STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 53rd Legislature (2011)

HOUSE BILL 1159	By:	Sears and Martin (Scott) of the House

										and

	Myers and Jolley of the Senate

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to the Office of the Attorney General; making an appropriation; stating purpose; authorizing transfer of certain funds; requiring budgeting in certain categories and amounts; providing for duties and compensation of employees; providing budgetary limitations; providing lapse dates; requiring and prohibiting certain budget procedures; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.  There is hereby appropriated to the Office of the Attorney General 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 Office of the Attorney General by law.
SECTION 2.  For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, the Office of the Attorney General is authorized to transfer an amount not to exceed ______________________ Dollars ($0.00) from the Office of the Attorney General’s Evidence Fund (700 Fund), created by Section 19 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes to the Office of the Attorney General’s Revolving Fund (200 Fund) created by Section 20 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
SECTION 3.  For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, the Office of the Attorney General shall budget all funds in the following categories and amounts:
Category	Appropriation	Total
General Operations	$0.00	$0.00
Legal Services	$0.00	$0.00
Court-Appointed Special Advocate	$0.00	$0.00
Financial Fraud and Special Investigations	$0.00	$0.00
Medicaid Fraud Control	$0.00	$0.00
Workers’ Compensation Fraud	$0.00	$0.00
Domestic Violence Unit	$0.00	$0.00
Vines Grant	$0.00	$0.00
Tobacco Enforcement Unit	$0.00	$0.00
	TOTAL	$0.00	$0.00
SECTION 4.  The duties and compensation of employees, not otherwise prescribed by law, necessary to perform the duties imposed upon the Office of the Attorney General by law shall be set by the Office of the Attorney General.  The Office of the Attorney General 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 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.

53-1-15140	MA	01/12/11