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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
SENATE BILL 93 By: Hicks
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to statutory terms; amending 56 O.S.
2011, Section 411, which relates to the Department of
Human Services; updating term; and providing an
effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 56 O.S. 2011, Section 411, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 411. A. Except as otherwise provided by su bsection B
of this section, the Department of Human Services is authorized to
make the necessary funeral arrangements and pay any reason able
burial expenses incurr ed upon the death of a child or a retarded
person an individual with intellectual disability who is either in
the custody of the Department or is a resident of an institution
under the jurisdiction of the Department. When possible, the
Department shall make such arrangements with any funeral hom e
located in the same vicinity as the institution or in the same
vicinity of the child’s or retarded person ’s place of residence or
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home town of the child or the individual with intel lectual
disability.
B. The Department of Human Services is not authorize d to make
such funeral arrangements or make such burial payments if the
deceased child or deceased retarded person individual with
intellectual disability has any relatives or next of kin who is
financially able to make the funeral arrangements and make th e
burial payments.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 20 21.
58-1-477 DC 12/7/2020 10:26:56 AM