5112.31 Annual franchise permit fee.
5112.31 Annual franchise permit fee.
The department of job and family services shall do all of the following:
(A) Subject to division (B) of this section and for the purposes specified in sections 5112.37 and 5112.371 of the Revised Code, assess for each fiscal year each intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded a franchise permit fee equal to the franchise permit fee rate multiplied by the product of the following:
(1) The number of beds certified under Title XIX of the “Social Security Act” on the first day of May of the calendar year in which the assessment is determined pursuant to division (A) of section 5112.33 of the Revised Code;
(2) The following number of days: (a) For fiscal year 2010, the following:
(i) For the part of fiscal year 2010 during which the franchise permit fee rate is eleven dollars and ninety-eight cents, the number of days during fiscal year 2010 during which the franchise permit fee rate is that amount;
(ii) For the part of fiscal year 2010 during which the franchise permit fee rate is fourteen dollars and seventy-five cents, the number of days during fiscal year 2010 during which the franchise permit fee is that amount;
(iii) For fiscal year 2011 and each fiscal year thereafter, the number of days in the fiscal year .
(B) If the total amount of the franchise permit fee assessed under division (A) of this section for a fiscal year exceeds five and one-half per cent of the actual net patient revenue for all intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded for that fiscal year, do both of the following:
(1)Recalculate the assessments under division (A) of this section using a per bed per day rate equal to five and one-half per cent of actual net patient revenue for all intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded for that fiscal year;
(2) Refund the difference between the amount of the franchise permit fee assessed for that fiscal year under division (A) of this section and the amount recalculated under division (B)(1) of this section as a credit against the assessments imposed under division (A) of this section for the subsequent fiscal year.
(C) If the United States secretary of health and human services determines that the franchise permit fee established by sections 5112.30 to 5112.39 of the Revised Code would be an impermissible health care-related tax under section 1903(w) of the “Social Security Act,” 42 U.S.C.A. 1396b(w), as amended, take all necessary actions to cease implementation of those sections in accordance with rules adopted under section 5112.39 of the Revised Code.
Amended by 128th General Assembly File No. 9, HB 1, § 101.01, eff. 7/17/2009.
Effective Date: 07-01-2003; 07-01-2005; 06-30-2006; 2008 HB562 07-01-2008