ENGROSSED SENATE
BILL NO. 22	By:	Barrington of the Senate

			and

		Brown of the House

[ elections of judicial officers - written rulings and opinions – codification - 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 11-102.1 of Title 26, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
All judicial officers whose names will appear on a General Election ballot shall be required to make their written rulings and opinions available to the public for a period of time of at least sixty (60) days before the date of the election.  As used in this section, “judicial officer” means a district judge or associate district judge who files as a declaration of candidacy for the same office or for another judicial office pursuant to the provisions of Section 5-102 of Title 26 of the Oklahoma Statutes, or a Justice of the Supreme Court, Judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals or Judge of the Court of Civil Appeals who seeks to be retained in office.  The provisions of this section shall be deemed to be satisfied if the judicial officer designates a web site, the full address of which shall be included within the declaration of candidacy, on which he or she makes available a true and correct copy of all written rulings issued by him or her and all written opinions issued by or concurred with by him or her, for the time period required by this section.  Such web site shall clearly display or direct the user to the information required in this section.  A single web site may be designated by more than one judicial officer only if the web site clearly separates the information required by this section for each judicial officer.
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2011.
Passed the Senate the 9th day of March, 2011.

	
Presiding Officer 	of the Senate

Passed the House of Representatives the ____ day of __________, 2011.

	
Presiding Officer of the House
	of Representatives