service providers.

(3) Of the members appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, one shall be a health commissioner who is a member of and recommended by the association of Ohio health commissioners, one shall represent the interests of manufacturers of household sewage treatment systems, and one shall be a sanitarian who is registered under Chapter 4736. of the Revised Code and who is a member of the Ohio environmental health association.

(B) Terms of members appointed to the committee shall be for three years, with each term ending on the same day of the same month as did the term that it succeeds. Each member shall serve from the date of appointment until the end of the term for which the member was appointed.

Members may be reappointed. Vacancies shall be filled in the same manner as provided for original appointments. Any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration date of the term for which the member was appointed shall hold office for the remainder of that term. A member shall continue to serve after the expiration date of the member's term until the member's successor is appointed or until a period of sixty days has elapsed, whichever occurs first. The applicable appointing authority may remove a member from the committee for failure to attend two consecutive meetings without showing good cause for the absences.

(C) The technical advisory committee annually shall select from among its members a chairperson and a vice-chairperson and a secretary to keep a record of its proceedings. A majority vote of the members of the full committee is necessary to take action on any matter. The committee may adopt bylaws governing its operation, including bylaws that establish the frequency of meetings.

(D) Serving as a member of the sewage treatment system technical advisory committee does not constitute holding a public office or position of employment under the laws of this state and does not constitute grounds for removal of public officers or employees from their offices or positions of employment. Members of the committee shall serve without compensation for attending committee meetings.

(E) A member of the committee shall not have a conflict of interest with the position. For the purposes of this division, "conflict of interest" means the taking of any action that violates any provision of Chapter 102. or 2921. of the Revised Code.

(F) The sewage treatment system technical advisory committee shall do all of the following:

(1) Develop with the department of health standards and guidelines for approving or disapproving a sewage treatment system or components of a system under section 3718.04 of the Revised Code;

(2) Develop with the department an application form to be submitted to the director by an applicant for approval or disapproval of a sewage treatment system or components of a system and specify the information that must be included with an application form;

(3) Advise the director on the approval or disapproval of an application sent to the director under section 3718.04 of the Revised Code requesting approval of a sewage treatment system or components of a system;

(4) Pursue and recruit in an active manner the research, development, introduction, and timely approval of innovative and cost-effective household sewage treatment systems and components of a system for use in this state, which shall include conducting pilot projects to assess the effectiveness of a system or components of a system;

(5) By January 1, 2008, provide the household sewage and small flow on-site sewage treatment system study commission created by Am. Sub. H.B. 119 of the 127th general assembly with a list of available alternative systems and the estimated cost of each system.

(G) The chairperson of the committee shall prepare and submit an annual report concerning the activities of the committee to the general assembly not later than ninety days after the end of the calendar year. The report shall discuss the number of applications submitted under section 3718.04 of the Revised Code for the approval of a new sewage treatment system or a component of a system, the number of such systems and components that were approved, any information that the committee considers beneficial to the general assembly, and any other information that the chairperson determines is beneficial to the general assembly. If other members of the committee determine that certain information should be included in the report, they shall submit the information to the chairperson not later than thirty days after the end of the calendar year.

(H) The department shall provide meeting space for the committee. The committee shall be assisted in its duties by the staff of the department.

(I) Sections 101.82 to 101.87 of the Revised Code do not apply to the sewage treatment system technical advisory committee.

Sec. 3727.312.  The hospital measures advisory council shall do all of the following:

(A) Study the issue of hospitals reporting information regarding their performance in meeting measures for hospital inpatient and outpatient services, including how such reports are made in other states;

(B) Work with health care consumers, nurses, and experts in infection control to study infection issues as needed for the council to perform its duties;

(C) Not later than one year after the date the last of the initial council members is appointed, issue a report to the director of health with recommendations for all of the following:

(1) Collecting, pursuant to section 3727.33 of the Revised Code, information from hospitals that shows their performance in meeting measures for hospital inpatient and outpatient services;

(2) The audits conducted pursuant to section 3727.331 of the Revised Code;

(3) Disseminating information about the performance of hospitals in meeting the measures, including effective methods of displaying information on any internet web site established under section 3727.39 of the Revised Code;

(4) Explaining to the public how to use the information about the performance of hospitals in meeting the measures, including explanations about the limitations of the information;

(5) How to provide for any internet web site established under section 3727.39 of the Revised Code to include a report on each hospital's overall performance in meeting the measures specified in rules adopted under section 3727.41 of the Revised Code.

(D) Develop, on an ongoing basis, with input from hospitals and experts in pediatric medicine, recommendations regarding measures for hospital inpatient and outpatient services and submit the recommendations to the director for the director's consideration when the director adopts rules under section 3727.41 of the Revised Code specifying the measures to be used by hospitals in submitting information to the director under section 3727.33 of the Revised Code.

(C)(E) Provide the director of health ongoing advice on all of the following:

(1) The issue of hospitals reporting information regarding their performance in meeting measures for hospital inpatient and outpatient services;

(2) Disseminating the information reported by hospitals;

(3) Making improvements to the reports and dissemination of information;

(4) Making changes to the information collection requirements and dissemination methods.

(D) Convene a group of health care consumers, nurses, and experts in infection control, the members of which shall be appointed by the council according to a method selected by the council, to provide information about infection issues to the council as needed for the council to perform its duties.

(F) Submit to the director guidelines to be used to determine whether a hospital's performance in meeting a particular measure should be excluded from any web site established under section 3727.39 of the Revised Code because the hospital's caseload for the diagnosis or procedure that the measure concerns is insufficient to make the hospital's performance a reliable indicator of its ability to treat the diagnosis or perform the procedure in a quality manner.

Sec. 3727.313.  All of the following apply to members of the hospital measures advisory council and the members of the group convened by the council under division (D) of section 3727.312 of the Revised Code:

(A) The members shall serve at the pleasure of their appointing authority.

(B) The members shall serve without remuneration, except to the extent that serving on the council or in the group is considered a part of their regular employment duties.

(C) The members shall not be reimbursed for expenses incurred in the performance of their duties on the council or in the group.

Sec. 3727.321. (A) The group of experts convened under section 3727.32 of the Revised Code hospital measures advisory council may include in the recommendations developed under division (A)(1)(C) of that section recommendations 3727.312 of the Revised Code that the director of health's rules adopted under section 3727.41 of the Revised Code include some or all of the following measures:

(1) Hospital quality measures publicly reported by the centers for medicare and medicaid services;

(2) Hospital quality measures publicly reported by the joint commission;

(3) Measures included in the patient safety indicators and inpatient quality indicators developed by the agency for health care research and quality;

(4) Measures included in the national voluntary consensus standards for hospital care endorsed by the national quality forum.

(B) In considering whether to recommend that the director include a particular measure in the rules, the group of experts hospital measures advisory council shall consider whether there are any excessive administrative or financial implications associated with the reporting of information by hospitals regarding their performance in meeting the measure.

Sec. 3727.39.  (A) The duties of the director of health under this section are subject to section 3727.391 of the Revised Code.

(B) Not later than ninety days after a hospital submits information to the director of health under section 3727.33 or 3727.34 of the Revised Code, the director shall make the submitted information available on an internet web site. In making the information available on a web site, the director shall do all of the following:

(1) Make the web site available to the public without charge;

(2) Provide for the web site to be organized in a manner that enables the public to use it easily;

(3) Exclude from the web site any information that compromises patient privacy;

(4) Include links to hospital internet web sites to enable the public to obtain additional information about hospitals, including hospital programs designed to enhance quality and safety;

(5) Allow other internet web sites to link to the web site for purposes of increasing the web site's availability and encouraging ongoing improvement;

(6) Update the web site as needed to include new information and to correct errors.

(C) The information submitted under section 3727.33 of the Revised Code shall be presented on the web site in a manner that enables the public to compare the performance of hospitals in meeting the measures for hospital inpatient and outpatient services specified in rules adopted under section 3727.41 of the Revised Code. In making the information available on a web site, the director shall do all of the following:

(1) Enable the public to compare the performance of hospitals in meeting the measures for specific diagnoses and procedures;

(2) Enable the public to make the comparisons by different geographic regions, such as by county or zip code;

(3) Based on the report issued to the director pursuant to division (A)(2)(C)(5) of section 3727.32 3727.312 of the Revised Code, include a report of each hospital's overall performance in meeting the measures;

(4) To the extent possible, include state and federal benchmarks for the measures;

(5) Include contextual information and explanations that the public can easily understand, including contextual information that explains why differences in the performance of hospitals in meeting the measures may be misleading;

(6) Exclude from the web site a hospital's performance in meeting a particular measure if the hospital's caseload for the diagnosis or procedure that the measure concerns is insufficient, as determined in accordance with the guidelines submitted to the director under division (A)(3)(F) of section 3727.32 3727.312 of the Revised Code, to make the hospital's performance for the diagnosis or procedure a reliable indicator of its ability to treat the diagnosis or provide the procedure in a quality manner;

(7) Clearly identify the sources of information used in the web site and explain both of the following:

(a) The analytical methods used in determining the performance of hospitals in meeting the measures;

(b) The risk adjustment methodologies that hospitals use to adjust information submitted to the director pursuant to division (C) of section 3727.33 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 3727.41. (A)(1) The director of health shall adopt rules governing hospitals in their submission of information to the director under sections 3727.33 and 3727.34 of the Revised Code. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.

(2) Rules adopted by the director under division (A)(1) of this section shall not require either of the following:

(a) A hospital to submit information regarding a performance, quality, or service measure for which the hospital does not provide the service;

(b) A children's hospital to report a performance, quality, or service measure for patients eighteen years of age or older.

(B)(1) The rules for submission of information under section 3727.33 of the Revised Code shall include rules specifying the inpatient and outpatient service measures to be used by hospitals in submitting the information. The rules may include any of the measures recommended by the group of experts convened under section 3727.32 of the Revised Code hospital measures advisory council and shall include measures from the following:

(a) Hospital quality measures publicly reported by the centers for medicare and medicaid services;

(b) Hospital quality measures publicly reported by the joint commission;

(c) Measures that examine volume of cases, adjusted length of stay, complications, infections, or mortality rates and are developed by the agency for health care research and quality;

(d) Measures included in the national voluntary consensus standards for hospital care endorsed by the national quality forum.

(2) In adopting rules specifying the measures to be used by hospitals in submitting the information, the director shall consider both of the following:

(a) Whether hospitals have a sufficient caseload to make a particular measure a reliable indicator of their ability to treat a diagnosis or perform a procedure in a quality manner;

(b) Whether there are any excessive administrative or financial implications associated with the reporting of information by hospitals regarding their performance in meeting a particular measure.

Sec. 3743.54.  (A) A licensed exhibitor of fireworks may acquire fireworks for use at a public fireworks exhibition only from a licensed manufacturer of fireworks or licensed wholesaler of fireworks, and only in accordance with the procedures specified in this section and section 3743.55 of the Revised Code.

(B)(1) A licensed exhibitor of fireworks who wishes to conduct a public fireworks exhibition shall apply for approval to conduct the exhibition to whichever of the following persons is appropriate under the circumstances:

(a) Unless division (B)(1)(c) or (d) of this section applies, if the exhibition will take place in a municipal corporation, the approval shall be obtained from the fire chief, and from the police chief or other similar chief law enforcement officer, or the designee of the police chief or similar chief law enforcement officer, of the particular municipal corporation.

(b) Unless division (B)(1)(c) or (d) of this section applies, if the exhibition will take place in an unincorporated area, the approval shall be obtained from the fire chief of the particular township or township fire district, and from the police chief or other similar chief law enforcement officer, or the designee of the police chief or similar chief law enforcement officer, of the particular township or township police district.

(c) If fire protection services for the premises on which the exhibition will take place are provided in accordance with a contract between political subdivisions, the approval shall be obtained from the fire chief of the political subdivision providing the fire protection services and from the police chief or other similar chief law enforcement officer, or the designee of the police chief or similar chief law enforcement officer, of the political subdivision in which the premises on which the exhibition will take place are located. If police services for the premises on which the exhibition will take place are provided in accordance with a contract between political subdivisions, the approval shall be obtained from the police chief or other similar chief law enforcement officer, or the designee of the police chief or similar chief law enforcement officer, of the political subdivision providing the police services and from the fire chief of the political subdivision in which the premises on which the exhibition will take place are located. If both fire and police protection services for the premises on which the exhibition will take place are provided in accordance with a contract between political subdivisions, the approval shall be obtained from the fire chief, and from the police chief or other similar chief law enforcement officer, or the designee of the police chief or similar chief law enforcement officer, of the political subdivisions providing the police and fire protection services.

(d) If there is no municipal corporation, township, or township fire district fire department, no municipal corporation, township, or township police district police department, and no contract for police or fire protection services between political subdivisions covering the premises on which the exhibition will take place, the approval shall be obtained from the fire prevention officer, and from the police chief or other similar chief law enforcement officer, or the designee of the police chief or other similar chief law enforcement officer, having jurisdiction over the premises.

(2) The approval required by division (B)(1) of this section shall be evidenced by the fire chief or fire prevention officer and by the police chief or other similar chief law enforcement officer, or the designee of the police chief or other similar chief law enforcement officer, signing a permit for the exhibition. The fire marshal shall prescribe the form of exhibition permits and distribute copies of the form to fire chiefs, to fire prevention officers, and to police chiefs or other similar chief law enforcement officers of municipal corporations, townships, or township police districts, or their designees, in this state. Any exhibitor of fireworks who wishes to conduct a public fireworks exhibition may obtain a copy of the form from the fire marshal or, if it is available, from a fire chief, a fire prevention officer, a police chief or other similar chief law enforcement officer of a municipal corporation, township, or township police district, or a designee of such a police chief or other similar chief law enforcement officer.

(C) Before a permit is signed and issued to a licensed exhibitor of fireworks, the fire chief or fire prevention officer, in consultation with the police chief or other similar chief law enforcement officer or with the designee of the police chief or other similar chief law enforcement officer, shall inspect the premises on which the exhibition will take place and shall determine that, in fact, the applicant for the permit is a licensed exhibitor of fireworks. Each applicant shall show the applicant's license as an exhibitor of fireworks to the fire chief or fire prevention officer.

The fire chief or fire prevention officer, and the police chief or other similar chief law enforcement officer, or the designee of the police chief or other similar chief law enforcement officer, shall give approval to conduct a public fireworks exhibition only if satisfied, based on the inspection, that the premises on which the exhibition will be conducted allow the exhibitor to comply with the rules adopted by the fire marshal pursuant to divisions (B) and (E) of section 3743.53 of the Revised Code and that the applicant is, in fact, a licensed exhibitor of fireworks. The fire chief or fire prevention officer, in consultation with the police chief or other similar chief law enforcement officer or with the designee of the police chief or other similar chief law enforcement officer, may inspect the premises immediately prior to the exhibition to determine if the exhibitor has complied with the rules, and may revoke a permit for noncompliance with the rules.

(D) If the legislative authorities of their political subdivisions have prescribed a fee for the issuance of a permit for a public fireworks exhibition, fire chiefs or fire prevention officers, and police chiefs, other similar chief law enforcement officers, or their designee, shall not issue a permit until the exhibitor pays the requisite fee.

Each exhibitor shall provide an indemnity bond in the amount of at least one million dollars, with surety satisfactory to the fire chief or fire prevention officer and to the police chief or other similar chief law enforcement officer, or the designee of the police chief or other similar chief law enforcement officer, conditioned for the payment of all final judgments that may be rendered against the exhibitor on account of injury, death, or loss to persons or property emanating from the fireworks exhibition, or proof of insurance coverage of at least one million dollars for liability arising from injury, death, or loss to persons or property emanating from the fireworks exhibition. The legislative authority of a political subdivision in which a public fireworks exhibition will take place may require the exhibitor to provide an indemnity bond or proof of insurance coverage in amounts greater than those required by this division. Fire chiefs or fire prevention officers, and police chiefs, other similar chief law enforcement officers, or their designee, shall not issue a permit until the exhibitor provides the bond or proof of the insurance coverage required by this division or by the political subdivision in which the fireworks exhibition will take place.

(E)(1) Each permit for a fireworks exhibition issued by a fire chief or fire prevention officer, and by the police chief or other similar chief law enforcement officer, or the designee of the police chief or other similar chief law enforcement officer, shall contain a distinct number, designate the municipal corporation, township, or township fire or police district of the fire chief, fire prevention officer, police chief or other similar chief law enforcement officer, or designee of the police chief or other similar chief law enforcement officer, and identify the certified fire safety inspector, fire chief, or fire prevention officer who will be present before, during, and after the exhibition, where appropriate. A copy of each permit issued shall be forwarded by the fire chief or fire prevention officer, and by the police chief or other similar chief law enforcement officer, or the designee of the police chief or other similar chief law enforcement officer, issuing it to the fire marshal, who shall keep a record of the permits received. A permit is not transferable or assignable.

(2) Each fire chief, fire prevention officer, police chief or other similar chief law enforcement officer, and designee of a police chief or other similar chief law enforcement officer shall keep a record of issued permits for fireworks exhibitions. In this list, the fire chief, fire prevention officer, police chief or other similar chief law enforcement officer, and designee of a police chief or other similar chief law enforcement officer shall list the name of the exhibitor, the exhibitor's license number, the premises on which the exhibition will be conducted, the date and time of the exhibition, and the number and political subdivision designation of the permit issued to the exhibitor for the exhibition.

(F) The governing authority having jurisdiction in the location where an exhibition is to take place shall require that a certified fire safety inspector, fire chief, or fire prevention officer be present before, during, and after the exhibition, and shall require the certified fire safety inspector, fire chief, or fire prevention officer to inspect the premises where the exhibition is to take place and determine whether the exhibition is in compliance with this chapter.

(G) Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code to the contrary, the state fire marshal is hereby authorized to create additional license categories for fireworks exhibitors and to create additional permit requirements for fireworks exhibitions for the indoor use of fireworks and other uses of pyrotechnics, including the use of pyrotechnic materials that do not meet the definition of fireworks as described in section 3743.01 of the Revised Code. Such licenses and permits and the fees for such licenses and permits shall be described in rules adopted by the fire marshal under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. Such rules may provide for different standards for exhibitor licensure and the permitting and conducting of a fireworks exhibition than the requirements of this chapter.

Prior to the state fire marshal's adoption of the rules described in this division, the director of commerce shall appoint a committee consisting of the state fire marshal or the marshal's designee, three representatives of the fireworks industry, and three representatives of the fire service to assist the state fire marshal in adopting these rules. Unless an extension is granted by the director of commerce, the state fire marshal shall adopt initial rules under this section not later than July 1, 2010.

Sec. 3746.04.  Within one year after September 28, 1994, the director of environmental protection, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code and with the advice of the multidisciplinary council appointed under section 3746.03 of the Revised Code, shall adopt, and subsequently may amend, suspend, or rescind, rules that do both of the following:

(A) Revise the rules adopted under Chapters 3704., 3714., 3734., 6109., and 6111. of the Revised Code to incorporate the provisions necessary to conform those rules to the requirements of this chapter. The amended rules adopted under this division also shall establish response times for all submittals to the environmental protection agency required under this chapter or rules adopted under it.

(B) Establish requirements and procedures that are reasonably necessary for the implementation and administration of this chapter, including, without limitation, all of the following:

(1) Appropriate generic numerical clean-up standards for the treatment or removal of soils, sediments, and water media for hazardous substances and petroleum. The rules shall establish separate generic numerical clean-up standards based upon the intended use of properties after the completion of voluntary actions, including industrial, commercial, and residential uses and such other categories of land use as the director considers to be appropriate. The generic numerical clean-up standards established for each category of land use shall be the concentration of each contaminant that may be present on a property that shall ensure protection of public health and safety and the environment for the reasonable exposure for that category of land use. When developing the standards, the director shall consider such factors as all of the following:

(a) Scientific information, including, without limitation, toxicological information and realistic assumptions regarding human and environmental exposure to hazardous substances or petroleum;

(b) Climatic factors;

(c) Human activity patterns;

(d) Current statistical techniques;

(e) For petroleum at industrial property, alternatives to the use of total petroleum hydrocarbons.

The generic numerical clean-up standards established in the rules adopted under division (B)(1) of this section shall be consistent with and equivalent in scope, content, and coverage to any applicable standard established by federal environmental laws and regulations adopted under them, including, without limitation, the "Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972," 86 Stat. 886, 33 U.S.C.A. 1251, as amended; the "Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976," 90 Stat. 2806, 42 U.S.C.A. 6921, as amended; the "Toxic Substances Control Act," 90 Stat. 2003 (1976), 15 U.S.C.A. 2601, as amended; the "Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980," 94 Stat. 2779, 42 U.S.C.A. 9601, as amended; and the "Safe Drinking Water Act," 88 Stat. 1660 (1974), 42 U.S.C.A. 300f, as amended.

In order for the rules adopted under division (B)(1) of this section to require that any such federal environmental standard apply to a property, the property shall meet the requirements of the particular federal statute or regulation involved in the manner specified by the statute or regulation.

The generic numerical clean-up standards for petroleum at commercial or residential property shall be the standards established in rules adopted under division (B) of section 3737.882 of the Revised Code.

(2)(a) Procedures for performing property-specific risk assessments that would be performed at a property to demonstrate that the remedy evaluated in a risk assessment results in protection of public health and safety and the environment instead of complying with the generic numerical clean-up standards established in the rules adopted under division (B)(1) of this section. The risk assessment procedures shall describe a methodology to establish, on a property-specific basis, allowable levels of contamination to remain at a property to ensure protection of public health and safety and the environment on the property and off the property when the contamination is emanating off the property, taking into account all of the following:

(i) The implementation of treatment, storage, or disposal, or a combination thereof, of hazardous substances or petroleum;

(ii) The existence of institutional controls or activity and use limitations that eliminate or mitigate exposure to hazardous substances or petroleum through the restriction of access to hazardous substances or petroleum;

(iii) The existence of engineering controls that eliminate or mitigate exposure to hazardous substances or petroleum through containment of, control of, or restrictions of access to hazardous substances or petroleum, including, without limitation, fences, cap systems, cover systems, and landscaping.

(b) The risk assessment procedures and levels of acceptable risk set forth in the rules adopted under division (B)(2) of this section shall be based upon all of the following:

(i) Scientific information, including, without limitation, toxicological information and actual or proposed human and environmental exposure;

(ii) Locational and climatic factors;

(iii) Surrounding land use and human activities;

(iv) Differing levels of remediation that may be required when an existing land use is continued compared to when a different land use follows the remediation.

(c) Any standards established pursuant to rules adopted under division (B)(2) of this section shall be no more stringent than standards established under the environmental statutes of this state and rules adopted under them for the same contaminant in the same environmental medium that are in effect at the time the risk assessment is conducted.

(3) Minimum standards for phase I property assessments. The standards shall specify the information needed to demonstrate that there is no reason to believe that contamination exists on a property. The rules adopted under division (B)(3) of this section, at a minimum, shall require that a phase I property assessment include all of the following:

(a) A review and analysis of deeds, mortgages, easements of record, and similar documents relating to the chain of title to the property that are publicly available or that are known to and reasonably available to the owner or operator;

(b) A review and analysis of any previous environmental assessments, property assessments, environmental studies, or geologic studies of the property and any land within two thousand feet of the boundaries of the property that are publicly available or that are known to and reasonably available to the owner or operator;

(c) A review of current and past environmental compliance histories of persons who owned or operated the property;

(d) A review of aerial photographs of the property that indicate prior uses of the property;

(e) Interviews with managers of activities conducted at the property who have knowledge of environmental conditions at the property;

(f) Conducting an inspection of the property consisting of a walkover;

(g) Identifying the current and past uses of the property, adjoining tracts of land, and the area surrounding the property, including, without limitation, interviews with persons who reside or have resided, or who are or were employed, within the area surrounding the property regarding the current and past uses of the property and adjacent tracts of land.

The rules adopted under division (B)(3) of this section shall establish criteria to determine when a phase II property assessment shall be conducted when a phase I property assessment reveals facts that establish a reason to believe that hazardous substances or petroleum have been treated, stored, managed, or disposed of on the property if the person undertaking the phase I property assessment wishes to obtain a covenant not to sue under section 3746.12 of the Revised Code.

(4) Minimum standards for phase II property assessments. The standards shall specify the information needed to demonstrate that any contamination present at the property does not exceed applicable standards or that the remedial activities conducted at the property have achieved compliance with applicable standards. The rules adopted under division (B)(4) of this section, at a minimum, shall require that a phase II property assessment include all of the following:

(a) A review and analysis of all documentation prepared in connection with a phase I property assessment conducted within the one hundred eighty days before the phase II property assessment begins. The rules adopted under division (B)(4)(a) of this section shall require that if a period of more than one hundred eighty days has passed between the time that the phase I assessment of the property was completed and the phase II assessment begins, the phase II assessment shall include a reasonable inquiry into the change in the environmental condition of the property during the intervening period.

(b) Quality assurance objectives for measurements taken in connection with a phase II assessment;

(c) Sampling procedures to ensure the representative sampling of potentially contaminated environmental media;

(d) Quality assurance and quality control requirements for samples collected in connection with phase II assessments;

(e) Analytical and data assessment procedures;

(f) Data objectives to ensure that samples collected in connection with phase II assessments are biased toward areas where information indicates that contamination by hazardous substances or petroleum is likely to exist.

(5) Standards governing the conduct of certified professionals, criteria and procedures for the certification of professionals to issue no further action letters under section 3746.11 of the Revised Code, and criteria for the suspension and revocation of those certifications. The director shall take an action regarding a certification as a final action. The issuance, denial, renewal, suspension, and revocation of those certifications are subject to Chapter 3745. of the Revised Code, except that, in lieu of publishing an action regarding a certification in a newspaper of general circulation as required in section 3745.07 of the Revised Code, such an action shall be published on the environmental protection agency's web site and in the agency's weekly review not later than fifteen days after the date of the issuance, denial, renewal, suspension, or revocation of the certification and not later than thirty days before a hearing or public meeting concerning the action.

The rules adopted under division (B)(5) of this section shall do all of the following:

(a) Provide for the certification of environmental professionals to issue no further action letters pertaining to investigations and remedies in accordance with the criteria and procedures set forth in the rules. The rules adopted under division (B)(5)(a) of this section shall do at least all of the following:

(i) Authorize the director to consider such factors as an environmental professional's previous performance record regarding such investigations and remedies and the environmental professional's environmental compliance history when determining whether to certify the environmental professional;

(ii) Ensure that an application for certification is reviewed in a timely manner;

(iii) Require the director to certify any environmental professional who the director determines complies with those criteria;

(iv) Require the director to deny certification for any environmental professional who does not comply with those criteria.

(b) Establish an annual fee to be paid by environmental professionals certified pursuant to the rules adopted under division (B)(5)(a) of this section. The fee shall be established at an amount calculated to defray the costs to the agency for the required reviews of the qualifications of environmental professionals for certification and for the issuance of the certifications.

(c) Develop a schedule for and establish requirements governing the review by the director of the credentials of environmental professionals who were deemed to be certified professionals under division (D) of section 3746.07 of the Revised Code in order to determine if they comply with the criteria established in rules adopted under division (B)(5) of this section. The rules adopted under division (B)(5)(c) of this section shall do at least all of the following:

(i) Ensure that the review is conducted in a timely fashion;

(ii) Require the director to certify any such environmental professional who the director determines complies with those criteria;

(iii) Require any such environmental professional initially to pay the fee established in the rules adopted under division (B)(5)(b) of this section at the time that the environmental professional is so certified by the director;

(iv) Establish a time period within which any such environmental professional who does not comply with those criteria may obtain the credentials that are necessary for certification;

(v) Require the director to deny certification for any such environmental professional who does not comply with those criteria and who fails to obtain the necessary credentials within the established time period.

(d) Require that any information submitted to the director for the purposes of the rules adopted under division (B)(5)(a) or (c) of this section comply with division (A) of section 3746.20 of the Revised Code;

(e) Authorize the director to suspend or revoke the certification of an environmental professional if the director finds that the environmental professional's performance has resulted in the issuance of no further action letters under section 3746.11 of the Revised Code that are not consistent with applicable standards or finds that the certified environmental professional has not substantially complied with section 3746.31 of the Revised Code;

(f) Authorize the director to suspend for a period of not more than five years or to permanently revoke a certified environmental professional's certification for any violation of or failure to comply with an ethical standard established in rules adopted under division (B)(5) of this section;

(g) Require the director to revoke the certification of an environmental professional if the director finds that the environmental professional falsified any information on the environmental professional's application for certification regarding the environmental professional's credentials or qualifications or any other information generated for the purposes of or use under this chapter or rules adopted under it;

(h) Require the director permanently to revoke the certification of an environmental professional who has violated or is violating division (A) of section 3746.18 of the Revised Code;

(i) Preclude the director from revoking the certification of an environmental professional who only conducts investigations and remedies at property contaminated solely with petroleum unless the director first consults with the director of commerce.

(6) Criteria and procedures for the certification of laboratories to perform analyses under this chapter and rules adopted under it. The issuance, denial, suspension, and revocation of those certifications are subject to Chapter 3745. of the Revised Code, and the director of environmental protection shall take any such action regarding a certification as a final action.

The rules adopted under division (B)(6) of this section shall do all of the following:

(a) Provide for the certification to perform analyses of laboratories in accordance with the criteria and procedures established in the rules adopted under division (B)(6)(a) of this section and establish an annual fee to be paid by those laboratories. The fee shall be established at an amount calculated to defray the costs to the agency for the review of the qualifications of those laboratories for certification and for the issuance of the certifications. The rules adopted under division (B)(6)(a) of this section may provide for the certification of those laboratories to perform only particular types or categories of analyses, specific test parameters or group of test parameters, or a specific matrix or matrices under this chapter.

(b) Develop a schedule for and establish requirements governing the review by the director of the operations of laboratories that were deemed to be certified laboratories under division (E) of section 3746.07 of the Revised Code in order to determine if they comply with the criteria established in rules adopted under division (B)(6) of this section. The rules adopted under division (B)(6)(b) of this section shall do at least all of the following:

(i) Ensure that the review is conducted in a timely fashion;

(ii) Require the director to certify any such laboratory that the director determines complies with those criteria;

(iii) Require any such laboratory initially to pay the fee established in the rules adopted under division (B)(6)(a) of this section at the time that the laboratory is so certified by the director;

(iv) Establish a time period within which any such laboratory that does not comply with those criteria may make changes in its operations necessary for the performance of analyses under this chapter and rules adopted under it in order to be certified by the director;

(v) Require the director to deny certification for any such laboratory that does not comply with those criteria and that fails to make the necessary changes in its operations within the established time period.

(c) Require that any information submitted to the director for the purposes of the rules adopted under division (B)(6)(a) or (b) of this section comply with division (A) of section 3746.20 of the Revised Code;

(d) Authorize the director to suspend or revoke the certification of a laboratory if the director finds that the laboratory's performance has resulted in the issuance of no further action letters under section 3746.11 of the Revised Code that are not consistent with applicable standards;

(e) Authorize the director to suspend or revoke the certification of a laboratory if the director finds that the laboratory falsified any information on its application for certification regarding its credentials or qualifications;

(f) Require the director permanently to revoke the certification of a laboratory that has violated or is violating division (A) of section 3746.18 of the Revised Code.

(7) Information to be included in a no further action letter prepared under section 3746.11 of the Revised Code, including, without limitation, all of the following:

(a) A summary of the information required to be submitted to the certified environmental professional preparing the no further action letter under division (C) of section 3746.10 of the Revised Code;

(b) Notification that a risk assessment was performed in accordance with rules adopted under division (B)(2) of this section if such an assessment was used in lieu of generic numerical clean-up standards established in rules adopted under division (B)(1) of this section;

(c) The contaminants addressed at the property, if any, their source, if known, and their levels prior to remediation;

(d) The identity of any other person who performed work to support the request for the no further action letter as provided in division (B)(2) of section 3746.10 of the Revised Code and the nature and scope of the work performed by that person;

(e) A list of the data, information, records, and documents relied upon by the certified environmental professional in preparing the no further action letter.

(8) Methods for determining fees to be paid for the following services provided by the agency under this chapter and rules adopted under it:

(a) Site- or property-specific technical assistance in developing or implementing plans in connection with a voluntary action;

(b) Reviewing applications for and issuing consolidated standards permits under section 3746.15 of the Revised Code and monitoring compliance with those permits;

(c) Negotiating, preparing, and entering into agreements necessary for the implementation and administration of this chapter and rules adopted under it;

(d) Reviewing no further action letters, issuing covenants not to sue, and monitoring compliance with any terms and conditions of those covenants and with operation and maintenance agreements entered into pursuant to those covenants, including, without limitation, conducting audits of properties where voluntary actions are being or were conducted under this chapter and rules adopted under it.

The fees established pursuant to the rules adopted under division (B)(8) of this section shall be at a level sufficient to defray the direct and indirect costs incurred by the agency for the administration and enforcement of this chapter and rules adopted under it other than the provisions regarding the certification of professionals and laboratories.

(9) Criteria for selecting the no further action letters issued under section 3746.11 of the Revised Code that will be audited under section 3746.17 of the Revised Code, and the scope and procedures for conducting those audits. The rules adopted under division (B)(9) of this section, at a minimum, shall require the director to establish priorities for auditing no further action letters to which any of the following applies:

(a) The letter was prepared by an environmental professional who was deemed to be a certified professional under division (D) of section 3746.07 of the Revised Code, but who does not comply with the criteria established in rules adopted under division (B)(5) of this section as determined pursuant to rules adopted under division (B)(5)(d) of this section;

(b) The letter was submitted fraudulently;

(c) The letter was prepared by a certified environmental professional whose certification subsequently was revoked in accordance with rules adopted under division (B)(5) of this section, or analyses were performed for the purposes of the no further action letter by a certified laboratory whose certification subsequently was revoked in accordance with rules adopted under division (B)(6) of this section;

(d) A covenant not to sue that was issued pursuant to the letter was revoked under this chapter;

(e) The letter was for a voluntary action that was conducted pursuant to a risk assessment in accordance with rules adopted under division (B)(2) of this section;

(f) The letter was for a voluntary action that included as remedial activities engineering controls or institutional controls or activity and use limitations authorized under section 3746.05 of the Revised Code.

The rules adopted under division (B)(9) of this section shall provide for random audits of no further action letters to which the rules adopted under divisions (B)(9)(a) to (f) of this section do not apply.

(10) A classification system to characterize ground water according to its capability to be used for human use and its impact on the environment and a methodology that shall be used to determine when ground water that has become contaminated from sources on a property for which a covenant not to sue is requested under section 3746.11 of the Revised Code shall be remediated to the standards established in the rules adopted under division (B)(1) or (2) of this section.

(a) In adopting rules under division (B)(10) of this section to characterize ground water according to its capability for human use, the director shall consider all of the following:

(i) The presence of legally enforceable, reliable restrictions on the use of ground water, including, without limitation, local rules or ordinances;

(ii) The presence of regional commingled contamination from multiple sources that diminishes the quality of ground water;

(iii) The natural quality of ground water;

(iv) Regional availability of ground water and reasonable alternative sources of drinking water;

(v) The productivity of the aquifer;

(vi) The presence of restrictions on the use of ground water implemented under this chapter and rules adopted under it;

(vii) The existing use of ground water.

(b) In adopting rules under division (B)(10) of this section to characterize ground water according to its impacts on the environment, the director shall consider both of the following:

(i) The risks posed to humans, fauna, surface water, sediments, soil, air, and other resources by the continuing presence of contaminated ground water;

(ii) The availability and feasibility of technology to remedy ground water contamination.

(11) Governing the application for and issuance of variances under section 3746.09 of the Revised Code;

(12)(a) In the case of voluntary actions involving contaminated ground water, specifying the circumstances under which the generic numerical clean-up standards established in rules adopted under division (B)(1) of this section and standards established through a risk assessment conducted pursuant to rules adopted under division (B)(2) of this section shall be inapplicable to the remediation of contaminated ground water and under which the standards for remediating contaminated ground water shall be established on a case-by-case basis prior to the commencement of the voluntary action pursuant to rules adopted under division (B)(12)(b) of this section;

(b) Criteria and procedures for the case-by-case establishment of standards for the remediation of contaminated ground water under circumstances in which the use of the generic numerical clean-up standards and standards established through a risk assessment are precluded by the rules adopted under division (B)(12)(a) of this section. The rules governing the procedures for the case-by-case development of standards for the remediation of contaminated ground water shall establish application, public participation, adjudication, and appeals requirements and procedures that are equivalent to the requirements and procedures established in section 3746.09 of the Revised Code and rules adopted under division (B)(11) of this section, except that the procedural rules shall not require an applicant to make the demonstrations set forth in divisions (A)(1) to (3) of section 3746.09 of the Revised Code.

(13) A definition of the evidence that constitutes sufficient evidence for the purpose of division (A)(5) of section 3746.02 of the Revised Code.

At least thirty days before filing the proposed rules required to be adopted under this section with the secretary of state, director of the legislative service commission, and joint committee on agency rule review in accordance with divisions (B) and (H) of section 119.03 of the Revised Code, the director of environmental protection shall hold at least one public meeting on the proposed rules in each of the five districts into which the agency has divided the state for administrative purposes.

Sec. 3769.083.  (A) As used in this section:

(1) An "accredited Ohio thoroughbred horse" means a horse conceived in this state and born in this state which is both of the following:

(a) Born of a mare that is domiciled in this state at the time of the horse's conception, that remains continuously in the state through the date on which the horse is born, and that is registered as required by the rules of the state racing commission;

(b) By a stallion that stands for breeding purposes only in this state in the year in which the horse is conceived, and that is registered as required by the rules of the commission.

(2) An "Ohio foaled horse" means a horse registered as required by the rules of the state racing commission which is either of the following:

(a) A horse born of a mare that enters this state before foaling and remains continuously in this state until the horse is born;

(b) A thoroughbred foal produced within the state by any broodmare shipped into the state to foal and be bred to a registered Ohio stallion. To qualify this foal as an Ohio foaled horse, the broodmare shall remain in this state one year continuously after foaling or continuously through foaling to the cover of the Ohio stallion, whichever is sooner. All horses previously registered as Ohio conceived and foaled shall be considered as Ohio foaled horses effective January 1, 1976.

Any thoroughbred mare may leave this state for periods of time for purposes of activities such as veterinary treatment or surgery, sales purposes, breeding purposes, racing purposes, and similar activities if permission is granted by the state racing commission and the mare is returned to this state immediately upon the conclusion of the requested activity.

(3) "Horse," "stallion," "mare," or "foal" means a horse of the thoroughbred breed as distinguished from a horse of the standard breed or any other breed, and "race" means a race for thoroughbred horses conducted by a permit holder of the state racing commission.

(4) "Horse" includes animals of all ages and of both sexes.

(B) There is hereby created in the state treasury the Ohio thoroughbred race fund, to consist of moneys paid into it pursuant to sections 3769.08 and 3769.087 of the Revised Code. All investment earnings on the cash balances in the fund shall be credited to it. Moneys to the credit of the fund shall be distributed on order of the state racing commission. The commission, with the advice and assistance of the Ohio thoroughbred racing advisory committee, shall use the fund, except as provided in divisions (C)(2) and (3) and (D) of this section, to promote races and provide purses for races for horses in the following classes:

(1) Accredited Ohio thoroughbred horses;

(2) Ohio foaled horses.

Not less than ten nor more than twenty-five per cent of the total money to be paid from the fund for all types of races shall be allocated to races restricted to accredited Ohio thoroughbred horses. The commission may combine the classes of horses described in divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section in one race, except in stakes races.

(C)(1) Each permit holder conducting thoroughbred races shall schedule races each week for horses in the classes named in division (B) of this section; the number of the races shall be prescribed by the state racing commission. The commission, pursuant to division (B) of this section, shall prescribe the class or classes of the races to be held by each permit holder and, with the advice of the Ohio thoroughbred racing advisory committee, shall fix the dates and conditions of the races and the amount of moneys to be paid from the Ohio thoroughbred race fund to be added in each race to the minimum purse established by the permit holder for the class of race held.

(2) The commission, with the advice of the Ohio thoroughbred racing advisory committee, may provide for stakes races to be run each year, and fix the number of stakes races and the time, place, and conditions under which each shall be run. The commission shall fix the amount of moneys to be paid from the Ohio thoroughbred race fund to be added to the purse provided for each stakes race by the permit holder, except that, in at least four stakes races each year, the commission shall require, if four stakes races can be arranged, that the permit holder conducting the stakes race provide no less than fifteen thousand dollars for the purse for the stakes race, and the commission shall provide moneys from the fund to be added to the purse in an amount equal to or greater than the amount provided by the permit holder. The commission may require a nominating, sustaining, and entry fee not to exceed one per cent of the money added from the fund for each horse in any stakes race, which fee shall be added to the purse for the race.

Stakes races where money is added from the Ohio thoroughbred race fund shall be open only to accredited Ohio thoroughbred horses and Ohio foaled horses. Twenty-five per cent of the total moneys to be paid from the fund for stakes races shall be allocated to races for only accredited Ohio thoroughbred horses. The commission may require a nominating, sustaining, and entry fee, not to exceed one per cent of the money added from the fund, for each horse in any of these stakes races. These fees shall be accumulated by the commission and shall be paid out by the commission at its discretion as part of the purse money for additional races.

(3) The commission may pay from the Ohio thoroughbred race fund to the breeder of a horse of class (1) or (2) of division (B) of this section winning first, second, or third prize money of a purse for a thoroughbred race an amount not to exceed fifteen per cent of the first, second, or third prize money of the purse. For the purposes of this division, the term "breeder" shall be defined by rule of the commission.

The commission also may provide for stallion owners' awards in an amount equal to not less than three nor more than ten per cent of the first, second, or third place share of the purse. The award shall be paid to the owner of the stallion, provided that the stallion was standing in this state as provided in division (A)(1)(b) of this section at the time the horse placing first, second, or third was conceived.

(D) The state racing commission may provide for the expenditure of moneys from the Ohio thoroughbred race fund in an amount not to exceed in any one calendar year ten per cent of the total amount received in the account that year to provide for research projects directed toward improving the breeding, raising, racing, and health and soundness of thoroughbred horses in the state and toward education or promotion of the industry. Research for which the moneys from the fund may be used may include, but shall not be limited to, studies of pre-race blood testing, post-race testing, improvement of the breed, and nutrition.

(E) The state racing commission shall appoint qualified personnel as may be required to supervise registration of horses under the terms of this section, to determine the eligibility of horses for accredited Ohio thoroughbred races, Ohio foaled races, and the stakes races authorized by division (C)(2) of this section, and to assist the Ohio thoroughbred racing advisory committee and the commission in determining the conditions, class, and quality of the race program to be established under this section so as to carry out the purposes of this section. The personnel shall serve at the pleasure of the commission, and compensation shall be fixed by the commission. The compensation of the personnel and necessary expenses shall be paid out of the Ohio thoroughbred race fund.

The commission shall adopt rules as are necessary to carry out this section and shall administer the stakes race program and other races supported by the Ohio thoroughbred race fund in a manner best designed to aid in the development of the thoroughbred horse industry in the state, to upgrade the quality of horse racing in the state, and to improve the quality of horses conceived and foaled in the state.

Sec. 3769.085. (A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the Ohio standardbred development fund, to consist of moneys paid into it pursuant to section 3769.08 of the Revised Code and any fees assessed for or on behalf of the Ohio sires stakes races. All fees so assessed shall be exempt from the requirements of divisions (D) and (M) of that section. All investment earnings on the cash balance in the fund shall be credited to the fund. Moneys to the credit of the fund shall be distributed on order of the state racing commission with the approval of the Ohio standardbred development commission.

(B) The Ohio standardbred development commission shall consist of three members, all to be residents of this state knowledgeable in breeding and racing, to be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. One member shall be a standardbred breeder, and one member shall be a standardbred owner. Of the initial appointments, one member shall be appointed for a term ending June 30, 1977, and two members shall be appointed for terms ending June 30, 1979. Thereafter, appointments for other than unexpired terms shall be for four years. Terms shall begin the first day of July and end the thirtieth day of June. Any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which the member's predecessor was appointed shall hold office for the remainder of that term. Any member shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration date of the member's term until a successor takes office. Members shall receive no compensation, except that they shall be paid actual and necessary expenses from the Ohio standardbred development fund. The state racing commission also shall be reimbursed from the fund for actual expenses approved by the development commission. The development commission may elect one member to serve as secretary.

(C) Upon application not later than the first day of December from the harness tracks conducting races with pari-mutuel wagering, other than agricultural expositions and fairs, the Ohio standardbred development state racing commission, after a hearing and not later than the twentieth day of January, shall allocate and approve all available moneys for colt races for two-year-old and three-year-old colts and fillies, both trotting and pacing. Separate races for fillies shall be provided at each age and gait. Up to five races and a championship race shall be scheduled for each of the eight categories of age, sex, and gait. The allocations shall take into account the time of year that racing colts is feasible, the equity and continuity of the proposed dates for racing events, and the amounts to be added by the tracks, looking to the maximum benefit for those participating in the races. Representatives of the tracks and the Ohio harness horsemen's association shall be given an opportunity to be heard before the allocations are made. No races shall be contested earlier than the first day of May or later than the first day of November; all permit holders operating extended pari-mutuel meetings between those dates shall be entitled to at least three races. No funds for a race shall be allocated to and paid to a permit holder by the development commission unless the permit holder adds at least twenty-five per cent to the amount allocated by the development commission, and not less than five thousand dollars to each race.

Colts and fillies eligible to the races shall be only those sired by a standardbred stallion that was registered with the state racing commission and stood in the state the entire breeding season of the year the colt or filly was conceived.

If the development commission concludes that sufficient funds are available to add aged races without reducing purse levels of the colt and filly races, the development commission may allocate funds to four-year-old and up races of each sex and gait with Ohio eligibility required as set forth in this section.

(D)(C) The state racing commission may allocate an amount not to exceed five per cent of the total Ohio standardbred development fund available in any one calendar year to research projects directed toward improving the breeding, raising, racing, and health and soundness of horses in the state and toward education or promotion of the industry.

Sec. 3769.086.  There is hereby created in the state treasury the Ohio quarter horse development fund, to consist of all moneys paid into the fund at Ohio quarter horse meets. The purpose of the fund is to advance and improve the breeding of racing quarter horses in Ohio.

Moneys to the credit of the fund shall be distributed on order of the state racing commission with the approval of the Ohio quarter horse development commission.

The development commission shall consist of three members, to be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate. One member shall be a quarter horse breeder and one a quarter horse owner. Of the initial appointments, one member shall be appointed for a term ending June 30, 1977, and two members shall be appointed for terms ending June 30, 1979. Thereafter appointments for other than unexpired terms shall be for four years. Terms shall begin the first day of July and end the thirtieth day of June. Any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which the member's predecessor was appointed shall hold office for the remainder of such term. Any member shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration date of the member's term until a successor takes office. Members shall receive no compensation, except they shall be paid actual and necessary expenses from the Ohio quarter horse development fund. The state racing commission shall also be reimbursed for actual expense approved by the development commission. The development commission may elect one member to serve as secretary.

After a general meeting advertised at least one month in advance, the development commission shall allocate and approve all available moneys to one or more stake races and, at the development commission's discretion, to one or more overnight races. The eligibility for entry into such stake or overnight races shall be restricted to the following horses:

(A) An Ohio-sired horse, which means a colt or filly registered with the American quarter horse association that has been sired by a quarter horse or thoroughbred stallion that stands for breeding purposes only in this state in the year that the colt or filly was conceived and is registered according to the rules of the state racing commission;

(B) An Ohio-foaled horse, which means a filly or colt with a certificate of registration from the American quarter horse association that the colt or filly was foaled in this state. A copy of the registration papers shall accompany any nomination for entry in a race.

(C) An Ohio-owned horse, which means a colt or filly wholly owned by a resident of this state, according to the rules of the state racing commission, both at the time of nomination and at the time of the race.

The development commission may combine any or all of the above classes in one race, but in an overnight race to which money is allocated, preference shall be given to the highest preferred class in the order listed in this section.

The development commission may allocate a sum not to exceed ten per cent of the total Ohio quarter horse development fund to research projects directed toward improving the breeding, raising, and racing of horses in the state and toward education or promotion of the industry.

Sec. 3905.04.  (A) Except as otherwise provided in this section or in section 3905.041 of the Revised Code, a resident individual applying for an insurance agent license for any of the lines of authority described in division (B) of this section shall take and pass a written examination prior to application for licensure. The examination shall test the knowledge of the individual with respect to the lines of authority for which application will be made, the duties and responsibilities of an insurance agent, and the insurance laws of this state. Before admission to the examination, each individual shall pay the nonrefundable examination fee.

(B) The examination described in division (A) of this section shall be required for the following lines of authority:

(1) Any of the lines of authority set forth in divisions (B)(1) to (5) of section 3905.06 of the Revised Code;

(2) Title insurance;

(3) Surety bail bonds as provided in sections 3905.83 to 3905.95 of the Revised Code;

(4) Any other line of authority designated by the superintendent of insurance.

(C) An individual shall not be permitted to take the examination described in division (A) of this section unless one of the following applies:

(1) The individual has earned a bachelor's or associate's degree in insurance from an accredited institution.

(2) The individual has earned a professional designation approved by the superintendent.

(3) The individual has completed, for each line of authority for which the individual has applied, twenty hours of study in a program of insurance education approved by the superintendent, in consultation with the insurance agent education advisory council, under criteria established by the superintendent. Division (C) of this section does not apply with respect to title insurance or any other line of authority designated by the superintendent.

(D) An individual who fails to appear for an examination as scheduled, or fails to pass an examination, may reapply for the examination if the individual pays the required fee and submits any necessary forms prior to being rescheduled for the examination.

(E)(1) The superintendent may, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, adopt any rule necessary for the implementation of this section.

(2) The superintendent may make any necessary arrangements, including contracting with an outside testing service, for the administration of the examinations and the collection of the fees required by this section.

Sec. 3905.481.  Each individual who is issued a resident insurance agent license shall complete at least twenty-four hours of continuing education in each license renewal period. The continuing education shall be offered in a course or program of study approved by the superintendent of insurance in consultation with the insurance agent education advisory council and shall include at least three hours of approved ethics training.

This section does not apply to any person or class of persons, as determined by the superintendent in consultation with the council.

Sec. 3905.484.  (A) The superintendent of insurance, in consultation with the insurance agent education advisory council, shall establish criteria for any course or program of study that is offered in this state under section 3905.04 or sections 3905.481 to 3905.486 of the Revised Code.

(B) No course or program of study shall be offered in this state under section 3905.04 or sections 3905.481 to 3905.486 of the Revised Code unless it is approved by the superintendent in consultation with the council.

(C) A course or program of study offered in this state under section 3905.04 or sections 3905.481 to 3905.486 of the Revised Code shall be developed or sponsored only by one of the following:

(1) An insurance company admitted to transact business in this state;

(2) An accredited college or university;

(3) An insurance trade association;

(4) An independent program of instruction that is approved by the superintendent in consultation with the council;

(5) Any institution as defined in section 1713.01 of the Revised Code that holds a certificate of authorization issued by the Ohio board of regents under Chapter 1713. of the Revised Code or is exempt under that chapter from the requirements for a certificate of authorization.

Sec. 3905.485.  (A) The superintendent of insurance, in consultation with the insurance agent education advisory council, shall establish a schedule of fees to be paid to the superintendent by the sponsor of a course or program of study approved in accordance with division (B) of section 3905.484 of the Revised Code. The sponsor shall pay the required fee to the superintendent in accordance with rules adopted by the superintendent.

(B) All fees collected by the superintendent under division (A) of this section shall be credited to the department of insurance operating fund created in section 3901.021 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 3905.486.  The superintendent of insurance shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to carry out the purposes of sections 3905.04 and 3905.481 to 3905.486 of the Revised Code. In adopting any rules, the superintendent shall consider any recommendations made by the insurance agent education advisory council.

Sec. 3905.88.  (A) Each individual who is issued a license as a resident surety bail bond agent shall complete at least seven hours of continuing education in each license renewal period. The continuing education shall be offered in a course or program of study related to the bail bond business that is approved by the superintendent of insurance in consultation with the insurance agent education advisory council and shall include at least one hour of approved ethics training.

(B) The superintendent shall not renew the license of any surety bail bond agent who fails to meet the requirements of division (A) of this section or whose application for renewal does not meet the requirements of section 3905.85 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 3929.631. (A) In the event the superintendent of insurance creates the medical liability underwriting association under section 3929.63 of the Revised Code or reactivates the medical liability underwriting association under section 3929.632 of the Revised Code, the superintendent also shall create a stabilization reserve fund for the medical liability underwriting association under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. The stabilization reserve fund shall be administered by thirteen directors, one of whom shall be the superintendent of insurance or the superintendent's deputy. The remaining twelve directors shall be appointed by the superintendent. Of these twelve directors, five shall be doctors of medicine and surgery, two shall be doctors of osteopathic medicine and surgery, one shall be a doctor of podiatric medicine, and four shall be representatives of hospitals a board of governors of the medical liability underwriting association.

(B) The directors board shall act by majority vote with seven directors members constituting a quorum for the transaction of any business or the exercise of any power of the stabilization reserve fund. The directors shall serve without salary, but each director shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of official duties as a director of the stabilization reserve fund. The directors members are not subject to any personal liability with respect to administration of the fund.

(C) Each policyholder of the medical liability underwriting association shall pay to the medical liability underwriting association annually a stabilization reserve fund charge. The charge shall be determined by the directors with the agreement of the board of governors of the medical liability underwriting association, subject to the approval of the superintendent. In the event that there is no agreement among the directors, the board of governors, and the superintendent as to the charge, the superintendent shall determine the charge. The amount of the charge may differentiate between types of coverage, but shall be sufficient to ensure that the medical liability underwriting association is actuarially sound, adequately reserved, financially stable, and efficiently managed so as to satisfy the purposes of sections 3929.62 to 3929.70 of the Revised Code. The medical liability underwriting association shall cancel the policy of any policyholder who fails to pay the stabilization reserve fund charge.

(D) The medical liability underwriting association promptly shall pay to the trustee of the stabilization reserve fund all stabilization reserve fund charges that it collects from its policyholders.

(E) All money received by the stabilization reserve fund shall be held in trust by a corporate trustee selected by the directors board. The corporate trustee may invest the money held in trust, subject to the approval of the directors board. All investment income shall be credited to the stabilization reserve fund. All expenses of administration of the stabilization reserve fund shall be charged against the stabilization reserve fund. The money held in trust shall be used for the purpose of reimbursing the medical liability underwriting association for any deficit that arises out of the operations of the medical liability underwriting association and for any other purpose that is approved by the board of directors, if the purpose is reasonably consistent with the purposes of the association. Such payment to the medical liability underwriting association shall be made by the directors upon the medical liability underwriting association's certification to the directors of the amount due.

(F) If the board of governors determines that the moneys contained in the stabilization reserve fund at the end of a fiscal year, exclusive of dollars allocated for pending claims and after payment of all claims and expenses, are in excess of amounts that are necessary to ensure that the medical liability underwriting association is actuarially sound, adequately reserved, financially stable, and efficiently managed as to satisfy the purposes of sections 3929.62 to 3929.70 of the Revised Code, and the superintendent concurs, the superintendent shall cause the return of the excess fund moneys to applicants that have contributed to the fund and that are not medical liability underwriting association policyholders at the end of the fiscal year. In effectuating the return of fund moneys, the superintendent shall ascertain the total amount contributed to the fund by each applicant during the entire period of the fund's existence. Within a reasonable time period not to exceed one year, the superintendent shall remit to each eligible applicant an amount that bears the same ratio to the total amount of excess fund moneys as the total amount contributed to the fund by each applicant bears to the total amount contributed to the fund by all applicants. Notwithstanding the return of moneys under this division, policyholders shall continue to be subject to the charges of the stabilization reserve fund under this section. The total amount to be returned under this division shall reflect any interest actually earned by the fund less fund operating expenses.

Sec. 3929.64. (A)(1) A board of governors consisting of nine twelve members shall govern the medical liability underwriting association. The members shall be appointed by the governor with the advice of the superintendent of insurance. Five Four shall be selected from insurers licensed to write and writing liability insurance in this state, at least two of which insurers must write medical liability insurance in this state. One Three shall be a licensed physician physicians and one two shall be from a hospital hospitals operating in this state. One shall be an insurance agent licensed and writing medical liability insurance in this state. One Two shall represent the interests of consumers and shall neither be a member of, or associated with, a health insuring corporation holding a certificate of authority under Chapter 1751. of the Revised Code or an insurance company. The members of the board of governors shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of their official duties. The directors of the stabilization reserve fund shall serve as ex officio members of the medical liability underwriting association's board of governors.

(2) Of the initial member appointments made under division (A)(1) of this section, three four shall be for terms of one year, three four shall be for terms of two years, and three four shall be for terms of three years, with the members' terms determined from the date the medical liability underwriting association is created under section 3929.63 of the Revised Code. Thereafter, terms of office for appointed members shall be for three years, each term ending on the same day of the same month of the year as did the term it succeeds. A vacancy shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment. Members may be reappointed to the board of governors.

(B) The board of governors may employ, compensate, and prescribe the duties and powers of as many employees and consultants as are necessary to carry out the purposes of sections 3929.62 to 3929.70 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 3929.68. (A) There shall be no liability imposed on the part of, and no cause of action of any nature arises against, the medical liability underwriting association or the stabilization reserve fund, its board of governors, directors, agents, or employees, an insurer or its employees, any licensed agent or broker, or the superintendent of insurance or the superintendent's authorized representatives and employees, for any action taken by them in the performance of their powers and duties under sections 3929.62 to 3929.70 of the Revised Code. Any reports and communications made in connection with those actions are not public records.

(B) With respect to any policy of insurance issued by the medical liability underwriting association, any contract executed by the medical liability underwriting association or the stabilization reserve fund, or any action taken under or related to sections 3929.62 to 3929.70 of the Revised Code, there shall be no liability on the part of the state beyond amounts paid into or earned by the medical liability underwriting association and stabilization reserve fund.

Sec. 3930.02.  (A) The Ohio commercial market assistance plan is hereby established to assist in the placement of commercial insurance risks located in this state. The plan shall operate under the auspices of the department of insurance and shall attempt to be self-supporting. If, however, the fees collected pursuant to division (C) of this section are not adequate to make the plan self-supporting, the balance of the cost of operating the plan shall be borne by the department. The plan is not an insurer and is not authorized to assume insurance risks.

(B) Only written requests for assistance meeting all of the plan criteria shall be eligible for assistance by the plan.

(C) Each request for assistance shall be in writing and shall be submitted by a licensed Ohio agent or broker and accompanied by a fee, which shall be paid by the applicant for assistance and made payable to the "Ohio commercial market assistance plan." Each request also shall be accompanied by a statement of the agent or broker, in accordance with procedures, standards, and requirements set forth in rules adopted by the superintendent of insurance, that at least three insurance companies have been contacted for the issuance of insurance and that coverage was not available from those companies. The fee shall be reasonable and determined by the plan after consultation with the superintendent.

(D)(1) In the event the coverage is placed through the plan with a request for assistance submitted by an agent not appointed by the insurer and the insurer assigns another agent to service the insured, the insurer shall pay the agent a producing fee from the commission with the remaining balance of the commission paid to the agent assigned by the insurer to service the insured.

(2) The plan shall not be considered a party to the relationship among insured, agent, and insurer.

(E) The superintendent of insurance shall appoint an executive committee, within thirty days of the effective date of this section, to administer the plan. The plan shall be administered by the Ohio commercial insurance joint underwriting association board of governors created by section 3930.03 of the Revised Code. The executive committee board may appoint such other committees it considers appropriate to execute the purpose of the plan. The executive committee for the plan shall consist of nine members. Five members shall be representatives of commercial insurers and four shall be insurance agents, two of whom shall be representatives from excess surplus lines brokers. The superintendent shall serve as an ex-officio member of the executive committee. The executive committee board shall develop a detailed written plan of operation. The plan of operation or any amendments thereto shall be submitted to the superintendent of insurance for approval within thirty days of the appointment of the executive committee. The plan of operation or amendments thereto shall be approved or disapproved by the superintendent within thirty days of submission by the executive committee board or shall be deemed approved if the executive committee board is not otherwise notified within the thirty-day period. The superintendent's disapproval shall be for specific reasons stated in writing. If the superintendent disapproves the proposed plan of operation, the executive committee board shall, within fifteen days, submit for approval an appropriately revised plan of operation. If the executive committee board fails to submit a revised plan, or if the revised plan submitted is unacceptable, the superintendent shall adopt a plan of operation.

(F) The superintendent may suspend or reactivate the plan of operation.

(G)(1) The executive committee board shall designate a fiscal agent for the plan. The fiscal agent is authorized to receive and hold funds submitted to the plan and to disburse them to pay reasonable and necessary expenses of the plan. The funds may be used for the necessary expenses of the plan, including but not limited to printing, postage, rent, mailing, telephone, and such other expenses incurred by the plan as the executive committee board deems appropriate.

(2) The fiscal agent shall maintain books and records of all receipts and disbursements and shall submit financial statements as requested by the executive committee board of the plan. The superintendent or any executive committee board member shall have access to such books and records during normal business hours.

(3) The fiscal agent shall maintain a bank account under the name of the "Ohio commercial market assistance plan." All checks drawn upon the account of the plan shall bear the signatures of the fiscal agent and another person duly authorized by the executive committee board.

(4) If a surplus of funds exists at any time the plan is suspended, the then existing surplus shall be disbursed to the state treasury to the credit of the operating fund of the department of insurance.

(5) Upon approval of the plan of operation and with the approval of the existing Ohio MAP committee established by the department of insurance and the executive committee board of governors of the Ohio commercial market assistance plan commercial insurance joint underwriting association, all assets and all submitted questionnaires of the existing Ohio MAP committee may be transferred to the Ohio commercial market assistance plan and all questionnaires submitted to the existing Ohio MAP committee may be transferred to the Ohio commercial market assistance plan.

(6) There shall be no liability on the part of and no cause of action of any nature shall arise against any insurer, broker, agent, or any employee of the foregoing, employee or executive committee member of the board of governors of the Ohio commercial market assistance plan insurance joint underwriting association, or the superintendent of insurance or his the superintendent's representatives for any action taken by them in the performance of their powers and duties under sections 3930.01 to 3930.18 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 3930.03.  (A) The Ohio commercial insurance joint underwriting association is hereby created, consisting of all insurers authorized to write and engaged in writing within the state, on a direct basis, commercial insurance, including the liability component of commercial multi-peril insurance. Every such insurer shall be a member of the association and shall remain a member as a condition of its authority to continue to transact such kind of business in this state, notwithstanding other prohibitions or authorizations provided in the Revised Code, nor shall participation in the association by any insurer required to participate in such association constitute the writing of a line of insurance otherwise prohibited by the laws of this state.

The association shall be administered by a board of governors. It shall be activated for a particular class of insurance only by rule of the superintendent of insurance adopted pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code upon a finding by the superintendent that both of the following circumstances exist for that particular class of insurance:

(1) A substantial number of eligible requests for assistance for that particular class of insurance have not been placed by the Ohio commercial insurance market assistance plan and they are insurable risks;

(2) The lack of commercial insurance for that class of insurance threatens the continued operation of entities in this state and such condition will be detrimental to the general welfare of the citizens of this state.

(B) The board of governors of the association shall consist of eleven thirteen members appointed by the superintendent of insurance, eight seven of whom shall be selected from the members of the joint underwriting association. Five Four members shall be selected from commercial insurers domiciled in this state. Three members shall be selected from commercial insurers domiciled outside this state. One member Four members shall be an insurance agent agents, two of whom shall be representatives from excess surplus lines brokers and one of whom shall be licensed and writing commercial insurance in this state. Two members shall be commercial insurance policyholders and shall not have any relationship with an insurance company or an insurance agent except as a purchaser of commercial insurance. Such governors shall serve a term of one year. The members of the board shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of their official duties.

(C) There shall be a plan of operation promulgated under division (D) of this section. Pursuant to sections 3930.01 to 3930.18 of the Revised Code and the plan of operation with respect to commercial insurance promulgated under division (D) of this section, the association may:

(1) Issue or cause to be issued policies of insurance to applicants unable to obtain commercial insurance in the voluntary market, including incidental coverages and subject to limits as specified in the plan of operation;

(2) Underwrite such insurance and adjust and pay losses with respect thereto, or appoint service companies or syndicates to perform those functions;

(3) Assume reinsurance from its members;

(4) Cede reinsurance.

(D)(1) Within forty-five days following the creation of the association, the board of governors of the association shall submit to the superintendent of insurance, for his review, a proposed plan of operation, consistent with sections 3930.01 to 3930.18 of the Revised Code. If the superintendent does not adopt such plan within thirty days of such submission, he the superintendent shall resubmit the plan to the board with written reasons consistent with this chapter for the rejection. The board shall, within fifteen days, submit for approval an appropriately revised plan of operation and if the board of governors fails to do so, or if the revised plan submitted is unacceptable, the superintendent shall adopt a plan of operation. The superintendent shall adopt any plan by a rule under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.

(2) The plan of operation shall provide for economic, fair, and nondiscriminatory administration and for the prompt and efficient provision of any class of commercial insurance that cannot be obtained in the voluntary market, and shall contain other provisions including, but not limited to, preliminary assessment of all members for initial expenses necessary to commence operations, establishment of necessary facilities, management of the association, assessment of members to defray losses and expenses, administrative expenses, establishment of reasonable and objective underwriting standards, acceptance and cession of reinsurance, and the appointment of servicing carriers or the direct issuance of syndicate policies.

(3) Amendments to the plan of operation may be made by the board of governors of the association, subject to the approval of the superintendent. The superintendent may also recommend amendments to the plan of operation. Upon adoption by the board and approval by the superintendent, the superintendent shall then amend the rule establishing the plan of operation pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.

(4) The board of governors may employ, compensate, and prescribe the duties and powers of such employees and consultants as are necessary to carry out the purposes of sections 3930.01 to 3930.18 of the Revised Code.

(E) Upon application of an insurer, the superintendent may waive its participation in the plan if the superintendent determines that such participation would threaten the solvency of that insurer.

Sec. 4121.03.  (A) The governor shall appoint from among the members of the industrial commission the chairperson of the industrial commission. The chairperson shall serve as chairperson at the pleasure of the governor. The chairperson is the head of the commission and its chief executive officer.

(B) The chairperson shall appoint, after consultation with other commission members and obtaining the approval of at least one other commission member, an executive director of the commission. The executive director shall serve at the pleasure of the chairperson. The executive director, under the direction of the chairperson, shall perform all of the following duties:

(1) Act as chief administrative officer for the commission;

(2) Ensure that all commission personnel follow the rules of the commission;

(3) Ensure that all orders, awards, and determinations are properly heard and signed, prior to attesting to the documents;

(4) Coordinate, to the fullest extent possible, commission activities with the bureau of workers' compensation activities;

(5) Do all things necessary for the efficient and effective implementation of the duties of the commission.

The responsibilities assigned to the executive director of the commission do not relieve the chairperson from final responsibility for the proper performance of the acts specified in this division.

(C) The chairperson shall do all of the following:

(1) Except as otherwise provided in this division, employ, promote, supervise, remove, and establish the compensation of all employees as needed in connection with the performance of the commission's duties under this chapter and Chapters 4123., 4127., and 4131. of the Revised Code and may assign to them their duties to the extent necessary to achieve the most efficient performance of its functions, and to that end may establish, change, or abolish positions, and assign and reassign duties and responsibilities of every employee of the commission. The civil service status of any person employed by the commission prior to November 3, 1989, is not affected by this section. Personnel employed by the bureau or the commission who are subject to Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code shall retain all of their rights and benefits conferred pursuant to that chapter as it presently exists or is hereafter amended and nothing in this chapter or Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code shall be construed as eliminating or interfering with Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code or the rights and benefits conferred under that chapter to public employees or to any bargaining unit.

(2) Hire district and staff hearing officers after consultation with other commission members and obtaining the approval of at least one other commission member;

(3) Fire staff and district hearing officers when the chairperson finds appropriate after obtaining the approval of at least one other commission member;

(4) Maintain the office for the commission in Columbus;

(5) To the maximum extent possible, use electronic data processing equipment for the issuance of orders immediately following a hearing, scheduling of hearings and medical examinations, tracking of claims, retrieval of information, and any other matter within the commission's jurisdiction, and shall provide and input information into the electronic data processing equipment as necessary to effect the success of the claims tracking system established pursuant to division (B)(15) of section 4121.121 of the Revised Code;

(6) Exercise all administrative and nonadjudicatory powers and duties conferred upon the commission by Chapters 4121., 4123., 4127., and 4131. of the Revised Code;

(7) Approve all contracts for special services.

(D) The chairperson is responsible for all administrative matters and may secure for the commission facilities, equipment, and supplies necessary to house the commission, any employees, and files and records under the commission's control and to discharge any duty imposed upon the commission by law, the expense thereof to be audited and paid in the same manner as other state expenses. For that purpose, the chairperson, separately from the budget prepared by the administrator of workers' compensation and the budget prepared by the director of the workers' compensation council, shall prepare and submit to the office of budget and management a budget for each biennium according to sections 101.532 and 107.03 of the Revised Code. The budget submitted shall cover the costs of the commission and staff and district hearing officers in the discharge of any duty imposed upon the chairperson, the commission, and hearing officers by law.

(E) A majority of the commission constitutes a quorum to transact business. No vacancy impairs the rights of the remaining members to exercise all of the powers of the commission, so long as a majority remains. Any investigation, inquiry, or hearing that the commission may hold or undertake may be held or undertaken by or before any one member of the commission, or before one of the deputies of the commission, except as otherwise provided in this chapter and Chapters 4123., 4127., and 4131. of the Revised Code. Every order made by a member, or by a deputy, when approved and confirmed by a majority of the members, and so shown on its record of proceedings, is the order of the commission. The commission may hold sessions at any place within the state. The commission is responsible for all of the following:

(1) Establishing the overall adjudicatory policy and management of the commission under this chapter and Chapters 4123., 4127., and 4131. of the Revised Code, except for those administrative matters within the jurisdiction of the chairperson, bureau of workers' compensation, and the administrator of workers' compensation under those chapters;

(2) Hearing appeals and reconsiderations under this chapter and Chapters 4123., 4127., and 4131. of the Revised Code;

(3) Engaging in rulemaking where required by this chapter or Chapter 4123., 4127., or 4131. of the Revised Code.

Sec. 4121.121.  (A) There is hereby created the bureau of workers' compensation, which shall be administered by the administrator of workers' compensation. A person appointed to the position of administrator shall possess significant management experience in effectively managing an organization or organizations of substantial size and complexity. A person appointed to the position of administrator also shall possess a minimum of five years of experience in the field of workers' compensation insurance or in another insurance industry, except as otherwise provided when the conditions specified in division (C) of this section are satisfied. The governor shall appoint the administrator as provided in section 121.03 of the Revised Code, and the administrator shall serve at the pleasure of the governor. The governor shall fix the administrator's salary on the basis of the administrator's experience and the administrator's responsibilities and duties under this chapter and Chapters 4123., 4125., 4127., 4131., and 4167. of the Revised Code. The governor shall not appoint to the position of administrator any person who has, or whose spouse has, given a contribution to the campaign committee of the governor in an amount greater than one thousand dollars during the two-year period immediately preceding the date of the appointment of the administrator.

The administrator shall hold no other public office and shall devote full time to the duties of administrator. Before entering upon the duties of the office, the administrator shall take an oath of office as required by sections 3.22 and 3.23 of the Revised Code, and shall file in the office of the secretary of state, a bond signed by the administrator and by surety approved by the governor, for the sum of fifty thousand dollars payable to the state, conditioned upon the faithful performance of the administrator's duties.

(B) The administrator is responsible for the management of the bureau and for the discharge of all administrative duties imposed upon the administrator in this chapter and Chapters 4123., 4125., 4127., 4131., and 4167. of the Revised Code, and in the discharge thereof shall do all of the following:

(1) Perform all acts and exercise all authorities and powers, discretionary and otherwise that are required of or vested in the bureau or any of its employees in this chapter and Chapters 4123., 4125., 4127., 4131., and 4167. of the Revised Code, except the acts and the exercise of authority and power that is required of and vested in the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors or the industrial commission pursuant to those chapters. The treasurer of state shall honor all warrants signed by the administrator, or by one or more of the administrator's employees, authorized by the administrator in writing, or bearing the facsimile signature of the administrator or such employee under sections 4123.42 and 4123.44 of the Revised Code.

(2) Employ, direct, and supervise all employees required in connection with the performance of the duties assigned to the bureau by this chapter and Chapters 4123., 4125., 4127., 4131., and 4167. of the Revised Code, including an actuary, and may establish job classification plans and compensation for all employees of the bureau provided that this grant of authority shall not be construed as affecting any employee for whom the state employment relations board has established an appropriate bargaining unit under section 4117.06 of the Revised Code. All positions of employment in the bureau are in the classified civil service except those employees the administrator may appoint to serve at the administrator's pleasure in the unclassified civil service pursuant to section 124.11 of the Revised Code. The administrator shall fix the salaries of employees the administrator appoints to serve at the administrator's pleasure, including the chief operating officer, staff physicians, and other senior management personnel of the bureau and shall establish the compensation of staff attorneys of the bureau's legal section and their immediate supervisors, and take whatever steps are necessary to provide adequate compensation for other staff attorneys.

The administrator may appoint a person who holds a certified position in the classified service within the bureau to a position in the unclassified service within the bureau. A person appointed pursuant to this division to a position in the unclassified service shall retain the right to resume the position and status held by the person in the classified service immediately prior to the person's appointment in the unclassified service, regardless of the number of positions the person held in the unclassified service. An employee's right to resume a position in the classified service may only be exercised when the administrator demotes the employee to a pay range lower than the employee's current pay range or revokes the employee's appointment to the unclassified service. An employee forfeits the right to resume a position in the classified service when the employee is removed from the position in the unclassified service due to incompetence, inefficiency, dishonesty, drunkenness, immoral conduct, insubordination, discourteous treatment of the public, neglect of duty, violation of this chapter or Chapter 124., 4123., 4125., 4127., 4131., or 4167. of the Revised Code, violation of the rules of the director of administrative services or the administrator, any other failure of good behavior, any other acts of misfeasance, malfeasance, or nonfeasance in office, or conviction of a felony. An employee also forfeits the right to resume a position in the classified service upon transfer to a different agency.

Reinstatement to a position in the classified service shall be to a position substantially equal to that position in the classified service held previously, as certified by the department of administrative services. If the position the person previously held in the classified service has been placed in the unclassified service or is otherwise unavailable, the person shall be appointed to a position in the classified service within the bureau that the director of administrative services certifies is comparable in compensation to the position the person previously held in the classified service. Service in the position in the unclassified service shall be counted as service in the position in the classified service held by the person immediately prior to the person's appointment in the unclassified service. When a person is reinstated to a position in the classified service as provided in this division, the person is entitled to all rights, status, and benefits accruing to the position during the person's time of service in the position in the unclassified service.

(3) Reorganize the work of the bureau, its sections, departments, and offices to the extent necessary to achieve the most efficient performance of its functions and to that end may establish, change, or abolish positions and assign and reassign duties and responsibilities of every employee of the bureau. All persons employed by the commission in positions that, after November 3, 1989, are supervised and directed by the administrator under this section are transferred to the bureau in their respective classifications but subject to reassignment and reclassification of position and compensation as the administrator determines to be in the interest of efficient administration. The civil service status of any person employed by the commission is not affected by this section. Personnel employed by the bureau or the commission who are subject to Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code shall retain all of their rights and benefits conferred pursuant to that chapter as it presently exists or is hereafter amended and nothing in this chapter or Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code shall be construed as eliminating or interfering with Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code or the rights and benefits conferred under that chapter to public employees or to any bargaining unit.

(4) Provide offices, equipment, supplies, and other facilities for the bureau.

(5) Prepare and submit to the board information the administrator considers pertinent or the board requires, together with the administrator's recommendations, in the form of administrative rules, for the advice and consent of the board, for classifications of occupations or industries, for premium rates and contributions, for the amount to be credited to the surplus fund, for rules and systems of rating, rate revisions, and merit rating. The administrator shall obtain, prepare, and submit any other information the board requires for the prompt and efficient discharge of its duties.

(6) Keep the accounts required by division (A) of section 4123.34 of the Revised Code and all other accounts and records necessary to the collection, administration, and distribution of the workers' compensation funds and shall obtain the statistical and other information required by section 4123.19 of the Revised Code.

(7) Exercise the investment powers vested in the administrator by section 4123.44 of the Revised Code in accordance with the investment policy approved by the board pursuant to section 4121.12 of the Revised Code and in consultation with the chief investment officer of the bureau of workers' compensation. The administrator shall not engage in any prohibited investment activity specified by the board pursuant to division (F)(9) of section 4121.12 of the Revised Code and shall not invest in any type of investment specified in divisions (B)(1) to (10) of section 4123.442 of the Revised Code. All business shall be transacted, all funds invested, all warrants for money drawn and payments made, and all cash and securities and other property held, in the name of the bureau, or in the name of its nominee, provided that nominees are authorized by the administrator solely for the purpose of facilitating the transfer of securities, and restricted to the administrator and designated employees.

(8) Make contracts for and supervise the construction of any project or improvement or the construction or repair of buildings under the control of the bureau.

(9) Purchase supplies, materials, equipment, and services; make contracts for, operate, and superintend the telephone, other telecommunication, and computer services for the use of the bureau; and make contracts in connection with office reproduction, forms management, printing, and other services. Notwithstanding sections 125.12 to 125.14 of the Revised Code, the administrator may transfer surplus computers and computer equipment directly to an accredited public school within the state. The computers and computer equipment may be repaired or refurbished prior to the transfer.

(10) Prepare and submit to the board an annual budget for internal operating purposes for the board's approval. The administrator also shall, separately from the budget the industrial commission submits and from the budget the director of the workers' compensation council submits, prepare and submit to the director of budget and management a budget for each biennium. The budgets submitted to the board and the director shall include estimates of the costs and necessary expenditures of the bureau in the discharge of any duty imposed by law.

(11) As promptly as possible in the course of efficient administration, decentralize and relocate such of the personnel and activities of the bureau as is appropriate to the end that the receipt, investigation, determination, and payment of claims may be undertaken at or near the place of injury or the residence of the claimant and for that purpose establish regional offices, in such places as the administrator considers proper, capable of discharging as many of the functions of the bureau as is practicable so as to promote prompt and efficient administration in the processing of claims. All active and inactive lost-time claims files shall be held at the service office responsible for the claim. A claimant, at the claimant's request, shall be provided with information by telephone as to the location of the file pertaining to the claimant's claim. The administrator shall ensure that all service office employees report directly to the director for their service office.

(12) Provide a written binder on new coverage where the administrator considers it to be in the best interest of the risk. The administrator, or any other person authorized by the administrator, shall grant the binder upon submission of a request for coverage by the employer. A binder is effective for a period of thirty days from date of issuance and is nonrenewable. Payroll reports and premium charges shall coincide with the effective date of the binder.

(13) Set standards for the reasonable and maximum handling time of claims payment functions, ensure, by rules, the impartial and prompt treatment of all claims and employer risk accounts, and establish a secure, accurate method of time stamping all incoming mail and documents hand delivered to bureau employees.

(14) Ensure that all employees of the bureau follow the orders and rules of the commission as such orders and rules relate to the commission's overall adjudicatory policy-making and management duties under this chapter and Chapters 4123., 4127., and 4131. of the Revised Code.

(15) Manage and operate a data processing system with a common data base for the use of both the bureau and the commission and, in consultation with the commission, using electronic data processing equipment, shall develop a claims tracking system that is sufficient to monitor the status of a claim at any time and that lists appeals that have been filed and orders or determinations that have been issued pursuant to section 4123.511 or 4123.512 of the Revised Code, including the dates of such filings and issuances.

(16) Establish and maintain a medical section within the bureau. The medical section shall do all of the following:

(a) Assist the administrator in establishing standard medical fees, approving medical procedures, and determining eligibility and reasonableness of the compensation payments for medical, hospital, and nursing services, and in establishing guidelines for payment policies which recognize usual, customary, and reasonable methods of payment for covered services;

(b) Provide a resource to respond to questions from claims examiners for employees of the bureau;

(c) Audit fee bill payments;

(d) Implement a program to utilize, to the maximum extent possible, electronic data processing equipment for storage of information to facilitate authorizations of compensation payments for medical, hospital, drug, and nursing services;

(e) Perform other duties assigned to it by the administrator.

(17) Appoint, as the administrator determines necessary, panels to review and advise the administrator on disputes arising over a determination that a health care service or supply provided to a claimant is not covered under this chapter or Chapter 4123., 4127., or 4131. of the Revised Code or is medically unnecessary. If an individual health care provider is involved in the dispute, the panel shall consist of individuals licensed pursuant to the same section of the Revised Code as such health care provider.

(18) Pursuant to section 4123.65 of the Revised Code, approve applications for the final settlement of claims for compensation or benefits under this chapter and Chapters 4123., 4127., and 4131. of the Revised Code as the administrator determines appropriate, except in regard to the applications of self-insuring employers and their employees.

(19) Comply with section 3517.13 of the Revised Code, and except in regard to contracts entered into pursuant to the authority contained in section 4121.44 of the Revised Code, comply with the competitive bidding procedures set forth in the Revised Code for all contracts into which the administrator enters provided that those contracts fall within the type of contracts and dollar amounts specified in the Revised Code for competitive bidding and further provided that those contracts are not otherwise specifically exempt from the competitive bidding procedures contained in the Revised Code.

(20) Adopt, with the advice and consent of the board, rules for the operation of the bureau.

(21) Prepare and submit to the board information the administrator considers pertinent or the board requires, together with the administrator's recommendations, in the form of administrative rules, for the advice and consent of the board, for the health partnership program and the qualified health plan system, as provided in sections 4121.44, 4121.441, and 4121.442 of the Revised Code.

(C) The administrator, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint a chief operating officer who has a minimum of five years of experience in the field of workers' compensation insurance or in another similar insurance industry if the administrator does not possess such experience. The chief operating officer shall not commence the chief operating officer's duties until after the senate consents to the chief operating officer's appointment. The chief operating officer shall serve in the unclassified civil service of the state.

Sec. 4121.77.  The workers' compensation council shall appoint a director to manage and direct the duties of the staff of the council. The director shall serve at the pleasure of the council. The director shall be a person who has had training and experience in areas related to the duties of the council.

The council may authorize the director to employ professional, technical, and clerical staff as necessary, and employ or hire on a consulting basis persons to provide actuarial, legal, investment, or other technical services required for the performance of the council's duties. All employees of the council are in the unclassified civil service as described in section 124.11 of the Revised Code and the staff serve at the pleasure of the director. For purposes of sections 718.04 and 4117.01 of the Revised Code, employees of the council shall be considered employees of the general assembly.

The council shall fix the compensation of the director. The director shall fix the compensation of all other employees of the council and, notwithstanding section 124.18 of the Revised Code, shall adopt policies relating to payment for overtime, granting of compensatory time off, utilizing flexible hours, and working on holidays and compensation for holiday work.

The council may do any of the following:

(A) Require the members of the industrial commission, bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, workers' compensation audit committee, workers' compensation actuarial committee, and workers' compensation investment committee, the administrator of workers' compensation, and employees of the industrial commission and the bureau of workers' compensation, and any agency or official of this state or its political subdivisions to provide the council with any information necessary to carry out its duties;

(B) Administer oaths and hold public hearings at times and places within the state as necessary to accomplish the purposes of sections 4121.75 to 4121.79 4121.78 of the Revised Code;

(C) Establish regular reporting requirements for any report that the chairperson of the industrial commission, chairperson of the board, members of the committees specified in division (A) of this section, and the administrator are required to submit to the council;

(D) Request that the auditor of state perform or contract for the performance of a financial or special audit of the bureau;

(E) Request that the auditor of state perform or contract for the performance of a special or fiduciary audit of the workers' compensation system.

Sec. 4123.341.  The administrative costs of the industrial commission, the workers' compensation council, the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, and the bureau of workers' compensation shall be those costs and expenses that are incident to the discharge of the duties and performance of the activities of the industrial commission, the council, the board, and the bureau under this chapter and Chapters 4121., 4125., 4127., 4131., and 4167. of the Revised Code, and all such costs shall be borne by the state and by other employers amenable to this chapter as follows:

(A) In addition to the contribution required of the state under sections 4123.39 and 4123.40 of the Revised Code, the state shall contribute the sum determined to be necessary under section 4123.342 of the Revised Code.

(B) The director of budget and management may allocate the state's share of contributions in the manner the director finds most equitably apportions the costs.

(C) The counties and taxing districts therein shall contribute such sum as may be required under section 4123.342 of the Revised Code.

(D) The private employers shall contribute the sum required under section 4123.342 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 4123.342.  (A) The administrator of workers' compensation shall allocate among counties and taxing districts therein as a class, the state and its instrumentalities as a class, private employers who are insured under the private fund as a class, and self-insuring employers as a class their fair shares of the administrative costs which are to be borne by such employers under division (D) of section 4123.341 of the Revised Code, separately allocating to each class those costs solely attributable to the activities of the industrial commission, those costs solely attributable to the activities of the workers' compensation council, and those costs solely attributable to the activities of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, and the bureau of workers' compensation in respect of the class, allocating to any combination of classes those costs attributable to the activities of the industrial commission, council, board, or bureau in respect of the classes, and allocating to all four classes those costs attributable to the activities of the industrial commission, council, board, and bureau in respect of all classes. The administrator shall separately calculate each employer's assessment in the class, except self-insuring employers, on the basis of the following three factors: payroll, paid compensation, and paid medical costs of the employer for those costs solely attributable to the activities of the board and the bureau. The administrator shall separately calculate each employer's assessment in the class, except self-insuring employers, on the basis of the following three factors: payroll, paid compensation, and paid medical costs of the employer for those costs solely attributable to the activities of the industrial commission. The administrator shall separately calculate each employer's assessment in the class, except self-insuring employers, on the basis of the following three factors: payroll, paid compensation, and paid medical costs of the employer for those costs solely attributable to the activities of the council. The administrator shall separately calculate each self-insuring employer's assessment in accordance with section 4123.35 of the Revised Code for those costs solely attributable to the activities of the board and the bureau. The administrator shall separately calculate each self-insuring employer's assessment in accordance with section 4123.35 of the Revised Code for those costs solely attributable to the activities of the industrial commission. The administrator shall separately calculate each self-insuring employer's assessment in accordance with section 4123.35 of the Revised Code for those costs solely attributable to the activities of the council. In a timely manner, the industrial commission shall provide to the administrator, the information necessary for the administrator to allocate and calculate, with the approval of the chairperson of the industrial commission, for each class of employer as described in this division, the costs solely attributable to the activities of the industrial commission. In a timely manner, the director of the workers' compensation council shall submit to the administrator the information necessary for the administrator to allocate and calculate, with the approval of the director, for each class of employer as described in this division, the costs solely attributable to the activities of the council.

(B) The administrator shall divide the administrative cost assessments collected by the administrator into three two administrative assessment accounts within the state insurance fund. One of the administrative assessment accounts shall consist of the administrative cost assessment collected by the administrator for the industrial commission. One of the administrative assessment accounts shall consist of the administrative cost assessment collected by the administrator for the council. One of the administrative assessment accounts shall consist of the administrative cost assessments collected by the administrator for the bureau and the board. The administrator may invest the administrative cost assessments in these accounts on behalf of the bureau, the council, and the industrial commission as authorized in section 4123.44 of the Revised Code. In a timely manner, the administrator shall provide to the industrial commission and the council the information and reports the commission or council, as applicable, deems necessary for the commission or the council, as applicable, to monitor the receipts and the disbursements from the administrative assessment account for the industrial commission or the administrative assessment account for the council, as applicable.

(C) The administrator or the administrator's designee shall transfer moneys as necessary from the administrative assessment account identified for the bureau and the board to the workers' compensation fund for the use of the bureau and the board. As necessary and upon the authorization of the industrial commission, the administrator or the administrator's designee shall transfer moneys from the administrative assessment account identified for the industrial commission to the industrial commission operating fund created under section 4121.021 of the Revised Code. To the extent that the moneys collected by the administrator in any fiscal biennium of the state equal the sum appropriated by the general assembly for administrative costs of the industrial commission, board, and bureau for the biennium and the administrative costs approved by the workers' compensation council, the moneys shall be paid into the workers' compensation fund, the industrial commission operating fund of the state, the workers' compensation council fund, and the workers' compensation council remuneration fund, as appropriate, and any remainder shall be retained in those funds and applied to reduce the amount collected during the next biennium.

(D) As necessary and upon authorization of the director of the council, the administrator or the administrator's designee shall transfer moneys from the administrative assessment account identified for the council to the workers' compensation council fund created in division (C) of section 4121.79 of the Revised Code.

(E) Sections 4123.41, 4123.35, and 4123.37 of the Revised Code apply to the collection of assessments from public and private employers respectively, except that for boards of county hospital trustees that are self-insuring employers, only those provisions applicable to the collection of assessments for private employers apply.

Sec. 4123.35.  (A) Except as provided in this section, every employer mentioned in division (B)(2) of section 4123.01 of the Revised Code, and every publicly owned utility shall pay semiannually in the months of January and July into the state insurance fund the amount of annual premium the administrator of workers' compensation fixes for the employment or occupation of the employer, the amount of which premium to be paid by each employer to be determined by the classifications, rules, and rates made and published by the administrator. The employer shall pay semiannually a further sum of money into the state insurance fund as may be ascertained to be due from the employer by applying the rules of the administrator, and a receipt or certificate certifying that payment has been made, along with a written notice as is required in section 4123.54 of the Revised Code, shall be mailed immediately to the employer by the bureau of workers' compensation. The receipt or certificate is prima-facie evidence of the payment of the premium, and the proper posting of the notice constitutes the employer's compliance with the notice requirement mandated in section 4123.54 of the Revised Code.

The bureau of workers' compensation shall verify with the secretary of state the existence of all corporations and organizations making application for workers' compensation coverage and shall require every such application to include the employer's federal identification number.

An employer as defined in division (B)(2) of section 4123.01 of the Revised Code who has contracted with a subcontractor is liable for the unpaid premium due from any subcontractor with respect to that part of the payroll of the subcontractor that is for work performed pursuant to the contract with the employer.

Division (A) of this section providing for the payment of premiums semiannually does not apply to any employer who was a subscriber to the state insurance fund prior to January 1, 1914, or who may first become a subscriber to the fund in any month other than January or July. Instead, the semiannual premiums shall be paid by those employers from time to time upon the expiration of the respective periods for which payments into the fund have been made by them.

The administrator shall adopt rules to permit employers to make periodic payments of the semiannual premium due under this division. The rules shall include provisions for the assessment of interest charges, where appropriate, and for the assessment of penalties when an employer fails to make timely premium payments. An employer who timely pays the amounts due under this division is entitled to all of the benefits and protections of this chapter. Upon receipt of payment, the bureau immediately shall mail a receipt or certificate to the employer certifying that payment has been made, which receipt is prima-facie evidence of payment. Workers' compensation coverage under this chapter continues uninterrupted upon timely receipt of payment under this division.

Every public employer, except public employers that are self-insuring employers under this section, shall comply with sections 4123.38 to 4123.41, and 4123.48 of the Revised Code in regard to the contribution of moneys to the public insurance fund.

(B) Employers who will abide by the rules of the administrator and who may be of sufficient financial ability to render certain the payment of compensation to injured employees or the dependents of killed employees, and the furnishing of medical, surgical, nursing, and hospital attention and services and medicines, and funeral expenses, equal to or greater than is provided for in sections 4123.52, 4123.55 to 4123.62, and 4123.64 to 4123.67 of the Revised Code, and who do not desire to insure the payment thereof or indemnify themselves against loss sustained by the direct payment thereof, upon a finding of such facts by the administrator, may be granted the privilege to pay individually compensation, and furnish medical, surgical, nursing, and hospital services and attention and funeral expenses directly to injured employees or the dependents of killed employees, thereby being granted status as a self-insuring employer. The administrator may charge employers who apply for the status as a self-insuring employer a reasonable application fee to cover the bureau's costs in connection with processing and making a determination with respect to an application.

All employers granted status as self-insuring employers shall demonstrate sufficient financial and administrative ability to assure that all obligations under this section are promptly met. The administrator shall deny the privilege where the employer is unable to demonstrate the employer's ability to promptly meet all the obligations imposed on the employer by this section.

(1) The administrator shall consider, but is not limited to, the following factors, where applicable, in determining the employer's ability to meet all of the obligations imposed on the employer by this section:

(a) The employer employs a minimum of five hundred employees in this state;

(b) The employer has operated in this state for a minimum of two years, provided that an employer who has purchased, acquired, or otherwise succeeded to the operation of a business, or any part thereof, situated in this state that has operated for at least two years in this state, also shall qualify;

(c) Where the employer previously contributed to the state insurance fund or is a successor employer as defined by bureau rules, the amount of the buyout, as defined by bureau rules;

(d) The sufficiency of the employer's assets located in this state to insure the employer's solvency in paying compensation directly;

(e) The financial records, documents, and data, certified by a certified public accountant, necessary to provide the employer's full financial disclosure. The records, documents, and data include, but are not limited to, balance sheets and profit and loss history for the current year and previous four years.

(f) The employer's organizational plan for the administration of the workers' compensation law;

(g) The employer's proposed plan to inform employees of the change from a state fund insurer to a self-insuring employer, the procedures the employer will follow as a self-insuring employer, and the employees' rights to compensation and benefits; and

(h) The employer has either an account in a financial institution in this state, or if the employer maintains an account with a financial institution outside this state, ensures that workers' compensation checks are drawn from the same account as payroll checks or the employer clearly indicates that payment will be honored by a financial institution in this state.

The administrator may waive the requirements of divisions (B)(1)(a) and (b) of this section and the requirement of division (B)(1)(e) of this section that the financial records, documents, and data be certified by a certified public accountant. The administrator shall adopt rules establishing the criteria that an employer shall meet in order for the administrator to waive the requirement of division (B)(1)(e) of this section. Such rules may require additional security of that employer pursuant to division (E) of section 4123.351 of the Revised Code.

The administrator shall not grant the status of self-insuring employer to the state, except that the administrator may grant the status of self-insuring employer to a state institution of higher education, excluding its hospitals, that meets the requirements of division (B)(2) of this section.

(2) When considering the application of a public employer, except for a board of county commissioners described in division (G) of section 4123.01 of the Revised Code, a board of a county hospital, or a publicly owned utility, the administrator shall verify that the public employer satisfies all of the following requirements as the requirements apply to that public employer:

(a) For the two-year period preceding application under this section, the public employer has maintained an unvoted debt capacity equal to at least two times the amount of the current annual premium established by the administrator under this chapter for that public employer for the year immediately preceding the year in which the public employer makes application under this section.

(b) For each of the two fiscal years preceding application under this section, the unreserved and undesignated year-end fund balance in the public employer's general fund is equal to at least five per cent of the public employer's general fund revenues for the fiscal year computed in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

(c) For the five-year period preceding application under this section, the public employer, to the extent applicable, has complied fully with the continuing disclosure requirements established in rules adopted by the United States securities and exchange commission under 17 C.F.R. 240.15c 2-12.

(d) For the five-year period preceding application under this section, the public employer has not had its local government fund distribution withheld on account of the public employer being indebted or otherwise obligated to the state.

(e) For the five-year period preceding application under this section, the public employer has not been under a fiscal watch or fiscal emergency pursuant to section 118.023, 118.04, or 3316.03 of the Revised Code.

(f) For the public employer's fiscal year preceding application under this section, the public employer has obtained an annual financial audit as required under section 117.10 of the Revised Code, which has been released by the auditor of state within seven months after the end of the public employer's fiscal year.

(g) On the date of application, the public employer holds a debt rating of Aa3 or higher according to Moody's investors service, inc., or a comparable rating by an independent rating agency similar to Moody's investors service, inc.

(h) The public employer agrees to generate an annual accumulating book reserve in its financial statements reflecting an actuarially generated reserve adequate to pay projected claims under this chapter for the applicable period of time, as determined by the administrator.

(i) For a public employer that is a hospital, the public employer shall submit audited financial statements showing the hospital's overall liquidity characteristics, and the administrator shall determine, on an individual basis, whether the public employer satisfies liquidity standards equivalent to the liquidity standards of other public employers.

(j) Any additional criteria that the administrator adopts by rule pursuant to division (E) of this section.

The administrator shall not approve the application of a public employer, except for a board of county commissioners described in division (G) of section 4123.01 of the Revised Code, a board of a county hospital, or publicly owned utility, who does not satisfy all of the requirements listed in division (B)(2) of this section.

(C) A board of county commissioners described in division (G) of section 4123.01 of the Revised Code, as an employer, that will abide by the rules of the administrator and that may be of sufficient financial ability to render certain the payment of compensation to injured employees or the dependents of killed employees, and the furnishing of medical, surgical, nursing, and hospital attention and services and medicines, and funeral expenses, equal to or greater than is provided for in sections 4123.52, 4123.55 to 4123.62, and 4123.64 to 4123.67 of the Revised Code, and that does not desire to insure the payment thereof or indemnify itself against loss sustained by the direct payment thereof, upon a finding of such facts by the administrator, may be granted the privilege to pay individually compensation, and furnish medical, surgical, nursing, and hospital services and attention and funeral expenses directly to injured employees or the dependents of killed employees, thereby being granted status as a self-insuring employer. The administrator may charge a board of county commissioners described in division (G) of section 4123.01 of the Revised Code that applies for the status as a self-insuring employer a reasonable application fee to cover the bureau's costs in connection with processing and making a determination with respect to an application. All employers granted such status shall demonstrate sufficient financial and administrative ability to assure that all obligations under this section are promptly met. The administrator shall deny the privilege where the employer is unable to demonstrate the employer's ability to promptly meet all the obligations imposed on the employer by this section. The administrator shall consider, but is not limited to, the following factors, where applicable, in determining the employer's ability to meet all of the obligations imposed on the board as an employer by this section:

(1) The board as an employer employs a minimum of five hundred employees in this state;

(2) The board has operated in this state for a minimum of two years;

(3) Where the board previously contributed to the state insurance fund or is a successor employer as defined by bureau rules, the amount of the buyout, as defined by bureau rules;

(4) The sufficiency of the board's assets located in this state to insure the board's solvency in paying compensation directly;

(5) The financial records, documents, and data, certified by a certified public accountant, necessary to provide the board's full financial disclosure. The records, documents, and data include, but are not limited to, balance sheets and profit and loss history for the current year and previous four years.

(6) The board's organizational plan for the administration of the workers' compensation law;

(7) The board's proposed plan to inform employees of the proposed self-insurance, the procedures the board will follow as a self-insuring employer, and the employees' rights to compensation and benefits;

(8) The board has either an account in a financial institution in this state, or if the board maintains an account with a financial institution outside this state, ensures that workers' compensation checks are drawn from the same account as payroll checks or the board clearly indicates that payment will be honored by a financial institution in this state;

(9) The board shall provide the administrator a surety bond in an amount equal to one hundred twenty-five per cent of the projected losses as determined by the administrator.

(D) The administrator shall require a surety bond from all self-insuring employers, issued pursuant to section 4123.351 of the Revised Code, that is sufficient to compel, or secure to injured employees, or to the dependents of employees killed, the payment of compensation and expenses, which shall in no event be less than that paid or furnished out of the state insurance fund in similar cases to injured employees or to dependents of killed employees whose employers contribute to the fund, except when an employee of the employer, who has suffered the loss of a hand, arm, foot, leg, or eye prior to the injury for which compensation is to be paid, and thereafter suffers the loss of any other of the members as the result of any injury sustained in the course of and arising out of the employee's employment, the compensation to be paid by the self-insuring employer is limited to the disability suffered in the subsequent injury, additional compensation, if any, to be paid by the bureau out of the surplus created by section 4123.34 of the Revised Code.

(E) In addition to the requirements of this section, the administrator shall make and publish rules governing the manner of making application and the nature and extent of the proof required to justify a finding of fact by the administrator as to granting the status of a self-insuring employer, which rules shall be general in their application, one of which rules shall provide that all self-insuring employers shall pay into the state insurance fund such amounts as are required to be credited to the surplus fund in division (B) of section 4123.34 of the Revised Code. The administrator may adopt rules establishing requirements in addition to the requirements described in division (B)(2) of this section that a public employer shall meet in order to qualify for self-insuring status.

Employers shall secure directly from the bureau central offices application forms upon which the bureau shall stamp a designating number. Prior to submission of an application, an employer shall make available to the bureau, and the bureau shall review, the information described in division (B)(1) of this section, and public employers shall make available, and the bureau shall review, the information necessary to verify whether the public employer meets the requirements listed in division (B)(2) of this section. An employer shall file the completed application forms with an application fee, which shall cover the costs of processing the application, as established by the administrator, by rule, with the bureau at least ninety days prior to the effective date of the employer's new status as a self-insuring employer. The application form is not deemed complete until all the required information is attached thereto. The bureau shall only accept applications that contain the required information.

(F) The bureau shall review completed applications within a reasonable time. If the bureau determines to grant an employer the status as a self-insuring employer, the bureau shall issue a statement, containing its findings of fact, that is prepared by the bureau and signed by the administrator. If the bureau determines not to grant the status as a self-insuring employer, the bureau shall notify the employer of the determination and require the employer to continue to pay its full premium into the state insurance fund. The administrator also shall adopt rules establishing a minimum level of performance as a criterion for granting and maintaining the status as a self-insuring employer and fixing time limits beyond which failure of the self-insuring employer to provide for the necessary medical examinations and evaluations may not delay a decision on a claim.

(G) The administrator shall adopt rules setting forth procedures for auditing the program of self-insuring employers. The bureau shall conduct the audit upon a random basis or whenever the bureau has grounds for believing that a self-insuring employer is not in full compliance with bureau rules or this chapter.

The administrator shall monitor the programs conducted by self-insuring employers, to ensure compliance with bureau requirements and for that purpose, shall develop and issue to self-insuring employers standardized forms for use by the self-insuring employer in all aspects of the self-insuring employers' direct compensation program and for reporting of information to the bureau.

The bureau shall receive and transmit to the self-insuring employer all complaints concerning any self-insuring employer. In the case of a complaint against a self-insuring employer, the administrator shall handle the complaint through the self-insurance division of the bureau. The bureau shall maintain a file by employer of all complaints received that relate to the employer. The bureau shall evaluate each complaint and take appropriate action.

The administrator shall adopt as a rule a prohibition against any self-insuring employer from harassing, dismissing, or otherwise disciplining any employee making a complaint, which rule shall provide for a financial penalty to be levied by the administrator payable by the offending self-insuring employer.

(H) For the purpose of making determinations as to whether to grant status as a self-insuring employer, the administrator may subscribe to and pay for a credit reporting service that offers financial and other business information about individual employers. The costs in connection with the bureau's subscription or individual reports from the service about an applicant may be included in the application fee charged employers under this section.

(I) The administrator, notwithstanding other provisions of this chapter, may permit a self-insuring employer to resume payment of premiums to the state insurance fund with appropriate credit modifications to the employer's basic premium rate as such rate is determined pursuant to section 4123.29 of the Revised Code.

(J) On the first day of July of each year, the administrator shall calculate separately each self-insuring employer's assessments for the safety and hygiene fund, administrative costs pursuant to section 4123.342 of the Revised Code, and for the portion of the surplus fund under division (B) of section 4123.34 of the Revised Code that is not used for handicapped reimbursement, on the basis of the paid compensation attributable to the individual self-insuring employer according to the following calculation:

(1) The total assessment against all self-insuring employers as a class for each fund and for the administrative costs for the year that the assessment is being made, as determined by the administrator, divided by the total amount of paid compensation for the previous calendar year attributable to all amenable self-insuring employers;

(2) Multiply the quotient in division (J)(1) of this section by the total amount of paid compensation for the previous calendar year that is attributable to the individual self-insuring employer for whom the assessment is being determined. Each self-insuring employer shall pay the assessment that results from this calculation, unless the assessment resulting from this calculation falls below a minimum assessment, which minimum assessment the administrator shall determine on the first day of July of each year with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, in which event, the self-insuring employer shall pay the minimum assessment.

In determining the total amount due for the total assessment against all self-insuring employers as a class for each fund and the administrative assessment, the administrator shall reduce proportionately the total for each fund and assessment by the amount of money in the self-insurance assessment fund as of the date of the computation of the assessment.

The administrator shall calculate the assessment for the portion of the surplus fund under division (B) of section 4123.34 of the Revised Code that is used for handicapped reimbursement in the same manner as set forth in divisions (J)(1) and (2) of this section except that the administrator shall calculate the total assessment for this portion of the surplus fund only on the basis of those self-insuring employers that retain participation in the handicapped reimbursement program and the individual self-insuring employer's proportion of paid compensation shall be calculated only for those self-insuring employers who retain participation in the handicapped reimbursement program. The administrator, as the administrator determines appropriate, may determine the total assessment for the handicapped portion of the surplus fund in accordance with sound actuarial principles.

The administrator shall calculate the assessment for the portion of the surplus fund under division (B) of section 4123.34 of the Revised Code that under division (D) of section 4121.66 of the Revised Code is used for rehabilitation costs in the same manner as set forth in divisions (J)(1) and (2) of this section, except that the administrator shall calculate the total assessment for this portion of the surplus fund only on the basis of those self-insuring employers who have not made the election to make payments directly under division (D) of section 4121.66 of the Revised Code and an individual self-insuring employer's proportion of paid compensation only for those self-insuring employers who have not made that election.

The administrator shall calculate the assessment for the portion of the surplus fund under division (B) of section 4123.34 of the Revised Code that is used for reimbursement to a self-insuring employer under division (H) of section 4123.512 of the Revised Code in the same manner as set forth in divisions (J)(1) and (2) of this section except that the administrator shall calculate the total assessment for this portion of the surplus fund only on the basis of those self-insuring employers that retain participation in reimbursement to the self-insuring employer under division (H) of section 4123.512 of the Revised Code and the individual self-insuring employer's proportion of paid compensation shall be calculated only for those self-insuring employers who retain participation in reimbursement to the self-insuring employer under division (H) of section 4123.512 of the Revised Code.

An employer who no longer is a self-insuring employer in this state or who no longer is operating in this state, shall continue to pay assessments for administrative costs and for the portion of the surplus fund under division (B) of section 4123.34 of the Revised Code that is not used for handicapped reimbursement, based upon paid compensation attributable to claims that occurred while the employer was a self-insuring employer within this state.

(K) The administrator shall deposit any moneys received from a self-insuring employer for the self-insuring employer's assessment to pay the costs solely attributable to the workers' compensation council into the administrative assessment account described in division (B) of section 4123.342 of the Revised Code for the administrative cost assessment collected by the administrator for the council. There is hereby created in the state treasury the self-insurance assessment fund. All investment earnings of the fund shall be deposited in the fund. The administrator shall use the money in the self-insurance assessment fund only for administrative costs as specified in section 4123.341 of the Revised Code.

(L) Every self-insuring employer shall certify, in affidavit form subject to the penalty for perjury, to the bureau the amount of the self-insuring employer's paid compensation for the previous calendar year. In reporting paid compensation paid for the previous year, a self-insuring employer shall exclude from the total amount of paid compensation any reimbursement the self-insuring employer receives in the previous calendar year from the surplus fund pursuant to section 4123.512 of the Revised Code for any paid compensation. The self-insuring employer also shall exclude from the paid compensation reported any amount recovered under section 4123.931 of the Revised Code and any amount that is determined not to have been payable to or on behalf of a claimant in any final administrative or judicial proceeding. The self-insuring employer shall exclude such amounts from the paid compensation reported in the reporting period subsequent to the date the determination is made. The administrator shall adopt rules, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, that provide for all of the following:

(1) Establishing the date by which self-insuring employers must submit such information and the amount of the assessments provided for in division (J) of this section for employers who have been granted self-insuring status within the last calendar year;

(2) If an employer fails to pay the assessment when due, the administrator may add a late fee penalty of not more than five hundred dollars to the assessment plus an additional penalty amount as follows:

(a) For an assessment from sixty-one to ninety days past due, the prime interest rate, multiplied by the assessment due;

(b) For an assessment from ninety-one to one hundred twenty days past due, the prime interest rate plus two per cent, multiplied by the assessment due;

(c) For an assessment from one hundred twenty-one to one hundred fifty days past due, the prime interest rate plus four per cent, multiplied by the assessment due;

(d) For an assessment from one hundred fifty-one to one hundred eighty days past due, the prime interest rate plus six per cent, multiplied by the assessment due;

(e) For an assessment from one hundred eighty-one to two hundred ten days past due, the prime interest rate plus eight per cent, multiplied by the assessment due;

(f) For each additional thirty-day period or portion thereof that an assessment remains past due after it has remained past due for more than two hundred ten days, the prime interest rate plus eight per cent, multiplied by the assessment due.

(3) An employer may appeal a late fee penalty and penalty assessment to the administrator.

For purposes of division (L)(2) of this section, "prime interest rate" means the average bank prime rate, and the administrator shall determine the prime interest rate in the same manner as a county auditor determines the average bank prime rate under section 929.02 of the Revised Code.

The administrator shall include any assessment and penalties that remain unpaid for previous assessment periods in the calculation and collection of any assessments due under this division or division (J) of this section.

(M) As used in this section, "paid compensation" means all amounts paid by a self-insuring employer for living maintenance benefits, all amounts for compensation paid pursuant to sections 4121.63, 4121.67, 4123.56, 4123.57, 4123.58, 4123.59, 4123.60, and 4123.64 of the Revised Code, all amounts paid as wages in lieu of such compensation, all amounts paid in lieu of such compensation under a nonoccupational accident and sickness program fully funded by the self-insuring employer, and all amounts paid by a self-insuring employer for a violation of a specific safety standard pursuant to Section 35 of Article II, Ohio Constitution and section 4121.47 of the Revised Code.

(N) Should any section of this chapter or Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code providing for self-insuring employers' assessments based upon compensation paid be declared unconstitutional by a final decision of any court, then that section of the Revised Code declared unconstitutional shall revert back to the section in existence prior to November 3, 1989, providing for assessments based upon payroll.

(O) The administrator may grant a self-insuring employer the privilege to self-insure a construction project entered into by the self-insuring employer that is scheduled for completion within six years after the date the project begins, and the total cost of which is estimated to exceed one hundred million dollars or, for employers described in division (R) of this section, if the construction project is estimated to exceed twenty-five million dollars. The administrator may waive such cost and time criteria and grant a self-insuring employer the privilege to self-insure a construction project regardless of the time needed to complete the construction project and provided that the cost of the construction project is estimated to exceed fifty million dollars. A self-insuring employer who desires to self-insure a construction project shall submit to the administrator an application listing the dates the construction project is scheduled to begin and end, the estimated cost of the construction project, the contractors and subcontractors whose employees are to be self-insured by the self-insuring employer, the provisions of a safety program that is specifically designed for the construction project, and a statement as to whether a collective bargaining agreement governing the rights, duties, and obligations of each of the parties to the agreement with respect to the construction project exists between the self-insuring employer and a labor organization.

A self-insuring employer may apply to self-insure the employees of either of the following:

(1) All contractors and subcontractors who perform labor or work or provide materials for the construction project;

(2) All contractors and, at the administrator's discretion, a substantial number of all the subcontractors who perform labor or work or provide materials for the construction project.

Upon approval of the application, the administrator shall mail a certificate granting the privilege to self-insure the construction project to the self-insuring employer. The certificate shall contain the name of the self-insuring employer and the name, address, and telephone number of the self-insuring employer's representatives who are responsible for administering workers' compensation claims for the construction project. The self-insuring employer shall post the certificate in a conspicuous place at the site of the construction project.

The administrator shall maintain a record of the contractors and subcontractors whose employees are covered under the certificate issued to the self-insured employer. A self-insuring employer immediately shall notify the administrator when any contractor or subcontractor is added or eliminated from inclusion under the certificate.

Upon approval of the application, the self-insuring employer is responsible for the administration and payment of all claims under this chapter and Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code for the employees of the contractor and subcontractors covered under the certificate who receive injuries or are killed in the course of and arising out of employment on the construction project, or who contract an occupational disease in the course of employment on the construction project. For purposes of this chapter and Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code, a claim that is administered and paid in accordance with this division is considered a claim against the self-insuring employer listed in the certificate. A contractor or subcontractor included under the certificate shall report to the self-insuring employer listed in the certificate, all claims that arise under this chapter and Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code in connection with the construction project for which the certificate is issued.

A self-insuring employer who complies with this division is entitled to the protections provided under this chapter and Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code with respect to the employees of the contractors and subcontractors covered under a certificate issued under this division for death or injuries that arise out of, or death, injuries, or occupational diseases that arise in the course of, those employees' employment on that construction project, as if the employees were employees of the self-insuring employer, provided that the self-insuring employer also complies with this section. No employee of the contractors and subcontractors covered under a certificate issued under this division shall be considered the employee of the self-insuring employer listed in that certificate for any purposes other than this chapter and Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code. Nothing in this division gives a self-insuring employer authority to control the means, manner, or method of employment of the employees of the contractors and subcontractors covered under a certificate issued under this division.

The contractors and subcontractors included under a certificate issued under this division are entitled to the protections provided under this chapter and Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code with respect to the contractor's or subcontractor's employees who are employed on the construction project which is the subject of the certificate, for death or injuries that arise out of, or death, injuries, or occupational diseases that arise in the course of, those employees' employment on that construction project.

The contractors and subcontractors included under a certificate issued under this division shall identify in their payroll records the employees who are considered the employees of the self-insuring employer listed in that certificate for purposes of this chapter and Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code, and the amount that those employees earned for employment on the construction project that is the subject of that certificate. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary under this chapter and Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code, the administrator shall exclude the payroll that is reported for employees who are considered the employees of the self-insuring employer listed in that certificate, and that the employees earned for employment on the construction project that is the subject of that certificate, when determining those contractors' or subcontractors' premiums or assessments required under this chapter and Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code. A self-insuring employer issued a certificate under this division shall include in the amount of paid compensation it reports pursuant to division (L) of this section, the amount of paid compensation the self-insuring employer paid pursuant to this division for the previous calendar year.

Nothing in this division shall be construed as altering the rights of employees under this chapter and Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code as those rights existed prior to September 17, 1996. Nothing in this division shall be construed as altering the rights devolved under sections 2305.31 and 4123.82 of the Revised Code as those rights existed prior to September 17, 1996.

As used in this division, "privilege to self-insure a construction project" means privilege to pay individually compensation, and to furnish medical, surgical, nursing, and hospital services and attention and funeral expenses directly to injured employees or the dependents of killed employees.

(P) A self-insuring employer whose application is granted under division (O) of this section shall designate a safety professional to be responsible for the administration and enforcement of the safety program that is specifically designed for the construction project that is the subject of the application.

A self-insuring employer whose application is granted under division (O) of this section shall employ an ombudsperson for the construction project that is the subject of the application. The ombudsperson shall have experience in workers' compensation or the construction industry, or both. The ombudsperson shall perform all of the following duties:

(1) Communicate with and provide information to employees who are injured in the course of, or whose injury arises out of employment on the construction project, or who contract an occupational disease in the course of employment on the construction project;

(2) Investigate the status of a claim upon the request of an employee to do so;

(3) Provide information to claimants, third party administrators, employers, and other persons to assist those persons in protecting their rights under this chapter and Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code.

A self-insuring employer whose application is granted under division (O) of this section shall post the name of the safety professional and the ombudsperson and instructions for contacting the safety professional and the ombudsperson in a conspicuous place at the site of the construction project.

(Q) The administrator may consider all of the following when deciding whether to grant a self-insuring employer the privilege to self-insure a construction project as provided under division (O) of this section:

(1) Whether the self-insuring employer has an organizational plan for the administration of the workers' compensation law;

(2) Whether the safety program that is specifically designed for the construction project provides for the safety of employees employed on the construction project, is applicable to all contractors and subcontractors who perform labor or work or provide materials for the construction project, and has as a component, a safety training program that complies with standards adopted pursuant to the "Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970," 84 Stat. 1590, 29 U.S.C.A. 651, and provides for continuing management and employee involvement;

(3) Whether granting the privilege to self-insure the construction project will reduce the costs of the construction project;

(4) Whether the self-insuring employer has employed an ombudsperson as required under division (P) of this section;

(5) Whether the self-insuring employer has sufficient surety to secure the payment of claims for which the self-insuring employer would be responsible pursuant to the granting of the privilege to self-insure a construction project under division (O) of this section.

(R) As used in divisions (O), (P), and (Q), "self-insuring employer" includes the following employers, whether or not they have been granted the status of being a self-insuring employer under division (B) of this section:

(1) A state institution of higher education;

(2) A school district;

(3) A county school financing district;

(4) An educational service center;

(5) A community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code;

(6) A municipal power agency as defined in section 3734.058 of the Revised Code.

(S) As used in this section:

(1) "Unvoted debt capacity" means the amount of money that a public employer may borrow without voter approval of a tax levy;

(2) "State institution of higher education" means the state universities listed in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code, community colleges created pursuant to Chapter 3354. of the Revised Code, university branches created pursuant to Chapter 3355. of the Revised Code, technical colleges created pursuant to Chapter 3357. of the Revised Code, and state community colleges created pursuant to Chapter 3358. of the Revised Code.

Sec. 4169.02.  (A) For the purposes of regulating The division of labor in the department of commerce shall regulate the construction, maintenance, mechanical operation, and inspection of passenger tramways that are associated with ski areas and of registering shall register operators of passenger tramways in this state, there is hereby established in the division of labor in the department of commerce a ski tramway board to be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate. The board shall consist of three members, one of whom shall be a public member who is an experienced skier and familiar with ski areas in this state, one of whom shall be a ski area operator actively engaged in the business of recreational skiing in this state, and one of whom shall be a professional engineer who is knowledgeable in the design or operation of passenger tramways.

Of the initial appointments, one member shall be appointed for a term of one year, one for a term of two years, and one for a term of three years. The member appointed to the term beginning on July 1, 1996, shall be appointed to a term ending on June 30, 1997; the member appointed to a term beginning on July 1, 1997, shall be appointed to a term ending on June 30, 1999; and the member appointed to a term beginning on July 1, 1998, shall be appointed to a term ending on June 30, 2001. Thereafter, each of the members shall be appointed for a term of six years. Each member shall hold office from the date of appointment until the end of the term for which the member was appointed. In the event of a vacancy, the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint a successor who shall hold office for the remainder of the term for which the successor's predecessor was appointed. A member shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration date of the member's term until the member's successor takes office or until a period of sixty days has elapsed, whichever occurs first. The board shall elect a chairperson from its members.

The governor may remove any member of the board at any time for misfeasance, nonfeasance, or malfeasance in office after giving the member a copy of the charges against the member and an opportunity to be heard publicly in person or by counsel in the member's defense. Any such act of removal by the governor is final. A statement of the findings of the governor, the reason for the governor's action, and the answer, if any, of the member shall be filed by the governor with the secretary of state and shall be open to public inspection.

Members of the board shall be paid two hundred fifty dollars for each meeting that the member attends, except that no member shall be paid or receive more than seven hundred fifty dollars for attending meetings during any calendar year. Each member shall be reimbursed for the member's actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of official board duties. The chairperson shall be paid two hundred fifty dollars annually in addition to any compensation the chairperson receives under this division for attending meetings and any other compensation the chairperson receives for serving on the board.

The division shall provide the board with such offices and such clerical, professional, and other assistance as may be reasonably necessary for the board to carry on its work. The division shall maintain accurate copies of the board's rules as promulgated in accordance with division (B) of this section and shall keep all of the board's records, including business records, and inspection reports as well as its own records and reports. The cost of administering the board and conducting inspections shall be included in the budget of the division based on revenues generated by the registration fees established under section 4169.03 of the Revised Code.

(B) In accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the board division shall adopt and may amend or rescind rules relating to public safety in the construction, maintenance, mechanical operation, and inspection of passenger tramways. The rules shall be in accordance with established standards in the business of ski area operation, if any, and shall not discriminate in their application to ski area operators.

No person shall violate the rules of the board division.

(C) The authority of the board division shall not extend to any matter relative to the operation of a ski area other than the construction, maintenance, mechanical operation, and inspection of passenger tramways.

(D) A majority of the board constitutes a quorum and may perform and exercise all the duties and powers devolving upon the board.

Sec. 4169.03.  (A) Before a passenger tramway operator may operate any passenger tramway in the state, the operator shall apply to the ski tramway board division of labor in the department of commerce, on forms prepared by it, for registration by the board division. The application shall contain an inventory of the passenger tramways that the applicant intends to operate and other information as the board division may reasonably require and shall be accompanied by the following annual fees:

(1) Each aerial passenger tramway, five hundred dollars;

(2) Each skimobile, two hundred dollars;

(3) Each chair lift, two hundred dollars;

(4) Each J bar, T bar, or platter pull, one hundred dollars;

(5) Each rope tow, fifty dollars;

(6) Each wire rope tow, seventy-five dollars;

(7) Each conveyor, one hundred dollars.

When an operator operates an aerial passenger tramway, a skimobile, or a chair lift during both a winter and summer season, the annual fee shall be one and one-half the above amount for the respective passenger tramway.

(B) Upon payment of the appropriate annual fees in accordance with division (A) of this section, the board division shall issue a registration certificate to the operator. Each certificate shall remain in force until the thirtieth day of September next ensuing. The board division shall renew an operator's certificate in accordance with the standard renewal procedure in Chapter 4745. of the Revised Code upon payment of the appropriate annual fees.

(C) Money received from the registration fees and from the fines collected pursuant to section 4169.99 of the Revised Code shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the labor operating fund created in section 121.084 of the Revised Code.

(D) No person shall operate a passenger tramway in this state unless the person has been registered by the board division.

Sec. 4169.04.  (A) The division of labor in the department of commerce shall make such inspection of the construction, maintenance, and mechanical operation of passenger tramways as the ski tramway board may reasonably require required. The division may contract with other qualified engineers to make such inspection or may accept the inspection report by any qualified inspector of an insurance company authorized to insure passenger tramways in this state.

(B) If, as the result of an inspection, an employee of the division or other agent with whom the division has contracted finds that a violation of the board's division's rules exists or a condition in passenger tramway construction, maintenance, or mechanical operation exists that endangers public safety, the employee or agent shall make an immediate report to the board division for appropriate investigation and order.

Sec. 4169.05.  Any person may make a written complaint to the ski tramway board division of labor of the department of commerce setting forth an alleged violation of the board's division's rules by a registered passenger tramway operator or a condition in passenger tramway construction, maintenance, or mechanical operation that allegedly endangers public safety. The board division shall forward a copy of the complaint to the operator named in it and may accompany it with an order that requires the operator to answer the complaint in writing within a specified period of time. The board division may investigate the complaint if it determines that there are reasonable grounds for such an investigation.

Sec. 4169.06.  (A) When facts are presented to any member of the ski tramway board the division of labor in the department of commerce that indicate that immediate danger exists in the continued operation of a passenger tramway, any member of the board division, after such verification of the facts as is practical under the circumstances and consistent with immediate public safety, may by an emergency written order require the operator of the tramway to cease using the tramway immediately for the transportation of passengers. Any person may serve notice on the operator or the operator's agent who is in immediate control of the tramway by delivering a true and attested copy of the order, and the operator or the operator's agent shall furnish proof of receipt of such notice by signing an affidavit on the back of the copy of the order. The emergency order shall be effective for a period not to exceed forty-eight hours from the time of notification.

(B) Immediately after the issuance of an emergency order pursuant to this section, the board division shall investigate the facts of the case. If the board division finds that a violation of any of its rules exists or that a condition in passenger tramway construction, maintenance, or mechanical operation exists that endangers public safety, it shall issue a written order setting forth its findings and the corrective action to be taken and fixing a reasonable time for compliance.

(C) After an investigation pursuant to division (B) of this section, if the board division determines that danger to public safety exists in the continued operation of a passenger tramway, it shall so state in the order, describe in detail the basis for its findings, and in the order may require the operator not to operate the tramway until the operator has taken the corrective action ordered pursuant to this section. If the operator continues to use the tramway following receipt of such order, the board division may request the court of common pleas having jurisdiction in the county where the tramway is located to issue an injunction forbidding operation of the tramway.

(D) An operator of a passenger tramway may request a hearing by the board division on any order issued pursuant to this chapter and may appeal the results of such a hearing in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. An operator may appeal an order suspending the operation of the operator's tramway without first requesting a hearing.

(E) If an operator fails to comply with an order of the board division issued pursuant to this chapter within the specified time, the board division may suspend the registration certificate of the operator for such time as it considers necessary to gain compliance with its order.

No operator shall operate a passenger tramway while the operator's registration certificate is under suspension by the board division.

Sec. 4503.52.  (A) The owner or lessee of any passenger car, noncommercial motor vehicle, recreational vehicle, or other vehicle of a class approved by the registrar of motor vehicles may apply to the registrar for the registration of the vehicle and issuance of Lake Erie license plates. The application for Lake Erie license plates may be combined with a request for a special reserved license plate under section 4503.40 or 4503.42 of the Revised Code. Upon receipt of the completed application and compliance with division (B) of this section, the registrar shall issue to the applicant the appropriate vehicle registration and a set of Lake Erie license plates with a validation sticker or a validation sticker alone when required by section 4503.191 of the Revised Code.

In addition to the letters and numbers ordinarily inscribed thereon, Lake Erie license plates shall be inscribed with identifying words or markings designed by the Ohio Lake Erie great lakes state commission and approved by the registrar. Lake Erie license plates shall bear county identification stickers that identify the county of registration by name or number.

(B) The Lake Erie license plates and validation sticker shall be issued upon receipt of a contribution as provided in division (C) of this section and upon payment of the regular license fees as prescribed under section 4503.04 of the Revised Code, a fee not to exceed ten dollars for the purpose of compensating the bureau of motor vehicles for additional services required in the issuing of the Lake Erie license plates, any applicable motor vehicle tax levied under Chapter 4504. of the Revised Code, and compliance with all other applicable laws relating to the registration of motor vehicles. If the application for Lake Erie license plates is combined with a request for a special reserved license plate under section 4503.40 or 4503.42 of the Revised Code, the license plate and validation sticker shall be issued upon payment of the contribution, fees, and taxes contained in this division and the additional fee prescribed under section 4503.40 or 4503.42 of the Revised Code.

(C) For each application for registration and registration renewal received under this section, the registrar shall collect a contribution in an amount not to exceed forty dollars as determined by the Ohio Lake Erie great lakes state commission. The registrar shall transmit this contribution to the treasurer of state for deposit in the Lake Erie protection fund created in section 1506.23 6161.05 of the Revised Code.

The registrar shall deposit the additional fee not to exceed ten dollars specified in division (B) of this section that the applicant for registration voluntarily pays for the purpose of compensating the bureau for the additional services required in the issuing of the Lake Erie license plates in the state bureau of motor vehicles fund created in section 4501.25 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 4503.77.  (A) As used in this section:

(1) "Nonstandard license plate" means all of the following:

(a) A license plate issued under sections 4503.52, 4503.55, 4503.56, 4503.57, 4503.70, 4503.71, 4503.72, and 4503.75 of the Revised Code;

(b) A license plate issued under a program that is reestablished under division (D) of this section and that meets the requirements contained in division (B) of section 4503.78 of the Revised Code;

(c) Except as may otherwise be specifically provided by law, any license plate created after August 21, 1997.

(2) For purposes of license plates issued under sections 4503.503 and 4503.504 of the Revised Code, "sponsor" includes the Ohio agriculture license plate scholarship fund board created in section 901.90 of the Revised Code and the director of agriculture.

(B)(1) If, during any calendar year commencing with 1998, the total number of motor vehicle registrations involving a particular type of nonstandard license plate is less than five hundred, including both new registrations and registration renewals, the registrar of motor vehicles, on or after the first day of January, but not later than the fifteenth day of January of the following year, shall send a written notice to the sponsor of that type of nonstandard license plate, if a sponsor exists, informing the sponsor of this fact. The registrar also shall inform the sponsor that if, during the calendar year in which the written notice is sent, the total number of motor vehicle registrations involving the sponsor's nonstandard license plate again is less than five hundred, the program involving that type of nonstandard license plate will be terminated on the thirty-first day of December of the calendar year in which the written notice is sent and, except as provided in division (C) of this section, no motor vehicle registration application involving either the actual issuance of that type of nonstandard license plate or the registration renewal of a motor vehicle displaying that type of nonstandard license plate will be accepted by the registrar or a deputy registrar beginning the first day of January of the next calendar year. The registrar also shall inform the sponsor that if the program involving the sponsor's nonstandard license plate is terminated under this section, it may be reestablished pursuant to division (D) of this section.

(2) If, during any calendar year commencing with 1998, the total number of motor vehicle registrations involving a particular type of nonstandard license plate is less than five hundred, including both new registrations and registration renewals, and no sponsor exists for that license plate, the registrar shall issue a public notice on or after the first day of January, but not later than the fifteenth day of January of the following year, stating that fact. The notice also shall inform the public that if, during the calendar year in which the registrar issues the public notice, the total number of motor vehicle registrations for that type of nonstandard license plate, including both new registrations and registration renewals, again is less than five hundred, the program involving that type of nonstandard license plate will be terminated on the thirty-first day of December of the calendar year in which the registrar issues the public notice and, except as provided in division (C) of this section, no motor vehicle registration application involving either the actual issuance of that type of nonstandard license plate or the registration renewal of a motor vehicle displaying that type of nonstandard license plate will be accepted by the registrar or a deputy registrar beginning on the first day of January of the next calendar year.

(C) If the program involving a type of nonstandard license plate is terminated under division (B) of this section, the registration of any motor vehicle displaying that type of nonstandard license plate at the time of termination may be renewed so long as the nonstandard license plates remain serviceable. If the nonstandard license plates of such a motor vehicle become unfit for service, the owner of the motor vehicle may apply for the issuance of nonstandard license plates of that same type, but the registrar or deputy registrar shall issue such nonstandard license plates only if at the time of application the stock of the bureau contains license plates of that type of nonstandard license plate. If, at the time of such application, the stock of the bureau does not contain license plates of that type of nonstandard license plate, the registrar or deputy registrar shall inform the owner of that fact, and the application shall be refused.

If the program involving a type of nonstandard license plate is terminated under division (B) of this section and the registration of motor vehicles displaying such license plates continues as permitted by this division, the registrar, for as long as such registrations continue to be issued, shall continue to collect and distribute any contribution that was required to be collected and distributed prior to the termination of that program.

(D) If the program involving a nonstandard license plate is terminated under division (B)(1) of this section, the sponsor of that license plate may apply to the registrar for the reestablishment of the program. If the program involving that nonstandard license plate is reestablished, the reestablishment is subject to division (B) of section 4503.78 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 4723.61.  As used in this section and in sections 4723.62 4723.63 to 4723.69 of the Revised Code:

(A) "Medication" means a drug, as defined in section 4729.01 of the Revised Code.

(B) "Medication error" means a failure to follow the prescriber's instructions when administering a prescription medication.

(C) "Nursing home" and "residential care facility" have the same meanings as in section 3721.01 of the Revised Code.

(D) "Prescription medication" means a medication that may be dispensed only pursuant to a prescription.

(E) "Prescriber" and "prescription" have the same meanings as in section 4729.01 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 4723.63.  (A) In consultation with the medication aide advisory council established under section 4723.62 of the Revised Code, the The board of nursing shall conduct a pilot program for the use of medication aides in nursing homes and residential care facilities. The board shall conduct the pilot program in a manner consistent with human protection and other ethical concerns typically associated with research studies involving live subjects. The pilot program shall be commenced not later than May 1, 2006, and shall end on the thirty-first day after the report required by division (F)(2) of this section is submitted in accordance with that division.

During the period the pilot program is conducted, a nursing home or residential care facility participating in the pilot program may use one or more medication aides to administer prescription medications to its residents, subject to all of the following conditions:

(1) Each individual used as a medication aide must hold a current, valid medication aide certificate issued by the board of nursing under this chapter.

(2) The nursing home or residential care facility shall ensure that the requirements of section 4723.67 of the Revised Code are met.

(3) The nursing home or residential care facility shall submit to the board, not later than the thirty-first day after the day the board makes its request under division (F)(1)(a) of this section, the data required by division (F)(1)(a) of this section.

(B) The board, in consultation with the medication aide advisory council, shall do all of the following not later than February 1, 2006:

(1) Design the pilot program;

(2) Establish standards to govern medication aides and the nursing homes and residential care facilities participating in the pilot program, including standards for the training of medication aides and the staff of participating nursing homes and residential care facilities;

(3) Establish standards to protect the health and safety of the residents of the nursing homes and residential care facilities participating in the program;

(4) Implement a process for selecting the nursing homes and residential care facilities to participate in the program.

(C)(1) A nursing home or residential care facility may volunteer to participate in the pilot program by submitting an application to the board on a form prescribed and provided by the board. From among the applicants, the board shall select eighty nursing homes and forty residential care facilities to participate in the pilot program. When the board denies an application, it shall notify, in writing, the president and minority leader of the senate and the speaker and minority leader of the house of representatives of the denial and the reasons for the denial.

(2) To be eligible to participate, a nursing home or residential care facility shall agree to observe the standards established by the board for the use of medication aides. A nursing home is eligible to participate only if the department of health has found in the most recent survey or inspection of the home that the home is free from deficiencies related to the administration of medication. A residential care facility is eligible to participate only if the department has found that the facility is free from deficiencies related to the provision of skilled nursing care or the administration of medication.

(D) As a condition of participation in the pilot program, a nursing home and residential care facility selected by the board shall pay the participation fee established in rules adopted under section 4723.69 of the Revised Code. The participation fee is not reimbursable under the medicaid program established under Chapter 5111. of the Revised Code.

(E) On receipt of evidence found credible by the board that continued participation by a nursing home or residential care facility poses an imminent danger, risk of serious harm, or jeopardy to a resident of the home or facility, the board may terminate the authority of the home or facility to participate in the pilot program.

(F)(1) With the assistance of the medication aide advisory council, the The board shall conduct an evaluation of the pilot program. In conducting the evaluation, the board shall do all of the following:

(a) Request from each nursing home and residential care facility participating in the pilot program, on the ninety-first day after the day the board issues a medication aide certificate under section 4723.651 of the Revised Code to the seventy-fifth individual, the data the board requires participating nursing homes and residential care facilities to report under rules the board adopts under section 4723.69 of the Revised Code.

(b) Assess whether medication aides are able to administer prescription medications safely to nursing home and residential care facility residents;

(c) Determine the financial implications of using medication aides in nursing homes and residential care facilities;

(d) Consider any other issue the board or council considers relevant to the evaluation.

(2) Not later than the one hundred eighty-first day after the day the board issues a medication aide certificate under section 4723.651 of the Revised Code to the seventy-fifth individual, the board shall prepare a report of its findings and recommendations derived from the evaluation of the pilot program. The board shall submit the report to the governor, president and minority leader of the senate, speaker and minority leader of the house of representatives, and director of health.

(G) The board shall, on the day it issues a medication aide certificate to the seventy-fifth individual, post a notice on its web site indicating the date on which any nursing home or residential care facility may use medication aides in accordance with section 4723.64 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 4723.69.  (A) In consultation with the medication aide advisory council created under section 4723.62 of the Revised Code, the The board of nursing shall adopt rules to implement sections 4723.61 to 4723.68 of the Revised Code. Initial rules shall be adopted not later than February 1, 2006. All rules adopted under this section shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.

(B) The rules adopted under this section shall establish or specify all of the following:

(1) Fees, in an amount sufficient to cover the costs the board incurs in implementing sections 4723.61 to 4723.68 of the Revised Code, for participation in the medication aide pilot program, certification as a medication aide, and approval of a medication aide training program;

(2) Requirements to obtain a medication aide certificate that are not otherwise specified in section 4723.651 of the Revised Code;

(3) Procedures for renewal of medication aide certificates;

(4) The extent to which the board determines that the reasons for taking disciplinary actions under section 4723.28 of the Revised Code are applicable reasons for taking disciplinary actions under section 4723.652 of the Revised Code against an applicant for or holder of a medication aide certificate;

(5) Standards for approval of peer support programs for the holders of medication aide certificates;

(6) Standards for medication aide training programs, including the examination to be administered by the training program to test an individual's ability to administer prescription medications safely;

(7) Reasons for denying, revoking, or suspending approval of a medication aide training program;

(8) Other standards and procedures the board considers necessary to implement sections 4723.61 to 4723.68 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 4981.361.  (A) In pursuance of Article III of the Interstate High Speed Intercity Rail Passenger Network Compact, as set forth in section 4981.35 of the Revised Code, two representatives from this state shall serve on the Interstate Rail Passenger Advisory Council. The governor shall appoint the two representatives as follows:

(1) One representative who shall be a member of the private sector and who shall hold a bachelor of science degree in either engineering or transportation science.

(2) One representative who shall be either the director of the Ohio department of transportation, or the chairperson of the Ohio rail development commission.

(B)(1) In pursuance of Articles II and III of the Midwest Interstate Passenger Rail Compact, as set forth in section 4981.36 of the Revised Code, there shall be four members of the commission from this state.

The governor shall appoint two members as set forth in Article III of the compact. The terms of office for the governor's appointments shall be in accordance with Article III of the compact. The governor's appointments to the commission shall be the same persons as the governor appoints to the Interstate Rail Passenger Advisory Council pursuant to division (A) of this section. The person appointed pursuant to division (A)(1) of this section shall be the Ohio representative who is a member of the private sector, and the person appointed pursuant to division (A)(2) of this section shall be the Ohio representative who is the governor's designee.

(2) The speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate each shall appoint one member from their respective houses of the general assembly to serve as a member of the commission, but the two appointees shall not be members of the same political party. Terms of office for legislative appointees shall be in accordance with Article III of the compact.

(C) Any member of the advisory council or the commission shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration of the member's term until a successor is appointed. Vacancies in the council or commission shall be filled in the same manner as original selections are made. Any member of the council or commission may be reappointed.

Except for the purposes of Chapters 102., 2744., and 2921. of the Revised Code, serving as a member of the council or commission does not constitute holding a public office or position of employment under the laws of this state and does not constitute grounds for removal of public officers or employees from their offices or positions of employment.

The governor, speaker, or president may remove a member for whom the governor, speaker, or president was the appointing authority, for misfeasance, malfeasance, or willful neglect of duty.

Members of the council and commission shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for the reasonable expenses incurred by them in the discharge of their duties as members of the council or commission.

Sec. 5104.39.  (A) The director of job and family services shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing a procedure for monitoring the expenditures of county departments of job and family services to ensure that expenditures do not exceed the available federal and state funds for publicly funded child care. The department, with the assistance of the office of budget and management and the child care advisory council created pursuant to section 5104.08 of the Revised Code, shall monitor the anticipated future expenditures of county departments for publicly funded child care and shall compare those anticipated future expenditures to available federal and state funds for publicly funded child care. Whenever the department determines that the anticipated future expenditures of the county departments will exceed the available federal and state funds for publicly funded child care and the department reimburses the county departments in accordance with rules adopted under section 5104.42 of the Revised Code, the department shall promptly notify the county departments and, before the available state and federal funds are used, the director shall issue and implement an administrative order that shall specify both of the following:

(1) Priorities for expending the remaining available federal and state funds for publicly funded child care;

(2) Instructions and procedures to be used by the county departments.

(B) The order may do any or all of the following:

(1) Suspend enrollment of all new participants in any program of publicly funded child care;

(2) Limit enrollment of new participants to those with incomes at or below a specified percentage of the federal poverty line;

(3) Disenroll existing participants with income above a specified percentage of the federal poverty line.

(C) Each county department shall comply with the order no later than thirty days after it is issued. If the department fails to notify the county departments and to implement the reallocation priorities specified in the order before the available federal and state funds for publicly funded child care are used, the state department shall provide sufficient funds to the county departments for publicly funded child care to enable each county department to pay for all publicly funded child care that was provided by providers pursuant to contract prior to the date that the county department received notice under this section and the state department implemented in that county the priorities.

(D) If after issuing an order under this section to suspend or limit enrollment of new participants or disenroll existing participants the department determines that available state and federal funds for publicly funded child care exceed the anticipated future expenditures of the county departments, the director may issue and implement another administrative order increasing income eligibility levels to a specified percentage of the federal poverty line. The order shall include instructions and procedures to be used by the county departments. Each county department shall comply with the order not later than thirty days after it is issued.

(E) The department of job and family services shall do all of the following:

(1) Conduct a quarterly evaluation of the program of publicly funded child care that is operated pursuant to sections 5104.30 to 5104.39 of the Revised Code;

(2) Prepare reports based upon the evaluations that specify for each county the number of participants and amount of expenditures;

(3) Provide copies of the reports to both houses of the general assembly and, on request, to interested parties.

Sec. 5111.708. (A) The director of job and family services, after consulting with the medicaid buy-in advisory council, shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. 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," "resources," "spouse," and "unearned income";

(3) Establish additional eligibility requirements for the program that must be established for the United States secretary of health and human services to approve the program;

(4) For the purpose of division (B) of section 5111.704 of the Revised Code, specify an amount to be subtracted from the difference determined under division (A) of that section.

(B) The director, after consulting with the medicaid buy-in advisory council, may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to specify amounts to be disregarded from an individual's earned income, unearned income, or both under division (C) of section 5111.703 of the Revised Code for the purpose of determining whether the individual is within the income eligibility limit for the medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilities program.

Sec. 5123.032. (A) As used in this section, "developmental center" means any institution or facility of the department of developmental disabilities that, on or after January 30, 2004, is named, designated, or referred to as a developmental center.

(B) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, on and after January 30, 2004, any closure of a developmental center shall be subject to, and in accordance with, this section. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if the governor announced on or after January 1, 2003, and prior to January 30, 2004, the intended closure of a developmental center and if the closure identified in the announcement has not occurred prior to January 30, 2004, the closure identified in the announcement shall be subject to the criteria set forth in this section as if the announcement had been made on or after January 30, 2004, except for the time at which the notice to the general assembly must be provided as identified in division (C) of this section.

(C) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, on and after January 30, 2004, at least ten days prior to making any official, public announcement that the governor intends to close one or more developmental centers, the governor shall notify the general assembly in writing that the governor intends to close one or more developmental centers. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if the governor announced on or after January 1, 2003, and prior to January 30, 2004, the intended closure of a developmental center and if the closure identified in the announcement has not occurred prior to January 30, 2004, not later than ten days after January 30, 2004, the governor shall notify the general assembly in writing of the prior announcement and that the governor intends to close the center identified in the prior announcement, and the notification to the general assembly shall constitute, for purposes of this section, the governor's official, public announcement that the governor intends to close that center.

The notice required by this division shall identify by name each developmental center that the governor intends to close or, if the governor has not determined any specific developmental center to close, shall state the governor's general intent to close one or more developmental centers. When the governor notifies the general assembly as required by this division, the legislative service commission promptly shall conduct an independent study of the developmental centers of the department of developmental disabilities and of the department's operation of the centers, and the study shall address relevant criteria and factors, including, but not limited to, all of the following:

(1) The manner in which the closure of developmental centers in general would affect the safety, health, well-being, and lifestyle of the centers' residents and their family members and would affect public safety and, if the governor's notice identifies by name one or more developmental centers that the governor intends to close, the manner in which the closure of each center so identified would affect the safety, health, well-being, and lifestyle of the center's residents and their family members and would affect public safety;

(2) The availability of alternate facilities;

(3) The cost effectiveness of the facilities identified for closure;

(4) A comparison of the cost of residing at a facility identified for closure and the cost of new living arrangements;

(5) The geographic factors associated with each facility and its proximity to other similar facilities;

(6) The impact of collective bargaining on facility operations;

(7) The utilization and maximization of resources;

(8) Continuity of the staff and ability to serve the facility population;

(9) Continuing costs following closure of a facility;

(10) The impact of the closure on the local economy;

(11) Alternatives and opportunities for consolidation with other facilities;

(12) How the closing of a facility identified for closure relates to the department's plans for the future of developmental centers in this state;

(13) The effect of the closure of developmental centers in general upon the state's fiscal resources and fiscal status and, if the governor's notice identifies by name one or more developmental centers that the governor intends to close, the effect of the closure of each center so identified upon the state's fiscal resources and fiscal status.

(D) The legislative service commission shall complete the study required by division (C) of this section, and prepare a report that contains its findings, not later than sixty days after the governor makes the official, public announcement that the governor intends to close one or more developmental centers as described in division (C) of this section. The commission shall provide a copy of the report to each member of the general assembly who requests a copy of the report.

Not later than the date on which the legislative service commission is required to complete the report under this division, the developmental disabilities developmental center closure commission is hereby created as described in division (E) of this section. The officials with the duties to appoint members of the closure commission, as described in division (E) of this section, shall appoint the specified members of the closure commission, and, as soon as possible after the appointments, the closure commission shall meet for the purposes described in that division. Upon completion of the report and the creation of the closure commission under this division, the legislative service commission promptly shall provide a copy of the report to the closure commission and shall present the report as described in division (E) of this section.

(E)(1) A developmental disabilities developmental center closure commission shall be created at the time and in the manner specified in division (D) of this section. The closure commission consists of six members. One member shall be the director of developmental disabilities. One member shall be the director of health. One member shall be a private executive with expertise in facility utilization, in economics, or in both facility utilization and economics, jointly appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate. The member appointed for expertise in facility utilization, economics, or both may not be a member of the general assembly and may not have a developmental center identified for closure by the governor in the county in which the member resides. One member shall be a member of the board of the Ohio civil service employees' association, jointly appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate. One member shall be either a family member of a resident of a developmental center or a representative of a mental retardation and developmental disabilities advocacy group, jointly appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate. The member appointed who is a family member of a developmental center resident or a representative of an advocacy group may not be a member of the general assembly. One member shall be a member of the law enforcement community, appointed by the governor. The officials with the duties to appoint members of the closure commission shall make the appointments, and the closure commission shall meet, within the time periods specified in division (D) of this section. The members of the closure commission shall serve without compensation. At the closure commission's first meeting, the members shall organize and appoint a chairperson and vice-chairperson.

The closure commission shall meet as often as is necessary for the purpose of making the recommendations to the governor that are described in this division. The closure commission's meetings shall be open to the public, and the closure commission shall accept public testimony. The legislative service commission shall appear before the closure commission and present the report the legislative service commission prepared under division (D) of this section. The closure commission shall meet for the purpose of making recommendations to the governor, which recommendations may include all of the following:

(a) Whether any developmental center should be closed;

(b) If the recommendation described in division (E)(1)(a) of this section is that one or more developmental centers should be closed, which center or centers should be closed;

(c) If the governor's notice described in division (C) of this section identifies by name one or more developmental centers that the governor intends to close, whether the center or centers so identified should be closed.

(2) The developmental disabilities developmental center closure commission, not later than sixty days after it receives the report of the legislative service commission under division (D) of this section, shall prepare a report containing its recommendations to the governor. The closure commission shall send a copy of the report to the governor and to each member of the general assembly who requests a copy of the report. (E) Upon receipt of the closure commission's report, the governor shall review and consider the commission's recommendation report. The governor shall do one of the following:

(a) Follow the recommendation of the commission (1) Close one or more developmental centers;

(b)(2) Close no developmental center;

(c)(3) Take other action that the governor determines is necessary for the purpose of expenditure reductions or budget cuts and state the reasons for the action.

(F) The governor's decision is final. Upon the governor's making of the decision, the closure commission shall cease to exist. Another closure commission shall be created under this section each time the governor subsequently makes an official, public announcement that the governor intends to close one or more developmental centers.

Sec. 5123.093.  The citizen's advisory councils established under section 5123.092 of the Revised Code shall:

(A) Transmit verbal or written information from any person or organization associated with the institution or within the community, that an advisory council considers important, to the joint council on developmental disabilities created by section 101.37 of the Revised Code and the director of developmental disabilities;

(B) Review the records of all applicants to any unclassified position at the institution, except for resident physician positions filled under section 5123.11 of the Revised Code;

(C) Review and evaluate institutional employee training and continuing education programs;

(D) On or before the thirty-first day of January of each year, submit a written report to the joint council on developmental disabilities and the director of developmental disabilities regarding matters affecting the institution including, but not limited to, allegations of dehumanizing practices and violations of individual or legal rights;

(E) Review institutional budgets, programs, services, and planning;

(F) Develop and maintain relationships within the community with community mental retardation and developmental disabilities organizations;

(G) Participate in the formulation of the institution's objectives, administrative procedures, program philosophy, and long range goals;

(H) Bring any matter that an advisory council considers important to the attention of the joint council on developmental disabilities and the director of developmental disabilities;

(I) Recommend to the director of developmental disabilities persons for appointment to citizen's advisory councils;

(J) Adopt any rules or procedures necessary to carry out this section.

The chairperson of the advisory council or the chairperson's designee shall be notified within twenty-four hours of any alleged incident of abuse to a resident or staff member by anyone. Incidents of resident or staff abuse shall include, but not be limited to, sudden deaths, accidents, suicides, attempted suicides, injury caused by other persons, alleged criminal acts, errors in prescribing or administering medication, theft from clients, fires, epidemic disease, administering unprescribed drugs, unauthorized use of restraint, withholding of information concerning alleged abuse, neglect, or any deprivation of rights as defined in Chapter 5122. or 5123. of the Revised Code.

Sec. 6161.021.  (A) In addition to the duties set forth in section 6161.01 of the Revised Code, the great lakes commission from this state shall do all of the following:

(1) Ensure the coordination of state and local policies and programs pertaining to Lake Erie water quality, toxic pollution control, and resource protection;

(2) Review, and make recommendations concerning, the development and implementation of policies, programs, and issues for long-term, comprehensive protection of Lake Erie water resources and water quality that are consistent with the great lakes water quality agreement and the great lakes toxic substances control agreement;

(3) Recommend policies and programs to modify the coastal management program of this state;

(4) At each regular meeting, consider matters relating to the implementation of sections 6161.04 and 6161.05 of the Revised Code;

(5) Publish and submit the Lake Erie protection agenda in accordance with division (C) of section 6161.05 of the Revised Code;

(6) Ensure the implementation of a basinwide approach to Lake Erie issues;

(7) Increase representation of the interests of this state in state, regional, national, and international forums pertaining to the resources and water quality of Lake Erie and the Lake Erie basin;

(8) Promote education concerning the wise management of the resources of Lake Erie;

(9) Establish public advisory councils as considered necessary to assist in programs established under this section and sections 6161.04 and 6161.05 of the Revised Code. Members of the public advisory councils shall represent a broad cross section of interests, shall have experience or expertise in the subject for which the advisory council was established, and shall serve without compensation.

(10) Prepare and submit the report required under division (D) of section 6161.05 of the Revised Code.

(11) Advise the director of natural resources on carrying out the director's duties under Chapter 1506. of the Revised Code, including, without limitation, implementation of the coastal management program;

(12) Recommend to the director of natural resources such policies and legislation as are necessary to preserve, protect, develop, and restore or enhance the coastal resources of this state;

(13) Review and make recommendations to the director of natural resources on the development of policies, plans, and programs for long-term, comprehensive coastal resource management, including, without limitation, the coastal management program document adopted under division (A)(1) of section 1506.02 of the Revised Code;

(14) Recommend to the director of natural resources ways to enhance cooperation among governmental agencies, including, without limitation, state agencies, having an interest in coastal management and to encourage wise use and protection of the state's coastal resources. The commission may request information and other assistance from those government agencies for this purpose.

(B) Each state agency, upon the request of the commission, shall cooperate in the implementation of this section and sections 6161.04 and 6161.05 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 1506.22 6161.04.  (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the state agency whose director has been designated to administer the Lake Erie protection fund under section 1506.23 6161.05 of the Revised Code is hereby designated the lead agency for the implementation in this state of the purposes of the great lakes protection fund, a regional trust fund established by the great lakes states to advance the principles, goals, and objectives of the great lakes toxic substances control agreement and the great lakes water quality agreement, as they may be revised and amended.

(B) The governor shall appoint two members from this state to the board of directors of the great lakes protection fund as provided in the bylaws and articles of incorporation of the fund. Of the initial appointments made to the board, one shall serve for a term of one year and one shall serve for a term of two years; thereafter, the members of the board of directors from this state shall serve for terms of two years. The governor may remove any member at any time as provided in the bylaws and articles of incorporation of the fund. In the event of a vacancy, the governor shall appoint a successor to hold office for the remainder of the term for which the member's predecessor was appointed. Any member shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration date of the member's term until the member's successor takes office or until a period of sixty days has elapsed, whichever occurs first.

Membership on the board does not constitute holding a public office or position of employment under the laws of this state and is not grounds for removal of public officers or employees from their offices or positions of employment.

Members of the board from this state shall receive no compensation, but shall be reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties.

Sec. 1506.23 6161.05.  (A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the Lake Erie protection fund, which shall consist of moneys deposited into the fund from the issuance of Lake Erie license plates under section 4503.52 of the Revised Code and donations, gifts, bequests, and other moneys received for the purposes of this section. Not later than the first day of June each year, the Ohio Lake Erie great lakes state commission created in section 1506.21 6161.02 of the Revised Code shall designate one of its members the director of environmental protection, natural resources, health, agriculture, or transportation to administer the fund and, with the approval of the commission, to expend moneys from the fund for any of the following purposes:

(1) Accelerating the pace of research into the economic, environmental, and human health effects of contamination of Lake Erie and its tributaries;

(2) Funding cooperative research and data collection regarding Lake Erie water quality and toxic contamination;

(3) Developing improved methods of measuring water quality and establishing a firm scientific base for implementing a basinwide system of water quality management for Lake Erie and its tributaries;

(4) Supporting research to improve the scientific knowledge on which protection policies are based and devising new and innovative clean-up techniques for toxic contaminants;

(5) Supplementing, in a stable and predictable manner, state commitments to policies and programs pertaining to Lake Erie water quality and resource protection;

(6) Encouraging cooperation with and among leaders from state legislatures, state agencies, political subdivisions, business and industry, labor, institutions of higher education, environmental organizations, and conservation groups within the Lake Erie basin;

(7) Awarding of grants to any agency of the United States, any state agency, as "agency" is defined in division (A)(2) of section 111.15 of the Revised Code, any political subdivision, any educational institution, or any nonprofit organization for the development and implementation of projects and programs that are designed to protect Lake Erie by reducing toxic contamination of or improving water quality in Lake Erie;

(8) Expenses authorized by the Ohio Lake Erie great lakes state commission necessary to implement this chapter.

(B) Moneys in the Lake Erie protection fund are not intended to replace other moneys expended by any agency of the United States, any state agency, as "agency" is so defined, any political subdivision, any educational institution, or any nonprofit organization for projects and programs that are designed to protect Lake Erie by reducing toxic contamination of or improving water quality in Lake Erie.

(C) Each March, the Ohio Lake Erie great lakes state commission shall publish a Lake Erie protection agenda that describes proposed uses of the Lake Erie protection fund for the following state fiscal year. The agenda shall be the subject of at least one public meeting of the commission held in the Lake Erie basin. The commission shall submit the agenda to the governor, the president of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives.

(D) Not later than September 1, 1991, and annually thereafter, the Lake Erie great lakes state commission shall prepare a report of the activities that were undertaken by the commission under this section during the immediately preceding fiscal year, including, without limitation, revenues and expenses for the preceding fiscal year. The commission shall submit the report to the governor, the president of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives.

Sec. 1506.24 6161.06.  (A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the Lake Erie resources fund, which shall consist of moneys awarded to the state from the great lakes protection fund and donations, gifts, bequests, and other moneys received for the purposes of this section. Not later than the first day of June each year, the Ohio Lake Erie great lakes state commission created in section 1506.21 6161.02 of the Revised Code shall designate one of its members the director of environmental protection, natural resources, health, agriculture, or transportation to administer the fund and, with the approval of the commission, to expend moneys from the fund for any of the following purposes:

(1) Accelerating the pace of research into the economic, environmental, and human health effects of contamination of Lake Erie and its tributaries;

(2) Funding cooperative research and data collection regarding Lake Erie water quality and toxic contamination;

(3) Developing improved methods of measuring water quality and establishing a firm scientific base for implementing a basinwide system of water quality management for Lake Erie and its tributaries;

(4) Supporting research to improve the scientific knowledge on which protection policies are based and devising new and innovative clean-up techniques for toxic contaminants;

(5) Supplementing, in a stable and predictable manner, state commitments to policies and programs pertaining to Lake Erie water quality and resource protection;

(6) Encouraging cooperation with and among leaders from state legislatures, state agencies, political subdivisions, business and industry, labor, institutions of higher education, environmental organizations, and conservation groups within the Lake Erie basin;

(7) Awarding of grants to any agency of the United States, any state agency, as "agency" is defined in division (A)(2) of section 111.15 of the Revised Code, any political subdivision, any educational institution, or any nonprofit organization for the development and implementation of projects and programs that are designed to protect Lake Erie by reducing toxic contamination of or improving water quality in Lake Erie;

(8) Expenses authorized by the Ohio Lake Erie great lakes state commission necessary to implement this chapter.

(B) Moneys in the Lake Erie resources fund are not intended to replace other moneys expended by any agency of the United States, any state agency, as "agency" is so defined, any political subdivision, any educational institution, or any nonprofit organization for projects and programs that are designed to protect Lake Erie by reducing toxic contamination of or improving water quality in Lake Erie.

(C) Each March, the Ohio Lake Erie great lakes state commission shall publish a Lake Erie protection agenda that describes proposed uses of the Lake Erie resources fund for the following state fiscal year. The agenda shall be the subject of at least one public meeting of the commission held in the Lake Erie basin. The commission shall submit the agenda to the governor, the president of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives.

(D) Annually the Lake Erie great lakes state commission shall prepare a report of the activities that were undertaken by the commission under this section during the immediately preceding fiscal year, including, without limitation, revenues and expenses for the preceding fiscal year. The commission shall submit the report to the governor, the president of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives.

Section 2. That existing sections 101.83, 101.84, 101.85, 101.86, 119.01, 121.084, 121.32, 127.14, 149.304, 173.03, 173.04, 901.90, 1121.12, 1121.18, 1121.29, 1123.01, 1123.02, 1123.03, 1123.04, 1155.13, 1163.16, 1181.11, 1315.122, 1349.71, 1506.22, 1506.23, 1506.24, 1521.19, 1733.32, 3119.024, 3301.90, 3311.71, 3313.6013, 3335.27, 3345.062, 3701.025, 3701.63, 3702.79, 3702.80, 3702.81, 3702.85, 3702.86, 3702.93, 3702.94, 3705.35, 3705.36, 3718.03, 3727.312, 3727.313, 3727.321, 3727.39, 3727.41, 3743.54, 3746.04, 3769.083, 3769.085, 3769.086, 3905.04, 3905.481, 3905.484, 3905.485, 3905.486, 3905.88, 3929.631, 3929.64, 3929.68, 3930.02, 3930.03, 4121.03, 4121.121, 4121.77, 4123.341, 4123.342, 4123.35, 4169.02, 4169.03, 4169.04, 4169.05, 4169.06, 4503.52, 4503.77, 4723.61, 4723.63, 4723.69, 4981.361, 5104.39, 5111.708, 5123.032, and 5123.093 and sections 101.37, 121.374, 122.98, 122.981, 125.833, 181.22, 184.23, 184.231, 1181.16, 1181.17, 1501.25, 1506.12, 1506.21, 1733.329, 1733.3210, 2151.282, 2323.44, 3311.77, 3319.70, 3319.71, 3701.92, 3702.92, 3727.32, 3727.322, 3746.03, 3769.084, 3905.483, 4121.79, 4501.025, 4723.62, 4723.621, 4937.01, 4937.02, 4937.03, 4937.04, 4937.05, 5104.08, 5111.709, 5111.710, and 5902.15 of the Revised Code are hereby repealed.

Section 3. The following agencies shall be retained pursuant to division (D) of section 101.83 of the Revised Code and shall expire on December 31, 2016:

Section 4.  That sections 101.82, 101.83, 101.84, 101.85, 101.86, and 101.87 of the Revised Code are hereby repealed on December 31, 2016.

Section 4.01.  That section 101.38 of the Revised Code is hereby repealed on December 31, 2011.

Section 5.01. That Section 203 of Am. Sub. H.B. 15 of the 128th General Assembly be amended to read as follows:

Sec. 203. WCC WORKERS' COMPENSATION COUNCIL

WORKERS' COMPENSATION COUNCIL

The foregoing appropriation item 321600, Remuneration Expenses, shall be used to pay the payroll and fringe benefit costs for employees of the Workers' Compensation Council.

Between July 1, 2009, and December 31, 2009, the Administrator of Workers' Compensation shall direct the Treasurer of State to transfer $325,000 in cash from the Workers' Compensation Fund (Fund 7023) to the Workers' Compensation Council Fund, created in division (C) of section 4121.79 of the Revised Code, in three installments. These transfers shall be made according to a schedule agreed to by the Director of the Workers' Compensation Council and the Administrator of Workers' Compensation.

If the Workers' Compensation Council contracts with an independent actuary to have that actuary perform an actuarial valuation as described in division (A)(1) of Section 512.45 of Am. Sub. H.B. 100 of the 127th General Assembly as amended by this act, or a review as described in division (A)(2), (3), or (4) of Section 512.45 of Am. Sub. H.B. 100 of the 127th General Assembly as amended by this act, on or before January 31, 2011, the Director of the Workers' Compensation Council shall request the funds necessary to cover the expenses of the valuation or review, which amount shall not exceed $650,000, from the Administrator of Workers' Compensation. The Administrator shall direct the Treasurer of State to transfer the amount requested by the Director from the Workers' Compensation Fund (Fund 7023) to the Workers' Compensation Council Fund created in division (C) of section 4121.79 of the Revised Code. The Director and Administrator shall agree to a schedule for the transfer of these funds.

(A) The General Assembly shall review the Workers' Compensation Council and its funding.

(B) On the effective date of this amendment, or as soon as possible thereafter, the Director of Budget and Management shall transfer the remaining unencumbered cash balance in the Workers' Compensation Council Remuneration Fund (Fund 5FV0) to the Workers' Compensation Fund (Fund 7023). Upon completion of the transfer, the Workers' Compensation Council Remuneration Fund is abolished.

(C)(1) On the effective date of this amendment, or as soon as possible thereafter, the Treasurer of State shall transfer the remaining unencumbered cash balance in the Workers' Compensation Council Fund created in division (C) of section 4121.79 of the Revised Code to Fund 7023. Upon completion of the transfer, the Workers' Compensation Council Fund is abolished.

(2) As soon as possible after the Workers' Compensation Council Fund has been abolished, the Administrator of Workers' Compensation shall refund to employers any such unexpended, unencumbered amounts that were originally collected as an assessment for costs attributable to the activities of the Workers' Compensation Council.

Section 5.02. That existing Section 203 of Am. Sub. H.B. 15 of the 128th General Assembly is hereby repealed.

Section 5.09. That Section 513.03 of Am. Sub. H.B. 66 of the 126th General Assembly, as amended by Am. Sub. H.B. 100 of the 126th General Assembly, be amended to read as follows:

Sec. 513.03. (A) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary and during the period beginning July 1, 2005, and ending May 1, 2006, or the effective date of H.B. 397 of the 126th General Assembly, whichever is earlier, the Director of Environmental Protection or a board of health as defined in section 3714.01 of the Revised Code shall not issue a license to open a new construction and demolition debris facility under Chapter 3714. of the Revised Code and rules adopted under it. Except as otherwise provided in this division, the moratorium established by this division applies both with respect to an application for a license to open a new construction and demolition debris facility that is submitted on or after the effective date of this section and to an application for such a license that has been submitted to the Director or a board of health prior to the effective date of this section, but concerning which a license for a facility has not been issued as of that effective date.

The board of county commissioners of a county may request the Director or a board of health to continue to process an application for a license to open a new construction and demolition debris facility in that county that has been submitted to the Director or board of health prior to the effective date of this section. After receiving such a request from a board of county commissioners, the Director or board of health may then issue a license for the new construction and demolition debris facility notwithstanding the moratorium established by this division.

The moratorium established by this division does not apply to a license for a new construction and demolition debris facility if the new facility will be located adjacent or contiguous to a previously licensed construction and demolition debris facility. The moratorium also does not apply to an expansion of or other modification to an existing licensed construction and demolition debris facility.

(B) The moratorium established by division (A) of this section does not apply to an application for a license to establish a construction and demolition debris facility pending before a board of health or the Director of Environmental Protection, as applicable, prior to July 1, 2005, and such an application shall be reviewed and the license shall be issued or denied in accordance with Chapter 3714. of the Revised Code, if all of the following apply to the applicant for the license:

(1) The applicant has acquired an interest in the property on which the facility will be located on or before May 1, 2005.

(2) The applicant has begun a hydrogeologic investigation pursuant to section 3745-400-09 of the Ohio Administrative Code prior to submitting the application.

(3) The applicant has begun the engineering plans for the facility prior to submitting the application.

(4) The application submitted by the applicant would have been determined to be complete if the moratorium had not been in effect.

The director shall determine whether this division applies to an applicant within forty-five days after receiving an applicant's request for a determination under this division.

(C)(1) There is hereby created the Construction and Demolition Debris Facility Study Committee composed of the following thirteen members:

(a) Three members of the House of Representatives appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives;

(b) Three members of the Senate appointed by the President of the Senate;

(c) The Director of Environmental Protection or the Director's designee;

(d) One member representing health districts in the state appointed by the Governor;

(e) Three members representing the construction and demolition debris industry in the state appointed by the Governor, one of whom shall be the owner of both a construction and demolition debris facility and a solid waste disposal facility;

(f) Two members representing environmental consulting organizations or firms in the state appointed by the Governor.

Appointments shall be made to the Committee not later than fifteen days after the effective date of this section. Members of the Committee shall not receive compensation for their service on the Committee and shall not receive reimbursement for expenses incurred related to that service.

(2) The Committee shall study the laws of this state governing construction and demolition debris facilities and the rules adopted under those laws and shall make recommendations to the General Assembly regarding changes to those laws including, but not limited to, recommendations concerning the following topics:

(a) The establishment of a code of ethics for owners and operators of construction and demolition debris facilities;

(b) The establishment of best management practices;

(c) Licensing requirements;

(d) Testing and monitoring requirements and protocols;

(e) Siting and setback criteria for construction and demolition debris facilities;

(f) State and local oversight and regulatory authority;

(g) Fees;

(h) The regulation of construction and demolition debris from sources inside and outside the state;

(i) The closure process for construction and demolition debris facilities.

(3) The Committee shall submit a report of its study and any recommendations that it has developed to the General Assembly not later than September 30, 2005. The Committee shall cease to exist on the date on which it submits its report.

The General Assembly shall enact legislation based on the recommendations of the Committee as soon as is practicable.

Section 5.10. That existing Section 513.03 of Am. Sub. H.B. 66 of the 126th General Assembly, as amended by Am. Sub. H.B. 100 of the 126th General Assembly is hereby repealed.

Section 6. That Section 6 of Am. Sub. H.B. 516 of the 125th General Assembly is repealed.

This repeal prevents the repeal of sections 101.82, 101.83, 101.84, 101.85, 101.86, and 101.87 of the Revised Code that was to be effective on December 31, 2010, and thereby removes this limitation upon the continued existence of sections 101.82 and 101.87 of the Revised Code and upon the continued existence of sections 101.83, 101.84, 101.85, and 101.86 of the Revised Code as presented in Section 1 of this act. The rule of construction that the repeal of a repealing act does not revive the statute repealed, which is reflected in section 1.57 of the Revised Code, does not affect the intent of this section.

Section 7. The following Sections are repealed:

Sections 265.70.20, 709.10, and 751.13 of Am. Sub. H.B. 1 of the 128th General Assembly

Sections 755.40, 755.80, and 756.40 of Am. Sub. H.B. 2 of the 128th General Assembly

Section 3 of Sub. H.B. 7 of the 127th General Assembly

Section 555.17 of Am. Sub. H.B. 67 of the 127th General Assembly

Sections 263.30.30, 337.20.20, 377.20, 737.11, and 737.12 of Am. Sub. H.B. 119 of the 127th General Assembly

Sections 6 and 7 of Sub. H.B. 125 of the 127th General Assembly

Section 2 of Sub. H.B. 233 of the 127th General Assembly

Section 3 of Am. H.B. 416 of the 127th General Assembly

Sections 703.30 and 715.50 of Am. Sub. H.B. 562 of the 127th General Assembly

Section 512.45 of Am. Sub. H.B. 100 of the 127th General Assembly as amended by Am. Sub. H.B. 15 of the 128th General Assembly

Section 4 of Am. Sub. S.B. 77 of the 127th General Assembly

Sections 206.10.12, 206.42.12, 206.66.24, 206.66.43, 209.63.58, 503.09, 503.12, and 560.03 of Am. Sub. H.B. 66 of the 126th General Assembly

Sections 3 and 4 of Sub. H.B. 187 of the 126th General Assembly

Section 1 of Sub. H.B. 371 of the 126th General Assembly

Section 235.60.70 of Am. Sub. H.B. 699 of the 126th General Assembly

Section 3 of Am. Sub. S.B. 167 of the 126th General Assembly

Section 5 of Am. Sub. S.B. 260 of the 126th General Assembly

Section 3 of Am. Sub. S.B. 311 of the 126th General Assembly

Section 3 of Sub. S.B. 393 of the 126th General Assembly

Sections 12 and 25 of Am. Sub. H.B. 87 of the 125th General Assembly

Sections 41.35 and 153 of Am. Sub. H.B. 95 of the 125th General Assembly

Section 3 of Sub. H.B. 204 of the 125th General Assembly

Section 8 of Sub. H.B. 299 of the 125th General Assembly

Section 3 of Am. Sub. S.B. 86 of the 125th General Assembly

Section 5 of Sub. H.B. 57 of the 124th General Assembly

Section 3 of Am. Sub. H.B. 474 of the 124th General Assembly

Section 4 of Am. Sub. S.B. 281 of the 124th General Assembly

Section 701.20 of Am. Sub. H.B. 562 of the 127th General Assembly, as amended by Am. Sub. H.B. 1 of the 128th General Assembly

Section 206.66.53 of Am. Sub. H.B. 66 of the 126th General Assembly, as amended by S.B. 87 of the 126th General Assembly

Section 6 of Sub. H.B. 336 of the 126th General Assembly, as amended by Am. Sub. S.B. 155 of the 127th General Assembly

Section 755.03 of Am. Sub. H.B. 530 of the 126th General Assembly, as amended by Am. Sub. H.B. 67 of the 127th General Assembly

Section 6 of Am. Sub. S.B. 238 of the 126th General Assembly, as amended by Am. Sub. H.B. 461 of the 126th General Assembly

Section 8 of Am. Sub. S.B. 311 of the 126th General Assembly, as amended by H.B. 190 of the 127th General Assembly

Section 152 of Am. Sub. H.B. 95 of the 125th General Assembly, as amended by Am. Sub. S.B. 2 of the 125th General Assembly

Section 59.29 of Am. Sub. H.B. 95 of the 125th General Assembly, as amended by Am. Sub. S.B. 189 of the 125th General Assembly

Section 69 of H.B. 117 of the 121st General Assembly, as amended by H.B. 284 of the 121st General Assembly

Section 7.01.  Section 3 of Am. H.B. 416 of the 127th General Assembly is hereby repealed effective September 8, 2010.

Section 8.  (A) It is in part the intent of the General Assembly in enacting this act to implement the report of the Sunset Review Committee that was created by Am. Sub. H.B. 516 of the 125th General Assembly. That report is implemented in part as follows:

(1) By the abolishment in this act, through amendments to relevant codified sections of law and through outright repeals of codified or uncodified sections of law, of numerous agencies, as defined in section 101.82 of the Revised Code, that were subject to the Committee's jurisdiction;

(2) By the termination, through amendments to relevant codified sections of law and through outright repeals of codified or uncodified sections of law, of several agencies, as defined in section 101.82 of the Revised Code, that were subject to the Committee's jurisdiction;

(3) By the transfer, through the amendment or enactment of codified or uncodified sections of law, of several agencies, as defined in section 101.82 of the Revised Code, that were subject to the Committee's jurisdiction;

(4) By the renewal, through the amendment or enactment of codified or uncodified sections of law, of the existence of numerous agencies, as defined in section 101.82 of the Revised Code, that were subject to the Committee's jurisdiction.

(B) In addition to the means of implementing the Committee's report mentioned in division (A) of this section, the General Assembly hereby declares its intent to abolish the Compact with Ohio Cities Task Force. This entity was subject to the Committee's jurisdiction, and the Committee declared that it should be abolished, but no express codified or uncodified source of law for them was found to exist by the General Assembly.

(C) In addition to the means of implementing the Committee's report mentioned in division (A) of this section, the General Assembly hereby declares its intent to transfer the Advisory Boards to EPA for air pollution and the Advisory Boards to EPA for water pollution control into a new Advisory Boards to EPA for Air and Water Pollution Control. These entities were subject to the Committee's jurisdiction, and the Committee declared that they should be transferred, but no express codified or uncodified source of law for them was found to exist by the General Assembly.

(D) In addition to the means of implementing the Committee's report mentioned in division (A) of this section, the General Assembly hereby declares its intent to renew the Advisory Council to Select Medicaid Drug Managers. This entity was subject to the Committee's jurisdiction, and the Committee declared that it should be renewed, but no express codified or uncodified source of law for them was found to exist by the General Assembly.

(E) In addition to the means of implementing the Committee's report mentioned in division (A) of this section, the General Assembly hereby declares its intent to abolish the Ohio Teacher Education and Licensure Advisory Commission. This entity was subject to the Committee's jurisdiction, and the Committee declared that it should be abolished, but no express codified or uncodified source of law for them was found to exist by the General Assembly.

Section 9. The Great Lakes state commission shall supersede the Ohio Lake Erie commission and the coastal resources advisory council and their members and succeed to and have and perform all the duties, powers, and obligations pertaining to the duties, powers, and obligations of the Ohio Lake Erie commission and the coastal resources advisory council and their members. All rules, actions, determinations, commitments, resolutions, decisions, and agreements pertaining to those duties, powers, obligations, functions, and rights in force or in effect on the effective date of this section shall continue in force and effect subject to any further lawful action thereon by the Great Lakes state commission. Wherever the Ohio Lake Erie commission and the coastal resources advisory council are referred to in any provision of law, or in any agreement or document that pertains to those duties, powers, obligations, functions, and rights, the reference is to the Great Lakes state commission.

All authorized obligations and supplements thereto of the Ohio Lake Erie commission and the coastal resources advisory council and their members pertaining to the duties, powers, and obligations transferred are binding on the Great Lakes state commission, and nothing in this act impairs the obligations or rights thereunder or under any contract. The abolition of the Ohio Lake Erie commission and the coastal resources advisory council and the transfer of their duties, powers, and obligations do not affect the validity of agreements or obligations made by the Ohio Lake Erie commission and the coastal resources advisory council and their members pursuant to Chapters 4121., 4123., 4125., 4127., 4131., and 4167. of the Revised Code or any other provisions of law.

In connection with the transfer of duties, powers, obligations, functions, and rights and abolition of the Ohio Lake Erie commission and the coastal resources advisory council, all real property and interest therein, documents, books, money, papers, records, machinery, furnishings, office equipment, furniture, and all other property over which the Ohio Lake Erie commission and the coastal resources advisory council have control pertaining to the duties, powers, and obligations transferred and the rights of the Ohio Lake Erie commission and the coastal resources advisory council to enforce or receive any of the aforesaid is automatically transferred to the Great Lakes state commission without necessity for further action on the part of the Great Lakes state commission. Additionally, all appropriations or reappropriations made to the Ohio Lake Erie commission and the coastal resources advisory council for the purposes of the performance of their duties, powers, and obligations, are transferred to the Great Lakes state commission to the extent of the remaining unexpended or unencumbered balance thereof, whether allocated or unallocated, and whether obligated or unobligated.

Section 10. The medical loan repayment advisory board shall supersede the physician loan repayment advisory board and the dentist loan repayment advisory board and their members and succeed to and have and perform all the duties, powers, and obligations pertaining to the duties, powers, and obligations of the physician loan repayment advisory board and the dentist loan repayment advisory board and their members. All rules, actions, determinations, commitments, resolutions, decisions, and agreements pertaining to those duties, powers, obligations, functions, and rights in force or in effect on the effective date of this section shall continue in force and effect subject to any further lawful action thereon by the medical loan repayment advisory board. Wherever the physician loan repayment advisory board and the dentist loan repayment advisory board are referred to in any provision of law, or in any agreement or document that pertains to those duties, powers, obligations, functions, and rights, the reference is to the medical loan repayment advisory board.

All authorized obligations and supplements thereto of the physician loan repayment advisory board and the dentist loan repayment advisory board and their members pertaining to the duties, powers, and obligations transferred are binding on the medical loan repayment advisory board, and nothing in this act impairs the obligations or rights thereunder or under any contract. The abolition of the physician loan repayment advisory board and the dentist loan repayment advisory board and the transfer of their duties, powers, and obligations do not affect the validity of agreements or obligations made by the physician loan repayment advisory board and the dentist loan repayment advisory board and their members pursuant to Chapters 4121., 4123., 4125., 4127., 4131., and 4167. of the Revised Code or any other provisions of law.

In connection with the transfer of duties, powers, obligations, functions, and rights and abolition of the physician loan repayment advisory board and the dentist loan repayment advisory board, all real property and interest therein, documents, books, money, papers, records, machinery, furnishings, office equipment, furniture, and all other property over which the physician loan repayment advisory board and the dentist loan repayment advisory board have control pertaining to the duties, powers, and obligations transferred and the rights of the physician loan repayment advisory board and the dentist loan repayment advisory board to enforce or receive any of the aforesaid is automatically transferred to the medical loan repayment advisory board without necessity for further action on the part of the medical loan repayment advisory board. Additionally, all appropriations or reappropriations made to the physician loan repayment advisory board and the dentist loan repayment advisory board for the purposes of the performance of their duties, powers, and obligations, are transferred to the medical loan repayment advisory board to the extent of the remaining unexpended or unencumbered balance thereof, whether allocated or unallocated, and whether obligated or unobligated.

Section 10.01. The Governor, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the President of the Senate, within thirty days after the effective date of this section, shall appoint members to the Medical Loan Repayment Advisory Board. Of the members appointed by the Governor, four shall be appointed to terms ending June 30, 2012, and five shall be appointed to terms ending June 30, 2013. Of the members appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, one shall be appointed to a term ending June 30, 2012, and one shall be appointed to a term ending June 30, 2013. Of the members appointed by the President of the Senate, one shall be for a term ending June 30, 2012, and one shall be appointed for a term ending June 30, 2013. Thereafter, terms of office are as specified in section 3702.81 of the Revised Code.

Section 11. The financial consumer council shall supersede the banking commission, savings and loan associations and savings banks board, and the credit union council and its members and succeed to and have and perform all the duties, powers, and obligations pertaining to the duties, powers, and obligations of the banking commission, savings and loan associations and savings banks board, credit union council, and their members. All rules, actions, determinations, commitments, resolutions, decisions, and agreements pertaining to those duties, powers, obligations, functions, and rights in force or in effect on the effective date of this section shall continue in force and effect subject to any further lawful action thereon by the banking commission. Wherever the banking commission, the savings and loan associations and savings banks board, or the credit union council is referred to in any provision of law, or in any agreement or document that pertains to those duties, powers, obligations, functions, and rights, the reference is to the financial consumer council.

All authorized obligations and supplements thereto of the banking commission, the savings and loan associations and savings banks board, or the credit union council and their members pertaining to the duties, powers, and obligations transferred are binding on the financial consumer council, and nothing in this act impairs the obligations or rights thereunder or under any contract. The abolition of the banking commission, savings and loan associations and savings banks board, and the credit union council and the transfer of their duties, powers, and obligations do not affect the validity of agreements or obligations made by the banking commission, the savings and loan associations and savings banks board, the credit union council or their members pursuant to Chapters 4121., 4123., 4125., 4127., 4131., and 4167. of the Revised Code or any other provisions of law.

In connection with the transfer of duties, powers, obligations, functions, and rights and abolition of the banking commission, savings and loan associations and savings banks board, and the credit union council, all real property and interest therein, documents, books, money, papers, records, machinery, furnishings, office equipment, furniture, and all other property over which the banking commission, savings and loan associations and savings banks board, and the credit union council has control pertaining to the duties, powers, and obligations transferred and the rights of the banking commission, savings and loan associations and savings banks board, and the credit union council to enforce or receive any of the aforesaid is automatically transferred to the financial consumer council without necessity for further action on the part of the financial consumer council. Additionally, all appropriations or reappropriations made to the banking commission, the savings and loan associations and savings banks board, and the credit union council for the purposes of the performance of their duties, powers, and obligations, are transferred to the financial consumer council to the extent of the remaining unexpended or unencumbered balance thereof, whether allocated or unallocated, and whether obligated or unobligated.

Section 12. The hospital measures advisory council shall supersede the data collection and analysis group, the infection control group, and the group of experts in pediatric medicine and their members and succeed to and have and perform all the duties, powers, and obligations pertaining to the duties, powers, and obligations of the data collection and analysis group, the infection control group, and the group of experts in pediatric medicine and their members. All rules, actions, determinations, commitments, resolutions, decisions, and agreements pertaining to those duties, powers, obligations, functions, and rights in force or in effect on the effective date of this section shall continue in force and effect subject to any further lawful action thereon by the hospital measures advisory council. Wherever the data collection and analysis group, the infection control group, and the group of experts in pediatric medicine are referred to in any provision of law, or in any agreement or document that pertains to those duties, powers, obligations, functions, and rights, the reference is to the hospital measures advisory council.

All authorized obligations and supplements thereto of the data collection and analysis group, the infection control group, and the group of experts in pediatric medicine and their members pertaining to the duties, powers, and obligations transferred are binding on the hospital measures advisory council, and nothing in this act impairs the obligations or rights thereunder or under any contract. The abolition of the data collection and analysis group, the infection control group, and the group of experts in pediatric medicine and the transfer of their duties, powers, and obligations do not affect the validity of agreements or obligations made by the data collection and analysis group, the infection control group, and the group of experts in pediatric medicine and their members pursuant to Chapters 4121., 4123., 4125., 4127., 4131., and 4167. of the Revised Code or any other provisions of law.

In connection with the transfer of duties, powers, obligations, functions, and rights and abolition of the data collection and analysis group, the infection control group, and the group of experts in pediatric medicine, all real property and interest therein, documents, books, money, papers, records, machinery, furnishings, office equipment, furniture, and all other property over which the data collection and analysis group, the infection control group, and the group of experts in pediatric medicine have control pertaining to the duties, powers, and obligations transferred and the rights of the data collection and analysis group, the infection control group, and the group of experts in pediatric medicine to enforce or receive any of the aforesaid is automatically transferred to the hospital measures advisory council without necessity for further action on the part of the hospital measures advisory council. Additionally, all appropriations or reappropriations made to the data collection and analysis group, the infection control group, and the group of experts in pediatric medicine for the purposes of the performance of their duties, powers, and obligations, are transferred to the hospital measures advisory council to the extent of the remaining unexpended or unencumbered balance thereof, whether allocated or unallocated, and whether obligated or unobligated.

Section 13. The commission on Hispanic-Latino affairs shall supersede the interagency council on Hispanic-Latino affairs and its members and succeed to and have and perform all the duties, powers, and obligations pertaining to the duties, powers, and obligations of the interagency council on Hispanic-Latino affairs and its members. All rules, actions, determinations, commitments, resolutions, decisions, and agreements pertaining to those duties, powers, obligations, functions, and rights in force or in effect on the effective date of this section shall continue in force and effect subject to any further lawful action thereon by the commission on Hispanic-Latino affairs. Wherever the interagency council on Hispanic-Latino affairs is referred to in any provision of law, or in any agreement or document that pertains to those duties, powers, obligations, functions, and rights, the reference is to the commission on Hispanic-Latino affairs.

All authorized obligations and supplements thereto of the interagency council on Hispanic-Latino affairs and its members pertaining to the duties, powers, and obligations transferred are binding on the commission on Hispanic-Latino affairs, and nothing in this act impairs the obligations or rights thereunder or under any contract. The abolition of the interagency council on Hispanic-Latino affairs and the transfer of their duties, powers, and obligations do not affect the validity of agreements or obligations made by the interagency council on Hispanic-Latino affairs and its members pursuant to Chapters 4121., 4123., 4125., 4127., 4131., and 4167. of the Revised Code or any other provisions of law.

In connection with the transfer of duties, powers, obligations, functions, and rights and abolition of the interagency council on Hispanic-Latino affairs, all real property and interest therein, documents, books, money, papers, records, machinery, furnishings, office equipment, furniture, and all other property over which the interagency council on Hispanic-Latino affairs has control pertaining to the duties, powers, and obligations transferred and the rights of the interagency council on Hispanic-Latino affairs to enforce or receive any of the aforesaid is automatically transferred to the commission on Hispanic-Latino affairs without necessity for further action on the part of the commission on Hispanic-Latino affairs. Additionally, all appropriations or reappropriations made to the interagency council on Hispanic-Latino affairs for the purposes of the performance of their duties, powers, and obligations, are transferred to the commission on Hispanic-Latino affairs to the extent of the remaining unexpended or unencumbered balance thereof, whether allocated or unallocated, and whether obligated or unobligated.

Section 14. The early childhood advisory council shall supersede the early childhood financing workgroup and its members and succeed to and have and perform all the duties, powers, and obligations pertaining to the duties, powers, and obligations of the early childhood financing workgroup and its members. All rules, actions, determinations, commitments, resolutions, decisions, and agreements pertaining to those duties, powers, obligations, functions, and rights in force or in effect on the effective date of this section shall continue in force and effect subject to any further lawful action thereon by the early childhood advisory council. Wherever the early childhood financing workgroup is referred to in any provision of law, or in any agreement or document that pertains to those duties, powers, obligations, functions, and rights, the reference is to the early childhood advisory council.

All authorized obligations and supplements thereto of the early childhood financing workgroup and its members pertaining to the duties, powers, and obligations transferred are binding on the early childhood advisory council, and nothing in this act impairs the obligations or rights thereunder or under any contract. The abolition of the early childhood financing workgroup and the transfer of their duties, powers, and obligations do not affect the validity of agreements or obligations made by the early childhood financing workgroup and its members pursuant to Chapters 4121., 4123., 4125., 4127., 4131., and 4167. of the Revised Code or any other provisions of law.

In connection with the transfer of duties, powers, obligations, functions, and rights and abolition of the early childhood financing workgroup, all real property and interest therein, documents, books, money, papers, records, machinery, furnishings, office equipment, furniture, and all other property over which the early childhood financing workgroup has control pertaining to the duties, powers, and obligations transferred and the rights of the early childhood financing workgroup to enforce or receive any of the aforesaid is automatically transferred to the early childhood advisory council without necessity for further action on the part of the early childhood advisory council. Additionally, all appropriations or reappropriations made to the early childhood financing workgroup for the purposes of the performance of their duties, powers, and obligations, are transferred to the early childhood advisory council to the extent of the remaining unexpended or unencumbered balance thereof, whether allocated or unallocated, and whether obligated or unobligated.

Section 15. The board of governors of the medical liability underwriting association shall supersede the directors of the medical liability underwriting association stabilization reserve fund and its members and succeed to and have and perform all the duties, powers, and obligations pertaining to the duties, powers, and obligations of the directors of the medical liability underwriting association stabilization reserve fund and its members. All rules, actions, determinations, commitments, resolutions, decisions, and agreements pertaining to those duties, powers, obligations, functions, and rights in force or in effect on the effective date of this section shall continue in force and effect subject to any further lawful action thereon by the board of governors of the medical liability underwriting association. Wherever the directors of the medical liability underwriting association stabilization reserve fund is referred to in any provision of law, or in any agreement or document that pertains to those duties, powers, obligations, functions, and rights, the reference is to the board of governors of the medical liability underwriting association.

All authorized obligations and supplements thereto of the directors of the medical liability underwriting association stabilization reserve fund and its members pertaining to the duties, powers, and obligations transferred are binding on the board of governors of the medical liability underwriting association, and nothing in this act impairs the obligations or rights thereunder or under any contract. The abolition of the directors of the medical liability underwriting association stabilization reserve fund and the transfer of their duties, powers, and obligations do not affect the validity of agreements or obligations made by the directors of the medical liability underwriting association stabilization reserve fund and its members pursuant to Chapters 4121., 4123., 4125., 4127., 4131., and 4167. of the Revised Code or any other provisions of law.

In connection with the transfer of duties, powers, obligations, functions, and rights and abolition of the directors of the medical liability underwriting association stabilization reserve fund, all real property and interest therein, documents, books, money, papers, records, machinery, furnishings, office equipment, furniture, and all other property over which the directors of the medical liability underwriting association stabilization reserve fund has control pertaining to the duties, powers, and obligations transferred and the rights of the directors of the medical liability underwriting association stabilization reserve fund to enforce or receive any of the aforesaid is automatically transferred to the board of governors of the medical liability underwriting association without necessity for further action on the part of the board of governors of the medical liability underwriting association. Additionally, all appropriations or reappropriations made to the directors of the medical liability underwriting association stabilization reserve fund for the purposes of the performance of their duties, powers, and obligations, are transferred to the board of governors of the medical liability underwriting association to the extent of the remaining unexpended or unencumbered balance thereof, whether allocated or unallocated, and whether obligated or unobligated.

Section 16. The third frontier biomedical and bioproducts advisory board shall supersede the third frontier biomedical advisory board and the third frontier bioproducts advisory board and their members and succeed to and have and perform all the duties, powers, and obligations pertaining to the duties, powers, and obligations of the third frontier biomedical advisory board and the third frontier bioproducts advisory board and their members. All rules, actions, determinations, commitments, resolutions, decisions, and agreements pertaining to those duties, powers, obligations, functions, and rights in force or in effect on the effective date of this section shall continue in force and effect subject to any further lawful action thereon by the third frontier biomedical and bioproducts advisory board. Wherever the third frontier biomedical advisory board and the third frontier bioproducts advisory board are referred to in any provision of law, or in any agreement or document that pertains to those duties, powers, obligations, functions, and rights, the reference is to the third frontier biomedical and bioproducts advisory board.

All authorized obligations and supplements thereto of the third frontier biomedical advisory board and the third frontier bioproducts advisory board and their members pertaining to the duties, powers, and obligations transferred are binding on the third frontier biomedical and bioproducts advisory board, and nothing in this act impairs the obligations or rights thereunder or under any contract. The abolition of the third frontier biomedical advisory board and the third frontier bioproducts advisory board and the transfer of their duties, powers, and obligations do not affect the validity of agreements or obligations made by the third frontier biomedical advisory board and the third frontier bioproducts advisory board and their members pursuant to Chapters 4121., 4123., 4125., 4127., 4131., and 4167. of the Revised Code or any other provisions of law.

In connection with the transfer of duties, powers, obligations, functions, and rights and abolition of the third frontier biomedical advisory board and the third frontier bioproducts advisory board, all real property and interest therein, documents, books, money, papers, records, machinery, furnishings, office equipment, furniture, and all other property over which the third frontier biomedical advisory board and the third frontier bioproducts advisory board have control pertaining to the duties, powers, and obligations transferred and the rights of the third frontier biomedical advisory board and the third frontier bioproducts advisory board to enforce or receive any of the aforesaid is automatically transferred to the third frontier biomedical and bioproducts advisory board without necessity for further action on the part of the third frontier biomedical and bioproducts advisory board. Additionally, all appropriations or reappropriations made to the third frontier biomedical advisory board and the third frontier bioproducts advisory board for the purposes of the performance of their duties, powers, and obligations, are transferred to the third frontier biomedical and bioproducts advisory board to the extent of the remaining unexpended or unencumbered balance thereof, whether allocated or unallocated, and whether obligated or unobligated.

Section 17. The Ohio commercial insurance joint underwriting association board of governors shall supersede the Ohio commercial market assistance plan executive committee and its members and succeed to and have and perform all the duties, powers, and obligations pertaining to the duties, powers, and obligations of the Ohio commercial market assistance plan executive committee and its members. All rules, actions, determinations, commitments, resolutions, decisions, and agreements pertaining to those duties, powers, obligations, functions, and rights in force or in effect on the effective date of this section shall continue in force and effect subject to any further lawful action thereon by the Ohio commercial insurance joint underwriting association board of governors. Wherever the Ohio commercial market assistance plan executive committee is referred to in any provision of law, or in any agreement or document that pertains to those duties, powers, obligations, functions, and rights, the reference is to the Ohio commercial insurance joint underwriting association board of governors.

All authorized obligations and supplements thereto of the Ohio commercial market assistance plan executive committee and its members pertaining to the duties, powers, and obligations transferred are binding on the Ohio commercial insurance joint underwriting association board of governors, and nothing in this act impairs the obligations or rights thereunder or under any contract. The abolition of the Ohio commercial market assistance plan executive committee and the transfer of their duties, powers, and obligations do not affect the validity of agreements or obligations made by the Ohio commercial market assistance plan executive committee and its members pursuant to Chapters 4121., 4123., 4125., 4127., 4131., and 4167. of the Revised Code or any other provisions of law.

In connection with the transfer of duties, powers, obligations, functions, and rights and abolition of the Ohio commercial market assistance plan executive committee, all real property and interest therein, documents, books, money, papers, records, machinery, furnishings, office equipment, furniture, and all other property over which the Ohio commercial market assistance plan executive committee has control pertaining to the duties, powers, and obligations transferred and the rights of the Ohio commercial market assistance plan executive committee to enforce or receive any of the aforesaid is automatically transferred to the Ohio commercial insurance joint underwriting association board of governors without necessity for further action on the part of the Ohio commercial insurance joint underwriting association board of governors. Additionally, all appropriations or reappropriations made to the Ohio commercial market assistance plan executive committee for the purposes of the performance of their duties, powers, and obligations, are transferred to the Ohio commercial insurance joint underwriting association board of governors to the extent of the remaining unexpended or unencumbered balance thereof, whether allocated or unallocated, and whether obligated or unobligated.

Section 18. The Ohio quarter horse development commission, the Ohio standardbred development commission, and the Ohio thoroughbred racing advisory committee shall cease to exist on the effective date of this section. The state racing commission shall perform all the duties, powers, and obligations pertaining to the duties, powers, and obligations of the Ohio quarter horse development commission, the Ohio standardbred development commission, and the Ohio thoroughbred racing advisory committee and their members. All rules, actions, determinations, commitments, resolutions, decisions, and agreements pertaining to those duties, powers, obligations, functions, and rights in force or in effect on the effective date of this section shall continue in force and effect subject to any further lawful action thereon by the state racing commission. Wherever the Ohio quarter horse development commission, the Ohio standardbred development commission, or the Ohio thoroughbred racing advisory committee are referred to in any provision of law, or in any agreement or document that pertains to those duties, powers, obligations, functions, and rights, the reference is to the state racing commission.

All authorized obligations and supplements thereto of the Ohio quarter horse development commission, the Ohio standardbred development commission, and the Ohio thoroughbred racing advisory committee and their members pertaining to the duties, powers, and obligations transferred are binding on the state racing commission, and nothing in this act impairs the obligations or rights thereunder or under any contract. The abolition of the Ohio quarter horse development commission, the Ohio standardbred development commission, and the Ohio thoroughbred racing advisory committee and the transfer of their duties, powers, and obligations do not affect the validity of agreements or obligations made by the Ohio quarter horse development commission, the Ohio standardbred development commission, and the Ohio thoroughbred racing advisory committee and their members pursuant to Chapters 4121., 4123., 4125., 4127., 4131., and 4167. of the Revised Code or any other provisions of law.

In connection with the transfer of duties, powers, obligations, functions, and rights and abolition of the Ohio quarter horse development commission, the Ohio standardbred development commission, and the Ohio thoroughbred racing advisory committee, all real property and interest therein, documents, books, money, papers, records, machinery, furnishings, office equipment, furniture, and all other property over which the Ohio quarter horse development commission, the Ohio standardbred development commission, and the Ohio thoroughbred racing advisory committee have control pertaining to the duties, powers, and obligations transferred and the rights of the Ohio quarter horse development commission, the Ohio standardbred development commission, and the Ohio thoroughbred racing advisory committee to enforce or receive any of the aforesaid is automatically transferred to the state racing commission without necessity for further action on the part of the state racing commission. Additionally, all appropriations or reappropriations made to the Ohio quarter horse development commission, the Ohio standardbred development commission, and the Ohio thoroughbred racing advisory committee for the purposes of the performance of their duties, powers, and obligations, are transferred to the state racing commission to the extent of the remaining unexpended or unencumbered balance thereof, whether allocated or unallocated, and whether obligated or unobligated.

Section 19. The sections of law contained in this act, except for Sections 22 and 23 of this act, take effect on the date that is three months after the date on which this act becomes law.

Section 20. The following items of law are not subject to the referendum and, under Ohio Constitution, Article II, Section 1d and section 1.471 of the Revised Code, take effect immediately when this act becomes law:

The amendment of sections 127.14, 4121.77, and 4123.342 of the Revised Code.

The repeal of section 4121.79 of the Revised Code.

The amendment of Section 203 of Am. Sub. H.B. 15 of the 128th General Assembly.

The repeal of Section 512.45 of Am. Sub. H.B. 100 of the 127th General Assembly as amended by Am. Sub. H.B. 15 of the 128th General Assembly.

This section.

Section 21. The General Assembly, applying the principle stated in division (B) of section 1.52 of the Revised Code that amendments are to be harmonized if reasonably capable of simultaneous operation, finds that the following sections, presented in this act as composites of the sections as amended by the acts indicated, are the resulting versions of the sections in effect prior to the effective date of the sections as presented in this act:

Section 4503.52 of the Revised Code as amended by both Am. Sub. H.B. 210 and Am. Sub. H.B. 224 of the 122nd General Assembly.