The Oklahoma Public Welfare Commission and the Department of Human Services are authorized and directed to develop such programs for the care and treatment of children to meet the requirements of federal laws and rules and regulations of the Secretary. The Commission shall maintain such standards of money payments in the categories of Old Age Assistance, Aid to the Blind, Aid to the Permanently and Totally Disabled, and Aid to Families with Dependent Children, as will earn the maximum federal funds available to the state, within the availability of state matching funds, and shall budget such other state funds as may be necessary to earn the maximum of federal matching funds in the Child Welfare Program, Children with Special Health Care Needs Program and other federal-state programs. Any institution under the jurisdiction of the Commission or the Department may be used by the Commission or the Department for any program administered by the Commission or the Department.
Laws 1970, c. 20, § 2, operative April 5, 1970. Renumbered from Title 56, § 333 by Laws 1982, c. 312, § 48, emerg. eff. May 28, 1982. Amended by Laws 1988, c. 326, § 19, emerg. eff. July 13, 1988; Laws 1992, c. 249, § 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1992.