STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 53rd Legislature (2011)

HOUSE BILL 1485	By:	Roberts (Dustin) and Blackwell

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to motor vehicles; authorizing the Commissioner of Public Safety to negotiate certain compacts and agreements; establishing presumption certain actions shall be within discretion of Commissioner; authorizing certain disapproval by the Legislature or Governor; establishing procedure; establishing presumption that certain agreements shall be approved; authorizing Commissioner to promulgate certain rules; providing for codification; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 14-101A of Title 47, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A.  For the purposes of this section, “agricultural producer” means a person who is actively engaged in the practice of farming, ranching or a combination thereof and derives at least a majority of their gross income from farming, ranching or a combination thereof.
B.  The Commissioner of Public Safety is hereby authorized to and shall attempt to negotiate one or more compacts or agreements with other states to implement a system of motor vehicle law reciprocity for agricultural producers.  The Commissioner shall attempt to negotiate a compact with surrounding states that allows agricultural producers to be subject solely to the motor vehicle laws of the state in which the agricultural producer resides when the agricultural producer is within one hundred fifty (150) miles of the residence of the agricultural producer.  The terms of any such compact or agreement shall be presumed a valid exercise of the discretionary authority of the Commissioner.  The compact or agreement shall be subject to disapproval by a majority vote of both houses of the State Legislature, in the form of a joint resolution, or by the Governor, in the form of an executive order.  Disapproval by the Legislature or by the Governor shall be done prior to the effective date of the compact or agreement, if the effective date occurs while the Legislature is in session.  If the Legislature is not in session on the presumed effective date of the compact or agreement, the compact or agreement may be disapproved within fifteen (15) days after the commencement of the next legislative session.  If the Legislature or the Governor does not disapprove the compact or agreement within the specified time periods, the compact or agreement shall be deemed approved and shall become effective upon the effective date specified in the compact or agreement.  The Commissioner may promulgate rules for the purpose of implementing the provisions of this section. 
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2011.

53-1-6484	CJB	01/19/11