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Educators now have to opportunity to become properly certified, while completing the requirements to renew their expired associate or professional licenses. The Ohio Department of Education (“the Department”) recently announced that educators may be eligible for a one-year, nonrenewable Reinstatement License if they meet specified…
Since at least 2012, the Ohio General Assembly has gradually worked to reduce the collateral consequences of a criminal conviction on obtaining a professional license. During the last decade, the General Assembly created Certificates of Qualification for Employment, which were meant to remove the presumption…
In the wake of the Ohio Medical Board’s latest temporary extension to the deferred enforcement of Ohio’s Telemedicine Rules, the Ohio State Legislature is contemplating a permanent expansion to the existing rules. On September 29, 2021, the Senate’s Health Committee held its second hearing on…
As part of their reinstatement and/or probation terms imposed by an Adjudication Order or Consent Agreement with the Ohio Board of Nursing, Ohio licensed nurses who are required to abstain from drug and/or alcohol are required to submit to random screening through FS Solutions. Effective…
The law requires that copies of public records must be made available at cost. A public office acts within its discretion when it declines a public records request based on a good faith belief that the party requesting the records was unable to pay for…
Effective April 12, 2021, the State Medical Board of Ohio stopped issuing licenses to Cosmetic Therapists. By discontinuing licensing at the state level, Ohio joins the vast majority of states that do not require a license for laser hair removal. However, while Ohio no longer…
The fallout from The Ohio State University’s investigation of Dr. Richard Strauss’s decades-long and decades-old abuse continues. In 2019, by Executive Order 2019-16D, Governor DeWine created a working group to review the State Medical Board of Ohio’s investigation into Dr. Strauss. Following the Working Group’s…
Any person who feeds or boards an animal under contract with the owner has a lien on such animal to secure payment for food and board furnished. The contract does not need to be in writing. This is known as an agister’s lien. The process…
In mid-January 2021, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a significant shift in addiction medicine policy that would have allowed most doctors to prescribe buprenorphine to treat opioid use disorder without taking the current training or receiving a DEA DATA2000…
The Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System (OARRS) was developed as a tool to track the prescribing and dispensing of controlled substance prescriptions. At its core, OARRS is a database of all outpatient prescriptions for controlled substances dispensed or personally furnished by Ohio providers and pharmacies….