Ohio Administrative Code
Title 3701 - Department of Health - Administration and Director
Chapter 3701-36 - Local Health Departments
Section 3701-36-10 - Payment of health district subsidies
Universal Citation: OH Admin Code 3701-36-10
Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
Pursuant to section 3709.32 of the Revised Code, state subsidy to general and city health districts by the department of health is subject to the following:
(A) No health district shall be eligible for or be paid a state subsidy unless:
(1) The health district has been provided
local funds for public health services, as determined by the health
commissioner and board of health, totaling at least three dollars per capita,
according to the most recent federal decennial census or the United States census bureau's most recent population
estimate, however, the director may grant an exception to the
requirements of this paragraph when it is shown to his satisfaction that
unusually severe economic conditions prevent the health district from receiving
adequate tax revenues.
(2) The
certification of funds expended by the health district is endorsed by the
director.
(3) The health district
has submitted, by the time requested, all data, reports, and other information
concerning services and costs associated with state subsidy distribution
required by the director of health.
(4) The health district has not decreased
local funds in the local health department budget in anticipation of using
state subsidy funds to provide services normally supported by local revenues.
(5) The local health department is
in compliance with the minimum standards contained in this chapter of the
Administrative Code adopted pursuant to section
3701.342 of the Revised Code,
including:
(a) The requirement as provided in
rule 3701-36-03 of the Administrative
Code that the health district has been represented by the health commissioner
or a designee at each conference provided by the Ohio department of health
pursuant to section 3701.29 of the Revised Code, and
the health commissioner has personally attended one of these conferences and
the medical director of a health district with a non-physician health
commissioner has attended at least one session of one of the conferences; and
(b) The requirement that all funds
received by the health district, including any state subsidy awarded during the
preceding year under section
3709.32 of the Revised Code,
have been credited to the budget of the local health department and expended
for purposes determined by the health commissioner and board of health in
accordance with all applicable laws and rules governing the expenditure of
funds.
(B) Each health district meeting the improvement minimum standards and which is otherwise eligible for a state subsidy shall be paid the subsidy to be computed as follows:
(1)
Health districts that are in compliance with the minimum standards contained in
this chapter of the Administrative Code may be paid a pro rata amount not to total
more than fifty cents on a per capita basis according to the
most recent federal decennial census or the United
States census bureau's most recent population estimate.
(2) If the amount
appropriated by the general assembly in any fiscal year for state health
district subsidy exceeds fifty cents per capita for health districts that
qualify for any subsidy under this rule, health districts that are in
compliance with one or more of the optimal achievable standards contained in
this chapter of the Administrative Code may be paid an additional subsidy
amount for each optimal achievable standard met, on a per capita basis
according to the most recent United States census
bureau's population figures, as determined by the
director. In addition to compliance with one or more of the optimal achievable
standards, a health district must comply with all minimum standards to qualify
for an additional subsidy.
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