An act relating to children, the official text

1                            STATE OF OKLAHOMA

2   1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)

3 HOUSE BILL 1849            By: Schreiber

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6                            AS INTRODUCED

7   An Act relating to children; providing income

    exemption for certain individuals when determining

8   eligibility for child care subsidy program; directing

    provider to provide certain notice to Department of

9   Human Services; providing that all other conditions

    for eligibility apply; providing for codification;

10  and providing an effective date.

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13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:

14  SECTION 1.      NEW LAW  A new section of law to be codified

15 in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 461 of Title 10, unless there is

16 created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

17  A. Any employee who is employed by a child care facility

18 licensed pursuant to the Oklahoma Child Care Facilities Licensing

19 Act shall have household income exempted from consideration when

20 eligibility is determined for the Child Care Subsidy Program

21 administered by the Department of Human Services.

22  B. When an employee who is employed by a licensed child care

23 facility leaves employment of the licensed provider, the provider

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1 shall provide written notice to the Department of Human Services

2 that the employee is no longer employed within thirty (30) days.

3   C. Other than the income exemption pursuant to subsection A and

4 the reporting requirements pursuant to subsection B of this section,

5 all other conditions of eligibility for the Child Care Subsidy

6 Program located in the Oklahoma Administrative Code (OAC) must be

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8   D. Subsection A of this section shall not apply to employees

9 who are employed by a child care facility licensed pursuant to the

10 Oklahoma Child Care Facilities Licensing Act and who are eligible

11 for the Child Care Subsidy Program without household income being

12 exempted.

13  SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.

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