Healthcare (Local Government)

HB 969 creates a new District Advisory Council for certain local health districts to oversee the selection of board members and guide health policy. This council is composed of the county commissioner president, municipal chief executives, and township trustee chairpersons, who will appoint health board members while ensuring representation from doctors and nurses. The bill also establishes procedures for holding regular and special meetings, forming an executive committee if needed to make appointments when a full council meeting cannot occur, and outlines how different districts can merge into a single combined district.

To enact sections 9.51 and 9.511 of the Revised Code to require townships and municipal corporations to provide firefighting services and emergency medical services and to establish the Fire and EMS Shared Services Reimbursement Grant Program.