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OK SB210
OK SB210Child care; requiring child care facilities to ensure absence of certain content in specified materials; making noncompliant facilities ineligible for certain funding. Effective date.
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Introduced
02/03/2025
02/03/2025
In Committee
02/04/2025
02/04/2025
Crossed Over
Passed
Dead
Introduced Session
2025 Regular Session
Bill Summary
An Act relating to child care; requiring certain child care facilities to ensure absence of certain content in specified materials; making noncompliant child care facilities ineligible for certain funding; authorizing promulgation of rules; providing for codification; and providing an effective date.
AI Summary
This bill requires child care facilities receiving funding from the Oklahoma Department of Human Services to ensure that no printed, non-printed, or multimedia materials on their premises contain content related to sexual orientation or gender identity. If a child care facility is found to be in violation of this requirement after an investigation, it will become ineligible for the child care subsidy program and other departmental funding until it demonstrates compliance. The bill empowers the Director of Human Services to create necessary rules for implementing these requirements, and the law will take effect on November 1, 2025. By restricting materials that discuss sexual orientation or gender identity, the bill aims to limit children's exposure to such content in state-funded child care settings, potentially impacting educational resources and materials available to children in these facilities.
Committee Categories
Health and Social Services
Sponsors (1)
Last Action
Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services (on 02/04/2025)
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