SB 105: Lindsey Nicole Henry Scholarships for Students with Disabilities Program; removing prior public school enrollment requirement; modifying eligibility requirements. Effective date. Emergency. - Oklahoma

Floor (House) → Floor (Senate) · 4 edits

MODERATE

This bill version transitions the text from the House of Representatives to the Senate floor, incorporating specific Senate amendments. The changes primarily involve reformatting the header and authorship information to reflect the Senate's version, while retaining the core legislative text regarding the Lindsey Nicole Henry Scholarships for Students with Disabilities Program. The substantive eligibility criteria and program rules appear unchanged in this specific diff, though the formatting adjustments clarify the document's origin and status.

Scope change

The bill's scope remains focused on the Lindsey Nicole Henry Scholarships for Students with Disabilities Program; the change is procedural, shifting the document from a House committee substitute to a Senate floor version.

TECHNICAL

Updated the document header to reflect 'SENATE FLOOR VERSION' and added the date 'March 5, 2025', indicating the bill has moved from the House to the Senate for further consideration.

Reformatted the authorship section to list Senators Daniels and Murdock and Representative Caldwell (Chad) as the sponsors, adjusting the layout to match Senate conventions.

Removed the 'COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR ENGROSSED' label and replaced it with the Senate floor designation, indicating the bill has been amended and is ready for Senate floor action.

Inserted a bracketed note regarding the effective date and emergency provisions, likely added by the Senate clerk or committee to highlight specific legislative features.

House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill → Floor (House) · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was converted from a Senate version to a House Floor version, which involved reformatting the header and page footers to reflect the new legislative stage. Substantively, the text of the scholarship program remains largely unchanged, though minor formatting adjustments were made to the eligibility criteria list.

Scope change

The bill's scope and applicability remain unchanged; the text describes the same scholarship program with the same eligibility rules.

TECHNICAL

The document header was updated to indicate this is the 'House of Representatives - Floor Version' instead of the 'Committee Substitute'.

Page footers were updated to reflect the new bill number format (SB105 HFLR) and added a note about bold face denoting committee amendments.

Minor whitespace and indentation adjustments were made throughout the text, particularly around the eligibility criteria list.

Proposed Committee Substitute (full committee) 1 → House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill · 4 edits

MODERATE

This bill amends the Lindsey Nicole Henry Scholarships for Students with Disabilities Program to broaden eligibility by replacing the term 'disability' with 'special need' and removing the requirement that students must have previously attended a public school. The changes allow parents to request scholarships for children with special needs regardless of their prior school enrollment history, while also adding specific exemptions for military families, foster care, and homeless students.

Scope change

The bill expands the program's scope from exclusively serving former public school students to include any student with a special need who has an Individualized Education Program (IEP) or Individualized Service Plan (ISP), regardless of where they were previously enrolled.

ELIGIBILITY

Replaced the term 'disability' with 'special need' throughout the statute to align with broader definitions of student needs.

Deleted the requirement that a student must have spent the prior school year in attendance at a public school to qualify for the scholarship.

Added exemptions for students who are children of military members transferring states, students in out-of-home placement with the Department of Human Services, adopted children in permanent custody, students in schools serving homeless populations, and students in out-of-home placement with the Office of Juvenile Affairs.

Clarified that eligibility is based on having an IEP or ISP developed at any time before notifying the state of intent to participate, rather than requiring the plan to be active at the time of notification.

Enrolled (final version) → Proposed Committee Substitute (full committee) 1 · 4 edits

MODERATE

The House Committee replaced the entire Senate version of the bill with a modified version that removes the requirement for students to have attended a public school previously. It also changes the terminology from 'disability' to 'special need' and removes a clause stating that scholarships remain in force until the student graduates or turns 22.

Scope change

The bill's scope is narrowed by eliminating the prerequisite that a student must have spent the prior school year in a public school to qualify for the scholarship.

ELIGIBILITY

Deleted the requirement that a student must have attended a public school in the prior year to be eligible for the scholarship.

DEFINITION

Changed the term 'disability' to 'special need' throughout the text to align with the committee's preferred terminology.

REQUIREMENT

Removed the provision stating that the scholarship remains in force until the student enrolls in a public school, graduates, or reaches age 22.

TECHNICAL

Replaced the original bill text with a full committee substitute, which includes minor formatting adjustments and reorganization of the legislative text.

Engrossed → Enrolled (final version) · 3 edits · May 20, 2025

MINOR

The bill was finalized into its enrolled version, adding co-sponsors to the House and updating the bill's descriptive title to reflect its purpose. The core statutory text regarding scholarship eligibility and administration remains substantively the same, though minor formatting corrections were made to the list of eligible student categories.

Scope change

The bill's scope is unchanged; it continues to establish the Lindsey Nicole Henry Scholarships for Students with Disabilities Program.

TECHNICAL

Added names of additional House co-sponsors (Ford, Banning, and Lepak) to the bill header.

Updated the bill's descriptive title to explicitly state that it modifies the program for students with special needs and removes references to public schools.

Corrected formatting and punctuation in the list of eligible student categories (subsections d, e, f, and g) to improve readability and consistency.

Amended And Engrossed → Engrossed · 3 edits · May 13, 2025

MINOR

The bill was renumbered from a House amendment to an Engrossed Senate Bill. The substantive content of the scholarship program remains largely the same, but the text was reorganized and corrected to fix formatting errors and inconsistent numbering found in the previous House version. No new eligibility criteria, funding amounts, or deadlines were added or removed.

Scope change

The bill's scope and applicability remain unchanged; the changes are primarily structural corrections to the bill text.

TECHNICAL

The bill title and authorship section were renumbered and reorganized to reflect its status as an Engrossed Senate Bill rather than a House Amendment.

Paragraph numbering within the eligibility criteria and procedural sections was corrected to fix inconsistencies and gaps present in the previous version.

Minor text cleanup was performed to remove stray characters and fix line breaks that disrupted the readability of the legal text.

Introduced → Amended And Engrossed · 4 edits · May 13, 2025

MODERATE

The bill was amended to remove the requirement that students must have attended a public school to qualify for the scholarship, thereby expanding eligibility to include students who have never attended public school. The amendment also updated the list of exempt categories to include students in out-of-home placement with the Office of Juvenile Affairs and clarified the definition of eligible special needs plans.

Scope change

The bill's scope expanded from serving only students with a history of public school enrollment to including all students with disabilities who meet specific exemption criteria, regardless of prior public school attendance.

ELIGIBILITY

Deleted the requirement that a student must have spent the prior school year in attendance at a public school to be eligible for the scholarship.

Added 'Office of Juvenile Affairs' to the list of agencies whose out-of-home placement status exempts a student from the public school attendance requirement.

DEFINITION

Updated the definition of eligible special needs plans to explicitly include Individualized Service Plans (ISP) alongside Individualized Education Programs (IEP).

REQUIREMENT

Added new coauthors to the bill in the House.

Lindsey Nicole Henry Scholarships for Students with Disabilities Program; removing prior public school enrollment requirement; modifying eligibility requirements. Effective date. Emergency.

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