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1                                   STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2                    1st Session of the 59th Legislature (2023)
3    HOUSE BILL 1029                           By: Talley
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6                                    AS INTRODUCED
7             An Act relating to schools; directing the State
              Department of Education to adopt a form for reporting
8             on student homelessness; providing for collaboration
              with certain committee; prescribing timing and
9             procedure for form completion; requiring districts to
              report results to the Department no later than date
10            specified; directing the Department to report annual
              results to certain officials and entity; providing
11            for codification; and providing an effective date.
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14   BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
15       SECTION 1.       NEW LAW       A new section of law to be codified
16   in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1210.210 of Title 70, unless
17   there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
18       A.   The State Department of Education Office of Federal Programs
19   shall, in conjunction with the Office of Planning and Coordination
20   for Services to Children and Youth Steering Committee established in
21   Section 601.6c of Title 10 of the Oklahoma Statutes, adopt a
22   standard form to be used by all school districts to identify
23   students who are homeless children and youth as defined in Section
24   600 of Title 10 of the Oklahoma Statutes.          The form shall be
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1    completed by the parent or guardian of a student annually at
2    enrollment, beginning with the 2024-2025 school year.    Districts
3    shall report the results to the Department, in a manner prescribed
4    by the Department, no later than April 1 of each year.
5       B.   Beginning July 1, 2025, the Department shall compile a
6    report of the number of students identified as being homeless, by
7    district, and whether the students identified are in elementary,
8    middle or junior high, or high school.   The report shall be
9    distributed annually to the Governor, Speaker of the House of
10   Representatives, Chair of the House Common Education Committee,
11   Speaker Pro Tempore of the Senate, Chair of the Senate Education
12   Committee, and the Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth.
13      SECTION 2.   This act shall become effective November 1, 2023.
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15      59-1-6576      EK      12/21/22
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