STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 54th Legislature (2013)

HOUSE BILL 1174	By:	Martin (Scott) and Newell of the House

				and

		Jolley and Justice of the Senate

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry; making appropriations; stating purposes; requiring certain funds to be budgeted in certain categories and amounts; providing for duties and compensation of employees; limiting the salary of the Commissioner; providing budgetary limitations; requiring certain budgeting procedures; prohibiting certain budgeting 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 Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry from any monies not otherwise appropriated from the General Revenue Fund of the State Treasury for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, the sum of Zero Dollars ($0.00) or so much thereof as may be necessary to perform the duties imposed upon the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry by law.
SECTION 2.  For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry shall budget all funds in the following categories and amounts:
Category	Appropriation	Total
Administration Service Division	$ 0.00	$ 0.00
Volunteer Firefighter Employer Payment Contribution Revolving Fund	0.00	0.00
Volunteer Firefighter Group Insurance Pool, CompSource Oklahoma	0.00	0.00
Legal Services Division	0.00	0.00
Statistical Services Division	0.00	0.00
Animal Industry Services Division	0.00	0.00
Food Safety Division Inspection and Grading of Meat, Egg and Poultry Products	0.00	0.00
Oklahoma Milk and Milk Products Program	0.00	0.00
Agricultural Environmental Management Services Division	0.00	0.00
Wildlife Services Division	0.00	0.00
Public Information Services Division	0.00	0.00
Livestock Depopulation and other Emergency Livestock Disease Control Expenses	0.00	0.00
Forestry Services Division	0.00	0.00
Rural Fire Coordinators	0.00	0.00
Operation Grants to Rural Fire Departments	0.00	0.00
Rural Fire 80/20 Match Program	0.00	0.00
Rural Fire Defense Equipment Revolving Fund	0.00	0.00
Dry Fire Hydrant Program	0.00	0.00
Plant Industry and Consumer Services Division	0.00	0.00
Agricultural Laboratory Services Division	0.00	0.00
Market Development Services Division	0.00	0.00
Environmental and Sustainable Agricultural Program	0.00	0.00
Ag Enhancement and Diversification Fund	0.00	0.00
Agriculture Mediation Program	0.00	0.00
Oklahoma State University for the Statewide Intensive Financial Management Assistance Program	0.00	0.00
Oklahoma State University Animal Diagnostic Laboratory Equipment	0.00	0.00
Poultry Research and Disease Control Research Programs and Employment of a State Poultry Veterinarian and an Area Poultry Specialist	0.00	0.00
Sunrise Agricultural News Program	0.00	0.00
Legume Research	0.00	0.00
Rural Enterprise Institute	0.00	0.00
Agricultural Laboratory Debt Service	 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 Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry by law shall be set by the Commissioner.  The salary of the Commissioner shall not exceed _____________________________ Dollars ($0.00) per annum, payable monthly for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014.  The Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, 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
Average Number of Full-Time-Equivalent Employees, Excluding Part-Time Employees in the Forestry, Plant, and Animal Industry Divisions and Fruit and Vegetable Graders 	0.0
Lease-Purchase Agreements	$0.00
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, 2014 (hereafter FY-14) or may be budgeted for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015 (hereafter FY-15).  Funds budgeted for FY-14 may be encumbered only through June 30, 2014, and must be expended by November 15, 2014.  Any funds remaining after November 15, 2014, and not budgeted for FY-15, shall lapse to the credit of the proper fund for the then current fiscal year.  Funds budgeted for FY-15 may be encumbered only through June 30, 2015.  Any funds remaining after November 15, 2015, 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-14, and not required to pay obligations for that fiscal year, may be budgeted for FY-15, 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-14 budget work program and after such revision has been approved by the Office of Management and Enterprise Services.
SECTION 5.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2013.

54-1-15046	RMN	01/14/13