STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 53rd Legislature (2011)

HOUSE BILL 1101	By:	Sears and Martin (Scott) of the House

			       and
		
		Myers and Jolley of the Senate

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to the Oklahoma Commission for Teacher Preparation; making an appropriation; stating purpose; providing for budgeting of funds in certain categories and amounts; requiring performance measures for budget categories; providing for duties and compensation of employees; limiting the maximum salary of the Executive Director; providing budgetary limitations; requiring budgeting of certain funds in certain years; requiring certain budget procedures; prohibiting certain budget procedures; providing lapse dates; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.  There is hereby appropriated to the Oklahoma Commission for Teacher Preparation from any monies not otherwise appropriated from the General Revenue Fund of the State Treasury for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, the sum of ___________ Dollars ($0.00) or so much thereof as may be necessary to perform the duties imposed upon the Oklahoma Commission for Teacher Preparation by law.
SECTION 2.  For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, the Oklahoma Commission for Teacher Preparation shall budget all funds in the following categories and amounts:
Category	Appropriation	Total
Preparation and Professional Development of Teachers and Administrators	$0.00	$0.00
The Commission shall develop outcome-based performance measures for each budget category.
SECTION 3.  The duties and compensation of employees, not otherwise prescribed by law, necessary to perform the duties imposed upon the Oklahoma Commission for Teacher Preparation by law shall be set by the Executive Director of the Oklahoma Commission for Teacher Preparation.  The salary of the Executive Director shall not exceed _______________________ Dollars ($0.00) per annum, payable monthly for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012.  The Oklahoma Commission for Teacher Preparation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, shall be subject to the following budgetary limitations on full-time-equivalent employees except as may be authorized pursuant to the provisions of Section 3603 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes:
Budgetary Limitation	Amount
Full-time-equivalent Employees	0.0
SECTION 4.  Appropriations made by this act, not including appropriations made for capital outlay purposes, may be budgeted for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012 (hereafter FY-12) or may be budgeted for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2013 (hereafter FY-13).  Funds budgeted for FY-12 may be encumbered only through June 30, 2012, and must be expended by November 15, 2012.  Any funds remaining after November 15, 2012, and not budgeted for FY-13, shall lapse to the credit of the proper fund for the then current fiscal year.  Funds budgeted for FY-13 may be encumbered only through June 30, 2013.  Any funds remaining after November 15, 2013, shall lapse to the credit of the proper fund for the then current fiscal year.  These appropriations may not be budgeted in both fiscal years simultaneously.  Funds budgeted in FY-12, and not required to pay obligations for that fiscal year, may be budgeted for FY-13, after the agency to which the funds have been appropriated has prepared and submitted a budget work program revision removing these funds from the FY-12 budget work program and after such revision has been approved by the Office of State Finance.
SECTION 5.  This act shall become effective September 1, 2011.

53-1-15024	NB	01/12/11