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Ohio Department of Higher Education | Title IX Regulations Training (Higher Education) The Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE) and Bricker & Eckler’s higher ed team is pleased to announce a series of Title IX trainings, sponsored by ODHE, for coordinators and investigators. These trainings are restricted to coordinators and investigators at Ohio campuses and will be conducted via online webcast. All training events use discussions of hypothetical situations to encourage engagement with...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Governor DeWine recently signed Senate Bill (S.B.) 57, a law that affects Ohio real property tax valuation complaints. Commercial and industrial property owners that have been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic promoted the bill. Generally, S.B. 57 broadens the scope of who can contest property values and also opens the door for pandemic-related valuation cases that the previous law would not have permitted. Historically, o...

Ohio Department of Higher Education | Title IX Regulations Training (Higher Education) The Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE) and Bricker & Eckler’s higher ed team is pleased to announce a series of Title IX trainings, sponsored by ODHE, for coordinators and investigators. These trainings are restricted to coordinators and investigators at Ohio campuses and will be conducted via online webcast. All training events use discussions of hypothetical situations to encourage engagement with...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Ohio EPA has provided notice of proposed amendments to its Accidental Release Prevention Program/Risk Management Program rules, which are found in Ohio Administrative Code Chapter 3745-104. Many of Ohio EPA’s proposed changes are in response to US EPA changes. The proposed rules impact requirements for areas such as agency coordination, recordkeeping and notifications to the public. Ohio EPA will hold a virtual public hearing on ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Senate Bill 2, signed by Ohio Governor DeWine on April 27, 2021, makes various changes to criminal law regarding competency issues of defendants in criminal cases. Several of the revisions impact hospitals, including the imposition of new reporting requirements in certain situations. Revised Code 5122.03 sets forth procedures by which a patient voluntarily admitted to a hospital for mental health services may obtain release subject t...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: In late April 2021, a legislative committee in the Ohio House held its second hearing to consider creating a $100 million grant program, exclusively for county land banks, to fund commercial building demolition. Ohio’s land bank statutes are recognized as a national model, uniquely providing an opt-in for county commissioners to direct tax collections to fund their county land banks’ activities. That revenue model, coupled with al...

New ACGME recognition for non-standard training of J-1 exchange visitor physicians International medical graduates who seek entry into U.S. programs of graduate medical education (GME) or training must obtain an appropriate visa that permits clinical training activities. The most commonly used visa to participate in U.S. GME programs is the J-1, a temporary nonimmigrant visa. The Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) is authorized by the U.S. Department of State (DOS) to ...

Ohio Department of Higher Education | Title IX Regulations Training (Higher Education) The Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE) and Bricker & Eckler’s higher ed team is pleased to announce a series of Title IX trainings, sponsored by ODHE, for coordinators and investigators. These trainings are restricted to coordinators and investigators at Ohio campuses and will be conducted via online webcast. All training events use discussions of hypothetical situations to encourage engagement with...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On April 27, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the 2022 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Proposed Rule for Acute Care Hospitals. The IPPS Proposed Rule contains a number of proposals related to hospitals and the Medicare program—some payment-related and others policy-related. Several of the proposals are highlighted below. Price transparency While CMS has not thrown out the entire price tr...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Army Corps) issued its final rule  on January 13, 2021, modifying and reissuing 12 existing nationwide permits (NWPs) and issuing four entirely new NWPs, which went into effect on March 15, 2021 (the "2021 NWPs"). NWPs offer a streamlined permitting approach for certain categories of activities that cause minimal impacts to wetlands and other waters of the United States. NWPs are not valid until th...