ok-2341: Attorney General — Standards and Criteria for Batterers Intervention Programs

Summary

Some of the proposed changes to Chapter 25 do the following: revoke administrative rules that contain unnecessary or obsolete language or rules that serve no reasonable purpose; simplify and, in certain cases, spell out language to improve readability and understanding; revise definitions to comply with the Secretary of State's Administrative Rules on Rulemaking; eliminates definitions that require no explanation; add or eliminate taglines in accordance with the Secretary of State's Administrative Rules on Rulemaking; and correct grammar. Substantive changes include: changing references to batterers to clients where appropriate; reconfiguring the rule on client assessments for readability; and requiring program staff or volunteers to document in each client record specific curriculum component(s) covered during individual contacts or sessions and a client's progress. A new subchapter 13 is added for pilot batterers intervention programs authorized by an amendment to title 21, section 644 of the Oklahoma Statutes, as amended by House Bill 1273, 2025 Okla. Sess. Laws ch. 322, § 1. The pilot programs focus on a differentiated response model for clients and limits the services to in-person delivery only. Pilot program clients must be court referred. Pilot programs must follow all the same rules in other subchapters, except where a new rule in subchapter 13 contradicts any rule in the other subchapters.

The agency’s own summary, as published.