Okla. Stat. tit. 70, § 70-26-103

The following words and phrases as used in Section 26-101 et

seq. of this title, unless a different meaning is clearly required

by the context, shall have the following meanings:

1. "Benefit" means any of the benefits which may be purchased

or are required to be purchased under the cafeteria plan;

2. "Cafeteria plan" means a benefit plan established pursuant

to 26 U.S.C. Section 125;

3. "Flexible benefit allowance" means amounts credited by the

school district for each school district employee for the purchase

of benefits under the cafeteria plan;

4. "Support personnel" means full-time employees of a school

district as determined by the standard period of labor which is

customarily understood to constitute full-time employment for the

type of services performed by the employees who are employed a

minimum of six (6) hours per day for a minimum of one hundred

seventy-two (172) days or a minimum of six (6) hours per day for a

minimum of one thousand thirty-two (1,032) hours per year and who

provide services not performed by certified personnel, which is

necessary for the efficient and satisfactory functioning of a school

district, and shall include cooks, janitors, maintenance personnel,

bus drivers, noncertified or nonregistered nurses, noncertified

librarians, and clerical employees of a school district but shall

not include adult education instructors or adult coordinators

employed by technology center school districts;

5. "Plan year" means the twelve-month period established by the

school district for the cafeteria plan;

6. "School district" means the public school districts and

technology center school districts of this state;

7. "School district employee" means certified or support

personnel as defined in Section 26-101 et seq. of this title.

Employees of an educational service provider contracted with a

school district pursuant to subsection G of Section 5-117 of this

title who perform functions that would otherwise be performed by a

school district employee shall be considered employees of a school

district for purposes of the Larry Dickerson Education Flexible

Benefits Allowance Act unless otherwise provided for in the contract

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between the educational service provider and the contracting school

district;

8. "Certified personnel" means a certified person employed on a

full-time basis to serve as a teacher, principal, supervisor,

administrator, counselor, librarian, or certified or registered

nurse, but shall not mean a superintendent of a school district; and

9. "Self-insured" means a health care program in which the

school district funds the benefit plans from its own resources

without purchasing insurance and which may be administered by the

school district or by an outside administrator under contract with

the school district for administrative services. The State Board of

Education shall prepare by May 1st of each year a list of each

school district in the state that is self-insured and the number of

support personnel and the number of certified personnel that are

participating in each self-insured school district plan.