STATE OF OKLAHOMA

2nd Session of the 53rd Legislature (2012)

HOUSE BILL 2363	By:	Billy

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to poor persons; requiring the Department of Human Services to contract to build certain units at certain locations; requiring  Department to seek funding through certain sources; requiring Department to ensure that certain existing units comply with certain laws and regulations; 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 3052 of Title 56, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A.  The Department of Human Services shall contract to build two eight-bed units each year at the Southern Oklahoma Resource Center of Pauls Valley and the Northern Oklahoma Resource Center of Enid beginning November 1, 2012, and ending October 31, 2017.  
B.  The Department of Human Services shall contract to build a twenty-bed acute care unit at the Southern Oklahoma Resource Center of Pauls Valley and at the Northern Oklahoma Resource Center of Enid beginning July 1, 2015. 
C.  The Department of Human Services shall seek funding through public/private partnerships and/or bonds for the construction of the units described in subsections A and B of this section.
SECTION 2.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 3053 of Title 56, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
The Department of Human Services shall ensure that existing units occupied by residents at the Southern Oklahoma Resource Center of Pauls Valley comply with federal and state laws and ICF/MR regulations.
SECTION 3.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2012.

53-2-9117	AM	01/17/12