Oklahoma § 56-1025.3 - Community services worker registry

§ 56-1025.3. Community services worker registry

A. The Director of Human Services shall promulgate rules to

establish and maintain a community services worker registry. Such

rules may include, but need not be limited to:

1. A procedure for notation in such registry of a final

investigative finding by the Office of Client Advocacy within the

State Department of Health or a finding by an Administrative Law

Judge of maltreatment of an individual by a community services

worker or a Medicaid personal care assistant;

2. A procedure for notice and due process for a community

services worker, or a Medicaid personal care assistant, or applicant

before the entering of such person’s name in the registry as having

a final Office of Client Advocacy investigative finding or

Administrative Law Judge finding of maltreatment of an individual;

3. Disclosure requirements for information in the registry; and

4. Procedures for granting a waiver of the provisions of

paragraph 1 of subsection G of Section 1025.2 of this title by the

Director of Human Services.

B. The community services worker registry shall include, but

not be limited to, the following information on each community

services worker and each Medicaid personal care assistant:

1. The individual’s full name;

2. Information necessary to identify each individual;

3. The date the individual’s name was placed in the registry;

and

4. Information on any final Office of Client Advocacy

investigative finding or Administrative Law Judge finding of

maltreatment concerning the worker.

C. The Office of Client Advocacy shall promptly report final

investigative findings to the Department of Human Services for the

purposes of the community services worker registry.

D. A community services worker, a Medicaid personal care

assistant, or applicant who is adversely affected by an

Administrative Law Judge finding of maltreatment of an individual

may seek judicial review pursuant to Article II of the

Administrative Procedures Act. The finding of the Administrative

Law Judge may be appealed to the district court of the county in

which the community services worker, Medicaid personal care

assistant, or applicant resides within thirty (30) days of the date

of the decision. A copy of the petition shall be served by mail

upon the general counsel of the Department of Human Services.

E. An investigation conducted under Section 1025.1 et seq. of

this title shall include a process for notifying a community

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services provider of areas of concern and administrative

information. An area of concern or administrative information shall

not be considered final investigative findings, nor shall the area

of concern or administrative information be included in a final

investigative report of the Office of Client Advocacy. The Office

shall develop a procedure by which a community services provider may

request an investigative status update within ten (10) calendar days

of the initiation of an investigation conducted under Section 1025.1

et seq. of this title.

Added by Laws 1997, c. 407, § 13, eff. Nov. 1, 1997. Amended by

Laws 2001, c. 393, § 2, emerg. eff. June 4, 2001; Laws 2002, c. 378,

§ 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2002; Laws 2008, c. 71, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2008;

Laws 2021, c. 89, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2021; Laws 2025, c. 215, § 12,

emerg. eff. May 13, 2025.