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| To enact section 5101.87 of the Revised Code | 1 |
| regarding annual reports about certain employers | 2 |
| of public assistance recipients. | 3 |
| Section 1. That section 5101.87 of the Revised Code be | 4 |
| enacted to read as follows: | 5 |
| Sec. 5101.87. (A) As used in this section: | 6 |
| (1) "Children's health insurance program" means the | 7 |
| children's health insurance program parts I, II, and III provided | 8 |
| for by sections 5101.50 to 5101.529 of the Revised Code. | 9 |
| (2) "Employer" means any individual, sole proprietorship, | 10 |
| partnership, limited liability company, corporation, or any other | 11 |
| entity that is doing business in this state. "Employer" also | 12 |
| includes all entities or persons that are controlled by or | 13 |
| affiliated with any such individual, sole proprietorship, | 14 |
| partnership, limited liability company, corporation, or other | 15 |
| entity. Whether an entity or person is controlled by or affiliated | 16 |
| with another shall be determined by applying the principles set | 17 |
| forth on January 1, 1993, in subsections 414(b) and (c) of the | 18 |
| "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C. 414, | 19 |
| except that a voting power of fifty-one per cent shall be applied | 20 |
| to the determination of control or affiliation. | 21 |
| (3) "Medicaid" means the program provided for by Chapter | 22 |
| 5111. of the Revised Code. | 23 |
| (4) "Ohio works first" means the program provided for by | 24 |
| Chapter 5107. of the Revised Code. | 25 |
| (5) "Supplemental nutrition assistance program" means the | 26 |
| program provided for by the "Food and Nutrition Act of 2008," 7 | 27 |
| U.S.C. 2011 et seq. | 28 |
| (B) The director of job and family services shall annually | 29 |
| complete a report that specifies all of the following: | 30 |
| (1) The name of each of the fifty employers that employed the | 31 |
| most employees who were either of the following while employed by | 32 |
| the employer in this state during the previous year: | 33 |
| (a) Recipients of the children's health insurance program, | 34 |
| medicaid, Ohio works first, or supplemental nutrition assistance | 35 |
| program; | 36 |
| (b) Individuals whose incomes were counted in determining | 37 |
| eligibility for the children's health insurance program, medicaid, | 38 |
| Ohio works first, or supplemental nutrition assistance program. | 39 |
| (2) The number of individuals described in divisions | 40 |
| (B)(1)(a) and (b) of this section who were employed in the | 41 |
| previous year by each employer specified in the report; | 42 |
| (3) The total cost to the state for the previous year of | 43 |
| providing benefits under the children's health insurance program, | 44 |
| medicaid, Ohio works first, or supplemental nutrition assistance | 45 |
| program to employees of each of the employers specified in the | 46 |
| report, specified separately for each employer. | 47 |
| (C) The annual reports are public records under section | 48 |
| 149.43 of the Revised Code. The reports shall not include any | 49 |
| identifying information about any employee described in division | 50 |
| (B)(1)(a) or (b) of this section. | 51 |
| (D) The director of job and family services shall provide | 52 |
| copies of the annual reports to all of the following: | 53 |
| (1) Each member of the general assembly; | 54 |
| (2) The director of development; | 55 |
| (3) The director of budget and management or, if the director | 56 |
| designates an employee of the office of budget and management to | 57 |
| serve on the controlling board in the director's place, the | 58 |
| designated employee; | 59 |
| (4) Each member of the tax credit authority. | 60 |
| (E) The director of development, members of the controlling | 61 |
| board, and members of the tax credit authority shall consider the | 62 |
| information included in the most recent annual report available | 63 |
| when determining whether to grant an employer a contract, award, | 64 |
| subsidy, or incentive or to approve such a contract, award, | 65 |
| subsidy, or incentive. The director of development, controlling | 66 |
| board, and tax credit authority shall notify the director of job | 67 |
| and family services of the impact the report has on decisions | 68 |
| regarding contracts, awards, subsidies, and incentives. | 69 |
| (F) Not later than one year after the effective date of this | 70 |
| section, the director of job and family services shall make the | 71 |
| annual reports available on a searchable internet web site. The | 72 |
| internet web site shall include information provided to the | 73 |
| director by the director of development, controlling board, and | 74 |
| tax credit authority regarding the impact the report has on | 75 |
| decisions regarding contracts, awards, subsidies, and incentives. | 76 |