ENROLLED HOUSE
BILL NO. 2184	By:	Sears of the House  

				and

		Myers and Jolley of the Senate  

An Act relating to poor persons; requiring Department of Human Services to develop certain plan; providing requirements of plan; requiring submission of plan; authorizing Legislature to disapprove plan; repealing 56 O.S. 2001, Section 3050, which relates to the closure of state-administered resource centers; providing for codification; and providing an effective date.

SUBJECT:  State-administered resource centers

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 3051 of Title 56, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

A.  The Department of Human Services shall develop a plan which contains targeted dates to change or discontinue the operation of state-administered resource centers.  In developing the plan, the Department shall consult with the families and guardians of the residents as well as affected employees of the resource centers, and shall take into consideration the recommendations and concerns of the families and guardians of the residents and affected employees.  

B.  The plan shall be submitted no later than January 1, 2012.  The plan shall be subject to disapproval by the Legislature on or before March 1, 2012.  The plan shall not be implemented until after March 1, 2012.

SECTION 2.     REPEALER     56 O.S. 2001, Section 3050, is hereby repealed.

SECTION 3.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2011.

Passed the House of Representatives the 18th day of May, 2011.

	
Presiding Officer of the House of
	Representatives

Passed the Senate the 20th day of May, 2011.

	
Presiding Officer of the Senate