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Am. S. B. No. 304 As Reported by the Senate Health, Human Services and Aging CommitteeAs Reported by the Senate Health, Human Services and Aging Committee
127th General Assembly | Regular Session | 2007-2008 |
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Cosponsors:
Senators Schuring, Mason, Wagoner, Seitz, Faber, Buehrer, Morano, Padgett
A BILL
To amend sections 2151.3516 and 2151.3530 of the
Revised Code to
increase the time after birth
that a parent may
voluntarily deliver the child
to a safe haven
without the parent expressing an
intent to return
for the child and to require the
Department of Job and Family Services to develop
an educational plan for informing at-risk
populations of the provisions of the Safe Havens
Law.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That sections 2151.3516 and 2151.3530 of the
Revised Code be
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 2151.3516. The following persons, while acting in
an
official capacity, shall take possession of a child who is
seventy-two hours thirty days old or younger if that child's
parent
has
voluntarily delivered the child to that person without
the parent
expressing an intent to return for
the child.
(A) A peace officer on behalf of the law enforcement agency
that
employs the officer;
(B) A hospital employee on behalf of the hospital that has
granted the person privilege to practice at the hospital or that
employs the person;
(C) An emergency medical service worker on behalf of the
emergency medical service organization that employs the worker or
for
which the worker provides services.
Sec. 2151.3530. (A) The director of job and family services
shall
distribute the medical information forms and written
materials promulgated under section 2151.3529 of the Revised Code
to entities permitted to
receive a deserted child, to
public
children services agencies, and to other public or private
agencies that, in the discretion of the director, are best able to
disseminate the forms and materials to the persons who are most in
need of the forms and materials.
The department of job and family services shall develop an
educational plan, in collaboration with the Ohio family and
children first cabinet council, for informing at-risk populations
who are most likely to voluntarily deliver a child under section
2151.3516 of the Revised Code concerning the provisions of
sections 2151.3516 to 2151.3530 of the Revised Code.
(B) If the department of job and family services determines
that money in the putative father registry fund created under
section 2101.16 of the Revised Code is more than is needed to
perform its duties related to the putative father registry, the
department may use surplus moneys in the fund for costs related to
the distribution of forms and materials pursuant to this section.
Section 2. That existing sections 2151.3516 and 2151.3530 of
the Revised
Code are hereby repealed.
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