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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION
STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
ENGROSSED SENATE
BILL NO. 93 By: Hicks of the Senate
and
McBride of the House
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 subsection B
of this section, the Department of Human Services is authorized to
make the necessary funeral arrangements and pay any reasonable
burial expenses incurred 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 w ith any funeral home
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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
home town of the child or the individual with intellectual
disability.
B. The Department of Human Servic es is not authorized 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 arran gements and make the
burial payments.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 202 1.
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILY
SERVICES, dated 03/30/2021 - DO PASS.