STATE OF OKLAHOMA

2nd Session of the 54th Legislature (2014)

SENATE BILL 1880	By:	Paddack

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to persons with intellectual disabilities; clarifying interpretation of certain term; providing for codification; and providing an effective date.

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 1426 of Title 10, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
Wherever the terms "mentally retarded" or "mental retardation" appear in any statute, contract, or other document in reference to a resident of this state, such terms shall be deemed to be interpreted as "individual with an intellectual disability" or "intellectual disability".
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2014.

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