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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION
STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 59th Legislature (2023)
HOUSE BILL 2722 By: Hefner of the House
and
Montgomery of the Senate
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to ABLE accounts and programs;
requiring executive agencies, boards, commissions and
departments to make information available regarding
ABLE accounts; specifying methods for distribution of
information; requiring contracting entities to
provide information regarding ABLE accounts;
providing for codification; providing an effective
date; and declaring an emergency .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Sec tion 4001.6 of Title 56, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as fo llows:
A. Any agency, board, commission, department or entity
organized within the executive branch that has contact with persons
who might be able to utilize the provisions of the Oklahoma ABLE Act
and establish an account for an eligible beneficiary shall have
information readily accessible to persons with whom th e agency might
have contact, in the form of a brochure or other publication or by
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making information about the program available o n the agency website
or both.
B. Subsection A of this section s hall be applicable to:
1. The State Departmen t of Education;
2. The Oklahoma State D epartment of Health;
3. The Department of Hu man Services;
4. The Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Services;
5. The Department of Rehabilitation Services; and
6. The Oklahoma Department of Ve terans Affairs.
C. Any entity that enters into contract with the governmental
entities described by subsection A of this section shall also, as a
condition of the contract, make information available using the same
or similar methods as those used by the executive branch entities.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 2023.
SECTION 3. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON GENERAL GOVERNMENT, dated
02/28/2023 - DO PASS, As Coauthored.