Ohio Code § 3301.0723

§ 3301.0723.

(A) All of the following apply to the independent contractor engaged by the department

of education and workforce to create and maintain for school districts and community

schools the student data verification codes required by division (D)(2) of section 3301.0714 of the Revised Code : (1) Upon request of the director of any state agency that administers a publicly funded

program providing services to children who are younger than compulsory school age,

including the directors of health, children and youth, mental health and addiction

services, and developmental disabilities, the contractor shall assign a data verification

code to a child who is receiving such services and shall provide that code to the

director. (2) Upon request of the director of developmental disabilities, director of health, director

of job and family services, director of children and youth, director of mental health

and addiction services, medicaid director, executive director of the commission on

minority health, executive director of the opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities

agency, or director of education and workforce and on behalf of a program that receives

public funds and provides services to children younger than compulsory school age,

the contractor shall assign a data verification code to a child who is receiving such

services from the program and shall provide that code to the director. (3) The contractor also shall provide the codes requested under division (A) of this

section to the department of education and workforce. For purposes of division (A) of this section, “compulsory school age” has the same

meaning as in section 3321.01 of the Revised Code . (B) The director of a state agency that receives a child's data verification code under

division (A)(1) of this section shall use that code to submit information for that

child to the department of education and workforce in accordance with section 3301.0714 of the Revised Code . The director of a state agency that receives a child's data verification code under

division (A)(2) of this section shall provide that code to the publicly or privately

funded program providing services to the child.  The program shall use that code to submit information for that child to the department

of education and workforce in accordance with section 3301.0714 of the Revised Code , but only to the extent permitted by federal law. (C) A public school that receives from the independent contractor the data verification

code for a child assigned under division (A) of this section shall not request or

assign to that child another data verification code under division (D)(2) of section 3301.0714 of the Revised Code .  That school and any other public school in which the child subsequently enrolls

shall use the data verification code assigned under division (A) of this section to

report data relative to that student required under section 3301.0714 of the Revised Code .