Oklahoma legislation · 2026 Regular Session
Oklahoma HB3016: Schools; Binocular Vision Screening Pilot Program; eye disorders; students in kindergarten, first, or third grades; State Department of Education; State Department of Health; comprehensive binocular vision screenings; Binocular Screening Revolving Fund; effective date; emergency.
Status: Signed into law, May 11, 2026
What the bill says
An Act relating to schools; directing the State Department of Education, in certain consultation, to establish the Binocular Vision Screening Program as a two-year pilot program; directing the program to offer vision screenings to students in kindergarten, first, and third grades; defining term; requiring schools to provide certain screening within certain number of days beginning in certain school year; requiring screenings to be performed by certain personnel; clarifying certain requirement…
From the enrolled text, May 4, 2026:
An Act relating to schools; directing the State Department of Education, in certain consultation, to establish the Binocular Vision Screening Program as a two-year pilot program; directing the program to offer vision screenings to students in kindergarten, first, and third grades; defining term; requiring schools to provide certain screening within certain number of days beginning in certain school year; requiring screenings to be performed by certain personnel; clarifying certain requirement; directing the Department to electronically submit certain report by certain date and post it on its website; creating the Binocular Screening Revolving Fund; specifying source of fund; providing for expenditures; providing purpose of fund; providing for codification; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency. SUBJECT: Schools SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1210.286 of Title 70, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows: A. The State Department of Education, in consultation with the State Department of Health, shall establish a two-year pilot program known as the Binocular Vision Screening Program for schools to offer vision screenings to students in kindergarten and first and third grades that are designed to identify convergence insufficiency. "Convergence insufficiency" means a vision disorder characterized by a decreased ability to converge the eyes and maintain binocular fusion while focusing …