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Introduced Session

An Act relating to students; creating the Oklahoma Education Freedom Act; providing short title; providing legislative intent; defining terms; creating the Oklahoma Education Freedom Account Program; providing for administration; providing method of application; providing for parent agreement; prohibiting certain discrimination; providing certain construction; requiring renewal of Oklahoma Education Freedom Accounts on annual basis; allowing closure of accounts under certain circumstances; requiring notification within certain time period of certain student enrolling in certain school; providing for suspension of deposits into account; providing for remittance of unused funds; providing for calculation of State Aid amount; requiring transfer of certain calculated amount on a monthly basis; prohibiting certain provider from sharing, refunding, or rebating an amount with a parent or certain student; prohibiting personal deposits into certain account; prohibiting certain funds from being considered income; providing for accrual of account funds; requiring certain agency to maintain list of certain providers; requiring certain agency to provide certain information to certain parents; requiring notice to be provided to parents of certain children; allowing certain agency to contract with certain firm or organization; allowing withholding of certain percentage of funds to administer program; requiring the establishment of certain payment system; requiring implementation of certain system to share information about education service providers; providing for partial payment to an education service provider; authorizing certain auditing; providing for the removal of certain parent or student from eligibility under certain circumstances; allowing referral for certain investigation; providing for appeal; allowing for payments to cease to certain providers under certain circumstances; providing for appeal; allowing acceptance of gifts and grants for certain purposes; providing for promulgation of rules; providing process for approving education service providers; directing provision of certain student records in accordance with certain act; providing certain construction; directing certain decrease in state funding upon certain finding of noncompliance; creating cause of action for certain noncompliance; creating the Oklahoma Education Freedom Account Revolving Fund; specifying sources of fund; providing for expenditures; providing purpose of fund; providing for establishment of burden in certain legal proceeding; providing immunity from liability for certain actions; allowing certain parents to intervene in certain legal proceeding; providing for severability; providing legislative intent to increase certain appropriated amount; providing for codification; providing for noncodification; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.

AI Summary

Julie Daniels (R)*,  Shane Jett (R), 

Coauthored by Senator Jett (on 02/16/2023)

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