Ohio Nursing Facilities Staff-to-Patient Ratios and Care Requirements Initiative (2020)
| Ohio Nursing Facilities Staff-to-Patient Ratios and Care Requirements Initiative | |
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| Election date November 3, 2020 | |
| Topic Healthcare | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin Citizens |
The Ohio Nursing Facilities Staff-to-Patient Ratios and Care Requirements Initiative was not on the ballot in Ohio as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 3, 2020.
The ballot measure would have established staff-to-patient ratios in nursing facilities. The ballot measure would also have required a minimum amount of care, measured in hours, that sick, injured, fragile, and disabled patients must receive in nursing facilities.[1]
Text of measure
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The full text of the measure is available here.
Path to the ballot
In Ohio, the number of signatures required to get an initiated constitutional amendment placed on the ballot is equal to 10 percent of the votes cast in the preceding gubernatorial election. Ohio also requires initiative sponsors to submit 1,000 signatures with the initial petition application. Ohio has a signature distribution requirement, which requires that signatures be gathered from at least 44 of Ohio's 88 counties. Petitioners must gather signatures equal to a minimum of half the total required percentage of the gubernatorial vote in each of the 44 counties. Petitions are allowed to circulate for an indefinite period of time. Signatures are due 125 days prior to the general election that proponents want the initiative on.
The requirements to get an initiated constitutional amendment certified for the 2020 ballot:
- Signatures: 443,958 valid signatures were required.
- Deadline: The deadline to submit the signatures was July 1, 2020.
County boards of elections are responsible for verifying signatures, and the secretary of state must determine the sufficiency of the signature petition at least 105 days before the election. If the first batch of signatures is determined to be insufficient, the petitioners are given a ten-day window to collect more signatures.
Stages of this initiative
The ballot initiative was filed on November 25, 2019.[1] On December 5, 2019, Attorney General Dave Yost (R) decided that the petition language was not fair and truthful.[2]
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