An Act
ENROLLED HOUSE
BILL NO. 1029 By: Talley, Waldron, Pae,
Munson, and Pittman of the
House
and
Stanley and Hicks of the
Senate
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; requir ing 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 .
SUBJECT: Schools
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 Plan ning and Coordination
for Services to Children and Yo uth 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 Oklaho ma Statutes. Beginning with the 2024 -
2025 school year, the form shall be completed annually at enrollment
by the parent or guardian of a student or by the student if he or
she is not in the physical cus tody of a parent or guardian. ENR. H. B. NO. 1029 Page 2
Districts shall report the results to the Department, in a manner
prescribed by the Department, no later than June 1 of each year.
B. Beginning July 1, 2025, the Department shall compile a
report of the number of students id entified as being homeless, by
district and grade level. The report shall be distributed annu ally
to the Governor, Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representati ves,
Chair of the House Common Education Committee, President Pro Tempore
of the Oklahoma State Senate, Chair of the Senate Education
Committee, and the Oklahoma Commission on Childre n and Youth.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2023.
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Passed the House of Representatives the 6th day of March, 2023.
Presiding Officer of the House
of Representatives
Passed the Senate the 25th day of April, 2023.
Presiding Officer of the Senate
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Received by the Office of the Governor this ____________________
day of ___________________, 20_______, a t _______ o'clock _______ M.
By: _________________________________
Approved by the Governor of the State of Oklahoma this _____ ____
day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
_________________________________
Governor of the State of Oklahoma
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
Received by the Office of the Secretary of State this __________
day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
By: _________________________________