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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 59th Leg islature (2023)
HOUSE BILL 1029 By: Talley
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to schools; directing the State
Department of Education to adopt a form for reporting
on student homelessness; providing for collaboration
with certain committee; pr escribing timing and
procedure for form completion; requiring districts to
report results to the Department no later than date
specified; directing the Department to report annual
results to certain officials and entity; providing
for codification; and providing an effective date .
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 Section 1210.210 of Title 70, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. The State Department of Education Office of Federal Programs
shall, in conjunction wi th the Office of Planning and Coordination
for Services to Children and Yout h Steering Committee established in
Section 601.6c of Title 10 of th e Oklahoma Statutes, adopt a
standard form to be used by all school districts to identify
students who are homeless children and youth as defined in Section
600 of Title 10 of the Oklahoma Statutes. The form shall be
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completed by the parent or guardian of a student annually at
enrollment, beginning with the 2024 -2025 school year. Districts
shall report the results to the Department, in a manner prescribed
by the Department, no later than April 1 of each year.
B. Beginning July 1, 2025, the Department shall compile a
report of the number of students identified as being homeless, by
district, and whether the student s identified are in elementary,
middle or junior high, or high school. The report shall be
distributed annually to the Governor, Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Chair of the House Common Education Committee,
Speaker Pro Tempore of the Senate, Cha ir of the Senate Education
Committee, and the Oklahoma Commission on Childre n and Youth.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2023.
59-1-6576 EK 12/21/22