To enact section 5101.345 of the Revised Code to create the Ohio Family Stability Commission in the Department of Job and Family Services and to repeal section 5101.345 of the Revised Code four years after the effective date of that section.

Section 1. That section 5101.345 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:

Sec. 5101.345.  (A) There is hereby created in the department of job and family services the Ohio family stability commission. The commission shall consist of twenty-five members, four of whom shall be members of the general assembly and twenty-one of whom shall be government agency representatives, private citizens, or elected officials other than members of the general assembly. Two of the four general assembly members shall be appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives and shall be members of different political parties. The other two general assembly members shall be appointed by the president of the senate and shall be members of different political parties. The remaining twenty-one members who are government agency representatives, private citizens, or elected officials shall be appointed by the governor in accordance with the following:

(1) Two shall have expertise in out-of-wedlock births;

(2) Two shall have expertise in marital divorce;

(3) One shall have expertise in education;

(4) One shall have expertise in employment;

(5) One shall have expertise in child support;

(6) One shall have expertise in child custody;

(7) One shall have expertise in child abuse and neglect;

(8) One shall have expertise in domestic violence;

(9) Two shall have expertise in the judicial system;

(10) Two shall have expertise in criminal justice;

(11) Two shall have expertise in faith-based initiatives;

(12) Two shall have expertise in fatherhood programs;

(13) Two shall have expertise in philanthropic or nonprofit management;

(14) One shall have expertise in mass media or communications.

The members of the commission shall serve at the pleasure of their appointing authorities. Vacancies shall be filled in the manner provided for original appointments. Members shall serve without compensation, except to the extent that serving on the commission is considered part of their regular duties of employment.

(B) The commission shall be staffed by personnel of the department of job and family services. This division does not require the department to employ personnel who the department otherwise would not have employed.

(C)(1) During its first year of operation, the commission shall conduct research and formulate recommendations to the general assembly, appropriate state agencies, and other appropriate entities concerning the following societal issues that impact the stability of families in this state:

(a) The divorce rate in this state and measures and strategies for reducing the divorce rate;

(b) The birth rate among unmarried individuals in this state and measures and strategies for reducing the number of births occurring outside of marriage;

(c) The rate of domestic violence, including child abuse, in this state and measures and strategies for reducing that rate;

(d) Issues concerning child custody and child support.

The recommendations formulated under division (C)(1) of this section shall provide the general assembly, appropriate state agencies, and other appropriate entities with strategies, both legal and otherwise, for addressing the issues studied under divisions (C)(1)(a) to (d) of this section.

(2) During its second year of operation, the commission shall work with the general assembly, appropriate state agencies, and other appropriate entities to implement the recommendations formulated under division (C)(1) of this section;

(3) During its third year of operation, the commission shall continue to work for the implementation of the recommendations formulated under division (C)(1) of this section and begin monitoring their implementation. The commission shall issue a report to the general assembly at the expiration of its third year of operation regarding the status of the implementation of the recommendations formulated under division (C)(1) of this section.

(4) During its fourth year of operation, the commission shall conduct activities ensuring the continued implementation and, if applicable, the enforcement of the recommendations formulated under division (C)(1) of this section. The commission shall issue a report to the general assembly at the end of its fourth year of operation regarding the status of the implementation of the recommendations formulated under division (C)(1) of this section.

(D) After the issuance of its report under division (C)(4) of this section, the commission shall cease to exist.

Section 2. Section 5101.345 of the Revised Code is hereby repealed effective the first day of the forty-ninth month after the effective date of this act.