§10-7007-1.4.

§10-7007-1.4.
   
   A. The purposes of the Child Welfare System Reform Review Committee
   shall be to conduct a systematic review and study of all policies,
   procedures and Oklahoma Statutes concerning the child welfare system
   to update, reform and recodify the necessary statutes and programs
   encompassed in the system. The duties of the Committee in preparing
   recommendations shall be as follows:
   
   1. To consolidate similar statutes;
   
   2. To repeal or modify obsolete or duplicate statutes or any statutes
   which shall have been declared unconstitutional by court decision;
   
   3. To recommend changes in Title 10 and Title 63 of the Oklahoma
   Statutes concerning the child welfare system;
   
   4. To clarify and update any existing statutory language;
   
   5. To recodify those sections of law which relate to child welfare
   reform when the move will improve the location, use, application and
   appropriateness of those sections of law; and
   
   6. To perform any other acts necessary to complete the purposes of the
   Committee, including, but not limited to:
   
   a. the feasibility of videotaping or audiotaping a child alleged to be
   severely physically or sexually abused at the investigatory stage,
   
   b. the feasibility of removing the right of a jury trial at the
   adjudicatory court hearing for determining deprived status or at the
   termination of parental rights hearing or both,
   
   c. reviewing the statutory provisions in the Oklahoma Children's Code
   requiring a deprived child to testify in a criminal proceeding under
   penalty of imprisonment,
   
   d. studying whether parents or custodians of a child should be given a
   Miranda-type warning during a child abuse investigation,
   
   e. examining the fair and impartial hearing procedure for foster
   parents provided by the Department of Human Services and the
   Department of Juvenile Justice,
   
   f. examining sibling visitation rights,
   
   g. examining how to improve representation of abused and neglected
   children in the court system,
   
   h. prohibiting homosexuals from adopting children, and
   
   i. recognizing rights of relatives, including grandparents or other
   relatives who have physical custody of children related to them within
   the third degree of consanguinity or affinity in deprived or
   nondeprived cases.
   
   B. 1. The Committee shall be responsible for drafting recommended
   legislation in accordance with the current legislative drafting
   procedures.
   
   2. The Committee shall prepare a final draft of recommended changes,
   and shall submit the recommended changes to the Speaker of the House
   of Representatives, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the
   Governor by February 15, 2000.
   
   C. The Child Welfare System Reform Review Committee shall cease to
   function June 30, 2000.