Sub. H.B. No. 427 Summary

• Establishes drug overdose fatality review committees at the county or regional level to review overdose deaths, maintain databases, and recommend prevention measures; committees are confidential and immune from liability.

• Requires monthly drug overdose death reporting by the Ohio Department of Health, publishing county-level data online and issuing press releases with current addiction treatment referral hotline information.

• Creates three community and faith-based substance abuse grant programs administered by the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services: curricula grants ($50,000 FY2019), transportation assistance grants ($50,000 FY2019), and rehabilitation facility grants ($1,000,000 FY2019).

• Appropriates $1,100,000 total for these grant programs in fiscal year 2019, with grant funds distributed through local boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services to eligible nonprofit entities.

• Updates professional confidentiality protections allowing physicians to provide information to drug overdose fatality review committees without violating patient confidentiality restrictions.