(A) All of the following apply to the independent contractor engaged by the department of education and workforce to create and maintain for school districts and community schools the student data verification codes required by division (D)(2) of section 3301.0714 of the Revised Code:

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(1) Upon request of the director of any state agency that administers a publicly funded program providing services to children who are younger than compulsory school age, including the directors of health, job and family services, mental health and addiction services, and developmental disabilities, the contractor shall assign a data verification code to a child who is receiving such services and shall provide that code to the director.

(2) Upon request of the director of developmental disabilities, director of health, director of job and family services, director of mental health and addiction services, medicaid director, executive director of the commission on minority health, executive director of the opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency, or director of education and workforce and on behalf of a program that receives public funds and provides services to children younger than compulsory school age, the contractor shall assign a data verification code to a child who is receiving such services from the program and shall provide that code to the director.

(3) The contractor also shall provide the codes requested under division (A) of this section to the department of education and workforce.

For purposes of division (A) of this section, “compulsory school age” has the same meaning as in section 3321.01 of the Revised Code.

(B) The director of a state agency that receives a child’s data verification code under division (A)(1) of this section shall use that code to submit information for that child to the department of education and workforce in accordance with section 3301.0714 of the Revised Code.

The director of a state agency that receives a child’s data verification code under division (A)(2) of this section shall provide that code to the publicly or privately funded program providing services to the child. The program shall use that code to submit information for that child to the department of education and workforce in accordance with section 3301.0714 of the Revised Code, but only to the extent permitted by federal law.

(C) A public school that receives from the independent contractor the data verification code for a child assigned under division (A) of this section shall not request or assign to that child another data verification code under division (D)(2) of section 3301.0714 of the Revised Code. That school and any other public school in which the child subsequently enrolls shall use the data verification code assigned under division (A) of this section to report data relative to that student required under section 3301.0714 of the Revised Code.