Oklahoma 2023 Regular Session

Oklahoma Senate Bill SB779 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 01/18/2023

                             
 
 
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STATE OF OKLAHOMA 
 
1st Session of the 59th Legislature (2023) 
 
SENATE BILL 779 	By: Woods 
 
 
 
 
 
AS INTRODUCED 
 
An Act relating to the Department of Human S ervices; 
requiring the Department to reopen certain offices by 
certain date; requiring the Department to open 
offices under certain condition; and providing for 
codification. 
 
 
 
 
 
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 S ection 162.7 of Title 56, unless there 
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows: 
Not later than January 1, 2024, the Department of Human Services 
shall reopen all county or regional offices closed on or after May 
1, 2020, that were operating prior to that date. If the property 
where an office was located has been sold or leased, the Department 
shall open an office as close as possible to that loca tion, and in 
no event shall the new office be located outside of a ten-mile 
radius from the previous location. 
 
59-1-1519 DC 1/18/2023 7:04:57 PM