It is the intent and purpose of this act to provide for a more efficient administration of the Children with Special Health Care Needs Program in Oklahoma and to provide for a continuity of dependable funds to establish and conduct a program of medical care for children who are crippled or who are suffering from conditions leading to crippling, or otherwise handicapped, or who are suffering from conditions or maladies amenable to treatment; to cooperate with counties and all public and private agencies and institutions interested in the care of children in making county funds and resources of these public and private agencies and institutions available for the care of such children; to cooperate with the appropriate agency of the federal government in making effective the provisions of the Federal Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C., Section 301 et seq., relating to crippled children and such other laws, provisions, or programs that the Congress has adopted or may adopt for the remedial care of such children, including provisions for prevention, for locating such children and for providing medical, corrective, and other services and care, and facilities for diagnosis, hospitalization, and aftercare for such children.

Laws 1959, p. 29, § 1; Amended by Laws 1992, HB 1615, c. 249, § 1, eff. September 1, 1992.