An act relating to children, the official text

1                            STATE OF OKLAHOMA

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

3 HOUSE BILL 2030            By: Archer

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6                            AS INTRODUCED

7   An Act relating to children; providing foster care

    maintenance payment amounts for foster parents;

8   directing the Director of the Department of Human

    Services to review amount annually; allowing the

9   Director to authorize a greater amount; providing for

    codification; and providing an effective date.

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

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

16 in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 7401-101 of Title 10, unless

17 there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

18  A. The foster care maintenance payment for Resource Parents who

19 are traditional foster parents shall be at least:

20  1. Twenty-two Dollars and seventy-two cents ($22.72) per day,

21 or Six Hundred Eighty-one Dollars and sixty cents ($681.60) per

22 month, for a child who is zero (0) years to five (5) years of age;

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1   2. Twenty-five Dollars and forty-two cents ($25.42) per day, or

2 Seven Hundred Sixty-two Dollars and sixty cents ($762.60) per month,

3 for a child who is six (6) to twelve (12) years of age; and

4   3. Twenty-seven Dollars and sixty-two cents ($27.62) per day,

5 or Eight Hundred Twenty-eight Dollars and sixty cents ($828.60) per

6 month, for a child who is thirteen (13) years of age or older.

7   B. The Director of the Department of Human Services shall

8 review the foster care maintenance payment rates annually, pursuant

9 to 45 C.F.R., Section 1356.21(m), to assure appropriateness and may

10 authorize a foster care maintenance payment in an amount greater

11 than is specified in subsection A of this section.

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

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14  60-1-11136      CMA  01/08/25

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