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OH HB612
Bill
Status
8/18/2014
Primary Sponsor
John Rogers
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AI Summary
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Establishes a grant program through the Department of Public Safety to provide financial assistance to counties, municipalities, and townships for combating opioid abuse and heroin addiction epidemics.
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Eligible applicants include county boards of commissioners (for sheriff and drug task force costs), municipal legislative authorities (for law enforcement agency costs), and township boards of trustees (for law enforcement agency costs).
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Grant funds may be used to hire part-time or full-time law enforcement and investigative officers, provide training for those officers, purchase necessary equipment, or cover other costs directly related to combating opioid and heroin problems.
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Department of Public Safety must adopt rules establishing application procedures, criteria for determining grant eligibility based on need (with priority given to applicants identifying significant opioid/heroin challenges), and processes for calculating grant amounts.
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Appropriates $10 million from the General Revenue Fund for fiscal year 2015 and authorizes the Director of Budget and Management to transfer up to $10 million from the Budget Stabilization Fund if needed to support the program.
Legislative Description
To establish a program of state financial assistance to counties, municipal corporations, and townships to help in defraying the costs of the county's sheriff, the county's drug task force, or the municipal corporation's or township's law enforcement agency in combatting the opioid abuse and heroin addiction epidemic and to make an appropriation.
Financial assistance to local governments- combat opioid/heroin epidemic
Last Action
To Finance and Appropriations
8/18/2014