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House passes bill to certify recovery housing, criminalize kickbacks and create task force
Summary
The House passed Substitute House Bill 58 to establish statewide certification and oversight of recovery housing, authorize penalties for bad operators, require transportation home for court-ordered patients who do not complete treatment, and create a statewide recovery housing task force.
The Ohio House on the floor passed Substitute House Bill 58, a measure sponsors said will set statewide standards and strengthen oversight for recovery housing across the state.
Representative Pizzoli, the bill sponsor, told colleagues the legislation responds to cases in which people court-ordered into recovery were placed in unsafe facilities. “In Ohio, there is more oversight to open a Chipotle than a recovery house,” Pizzoli said, urging members to support certification standards, local enforcement authority to shut down noncompliant…
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