STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 52nd Legislature (2009)

SENATE BILL 1149	By:	Corn

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to criminal justice; amending 74 O.S. 150.2 as last amended by Section 1, Chapter 303, O.S.L. 2006 (74 O.S. Supp. 2008, Section 150.2), which relates to powers and duties of OSBI; authorizing the OSBI to investigate gang activity and violent crimes; providing an effective date and declaring an emergency.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.     AMENDATORY     74 O.S. 2001, Section 150.2, as last amended by Section 1, Chapter 303, O.S.L. 2006 (74 O.S. Supp. 2008, Section 150.2), is amended to read as follows:
Section 150.2  The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation shall have the power and duty to:
1.  Maintain a nationally accredited scientific laboratory to assist all law enforcement agencies in the discovery and detection of criminal activity;
2.  Maintain fingerprint and other identification files including criminal history records, juvenile identification files, and DNA profiles;
3.  Establish, coordinate and maintain the automated fingerprinting identification system (AFIS) and the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) laboratory;
4.  Operate teletype, mobile and fixed radio or other communications systems;
5.  Conduct schools and training programs for the agents, peace officers, and technicians of this state charged with the enforcement of law and order and the investigation and detection of crime;
6.  Assist the Director of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control, the Chief Medical Examiner, and all law enforcement officers and district attorneys when such assistance is requested, in accordance with the policy determined by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation Commission established in Section 150.3 of this title;
7.  Investigate and detect criminal activity when directed to do so by the Governor;
8.  Investigate, detect, institute and maintain actions involving vehicle theft pursuant to Section 150.7a of this title or oil, gas or oil field equipment theft pursuant to Sections 152.2 through 152.9 of this title;
9.  Investigate any criminal threat made to the physical safety of elected or appointed officials of this state or any political subdivision of the state and forward the results of that investigation to the Department of Public Safety, and provide security to foreign elected or appointed officials while they are in this state on official business;
10.  Investigate and detect violations of the Oklahoma Computer Crimes Act; and
11.  Investigate, detect, initiate and maintain actions involving criminal gang activity and violent crimes; and
12.  Investigate and enforce all laws relating to any crime listed as an exception to the definition of “nonviolent offense” as set forth in section 571 of Title 57 of the Oklahoma Statutes that occur on the turnpikes.
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 2009.
SECTION 3.  It being immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage and approval.

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