Section 5126.0512. Number enrolled in home and community-based services

(A) Except as provided in rules adopted under section 5123.0413 of the Revised Code, each county board of developmental disabilities shall ensure that the number of individuals eligible under section 5126.041 of the Revised Code for services from the county board who are enrolled in home and community-based services is no less than the sum of the following:

(1) The number of individuals eligible for services from the county board who are enrolled in home and community-based services on June 30, 2007;

(2) The number of home and community-based services slots the county board requested before July 1, 2007, that were assigned to the county board before that date but in which no individual was enrolled before that date.

(B) An individual enrolled in home and community-based services after March 1, 2007, due to an emergency reserve capacity waiver assignment shall not be counted in determining the number of individuals a county board must ensure under division (A) of this section are enrolled in home and community-based services.

(C) An individual who is enrolled in home and community-based services to comply with the terms of the consent order filed March 5, 2007, in Martin v. Strickland, Case No. 89-CV-00362, in the United States district court for the southern district of Ohio, eastern division, shall be excluded in determining whether a county board has complied with division (A) of this section.

(D) A county board shall make as many requests for individuals to be enrolled in home and community-based services as necessary for the county board to comply with division (A) of this section.

Amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.28, HB 153, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2011.

Amended by 128th General AssemblyFile No.9, HB 1, §101.01, eff. 10/16/2009.

Amended by 128th General Assemblych.9, SB 79, §1, eff. 10/6/2009.

Effective Date: 2007 HB119 07-01-2007