STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 53rd Legislature (2011)

HOUSE BILL 1156	By:	Sears and Martin (Scott) of the House

				and

		Myers and Jolley of the Senate

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to the Board of Medicolegal Investigations; making an appropriation; stating purpose; requiring budgeting in certain categories and amounts; providing for the duties and compensation of employees; limiting salary of the Chief Medical Examiner; providing budgetary limitations; making certain full-time-equivalent employees contingent upon certain funding; providing lapse dates; requiring and prohibiting certain budget practices; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.  There is hereby appropriated to the Board of Medicolegal Investigations 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 ________________ ($0.00) or so much thereof as may be necessary to perform the duties imposed upon the Board of Medicolegal Investigations by law.
SECTION 2.  For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, the Board of Medicolegal Investigations shall budget all funds in the following categories and amounts:
Category	Appropriation	Total
Administration Services	$0.00	$0.00
Investigations	

	Central Office	0.00	0.00

	Eastern Division	0.00	0.00

	Data Processing	_________0.00	____0.00

TOTAL	$0.00	$0.00
SECTION 3.  The duties and compensation of employees, not otherwise prescribed by law, necessary to perform the duties imposed upon the Board of Medicolegal Investigations by law shall be set by the Board.  The salary of the Chief Medical Examiner shall not exceed _____________ Dollars ($0.00) per annum, payable monthly for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012.  The Board of Medicolegal Investigations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, shall be subject to the following budgetary limitations on full-time-equivalent employees and expenditures excluding expenditures for capital and special projects, 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
Lease-Purchase Agreements	$0.00
SECTION 4.  Of the total number of full-time-equivalent employees authorized for the Board of Medicolegal Investigations, one shall be employed contingent upon sufficient federal grant funding to support them.
SECTION 5.  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 6. This act shall become effective September 1, 2011.

53-1-15072	MA	01/12/11