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Just five weeks remain in the 2023 Oklahoma legislative session, and lawmakers still have about 500 bills to consider and the next state budget to draft.
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As Oklahoma lawmakers start to consider this session’s budget bills, a Senate panel advanced a proposal Friday to institute a five-year waiting period for new state residents in need of comprehensive services for kids and adults with intellectual disabilities.
Senate Appropriations Chairman Roger Thompson (R-Okemah) said the waiting period is needed while the Department of Human Services reviews its 13-year waiting list for the programs, or roughly 6,000 applicants. Thompson said DHS has received $2 million a year for that study since he s been appropriations chair. He was named to that post in 2018.
Thompson said DHS will be able to make rules that say people filing taxes in Oklahoma are eligible, because he believes the issue is people crossing state lines Arkansans getting services in Stilwell, for example.