Effective: July 3, 2019 Latest Legislation: House Bill 62 – 133rd General Assembly (A) As used in sections 4121.01 to 4121.29 of the Revised Code: (1) “Place of employment” means every place, whether indoors or out, or underground, and the premises appurtenant thereto, where either temporarily or permanently any industry, trade, or business is carried […]
Effective: September 15, 2014 Latest Legislation: House Bill 483 – 130th General Assembly (A) There is hereby created the industrial commission. The commission shall consist of three members appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate. One member shall be an individual who, on account of the individual’s previous vocation, employment, […]
Effective: May 1, 2003 Latest Legislation: House Bill NO91 – 125th General Assembly The industrial commission operating fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of all moneys transferred to the fund pursuant to division (C) of section 4123.342 of the Revised Code. Revenues credited to the fund shall be used […]
Effective: September 29, 2015 Latest Legislation: House Bill 64 – 131st General Assembly (A) The governor shall appoint from among the members of the industrial commission the chairperson of the industrial commission. The chairperson shall serve as chairperson at the pleasure of the governor. The chairperson is the head of the commission and its chief […]
Effective: June 30, 2009 Latest Legislation: House Bill 16 – 128th General Assembly (A) There is hereby created the industrial commission nominating council consisting of five employer representatives, four labor representatives, one representative from the Ohio association for justice, and two members of the public, each of a different political party, who are appointed by […]
Effective: November 3, 1989 Latest Legislation: House Bill 222 – 118th General Assembly The members of the industrial commission, the administrator of workers’ compensation, and employees and deputies of the commission and the bureau of workers’ compensation are entitled to receive from the state their necessary and actual expenses while traveling on business of the […]
Effective: June 30, 1997 Latest Legislation: House Bill 362 – 122nd General Assembly The industrial commission shall have an official seal for the authentication of its orders and proceedings, upon which seal shall be engraved “The Industrial Commission of Ohio,” and such other design as the commission prescribes. The courts in this state shall take […]
Effective: August 25, 2006 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 7 – 126th General Assembly The industrial commission shall be in continuous session and open for the transaction of business during all business hours of every day excepting Sundays and legal holidays. The sessions of the commission shall be open to the public and shall stand and […]
Effective: November 3, 1989 Latest Legislation: House Bill 222 – 118th General Assembly Subject to any applicable sections of sections 4101.01 to 4101.16 and 4121.01 to 4121.29 of the Revised Code, the bureau of workers’ compensation may adopt its own rules of procedure and may change the same in its discretion.
Effective: March 24, 2021 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 201 – 133rd General Assembly (A) There is hereby created the bureau of workers’ compensation board of directors consisting of eleven members to be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. One member shall be an individual who, on account of the […]
Effective: March 24, 2021 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 201 – 133rd General Assembly (A) There is hereby created the bureau of workers’ compensation, which shall be administered by the administrator of workers’ compensation. A person appointed to the position of administrator shall possess significant management experience in effectively managing an organization or organizations of substantial […]
Effective: September 10, 2007 Latest Legislation: House Bill 100 – 127th General Assembly (A) The administrator of workers’ compensation, for employees of the bureau of workers’ compensation, and the industrial commission, for employees of the commission may discipline, suspend, demote or discharge any employee for misfeasance, malfeasance, or nonfeasance. In the case of any deputy […]
Effective: September 10, 2012 Latest Legislation: House Bill 487 – 129th General Assembly (A) There is hereby created the workers’ compensation board of directors nominating committee consisting of the following: (1) Three individuals who are members of affiliated employee organizations of the Ohio chapter of the American federation of labor-congress of industrial organizations, who are […]
Effective: September 29, 2017 Latest Legislation: House Bill 27 – 132nd General Assembly (A) The bureau of workers’ compensation board of directors, based upon recommendations of the workers’ compensation actuarial committee, may contract with one or more outside actuarial firms and other professional persons, as the board determines necessary, to assist the board in maintaining […]
Effective: September 10, 2007 Latest Legislation: House Bill 100 – 127th General Assembly Except as provided in this chapter, no member of the bureau of workers’ compensation board of directors or employee of the bureau of workers’ compensation shall have any direct or indirect interest in the gains or profits of any investment made by […]
Effective: September 29, 2005 Latest Legislation: House Bill 66 – 126th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, a fiduciary shall not cause the bureau of workers’ compensation to engage in a transaction, if the fiduciary knows or should know that such transaction constitutes any of the following, whether directly […]
Effective: June 30, 2011 Latest Legislation: House Bill 153, Senate Bill 171 – 129th General Assembly The attorney general shall be the legal adviser of the bureau of workers’ compensation board of directors.
Effective: September 29, 2015 Latest Legislation: House Bill 52 – 131st General Assembly (A) There is hereby created the workers’ compensation audit committee consisting of at least three members. One member shall be the member of the bureau of workers’ compensation board of directors who is a certified public accountant. The board, by majority vote, […]
Effective: November 3, 1989 Latest Legislation: House Bill 222 – 118th General Assembly The administrator of workers’ compensation shall: (A) Investigate, ascertain, and declare and prescribe what hours of labor, safety devices, safeguards, or other means or methods of protection are best adapted to render the employees of every employment and place of employment and […]
Effective: August 25, 2006 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 7 – 126th General Assembly The bureau of workers’ compensation special investigation department is a criminal justice agency in investigating reported violations of law relating to workers’ compensation, and as such may apply for access to the computerized databases administered by the national crime information center or […]
