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1 STATE OF OKLAHOMA
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2 1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
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3 SENATE BILL 245 By: Deevers
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6 AS INTRODUCED
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7 An Act relating to the State Department of Education;
7 directing the Department to establish and maintain
8 the Oklahoma High Dosage Tutoring Program; defining
8 term; directing certain high dosage tutors to be
9 awarded certain bonus amounts based on certain
9 criteria; providing probation for a high dosage tutor
10 who fails to achieve certain growth in certain
10 cohort; providing for loss of program eligibility for
11 a high dosage tutor who fails to achieve certain
11 growth in certain cohort while on probation;
12 providing for promulgation of rules; creating the
12 High Dosage Tutoring Revolving Fund; specifying
13 sources of fund; providing for expenditures;
13 providing purpose of fund; providing for
14 codification; providing an effective date; and
14 declaring an emergency.
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17 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
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18 SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
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19 in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 3-180 of Title 70, unless there
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20 is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
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21 A. The State Department of Education shall establish and
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22 maintain the Oklahoma High Dosage Tutoring Program.
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23 B. For the purposes of this section, "cohort" means a student
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24 or group of students of no more than four (4) who receive subject-
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1 specific high dosage tutoring in mathematics or reading in at least
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2 three thirty-minute sessions each school week throughout a semester
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3 by an individual employed or contracted as a high dosage tutor by a
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4 public school district participating in the program.
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5 C. High dosage tutors employed or contracted by public school
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6 districts participating in the Oklahoma High Dosage Tutoring Program
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7 shall be awarded bonuses in the following amounts:
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8 1. One Thousand Six Hundred Dollars ($1,600.00) for each cohort
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9 educated by a high dosage tutor per semester; and
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10 2. One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) for each academic grade
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11 level increase in English language arts or mathematics that each
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12 student within a cohort experiences within one academic year.
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13 D. If a high dosage tutor fails to achieve one-half grade level
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14 of growth in students within a cohort within the first year of
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15 participating in the program, he or she shall have one year of
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16 probation as a participant in the program. If the high dosage tutor
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17 fails to achieve one-half grade level of growth within a cohort
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18 while on probation, he or she shall lose eligibility to participate
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19 in the program.
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20 E. The State Board of Education may promulgate rules to
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21 implement the provisions of this section.
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22 SECTION 2. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
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23 in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 3-180.1 of Title 70, unless
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24 there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
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1 There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund
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2 for the State Department of Education to be designated the "High
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3 Dosage Tutoring Revolving Fund". The fund shall be a continuing
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4 fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall consist of
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5 all monies received by the State Department of Education from gifts,
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6 grants, donations, bequests, federal funds provided for the purpose
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7 of funding high dosage tutoring, or state appropriations provided
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8 for the purpose of implementing the provisions of Section 1 of this
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9 act. All monies accruing to the credit of the fund are hereby
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10 appropriated and may be budgeted and expended by the State
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11 Department of Education for the purpose provided for in this
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12 section. Expenditures from the fund shall be made upon warrants
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13 issued by the State Treasurer against claims filed as prescribed by
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14 law with the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise
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15 Services for approval and payment.
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16 SECTION 3. This act shall become effective July 1, 2025.
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17 SECTION 4. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
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18 of the public peace, health, or safety, an emergency is hereby
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19 declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and
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20 be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
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