2006 Ohio Revised Code - 5126.15. Service and support administrators; annual subsidy paid to county.

§ 5126.15. Service and support administrators; annual subsidy paid to county.
 

(A)  A county board of mental retardation and developmental disabilities shall provide service and support administration to each individual three years of age or older who is eligible for service and support administration if the individual requests, or a person on the individual's behalf requests, service and support administration. A board shall provide service and support administration to each individual receiving home and community-based services. A board may provide, in accordance with the service coordination requirements of 34 C.F.R. 303.23, service and support administration to an individual under three years of age eligible for early intervention services under 34 C.F.R. part 303. A board may provide service and support administration to an individual who is not eligible for other services of the board. Service and support administration shall be provided in accordance with rules adopted under section 5126.08 of the Revised Code. 
 

A board may provide service and support administration by directly employing service and support administrators or by contracting with entities for the performance of service and support administration. Individuals employed or under contract as service and support administrators shall not be in the same collective bargaining unit as employees who perform duties that are not administrative. 
 

Individuals employed by a board as service and support administrators shall not be assigned responsibilities for implementing other services for individuals and shall not be employed by or serve in a decision-making or policy-making capacity for any other entity that provides programs or services to individuals with mental retardation or developmental disabilities. An individual employed as a conditional status service and support administrator shall perform the duties of service and support administration only under the supervision of a management employee who is a service and support administration supervisor. 

(B)  The individuals employed by or under contract with a board to provide service and support administration shall do all of the following: 

(1) Establish an individual's eligibility for the services of the county board of mental retardation and developmental disabilities; 

(2) Assess individual needs for services; 

(3) Develop individual service plans with the active participation of the individual to be served, other persons selected by the individual, and, when applicable, the provider selected by the individual, and recommend the plans for approval by the department of mental retardation and developmental disabilities when services included in the plans are funded through medicaid; 

(4) Establish budgets for services based on the individual's assessed needs and preferred ways of meeting those needs; 

(5) Assist individuals in making selections from among the providers they have chosen; 

(6) Ensure that services are effectively coordinated and provided by appropriate providers; 

(7) Establish and implement an ongoing system of monitoring the implementation of individual service plans to achieve consistent implementation and the desired outcomes for the individual; 

(8) Perform quality assurance reviews as a distinct function of service and support administration; 

(9) Incorporate the results of quality assurance reviews and identified trends and patterns of unusual incidents and major unusual incidents into amendments of an individual's service plan for the purpose of improving and enhancing the quality and appropriateness of services rendered to the individual; 

(10) Ensure that each individual receiving services has a designated person who is responsible on a continuing basis for providing the individual with representation, advocacy, advice, and assistance related to the day-to-day coordination of services in accordance with the individual's service plan. The service and support administrator shall give the individual receiving services an opportunity to designate the person to provide daily representation. If the individual declines to make a designation, the administrator shall make the designation. In either case, the individual receiving services may change at any time the person designated to provide daily representation. 

(C)  Subject to available funds, the department of mental retardation and developmental disabilities shall pay a county board an annual subsidy for service and support administration. The amount of the subsidy shall be equal to the greater of twenty thousand dollars or two hundred dollars times the board's certified average daily membership. The payments shall be made in quarterly installments of equal amounts, which shall be made no later than the thirtieth day of September, the thirty-first day of December, the thirty-first day of March, and the thirtieth day of June. Funds received shall be used solely for service and support administration. 
 

HISTORY: 142 v H 403 (Eff 12-15-88); 144 v S 156 (Eff 1-10-92); 145 v H 152 (Eff 7-1-93); 145 v H 694 (Eff 11-11-94); 146 v H 117 (Eff 6-30-95); 149 v H 94 (Eff 6-6-2001); 149 v H 405. Eff 12-13-2001; 150 v H 95, § 1, eff. 9-26-03; 151 v S 87, § 1, eff. 4-14-06.
 

The effective date is set by section 179 of H.B. 95 (150 v  - ). 

 

Effect of Amendments

151 v S 87, effective April 14, 2006, in the final paragraph of (A), deleted "or a professional employee who is a service and support administrator" from the end. 

H.B. 95, Acts 2003, effective September 26, 2003, in (C), substituted "quarterly" for "semiannual," "December" for "August and," and "March and the thirtieth day of June" for "January," and inserted "of equal amounts."