1. A. Pursuant to the provisions of the Oklahoma Foster Care and Out-of-Home Placement Act, the ability to exercise parental substitute authority over a foster child by the foster parent shall give a foster parent the ability to integrate a foster child into the family setting and to care for the foster child as the foster parent would the foster parent's own child.
2. B. Each order made by the court granting custody of a child to a state agency, an individual, or any child-placing agency shall be deemed to give parental substitute authority to the state agency, the individual or the child-placing agency.

Added by Laws 1998, HB 2826, c. 414, § 5, emerg. eff. June 11, 1998.