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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 59th Legislature (2024)
SENATE BILL 1718 By: Garvin
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to child care; amending 10 O.S. 2021,
Section 405.4, which relates to f loor space
requirements; establishing space requirement for
children other than infants; requiring the Department
of Human Services to use certain rounding pri nciples;
and providing an effective date .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 10 O.S. 2021, Section 405.4, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 405.4. A. Any person with a bachelor ’s degree or
postgraduate degree shall be considered as having met the
educational requirements for a director of a full -time child care
center required by the Department of Human Services. Nothing in
this section shall be construed as to affect annual continuing
education requirements. The director of a child care center may
also qualify as a master t eacher for children of all ages.
B. Any person replacing a master teacher at a child care center
shall be granted a on e-year probationary period to fulfill the
educational qualifications required by the Department for a master
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teacher. The Department may extend the probationary period an
additional year as long as the person is actively pursuing that
goal.
C. 1. Licensed child care facilities opened or expanded before
November 1, 2016, shall have thirty -five (35) square feet of floor
area per infant in room s occupied only by infants. New con struction
and existing space not previously licensed for child care after
November 1, 2016, shall have forty (40) squ are feet of floor area
per infant in rooms occupied only by infants .
2. Licensed child care facilities shall have not less than
thirty-two (32) square feet of floor area per child, not including
infants.
3. When determining average square footage per child of
licensed child care facilities for the purpose of determining
compliance with floor area requirements, the Department shall
utilize basic rounding principles in which a number shall round up
to the nearest whole number if the fractional part of the number is
five-tenths (0.5) or greater or shall round down to the nearest
whole number if the fractional part of the number is forty-nine
hundredths (0.49) or fewer.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2024.
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