Home care; directing Oklahoma Health Care Authority to establish certain family caregiver reimbursement program. Effective date. Emergency.

Added a new program allowing family members of Medicaid members under 21 to be recognized as family caregivers and receive reimbursement for services provided under the supervision of a Registered Nurse.

Added new requirements for family caregivers including criminal history background checks, training, competency evaluation, and supervision by a Registered Nurse.

Modified definitions in 63 O.S. 2021, Section 1-1961 to clarify what constitutes a home care agency, including specific exclusions for CD-PASS waiver program participants and PACE organizations.

Added new definitions for 'Home care services', 'Home health aide', 'Home care agency administrator', and 'Personal care' to the statutory definitions.

Added reimbursement provisions allowing home care agencies to be reimbursed for services provided by recognized family caregivers at rates established by the Authority.

Added requirement that the Oklahoma Health Care Authority establish the family caregiver program within one year of the effective date, subject to federal approval.

Added additional sponsors (Nice, Mann, Osburn, and Hefner) to the bill's sponsor list in the Enrolled version, which is a standard procedural update for final passage.

Minor formatting and pagination adjustments were made to align with official enrolled bill standards, including updated page numbering and header formatting.