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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION
STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
HOUSE BILL NO. 1396 By: Provenzano of the House
and
Mann of the Senate
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
An Act relating to s chools; prohibiting private
schools from requiring a parent or guardian to
participate in the Oklahoma Parental Choice Tax
Credit; 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 Section 28 -104 of Title 70, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
Private schools accredited by th e State Board of Education or
another accrediting association shall not, as a condition of
acceptance, enrollment, or application, require that a student's
parent or guardian participate in the Oklahoma Parental Choice Tax
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Credit Program created in Section 28-101 of Title 70 of the Oklahoma
Statutes.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 2025.
SECTION 3. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is h ereby
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 EDUCATION OVERSIGHT, dated
03/05/2025 - DO PASS, As Amended and Coauthored.