The director of behavioral health shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to do both of the following:

1. (A) Streamline the intake procedures used by a community addiction services provider accepting and beginning to serve a new individual, including procedures regarding intake forms and questionnaires;
2. (B) Enable a community addiction services provider to retain an individual as an active patient even though the patient last received services from the provider more than thirty days before resumption of services so that the individual and provider do not have to repeat the intake procedures.

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