Section 2151.3527 - [Effective 1/1/2025] Medical information forms(A) The director of children and youth shall promulgate forms designed to gather pertinent medical information concerning a deserted child and the child's parents. The forms shall clearly and unambiguously state on each page that the information requested is to facilitate medical care for the child, that the forms may be fully or partially completed or left blank, that completing the forms or parts of the forms is completely voluntary, and that no adverse legal consequence will result from failure to complete any part of the forms.(B) The director shall promulgate written materials to be made available to the parents of a child delivered pursuant to section 2151.3516 of the Revised Code. The materials shall describe services available to assist parents and newborns and shall include information directly relevant to situations that might cause parents to desert a child and information on the procedures for a person to follow in order to reunite with a child the person delivered under section 2151.3516 of the Revised Code, including notice that the person will be required to submit to a DNA test, at that person's expense, to prove that the person is the parent of the child.(C) The director of job and family services shall distribute the medical information forms and written materials promulgated pursuant to this section to all of the following: (1) Entities permitted to receive a deserted child as specified in section 2151.3517 of the Revised Code;(2) Public children services agencies;(3) Other public or private agencies that, in the discretion of the director, are best able to disseminate the forms and materials to the persons who are most in need of the forms and materials.(D) If the department of job and family services determines that money in the putative father registry fund created under section 2101.16 of the Revised Code is more than is needed for its duties related to the putative father registry, the department may use surplus moneys in the fund for costs related to the development, distribution, and publication of forms and materials promulgated pursuant to divisions (A) and (B) of this section.(E) The department of job and family services shall develop an educational plan, in collaboration with the Ohio family and children first cabinet council, for informing at-risk populations who are most likely to voluntarily deliver a child under section 2151.3516 of the Revised Code concerning the provisions of sections 2151.3515 to 2151.3533 of the Revised Code.Amended by 135th General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 33,§130.12, eff. 1/1/2025.Renumbered as § 2151.3527 by 135th General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 33,§101.01, eff. 10/3/2023.Renumbered from §2151.3529 by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, SB 332,§1, eff. 4/6/2017.Effective Date: 06-26-2003 This section is set out more than once due to postponed, multiple, or conflicting amendments.