Ohio Revised Code
Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management
Section 126.65 | State Post-Traumatic Stress Fund.

Effective: April 12, 2021
Latest Legislation: House Bill 308 - 133rd General Assembly
(A) The state post-traumatic stress fund is created in the state treasury. The director of budget and management shall be the trustee of the fund.
(B) The state post-traumatic stress fund shall be used for the following purposes:
(1) Payment of compensation for lost wages that result from a public safety officer being disabled by post-traumatic stress disorder received in the course of, and arising out of, employment as a public safety officer but without an accompanying physical injury;
(2) Payment of medical, nurse, therapy, and hospital services and medicines required to treat a public safety officer diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder received in the course of, and arising out of, employment as a public safety officer but without an accompanying physical injury;
(3) Payment of administrative costs incurred in providing the compensation and benefits described in divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section.
(C) No employer shall discharge, demote, reassign, or take any punitive action against any public safety officer because the officer filed a claim or instituted, pursued, or testified in any proceedings related to compensation or benefits paid from the state post traumatic stress fund as a result of a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder received in the course of, and arising out of, employment as a public safety officer but without an accompanying physical injury. Any such officer may file an action in the common pleas court of the county of the officer's employment in which the relief which may be granted shall be limited to reasonable attorney fees and reinstatement with back pay, if the action is based on discharge, or an award for wages lost if based upon demotion, reassignment, or punitive action taken, offset by earnings subsequent to discharge, demotion, reassignment, or punitive action taken. The action shall be forever barred unless filed within one hundred eighty days immediately following the discharge, demotion, reassignment, or punitive action taken, and no action may be instituted or maintained unless the employer has received written notice of a claimed violation of this section within the ninety days immediately following the discharge, demotion, reassignment, or punitive action taken.
(D) There shall be no payments made from the state post-traumatic stress fund pursuant to division (B) of this section and no person is eligible for any claims and no liability shall accrue to any state party under this section.
Last updated May 7, 2021 at 5:16 PM

Structure Ohio Revised Code

Ohio Revised Code

Title 1 | State Government

Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management

Section 126.02 | Preparation of Budget Estimates.

Section 126.021 | Appropriations for Construction Compliance Section of Department of Development.

Section 126.022 | Estimates of Revenues From Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement.

Section 126.03 | Capital Plan - Agency Recommendations for Acquisition of Real Estate and Construction of Public Improvements.

Section 126.05 | Monthly Statements Showing Condition of General Revenue Fund.

Section 126.06 | Availability of Money in Total Operating Fund.

Section 126.07 | Certification of Balance Statement in All Contracts.

Section 126.071 | Monetary Settlement; Consultation With Director of Budget and Management.

Section 126.08 | Director of Budget and Management - Powers and Duties.

Section 126.09 | Monthly Distribution Schedule of Subsidies.

Section 126.11 | Coordination and Approval of Scheduling Sales of Certain Obligations.

Section 126.12 | Recovering Statewide Indirect Costs.

Section 126.13 | Designating Program or Activity for Performance Review.

Section 126.14 | Controlling Board to Approve Release of Appropriation for Purchase of Real Estate or Other Capital Project.

Section 126.141 | Contingency Reserve for Capital Appropriations.

Section 126.15 | Adjusting Capital or Operating Budgets.

Section 126.16 | Implementing Constitutional Provision for Purposes of Issuing Direct Obligations of State.

Section 126.21 | Accounting Duties of Director of Budget and Management.

Section 126.22 | Director - Accounting Powers.

Section 126.23 | Reports on State Funds.

Section 126.231 | Report From Director of Budget and Management.

Section 126.24 | Oaks Support Organization Fund.

Section 126.25 | User Charges - State Accounting Fund.

Section 126.26 | Director as Chairperson of Gubernatorial Transition Committee - Powers and Duties.

Section 126.27 | Filing Budget Estimates With Governor-Elect.

Section 126.28 | Powers to Take Testimony and Produce Evidence.

Section 126.29 | Agency Scheduled to Terminate Operations.

Section 126.30 | Interest on Late Payments for Goods and Services.

Section 126.301 | Statute of Limitations.

Section 126.31 | Travel and Other Expenses.

Section 126.32 | Job Interview and Relocation Expenses.

Section 126.35 | Warrants or Electronic Fund Transfers for Payments - Electronic Benefit Transfers.

Section 126.36 | Replacement of Lost or Destroyed Warrant.

Section 126.37 | Stale Warrants for Payment.

Section 126.38 | Furnishing Earnings Statement With Each Pay Warrant.

Section 126.40 | Forgery Recovery Fund.

Section 126.45 | Office of Internal Audit.

Section 126.46 | State Audit Committee.

Section 126.47 | Annual Internal Audit Plan.

Section 126.48 | Internal Audit Report as Public Record.

Section 126.50 | Definitions.

Section 126.503 | Control of Travel Expenses.

Section 126.504 | Use of Interoffice Mailing Service; Printing, Copying, Mail Preparation and Related Services.

Section 126.505 | Compliance With Standardization and Strategic Sourcing Policy and Control-on-Equipment Directives.

Section 126.506 | Participation in Technology Consolidation Projects.

Section 126.60 | H2ohio Fund.

Section 126.62 | Investing in Ohio Fund.

Section 126.65 | State Post-Traumatic Stress Fund.