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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
HOUSE BILL 1691 By: Stewart
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to children; directing the Department
of Human Services to work with the State Fire Marshal
to develop certain guideline s; declaring certain
child care homes shall not be denied license if
complies with the IRC; prohibiting stricter
requirements than those outlined in the IRC;
providing for codification; and providing an
effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPL E OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new s ection of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 404.4 of Title 10, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
The Department of Human Services shall work with the State Fire
Marshal to develop guidelines that allow family child care homes and
large child care homes to operate under the fire protection
requirements of the International Residential Code (IRC). Family
child care homes and large child care homes shall not be denied a
license to operate should they co mply with the requirements of the
IRC. No agency, municipality, county, or other political
subdivision of this state shall place stricter fire requirements
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than those outlined i n the IRC on family child care homes and large
child care homes.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
60-1-11762 MJ 01/03/25