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HB1691 • 2026

Children; Department of Human Services; State Fire Marshal; child care homes; International Residential Code; effective date.

Children; Department of Human Services; State Fire Marshal; child care homes; International Residential Code; effective date.

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Sponsor
Stewart
Last action
2025-02-04
Official status
Referred to Children, Youth and Family Services
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Children; Department of Human Services; State Fire Marshal; child care homes; International Residential Code; effective date.

Children; Department of Human Services; State Fire Marshal; child care homes; International Residential Code; effective date.

What This Bill Does

  • Children; Department of Human Services; State Fire Marshal; child care homes; International Residential Code; effective date.
  • Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 1691 (House): Introduced (2/19/2025)

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Bill History

  1. 2025-02-04 House

    Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services Oversight

  2. 2025-02-04 House

    Referred to Children, Youth and Family Services

  3. 2025-02-03 House

    First Reading

  4. 2025-02-03 House

    Authored by Representative Stewart

Official Summary Text

Children; Department of Human Services; State Fire Marshal; child care homes; International Residential Code; effective date.
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 1691 (House): Introduced (2/19/2025)

Current Bill Text

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STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)

HOUSE BILL 1691 By: Stewart

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to children; directing the Department
of Human Services to work with the State Fire Marshal
to develop certain guidelines; declaring certain
child care homes shall not be denied license if
complies with the IRC; prohibiting stricter
requirements than those outlined in the IRC;
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 404.4 of Title 10, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
The Department of Human Services shall work with the State Fire
Marshal to develop guidelines that allow family child care homes and
large child care homes to operate under the fire protection
requirements of the International Residential Code (IRC). Family
child care homes and large child care homes shall not be denied a
license to operate should they comply with the requirements of the
IRC. No agency, municipality, county, or other political
subdivision of this state shall place stricter fire requirements

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than those outlined in the IRC on family child care homes and large
child care homes.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.

60-1-11762 MJ 01/03/25