ENROLLED HOUSE
BILL NO. 1029 By: Talley, Waldron, Pae, Munson, and Pittman of the House
and
Stanley
and Hicks of the Senate
An Act relating to schools; directing the State Department of
Education to adopt a form for reporting on student homelessness; providing for
collaboration with certain committee; prescribing timing and procedure for form
completion; requiring districts to report results to the Department no later than
date specified; directing the Department to report annual results to certain
officials and entity; providing for codification; and providing an effective
date.
SUBJECT: Schools
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.
NEW LAW A new section of law
to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1210.210 of Title 70, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. The State Department
of Education Office of Federal Programs shall, in conjunction with the Office
of Planning and Coordination for Services to Children and Youth Steering
Committee established in Section 601.6c of Title 10 of the Oklahoma Statutes,
adopt a standard form to be used by all school districts to identify students
who are homeless children and youth as defined in Section 600 of Title 10 of
the Oklahoma Statutes. Beginning with
the 2024-2025 school year, the form shall be completed annually at enrollment
by the parent or guardian of a student or by the student if he or she is not in
the physical custody of a parent or guardian.
Districts shall report the results to the Department, in a manner
prescribed by the Department, no later than June 1 of each year.
B. Beginning July 1,
2025, the Department shall compile a report of the number of students
identified as being homeless, by district and grade level. The report shall be distributed annually to
the Governor, Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, Chair of the
House Common Education Committee, President Pro Tempore of the Oklahoma State
Senate, Chair of the Senate Education Committee, and the Oklahoma Commission on
Children and Youth.
SECTION 2.
This act shall become effective November 1, 2023.
Passed the
House of Representatives the 6th day of March, 2023.
Presiding
Officer of the House
of
Representatives
Passed the Senate the 25th day of
April, 2023.
Presiding
Officer of the Senate
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Received by the Office
of the Governor this ____________________ day of ___________________,
20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
By:
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Approved by the
Governor of the State of Oklahoma this _________ day of ___________________,
20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
_________________________________
Governor of
the State of Oklahoma
OFFICE
OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
Received by the Office
of the Secretary of State this __________ day of ___________________,
20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
By:
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